My school just port-scans you when you connect to make sure your machine is firewalled, and they test to see whether you're running antivirus. If it all looks good, they let you on
Yeah, my current school does this as well. A little magic called 'cca-bypass' and google will help remove this requirement.
To go a step further, I was enrolled in a business degree where we had to lease laptops from the school. $800/semester to LEASE a thinkpad. Why? Because it was a common platform for computing, it 'prepared' us for the real world business policy of standardized computers, and (unofficially) they were sick of people complaining that their choice of computer wasn't supported.
Also, I'm sure they got to skim off the top. But... schools have been ripping people off for years with textbooks and tuition (do I seriously *need* another course on computing? It's a marketing diploma, ffs).
Let's start with a car analogy: You tell me that things in the mirror may appear closer than they actually are... to which I respond "Who the hell looks in their mirrors"?
I'm guessing you've never watched 'Silent Running', but given what you said you might wanna start your re-education with another old movie: 'Soylent Green'.
I think you need to re-educate yourself with another movie: The Omega Man. If that's where we'll end up anyways, who cares how we get there? Eat drink and be merry, I say. Isn't there some movie about people being brainwashed with media and living in a world that isn't real (but they think it is) because they're too plugged into modern culture to know the difference? I mean, if hollywood is providing you with all your examples, you'd best take the good with the bad.
We're finally able to figure out what species will have the most impact if it is removed. Likely, the folks at google are turning this into some sort of biological warfare device - They want to figure out which species of mosquito we have to kill in order to remove all mouth-breathers from the planet, leaving all the hot women alive for the rest of us.
More seriously, if we can figure out which species are most important (and which are least important), doesn't that give both the tree-hugging sea-kittens at PETA more firepower? And doesn't it enable logging companies to say "Well, that species of rat isn't actually important to anything except the animals that live in this forest anyways... "
I don't know. I'm just sayin' that most people who buy harleys that I know are in clubs that require harleys. Smart people buy dependable bikes (not-harley).
If you say so. I've heard mac fanboys (like yourself) tell people that a power PC processor was worth 2x an intel processor for years. Which makes your comparison of apples to oranges null.
As for problems with old versions of windows, do you know how many sad little mac faces I saw growing up on a mac?
My claims of a poorly functioning mac should counteract your claims of a bad install of xp (which was probably a hardware fault, which is hardly microsofts problem)... and we can go back to arguing about how your arguments are fallacious and old.
Clearly, the 10% market penetration of this hippy operating system is dominating the field. Say what you like about windows, if OS X was superior, wouldn't it be used on more than 1 in 10 of every computer?
I've received several of these from my university. Each one has been forwarded back to the ESA, suggesting that they try sending them to people with the relevant nationality. I wonder if these are included in the report?
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My school just port-scans you when you connect to make sure your machine is firewalled, and they test to see whether you're running antivirus. If it all looks good, they let you on
Yeah, my current school does this as well. A little magic called 'cca-bypass' and google will help remove this requirement.
To go a step further, I was enrolled in a business degree where we had to lease laptops from the school. $800/semester to LEASE a thinkpad. Why? Because it was a common platform for computing, it 'prepared' us for the real world business policy of standardized computers, and (unofficially) they were sick of people complaining that their choice of computer wasn't supported.
... schools have been ripping people off for years with textbooks and tuition (do I seriously *need* another course on computing? It's a marketing diploma, ffs).
Also, I'm sure they got to skim off the top. But
but I did expect their systems to use open standards.
You mean, like the cell phone/movie/music industry?
That means you're on your own for Linux support. There might be a local user group, or the odd Linux user in the IT department, but that's it.
Agreed. If you're competent enough to use linux, you're competent enough to work around the windows restrictions.
And if you're not that competent, buy a mac, idiot.
... except that 99.99% of students don't have anything worth stealing on their computers.
Other than movies/music/credit card info, of course.
Before you know it Waldo could be humping a Chinese trawler off the coast of Taiwan called the Red Bloom
What if it was humping with an organic? Baby shark/robots?
Its these things that will make the PageRank algorithm useless in biology.
I suppose you're right. Since you disagree, the entire idea must be without merit.
This is why all the best butchers are ninjas and/or members of the Spanish Inquisition.
I've always thought my butcher was a closet-pirate, by the way he treated his hooks.
Now, particularly for adults, the ability to sense pain as a mere signal, rather than as, well, pain, would be quite nice.
Adults do have this ability ... you just have to re-train your brain to interpret pain as pleasure. Masochists all over the world have done so.
That's interesting, because most americans don't care about preservation.
My proof?
Wal-mart (and the associated industries that support low prices).
Sure, save the whales/sharks/pandas/worms. But I better get my tampico for 0.34$/bottle and jeans for $4.99 so I can afford to help out.
Have you learned nothing from history? We can know if an ecosystem survives without certain members.
It just isn't a good idea to experiment.
I'm guessing you've never watched 'Silent Running', but given what you said you might wanna start your re-education with another old movie: 'Soylent Green'.
I think you need to re-educate yourself with another movie: The Omega Man. If that's where we'll end up anyways, who cares how we get there? Eat drink and be merry, I say. Isn't there some movie about people being brainwashed with media and living in a world that isn't real (but they think it is) because they're too plugged into modern culture to know the difference? I mean, if hollywood is providing you with all your examples, you'd best take the good with the bad.
I dont get it... what's notable here?
We're finally able to figure out what species will have the most impact if it is removed. Likely, the folks at google are turning this into some sort of biological warfare device - They want to figure out which species of mosquito we have to kill in order to remove all mouth-breathers from the planet, leaving all the hot women alive for the rest of us.
... "
More seriously, if we can figure out which species are most important (and which are least important), doesn't that give both the tree-hugging sea-kittens at PETA more firepower? And doesn't it enable logging companies to say "Well, that species of rat isn't actually important to anything except the animals that live in this forest anyways
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I don't know. I'm just sayin' that most people who buy harleys that I know are in clubs that require harleys. Smart people buy dependable bikes (not-harley).
So, most americans make up a LARGE part of that 10% of unhealthy people ... where are the rest?
I thought the article was about attractive women...
I have a semi-rare condition where pheromones are very obvious to me.
I have a semi-rare medical condition that makes my head hurt when I smell bullsh*t.
BMW and Harley owners are just pussies who can't think for themselves, so they make the "safe" buy.
It may be true, but try saying that to your local hells chapter.
... OMG. I just ran an old lady over in my FORD FUSION... and I can't stop thinking about the BEST AMERICAN CAR MANUFACTURER*.
* - note: This may or may not be true, accurate, or sober.
If you say so. I've heard mac fanboys (like yourself) tell people that a power PC processor was worth 2x an intel processor for years. Which makes your comparison of apples to oranges null.
... and we can go back to arguing about how your arguments are fallacious and old.
As for problems with old versions of windows, do you know how many sad little mac faces I saw growing up on a mac?
My claims of a poorly functioning mac should counteract your claims of a bad install of xp (which was probably a hardware fault, which is hardly microsofts problem)
I think he meant "White folk who think they're cool". Not cracking-hackers. Crackers.
Clearly, the 10% market penetration of this hippy operating system is dominating the field. Say what you like about windows, if OS X was superior, wouldn't it be used on more than 1 in 10 of every computer?
Yes, that was a problem with windows ME. Have you tried anything recent? (Including new fanboy arguments?)
Agreed. You need no intelligence to use a mac. Whether that's a good thing, or a bad thing, I don't know.
I do know that I'd prefer to be Patrick Warburton over Justin Long any day.
I've received several of these from my university. Each one has been forwarded back to the ESA, suggesting that they try sending them to people with the relevant nationality. I wonder if these are included in the report?