Wow, it's an interesting exercise to replace "FB" with "Heroin" in your post. It still makes sense. Maybe it's time to haul up Zuckerbock in front of a Congressional Committee, Big Tobacco style, and have him claim that FB is not addictive. Or maybe a class action suit for promoting a product that damages the health of the general public.
Unfortunately, just like with Heroin, making it illegal would not stop folks from abusing it until it causes their deaths.
Well, at least the death of their sanity. And, as with Heroin addicts, FB addicts are most of the time somebody else's problem.
I'm sure others here can come up with other examples?
IBM was kicking around emails on their SNA based VNET system in the mid-70s.
I dimly remember that if your "reader" (inbox) was too large, you needed to create a large temp disk, copy everything from your "A" disk to the temp disk, un-mount both, then mount the temp disk as your "A" disk, clean up your mail, then mount your "real" "A" disk as a temp disk, copy everything from the "temp" "A" disk to the "real" "A" disk, and then finally re-mount the "real" "A" disk ask the "A" disk, and then temp disk would be automatically deleted when you logged out.
Or something like that.
There will be a pop quiz about this later in the thread.
For my next act, I will show you how to enter CP, increase your virtual storage for the session, and then re-enter CMS with "i cms" . . .
Did you really think they would be past v1.0 and still get kernel panics?;)
No, advances in AI technology integrated in Windows will guarantee future kernel panics. With AI, Windows becomes "aware" of itself, and realizes that it is a Microsoft product.
Actually, just call it "blood pudding", serve it with baked beans and tea, and you have a "full English breakfast".
On a side note, this was the real reason behind the "Brexit". Eurocrats in Brussels wanted to mandate the EU breakfast as a stale plastic croissant and a thimble of muddy coffee, which left the UK with no other choice than to leave the EU.
More car sales mean higher GDP and collapse of buggy whip manufacturers.
Oil-rich Arab nations buy lots of expensive German cars. This is why they have so much oil. German cars leak oil. The drops of oil breed very well in the fertile Arab desert sands, and soon they have vast pools of oil deep in the sands. The Arabs sell the oil, and buy more German cars, which leak more oil, thus creating a self-sustaining economic model.
In the US, EPA regulations ban cars that leak a lot of oil, but a couple of rogue programmers at a German car company created a device to stop their cars from leaking oil, when anyone is looking under the car.
The Canadians tried to replicate the Arab model using American built cars and their dinosaur desert sands in Alberta. But their Canadian sands are not as fertile as the Arabian sands, and only produce a messy goo of tar. American efforts in the sands of Las Vegas have failed, due to the contamination of the soil by the decaying corpses of Bugsy Siegel and Jimmy Hoffa buried there.
This all leads to an interesting philosophical question: Which came first, the leaky German car, or the oil . . . ? Kinda sorta like the chicken and egg question.
Well, the answer to this is clearly evident: The Intelligent Designer (aka, "God") created the oil. Since oil causes climate change, it's His fault. The producers of the climate change problem should be held fiscally responsible for the damaged they have created. This climate change process is supported by folks who go to church every Sunday to sing praises to God, which goads him on to continue his climate damaging activities.
This could all be reversed by a heavy tax on Church-goers. This would discourage folks from singing praises to Him. God would then get bored and go away, and thus halting climate change.
Now, for my next act, I will build a wall around myself, and make you pay for it. Actually, my neighbors would pay for it, since it would block their view of my eyesore lawn, which is covered with ripped-up empty beer cans. The exposed sharp edges keeps the neighborhood kids off my lawn: "Hillbilly Punji Sticks".
Actually, my neighbors would pay me even more money to just move somewhere else. But I can't leave, because old Granddad buried nuclear waste in the backyard, which is someday going to be very valuable in the future, when folks with antennas on their heads will be mining it as a clean source of energy.
Welfare has a very different meaning outside the US. It does not bear a negative connotation unlike there.
The former Communist East Germany was a welfare state. Zero unemployment, free medical care, etc.
However, that did not mean that the folks there were living "well" when compared to the folks next door in the former Democratic West Germany next door. When folks are willing to risk their lives, crawling under barbed wire an jumping over walls, under a hail of machine gun fire, to escape the welfare state . . . well (fittingly), all is not necessarily well in a welfare state.
Oddly enough, the former East Germany was officially named (by themselves), the "German Democratic Republic", which it, as a dictatorship, clearly wasn't. The former West Germany called themselves, the "Federal Republic Of Germany, also known as just "FROG". Which is confusing, because the English call the French, "The Frogs", while the Germans call the English, "The Tommies". And the united Germany is something what the United States would call Socialist.
All this just indicates that nomenclatures don't necessarily travel very well.
I think the H-1B program should be expanded to other occupations. If medical insurance companies could import masses of low-paid foreign doctors and dentists, just think of how much that could cut the costs of insurance premiums!?!
Also, these judges seem and lawyers seem to be scarce and overpaid . . . let's replace them with cheap foreign imports!
. . . and because it is in a reboot loop . . . the battery gets stressed out . . . and BOOM!
Obviously Kim Chi's North Korean spies have infiltrated the Samsung battery factories in China, and sabotaged the battery production with the intent of disabling Britain's Armed Forces The Queen's Royal Bengal Lancers and Broom-bathers Battalion.
North Korea is afraid that the UK, now freed from the EU shackles, is planning to restart its Colony Program, which was wound down following World War II. UK Prime Minister Theresa May has stated that she wants to restore the UK's great, glorious, global Colonial Traditions, and Whitehall Minstrels have informally expressed interest in turning North Korea into a new Hong Kong, with Blackjack, Hookers and Opium Dens.
The problem is that he did not realize that Hawaii is a place where normal rule of law is not really obeyed
The problem is that ordinary Americans did not realize that Wall Street is a place where normal rule of law is not really obeyed.
Just think of the last line of the "Pledge to the Flag": ". . . one Nation, under God, with Freedom and Justice for the rich."
If it wasn't for those meddling Hawaiian Kids, their goofy dog, the "Mystery Machine" and that damned social media platform, nobody would have heard of this, and Da Zuck would have gotten away with it.
So he has done a 180 because of all the attention now . . . but now I hope a few folks really know what he is like inside. The next time he pulls something like this, he'll be sure to make sure that everyone involved is paid off and properly gagged.
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So what is the other 50%?
Soylent Green. It's got those brain vitamins that humans crave for . . .
Wow, it's an interesting exercise to replace "FB" with "Heroin" in your post. It still makes sense. Maybe it's time to haul up Zuckerbock in front of a Congressional Committee, Big Tobacco style, and have him claim that FB is not addictive. Or maybe a class action suit for promoting a product that damages the health of the general public.
Unfortunately, just like with Heroin, making it illegal would not stop folks from abusing it until it causes their deaths.
Well, at least the death of their sanity. And, as with Heroin addicts, FB addicts are most of the time somebody else's problem.
I'm sure others here can come up with other examples?
IBM was kicking around emails on their SNA based VNET system in the mid-70s.
I dimly remember that if your "reader" (inbox) was too large, you needed to create a large temp disk, copy everything from your "A" disk to the temp disk, un-mount both, then mount the temp disk as your "A" disk, clean up your mail, then mount your "real" "A" disk as a temp disk, copy everything from the "temp" "A" disk to the "real" "A" disk, and then finally re-mount the "real" "A" disk ask the "A" disk, and then temp disk would be automatically deleted when you logged out.
Or something like that.
There will be a pop quiz about this later in the thread.
For my next act, I will show you how to enter CP, increase your virtual storage for the session, and then re-enter CMS with "i cms" . . .
SAP = Scheiss Aufs Privatleben.
In this case, SAP = Send Another Payment.
Did you really think they would be past v1.0 and still get kernel panics? ;)
No, advances in AI technology integrated in Windows will guarantee future kernel panics. With AI, Windows becomes "aware" of itself, and realizes that it is a Microsoft product.
That thought causes the kernel to panic.
"Blackberry provided resignation letters for the employees to sign and dictated their last date of employment."
Blackberry pointed guns at the employees' heads and told them that either their signatures or their brains would be on the letters.
h1b is a US thing. we are talking about canada, you hoser.
Yes, but Canada has something similar where it is called "H-1B-eh?".
You say "meat pudding" as if it were a bad thing.
Actually, just call it "blood pudding", serve it with baked beans and tea, and you have a "full English breakfast".
On a side note, this was the real reason behind the "Brexit". Eurocrats in Brussels wanted to mandate the EU breakfast as a stale plastic croissant and a thimble of muddy coffee, which left the UK with no other choice than to leave the EU.
Does it mean that the Pork can be declared Halaal now ?
That depends on how you kill it.
And where in the lab do you look to check if the hooves are cloven?
Is that mushy churning sound coming from the vat the meat chewing its cud?
And don't top off a lab pork & bacon burger with lab pork cheese.
Well, then you could always still mesh with yourself . . .
. . . but that's none of my business, what you do in private . . .
"Nothing can be made fool-proof, because fools are so ingenious."
Perhaps we should just bring in some cheap H1-Bees to take care of the pollination problem.
We tried that already, by importing Africanized Killer Bees. Things didn't work out very well.
But it was the inspiration for a slew of cheap and sleazy Sci-Fi flicks:
"If you like the A-Team, you'll love the Bee-Team!"
Bee-Movies, indeed.
Ever use Oracle for anything. Ever
You don't use Oracle . . . Oracle uses you. That's their business model.
"It's easy to burn down the outhouse; the hard part is putting in new plumbing.”
. . . Let us be thankful that contractors don't make mistakes like this when building nuclear weapons . . .
Mayhem: "Why is this DO_NO_KILL_HUMANS bit-flag set . . . ? I'll just clear it, and see what happens . . . "
More car sales mean higher GDP and collapse of buggy whip manufacturers.
Oil-rich Arab nations buy lots of expensive German cars. This is why they have so much oil. German cars leak oil. The drops of oil breed very well in the fertile Arab desert sands, and soon they have vast pools of oil deep in the sands. The Arabs sell the oil, and buy more German cars, which leak more oil, thus creating a self-sustaining economic model.
In the US, EPA regulations ban cars that leak a lot of oil, but a couple of rogue programmers at a German car company created a device to stop their cars from leaking oil, when anyone is looking under the car.
The Canadians tried to replicate the Arab model using American built cars and their dinosaur desert sands in Alberta. But their Canadian sands are not as fertile as the Arabian sands, and only produce a messy goo of tar. American efforts in the sands of Las Vegas have failed, due to the contamination of the soil by the decaying corpses of Bugsy Siegel and Jimmy Hoffa buried there.
This all leads to an interesting philosophical question: Which came first, the leaky German car, or the oil . . . ? Kinda sorta like the chicken and egg question.
Well, the answer to this is clearly evident: The Intelligent Designer (aka, "God") created the oil. Since oil causes climate change, it's His fault. The producers of the climate change problem should be held fiscally responsible for the damaged they have created. This climate change process is supported by folks who go to church every Sunday to sing praises to God, which goads him on to continue his climate damaging activities.
This could all be reversed by a heavy tax on Church-goers. This would discourage folks from singing praises to Him. God would then get bored and go away, and thus halting climate change.
Now, for my next act, I will build a wall around myself, and make you pay for it. Actually, my neighbors would pay for it, since it would block their view of my eyesore lawn, which is covered with ripped-up empty beer cans. The exposed sharp edges keeps the neighborhood kids off my lawn: "Hillbilly Punji Sticks".
Actually, my neighbors would pay me even more money to just move somewhere else. But I can't leave, because old Granddad buried nuclear waste in the backyard, which is someday going to be very valuable in the future, when folks with antennas on their heads will be mining it as a clean source of energy.
Oh, and one more thing . . .
Welfare has a very different meaning outside the US. It does not bear a negative connotation unlike there.
The former Communist East Germany was a welfare state. Zero unemployment, free medical care, etc.
However, that did not mean that the folks there were living "well" when compared to the folks next door in the former Democratic West Germany next door. When folks are willing to risk their lives, crawling under barbed wire an jumping over walls, under a hail of machine gun fire, to escape the welfare state . . . well (fittingly), all is not necessarily well in a welfare state.
Oddly enough, the former East Germany was officially named (by themselves), the "German Democratic Republic", which it, as a dictatorship, clearly wasn't. The former West Germany called themselves, the "Federal Republic Of Germany, also known as just "FROG". Which is confusing, because the English call the French, "The Frogs", while the Germans call the English, "The Tommies". And the united Germany is something what the United States would call Socialist.
All this just indicates that nomenclatures don't necessarily travel very well.
I think the H-1B program should be expanded to other occupations. If medical insurance companies could import masses of low-paid foreign doctors and dentists, just think of how much that could cut the costs of insurance premiums!?!
Also, these judges seem and lawyers seem to be scarce and overpaid . . . let's replace them with cheap foreign imports!
. . . part of me wonders just how many shirk their need to learn these things because they just don't take them seriously.
Isn't that the Über model? If you don't like the regulations, just ignore them.
Could you give kentaserin to someone having a bad trip to bring them back to reality?
There are those of us who perceive and experience reality as the bad trip.
Some folks came to strike:
IBM faces Second Life strike - Flying furry penis pickets: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
. . . and because it is in a reboot loop . . . the battery gets stressed out . . . and BOOM!
Obviously Kim Chi's North Korean spies have infiltrated the Samsung battery factories in China, and sabotaged the battery production with the intent of disabling Britain's Armed Forces The Queen's Royal Bengal Lancers and Broom-bathers Battalion.
North Korea is afraid that the UK, now freed from the EU shackles, is planning to restart its Colony Program, which was wound down following World War II. UK Prime Minister Theresa May has stated that she wants to restore the UK's great, glorious, global Colonial Traditions, and Whitehall Minstrels have informally expressed interest in turning North Korea into a new Hong Kong, with Blackjack, Hookers and Opium Dens.
Different framerates have been a hot topic in recent years.
On Slashdot, different flamerates have been a hot topic in recent years.
The problem is that he did not realize that Hawaii is a place where normal rule of law is not really obeyed
The problem is that ordinary Americans did not realize that Wall Street is a place where normal rule of law is not really obeyed.
Just think of the last line of the "Pledge to the Flag": ". . . one Nation, under God, with Freedom and Justice for the rich."
If it wasn't for those meddling Hawaiian Kids, their goofy dog, the "Mystery Machine" and that damned social media platform, nobody would have heard of this, and Da Zuck would have gotten away with it.
So he has done a 180 because of all the attention now . . . but now I hope a few folks really know what he is like inside. The next time he pulls something like this, he'll be sure to make sure that everyone involved is paid off and properly gagged.