Some self entitled punk, sitting around drinking his import beers (or whine (misspelling intentional) coolers) bitching about things.
Hey, why not donate 50 percent of your income to the space race? All of a sudden its a little different though, if it comes from your pocketbook.
Hey, disclaimer goes here... I've made nearly 200K a year as a Sr. Network Eng. (Consultant). After starting my own business and ending up on a customers motorcycle that failed (throttle grip stuck wide open and came apart) and went into a wall at 130 mph, I collected welfare for myself and my two boys. It was needed and it helped. I also helped support a 'welfare mom' who was pregnant at 15 yrs old. Shes in her 30s now, a BS in ChEn and has more REAL professional titles than you could probably hope to attain. I know of scores of other success stories, but alas, OP isn't worth the time or effort.
Dont get me wrong, there are PLENTY of idiots pumping kids out for the paycheck, but a GOOD 20 % of those you see using a 'welfare' (EBT) card at the checkstand gets that to collect child support. Assholes with no sense of responsibility (my term instead of deadbeat dad, since my X pays nothing by choice) get sued by the local District Attorney, and Health and Human Services will attach wages, etc to collect. Luckily, the recipient gets branded as a 'welfare recipient', rather than just an anonymous person who had sex with the wrong person;). Of course (humor here), not many here will understand what I am saying,/. isn't known for having a large population of sexually active (or non virgin, at that) peoples on it.
Anyway, sorry about typos and grammatical errors, sending this from my Cellular.
I have a colleague who swears by HP at the enterprise level, but at this point, I wouldn't buy a consumer level appliance unless I had first exhausted the alternatives.
Linux is a GREAT opportunity for small businesses to have an enterprise class solution (server / desktop) at a realistic price (only paying for desktop licenses).
Unless you have a linux guru (which is a great idea, huh... Put yourself into a corner and have to hire a "guru" to keep your enterprise running), it makes no sense to move to linux, since your licensing fees will end up a wash when you factor in hiring people to run the new "linux farm".
Linux fails. All operating systems do. The only one I saw that didn't fail was an AS/400 running OS/400. It was also a million dollar + system, and didn't scrimp on the RAM, hard drives, etc.... IOW, it was built to a LOT tighter tolerance than the PC class architecture we have today.
They also provide no guarantee that anything will work for anyone. You get that with MS, even if it doesn't mean much.
No, MS and pretty much every company with an EULA explicitly states that you are by yourself if something fails.
At least with linux you could always hire a small army of developpers instead of a small army of lawyers and fix whatever the hell needs fixing.
lol. Maybe in your fantasy world, that is the case. Here in the real world, Microsoft wouldn't exist, if their product didn't work.
People can bash MS all they want, but still, the bottom line is, if their product didn't work (and in the early days, better than anything else), it wouldn't be as popular.
IOW, Linux is free, so that blows the entire Linux "Piracy made windows what it is"... No, windows operability amongst all machines in the class (PC's), as well as a standard desktop (no "you can get whatever flavor desktop you want, don't like gnome, get kde"..... Yeah, I want to support THAT mess with > 1000 desktops under my umbrella ROFLMMFAO), some underhanded business dealings and a lot of luck made Windows what it is. Period.
Macintosh had a GUI second (GEOS on the COMMODeORE was first), and it cost so much to make the hardware and software, nobody bought that crap (LISA). Then Mac himself came out, and it looked like shit. Windows solved both, in that you could have a clone, or a real IBM, and BOTH machines acted the same way.
Let's talk about a clone and an IBM, each one running a different flavor of linux, and different desktop GUI's, and then lets talk about support.
If Apple would have made GUI's affordable, MS never would have had an opportunity. Unfortunately, it took HOW many years for the Apple stuff to come down to realistic pricing?
Yeah, a EULA gets a company out of most trouble, but at the same time, MS wouldn't BE where they are if their product didn't deliver. Period.
1. Vision. You can't have a bunch of haphazard crap floating around in a bunch of different distros and expect it to be adopted by people who have to have accountability.
2. Marketing. Nobody is going to purchase anything when their is no value associated with it. Linux has no value on the desktop simply because their is nobody to blame when "shits all fucked up". You can't point to MS Tech Support and say "We are waiting on our trouble ticket to be resolved". As much as any C?O HATES to hear those words, they also know that they are the words that ensure they don't get "kicked off the team".
3. Drop the fanboishness. Nobody in an enterprise is going to choose a desktop flavor because some pimplefaced geek says it's better than MS. Lets see, who has an actual track record here? And (this is a biggie for enterprises, especially public ones) Let's see, do we place blame on a corporation who we can sue, or do we place blame on the pimple faced geek that talked me into Red Hat, and has now moved on to another job?
Yeah, that's a big one, the actual ability to place and lay blame. Don't give me the Red Hat crap. Yeah, they provide technical support. They also provide no guarantee that anything will work for anyone. You get that with MS, even if it doesn't mean much.
What Linux needs is marketing, vision and a leader.... And by a leader I mean someone who wasn't just out to say "I can do this, and you can't stop me".
Yeah, this will be an unpopular opinion here. Oh well, truth sometimes hurts.
It depends entirely where you get it from. If you go through the "correct" sources, you've got little chance of getting an incorrect file. Reloaded themselves HATE P2P, I think nearly all the cracking groups do. And something tells me Ubi don't really have access to one of the group's FTPs.
LOL.
I like your last comment.
Wait, no, I don't. Someone in UBI has access, as a supplier:)
Find the person who uploaded, and I bet RELOADED loses a supplier, someone turns states evidence, and another group joins WLW / PWA / etc.
Reloaded has existed for quite a while and as far as I know they've never put malware in their cracks.
No cracker groups of any consequence has ever put malware in anything as far as I know, it's 99% others using a virus-adding tool and distributing their own trojaned version of their cracks. Still, it's not easy to tell one from the other.
It sure as hell is. If you get your juarez from P2P or anything other than handed to you from trusted friend of encrypted FTP, then your getting it "second hand".
No real scene groups use anything but FTP or a simple variant of it. All this P2P shit is just people less competent than scr1p7 k1dd13s trying to "be 31337".
The problem is, ITS SAN FRANCISCO.... Had ANYONE said anything to him, he could have said he was being persecuted, and probably won.
Welcome to San Francisco work politics / ethics. I have a home there. I pay rent 90 miles south because I can't STAND the fucking city.
--Toll_Free
Not only do you convey brazen generalizations about the city, but your ALSO are a living example of one!
Newsflash: Many of us just want to live somewhere with a fucking soul, even if -- especially if -- that means we live with people that we might disagree with. That includes you, as well as this mythical Anti-Employee Persecution Squad you think exists.
If you hate the city then sell the damn house and stay out -- stop renting it out like a leach.
lol. Start making some sense. How can I be a generalization?
And no, I'd rather collect outrageous rents from douchebags such as yourself so I can live comfortably 90 miles away, rather than make a killing on family property selling it once. I do MUCH better financially just sitting on my arse, rather than having to figure out WTF to do with the capital gains taxes. Thanks for your input, though.
As far as some "Anti-Employee Persecution Squad", again, your showing your own stupidity. MOST places have some type of policies that the dumbasses get to hide behind for a time. It's a fact of the ACLU and unions and other rights groups (I'm not saying it's wrong, only that they exist). Because of said things, lots of times, it's HARD to get rid of assholes you don't agree with / need to get out / cause minor, but repeated problems / insert whatever here. The fact you ignore it... Well, speaks for itself.
Have a good weekend. I love SF, hate the politics. Lived there, choose not to now by choice. Hate the "closeness" of the neighbors (I actually have a YARD, big enough to park vehicles in, AND have a garage, but still can hear any of my neighbors when they are outside having a conversation).
OK, what is the coping strategy of the guy in a wheelchair for the rest of his life?
What is the coping strategy of the parents of the kid he kills while driving drunk?
What is the coping strategy... Oh wait, nevermind. You have the same mindset he does. Fuck everyone else, you will be assimilated, and I can do whatever I want. Fuck your laws, rules, guidelines, etc. I CAN DO WHAT I WANT.
Entitled punk. Welcome to the real world. The world where you actually have REPURCUSSIONS for your actions. Where when you FUCK up, it can come back to HAUNT you.
That's the problem. His own actions / photos PROVED he was a "3 strikes" kind of kid. Bottom line. Had he had a little bit of intelligence (beyond how to pour a whore into bed), he would have realized that his popularity show (myspace page) COULD have fucked him in the future.
But, then again, he would probably have signed up for an ARM mortgage, drove an Escalade EXT, complained the entire time about how much it costs to drive it, etc. all the time wondering why he has no money living above his means.
Good. You act like a dildo, you reap the consequences.
Chances are, if said dildo was seen in a drunken stupor, with said whore under arm with sorority letters, etc..... This wasn't his first time.
Seems said Dildo could use a lesson in how to be a bit more discreet, change his partying habits, and said dildo doesn't need to be so "popular".
Dumbass kids today. "I should be able to do whatever I want, with no repurcussions. You shouldn't be able to use anything against me I post in public to attempt to elevate my reputation:.
Welcome to reality, shithead. You make yourself out to look like a drunk, act like a drunk, post public pictures of you being drunk in public, and then act surprised someone calls you a "DRUNK".
Had one of my new guys yesterday wanting to push a change. "I'll tell you what it does," he said. "Don't bother," I said, "if what it's doing is not obvious, it's not going anywhere."
Yet another reason to leave the IT workforce.
Asshole bosses that think they know it all. What happens when some smart alek know it all type kid blows you away with something simplistic that you couldn't figure out / passed over / etc.
To blow someone off like that shows your own idiocy.
Good idea. While your at it, you may or may not know that the United States Central Intelligence Agency is the primary backing for the Motorola sat phones.
They and the military are the numero uno customers of the service, and when the service (I cannot for the life of me remember the name) said they where basically going out of business a number of years ago, we (CIA) ponied up the bread to ensure their continued existance.
You think that the CIA has far reaching abilities on your ISP's network, imagine how much they listen to people on their own! (also, if you don't think they listen in on sat-com, think again. That's Binnie Ladin's original method of comm).
Thank you for applying actual logic to all of this.
I have a data plan with AT&T as well, for my HTC Wizard. I love the phone, but just recently remembered I'm going to be eligible for my "free upgrade" next month.
Will I go to the IPHONE, hell no, I'll be purchasing the newest HTC offering they have. Probably cost me about the same, maybe a little more or less, than this phone. What will I gain? It's easily unlockable, has literally MILLIONS of programs written for it, can do nearly anything I want, and I honestly can't see the hype over a "open source" phone that doesn't even do quad band or have a camera. Sheesh, people, THIS PHONE IS 5 YEARS OLD, MINIMUM.
But, It's Open Source (Think of the children!!)
--Toll_Free (not on floor rolling, but literally laughing after reading the website for the Neo phones. OLD_SKEWL)
The D-Link (IIRC) 802.11A PCI card also has the capability of SDR. Uses the same chip that a couple military SDR type radios use, so getting it to work under linux was kind of a hard thing to do... Required actually flashing the EPROM of the radio card to make it work. Might have been a different brand, but it was an 802.11A/B/G card, I remember that.
I own a wonder radio (well, on it's way). Same as the Flex radio above, but only costs 600 bucks (a lot less, if you pre-ordered). Drawback is the 1 watt output. I have tetrodes that can fix that, though:)
Speaking as a native US person (born and raised), I can tell you this.
Most CITIZENS of the US don't consider VT a state. Sheesh, can your state be smaller than the CITY I live in?
--Toll_Free (tongue in cheek, I can tell you this, when I HAD to be available 24X7, I carried a GSM and another CDMA phone. I finally ended up with a Seimens World Class GSM phone that (no bullshit) could fold over to analog AT&T towers. I TRULY had world phone status with that damn thing. The rate plan killed me, though... It was slightly more expensive than two seperate (CDMA and GSM) plans, but the convenience factor made up for it).
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I agree 100%.
Some self entitled punk, sitting around drinking his import beers (or whine (misspelling intentional) coolers) bitching about things.
Hey, why not donate 50 percent of your income to the space race? All of a sudden its a little different though, if it comes from your pocketbook.
Hey, disclaimer goes here... I've made nearly 200K a year as a Sr. Network Eng. (Consultant). After starting my own business and ending up on a customers motorcycle that failed (throttle grip stuck wide open and came apart) and went into a wall at 130 mph, I collected welfare for myself and my two boys. It was needed and it helped. I also helped support a 'welfare mom' who was pregnant at 15 yrs old. Shes in her 30s now, a BS in ChEn and has more REAL professional titles than you could probably hope to attain. I know of scores of other success stories, but alas, OP isn't worth the time or effort.
Dont get me wrong, there are PLENTY of idiots pumping kids out for the paycheck, but a GOOD 20 % of those you see using a 'welfare' (EBT) card at the checkstand gets that to collect child support. Assholes with no sense of responsibility (my term instead of deadbeat dad, since my X pays nothing by choice) get sued by the local District Attorney, and Health and Human Services will attach wages, etc to collect. Luckily, the recipient gets branded as a 'welfare recipient', rather than just an anonymous person who had sex with the wrong person ;). Of course (humor here), not many here will understand what I am saying, /. isn't known for having a large population of sexually active (or non virgin, at that) peoples on it.
Anyway, sorry about typos and grammatical errors, sending this from my Cellular.
--Toll_Free
I have a colleague who swears by HP at the enterprise level, but at this point, I wouldn't buy a consumer level appliance unless I had first exhausted the alternatives.
"I have a colleague who swears AT HP "
Fixed that for ya :)
--Toll_Free
I wholeheartedly agree.
Linux is a GREAT opportunity for small businesses to have an enterprise class solution (server / desktop) at a realistic price (only paying for desktop licenses).
Unless you have a linux guru (which is a great idea, huh... Put yourself into a corner and have to hire a "guru" to keep your enterprise running), it makes no sense to move to linux, since your licensing fees will end up a wash when you factor in hiring people to run the new "linux farm".
Linux fails. All operating systems do. The only one I saw that didn't fail was an AS/400 running OS/400. It was also a million dollar + system, and didn't scrimp on the RAM, hard drives, etc.... IOW, it was built to a LOT tighter tolerance than the PC class architecture we have today.
--Toll_Free
They also provide no guarantee that anything will work for anyone. You get that with MS, even if it doesn't mean much.
No, MS and pretty much every company with an EULA explicitly states that you are by yourself if something fails.
At least with linux you could always hire a small army of developpers instead of a small army of lawyers and fix whatever the hell needs fixing.
lol. Maybe in your fantasy world, that is the case. Here in the real world, Microsoft wouldn't exist, if their product didn't work.
People can bash MS all they want, but still, the bottom line is, if their product didn't work (and in the early days, better than anything else), it wouldn't be as popular.
IOW, Linux is free, so that blows the entire Linux "Piracy made windows what it is"... No, windows operability amongst all machines in the class (PC's), as well as a standard desktop (no "you can get whatever flavor desktop you want, don't like gnome, get kde". .... Yeah, I want to support THAT mess with > 1000 desktops under my umbrella ROFLMMFAO), some underhanded business dealings and a lot of luck made Windows what it is. Period.
Macintosh had a GUI second (GEOS on the COMMODeORE was first), and it cost so much to make the hardware and software, nobody bought that crap (LISA). Then Mac himself came out, and it looked like shit. Windows solved both, in that you could have a clone, or a real IBM, and BOTH machines acted the same way.
Let's talk about a clone and an IBM, each one running a different flavor of linux, and different desktop GUI's, and then lets talk about support.
If Apple would have made GUI's affordable, MS never would have had an opportunity. Unfortunately, it took HOW many years for the Apple stuff to come down to realistic pricing?
Yeah, a EULA gets a company out of most trouble, but at the same time, MS wouldn't BE where they are if their product didn't deliver. Period.
--Toll_Free
1. Vision. You can't have a bunch of haphazard crap floating around in a bunch of different distros and expect it to be adopted by people who have to have accountability.
2. Marketing. Nobody is going to purchase anything when their is no value associated with it. Linux has no value on the desktop simply because their is nobody to blame when "shits all fucked up". You can't point to MS Tech Support and say "We are waiting on our trouble ticket to be resolved". As much as any C?O HATES to hear those words, they also know that they are the words that ensure they don't get "kicked off the team".
3. Drop the fanboishness. Nobody in an enterprise is going to choose a desktop flavor because some pimplefaced geek says it's better than MS. Lets see, who has an actual track record here? And (this is a biggie for enterprises, especially public ones) Let's see, do we place blame on a corporation who we can sue, or do we place blame on the pimple faced geek that talked me into Red Hat, and has now moved on to another job?
Yeah, that's a big one, the actual ability to place and lay blame. Don't give me the Red Hat crap. Yeah, they provide technical support. They also provide no guarantee that anything will work for anyone. You get that with MS, even if it doesn't mean much.
What Linux needs is marketing, vision and a leader.... And by a leader I mean someone who wasn't just out to say "I can do this, and you can't stop me".
Yeah, this will be an unpopular opinion here. Oh well, truth sometimes hurts.
--Toll_Free
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/07/09/MNG9JJRI8K1.DTL
Uh huh. No corruption in that town, no dirty back door politics, huh?
I've owned my place since the 70s, left in the 80s, but have no reason to sell.
--Toll_Free
It depends entirely where you get it from. If you go through the "correct" sources, you've got little chance of getting an incorrect file.
Reloaded themselves HATE P2P, I think nearly all the cracking groups do.
And something tells me Ubi don't really have access to one of the group's FTPs.
LOL.
I like your last comment.
Wait, no, I don't. Someone in UBI has access, as a supplier :)
Find the person who uploaded, and I bet RELOADED loses a supplier, someone turns states evidence, and another group joins WLW / PWA / etc.
--Toll_Free
Reloaded has existed for quite a while and as far as I know they've never put malware in their cracks.
No cracker groups of any consequence has ever put malware in anything as far as I know, it's 99% others using a virus-adding tool and distributing their own trojaned version of their cracks. Still, it's not easy to tell one from the other.
It sure as hell is. If you get your juarez from P2P or anything other than handed to you from trusted friend of encrypted FTP, then your getting it "second hand".
No real scene groups use anything but FTP or a simple variant of it. All this P2P shit is just people less competent than scr1p7 k1dd13s trying to "be 31337".
--Toll_Free (Ex RTS)
The problem is, ITS SAN FRANCISCO.... Had ANYONE said anything to him, he could have said he was being persecuted, and probably won.
Welcome to San Francisco work politics / ethics. I have a home there. I pay rent 90 miles south because I can't STAND the fucking city.
--Toll_Free
Not only do you convey brazen generalizations about the city, but your ALSO are a living example of one!
Newsflash: Many of us just want to live somewhere with a fucking soul, even if -- especially if -- that means we live with people that we might disagree with. That includes you, as well as this mythical Anti-Employee Persecution Squad you think exists.
If you hate the city then sell the damn house and stay out -- stop renting it out like a leach.
lol. Start making some sense. How can I be a generalization?
And no, I'd rather collect outrageous rents from douchebags such as yourself so I can live comfortably 90 miles away, rather than make a killing on family property selling it once. I do MUCH better financially just sitting on my arse, rather than having to figure out WTF to do with the capital gains taxes. Thanks for your input, though.
As far as some "Anti-Employee Persecution Squad", again, your showing your own stupidity. MOST places have some type of policies that the dumbasses get to hide behind for a time. It's a fact of the ACLU and unions and other rights groups (I'm not saying it's wrong, only that they exist). Because of said things, lots of times, it's HARD to get rid of assholes you don't agree with / need to get out / cause minor, but repeated problems / insert whatever here. The fact you ignore it... Well, speaks for itself.
Have a good weekend. I love SF, hate the politics. Lived there, choose not to now by choice. Hate the "closeness" of the neighbors (I actually have a YARD, big enough to park vehicles in, AND have a garage, but still can hear any of my neighbors when they are outside having a conversation).
--Toll_Free
OK, what is the coping strategy of the guy in a wheelchair for the rest of his life?
What is the coping strategy of the parents of the kid he kills while driving drunk?
What is the coping strategy... Oh wait, nevermind. You have the same mindset he does. Fuck everyone else, you will be assimilated, and I can do whatever I want. Fuck your laws, rules, guidelines, etc. I CAN DO WHAT I WANT.
Entitled punk. Welcome to the real world. The world where you actually have REPURCUSSIONS for your actions. Where when you FUCK up, it can come back to HAUNT you.
That's the problem. His own actions / photos PROVED he was a "3 strikes" kind of kid. Bottom line. Had he had a little bit of intelligence (beyond how to pour a whore into bed), he would have realized that his popularity show (myspace page) COULD have fucked him in the future.
But, then again, he would probably have signed up for an ARM mortgage, drove an Escalade EXT, complained the entire time about how much it costs to drive it, etc. all the time wondering why he has no money living above his means.
Intelligence at it's finest.
--Toll_Free
Good. You act like a dildo, you reap the consequences.
Chances are, if said dildo was seen in a drunken stupor, with said whore under arm with sorority letters, etc..... This wasn't his first time.
Seems said Dildo could use a lesson in how to be a bit more discreet, change his partying habits, and said dildo doesn't need to be so "popular".
Dumbass kids today. "I should be able to do whatever I want, with no repurcussions. You shouldn't be able to use anything against me I post in public to attempt to elevate my reputation:.
Welcome to reality, shithead. You make yourself out to look like a drunk, act like a drunk, post public pictures of you being drunk in public, and then act surprised someone calls you a "DRUNK".
Kid should have gotten twice the sentence he did.
YMMV, IANAL, ROFL, etc.
--Toll_Free
The problem is, ITS SAN FRANCISCO.... Had ANYONE said anything to him, he could have said he was being persecuted, and probably won.
Welcome to San Francisco work politics / ethics. I have a home there. I pay rent 90 miles south because I can't STAND the fucking city.
--Toll_Free
OK, personally I'd like a democrat to tell me why they feel the US of A is a democracy, when it was founded as a Republic.
--Toll_Free
Had one of my new guys yesterday wanting to push a change. "I'll tell you what it does," he said. "Don't bother," I said, "if what it's doing is not obvious, it's not going anywhere."
Yet another reason to leave the IT workforce.
Asshole bosses that think they know it all. What happens when some smart alek know it all type kid blows you away with something simplistic that you couldn't figure out / passed over / etc.
To blow someone off like that shows your own idiocy.
--Toll_Free
It'll go back to being a Democratic conspiracy if Obama is elected. ......
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
'Scuse me while I pick myself up off the ground.
--Toll_Free
Arch Deluxe
Now you've crossed the line. The Arch Deluxe was the best McDonald's sandwich ever. It made Big Macs look like they came out of a vending machine.
And the arch deluxe still tasted like it came from McDonalds.
BK Lounge, Wendy's and In n Out all 0WN Mickey Dee's.
--Toll_Free
http://www.whizzinator.com/
I've known of that since High School. Guess that's why they call it "high". :)
--Toll_Free
YES, that was the elemental name that escaped my mind.
REALLY cool devices, although sometimes cellular technology is better... LOL.
--Toll_Fre
Good idea. While your at it, you may or may not know that the United States Central Intelligence Agency is the primary backing for the Motorola sat phones.
They and the military are the numero uno customers of the service, and when the service (I cannot for the life of me remember the name) said they where basically going out of business a number of years ago, we (CIA) ponied up the bread to ensure their continued existance.
You think that the CIA has far reaching abilities on your ISP's network, imagine how much they listen to people on their own! (also, if you don't think they listen in on sat-com, think again. That's Binnie Ladin's original method of comm).
--Toll_Free
Thank you for applying actual logic to all of this.
I have a data plan with AT&T as well, for my HTC Wizard. I love the phone, but just recently remembered I'm going to be eligible for my "free upgrade" next month.
Will I go to the IPHONE, hell no, I'll be purchasing the newest HTC offering they have. Probably cost me about the same, maybe a little more or less, than this phone. What will I gain? It's easily unlockable, has literally MILLIONS of programs written for it, can do nearly anything I want, and I honestly can't see the hype over a "open source" phone that doesn't even do quad band or have a camera. Sheesh, people, THIS PHONE IS 5 YEARS OLD, MINIMUM.
But, It's Open Source (Think of the children!!)
--Toll_Free (not on floor rolling, but literally laughing after reading the website for the Neo phones. OLD_SKEWL)
The D-Link (IIRC) 802.11A PCI card also has the capability of SDR. Uses the same chip that a couple military SDR type radios use, so getting it to work under linux was kind of a hard thing to do... Required actually flashing the EPROM of the radio card to make it work. Might have been a different brand, but it was an 802.11A/B/G card, I remember that.
I own a wonder radio (well, on it's way). Same as the Flex radio above, but only costs 600 bucks (a lot less, if you pre-ordered). Drawback is the 1 watt output. I have tetrodes that can fix that, though :)
--Toll_Free
Speaking as a native US person (born and raised), I can tell you this.
Most CITIZENS of the US don't consider VT a state. Sheesh, can your state be smaller than the CITY I live in?
--Toll_Free
(tongue in cheek, I can tell you this, when I HAD to be available 24X7, I carried a GSM and another CDMA phone. I finally ended up with a Seimens World Class GSM phone that (no bullshit) could fold over to analog AT&T towers. I TRULY had world phone status with that damn thing. The rate plan killed me, though... It was slightly more expensive than two seperate (CDMA and GSM) plans, but the convenience factor made up for it).
But, does Cpt. Obvious wife sell sea shells somewhere by the sea shore? Some check named Shelley maybe? I hear she does?
Sheesh, Shelley :)
--Toll_Free
"Jeff Carlson has discovered"
Should actually have read:
"Jeff Carlson has READ THE HELP FILE / INSTRUCTIONS / MANUAL"
I mean, c'mon. It's common sense that AOL can send SMS. One idiot figures out a program and it makes the front news.
"How to disable Clippie the Paperclip". Details at 11
--Toll_Free
You forgot your IANAL, and it would have well served you.
Theft of a service can also be considered civil. Go enter a motel room illegally and see what happens if you stay the night.
Or hop in a cab and see where it gets you when you can't pay.
You state that copyright infringment can't be akin to someone stealing, but then explain how outright theft of a service is considered civil as well?
IANAL as well, but theft, criminal theft, is when you deprive someone the item itself. Civil opens up an ENTIRELY different can of worms.
--Toll_Free