Anyway, you want fun, you gotta go for the Liberal Arts majors. They read "erotica" and learn all that kama sutra stuff.
I must disagree. I prefer Christian girls. Though I'm not a Christian myself, those non-religious types all have some kind of hangup. I don't mean one of those girls who fucked half of the planet and decided to get religion when she tired of being a filthy whore. I mean a girl who was raised in a religious household. You find yourself a girl who suppressed her sexuality for all of her teenage years and she'll be ready to explode by the time she's 25. I speak the truth in this, trust me.
Also, if they're from the former Yugoslavia, it's best not to mention that you thought Clinton was a great president.
Why would I do that? My parents were married; to each other.
I agree. If someone shows up here and doesn't immediately start attacking us, we can assume that they mean us no harm. To get here would mean that they posses a technology that is so far advanced that we could do little to nothing to stop them from wiping us all out. Excellent point.
How about a counterpoint. If we pickup a radio message from somewhere out there in the cosmos, we can't be sure that the ones who sent it are friendly. Turkey hunters use turkey calls. If a Tom hears another turkey, he'll go to investigate it. Sometimes, he finds a hunter with a 12 guage shotgun and ends up as dinner. The hunter knew that there was a turkey somewhere out there, but not necessarily where and couldn't expend the time or energy to find it.
Who's to say that an intergalactic radio message isn't their version of a turkey call? They know that food is out here somewhere, but they don't know exactly where. This is an unlikely scenario, but not an impossible one. We've been blasting RF into the cosmos for a little over 60 years. So far, no one has shown up to turn us into dinner. It's also possible that the hunter was 40 light years away and we only have another 20 before they show up with their space shotguns.
I can see where it makes sense if you want to merge several servers that do absolutely nothing all day into a single machine but a decent migration plan will run all those services on a single 'non-virtual' server. Especially when those machines are getting loaded, the benefits of virtualization quickly break down and you'll have to pay for more capacity anyway.
When you let "managers" make decisions about other departments you run into problems with this. "These servers is sitting at near idle 99.9% of the time we should consolodate them." But if these servers are primarily used at week-end, month-end or year end closings. All of a sudden you've got one server thrashing instead of four servers smoothly processing all of their transactions.
My only thought for the position would be Bruce Schneier. I think he's not only competent, but trustworthy. Trust isn't the kind of thing that you can take for granted with government appointments. Regardless of how one may feel about an administration, you have to remember that there will always be another one that doesn't necessarily have your best interests at heart.
Apple is a business and will do what makes the most business sense. In the face of significant erosion of their Mac business to clone makers or to threats to their brand, that's probably to move away from their currently DRM free, trust the user, policy and towards a DRM lockdown.
Trust the user. You must be new to dealing with Apple.
Apple has been fucking over their users for years.
You're an idiot. It's perfectly legal to run a business so successfully you gain a monopoly. It's only illegal to abuse that monopoly by damaging other markets.
Tell that to Ma Bell. There are many issues involved in anti-monopoly law. The simplest is leveraging your monopoly to take over another market.
Try reading something other than than an Apple press release, you cock-smoking fanboi.
End result, Pystar and their ilk die and Apple's customers are inconvenienced with DRM. Gee, thanks guys.
What bullshit. Apple has the choice, either they can be douchebags or not. They may choose to be douchebags and DRM the OS, but if they do, it's because they chose to do it. Not because Psystar or a few Hackintosh builders forced them to.
Any business model built upon being successful but not too successful lest the company you rely entirely upon kill you, is a doomed business model.
Every business operates this way. If you get too successful, the government will kill you with Anti-Trust and Monopoly action.
Because we all know that movie script writers always do their homework to get their science right and never ever engage in simple-minded fearmongering.
When I was learning C, I had problems getting my mind to wrap around the for loop. I thought about it for hours and right before I fell asleep I had a DOH moment. I could "see" how they worked and I felt stupid for not getting it right away. Sleep is magic.
Excellent point. What if Sarah was her middle name and she used it like a first? My father didn't like his first name so everyone called him by his middle name.
Want to get intimate with your date? Well you're much less likely to get arrested if you do at home.
One of my first jobs was at a movie theater. A couple of times per month this couple came in, we eventually nicknamed them the "Swing Kids". They used to sit at the back of the theater and do things. It was always too dark to tell, but we think she wore no panties and used to lift up her skirt. As soon as the movie was over, the girl would limp (because she had a gimpy leg) to the ladies room and clean up. Nobody ever complained and they paid for their tickets and concessions so we never kicked them out or called the cops.
Right, it's the time machine that breaks that concept. Records were destroyed? Why not go back in time.. to get the records?
If you don't have the records in the first place, how in the fuck are you supposed to know which records to go back and save?
Do you just go back and preserve the records for Los Angeles County? Well, what if she was born in Sacramento? What if she was born outside of the state? How are modern authorites supposed to not notice an exhaustive search of the birth records in every county in every state? Wheredoes it say that Sarah was even an American Citizen?
If SkyNET isn't built, then it can't send the T-800 back in time to kill Sarah and John then IS born but not as the son of Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor because there was no reason and no method for Reese to go back to 1984. Sarah Connor never learns what is to come and therefore doesn't prepare for the coming war.
It's still possible that SkyNET would be developed, but later. Since there was no "John Connor" to lead the human resistance, it would wipe out humanity.
aand... a time machine? problem solved. what the fuck?
SkyNET only knew the city where Sarah Connor lived. It didn't know where her parent's lived. So, even if there were records available it wouldn't know which city to look in.
1. Any hardware or software product that is no longer sold must have all source code available under an open-source (not necessarily free) license. 2. It must be legal and possible to backup anything that one has paid for.
"Faux" in this case is pronounced "fawkes" to maintain relationship to the original "Fox" while appearing identical to the French word for 'fake' when put into text or type.
Yes, I understand the failed witticism. Faux is a French word. It is pronounced like "Foe", to bend it to fit only puts one's ignorance on display.
Faux is not pronounced like "Fox", it's pronounced "Foe". It's not a witty play on words, it's a public demonstration of your ignorance about the words you use.
I once had a customer come in and tell me that "I need more RAMs of memory in my computer." One of my favorites was when a customer called in to ask a couple of questions and she told me how many "Gigglebytes" of storage she had. Another good one was when a potential customer called in telling me that he wanted to buy a Compaq computer, but he pronounced it "COMP A QUE".
Looks like others have already brought up the corrections to your point, but what used to annoy the hell out of me was when cable companies were pushing their surf-boards or "one-way cable modems". If it's just one way, if you are using another device to send data, then that surfboard isn't a MO DEM, it's more of a DEM.
If everyone knew what was going on the need for technicians would vanish.
Untrue. I have a better than average understanding of what's going on inside my vehicle. I have done a large number of repairs that the average person can't. There are some problems that I don't have the time, equipment, experience or disposition to fix. I understand exactly what it means when you have a ruptured head gasket, but I will still seek out a qualified auto tech if I need to have one replaced.
Someone else already made the point using a cow, so I'll go the vegetable route.
If I saw a potato shaved and wearing a suit, my first thought wouldn't be "Mmmm, lunch!". If I saw a Chimpansee shaved and wearing a suit, my first thought wouldn't be "Mmmm, lunch!".
The fact of the matter is that I do eat potatos. There are many people on the planet who eat Chimpanzees, that doesn't make us cannibals.
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Anyway, you want fun, you gotta go for the Liberal Arts majors. They read "erotica" and learn all that kama sutra stuff.
I must disagree. I prefer Christian girls. Though I'm not a Christian myself, those non-religious types all have some kind of hangup. I don't mean one of those girls who fucked half of the planet and decided to get religion when she tired of being a filthy whore. I mean a girl who was raised in a religious household. You find yourself a girl who suppressed her sexuality for all of her teenage years and she'll be ready to explode by the time she's 25. I speak the truth in this, trust me.
Also, if they're from the former Yugoslavia, it's best not to mention that you thought Clinton was a great president.
Why would I do that? My parents were married; to each other.
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It makes perfect sense. It's unfair to have one company abiding by the rules, while another breaks them.
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I agree. If someone shows up here and doesn't immediately start attacking us, we can assume that they mean us no harm. To get here would mean that they posses a technology that is so far advanced that we could do little to nothing to stop them from wiping us all out. Excellent point.
How about a counterpoint. If we pickup a radio message from somewhere out there in the cosmos, we can't be sure that the ones who sent it are friendly. Turkey hunters use turkey calls. If a Tom hears another turkey, he'll go to investigate it. Sometimes, he finds a hunter with a 12 guage shotgun and ends up as dinner. The hunter knew that there was a turkey somewhere out there, but not necessarily where and couldn't expend the time or energy to find it.
Who's to say that an intergalactic radio message isn't their version of a turkey call? They know that food is out here somewhere, but they don't know exactly where. This is an unlikely scenario, but not an impossible one. We've been blasting RF into the cosmos for a little over 60 years. So far, no one has shown up to turn us into dinner. It's also possible that the hunter was 40 light years away and we only have another 20 before they show up with their space shotguns.
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How so? Do you expect PC owners to already own BD-ROM drives?
How about a two-DVD install?
Consoles make that nigh unto impossible.
LK
I can see where it makes sense if you want to merge several servers that do absolutely nothing all day into a single machine but a decent migration plan will run all those services on a single 'non-virtual' server. Especially when those machines are getting loaded, the benefits of virtualization quickly break down and you'll have to pay for more capacity anyway.
When you let "managers" make decisions about other departments you run into problems with this. "These servers is sitting at near idle 99.9% of the time we should consolodate them." But if these servers are primarily used at week-end, month-end or year end closings. All of a sudden you've got one server thrashing instead of four servers smoothly processing all of their transactions.
LK
My only thought for the position would be Bruce Schneier. I think he's not only competent, but trustworthy. Trust isn't the kind of thing that you can take for granted with government appointments. Regardless of how one may feel about an administration, you have to remember that there will always be another one that doesn't necessarily have your best interests at heart.
LK
Apple is a business and will do what makes the most business sense. In the face of significant erosion of their Mac business to clone makers or to threats to their brand, that's probably to move away from their currently DRM free, trust the user, policy and towards a DRM lockdown.
Trust the user. You must be new to dealing with Apple.
Apple has been fucking over their users for years.
You're an idiot. It's perfectly legal to run a business so successfully you gain a monopoly. It's only illegal to abuse that monopoly by damaging other markets.
Tell that to Ma Bell. There are many issues involved in anti-monopoly law. The simplest is leveraging your monopoly to take over another market.
Try reading something other than than an Apple press release, you cock-smoking fanboi.
LK
End result, Pystar and their ilk die and Apple's customers are inconvenienced with DRM. Gee, thanks guys.
What bullshit. Apple has the choice, either they can be douchebags or not. They may choose to be douchebags and DRM the OS, but if they do, it's because they chose to do it. Not because Psystar or a few Hackintosh builders forced them to.
Any business model built upon being successful but not too successful lest the company you rely entirely upon kill you, is a doomed business model.
Every business operates this way. If you get too successful, the government will kill you with Anti-Trust and Monopoly action.
LK
Because we all know that movie script writers always do their homework to get their science right and never ever engage in simple-minded fearmongering.
No, they would NEVER do that.
LK
When I was learning C, I had problems getting my mind to wrap around the for loop. I thought about it for hours and right before I fell asleep I had a DOH moment. I could "see" how they worked and I felt stupid for not getting it right away. Sleep is magic.
LK
And he gave him a raise. I'm not sure if he just gave him a phonebook to stand on or if he cut it in half and duct taped it to his shoes.
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Excellent point. What if Sarah was her middle name and she used it like a first? My father didn't like his first name so everyone called him by his middle name.
LK
Want to get intimate with your date? Well you're much less likely to get arrested if you do at home.
One of my first jobs was at a movie theater. A couple of times per month this couple came in, we eventually nicknamed them the "Swing Kids". They used to sit at the back of the theater and do things. It was always too dark to tell, but we think she wore no panties and used to lift up her skirt. As soon as the movie was over, the girl would limp (because she had a gimpy leg) to the ladies room and clean up. Nobody ever complained and they paid for their tickets and concessions so we never kicked them out or called the cops.
LK
Right, it's the time machine that breaks that concept. Records were destroyed? Why not go back in time.. to get the records?
If you don't have the records in the first place, how in the fuck are you supposed to know which records to go back and save?
Do you just go back and preserve the records for Los Angeles County? Well, what if she was born in Sacramento? What if she was born outside of the state? How are modern authorites supposed to not notice an exhaustive search of the birth records in every county in every state? Wheredoes it say that Sarah was even an American Citizen?
Have a look at this...
http://www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.php?sname=SARAH%20CONNOR&state=CA&ref=&se=&doby=&city=&name_style=1&tm=&tmr=
There are 13 Sarah Connors in California on this list. There's even one Sarah J Connor in there.
http://www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.php?sname=SARAH%20CONNOR&state=ALL&ref=&se=&doby=&city=&name_style=1&tm=&tmr=
There are 176 in the country (that are on this list).
A name this arbitrary and common is going to be nearly impossible to track down without detailed knowledge, in advance.
LK
I have already explored this line of logic.
If SkyNET isn't built, then it can't send the T-800 back in time to kill Sarah and John then IS born but not as the son of Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor because there was no reason and no method for Reese to go back to 1984. Sarah Connor never learns what is to come and therefore doesn't prepare for the coming war.
It's still possible that SkyNET would be developed, but later. Since there was no "John Connor" to lead the human resistance, it would wipe out humanity.
LK
aand... a time machine? problem solved. what the fuck?
SkyNET only knew the city where Sarah Connor lived. It didn't know where her parent's lived. So, even if there were records available it wouldn't know which city to look in.
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The bad news: It was drafted by Focus on the Family.
Better them than NARAL.
LK
1. Any hardware or software product that is no longer sold must have all source code available under an open-source (not necessarily free) license.
2. It must be legal and possible to backup anything that one has paid for.
LK
Interesting point, but I argue that you define a device based on how it's used not how it could theoretically be used.
LK
"Faux" in this case is pronounced "fawkes" to maintain relationship to the original "Fox" while appearing identical to the French word for 'fake' when put into text or type.
Yes, I understand the failed witticism. Faux is a French word. It is pronounced like "Foe", to bend it to fit only puts one's ignorance on display.
LK
You don't really speak French, do you?
Faux is not pronounced like "Fox", it's pronounced "Foe". It's not a witty play on words, it's a public demonstration of your ignorance about the words you use.
I once had a customer come in and tell me that "I need more RAMs of memory in my computer."
One of my favorites was when a customer called in to ask a couple of questions and she told me how many "Gigglebytes" of storage she had.
Another good one was when a potential customer called in telling me that he wanted to buy a Compaq computer, but he pronounced it "COMP A QUE".
Looks like others have already brought up the corrections to your point, but what used to annoy the hell out of me was when cable companies were pushing their surf-boards or "one-way cable modems". If it's just one way, if you are using another device to send data, then that surfboard isn't a MO DEM, it's more of a DEM.
LK
If everyone knew what was going on the need for technicians would vanish.
Untrue. I have a better than average understanding of what's going on inside my vehicle. I have done a large number of repairs that the average person can't. There are some problems that I don't have the time, equipment, experience or disposition to fix. I understand exactly what it means when you have a ruptured head gasket, but I will still seek out a qualified auto tech if I need to have one replaced.
LK
Someone else already made the point using a cow, so I'll go the vegetable route.
If I saw a potato shaved and wearing a suit, my first thought wouldn't be "Mmmm, lunch!".
If I saw a Chimpansee shaved and wearing a suit, my first thought wouldn't be "Mmmm, lunch!".
The fact of the matter is that I do eat potatos. There are many people on the planet who eat Chimpanzees, that doesn't make us cannibals.
LK