I have begun lately when asked by restaurant hosts or hostesses my seating preference, to ask to be seated in the "no cell phone" section as opposed to the smoking or non-smoking areas. I am usually met with a blank stare.
As a smoker, I will myself refrain from my habit at restaurants out of deference to others' sensibilities. Now if only we could get the cellphone addicts to do the same.
I really used to like "Iron Chef". It was grand theatre more than anything else, but certainly entertaining.
Then the "cease and desist" letters from the Iron Chef lawyers to the fansites came, and I have not watched it since. I really should tune it in so I can find out who the sponsors are and let them know I'm boycotting them as well, but I just don't want to waste my precious time.
As far as I'm concerned, "Iron Chef" committed seppuku with those C&D lawyer-letters. They became popular thru the concentrated efforts of a few individual fans in the states, and then Fuji TV stabbed their own fan-promoters in the back.
Microsoft and Legos? The X-box? The La-Z-Boy Explorer? Aren't these the same bozos that have been calling Linux "the toy operating system" for a couple of years now?
Looks like they've found their market at long last.
I don't understand your comment about Caldera. Midway through my install of eDesktop 2.3 Lizard asked whether I wanted to install a typical home system, a business workstation, a development workstation, whatever. At the time, I was dual booting off a 2.5 gb drive, and the home-user install took up less space than Win95. Caldera's eDesktop 2.4 does the same. I've got more disk now, so I check the box for "everything", and it still all loads off of a single CD. The other 2 CDs are for source and commercial packages.
Or maybe you want a check-box for every RPM? No thanks. I've been a UNIX sysadmin for almost 20 years, and I'm still not that masochistic.
You heard correctly. The USDOJ issued an opinion on the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) several years ago that if a government entity conducts a portion of its business electronically, then that operation must meet the same accessibility requirements that would normally be expected of the "brick-and-mortar" business.
Sometimes you'll hear this referred to as "digital curb cutting", in reference to the cuts made in sidewalk edges to allow wheelchair access.
Lets see now, it runs on NT, they use PC-Anywhere to dial in, and everybody logs onto it as "Administrator".
This thing is a h4x0rs dream-come-true. Any ISP that gets one of these crammed down his throat ought to be very, very worried. Maybe attrition.org should go ahead and just setup a page now for Carnivore hacks.
If ya wanna make this a _real_ slashpoll, then ya gotta include the RIAA, the MPAA, and the DVD CCA. These people are bringing home the gold in the stupidity olympics.
I don't shop at Wal-Mart. The bastards have gone on a vengeance hunt to drive all the local merchants out of business by selling below cost. Half the retail space in this town is vacant now, and the downtown is 95% closed up. This place is starting to look like a ghost town since Sam's lawyers moved in. Thanks to a short-sighted city manager (and a greedy developer), we've now got more than 40 empty storefronts with a Wal-Mart in the middle.
I mean, where was Pat Paulsen? I've voted Paulsen in every race since "Laugh In" was on primetime. And what happened to Alfred E. Newman? The Jewish guy for VP is a good look-alike, though. Sort of an elderly "what-me-worry" look without the gap in the incisors. OK, not that big a gap anyway. Look, if you're gonna have a poll, then at least give us some realistic alternatives to Gore and Bush, not the same lame "Hemos" or some other slashdotter crap time after time.
This is probably worst choice in prez candidates I've seen in my half-century of living. No, not what's on your poll; its what's gonna be on my November ballot that's really disgusting and revolting. Yucch.
An interesting sidenote. The Missouri Governor who perished in a plane crash last week has zoomed ahead in the polls since his death. It was a neck-and-neck race, but since his passing, he's garnered an astounding eight-point lead over his opponent in that state. I'm beginning to like Missouri more and more....
The day I'm forced to choose between a pacemaker running WinCE or one running RedHat, I'm going to ask the kind doctor for a prescription for 250 secobarbitol. And a refill won't be necessary.
What we really need is a.NUL domain that would be a non-searchable region of the web. And the public should be able to vote websites into it, a la Slashdot moderation. Offhand, I can think of one outfit that'd be there before sundown....
But the Federal Government is unarguably the stupidest customer in the entire marketplace. They're the lowest common denominator, folks, and that's exactly where MSFT targets it product line.
The state where I live is one of the states suing MSFT. But the state CIO published a standard that says that WinNT is the only permitted O/S for new installs. Go figure....
I tried to watch it, even made my wife quit playing with Linux to take a look. Didn't even make it past the first ten minutes, we were so busted up laughing our sides were starting to ache, and we couldn't see through the tears.
The script appeared to be taken entirely from Leslie Lee's Web Economy Bullshit Generator (http://dack.com/web/bullshit.html). Hmm, maybe Lee could sue DC for IP theft. Now that would be interesting....
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Ummm, my hardback copy of the book has a picture of the author on the dustjacket. That's one incredibly butch looking woman, I gotta tell you.
"Fair use" under copyright law is almost an extinct concept already, and reverse engineering is currently being prosecuted as a felony. Today I don't own much of what I've purchased, and have no right to use my purchases except in the specific manner and location proscribed by the seller. Will it get worse? Of course, because most Americans are stupid and lazy. The rest are greedy.
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I have begun lately when asked by restaurant hosts or hostesses my seating preference, to ask to be seated in the "no cell phone" section as opposed to the smoking or non-smoking areas. I am usually met with a blank stare.
As a smoker, I will myself refrain from my habit at restaurants out of deference to others' sensibilities. Now if only we could get the cellphone addicts to do the same.
Fuck.
Mod me down, but that sums it up.
Fuck.
I really used to like "Iron Chef". It was grand theatre more than anything else, but certainly entertaining.
Then the "cease and desist" letters from the Iron Chef lawyers to the fansites came, and I have not watched it since. I really should tune it in so I can find out who the sponsors are and let them know I'm boycotting them as well, but I just don't want to waste my precious time.
As far as I'm concerned, "Iron Chef" committed seppuku with those C&D lawyer-letters. They became popular thru the concentrated efforts of a few individual fans in the states, and then Fuji TV stabbed their own fan-promoters in the back.
Fuck 'em. I've got no time for jerks like these.
Shouldn't they have made it "Dodge RAM" resident first?
Microsoft and Legos? The X-box? The La-Z-Boy Explorer? Aren't these the same bozos that have been calling Linux "the toy operating system" for a couple of years now?
Looks like they've found their market at long last.
Two overpriced java lookalikes.
In a year from now, I won't have a computer that works. In two years, I won't have a TV set that I can watch.
I can finally get back to working on the HO train layout in the basement, and maybe read a good book occasionally.
I don't understand your comment about Caldera. Midway through my install of eDesktop 2.3 Lizard asked whether I wanted to install a typical home system, a business workstation, a development workstation, whatever. At the time, I was dual booting off a 2.5 gb drive, and the home-user install took up less space than Win95. Caldera's eDesktop 2.4 does the same. I've got more disk now, so I check the box for "everything", and it still all loads off of a single CD. The other 2 CDs are for source and commercial packages.
Or maybe you want a check-box for every RPM? No thanks. I've been a UNIX sysadmin for almost 20 years, and I'm still not that masochistic.
You heard correctly. The USDOJ issued an opinion on the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) several years ago that if a government entity conducts a portion of its business electronically, then that operation must meet the same accessibility requirements that would normally be expected of the "brick-and-mortar" business.
Sometimes you'll hear this referred to as "digital curb cutting", in reference to the cuts made in sidewalk edges to allow wheelchair access.
Lets see now, it runs on NT, they use PC-Anywhere to dial in, and everybody logs onto it as "Administrator".
This thing is a h4x0rs dream-come-true. Any ISP that gets one of these crammed down his throat ought to be very, very worried. Maybe attrition.org should go ahead and just setup a page now for Carnivore hacks.
If ya wanna make this a _real_ slashpoll, then ya gotta include the RIAA, the MPAA, and the DVD CCA. These people are bringing home the gold in the stupidity olympics.
You all know what this really means, right? A beowulf cluster of Tivos!
Sorry, but it had to be done.
I really hate it when people just keep stacking superlatives atop one another like that. They should be struck down by a boltBBRRZAAAPP!
Sorry. How about...
Probably have to upgrade it to run Whistler.
... instead?
... but where are the FPS specs for Quake?
I don't shop at Wal-Mart. The bastards have gone on a vengeance hunt to drive all the local merchants out of business by selling below cost. Half the retail space in this town is vacant now, and the downtown is 95% closed up. This place is starting to look like a ghost town since Sam's lawyers moved in. Thanks to a short-sighted city manager (and a greedy developer), we've now got more than 40 empty storefronts with a Wal-Mart in the middle.
http://www.sprawl-busters.com
I mean, where was Pat Paulsen? I've voted Paulsen in every race since "Laugh In" was on primetime. And what happened to Alfred E. Newman? The Jewish guy for VP is a good look-alike, though. Sort of an elderly "what-me-worry" look without the gap in the incisors. OK, not that big a gap anyway. Look, if you're gonna have a poll, then at least give us some realistic alternatives to Gore and Bush, not the same lame "Hemos" or some other slashdotter crap time after time.
This is probably worst choice in prez candidates I've seen in my half-century of living. No, not what's on your poll; its what's gonna be on my November ballot that's really disgusting and revolting. Yucch.
An interesting sidenote. The Missouri Governor who perished in a plane crash last week has zoomed ahead in the polls since his death. It was a neck-and-neck race, but since his passing, he's garnered an astounding eight-point lead over his opponent in that state. I'm beginning to like Missouri more and more....
I extend my deepest sympathies to his family.
Glad I didn't burn up my week's picks on Pud's board before I read this. They're dead meat.
http://www.fuckedcompany.com
The day I'm forced to choose between a pacemaker running WinCE or one running RedHat, I'm going to ask the kind doctor for a prescription for 250 secobarbitol. And a refill won't be necessary.
What we really need is a .NUL domain that would be a non-searchable region of the web. And the public should be able to vote websites into it, a la Slashdot moderation. Offhand, I can think of one outfit that'd be there before sundown....
> They will be more profitable than most dot.com's
My kid's paper route is more profitable than most dot-coms.
But the Federal Government is unarguably the stupidest customer in the entire marketplace. They're the lowest common denominator, folks, and that's exactly where MSFT targets it product line.
The state where I live is one of the states suing MSFT. But the state CIO published a standard that says that WinNT is the only permitted O/S for new installs. Go figure....
I tried to watch it, even made my wife quit playing with Linux to take a look. Didn't even make it past the first ten minutes, we were so busted up laughing our sides were starting to ache, and we couldn't see through the tears.
The script appeared to be taken entirely from Leslie Lee's Web Economy Bullshit Generator (http://dack.com/web/bullshit.html). Hmm, maybe Lee could sue DC for IP theft. Now that would be interesting....
Ummm, my hardback copy of the book has a picture of the author on the dustjacket. That's one incredibly butch looking woman, I gotta tell you.
"Fair use" under copyright law is almost an extinct concept already, and reverse engineering is currently being prosecuted as a felony. Today I don't own much of what I've purchased, and have no right to use my purchases except in the specific manner and location proscribed by the seller. Will it get worse? Of course, because most Americans are stupid and lazy. The rest are greedy.
The meek don't inherit shit.