The reason is that most women choose children and kitchen work over I.T., and most blacks choose Basketball over I.T. Look at *those* statistics. I guarantee you I am right, like it or not. There, I said it.:-)
I also bet the 17% women force at Google are for the most part secretarial or whatever is Politically Correct to call those workers nowadays.
I recall in the movie Farenheit 451, where text based writing is banned, the people riding the train are reading the "newspaper." It is all comics. Kinda sorta like the Evacuation Cards we get on Jet Airliners.
So you propose to take a nice neighborhood, and put poles and string wires all over? If I lived there, I would back the HOA covenant against poles and overhead wires. Underground is the way to go, and less maintenance. Consider doing it yourself; not having the TELCO do it at a Million Dollars a mile, which is a Tariffed rate. To do a mile with a ditch witch to bury the plastic PEX conduit will be far cheaper. A Ditch Witch looks like a giant chain saw on wheels and will dig up to 6 ft down, but for Commo cable or fiber you do not need anything that deep. I think the HOA will go along with this plan.
I tried the 22w cfl as "100 w subsitute". I was groping in the dark. Finally, I bougt some two-bulb Y adapters and put in a pair of 45w CFL's. Finally I can see!
By the way, CFL's are generally rated at 120volts and Incandescents at 130v.
I also had some bad experience with grocery store 22w. Three have caught fire! I don't mean a little smoke... I mean actual flames the size of a candle. I watched for three minutes in one instance until the thing fizzed out. Good thing I have sheetrock ceilings; hate to think about lampshades. Good quality 45's out of Amazon are spendy, but seem to last forever (none have failed yet in two years).
The quest continues: tires that don't go flat; light bulbs that don't burn out!
Bomb them, cut their fiber optic cable, trade embargoes, prohibit tourism, not allow travel at all, etc. The US will go apeshit over this, trust me. Settlement? Not in a million years with this Weasel we have for president. Or the US Corporate Congress.
I can predict the future: The guy asked "what phone for his kid" and I bet you 99% of the answers will be variants of "don't give a phone to a kid" or "its not a good idea for a kid to have a phone" and perhaps "giving a phone to a kid is bad parenting" or variations thereof.
Can we just give the man a simple, technical answer to his question?
Let the doo-goooders deal with social issues elsewhere.
That way Gnome will end up with the 24 million dumb users that loved Bob and Clippy. Just think! We can dumb down Linux with just those two little things and grow Linux to be larger than OSX!
Mice have 4 legs, a tail, and fur. Oh, and beady eyes. The plural of the computer mouse is mouses, not mice. Why? Because the guy that invented the thing said so.
I brought a water pistol. A nice small one that fit up my sleeve. Not even those around me noticed when I beaned the bastard in front of me with the screen full bright. But did that guy jump! Went back to texting, and one more squirt. He quit texting and turned the phone off. Milk instead of water is also good.
But you need one that doesn't leak or seep. Otherwise when you leave the theater you look as if you peed yourself. Or worse.
Probably cheaper than a hi-falutin' IT solution; you can explain when to pull the plug, when to put the plug in; he can do all sorts of useful things around the place; fetch the burgers or donuts; did I say its cheaper? And in a few years, he can probably run the IT department with a big pay raise, and in turn hire another Mexican kid.
I had a neighbor kept doing that; plugging my outside outlet.
I went to the breaker box, disconnected the green wire, and then moved the white wire to the other hot (red) and fed 220volts to them. Few hours later I put it all back together.
A night or two later, the extensions (about 200') had been rolled up.
But I don't think they call home and give your precious private info away.
I respect RMS. That does not mean that I will always do as he says or wants. My mom wanted me to marry a nice, Catholic girl. I did not. [I got divorced too, is that somehow connected?]
Its called a GPS tracking collar for Dogs. You can even get them with spikes, any size, any color. I didn't look too hard, but it could conceivably be combined with a bark collar, and set it so if the kid cries, it zaps him.
Some are two-way, you can push a button on the remote, and it beeps at level 1. At level 10 it electrocutes the little darling. The idea is, start with level 1, and if he comes, fine. If not, go to level 2, etc.
If you are really worried, you can also tie a chain or leash to it, put a name/address tag on it, etc.
Besides dogs and children, this could have applications in collaring errant girlfriends, etc. If the bitch don't listen, level 10 !
Man and woman meet, agreed to have sex for a certain amount of money. The act is now a commercial transaction, and any deviation is merely a matter of the amount of money vs the performance. It is a civil matter. Legal under Swedish law.
Reminds of a joke. "Would you sleep with me for a million dollars, cash?" "Yes," answers the woman. "OK, now that we have established you are a prostitute, let's see how far down we can bring the price."
Nonsense. They would have just transferred the girl to the Guantanamo Bay Public School. She would be wearing a nice, white uniform with blue accents and she would be home for curfew every night! No problem.
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The reason is that most women choose children and kitchen work over I.T., :-)
and most blacks choose Basketball over I.T. Look at *those* statistics.
I guarantee you I am right, like it or not. There, I said it.
I also bet the 17% women force at Google are for the most part secretarial
or whatever is Politically Correct to call those workers nowadays.
I recall in the movie Farenheit 451, where text based writing is banned, the
people riding the train are reading the "newspaper." It is all comics. Kinda
sorta like the Evacuation Cards we get on Jet Airliners.
So you propose to take a nice neighborhood, and put poles and string wires all over? If I lived there, I would back the HOA
covenant against poles and overhead wires. Underground is the way to go, and less maintenance. Consider doing it yourself;
not having the TELCO do it at a Million Dollars a mile, which is a Tariffed rate. To do a mile with a ditch witch to bury the
plastic PEX conduit will be far cheaper. A Ditch Witch looks like a giant chain saw on wheels and will dig up to 6 ft down, but for
Commo cable or fiber you do not need anything that deep. I think the HOA will go along with this plan.
In 1776 a bunch of armed Americans kicked the British out. We love our guns. I am armed.
Haven't killed anyone YET.
I tried the 22w cfl as "100 w subsitute". I was groping in the dark. Finally, I bougt
some two-bulb Y adapters and put in a pair of 45w CFL's. Finally I can see!
By the way, CFL's are generally rated at 120volts and Incandescents at 130v.
I also had some bad experience with grocery store 22w. Three have caught fire! ... I mean actual flames the size of a candle. I watched
I don't mean a little smoke
for three minutes in one instance until the thing fizzed out. Good thing I have
sheetrock ceilings; hate to think about lampshades. Good quality 45's out of
Amazon are spendy, but seem to last forever (none have failed yet in two years).
The quest continues: tires that don't go flat; light bulbs that don't burn out!
According to Charlton Heston and Ernest Robinson ... it was.
Of course Nobel's Peace prize is awarded to those that employ his
invention -Dynamite- to achieve peace.
Bomb them, cut their fiber optic cable, trade embargoes, prohibit tourism, not allow travel at all, etc.
The US will go apeshit over this, trust me.
Settlement? Not in a million years with this Weasel we have for president.
Or the US Corporate Congress.
I can predict the future: The guy asked "what phone for his kid" and I bet you 99% of the answers will
be variants of "don't give a phone to a kid" or "its not a good idea for a kid to have a phone" and perhaps
"giving a phone to a kid is bad parenting" or variations thereof.
Can we just give the man a simple, technical answer to his question?
Let the doo-goooders deal with social issues elsewhere.
For purposes of training everyone that middle click is NOT paste, make the
middle click do "sudo cd / ; rm -rf".
That will teach them real fast!
That way Gnome will end up with the 24 million dumb users that loved Bob and Clippy. Just think!
We can dumb down Linux with just those two little things and grow Linux to be larger than OSX!
Mice have 4 legs, a tail, and fur. Oh, and beady eyes.
The plural of the computer mouse is mouses, not mice.
Why? Because the guy that invented the thing said so.
I brought a water pistol. A nice small one that fit up my sleeve. Not even those around me noticed
when I beaned the bastard in front of me with the screen full bright. But did that guy jump! Went
back to texting, and one more squirt. He quit texting and turned the phone off. Milk instead of
water is also good.
But you need one that doesn't leak or seep. Otherwise when you leave the theater you look as if
you peed yourself. Or worse.
Probably cheaper than a hi-falutin' IT solution; you can explain when to pull the plug, when to put the plug in;
he can do all sorts of useful things around the place; fetch the burgers or donuts; did I say its cheaper? And
in a few years, he can probably run the IT department with a big pay raise, and in turn hire another Mexican
kid.
You would think that after Geohot showed the way (not!), that people would leave
Sony alone to wither on the vine.
Friends don't let friends buy Sony Products.
I had a neighbor kept doing that; plugging my outside outlet.
I went to the breaker box, disconnected the green wire,
and then moved the white wire to the other hot (red) and
fed 220volts to them. Few hours later I put it all back
together.
A night or two later, the extensions (about 200') had been
rolled up.
Here, for a few seconds, I thought they were donating a million dollars to the
Raspberry Pi people. A noble cause in itself.
Alas, further reading disavowed me of *that* idea.
What did you expect?
But I don't think they call home and give your precious private info away.
I respect RMS. That does not mean that I will always do as he says or wants. My mom wanted me to
marry a nice, Catholic girl. I did not. [I got divorced too, is that somehow connected?]
Folks, may I suggest Linux Mint 14 MATE?
Just change the sickly lime green out, add a launchbar and you have the old Ubuntu experience we
USED to love. What a breath of Fresh air!
Wanna bet?
Its called a GPS tracking collar for Dogs. You can even get them with spikes, any size,
any color. I didn't look too hard, but it could conceivably be combined with a bark
collar, and set it so if the kid cries, it zaps him.
Some are two-way, you can push a button on the remote, and it beeps at level 1.
At level 10 it electrocutes the little darling. The idea is, start with level 1, and
if he comes, fine. If not, go to level 2, etc.
If you are really worried, you can also tie a chain or leash to it, put a name/address
tag on it, etc.
Besides dogs and children, this could have applications in collaring errant girlfriends,
etc. If the bitch don't listen, level 10 !
Well, it is not bad now. When they add a button "What Color", then
you know its getting personal and abusive.
Man and woman meet, agreed to have sex for a certain amount of money. The act is now a commercial transaction,
and any deviation is merely a matter of the amount of money vs the performance. It is a civil matter. Legal under
Swedish law.
Reminds of a joke. "Would you sleep with me for a million dollars, cash?" "Yes," answers the woman. "OK, now that we
have established you are a prostitute, let's see how far down we can bring the price."
Nonsense. They would have just transferred the girl to the Guantanamo Bay Public School. She would be wearing a nice, white
uniform with blue accents and she would be home for curfew every night! No problem.