Unfortunately capitalism like communism is doomed to failure. Another experiment down the tube.
Eventually everything is doomed to fail. The fact is, we live in an imperfect world. Nobody is ever gonna come up with a perfect government, economic system, business, operating system, etc. The whole idea is that we take what we can get and do our best to make it work.
You said yourself, it's not the system, it's the people running the system. If the people running the system get a "kick in the teeth", we can make capitalism work. Not perfectly, but pretty good.
In spite of a lot of searching, I have yet to find cases which offer a carrying handle
The Antec Gemstone cases have handles. And the black ones actually look pretty good, IMHO. Personally, after seeing an iMac with the handle broken and several parts damaged on impact, I no longer trust handles.
Stolen off a paper, dated 04/28/2000, I got at work. I'm a Service Writer at the Columbia, MD location, if anyone cares.
"The Websurfer systems selling for $49.99 (sku 271198) require a 2-year commitment by the customer to the Earthlink ISP."
You can buy them for $199.99, which is still pretty darn good, without getting any service contract. They ring up at that price at the register, and we have to go through about 8 steps to get the lower price - they're supposed to be stored in a "location NOT available to the customer", and the contract has to be signed, credit card verified, etc. I try to avoid selling them.
I actually had a problem with it earlier... bought a 27 gig hard drive. I wanted to have 8 gigs for Linux and the rest for Windows... keep all my mp3's and other random files on a Windows partition... well, it wouldn't let me. So I made a 7.5 gig Windows partition, a couple ext2, and another FAT32. Well, I screwed it all up, of course, and ended up losing a whole lot of data somehow. Eventually I just threw my old 8 gig drive back in there and put Linux on that and Windows on the 27GB... got it working, but it really sucked. That was about 2 months ago... not as bad as the other guy who got everything working 3 days ago, but I didn't like it.
I don't know of anyone of the opposite-sex who met someone online and decided to be friends.
Don't know if it matters much, but I met my girlfriend online. She's very beautiful, funny, smart, interesting, etc., and I love her. Paying for plane tickets sucks, but it's worth it to see her.
Yeah, but that wasn't the point... the point was that you don't need guns to kill people. You can do it with a knife, a baseball bat... heck, you can do it with your hands. Besides, a kid having access to a gun will not cause them to use it - there has to be some other force influencing them.
You have a pretty good point there. I think it could be either. Some people actually do believe that they have the right answer when they're completely wrong... others, as you said, know the correct answer, but won't say it. Very interesting post.
What i'm trying to say is that with easy access to guns you're more likely to have 'rage' type killings. Obviously a pre-meditated killer will just use something else if they can't get a gun.
True, but easy access to guns is not the CAUSE of the problem. Honestly, I really don't know what's causing this problem. But getting rid of all guns would certainly not solve it. You'd still have senseless murders.
You're trying to treat the symptoms too.. Not having guns will not stop anyone from killing. They'll just grab a standard kitchen knife and do some random slaughter.
I heard this somewhere else... The reason that people try to solve the symptoms of a problem instead of just solving the problem is that people are idiots. There are people out there who are supposed to be solving our problems, but are too stupid and lazy to solve them effectively, so they come up with some random crap that just sounds good and sounds like what people want to hear.
Example: My school is now requiring all teachers to wear name tags because of what happened in Columbine. Why? How will that stop a student (or another teacher, for that matter) from shooting up the school? We also have an anonymous tip box. This was discussed in a previous article, about some company (I forget the name... someone help?) that was doing this, and how it would never work.
Basically, the bottom line is: If you don't know how to solve a problem, don't try to sound like you know how.
Einstein said, "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
We can't just have faith without any science to back it up. That would just be dumb. Religion and reason can - and must - coexist.
Personally, I'm Christian. I accept the fact that evolution does happen. It's a proven fact that species change over time. However, what I do not accept is the part of the theory that has not been proven - where the first living thing came from. I cannot see any way that life could just be randomly created. Some supreme being had to play a role in creating life and setting up the conditions so that that life could evolve.
Sure, they're meant to teach, but someone has to sysadmin. We don't have the money to hire someone else, and they could never let a student do it, since all students are lowly slime.
In one class, I actually got to set up a Linux machine (Red Hat 5.1 on a P100). This was before I knew anything about Linux. I had heard about it, but I had never seen it or used it before. It was made rather difficult by the following issues:
My teacher was an idiot who couldn't even spell Linux.
She lost the manual.
The video card took a lot of encouragement to make it work.
The network card didn't have any Linux drivers. And part of the assignment was to get it on the network.
We had one week to set it up.
We had to write five billion tiny reports.
Even though our project ended up coming out terrible, I ordered a couple CD's to try stuff at home, and I'm running it right now. My partner, however, now hates it because it was so hard to set up.
Anyway, if Linux is going to be taught in schools, we need competent teachers, correct documentation, and compliant hardware.
Well, some of this is true... at my school (River Hill High School, Clarksville, MD), there are many kids who don't want to use the computers, they just want to trash them. A few things that have happened in our school:
Someone sent out thousands of e-mails to all the teacher's e-mail addresses, which used up the little bandwidth that the network had rather quickly.
Someone stole ALL the mouseballs from one of the computer labs.
Letters on the keyboards have been rearranged to spell certain choice words.
More recently, someone has been 'feeding' the computers. Potato chips, french fries, and other various food items have started showing up in printers, floppy drives, keyboards, etc.
Someone managed to cleverly exploit Windoze Safe Mode to remove FoolProof Security, thus gaining access to all the other students' work. (Okay, that was me.)
Actually... now that I'm on the subject, students hacking into computers is another good reason to use Linux, isn't it? It's designed for multiple users, and to keep one user out of another user's stuff, and to keep users from screwing up the system... But there isn't a single teacher smart enough to set that up.
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You said yourself, it's not the system, it's the people running the system. If the people running the system get a "kick in the teeth", we can make capitalism work. Not perfectly, but pretty good.
I think the "Interesting" tag should also be banned.
;-)
This is yet another pathetic attempt to increase my karma.
You ever seen the Adobe publishing collection? $1,199 at your local CompUSA... The box is freaking huge, and it's got a whole lot of manuals in there.
I want three of AMD's other chips. We can call it a Triathlon.
Hey, I'm not complaining, I have a few extra DIMMs lying around that I'll be able to sell now.
Stolen off a paper, dated 04/28/2000, I got at work. I'm a Service Writer at the Columbia, MD location, if anyone cares.
"The Websurfer systems selling for $49.99 (sku 271198) require a 2-year commitment by the customer to the Earthlink ISP."
You can buy them for $199.99, which is still pretty darn good, without getting any service contract. They ring up at that price at the register, and we have to go through about 8 steps to get the lower price - they're supposed to be stored in a "location NOT available to the customer", and the contract has to be signed, credit card verified, etc. I try to avoid selling them.
I actually had a problem with it earlier... bought a 27 gig hard drive. I wanted to have 8 gigs for Linux and the rest for Windows... keep all my mp3's and other random files on a Windows partition... well, it wouldn't let me. So I made a 7.5 gig Windows partition, a couple ext2, and another FAT32. Well, I screwed it all up, of course, and ended up losing a whole lot of data somehow. Eventually I just threw my old 8 gig drive back in there and put Linux on that and Windows on the 27GB... got it working, but it really sucked. That was about 2 months ago... not as bad as the other guy who got everything working 3 days ago, but I didn't like it.
Yeah, I'd like to switch too... anyone have any info on how to go about doing that?
heh... I have to run my brother's K6-2 450 at 458 to get it to start up... won't run on a 100MHz bus for whatever reason...
Yeah, but that wasn't the point... the point was that you don't need guns to kill people. You can do it with a knife, a baseball bat... heck, you can do it with your hands. Besides, a kid having access to a gun will not cause them to use it - there has to be some other force influencing them.
You have a pretty good point there. I think it could be either. Some people actually do believe that they have the right answer when they're completely wrong... others, as you said, know the correct answer, but won't say it. Very interesting post.
I heard this somewhere else... The reason that people try to solve the symptoms of a problem instead of just solving the problem is that people are idiots. There are people out there who are supposed to be solving our problems, but are too stupid and lazy to solve them effectively, so they come up with some random crap that just sounds good and sounds like what people want to hear.
Example: My school is now requiring all teachers to wear name tags because of what happened in Columbine. Why? How will that stop a student (or another teacher, for that matter) from shooting up the school? We also have an anonymous tip box. This was discussed in a previous article, about some company (I forget the name... someone help?) that was doing this, and how it would never work.
Basically, the bottom line is: If you don't know how to solve a problem, don't try to sound like you know how.
I don't have a dxr2 decoder card. I don't have any extra expansion slots to put one in. I need a software decoder.
I'll just wait until I can get a decent open source player, or maybe a pirated version of this one.
Einstein said, "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
We can't just have faith without any science to back it up. That would just be dumb. Religion and reason can - and must - coexist.
Personally, I'm Christian. I accept the fact that evolution does happen. It's a proven fact that species change over time. However, what I do not accept is the part of the theory that has not been proven - where the first living thing came from. I cannot see any way that life could just be randomly created. Some supreme being had to play a role in creating life and setting up the conditions so that that life could evolve.
Sure, they're meant to teach, but someone has to sysadmin. We don't have the money to hire someone else, and they could never let a student do it, since all students are lowly slime.
- My teacher was an idiot who couldn't even spell Linux.
- She lost the manual.
- The video card took a lot of encouragement to make it work.
- The network card didn't have any Linux drivers. And part of the assignment was to get it on the network.
- We had one week to set it up.
- We had to write five billion tiny reports.
Even though our project ended up coming out terrible, I ordered a couple CD's to try stuff at home, and I'm running it right now. My partner, however, now hates it because it was so hard to set up.Anyway, if Linux is going to be taught in schools, we need competent teachers, correct documentation, and compliant hardware.
- Someone sent out thousands of e-mails to all the teacher's e-mail addresses, which used up the little bandwidth that the network had rather quickly.
- Someone stole ALL the mouseballs from one of the computer labs.
- Letters on the keyboards have been rearranged to spell certain choice words.
- More recently, someone has been 'feeding' the computers. Potato chips, french fries, and other various food items have started showing up in printers, floppy drives, keyboards, etc.
- Someone managed to cleverly exploit Windoze Safe Mode to remove FoolProof Security, thus gaining access to all the other students' work. (Okay, that was me.)
Actually... now that I'm on the subject, students hacking into computers is another good reason to use Linux, isn't it? It's designed for multiple users, and to keep one user out of another user's stuff, and to keep users from screwing up the system... But there isn't a single teacher smart enough to set that up.Actually, just looked it up...
"http://www.mozillazine.org is NOT BLOCKED in our most recent filters."
You can look up sites to see if they're blocked or not at the SurfWatch website. Sites can also be submitted for blocking or unblocking review.
Maybe you submitted a form that SurfWatch didn't like... sometimes it won't let you submit forms because one of the field names is "Sex" or something dumb like that.