Don't any of you chuckleheads ever bother to read the actual article? It is NOT about spam (UCE). It is about asking for information from multiple people. Since spam often uses BCC, the article isn't even relevant. As to why the so-called "Cmdr Taco" wouldn't realise this, we can only assume that HE hasn't read the article either. Maybe HE should change his name to "Cmdr Chucklehead." +5 (longer than most other +5s)
"Canada is the only developed country in which there are no laws regulating encryption."
Not to be pedantic, but the predicate of the sentence makes itself redundant. Canada is, therefore, the only developed country, if we equate developed with the idea of advanced beyond primitive notions of spying as a solution to criminal behaviour.
Pray tell, what is the point of a "sliderule package" anyway? I mean, the things were like calculators in that you could carry them around with you and do quick calculations. They came in packages with pocket protectors, I think.;o) They were driven out of the market by the calculator, which is still going strong despite the presence in the market of smaller and smaller computers and handhelds.
"Drag, Drop, Leave is faster than Insert CD, Drag, Drop, Wait, Eject CD"
Actually, I leave the CR-RW in the drive most of the time. And I have my old CD player that I suppose I could plop back in the case so I didn't have to take the CD-RW out hardly at all. As for the wonderfulness of online storage, this article points up exactly how vulnerable you are. These guys have life or death control over it. "Gee! We think we'll raise the price to $500 a year. Isn't that just peachy?" You might as well pull down your pants and give them a hammer.
Not to mention security issues, copyright issues, legal issues....
As I suggested about a week ago, in a hundred years nobody will even remember Microsoft. It's a one-product company. They might as well be selling slide rules. You do all remember the slide rule? No? Hmmm...;o) [hint: +5 (funny)]
Does anyone here seriously think that if they had any real creativity they'd have to try and play their silly little monopoly game like latter day Rockefellers? [hint: +3 (inciting)]
Hey, I use Google. And I do use quotes to weed out what I don't want. I don't use Mozilla because it doesn't work with The Brain, which is my bookmark tool of choice (as well as my toolbar of choice). If it weren't for that I'd use Opera. As for the pop-ups, I have found that whatever method I use to quash them, there's always some consequence that requires me to reverse whatever I did to solve the problem. I've pretty much given up.
I wasn't really saying that there aren't work-arounds. There are always work-arounds. It's just the frustration of seeing what's essentially a good thing (the internet) being turned into just another corporate abomination. You watch some guy on TV making $100 million a year claiming he didn't know whether his company was making a profit or not you wanna shove your foot through the tube. These are the same buffoons who think that showing you the same Nexium ad 50 times is gonna make you want to go see your doctor for some. These guys need to be given IQ tests before taking office.
"Immoral" may not be quite the right word. This isn't really about personal (or corporate)morality. It's about making other people's lives a little less enjoyable and productive in the name of a mostly mythical profit motive. It's not the worship of the almighty dollar (or euro) that gets me, it's the fact that these clowns can't even figure out what's in their own best interests. There must be something about having people kiss your ass that makes you think you're infallible.
Gee, I don't seem to be eligible. Maybe if I can get some crony to moderate a one-line quip into a +5 (funny) 8 or 10 times I can meta-moderate. Am I the only one here who sees this con?
Very few things are the end of the universe. It's the constant drip...drip...drip like the Chinese water torture that destroys the whole surfing experience. A pop-up ad here, a roll-down ad there, the 14th damned Nexium ad on THE SAME PAGE--Do these morons think I'm more likely to buy something after being annoyed by it the 52nd time than I was the first time? Hey, if these guys think they can fool the people into believing that the CEO of a company doesn't know how much money it's making or losing, they damned well don't think you're bright enough to realise who's screwing up your surfing experience. No, it's not the end of the world, but is that what it takes for somebody to do something about it?
To a large extent, you're missing the point. Many of these engines won't even index you unless you fork over some dough. That in itself skews the results toward the larger players, even before you get to the point of paying for placement, which, again, the larger players find it easier to do. The down side for them, of course, is that the engine gets to the point where it doesn't serve the needs of the users and, hopefully, will fall of its own weight. At some point even the densest of users (AOL folks excluded;o) will realise they're not getting anything resembling a useful result.
What annoys me about some of these search engines is that they won't even index your site unless you pay them. Google, on the other hand, seems to understand that the better the information they have the more people will use them.
As for Google's ads, I find that I sometimes click on the paid ones first, depending on what I'm looking for, because they really do tend to be germane.
So some moron in the Midwest puts cyanide in a couple of Tylenol capsules and for the rest of recorded history we have to fight with every bottle we buy to try to get it open without getting a hernia or getting so angry we throw it against the wall in frustration? There's a point at which the "cure" is worse than the disease. And the idiots who enact these damned laws are the very same fools who claim to have so much "faith-in-god" they get upset when a court tells them they can't shove a religiously tainted pledge down my throat. Sounds to me like a bunch of unbelievers trying to save themselves from their own just rewards. And I'm an atheist.
Get used to it! The world is a dangerous place! It has to be if evolution is to work properly. Otherwise you are going to end up with a species of decrepit subhumans who need machines to wipe their own butts. You want to live in the womb all your life you should never have come out.
I used to tape folk music off of the radio with an Ampex reel-to-reel when I was a boy. Nobody tried to arrest me for piracy. _____ Dear moderator. I am not a troll. You call me one I am going to file a formal complaint against you. Telling the truth does not constitute trolling in this or any alternate universe.
Whoever modded this down to a 0 is a moron of the first water. This is the ONLY reply that actually answers the question accurately! Who's watching the moderators, anyway? What, are these guys rejects from the police academy?
Offtopic? Maybe. But certainly germane. The pictures *are* pretty, though. Makes me want to try Gnulix again, almost. I keep forgetting all the damned headaches. Pie in the sky in my opinion. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. You get my drift.
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Don't any of you chuckleheads ever bother to read the actual article? It is NOT about spam (UCE). It is about asking for information from multiple people. Since spam often uses BCC, the article isn't even relevant. As to why the so-called "Cmdr Taco" wouldn't realise this, we can only assume that HE hasn't read the article either. Maybe HE should change his name to "Cmdr Chucklehead." +5 (longer than most other +5s)
A dollar? One lousy dollar? You don't think Bill could afford, maybe, two dollars? ;o)
How does this stack up against/relate to aluminum cases?
You still have to feed data to each pixel.
You left out phrenologists. ;o)
"Canada is the only developed country in which there are no laws regulating encryption."
Not to be pedantic, but the predicate of the sentence makes itself redundant. Canada is, therefore, the only developed country, if we equate developed with the idea of advanced beyond primitive notions of spying as a solution to criminal behaviour.
I didn't think it was April 1 already....
;o) They were driven out of the market by the calculator, which is still going strong despite the presence in the market of smaller and smaller computers and handhelds.
Pray tell, what is the point of a "sliderule package" anyway? I mean, the things were like calculators in that you could carry them around with you and do quick calculations. They came in packages with pocket protectors, I think.
"Drag, Drop, Leave is faster than Insert CD, Drag, Drop, Wait, Eject CD"
Actually, I leave the CR-RW in the drive most of the time. And I have my old CD player that I suppose I could plop back in the case so I didn't have to take the CD-RW out hardly at all. As for the wonderfulness of online storage, this article points up exactly how vulnerable you are. These guys have life or death control over it. "Gee! We think we'll raise the price to $500 a year. Isn't that just peachy?" You might as well pull down your pants and give them a hammer.
Not to mention security issues, copyright issues, legal issues....
Another moron moderator. God, don't you bimbos have any sense of humor? Somebody meta-moderate this up to +5 (Ironic) Sheesh!
Somehow I don't think "advocates" is the proper word here. Perhaps the following rule will prevent you from looking like an idiot in the future:
;o)
If you don't know what the word means, DON'T USE IT!
Then again, this implies that you even know what you don't know....
"Anti-virus: $50
;o)
"Backup: $40
"100MB of online storage: $60
"15MB of email storage, forwarding and POP/IMAP access: $40+
"Home page creation and hosting: $60"
1) Well, assuming I don't get a free antivirus program online, $50 sounds reasonable.
2) Why do I need 100 MB of online storage when I can put 700-800 MB on a CD-R or CD-RW?
3) Why do I need a special e-mail account when I get one from my ISP?
4) I get 12MB of homepage space from my ISP for free.
All for $120 a year.
Gee, and I was just about to go out and can my new homebuilt for an Apple. Not!
Is this what they call fuzzy math, or is it just fuzzy thinking?
No No No! We don't hate Windows! We hate that greasy little dweeb who sells it! ;o)
;o)
Now please reboot your computer so the intended offense can take effect....
As I suggested about a week ago, in a hundred years nobody will even remember Microsoft. It's a one-product company. They might as well be selling slide rules. You do all remember the slide rule? No? Hmmm... ;o) [hint: +5 (funny)]
Does anyone here seriously think that if they had any real creativity they'd have to try and play their silly little monopoly game like latter day Rockefellers? [hint: +3 (inciting)]
Hey, I use Google. And I do use quotes to weed out what I don't want. I don't use Mozilla because it doesn't work with The Brain, which is my bookmark tool of choice (as well as my toolbar of choice). If it weren't for that I'd use Opera. As for the pop-ups, I have found that whatever method I use to quash them, there's always some consequence that requires me to reverse whatever I did to solve the problem. I've pretty much given up.
I wasn't really saying that there aren't work-arounds. There are always work-arounds. It's just the frustration of seeing what's essentially a good thing (the internet) being turned into just another corporate abomination. You watch some guy on TV making $100 million a year claiming he didn't know whether his company was making a profit or not you wanna shove your foot through the tube. These are the same buffoons who think that showing you the same Nexium ad 50 times is gonna make you want to go see your doctor for some. These guys need to be given IQ tests before taking office.
"Immoral" may not be quite the right word. This isn't really about personal (or corporate)morality. It's about making other people's lives a little less enjoyable and productive in the name of a mostly mythical profit motive. It's not the worship of the almighty dollar (or euro) that gets me, it's the fact that these clowns can't even figure out what's in their own best interests. There must be something about having people kiss your ass that makes you think you're infallible.
Today's corporate buzzword: Ethical standards.
Why do I keep assuming I'm talking to people with an IQ of over 100? AIM LOWER! ;o)
Gee, I don't seem to be eligible. Maybe if I can get some crony to moderate a one-line quip into a +5 (funny) 8 or 10 times I can meta-moderate. Am I the only one here who sees this con?
I really have to start aiming lower. ;o)
Very few things are the end of the universe. It's the constant drip...drip...drip like the Chinese water torture that destroys the whole surfing experience. A pop-up ad here, a roll-down ad there, the 14th damned Nexium ad on THE SAME PAGE--Do these morons think I'm more likely to buy something after being annoyed by it the 52nd time than I was the first time? Hey, if these guys think they can fool the people into believing that the CEO of a company doesn't know how much money it's making or losing, they damned well don't think you're bright enough to realise who's screwing up your surfing experience. No, it's not the end of the world, but is that what it takes for somebody to do something about it?
To a large extent, you're missing the point. Many of these engines won't even index you unless you fork over some dough. That in itself skews the results toward the larger players, even before you get to the point of paying for placement, which, again, the larger players find it easier to do. The down side for them, of course, is that the engine gets to the point where it doesn't serve the needs of the users and, hopefully, will fall of its own weight. At some point even the densest of users (AOL folks excluded ;o) will realise they're not getting anything resembling a useful result.
Gee, I wonder why they call it "business ethics" instead of just ethics. You don't suppose the rules are different? ;o)
What annoys me about some of these search engines is that they won't even index your site unless you pay them. Google, on the other hand, seems to understand that the better the information they have the more people will use them.
As for Google's ads, I find that I sometimes click on the paid ones first, depending on what I'm looking for, because they really do tend to be germane.
So some moron in the Midwest puts cyanide in a couple of Tylenol capsules and for the rest of recorded history we have to fight with every bottle we buy to try to get it open without getting a hernia or getting so angry we throw it against the wall in frustration? There's a point at which the "cure" is worse than the disease. And the idiots who enact these damned laws are the very same fools who claim to have so much "faith-in-god" they get upset when a court tells them they can't shove a religiously tainted pledge down my throat. Sounds to me like a bunch of unbelievers trying to save themselves from their own just rewards. And I'm an atheist.
Get used to it! The world is a dangerous place! It has to be if evolution is to work properly. Otherwise you are going to end up with a species of decrepit subhumans who need machines to wipe their own butts. You want to live in the womb all your life you should never have come out.
I used to tape folk music off of the radio with an Ampex reel-to-reel when I was a boy. Nobody tried to arrest me for piracy.
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Dear moderator. I am not a troll. You call me one I am going to file a formal complaint against you. Telling the truth does not constitute trolling in this or any alternate universe.
Damned anonymous moron moderators. Does anybody ever check up on these idiots? You want flamebait? Go suck Bill Gates ass you twizzle headed gafaw.
Whoever modded this down to a 0 is a moron of the first water. This is the ONLY reply that actually answers the question accurately! Who's watching the moderators, anyway? What, are these guys rejects from the police academy?
Offtopic? Maybe. But certainly germane. The pictures *are* pretty, though. Makes me want to try Gnulix again, almost. I keep forgetting all the damned headaches. Pie in the sky in my opinion. The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. You get my drift.
Go moderate yourself.