"What do ya mean you can't give me a colon exam?" "You're only 25 - come back when you're 40." "But my dad died of colon cancer when he was only 24, and my brother got it when he was only in his thirties." "Too bad. The government has to cut costs."
Later I develop colon cancer at age 26. (This is based on an actual story from the UK where the "NICE" organization routinely denies preventative medicine, and a citizen developed cancer at a young age which could have been prevented.)
BTW -
- when I asked my HMO for a colon exam age 30, the doctor said it's not necessary but gave it to me anyway - only cost me $20. Who says HMOs are not customer friendly?
The whole tax system is a mess that few understand even professionals. Last year H&R Block prepared my taxes as they've done since circa 1990, and the woman kept insisting I don't owe Oklahoma any taxes because I live in Virgina. I said "Yes but I *worked* in Oklahoma and you pay where you worked, just like I did last year when I worked in California, or the prior year when I worked in Florida." She said I was wrong and those previous years need to be fixed. I said I was right. She said I was wrong and then got her manager to back her up, which made me think maybe I was wrong after all.
Long story made short - They fucked up. Oklahoma fined me, Virgina happily swallowed the ~$6,000 in extra taxmoney, then I filed amended forms (or actually H&R did) saying I owed OK not VA. I paid Oklahoma the taxes I owed, and Virgina refused to recognize the amended forms, and they did eventually return the money, minus a fine.
Business owners are exempt from unemployment pay. This lawyer's $1 a month income could be considered a poorly-run business but still a business. What I'm curious to know is who reported her. Sounds like a real dick.
True the photos online aren't great but don't give up hope. If you want artistry just point your clicker over here - they produce more content per month than playboy does - http://www.domai.com/ (warning - humans without clothes)
I don't rember Madonna having pit hair in Like A Virgin and other 80s videos... she might have temporarily grown the hair for shock value as she did with her Sex book.
Local festivals don't have the "famous" singers that a national tour like Lilith Fair attracted. When I was there I saw Jewel, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morisette, and a few other names I've forgotten but recall being popular on the radio during the 90s.
- When the music-quality compact cassette was invented in the 1970s, the sales of vinyl records fell off. Yes the companies did indeed blame it on piracy (recording music off the radio). It's just the same old song-and-dance routine with these guys.
- Then CDs were invented which basically killed the record, while cassettes hung on as recordable media into the 90s.
- Record companies were thrilled with CDs until the CD-R arrived and they tried to kill it off, but no success. Now it's MP3s that they want to kill. These people live in continual fear of new technologies.
>>>>> Also radio, MTV, VH1. We need to ban the youtubes! We need to ban the cassette recorders! Ban VCRs and ban DVRs!/end sarcasm >> >>Since when does MTV/VH1 play music videos ?
Precisely. It's because of the rise of youtube and other video-sharing sites that MTV/VH1 lost audience and were forced to convert themselves into standard cable channels playing standard shows. It's horrible; absolutely horrible./end sarcasm again
>>>the fact that 2500 copies exist outside of fair use and legitimate copies means they would be entitled to 2500 sales when we look at the current system of distribution and copyright laws. >>>
Multiple judges have already rejected that claim. i.e. Legal Precedent has been set that 2500 copies =/= 2500 lost sales.
>>>Are you raising the subject of sexism just based on the fact that only 1.5% of FOSS developers are women?
It's worse than that. Did you know there's only 0.0000001% of men that carry human fetuses? Talk about sexism writ large. The job of carrying human fetuses should be equal, but women have had a near-total lock on this job since time immemorial. It's shameful.
But seriously -
Sometimes I think people see sexism where none exist. I certainly have no prejudice against women working in engineering, and would welcome the sight of something other than hairy men, but that's just not the case. Besides this isn't the only field with gender inequity. Visit a college sometime and look inside their "health and human development" classes - all women. But nobody complains about sexism in HHD - they just accept the fact few men are interested in that field. The same is true in engineering.
That's life not sexism, just the same way men can't give birth which is also not sexism.
>>>Are you raising the subject of sexism just based on the fact that only 1.5% of FOSS developers are women?
It's worse than that. Did you know there's only 0.0000001% of men that carry human fetuses? Talk about sexism writ large. The job of carrying human fetuses should be equal, but women have had a near-total lock on this job since time immemorial. It's shameful.
>>>It's $89.99/month here in Chicago. Only $50 more than regular.
So about $140/month.
Holy shit (picture in your mind a priest blessing a pile of crap). You have a strange definition of "only". For me that word should come before $15 as in, "I pay only $15/month for my internet" not in front of $140.
Well first off, my focus was on the world of Commodores and Amigas, not IBMs.
Second I never used either DOS or Windows prior to 1992, and when people who owned IBM PCs discussed their machines it was usually in context of what "uber hardware" they owned, like SoundBlaster or Intel 486, rather than the software. I knew they had DOS but I had no idea who made it - I just figured it was IBM's DOS since it was running on an IBM PC. Electronic Arts and Activision made more of an impact on my 80s-era life than microsoft.
Playboy Magazine ceased to have a purpose after you could find naked women posing online. The magazine offers what - three naked women each month - a celeb, the playmate of the month, and usually some random model. The net offers about 10,000 times as much.
>>>enough in there to supply an entire Lilith Fair audience.
I liked the Lilith Fair. Not the audience so much, but being able to see ~20 famous singers all at the same time. Too bad we don't have concerts like that today.
>>>You do realize that the webaccelerator is nothing more than a compression thing?
Look at my name. Not born yesterday.
>>>You can accomplish the about the same increase in speed by using Adblock Plus, Flashblock, and NoScript.
No, no, no. None of these compress the images or text or executables. Netscape ISP's Web Accelerator is basically a ZIP program. The ISP grabs the webpage, zips it up, sends it over the phoneline, and then my laptop unzips it, giving an apparent speed about the same as 500 kbit/s.
>>>Don't download the garbage!! You're guaranteed a 50% increase in apparent speed!
50%. That it??? Web Accelerator gives 1000% increase. And it works on Windows but not on Ubuntu Linux, not even with Wine.
This guy's post is not a "troll". It's an OPINION..... please learn the difference and learn to tolerate others' opinions even when you disagree with them.
>>>side from needing a lot more memory than what was considered "standard" at the time of its release, vista wasn't bad at all.
Not bad??? My brother bought a brand-new machine with 1/2 gig of RAM which Microsoft claimed was enough. It wasn't. It was slower than a snail through molasses, even worse than my old XP laptop on 96 megabytes. After he upgraded to 1.5 gig it did work a bit faster, but then he started having problems with Vista accusing him of using an unauthorized copy & refusing to startup.
After he removed the RAM the problem went away, but it was again slow as a snail, and MS calls this "usable". Hardly. Vista is the worst OS I've used since the Windows 3. Perhaps even worse than that, and I'm glad it's been replaced with Windows 7.
You start out buy making a good point (each Mac X.1 release costs money plus hardware upgrades, whereas XP service packs don't), and then you suddenly revert to 12-year-old stage with a personal attack.
Odd.
BTW commodore 64 still has developers for it. It's mostly open-source volunteers, same way linux operates.
>>>>> When I'm using my computer, I don't want to spend time fiddling with the OS >> >>That's one of the reasons I use Linux. It just works.
Challenge - Connect to this ISP (with webaccelerator) on a Linux machine. I tried and tried and tried and could not get it to work on my Ubuntu Linux laptop, and it's kinda crucial since many places I travel have no other internet access - http://www.getnetscape.com/getnetscape/?
I also had problems getting my Atari Stella and NESticle emulators to work properly (they ran but only played 1/3 of the games). Plus when I tried to use VLC Media Player to open some songs, rather than play one song at a time as you'd logically expect, Ubuntu tried to open 100 copes of VLC at the same time. My ancient Amiga OS 1.0 had the same stupid flaw. What is this? 1985?
I was forced to yank the battery of my laptop to rescue it. Linux doesn't "just work".
Then I realized Linux is programmer-friendly but not user-friendly*, so I decided to try Mac OS X. Then I realized I'm not rich enough to keep the Mac constantly upgraded, so I eventually found myself back at seven-year-old XP PC (NT 5) right where I began.
* * Change Ubuntu Linux's resolution to 640x480. Now change it back without using secret, hidden key commands. It can't be done. That's a non-user-friendly design.
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>>>do NOT let ANYONE pay me for ANYTHING.
You can still mow grass and get paid - you just can't tell anyone about it. Not that I would know anything about that. Nope. Nada. Nah-uh.
"What do ya mean you can't give me a colon exam?"
"You're only 25 - come back when you're 40."
"But my dad died of colon cancer when he was only 24, and my brother got it when he was only in his thirties."
"Too bad. The government has to cut costs."
Later I develop colon cancer at age 26. (This is based on an actual story from the UK where the "NICE" organization routinely denies preventative medicine, and a citizen developed cancer at a young age which could have been prevented.)
BTW -
- when I asked my HMO for a colon exam age 30, the doctor said it's not necessary but gave it to me anyway - only cost me $20. Who says HMOs are not customer friendly?
The whole tax system is a mess that few understand even professionals. Last year H&R Block prepared my taxes as they've done since circa 1990, and the woman kept insisting I don't owe Oklahoma any taxes because I live in Virgina. I said "Yes but I *worked* in Oklahoma and you pay where you worked, just like I did last year when I worked in California, or the prior year when I worked in Florida." She said I was wrong and those previous years need to be fixed. I said I was right. She said I was wrong and then got her manager to back her up, which made me think maybe I was wrong after all.
Long story made short - They fucked up. Oklahoma fined me, Virgina happily swallowed the ~$6,000 in extra taxmoney, then I filed amended forms (or actually H&R did) saying I owed OK not VA. I paid Oklahoma the taxes I owed, and Virgina refused to recognize the amended forms, and they did eventually return the money, minus a fine.
H&R Block cost me $600 in their mistakes.
I will eventually get my revenge.
Business owners are exempt from unemployment pay. This lawyer's $1 a month income could be considered a poorly-run business but still a business. What I'm curious to know is who reported her. Sounds like a real dick.
True the photos online aren't great but don't give up hope. If you want artistry just point your clicker over here - they produce more content per month than playboy does - http://www.domai.com/ (warning - humans without clothes)
I don't rember Madonna having pit hair in Like A Virgin and other 80s videos... she might have temporarily grown the hair for shock value as she did with her Sex book.
Local festivals don't have the "famous" singers that a national tour like Lilith Fair attracted. When I was there I saw Jewel, Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morisette, and a few other names I've forgotten but recall being popular on the radio during the 90s.
Apparently that was a once in a generation deal.
Useless Trash and TRIVIA -
- When the music-quality compact cassette was invented in the 1970s, the sales of vinyl records fell off. Yes the companies did indeed blame it on piracy (recording music off the radio). It's just the same old song-and-dance routine with these guys.
- Then CDs were invented which basically killed the record, while cassettes hung on as recordable media into the 90s.
- Record companies were thrilled with CDs until the CD-R arrived and they tried to kill it off, but no success. Now it's MP3s that they want to kill. These people live in continual fear of new technologies.
>>>>> Also radio, MTV, VH1. We need to ban the youtubes! We need to ban the cassette recorders! Ban VCRs and ban DVRs! /end sarcasm
>>
>>Since when does MTV/VH1 play music videos ?
Precisely. It's because of the rise of youtube and other video-sharing sites that MTV/VH1 lost audience and were forced to convert themselves into standard cable channels playing standard shows. It's horrible; absolutely horrible. /end sarcasm again
>>>the fact that 2500 copies exist outside of fair use and legitimate copies means they would be entitled to 2500 sales when we look at the current system of distribution and copyright laws.
>>>
Multiple judges have already rejected that claim. i.e. Legal Precedent has been set that 2500 copies =/= 2500 lost sales.
>>>Are you raising the subject of sexism just based on the fact that only 1.5% of FOSS developers are women?
It's worse than that. Did you know there's only 0.0000001% of men that carry human fetuses? Talk about sexism writ large. The job of carrying human fetuses should be equal, but women have had a near-total lock on this job since time immemorial. It's shameful.
But seriously -
Sometimes I think people see sexism where none exist. I certainly have no prejudice against women working in engineering, and would welcome the sight of something other than hairy men, but that's just not the case. Besides this isn't the only field with gender inequity. Visit a college sometime and look inside their "health and human development" classes - all women. But nobody complains about sexism in HHD - they just accept the fact few men are interested in that field. The same is true in engineering.
That's life not sexism, just the same way men can't give birth which is also not sexism.
>>>Are you raising the subject of sexism just based on the fact that only 1.5% of FOSS developers are women?
It's worse than that. Did you know there's only 0.0000001% of men that carry human fetuses? Talk about sexism writ large. The job of carrying human fetuses should be equal, but women have had a near-total lock on this job since time immemorial. It's shameful.
>>>I can't take another photo of my dead cat
You could but it would probably be unpleasant.
>>>It's $89.99/month here in Chicago. Only $50 more than regular.
So about $140/month.
Holy shit (picture in your mind a priest blessing a pile of crap). You have a strange definition of "only". For me that word should come before $15 as in, "I pay only $15/month for my internet" not in front of $140.
Well first off, my focus was on the world of Commodores and Amigas, not IBMs.
Second I never used either DOS or Windows prior to 1992, and when people who owned IBM PCs discussed their machines it was usually in context of what "uber hardware" they owned, like SoundBlaster or Intel 486, rather than the software. I knew they had DOS but I had no idea who made it - I just figured it was IBM's DOS since it was running on an IBM PC. Electronic Arts and Activision made more of an impact on my 80s-era life than microsoft.
Playboy Magazine ceased to have a purpose after you could find naked women posing online. The magazine offers what - three naked women each month - a celeb, the playmate of the month, and usually some random model. The net offers about 10,000 times as much.
>>>enough in there to supply an entire Lilith Fair audience.
I liked the Lilith Fair. Not the audience so much, but being able to see ~20 famous singers all at the same time. Too bad we don't have concerts like that today.
>>>Netscape ISP's Web Accelerator is basically a ZIP program.
Except in the case of images, where the GIF JPEG or PNG files are recompressed with a lower quality setting.
>>>You do realize that the webaccelerator is nothing more than a compression thing?
Look at my name. Not born yesterday.
>>>You can accomplish the about the same increase in speed by using Adblock Plus, Flashblock, and NoScript.
No, no, no. None of these compress the images or text or executables. Netscape ISP's Web Accelerator is basically a ZIP program. The ISP grabs the webpage, zips it up, sends it over the phoneline, and then my laptop unzips it, giving an apparent speed about the same as 500 kbit/s.
>>>Don't download the garbage!! You're guaranteed a 50% increase in apparent speed!
50%. That it??? Web Accelerator gives 1000% increase. And it works on Windows but not on Ubuntu Linux, not even with Wine.
UAC still doesn't stop a user from clicking "okay" "okay" "okay" as they install a trojan.
This guy's post is not a "troll". It's an OPINION..... please learn the difference and learn to tolerate others' opinions even when you disagree with them.
>>>side from needing a lot more memory than what was considered "standard" at the time of its release, vista wasn't bad at all.
Not bad??? My brother bought a brand-new machine with 1/2 gig of RAM which Microsoft claimed was enough. It wasn't. It was slower than a snail through molasses, even worse than my old XP laptop on 96 megabytes. After he upgraded to 1.5 gig it did work a bit faster, but then he started having problems with Vista accusing him of using an unauthorized copy & refusing to startup.
After he removed the RAM the problem went away, but it was again slow as a snail, and MS calls this "usable". Hardly. Vista is the worst OS I've used since the Windows 3. Perhaps even worse than that, and I'm glad it's been replaced with Windows 7.
You start out buy making a good point (each Mac X.1 release costs money plus hardware upgrades, whereas XP service packs don't), and then you suddenly revert to 12-year-old stage with a personal attack.
Odd.
BTW commodore 64 still has developers for it. It's mostly open-source volunteers, same way linux operates.
>>>>> When I'm using my computer, I don't want to spend time fiddling with the OS
>>
>>That's one of the reasons I use Linux. It just works.
Challenge - Connect to this ISP (with webaccelerator) on a Linux machine. I tried and tried and tried and could not get it to work on my Ubuntu Linux laptop, and it's kinda crucial since many places I travel have no other internet access - http://www.getnetscape.com/getnetscape/?
I also had problems getting my Atari Stella and NESticle emulators to work properly (they ran but only played 1/3 of the games). Plus when I tried to use VLC Media Player to open some songs, rather than play one song at a time as you'd logically expect, Ubuntu tried to open 100 copes of VLC at the same time. My ancient Amiga OS 1.0 had the same stupid flaw. What is this? 1985?
I was forced to yank the battery of my laptop to rescue it. Linux doesn't "just work".
>>>Vista pushed me to Linux, so it's not all bad.
Me too!!!
Then I realized Linux is programmer-friendly but not user-friendly*, so I decided to try Mac OS X. Then I realized I'm not rich enough to keep the Mac constantly upgraded, so I eventually found myself back at seven-year-old XP PC (NT 5) right where I began.
*
* Change Ubuntu Linux's resolution to 640x480.
Now change it back without using secret,
hidden key commands. It can't be done.
That's a non-user-friendly design.