- I wonder if the U.S. and EU antitrust legislators are looking at this, and pondering false advertising charges? Can you imagine the uproar if Apple released "Mac OS Eleven" but it was actually 10.6? Or if Ford released the "Focus 3.0" but it was actually only a 2.1 liter engine?
>>>You can get angry at MS for including a browser and a media player with their OS,
What Microsoft did to Netscape (drive their $30 Navigator browser out-of-market) is approximately equivalent to Comcast announcing "we'll give everyone free MP3s" and thereby driving Itunes.com out of business. It's called anti-competitive monopolistic behavior, and it's explicitly forbidden by U.S. Antitrust Laws that were passed ~100 years ago.
>>>*enforcing Digital Rights Management (DRM) at the request of entertainment companies"
This is the part that scares me most. The idea that someday I may not be able to backup my CDs or DVDs, due to Windows blocking that action, troubles me. The U.S. Supreme Court has declared every user has the right to make a backup, and they even have a right to record live programs (time-delayed viewing). Who is Microsoft (or RIAA/MPAA) to overrule the supreme court and say "nope; not allowed".
Sometimes people just don't believe until they experience it themselves. My brother did not listen when I said do not, not, not buy Microsoft Vista. I told him if he wants to stick with Microsoft, then choose XP. He just kept saying "But Vista's the latest and bestest program. I want the newest thing."
Two years later while I was reinstalling his nonoperational Vista (for the third time): "Man I hate Microsoft. They make such shit." My brother replied, "I wish I had listened to you when you said don't buy this. I'm starting to think you were right. Microsoft does suck."
>>>supposedly "fair and balanced" news channel thats their choice.
FOX News definitely isn't balanced, but it's more balanced than the "we need more government control and bigger Congress-controlled programs"-biased CNN or MSNBC or ABC or CBS. I get tired of these channels' constant pushing to give the silk-suited incompetents in D.C. even more power to run our lives. As government grows, individual liberty wanes.
Interestingly, that's how much support the Americans had (about 33%) when they declared independence from the British Empire. It appears "one-third" is some kind of magic number, where if you can rally that level of support, you gain enough leverage to control national politics.
Of course it helps if the remaining citizens take a "whatever" outlook. It makes it much easier to get what you want if the general populace just doesn't care enough to pay attention.
On the other hand the government & other sexphobic persons who say sex with a person like 16-year-old Miley Cyrus is "pedophilia" is ridiculous. That's not sex with a child, because last I checked children don't come with double-Ds. That's sex with a young adult.
Which is why it bothers me that my government assumes I'm not, and then bosses me around like a surrogate parent ("You WILL buy health insurance, You WILL serve in the national corps for two years, You WILL donate money to charity/welfare. Or else spend time in jail, you man! (or woman)") This is neither liberty not freedom.
>>>need a wife who is into porn as well. Having a healthy sex drive is not a fault.
I was watching "the Doctors" yesterday and a woman called-in who said she used to get orgasms when she jogged or did jumping jacks in high school gym class! We used to have a saying about those types of coed girls - "Date 'em."
I'm against universal health care, as it is being proposed now. As a person with a disability and on again, off again health health issues, I know exactly what my insurance covers...... I had public health care, both through Welfare and Social Security. While everything was "covered" technically, I had a hard time finding doctors that accepted the Medicaid coverage and that I didn't have to wait 3 months to get in to.
Thanks for sharing. I'm rather annoyed that the mods found it necessary to censor (lower the score to make invisible) the words of a disabled person, as if they are afraid to hear the words from somebody who is on the "front lines" of U.S. healthcare today. Your story is interesting because you unveil the flaws that plague other government-run programs in Canada and the UK (rationing and long, long wait times).
I think a better solution would be to open the private insurance companies to individual or public group memberships. Until recently, it was all but impossible to get insurance on your own. Washington state (where I live) has a low income insurance program that gets you insured by a regular insurance company.
That sounds just about perfect. Rather than a monopoly, you have CHOICE, which is ultimately what freedom & liberty is all about.
Precisely. There are about 30 million U.S. citizens without private insurance, but most of them either don't want it (me and other young adults), or are already covered by Medicare or SCHIP (elderly and children) and therefore government insured.
That leaves just 8 million who have "fallen through the cracks" who want insurance but are not covered by either private or government plans. It's a minor problem (3%) and therefore only needs a minor solution (extend Medicare), while leaving the other 97% of citizens alone to continue doing what they've always done.
We don't need a wholesale takeover by a government monopoly. That's overkill.
>>>I'm a little surprised that this sort of technique is not more widely adopted at places like data centers;
You never heard of ground-source heat pumps? They dump the heat into the cool ground. The only problem is that if you have a lot of thermal heating to get rid-of, the heat dumped into the ground may cause its temperature to rise, and the whole system will simply stop working.
Air-source systems have the advantage of constantly circulating air moving the dumped heat away from the building.
The most likely answer is that Flickr, like television media, is left-leaning. The management probably felt offended by the image against their favorite man, yanked it off the site, and then made-up a story about a DMCA notice that doesn't exist. I wonder if we could file a Freedom of Information (sp?) request to discover who issued the notice.
If not I say we upload it. Again and again and again. Then sue Flickr is they ban your account, so they have to stand before a judge and explain themselves.
Which is why it bothers me that my government assumes I'm not, and then bosses me around like a surrogate parent ("You WILL buy health insurance, You WILL serve in the national corps for two years, You WILL donate money to charity/welfare. Or else spend time in jail.")
IE also has this nifty feature that lets something called "Virus Protector" sneak past its wall, install itself on my c: drive, and turn my entire desktop into a white banner that says, "You're infected. You're infected. You're infected," over and over and over.
Thanks Mickeysoft.
- "Uninstall Innerweb Exploder?" - "Absolutely positively most-whole-heartedly, I concur." - - "A simple 'yes' would have sufficed number one." - "I wanted to make sure there was no possibility for doubt."
But I *am* a pervert. I have many, many children to prove it. And wives (shhh).
.
But seriously - The reason I didn't upgrade to Firefox 3 is because I'm too lazy to wait 30 minutes for the download and install. So I just keep clicking cancel. It's the same reason why I still use Azureus 2 instead of the latest setup, although I did *finally* install Utorrent last night. I think I'll switchover to that now.
BTW does anyone know why Windows 3 won't talk to my new USB flash drive? Perhaps I need new drivers.
Instead of vast areas of Canada and Siberia laying fallow, we could plant crops there and feed the hungry. Both of those areas were once lush jungle during the time of the dinosaurs. Even the Sahara is likely to see more rainfall and become fertile (although that's not certain - just conjecture).
- Christians - Muslims - Hari Krishnas - Global Warmers...because their beliefs are based-upon FAITH, not rationality or logic. They have no proof, but by gum they KNOW they are right because they "feel" it deep down in their soul. It HAS to be true. Can I get a witness??? Oh ye, oh ye!
>>>All that beep, boop, etc indicates you are connecting two high speed error correcting modems
Uh... no. The (beep beep boop beep bleep blep boop) indicates the modem is dialing 5601750 just like the ATDT command instructed it to do. (Hello? McFly? Anybody home?).;-)
Also now that I think about it, a 1200 baud modem doesn't do the (squuuuuuooooosh) negotiation sound of a 56k modem. Instead they go directly to the (aaaaeeeh) high-pitched whine sound, and sometimes a lower-pitched sound if they backoff to 300 or 110 bits/second.
Really??? Hmmm. Neither my Commodore 1200 nor my Cardinal 2400 has init strings. You just turn them on and type ATDT to dial.
I was always under the impression that "F1" "C1" "D2S7=60" refereed to compression and error-correction settings, which my early 1200 or 2400 baud modems never had.
False, false, false, false, false. I don't feel like retyping my previous post (above), but in brief when Betamax and VHS were released, Betamax could only record 1 hour while VHS could do 2 or 4 hours. When consumers saw this, they naturally thought "4" sounded better than "1" so they bought VHS in droves. (They also probably thought - 'How do I tape a 3 hour football game on a Betamax tape that's only 1 hour long?' And therefore picked VHS.)
But if you really think porn is the reason for VHS success, then provide some accounting numbers to *prove* it. Show me the numbers. Although I don't see how you will do that, because I've got ancient Betamax tapes with porn on them, which pretty much invalidates the whole theory.
>>>At 2400 baud and 9800 baud what do you think was the primary use for graphical?
FALSE. When Mosaic was released the typical modem speed was 14.4 kbit/s, with 28.8 kbit/s released soon after (Sept 94). And the early web was NOT graphical. It was primarily a text-based medium with one picture centered on top. That was your typical webpage in 1994 or 95. If you don't believe me, use the wayback machine to look-up sites like psu.edu or whitehouse.gov or scifi.com
But...
if you think I'm wrong, then prove it. Show me some accounting numbers to demonstrate that porn was the primary industry on the web circa 1995. Good luck. You won't find it because it never happened.
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More precisely Windows 6.1
- I wonder if the U.S. and EU antitrust legislators are looking at this, and pondering false advertising charges? Can you imagine the uproar if Apple released "Mac OS Eleven" but it was actually 10.6? Or if Ford released the "Focus 3.0" but it was actually only a 2.1 liter engine?
George Bush ran negative advertising and he won twice.
Ditto Clinton.
Ditto Reagan.
Ditto (cough) Hitler. "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it."
>>>You can get angry at MS for including a browser and a media player with their OS,
What Microsoft did to Netscape (drive their $30 Navigator browser out-of-market) is approximately equivalent to Comcast announcing "we'll give everyone free MP3s" and thereby driving Itunes.com out of business. It's called anti-competitive monopolistic behavior, and it's explicitly forbidden by U.S. Antitrust Laws that were passed ~100 years ago.
>>>*enforcing Digital Rights Management (DRM) at the request of entertainment companies"
This is the part that scares me most. The idea that someday I may not be able to backup my CDs or DVDs, due to Windows blocking that action, troubles me. The U.S. Supreme Court has declared every user has the right to make a backup, and they even have a right to record live programs (time-delayed viewing). Who is Microsoft (or RIAA/MPAA) to overrule the supreme court and say "nope; not allowed".
Sometimes people just don't believe until they experience it themselves. My brother did not listen when I said do not, not, not buy Microsoft Vista. I told him if he wants to stick with Microsoft, then choose XP. He just kept saying "But Vista's the latest and bestest program. I want the newest thing."
Two years later while I was reinstalling his nonoperational Vista (for the third time): "Man I hate Microsoft. They make such shit." My brother replied, "I wish I had listened to you when you said don't buy this. I'm starting to think you were right. Microsoft does suck."
>>>supposedly "fair and balanced" news channel thats their choice.
FOX News definitely isn't balanced, but it's more balanced than the "we need more government control and bigger Congress-controlled programs"-biased CNN or MSNBC or ABC or CBS. I get tired of these channels' constant pushing to give the silk-suited incompetents in D.C. even more power to run our lives. As government grows, individual liberty wanes.
>>>He never had more than 33% percent of votes
Interestingly, that's how much support the Americans had (about 33%) when they declared independence from the British Empire. It appears "one-third" is some kind of magic number, where if you can rally that level of support, you gain enough leverage to control national politics.
Of course it helps if the remaining citizens take a "whatever" outlook. It makes it much easier to get what you want if the general populace just doesn't care enough to pay attention.
I agree sex with *children* is demented.
On the other hand the government & other sexphobic persons who say sex with a person like 16-year-old Miley Cyrus is "pedophilia" is ridiculous. That's not sex with a child, because last I checked children don't come with double-Ds. That's sex with a young adult.
I *am* a good person.
Which is why it bothers me that my government assumes I'm not, and then bosses me around like a surrogate parent ("You WILL buy health insurance, You WILL serve in the national corps for two years, You WILL donate money to charity/welfare. Or else spend time in jail, you man! (or woman)") This is neither liberty not freedom.
>>>need a wife who is into porn as well. Having a healthy sex drive is not a fault.
I was watching "the Doctors" yesterday and a woman called-in who said she used to get orgasms when she jogged or did jumping jacks in high school gym class! We used to have a saying about those types of coed girls - "Date 'em."
I'm against universal health care, as it is being proposed now. As a person with a disability and on again, off again health health issues, I know exactly what my insurance covers. ..... I had public health care, both through Welfare and Social Security. While everything was "covered" technically, I had a hard time finding doctors that accepted the Medicaid coverage and that I didn't have to wait 3 months to get in to.
Thanks for sharing. I'm rather annoyed that the mods found it necessary to censor (lower the score to make invisible) the words of a disabled person, as if they are afraid to hear the words from somebody who is on the "front lines" of U.S. healthcare today. Your story is interesting because you unveil the flaws that plague other government-run programs in Canada and the UK (rationing and long, long wait times).
I think a better solution would be to open the private insurance companies to individual or public group memberships. Until recently, it was all but impossible to get insurance on your own. Washington state (where I live) has a low income insurance program that gets you insured by a regular insurance company.
That sounds just about perfect. Rather than a monopoly, you have CHOICE, which is ultimately what freedom & liberty is all about.
Precisely. There are about 30 million U.S. citizens without private insurance, but most of them either don't want it (me and other young adults), or are already covered by Medicare or SCHIP (elderly and children) and therefore government insured.
That leaves just 8 million who have "fallen through the cracks" who want insurance but are not covered by either private or government plans. It's a minor problem (3%) and therefore only needs a minor solution (extend Medicare), while leaving the other 97% of citizens alone to continue doing what they've always done.
We don't need a wholesale takeover by a government monopoly. That's overkill.
>>>I'm a little surprised that this sort of technique is not more widely adopted at places like data centers;
You never heard of ground-source heat pumps? They dump the heat into the cool ground. The only problem is that if you have a lot of thermal heating to get rid-of, the heat dumped into the ground may cause its temperature to rise, and the whole system will simply stop working.
Air-source systems have the advantage of constantly circulating air moving the dumped heat away from the building.
Forget stealing.
The mere ACT of accessing a radio station is blocked, and if they catch you with P2P software you get fired.
Perhaps it was Obama's staff, but I doubt it.
The most likely answer is that Flickr, like television media, is left-leaning. The management probably felt offended by the image against their favorite man, yanked it off the site, and then made-up a story about a DMCA notice that doesn't exist. I wonder if we could file a Freedom of Information (sp?) request to discover who issued the notice.
If not I say we upload it. Again and again and again. Then sue Flickr is they ban your account, so they have to stand before a judge and explain themselves.
>>> you could get 128 gigabytes.
Close. An Intel 32-bit CPU can actually address 64 gigabytes, so it appears Intel is using 16 banks, same as your C=128 did.
What are you going to do? Nuke your own Parliament in order to kill the EU Army surrounding it?
If two Anonymous Cowards speak to one another, does anyone hear them?
I *am* a good person.
Which is why it bothers me that my government assumes I'm not, and then bosses me around like a surrogate parent ("You WILL buy health insurance, You WILL serve in the national corps for two years, You WILL donate money to charity/welfare. Or else spend time in jail.")
IE also has this nifty feature that lets something called "Virus Protector" sneak past its wall, install itself on my c: drive, and turn my entire desktop into a white banner that says, "You're infected. You're infected. You're infected," over and over and over.
Thanks Mickeysoft.
- "Uninstall Innerweb Exploder?"
- "Absolutely positively most-whole-heartedly, I concur."
-
- "A simple 'yes' would have sufficed number one."
- "I wanted to make sure there was no possibility for doubt."
But I *am* a pervert. I have many, many children to prove it. And wives (shhh).
.
But seriously - The reason I didn't upgrade to Firefox 3 is because I'm too lazy to wait 30 minutes for the download and install. So I just keep clicking cancel. It's the same reason why I still use Azureus 2 instead of the latest setup, although I did *finally* install Utorrent last night. I think I'll switchover to that now.
BTW does anyone know why Windows 3 won't talk to my new USB flash drive? Perhaps I need new drivers.
I think global warming could be a good thing.
Instead of vast areas of Canada and Siberia laying fallow, we could plant crops there and feed the hungry. Both of those areas were once lush jungle during the time of the dinosaurs. Even the Sahara is likely to see more rainfall and become fertile (although that's not certain - just conjecture).
Four types of people where debating is pointless:
- Christians ...because their beliefs are based-upon FAITH, not rationality or logic. They have no proof, but by gum they KNOW they are right because they "feel" it deep down in their soul. It HAS to be true. Can I get a witness??? Oh ye, oh ye!
- Muslims
- Hari Krishnas
- Global Warmers
>>>All that beep, boop, etc indicates you are connecting two high speed error correcting modems
Uh... no. The (beep beep boop beep bleep blep boop) indicates the modem is dialing 5601750 just like the ATDT command instructed it to do. (Hello? McFly? Anybody home?). ;-)
Also now that I think about it, a 1200 baud modem doesn't do the (squuuuuuooooosh) negotiation sound of a 56k modem. Instead they go directly to the (aaaaeeeh) high-pitched whine sound, and sometimes a lower-pitched sound if they backoff to 300 or 110 bits/second.
Really??? Hmmm. Neither my Commodore 1200 nor my Cardinal 2400 has init strings. You just turn them on and type ATDT to dial.
I was always under the impression that "F1" "C1" "D2S7=60" refereed to compression and error-correction settings, which my early 1200 or 2400 baud modems never had.
>>>Porn is the reason VHS won out over Betamax
False, false, false, false, false. I don't feel like retyping my previous post (above), but in brief when Betamax and VHS were released, Betamax could only record 1 hour while VHS could do 2 or 4 hours. When consumers saw this, they naturally thought "4" sounded better than "1" so they bought VHS in droves. (They also probably thought - 'How do I tape a 3 hour football game on a Betamax tape that's only 1 hour long?' And therefore picked VHS.)
But if you really think porn is the reason for VHS success, then provide some accounting numbers to *prove* it. Show me the numbers. Although I don't see how you will do that, because I've got ancient Betamax tapes with porn on them, which pretty much invalidates the whole theory.
>>>At 2400 baud and 9800 baud what do you think was the primary use for graphical?
FALSE. When Mosaic was released the typical modem speed was 14.4 kbit/s, with 28.8 kbit/s released soon after (Sept 94). And the early web was NOT graphical. It was primarily a text-based medium with one picture centered on top. That was your typical webpage in 1994 or 95. If you don't believe me, use the wayback machine to look-up sites like psu.edu or whitehouse.gov or scifi.com
But...
if you think I'm wrong, then prove it. Show me some accounting numbers to demonstrate that porn was the primary industry on the web circa 1995. Good luck. You won't find it because it never happened.