". ..make sure their image is aligned on the new Advanced Format hard drives"????
What the fuck does that mean?
I can understand having to include the correct driver bundle, (and I can understand that. . . PROBABLY, Intel's not going to supply an XP version very much longer. . . ) . . . but isn't the writing of the OS, the responsibility of the OS Setup program? (in this case, windows setup)?
What you seem to be describing is a new hard drive requirement to which the windows xp setup program is ignorant; therefore, an "Advanced Format" (whatever the fuck that means) hard drive is basically INCOMPATIBLE with a legacy OS like Windows XP. Maybe the hard drive manufacturer should be including some documentation on this. I don't see why that would be your job, other than to take a call with what should, by now, be a well-known, and well-documented symptom, (if a lot of people are trying this and running into this problem), and pointing them to the hard drive manufacturer's documentation.
The obvious next move to pre-empt the inevitable stupidity that's going to arise, is for someone to print up a batch of politicians, and pass a constitutional amendment making it illegal for the government to ban 3d printers.
You are unaware of your internet history, AND your stoners.
PORN!!
Probably these 3d models of porn actresses vaginas.
Stoners can smoke pot out of an apple. Piece of paper. whatever. But piracy has always centered around porn, video games, high-dollar software, movies, music, gambling, and money.
Remember the original version of "Aliens", did not have the scene with the sentry-guns. And the director's cut re-added this scene that had been edited out.
Seems to me, they may need to remake the whole film now. Gosh. Aliens vs. Robots.
Yeah - well, now we're seeing our BUDGET come back in a coffin, our CREDIT RATING come back in a coffin. Because these automated death machines are not cheap.
Recall that the Iraq war was originally "sold" to us at a cost of $20 Billion. $20 Billion. (I was laughing my ass off at those idiots, and the morons on FoxNews who broadcast that crap, and took those clowns seriously, and my fellow idiot citizens, who BELIEVED it, and don't have a clue what a BILLION is, anyway. . . ) - - But when the cost came in at over $800 Billion, I was actually kind of stunned it was THAT much. Now, the estimate - combined with Af-Pak, is looking more like $4.4 Trillion. But there is no end in sight, because 'bama is ramping-up Af-Pak.
Now that we are going broke, I think that more and more people are beginning to understand that war is an expensive luxury, and that in order to afford this, there are REAL trade-offs, that we can't just kick the can down the road, and hope that taking over Shitcanistan will make things nicer at home because we can "steal their oil" (lol! assclowns actually BELIEVED this! - yeah, maybe BP or Shell can "steal" the oil, but they're not going to give it to YOU for free, you moron.)
So, even in this Idiocracy of a world we're now living in, I think that people are starting to understand that we can't afford to maintain this global empire anymore. Not without a healthy tax-paying, thriving middle-class. Not without a domestic manufacturing base. Not with 9% unemployment. Not with a GDP of 1%. Not with a DJIA that sits and hovers around 11k for 12 years, and only moves when the FED diddles with their overnight rates. Not with oil over $100/bbl.
Hell, you see this stuff on Hack-a-day, where someone sets up a webcam, motion-detection software, and an airsoft gun on a motorized turret. Anything that moves gets annihilated. You just have to put up signs saying: you enter this area, and you are hamburger, switch-on, and that's that.
This worked GREAT for Germany. Not so well for Japan. . .
Actually, I can think of a few good examples of countries that avoided direct involvement in many of the recent big wars, (except being victims). . . Norway, Iceland, Canada. . . who are actually in pretty decent shape right now.
(Canada had their little Quebec thing, let them vote to secede, let them secede; and the banks and industry said, "see ya later, bitches." - - and Quebec's economy promptly collapsed, and then they said - - "wait, we changed our minds and still want to be part of Canada!" --- if that isn't a great model for all this nationalism bitching and moaning, I don't know what is.)
By that logic, 99% of Libertarians are not REAL Libertarians, because most of those who are calling themselves Libertarians are advocating for reform of the court system to make it HARDER to file lawsuits, claim that there are too many "frivolous" lawsuits, and frankly - if Exxon fracks the bedrock underneath my ranch that has been in my family for 5 generations, causing it to no longer be able to functionally support livestock or any form of agriculture - then there really is no amount of money that a court can award me in any litigator's wet-dream, that could compensate.
In most cases, in "real life" - these lawsuits take decades, and are not settled on behalf of the plaintiff, and the awards are often held up on appeal.
If we had a functional civil justice system. . . I could see some appeal, but there is damage that these industrial pursuits do that is irreversible, and no amount of "made up" currency can magically fix this kind of damage.
It's true, that the entire point of civilization, in the first place, was to form groups, to manage nature for our mutual benefit. (see: Babylon, civic flood management). And in the "management" of nature, we also change our environment.
But we need to realize when we've crossed the line from mutual benefit, to mutual self destruction.
Apple pissed me off when they ditched PPC for Intel chips.
They made me really want to shun their consumer products when I tried an iPhone, and saw a really awesome portable device that was unnecessarily locked down.
But they lost me as a lifelong customer when they pushed the App Store down to their desktop platform, and showed every intent of ditching their server platform.
There's the problem right there. Cattle digesting corn? Cattle eat grass. WTF? Corn+antibiotics? This is a man-made solution to a man-made problem, which is causing a new man-made problem. And I am certain a new man-made solution shall follow. Followed by some other man-made problem. What the FUCK is wrong with letting fucking cows eat fucking GRASS?!?!?!
Basically, I think the problem is, the CEO's psychiatrist just prescribed the wrong anti-anxiety meds last week. Sometimes it takes weeks or months to find the right drug, and the right dosage, and there isn't always a quick fix - and frankly, it's probably not an anxiety disorder anyway, it's just the guy reacting to *gasp* a market drop! Oh noes!
Frankly, this was inevitable, because Netflix's business model was; "hey, let's go fuck-over the content providers, and hope they don't come back at us and play hardball yo!"
. . . and now that Starz is kneecapping them, they're freaking out. whatevz.
Star Wars (for all their insane, bizarre deus ex machina plot devides) has no Transporters. Therefore, Star Trek -> Transport anti-matter bomb onto the bridge of enemy ship. . . : game over, Mr. Lucas.
Um - let's THOROUGHLY discuss the subsidies and tax breaks that have gone to BP, Exxon, Shell, (etc) for over a century, before we even begin talking about this other company. And you mention "Obama" - and conveniently ignore the FACT that this company began receiving subsidies under the Bush administration. I smell a rightwing troll.
Renewable energy would easily be competitive with fossil fuels if fossil fuels had to pay for their external costs, and did not receive subsidies.
"abandoning our lead" to whom? India? Japan? France? LOL!
Listen, I'm not for cutting JWST. I'm not. If it's got problems, we should stick it out and solve it. If we misestimated budget and cost, then we need to FUCKING FIX the contracting and bidding system that keeps on doing this at an exponentially worse rate year after year, in a way that is strangling our nation's economy, and literally, actually, killing people.
But, we're not abandoning our lead to anybody. Not by a long shot. Maybe in manned space flight. But in astrophysics, we're still decades ahead of everyone else.
By that logic, they should have canceled the Iraq war long ago. The White House (Ari Fleischer) originally said it was going to take 6 weeks, and cost $20 billion.
Petty is 99% of what Anonymous gets its kicks from. From abusing 12 year old girls (even if they kind of asked for it) to posting insulting comments about physically disabled people.
Really? Is this true!? I am so terribly sorry! As head of Anonymous' HR department, I assure you that I will personally look into this straight away. I will institute a new policy of screening applicants to ensure that all members of Anonymous are pure of heart and true to the cause, and that every individual within our organization will always do as the whole organization wills, to fight only for Truth, Justice, Goodness and Light.
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there are parts left to auction off?
". . .make sure their image is aligned on the new Advanced Format hard drives"????
What the fuck does that mean?
I can understand having to include the correct driver bundle, (and I can understand that. . . PROBABLY, Intel's not going to supply an XP version very much longer. . . ) . . . but isn't the writing of the OS, the responsibility of the OS Setup program? (in this case, windows setup)?
What you seem to be describing is a new hard drive requirement to which the windows xp setup program is ignorant; therefore, an "Advanced Format" (whatever the fuck that means) hard drive is basically INCOMPATIBLE with a legacy OS like Windows XP. Maybe the hard drive manufacturer should be including some documentation on this. I don't see why that would be your job, other than to take a call with what should, by now, be a well-known, and well-documented symptom, (if a lot of people are trying this and running into this problem), and pointing them to the hard drive manufacturer's documentation.
The obvious next move to pre-empt the inevitable stupidity that's going to arise, is for someone to print up a batch of politicians, and pass a constitutional amendment making it illegal for the government to ban 3d printers.
bong?
You are unaware of your internet history, AND your stoners.
PORN!!
Probably these 3d models of porn actresses vaginas.
Stoners can smoke pot out of an apple. Piece of paper. whatever.
But piracy has always centered around porn, video games, high-dollar software, movies, music, gambling, and money.
Remember the original version of "Aliens", did not have the scene with the sentry-guns. And the director's cut re-added this scene that had been edited out.
Seems to me, they may need to remake the whole film now. Gosh. Aliens vs. Robots.
Yeah - well, now we're seeing our BUDGET come back in a coffin, our CREDIT RATING come back in a coffin. Because these automated death machines are not cheap.
Recall that the Iraq war was originally "sold" to us at a cost of $20 Billion. $20 Billion. (I was laughing my ass off at those idiots, and the morons on FoxNews who broadcast that crap, and took those clowns seriously, and my fellow idiot citizens, who BELIEVED it, and don't have a clue what a BILLION is, anyway. . . ) - - But when the cost came in at over $800 Billion, I was actually kind of stunned it was THAT much. Now, the estimate - combined with Af-Pak, is looking more like $4.4 Trillion. But there is no end in sight, because 'bama is ramping-up Af-Pak.
Now that we are going broke, I think that more and more people are beginning to understand that war is an expensive luxury, and that in order to afford this, there are REAL trade-offs, that we can't just kick the can down the road, and hope that taking over Shitcanistan will make things nicer at home because we can "steal their oil" (lol! assclowns actually BELIEVED this! - yeah, maybe BP or Shell can "steal" the oil, but they're not going to give it to YOU for free, you moron.)
So, even in this Idiocracy of a world we're now living in, I think that people are starting to understand that we can't afford to maintain this global empire anymore. Not without a healthy tax-paying, thriving middle-class. Not without a domestic manufacturing base. Not with 9% unemployment. Not with a GDP of 1%. Not with a DJIA that sits and hovers around 11k for 12 years, and only moves when the FED diddles with their overnight rates. Not with oil over $100/bbl.
Hell, you see this stuff on Hack-a-day, where someone sets up a webcam, motion-detection software, and an airsoft gun on a motorized turret. Anything that moves gets annihilated. You just have to put up signs saying: you enter this area, and you are hamburger, switch-on, and that's that.
This worked GREAT for Germany.
Not so well for Japan. . .
Actually, I can think of a few good examples of countries that avoided direct involvement in many of the recent big wars, (except being victims). . . Norway, Iceland, Canada. . . who are actually in pretty decent shape right now.
(Canada had their little Quebec thing, let them vote to secede, let them secede; and the banks and industry said, "see ya later, bitches." - - and Quebec's economy promptly collapsed, and then they said - - "wait, we changed our minds and still want to be part of Canada!" --- if that isn't a great model for all this nationalism bitching and moaning, I don't know what is.)
"God handing out real-estate titles" --- real estate bubble FTW!
Wake us up when it can tell the difference between a suicide bomber, and a lady walking to the grocery store.
and it is...
copyright == book-burning.
It's not dead.
Just pinin' for the fjords. . .
By that logic, 99% of Libertarians are not REAL Libertarians, because most of those who are calling themselves Libertarians are advocating for reform of the court system to make it HARDER to file lawsuits, claim that there are too many "frivolous" lawsuits, and frankly - if Exxon fracks the bedrock underneath my ranch that has been in my family for 5 generations, causing it to no longer be able to functionally support livestock or any form of agriculture - then there really is no amount of money that a court can award me in any litigator's wet-dream, that could compensate.
In most cases, in "real life" - these lawsuits take decades, and are not settled on behalf of the plaintiff, and the awards are often held up on appeal.
If we had a functional civil justice system. . . I could see some appeal, but there is damage that these industrial pursuits do that is irreversible, and no amount of "made up" currency can magically fix this kind of damage.
It's true, that the entire point of civilization, in the first place, was to form groups, to manage nature for our mutual benefit. (see: Babylon, civic flood management). And in the "management" of nature, we also change our environment.
But we need to realize when we've crossed the line from mutual benefit, to mutual self destruction.
Exactly.
Apple pissed me off when they ditched PPC for Intel chips.
They made me really want to shun their consumer products when I tried an iPhone, and saw a really awesome portable device that was unnecessarily locked down.
But they lost me as a lifelong customer when they pushed the App Store down to their desktop platform, and showed every intent of ditching their server platform.
There's the problem right there. Cattle digesting corn? Cattle eat grass. WTF? Corn+antibiotics? This is a man-made solution to a man-made problem, which is causing a new man-made problem. And I am certain a new man-made solution shall follow. Followed by some other man-made problem. What the FUCK is wrong with letting fucking cows eat fucking GRASS?!?!?!
Can we please step forwards, into your back yard, with our thousands of tons of radioactive waste then?
Thanks! Glad to have your full support!
Basically, I think the problem is, the CEO's psychiatrist just prescribed the wrong anti-anxiety meds last week. Sometimes it takes weeks or months to find the right drug, and the right dosage, and there isn't always a quick fix - and frankly, it's probably not an anxiety disorder anyway, it's just the guy reacting to *gasp* a market drop! Oh noes!
Frankly, this was inevitable, because Netflix's business model was; "hey, let's go fuck-over the content providers, and hope they don't come back at us and play hardball yo!"
. . . and now that Starz is kneecapping them, they're freaking out. whatevz.
You're writing Traveler 2100? kewl.
They didn't "fix" 7 of 9. She was PERFECT. :D
made up specs? Star Fleet Battles, my good sir!
And pretty much, Star Trek would pwn.
Star Wars (for all their insane, bizarre deus ex machina plot devides) has no Transporters. Therefore, Star Trek -> Transport anti-matter bomb onto the bridge of enemy ship. . . : game over, Mr. Lucas.
Borg vs. Jedi? Please.
Um - let's THOROUGHLY discuss the subsidies and tax breaks that have gone to BP, Exxon, Shell, (etc) for over a century, before we even begin talking about this other company. And you mention "Obama" - and conveniently ignore the FACT that this company began receiving subsidies under the Bush administration. I smell a rightwing troll.
Renewable energy would easily be competitive with fossil fuels if fossil fuels had to pay for their external costs, and did not receive subsidies.
If I were a bankruptcy judge - I would NOT grant protection. Throw them to the wolves. The individuals should be held personally liable.
"abandoning our lead" to whom? India? Japan? France? LOL!
Listen, I'm not for cutting JWST. I'm not. If it's got problems, we should stick it out and solve it. If we misestimated budget and cost, then we need to FUCKING FIX the contracting and bidding system that keeps on doing this at an exponentially worse rate year after year, in a way that is strangling our nation's economy, and literally, actually, killing people.
But, we're not abandoning our lead to anybody. Not by a long shot. Maybe in manned space flight. But in astrophysics, we're still decades ahead of everyone else.
By that logic, they should have canceled the Iraq war long ago.
The White House (Ari Fleischer) originally said it was going to take 6 weeks, and cost $20 billion.
Petty is 99% of what Anonymous gets its kicks from. From abusing 12 year old girls (even if they kind of asked for it) to posting insulting comments about physically disabled people.
Really? Is this true!? I am so terribly sorry! As head of Anonymous' HR department, I assure you that I will personally look into this straight away. I will institute a new policy of screening applicants to ensure that all members of Anonymous are pure of heart and true to the cause, and that every individual within our organization will always do as the whole organization wills, to fight only for Truth, Justice, Goodness and Light.
There. Does that make it better?