Seeing as how I get the Hell taxed out of my paycheck every two weeks I figure I should get to choose what I pay for. And so follows this list.
I dont want to pay for:
The NEA (National Endowment of the Arts (or something))
While I don't find pictures of Crucifixes in urine particulary disturbing (or ingenious) I don't think I should have to pay for them. Let the private sector fund this sort of thing.
NASA
Love outer space and rockets and the Air & Space Museum and Cape Canaveral (sp?) and all that stuff; I don't want to pay for NASA. The Smithsonian, now there's something I can get behind. Sending people into orbit to see if plants will grow without gravity... I think we should probably be working on keeping the Earth livable as opposed to finding life out there.
The Department of Education
I think education is the single most important resource we, as humans, have. Seeing as how since its inception the DE has made absolutely no gains in the education system and has mostly failed as a government entity I don't want to pay for that.
Anyone to got to College
Except my kids.
In short I work hard and long and seeing my money wasted annoys me. I am sure many of you will think differently. It is disheartening to know that 1/3 of my earnings aren't even fixing the roads.
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Its mission is to educate its members of the latest scams
You mean like the scam where you charge $99 for access to a site full of information that should be free and is probably partially compiled by its users anyway.
-I hear this every Summer: "My son/daughter is a computer whiz! He/She wants to get involoved with computers like you. Do you have any openings?"
-I always say, "No," and three weeks later some kid comes to my office and I am expected to teach him/her everything I know in 8 weeks. My bitterness aside...
-Knowing how to set up a 1337 UT server on your cable modem is great but it doesn't mean you know how to do anything else.
-Recently an intern informed me that he "Invented that ten dot thing." I thought there was a language barrier and offered, "You mean you implemented a LAN with internal addressing?"
-"No, I invented it. It's my idea."
-"You're the guy who invented ten dot?"
-"Yup."
-"Invented?"
-"Yeah."
-I still don't know what he meant exactly and so I put him on phones and desk support; which I needed at the time. He quit three weeks later, I believe he called me a "Big homo-bag, who didn't know shit about the internet," after I blocked some UT site he spent all day on (yes I did tell him to cut it out) while I was out of town. His mother complained that I was "Hording information."
-I think you kids have a great opprotunity in front of you. I certainly didn't have hands-on network experience until after college. You're at a decent place. Grunt work is important. You have to know it all. Not understanding hardware, or not know how users use things will hurt you in the end. Be happy. Learn. Don't spend all day on a UT site flaming a big homo-bag.
They seem to have adopted Musolini's theory of "The Big Lie" that if you shout something at people loud enough and long enough that eventually they will will believe it, no matter how perposterous.
Notice that it is working? CIOs still buy MS stuff. Third party developers still make stuff for MS.
Several posts (I only read about 200) have mentioned that the real problem w/ Open Source is that it is free and as such can't make any $ and so since MS does make $ Open Source with wither and die.
Why does Open Source need to be free?
If I offer my wife the source to my latest Perl diddy besides looks at it and wonder what it all means (oh, come on you don't document either) what can she do with it? If the product works why would she want to do anything with it? If the product was good and stable why shouldn't she pay for it? (Well b/c she's my wife, but I think you see where I'm going.)
A good product should be paid for (except Diablo 2, it still doesn't have in game saves!) Those of you who write code know it ain't easy.
I certainly appreciate FREE, but I would be willing to pay for things. Even Star Office. No it is not as good as MS Office, but it is good enough. I assume it will get better (God, I hope it does.)
We've all had FREE for a little while now (NS, MSIE, EUDORA, Linux) maybe if we really give such a huge shit about "killing MS" and moving Open Source along we should consider paying for this stuff.
With some old hardware you can set up a fairly kicking e-commerce site using Open Source Software. Say Perl, Perl DBI, MySQL, PHP, Apache, SAMBA, CGI, yadda yadda: Why shouldn't you return some of the $ you make to the people who made this possible in the form of paying for the Open Source software?
For the most part I never need to go poking through source code. I like RPMs too. I paid for Red Hat 6.2 (and 5.2). I love the idea that I COULD "fix" the source but in practice I doubt I will very often. I think that it is very important though that those who can fix the code have access to it. I agree with the Open Source philosophy.
I think we need to get away from this Peter Pan attitude of staying young forever and never paying for anything. It is not a good idea if any of the things I read up here are more than knee jerk reactions to a profitable MS.
No matter what Monty Python says The Knigths Templar did expect it. In fact, they destroyed the Hospitallers (their biggest competition, and in league with The Church to destroy the Knights Templar) b/c they knew what was coming. Most of them fled the countries (including Spain) involved in Inquistioning and became a secret society (more than likely the Freemasons) that did quite well considering the long arm of the Catholic Church. To be honest I don't know why your.sig drives me so crazy but it does. sry. ---
Slashdot Mirror
Desite the "You're trolling" BS you're going to get let me add this
You're absolutely right!
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Mod this beeyatch up!
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $insaneramblings = 1;
print "\nWhy did you post this here?\n\n"
unless $insaneramblings eq "0";
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Love Linux. Nice, stable, a REAL OS.
Love Windows. Diablo II (where's my in game save?,) NASCAR 4, GPL, Pirates!, IE 5.5.
What on Linux would I want to run on Windows? Sobkan? Xemacs? X windows screen savers?
Nice idea, poorly concieved.
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What kind of cookie? Chocalate Chip? I mean for Chocoalate Chip cookies I could probably find you one.
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You are living it up I have a '96 Corolla!
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at least rich people get a tax cut
Seeing as how I get the Hell taxed out of my paycheck every two weeks I figure I should get to choose what I pay for. And so follows this list.
I dont want to pay for:
The NEA (National Endowment of the Arts (or something))
While I don't find pictures of Crucifixes in urine particulary disturbing (or ingenious) I don't think I should have to pay for them. Let the private sector fund this sort of thing.
NASA
Love outer space and rockets and the Air & Space Museum and Cape Canaveral (sp?) and all that stuff; I don't want to pay for NASA. The Smithsonian, now there's something I can get behind. Sending people into orbit to see if plants will grow without gravity... I think we should probably be working on keeping the Earth livable as opposed to finding life out there.
The Department of Education
I think education is the single most important resource we, as humans, have. Seeing as how since its inception the DE has made absolutely no gains in the education system and has mostly failed as a government entity I don't want to pay for that.
Anyone to got to College
Except my kids.
In short I work hard and long and seeing my money wasted annoys me. I am sure many of you will think differently. It is disheartening to know that 1/3 of my earnings aren't even fixing the roads.
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oooh, you've got one scary point there.
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By the time that happens 20Gbs won't be enough space to open a brower
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...mmmm, Scully...
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Its mission is to educate its members of the latest scams
You mean like the scam where you charge $99 for access to a site full of information that should be free and is probably partially compiled by its users anyway.
And it was so good I decided to post it again
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Just post annonymously next time.
No one is going to mod this up...
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Not news. Give them a banner.
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It's the Amiga .sig isn't it?
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--You can't hear it, but I am clapping really loud.
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-I hear this every Summer: "My son/daughter is a computer whiz! He/She wants to get involoved with computers like you. Do you have any openings?"
-I always say, "No," and three weeks later some kid comes to my office and I am expected to teach him/her everything I know in 8 weeks. My bitterness aside...
-Knowing how to set up a 1337 UT server on your cable modem is great but it doesn't mean you know how to do anything else.
-Recently an intern informed me that he "Invented that ten dot thing." I thought there was a language barrier and offered, "You mean you implemented a LAN with internal addressing?"
-"No, I invented it. It's my idea."
-"You're the guy who invented ten dot?"
-"Yup."
-"Invented?"
-"Yeah."
-I still don't know what he meant exactly and so I put him on phones and desk support; which I needed at the time. He quit three weeks later, I believe he called me a "Big homo-bag, who didn't know shit about the internet," after I blocked some UT site he spent all day on (yes I did tell him to cut it out) while I was out of town. His mother complained that I was "Hording information."
-I think you kids have a great opprotunity in front of you. I certainly didn't have hands-on network experience until after college. You're at a decent place. Grunt work is important. You have to know it all. Not understanding hardware, or not know how users use things will hurt you in the end. Be happy. Learn. Don't spend all day on a UT site flaming a big homo-bag.
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found out I ran Linux, the whole conversation changed
True dat! As soon as tech support hears you're running Linux you either get dead air or they stop talking to you like you're an idiot.
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My ISP (Optimum Online) ever wonders why everyone has an IP of 192.168.1.1 .
ISP Mgr: Hey what number did you give the Jones'?
ISP Admin: We don't assign IPs, it's done with DHCP?
ISP Mgr: How come all of our customers have the same number?
ISP Admin: AHHHH I have to get to the DHCP machine!
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They seem to have adopted Musolini's theory of "The Big Lie" that if you shout something at people loud enough and long enough that eventually they will will believe it, no matter how perposterous.
Notice that it is working? CIOs still buy MS stuff. Third party developers still make stuff for MS.
The lie is working
I'm not happy about it, but it's true
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Don't feed the troll...
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Several posts (I only read about 200) have mentioned that the real problem w/ Open Source is that it is free and as such can't make any $ and so since MS does make $ Open Source with wither and die.
Why does Open Source need to be free?
If I offer my wife the source to my latest Perl diddy besides looks at it and wonder what it all means (oh, come on you don't document either) what can she do with it? If the product works why would she want to do anything with it? If the product was good and stable why shouldn't she pay for it? (Well b/c she's my wife, but I think you see where I'm going.)
A good product should be paid for (except Diablo 2, it still doesn't have in game saves!) Those of you who write code know it ain't easy.
I certainly appreciate FREE, but I would be willing to pay for things. Even Star Office. No it is not as good as MS Office, but it is good enough. I assume it will get better (God, I hope it does.)
We've all had FREE for a little while now (NS, MSIE, EUDORA, Linux) maybe if we really give such a huge shit about "killing MS" and moving Open Source along we should consider paying for this stuff.
With some old hardware you can set up a fairly kicking e-commerce site using Open Source Software. Say Perl, Perl DBI, MySQL, PHP, Apache, SAMBA, CGI, yadda yadda: Why shouldn't you return some of the $ you make to the people who made this possible in the form of paying for the Open Source software?
For the most part I never need to go poking through source code. I like RPMs too. I paid for Red Hat 6.2 (and 5.2). I love the idea that I COULD "fix" the source but in practice I doubt I will very often. I think that it is very important though that those who can fix the code have access to it. I agree with the Open Source philosophy.
I think we need to get away from this Peter Pan attitude of staying young forever and never paying for anything. It is not a good idea if any of the things I read up here are more than knee jerk reactions to a profitable MS.
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*NOBODY* expects the Spanish Inquisition.
.sig drives me so crazy but it does. sry.
No matter what Monty Python says The Knigths Templar did expect it. In fact, they destroyed the Hospitallers (their biggest competition, and in league with The Church to destroy the Knights Templar) b/c they knew what was coming. Most of them fled the countries (including Spain) involved in Inquistioning and became a secret society (more than likely the Freemasons) that did quite well considering the long arm of the Catholic Church. To be honest I don't know why your
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Marge: I thought he was house trained?
Homer & Mojo: Eh...
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Everything has already been answered by The Simpson's
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The phone line/CAT5 is kicked out of the jack?
How do you remotely administer that?
How do you remotely administer a powered down monitor?
How do you flirt with a hot admin exec remotely?
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REB 1200
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