Speaking of which, I would imagine the CIA has more to do with this bill than anything. We all know now that Bush authorized a presidential finding on Iran. We know that congress authorized up to $400 million to the CIA for subterfuge, espionage, and other covert activities.
Iran's leadership is just trying to have a fighting chance at staying in power against such great odds.
Unfortunately while we lose our rights here at home, we continue to cause others to lose theirs as well.
He doesn't feed people feet first into plastic shredders. He doesn't use chemical weapons against citizens of his country. He doesn't have women raped and children tortured in front of their parents.
Not in his own country anyway. I'd wager that what Bush authorizes with his presidential findings is far far worse than anything Saddam ever did.
For whatever reason IE7 WILL NOT install after I formatted and installed a fresh legit xp sp2. It downloads, and tells me I have updates to install. I click the little balloon and let it go. Then it constantly pesters me to restart. So I restart, and the process starts all over.
I tried a manual install just so I wouldn't have to deal with that automatic update loop but that turned out just about the same.
It worked just fine BEFORE I went legit which figures.
I hate to say it but this can be achieved without the $40,000 in school loans to pay back.
I worked a few customer support jobs for a few high profile companies and then posted my resume up on Monster. I received a call from the head of the IT department of one of the largest businesses in Iowa, and he asked if I would be willing to accept a job as the junior IT administrator, directly answerable to him and only him, for $65k a year plus benefits, and relocation costs.
I turned him down after coming down from my initial pants-shitting, because I realized I would be living so far from civilization I would hate my life.
I'm by no means a freak case however. Nearly all of my friends in the IT field have very little schooling, but can demonstrate their knowledge in an interview and have the "I want to learn it all" attitude that is so desperately needed.
Just as I started learning x86 assembly. I'm already about 20 hours into it and I'm not about to stop, but it may prove to be a waste of time 10 years from now.
For outbound calls, you may be charged airtime for incomplete and/or busy-no answer calls. With incoming calls, you will be charged airtime upon pressing any key on the keypad to answer the call.
No credit is given for dropped calls. 911 calls are FREE. If you are in an area where your phone is searching for a signal or there is no signal, it is highly probable that a call to 911 will not go through. Do not rely on this function in an emergency situation. Locate the nearest landline phone and call for help. Calls such as 411 and 611 are not free with NET10 and shall be charged at regular airtime rates.
Seems to be getting further and further behind the cusp of breaking news. I read about this sometime last week and was waiting for Slashdot to provide a little more insight.
I've got a net10 prepaid phone. My rate is $.10/message received or sent. It hasn't changed in the 8 months I've had it. $15 a month for more minutes than I'll ever use, which then roll over to the next month.
Prepaid is definitely the way to go if you're not a huge phone user and don't need all that fancy intarweb connection crap.
You could try for a small to medium sized ISP tech support.
I did that with only 1 year of CS under my belt and though I had no clue what I was getting into I quickly ramped up and learned TONS about networking. I never knew networking would be so fun, but when you get network admins with 6 or 7 certs on their e-mail signature calling you up, and you explain to them how the internet works, it can really make you feel good.
Plus the potential to move around is incredible. One buddy (unfortunately) moved into our service engineering operations division where they ran the datacenters and fixed all the windows servers (lol). Another buddy moved into the VOIP division and was implementing brand new unheard of features and turning up 200+ clients a project. Still another moved into the security department and began exploring the worlds of VPNS and Firewalls.
All good stuff... but you won't really get that from a larger ISP because they're usually really slow to move and pretty set in their ways.
I was late applying to school last year, just barely made it in, and the loans I received covered ONLY tuition. Therefore I was stuck scraping to buy books. When it came down to it, I bought 2 books per semester out of the 8 or 9 that were required.
I did NOT buy the psych book because the cheapest one I could find was $159 and I didn't figure I'd use it anyway. I ended up passing the class with a C+ but was sorely hurt by all the "from the book" questions on the tests.
The school library is required by law to keep a copy of any/all textbooks used in classes on hand. They either did not abide by this law or people were stealing the books, because I never once found one for any class I was in.
School is just as big a scam as everything else these days.
That's exactly why I run AV manually... about once a month. I noticed that if I let the services run in the background while I try to play any games I get random framerate drops and all kinds of other weird happenings.
No but NoScript and ABP were waging war with the server. Eventually they won, but the server put up quite a struggle. It only took the page about 2 minutes to load improperly, and then another 45 seconds for the style sheets to be put in place.
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If this does not get overturned, I'm fucked royally.
I also remember waiting 5 minutes for a picture to download...
I don't mind having nice looking sites because it takes just as long for one of them to load as it does for a plain text site anymore.
However, people have shifted more toward flashiness than content which I don't particularly like.
But will it allow you to divide by zero?
I'd hit someone with Banana Phone... quietly at first.. then ever louder and louder.
I am. Especially when it come to information. And I almost always get it for free.
Except when I find it incredibly valuable, in which case I pay for a hard book copy.
Speaking of which, I would imagine the CIA has more to do with this bill than anything. We all know now that Bush authorized a presidential finding on Iran. We know that congress authorized up to $400 million to the CIA for subterfuge, espionage, and other covert activities.
Iran's leadership is just trying to have a fighting chance at staying in power against such great odds.
Unfortunately while we lose our rights here at home, we continue to cause others to lose theirs as well.
How is Bush different than Saddam?
He doesn't feed people feet first into plastic shredders. He doesn't use chemical weapons against citizens of his country. He doesn't have women raped and children tortured in front of their parents.
Not in his own country anyway. I'd wager that what Bush authorizes with his presidential findings is far far worse than anything Saddam ever did.
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2008a/080626KlimeckArsenic.html
Which is why I had to turn automatic updates off.
For whatever reason IE7 WILL NOT install after I formatted and installed a fresh legit xp sp2. It downloads, and tells me I have updates to install. I click the little balloon and let it go. Then it constantly pesters me to restart. So I restart, and the process starts all over.
I tried a manual install just so I wouldn't have to deal with that automatic update loop but that turned out just about the same.
It worked just fine BEFORE I went legit which figures.
I hate to say it but this can be achieved without the $40,000 in school loans to pay back.
I worked a few customer support jobs for a few high profile companies and then posted my resume up on Monster. I received a call from the head of the IT department of one of the largest businesses in Iowa, and he asked if I would be willing to accept a job as the junior IT administrator, directly answerable to him and only him, for $65k a year plus benefits, and relocation costs.
I turned him down after coming down from my initial pants-shitting, because I realized I would be living so far from civilization I would hate my life.
I'm by no means a freak case however. Nearly all of my friends in the IT field have very little schooling, but can demonstrate their knowledge in an interview and have the "I want to learn it all" attitude that is so desperately needed.
Just as I started learning x86 assembly. I'm already about 20 hours into it and I'm not about to stop, but it may prove to be a waste of time 10 years from now.
Wrong and fail.
From net10's website:
For outbound calls, you may be charged airtime for incomplete and/or busy-no answer calls. With incoming calls, you will be charged airtime upon pressing any key on the keypad to answer the call.
No credit is given for dropped calls. 911 calls are FREE. If you are in an area where your phone is searching for a signal or there is no signal, it is highly probable that a call to 911 will not go through. Do not rely on this function in an emergency situation. Locate the nearest landline phone and call for help. Calls such as 411 and 611 are not free with NET10 and shall be charged at regular airtime rates.
Seems to be getting further and further behind the cusp of breaking news. I read about this sometime last week and was waiting for Slashdot to provide a little more insight.
Then I forgot about it until now.
I wish I could remember mine.. just for nostalgic purposes. I know it started with a 10 but that's all I got.
That was my first thought. I haven't used ICQ since AOL was the only available ISP in my area some 14 - 15 years ago.
I ditched it in favor of some newer IM programs that cut down on the amount of spam you received by requiring "friends" to be added before messaging.
Shhh first rule of internet discussion is we do NOT talk about U--NET!
Plus I don't have a news server subscription as I'm too broke for one.
I really would like to know where these books are being leeched from. There must be a large enough place for the publishers to have taken notice...
I've got a net10 prepaid phone. My rate is $.10/message received or sent. It hasn't changed in the 8 months I've had it. $15 a month for more minutes than I'll ever use, which then roll over to the next month.
Prepaid is definitely the way to go if you're not a huge phone user and don't need all that fancy intarweb connection crap.
You could try for a small to medium sized ISP tech support.
I did that with only 1 year of CS under my belt and though I had no clue what I was getting into I quickly ramped up and learned TONS about networking. I never knew networking would be so fun, but when you get network admins with 6 or 7 certs on their e-mail signature calling you up, and you explain to them how the internet works, it can really make you feel good.
Plus the potential to move around is incredible. One buddy (unfortunately) moved into our service engineering operations division where they ran the datacenters and fixed all the windows servers (lol). Another buddy moved into the VOIP division and was implementing brand new unheard of features and turning up 200+ clients a project. Still another moved into the security department and began exploring the worlds of VPNS and Firewalls.
All good stuff... but you won't really get that from a larger ISP because they're usually really slow to move and pretty set in their ways.
I was late applying to school last year, just barely made it in, and the loans I received covered ONLY tuition. Therefore I was stuck scraping to buy books. When it came down to it, I bought 2 books per semester out of the 8 or 9 that were required.
I did NOT buy the psych book because the cheapest one I could find was $159 and I didn't figure I'd use it anyway. I ended up passing the class with a C+ but was sorely hurt by all the "from the book" questions on the tests.
The school library is required by law to keep a copy of any/all textbooks used in classes on hand. They either did not abide by this law or people were stealing the books, because I never once found one for any class I was in.
School is just as big a scam as everything else these days.
I really could have used this last year as I decided to jump back into the college world after working like a monkey for 5 years.
I had looked high and low for a textbook repository, legal or not. I can stick my middle finger up just as easily as the book publishers.
I was never able to find anything on the pirate bay or any other sites. Where is this godsend to college students?
That's exactly why I run AV manually... about once a month. I noticed that if I let the services run in the background while I try to play any games I get random framerate drops and all kinds of other weird happenings.
No but NoScript and ABP were waging war with the server. Eventually they won, but the server put up quite a struggle. It only took the page about 2 minutes to load improperly, and then another 45 seconds for the style sheets to be put in place.
These guys are a joke.
I like how it's really obvious that the people with mod points didn't read the article either.
That's why sane people use NoScript and ABP for firefox.
Well you must be since you're implying you read the article...