You, sir, are an idiot. The parent basically said, "Don't participate in criminal acts and you won't get shot." Your reply is irrelevant because the business owner isn't stealing my property.
It never ceases to amaze me how people like you are quick to embrace the criminal and demonize the person trying to protect his life or property from attack.
Oh for the days when evil was not tolerated and people who punished it were heroes.
Is it just me, or is there an abudnaces of advertisement "stories" today?
A word of advice to would-be advertisers: before you post your ad on the front page, make sure your website can handle the traffic that will be coming your way.
"Seriously, I don't want Windows doing anything more than being an OS. I don't want it becomming a salesperson, I don't want it becomming a DRM cop."
I completely agree. Windows keeps becoming more and more like an AOL interface, trying be pretty and to hold your hand at every turn. As a competent user, I feel increasingly alienated, which is why I still use Windows 2000.
IMO, 2000 is the last clean version of windows. XP, and Longhorn from the looks of it, are too full of bells and whistles and other useless resource-eating crap for my liking.
It's time for Star Trek to die. IMO, the last really good series was TNG, although DS9 got pretty good at the end. The whole thing is way too runout and it all lacks originality.
Another thing that pisses me off is the pussified political correctness. In the old days they didn't "target the weapons array", they freakin' took care of business.
It's time for Star Trek to die for awhile and hopefully come back in a decade or two a reborn entity that is worth watching.
In this particular case, the "search and seizure" wasn't at the hands of the government, but yeah, I get your drift.
The RIAA totally sidestepped the pesky legal system and went straight to fscking up people's credit reports. This really worries me. The RIAA has just further alienated me as a 'customer.' Not that I would ever buy an RIAA album again ever anyway.
I've often wondered how long it's going to take, and how big Google will have to get, before it's considered 'evil' alongside Microsoft in the eyes of geeks.
Once I got a call from a cow-irker complaining that her monitor "didn't work." She said, "I've already checked to make sure it's plugged in."
I never believe when someone says that, so what I tell them to do is unplug it and "blow the dust off the plug" as a psychological trick to get them to actually unplug and re-plug the cord. That still didn't fix this user's problem, so I paid a visit to her desk. I observed that the power light was not illuminated, so I pressed the power button and low and behold her monitor turned on and functioned perfectly.
She proclaimed, "I swear I tried that!" I just said, "OK" while trying not to sound too annoyed and left.
Since I'm on the subject of help calls, one more quick one:
I was called to the engineering office because one of the monitors was on the fritz (hmm... I'm beginning to see a pattern here.) I saw that the screen was black except for a thin, very bright horizontal line in the middle of the screen. I guessed that the raster gun was probably stuck, so I balled up my fist and gave it a good hard whack on the top, which instantly restored the picture.
One of the other engineers started laughing heartily and said, "He Fonzied it!"
"Linux leader Linus Torvalds has begun looking for a new electronic home for his project's source code after a conflict involving the current management system, BitKeeper"
I think colonizing space is overrated. I believe it is arrogant of man to think he is capable of damaging the earth to the point of it being uninhabitable, but that's just me.
You would have saved more because those tax preparers write off all kinds of things that you're not really entitled to. It's nice to get a bigger refund check, but when the IRS audits you, the buck stops with you, not the tax preparer.
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In Texas they have a saying I like: "He needed killin'!"
You, sir, are an idiot. The parent basically said, "Don't participate in criminal acts and you won't get shot." Your reply is irrelevant because the business owner isn't stealing my property.
It never ceases to amaze me how people like you are quick to embrace the criminal and demonize the person trying to protect his life or property from attack.
Oh for the days when evil was not tolerated and people who punished it were heroes.
Is it just me, or is there an abudnaces of advertisement "stories" today?
A word of advice to would-be advertisers: before you post your ad on the front page, make sure your website can handle the traffic that will be coming your way.
"My car gets fourty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!"
Here in so-cal, the average daily accident rate doubles from about 200 per day to 400 per day when it rains. People just don't slow down.
"Seriously, I don't want Windows doing anything more than being an OS. I don't want it becomming a salesperson, I don't want it becomming a DRM cop."
I completely agree. Windows keeps becoming more and more like an AOL interface, trying be pretty and to hold your hand at every turn. As a competent user, I feel increasingly alienated, which is why I still use Windows 2000.
IMO, 2000 is the last clean version of windows. XP, and Longhorn from the looks of it, are too full of bells and whistles and other useless resource-eating crap for my liking.
I already have digital TV! *cough*bittorrent*cough*
In all seriousness, I haven't turned my TV on in several months now that I just download all the TV shows I want to watch.
The DMCA is having very far-reaching effects, all of which I'm sure were not contemplated or foreseen by the people who drafted the DMCA.
The thing I hate about this sort of legislation, is that once it's on the books, it's very difficult to get repealed.
Other than calling and writing to our representatives, how else do we make our concern known?
It's time for Star Trek to die. IMO, the last really good series was TNG, although DS9 got pretty good at the end. The whole thing is way too runout and it all lacks originality.
Another thing that pisses me off is the pussified political correctness. In the old days they didn't "target the weapons array", they freakin' took care of business.
It's time for Star Trek to die for awhile and hopefully come back in a decade or two a reborn entity that is worth watching.
Wow, the thought of a taxi driver in a flying vehicle scares me to death.
In this particular case, the "search and seizure" wasn't at the hands of the government, but yeah, I get your drift.
The RIAA totally sidestepped the pesky legal system and went straight to fscking up people's credit reports. This really worries me. The RIAA has just further alienated me as a 'customer.' Not that I would ever buy an RIAA album again ever anyway.
I've often wondered how long it's going to take, and how big Google will have to get, before it's considered 'evil' alongside Microsoft in the eyes of geeks.
If you can't be part of the solution, there is good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
I know the long periods of dark and light in Alaska tend to drive people batty, could you imagine living in this moonbase where it is -always- lit?
Hah! Hang on, let me take copius notes here...
Once I got a call from a cow-irker complaining that her monitor "didn't work." She said, "I've already checked to make sure it's plugged in."
I never believe when someone says that, so what I tell them to do is unplug it and "blow the dust off the plug" as a psychological trick to get them to actually unplug and re-plug the cord. That still didn't fix this user's problem, so I paid a visit to her desk. I observed that the power light was not illuminated, so I pressed the power button and low and behold her monitor turned on and functioned perfectly.
She proclaimed, "I swear I tried that!" I just said, "OK" while trying not to sound too annoyed and left.
Since I'm on the subject of help calls, one more quick one:
I was called to the engineering office because one of the monitors was on the fritz (hmm... I'm beginning to see a pattern here.) I saw that the screen was black except for a thin, very bright horizontal line in the middle of the screen. I guessed that the raster gun was probably stuck, so I balled up my fist and gave it a good hard whack on the top, which instantly restored the picture.
One of the other engineers started laughing heartily and said, "He Fonzied it!"
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"Linux leader Linus Torvalds has begun looking for a new electronic home for his project's source code after a conflict involving the current management system, BitKeeper"
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I think colonizing space is overrated. I believe it is arrogant of man to think he is capable of damaging the earth to the point of it being uninhabitable, but that's just me.
I think it would be more like, "Men would have to be paid to impregnate women."
I think most guys would much prefer having 'sex' without the possibility of getting someone pregnant.
I wonder if AOL will be the first service to politely terminate your calls for you. "Goodbye!"
Now that would be a service I could get behind.
I have a 25 character MS Office 2000 CD-Key memorized, would that be considered random enough?
I've found that to be generally untrue when coming from someone who writes like in the parent's example.
The effort expended is typically not worth it.
You would have saved more because those tax preparers write off all kinds of things that you're not really entitled to. It's nice to get a bigger refund check, but when the IRS audits you, the buck stops with you, not the tax preparer.
You left out Honda, you insensitive clod.