Well, actually, there aren't a whole lot of other distributors of *genetically modified* plants, being a touchy subject and all. Obviously, if they haven't removed the ability of their plants to produce more seeds, then maybe they don't have complete mastery of the crop's genome as they would have us believe, and there may be side effects to eating them... but that's a completely different story for another day.
I meet plenty of people who like my work, from which I draw examples to show at my LUGs and SIGs (which in turn seems to draw in more contracts). Even when my audience is not technically oriented, it allows them to get a good idea as to what PHP/ASP/JSP could be used for. If you start negotiating a contract, your potential contact don't care what back end you use, so long as it works. This is how I learned PHP. I used to be strictly an ASP/MS-SQL programmer. When an old friend wanted to pay me to do a football pool website, I told myself I'd teach myself by doing it in PHP and MySQL. It was a fair learning curve, but more importantly, contingent on my getting paid. It wasn't an exemplary use of PHP, but it fulfilled the original spec, and it was at least a start. My next PHP contract allowed me freedom to choose whatever backend I wanted to use, once again. This time, it was better planned, and I had a much sharper grasp of the language. All the client cared about is what it looked like in the end. After about five such contracts, I could now put my Publicly-Accessible PHP accomplishments on my resume, which actually look professional. In essence, I consider this Chicken-and-Egg Problem to be evolutionary: create a tiny chicken/egg which then hatches/lays a bigger chicken/egg which then hatches/lays an even bigger chicken/egg until you have one which lands you a really nice contract/job.
It looks like my days of charging my clients $350/hr to "maintain" their open source solution (while I'm actually reading Slashdot or Porn) are numbered.
It also looks like my days of receiving lucrative MS funding for using me as a case study to show that a single Open Source implementor is way more expensive than a dozen MCSEs are also numbered.
And to think, that MS was going to pay off my 3rd house and 2nd Porsche next week if only I would get up in front of national TV and announce how glad my company was to get rid of me and return to the cheaper Microsoft alternative...
Normally, I'd figure you would simply sound-proof the disposal chamber of such a unit. My particular model, however, would play hiphop/rap music at annoying high amplitudes through its built-in annoyingly large woofer that could be heard several blocks away. That way, none of my neighbors would have to put up with the noise of their robots either.
Usage statistics? It seems that more and mroe companies are infringing on your privacy. My trainer just got a Tivo and he was wierded out by the fact that you have to plug it in to a phone jack. The same goes for Dish Network's receiver. It seems that more and more appliances want to call home to let their manufacturers know what you're doing with their particular product (with promises of privacy, of course). I've wondered if, over time and with a a little effort, some agency out there has found a way to compile all this data into an single comprehensive database and develop an amazingly accurate profile for any given individual.
My personal solution? Disable my land line, and switch exclusively to cell phones. The only downside is that my Satellite TV provider doesn't believe I don't have a working phone jack to plug in my satellite receiver into.
On the contrary, it is now known that the appendix helps to digest tough foods such as tree bark. Most people don't need theirs, but I do: I like to chew on raw cinnamon.
I should answer this from the standpoint of a geek who has tried time and time again to convert all his loved ones away from the dark side. Most Mom and Pop computers have uses that have very little to do with games or office apps.
A musician friend of mine prints all his CD labels and covers on some Windows App that I can't get playing nice with Wine and CUPS. He also uses bleeding edge MIDI interface and sampler hardware that's way too new to supported under ALSA. I've had to tell him to simply stick with WinXP.
My Fiance prints a crapload of greeting cards for friends and family using Hallmark software for Windows. It doesn't play nice with Wine. I don't see other any other Cutsey Graphics Apps for Linux. I've had to tell her to simply stick with WinXP.
My engineering company uses Intools to lay out and design process plants (oil refineries, power plants, etc.) and Wine doesn't like it. Codeweavers doesn't make a plugin for it, and the original company doesn't want to port it. I've had to tell them to simply stick with WinXP.
Even Codeweavers is not always the solution. My sister's construction company tried a brief migration away from Windows, but they could not leave behind Quickbooks. They tried Codeweavers, but it crashes after a certain amount of network traffic. I've had to tell them to simply stick with WinXP.
In short, I've had to swallow my pride and tell a lot of people to stick with Windows. It's interesting to see all these attempts to put Linux on the Home Desktop, but I still highly doubt it's there yet (nor even close). My manager has hammered me with the words, "Linux is not yet ready for the desktop." I'm throwing in the towel: he's right. </rant>
Even though my general experience is that ATI drivers have traditionally been a little dodgy, I've gone with SuSE because they have their own special fglrx drivers and instructions which don't involve quite as many steps as the normal methods of installation... plus you don't have to recompile the whole thing. My experience with games on ATI is as follows:
FLGRX 3.7: Screensavers work fine, but that's about it.
FLGRX 3.9: Winex still crashes, UT2004 still crashes, but Neverwinter Nights runs fine, with a few bugs.
FLGRX 3.11 (what I use currently with a mobility FireGL T2): NWN runs beautifully with all the bells and whistles (1024x768 at 32 bit). UT2004 runs okay at 1024x768x32 with some high quality textures and dynamic lighting @ ~28 FPS (UT2004 used to crash a lot on my ATI-based setups, but it seemed to stabilize with the UT2004 3323 patch). Winex still barfs on me
FLGRX 3.14.1: This is the latest and greatest(?) driver you can get for SuSE. Prelminary testing shows Alien Swarm runs decent now, but Winex still barfs on me. I will try the Doom installer later today, and respond with my own benchmarks on a 2GHz T42 Thinkpad with 2G and a 128MB Mobility FireGL T2.
If you just follow SuSE's instructions at the link I provided, you should be fine.
These guys are out at Siggraph Emerging Technologies, and I'm trying it for myself even as I type.
Your pace has be be quite a bit slower than the article suggests, and the compensational backwards movement of the platform throws you off. I'm laughing at the picture in the article where the guy wears the blindfold, because just now, the vendor won't let me wear one. I'm going to show STFA to them in protest in just a few seconds here...
Of course it's brand-spanking new! Even as we speak, Microsoft is gearing up to release its revolutionarily innovatively original news site, Dashslot! Dashslot, whose slogan is "FUD for Nerds, Truth in Tatters", will allow members of the ever growing anti-OSS movement to coelesce into a coherent online community, by conglomerating news stories about events and/or legislation that threaten the blessed Utopia Microsoft has promised to us, the Faithful. Members, once logged in with a Microsoft Passport ID, may leave comments on an electronic bulletin board via the relative ease of Outlook, or simply respond to them, whether or not they relate to the original news stories to which they are tied. Flaming is kept to a minimum, because no one is Anonymous on Dashslot! Everyone is your Komrade! As such, it is in everyone's best interest to report any suspicious behavior to the site's moderators: Admiral Octopus-Sashimi, Bloody, and Indian On Your Knees, who outsources our polls.
Unlike other news conglomeration sites, Dashslot will allow you to use any HTML tags in your comments whatsover, including the famous tag, <script language="vbscript">. You thus are even allowed to embed unsigned ActiveX Controls and DLLs into your comments for the convenience of your komrades, but they will need to run Internet Explorer 6 or higher (on minimum security settings) to fully appreciate your efforts. But wait, there's more! You have limited ability to moderate the scores of comments left by other komrades, which ultimately affects their karma. This is where Dashslot derives its famous logo: -1
Since there are many news sites hostile our ideology, Dashslot includes a new feature called "One Click Denial of Service". This feature, also called the Dashslot effect, allows a Komrade to crash an offending IIS webserver in the course of a single visit! (Rumors of this feature already occurring spontaneously are treasonous and subject to execution without trial by firing squad, who will then in turn be executed by gas, lethal injection, and the electric chair all at once. Please consult your MS Passport Terms of Service for details regarding mandatory Firing Squad Duty.)
Dashslot will bring together the programmers and techies of the world, and bind them to a single unifiying vision, without the corrupting influence of other opinions! We will help everyone on all corporate levels communicate on the same level with eachother, because we will have already told you what to think beforehand! We will rally the faithful masses to the glorious banner of proprietary software, defining the dawn of our New World Order! Dashslot's presence shall herald the coming of a new age of hope for those who remained faithful to Microsoft. Everyone else is just a freaking heretic and will be litigated to hell. See you in court.
Hmm, super-competitive a-hole? Willing to cut himself just to make you faint? I can see some wonderful opportunities at the next SCO Conference...
DARL: Thank you for listening. I'm now willing to field any questions from the attendees. SMART-ASS NERD: I don't like accidentally looking at the goatse picture everytime I read Slashdot. It disgusts me. DARL: I don't how this concerns SCO. MIKE: Wait, a minute, Darl, there are people here who don't like the goatse picture? Well, have a look at this. [drops pants and proceeds to insert fingers into unpleasant-looking anatomy] Darl: Uh, um, are there any other questions? S.A.N. #2: I don't like people who hit themselves over the head with a hammer. Mike: You don't, eh? It just so happens I have a ballpeen hammer right here... Ow! Ooh! Ouch! AUDIENCE (IN UNISON): We hate the thought of lynching Darl McBride!
Well, well, well. I happened to dig up this nice little tidbit...
World Health Org. Supplemental Addendum: Extended Analysis of Environmental Deca-BDE Pertaining to Developmental Hazards in Children
Deca-BDE compounds, most commonly found in fireproofing materials of desktop and laptop computers, pose the greatest risk to children whose exposure ranges circa 1982 to 1998. Extensive research has found that exposure during an individual's formative years may result in social impairment; the Alexis de Toqueville Institute observes that exposed children and teenagers are less capable of interacting with those peers often regarded as "popular", "athletic", and "most likely to succeed". Interactions with females is likewise deeply afflicted, with known cases of attempts to socialize along an intellectual approach, despite well documented cases indicating western courtship rituals involve more emotion than rationality [DSM-V 428,4]. The Institute also notes, as a further symptom, consistent withdrawal into alternate states of mind, further alienating the afflicted individual from standard social interaction, simultaneously coining creative phrases for these states, such as "hax0ring", "pr0n", and "Everquest". As it is highly unlikely that these words have any true meaning or grounding in reality, it is the recommendation of the World Health Organization to isolate these individuals in a closed-system habitat with adolescent football players for an extended period of time in order to improve self esteem and and to reduce the observed social deficiency. It should also be noted that most domestic acts of terrorism (e.g. Columbine HS, Oklahoma City Bombing, etc.) have been committed by young perpetrators with high exposure to deca-BDE compounds - while this does not serve to incriminate the greater whole of the group, the World Health Organization, in conjunction with the proponents of the newly ratified Shadow Patriot Act, advises in favor of monitoring all afflicted individuals, as there appears to be a ternary symptom that conveys the compulsion to visit the cyber-terrorism website, Slashdot. In conclusion, deca-BDE exposure may be considered only partially treatable, but physical symptoms, such as lack of body definition, pale skin, nocturnal activity, and the DVD boxed set first season of Farscape, are likely to persist throughout the individual's entire life. Standard Procedure* may eventually require effecting immediate quarantine, followed by sterilization via lethal injection.
*Standard Procedure concluded by the Alexis de Toqueville Institute with generous funding from the following charitable organizations: Microsoft, SCO, Motion Picture Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America, and the European Union.
Why an LED, when you can get so much more wattage out of some of the other fun High-Powered IR emitters out there? Crank it up to, oh, maybe, around 60 kilowatts, and then-... *sniff* *sniff* say, do you smell burning flesh and fabric in this theater?
Speaking of rolling heads for crimes you don't otherwise consider worthy of capital punishment... In China, banks are run by the government, not private individuals, thus considered a public service. If you are in upper management, and you get caught embezzling funds, you *will* be executed (for the good of the People, of course). It's a great way to eliminate ambitious subordinates, literally. Also, during my time as a Parsons engineer in Saudi Arabia, Americans were often encouraged to view public executions (and beheading was within the order of the day). Some of those were for things we would consider corporate misdemeanors. Outside of my personal experience, I can think of plenty of countries where writing viruses will make you subject to the death penalty.
What area of the country is this, again? I live in Los Angeles, and if a *tan* car came up behind me with flashing lights, I wouldn't pull over. Unless your vehicle is explicitly a Black and White, I will not bother to even think you are a cop car. I would, however, probably phone my local PD just to be sure.
Hello, my name is Solomon Chang, and I am a legal representative of a certain Cowboy Neil, who has a similar sig to yours on Slashdot. Recently, my client, a strong supporter of Artists Against 419, passed away, and has left behind an account with a hell of a lot of Karma on Slashdot. However, Hemos and Commandante Taco have dictated that the account be furthermore untouched should such an unfortunate occurance transpire. However, if you should be willing, your sig matches my client so closely that we may be able to trick VA Systems into sending his Slashdot password so that we may both reap the benefits of 1337 hax0r status. However, my firm would require the access information of your Slashdot account (i.e. username and password), so if interested, please send your information and we will proceed from there. You will need to hurry, as the Commandante will attempt to acquire the Karma for himself if/when he discovers the account to be deactivated.
Slashdot Mirror
>You mean no other seed companies exist?
Well, actually, there aren't a whole lot of other distributors of *genetically modified* plants, being a touchy subject and all. Obviously, if they haven't removed the ability of their plants to produce more seeds, then maybe they don't have complete mastery of the crop's genome as they would have us believe, and there may be side effects to eating them... but that's a completely different story for another day.
Solomon Chang
> NASA has knows it needs to be changes.
> NASA tries to change it.
> Talk to congress.
4. ???
5. Profit!!
Gee, I wish *my* company would pay for my research to find out what a real woman looks like...
Solomon Chang
> s/layed/laid/
Leave it to slashdotters to mispell "laid". It must not come up in conversation much...
Solomon Chang
I meet plenty of people who like my work, from which I draw examples to show at my LUGs and SIGs (which in turn seems to draw in more contracts). Even when my audience is not technically oriented, it allows them to get a good idea as to what PHP/ASP/JSP could be used for. If you start negotiating a contract, your potential contact don't care what back end you use, so long as it works.
This is how I learned PHP. I used to be strictly an ASP/MS-SQL programmer. When an old friend wanted to pay me to do a football pool website, I told myself I'd teach myself by doing it in PHP and MySQL. It was a fair learning curve, but more importantly, contingent on my getting paid. It wasn't an exemplary use of PHP, but it fulfilled the original spec, and it was at least a start.
My next PHP contract allowed me freedom to choose whatever backend I wanted to use, once again. This time, it was better planned, and I had a much sharper grasp of the language. All the client cared about is what it looked like in the end.
After about five such contracts, I could now put my Publicly-Accessible PHP accomplishments on my resume, which actually look professional.
In essence, I consider this Chicken-and-Egg Problem to be evolutionary: create a tiny chicken/egg which then hatches/lays a bigger chicken/egg which then hatches/lays an even bigger chicken/egg until you have one which lands you a really nice contract/job.
Solomon Chang
It looks like my days of charging my clients $350/hr to "maintain" their open source solution (while I'm actually reading Slashdot or Porn) are numbered.
It also looks like my days of receiving lucrative MS funding for using me as a case study to show that a single Open Source implementor is way more expensive than a dozen MCSEs are also numbered.
And to think, that MS was going to pay off my 3rd house and 2nd Porsche next week if only I would get up in front of national TV and announce how glad my company was to get rid of me and return to the cheaper Microsoft alternative...
Solomon
Normally, I'd figure you would simply sound-proof the disposal chamber of such a unit. My particular model, however, would play hiphop/rap music at annoying high amplitudes through its built-in annoyingly large woofer that could be heard several blocks away. That way, none of my neighbors would have to put up with the noise of their robots either.
Solomon
> Not clear what they are monitoring?
Usage statistics? It seems that more and mroe companies are infringing on your privacy. My trainer just got a Tivo and he was wierded out by the fact that you have to plug it in to a phone jack. The same goes for Dish Network's receiver. It seems that more and more appliances want to call home to let their manufacturers know what you're doing with their particular product (with promises of privacy, of course). I've wondered if, over time and with a a little effort, some agency out there has found a way to compile all this data into an single comprehensive database and develop an amazingly accurate profile for any given individual.
My personal solution? Disable my land line, and switch exclusively to cell phones. The only downside is that my Satellite TV provider doesn't believe I don't have a working phone jack to plug in my satellite receiver into.
Solomon Chang
There's a hot grits comment waiting in this thread.
Or am I thinking of another Natalie?
Solomon Chang
On the contrary, it is now known that the appendix helps to digest tough foods such as tree bark. Most people don't need theirs, but I do: I like to chew on raw cinnamon.
Solomon
> I need to ask: What do you use WinXP for?
I should answer this from the standpoint of a geek who has tried time and time again to convert all his loved ones away from the dark side. Most Mom and Pop computers have uses that have very little to do with games or office apps.
A musician friend of mine prints all his CD labels and covers on some Windows App that I can't get playing nice with Wine and CUPS. He also uses bleeding edge MIDI interface and sampler hardware that's way too new to supported under ALSA. I've had to tell him to simply stick with WinXP.
My Fiance prints a crapload of greeting cards for friends and family using Hallmark software for Windows. It doesn't play nice with Wine. I don't see other any other Cutsey Graphics Apps for Linux. I've had to tell her to simply stick with WinXP.
My engineering company uses Intools to lay out and design process plants (oil refineries, power plants, etc.) and Wine doesn't like it. Codeweavers doesn't make a plugin for it, and the original company doesn't want to port it. I've had to tell them to simply stick with WinXP.
Even Codeweavers is not always the solution. My sister's construction company tried a brief migration away from Windows, but they could not leave behind Quickbooks. They tried Codeweavers, but it crashes after a certain amount of network traffic. I've had to tell them to simply stick with WinXP.
In short, I've had to swallow my pride and tell a lot of people to stick with Windows. It's interesting to see all these attempts to put Linux on the Home Desktop, but I still highly doubt it's there yet (nor even close). My manager has hammered me with the words, "Linux is not yet ready for the desktop." I'm throwing in the towel: he's right. </rant>
Solomon Chang
because I claim Prior Fart.
Solomon
If you just follow SuSE's instructions at the link I provided, you should be fine.
Solomon Chang
> worms do not turn into pretty butterflies.
But according to most Slashdot readers, The Butterfly(tm) is indeed a Worm.
Solomon Chang
These guys are out at Siggraph Emerging Technologies, and I'm trying it for myself even as I type.
Your pace has be be quite a bit slower than the article suggests, and the compensational backwards movement of the platform throws you off. I'm laughing at the picture in the article where the guy wears the blindfold, because just now, the vendor won't let me wear one. I'm going to show STFA to them in protest in just a few seconds here...
Solomon
Of course it's brand-spanking new! Even as we speak, Microsoft is gearing up to release its revolutionarily innovatively original news site, Dashslot! Dashslot, whose slogan is "FUD for Nerds, Truth in Tatters", will allow members of the ever growing anti-OSS movement to coelesce into a coherent online community, by conglomerating news stories about events and/or legislation that threaten the blessed Utopia Microsoft has promised to us, the Faithful. Members, once logged in with a Microsoft Passport ID, may leave comments on an electronic bulletin board via the relative ease of Outlook, or simply respond to them, whether or not they relate to the original news stories to which they are tied. Flaming is kept to a minimum, because no one is Anonymous on Dashslot! Everyone is your Komrade! As such, it is in everyone's best interest to report any suspicious behavior to the site's moderators: Admiral Octopus-Sashimi, Bloody, and Indian On Your Knees, who outsources our polls.
Unlike other news conglomeration sites, Dashslot will allow you to use any HTML tags in your comments whatsover, including the famous tag, <script language="vbscript">. You thus are even allowed to embed unsigned ActiveX Controls and DLLs into your comments for the convenience of your komrades, but they will need to run Internet Explorer 6 or higher (on minimum security settings) to fully appreciate your efforts. But wait, there's more! You have limited ability to moderate the scores of comments left by other komrades, which ultimately affects their karma. This is where Dashslot derives its famous logo: -1
Since there are many news sites hostile our ideology, Dashslot includes a new feature called "One Click Denial of Service". This feature, also called the Dashslot effect, allows a Komrade to crash an offending IIS webserver in the course of a single visit! (Rumors of this feature already occurring spontaneously are treasonous and subject to execution without trial by firing squad, who will then in turn be executed by gas, lethal injection, and the electric chair all at once. Please consult your MS Passport Terms of Service for details regarding mandatory Firing Squad Duty.)
Dashslot will bring together the programmers and techies of the world, and bind them to a single unifiying vision, without the corrupting influence of other opinions! We will help everyone on all corporate levels communicate on the same level with eachother, because we will have already told you what to think beforehand! We will rally the faithful masses to the glorious banner of proprietary software, defining the dawn of our New World Order! Dashslot's presence shall herald the coming of a new age of hope for those who remained faithful to Microsoft. Everyone else is just a freaking heretic and will be litigated to hell. See you in court.
Solomon Chang
Hmm, super-competitive a-hole? Willing to cut himself just to make you faint? I can see some wonderful opportunities at the next SCO Conference...
DARL: Thank you for listening. I'm now willing to field any questions from the attendees.
SMART-ASS NERD: I don't like accidentally looking at the goatse picture everytime I read Slashdot. It disgusts me.
DARL: I don't how this concerns SCO.
MIKE: Wait, a minute, Darl, there are people here who don't like the goatse picture? Well, have a look at this. [drops pants and proceeds to insert fingers into unpleasant-looking anatomy]
Darl: Uh, um, are there any other questions?
S.A.N. #2: I don't like people who hit themselves over the head with a hammer.
Mike: You don't, eh? It just so happens I have a ballpeen hammer right here... Ow! Ooh! Ouch!
AUDIENCE (IN UNISON): We hate the thought of lynching Darl McBride!
I'll leave the rest to oyur imagination...
Solomon Chang
Well, well, well. I happened to dig up this nice little tidbit...
World Health Org. Supplemental Addendum:
Extended Analysis of Environmental Deca-BDE Pertaining to Developmental Hazards in Children
Deca-BDE compounds, most commonly found in fireproofing materials of desktop and laptop computers, pose the greatest risk to children whose exposure ranges circa 1982 to 1998. Extensive research has found that exposure during an individual's formative years may result in social impairment; the Alexis de Toqueville Institute observes that exposed children and teenagers are less capable of interacting with those peers often regarded as "popular", "athletic", and "most likely to succeed". Interactions with females is likewise deeply afflicted, with known cases of attempts to socialize along an intellectual approach, despite well documented cases indicating western courtship rituals involve more emotion than rationality [DSM-V 428,4]. The Institute also notes, as a further symptom, consistent withdrawal into alternate states of mind, further alienating the afflicted individual from standard social interaction, simultaneously coining creative phrases for these states, such as "hax0ring", "pr0n", and "Everquest". As it is highly unlikely that these words have any true meaning or grounding in reality, it is the recommendation of the World Health Organization to isolate these individuals in a closed-system habitat with adolescent football players for an extended period of time in order to improve self esteem and and to reduce the observed social deficiency.
It should also be noted that most domestic acts of terrorism (e.g. Columbine HS, Oklahoma City Bombing, etc.) have been committed by young perpetrators with high exposure to deca-BDE compounds - while this does not serve to incriminate the greater whole of the group, the World Health Organization, in conjunction with the proponents of the newly ratified Shadow Patriot Act, advises in favor of monitoring all afflicted individuals, as there appears to be a ternary symptom that conveys the compulsion to visit the cyber-terrorism website, Slashdot.
In conclusion, deca-BDE exposure may be considered only partially treatable, but physical symptoms, such as lack of body definition, pale skin, nocturnal activity, and the DVD boxed set first season of Farscape, are likely to persist throughout the individual's entire life. Standard Procedure* may eventually require effecting immediate quarantine, followed by sterilization via lethal injection.
*Standard Procedure concluded by the Alexis de Toqueville Institute with generous funding from the following charitable organizations: Microsoft, SCO, Motion Picture Association of America, Recording Industry Association of America, and the European Union.
Solomon Kevin Chang
> Say you took a reasonably high powered IR LED
Why an LED, when you can get so much more wattage out of some of the other fun High-Powered IR emitters out there? Crank it up to, oh, maybe, around 60 kilowatts, and then-... *sniff* *sniff* say, do you smell burning flesh and fabric in this theater?
Solomon Chang
Speaking of rolling heads for crimes you don't otherwise consider worthy of capital punishment... In China, banks are run by the government, not private individuals, thus considered a public service. If you are in upper management, and you get caught embezzling funds, you *will* be executed (for the good of the People, of course). It's a great way to eliminate ambitious subordinates, literally.
Also, during my time as a Parsons engineer in Saudi Arabia, Americans were often encouraged to view public executions (and beheading was within the order of the day). Some of those were for things we would consider corporate misdemeanors.
Outside of my personal experience, I can think of plenty of countries where writing viruses will make you subject to the death penalty.
Solomon Chang
Shouldn't that be WOL, and not OWL?
I thought OWL (Ordinary Wizarding Levels) belonged in Hogwart's.
Solomon
What area of the country is this, again? I live in Los Angeles, and if a *tan* car came up behind me with flashing lights, I wouldn't pull over. Unless your vehicle is explicitly a Black and White, I will not bother to even think you are a cop car. I would, however, probably phone my local PD just to be sure.
Skevin
> Road Marker Marks You
...because Soviet Russia didn't have enough bathrooms.
In Soviet Russia, You mark Road Marker...
Skevin
Hello, my name is Solomon Chang, and I am a legal representative of a certain Cowboy Neil, who has a similar sig to yours on Slashdot. Recently, my client, a strong supporter of Artists Against 419, passed away, and has left behind an account with a hell of a lot of Karma on Slashdot. However, Hemos and Commandante Taco have dictated that the account be furthermore untouched should such an unfortunate occurance transpire. However, if you should be willing, your sig matches my client so closely that we may be able to trick VA Systems into sending his Slashdot password so that we may both reap the benefits of 1337 hax0r status. However, my firm would require the access information of your Slashdot account (i.e. username and password), so if interested, please send your information and we will proceed from there. You will need to hurry, as the Commandante will attempt to acquire the Karma for himself if/when he discovers the account to be deactivated.
In sincerest regards and utmost urgency,
Skevin
> So is there anything we can do to help?
Catch it on video, put it on the web, and tout it as the "Self-Cleansing Software Industry".
Solomon CHang