considering the Repubs did the same thing to Clinton's nominees
It's all very cute to say this but it just isn't true. From the Senate Judiciary committee [http://www.senate.gov/~judiciary/oldsite/ogh06260 1fair.htm]:
How did we accomplish the confirmation of 370-plus Clinton judicial nominees? Well, for one thing, I held prompt hearings on many nominees. For example, 20 Clinton judicial nominees received a hearing within two weeks of their nomination. Thirty-four Clinton judicial nominees received a hearing within three weeks of their nomination. And 66 Clinton judicial nominees received a hearing within a month of their nomination.
Methinks you misunderstand the term at hand, "vaporware". Vaporware are products that never made it into actual release. No product that actually makes it to market is still vaporware no matter how lame, annoying, or poorly meeting expectations.
This address gets an unfuckingbelievable amount of spam--around 3 per minute
While you've moved on to a new address, spammers have the old one in their lists and are sending mail to it. Sure, your mail server just deletes it or whatever but all those spams have to fly through the internet ether anyway. Any REAL solution to the spam problem will prevent it from clogging up the general works in the first place and not just so that you don't happen to see it.
the one sent to Carmine Caridi, a film and television actor' Should be: the one sent to Carmine Caridi, 69, a film and television actor'
Not to diss the elderly too much, but please. Recall the woman in the same age demographic that the RIAA listed as hard core song file sharers? I'll bet any amount you care to name that a young relative with no idea of the digital signatures snitched this disk to do the upload. It's nearly impossible to beleive that this actor, who undoubtedly got the disk with a harshly worded warning not to do so, uploaded it to a filesharing network.
This is where delivery comes in, which is tricky in text, and even trickier in online fora which mix people of very varied insight You can say that again... I thought about putting it as 'in case the baby elephants invade' but that would have gotten me modded off-topic by anyone who hadn't read it.
cursing at my printers, rather than blssing them If these monks make toner like the local monks here make cheese (excellent!) you'll be singing a different tune soon.
Ok, what do you, a business owner, do? Pack up and get out. Hell, you've got 2 months to do it.
Not likely in America! There are plenty of people who won't leave when a level 5 hurricane is howling outside so what makes you think anyone will do anything when there's a whopping two months to go on an earthquake warning? At most, you'll: 1. Make sure your earthquake insurance is paid up, and 2. Maybe call a building inspector to double-check the structural integrity of your shop. That's about it.
Big players are the only ones to put broadband into a neighborhood
Ah, but they aren't. I just switched from big telco DSL to local company broadband... the local people use 900Mhz. OK, so you have to be in a fairly high density residential area to get this, but your statement can't be a blanket one for everybody.
The activity associated with your account was more than 100 times the national median. This level of activity violates [ISP's] AUP.
This language implies you better know what the median is and you'd better stay less than 100x of it. What's up with that??? I assume somewhere else in the letter is an exact amount rather than this measure against the median? Does the fine, fine print of their terms of use actually say 100x the median???
The problem with using real animals, be they dogs or mules or whatever, is that the animal rights activists will throw a complete fit. It's politically OK to send machines to help kill people but not innocent animals.
Egos not withstanding, the various punk warlords around the world that give us problems are not really giants. Indeed, since Ulysses blinded the Cyclops, giants haven't caused any trouble for the most part. So robot soldiers need to just kill regular sized people.
Be nice if there was a no-HDD included version; standard size 2.5 inch disks can be had mailorder for cheaper than the difference in the various models' prices. All mp3 makers are guilty of this. Of course, that would cut into their nice margins on the high capacity models so we won't see it. sigh
Your rich uncle, Sam, has practically limitless amounts of cash to lend to students of higher education for piddly interest rates. Whether this is a good idea depends on whether you're going to school to party or as a stepping stone to a high paying career.
A friend of mine had one of those. When he first got it I went to his house and he asked if I wanted to play a game. "Sure," I said. "Hang on," he replied, "I have to program it." So the next 10 minutes were taken up by him typing in a racer-type game in basic.
The problem is that the studios have locked themselves into this release schedule. Let's say they were to release the next movie worldwide. What about all the current movies that are scheduled for timed-release then? They'd miss out on worldwide screenings for all the interim movies and looking at that loss has to be unthinkable for next quarter's bottom line. So it won't happen without a heck of a lot more pressure.
My ISP has a different sort of definition for "unlimited". They make no secret that home DSL's limit per month is 20GB; the "unlimited" refers to how you can get it as fast as you can. If you can pay/convince the telco to give you a DSL line rated fast enough, you can have all 20GB in a day without extra charges.
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considering the Repubs did the same thing to Clinton's nominees
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It's all very cute to say this but it just isn't true. From the Senate Judiciary committee [http://www.senate.gov/~judiciary/oldsite/ogh0626
How did we accomplish the confirmation of 370-plus Clinton judicial nominees? Well, for one thing, I held prompt hearings on many nominees. For example, 20 Clinton judicial nominees received a hearing within two weeks of their nomination. Thirty-four Clinton judicial nominees received a hearing within three weeks of their nomination. And 66 Clinton judicial nominees received a hearing within a month of their nomination.
So far, the Deomocrat's judiciary strategy has been to not allow nominations to come to the floor for a vote. What's the secret?
Methinks you misunderstand the term at hand, "vaporware". Vaporware are products that never made it into actual release. No product that actually makes it to market is still vaporware no matter how lame, annoying, or poorly meeting expectations.
Because lawyers are just as dumb as the rest of us.
Hey now, just because 99% of lawyers give the rest of them a bad name is no reason to badmouth them all.
The 1,200,000ms ping time is killer
Don't forget, subscribers get to see the next article early.
A few days after landing..."Mars needs women!"
/. waaaaaaaay too long.
If you didn't think of this until after arriving on Mars, you've been sitting in the basement reading
I'll dust my old 1MP camera off and see if I can do anything similar
I want to see you send your old 1MP camera to Mars, too! Can I come to the launch?
This address gets an unfuckingbelievable amount of spam--around 3 per minute
While you've moved on to a new address, spammers have the old one in their lists and are sending mail to it. Sure, your mail server just deletes it or whatever but all those spams have to fly through the internet ether anyway. Any REAL solution to the spam problem will prevent it from clogging up the general works in the first place and not just so that you don't happen to see it.
You might not believe it but the original got a -1 troll and a -1 off-topic..
the one sent to Carmine Caridi, a film and television actor'
Should be:
the one sent to Carmine Caridi, 69, a film and television actor'
Not to diss the elderly too much, but please. Recall the woman in the same age demographic that the RIAA listed as hard core song file sharers? I'll bet any amount you care to name that a young relative with no idea of the digital signatures snitched this disk to do the upload. It's nearly impossible to beleive that this actor, who undoubtedly got the disk with a harshly worded warning not to do so, uploaded it to a filesharing network.
This is where delivery comes in, which is tricky in text, and even trickier in online fora which mix people of very varied insight
You can say that again... I thought about putting it as 'in case the baby elephants invade' but that would have gotten me modded off-topic by anyone who hadn't read it.
We should still build a secret Orion and keep it handy in case of alien invasion.
cursing at my printers, rather than blssing them
If these monks make toner like the local monks here make cheese (excellent!) you'll be singing a different tune soon.
Ok, what do you, a business owner, do? Pack up and get out. Hell, you've got 2 months to do it.
Not likely in America! There are plenty of people who won't leave when a level 5 hurricane is howling outside so what makes you think anyone will do anything when there's a whopping two months to go on an earthquake warning? At most, you'll:
1. Make sure your earthquake insurance is paid up, and
2. Maybe call a building inspector to double-check the structural integrity of your shop.
That's about it.
Big players are the only ones to put broadband into a neighborhood
Ah, but they aren't. I just switched from big telco DSL to local company broadband... the local people use 900Mhz. OK, so you have to be in a fairly high density residential area to get this, but your statement can't be a blanket one for everybody.
The activity associated with your account was more than 100 times the national median. This level of activity violates [ISP's] AUP.
This language implies you better know what the median is and you'd better stay less than 100x of it. What's up with that??? I assume somewhere else in the letter is an exact amount rather than this measure against the median? Does the fine, fine print of their terms of use actually say 100x the median???
The problem with using real animals, be they dogs or mules or whatever, is that the animal rights activists will throw a complete fit. It's politically OK to send machines to help kill people but not innocent animals.
Why not work on GIANT KILLER robot soliders?
Egos not withstanding, the various punk warlords around the world that give us problems are not really giants. Indeed, since Ulysses blinded the Cyclops, giants haven't caused any trouble for the most part. So robot soldiers need to just kill regular sized people.
Be nice if there was a no-HDD included version; standard size 2.5 inch disks can be had mailorder for cheaper than the difference in the various models' prices. All mp3 makers are guilty of this. Of course, that would cut into their nice margins on the high capacity models so we won't see it. sigh
OK, sometimes they accidentally trash your systems if you DO pay, but that's a quality control issue.
Your rich uncle, Sam, has practically limitless amounts of cash to lend to students of higher education for piddly interest rates. Whether this is a good idea depends on whether you're going to school to party or as a stepping stone to a high paying career.
the concern ... is about the possible release of salary and other HR data.
Mobilize the national defence! The management salary figures have been compromised!
What, vote tampering? So?
A friend of mine had one of those. When he first got it I went to his house and he asked if I wanted to play a game.
"Sure," I said.
"Hang on," he replied, "I have to program it."
So the next 10 minutes were taken up by him typing in a racer-type game in basic.
The problem is that the studios have locked themselves into this release schedule. Let's say they were to release the next movie worldwide. What about all the current movies that are scheduled for timed-release then? They'd miss out on worldwide screenings for all the interim movies and looking at that loss has to be unthinkable for next quarter's bottom line. So it won't happen without a heck of a lot more pressure.
My ISP has a different sort of definition for "unlimited". They make no secret that home DSL's limit per month is 20GB; the "unlimited" refers to how you can get it as fast as you can. If you can pay/convince the telco to give you a DSL line rated fast enough, you can have all 20GB in a day without extra charges.