If you use it's pop-up blocker instead of Firefox's you can get pop-ups from those that have bribed Google to let them through. Their toolbar was nice when it first came out but allowed way to many pop-ups through in less than 6 months.
As a tech I will say that all toolbars suck and are probably spyware. When pushed I will admit that Google and Yahoo probably are not but why trust them?
This so called study assumes that you actually read the crap in your inbox. Most of us here would not be affected. How many of you even open something from any person or organization you don't know? Straight to the FTC and then the shitcan from my inbox.
I work at a white box store as a tech. We have been buying standard memory (PC2700, PC3200) for quite a while at ZZF. The prices beat what was our regular memory vendor, although we still use them for older or Rambus when needed. ZZF also has good deals on video cards, many CPU's, motherboards and other hardware.
ASI in Atlanta is very good also. We are close enough that if an order is in before 4PM EST we will get it next day for a ground charge.
Monarch in Atlanta has good prices but is very slow in shipping. We get orders fromm ZZF in CA before we get one from Monarch. On I85 we are 6 hours from Atlanta. Can't recomend them.
That there is not one person at the USPTO that has the common sense that God gave a pissant. I seriously doubt that any one of them could either: poor piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel, or find their ass with both hands on the best day they will ever have?
Why are all the liberals so worried about a possible 2 Supreme Court nominations? The conservatives have not had power for long enough to overcome 20 straight years of liberal court packing. Yes, 1933 - 1952, don't say that FDR and Truman didn't appoint liberals to every level of the Federal Court system, they did. With retirements and deaths falling when they did, the conservatives have not been able to replace half of them. More were replaced during Democrat Administrations than Republican in the last 50 years which is why the Judiciary has a leftward tilt. If it even got to an even balance the liberals would cry about a huge defeat. An amazing fact is that the Supreme Court is moderate in most decisions no matter who gets appointed.
Wrong. The first flight of Columbia was supposed to try the automated landing system. On the way down John Young to NASA that he was taking over and landed manually. He was Chief Astronaut and the most experienced one in NASA. The second flight was automated and had the "wheelie" incident. All other have been manual.
Any agency that wins one against spammers is a point for the good guys.
I don't really worry about the **AA's as much anymore. They are starting to generate bad press in the mainstream press and it's only a matter of time before they self-destruct. Public opinion will turn against them due to their own actions.
Every one of these clowns that gets taken down is a step in the right direction. Large fines and lots of press will start an intimidation factor that will slow new people from replacing the ones taken out. Each time it happens in a different country it means fewer places to hide.
Of course just tieing them all to trees upside down and feeding them Ex-Lax for a week would be a more fitting punishment.
Try Fprot AV, It's only $29/year and seems to catch everything Norton and McAfee miss. I've used it for 2 years without a problem and the whitebox store where I work has been running it for 3 on all desktops and the server. Not one virus has snuck through. I clean out customer boxes every week that have one or more virus and are running Norton or McAfee.
Norton is not worth a nickle and has been in a downward spiral since Symantec bought it. McAfee still has some good cleanup tools.
To end this kind of thing is to make the companies handling records financialy responsible for any problems. Triple the amount in damages to each misused account. They won't do anything until it affect the P&L severely. It's the only thing big corporations understand.
You came very close to the real problem. No company in any industry cares about the customer after the sale. They have all forgotten that the big money is in repeat customers through the years. Now it's just get this sale and we'll sorry about next year, next year. Short term greed is going to kill half the companies you can name.
Any study done to legitimize a previously desired result can be proved wrong.
Remember, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Any psuedo science that takes one set of data and can produce two opposite results (Statistics) is really nothing but rumor gossip and bullshit.
The mathematical versions of Statistics and Economics currently taught in all U.S. Universities were invented by out of work mathematicians in the 50's so they would get jobs. Always keep that in mind.
1. "The numbers would not be consistent with exit polls, but that doesn't seem to bother people."
In the last 3 Presidential elections the exit polls have been way off anyway. I know of people who intentionally lie so they can laugh at the local TV news people looking stupid on the air. Since it's none of their business how anyone votes, I support this action. After all, they try to influence the election every time anyway.
2. "Each ballot box would have to be stuffed independently by corrupt officials under the watch of election monitors."
Like most elections in Chicago over the last 100+ years?
Somewhat correct except that all word processors today are just clones of Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS, the first really good WP. Just like all spread sheets are clones of Lotus 123 for DOS. They have been modified for newer versions of Windows but the concept never changed. They all have many more features now, some useful, some just fluff that looks cute but 95% never use which is bloat.
On something that was being developed at White Sands Missle Range in the early 90's. A friend of mine was working on a device that accelerated a small plastic pellet (about 3mm) to hypersonic speed. They shot them at 6 inch square aluminium plates an inch thick. 3mm entrance and a 3.5 inch exit hole, I saw some targets. Very little splatter of molten metal, most seemed to be vaporized, as I was told, some did become plasma. This was part of the "star wars" space weapons. The shots were fired in a vacuum because air resistance would vaporize the pellets. I don't know what happened to that program. It was just after my father in law left the High Energy Laser Test Facillity. There is still much research and testing going on out there, which is why they are close to Sandia and Los Alamos (300 miles in New Mexico's vast expanse is an easy trip on todays roads). This is besides every missle system under development or improvement.
If they don't loose it, it gets run over by the truck. At the white box store I'm a tech at we have told our vendors that they ship UPS at their own risk. We will return as refused all destroyed packages, and don't have time for the RMA process, that means stopping credit card payments. In a 2 week period last fall we received 22 cases from UPS. 9 were damaged to junk status (2 had the fork lift forks shoved through them, the rest were crushed. You ought to see how they treat a case of motherboards!
If CO2 is higher I'd be worried. 3% causes problems and 3.5% causes brain damage. I knew some of the stuff I learned on that Nuclear Sub would come in handy someday!
Having dived since '73, I agree with most of what you said. However when tanks get empty they are lighter than when full. Weigh yours empty then full. That was never a big problem with the old steel tanks but with the advent of aluminium tanks the weight change was noticeable, that is why the bouyancy compensator was invented. With steel you went down about 2 LBS. heavy and were neutral to positive when it was time to go up. I still have my original U.S. Divers 72 Aluminum tank. It has about a 6 LB. difference full to empty. That is a bit much to deal with without a BC. The BC works just like the trim tanks on a sub. Instead of adding or subtracting water, you do it with air to maintain neutral bouyancy. That way you don't waste energy trying to maintain depth, which burns up the air supply faster.
Most of the people complaining about the Patriot Act/Bush voted for Kerry and are registered as Democrats. They are represented by the Chairman of the DNC who comes across as a spoiled 3 year old throwing a tantrum. He bashes Bush and all his policies but offers nothing as a replacement.
If someone wanted to organize a third party they should base it on the 80% of us that are not represented by the far out flakes on either side.
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It's still an un-needed piece of bloat that will only slow your browser. Waste of hard drive space.
If you ever clicked on a pop-up you have spyware!
If you use it's pop-up blocker instead of Firefox's you can get pop-ups from those that have bribed Google to let them through. Their toolbar was nice when it first came out but allowed way to many pop-ups through in less than 6 months.
As a tech I will say that all toolbars suck and are probably spyware. When pushed I will admit that Google and Yahoo probably are not but why trust them?
This so called study assumes that you actually read the crap in your inbox. Most of us here would not be affected. How many of you even open something from any person or organization you don't know? Straight to the FTC and then the shitcan from my inbox.
I work at a white box store as a tech. We have been buying standard memory (PC2700, PC3200) for quite a while at ZZF. The prices beat what was our regular memory vendor, although we still use them for older or Rambus when needed. ZZF also has good deals on video cards, many CPU's, motherboards and other hardware.
ASI in Atlanta is very good also. We are close enough that if an order is in before 4PM EST we will get it next day for a ground charge.
Monarch in Atlanta has good prices but is very slow in shipping. We get orders fromm ZZF in CA before we get one from Monarch. On I85 we are 6 hours from Atlanta. Can't recomend them.
That there is not one person at the USPTO that has the common sense that God gave a pissant. I seriously doubt that any one of them could either: poor piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel, or find their ass with both hands on the best day they will ever have?
Why are all the liberals so worried about a possible 2 Supreme Court nominations? The conservatives have not had power for long enough to overcome 20 straight years of liberal court packing. Yes, 1933 - 1952, don't say that FDR and Truman didn't appoint liberals to every level of the Federal Court system, they did. With retirements and deaths falling when they did, the conservatives have not been able to replace half of them. More were replaced during Democrat Administrations than Republican in the last 50 years which is why the Judiciary has a leftward tilt. If it even got to an even balance the liberals would cry about a huge defeat. An amazing fact is that the Supreme Court is moderate in most decisions no matter who gets appointed.
Wrong. The first flight of Columbia was supposed to try the automated landing system. On the way down John Young to NASA that he was taking over and landed manually. He was Chief Astronaut and the most experienced one in NASA. The second flight was automated and had the "wheelie" incident. All other have been manual.
The most reliable weather device ever: go outside and see what it's doing! Everything else is just a SWAG, and mostly wrong.
SWAG = Scientific Wild Assed Guess
Any agency that wins one against spammers is a point for the good guys.
I don't really worry about the **AA's as much anymore. They are starting to generate bad press in the mainstream press and it's only a matter of time before they self-destruct. Public opinion will turn against them due to their own actions.
Every one of these clowns that gets taken down is a step in the right direction. Large fines and lots of press will start an intimidation factor that will slow new people from replacing the ones taken out. Each time it happens in a different country it means fewer places to hide.
Of course just tieing them all to trees upside down and feeding them Ex-Lax for a week would be a more fitting punishment.
Try Fprot AV, It's only $29/year and seems to catch everything Norton and McAfee miss. I've used it for 2 years without a problem and the whitebox store where I work has been running it for 3 on all desktops and the server. Not one virus has snuck through. I clean out customer boxes every week that have one or more virus and are running Norton or McAfee.
Norton is not worth a nickle and has been in a downward spiral since Symantec bought it. McAfee still has some good cleanup tools.
To end this kind of thing is to make the companies handling records financialy responsible for any problems. Triple the amount in damages to each misused account. They won't do anything until it affect the P&L severely. It's the only thing big corporations understand.
You came very close to the real problem. No company in any industry cares about the customer after the sale. They have all forgotten that the big money is in repeat customers through the years. Now it's just get this sale and we'll sorry about next year, next year. Short term greed is going to kill half the companies you can name.
Any study done to legitimize a previously desired result can be proved wrong.
Remember, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Any psuedo science that takes one set of data and can produce two opposite results (Statistics) is really nothing but rumor gossip and bullshit.
The mathematical versions of Statistics and Economics currently taught in all U.S. Universities were invented by out of work mathematicians in the 50's so they would get jobs. Always keep that in mind.
But then how would they get as much free press? ACLU + Porn = coverage on every network, you know how much that would cost?
Someday most people will figure it out:
ACLU - Asinine Constipated Liberals Union
1. "The numbers would not be consistent with exit polls, but that doesn't seem to bother people."
In the last 3 Presidential elections the exit polls have been way off anyway. I know of people who intentionally lie so they can laugh at the local TV news people looking stupid on the air. Since it's none of their business how anyone votes, I support this action. After all, they try to influence the election every time anyway.
2. "Each ballot box would have to be stuffed independently by corrupt officials under the watch of election monitors."
Like most elections in Chicago over the last 100+ years?
Somewhat correct except that all word processors today are just clones of Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS, the first really good WP. Just like all spread sheets are clones of Lotus 123 for DOS. They have been modified for newer versions of Windows but the concept never changed. They all have many more features now, some useful, some just fluff that looks cute but 95% never use which is bloat.
Why not just call Longhorn a high priced SP3?
Actually it would be overpriced at $20 due to the lack of features.
If he laid it on it's right side, would it hover?
The big question is:
What is he smoking and why doesn't he share?
It's gotta be some great shit man.
On something that was being developed at White Sands Missle Range in the early 90's. A friend of mine was working on a device that accelerated a small plastic pellet (about 3mm) to hypersonic speed. They shot them at 6 inch square aluminium plates an inch thick. 3mm entrance and a 3.5 inch exit hole, I saw some targets. Very little splatter of molten metal, most seemed to be vaporized, as I was told, some did become plasma. This was part of the "star wars" space weapons. The shots were fired in a vacuum because air resistance would vaporize the pellets. I don't know what happened to that program. It was just after my father in law left the High Energy Laser Test Facillity. There is still much research and testing going on out there, which is why they are close to Sandia and Los Alamos (300 miles in New Mexico's vast expanse is an easy trip on todays roads). This is besides every missle system under development or improvement.
If they don't loose it, it gets run over by the truck. At the white box store I'm a tech at we have told our vendors that they ship UPS at their own risk. We will return as refused all destroyed packages, and don't have time for the RMA process, that means stopping credit card payments. In a 2 week period last fall we received 22 cases from UPS. 9 were damaged to junk status (2 had the fork lift forks shoved through them, the rest were crushed. You ought to see how they treat a case of motherboards!
If CO2 is higher I'd be worried. 3% causes problems and 3.5% causes brain damage. I knew some of the stuff I learned on that Nuclear Sub would come in handy someday!
Having dived since '73, I agree with most of what you said. However when tanks get empty they are lighter than when full. Weigh yours empty then full. That was never a big problem with the old steel tanks but with the advent of aluminium tanks the weight change was noticeable, that is why the bouyancy compensator was invented. With steel you went down about 2 LBS. heavy and were neutral to positive when it was time to go up. I still have my original U.S. Divers 72 Aluminum tank. It has about a 6 LB. difference full to empty. That is a bit much to deal with without a BC. The BC works just like the trim tanks on a sub. Instead of adding or subtracting water, you do it with air to maintain neutral bouyancy. That way you don't waste energy trying to maintain depth, which burns up the air supply faster.
Most of the people complaining about the Patriot Act/Bush voted for Kerry and are registered as Democrats. They are represented by the Chairman of the DNC who comes across as a spoiled 3 year old throwing a tantrum. He bashes Bush and all his policies but offers nothing as a replacement.
If someone wanted to organize a third party they should base it on the 80% of us that are not represented by the far out flakes on either side.