It could have been. Or it could have been that the city of Chicago is synonymous with ghettos, corruption from top to bottom, gangs, and crime. Tough to say.
Yeah, you sound like one of those wacko types that don't fit in here.
You sound like you can understand the likely outcomes from making certain decisions... around here, we just believe in entitlement. Go back to your own country, freak.
I used to be swamped with requests for free tech support from my immediate and extended family. 4 nights out of the week, I would spend working on others' computers - nearly always at their house.
Finally, I told everyone that I would continue to provide tech support, but it would be the first and third Tuesday of each month, from 5 to 10, at *MY* house.
Evidently, all of their problems which were massively urgent before stopped happening... since it would require them to go to the length of driving their computer to my house, I have only had TWO INSTANCES of doing tech support since then.
Not only that, they lauded the Italian plugs for handling "up to 10 or even 16 amps". Any standard American plug will do 15, and for a couple of dimes more, you can get one that will do 20 amps.
They deride the American plug because an ungrounded (2-prong) plug can make the cord easy to pull out, laud the 3-pronged European plugs for being harder to pull out... but ignore 3-pronged (grounded) American plugs.
The shuttering that they say makes UK plugs better... is now mandatory in the USA.
I agree on the "nationalistic garbage" stuff. Maybe there's a bit of ignorance mixed in, but still... he just wanted to gripe about the Americans.
You mean that somewhere, someone has NOT taught their son to be a pansy, and fear anything that has any remote chance of hurting someone? Oh, the horror! The next thing you know, he'll let the kid have his own POCKET KNIFE, for crying out loud. Won't someone please... THINK OF THE CHILDREN????
It hasn't stopped many people. Just last week, a young kid swerved a good 4 feet into my lane, and nearly hit me. He was looking down, cell phone in hand, texting. Ah, well.
I put up one of those cubicle bookshelf, (like this one), that has a lid that comes down. I stuck a couple of Micro ATX machines, cables, and switch in it, and I'm done. Since they're low-power machines (one is a Via C3, the other is a low-power Athlon X2), I can run it closed up just fine.
Traditional Japanese culture has been to not externally show ANY emotion. A very large portion of the population grew up without EVER learning to smile, and it is foreign to them.
Now that it is catching up, many of them actually need to learn HOW to smile. It seems insane to us, but it's how things are.
Last week, I listened to an interview on NPR about piracy. One of the dudes from Maersk said that the main reason they don't have guns on board is simple: The insurance companies don't want guns on board.
Actually successful piracy is actually very low. Insurance companies would rather just pay the ransom every so often than deal with the aftermath of a firefight.
As we've had LCD monitors dying from capacitors exploding, I went to management and showed them how many thousands of dollars we could save each year, by simply requiring people to turn their monitors off at night - almost tripling the usable lifespan. And also extended the numbers to extra longevity in workstations, requiring them to be powered down.
In about ten minutes, I was told "Great. Let's make this a policy." Usually, management loves to save money.
Over the past year, 95.2% of my network's incoming mail was spam. But hey, it's not THAT bad, is it? Like the spammers always say, we can just hit "delete", right?
I dunno. I could come up with guesses, such as the RAM only exhibiting errors when accessed in certain patterns that Memtest doesn't use... but they're just guesses, nothing more.
+1. I once had a pair of DIMMs which would intermittently throw errors in whichever machine they were placed, but Memtest would never detect anything wrong with them - even if used for weeks.
I called Micron, and they said "Yes, we do see sticks that go bad and Memtest won't detect it." They replaced them for free, the problem went away, and I was happy.
They must be doing gigabits for images, then. Complaining about the URLs is complaining about the 2 watts your wall-wart uses when idle, all the while using a 2kW air conditioner.
Lewis is so short-sighted in so many ways that it's pathetic.
For starters, as I mentioned, he completely ignores the cost of the military protection for the Middle-East oil. Americans pay more in tax for the military to "stabilize the region" (to keep oil prices reasonable) than they do for the actual oil. Take his costs, and at least double them.
Then, his consideration that the world is "awash" in oil doesn't really coincide with the reality that the easy oil is gone or nearly so, and that every decade, oil prices are going to continue to go up. Indications are fairly good that we're at peak oil right now, so from here on out, it's only going to get worse.
And I dunno where you get the idea that solar and wind are much more expensive than oil or coal. Oil and coal have costs on a continual basis, solar, wind, and others have upfront investments, then very low ongoing costs. It's not a matter of expense, it's a matter of ROI. Decent projects used to have ROIs around 30 years, now they're getting closer to 10 years. Please stop spouting random junk.
Oil keeps getting more expensive. renewable keeps getting cheaper. Oil costs billions of dollars every year (and the lives of US soldiers) for protection, renewable doesn't. Oil creates pollution and greenhouse gases, renewable doesn't. Oil ships the wealth of our nation to royal families of other countries, renewable doesn't.
Oil is like leasing a car: The monthly payments are cheaper upfront, but you have to make that payment every month for the rest of your life. Renewable is like buying: The payments are more expensive for a few years, but then you go for quite a long time without ANY payments. Sure, eventually, you'll have to buy a new car, but if you make a smart choice going in, your expenditures over the long term are far lower.
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It could have been. Or it could have been that the city of Chicago is synonymous with ghettos, corruption from top to bottom, gangs, and crime. Tough to say.
Yeah, you sound like one of those wacko types that don't fit in here.
You sound like you can understand the likely outcomes from making certain decisions... around here, we just believe in entitlement. Go back to your own country, freak.
"My baby didn't do nuffin!" or "But I wasn't doin' nuffin!" are all too common. Nobody says "Oh, yeah, I really deserved that."
"He was just asking them questions" can just as well be "He ignored thirty seven requests to get back in his car, and ten additional warnings."
Before I jumped to any conclusions... I would want to know what really happened.
I used to be swamped with requests for free tech support from my immediate and extended family. 4 nights out of the week, I would spend working on others' computers - nearly always at their house.
Finally, I told everyone that I would continue to provide tech support, but it would be the first and third Tuesday of each month, from 5 to 10, at *MY* house.
Evidently, all of their problems which were massively urgent before stopped happening... since it would require them to go to the length of driving their computer to my house, I have only had TWO INSTANCES of doing tech support since then.
Not only that, they lauded the Italian plugs for handling "up to 10 or even 16 amps". Any standard American plug will do 15, and for a couple of dimes more, you can get one that will do 20 amps.
They deride the American plug because an ungrounded (2-prong) plug can make the cord easy to pull out, laud the 3-pronged European plugs for being harder to pull out... but ignore 3-pronged (grounded) American plugs.
The shuttering that they say makes UK plugs better... is now mandatory in the USA.
I agree on the "nationalistic garbage" stuff. Maybe there's a bit of ignorance mixed in, but still... he just wanted to gripe about the Americans.
You mean that somewhere, someone has NOT taught their son to be a pansy, and fear anything that has any remote chance of hurting someone? Oh, the horror! The next thing you know, he'll let the kid have his own POCKET KNIFE, for crying out loud. Won't someone please... THINK OF THE CHILDREN????
It hasn't stopped many people. Just last week, a young kid swerved a good 4 feet into my lane, and nearly hit me. He was looking down, cell phone in hand, texting. Ah, well.
I put up one of those cubicle bookshelf, (like this one), that has a lid that comes down. I stuck a couple of Micro ATX machines, cables, and switch in it, and I'm done. Since they're low-power machines (one is a Via C3, the other is a low-power Athlon X2), I can run it closed up just fine.
All of the Pakistanis, Palestinians, Iraqis, Chinese, Indians, and Jordanians I've ever met have smiled.
There's an old saying... "When it's you against the world, bet on the world." Outside of Japan, few cultures - if any - don't smile.
Who DOESN'T think of a joystick when they hear the word "Mechwarrior"?
Joystick manufacturers expect, once again, to be able to make a profit!
Traditional Japanese culture has been to not externally show ANY emotion. A very large portion of the population grew up without EVER learning to smile, and it is foreign to them.
Now that it is catching up, many of them actually need to learn HOW to smile. It seems insane to us, but it's how things are.
You don't even need to think about bribes. He's recorded an album, and fancies himself as an artist.
Don't forget that this is the man who advocating being able to remotely *destroy* computers of *suspected* "pirates".
Maybe he's h.264-encoding jungle porn on the spot.
Last week, I listened to an interview on NPR about piracy. One of the dudes from Maersk said that the main reason they don't have guns on board is simple: The insurance companies don't want guns on board.
Actually successful piracy is actually very low. Insurance companies would rather just pay the ransom every so often than deal with the aftermath of a firefight.
As we've had LCD monitors dying from capacitors exploding, I went to management and showed them how many thousands of dollars we could save each year, by simply requiring people to turn their monitors off at night - almost tripling the usable lifespan. And also extended the numbers to extra longevity in workstations, requiring them to be powered down.
In about ten minutes, I was told "Great. Let's make this a policy." Usually, management loves to save money.
Encrypted communications, logging, and as it is an IM firewall, you can also use it to prevent users from logging into external services.
Yeah, it would take several DIFFERENT networks' router-jockeys horking up their BGP rules at the same time...
That was *mostly* tongue-in-cheek.
Over the past year, 95.2% of my network's incoming mail was spam. But hey, it's not THAT bad, is it? Like the spammers always say, we can just hit "delete", right?
I dunno. I could come up with guesses, such as the RAM only exhibiting errors when accessed in certain patterns that Memtest doesn't use... but they're just guesses, nothing more.
+1. I once had a pair of DIMMs which would intermittently throw errors in whichever machine they were placed, but Memtest would never detect anything wrong with them - even if used for weeks.
I called Micron, and they said "Yes, we do see sticks that go bad and Memtest won't detect it." They replaced them for free, the problem went away, and I was happy.
75 whole freaking megabits? WOWSERS!!!!
They must be doing gigabits for images, then. Complaining about the URLs is complaining about the 2 watts your wall-wart uses when idle, all the while using a 2kW air conditioner.
Lewis is so short-sighted in so many ways that it's pathetic.
For starters, as I mentioned, he completely ignores the cost of the military protection for the Middle-East oil. Americans pay more in tax for the military to "stabilize the region" (to keep oil prices reasonable) than they do for the actual oil. Take his costs, and at least double them.
Then, his consideration that the world is "awash" in oil doesn't really coincide with the reality that the easy oil is gone or nearly so, and that every decade, oil prices are going to continue to go up. Indications are fairly good that we're at peak oil right now, so from here on out, it's only going to get worse.
And I dunno where you get the idea that solar and wind are much more expensive than oil or coal. Oil and coal have costs on a continual basis, solar, wind, and others have upfront investments, then very low ongoing costs. It's not a matter of expense, it's a matter of ROI. Decent projects used to have ROIs around 30 years, now they're getting closer to 10 years. Please stop spouting random junk.
Oil keeps getting more expensive. renewable keeps getting cheaper. Oil costs billions of dollars every year (and the lives of US soldiers) for protection, renewable doesn't. Oil creates pollution and greenhouse gases, renewable doesn't. Oil ships the wealth of our nation to royal families of other countries, renewable doesn't.
Oil is like leasing a car: The monthly payments are cheaper upfront, but you have to make that payment every month for the rest of your life. Renewable is like buying: The payments are more expensive for a few years, but then you go for quite a long time without ANY payments. Sure, eventually, you'll have to buy a new car, but if you make a smart choice going in, your expenditures over the long term are far lower.