No matter what your degree of physical debility or mental torment, it is perceived (due to religion) that citizens must suffer until they die and prolong life without regard to its quality.
I'm among those who deterred potential assailants without shooting them.
Every now and then we get some crackhead wandering by the house asking for gas money. When they see self or spouse on the other side of our fence wearing a weapon and offering to call a tow truck or police assistance for them, they GTFO rapidly.
Some older folks in our area have been assaulted. We have no interest in being victims.
"I got my first gun back when most Americans, and most conservative Americans, rightly believed that the Second Amendment was not about personal gun-toting at all."
Constitutional scholars have disposed of your asserted conclusion.
I told them when I was hired I don't take budget cuts personally and if they (literally) needed someone to help tear down the building after closing to give me a call.
Shit no! I had fun. Heavy Trash day back in "the day" meant all sorts of cool stuff including 1930s radios (mmm...Bakelite...) tools, books (yay for prosperous old neighborhoods in North Jersey), lawn mowers needing a carb cleaning, etc.
I don't have to buy a thing new to tear it apart to see how it works, I let Other People buy it first.
What I learned has paid off nicely. I don't need new cars and have never bought one new. I don't need collision coverage and can run liability insurance instead. I fix and renovate and mod most of what I own, and easily afford commercial-quality tools to do that with.
As for notebooks, I ask people who maintain corporate fleets of notebooks what makes and models are good. I don't own trucks a mechanic wouldn't buy for themselves, and I don't buy notebooks which aren't PROVEN to be good machines.
Let the Early Adopters fry their shit instead. There is no downside to doing it this way.
Delete partitions and play stupid. Arguing wastes time.
I require a given result, and will manipulate any "input conditions" I damn well please to get it. If that means deleting all partitions then bricking defective equipment, that's only a few minutes of my time.
Don't get wrapped up in trying to obtain validation for your arguments or needs when returning disposable consumer items. Just do what you need to do to get your refund, be nice to everyone and smooth THEIR process, and all is well.
If I'm sold an intermittently misbehaving product, that bitch will be _dead_ quiet when it goes back. It's junk anyway.
Appliance buyers don't tear down their toaster very often either.
That said, it's cool from my perspective since it will result in "dead lappies for cheap" which will motivate people who like to tinker and build machines from organ donors.
I won't be buying one. The ability to quickly repair Thinkpads is a key reason I buy them instead.
This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact:
A piezo gas grill igniter with a bit of wire taped to the ground clip makes a high voltage/LOW AMPERAGE circuit killer which leaves _no visible burn marks_. I've used one of these shoved into a spark plug boot as a small engine spark plug tester for several years.
Link has good pics, but ignore the "taser" nonsense:
It's a waste to argue with people when you can submit a situation which they can deal with simply. They expect customers who don't know anything, but being POLITE works a treat. Act mystified as to why the magic box doesn't work and the hard disk shows No Operating System.
"Hurf, derf, I dunno why it don't power on. I can has new one?" and you'll be the EASY customer who didn't CHALLENGE anyone!
The folks who voted for him because he is black are _also_ doing that because the GOP is fundamentally a racist old White folks party which doesn't want their votes, or them.
(Trigger screeching denials which prove my point. Liking Thomas Sowell doesn't make one not a White racist or a supporter of a racist group.)
Black Republicans have many decades to go before they aren't (literally) tokens, just like Log Cabin Republicans.
The GOP even treated Colin Powell and Condi Rice like "lawn jockeys" and there is no kinder way to put it. If they had as many knives sticking out from their backs as were stuck in them, they'd look like porcupines!
Multiple generational die-offs are required to clear the obstacles. Racists don't "change", they just get too old to vote or they die.
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Suicides shouldn't be counted as a loss.
No matter what your degree of physical debility or mental torment, it is perceived (due to religion) that citizens must suffer until they die and prolong life without regard to its quality.
The history of the anti-gun movement indicates that regulation is a deliberate bridge to confiscation.
They are quieter now thanks to taking a pounding at the polls, but Bradycrats are no invention of mine...
Tis not "control", but different people.
Your demographics are different than the US, and that is arguably the reason for lower crime rates.
US crime rate varies drastically by demographic, but it's Thought Crime to speak of it.
You can turn out Sten submachine guns all day with a minimally-equipped hobby machine shop, and you don't need a "parts kit" to do it.
Ammo isn't as convenient, but it's not difficult to make the tooling.
The war on weapons makes as much sense as the War On Some Drugs.
Find and punish those who perpetrate crimes with guns instead.
I'm among those who deterred potential assailants without shooting them.
Every now and then we get some crackhead wandering by the house asking for gas money. When they see self or spouse on the other side of our fence wearing a weapon and offering to call a tow truck or police assistance for them, they GTFO rapidly.
Some older folks in our area have been assaulted. We have no interest in being victims.
"and sewing up the vagina of every female."
Google Image Search "Infibulation".
"I got my first gun back when most Americans, and most conservative Americans, rightly believed that the Second Amendment was not about personal gun-toting at all."
Constitutional scholars have disposed of your asserted conclusion.
http://www.guncite.com/journals/reycrit.html
...remain friends with my former bosses.
I told them when I was hired I don't take budget cuts personally and if they (literally) needed someone to help tear down the building after closing to give me a call.
This is just a way to impose additional burden on makers. That is all it does.
Treat with the same degree of critical thinking you apply to sales pitches for DRM.
Way too much work.
I see no need to send a working system back for RMA.
http://www.dban.org/
People don't care about Security until they get hurt.
I see these attacks as useful to coerce a defensive response. Evolutionary pressure FTW!
"One could say it's an ENGINEERING MARVEL TO BEHOLD!"
'Cept I cain't BE HOLDING it outside de notebook it comes in, lessin' I de-solder it.
"Your childhood sucked didn't it?"
Shit no! I had fun. Heavy Trash day back in "the day" meant all sorts of cool stuff including 1930s radios (mmm...Bakelite...) tools, books (yay for prosperous old neighborhoods in North Jersey), lawn mowers needing a carb cleaning, etc.
I don't have to buy a thing new to tear it apart to see how it works, I let Other People buy it first.
What I learned has paid off nicely. I don't need new cars and have never bought one new. I don't need collision coverage and can run liability insurance instead. I fix and renovate and mod most of what I own, and easily afford commercial-quality tools to do that with.
As for notebooks, I ask people who maintain corporate fleets of notebooks what makes and models are good. I don't own trucks a mechanic wouldn't buy for themselves, and I don't buy notebooks which aren't PROVEN to be good machines.
Let the Early Adopters fry their shit instead. There is no downside to doing it this way.
Delete partitions and play stupid. Arguing wastes time.
I require a given result, and will manipulate any "input conditions" I damn well please to get it. If that means deleting all partitions then bricking defective equipment, that's only a few minutes of my time.
Don't get wrapped up in trying to obtain validation for your arguments or needs when returning disposable consumer items. Just do what you need to do to get your refund, be nice to everyone and smooth THEIR process, and all is well.
If I'm sold an intermittently misbehaving product, that bitch will be _dead_ quiet when it goes back. It's junk anyway.
Appliance buyers don't tear down their toaster very often either.
That said, it's cool from my perspective since it will result in "dead lappies for cheap" which will motivate people who like to tinker and build machines from organ donors.
I won't be buying one. The ability to quickly repair Thinkpads is a key reason I buy them instead.
"Actually I was thinking more along the lines of the hilarity here where apple fanboi's are forced to think of the children."
If Jerry Sandusky can think of the children, so can they.
No problem. I don't own any Apple product.
Vote with your wallet. I do.
You can convert conventional Windows installs to VMs.
Google it. It's been an option for several years at least.
MOD UP!
Chargeback FTW!
I've only needed to chargeback once in many years of purchasing, but it gets the vendors attention.
I'm a very happy Newegg customer too.
Never RMA a component or machine which doesn't look like this:
http://www-bgr-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/brick.jpg
I always make recovery media for CYA purposes and to load other machines. I even did it for the loathsome Vista install on my Thinkpad.
Does anyone NOT collect every copy of every OS they come across? It was useful back thousands of years ago in 1999 and is handy today.
If you want more than one set, it's sometimes possible to download and reload the recovery software and make another set.
This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood.
Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact:
A piezo gas grill igniter with a bit of wire taped to the ground clip makes a high voltage/LOW AMPERAGE circuit killer which leaves _no visible burn marks_. I've used one of these shoved into a spark plug boot as a small engine spark plug tester for several years.
Link has good pics, but ignore the "taser" nonsense:
http://www.instructables.com/id/grill-ignitor-mini-taser/
It's a waste to argue with people when you can submit a situation which they can deal with simply. They expect customers who don't know anything, but being POLITE works a treat. Act mystified as to why the magic box doesn't work and the hard disk shows No Operating System.
"Hurf, derf, I dunno why it don't power on. I can has new one?" and you'll be the EASY customer who didn't CHALLENGE anyone!
It's worth mentioning, because some folks load a different distro to get a different WM, that you can load quite a few different WMs and try them out.
This lets you switch between them to gain a comfort factor.
The folks who voted for him because he is black are _also_ doing that because the GOP is fundamentally a racist old White folks party which doesn't want their votes, or them.
(Trigger screeching denials which prove my point. Liking Thomas Sowell doesn't make one not a White racist or a supporter of a racist group.)
Black Republicans have many decades to go before they aren't (literally) tokens, just like Log Cabin Republicans.
The GOP even treated Colin Powell and Condi Rice like "lawn jockeys" and there is no kinder way to put it. If they had as many knives sticking out from their backs as were stuck in them, they'd look like porcupines!
Multiple generational die-offs are required to clear the obstacles. Racists don't "change", they just get too old to vote or they die.
Unless customers DEMAND change it won't happen because book sales are highly profitable.
College is a business. Business is war.