That's why you go out to Happy Hour with the folks from the office - you can usually convince one (preferably younger, attractive members) of the secretarial pool to go pantless with you for an hour or two. And if not, so what? You're drunk anyway.
Unlike most networks, FOX owns most of the TV stations that are affiliated with them
This is because about ten years ago Rupert Murdoch decided he wanted Fox to be on VHF stations exclusively, and set about buying his way into them. I can see why - I can't pick up UHF stations for shit in my apartment. I get to watch new Simpsons episodes if and when they air, but the *former* Fox affiliate still gets to air the syndicated episodes. And getting cable only solves that particular problem. The whole Time-Warner/FoxSports.net fiasco means that I'd get about 10,000 different ESPN's, but I couldn't watch The Best Damn Sports Show Period at any price. Don't weep for my plight; I do enough of that myself.
...are all under the roof of Target corporation, and until February 2, 2003, their online presence and catalog companies were managed under the flag target.direct. Then, of course, it all got rolled into Target proper, so sales tax needs to be collected in every state where any of the Target brands operates - everywhere except Alaska, Vermont and DC. This was a downsizing / realignment thing. The tax amnesty was probably just a bonus.
...dating all the way back to the first/. story, Earth formed in gaseous explosion (and CowboyNeal's not involved).
Okay, it's a cheap shot. Mod me down.
I fail to see why this is necessarily bad for consumers. Sure, faceless multinational becomes big player in "upstart" internet industry, yada yada yada, but try looking at it like this:
One of the Big Five from the RIAA now has control over every step in production and distribution for online music.
Why is this a good thing? Because the RIAA is so freakish about control that this is exactly what it would take for them actually offer online music at reasonable prices in a way that consumers will respond to.
Of course, it'll start out available to AOL customers only, trying to drive up subscriptions, and hence, ad viewers, but it'll leak out to the general public soon enough. Remember when AIM was AOL specific?
It's called a dead man's switch. Just have a simple ping going out every couple of seconds across the network from vital nodes, and if ten of them fail in a row, or a hundred, or whatever, then you know someone needs to take a look at it. Hell, have it go out every couple of microseconds. That's nothing compared to the volume of traffic a network of this size must be expected to handle.
When was the last time you saw a movie where guns solved an argument? They usually end with the "hero" deciding that guns weren't the answer - it was cleverness and integrity that helped him win. The last movie I saw that even came close was "Last Man Standing," and even then, the argument only ended because everyone but Bruce Willis was dead.
Get her a phone dialer and soldering gun, available at most Radio Shacks. Then, look around for modification "hints," get the requisite parts from an electronic supply house, and "accidentally" leave the instructions in the package. It's the gift that keeps on giving, and technically, it's legal.
In the letter of the law, anyway, if not the spirit.
Fair enough, but I don't exist to make money for them. If they don't offer me a service I want, I'm not going to pay for it. Then, the company loses money, not makes it. Waging war on the customers who use your service the most is not a very good business plan.
So, you're going to raise the rates on the 1% of your customers who use 30% of your bandwidth? Fine. Raise the rates for people who go above their "allotment." Just don't forget to lower the rates on the other 99% who are using only 70% of their "allotment."
Good think we're digitizing these tablets, so that the Nam-shub of Enki will be around to liberate us from a biological/computer virus when the time is right. Now, all we need is a Hiro...
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You got it, man. I'd bow to your geekiness, but I know all the words to the Canyonero theme song.
pcow
That's why you go out to Happy Hour with the folks from the office - you can usually convince one (preferably younger, attractive members) of the secretarial pool to go pantless with you for an hour or two.
And if not, so what? You're drunk anyway.
"I hope he tells us to burn our pants, cause these things are really riding up on me."
and later on...
"Don't you hate pants?!"
pcow
I agree 100%, but it's spelled 'absurd.'
Is that you, Taco?
I'll put it on the counter next to my MailStation, which only does email, on the other side of my i-Opener, which only does the Web.
I'm just kidding. My i-Opener runs Linux now. =)
pcow
... and all of a sudden, 1000 Overclockers wonder, "How do I get my Athlon to Centaurus?"
Screw that. How do I use Bose-Einstein condensation to build a rubidium CPU cooler? One degree above zero is 170 billion times too hot for my tastes.
I'd double-check to make sure they didn't pay you in stock.
Yeah. What's he going to do with 8.5 million shares of VA stock?
Unlike most networks, FOX owns most of the TV stations that are affiliated with them
This is because about ten years ago Rupert Murdoch decided he wanted Fox to be on VHF stations exclusively, and set about buying his way into them. I can see why - I can't pick up UHF stations for shit in my apartment. I get to watch new Simpsons episodes if and when they air, but the *former* Fox affiliate still gets to air the syndicated episodes. And getting cable only solves that particular problem. The whole Time-Warner/FoxSports.net fiasco means that I'd get about 10,000 different ESPN's, but I couldn't watch The Best Damn Sports Show Period at any price.
Don't weep for my plight; I do enough of that myself.
Yeah, they're bimbos, but I still loves me some Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Tara Reid would be a great shag.
Your mom is smart enough to know what crypto is and why she wants to use it, and she can't use a command line?
Huh.
...are all under the roof of Target corporation, and until February 2, 2003, their online presence and catalog companies were managed under the flag target.direct. Then, of course, it all got rolled into Target proper, so sales tax needs to be collected in every state where any of the Target brands operates - everywhere except Alaska, Vermont and DC.
This was a downsizing / realignment thing. The tax amnesty was probably just a bonus.
Carson Daly already makes my head explode.a ra-Reid-Daly.
Stupid Carson-getting-to-date-Jennifer-Love-Hewitt-and-T
Do you have plans to write any more fiction
He already has.
Every story he posts is a duplicate!
...dating all the way back to the first /. story, Earth formed in gaseous explosion (and CowboyNeal's not involved).
Okay, it's a cheap shot. Mod me down.
pcow
I fail to see why this is necessarily bad for consumers. Sure, faceless multinational becomes big player in "upstart" internet industry, yada yada yada, but try looking at it like this:
One of the Big Five from the RIAA now has control over every step in production and distribution for online music.
Why is this a good thing? Because the RIAA is so freakish about control that this is exactly what it would take for them actually offer online music at reasonable prices in a way that consumers will respond to.
Of course, it'll start out available to AOL customers only, trying to drive up subscriptions, and hence, ad viewers, but it'll leak out to the general public soon enough. Remember when AIM was AOL specific?
It's called a dead man's switch. Just have a simple ping going out every couple of seconds across the network from vital nodes, and if ten of them fail in a row, or a hundred, or whatever, then you know someone needs to take a look at it.
Hell, have it go out every couple of microseconds. That's nothing compared to the volume of traffic a network of this size must be expected to handle.
Finally, practical application of this "ansible" thing the military developed.
(switching into a Simpson's reference)
So we'll march day and night
Glennross and Glenngarry
Our syntactical structures are subject
To the whims of god Larry...
I figured I'd build the sphere first, and ignite the star inside it.
As it turns out, I could never get the damn fusion reaction going. Stupid Zippo.
I thought Atari was subsumed by Infogrames, which would then allow them to pretty much put the logo wherever they wanted.
When was the last time you saw a movie where guns solved an argument? They usually end with the "hero" deciding that guns weren't the answer - it was cleverness and integrity that helped him win.
The last movie I saw that even came close was "Last Man Standing," and even then, the argument only ended because everyone but Bruce Willis was dead.
Get her a phone dialer and soldering gun, available at most Radio Shacks. Then, look around for modification "hints," get the requisite parts from an electronic supply house, and "accidentally" leave the instructions in the package.
It's the gift that keeps on giving, and technically, it's legal.
In the letter of the law, anyway, if not the spirit.
companies exist to make $
Fair enough, but I don't exist to make money for them. If they don't offer me a service I want, I'm not going to pay for it. Then, the company loses money, not makes it.
Waging war on the customers who use your service the most is not a very good business plan.
Peace.
So, you're going to raise the rates on the 1% of your customers who use 30% of your bandwidth? Fine. Raise the rates for people who go above their "allotment."
Just don't forget to lower the rates on the other 99% who are using only 70% of their "allotment."
Good think we're digitizing these tablets, so that the Nam-shub of Enki will be around to liberate us from a biological/computer virus when the time is right.
Now, all we need is a Hiro...