I would take that a step further and say that based on the article posting date of 3/25, it was probably put up there a week too early. Exactly a week, actually. A coffee cup PC is about as OMG PONIES!!! as it gets...
I just got a picture of a panel with the nefarious villain BSOD laying on top of the Vista Sensie smacking the piss out of him...the bloodied superhero turns to TuxMan and says "OK, enough...call him off!" TuxMan replies..."um, don't look at me...I think he came in your van. He probably snuck out while you were waiting for your bloated sidekick SideBar to wake up."
What is their policy if you are extraordinarily rude? I've heard collectors and telemarketers will remove you by default, not sure about campaigners/pollsters.
I do agree with you for the most part, but, well, look at the recent historical evidence for his assumptions: like all of the moderate Muslims who didn't come out of the woodwork to counter the blood-thirsty protesters when that Dutch paper printed the Muhammad bomb-hat cartoon...or the tolerant, rational Muslims who where invisible when the grade school teacher innocently let her students name a teddy bear after their prophet and the masses were protesting for her head on a stick. No, it's not fair to judge a people by the vocal minority, but it's up to their majority to show the world differently. Christians can be idiotic zombies as well, but it's been a while since they explicitly called for killings to atone for a single "sinful" gesture against Christ en masse.
And, yes, I am one of those people who basically lump all Abrahamic religions into one group; I think the whole concept is hypocritical and exclusive. But that's just me.
Same here...I keep a Blackberry and Razr handy and have to swap the SIM for the purpose at hand...BB is a crap phone, but sometimes I need to check email on the road.
This is becoming more common at regular employers...I work for a large bank, and in many job functions they don't allow camera phones on the production floor; basically anywhere there is proprietary or confidential info laying around, including sensitive customer information, posters with production metrics, whiteboards with strategic plans scribbled on, etc.
True dat...a few examples that come to mind of reality totally disagreeing with what I would have expected based on my opinion of "rational" and current popular opinions:
Continued unchecked domination of Microsoft in most channels they play in
GW Bush wasn't fired in year 4
People say they hate tabloid journalism, but someone pays for it
Las Vegas, aka Sin City, overwhelmingly chose a high-ranking mormon as it's GOP candidate in January
Jessica Alba still won't return my calls, despite my superior genetic profile and stunning good looks.
I think the moral is that it's easy to form opinions based on your peer group, but unless you're a 52 year old white male making $65k a year and living in Boise, ID, your reference group probably doesn't reflect the larger populace.
Very true...corporation management in Nevada is a huge business down here in Vegas...I have friends who are "Presidents" or "Officers" of dozens of corporations who bounce from empty office to empty office throughout the month, because there is some kind of requirement around having to spend so much time per month on site. It's not unique to MS by any means. All above board, just jumping through weird loopholes created by Carson City.
In addition, I would bet that Microsoft is also not a Washington State corporation as an entity: most large entities are incorporated in DC for other tax/regulatory reasons.
Fair to Washington State residents or not, there is nothing remotely illegal about what they are doing; in fact, I would argue that if they didn't take advantage of the opportunities available to them and their competitors to make/save money, they aren't doing their fiduciary duty to their shareholders.
Like I needed another reason to not listen to u2, but SWEET! Now I have another reason not to listen to u2! My day just improved by an almost imperceptable amount.
Great job by Taylor and his team on casting the footprints in the limestone creek bed, but how loony do you have to be to come to the conclusion that the size 25s next to the dino tracks HAD to be a giant human?
He should stick to casting and model-making, and leave the thinking and research to the TRAINED PROFESSIONALS.
Haven't creationists ever noticed that the only people who don't believe in evolution are...creationists? I don't believe there is such a thing as a non-creationist non-evolutionist. Just sayin'.
Don't you know? Haven't you heard The Secret? Cancer is just a bunch of grouchiness all stuck together in a ball of frowny faces and puppydog tears...and happy thoughts will keep the universe all snuggly-wuggly safe forevers! You just have to believe! WEEEE!!!!!!!!
We just need more hugs! And...those little red pills...they were just here on my nightstand...where...what the FUCK!!! WHO TOOK THE LITTLE RED PILLS FROM MY NIGHTSTAND!!!
We had the single-use pong console...upgraded to a 2600 a year or two later...I figured out you could fly in the clouds in Defender without being harmed so you could continue your game the next day. I rolled the score over doing that.
First PC game: probably ASCII D&D in the late 80s on my brother-in-law's old (I believe) 80186. (late bloomer on computers obviously). We used to make cheesey little BASIC programs like Party Quest (modeled after some freeware quest game he had) where you had to find the weed, trade it for keg taps, ask the bum for directions to the pawn shop, sell your belt buckle, fill the keg, etc...fun learning experience. Super-cheese ASCII graphics of the mulletted hero "Dude" walking around the city.
Best game memories: Myst was mind-blowing, and Metroid on the SNES was always one of my favorites, although after months of trying I could never stay on the platform to kill the Mother Brain.
IMHO, Bush has lost the right to be trusted on any level of public policy due to his record of lying, criminal behavior, and anti-Constitutionalist stance. No amount of skepticism is wasted on criticsizing anything and everything he does.
To extend your Nazi metaphor: there is a reason why history doesn't talk about how Hitler strengthened the post-WWI German economy or united her people in times of economic turmoil and hardship: his "other activities" superseded all disussion on any good he may have brought into the world.
Wow...flashback...wasn't that a game where you had buns, lettuce, patties, etc coming off of a conveyer belt and had to stack them to order? I remember playing that game for hours...that was one of those potato chip games: stick your hand in that bag, and it's all over.
I am pro-choice, long-time Libertarian, and an outspoken atheist. Paul is pro-life Republican who doesn't think the separation of church and state is all that important. I really had to think this one through, but there are bigger fish to fry right now than those...reclaiming our dignity as a country and rights as citizens, fixing the economy, bring our troops home, and wiping W's feces off of the Constitition. So...I registered (choke) Republican last month, and I attended caucus training last week so I know what to do Jan 19 to get Dr Paul on the ballot in Nevada.
Plenty of time afterward to worry about the second-tier issues (and register Libertarian).
But they can...they can veto bills on privacy or issue signing statements supporting future spying actions, they can issue executive orders to wiretap, they can appoint federal judges who favor their positions on the topic, they can appoint cabinet officials into positions that have direct control over internet privacy, they can, as we've seen with George W Palpatine, declare a state of emergency and basically do whatever he wants, and nobody can tell him fuck-all. Controlling the puppeteer is only one step removed from pulling the strings, and only slightly less effective.
Paul getting his ass handed to him in January by a front-runner is kind of the prevailing wisdom, but consider...
1. Ron Paul supporters have in a very grassroots manner raised record amounts of cash for him so far, which goes to show that he has the support of a large number of very frustrated voters who mean very much to get his ass in the White House. They are showing up in droves to boring meetings/meetups and stump-stops, filling rooms that the front-runners can't even come close to (I saw that firsthand here in Las Vegas two weeks ago).
2. This is fucking Slashdot, one of the best examples to-date of the power of the CyberMob. If we can consistently take out some of the world's biggest web hardware with a single link in a vaguely interesting article on a Friday afternoon, I think we can get this guy elected. That means, of course, register Republican (like, NOW), and show up for your Primary or Caucus.
"While you bitches were arguing about intellectual property on the Internets, I knitted a beautiful KISS yarmulke, which will be available on kissarmy.com." Gene Simmons
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Good post, that was a walk down memory lane...
"giving up Creative bought another company that had made a PCI soundcard and slapped the SoundBlaster brand on it."
What was the name of that company? Was it Turtle Beach? They kind of disappeared around that time...
I would take that a step further and say that based on the article posting date of 3/25, it was probably put up there a week too early. Exactly a week, actually. A coffee cup PC is about as OMG PONIES!!! as it gets...
It had its moments, but I'm just curious to see if Slimer from Ghostbusters is asked to come back and reprise his role as a Guild Navigator.
I just got a picture of a panel with the nefarious villain BSOD laying on top of the Vista Sensie smacking the piss out of him...the bloodied superhero turns to TuxMan and says "OK, enough...call him off!" TuxMan replies..."um, don't look at me...I think he came in your van. He probably snuck out while you were waiting for your bloated sidekick SideBar to wake up."
...and me, fresh out of mod points.
What is their policy if you are extraordinarily rude? I've heard collectors and telemarketers will remove you by default, not sure about campaigners/pollsters.
I do agree with you for the most part, but, well, look at the recent historical evidence for his assumptions: like all of the moderate Muslims who didn't come out of the woodwork to counter the blood-thirsty protesters when that Dutch paper printed the Muhammad bomb-hat cartoon...or the tolerant, rational Muslims who where invisible when the grade school teacher innocently let her students name a teddy bear after their prophet and the masses were protesting for her head on a stick. No, it's not fair to judge a people by the vocal minority, but it's up to their majority to show the world differently. Christians can be idiotic zombies as well, but it's been a while since they explicitly called for killings to atone for a single "sinful" gesture against Christ en masse.
And, yes, I am one of those people who basically lump all Abrahamic religions into one group; I think the whole concept is hypocritical and exclusive. But that's just me.
Same here...I keep a Blackberry and Razr handy and have to swap the SIM for the purpose at hand...BB is a crap phone, but sometimes I need to check email on the road.
This is becoming more common at regular employers...I work for a large bank, and in many job functions they don't allow camera phones on the production floor; basically anywhere there is proprietary or confidential info laying around, including sensitive customer information, posters with production metrics, whiteboards with strategic plans scribbled on, etc.
I think the moral is that it's easy to form opinions based on your peer group, but unless you're a 52 year old white male making $65k a year and living in Boise, ID, your reference group probably doesn't reflect the larger populace.
Been a while since I've read about it, but isn't that was Linus' company was doing before they folded?
Very true...corporation management in Nevada is a huge business down here in Vegas...I have friends who are "Presidents" or "Officers" of dozens of corporations who bounce from empty office to empty office throughout the month, because there is some kind of requirement around having to spend so much time per month on site. It's not unique to MS by any means. All above board, just jumping through weird loopholes created by Carson City.
In addition, I would bet that Microsoft is also not a Washington State corporation as an entity: most large entities are incorporated in DC for other tax/regulatory reasons.
Fair to Washington State residents or not, there is nothing remotely illegal about what they are doing; in fact, I would argue that if they didn't take advantage of the opportunities available to them and their competitors to make/save money, they aren't doing their fiduciary duty to their shareholders.
Time to first flame...in three...two...one...GO!
Like I needed another reason to not listen to u2, but SWEET! Now I have another reason not to listen to u2! My day just improved by an almost imperceptable amount.
Argh...now you've got me thinking about thinking, and I've Lost The Game! I was doing so well, too...
Great job by Taylor and his team on casting the footprints in the limestone creek bed, but how loony do you have to be to come to the conclusion that the size 25s next to the dino tracks HAD to be a giant human?
He should stick to casting and model-making, and leave the thinking and research to the TRAINED PROFESSIONALS.
Haven't creationists ever noticed that the only people who don't believe in evolution are...creationists? I don't believe there is such a thing as a non-creationist non-evolutionist. Just sayin'.
Don't you know? Haven't you heard The Secret? Cancer is just a bunch of grouchiness all stuck together in a ball of frowny faces and puppydog tears...and happy thoughts will keep the universe all snuggly-wuggly safe forevers! You just have to believe! WEEEE!!!!!!!!
We just need more hugs! And...those little red pills...they were just here on my nightstand...where...what the FUCK!!! WHO TOOK THE LITTLE RED PILLS FROM MY NIGHTSTAND!!!
We had the single-use pong console...upgraded to a 2600 a year or two later...I figured out you could fly in the clouds in Defender without being harmed so you could continue your game the next day. I rolled the score over doing that.
First PC game: probably ASCII D&D in the late 80s on my brother-in-law's old (I believe) 80186. (late bloomer on computers obviously). We used to make cheesey little BASIC programs like Party Quest (modeled after some freeware quest game he had) where you had to find the weed, trade it for keg taps, ask the bum for directions to the pawn shop, sell your belt buckle, fill the keg, etc...fun learning experience. Super-cheese ASCII graphics of the mulletted hero "Dude" walking around the city.
Best game memories: Myst was mind-blowing, and Metroid on the SNES was always one of my favorites, although after months of trying I could never stay on the platform to kill the Mother Brain.
IMHO, Bush has lost the right to be trusted on any level of public policy due to his record of lying, criminal behavior, and anti-Constitutionalist stance. No amount of skepticism is wasted on criticsizing anything and everything he does.
To extend your Nazi metaphor: there is a reason why history doesn't talk about how Hitler strengthened the post-WWI German economy or united her people in times of economic turmoil and hardship: his "other activities" superseded all disussion on any good he may have brought into the world.
Wow...flashback...wasn't that a game where you had buns, lettuce, patties, etc coming off of a conveyer belt and had to stack them to order? I remember playing that game for hours...that was one of those potato chip games: stick your hand in that bag, and it's all over.
Same way pushing buttons equates to playing guitar, methinks?
Pretty good...so, for your next tricks can you fall in love with my ex, vote Republican, maybe buy a Prius? thanks in advance.
I couldn't agree more.
I am pro-choice, long-time Libertarian, and an outspoken atheist. Paul is pro-life Republican who doesn't think the separation of church and state is all that important. I really had to think this one through, but there are bigger fish to fry right now than those...reclaiming our dignity as a country and rights as citizens, fixing the economy, bring our troops home, and wiping W's feces off of the Constitition. So...I registered (choke) Republican last month, and I attended caucus training last week so I know what to do Jan 19 to get Dr Paul on the ballot in Nevada.
Plenty of time afterward to worry about the second-tier issues (and register Libertarian).
But they can...they can veto bills on privacy or issue signing statements supporting future spying actions, they can issue executive orders to wiretap, they can appoint federal judges who favor their positions on the topic, they can appoint cabinet officials into positions that have direct control over internet privacy, they can, as we've seen with George W Palpatine, declare a state of emergency and basically do whatever he wants, and nobody can tell him fuck-all. Controlling the puppeteer is only one step removed from pulling the strings, and only slightly less effective.
Paul getting his ass handed to him in January by a front-runner is kind of the prevailing wisdom, but consider...
1. Ron Paul supporters have in a very grassroots manner raised record amounts of cash for him so far, which goes to show that he has the support of a large number of very frustrated voters who mean very much to get his ass in the White House. They are showing up in droves to boring meetings/meetups and stump-stops, filling rooms that the front-runners can't even come close to (I saw that firsthand here in Las Vegas two weeks ago).
2. This is fucking Slashdot, one of the best examples to-date of the power of the CyberMob. If we can consistently take out some of the world's biggest web hardware with a single link in a vaguely interesting article on a Friday afternoon, I think we can get this guy elected. That means, of course, register Republican (like, NOW), and show up for your Primary or Caucus.
"While you bitches were arguing about intellectual property on the Internets, I knitted a beautiful KISS yarmulke, which will be available on kissarmy.com." Gene Simmons