A friend of mine married a very elegant French woman who insisted that he buy her a "sporty car". So, one day he handed her a set of keys with a fob that said "Vette".
It was all hugs and kisses, until she got to the window, at which point her mood changed (permanently, I think).
"we should just injure and kill everyone? yay for logical conclusions"
The parent correctly pointed out that these weapons are not "non-lethal" as some would have us believe. The stupid conclusion is that the only alternative is to kill everyone. You sound like the idiot Bush.
"It has two drives that are split up as four. One partition is the boot and the other three are a RAID5."
That's a horrible layout.
One of the drives is holding two of the raid-5 stripes. If that drive fails, the one stripe that's still good (on the other drive) won't be enough to recover the data.
Plus, with two stripes on one drive, the head will be doing a bunch of extra seeks.
"Tourism park and research center?? Maby things are backwards down there, but usually research centers are associated with large academic institutions."
There's nothing backward about it. Zoology is often done at, get this, a zoo.
During the summer, kids my age would stay up all night chatting. Some of us had base stations, others would sit in their father's car in the driveway. On occasion, a local guitar hero would entertain (or annoy) us with his rendition of "Stairway to Heaven".
It was great. When I think back to those days, IRC and IM seem quaint.
God spoke to George W. Bush directly (from the bottom of a Jack Daniels bottle). Those of us not so fortunate must read a bible. Most any bible will do, but you might as well go with the bestseller (I can get you a discount on a really nice leatherbound edition with lots of shiny gold leaf). The answers are all in there, somewhere. You just need to have faith that it contains the words of the Creator and use a healthy dose of "creative interpretation."
Hang in there, salvation is just around the corner... or is it damnation? I always get those two confused.
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If you watch that clip in super slow-motion, you can see Aldrin take a sliderule from his pocket and compute the optimum punch vector.
It's better than dragging it into the trash.
You have just solved the mystery of dupes.
His colleagues are Harvey Ford and
Random Olds.
"There are Chevette Fans?"
A friend of mine married a very elegant French woman who insisted that he buy her a "sporty car". So, one day he handed her a set of keys with a fob that said "Vette".
It was all hugs and kisses, until she got to the window, at which point her mood changed (permanently, I think).
"we should just injure and kill everyone? yay for logical conclusions"
The parent correctly pointed out that these weapons are not "non-lethal" as some would have us believe. The stupid conclusion is that the only alternative is to kill everyone. You sound like the idiot Bush.
"And yes, the article title was misleading. They won't be rebuilding the Internet any time soon."
It says that it could rebuild the Internet as we know it. So how will we know if it succeeds?
Sometimes less *is* more.
"It has two drives that are split up as four. One partition is the boot and the other three are a RAID5."
That's a horrible layout.
One of the drives is holding two of the raid-5 stripes. If that drive fails, the one stripe that's still good (on the other drive) won't be enough to recover the data.
Plus, with two stripes on one drive, the head will be doing a bunch of extra seeks.
"I think in this case it's the hen opening a dialog with the fox."
I think it's more like the big bad wolf (Ballmer) and the three little penguins. First he huffed and puffed and he blew down the straw house.
Then he blew down the house made of sticks.
But as hard as he puffs, and as hard as he puffs, he can't blow down the house made of bricks. So now he's trying to sneak down the chimney.
WARNING: preposterous time on manufacturing plate
You got it backwards according to wikipedia.
"It's the police. The police always want maximum powers,"
Try not to stereotype. Just because there are a few bad apples doesn't mean that the other 2% are rotten.
"How much farther can geeks beat a joke into the ground?"
It's no joke, and you would understand that if you had not already been assimilated.
MS lies, cheats and steals. Fuck them, and fuck those who defend them.
"Tourism park and research center?? Maby things are backwards down there, but usually research centers are associated with large academic institutions."
There's nothing backward about it. Zoology is often done at, get this, a zoo.
"Due to anti-trust restriction, AT&T was never allowed to market or profit from UNIX."
They were free to compete in the computer industry after the divestiture of 1984.
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/3b2/
They sold tens of thousands of those things.
What these great legal and business minds don't seem to understand is the spirit of the games.
Sacrifice some oxen and play ball.
"flirting dangerously close to being unconstitutional"
After Bush is done replacing Supreme Court Justices it won't be close at all.
If you want to know more about "Citizens of Virginia" try reading some of the 13,800 google results.
s/BBS/CB radio/g
~1976
During the summer, kids my age would stay up all night chatting. Some of us had base stations, others would sit in their father's car in the driveway. On occasion, a local guitar hero would entertain (or annoy) us with his rendition of "Stairway to Heaven".
It was great. When I think back to those days, IRC and IM seem quaint.
"Bush could really do well for the country..."
I think I've heard this one before.
Incompetence? Because people got onboard with box cutters? They could have done that at any airport.
The incompetence was on the part of the airlines and the FAA for not securing the cockpits.
"Does Nextel not give free mobile to mobile minutes?"
AFAIK, that's true. Walkie-talkie mode is free, but dialing a phone number costs. I'm not sure why that is, but I think they should fix it.
We all know how annoying W-T mode can be, but used correctly, it's very convenient.
"Just trying to keep up the British end, sir.
explain it to me
"One nation, under God" Say it! Say it!
God spoke to George W. Bush directly (from the bottom of a Jack Daniels bottle). Those of us not so fortunate must read a bible. Most any bible will do, but you might as well go with the bestseller (I can get you a discount on a really nice leatherbound edition with lots of shiny gold leaf). The answers are all in there, somewhere. You just need to have faith that it contains the words of the Creator and use a healthy dose of "creative interpretation."
Hang in there, salvation is just around the corner... or is it damnation? I always get those two confused.