I actually know quite a few. When my girlfriend and I are apart, sometimes we play net tetris, Yahoo! games like backgammon and checkers, etc. We don't a lot, but she is interested in games. In airplanes or long car trips we would even play palm pilot games while we wait, or if we are in a mall, we often stop in for a game of pool, air hockey, mortal kombat, etc.
Also, a lot of women I know such as my sister, aunts, etc. like to play Yahoo! games and such too. There are definitely more women than men that I know who enjoy games. The difference is that a lot of guys only think of FPS and such, and women don't seem to like those as much. Jeez...I don't want to sound like an expert on women or something. I'm no gigelo. Umm...anyways. Yeah.
From appearance alone, it looks like an old component reciever from Sears. All it is missing is a bit of wood grain. The other bad thing is that the bumps under the CD drive remind me of dog nipples. That's just what we need. Someone stole the nipples from the Sony Aibo.
Anyways, to get a little more serious (but critical) of this machine, why does it have a Sega Master System? Why not a Sega Genesis? But, I will add that it does have more than what my DVD player came with. I looked at the specifications page, and it appears to have all the functions you would want, but I would want to see a demo first, and rent a movie (preferably with some scratches and dust) to play on it before committing to a purchase.
All in all, I check out sites like www.audioreview.com to help me make decisions about DVD players and stereo equipment. I've never heard of Dulux, and it is probably another brand that made this machine but Dulux put the case on it with their logo. I'd want to find out who really made it first.
Pop a floppy with PicoBSD in and reboot the machine, then leave.
Bring a boot floppy with a.bmp of something rude and move it to C: and edit system.ini (or is it win.ini?) to set it as the background in windows.
Format c:
Open Regedit and delete random keys from the registry. Reboot and see what happens.
If there is a camera connected to the thing, stick up your middle finger and take a picture. It's best to be wearing sunglasses or something to make you a little difficult to identify later. Set that image as the windows background.
Go to the games aisles, find a game you want, take it to the computer section. Open the box, pop in the CD, and play the game. If an employee asks you what you are doing, pretend to be a novice computer person and tell them you found it.
It's been a while since I've done anything like this, but I have done all of them, and a few more, including moving price tags (at places like Sam's where it is easy to do since they are held on the shelves with magnets) but these are some of the easiest.
Oh, and to remain on topic...as a prank you should go to Best Buy and ask for a Pentium 4.
On the horizon, companies and consumers face serious challenges "over locational issues," whereby wireless technology makes it easier to pinpoint handheld and cellular phone users, Pearson warned.
From that statement she sounds paranoid enough to fit in on Slashdot so that's good enough for me. Hopefully her job allows her to do more than just sit there and sharpen pencils all day though. If she is allowed to do her job, and given the resources she needs, I think this is definitely a good thing. But, if this was purely a move by IBM to get publicity, and don't intend to give her any real power, then it's useless and will give a bad example to the rest of the industry. We'll see what happens.
Unencrypted between end-user and Yahoo! ? So a sniffer either at the local network (the norm, I'd think, at many institutions) or a crack at Yahoo! would still work?
Don't forget another really common problem. Trojans. Since the majority of people using Yahoo! email would be using windows 95/98/ME they would be succeptible to those stupid email attachments and such. I would imagine that the majority of these people are not even doing something as simple as running ZoneAlarm and do not have an Antivirus program so their machines are wide open. I would think that the client is the least secure part of the puzzle. Hushmail definitely works much better, providing the people sending and receiving the messages have not had their computers compromised.
Also, to answer your questions, they technically do use SSL according to the article:
Yahoo's new system works like this: Once a message is composed, it travels, unencrypted, to Yahoo, which sends it through a secure connection to SecureDelivery.com. There, the message and any attachments are scrambled.
SecureDelivery then sends the recipient the address to a Web page, secured by Secure Sockets Layer ( SSL) and hosted by SecureDelivery.com, where the message can be picked up and descrambled for up to seven days.
Well, what you mentioned is giving to people that you know, that need. That is different than welfare or the United Way and what I view as traditional charity. As far as giving to my uncle, I was too young at the time to have money to give to him, and now that I do, he's doing well enough to be happy. However, he does know that I am there for him as well as the rest of my family. I think my mother gave some of my sisters old clothing to him for his daughter a while back when she was in sizes my sisters used to wear. Also, the subject of giving back to immediate family, I do share of my skills, time, money, and everything. I don't think that is charity though, but just being part of a family and should be expected. Unless a person in your family abuses it, I feel you should always try to help them out. It's still quite different than just throwing money in a pot to go to an organization that you don't see how they use the money, or any of the benefits. My problems with charity deal with who gets the money, and how they use it. I don't mind that some of my tax money goes to help support a vietnam vet that got his legs blown off by a landmine, I think that is good. However, if this person goes and spends their whole check at the liquor store I don't think my money is being used very well. I don't like that orgs like the United Way have to hire people and pay them a lot of the donation money for a salary. Don't CEO's and advertising people want to donate their time too? If there are computer people willing to teach classes on computers to elderly and poor for free, surely other industries must be willing to do the same and the United Way could save that money to use to help who they claim to help. There's just too much gray area, and people are stupid, so they give to the wrong things. I also do not like that I am forced to give to the welfare system. It doesn't sit too well with me that those who are unwilling to work (as the welfare system is set up to prefer) make more money than people who work their butt off.
Ummm...to whoever modded this down. It was a joke. I didn't see the same thing posted above so it was not redundant. If you didn't find it amusing as I had intended, just ignore it and it will go away.:-p
Tuesday, November 28, 2000 will go down in the anals (misspelled on purpose) of history as the day that linux lost all of it's word processing applications.
With a move that started with Adobe and Applix, all other companies that make linux word processing programs have bailed out. The last remaining two, emacs and vi, are expected to dissapear by 5:00pm EST. Ole' Pappy Torvalds, the creator of linux responded with, "What the hell?" Linux's arch nemesis, Microshaft, was unavailable for comment, but rumors are that they continue to work on their Linux word processor, WerDix.
Normally I don't respond to people trying to piss me off but I am going to respond because you are greatly mistaken about who I am.
Gotta love the angst.
If that is what you want to call it that is your choice. I wasn't posting angry comments, just what my opinion is.
Teenage (if not physically, by maturity) idiots who post now, think later. Yes, Mr. b0z, you are in that vaunted 99.9% of which you write.
Insults and name calling are not signs of maturity either.
Re: the homeless. Do you know any homeless people? Do you ever talk to them? Find out what their lives have been like, where they come from, how they got where they are?
Actually yes to all of the above questions. I have had family members who are in that position. It can be unfortunate, but for the most part is very preventable. Working somewhere like McDonalds will not provide you with the best life but it should be able to help you afford a place to stay, clothing, and food. Not a good life, but living in a trailer is better than a box. My uncle was living in a trailer (like the kind you camp in) in the woods for a while. He managed to improve his life and now lives somewhere better but is still not middle class. I do think that he is trying to improve his life, and is able to do so because he is willing to work.
Did you know that most of the homeless are mentally ill?
I do agree that there are a lot of mentally ill homeless people. Whether that is the cause or a result of homeless ness I don't know, but I would not say that the majority is mentally ill.
Re: welfare. Your comments are sort of funny; sounds like you have a Limbaugh-level IQ.
Again, insults are a sign of immaturity. Grow up.
Have you ever looked at the welfare recipient statistics in your state? Do you know exactly how many women who are receiving aid are "popping out more babies"? Do you know what the yearly budget for AFDC is? Do you know what AFDC is?
Well, I just moved to this state a few months ago, so no. I had not looked at the statistics in the state I had lived in before either. Why? Because I knew people on welfare very closely. You can not tell me that the majority of people recieving welfare are not cheating the system. I have seen it with my own eyes for years. Not everyone cheats, but there are too many people doing it. I went to a high school in a poor area of town. I made friends there, and got to meet a lot of people that recieve welfare. Part of the problem is that they get used to free handouts, and it comes to be expected. They don't want to work, they think the world owes them something. As far as AFDC, I don't know what it is. So what?
Re: why we give. I give to charity, smart guy. I grew up pretty easy: suburbs, parents, good schools. I was lucky. Most kids aren't so lucky, so if I can help make this a better place for them, I will. I don't do it out of guilt, ignorance, or for the tax breaks (which you don't even get in my state). I do it because in my opinion it's the right thing to do.
Good for you. I'm sure Jesus would be proud of you to throw your pocket change to someone on the street so they can go buy that rock they have been wanting to smoke. Just giving money doesn't solve anything, and you may give of your time or something else, but even then it is usually done for superficial reasons from what I see. Yes, I am cynical. So what? I see things the way I do for a reason. I have no problem with giving to a charity if it does any good, but I don't think a lot of good is done by some of the popular charities.
Most people who talk down about the poor have never been poor. Most people with money grew up with money? What have you done?
Well for an extremely brief autobiography in a paragraph, yes, I have been poor. When I was a baby, my dad was into drugs, both doing and selling. He made money from weed and was living a crazy lifestyle. After I was maybe 3, he abandoned my mother and I. She had to go on welfare temporarily, but hated it and felt it was degrading. She worked at a job, and made as much money as she could while my dad threatened to kidnap me and other bad things. Eventually, my mom met my stepdad, later they got married, ditched welfare, struggled to have a decent life, and would probably be considered lower middle class. Growing up, they provided me with food, clothing, shelter, and on my birthday and christmas, toys. I had to do work at a somewhat young age and started out mowing grass and doing other work like that. I then got a job at a supermarket to buy my own car, because my parents couldn't buy one for me like your parents probably did. As a young teenager I wanted to have the same toys as my friends, so to get them I often skipped out on lunch to save the money. My first computer was a Commodore 64, which was given to me for free around 1992 or so. In high school I was taking programming classes because I wanted to learn about computers but didn't have one of my own other than the C=64 with it's BASIC and Assembler built in. After that, when I was graduating high school in 1995, I managed to save up enough money to buy a $1000 computer, which was a piece of crap but it worked well enough to get me started. I started to go to technical school/community college (partially from scholarships but the rest came from my pocket) and after a while I got a real job working with computers and quit school. I now have a decent job, and am working on improving that even more.
The point is, I came from a bad background originally, things improved, and now I am making more money than my parents because I work in the tech industry. I have worked somewhat hard to get where I am, but other people can do it so much easier. My problem is with the poor who get so used to being poor that they don't care to try to improve their life, and instead rely on free handouts. It disgusts me to be forced to support these people. If you want to, I think it should definitely be your right, and maybe by some odd chance you will help someone that is looking for more than a handout. Also, the poor in the U.S. are not all that poor. If you go to some 3rd world countries and developing nations you can see what it is really like to be poor. They really do have their lives in danger, unlike the lazy slobs in the U.S. that are poor by choice. And don't think that when I make a statement like that, that I am saying everyone that is poor is lazy. That is not the case, but I do think it is the majority.
So...I hope you see that I do have an idea of what I am talking about, and am not some misguided rich guy trying to buy his way to Jesus or some crap. It doesn't work that way.
Well, let me preface this by saying that I hate most humans. I would be pleased if a meteor came and wiped out the human race.
Now, with that being said, there are some people out there that there is hope for, that are not like the 99.9% of idiots out there. Let me give you some of my views.
I really don't care about helping the homeless in the U.S., because most of these jokers are too lazy to go get a job. There are jobs that will accept them everywhere, but they don't want to work at McDonalds or Burger King. That tells me they must not be very poor. Then, there are the women on welfare popping out more babies so they can get more money from welfare, which increases my taxes, etc. These people are already getting the protection money that Uncle Sam has extorted from me, what else do they want? So, I don't give anything to the poor other than a hard time.
Also, I don't really care about most of the foreign countries and their poor kids. I do care about very specific ones, because I know someone from that country, or have relatives there myself. Yes, it may be a cold hearted thing but I'd prefer to help out the Irish and Mexicans rather than someone in Thailand. It doesn't mean that Thai people are not deserving of money, but that I have higher priorities. I want to help those that I have ties to more than anyone else. It's just an extension of wanting to feed your relatives before you feed a stranger. Both may be starving but you have to draw the line somewhere.
Also, I don't like to give to big organizations like the United Way. It's unfortunately that a company with the power to do so much good, wastes so much money on advertising and buying their executives a new beamer or jet. If I am going to make a donation, I want a really large majority of it to go to the cause I want.
I don't like to donate to pushy organizations. If you come to my door when I am eating supper, invite yourself in my apartment, then tell me I have to donate so you can win a prize of getting the most donations, I will refuse to give a single red cent.
Ok, that was some of the reasons not to give to charity but to put this back on the topic of your question, I would say mostly people donate out of stupidity, ignorance, tax cuts, and guilt. That is fine in my opinion, they can donate because the voices in their head told them to for as much as I care. I just think that it can be a good thing if you actually put some work into researching where your time and money goes. Charity doesn't have to just be working with an organization, even helping an old hag cross the street is a form of charity. If you want to give "out of the kindness of your heart" *barf* you should do more than give money and a little bit of time. I would think charity would be more of a lifestyle than something you do once a month.
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I plugged this before elsewhere, but you could contact the people at http://www.africaspromise.org if you want to donate money, computers, etc. I know the guy that is in charge of it and he took a bunch of computers this year and has people in Nigeria to train kids how to use them...also though, it pays for clothes, regular school supplies, food, first aid supplies, etc. And makes sure to actually buy the stuff for the kids and pay for their school tuition so the parents don't just use the money for themselves.
All in all I think it's a decent charity. I have a few others that I give to, but they don't accept computers as far as I know.
This would mean that my you and me fixing the machine they then have to rewrite everything to take into account our changes forcing people to rebuy games etc etc.
I think a clever programmer will come up with a solution. One potential solution that I see is using memory cards like you get with the playstation and such. This could potentially even work with things like the playstation to work around the upgrade limitations of a ROM rather than a cartridge (which could potentially contain updateable chips.) I would think that there would be a way to store some small bugfixes on the little memory cards and have a place at bestbuy you could go plug in your memory card and have them update the bugfixes, then have the CDROM first check for that information before loading the game. I may not be describing it in the best way but I think you can get the picture. Of course, the disadvantage to this would be the same as computer software. We'd get console games that are extremely buggy and don't work well and the companies would rather release them early and make bugfixes later so they can make more money up front.
If you signed anything that says your time is not your own, I suggest renegotiating your contract or getting out while the getting's good.
Right-o. I am currently looking at a new contract. This was actually my first job in the corporate world, so I wanted to do this for a little while, and then move on. Since I got this job, I have been getting emails and phone calls (5 a day, more or less) so I am about ready to move on after the new year starts. I do agree that I signed a bad contract. That's why I haven't worked on a personal website for a long time. I also am aware that I do not make as much money as I should be, but it is worth it to be able to put my current employer on my resume for 6 months. It's not bad for someone that dropped out of college to work, and is not certified in anything, and is mostly self-taught.
I am working on doing consultant work after the first of the year, and try to make a lot of money within the next 1.5 years doing contracts, then get a full time job again and settle down.
This is going to be running an enhanced version of Windows NT. Rather than giving you the blue screen of death, it will speak to you and say, "I'm sorry Dave, I have a fatal exception in kernel.sys right now" or whatever that message is. The good news is that we would have time to run away before it kills us, because it would have to finish spitting out all that hex garbage first.
After all, anyone developing software whilst they should be working is wasting their employer's time and resources, and if they're lucky enough not to be sacked then anything they produce is certainly the property of the employer - this is only fair.
You have a good point, but if you were a programmer/developer/coder of some sort, you have to sign a NDA, which basically prohibits you from doing any development at all outside of your work environment, and if you do, it belongs to them. That means that the perl scripts I write at home for my website belong to my employer. That is the biggest problem and what the main focus of this documentation is about. There are people that want to work on open source projects at their job, but unless it somehow benefits their employer I don't think it's a good idea.
And trust me, the more people try and get things like this for open source, the more that stubborn CTOs are going to resist it in favour of the latest technology in Computer Weekly.
Managers will always choose the products that they percieve their peers would use or think is cool, and the companies that give them the most freebies. Never underestimate the power of a bad product, and a company with money to take your boss to a nice lunch and a game of golf.
We will hear of all the accidents of script kiddies due to this. They are going to find out there is glue in their computer accessories, then proceed to shove a DIMM up their noses in an attempt to get high. We really need to work on making this safer so these kids will not lose their nostrils to such a terrible mistake.
The slight difference between bacteria and your computer is that bacteria are considered a form of life. I assume(hope) your computer does not live up to the definition of "life".
My computer sure does...and man, I'd hate to see what happens if you piss it off.
Ok first of all I think we are on the same side but still I have to disagree with the means of reaching the goals of a better quality of life in Mexico.
You live in a world where 2/3 of the people do not have enough food, adequate housing or health care.
Exactly. People in countries like the U.S. are spoiled. We act like we have a right to work in a certain industry for a certain company for a certain wage. There are people all over the world that have nothing. An open global economy can equalize that better by sending jobs to other countries, so they can make more money to survive.
Exactly how is it that moving jobs to Mexico, (whose maquiladoras are some of the worst offenders in the world for dangerous, toxic working conditions, low wages and no benefits), constitutes progress for _most_ people, not just the wealthy minority?
I do not live in Mexico, but know it very well and have been there a lot. I see children walking in busy intersections in big cities selling chicle in the hot sun with no rest. I don't think that you are helping them out by not providing jobs for their parents. Yes, I do agree that there needs to be some labor laws set to help out the people of Mexico, but there has to be jobs first. In the U.S. a similar situation happened a long time ago. The majority of people were extremely poor and worked in factories in very dangerous conditions. It got really bad, and a few men in high positions in the U.S. government did something about it and started the ball rolling on workers rights. I think this needs to happen in Mexico, China, Taiwan, and everywhere in the world that doesn't already have some protection for workers. As it is now, I don't think that we have good decisions presented before any poor people from Mexico and these other countries. In particular, there are not enough jobs in Mexico, so a lot of men leave their families to go work (sometimes illegally due to the unconstitutional immigration laws) in the U.S. So, these men work hard, for very little pay in bad working conditions, and send as much money as they can to their families so their families survive. The current system will keep people poor and in bad health as it is.
Well at least we all have our priorities straight - after all it's OK if Mexican children are poisoned by the toxic waste dumped into their water by the factory their parents work at , just so long at we can knock a few bucks off the price of a TV.
First of all, I know that the water isn't being taken care of as it is now. If you have seen pictures of Chapala from 10 years ago, and compared them to how it looks now, it's very frightening. You have a long walk to get from where the shore used to be to where it is now. There is not any conservation going on in Mexico as it is. The government needs to step in and help take care of things. Part of the problem is that the Mexican government has been extremely corrupt up to this point. Perhaps Fox and PAN can help change things, but it will be an uphill battle. Part of the problem is that if you don't have money to put food on your table tonight, why would you care if you have water to drink next week? Once you have the people's immediate needs taken care of, then it will be much easier to focus on the future, whether it is one day or one century from now.
Also, I don't know if you know Mexico or not. I do not claim to understand the life of everyone there, but I think I have a decent grasp of what is needed. I agree with you that there needs to be major conservation and improvements in quality of life there, but from what I see, people need to have their bellies full of food first. Once the poor can get past the struggle to take care of their basic needs, they will be able to focus on improving the entire quality of life and preserve Mexico for the future people there.
For instance, a major car company just moved their proving ground from here in southern Arizona to northern Sonora, Mexico. They said the desert here just "isn't hot enough" to really put their cars to the test. And I'm sure it's just coincidence that the Mexican labor is cheaper. Now, of course the internet isn't to blame for that. NAFTA is, if you even want to place blame anywhere.
Actually there is nothing to "blame" for. You are upset because a business made a decision to save money. Let's put it in a different view:
Let's say you, your parents, and grandparents all work at Sears. You are going out to buy a new TV. You can get it at Sears for $300. At Best Buy, you can get it for $200. Would you pay $200 for it to get a good deal at Best Buy, or would you feel guilty and buy it at Sears for a higher price just because you have some misguided loyalty directed to Sears? I would choose Best Buy. The thing that is occuring due to the internet, and the international trade and all this is a big equalization. These corporations are going to the country where they get the best deal on service. People may complain that it takes jobs away from the U.S., and these people end up out of work. That is true, temporarily. Why don't these people get a job in another industry, or simply move to one of the locations that the company they used to work for moved to? In your example, the car company went to Sonora from Arizona. The cost of living is lower in Mexico, as is the amount of pay you would receive. I see no reason not to go there if you feel you are dedicated to that company and that line of work.
I don't blame "The Net" entirely for this, but increasingly rapid digital communication coupled with stronger "free trade" policies are increasing corporate mobility. Not just within the country, though - throughout the world.
I don't see how this is a bad thing. Even within the U.S. there are big differences in the cost of living. The decent amount of money I make as a developer in Atlanta would cause me to be homeless in Silicon Valley. I don't need to get paid as much as someone out there, because I don't need to spend as much money to survive. And as far as the internet and methods of telecommunications go, they are really good. It means I could potentially get a job working from "home." Basically, I could get a job in Silicon Valley, then live and work from somewhere in Montana, and have a ton of money by Montana standards.
I don't want to be rude, but I see your entire arguement as extremely short-sighted. Technological changes have always caused a few temporary problems in the work force, but they free people up to do other things. I very much prefer to work with computers than to work in a factory. I am happy to have the opportunity to work in the computer industry. If the work ends up getting sent to another country, I guess I would have to move there to work, just like all the people from India, China, and Mexico do now. I don't see the problem here. There is no "us" vs. "them" because we're all the same. Also, if you don't want to keep up with the changes, you will get left behind.
Countries like many in Africa and other third world countries will take a long time, if ever, to catch up with current technologies
Actually, if you are concerned about helping people in some of these countries, there are non profit organizations that donate to them. One in particular that I know of is Africa's Promise. I know the guy in charge of it, and he just returned from a trip to Nigeria where he took donated laptops, clothing, school supplies, etc. to some kids over there. I am sure there are many organizations like this to help some of these countries get up to speed and try to get their citizens out of poverty.
Personally, I prefer to help those in Mexico but I don't know of any NPO's that I can join up with there.
I guess the real point of my post is that, when you have a rich country like the U.S., some of the wealthy people (by 3rd world country standards at least, middle class by U.S. standards) want to give something back to help others around them. Unfortunately, in the U.S. we have the situation where a lot of people are lazy and greedy, so they want free handouts to live off of, and don't want to work or learn how to improve their life. Also, we have huge organizations like the United Way, that will give some money to the poor and to community programs, they keep a lot for themselves and spend way too much of the donated money to justify me giving them anything. I would like to think that while there may be a separation of the technologically literate, and the people that know nothing of computers, there are some of us that want to help others to improve themselves. I see all the people living on Earth as one team. We may not often realize it, but what we do has an effect on others.
By the way, I'm not some hippie that thinks we will ever have world peace or solve any real problems of mankind. I'm actually one of the most misanthropic people to ever exist, but even I have to post something nice sometimes.
I mean, America isn't the only place where if a law is enacted, other countries follow. EU has a lot of influence, and this is definetely good news, even in America.
Actually, we have quite a few examples of things even simpler than law that the U.S. has NOT followed the rest of the world in. Here's a quick list:
1) Celcius. That whole Farenheit thing is stupid. It makes much more sense for the temperature of water to freeze to be 0. I don't want this Farenheit B.S. anymore.
2) Metric system. All of our cars (that last more than 3 years) are built using this system of measurement. Our cars have kilometers per hour below miles per hour. Our drugs are measured in this system. It is a much easier system to remember, and is much better organized than the crazy crap we use.
3) $country is a part of Earth. I think foreign policy can be an important thing, especially for a country where 99.9% (a stat I made up) of the people are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. All the xenophobes that want to "protect our jobs" from Mexicans, Chinese, Indians, etc. need to grow up. These people labelled as "foreigners" have as much right to be here as anyone born here. Just because our government discriminates against these people, and just because rich Americans like to make these people into slaves (or indentured servants with the H1B visas) doesn't mean that everyone else has to be mean to them. I think in Europe, people are a little more tolerant to others moving to their countries, and are aware of the fact that their country is not the only one in the world.
Anyways, I just think that the U.S. government will ignore the decision of the Europeans and Americans, and continue to do whatever the hell they please. Especially when big businesses are the ones paying our politicians by choice rather than by extortion (taxes.)
If Microsoft can't get the rights to use this, they can simply replace the monitor with a mirror in front of anyone that has used one of their products for a good period of time, hadn't had a chance to save their work, then suffered a bsod.
If Canadians can have it for CAD$50 why can't Americans get it for that cheap too?
I don't know if there is some big difference in the value of CAD$50 vs. USD$50, but I do know that I pay $50USD a month for ADSL, but I could get it for $40 a month were I to go with the local telco (I wouldn't get a static IP though.) Also, I think cable access is pretty cheap too. Probably around $40 a month.
What I want to know is who, and why, in the U.S. is anyone paying more than $50. The article appeared to be talking about DSL and cable, not a T3 line coming into your house.
From what I read on the article, it means that you have the *option* to set up the OS to warn you if you are trying to use an application that is unsigned by Micro$oft. It also says that you have the option to send it to them for testing so they can approve it and stuff. I think that is fine, so long as this ability is an option. It sounds like a decent security feature to me for a closed system. I know it goes completely against the open source ideals, but for M$ to improve their security this is one way to do it. If you are running a machine at work running Win2k or Whistler (when it comes out) that could be good to have this option enabled because you only want to run a few applications and services that your company approves, and you don't want people installing software that could potentially cause a problem on your system or network. Also, you can leave it disabled on your PC at home (if you want to run one of these crappy OS's) and install whatever you want. I don't really see a downside to this, if someone doesn't want to use this option but wants the OS, they simply turn it off. If this were mandatory, It would be crazy.
That was suprising for me to find out when I first moved here. It pissed me off royally. The thing is, you can buy buy from a restaurant, just not at the grocery store. The government of Georgia encourages drinking and driving, because they won't let you buy your beer and take it home, they force you to go out if you want to drink.
This is only one of many stupid laws in this state, and this country. We live in a land of stupidity. I live in Atlanta right now after moving here a few months ago. During that time, I've had quite a few bad things happen, and all the laws and law enforcement people have not been of any help to me in any situation while living here. I honestly think anarchy would be a better form of (or lack of) government in Georgia. These laws are not just in this state, but all the states have retarded laws like that. Sometimes I think of running for office for something, just so I can try to fix some of these things the retards in office do, but there's not much hope for that. I should probably move to a free country but I can't get a job outside the U.S. or Canada at this point.
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Also, a lot of women I know such as my sister, aunts, etc. like to play Yahoo! games and such too. There are definitely more women than men that I know who enjoy games. The difference is that a lot of guys only think of FPS and such, and women don't seem to like those as much. Jeez...I don't want to sound like an expert on women or something. I'm no gigelo. Umm...anyways. Yeah.
Anyways, to get a little more serious (but critical) of this machine, why does it have a Sega Master System? Why not a Sega Genesis? But, I will add that it does have more than what my DVD player came with. I looked at the specifications page, and it appears to have all the functions you would want, but I would want to see a demo first, and rent a movie (preferably with some scratches and dust) to play on it before committing to a purchase.
All in all, I check out sites like www.audioreview.com to help me make decisions about DVD players and stereo equipment. I've never heard of Dulux, and it is probably another brand that made this machine but Dulux put the case on it with their logo. I'd want to find out who really made it first.
Pop a floppy with PicoBSD in and reboot the machine, then leave.
Bring a boot floppy with a .bmp of something rude and move it to C: and edit system.ini (or is it win.ini?) to set it as the background in windows.
Format c:
Open Regedit and delete random keys from the registry. Reboot and see what happens.
If there is a camera connected to the thing, stick up your middle finger and take a picture. It's best to be wearing sunglasses or something to make you a little difficult to identify later. Set that image as the windows background.
Go to the games aisles, find a game you want, take it to the computer section. Open the box, pop in the CD, and play the game. If an employee asks you what you are doing, pretend to be a novice computer person and tell them you found it.
It's been a while since I've done anything like this, but I have done all of them, and a few more, including moving price tags (at places like Sam's where it is easy to do since they are held on the shelves with magnets) but these are some of the easiest.
Oh, and to remain on topic...as a prank you should go to Best Buy and ask for a Pentium 4.
On the horizon, companies and consumers face serious challenges "over locational issues," whereby wireless technology makes it easier to pinpoint handheld and cellular phone users, Pearson warned.
From that statement she sounds paranoid enough to fit in on Slashdot so that's good enough for me. Hopefully her job allows her to do more than just sit there and sharpen pencils all day though. If she is allowed to do her job, and given the resources she needs, I think this is definitely a good thing. But, if this was purely a move by IBM to get publicity, and don't intend to give her any real power, then it's useless and will give a bad example to the rest of the industry. We'll see what happens.
Don't forget another really common problem. Trojans. Since the majority of people using Yahoo! email would be using windows 95/98/ME they would be succeptible to those stupid email attachments and such. I would imagine that the majority of these people are not even doing something as simple as running ZoneAlarm and do not have an Antivirus program so their machines are wide open. I would think that the client is the least secure part of the puzzle. Hushmail definitely works much better, providing the people sending and receiving the messages have not had their computers compromised.
Also, to answer your questions, they technically do use SSL according to the article:
Yahoo's new system works like this: Once a message is composed, it travels, unencrypted, to Yahoo, which sends it through a secure connection to SecureDelivery.com. There, the message and any attachments are scrambled. SecureDelivery then sends the recipient the address to a Web page, secured by Secure Sockets Layer ( SSL) and hosted by SecureDelivery.com, where the message can be picked up and descrambled for up to seven days.
So they use SSL in a somewhat half-assed way.
Well, what you mentioned is giving to people that you know, that need. That is different than welfare or the United Way and what I view as traditional charity. As far as giving to my uncle, I was too young at the time to have money to give to him, and now that I do, he's doing well enough to be happy. However, he does know that I am there for him as well as the rest of my family. I think my mother gave some of my sisters old clothing to him for his daughter a while back when she was in sizes my sisters used to wear. Also, the subject of giving back to immediate family, I do share of my skills, time, money, and everything. I don't think that is charity though, but just being part of a family and should be expected. Unless a person in your family abuses it, I feel you should always try to help them out. It's still quite different than just throwing money in a pot to go to an organization that you don't see how they use the money, or any of the benefits. My problems with charity deal with who gets the money, and how they use it. I don't mind that some of my tax money goes to help support a vietnam vet that got his legs blown off by a landmine, I think that is good. However, if this person goes and spends their whole check at the liquor store I don't think my money is being used very well. I don't like that orgs like the United Way have to hire people and pay them a lot of the donation money for a salary. Don't CEO's and advertising people want to donate their time too? If there are computer people willing to teach classes on computers to elderly and poor for free, surely other industries must be willing to do the same and the United Way could save that money to use to help who they claim to help. There's just too much gray area, and people are stupid, so they give to the wrong things. I also do not like that I am forced to give to the welfare system. It doesn't sit too well with me that those who are unwilling to work (as the welfare system is set up to prefer) make more money than people who work their butt off.
With a move that started with Adobe and Applix, all other companies that make linux word processing programs have bailed out. The last remaining two, emacs and vi, are expected to dissapear by 5:00pm EST. Ole' Pappy Torvalds, the creator of linux responded with, "What the hell?" Linux's arch nemesis, Microshaft, was unavailable for comment, but rumors are that they continue to work on their Linux word processor, WerDix.
Gotta love the angst.
If that is what you want to call it that is your choice. I wasn't posting angry comments, just what my opinion is.
Teenage (if not physically, by maturity) idiots who post now, think later. Yes, Mr. b0z, you are in that vaunted 99.9% of which you write.
Insults and name calling are not signs of maturity either.
Re: the homeless. Do you know any homeless people? Do you ever talk to them? Find out what their lives have been like, where they come from, how they got where they are?
Actually yes to all of the above questions. I have had family members who are in that position. It can be unfortunate, but for the most part is very preventable. Working somewhere like McDonalds will not provide you with the best life but it should be able to help you afford a place to stay, clothing, and food. Not a good life, but living in a trailer is better than a box. My uncle was living in a trailer (like the kind you camp in) in the woods for a while. He managed to improve his life and now lives somewhere better but is still not middle class. I do think that he is trying to improve his life, and is able to do so because he is willing to work.
Did you know that most of the homeless are mentally ill?
I do agree that there are a lot of mentally ill homeless people. Whether that is the cause or a result of homeless ness I don't know, but I would not say that the majority is mentally ill.
Re: welfare. Your comments are sort of funny; sounds like you have a Limbaugh-level IQ.
Again, insults are a sign of immaturity. Grow up.
Have you ever looked at the welfare recipient statistics in your state? Do you know exactly how many women who are receiving aid are "popping out more babies"? Do you know what the yearly budget for AFDC is? Do you know what AFDC is?
Well, I just moved to this state a few months ago, so no. I had not looked at the statistics in the state I had lived in before either. Why? Because I knew people on welfare very closely. You can not tell me that the majority of people recieving welfare are not cheating the system. I have seen it with my own eyes for years. Not everyone cheats, but there are too many people doing it. I went to a high school in a poor area of town. I made friends there, and got to meet a lot of people that recieve welfare. Part of the problem is that they get used to free handouts, and it comes to be expected. They don't want to work, they think the world owes them something. As far as AFDC, I don't know what it is. So what?
Re: why we give. I give to charity, smart guy. I grew up pretty easy: suburbs, parents, good schools. I was lucky. Most kids aren't so lucky, so if I can help make this a better place for them, I will. I don't do it out of guilt, ignorance, or for the tax breaks (which you don't even get in my state). I do it because in my opinion it's the right thing to do.
Good for you. I'm sure Jesus would be proud of you to throw your pocket change to someone on the street so they can go buy that rock they have been wanting to smoke. Just giving money doesn't solve anything, and you may give of your time or something else, but even then it is usually done for superficial reasons from what I see. Yes, I am cynical. So what? I see things the way I do for a reason. I have no problem with giving to a charity if it does any good, but I don't think a lot of good is done by some of the popular charities.
Most people who talk down about the poor have never been poor. Most people with money grew up with money? What have you done?
Well for an extremely brief autobiography in a paragraph, yes, I have been poor. When I was a baby, my dad was into drugs, both doing and selling. He made money from weed and was living a crazy lifestyle. After I was maybe 3, he abandoned my mother and I. She had to go on welfare temporarily, but hated it and felt it was degrading. She worked at a job, and made as much money as she could while my dad threatened to kidnap me and other bad things. Eventually, my mom met my stepdad, later they got married, ditched welfare, struggled to have a decent life, and would probably be considered lower middle class. Growing up, they provided me with food, clothing, shelter, and on my birthday and christmas, toys. I had to do work at a somewhat young age and started out mowing grass and doing other work like that. I then got a job at a supermarket to buy my own car, because my parents couldn't buy one for me like your parents probably did. As a young teenager I wanted to have the same toys as my friends, so to get them I often skipped out on lunch to save the money. My first computer was a Commodore 64, which was given to me for free around 1992 or so. In high school I was taking programming classes because I wanted to learn about computers but didn't have one of my own other than the C=64 with it's BASIC and Assembler built in. After that, when I was graduating high school in 1995, I managed to save up enough money to buy a $1000 computer, which was a piece of crap but it worked well enough to get me started. I started to go to technical school/community college (partially from scholarships but the rest came from my pocket) and after a while I got a real job working with computers and quit school. I now have a decent job, and am working on improving that even more.
The point is, I came from a bad background originally, things improved, and now I am making more money than my parents because I work in the tech industry. I have worked somewhat hard to get where I am, but other people can do it so much easier. My problem is with the poor who get so used to being poor that they don't care to try to improve their life, and instead rely on free handouts. It disgusts me to be forced to support these people. If you want to, I think it should definitely be your right, and maybe by some odd chance you will help someone that is looking for more than a handout. Also, the poor in the U.S. are not all that poor. If you go to some 3rd world countries and developing nations you can see what it is really like to be poor. They really do have their lives in danger, unlike the lazy slobs in the U.S. that are poor by choice. And don't think that when I make a statement like that, that I am saying everyone that is poor is lazy. That is not the case, but I do think it is the majority.
So...I hope you see that I do have an idea of what I am talking about, and am not some misguided rich guy trying to buy his way to Jesus or some crap. It doesn't work that way.
Well, let me preface this by saying that I hate most humans. I would be pleased if a meteor came and wiped out the human race.
Now, with that being said, there are some people out there that there is hope for, that are not like the 99.9% of idiots out there. Let me give you some of my views.
I really don't care about helping the homeless in the U.S., because most of these jokers are too lazy to go get a job. There are jobs that will accept them everywhere, but they don't want to work at McDonalds or Burger King. That tells me they must not be very poor. Then, there are the women on welfare popping out more babies so they can get more money from welfare, which increases my taxes, etc. These people are already getting the protection money that Uncle Sam has extorted from me, what else do they want? So, I don't give anything to the poor other than a hard time.
Also, I don't really care about most of the foreign countries and their poor kids. I do care about very specific ones, because I know someone from that country, or have relatives there myself. Yes, it may be a cold hearted thing but I'd prefer to help out the Irish and Mexicans rather than someone in Thailand. It doesn't mean that Thai people are not deserving of money, but that I have higher priorities. I want to help those that I have ties to more than anyone else. It's just an extension of wanting to feed your relatives before you feed a stranger. Both may be starving but you have to draw the line somewhere.
Also, I don't like to give to big organizations like the United Way. It's unfortunately that a company with the power to do so much good, wastes so much money on advertising and buying their executives a new beamer or jet. If I am going to make a donation, I want a really large majority of it to go to the cause I want.
I don't like to donate to pushy organizations. If you come to my door when I am eating supper, invite yourself in my apartment, then tell me I have to donate so you can win a prize of getting the most donations, I will refuse to give a single red cent.
Ok, that was some of the reasons not to give to charity but to put this back on the topic of your question, I would say mostly people donate out of stupidity, ignorance, tax cuts, and guilt. That is fine in my opinion, they can donate because the voices in their head told them to for as much as I care. I just think that it can be a good thing if you actually put some work into researching where your time and money goes. Charity doesn't have to just be working with an organization, even helping an old hag cross the street is a form of charity. If you want to give "out of the kindness of your heart" *barf* you should do more than give money and a little bit of time. I would think charity would be more of a lifestyle than something you do once a month.
All in all I think it's a decent charity. I have a few others that I give to, but they don't accept computers as far as I know.
I think a clever programmer will come up with a solution. One potential solution that I see is using memory cards like you get with the playstation and such. This could potentially even work with things like the playstation to work around the upgrade limitations of a ROM rather than a cartridge (which could potentially contain updateable chips.) I would think that there would be a way to store some small bugfixes on the little memory cards and have a place at bestbuy you could go plug in your memory card and have them update the bugfixes, then have the CDROM first check for that information before loading the game. I may not be describing it in the best way but I think you can get the picture. Of course, the disadvantage to this would be the same as computer software. We'd get console games that are extremely buggy and don't work well and the companies would rather release them early and make bugfixes later so they can make more money up front.
Right-o. I am currently looking at a new contract. This was actually my first job in the corporate world, so I wanted to do this for a little while, and then move on. Since I got this job, I have been getting emails and phone calls (5 a day, more or less) so I am about ready to move on after the new year starts. I do agree that I signed a bad contract. That's why I haven't worked on a personal website for a long time. I also am aware that I do not make as much money as I should be, but it is worth it to be able to put my current employer on my resume for 6 months. It's not bad for someone that dropped out of college to work, and is not certified in anything, and is mostly self-taught.
I am working on doing consultant work after the first of the year, and try to make a lot of money within the next 1.5 years doing contracts, then get a full time job again and settle down.
This is going to be running an enhanced version of Windows NT. Rather than giving you the blue screen of death, it will speak to you and say, "I'm sorry Dave, I have a fatal exception in kernel.sys right now" or whatever that message is. The good news is that we would have time to run away before it kills us, because it would have to finish spitting out all that hex garbage first.
You have a good point, but if you were a programmer/developer/coder of some sort, you have to sign a NDA, which basically prohibits you from doing any development at all outside of your work environment, and if you do, it belongs to them. That means that the perl scripts I write at home for my website belong to my employer. That is the biggest problem and what the main focus of this documentation is about. There are people that want to work on open source projects at their job, but unless it somehow benefits their employer I don't think it's a good idea.
And trust me, the more people try and get things like this for open source, the more that stubborn CTOs are going to resist it in favour of the latest technology in Computer Weekly.
Managers will always choose the products that they percieve their peers would use or think is cool, and the companies that give them the most freebies. Never underestimate the power of a bad product, and a company with money to take your boss to a nice lunch and a game of golf.
C'mon people, it's for the children.
My computer sure does...and man, I'd hate to see what happens if you piss it off.
You live in a world where 2/3 of the people do not have enough food, adequate housing or health care.
Exactly. People in countries like the U.S. are spoiled. We act like we have a right to work in a certain industry for a certain company for a certain wage. There are people all over the world that have nothing. An open global economy can equalize that better by sending jobs to other countries, so they can make more money to survive.
Exactly how is it that moving jobs to Mexico, (whose maquiladoras are some of the worst offenders in the world for dangerous, toxic working conditions, low wages and no benefits), constitutes progress for _most_ people, not just the wealthy minority?
I do not live in Mexico, but know it very well and have been there a lot. I see children walking in busy intersections in big cities selling chicle in the hot sun with no rest. I don't think that you are helping them out by not providing jobs for their parents. Yes, I do agree that there needs to be some labor laws set to help out the people of Mexico, but there has to be jobs first. In the U.S. a similar situation happened a long time ago. The majority of people were extremely poor and worked in factories in very dangerous conditions. It got really bad, and a few men in high positions in the U.S. government did something about it and started the ball rolling on workers rights. I think this needs to happen in Mexico, China, Taiwan, and everywhere in the world that doesn't already have some protection for workers. As it is now, I don't think that we have good decisions presented before any poor people from Mexico and these other countries. In particular, there are not enough jobs in Mexico, so a lot of men leave their families to go work (sometimes illegally due to the unconstitutional immigration laws) in the U.S. So, these men work hard, for very little pay in bad working conditions, and send as much money as they can to their families so their families survive. The current system will keep people poor and in bad health as it is.
Well at least we all have our priorities straight - after all it's OK if Mexican children are poisoned by the toxic waste dumped into their water by the factory their parents work at , just so long at we can knock a few bucks off the price of a TV.
First of all, I know that the water isn't being taken care of as it is now. If you have seen pictures of Chapala from 10 years ago, and compared them to how it looks now, it's very frightening. You have a long walk to get from where the shore used to be to where it is now. There is not any conservation going on in Mexico as it is. The government needs to step in and help take care of things. Part of the problem is that the Mexican government has been extremely corrupt up to this point. Perhaps Fox and PAN can help change things, but it will be an uphill battle. Part of the problem is that if you don't have money to put food on your table tonight, why would you care if you have water to drink next week? Once you have the people's immediate needs taken care of, then it will be much easier to focus on the future, whether it is one day or one century from now.
Also, I don't know if you know Mexico or not. I do not claim to understand the life of everyone there, but I think I have a decent grasp of what is needed. I agree with you that there needs to be major conservation and improvements in quality of life there, but from what I see, people need to have their bellies full of food first. Once the poor can get past the struggle to take care of their basic needs, they will be able to focus on improving the entire quality of life and preserve Mexico for the future people there.
Actually there is nothing to "blame" for. You are upset because a business made a decision to save money. Let's put it in a different view:
Let's say you, your parents, and grandparents all work at Sears. You are going out to buy a new TV. You can get it at Sears for $300. At Best Buy, you can get it for $200. Would you pay $200 for it to get a good deal at Best Buy, or would you feel guilty and buy it at Sears for a higher price just because you have some misguided loyalty directed to Sears? I would choose Best Buy. The thing that is occuring due to the internet, and the international trade and all this is a big equalization. These corporations are going to the country where they get the best deal on service. People may complain that it takes jobs away from the U.S., and these people end up out of work. That is true, temporarily. Why don't these people get a job in another industry, or simply move to one of the locations that the company they used to work for moved to? In your example, the car company went to Sonora from Arizona. The cost of living is lower in Mexico, as is the amount of pay you would receive. I see no reason not to go there if you feel you are dedicated to that company and that line of work.
I don't blame "The Net" entirely for this, but increasingly rapid digital communication coupled with stronger "free trade" policies are increasing corporate mobility. Not just within the country, though - throughout the world.
I don't see how this is a bad thing. Even within the U.S. there are big differences in the cost of living. The decent amount of money I make as a developer in Atlanta would cause me to be homeless in Silicon Valley. I don't need to get paid as much as someone out there, because I don't need to spend as much money to survive. And as far as the internet and methods of telecommunications go, they are really good. It means I could potentially get a job working from "home." Basically, I could get a job in Silicon Valley, then live and work from somewhere in Montana, and have a ton of money by Montana standards.
I don't want to be rude, but I see your entire arguement as extremely short-sighted. Technological changes have always caused a few temporary problems in the work force, but they free people up to do other things. I very much prefer to work with computers than to work in a factory. I am happy to have the opportunity to work in the computer industry. If the work ends up getting sent to another country, I guess I would have to move there to work, just like all the people from India, China, and Mexico do now. I don't see the problem here. There is no "us" vs. "them" because we're all the same. Also, if you don't want to keep up with the changes, you will get left behind.
Actually, if you are concerned about helping people in some of these countries, there are non profit organizations that donate to them. One in particular that I know of is Africa's Promise. I know the guy in charge of it, and he just returned from a trip to Nigeria where he took donated laptops, clothing, school supplies, etc. to some kids over there. I am sure there are many organizations like this to help some of these countries get up to speed and try to get their citizens out of poverty.
Personally, I prefer to help those in Mexico but I don't know of any NPO's that I can join up with there.
I guess the real point of my post is that, when you have a rich country like the U.S., some of the wealthy people (by 3rd world country standards at least, middle class by U.S. standards) want to give something back to help others around them. Unfortunately, in the U.S. we have the situation where a lot of people are lazy and greedy, so they want free handouts to live off of, and don't want to work or learn how to improve their life. Also, we have huge organizations like the United Way, that will give some money to the poor and to community programs, they keep a lot for themselves and spend way too much of the donated money to justify me giving them anything. I would like to think that while there may be a separation of the technologically literate, and the people that know nothing of computers, there are some of us that want to help others to improve themselves. I see all the people living on Earth as one team. We may not often realize it, but what we do has an effect on others.
By the way, I'm not some hippie that thinks we will ever have world peace or solve any real problems of mankind. I'm actually one of the most misanthropic people to ever exist, but even I have to post something nice sometimes.
Actually, we have quite a few examples of things even simpler than law that the U.S. has NOT followed the rest of the world in. Here's a quick list:
1) Celcius. That whole Farenheit thing is stupid. It makes much more sense for the temperature of water to freeze to be 0. I don't want this Farenheit B.S. anymore.
2) Metric system. All of our cars (that last more than 3 years) are built using this system of measurement. Our cars have kilometers per hour below miles per hour. Our drugs are measured in this system. It is a much easier system to remember, and is much better organized than the crazy crap we use.
3) $country is a part of Earth. I think foreign policy can be an important thing, especially for a country where 99.9% (a stat I made up) of the people are immigrants or descendants of immigrants. All the xenophobes that want to "protect our jobs" from Mexicans, Chinese, Indians, etc. need to grow up. These people labelled as "foreigners" have as much right to be here as anyone born here. Just because our government discriminates against these people, and just because rich Americans like to make these people into slaves (or indentured servants with the H1B visas) doesn't mean that everyone else has to be mean to them. I think in Europe, people are a little more tolerant to others moving to their countries, and are aware of the fact that their country is not the only one in the world.
Anyways, I just think that the U.S. government will ignore the decision of the Europeans and Americans, and continue to do whatever the hell they please. Especially when big businesses are the ones paying our politicians by choice rather than by extortion (taxes.)
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If Microsoft can't get the rights to use this, they can simply replace the monitor with a mirror in front of anyone that has used one of their products for a good period of time, hadn't had a chance to save their work, then suffered a bsod.
I don't know if there is some big difference in the value of CAD$50 vs. USD$50, but I do know that I pay $50USD a month for ADSL, but I could get it for $40 a month were I to go with the local telco (I wouldn't get a static IP though.) Also, I think cable access is pretty cheap too. Probably around $40 a month.
What I want to know is who, and why, in the U.S. is anyone paying more than $50. The article appeared to be talking about DSL and cable, not a T3 line coming into your house.
From what I read on the article, it means that you have the *option* to set up the OS to warn you if you are trying to use an application that is unsigned by Micro$oft. It also says that you have the option to send it to them for testing so they can approve it and stuff. I think that is fine, so long as this ability is an option. It sounds like a decent security feature to me for a closed system. I know it goes completely against the open source ideals, but for M$ to improve their security this is one way to do it. If you are running a machine at work running Win2k or Whistler (when it comes out) that could be good to have this option enabled because you only want to run a few applications and services that your company approves, and you don't want people installing software that could potentially cause a problem on your system or network. Also, you can leave it disabled on your PC at home (if you want to run one of these crappy OS's) and install whatever you want. I don't really see a downside to this, if someone doesn't want to use this option but wants the OS, they simply turn it off. If this were mandatory, It would be crazy.
That was suprising for me to find out when I first moved here. It pissed me off royally. The thing is, you can buy buy from a restaurant, just not at the grocery store. The government of Georgia encourages drinking and driving, because they won't let you buy your beer and take it home, they force you to go out if you want to drink.
This is only one of many stupid laws in this state, and this country. We live in a land of stupidity. I live in Atlanta right now after moving here a few months ago. During that time, I've had quite a few bad things happen, and all the laws and law enforcement people have not been of any help to me in any situation while living here. I honestly think anarchy would be a better form of (or lack of) government in Georgia. These laws are not just in this state, but all the states have retarded laws like that. Sometimes I think of running for office for something, just so I can try to fix some of these things the retards in office do, but there's not much hope for that. I should probably move to a free country but I can't get a job outside the U.S. or Canada at this point.