No, the origin of the word actually was developed at UC Berkeley. Because the geeks there were so, well, 'geeky' one's gaydar tended to become ineffectual and another way to discover other gays was needed.
Hence the development of the term 'boxen'. It was developed as a code word by the gay community at Berkeley so that they could find sexual partners. If you heard someone referring to 'boxen' you could be sure they were promiscuously gay.
The term has since become misused by geeks who don't know any better. But anyone 'in the know' understands that 'boxen' is about the gayest thing someone can say.
the cell phone frequencies are very close to the frequencies that radio astronomers listen for to detect stars being born & dying.
Now THERE's a reason to fall back to last millenia's standards of comfort and communication. We might miss detecting a star being born a thousand years ago a thousand light years ago. Wouldn't want to miss THAT bit of highly useful information.
Goddamit, Tux would not be wearing a suit! Makes him look gay. I know Taco probably thinks it's cute, but to those of us who fight the battle against the ass kissing, back-slapping, glad-handing, Big Bertha swinging, BMW driving, Hamptons vactioning, outsourcing, pro-actively lay-offing idiots in suspenders on a daily basis, it's just plain offensive.
Taco, it's is the MANAGERS who would USE liunx that would be wearing the suits, not Tux!
As is, I'm not losing sleep over this as I don't have a public-transit commute
Well, as long as you don't get stuck in heavy traffic, you'll probably be OK. I can imagine guys right now, imagining and designing automated systems so they can drive around, hijacking devices, doing nefarious things. Basically a money machine, ala:
1) Create Automated Bluetooth Hack Box 2) ???? 3) PROFIT!!!
Flamebait? FLAMEBAIT?!? Why, every word of that is true, even if you socialistic science weenies don't want to admit it.
Now THIS is flamebait:
You people watch too much Star Trek, where money has no meaning, everyone cooperates, and only the Ferengi worry about making a profit. Facts are facts: that money you dweebensteins want to fund your rocketry will be extorted from wage earners, and don't be surprised when they are all obscenely overpriced and unreliable because they were built by a politicial hacks on extorted funds.
We will provide the funding necessary to get us where we want to go.... by forcing other people to give us money on the threat of sending armed men to take them to jail them if they don't 'pay their tax' to fund our fun.
Well then, there's only one solution to the problem The United States needs to reduce consumption, but 'developing countries' like China and India, well, we'll just let them go and continue developing. Any millenia now, they'll catch up.
I have seen between letting trolls take over the place (what we see on Slashdoe)
They have NOT "taken over the place". If you read at -1, it would seem that they have, but that's your choice. If you read at a reasonable score level, the trolls will not seem to have "taken over the place".
See, OpenOffice IS ready for prime-time! Highschoolers in DETROIT are using it, and we all know what discerning consumers THEY are! Given this revelation, I'm SURE it's only a matter of weeks before the Fortune 500 and top accounting firms switch over!
They don't wish to interfere, yet they do so massively. That indicates major incompetence
Um, no it does not. Note that the sentence was "US diplomatic sources state". Did you catch that? "DIPLOMATIC SOURCES". Do you know how diplomats speak? From ALL countries, they often pussy-foot around the point, rarely saying exactly what they mean. That's how diplomats are EXPECTED to speak.
So no, the only 'incompetence' is in your ability to think two-dimensionally.
even if I was a secretary, I wouldn't need Open Office in RAM all the time
No, if you were a secretary, you would not use Open Office AT ALL. You would use the best, namely, Word.
I insist on the best, myself. Which is why I run Word under Wine in Linux (with CrossOver office). I don't have the time or the patience to 'make a statement'. I've got work to do, and I demand the best tools for the job.
I lost all respect for Schpielberg when he re-released E.T. and proceded to edit out the scene where the govenment agents are holding guns. Remember? He replaced the guns with cell phones, because he did not think it was appropriate to show goverment agents like that during the surge in patriotism following 9/11? What a pussy.
I just did some research (what a concept) and found out that radio stations do NOT, today, pay royalties.
I just remember my Dad talking about it, decades ago, when he was program director of a major commercial radio station, which is why I was so confident I was right. But decades have passed, so have the way music is marketed and funded, and I was wrong.
Actually, radio stations must pay fees to broadcast music. There is an organization (sorry I don't know the names of the organizations, but it's a fact) which calculates which records are getting airplay, calculates about how much music a particular station plays, and then calculates their bill. The money collected goes to the label/artists, after administrative fees.
I had a friend who ran a bookstore. Some organization came buy and asked if they were paying royalties for the music they were piping into their store. The organization let them go because they also sold the records they played in the store, but they could have been charged royalties.
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Earth to Genius:
The guy is NOT a satanist. Satanists don't waste their time going for frosty pisses.
The only whack job is you, because you believed his little exercise.
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No, the origin of the word actually was developed at UC Berkeley. Because the geeks there were so, well, 'geeky' one's gaydar tended to become ineffectual and another way to discover other gays was needed.
Hence the development of the term 'boxen'. It was developed as a code word by the gay community at Berkeley so that they could find sexual partners. If you heard someone referring to 'boxen' you could be sure they were promiscuously gay.
The term has since become misused by geeks who don't know any better. But anyone 'in the know' understands that 'boxen' is about the gayest thing someone can say.
the cell phone frequencies are very close to the frequencies that radio astronomers listen for to detect stars being born & dying.
Now THERE's a reason to fall back to last millenia's standards of comfort and communication. We might miss detecting a star being born a thousand years ago a thousand light years ago. Wouldn't want to miss THAT bit of highly useful information.
makes note to self to bring cell phone, and recording of War of the Worlds onto next plane trip
That would do it. I know _I_ would be mentally devistated if _I_ were to be exposed involuntarily to Orson Welles' disembodied, melodramatic voice.
Oh yeah, get and wear headphones if people talking bothers you
That's what _I_ do. I got sick and tired of being constantly reminded whot totallly shallow jackasses so many of my fellow human beans are.
All this time I thought that it was more efficient to use the mouse to do everything.
Should have been "from the duhhhhh department"
Next thing you know, Timmy's going to break the news that the 'goto' is bad. And that having a big monitor is better than a small monitor.
Goddamit, Tux would not be wearing a suit! Makes him look gay. I know Taco probably thinks it's cute, but to those of us who fight the battle against the ass kissing, back-slapping, glad-handing, Big Bertha swinging, BMW driving, Hamptons vactioning, outsourcing, pro-actively lay-offing idiots in suspenders on a daily basis, it's just plain offensive.
Taco, it's is the MANAGERS who would USE liunx that would be wearing the suits, not Tux!
As is, I'm not losing sleep over this as I don't have a public-transit commute
Well, as long as you don't get stuck in heavy traffic, you'll probably be OK. I can imagine guys right now, imagining and designing automated systems so they can drive around, hijacking devices, doing nefarious things. Basically a money machine, ala:
1) Create Automated Bluetooth Hack Box
2) ????
3) PROFIT!!!
Where would he have ever had the need to develop those skills?
Probably at secretarial school, because Doohan certainly didn't go to acting school. That guy makes Carrot Top look like Laurence Olivier.
Flamebait? FLAMEBAIT?!? Why, every word of that is true, even if you socialistic science weenies don't want to admit it.
Now THIS is flamebait:
You people watch too much Star Trek, where money has no meaning, everyone cooperates, and only the Ferengi worry about making a profit. Facts are facts: that money you dweebensteins want to fund your rocketry will be extorted from wage earners, and don't be surprised when they are all obscenely overpriced and unreliable because they were built by a politicial hacks on extorted funds.
We will provide the funding necessary to get us where we want to go. ... by forcing other people to give us money on the threat of sending armed men to take them to jail them if they don't 'pay their tax' to fund our fun.
And they call ours a civilized country.
Well then, there's only one solution to the problem The United States needs to reduce consumption, but 'developing countries' like China and India, well, we'll just let them go and continue developing. Any millenia now, they'll catch up.
I have seen between letting trolls take over the place (what we see on Slashdoe)
They have NOT "taken over the place". If you read at -1, it would seem that they have, but that's your choice. If you read at a reasonable score level, the trolls will not seem to have "taken over the place".
Oh, I get it. You seem to believe that the purpose of diplomacy is all about honesty and sweetness and goodwill towards men and all that.
I've got news for you: it's never been about that. It's about looking out for one's own interests, scheming, manipulating, and yes, lying.
I think it was Churchill who said diplomacy was saying "Nice doggie" while looking for a rock. Or something like that.
See, OpenOffice IS ready for prime-time! Highschoolers in DETROIT are using it, and we all know what discerning consumers THEY are! Given this revelation, I'm SURE it's only a matter of weeks before the Fortune 500 and top accounting firms switch over!
Hooray for OpenOffice! Microsoft can bite my bag!
They don't wish to interfere, yet they do so massively. That indicates major incompetence
Um, no it does not. Note that the sentence was "US diplomatic sources state". Did you catch that? "DIPLOMATIC SOURCES". Do you know how diplomats speak? From ALL countries, they often pussy-foot around the point, rarely saying exactly what they mean. That's how diplomats are EXPECTED to speak.
So no, the only 'incompetence' is in your ability to think two-dimensionally.
even if I was a secretary, I wouldn't need Open Office in RAM all the time
No, if you were a secretary, you would not use Open Office AT ALL. You would use the best, namely, Word.
I insist on the best, myself. Which is why I run Word under Wine in Linux (with CrossOver office). I don't have the time or the patience to 'make a statement'. I've got work to do, and I demand the best tools for the job.
READ! (SMACK!) THE FUCKIN'! (SMACK!) ARTICLE! (SMACK!)
(yes, lameness filter, I know caps are like yelling. That's the effect I was trying to get, you lame-ass piece of Perl).
, but just because it doesn't jive with the slashdot "groupthink"
I believe you meant to use jibe meaning "To be in accord; agree: Your figures jibe with mine."
BZZT. Wrong! But good flaimbait. He made the change because Drew Barrymore asked him to.
That makes him an even BIGGER pussy.
I lost all respect for Schpielberg when he re-released E.T. and proceded to edit out the scene where the govenment agents are holding guns. Remember? He replaced the guns with cell phones, because he did not think it was appropriate to show goverment agents like that during the surge in patriotism following 9/11? What a pussy.
I just did some research (what a concept) and found out that radio stations do NOT, today, pay royalties.
I just remember my Dad talking about it, decades ago, when he was program director of a major commercial radio station, which is why I was so confident I was right. But decades have passed, so have the way music is marketed and funded, and I was wrong.
Actually, radio stations must pay fees to broadcast music. There is an organization (sorry I don't know the names of the organizations, but it's a fact) which calculates which records are getting airplay, calculates about how much music a particular station plays, and then calculates their bill. The money collected goes to the label/artists, after administrative fees.
I had a friend who ran a bookstore. Some organization came buy and asked if they were paying royalties for the music they were piping into their store. The organization let them go because they also sold the records they played in the store, but they could have been charged royalties.
Earth to Genius:
The guy is NOT a satanist. Satanists don't waste their time going for frosty pisses.
The only whack job is you, because you believed his little exercise.
When are these people going to learn that pigtails don't necessarily make you look young
Yes, but it makes an older woman look sleazy, nasty and slutty, which can be a good thing.
... as long as however they change Google, searches for steaming load still return William Shatner as the number one hit.