Duke of Hazzard was running between 1980 and 1985. 1980 was 24 years ago. What part of "I'm so glad I haven't had a TV for 10 years" don't you understand?
Besides, I fail to see how my original post is offtopic : it's about television, which I think isn't worth having, especially if television providers start bickering on the screen.
I am often surprised to find that my 30-channel DirectTV favorites list has grown overnight to a 50-channel list with the inclusion of all the DTV informational channels and most of the QVC and shopping type channels.
I, for one, will be switching to DirecTV if they don't get this figured out.
I, for one, will be sticking to good old books. At least book writers and editors don't throw their petty commercial wars at me through their products, and even if they did, I could just tear off the page.
Books are so exciting : you get to imagine the scenes yourself, you can re-read them whenever you want wherever your want, they burn no electrical power (save for the light at night), the information medium has been the same for thousands of years, is reliable, isn't likely to change soon, unlike Betamax/VHS/Videodisc/DVD, and the whole reading home-theater installation (called a "bookshelf") is dirt cheap. I'm so glad I haven't had a TV for 10 years, I really feel less like a passive consumer drone...
A well-trained human body can produce around 100 W of motion effect for a couple of hours. (bicycle style)
Wrong: the average Jow Blow who doesn't smoke and exercise somewhat regularly puts out between 75W and 120W for 2 hours. Well trained folks can put out 200/300W, and extremely well trained people (thing Lance Armstrong rushing to the finish line) up to 1kW peak for a short time.
The Gossamer Albatros for example, was powered by a 40Kg athlete woman who put out an average of 300/350W for more than 3 hours continuously, which explains why she was pretty knackered when she arrived.
At some point, you have to cook, and the Internet should be a great place to find recipes
Forget cooking.
I personally find the internet (small-I by the way) a much greater help to find restaurants of all kinds, big or small, dear or cheap.
One of my favorite past-time is to roam the countryside trying to find unknown small restaurants that serve good home-made or mom-and-pop food, or perhaps unusual food of some kind, trying to stay clear away from well-known dining places, chains, fast food joints and other roach-coaches. The net is a great tool to find target restaurants to go visit in the week-end.
Or if you're a programmer, write down all your comments in Sindarin. That way if they fire you they'll have a headache trying to hire a replacement that also knows the language:) # apt-get install xfont-sindarin Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package xfont-sindarin
even all those evil Russians in James Bond movies speak almost perfect English (usually with a terrible Russian accent)
I'll let you in on a little secret: most Russians in James Bond are SPECTRE agents disguised as evil commies, in an attempt to fool the world's secret services.
No worries Alan, I was just making fun of the Welsh because it was an occasion to do so, and if I didn't do it, somebody else would have:-)
I am in fact aware that Welsh has vowels, especially since I got a friend from Wales to read me the welsh version of that giant sign on the M4 (westbound) that used to say "welcome to Wales, please dump your rubbish in England".
This is bad! The elderly hold all of our history, if they give that information to the robots, we will all be doomed!
Are you kidding? I'd gladly buy such a robot, it might have learnt traditional home-made cooking from his previous granny master and I'd save on japanese restaurant bills.
You'll still be dead in a few years. All the 'getting in shape' in the world is not going to heal a distended aorta, clogged arteries and heart disease. I would not trade any amount of money for 30-50 years of life.
Forgive me but I'm confused : Cowboy Neal is still young, if he gets back in shape now (and stay in shape), he can still look forward to a long life, minus several years for having been overweight since now. I don't think he'd die in a few years. Even overweight as he is, he still have more than a few years ahead of him.
And hell, even if I had only five years left, I'd rather spend 5 years richer than rich than 30-50 more years having to work.
I was a highly-paid dot-com bubble programmer, and then I was asked to become a vacationer overnight.
Seriously though, it was a very pleasant experience : 2 years of absolute slacking, doing only what I wanted on the money I had made during the bubble, recovering from 5 years of uninterrupted software development death marches that had left me kind of sick, and reflecting on all the mistakes I will never make in the future, either as an employee or as an entrepreneur.
Plus - If your local, licensed HF operator can show that BPL interfears with THEIR operations? Well, it's up to the BPL provider to fix it
When was the last time you tried to get a utility to fix a problem when it interferes with their revenue stream?
BPL means mucho $$$ for utilities. That means, the following is what will happen when you, the poor local ham who's getting shafted, try to report a problem: Ham: hello Foo Power, I'm getting HF noise from your BPL operations, and I want it fixed...
Foo power: HELLO...PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME LOUDLY...TYPE 1 TO ACCESS YOUR ACCOUNT...TYPE 2 TO GET POWER...TYPE * OR STAY ON HOLD TO TALK TO AN OPERATOR...
H: J.O.E. S.I.X.P.A.C.K. *beep*
FP: Hello Sir, may I help you?
H: Yes, I need to report a problem with your BPL operations : I'm a ham and I...
FP: Yes Sir, I'll connect you to the Technical dept. Please hold...
H: Thank you.
FP: Hello, this is Jeanne, how may I help you?
H: I have this problem with your BPL thing. I'm a ham and...
FP: We don't sell ham Sir. Please state your name and account number so I can access your Foo Power account.
H: No no, I just want to report a problem with...
FP: Oh I'm sorry Sir, this is the accounting department. I'll connect you back with the front desk. Please hold...
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This is a funny topic. A bit like "cycling download L.A." sort of funny topic...
Duke of Hazzard was running between 1980 and 1985. 1980 was 24 years ago. What part of "I'm so glad I haven't had a TV for 10 years" don't you understand?
Besides, I fail to see how my original post is offtopic : it's about television, which I think isn't worth having, especially if television providers start bickering on the screen.
I am often surprised to find that my 30-channel DirectTV favorites list has grown overnight to a 50-channel list with the inclusion of all the DTV informational channels and most of the QVC and shopping type channels.
Are you married by any chance?
I, for one, will be switching to DirecTV if they don't get this figured out.
I, for one, will be sticking to good old books. At least book writers and editors don't throw their petty commercial wars at me through their products, and even if they did, I could just tear off the page.
Books are so exciting : you get to imagine the scenes yourself, you can re-read them whenever you want wherever your want, they burn no electrical power (save for the light at night), the information medium has been the same for thousands of years, is reliable, isn't likely to change soon, unlike Betamax/VHS/Videodisc/DVD, and the whole reading home-theater installation (called a "bookshelf") is dirt cheap. I'm so glad I haven't had a TV for 10 years, I really feel less like a passive consumer drone...
A well-trained human body can produce around 100 W of motion effect for a couple of hours. (bicycle style)
Wrong: the average Jow Blow who doesn't smoke and exercise somewhat regularly puts out between 75W and 120W for 2 hours. Well trained folks can put out 200/300W, and extremely well trained people (thing Lance Armstrong rushing to the finish line) up to 1kW peak for a short time.
The Gossamer Albatros for example, was powered by a 40Kg athlete woman who put out an average of 300/350W for more than 3 hours continuously, which explains why she was pretty knackered when she arrived.
It worked pretty well: we were able to power a boom box, a Game Boy Advance, a small water pump, a large light, and a few other items.
Did you friend manage to get rid of the cramps in his arm?
If you need a web server in the middle of nowhere, there's always the uCdynamo!
Wonderful. scsi is broken on 2.6.3-gentoo-r1. My burner and USB disks don't work, and that's worse than a local root.
- ide-scsi is deprecated for CD burners
- USB now relies on hotplug/libusb/whatnot
Jesus man, why don't you read the fucking 2.6 migration FAQ before posting bollocks?
Try not to puke as you eat
Remember to buy pills against stomach aches before your meal.
At some point, you have to cook, and the Internet should be a great place to find recipes
Forget cooking.
I personally find the internet (small-I by the way) a much greater help to find restaurants of all kinds, big or small, dear or cheap.
One of my favorite past-time is to roam the countryside trying to find unknown small restaurants that serve good home-made or mom-and-pop food, or perhaps unusual food of some kind, trying to stay clear away from well-known dining places, chains, fast food joints and other roach-coaches. The net is a great tool to find target restaurants to go visit in the week-end.
Or if you're a programmer, write down all your comments in Sindarin. That way if they fire you they'll have a headache trying to hire a replacement that also knows the language :)
:-)
# apt-get install xfont-sindarin
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package xfont-sindarin
Nuff said...
even all those evil Russians in James Bond movies speak almost perfect English (usually with a terrible Russian accent)
I'll let you in on a little secret: most Russians in James Bond are SPECTRE agents disguised as evil commies, in an attempt to fool the world's secret services.
No worries Alan, I was just making fun of the Welsh because it was an occasion to do so, and if I didn't do it, somebody else would have :-)
I am in fact aware that Welsh has vowels, especially since I got a friend from Wales to read me the welsh version of that giant sign on the M4 (westbound) that used to say "welcome to Wales, please dump your rubbish in England".
With the dodgyness of the Birmingham brummie accent do they really need / want to be doing this?
Perhaps it's a practical joke, English humour can be quite obscure and hard to understand for non-British people.
Given that this new language involves Welsch in some form, I'd say there's a fair chance it's a joke actually...
Elvish invented by J.R.R. Tolkien and based on Welsh sounds
Does it mean it has no vowels?
This is bad! The elderly hold all of our history, if they give that information to the robots, we will all be doomed!
Are you kidding? I'd gladly buy such a robot, it might have learnt traditional home-made cooking from his previous granny master and I'd save on japanese restaurant bills.
old people being beaten by their caretakers or left to lie in their own excrements for weeks.
My God, dying by being shat on for weeks by your caretakers must be horrible!
You'll still be dead in a few years. All the 'getting in shape' in the world is not going to heal a distended aorta, clogged arteries and heart disease. I would not trade any amount of money for 30-50 years of life.
Forgive me but I'm confused : Cowboy Neal is still young, if he gets back in shape now (and stay in shape), he can still look forward to a long life, minus several years for having been overweight since now. I don't think he'd die in a few years. Even overweight as he is, he still have more than a few years ahead of him.
And hell, even if I had only five years left, I'd rather spend 5 years richer than rich than 30-50 more years having to work.
Come on Taco, we know it's you, no need to post as AC ...
but my hands were tied with the responsibiliti
I trust you haven't been too busy untying yourself...
Not for all the money in the world would I be that fat. Not. For. All. The. Money. In. The. World.
That's silly.
Okay then, I'll become CowboyNeal in your place, then I'll use a teensy bit of all the money in the World to get back in shape
If you love what you do, you'll never have to work another day in your life
As a public toilet cleaning technician in Truth-or-Consequences, NM, I find it hard to relate to this philosophy...
I was a highly-paid dot-com bubble programmer, and then I was asked to become a vacationer overnight.
Seriously though, it was a very pleasant experience : 2 years of absolute slacking, doing only what I wanted on the money I had made during the bubble, recovering from 5 years of uninterrupted software development death marches that had left me kind of sick, and reflecting on all the mistakes I will never make in the future, either as an employee or as an entrepreneur.
Can't you read behind the acronym? DLCA?? Good Grief! It's only one letter off of the DMCA,
1) the acronym is DELCA, not DLCA, so it's not even close to DMCA
2) Even if it was DLCA, just because you change a letter in order to crack a poor DMCA joke in your post doesn't make it funny
Why you're modded +3 Funny is beyond me...
Plus - If your local, licensed HF operator can show that BPL interfears with THEIR operations? Well, it's up to the BPL provider to fix it
...
When was the last time you tried to get a utility to fix a problem when it interferes with their revenue stream?
BPL means mucho $$$ for utilities. That means, the following is what will happen when you, the poor local ham who's getting shafted, try to report a problem:
Ham: hello Foo Power, I'm getting HF noise from your BPL operations, and I want it fixed...
Foo power: HELLO...PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME LOUDLY...TYPE 1 TO ACCESS YOUR ACCOUNT...TYPE 2 TO GET POWER...TYPE * OR STAY ON HOLD TO TALK TO AN OPERATOR...
H: J.O.E. S.I.X.P.A.C.K. *beep*
FP: Hello Sir, may I help you?
H: Yes, I need to report a problem with your BPL operations : I'm a ham and I...
FP: Yes Sir, I'll connect you to the Technical dept. Please hold
H: Thank you.
FP: Hello, this is Jeanne, how may I help you?
H: I have this problem with your BPL thing. I'm a ham and...
FP: We don't sell ham Sir. Please state your name and account number so I can access your Foo Power account.
H: No no, I just want to report a problem with...
FP: Oh I'm sorry Sir, this is the accounting department. I'll connect you back with the front desk. Please hold...
etc etc...