Depending where you are, there are plenty of computer recycling/reselling businesses out there. For example, in the Puget Sound, there's stores such as Re-PC, where you can drop off pretty much anything. They're amazing places, you can even find old 1st generation luggable PCs, memory modules the size of paperback books, and massive 5mb HDs from ages long past.
Anyhoo, give that a shot. And avoid Goodwill like the plague, whenever they get something they can't figure out how to use, off to the dumpster and landfills it goes.
You start the game with default clothing, basic black slacks and a red shirt. Then you spend half the game trying to earn a different color shirt. Just like all the others, except more desperately.
Well, if one wants to truly be geeky, such a suit could also effectively blind CCD cameras everywhere, if cranked up high enough. This includes but isn't limited to: Security cameras, unwanted digital photographers, speedercams (build them into your license plate!), Brit style police cameras, etc.
Imagine every camera that records you as being a bright white blob.. They'll keep pulling over Louie Anderson!
Camcorders (or at least as far as I know, CCD based camcorders) are also very sensitive to IR light, hence why home security cams, and the infamous "X-Ray" Sony camcorder, have IR LEDs for night vision. One can demonstrate that on even the oldest cameras, simply by pointing a remote control at the lens while recording (you'll see a bright light at the end of the remote).
A suit of IR LEDs would have the interesting side effect of either blinding a camcorder, or at least making the wearer of said suit look like the Electric Cowboy in the videos. Yes, if you get the reference, you're really really old. I know.
On the other hand, however, TDK was so incredibly dark, visually speaking, that any nighttime action scenes are going to look like pure 100% ass. Only the well lit indoor scenes will be viewable.
Spamming IS a dissocial personality disorder. Lack of empathy, a generally antisocial attitude, lack of honesty, possibly even a sadistic streak.
If you look at it from a statistical level, a good deal of people working in the tech industry are, with apologies, nerds. People who tend to think differently from the established norm also tend to have certain psychological problems (as the old saying goes, there's a thin line between genius and madness).
Steve Jobs: Narcissistic egotism and antisocial behavior (well documented). Bill Gates: Possible asperger syndrome (watch his videos). Steve Balmer: Just plain nuts (ditto). Terry Childs: Probable paranoid schizophrenia.
The list could easily be expanded to celebrities like Tom Cruise, and inventors, Henry Ford (paranoid with racist qualities), all the way down to people in government (from J Edgar Hoover up through the presidents themselves).
While I've gone off track a little, to imply that spammers are just blameless, mischevious, kind hearted elves is a bit off track. With their criminal ties, the mob and like profiting from their work, every mob hit is directly funded in part from spammers.
Considering how many mission critical systems are frequently attacked and even turned into botnets for spammers, how long until a hospital system gets messed up and a patient dies because the pharmacy system orders V1@Gr@ for everybody? Think about it, won't we? Thank you.
I build my own systems at about 1/2 to 1/3 the cheapest retail pricing for equivilent brand name machines. Plenty of people do. We don't NEED a corporation to build our machines for us. The big problem is that Apple still thinks it's in the age where people look for the "Any" key on their keyboards, that only people with the right degrees and knowhow can build a PC from the ground up. Just look at how long it took them to give people permission to tinker on their own Macs without voiding the warranty. Ironically, their assemlyline workers' tecnhical qualifications are just about the same as the customers they're willing to disenfranchise.
Now that Macs share the same architecture as PCs, they have even less of an excuse to tie their users hands. Except, of course, the almighty dollar. Which they would make more of, if they could just get Jobs to pull his head from his almighty ass long enough to see it. And in the end, it's an elitist egalitarian attitude towards their own customers and market base.
If you ask me, it seems like most Mac owners are essentially paying Apple to insult their intelligence. And liking it.
Hurricanes and tornadoes are completely different things. Hurricanes can be predicted days before they make landfall. Tornadoes can only be predicted by seconds, WHEN they can be predicted.
Hurricanes barely reach wind speeds above 155 MPH (the max speed of a category 4). Tornadoes can reach up to 300 MPH.
Hurricanes are formed offshore by predictable heat patterns in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Tornadoes are formed by random wind sheers within storm patterns.
Hurricane damage is basically just heavy wind/rain. Not like the funnel clouds formed by tornadoes, which rip up everything in their path, shoot them into the sky at speeds sufficient to spear lumber through tree trunks, and toss cars and houses hundreds of feet up and/or through the air. This, consequently, is also why tornadoes on a case by case basis, are far more destructive to both life and property, than hurricanes have been able to statistically do on a yearly basis (New Orleans doesn't count, that was largely due to horrid mismanagement, poor engineering, and general poor planning).
Hurricanes do not form in the midwest, not even from Texas through Canada. Tornadoes can form anywhere from the midwest through southeastern states in the US.
And if you've been paying attention to the news and statistics, there's at least a dozen tornadoes to every hurricane to make landfall. Every year. In the same exact region.
The region the Pickens plan calls for just happens to also be known as Tornado Alley. In which case, those turbines can be very expensive to replace at the least, and become flying chopping blades at the worst.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for wind power, but I don't think anyone's taking this particular problem into account.
I was thinking the same exact thing, especially every time one of them mentions Kucinich, like he's somehow got a chance in Hell of winning an election (you know, like last time), which in a hypothetical situation would lead to McCain winning the presidency. You know, the same Kucinich that filed his articles for impeachment, and then voted against it that very same day.
As far as most of the news goes, you know, if they actually read it, it'd be noted that Obama voted on this particular bill because the other ones were so odious, so blatant in their disregard for privacy, this this bill was essentially the lesser of two evils.
And McCain, by the way, didn't even show up for the vote. At least Obama showed up, did his job, and possibly, JUST POSSIBLY, prevented a far worse bill from being accepted instead. As in "Time to break out the bug detector for our bimonthly cleaning!" worse.
The scam so nice they remarketed it twice! These handy dandy foot pads, using an "Ancient Japanese Secret", drain the toxins from your feet in exactly the same way a tree's toxins flow out through their roots (?!?). How do you know it works? You adhere a pad to each foot, and wear it while you sleep, and lo and behold, it's a different color when you wake up in the morning! Thanks to a little iron oxide in the pads reacting to the sweat from your feet.
These were being developed/sold in the late 90s, but Corbin Motors went bankrupt well before the prices on gas shot up. Ironically, there is a huge market for their tri wheel enclosed scooter today, they just came in ahead of the game.
That could backfire badly, people are even more willing to sign up/pay for stuff they hear about from the mailbox (eg: "Oh, they couldn't possibly be lying about time shares, they sent me a "certified" letter! And I could win a truck!"). They made a fortune with those kind of offers back in the 80s and 90s. At least the electronic spam has half a chance of being blocked by the ISP. The post orifice will pretty much deliver anything you hand them.
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Give it away on Freecycle or Craigslist, that's the simplest option.
Depending where you are, there are plenty of computer recycling/reselling businesses out there. For example, in the Puget Sound, there's stores such as Re-PC, where you can drop off pretty much anything. They're amazing places, you can even find old 1st generation luggable PCs, memory modules the size of paperback books, and massive 5mb HDs from ages long past.
Anyhoo, give that a shot. And avoid Goodwill like the plague, whenever they get something they can't figure out how to use, off to the dumpster and landfills it goes.
You start the game with default clothing, basic black slacks and a red shirt. Then you spend half the game trying to earn a different color shirt. Just like all the others, except more desperately.
Buzzard collectors? You're planning on flying that thing through Arizona?!
Anyone who paid to have Crazy Frog on their phones deserves everything they get. Why should it be any different for iPhonoids?
Wud U liek some v1@gr@ or g3nu1n9 r013x w@+ch3s?
When society considers replying to a 5 syllable question with a two syllable answer as an "ordeal", you know we're all doomed.
Well, if one wants to truly be geeky, such a suit could also effectively blind CCD cameras everywhere, if cranked up high enough. This includes but isn't limited to: Security cameras, unwanted digital photographers, speedercams (build them into your license plate!), Brit style police cameras, etc.
Imagine every camera that records you as being a bright white blob.. They'll keep pulling over Louie Anderson!
But I'm off track, sorry.
Camcorders (or at least as far as I know, CCD based camcorders) are also very sensitive to IR light, hence why home security cams, and the infamous "X-Ray" Sony camcorder, have IR LEDs for night vision. One can demonstrate that on even the oldest cameras, simply by pointing a remote control at the lens while recording (you'll see a bright light at the end of the remote).
A suit of IR LEDs would have the interesting side effect of either blinding a camcorder, or at least making the wearer of said suit look like the Electric Cowboy in the videos. Yes, if you get the reference, you're really really old. I know.
On the other hand, however, TDK was so incredibly dark, visually speaking, that any nighttime action scenes are going to look like pure 100% ass. Only the well lit indoor scenes will be viewable.
Instead of fining a single boob, the FCC moved up to fining plural boobs. Business as usual.
Yeah, but it's in a password protected RAR file. Please sign up for an account at hahaha.fbi.gov in order to obtain a password.
Spamming IS a dissocial personality disorder. Lack of empathy, a generally antisocial attitude, lack of honesty, possibly even a sadistic streak.
If you look at it from a statistical level, a good deal of people working in the tech industry are, with apologies, nerds. People who tend to think differently from the established norm also tend to have certain psychological problems (as the old saying goes, there's a thin line between genius and madness).
Steve Jobs: Narcissistic egotism and antisocial behavior (well documented).
Bill Gates: Possible asperger syndrome (watch his videos).
Steve Balmer: Just plain nuts (ditto).
Terry Childs: Probable paranoid schizophrenia.
The list could easily be expanded to celebrities like Tom Cruise, and inventors, Henry Ford (paranoid with racist qualities), all the way down to people in government (from J Edgar Hoover up through the presidents themselves).
While I've gone off track a little, to imply that spammers are just blameless, mischevious, kind hearted elves is a bit off track. With their criminal ties, the mob and like profiting from their work, every mob hit is directly funded in part from spammers.
Considering how many mission critical systems are frequently attacked and even turned into botnets for spammers, how long until a hospital system gets messed up and a patient dies because the pharmacy system orders V1@Gr@ for everybody? Think about it, won't we? Thank you.
Ummmmmm, I think I speak for everyone when I say that those rules appear to have just changed.
I'm guessing that's British for "Pwnage", correct?
It's a live action graphic novel, gawd!
I am not an engineer. However, being a youtube addict, I believe these highly technical videos will explain why that will not work.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kV7PUq-CUuc
http://youtube.com/watch?v=q7Hfr5fVPd4 (Yes, that IS Sonny Bono)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DR1q-V4XYjI
But on the other hand, you DO get Shatner.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dHKd80asXy4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ywvF71tRR2c
It would take some kinda miracle, or something.
I build my own systems at about 1/2 to 1/3 the cheapest retail pricing for equivilent brand name machines. Plenty of people do. We don't NEED a corporation to build our machines for us. The big problem is that Apple still thinks it's in the age where people look for the "Any" key on their keyboards, that only people with the right degrees and knowhow can build a PC from the ground up. Just look at how long it took them to give people permission to tinker on their own Macs without voiding the warranty. Ironically, their assemlyline workers' tecnhical qualifications are just about the same as the customers they're willing to disenfranchise.
Now that Macs share the same architecture as PCs, they have even less of an excuse to tie their users hands. Except, of course, the almighty dollar. Which they would make more of, if they could just get Jobs to pull his head from his almighty ass long enough to see it. And in the end, it's an elitist egalitarian attitude towards their own customers and market base.
If you ask me, it seems like most Mac owners are essentially paying Apple to insult their intelligence. And liking it.
More like "Sue Predictably".
Hurricanes and tornadoes are completely different things. Hurricanes can be predicted days before they make landfall. Tornadoes can only be predicted by seconds, WHEN they can be predicted.
Hurricanes barely reach wind speeds above 155 MPH (the max speed of a category 4). Tornadoes can reach up to 300 MPH.
Hurricanes are formed offshore by predictable heat patterns in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Tornadoes are formed by random wind sheers within storm patterns.
Hurricane damage is basically just heavy wind/rain. Not like the funnel clouds formed by tornadoes, which rip up everything in their path, shoot them into the sky at speeds sufficient to spear lumber through tree trunks, and toss cars and houses hundreds of feet up and/or through the air. This, consequently, is also why tornadoes on a case by case basis, are far more destructive to both life and property, than hurricanes have been able to statistically do on a yearly basis (New Orleans doesn't count, that was largely due to horrid mismanagement, poor engineering, and general poor planning).
Hurricanes do not form in the midwest, not even from Texas through Canada. Tornadoes can form anywhere from the midwest through southeastern states in the US.
And if you've been paying attention to the news and statistics, there's at least a dozen tornadoes to every hurricane to make landfall. Every year. In the same exact region.
The region the Pickens plan calls for just happens to also be known as Tornado Alley. In which case, those turbines can be very expensive to replace at the least, and become flying chopping blades at the worst.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for wind power, but I don't think anyone's taking this particular problem into account.
I was thinking the same exact thing, especially every time one of them mentions Kucinich, like he's somehow got a chance in Hell of winning an election (you know, like last time), which in a hypothetical situation would lead to McCain winning the presidency. You know, the same Kucinich that filed his articles for impeachment, and then voted against it that very same day.
As far as most of the news goes, you know, if they actually read it, it'd be noted that Obama voted on this particular bill because the other ones were so odious, so blatant in their disregard for privacy, this this bill was essentially the lesser of two evils.
And McCain, by the way, didn't even show up for the vote. At least Obama showed up, did his job, and possibly, JUST POSSIBLY, prevented a far worse bill from being accepted instead. As in "Time to break out the bug detector for our bimonthly cleaning!" worse.
You tell us, you're an expert on the subject and all.
The scam so nice they remarketed it twice! These handy dandy foot pads, using an "Ancient Japanese Secret", drain the toxins from your feet in exactly the same way a tree's toxins flow out through their roots (?!?). How do you know it works? You adhere a pad to each foot, and wear it while you sleep, and lo and behold, it's a different color when you wake up in the morning! Thanks to a little iron oxide in the pads reacting to the sweat from your feet.
https://www.buykinoki.com/
That's pretty much it, and plenty of suckers have bought into it.
Or is it?
http://www.myersmotors.com/
These were being developed/sold in the late 90s, but Corbin Motors went bankrupt well before the prices on gas shot up. Ironically, there is a huge market for their tri wheel enclosed scooter today, they just came in ahead of the game.
http://www.3wheelers.com/corbin.html
That could backfire badly, people are even more willing to sign up/pay for stuff they hear about from the mailbox (eg: "Oh, they couldn't possibly be lying about time shares, they sent me a "certified" letter! And I could win a truck!"). They made a fortune with those kind of offers back in the 80s and 90s. At least the electronic spam has half a chance of being blocked by the ISP. The post orifice will pretty much deliver anything you hand them.