Of the 500 or so found, near 100 percent have been of the stock that was being destroyed after Gulf I. They no longer contain nerve agents, have been disarmed but not destroyed, and were found as one and twos scattered around the country. You can find more unexploded Civil War ordinances in America's fields than the supposed WMDs found since the invasion of Iraq.
As far as bin Laden is concerned, our government couldn't find that piece of white trash Eric Rudolph hiding in the North Carolina mountains, how them white boys with black shiny shoes gonna find an Arab hiding in the hills of Afghanistan?
I always preferred Bosch for routers. For most tools, it is the best woodworking tool out there, though nothing beats Milwaukee for it's line of Sawzall models.
I believe that if you read the accounts of the 401k collapses of the Enron employees you will see that they were restricted to buying only Enron stock with that 401k. They were also locked in to such a degree that as the house came down, they could not have divested. As for all the other funds that bought into something that was too good to be true, that's the investing biz. Sometimes you win, most often you lose.
Don't slam the employees though, they were restricted in ways that should make us all sit up and take notice.
I actually appears to be scorch marks. It also looks as if the force of the explosion moved the laptop away from the edge of the table. The table cloth seems to have some drawing and puckering where it drapes over the table edge. The pattern of discoloration in front of where the laptop is sitting is more scorch like than liquid spill.
I and the users that I support at work all use Firefox to access Outlook Web Access to an Exchange 2000 machine. No issues other than the the close window javascript doen't fire. Most people just use the x to exit a program anyway.
Actually, I just stopped using the mod points that I get. It didn't seem to matter that I tried to be serious with the points. I read too many "the mods are fucked" posts, and decided that it is not worth the hassle (like that many posters really say anything original or worthwhile).
I still RTFA's that Slashdot brings to my attention, but most of the time the discussion here is worse than having Fox news, CSPAN, and Air America all on at the same time.
I have users I support that have been sitting at a keyboard : mouse : screen for ten years and do not know how to right click, they doubleclick everything, cannot Cntl-C --> Cntl-V, do not understand the difference between a shortcut: a file : a program, do not understand that their computer is part of a network, do not know that they have a home directory : personal folders...
...but they can change the colors in their display, delete menu entries so that shutdown is no longer an option, and forward jokester emails from outside to everyone in the office with a read reciept.
I didn't include an entire transcript of a call, just the humorous part.
We were very diligent in making sure that the cab files were on the system, or that a cd was in hand. Users are not always truthful though, so sometimes you have problems.
I walked single moms bouncing kids in their lap through deleting reg keys to clean out viruses without incident (but the first thing we do is export the reg file to c:\ just in case), helped seniors configure their modems so they could get WebVan to bring them groceries. Always above and beyond, damn the 8 minute call limit--full speed ahead!
Getting $10 an hour didn't stop the higher ups from deciding that off shore was better.
Also, see Windows TCP/IP implementation in Win95/98. Working as an ISP call center tech during it's reign of terror was fun.
"You can connect OK but can't get any web sites?
Tries pinging
DNS is hosed
"OK now, open network properties. See TCP/IP? Delete it. Go ahead and delete everything in this window. Click OK all the way back out. Now restart when Windows asks you to. If it doesn't, restart anyway."
Minutes pass
"OK now, let's go back to network properties and readd TCP/IP. Windows is asking for the CD? Just put it in the drive---you don't have the CD? I'm sorry, I'm sure that I asked you that before we started. Be sure and call back when you find your CD, OK? Bye now"
Even more basic than that, I have users in this company that have been at a keyboard for almost a decade and do not know the basic keyboard commands for Select, Copy, Cut and Paste. After looking at me in amazement and getting a short lesson, a month later it has been forgotten. I tell people all the time - "It's not a computer, it's a big ol' typewriter, calculator and cd player, just don't be afraid of it".
I then go back to my desk and continue automating their lives so that they will never have to learn how to use the computer.
Apparently you were not an early adopter of SP4 Rollup update. It took me two repair installs to get my test server up and running again. Just think if I had believed that since it was from Redmond it was OK and deployed it to production?
Sheesh...
Get another glass of Kool-Aid and don't call back.
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Of the 500 or so found, near 100 percent have been of the stock that was being destroyed after Gulf I. They no longer contain nerve agents, have been disarmed but not destroyed, and were found as one and twos scattered around the country. You can find more unexploded Civil War ordinances in America's fields than the supposed WMDs found since the invasion of Iraq.
That should inspire terror, but the politicos make the laws soft after acting outraged when some pretty soccer mom and kids gets killed by a drunk.
Grab a sound bite and slink back into the pit.
As far as bin Laden is concerned, our government couldn't find that piece of white trash Eric Rudolph hiding in the North Carolina mountains, how them white boys with black shiny shoes gonna find an Arab hiding in the hills of Afghanistan?
Then, they should get busy!
The government hasn't dealt with any issues in years.
There has already been enough influx of californicators and other nere do wells.
It is why we wear pith helmets in the forest!
I always preferred Bosch for routers. For most tools, it is the best woodworking tool out there, though nothing beats Milwaukee for it's line of Sawzall models.
Hear! Hear!
Don't slam the employees though, they were restricted in ways that should make us all sit up and take notice.
I actually appears to be scorch marks. It also looks as if the force of the explosion moved the laptop away from the edge of the table. The table cloth seems to have some drawing and puckering where it drapes over the table edge. The pattern of discoloration in front of where the laptop is sitting is more scorch like than liquid spill.
...first.
Shouldn't it be "Byte me!"?
I and the users that I support at work all use Firefox to access Outlook Web Access to an Exchange 2000 machine. No issues other than the the close window javascript doen't fire. Most people just use the x to exit a program anyway.
A majority of users think the internet is on their computer and do not even know what a browser is.
Actually, I just stopped using the mod points that I get. It didn't seem to matter that I tried to be serious with the points. I read too many "the mods are fucked" posts, and decided that it is not worth the hassle (like that many posters really say anything original or worthwhile).
I still RTFA's that Slashdot brings to my attention, but most of the time the discussion here is worse than having Fox news, CSPAN, and Air America all on at the same time.
I don't care if he is AC, give the poster a point!
I have users I support that have been sitting at a keyboard : mouse : screen for ten years and do not know how to right click, they doubleclick everything, cannot Cntl-C --> Cntl-V, do not understand the difference between a shortcut: a file : a program, do not understand that their computer is part of a network, do not know that they have a home directory : personal folders...
People choose what to know and learn.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vi6/
...with a sea cucumber.
RTR rocks.
Just patch, load the business apps and go.
We were very diligent in making sure that the cab files were on the system, or that a cd was in hand. Users are not always truthful though, so sometimes you have problems.
I walked single moms bouncing kids in their lap through deleting reg keys to clean out viruses without incident (but the first thing we do is export the reg file to c:\ just in case), helped seniors configure their modems so they could get WebVan to bring them groceries. Always above and beyond, damn the 8 minute call limit--full speed ahead!
Getting $10 an hour didn't stop the higher ups from deciding that off shore was better.
Don't buy consumer machines. Buy small business machines. Nice and clean.
"You can connect OK but can't get any web sites?
Tries pinging
DNS is hosed
"OK now, open network properties. See TCP/IP? Delete it. Go ahead and delete everything in this window. Click OK all the way back out. Now restart when Windows asks you to. If it doesn't, restart anyway."
Minutes pass
"OK now, let's go back to network properties and readd TCP/IP. Windows is asking for the CD? Just put it in the drive---you don't have the CD? I'm sorry, I'm sure that I asked you that before we started. Be sure and call back when you find your CD, OK? Bye now"
I then go back to my desk and continue automating their lives so that they will never have to learn how to use the computer.
Sheesh...
Get another glass of Kool-Aid and don't call back.