The President of the United States has whitehouse.gov, where he can spew propaganda all day long if he so chooses. This guy is a sitting Senator, and the President-elect. I don't think it's a big deal that he gets his own.gov website to spew his own propaganda...after the inauguration, it will just end up at whitehouse.gov.
9600 bps was especially thrilling, since it was the first time I had a modem where the modem actually displayed text faster than I could read it. With 2400 (and especially 1200 and 300) I would have to read, pause waiting for more text to come through, read, pause, etc.
When 14.4k came along, I could actually MUD without buffering a screen of commands at once while the modem caught up to me.
Young whippersnappers. When I was "at a young age", it was called vi, and it didn't have any of this fruity syntax highlighting, and if you wanted to navigate around a document you had to use h,j,k,l, not those hand-holding arrow keys.
Remember the old dig at emacs, "Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping?" Well back then, an 8 MB program actually did mean constant swapping!
The comment shows a tragic misunderstanding of how echo and shell expansion really work, but it does provide a nifty little tip if your system is so hosed up it has no "ls" command. I know that I've been in situations where ls was not there or was compromised (due to a rootkit), and "echo *" just never occurred to me as a workaround.
I think McCain's Rovian tactics coupled with the Palin selection did him in. He was going against an orator with the power to inspire people with his words like no one has in a generation, and he countered it with nothing but relentlessly negative attacks.
I was a McCain supporter in 2000, and the way this campaign was run was incredibly disappointing for me. I could not see myself electing someone who drowned out whatever positive message he may have had in almost constant smears against his opponent.
It was an exercise in trying to see if I could successfully fit a poop joke and an insightful comment in the same post, and if so, if I could make the moderators' heads explode.
My kid is an avid gamer and she knows if she crosses the line she's going to meet my belt on the other side.
Yes, I find that beating people is a great way to curb aggression. If they can't get it through their thick heads that violence isn't okay, they just need to be slapped around a little more.
Video games do not make people violent. On the contrary, I find video games to be a good way to wind down after a good killing spree. Video games train you to concentrate on a single task for a long period of time, which is an invaluable skill when you have to bury the bodies deep enough to evade those pesky corpse-sniffing dogs.
I find that far from being more aggressive, video games have made me more focused. Before, I was so aggressive I would get sloppy in my work, and often leave incriminating evidence behind. Now, with the help of video games, I can calmly clean up the scene, making sure not so much as a stray hair is left. This has made me so difficult to track that I can send off taunting letters to police secure in the knowledge that they'll never find me. Thanks, video games!
There's nothing in it for me if I flush after I take a shit in a public toilet, yet the world's a better place if I do.
Yes, and my world would have been a better place if you had done a courtesy flush or two while I was in there. I swear to God man, I don't know what you've been eating, but I think you need to see a doctor. The smell could stun a yak at 50 yards.
As for voting, I think you should vote every year, not just in presidential election years. It helps keep you in the habit of voting, and your voice counts a lot more in the local election than it ever could in the national race. Also, your local government is likely to have a much more immediate and tangible effect on your day to day life than the bozos in Washington will.
Seriously...the guy's had two solid years of coverage of this damn election, and he hasn't had enough? I think he should just start beating his head against the wall repeatedly, it's a much more efficient means of self torture.
A 40 pound child is a little more...yielding than a 40 pound chunk of metal. Also, the 40 pound chunk of metal would presumably be falling on the car from above, not hitting the car head-on. So yah, it may not actually reduce the entire car to a smoking crater, but it would likely total it.
So, while I have no doubt you have plentiful experience striking 40 pound children with vehicles, I'm not sure that experience is directly applicable to the situation at hand.
talk requires a terminal that can handle curses (vt100 or similar). This creates a barrier that's simply too cumbersome. I would suggest using write instead.
If encryption is needed, I would suggest rot13. For double encryption, rot26 can be used. Or, you could do what they did in WWII and "encrypt" by using an obscure language that few outsiders are likely to be able to decode. Since getting your coworkers to learn Navajo is probably out of reach, I suggest Pig Latin.
Really, I think the submitter is making this harder than it needs to be.
I lived in an apartment for almost a year with no TV, mostly because I didn't think it was worth it to spend the money on the TV when I couldn't afford a monthly cable bill. About two weeks before I was going to move out, I finally broke down and bought a TV. Plugged it in to the cable line just for kicks, and voila, cable TV. I could have been watching free cable TV the entire time I was there.
Of course, when I moved into the new place, I plugged the TV to the cable line there and...nothing. That really sucked.
It's as if someone said, "You know, I like MySpace, but the blog posts there just aren't inane enough. I wish there was a site where people could quickly and easily share every minute of their boring lives with the world."
Didn't he have a somewhat tumultuous affair with his kids' English teacher a few decades ago? I could see why he would want to suppress stories about that sort of thing.
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The President of the United States has whitehouse.gov, where he can spew propaganda all day long if he so chooses. This guy is a sitting Senator, and the President-elect. I don't think it's a big deal that he gets his own .gov website to spew his own propaganda...after the inauguration, it will just end up at whitehouse.gov.
9600 bps was especially thrilling, since it was the first time I had a modem where the modem actually displayed text faster than I could read it. With 2400 (and especially 1200 and 300) I would have to read, pause waiting for more text to come through, read, pause, etc.
When 14.4k came along, I could actually MUD without buffering a screen of commands at once while the modem caught up to me.
Young whippersnappers. When I was "at a young age", it was called vi, and it didn't have any of this fruity syntax highlighting, and if you wanted to navigate around a document you had to use h,j,k,l, not those hand-holding arrow keys.
Remember the old dig at emacs, "Eight Megs and Constantly Swapping?" Well back then, an 8 MB program actually did mean constant swapping!
I've been in this business for too damn long.
why didnt he just fill out the form and see where he would be redirected to or wait for someone to contact him?
Because he's already on 3 other dating sites, and his wife is starting to get suspicious.
plentyoffish.com
That sounds like the perfect site for me...people tell me I'm plenty offish all the time!
$5/10/20
It's nice that you want to help, but I don't think sending 2.5 cents is really going to have that much of an effect on the project.
The comment shows a tragic misunderstanding of how echo and shell expansion really work, but it does provide a nifty little tip if your system is so hosed up it has no "ls" command. I know that I've been in situations where ls was not there or was compromised (due to a rootkit), and "echo *" just never occurred to me as a workaround.
I think McCain's Rovian tactics coupled with the Palin selection did him in. He was going against an orator with the power to inspire people with his words like no one has in a generation, and he countered it with nothing but relentlessly negative attacks.
I was a McCain supporter in 2000, and the way this campaign was run was incredibly disappointing for me. I could not see myself electing someone who drowned out whatever positive message he may have had in almost constant smears against his opponent.
Apparently IBM is in a big hurry to start offending people by misrepresenting their genders.
It was an exercise in trying to see if I could successfully fit a poop joke and an insightful comment in the same post, and if so, if I could make the moderators' heads explode.
Another failed experiment.
My kid is an avid gamer and she knows if she crosses the line she's going to meet my belt on the other side.
Yes, I find that beating people is a great way to curb aggression. If they can't get it through their thick heads that violence isn't okay, they just need to be slapped around a little more.
Video games do not make people violent. On the contrary, I find video games to be a good way to wind down after a good killing spree. Video games train you to concentrate on a single task for a long period of time, which is an invaluable skill when you have to bury the bodies deep enough to evade those pesky corpse-sniffing dogs.
I find that far from being more aggressive, video games have made me more focused. Before, I was so aggressive I would get sloppy in my work, and often leave incriminating evidence behind. Now, with the help of video games, I can calmly clean up the scene, making sure not so much as a stray hair is left. This has made me so difficult to track that I can send off taunting letters to police secure in the knowledge that they'll never find me. Thanks, video games!
There's nothing in it for me if I flush after I take a shit in a public toilet, yet the world's a better place if I do.
Yes, and my world would have been a better place if you had done a courtesy flush or two while I was in there. I swear to God man, I don't know what you've been eating, but I think you need to see a doctor. The smell could stun a yak at 50 yards.
As for voting, I think you should vote every year, not just in presidential election years. It helps keep you in the habit of voting, and your voice counts a lot more in the local election than it ever could in the national race. Also, your local government is likely to have a much more immediate and tangible effect on your day to day life than the bozos in Washington will.
Seriously...the guy's had two solid years of coverage of this damn election, and he hasn't had enough? I think he should just start beating his head against the wall repeatedly, it's a much more efficient means of self torture.
A 40 pound child is a little more...yielding than a 40 pound chunk of metal. Also, the 40 pound chunk of metal would presumably be falling on the car from above, not hitting the car head-on. So yah, it may not actually reduce the entire car to a smoking crater, but it would likely total it.
So, while I have no doubt you have plentiful experience striking 40 pound children with vehicles, I'm not sure that experience is directly applicable to the situation at hand.
Who would you have teaching courses on legal matters if not lawyers?
Armchair lawyers, obviously. They're cheaper and in abundant supply, especially on sites like this one.
talk requires a terminal that can handle curses (vt100 or similar). This creates a barrier that's simply too cumbersome. I would suggest using write instead.
If encryption is needed, I would suggest rot13. For double encryption, rot26 can be used. Or, you could do what they did in WWII and "encrypt" by using an obscure language that few outsiders are likely to be able to decode. Since getting your coworkers to learn Navajo is probably out of reach, I suggest Pig Latin.
Really, I think the submitter is making this harder than it needs to be.
He responded to a troll in an informative way using the troll's own native dialect. Sounds informative to me.
The best time to shut down the servers is right before you quit your job. Password-protecting the BIOS first adds value too.
I lived in an apartment for almost a year with no TV, mostly because I didn't think it was worth it to spend the money on the TV when I couldn't afford a monthly cable bill. About two weeks before I was going to move out, I finally broke down and bought a TV. Plugged it in to the cable line just for kicks, and voila, cable TV. I could have been watching free cable TV the entire time I was there.
Of course, when I moved into the new place, I plugged the TV to the cable line there and...nothing. That really sucked.
It's as if someone said, "You know, I like MySpace, but the blog posts there just aren't inane enough. I wish there was a site where people could quickly and easily share every minute of their boring lives with the world."
Didn't he have a somewhat tumultuous affair with his kids' English teacher a few decades ago? I could see why he would want to suppress stories about that sort of thing.
Since it's going to be spent according to the wishes of the "Internet community", I can only assume 95% of it will be spent on porn.
Good luck. I predict a fierce bidding war for .fart.
Honestly, some people seem to think the world began with episode 1 of star wars.
No, that was the beginning of the end of the world.