Very strange. I would love to figure this out. Even when I set Opera to identify as IE, the site identifies it as Opera and won't let me past the front door.
Well I don't know how you've managed it. I just tried in Solaris and FreeBSD also with Mozilla and no luck. No luck in WinXP with Firefox, Mozilla or Opera either. I would sure love to know what it is that makes it work for you, could be something that could be useful for other web sites as well.
Interesting, wish I could mod you way up on that. I just sent their customer service an email letting them know that. I also informed them that their limitations prevent use from the majority of browser/OS combinations.
"Your browser is not supported for use with this site. This site requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or above on Windows platforms or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 or above on Macintosh platforms. You can download the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer by clicking the link below."
Imagine my suprise to learn that this school lunch site was offering me the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer for Linux. But then I follow the link provided only to learn there is no such critter. It would seem that this WWW isn't so world wide, you have to use a proprietary browser that is only provided for an extremely limited number of OS.
Forget the whole big brother issue, this concept should be banned on the browser issue alone.
So if I tell my story of how failures with Win98 pushed me to proficient at Solaris at work and switch to Linux at home....how tinkering with Linux based computers became my main hobby...that's what they're looking for, right?
OMG....this has been on my mind a lot in the last few years. My old Kaypro had a simple, but sufficient, word processor. Was it WordStar? I don't remember but it seems like it fit on a floppy (5 1/4" and all of about 120 K per disk) and you still had room on the disk to store plenty of documents. It didn't do anything fancy but you could put out some pretty good documents with it.
So that was mid 80's and todays PDA's blow that hardware away. So yeah, how hard would it be to take some of those old word processor concepts, dust them off, and make something work?
You take a large leap from ones choice as and individual to install a rather unconventional siding to direct physical harm to people and animals. You seem to think those are similar, could you explain please? And these libertarians you speak of, are they all so violent?
Seems to me that the throwing of fists is a physical threat to someone and would be a completely different issue from the one at hand. How fist fighting can be compared with tanning in your underware as a freedom is beyond me.
I suppose you would hope that your city enacts a law that prevents people from tanning in lime green shorts too.
What if you intend to own and occupy your property for the long term. Your neighbors do things that cause the value of your property to increase which would cause your taxes on that property to increase. That is just as unfair.
I've never heard of this Stallman character. There is, I would imagine, a very good reason for that. Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Payne.....they would be among those you should look to for words of wisdom regarding the concept of freedom in the USA.
Nice theory. In reality you are taxed based upon property value. The higher the assessed value the more you pay. Which means that if you intend to occupy the property for the long term you are not encouraged to keep the value high.
So your government who grants you land would seem to be sending a message on that front.
Your shotgun arguement is a completely different matter. I didn't see anything in TFA that mentioned these people firing weapons at their neighbors, only that they had an unusual choice in siding for their home.
You're looking at this as though the glass were half empty. The higher ones property is valued the more one will be charged in taxes. So to say that lowering of property values harms neighbors might not be the case. I'm thinking you would first have to prove that someone lost money because of this before you could prove any harm done.
If what they were doing on their property caused illness, maybe causing some sort of a public health hazard, that would harm people. This, a little tin foil on the house, does not.
Some might even argue that it is abstract art and has the potential to improve the value over time.
The idea that you can go around forcing your neighbors to maintain or improve the value of YOUR property is absurd. I can see it now, you want to sell your house so you go around telling your neighbors how to do their yard work and install fountains and siding and tell them that if the market value of your property doesn't increase at least 10% you'll kick their ass or take them to court.
Ah, that's America.
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"...it's scary these people are procreatingit's scary these people are procreating..."
You don't suppose that these people had children prior to suffering whatever trauma is causing the psychosis? Why is this so scary? Are you assuming some sort of genetic defect even though what you wrote about was trauma related?
Perhaps the procreation is what drove them nuts. I know my own kids sure drive me up a wall at times.
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Yeah because gods forbid anyone who owns property or a home should be allowed to do as they please with it just because they own it. They must be forced to conform with government approved standards. If they can't handle that then perhaps some time in Siberia will teach them a lesson. If they offend a second time then the neighbors should be allowed to lynch them.
But only neighbors who are party members in good standing.
Who are these assholes who insist on acting like individuals anyway? Fucking Americans.
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Obviously you've failed to understand that the police are in on it as well. Every cop car is equipped with a mobile RF transmitter. So if they called in the cops then they're only going to increase their exposure to the killer death rays.
You're right, the prices went really high really fast. That whipped everyone into a froth and the mining companies responded as you would expect.
Miners were told to produce. Work all the overtime you need, just produce. Zero down time allowed, if something broke you didn't fix it you simply replaced it. Prices were high enough for long enough that the mining companies made financial arrangements as necessary to keep production fast paced. Some miners made similar personal financial arrangements.
Of course the price was artificial. When the silver market crashed the mining companies and miners were left holding contracts. The silver price was not higher than when it started, it was far lower. Silver had been a primary metal but when this was over there was only a single mine in the valley left producing silver as their primary product. A couple of other mines lingered for a while but only produced silver as a secondary product because at this point there was more profit in lead and zinc.
There were a lot of other forces at work. Our government wasn't any help. Government would prefer us to fill our silver needs from foreign countries. Money isn't based on gold or silver anymore, it's all just paper. Environmentalists have gone overboard to the extreme, to the point where it is now impossible to completely produce silver, lead or zinc in this country or Canada. The actions of the environmentalists have made it impossible to to produce here for less than the market price in order to drive production to other countries who do not have those environmental restrictions and cheap labor. Gulf Resources and Bunker Hill certainly caused their own problems by poisioning and killing a bunch of us which of course fueled the environmentalsts.
There were lots of factors in it all. But the spark that lit the fire was the artifical explosion then implosion of the silver market caused by the actions of the Hunt brothers. Had it not been for them, the mines would have been able to ride the ups and downs of the market as they always had. Mining companies were happy with long term steady profits. The Hunts were all about quick profit and they didn't care who got fucked as a result.
The truely unfortunate thing about the incident with the Hunt brothers is that the death penalty could not be applied.
No, I'm not being a smart ass. I lived in what was the silver capital and watched as businesses and families were destroyed. Lives were lost, directly and indirectly, due to their actions.
My only hope is that the gods do exist and that the Hunt brothers will rot in a firey hell for eternity.
Beautiful illustration. You learned enough to get the job done as well as learning enough to appreciate someone who does it right. That's just what this guy needs.
You're right that Heathkit by itself didn't teach anyone to be a pro. But it got me the basics, enough to really get a grip on things when the USAF taught me to be a pro. And yeah, getting qualified to solder on spacecraft parts was a totally different world...but it all started with that first kit.
Most of you kids are too young to remember them as they were in their prime. They used to sell kits that allowed you to build almost anything electronic and you learned as you built. They had the very best documentation available anywhere for anything. Every manual started with a brief course in soldering. They also had some excellent training courses including.....soldering.
If this were the 1980's I would recommend that you purchase a kit from them. You would then learn to solder and be able to go on to fix your drive, and maybe go on to build one of their excellent amateur radio sets or TV's or robots.
I carry a Knoppix CD with me at work. That is by far the best thing to do if you're forced to use Windows. Just drop the disk in and restart the machine. Trust me on this, you've never seen Windows run so good.
The other option is to carry a set of Mandrake install disks. Takes a little longer but it gives a better long term solution.
You can easily test 911 as well. As Ripp points out, it's not the taboo you think. Simply call the business line for your local PSAP and ask them when you can run a test with them. You might also ask them if they have tested with your VOIP provider, they will be happy to tell you all about it.
Our phone company tests each 911 trunk weekly. Cellular, PCS and SMR providers in our area test every other week. Every school in our area runs a 911 test monthly. There are a couple of nursing homes and other businesses who will schedule a test if they haven't had a legitimate call in the last 60 days.
It can be done and should be done. You should know that it works, at least once. You should ask if your VOIP provider runs regular tests.
Come on, you being at/. means you understand tech. Do you want to trust your life to an untested and unknown system?
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See if you can get in this one (chat in an MSN group): http://groups.msn.com/CoolPeopleRevisited/chat.ms
Very strange. I would love to figure this out. Even when I set Opera to identify as IE, the site identifies it as Opera and won't let me past the front door.
Are you going to http://www.mealpay.com/ or are you using some other link?
Well I don't know how you've managed it. I just tried in Solaris and FreeBSD also with Mozilla and no luck. No luck in WinXP with Firefox, Mozilla or Opera either. I would sure love to know what it is that makes it work for you, could be something that could be useful for other web sites as well.
I'm confused. What prevents me from putting OpenOffice on a system for a profit? Or Firefox? Or Thunderbird?
You are right, there are a lot of virus programs that target Outlook Express or Outlook. That is a very good reason not to use it.
Interesting, wish I could mod you way up on that. I just sent their customer service an email letting them know that. I also informed them that their limitations prevent use from the majority of browser/OS combinations.
Are you identifying as running IE?
I would love to have checked it out but:
"Your browser is not supported for use with this site. This site requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or above on Windows platforms or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 or above on Macintosh platforms. You can download the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer by clicking the link below."
Imagine my suprise to learn that this school lunch site was offering me the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer for Linux. But then I follow the link provided only to learn there is no such critter. It would seem that this WWW isn't so world wide, you have to use a proprietary browser that is only provided for an extremely limited number of OS.
Forget the whole big brother issue, this concept should be banned on the browser issue alone.
So if I tell my story of how failures with Win98 pushed me to proficient at Solaris at work and switch to Linux at home....how tinkering with Linux based computers became my main hobby...that's what they're looking for, right?
OMG....this has been on my mind a lot in the last few years. My old Kaypro had a simple, but sufficient, word processor. Was it WordStar? I don't remember but it seems like it fit on a floppy (5 1/4" and all of about 120 K per disk) and you still had room on the disk to store plenty of documents. It didn't do anything fancy but you could put out some pretty good documents with it.
So that was mid 80's and todays PDA's blow that hardware away. So yeah, how hard would it be to take some of those old word processor concepts, dust them off, and make something work?
You take a large leap from ones choice as and individual to install a rather unconventional siding to direct physical harm to people and animals. You seem to think those are similar, could you explain please? And these libertarians you speak of, are they all so violent?
Seems to me that the throwing of fists is a physical threat to someone and would be a completely different issue from the one at hand. How fist fighting can be compared with tanning in your underware as a freedom is beyond me.
I suppose you would hope that your city enacts a law that prevents people from tanning in lime green shorts too.
What if you intend to own and occupy your property for the long term. Your neighbors do things that cause the value of your property to increase which would cause your taxes on that property to increase. That is just as unfair.
I've never heard of this Stallman character. There is, I would imagine, a very good reason for that. Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Payne.....they would be among those you should look to for words of wisdom regarding the concept of freedom in the USA.
Nice theory. In reality you are taxed based upon property value. The higher the assessed value the more you pay. Which means that if you intend to occupy the property for the long term you are not encouraged to keep the value high.
So your government who grants you land would seem to be sending a message on that front.
Your shotgun arguement is a completely different matter. I didn't see anything in TFA that mentioned these people firing weapons at their neighbors, only that they had an unusual choice in siding for their home.
You're looking at this as though the glass were half empty. The higher ones property is valued the more one will be charged in taxes. So to say that lowering of property values harms neighbors might not be the case. I'm thinking you would first have to prove that someone lost money because of this before you could prove any harm done.
If what they were doing on their property caused illness, maybe causing some sort of a public health hazard, that would harm people. This, a little tin foil on the house, does not.
Some might even argue that it is abstract art and has the potential to improve the value over time.
The idea that you can go around forcing your neighbors to maintain or improve the value of YOUR property is absurd. I can see it now, you want to sell your house so you go around telling your neighbors how to do their yard work and install fountains and siding and tell them that if the market value of your property doesn't increase at least 10% you'll kick their ass or take them to court.
Ah, that's America.
"...it's scary these people are procreatingit's scary these people are procreating..."
You don't suppose that these people had children prior to suffering whatever trauma is causing the psychosis? Why is this so scary? Are you assuming some sort of genetic defect even though what you wrote about was trauma related?
Perhaps the procreation is what drove them nuts. I know my own kids sure drive me up a wall at times.
Yeah because gods forbid anyone who owns property or a home should be allowed to do as they please with it just because they own it. They must be forced to conform with government approved standards. If they can't handle that then perhaps some time in Siberia will teach them a lesson. If they offend a second time then the neighbors should be allowed to lynch them.
But only neighbors who are party members in good standing.
Who are these assholes who insist on acting like individuals anyway? Fucking Americans.
Obviously you've failed to understand that the police are in on it as well. Every cop car is equipped with a mobile RF transmitter. So if they called in the cops then they're only going to increase their exposure to the killer death rays.
You're right, the prices went really high really fast. That whipped everyone into a froth and the mining companies responded as you would expect.
Miners were told to produce. Work all the overtime you need, just produce. Zero down time allowed, if something broke you didn't fix it you simply replaced it. Prices were high enough for long enough that the mining companies made financial arrangements as necessary to keep production fast paced. Some miners made similar personal financial arrangements.
Of course the price was artificial. When the silver market crashed the mining companies and miners were left holding contracts. The silver price was not higher than when it started, it was far lower. Silver had been a primary metal but when this was over there was only a single mine in the valley left producing silver as their primary product. A couple of other mines lingered for a while but only produced silver as a secondary product because at this point there was more profit in lead and zinc.
There were a lot of other forces at work. Our government wasn't any help. Government would prefer us to fill our silver needs from foreign countries. Money isn't based on gold or silver anymore, it's all just paper. Environmentalists have gone overboard to the extreme, to the point where it is now impossible to completely produce silver, lead or zinc in this country or Canada. The actions of the environmentalists have made it impossible to to produce here for less than the market price in order to drive production to other countries who do not have those environmental restrictions and cheap labor. Gulf Resources and Bunker Hill certainly caused their own problems by poisioning and killing a bunch of us which of course fueled the environmentalsts.
There were lots of factors in it all. But the spark that lit the fire was the artifical explosion then implosion of the silver market caused by the actions of the Hunt brothers. Had it not been for them, the mines would have been able to ride the ups and downs of the market as they always had. Mining companies were happy with long term steady profits. The Hunts were all about quick profit and they didn't care who got fucked as a result.
The truely unfortunate thing about the incident with the Hunt brothers is that the death penalty could not be applied.
No, I'm not being a smart ass. I lived in what was the silver capital and watched as businesses and families were destroyed. Lives were lost, directly and indirectly, due to their actions.
My only hope is that the gods do exist and that the Hunt brothers will rot in a firey hell for eternity.
I attended this, there wasn't a very good turnout and the food sucked.
Beautiful illustration. You learned enough to get the job done as well as learning enough to appreciate someone who does it right. That's just what this guy needs.
You're right that Heathkit by itself didn't teach anyone to be a pro. But it got me the basics, enough to really get a grip on things when the USAF taught me to be a pro. And yeah, getting qualified to solder on spacecraft parts was a totally different world...but it all started with that first kit.
A/S/L?
Subjects like this make me really miss Heathkit.
Most of you kids are too young to remember them as they were in their prime. They used to sell kits that allowed you to build almost anything electronic and you learned as you built. They had the very best documentation available anywhere for anything. Every manual started with a brief course in soldering. They also had some excellent training courses including.....soldering.
If this were the 1980's I would recommend that you purchase a kit from them. You would then learn to solder and be able to go on to fix your drive, and maybe go on to build one of their excellent amateur radio sets or TV's or robots.
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I get the feeling you're kind of tongue in cheek about that. But for me it's been a reality that I clued into when I hit 35 or so.
My dad wasted the last few years of his productive life taking care of his parents. I'll be taking care of him soon.
Not my kids. We're gonna have a good time and I'm going to exit stage left while I'm still in my prime....and before I become a burden.
I carry a Knoppix CD with me at work. That is by far the best thing to do if you're forced to use Windows. Just drop the disk in and restart the machine. Trust me on this, you've never seen Windows run so good.
The other option is to carry a set of Mandrake install disks. Takes a little longer but it gives a better long term solution.
You can easily test 911 as well. As Ripp points out, it's not the taboo you think. Simply call the business line for your local PSAP and ask them when you can run a test with them. You might also ask them if they have tested with your VOIP provider, they will be happy to tell you all about it.
/. means you understand tech. Do you want to trust your life to an untested and unknown system?
Our phone company tests each 911 trunk weekly. Cellular, PCS and SMR providers in our area test every other week. Every school in our area runs a 911 test monthly. There are a couple of nursing homes and other businesses who will schedule a test if they haven't had a legitimate call in the last 60 days.
It can be done and should be done. You should know that it works, at least once. You should ask if your VOIP provider runs regular tests.
Come on, you being at