cities in america such as new york and washington have amongst the HIGHEST rates of gun murders and assaults in the world.
DC and NYC also have some of the most stringent gun control laws in the US, if not the most stringent. Could it be that all those well-intentioned laws are being simply disobeyed by criminals? Let me put on my shocked face...
Imagine what he's got to do to get fired from such a position.
Something along the lines of "missed a step during Martian rock decontamination; 5 billion people dead" will probably get him a verbal warning at least.
Gopher would basically nullify any sort of annoying banner ads, flash pop-up ads, and (even worse) advertising internet apps that seem to have found a niche on some of the bigger websites -- leaving you with just straight content
So does running Lynx as your browser. Nothing like watching some Dreamweaver-spawned, ad-laden behemoth of a page get reduced to a two second download. Mmmm.
Just who do you think you are to speak for all of us?
And who are you to speak for everyone else, AC? How many more people have to die before we stop treating terrorism as a criminal act and start treating it as an act of war? I'm not driving a bandwagon, but I'm sure as hell not going to ride in a hearse if I can help it.
Not everyone who lost someone to this tragedy agrees that we should be afraid in its wake.
I completely agree. To take action to preemptively stop terrorists before they can harm more innocents isn't acting out of fear.
But to expect privacy in a public school setting isn't very smart. Why give the bastards a chance to cause you trouble? If you're too willful to be prudent with your actions in school, and you know what you're up against, that's your problem.
Since 9/11 we as a nation have lived in a constant state of fear, much of it irrational.
Tell that to the people who died on 9/11. Oh, wait, you can't, sorry. Tell the surviving families they're irrational instead.
Minors, that is people under 18 in the US, have minimal rights or expectations of privacy in a school setting. I hated it when I was a student, and so did everyone else, I'm sure. Guess what, when you grow up and get a job, and work on a network in a corporate environment, you get treated the same way: no expectation of privacy.
Do your schoolwork at school, and save the fun stuff for your non-keylogged boxen at home. Don't let some paranoid school sysop get you expelled just because you tried pulling up a web page they happen not to like.
To the asshat moderator: try reading a Wall Street Journal from time to time. Kodak was the single worst one-year performer in the whole stock market. Fuji is getting more of its film devloping kiosks into stores and supplanting Kodak.
Looks like the folks at Kodak are taking a page out of Utah Darl's playbook. Fuji's kicking Kodak's ass on a few levels, and Kodak looks like they'd rather litigate than innovate.
Why does LOTR deserve best picture over Master and Commander
Because Master and Commander, though an enjoyable movie, was pretty much the same movie as ST2: The Wrath of Khan. Good, but placed against LOTR it didn't stand a chance.
Where does this perverse notion come from that GUI users are inhernetly incapable of using a command-line?
Oh, I know this one. It comes from supporting about a dozen or so perverse GUI users who are incapable of using a command line. They're really good at Photoshop though.
I do use the service. And as a subscriber you can download songs and burn those songs to CD. The exceptions are songs marked with the red Buy Only tag.
You don't think at above a 3rd grade level, do you?
Wonder if there's any spots on that ranch left that can make a good Star Wars movie?
You'd have to find a writer and director on that ranch left who could make a good Star Wars movie first. If the Pinot Noir is anything like Episode 1, you can just make mine a Guinness, thanks.
I hate to "me too" a post, but I think you're dead on. His older work seemed almost prescient; the later works, especially PR, are rooted in the here and now.
I can't be the only person who got sick of Pilates references halfway through PR. Then again, I'm probably the only person who really enjoyed Idoru as well.
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Ah, these must be some of those "big blue room" activities I've heard people talk about.
Just look for the ship running in circles in the middle of the North Sea. "Ensign Chef, I said CTRL-ALT-DELETE, now!" "Bork bork bork!"
DC and NYC also have some of the most stringent gun control laws in the US, if not the most stringent. Could it be that all those well-intentioned laws are being simply disobeyed by criminals? Let me put on my shocked face...
For Adobe, try removing the plugins.
Please stand by, someone will be posting shortly to flame you for mildly joking about Al Gore creating the Internet...
Something along the lines of "missed a step during Martian rock decontamination; 5 billion people dead" will probably get him a verbal warning at least.
"Hi. I'm having trouble accessing my files today."
"Your username?"
"SF3092."
[clickety-click] "Sharon Fox, is it?"
"That's right."
[clickety-click rm -rf, you know the drill] "But you don't have any files!"
"What? OMIGOD, my LAN tax proposal was in there!"
"As if I didn't know."
"Excuse me?"
"I said 'I can't imagine where it could go.' Don't worry, we have it on backup."
"Thank goodness."
"It's engraved on a grain of rice. Bwah hahahaha!"
"AAIIIIIIGGGGHHHHH!"
(with apologies to Simon)
"Simmons, I told you to leave that report disc on my desk. Where the hell is it?"
"At the moment, sir, it's under your Diet Coke."
So does running Lynx as your browser. Nothing like watching some Dreamweaver-spawned, ad-laden behemoth of a page get reduced to a two second download. Mmmm.
No VIC-20 support? Darn, and I've even got a tape drive.
And who are you to speak for everyone else, AC? How many more people have to die before we stop treating terrorism as a criminal act and start treating it as an act of war? I'm not driving a bandwagon, but I'm sure as hell not going to ride in a hearse if I can help it.
I completely agree. To take action to preemptively stop terrorists before they can harm more innocents isn't acting out of fear.
But to expect privacy in a public school setting isn't very smart. Why give the bastards a chance to cause you trouble? If you're too willful to be prudent with your actions in school, and you know what you're up against, that's your problem.
Tell that to the people who died on 9/11. Oh, wait, you can't, sorry. Tell the surviving families they're irrational instead.
Minors, that is people under 18 in the US, have minimal rights or expectations of privacy in a school setting. I hated it when I was a student, and so did everyone else, I'm sure. Guess what, when you grow up and get a job, and work on a network in a corporate environment, you get treated the same way: no expectation of privacy.
Do your schoolwork at school, and save the fun stuff for your non-keylogged boxen at home. Don't let some paranoid school sysop get you expelled just because you tried pulling up a web page they happen not to like.
To the asshat moderator: try reading a Wall Street Journal from time to time. Kodak was the single worst one-year performer in the whole stock market. Fuji is getting more of its film devloping kiosks into stores and supplanting Kodak.
Looks like the folks at Kodak are taking a page out of Utah Darl's playbook. Fuji's kicking Kodak's ass on a few levels, and Kodak looks like they'd rather litigate than innovate.
Because Master and Commander, though an enjoyable movie, was pretty much the same movie as ST2: The Wrath of Khan. Good, but placed against LOTR it didn't stand a chance.
MS will just have to offer a version of Windows that doesn't include security features. That should slim it down considera...oh, wait a minute.
Hey AC, who's the condescending one here? Dumbass troll.
Oh, I know this one. It comes from supporting about a dozen or so perverse GUI users who are incapable of using a command line. They're really good at Photoshop though.
You don't think at above a 3rd grade level, do you?
You can burn songs you download. You're not a Napster user, are you?
You'd have to find a writer and director on that ranch left who could make a good Star Wars movie first. If the Pinot Noir is anything like Episode 1, you can just make mine a Guinness, thanks.
I can't be the only person who got sick of Pilates references halfway through PR. Then again, I'm probably the only person who really enjoyed Idoru as well.
How could you forget his contribution to the most replayable computer game ever?
You forgot the shout-outs in file_id.diz.