So much for "Hope and Change". I was looking forward to the end of the Patriot Act, and the closing of Guantanamo Bay.
I say this as the United States Government is staging "advisors", on the border between Syria and Jordan. I guess our Government didn't learn much from Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Remember, the enemy of our enemy isn't necessarily our "friend".
I like how they link to the article about how they build up their pods. Really cool info for the novice storage builder trying to put something similar together for their small enterprise. Enough information to get you going, enough redacted so that you actually have to DIY.
Honestly, I wouldn't think twice about doing the same thing. They are purchasing the drives, not stealing them. For "some reason" costco is buying them in lots where they can distribute them at that price. I guess they were just leveraging Costco and Best Buy's buying power to keep their business afloat.
I attended the first six weeks, I feel horrible that I didn't finish. But life gets in the way; wife, kids, house, work. I am glad I earned a high quality education while I was young and had nothing better to do.
Palin sucks. Obama sucks. Bush sucks. McCain (while honorable in his military service) currently sucks. Boehner sucks. Reid sucks. We are in a country of >300M people and these are the best we can come up with.
I personally don't fly unless my employer forces me to. My 2 year old daughter will certainly not fly since the porno scanners have been installed. She has flown twice before the porno scanners were installed. My family has chosen to drive to our destinations the last couple of years. The TSA is a joke. Right after 9-11 when President Bush announced the TSA and Patriot Act, I knew we were in for a knee jerk reaction which won't solve anything. President Obama is just accelerating the stupidity.
You are talking about the EPCOT where nobody owns real property, and the corporation owns everything. You come home and there are new appliances there, because the corporation thinks you are ready for them. Where all of the residents work for the corporation in exchange for living in this Experimental Community. Yeah, sounds right where this country is headed... The wrong way.
Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of our knee-jerk reaction to 9/11. The enemy is winning when our government spends trillions to treat every American like they are criminals. They spend thousands of dollars and a dozen lives, and we spend trillions and tens of thousands of lives. I just don't think "we" are winning.
Don't even get me started about the trillions it cost to get one guy sitting on the floor watching TV with the protection of our "ally" Pakistan. Get nukes, now you are our ally.
Absolutely; we are spending until our credit card with China and other developing nations is maxed out. I was hoping that Mr. Obama would fix the mess that Mr. Bush got us into; guess I was wrong. Mr. Obama, where are the taxes on the rich you promised? What ever happened to "too big to fail is too big to exist"? Our government likes to add the prefix "Cyber" to anything that has to do with technology. Maybe I should just hang out drinking my Cyber-coffee using my Cyber-macbook, and finish doing my Cyber-tax return.
I don't google/bing/yahoo anything I would not want printed on the front page of the New York Times.... I think Glenn Beck is a nut, like the Y2Kers. I also don't think a multi-billion dollar company who's business is storing data; is on my side either!
Massachusetts or Texas. If you overreact to a innocent stunt/prank, you are a hero because you are doing it in the name of Homeland Security. They are talking about having Turner broadcasting reimburse the city for millions, because the city didn't just take a look at it. Maybe have a subject matter expert determine that the damn thing was a light brite. I think the stunt was juvenile, but hilarious. It also showed how the terrorists won, because we detonate anything out of the ordinary these days.
If the Boston govt. was honest and actually had some intelligent people working there; they would say "It was a juvenile prank, however we are sorry we overreacted and locked the city down over light brites"......
It was a prank. Lately the government has treated us like uniform consumer units. You have to step in line, work overtime, spend more money then you make. If you step out of line, then you have to be dealt with. I can't believe we are governed by the stupidest people that money could buy. Call the bomb squad on a bunch of light brites (effectively). These idiots in government are ruining what used to be a great country.
In Iraq; "enemy combatants" are "terrorists and insurgents". To the Iraqi people do we look like insurgents. Just because they fight unconventional war doesn't make them terrorists. If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.
Our country is so screwed. We have a choice of two parties who are essentially the same. They both think of us as consumer units. I think the stock market bubble of the late nineties ruined our country. We went from an insane stock market bubble to a huge asset bubble combined with a huge stock market bubble. What are the powers that be going to do when all of the consumer units are all spent out, and completely saturated with debt.
Not to mention that people don't want to pay any taxes, however they want the government to protect us from the terrorists, and close any possible avenue of terrorism. That includes publicity stunts where people place light brights on overpasses. We're fucked.....
This is just another case of a government with too much money and power. They are probably going to call this a "Terrorist Act". When I was younger, this would have been filed under prank; not under terroristic hoax which is what they were calling it all day. All they really needed was to get a public works guy with a knife to remove them. I read that the FBI detonated some of them. This is the same kind of twisted logic means that my wife cannot carry her mascara on the plane unless it is in a plastic bag, however I can carry my laptop on the plane; who knows what you could stuff in the battery and it would just breeze through airport screeners as a laptop.
It seems like everything these days that is out of the ordinary is now suspected to be terrorism. I thought republicans were for smaller more efficient government, not for overbearing, bloated, and stupid government. It is amazing how over the last 5 years; the feds managed to fuck up a perfectly good country.
I wonder what the RIAA's cut is from my favorite music store.... www.packetnews.com Even if they get 100% of my $0.00, I think it would be money well spent.
I already switch from DSL to Road Runner (Cable Modem). I tried to get the MEGA-Telco to give me just DSL (I prefer my neighbor to not recieve my data). I guess we both lose out now. At least I am up to 5Mb/sec downloads.:-)
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So much for "Hope and Change". I was looking forward to the end of the Patriot Act, and the closing of Guantanamo Bay.
I say this as the United States Government is staging "advisors", on the border between Syria and Jordan. I guess our Government didn't learn much from Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Remember, the enemy of our enemy isn't necessarily our "friend".
I like how they link to the article about how they build up their pods. Really cool info for the novice storage builder trying to put something similar together for their small enterprise. Enough information to get you going, enough redacted so that you actually have to DIY.
Honestly, I wouldn't think twice about doing the same thing. They are purchasing the drives, not stealing them. For "some reason" costco is buying them in lots where they can distribute them at that price. I guess they were just leveraging Costco and Best Buy's buying power to keep their business afloat.
I attended the first six weeks, I feel horrible that I didn't finish. But life gets in the way; wife, kids, house, work. I am glad I earned a high quality education while I was young and had nothing better to do.
Palin sucks. Obama sucks. Bush sucks. McCain (while honorable in his military service) currently sucks. Boehner sucks. Reid sucks. We are in a country of >300M people and these are the best we can come up with.
Rights, who needs them. Now bend over while we inspect you for a rectum bomb. Warrant? We're the government we don't need no stinking warrant.
Not my problem. I married an American woman. I love the United States and prefer to travel domestic and to Canada.
I personally don't fly unless my employer forces me to. My 2 year old daughter will certainly not fly since the porno scanners have been installed. She has flown twice before the porno scanners were installed. My family has chosen to drive to our destinations the last couple of years. The TSA is a joke. Right after 9-11 when President Bush announced the TSA and Patriot Act, I knew we were in for a knee jerk reaction which won't solve anything. President Obama is just accelerating the stupidity.
Still waiting for my change. I am getting a little worried it isn't going to come.
Awesome, I am sick of hearing "You got mail" in the middle of my music. Stupid AOL users... I'm still waiting for iTorrent though.
You are talking about the EPCOT where nobody owns real property, and the corporation owns everything. You come home and there are new appliances there, because the corporation thinks you are ready for them. Where all of the residents work for the corporation in exchange for living in this Experimental Community. Yeah, sounds right where this country is headed... The wrong way.
Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of our knee-jerk reaction to 9/11. The enemy is winning when our government spends trillions to treat every American like they are criminals. They spend thousands of dollars and a dozen lives, and we spend trillions and tens of thousands of lives. I just don't think "we" are winning.
Don't even get me started about the trillions it cost to get one guy sitting on the floor watching TV with the protection of our "ally" Pakistan. Get nukes, now you are our ally.
Absolutely; we are spending until our credit card with China and other developing nations is maxed out. I was hoping that Mr. Obama would fix the mess that Mr. Bush got us into; guess I was wrong. Mr. Obama, where are the taxes on the rich you promised? What ever happened to "too big to fail is too big to exist"? Our government likes to add the prefix "Cyber" to anything that has to do with technology. Maybe I should just hang out drinking my Cyber-coffee using my Cyber-macbook, and finish doing my Cyber-tax return.
I don't google/bing/yahoo anything I would not want printed on the front page of the New York Times.... I think Glenn Beck is a nut, like the Y2Kers. I also don't think a multi-billion dollar company who's business is storing data; is on my side either!
Too bad we didn't crucify L. Ron Hubbard...
Holy Xenu!
Jump on a rocket from the super power building in Clearwater, and catch a comet! Go scientology, the religion of science.
Massachusetts or Texas. If you overreact to a innocent stunt/prank, you are a hero because you are doing it in the name of Homeland Security. They are talking about having Turner broadcasting reimburse the city for millions, because the city didn't just take a look at it. Maybe have a subject matter expert determine that the damn thing was a light brite. I think the stunt was juvenile, but hilarious. It also showed how the terrorists won, because we detonate anything out of the ordinary these days.
If the Boston govt. was honest and actually had some intelligent people working there; they would say "It was a juvenile prank, however we are sorry we overreacted and locked the city down over light brites"......
It was a prank. Lately the government has treated us like uniform consumer units. You have to step in line, work overtime, spend more money then you make. If you step out of line, then you have to be dealt with. I can't believe we are governed by the stupidest people that money could buy. Call the bomb squad on a bunch of light brites (effectively). These idiots in government are ruining what used to be a great country.
In Iraq; "enemy combatants" are "terrorists and insurgents". To the Iraqi people do we look like insurgents. Just because they fight unconventional war doesn't make them terrorists. If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.
Our country is so screwed. We have a choice of two parties who are essentially the same. They both think of us as consumer units. I think the stock market bubble of the late nineties ruined our country. We went from an insane stock market bubble to a huge asset bubble combined with a huge stock market bubble. What are the powers that be going to do when all of the consumer units are all spent out, and completely saturated with debt.
Not to mention that people don't want to pay any taxes, however they want the government to protect us from the terrorists, and close any possible avenue of terrorism. That includes publicity stunts where people place light brights on overpasses. We're fucked.....
This is just another case of a government with too much money and power. They are probably going to call this a "Terrorist Act". When I was younger, this would have been filed under prank; not under terroristic hoax which is what they were calling it all day. All they really needed was to get a public works guy with a knife to remove them. I read that the FBI detonated some of them. This is the same kind of twisted logic means that my wife cannot carry her mascara on the plane unless it is in a plastic bag, however I can carry my laptop on the plane; who knows what you could stuff in the battery and it would just breeze through airport screeners as a laptop.
It seems like everything these days that is out of the ordinary is now suspected to be terrorism. I thought republicans were for smaller more efficient government, not for overbearing, bloated, and stupid government. It is amazing how over the last 5 years; the feds managed to fuck up a perfectly good country.
I want to mod this article flame bait. Left-wing koolaid drinkers vs. right-wing koolaid drinkers. :-)
I wonder what the RIAA's cut is from my favorite music store.... www.packetnews.com Even if they get 100% of my $0.00, I think it would be money well spent.
Does Solaris come with an MP3 Decoder that is maintained? If so it could stand a chance at unseating linux.
The screen shots look like a rip off of Mac OSX and GNOME. Everything but the dock...
I already switch from DSL to Road Runner (Cable Modem). I tried to get the MEGA-Telco to give me just DSL (I prefer my neighbor to not recieve my data). I guess we both lose out now. At least I am up to 5Mb/sec downloads. :-)