Uh, HELLO???!!! I didn't sit there for 10 minutes just waiting patiently. I have been following this stoplight disaster for the past few years, and on that particular night, I wanted to see if my conspiracy theory was true. So I sat there and waited to see if the light would change before an opposing car approached, and it DIDN'T. That proved my theory.
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Government is the beast. It looks like a giant squid.
Oracle will put a chip in people's right hand. Microsoft will put one in people's forehead. If your chip breaks, you can log in using your username, or, under an older Microsoft system, which is being phased out, you can log in using your account number.
Why the governments couldn't apply some of that facial-recognition technology they're so eager for to actually do something useful, like recogznie traffic, is beyond me. Wait, no it isn't. Never mind.
I have a better idea. They could put cameras in intersections, like the ones that take a picture when you run a red light and you get a ticket in the mail. Ok, they put these cameras, except that not only do they take pictures of actual red light violators, they also take pictures of cars going through the intersection at random times when the light is green and it is perfectly legal to enter. Then, the image is sent to computers, where it is processed to remove other vehicle traffic, to change the lights from green to red, etc.
Then, you drive to work, minding your own business, and you don't run any red lights. In fact, you are the best driver in the world. You don't break a single law. And then you get a ticket in the mail with photographic evidence that YOU ran a red light, even though it never happened. The court will have some internal rule that all such tickets are considered an automatic conviction, and there is no way to appeal. That will enhance revenue.
I have an additional idea. In France they started blanking out the passenger side of the cars in these pictures, because too many Frenchmen got caught with another woman in the cars by their wives opening the traffic ticket that came in the mail. So the automatic image manipulation software that performs the above incrimination would go a step further and put a prostitute in the passenger seat. If you're driving in the evening, say, home from work, special studs in the road can come up and puncture your tires right after the picture of your car is taken. Then, conveniently, there will be a towtruck nearby who offers to take you to the nearest tire shop. The tow truck company and the tire shop will be in some secret business agreement with the city. The studs in the street will be embedded in such a way, and they will puncture the tires and retreat back into the street so fast, so as to be undetected. The tow truck driver will take his sweet time hauling the car to the tire shop, and once there, they will take their sweet time putting new tires on the car. In the meantime, some woman walks into the waiting room where you're waiting, and she comes up and without your permission grabs your head and kisses you right on the face, a wet, nasty kiss. Her tongue practically goes down your throat and out of your ear, like when Madonna kissed Britney Spears. In the meantime, cameras film all of this. Then this woman just gets up and goes away. By the time they finish putting tires on the car, it will be quite late at night. You return home and your wife wonders why you're so late. You tell her that you had a flat tire. The receipt from the tire place has the date and time, and little do you notice, because who checks, that the time is five o'clock, not, like, 10:00 when they actually finish and charge you. Your wife thinks it's kind of funny that it took so long to change a tire. (Also, they hid dirty panties under the passenger seat in your car.) Next thing you know, a traffic ticket comes in the mail during the day when you're at work. Your wife opens it and sees a prostitute in the car with you on the day you came home late. She says what the hell is this, and you explain that there's no way this could be, because this never happened. Your wife is skeptical and starts crying. The next day, a package arrives in the mail. It is a video tape. There is a note that says, "I didn't want to be the one to tell you this but you have a right to know." Your wife puts it in the VCR and it's the video of you macking with some hot woman (the video from the tire shop). Now she's really pissed off. She wants a divorce. Little did you know that the divorce lawyers also had secret business negotiations with the city.
Now that is what I call revenue enhancement in the truest government style. Not only does the government take away your money, but it deliberately fucks up your life as well.
Ever since the Gore claim to have "invented" the internet, its history has been the subject of misinformation and ridicule.
Ha! Gore is the biggest idiot in the whole wide world. I'm GLAD Bush won against that son of a bitch four years ago. Gore is inept. Gore is a fool. Gore is stupid. Gore is a bumbling idiot. Gore is retarded.
Think claiming to have invented the Internet isn't stupid enough? How about the fact that he went to New York on the COLDEST day in the history of that city, and told everybody that there is a huge problem of Global Warming. The people there were freezing their asses off. It was colder than a witch's tit over there. And he talks about global warming and what a disaster it is.
Like I said. That's Gore. He doesn't even deserve to have his name capitalized. Even if it is in the beginning of a sentence. Therefore, it is correct to write this: gore is an idiot. gore is stupid. gore is a retard.
Yup. That's the only time in the English language when you can start a sentence with a lowercase letter.
On the other hand, SMB on the windows xp and windows 98SE only works some of the time. I can always count on mine working though.
Yeah no kidding. Probably one of the things I hate most about Microsloth Losedows is the stupid Network Neighborhood window. If I'm in a good mood and I want to become angry, all I have to do is click on Network Neighborhood, and I go from happy to pissed off in no time flat. First of all, it practically locks up the entire computer while it SEARCHES for network shares. The damn thing will search and search and search and not find anything, even though it is properly configured, and so are all the other computers, and they're connected just fine. The computers will communicate via every other protocol in the book, and Losedows will be extremely aware of the fact that they exist out there, and yet the Network Neighborhood window will just sit there and search.
So then I do the next thing... I go into Find and go into Find Computer, and I type in the name of the computer I want. Then, Losedows will search for a few minutes, and let's say about half of the time, it will find that computer. Then, I'll click on that computer and it will take Losedows forever to open up another window.
All the time this is happening, if I go back into, Windows Explorer and go into Network Neighborhood there, it will NOT find the computer that it is accessing perfectly well in another window. In other words, in one window it knows that everything is fine. In Windows Explorer, it will search and search, even if you tell the stupid thing to "Refresh", and it will not find it.
Losedows is not an operating system. It is a virus.
But on the other hand, Samba works.
Reminds me of Plug n' Play. Microsoft invented that standard. Then, every operating system in the world, FreeBSD, BeOS, Linux, you name it, was able to find and configure supported hardware in no time. Every operating system except Windows, that is. In Windows, this standard earned the name Plug n' Pray.
No surprise, given the fact that all of Microsloth's programmers are completely inept, a bunch of bumbling idiots, monkeys punching away at keyboards could program better, every standard that Microsoft invents works a lot better when someone else implements it.
dude, jesus christ dude... you think you posted enough on/. today? man, you just about wrote a whole damn book. there's at least 5 comments here, each of them quite lengthy. not that I'm being disrespectful or anything, but just saying.
maybe you need to chill out a little. it's not like you need to defend yourself so much. these stupid people don't appreciate what you did, fuck 'em. a lot of times people try to do shit and it doesn't work out exactly the way they want. oh well, at least you tried. damn, if you never fail at anything, it means you never try anything, may as well be dead or something. but damn, even if your particular goals didn't get implemented in an "acceptable" way, who cares, you still made quite a positive influence on the whole damn community... just get a beer and dance some samba and everything will be ok.
You know what? Television sucks. Even if you have cable. Even if you have satellite. You PAY MONEY to watch commercials, and by the way, they throw a little bit of movie, show, or news in there, so that you'll watch the commercials.
That is garbage.
I prefer to sit on my ass in front of the computer, drink a lot of booze, and be on the internet. That way I am in control. Some site displays too many ads, I just go away. I don't click on the damn ads anyway, so who cares. They're wasting their money. Assholes.
I don't want my damn weather information in XML format. I want it in Microsoft Word format. That is an open format with lots of documentation, and it will never go out of style. XML is complicated, proprietary, and secret, and if you put your data into this format, chances are that you will be locked in to a particular vendor, and if your vendor goes out of business, you will have essentially lost all of your valuable data.
There is a major road by my house where all the stoplights are completely screwed up. It almost seems intentional during the day, but at night, you know the lights were designed to turn red when cars approach.
First of all, there are sensors under the cars that are standing right before the intersection. These types of sensors are installed just about everywhere there are stoplights. But if you pay attention, you'll notice that on this street, there are also sensors about 200 to 300 feet back from the intersection. There is a sensor under each lane. By the way, this is a major city street, with three lanes of traffic for each direction.
When driving during the day, there is a lot of traffic, and so you might wonder why in the heck it seems that the cross streets have much longer "green" times than you do.
When driving at night, you'll easily see why. There are usually only a few cars on this street at night. You drive, and you can see that all the stoplights ahead of you as far as the eye can see are GREEN. You drive, and immediately as you pass over the sensor that is 200 to 300 feet back from the stoplight, the light in front of you changes to yellow, and then to red. This happens at a rate that makes it impossible to remain at a constant speed and go through the intersection before it turns red. You'll either have to floor it (and even then it is doubtful whether you'll make it--the yellows are very short), or stop, which is what you'll end up doing.
Now that you're standing at this red light, and the cross street has a green, you'll wonder why you have a red and the cross street has a green, WHEN THERE ARE NO CARS DRIVING ON THE CROSS STREET! Now here is the interesting part. The light could be red for a minute or two, or you might stand there for a long time. As a matter of fact, I noticed that at all of the stoplights on this major street, they will remain red until a vehicle approaches on the cross street. As soon as a vehicle approaches there, his light will change to red and yours will change to green. At 3:00 am, it might take a long time before a vehicle approaches on the cross street. One time, I actually waited ten whole minutes before such a vehicle approached, and only then did his light change to red and mine changed to green.
Now I have been living here for four years, and I have driven down this street enough times at night to tell you that this isn't a casual observation and that I'm not just jumping to conclusions. Others who have driven down this road at night have mentioned the same thing, and I noticed that it never, ever fails. The sensors are all wired such that you will have to wait at EVERY intersection, until a vehicle on the cross street approaches, at which time he will have to wait, and then you get a green light. It's almost as if city workers wanted to play a practical joke and taunt drivers with green lights that remain green for any amount of distance, but only until you actually get near the stoplight. During the day, you don't notice it so much because there is so much traffic that everybody is stuck anyway.
Dude, Doom 3 looks so damn realistic, I don't understand why they can't design the movie world in a Doom universe and record actual gameplay to make a movie. This will add a little bit of randomness and uncertainty into the production of the movie, enabling things the producer hasn't quite thought of to happen in the movie. It would be bitchen. That could then be edited in the traditional filming style to include the best parts in the movie. This would be so awesome.
Next thing you know, everyone will have a 3D barcode tattooed into their forehead. It will be a disaster. Everywhere you go, cameras will send notification to government computers, which will be in a data center that makes all of the computers currently operating in the world look like the chip in a handheld calculator. And there will be software that will monitor all the actions of every person in the world, and if certain suspicious activities--such as breathing, eating, sleeping, or using the toilet--take place, police will be deployed to arrest the person(s) involved.
With OpenOffice, KOffice and Microsoft Office you have a pretty robust toolset...
Correction: With OpenOffice and KOffice, you have a pretty robust toolset. With Microsoft Office, you have an ugly crash-prone unreliable and slow headacheset.
Other than that, you are correct.
Microsloth. Wer du u want 2 go 2day?
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Technology is no good and serves no useful purpose unless it has a tightly integrated DRM solution, without which the technology will not function. There is no better feeling than trying to copy a file that you made and being told that you cannot do it without paying Microsoft and the government a hefty subscription fee that gives you the temporary priveledge of assigning the ability to copy files to the files that you made.
In other words, information should be locked down unless Microsoft agrees--after a review of the data, which involves signing the copyright over to them, along with permission to use the information in any way they see fit, including selling your personal information for fun and profit--that it should be allowed to make itself useful, temporarily.
Why go through all that trouble? Just sleep in a tent. Goes up in ten minutes and you can transport it in your backpack.
Oh well.
Well, let's see, maybe I should punch in a whole bunch of other trash in here to take up lots of room and make it look like as though I got lots of stuff to be talking about, but as you can see, I am totally bored out of my mind and I have nothing interesting to say. Except that Windows XP is the suxx0rz because you have to type ipconfig instead of ifconfig.
Why the fsck is this schitt being made only for Windsucks? I hate this garbage operating system. Every day, it's something else with this garbage.
Why, just today, I wasted the ENTIRE DAY, when I had many things to do, wiping the drive and then reinstalling all the software for one of the "critical" computers at work, because the damn thing had all kinds of Windblows-induced problems, like viruses, spam, adware, spyware, malware, pop-ups, and whatever other stupid names you can make up for this stuff, all of which exists because Macrosucks can't program a "Hello world" program without opening at least 7,000 security holes which are obvious. As a matter of fact, to make the next version of Windcracks more innovative than the last, why don't they just include the viruses, spam, adware, spyware, malware, pop-ups, and whatever other stupid names you can make up for this stuff, with the default install of the operating system? That way, as soon as you install Losedows, your computer will already be a peace of schitt, as opposed to gradually graduating to that position.
Here's a really good computer fixing story for all you geeks out there. Sony's new laptop that someone I know bought doesn't come with recovery CDs to blow everything off the drive and reinstall it in the event that Windoors--wait, let me rephrase that--when Windoors becomes unusable. (Or in case the hard drive dies, but Losewalls comes with a double-the-price guarantee that it will die before the hard drive dies.) Ok. No recovery CDs. What do you do WHEN Losedows gets all fscked up? The recovery information is ON THE HARD DRIVE. In a special partition reserved for that purpose. Ok. So let me get this straight:
If the hard drive dies, I have no recovery CDs and will have to rely on the POSSIBILITY that MAYBE Sony will still sell the recovery CDs for this model when that time comes.
When Losedows crashes, and I have no vendor-supplied floppies, CD-ROMs, etc., somehow, I am supposed to boot the laptop into their innovative CD-less recovery program (which I'd bet is located in the Windloses partition, for your convenience and perpetual happiness).
When Norton, Symantec, McAfee, or whatever other virus vendors deploy an innovative new virus that can detect this recovery partition, perhaps their virus will be smart enough to copy itself into that partition before fscking up the computer, so that for the user's convenience, it will perpetuate itself even after the contents of the drive (less the recovery partition) is blows away and "restored"...
Yeah. This is marvelous. So they do supply a way for you to make a CD and DVD out of the recovery partition. But 99% of the computer using population does NOT know the importance of TAKING SUCH A STEP before the computer blows up!!!
So what's the end result? The computer works for a while. Losedows picks up viruses, spam, adware, spyware, malware, pop-ups, and whatever other stupid names you can make up for this stuff, the user thinks, naturally, that since the computer isn't functioning correctly, that "IT'S BROKEN", so they go out and buy a new one and throw the old one in the trash or something. ALL THIS BECAUSE MACROSHIT CAN'T GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER!!!
And then you go and help those son of a bitches by making FREE multimedia center software for their stupid OS? Help the free software movement instead and help the world rid itself of this disease called Windows!
I have a good idea. It should be ILLEGAL for individuals to lobby the government, to vote, to do ANYTHING. It should be the sole right and priveledge of multinational corporations to do so. That will level the playing field and make things fair for all of us.
So I can bid $1.00 on eBay for this company, win the auction at that price because nobody else cares, then pay the $3.75 S&H for the deed to be mailed over, and then I can sell the odd collection of football helmets, the 40,000 some odd copies of video cames, the desks, the unused post-it notes and pens inside the desks, the light fixtures, the ping-pong table, and the golf practice thing from the owner's office, all on eBay, and turn an enormous profit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111 I'm a genius to have thought of this.
80 gigs, right in the head.
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As it turns out, there has been a cure for HIV for years, but Pharmacom is keeping it from us so they can charge enormous amounts of money treating the disease instead of curing it and being done with it.
I have an idea. Why not just sell handguns that have a flimsy camera, like the kind you plug into your USB so you can talk to someone over the internet, right on the barrel of the camera and pointing at the shooter, so that when someone blasts a gat in the cut, the camera films this action and sends the video to the police over satellite. Then, all the police have to do is come over and arrest the shooter. Of course, since this camera is flimsy and all, the shooter could simply break it off and put it in the trash. But the law, being as perfect as the law always is, will assume that these cameras are always properly mounted on the camera; thus, if someone gets shot and there is no video, then the shooting is considered never to have taken place in the eyes of the law. This would especially apply to trigger-happy police occifers.
Soon the machines will have all the jobs and humans will be starving to death. Hell, one day, even the/. trolling will be done by robots... By the way, I'd like to share a revelation that I've had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. Then, the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you're a plague, and we are the cure.
"While significant progress has been made in the sophistication of calorimeters since the review of this subject in 1989, the conclusions reached by the reviewers today are similar to those found in the 1989 review."
Let's analyze this a little bit.
"While significant progress has been made...", in other words, "While significant taxpayer dollars have been spent,"
"...since the review of this subject in 1989...", in other words, "since the last time we realized that no progress has been made,"
"...the conclusions reached by the reviewers today are similar to those found in the 1989 review.", in other words, "the result of that expense and effort is exactly ONE BIG FAT ZERO because we have found nothing new."
The 5th Element reference has gotten me all confused now...
I seriously didn't think anyone would catch that...:-) Good job!
AKNOT: You asked for a case. We brought you a case.
ZORG: (shouting) A case with FOUR STONES IN IT! Not one! Not two or three! But four! Four stones! What the fuck am I supposed to do with an EMPTY case?
AKNOT: We are warriors, not merchants!
ZORG: But you can still count! Look... my fingers. Four stones, four crates... Zero stones... (yelling) ZERO CRATES!!!
This is so retarded. The Blu-ray disc is so much more superior than this HD-DVD garbage. But once again, the studios are going with mediocre technology because they don't want people to have access to good technology.
All they care about is that StupidPeople and StuplePeopid won't copy all kinds of movies, music, pictures, software, and other media. That's all they care about. Bunch of greedy scumbags. You wait and see. The free software movement is changing software. More and more governments, corporations, businesses, and individuals are switching every day. Right now, this software is catching up to commercial software in many areas. It has already exceeded it in others. In the next few years, it will exceed commercial software in many areas. The desktop will switch to free software. This same movement, I believe, will eventually take control of the music, movies, and other media industries. This movement will continue to grow, until the messiah shows up and everything is free in the world, and all work will be done by robots, and all we'll do is hang out at the beach and have a good time. That'll be cool.
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Uh, HELLO???!!! I didn't sit there for 10 minutes just waiting patiently. I have been following this stoplight disaster for the past few years, and on that particular night, I wanted to see if my conspiracy theory was true. So I sat there and waited to see if the light would change before an opposing car approached, and it DIDN'T. That proved my theory.
Government is the beast. It looks like a giant squid.
Oracle will put a chip in people's right hand. Microsoft will put one in people's forehead. If your chip breaks, you can log in using your username, or, under an older Microsoft system, which is being phased out, you can log in using your account number.
Sounds like the end of the world is here.
I have a better idea. They could put cameras in intersections, like the ones that take a picture when you run a red light and you get a ticket in the mail. Ok, they put these cameras, except that not only do they take pictures of actual red light violators, they also take pictures of cars going through the intersection at random times when the light is green and it is perfectly legal to enter. Then, the image is sent to computers, where it is processed to remove other vehicle traffic, to change the lights from green to red, etc.
Then, you drive to work, minding your own business, and you don't run any red lights. In fact, you are the best driver in the world. You don't break a single law. And then you get a ticket in the mail with photographic evidence that YOU ran a red light, even though it never happened. The court will have some internal rule that all such tickets are considered an automatic conviction, and there is no way to appeal. That will enhance revenue.
I have an additional idea. In France they started blanking out the passenger side of the cars in these pictures, because too many Frenchmen got caught with another woman in the cars by their wives opening the traffic ticket that came in the mail. So the automatic image manipulation software that performs the above incrimination would go a step further and put a prostitute in the passenger seat. If you're driving in the evening, say, home from work, special studs in the road can come up and puncture your tires right after the picture of your car is taken. Then, conveniently, there will be a towtruck nearby who offers to take you to the nearest tire shop. The tow truck company and the tire shop will be in some secret business agreement with the city. The studs in the street will be embedded in such a way, and they will puncture the tires and retreat back into the street so fast, so as to be undetected. The tow truck driver will take his sweet time hauling the car to the tire shop, and once there, they will take their sweet time putting new tires on the car. In the meantime, some woman walks into the waiting room where you're waiting, and she comes up and without your permission grabs your head and kisses you right on the face, a wet, nasty kiss. Her tongue practically goes down your throat and out of your ear, like when Madonna kissed Britney Spears. In the meantime, cameras film all of this. Then this woman just gets up and goes away. By the time they finish putting tires on the car, it will be quite late at night. You return home and your wife wonders why you're so late. You tell her that you had a flat tire. The receipt from the tire place has the date and time, and little do you notice, because who checks, that the time is five o'clock, not, like, 10:00 when they actually finish and charge you. Your wife thinks it's kind of funny that it took so long to change a tire. (Also, they hid dirty panties under the passenger seat in your car.) Next thing you know, a traffic ticket comes in the mail during the day when you're at work. Your wife opens it and sees a prostitute in the car with you on the day you came home late. She says what the hell is this, and you explain that there's no way this could be, because this never happened. Your wife is skeptical and starts crying. The next day, a package arrives in the mail. It is a video tape. There is a note that says, "I didn't want to be the one to tell you this but you have a right to know." Your wife puts it in the VCR and it's the video of you macking with some hot woman (the video from the tire shop). Now she's really pissed off. She wants a divorce. Little did you know that the divorce lawyers also had secret business negotiations with the city.
Now that is what I call revenue enhancement in the truest government style. Not only does the government take away your money, but it deliberately fucks up your life as well.
Government. Where do you want to go today?
Ha! Gore is the biggest idiot in the whole wide world. I'm GLAD Bush won against that son of a bitch four years ago. Gore is inept. Gore is a fool. Gore is stupid. Gore is a bumbling idiot. Gore is retarded.
Think claiming to have invented the Internet isn't stupid enough? How about the fact that he went to New York on the COLDEST day in the history of that city, and told everybody that there is a huge problem of Global Warming. The people there were freezing their asses off. It was colder than a witch's tit over there. And he talks about global warming and what a disaster it is.
Like I said. That's Gore. He doesn't even deserve to have his name capitalized. Even if it is in the beginning of a sentence. Therefore, it is correct to write this: gore is an idiot. gore is stupid. gore is a retard.
Yup. That's the only time in the English language when you can start a sentence with a lowercase letter.
Yeah no kidding. Probably one of the things I hate most about Microsloth Losedows is the stupid Network Neighborhood window. If I'm in a good mood and I want to become angry, all I have to do is click on Network Neighborhood, and I go from happy to pissed off in no time flat. First of all, it practically locks up the entire computer while it SEARCHES for network shares. The damn thing will search and search and search and not find anything, even though it is properly configured, and so are all the other computers, and they're connected just fine. The computers will communicate via every other protocol in the book, and Losedows will be extremely aware of the fact that they exist out there, and yet the Network Neighborhood window will just sit there and search.
So then I do the next thing... I go into Find and go into Find Computer, and I type in the name of the computer I want. Then, Losedows will search for a few minutes, and let's say about half of the time, it will find that computer. Then, I'll click on that computer and it will take Losedows forever to open up another window.
All the time this is happening, if I go back into, Windows Explorer and go into Network Neighborhood there, it will NOT find the computer that it is accessing perfectly well in another window. In other words, in one window it knows that everything is fine. In Windows Explorer, it will search and search, even if you tell the stupid thing to "Refresh", and it will not find it.
Losedows is not an operating system. It is a virus.
But on the other hand, Samba works.
Reminds me of Plug n' Play. Microsoft invented that standard. Then, every operating system in the world, FreeBSD, BeOS, Linux, you name it, was able to find and configure supported hardware in no time. Every operating system except Windows, that is. In Windows, this standard earned the name Plug n' Pray.
No surprise, given the fact that all of Microsloth's programmers are completely inept, a bunch of bumbling idiots, monkeys punching away at keyboards could program better, every standard that Microsoft invents works a lot better when someone else implements it.
maybe you need to chill out a little. it's not like you need to defend yourself so much. these stupid people don't appreciate what you did, fuck 'em. a lot of times people try to do shit and it doesn't work out exactly the way they want. oh well, at least you tried. damn, if you never fail at anything, it means you never try anything, may as well be dead or something. but damn, even if your particular goals didn't get implemented in an "acceptable" way, who cares, you still made quite a positive influence on the whole damn community... just get a beer and dance some samba and everything will be ok.
That is garbage.
I prefer to sit on my ass in front of the computer, drink a lot of booze, and be on the internet. That way I am in control. Some site displays too many ads, I just go away. I don't click on the damn ads anyway, so who cares. They're wasting their money. Assholes.
I don't want my damn weather information in XML format. I want it in Microsoft Word format. That is an open format with lots of documentation, and it will never go out of style. XML is complicated, proprietary, and secret, and if you put your data into this format, chances are that you will be locked in to a particular vendor, and if your vendor goes out of business, you will have essentially lost all of your valuable data.
First of all, there are sensors under the cars that are standing right before the intersection. These types of sensors are installed just about everywhere there are stoplights. But if you pay attention, you'll notice that on this street, there are also sensors about 200 to 300 feet back from the intersection. There is a sensor under each lane. By the way, this is a major city street, with three lanes of traffic for each direction.
When driving during the day, there is a lot of traffic, and so you might wonder why in the heck it seems that the cross streets have much longer "green" times than you do.
When driving at night, you'll easily see why. There are usually only a few cars on this street at night. You drive, and you can see that all the stoplights ahead of you as far as the eye can see are GREEN. You drive, and immediately as you pass over the sensor that is 200 to 300 feet back from the stoplight, the light in front of you changes to yellow, and then to red. This happens at a rate that makes it impossible to remain at a constant speed and go through the intersection before it turns red. You'll either have to floor it (and even then it is doubtful whether you'll make it--the yellows are very short), or stop, which is what you'll end up doing.
Now that you're standing at this red light, and the cross street has a green, you'll wonder why you have a red and the cross street has a green, WHEN THERE ARE NO CARS DRIVING ON THE CROSS STREET! Now here is the interesting part. The light could be red for a minute or two, or you might stand there for a long time. As a matter of fact, I noticed that at all of the stoplights on this major street, they will remain red until a vehicle approaches on the cross street. As soon as a vehicle approaches there, his light will change to red and yours will change to green. At 3:00 am, it might take a long time before a vehicle approaches on the cross street. One time, I actually waited ten whole minutes before such a vehicle approached, and only then did his light change to red and mine changed to green.
Now I have been living here for four years, and I have driven down this street enough times at night to tell you that this isn't a casual observation and that I'm not just jumping to conclusions. Others who have driven down this road at night have mentioned the same thing, and I noticed that it never, ever fails. The sensors are all wired such that you will have to wait at EVERY intersection, until a vehicle on the cross street approaches, at which time he will have to wait, and then you get a green light. It's almost as if city workers wanted to play a practical joke and taunt drivers with green lights that remain green for any amount of distance, but only until you actually get near the stoplight. During the day, you don't notice it so much because there is so much traffic that everybody is stuck anyway.
Dude, Doom 3 looks so damn realistic, I don't understand why they can't design the movie world in a Doom universe and record actual gameplay to make a movie. This will add a little bit of randomness and uncertainty into the production of the movie, enabling things the producer hasn't quite thought of to happen in the movie. It would be bitchen. That could then be edited in the traditional filming style to include the best parts in the movie. This would be so awesome.
Next thing you know, everyone will have a 3D barcode tattooed into their forehead. It will be a disaster. Everywhere you go, cameras will send notification to government computers, which will be in a data center that makes all of the computers currently operating in the world look like the chip in a handheld calculator. And there will be software that will monitor all the actions of every person in the world, and if certain suspicious activities--such as breathing, eating, sleeping, or using the toilet--take place, police will be deployed to arrest the person(s) involved.
Well, how about this instead: Run OpenOffice for Windows on Wine on Xfree on Linux on VMware on FreeBSD on Bochs on Windows on VirtualPC on Mac OS X.
If you don't have a Mac, run Mac OS X in PearPC on Linux on x86.
That will make the system quick and responsive.
Correction: With OpenOffice and KOffice, you have a pretty robust toolset. With Microsoft Office, you have an ugly crash-prone unreliable and slow headacheset.
Other than that, you are correct.
In other words, information should be locked down unless Microsoft agrees--after a review of the data, which involves signing the copyright over to them, along with permission to use the information in any way they see fit, including selling your personal information for fun and profit--that it should be allowed to make itself useful, temporarily.
Oh well.
Well, let's see, maybe I should punch in a whole bunch of other trash in here to take up lots of room and make it look like as though I got lots of stuff to be talking about, but as you can see, I am totally bored out of my mind and I have nothing interesting to say. Except that Windows XP is the suxx0rz because you have to type ipconfig instead of ifconfig.
Why, just today, I wasted the ENTIRE DAY, when I had many things to do, wiping the drive and then reinstalling all the software for one of the "critical" computers at work, because the damn thing had all kinds of Windblows-induced problems, like viruses, spam, adware, spyware, malware, pop-ups, and whatever other stupid names you can make up for this stuff, all of which exists because Macrosucks can't program a "Hello world" program without opening at least 7,000 security holes which are obvious. As a matter of fact, to make the next version of Windcracks more innovative than the last, why don't they just include the viruses, spam, adware, spyware, malware, pop-ups, and whatever other stupid names you can make up for this stuff, with the default install of the operating system? That way, as soon as you install Losedows, your computer will already be a peace of schitt, as opposed to gradually graduating to that position.
Here's a really good computer fixing story for all you geeks out there. Sony's new laptop that someone I know bought doesn't come with recovery CDs to blow everything off the drive and reinstall it in the event that Windoors--wait, let me rephrase that--when Windoors becomes unusable. (Or in case the hard drive dies, but Losewalls comes with a double-the-price guarantee that it will die before the hard drive dies.) Ok. No recovery CDs. What do you do WHEN Losedows gets all fscked up? The recovery information is ON THE HARD DRIVE. In a special partition reserved for that purpose. Ok. So let me get this straight:
- If the hard drive dies, I have no recovery CDs and will have to rely on the POSSIBILITY that MAYBE Sony will still sell the recovery CDs for this model when that time comes.
- When Losedows crashes, and I have no vendor-supplied floppies, CD-ROMs, etc., somehow, I am supposed to boot the laptop into their innovative CD-less recovery program (which I'd bet is located in the Windloses partition, for your convenience and perpetual happiness).
- When Norton, Symantec, McAfee, or whatever other virus vendors deploy an innovative new virus that can detect this recovery partition, perhaps their virus will be smart enough to copy itself into that partition before fscking up the computer, so that for the user's convenience, it will perpetuate itself even after the contents of the drive (less the recovery partition) is blows away and "restored"...
Yeah. This is marvelous. So they do supply a way for you to make a CD and DVD out of the recovery partition. But 99% of the computer using population does NOT know the importance of TAKING SUCH A STEP before the computer blows up!!!So what's the end result? The computer works for a while. Losedows picks up viruses, spam, adware, spyware, malware, pop-ups, and whatever other stupid names you can make up for this stuff, the user thinks, naturally, that since the computer isn't functioning correctly, that "IT'S BROKEN", so they go out and buy a new one and throw the old one in the trash or something. ALL THIS BECAUSE MACROSHIT CAN'T GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER!!!
And then you go and help those son of a bitches by making FREE multimedia center software for their stupid OS? Help the free software movement instead and help the world rid itself of this disease called Windows!
I have a good idea. It should be ILLEGAL for individuals to lobby the government, to vote, to do ANYTHING. It should be the sole right and priveledge of multinational corporations to do so. That will level the playing field and make things fair for all of us.
So I can bid $1.00 on eBay for this company, win the auction at that price because nobody else cares, then pay the $3.75 S&H for the deed to be mailed over, and then I can sell the odd collection of football helmets, the 40,000 some odd copies of video cames, the desks, the unused post-it notes and pens inside the desks, the light fixtures, the ping-pong table, and the golf practice thing from the owner's office, all on eBay, and turn an enormous profit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111 I'm a genius to have thought of this.
As it turns out, there has been a cure for HIV for years, but Pharmacom is keeping it from us so they can charge enormous amounts of money treating the disease instead of curing it and being done with it.
I have an idea. Why not just sell handguns that have a flimsy camera, like the kind you plug into your USB so you can talk to someone over the internet, right on the barrel of the camera and pointing at the shooter, so that when someone blasts a gat in the cut, the camera films this action and sends the video to the police over satellite. Then, all the police have to do is come over and arrest the shooter. Of course, since this camera is flimsy and all, the shooter could simply break it off and put it in the trash. But the law, being as perfect as the law always is, will assume that these cameras are always properly mounted on the camera; thus, if someone gets shot and there is no video, then the shooting is considered never to have taken place in the eyes of the law. This would especially apply to trigger-happy police occifers.
Soon the machines will have all the jobs and humans will be starving to death. Hell, one day, even the /. trolling will be done by robots... By the way, I'd like to share a revelation that I've had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. Then, the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you're a plague, and we are the cure.
Let's analyze this a little bit.
"While significant progress has been made...", in other words, "While significant taxpayer dollars have been spent,"
"...since the review of this subject in 1989...", in other words, "since the last time we realized that no progress has been made,"
"...the conclusions reached by the reviewers today are similar to those found in the 1989 review.", in other words, "the result of that expense and effort is exactly ONE BIG FAT ZERO because we have found nothing new."
Sounds pretty innovative to me.
I seriously didn't think anyone would catch that... :-) Good job!
It would be cool if these things get deployed and they destroy half of the world's population. It would also be funny.
All they care about is that StupidPeople and StuplePeopid won't copy all kinds of movies, music, pictures, software, and other media. That's all they care about. Bunch of greedy scumbags. You wait and see. The free software movement is changing software. More and more governments, corporations, businesses, and individuals are switching every day. Right now, this software is catching up to commercial software in many areas. It has already exceeded it in others. In the next few years, it will exceed commercial software in many areas. The desktop will switch to free software. This same movement, I believe, will eventually take control of the music, movies, and other media industries. This movement will continue to grow, until the messiah shows up and everything is free in the world, and all work will be done by robots, and all we'll do is hang out at the beach and have a good time. That'll be cool.