Did you watch Trump's show, The Apprentice? Heh. What did those two teams discover? That high quantity at a low price didn't win them anything. In every episode where both teams did the right things, the team that won was the one that went after the higher-paying customers, not the higher number of lower-paying customers.
Apple has the image of a quality computer company. Even people who don't know much about computers know that Apple makes a better computer. Now that matter of price may be holding Apple back, but on the other hand, the 2 or 3 percent of the market that they have is still a large market.
The only problem I have with Apple is that they don't continue to market a product once it's "finished." Instead, they come out with a product, and the minute they finish engineering it, it's like yesterday's news to them. Now they are concentrating on innovating for the next product. Which means two things: First, that their computers are ahead of their time, which is good. Second, that they don't have as large a customer base as they should, which is bad.
Let's face it. Everybody knows that when it comes to quality, you get what you pay for. If only Apple would push their existing products a little more strongly, and charge a little less for the software.
40$ one time activation fee 5$ monthly subscribtion fee 2$ download access fee 15$ remote assistance fee 5$ for a special software player with XP look... Illegally downloaded MP3s, free. Paying the RIAA every last dime you have as a settlement, priceless.
It's interesting to note how the new Linksys products continue to look more and more like Cisco products.
And isn't that a shame? Especially since I recommend and buy Linksys almost exclusively for my home systems, for the office (where I'm responsible for about 70 computers) and for my friends and others for whom I recommended networking and the way to implement it. The Linksys NICs and routers I bought simply never failed. But I don't like that Cisco took 'em over and is making them into another Cisco.
And for those of you who think that once Linux takes over the world, the new viruses will target Linux, I think you are not taking the following factors into consideration:
Windows is an inherent security risk because nobody can see the source code and identify security problems. This might be touted as an advantage, because in the eyes of IT CIOs who don't know anything about computers, it is supposed to prevent security problems from becoming known. However, this does not take into consideration the 1337 h4x0rz who have a deep knowledge of computers, networks, and programming, and who have the time to find the bugs without seeing the source code. Thus, bugs that would be found and fixed quickly through access to the source code are not found and fixed until it's too late. In Linux, these bugs are usually fixed in the same day as they are found.
Many viruses are created to target Windows because many people hate Windows, Microsoft, and the political, social, and economic ideas they represent. These same individuals would not feel the same animosity towards Linux, because it does not represent the enrichment of a single entity at the expense of the entire world.
Windows contains a tremendous amount of code and features that not every business or individual needs. These customers cannot remove that code, and therefore, there are that many more potential bugs and vulnerabilities present in their installations that would not otherwise be there. Linux can be modified, and usually is, so that each system is different. Unneeded features are not installed.
All installations of Windows are effectively identical because, as I just said, you cannot modify anything. This means that all the zillions of people who are running the same version of Windows are vulnerable to the same bugs and viruses. Which means that a virus created for any version of Windows has a much larger "market" than one created for Linux, in which there are almost as many variations as there are installations.
For immediate release: M5FT today announced that by using Windows, enterprises cut their TCO and increase the time employees have for coffee breaks. By leveraging innovative technologies, content providers streamline compelling enterprise solutions.
Gill Bates, the Architect of Windows and the Matrix, was pleased to say, "Our studies have proven that an eMachines costing $500 and running Windows XP has a lower TCO for opening a 2kb email than does a cluster of 1000 IBM z360 mainframes running Linux performing the same task. The cost, using Windows, was about 1 cents per bit, while the cost of the Linux setup was about $88,281,813.25 per byte. Clearly, Windows is much less expensive than Linux.
"Further," said Gill Bates, "employees get more coffee breaks while Windows is reinstalling after a virus breakout. With a Linux environment, the employees of your enterprise might have to work all day long, because the operating system simply isn't considerate enough to offer a coffee break or two every ten minutes."
Tibet *was* an independent sovereign nation before China took it over. Just because you don't like being known as a bully doesn't mean you aren't one.
Heh. Perhaps you haven't had the pleasure of reading George Orwell's 1984, in which Orwell vividly describes the state of the world in a future he feared. In 1984, the government rewrites history on a daily basis. This could be something small, like modifying what Big Brother said about an individual some months ago. Or it could be something big, like convincing the world that one country had always been their ally, while another had always been their enemy; especially when the opposite had been true the day before.
This might seem crazy when you read it in a book, but these things happen all the time in real life, even here in the United States. For example, the ACLU, the so-called American Civil Liberties Union, is currently pursuing legal action against the County of Los Angeles because that county's seal includes a small image of a Christian cross, symbolizing the Mission that was the first settlement in the area. This is a form of rewriting history, as is the removal of Paul Revere from children's history books, to be replaced with some female who apparently did something similar, to be "politically correct." Yes, this has already been done in many schools.
When China decides that it doesn't like certain things, it will talk about them as if they did not exist. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire education system there teaches people things that are wrong, so when the Chinese people hear something like this, they think it's the truth, and that Tibet was never owned by anybody else.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
Just out of curiousity, is there a practical reason to prove the existance of infinite numbers of twin primes? Or is this purely a matter of curiousity?
This is a bitchen mod. This computer looks like it was dragged through a swamp of radioactive slime and then used in a war zone.
Also, this guy is doing some really nice work, not only in painting stuff, but also in fabricating the stuff he installs there (if he did the fabricating). It looks like this mod was carefully thought out and planned before any work began. Good job!
Heh... Microsoft pays $12M to avoid a lawsuit? They know that their legal department could push anyone around for any length of time. Why, then, would they pay out instead of going to court? I think the answer is that they know it would be extremely easy for Opera to prove its claims (which are true, by the way, I use Opera and I know that a lot of Microsoft's pages break under Opera--they ID the browser and then the HTML sent, if you're using Opera, contains tags to screw up the page, so users will think that Opera is not a good browser, when in fact, it's the opposite--Opera ROCKS and Internet Exploder is a piece of dog poop... besides, this is Microsoft's oldest trick in the book, kind of like making Windows 3.1 crash intermittently if you're using DR-DOS, when in fact there was no technical reason that this should happen). So Microsoft is paying out because they know they will lose this one, and not only will they pay, they'll probably end up paying more, not to mention the legal costs.
Opera. Because friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer. Or Windows. Or anything else that comes from Redmond.
(Did I mention Opera works equally well on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS? It's a great piece of software. That's why I keep paying $40 (or however much it is) to put it on every computer I have, and I install the "free" (ad) version on every computer I set up for my friends and co-workers. And don't say you don't like the million billion toolbars it has. Just turn them all off and you've got a nice clean browser that renders all pages.)
I would say this is probably not the end of email, nor is it the end of the Internet as a whole. However, it is probably the end of the protocols currently used to send and receive email.
I believe that spam is ultimately a security issue, because it slows down systems and creates problems for users and system administrators. Sometimes, security problems are caused by buffer overruns and other programming errors. However, in this case, I think the entire protocol is faulty. It may have worked wonderfully before spammers, but it's time to introduce something new that will make it extremely difficult to send spam.
I don't know exactly how the new protocol needs to look. But I have some ideas. Paying for "postage" is not one of them, as I think it is a very bad idea. Unless some payment system could be set up whereby the recipient of the mail receives the payment, not some 3rd party, like Microsoft, which would profit incredibly from garbage spam mails going all over the place. In fact, if that were the setup, then each recipient could state a price per email and/or per kilobyte of the mail message for receiving an email from a source, which the source would pay to the recipient as postage. A whitelist could be set up to allow certain senders, like one's friends, family, coworkers, etc., to send emails without paying the recipient. A blacklist could be set up to disallow all emails from specific senders and/or domains, as we have today, and if you read further in this post, you'll see my ideas for making sure that addresses are not spoofed. But I digress...
Perhaps first of all, the mail headers need to include digital signatures based on the source and destination domain names, email addresses, and other identifying information that is unique to each email sent. To avoid address spoofing, for example, people sending junk with a 'yahoo' or 'hotmail' address, when in fact it originates elsewhere, each such domain would have a private key, which upon sending, would be used in the computation. A valid signature could not be computed when the address is spoofed, and so all spammers would need to use their own valid domain name. Further, the need to make computations would make it more costly for spammers to send mail in high volumes. The algorithm should be designed so that recipients of email will have a much lower cost to verify the key. Further, the signature system could, should, and would be used to verify that each bit of the contents of the email, including all attachments, arrived correctly and without being tampered with or corrupted in transit.
What a bunch of fucking numb nuts. It reminds me of the time my grandmother received a derogatory email. She called me to say that she's been receiving these for the past few weeks, all from the same address, and that she didn't know what to do. I asked her to forward it to me, but she claimed it had disappeared from her Yahoo email box. How could that be? Well, she had some neighbor, whom she claims knows a LOT about computers (yeah right), and he told her that some really smart uber-hacker put a "bomb" in her mailbox that caused that email to disappear without her deleting it. Uh, yeah. And did you know that those old 2x CD-ROM drives from, like, 1992 could write to a CD-ROM disc? (A silver, pressed one!) Yeah, some idiot told me that once, too...
In other words, anything that looks sufficiently mysterious is deemed to be magic. What a bunch of StuplePeopid.
The solution is easy. Instead of bothering to fix the software responsible for the problem, they should create a boot disk that drops you into a command prompt, where you can type, in hexadecimal notation, the code required to boot Windows on whatever partition it resides. Then, supply people with a sheet of paper that shows them exactly what to type, and make sure the command prompt supports only the 'x', numeric, and 'enter' keys. No backspace/delete or editing functionality is needed. That way, if you make a single mistake, say, on the very last line, you have to reboot and start over.
Oh yeah, and when we get our asses dragged into court, let's tell them that if we allow Windows to boot by itself, without typing the machine code, that would cause the computer to run more slowly, just as removing Internet Explorer would do for Windows 98.
International Business Machines (NASDAQ: IBM) today announced a new court motion aimed at ending the lawsuit by One-Click Lawsuits - formerly SCO. The motion is aimed at ordering One-Click Lawsuits to release the details of IBM's alleged misappropriation of One-Click Lawsuits' alleged valuable intellectual property into Linux, IBM's legal.....
(In other news, on the same day...)
Microsoft today announced immediate availability of the Legacy Windows Compatibility Layer for the 4.8 kernel, with support for over 12 microprocessor architectures, others forthcoming. The LWCL allows enterprises completing their migration path towards Linux to retain their investment in custom code written for the legacy Windows operating systems. Microsoft's chairman and CEO, Linus Torvalds, said it feels good to have completed his purchase of 75% of what was arguably the world's most influential software company since the 1980's. He hinted at some of the more exciting changes occuring in the 4.9 development kernel, along with.....
When we had DSL installed at my work a few years ago (when Verison was called GTE), I had spent the better part of a week getting a Linux NAT server (a.k.a., masquerading) set up so we could all use it. It was at this time that I learned how to use Linux and the related programs, networking protocols, etc.
About a month later, we were experiencing a problem that prevented us from having a connection.
I called GTE and spoke to someone about the problem. They kept giving me a bunch of BS. When they asked which operating system I was using, I said Linux, and they said that wasn't supported. So on the third or fourth phone call, I said Windows, and when they told me which networking window to go into, I typed the commands into the CLI that would yield the same result. But all of this was to no avail.
Finally, after spending some time checking my settings and the network, I came to the conclusion that our side of the connection was fine and that GTE's DHCP server was down or otherwise not responding to us. We weren't being assigned an IP address, and therefore our connection appeared to be down. I called their number again and told their tech support people that they need to check the status of their server. Of course, they were all some minimum wage folks reading off some screen, so I begged and pleaded to be put through to someone technical, which was finally, after countless arguments, granted. I told their tech guy what I thought about their DHCP server. He checked, and sure enough, I was right. He punched something in, and we were back in business. Oh, and I got their direct phone number, in case of future bullshit.
The clueless tech support people are just there to help equally clueless users set up simple stuff in Windows. From that moment forth, I always figured out and solved my own problems. (Increasingly, it's this way with my cars and other equipment... Most people just don't know what they're doing.)
By creating a XMail email account, you agree to be bound by the terms of the following contract:
A. XMail will provide you with the best email services and an inbox providing one (1) exabyte of capacity for storage. This will be provided free of charge. You will not pay anything to XMail or make an exchange of any legal value whatsoever for these priveleges.
(Etc., etc., etc...)
Let's see who can identify the legal problem with the above contract?
What a bunch of assholes. Give me a fucking break. It's a word for crying out loud. And who cares if some doctor dude thinks he invented it. As I understood, it was a little girl in a school audience, where he was explaining big numbers, who said that number should be called a Google. If anybody should get credit, she should, not some doctor dude who thinks he's all bad ass. And besides, Google's been around forever now. It's not like these StupidPeople/StuplePeopid didn't know it existed. If they had a problem, they should have spoken with the Googleplexes (The Godfather-like Italian family that owns the Google?!?!) about it when Google first started.
By the way, the difference between StupidPeople and StuplePeopid is the degree of stupidity. (StuplePeopid can't even spell StupidPeople correctly.)
Good! I'm using Opera right now... Version six-point-something. Funny thing is, I also have the newest version installed on the same computer, and I switch between them depending on the sites I want to view. (I have different preferences set up in each of them.) Try that with Exploder...
Opera is also much safer. Who cares if it costs 40 bucks or whatever? Of all the browsers I've tried, it's the best one out there. Renders EVERY page except the ones Microsoft OBVIOUSLY screw up to make Opera appear defective. Just like they did with Windows 3.1 and DR-DOS. And probably on many other occasions that don't come to mind right now. And who wants to look at Microsoft's retarded web sites anyway?
Opera. Because friends don't let friends use crappy browsers.
Don't they understand that if they throw this Communism GARBAGE out the window and switch to a completely Capitalist system, they'll be able to go to the moon and back ten times and end up with a profit?!?!?!?
Think about it. In a Communist system, when they spend money, they put the country in the position of a loss. In a Capitalist system, when the government spends money, it's like putting rocket fuel with a NOS bottle on the economy. Think of all the R&D and manufacturing industries that will profit greatly from such an expensive mission, and the enormous tax revenues that will be generated by such a thing. The country goes to the moon, the economy is hauling ass, and the government gets all the money back and tons more.
Capitalism. Because friends don't let friends go Communist.
...as well as believes that US IT troubles are because of free software. Oh, and terrorism works better because of open source, and the "Star Wars" program was a good idea.
At least you got two out of the three correct. The Strategic Defense Initiative, not "Star Wars" as it's called by the biased media, was one of the most important moves by the United States that caused Communism in the U.S.S.R. to fall apart.
The Soviet Union had been held in place for half a century by violence, lies, and fear. Something had to be done by the United States, or today, George Orwell's world might be a reality everywhere.
Says Sean Hannity, in his New York Times Bestselling book, "Deliver Us From Evil,"
The Strategic Defense Initiative was a brilliant stroke on a number of levels. It was imaginative. It was daring. It was aggressive. And it scared the hell out of the Soviets, who hadn't forgotten that America had fulfilled President Kennedy's promise of a moon landing in less than a decade.
In 1986, President Reagan met with Mikhail Gorbachev in Ireland to discuss all kinds of arms reductions. The Soviets were desperate at this point, because they knew that their system, based on the aforementioned fear and lies, was falling apart. All the terms sounded good to Reagan, until, at the last minute, Gorbachev insisted that the U.S. drop its SDI program. To which Reagan replied, "The meeting is over. Let's go. We're leaving." Shortly thereafter, the Soviet Union fell apart.
Laugh all you want about the Strategic Defense Initiative. But if it weren't for that bargaining chip, you might be a slave in some gulag right now, mispronouncing the Russian words that Stalin didn't know how to pronounce properly, because if you didn't, you might be sent to, er, a worse gulag.
Hopefully the spammers aren't that bright and the antispammers stick around long enough to bring them down.
Yeah, that'll really work after this is posted all over Slashdot! That's like the local news channel telling the story of a kidnapped woman who secretly dialed her cell phone, and while appearing to argue with the kidnappers about which street to take, had said, out loud, enough information to make the 911 operator dispatch the police to the scene. So now all the kidnappers know not to fall for that one. What a win for innocent people...:(
With millions of subscribers at each company, these less-than-forthright fees add billions of dollars per year in extra revenue without raising advertised rates.
Reminds me of shrinking food products with prices that remain the same. Like the Kudos bars that grew increasingly smaller until their producer should have been ashamed to release something so ridiculous. Or other candy bars that shrink, retaining the price of the larger predecessor, only to be re-released at the original size, under the title of "king size."
But instead of blaming businesses, it would be wiser to lobby the government to reduce some of its restrictions on business that make it so expensive for businesses to operate. This will ultimately cause the prices of products and services to come down (competition), and therefore put inflation in check.
When government gets involved, everything gets expensive.
Did Novell indirectly create a monster? Caldera's 300 million winnings against Microsoft are now being used to fund lawsuits against Linux (and Novell).
Well, all I have to say is, what goes around, comes around.
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Apple has the image of a quality computer company. Even people who don't know much about computers know that Apple makes a better computer. Now that matter of price may be holding Apple back, but on the other hand, the 2 or 3 percent of the market that they have is still a large market.
The only problem I have with Apple is that they don't continue to market a product once it's "finished." Instead, they come out with a product, and the minute they finish engineering it, it's like yesterday's news to them. Now they are concentrating on innovating for the next product. Which means two things: First, that their computers are ahead of their time, which is good. Second, that they don't have as large a customer base as they should, which is bad.
Let's face it. Everybody knows that when it comes to quality, you get what you pay for. If only Apple would push their existing products a little more strongly, and charge a little less for the software.
5$ monthly subscribtion fee
2$ download access fee
15$ remote assistance fee
5$ for a special software player with XP look
Illegally downloaded MP3s, free.
Paying the RIAA every last dime you have as a settlement, priceless.
For everything else, there's MasterCard.
And isn't that a shame? Especially since I recommend and buy Linksys almost exclusively for my home systems, for the office (where I'm responsible for about 70 computers) and for my friends and others for whom I recommended networking and the way to implement it. The Linksys NICs and routers I bought simply never failed. But I don't like that Cisco took 'em over and is making them into another Cisco.
Gill Bates, the Architect of Windows and the Matrix, was pleased to say, "Our studies have proven that an eMachines costing $500 and running Windows XP has a lower TCO for opening a 2kb email than does a cluster of 1000 IBM z360 mainframes running Linux performing the same task. The cost, using Windows, was about 1 cents per bit, while the cost of the Linux setup was about $88,281,813.25 per byte. Clearly, Windows is much less expensive than Linux.
"Further," said Gill Bates, "employees get more coffee breaks while Windows is reinstalling after a virus breakout. With a Linux environment, the employees of your enterprise might have to work all day long, because the operating system simply isn't considerate enough to offer a coffee break or two every ten minutes."
Heh. Perhaps you haven't had the pleasure of reading George Orwell's 1984, in which Orwell vividly describes the state of the world in a future he feared. In 1984, the government rewrites history on a daily basis. This could be something small, like modifying what Big Brother said about an individual some months ago. Or it could be something big, like convincing the world that one country had always been their ally, while another had always been their enemy; especially when the opposite had been true the day before.
This might seem crazy when you read it in a book, but these things happen all the time in real life, even here in the United States. For example, the ACLU, the so-called American Civil Liberties Union, is currently pursuing legal action against the County of Los Angeles because that county's seal includes a small image of a Christian cross, symbolizing the Mission that was the first settlement in the area. This is a form of rewriting history, as is the removal of Paul Revere from children's history books, to be replaced with some female who apparently did something similar, to be "politically correct." Yes, this has already been done in many schools.
When China decides that it doesn't like certain things, it will talk about them as if they did not exist. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire education system there teaches people things that are wrong, so when the Chinese people hear something like this, they think it's the truth, and that Tibet was never owned by anybody else.
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
Just out of curiousity, is there a practical reason to prove the existance of infinite numbers of twin primes? Or is this purely a matter of curiousity?
Also, this guy is doing some really nice work, not only in painting stuff, but also in fabricating the stuff he installs there (if he did the fabricating). It looks like this mod was carefully thought out and planned before any work began. Good job!
Opera. Because friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer. Or Windows. Or anything else that comes from Redmond.
(Did I mention Opera works equally well on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS? It's a great piece of software. That's why I keep paying $40 (or however much it is) to put it on every computer I have, and I install the "free" (ad) version on every computer I set up for my friends and co-workers. And don't say you don't like the million billion toolbars it has. Just turn them all off and you've got a nice clean browser that renders all pages.)
I would say this is probably not the end of email, nor is it the end of the Internet as a whole. However, it is probably the end of the protocols currently used to send and receive email.
I believe that spam is ultimately a security issue, because it slows down systems and creates problems for users and system administrators. Sometimes, security problems are caused by buffer overruns and other programming errors. However, in this case, I think the entire protocol is faulty. It may have worked wonderfully before spammers, but it's time to introduce something new that will make it extremely difficult to send spam.
I don't know exactly how the new protocol needs to look. But I have some ideas. Paying for "postage" is not one of them, as I think it is a very bad idea. Unless some payment system could be set up whereby the recipient of the mail receives the payment, not some 3rd party, like Microsoft, which would profit incredibly from garbage spam mails going all over the place. In fact, if that were the setup, then each recipient could state a price per email and/or per kilobyte of the mail message for receiving an email from a source, which the source would pay to the recipient as postage. A whitelist could be set up to allow certain senders, like one's friends, family, coworkers, etc., to send emails without paying the recipient. A blacklist could be set up to disallow all emails from specific senders and/or domains, as we have today, and if you read further in this post, you'll see my ideas for making sure that addresses are not spoofed. But I digress...
Perhaps first of all, the mail headers need to include digital signatures based on the source and destination domain names, email addresses, and other identifying information that is unique to each email sent. To avoid address spoofing, for example, people sending junk with a 'yahoo' or 'hotmail' address, when in fact it originates elsewhere, each such domain would have a private key, which upon sending, would be used in the computation. A valid signature could not be computed when the address is spoofed, and so all spammers would need to use their own valid domain name. Further, the need to make computations would make it more costly for spammers to send mail in high volumes. The algorithm should be designed so that recipients of email will have a much lower cost to verify the key. Further, the signature system could, should, and would be used to verify that each bit of the contents of the email, including all attachments, arrived correctly and without being tampered with or corrupted in transit.
In other words, anything that looks sufficiently mysterious is deemed to be magic. What a bunch of StuplePeopid.
Oh yeah, and when we get our asses dragged into court, let's tell them that if we allow Windows to boot by itself, without typing the machine code, that would cause the computer to run more slowly, just as removing Internet Explorer would do for Windows 98.
International Business Machines (NASDAQ: IBM) today announced a new court motion aimed at ending the lawsuit by One-Click Lawsuits - formerly SCO. The motion is aimed at ordering One-Click Lawsuits to release the details of IBM's alleged misappropriation of One-Click Lawsuits' alleged valuable intellectual property into Linux, IBM's legal.....
(In other news, on the same day...)
Microsoft today announced immediate availability of the Legacy Windows Compatibility Layer for the 4.8 kernel, with support for over 12 microprocessor architectures, others forthcoming. The LWCL allows enterprises completing their migration path towards Linux to retain their investment in custom code written for the legacy Windows operating systems. Microsoft's chairman and CEO, Linus Torvalds, said it feels good to have completed his purchase of 75% of what was arguably the world's most influential software company since the 1980's. He hinted at some of the more exciting changes occuring in the 4.9 development kernel, along with.....
About a month later, we were experiencing a problem that prevented us from having a connection.
I called GTE and spoke to someone about the problem. They kept giving me a bunch of BS. When they asked which operating system I was using, I said Linux, and they said that wasn't supported. So on the third or fourth phone call, I said Windows, and when they told me which networking window to go into, I typed the commands into the CLI that would yield the same result. But all of this was to no avail.
Finally, after spending some time checking my settings and the network, I came to the conclusion that our side of the connection was fine and that GTE's DHCP server was down or otherwise not responding to us. We weren't being assigned an IP address, and therefore our connection appeared to be down. I called their number again and told their tech support people that they need to check the status of their server. Of course, they were all some minimum wage folks reading off some screen, so I begged and pleaded to be put through to someone technical, which was finally, after countless arguments, granted. I told their tech guy what I thought about their DHCP server. He checked, and sure enough, I was right. He punched something in, and we were back in business. Oh, and I got their direct phone number, in case of future bullshit.
The clueless tech support people are just there to help equally clueless users set up simple stuff in Windows. From that moment forth, I always figured out and solved my own problems. (Increasingly, it's this way with my cars and other equipment... Most people just don't know what they're doing.)
A. XMail will provide you with the best email services and an inbox providing one (1) exabyte of capacity for storage. This will be provided free of charge. You will not pay anything to XMail or make an exchange of any legal value whatsoever for these priveleges.
(Etc., etc., etc...)
Let's see who can identify the legal problem with the above contract?
Hint: It's not a contract.
And the first game, Microsoft French Kiss, will teach you how to...... uh.....
Perfect for all those geeks out there.
By the way, the difference between StupidPeople and StuplePeopid is the degree of stupidity. (StuplePeopid can't even spell StupidPeople correctly.)
Opera is also much safer. Who cares if it costs 40 bucks or whatever? Of all the browsers I've tried, it's the best one out there. Renders EVERY page except the ones Microsoft OBVIOUSLY screw up to make Opera appear defective. Just like they did with Windows 3.1 and DR-DOS. And probably on many other occasions that don't come to mind right now. And who wants to look at Microsoft's retarded web sites anyway?
Opera. Because friends don't let friends use crappy browsers.
Think about it. In a Communist system, when they spend money, they put the country in the position of a loss. In a Capitalist system, when the government spends money, it's like putting rocket fuel with a NOS bottle on the economy. Think of all the R&D and manufacturing industries that will profit greatly from such an expensive mission, and the enormous tax revenues that will be generated by such a thing. The country goes to the moon, the economy is hauling ass, and the government gets all the money back and tons more.
Capitalism. Because friends don't let friends go Communist.
In an interview, the Chief Architecture Officer of the Ministry of Truth, Gill Bates, was quoted as saying, "There are no Americans in Iraq."
At least you got two out of the three correct. The Strategic Defense Initiative, not "Star Wars" as it's called by the biased media, was one of the most important moves by the United States that caused Communism in the U.S.S.R. to fall apart.
The Soviet Union had been held in place for half a century by violence, lies, and fear. Something had to be done by the United States, or today, George Orwell's world might be a reality everywhere.
Says Sean Hannity, in his New York Times Bestselling book, "Deliver Us From Evil,"
In 1986, President Reagan met with Mikhail Gorbachev in Ireland to discuss all kinds of arms reductions. The Soviets were desperate at this point, because they knew that their system, based on the aforementioned fear and lies, was falling apart. All the terms sounded good to Reagan, until, at the last minute, Gorbachev insisted that the U.S. drop its SDI program. To which Reagan replied, "The meeting is over. Let's go. We're leaving." Shortly thereafter, the Soviet Union fell apart.Laugh all you want about the Strategic Defense Initiative. But if it weren't for that bargaining chip, you might be a slave in some gulag right now, mispronouncing the Russian words that Stalin didn't know how to pronounce properly, because if you didn't, you might be sent to, er, a worse gulag.
Yeah, that'll really work after this is posted all over Slashdot! That's like the local news channel telling the story of a kidnapped woman who secretly dialed her cell phone, and while appearing to argue with the kidnappers about which street to take, had said, out loud, enough information to make the 911 operator dispatch the police to the scene. So now all the kidnappers know not to fall for that one. What a win for innocent people... :(
And then the FAA stepped in and had all the involved parties arrested for questioning and further investigation.
Reminds me of shrinking food products with prices that remain the same. Like the Kudos bars that grew increasingly smaller until their producer should have been ashamed to release something so ridiculous. Or other candy bars that shrink, retaining the price of the larger predecessor, only to be re-released at the original size, under the title of "king size."
But instead of blaming businesses, it would be wiser to lobby the government to reduce some of its restrictions on business that make it so expensive for businesses to operate. This will ultimately cause the prices of products and services to come down (competition), and therefore put inflation in check.
When government gets involved, everything gets expensive.
Well, all I have to say is, what goes around, comes around.