...move all your financial dealings off shore. there are plenty of countries out there with banks that will give you an anonymous bank account, a card you can use in any teller machine, credit cards, and 0% tax. tell me again why you're concerned over something that amounts to little more than a prod to remind you to get off your ass and take care of these arrangements?
The French weren't idiots, and they would have recognized -- by length of mast, deployment of sail, shape of prow, depth of draw -- the reality of the vessel facing them, and they would have blown it out of the water.
The reason the ship disguised itself is so that the French wouldn't surrender, and therefore not having any use all those perfectly good cannonballs the Americans had fashioned.
Picking up chicks! I've often had conversations go like this:
Girl: So, mr boring gentleman, *yawn*, what do you do for a living?
Me: I'm sorry, i can't discuss it, i'm under NDA.
Girl: *conspicuously not yawning anymore* What the hell is an NDA?
Me: Non Disclosure Agreement. I'm legally bound not to discuss most elements of my employment.
Girl: Oh come on, you can tell me!! *twirling hair now*
Me: Hah, yeah well... I suppose you're ok... I can tell you that I provide expert consultancy services for a large national concern. More than that, i cannot say!
Girl: "national concern"? does that mean the GOVERNMENT?
Me: I could tell you, but they'd kill us both... *winks*
And that's the bit where you get to take them home! Come on lads, all I hear are stories about how/. denizens don't get to screw enough girls, so why not kick start YOUR sexual career by talking out your arse some more!
ps. I actually *AM* under NDA. Not for the government though;)
Did anyone actually listen to the audio samples? I tried out the Beastie Boys one, and well, all i can say is that if you want to listen to a skipping cd, leaving it lying about in the bottom of your car has to be a lot easier than coating it in "organic pigments, titanium dioxide, carbon black, aluminium or bronze powders; butane/propane propellant + aluminium chlorohydrate 17.5% w/v".
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SCO *do* read/. aswell - remember that article where there were 3 different sites all using the same stock image, and one of them was SCO? within 24 hours of that article being posted, the image on the SCO site changed to some random chick.
There you have it. Proof that Darl is sitting in his office AC trolling right now.
Whilst on the topic of how shitty WU is, something that a lot of people tend to forget is that sometimes it simply doesn't work. I was trying to patch a win 98 machine the other day (don't ask...) and WU failed with some obscure error message each and every time. Turns out (after much hunting around) that the solution is to delete everything in c:\program files\windows update EXCEPT for the.xml file in the v4 directory. Oh, and for some reason, you have to do this every time you need to add another patch.
Good one, MS. Real intuitive. I can't think of the last time apt simply "didn't work".
Lionheart, which just came out a while ago, suffers from the same thing in a way i've never seen before. Apparently the developers have even admitted that after they'd finished the first half of the game, they ran out of time and had to quickly bash something together for the last half.
What this amounts to is a genuinely interesting and enjoyable game, right up until have finished all the quests around the main city. From then, it's an endless diablo 2 style hack-fest that's so inane and boring that i had to just give up.
Apparently the end game sequence sucks too. I'll never know, cause i'm not going to ever see it.
If Terry is spouting that sort of nonsense, it might explain why his books sound like the writings of a retarded man who has the ability to write technically perfect english.
"Why havent you learned anything? Its all there!It's all there in toynbee in those books on the shelf! Suppression breeds violence! You're gonna raise the curfew an hour? Would you look outside! You see that kid? Last week he just wanted to get laid, now he wants to kill somebody!"
A couple of groups have sampled this for various tracks... it's pretty cool, i think, i've not turned up a source with some basic googling.
I know this is hardly the place to be mentioning things like this (come on, it's SLASHDOT) but imagine if you took a date out in this car! I reckon there's a few "and yeah, i got her wet!" jokes to be made here...
This is the most idiotic "scientific" article i've ever seen. The propensity for the american media to dumb things down to cater for their idiot population continually astounds me.
This is exactly why i'll never sign up for some DRM protected online music/video/whatever system. If I buy something, I feel it is my right to do whatever the fuck I then want with it, even if it's illegal. What other industry has this sort of control over the product you've purchased post sale? I can't think of any.
If i go and buy a screwdriver, i'm sure that i can take it to my friend's house and use it to screw together a cupboard. I'm sure i can also take said screwdriver and stab a hobo to death with it. Can you imagine living in a world where your screwdriver automatically self-destructed when you stuck it in to a hobo? Or that the hobo would somehow magically not die from being stabbed by it? Just because something is digital does not mean it should be protected as such. The governments of the world should put a stop to this fucking nonsense before it gets totally out of hand. I *PAID* for my right to stab a hobo, and by christ that's what i'm going to get.
Until I can pay to download content that is DRM free, i'll continue to do what i've done for years now - download off of p2p, and if i like the album, i'll buy the vinyl direct from the artist.
Sounds like a great idea to me. I'm all for those sorts of practices, it certainly ends up putting more coin in your pocket. If you made more money being nice, don't you think everyone would do it?
New technologies get applied to the industries who will show the most economic reward first. The IT industry is right up there...
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How would this sort of thing work with regards to burning your excess fat? does the human body convert stored fats into glucose before it utilizes them for energy? would plugging a machine like this into you allow you to eat essentially ANYTHING, and the only difference is the amount of power it could syphon off? i'm seeing a massive potential for these devices in the weight loss industry...
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...move all your financial dealings off shore. there are plenty of countries out there with banks that will give you an anonymous bank account, a card you can use in any teller machine, credit cards, and 0% tax. tell me again why you're concerned over something that amounts to little more than a prod to remind you to get off your ass and take care of these arrangements?
The French weren't idiots, and they would have recognized -- by length of mast, deployment of sail, shape of prow, depth of draw -- the reality of the vessel facing them, and they would have blown it out of the water.
The reason the ship disguised itself is so that the French wouldn't surrender, and therefore not having any use all those perfectly good cannonballs the Americans had fashioned.
What's the bet after your telephone rant, the receptionst said "you're from slashdot, aren't you."
if you want to be safe from the possible threat of exploding nokia phones, install a Speaker Bracelet now! it's the only way!
I don't think "alert" is the term one would use to describe said readers...
Picking up chicks! I've often had conversations go like this:
/. denizens don't get to screw enough girls, so why not kick start YOUR sexual career by talking out your arse some more!
;)
Girl: So, mr boring gentleman, *yawn*, what do you do for a living?
Me: I'm sorry, i can't discuss it, i'm under NDA.
Girl: *conspicuously not yawning anymore* What the hell is an NDA?
Me: Non Disclosure Agreement. I'm legally bound not to discuss most elements of my employment.
Girl: Oh come on, you can tell me!! *twirling hair now*
Me: Hah, yeah well... I suppose you're ok... I can tell you that I provide expert consultancy services for a large national concern. More than that, i cannot say!
Girl: "national concern"? does that mean the GOVERNMENT?
Me: I could tell you, but they'd kill us both... *winks*
And that's the bit where you get to take them home! Come on lads, all I hear are stories about how
ps. I actually *AM* under NDA. Not for the government though
"If you can't beat them, join them / then hurt the team by beating yourself" -- Sage Francis.
Did anyone actually listen to the audio samples? I tried out the Beastie Boys one, and well, all i can say is that if you want to listen to a skipping cd, leaving it lying about in the bottom of your car has to be a lot easier than coating it in "organic pigments, titanium dioxide, carbon black, aluminium or bronze powders; butane/propane propellant + aluminium chlorohydrate 17.5% w/v".
SCO *do* read /. aswell - remember that article where there were 3 different sites all using the same stock image, and one of them was SCO? within 24 hours of that article being posted, the image on the SCO site changed to some random chick.
There you have it. Proof that Darl is sitting in his office AC trolling right now.
Whilst on the topic of how shitty WU is, something that a lot of people tend to forget is that sometimes it simply doesn't work. I was trying to patch a win 98 machine the other day (don't ask...) and WU failed with some obscure error message each and every time. Turns out (after much hunting around) that the solution is to delete everything in c:\program files\windows update EXCEPT for the .xml file in the v4 directory. Oh, and for some reason, you have to do this every time you need to add another patch.
Good one, MS. Real intuitive. I can't think of the last time apt simply "didn't work".
Lionheart, which just came out a while ago, suffers from the same thing in a way i've never seen before. Apparently the developers have even admitted that after they'd finished the first half of the game, they ran out of time and had to quickly bash something together for the last half.
What this amounts to is a genuinely interesting and enjoyable game, right up until have finished all the quests around the main city. From then, it's an endless diablo 2 style hack-fest that's so inane and boring that i had to just give up.
Apparently the end game sequence sucks too. I'll never know, cause i'm not going to ever see it.
Here's a briefer one:
"Cat. Box. Radiation. Dead? Maybe."
If Terry is spouting that sort of nonsense, it might explain why his books sound like the writings of a retarded man who has the ability to write technically perfect english.
"Why havent you learned anything? Its all there!It's all there in toynbee in those books on the shelf! Suppression breeds violence! You're gonna raise the curfew an hour? Would you look outside! You see that kid? Last week he just wanted to get laid, now he wants to kill somebody!"
A couple of groups have sampled this for various tracks... it's pretty cool, i think, i've not turned up a source with some basic googling.
ok, so this is probably entirely OT. sorry.
Atleast on SCO's site it has... click click for the chick!
I know this is hardly the place to be mentioning things like this (come on, it's SLASHDOT) but imagine if you took a date out in this car! I reckon there's a few "and yeah, i got her wet!" jokes to be made here...
I for one welcome our new beowulf cluster of... oh, never mind...
This is the most idiotic "scientific" article i've ever seen. The propensity for the american media to dumb things down to cater for their idiot population continually astounds me.
This is exactly why i'll never sign up for some DRM protected online music/video/whatever system. If I buy something, I feel it is my right to do whatever the fuck I then want with it, even if it's illegal. What other industry has this sort of control over the product you've purchased post sale? I can't think of any.
If i go and buy a screwdriver, i'm sure that i can take it to my friend's house and use it to screw together a cupboard. I'm sure i can also take said screwdriver and stab a hobo to death with it. Can you imagine living in a world where your screwdriver automatically self-destructed when you stuck it in to a hobo? Or that the hobo would somehow magically not die from being stabbed by it? Just because something is digital does not mean it should be protected as such. The governments of the world should put a stop to this fucking nonsense before it gets totally out of hand. I *PAID* for my right to stab a hobo, and by christ that's what i'm going to get.
Until I can pay to download content that is DRM free, i'll continue to do what i've done for years now - download off of p2p, and if i like the album, i'll buy the vinyl direct from the artist.
Sounds like a great idea to me. I'm all for those sorts of practices, it certainly ends up putting more coin in your pocket. If you made more money being nice, don't you think everyone would do it?
New technologies get applied to the industries who will show the most economic reward first. The IT industry is right up there...
How would this sort of thing work with regards to burning your excess fat? does the human body convert stored fats into glucose before it utilizes them for energy? would plugging a machine like this into you allow you to eat essentially ANYTHING, and the only difference is the amount of power it could syphon off? i'm seeing a massive potential for these devices in the weight loss industry...
all the answers and more, The meaning of life FAQ
i agree. look to google for an example of a successful company who's success probably relied on their ethical stance.