Well I'm sure they'll work in some American elements to liven it up, like more trash-talking, and jumping up onto cutting boards and the like.
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I could not agree more. Free Trade is the way to go. It's too bad the US government is so closely tied to industry, but campaign donations have to come from somewhere I guess. gr.
Globalization is nothing but Trade, taken to its most extreme. Trade is still good, even though it seems to be out of control. The fact is, that Tiawanese factories are much more efficient at mass-producing electronic products than US factories, where the cost of labor has risen a bit higher. As a result, the US, with a more educated workforce, focuses more on designing and servicing products which are sold worldwide, leaving other nations to persue their particular fortes. It's a good thing, since specialization means greater production, and less scarcity, on a worldwide scale. Joe Midwestern Farmer, who can barely make ends meet and must take a job manning telephones on a support team, well he may not like it. But you can't argue with results. He can go to Best Buy and buy cheap electronics that would have cost a great deal more if they were produced domesticly. The world can achieve more when it works together, and there's nothing wrong with outsourcing whole industries to nations who are in a position to do it better.
KaZaA is totally awesome. The way it lists all the exact duplicates of files under the same heading, and can just dynamicly switch from one to another if one source fails, it's just too sweet. Not 10 hours after the Buffy Musical was aired, I managed to grab all 20 tracks off the the web, and that's just gravy.
I recently saw you on some cable show on TNN. You were having a really funny interview with an overly enthusiastic host, and I was really enjoying it. You were telling a really funny story about something that happened to you.. and then the host stood up and said "OK, Act it Out!" and then the camera turned to a stage to the right and an Improv Comedy Troupe appeared and began doing a skit based on your story, and it was awful! This happened like three times, and then YOU jumped into one of the skits... it was beyond awful, and I cried like a little girl.
My question is... Why???? Did TNN make you sign something in blood so you'd do some ST:TNG interview for them?
... because nobody cares about.biz domains anyway. They won't get any respect, since all the companies people care about already have.com addresses. People will view.biz domains as late-comers and hangers-on. Which probably isn't far from the truth.
Someone, please, stop the WTC remixes they are playing on the radio now. The Jewel song "Hands" with cuts of screaming and reporters yelling in it... with bush in the middle reading off a teleprompter.. it's too awful. That song sucked to begin with, now it's just a huge misery-fest.
They also have a WTC mix of Creed's "With Arms Wide Open" which is even worse. PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE SOMEBODY STOP DJ WTC BEFORE HE MIXES AGAIN!!!!!
1 4m a 15 yr 0ld h4X0r/cr4ckX0r, 4nd i th3nk th4t t3h s3nt1nce r1lly SUXX0RZ!!! i 4m more s/\/\a4tur then 4ll j00 0lde phart PUNKX0r S1S-4DMINZ c0mbinde!#% JOO PH33R MY 5K33LZ, i w1ll p1ngn00k joo and fr4ggX0r jur ARSE in c0uNtArStRiEk!!! i am 1337.. 4LL J00R B4S3 R B3L0NGZ 2 US!!!!!
---===[[[{{{N33T-0 31337-0}}}]]]===---[xRc]
PHR33 MAPHIAB0Y!!!!!
/s
/save
/exit
/qut
/quit
h0w do i sa3v? th3si sint pien!!$ GRR!! greppin tarball
There are no civilians in Palestine. Every 10 year old who picks up a rock or done a recon mission for his local PLO officer has made the transition from Civilian to Soldier.
Arabs are like Orcs... you have to kill them all, even the children. They're raised from birth being told that they will go to heaven for forwarding the jihad against the West.
Baby orcs, however cute and innocent, grow up to be big, nasty adult orcs. While it's technically genocide, that's really the option for true peace, and unfortunately it's not going to happen.
Does anyone remember this? The whole map was the enterprise, down to a T. Well, it wasn't a mod, it was a level, but it was pretty damn cool:) Even the transporters worked, but they always beamed you to engineering.
PDF Virus Violates DMCA! Heralded as an "encryption circumvention device for adobe technology!"
Look Everyone! I made the requisite "DMCA Violation Joke" that appears in EVERY THREAD now, and gets modded to Funny 5 even though we've heard it 15,604 times before.
That's a neat little scenario of abusing the DMCA the guy mentions:
Virus writers can use the DMCA in a perverse way. Because computer viruses are programs, they can be copyrighted just like a book, song, or movie. If a virus writer were to use encryption to hide the code of a virus, an anti-virus company could be forbidden by the DMCA to see how the virus works without first getting the permission of the virus writer. If they didn't, a virus writer could sue the anti-virus company under the DMCA!
Now THAT is a nifty idea. Someone's GOT to try this. Not me though, I have vacation time coming up and I'm not going to spend it in prison!
Is this the first of a five part series? Please, it's important for your readers to pace themselves! I can stomach one article, but only if I know four more aren't enroute. (Part 3/5 is like hump day!)
I can see these suits brainstorming for other ideas...
"I hate it when the weather is bad! Why don't we just re-wire the earth, so it will only rain when convieniant for our buisnesses!"
"I hate the way I have to stop for all these lights when I'm driving my car. Why don't we have a service just to raise half the roads up into the air, so we wouldn't ever have to stop! Somebody get my venture capitalist on the line!"
"This concept of linear time just doesn't fit into our buisness plan. Johnson, I want a buisness plan for a company that would reverse time, thus allowing us to rent it out to customers at overly inflated rates. Have it on my desk by yesterday."
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obligatory line so you don't skip the last part of my message!
I am going nuts trying to read EVERY post, I see firsthand now the dedication of the moderators!
You are all echoing a lot of the same ideas I've had of late. Yes, it is obvious that persuing a buisness degree will shift me away from 'Pure Tech' and I'm quite comfortable with this adjustment. I LOVED computers when I was in High School, and then some time during college, it sort of faded. When I started engineering school, I wanted to know EVERYTHING about how my 486 worked. Then after Digital Design II, a crapload of Calc and enough Assembler code to make me tear my hair out, I decided I knew enough.
There are things I love more than computers now. Beer, video games, cars.. the real Purpose of getting an MBA would be to getting a big house with a Pool, and maybe a camero. I see this as the path of least resistance to my coveted 6 digit salary.
I know that as techies, we have a monopoly on many of the useful skills out there. However, most of the developers and engineers I have met out there (and I met many when I was a sword for hire) never step up to earn high salaries.
Hope this Helps!
-Ken (the Engineer)
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Well I'm sure they'll work in some American elements to liven it up, like more trash-talking, and jumping up onto cutting boards and the like.
I could not agree more. Free Trade is the way to go. It's too bad the US government is so closely tied to industry, but campaign donations have to come from somewhere I guess. gr.
Globalization is nothing but Trade, taken to its most extreme. Trade is still good, even though it seems to be out of control. The fact is, that Tiawanese factories are much more efficient at mass-producing electronic products than US factories, where the cost of labor has risen a bit higher. As a result, the US, with a more educated workforce, focuses more on designing and servicing products which are sold worldwide, leaving other nations to persue their particular fortes. It's a good thing, since specialization means greater production, and less scarcity, on a worldwide scale. Joe Midwestern Farmer, who can barely make ends meet and must take a job manning telephones on a support team, well he may not like it. But you can't argue with results. He can go to Best Buy and buy cheap electronics that would have cost a great deal more if they were produced domesticly. The world can achieve more when it works together, and there's nothing wrong with outsourcing whole industries to nations who are in a position to do it better.
- Kengineer
I dare you to sign on and say that, Coward! And sentences only need one conjugated verb, jackass.
Hah, well that porn site will be slashdotted in a few seconds, so this whole discussion is really a moot point :)
KaZaA is totally awesome. The way it lists all the exact duplicates of files under the same heading, and can just dynamicly switch from one to another if one source fails, it's just too sweet. Not 10 hours after the Buffy Musical was aired, I managed to grab all 20 tracks off the the web, and that's just gravy.
Do not trust the pusher robot!
He is malfunctioning!
Do you have stairs in your house?
- kengineer
I recently saw you on some cable show on TNN. You were having a really funny interview with an overly enthusiastic host, and I was really enjoying it. You were telling a really funny story about something that happened to you.. and then the host stood up and said "OK, Act it Out!" and then the camera turned to a stage to the right and an Improv Comedy Troupe appeared and began doing a skit based on your story, and it was awful! This happened like three times, and then YOU jumped into one of the skits... it was beyond awful, and I cried like a little girl.
My question is... Why???? Did TNN make you sign something in blood so you'd do some ST:TNG interview for them?
- kengineer
... because nobody cares about .biz domains anyway. They won't get any respect, since all the companies people care about already have .com addresses. People will view .biz domains as late-comers and hangers-on. Which probably isn't far from the truth.
- kengineer
.. these stupid april fool's day articles. Nobody believes them, why do they keep getting posted? Get a life people!
Someone, please, stop the WTC remixes they are playing on the radio now. The Jewel song "Hands" with cuts of screaming and reporters yelling in it... with bush in the middle reading off a teleprompter.. it's too awful. That song sucked to begin with, now it's just a huge misery-fest.
They also have a WTC mix of Creed's "With Arms Wide Open" which is even worse. PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE SOMEBODY STOP DJ WTC BEFORE HE MIXES AGAIN!!!!!
- Kengineer
h3110 l4mUrz,
1 4m a 15 yr 0ld h4X0r/cr4ckX0r, 4nd i th3nk th4t t3h s3nt1nce r1lly SUXX0RZ!!! i 4m more s/\/\a4tur then 4ll j00 0lde phart PUNKX0r S1S-4DMINZ c0mbinde!#% JOO PH33R MY 5K33LZ, i w1ll p1ngn00k joo and fr4ggX0r jur ARSE in c0uNtArStRiEk!!! i am 1337.. 4LL J00R B4S3 R B3L0NGZ 2 US!!!!!
---===[[[{{{N33T-0 31337-0}}}]]]===--- [xRc]
PHR33 MAPHIAB0Y!!!!!
/s
/save
/exit
/qut
/quit
h0w do i sa3v? th3si sint pien!!$ GRR!! greppin tarball
True, true.
Unlike America, where we try 11 year olds as adults. 8 months for a pranking kid is appropriate.
- Kengineer
There are no civilians in Palestine. Every 10 year old who picks up a rock or done a recon mission for his local PLO officer has made the transition from Civilian to Soldier.
Let's kill the God, starting with all his followers. Another Crusade is in order.
Arabs are like Orcs... you have to kill them all, even the children. They're raised from birth being told that they will go to heaven for forwarding the jihad against the West.
Baby orcs, however cute and innocent, grow up to be big, nasty adult orcs. While it's technically genocide, that's really the option for true peace, and unfortunately it's not going to happen.
... the NYSE was evacuated at 9:15. The other markets may respond though.
Does anyone remember this? The whole map was the enterprise, down to a T. Well, it wasn't a mod, it was a level, but it was pretty damn cool :) Even the transporters worked, but they always beamed you to engineering.
NEWS FLASH::
.. kengineer
PDF Virus Violates DMCA! Heralded as an "encryption circumvention device for adobe technology!"
Look Everyone! I made the requisite "DMCA Violation Joke" that appears in EVERY THREAD now, and gets modded to Funny 5 even though we've heard it 15,604 times before.
Nobody will say this is a great movie
... Kengineer
Wrong again, Katz!
This was a great movie!!!! Everone should see this, it puts planet of the apes and it's godawful ending to shame.
I get it. If a law was passed that said you must sit down to take a piss, and you were caught standing up, you would just say, "Ok. you got me."
Idiot.
Yeah, I'll buy a permit from the city to put up a fence on MY property. Get a fucking life.
just stand up too fast and accidently piss on them. Oops, sorry!
woah, did you see the end of that article?
That's a neat little scenario of abusing the DMCA the guy mentions:
Virus writers can use the DMCA in a perverse way. Because computer viruses are programs, they can be copyrighted just like a book, song, or movie. If a virus writer were to use encryption to hide the code of a virus, an anti-virus company could be forbidden by the DMCA to see how the virus works without first getting the permission of the virus writer. If they didn't, a virus writer could sue the anti-virus company under the DMCA!
Now THAT is a nifty idea. Someone's GOT to try this. Not me though, I have vacation time coming up and I'm not going to spend it in prison!
-- Kengineer
Is this the first of a five part series? Please, it's important for your readers to pace themselves! I can stomach one article, but only if I know four more aren't enroute. (Part 3/5 is like hump day!)
I can see these suits brainstorming for other ideas...
"I hate it when the weather is bad! Why don't we just re-wire the earth, so it will only rain when convieniant for our buisnesses!"
"I hate the way I have to stop for all these lights when I'm driving my car. Why don't we have a service just to raise half the roads up into the air, so we wouldn't ever have to stop! Somebody get my venture capitalist on the line!"
"This concept of linear time just doesn't fit into our buisness plan. Johnson, I want a buisness plan for a company that would reverse time, thus allowing us to rent it out to customers at overly inflated rates. Have it on my desk by yesterday."
--- obligatory line so you don't skip the last part of my message!
Again, Thanks to all.
I am going nuts trying to read EVERY post, I see firsthand now the dedication of the moderators!
You are all echoing a lot of the same ideas I've had of late. Yes, it is obvious that persuing a buisness degree will shift me away from 'Pure Tech' and I'm quite comfortable with this adjustment. I LOVED computers when I was in High School, and then some time during college, it sort of faded. When I started engineering school, I wanted to know EVERYTHING about how my 486 worked. Then after Digital Design II, a crapload of Calc and enough Assembler code to make me tear my hair out, I decided I knew enough.
There are things I love more than computers now. Beer, video games, cars.. the real Purpose of getting an MBA would be to getting a big house with a Pool, and maybe a camero. I see this as the path of least resistance to my coveted 6 digit salary.
I know that as techies, we have a monopoly on many of the useful skills out there. However, most of the developers and engineers I have met out there (and I met many when I was a sword for hire) never step up to earn high salaries. Hope this Helps! -Ken (the Engineer)