Stating Kissinger pulled US troops out of Vietnam is inaccurate. You may want to read Hersh's Price of Power or one of any number of other volumes on Kissinger or Vietnam for a look at Kissinger's role.
I'm curious about your approach - why use words like "bitching" or "stealing"? This sort of language doesn't lend itself to civil discourse.
If you use your favorite Internet search engine and search for "secure boot product key" or a similar set of keywords you will find numerous anecdotes from people who have had the same experience I did, using retail software they'd just purchased.
As far as this phenomena not being new, it is certainly new in my experience. I've been installing Windows since 3.0, back in 1990. My copy of Windows Server 2012 is from my MSDN subscription. I was an MSDN charter subscriber, in 1992 or so. I've not had a product setup tell me it wouldn't install on the machine I chose.
Good summary, but it's important to realize that this is not just about Windows vs. other operating systems. Secure Boot allows Microsoft and hardware manufacturers to control which version of Windows the consumer installs.
Last week a box I had running Windows Server for years died, and I bought a new Lenovo tower to replace it. The new box came with Windows 8 but I mistakenly thought this would be no problem - I'd just reformat the disk and boot up off a retail Windows Server DVD. This was a mistake - the Windows Server 2012 setup program refused to proceed, saying the product key didn't match any of those on the machine. I booted into the BIOS setup and "disabled" Secure Boot, but to no avail. Secure boot allows the hardware manufacture to bake Windows 8 product keys into the firmware, prohibiting installation of anything else. I spent hours installing Windows 8, then the distribution tools, sideloading Windows Server onto a new partition from within Windows 8. What a hassle! Here I had a legitimate copy of the software, and I was prohibited from installing it directly onto the machine I'd just purchased.
Having to take vacation for holidays is extremely rare in the US and probably only applies for short term or contract positions.
It is not as rare as you may think. The firm I work for has over 17,000 employees, and all regular full-time employees are required to use vacation days for the work days following Christmas. Here in California I would have prefered to go to work during this period and use the vacation days at another time.
When I lived in Germany there were many more holidays than in the US, and more of a sense that one's life was lived outside the job.
I was 11. I remember that the nation's focus was on the space program, and this was quite a while before I really became aware of politics.
If you were young enough that you weren't aware of politics, how were you old enough to know with such certainty what the nation's focus was? I suspect you've simply absorbed the legends that have come to surround the Apollo program and confused them with your own experiences.
There's likely truth to this. I was eight when Apollo 11 landed, and while I found it inspiring, I remember my father being pretty uninterested in getting our portable television down from the shelf. Nixon was in the White House, the Vietnam war filled the news and was far larger than the space program in the consciousness of many people I knew. The landing was a few weeks before Woodstock, and a couple months before the first public stories on My Lai.The Chicago Seven trial was underway. For many of us, while the Moon landing was exciting, it was pretty much a sideshow to more important events of the day.
Yeah, that's my impression also. I installed Win 8 Enterprise in a VM Wednesday morning and spent a few hours playing with it. Lousy, lousy interface. Just unusable. A coworker who's an avowed Microsoft fan told me a number of times that it was easy to see two windows at once with Metro, he just couldn't remember the keystrokes. I've been working with VS 2012, and find the "clean" approach to reduce my productivity, as visual clues to what windows/tabs are active are gone. I actually did use the Macro Explorer also, and miss its exclusion.
I downloaded the MSDN Windows 8.isos on Wednesay morning and installed the Enterprise flavor on VMware Workstation without incident. What problems are you seeing?
Yeah, I know - I started typing a response to this, but couldn't figure out what approach to take. I think maybe the poster meant Clinton, but then the impression of failure and fear of the Russians definitely dates from 1979/80 rather than 1994/95. I think maybe the poster was too young to remember either of these periods, and is conflating his impressions of other people's memories.
How are you defining "order of magnitude"? Commonly this means a factor of ten, so if your phone call today is a couple of orders of magnitude less expensive than in the late 70's, the cost of today's phone call would be about 1 percent the previous cost. In your example, however, the current price seems to be about 26 percent of the previous price.
this begins to meddle in a lot of things that really shouldn't be meddled in.
WTF? My ignorance of crime rates is something that shouldn't be meddled in, because I have an imagined obligation to support businesses I know nothing about? Your choice to support businesses in what you describe as "one very rotten neighborhood" is *your* choice. I'd like to have access to crime data, if available, before I walk through an area that I'm unfamiliar with. If, as you suggest, there is some significant difference in crime incidence during daylight hours as opposed to darkness, I'd like to know that, also. The idea that merchants who are unknown to me are somehow entitled to my ignorance of crime rates, though, is bizarre.
intense activity of a relatively small company that had just been awarded a massive contract (the amount was not declassified)
What is the rationale for keeping the dollar amount spent classified? How were contracts awarded? What were the profits made? What sort of kickbacks were involved? As fascinating as the technology is, I'm thinking there is a still more fascinating, albeit quite different, story left untold.
Sure it's fun! But dangerous to one's health, too, which is the poster's point, I suspect, especially if one rinks while smoking. And some studies suggest that rinking is an enabling activity which leads to harder forms of skating, such as on frozen lakes and streams. Having fallen through thin ice more than once let me tell you, those waters are cold and perilous! I can only imagine the danger to my health had I been smoking at the time. In practice it's hard to keep a jay lit while skating.
Investigators also found significant problems with the brakes of both school buses involved in the accident. A third school bus sent to a hospital after the accident to pick up students crashed in the hospital parking lot when that bus' brakes failed.
Lesson would seem to be not to text while driving, and definitely don't text while driving in front of multiple school buses with bad brakes.
There is nothing in this article to suggest the study found that gaming caused changes in brain structure. The study only reports the brains of those who are frequent gamers show some differences when compared to study subjects who are not gamers.
The link is to a press release announcing study results. Reading the press release we learn the study was of 12 volunteers. I find it difficult to get too interested in a communications office news release about research on so small a scale.
This has certainly been my experience in San Francisco. For years I dealt with a reseller who leased ATT lines, but he honestly told me himself that when I moved to a new location and had trouble with the lines that there was little he could do, and ATT would be pretty unresponsive unless I was their customer.
Suggesting there's a plethora of choices for telecomm providers even in a large metropolitan area like the San Francisco Bay Area seems like a troll.
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Reagan's team negotiating with Tehran to delay release of the hostages certainly contributed to Carter's loss also.
Stating Kissinger pulled US troops out of Vietnam is inaccurate. You may want to read Hersh's Price of Power or one of any number of other volumes on Kissinger or Vietnam for a look at Kissinger's role.
I read the post, he said he was better at developing then the interviewers,
When you seek to correct the use of their/they're you may want to properly use then/than.
Much more funny than "find American sigint plane and strafe until half of complement dead"
Not to mention an American sigint Victory Ship!
You don't have to reply, just the fact that the email didn't bounce back to the sender means that this is a valid address.
Or it means that the mail administrator has turned off non-delivery notifications.
I didn't realize that, thanks for the information.
I'm curious about your approach - why use words like "bitching" or "stealing"? This sort of language doesn't lend itself to civil discourse.
If you use your favorite Internet search engine and search for "secure boot product key" or a similar set of keywords you will find numerous anecdotes from people who have had the same experience I did, using retail software they'd just purchased.
As far as this phenomena not being new, it is certainly new in my experience. I've been installing Windows since 3.0, back in 1990. My copy of Windows Server 2012 is from my MSDN subscription. I was an MSDN charter subscriber, in 1992 or so. I've not had a product setup tell me it wouldn't install on the machine I chose.
Good summary, but it's important to realize that this is not just about Windows vs. other operating systems. Secure Boot allows Microsoft and hardware manufacturers to control which version of Windows the consumer installs. Last week a box I had running Windows Server for years died, and I bought a new Lenovo tower to replace it. The new box came with Windows 8 but I mistakenly thought this would be no problem - I'd just reformat the disk and boot up off a retail Windows Server DVD. This was a mistake - the Windows Server 2012 setup program refused to proceed, saying the product key didn't match any of those on the machine. I booted into the BIOS setup and "disabled" Secure Boot, but to no avail. Secure boot allows the hardware manufacture to bake Windows 8 product keys into the firmware, prohibiting installation of anything else. I spent hours installing Windows 8, then the distribution tools, sideloading Windows Server onto a new partition from within Windows 8. What a hassle! Here I had a legitimate copy of the software, and I was prohibited from installing it directly onto the machine I'd just purchased.
Having to take vacation for holidays is extremely rare in the US and probably only applies for short term or contract positions.
It is not as rare as you may think. The firm I work for has over 17,000 employees, and all regular full-time employees are required to use vacation days for the work days following Christmas. Here in California I would have prefered to go to work during this period and use the vacation days at another time.
When I lived in Germany there were many more holidays than in the US, and more of a sense that one's life was lived outside the job.
Router access restriction policies take care of this, and help guarantee my son a good night's sleep.
If you were young enough that you weren't aware of politics, how were you old enough to know with such certainty what the nation's focus was? I suspect you've simply absorbed the legends that have come to surround the Apollo program and confused them with your own experiences.
There's likely truth to this. I was eight when Apollo 11 landed, and while I found it inspiring, I remember my father being pretty uninterested in getting our portable television down from the shelf. Nixon was in the White House, the Vietnam war filled the news and was far larger than the space program in the consciousness of many people I knew. The landing was a few weeks before Woodstock, and a couple months before the first public stories on My Lai.The Chicago Seven trial was underway. For many of us, while the Moon landing was exciting, it was pretty much a sideshow to more important events of the day.
Yeah, that's my impression also. I installed Win 8 Enterprise in a VM Wednesday morning and spent a few hours playing with it. Lousy, lousy interface. Just unusable. A coworker who's an avowed Microsoft fan told me a number of times that it was easy to see two windows at once with Metro, he just couldn't remember the keystrokes. I've been working with VS 2012, and find the "clean" approach to reduce my productivity, as visual clues to what windows/tabs are active are gone. I actually did use the Macro Explorer also, and miss its exclusion.
I downloaded the MSDN Windows 8 .isos on Wednesay morning and installed the Enterprise flavor on VMware Workstation without incident. What problems are you seeing?
Yeah, I know - I started typing a response to this, but couldn't figure out what approach to take. I think maybe the poster meant Clinton, but then the impression of failure and fear of the Russians definitely dates from 1979/80 rather than 1994/95. I think maybe the poster was too young to remember either of these periods, and is conflating his impressions of other people's memories.
How are you defining "order of magnitude"? Commonly this means a factor of ten, so if your phone call today is a couple of orders of magnitude less expensive than in the late 70's, the cost of today's phone call would be about 1 percent the previous cost. In your example, however, the current price seems to be about 26 percent of the previous price.
WTF? My ignorance of crime rates is something that shouldn't be meddled in, because I have an imagined obligation to support businesses I know nothing about? Your choice to support businesses in what you describe as "one very rotten neighborhood" is *your* choice. I'd like to have access to crime data, if available, before I walk through an area that I'm unfamiliar with. If, as you suggest, there is some significant difference in crime incidence during daylight hours as opposed to darkness, I'd like to know that, also. The idea that merchants who are unknown to me are somehow entitled to my ignorance of crime rates, though, is bizarre.
What is the rationale for keeping the dollar amount spent classified? How were contracts awarded? What were the profits made? What sort of kickbacks were involved? As fascinating as the technology is, I'm thinking there is a still more fascinating, albeit quite different, story left untold.
Sure it's fun! But dangerous to one's health, too, which is the poster's point, I suspect, especially if one rinks while smoking. And some studies suggest that rinking is an enabling activity which leads to harder forms of skating, such as on frozen lakes and streams. Having fallen through thin ice more than once let me tell you, those waters are cold and perilous! I can only imagine the danger to my health had I been smoking at the time. In practice it's hard to keep a jay lit while skating.
Lesson would seem to be not to text while driving, and definitely don't text while driving in front of multiple school buses with bad brakes.
Yes, but if your stress levels have been lowered as a result of masturbation, your onanism has *affected* as opposed to *effected* the levels.
There is nothing in this article to suggest the study found that gaming caused changes in brain structure. The study only reports the brains of those who are frequent gamers show some differences when compared to study subjects who are not gamers.
The link is to a press release announcing study results. Reading the press release we learn the study was of 12 volunteers. I find it difficult to get too interested in a communications office news release about research on so small a scale.
This has certainly been my experience in San Francisco. For years I dealt with a reseller who leased ATT lines, but he honestly told me himself that when I moved to a new location and had trouble with the lines that there was little he could do, and ATT would be pretty unresponsive unless I was their customer. Suggesting there's a plethora of choices for telecomm providers even in a large metropolitan area like the San Francisco Bay Area seems like a troll.