I just bring my own. The lowly theater workers have yet to stop me. If they try, I'll demand my money back for my ticket and go download it instead. Despite being afraid of being stopped and having this argument ready, I've yet to need it.
Besides, I've heard that the candy/popcorn/soda is where the theater really makes its money, not the tickets. So you know the candy companies aren't getting shit.
At first you seemed intelligent. But then you said this:
The true test is whether or not our leaders are competent enough to defeat terrorism without destroying the laws and rights that made this country great.
Terrorism is a symptom of the problem. Combating it doesn't make it stop any better than treating sniffles when you have a cold. To continue the analogy, the disease is whatever it is that is pissing off the people who become terrorists off so badly that they perform terrorist acts.
We will not - no, we cannot stop terrorism. To call it war is a truly Orwellian statement. It is not war. It is not even battle. It is a futile, fruitless effort that is eroding our rights as citizens further with each passing day and accomplishing none of its purported goals.
Verizon is one of the most evil companies in existance. I wouldn't get FIOS from them if it were free. They'll never, ever get more of my money voluntarily.
Did you know they're the same company that disables bluetooth file transfers to cell phones so that you have to pay their exhorberant prices to get files on your phone?
Not to mention they rebrand the OSes of all their phones with the most hideously ugly verizon theme you can imagine. And I don't mean just a little label here and there. The whole fucking thing is redone in their godawful color scheme.
They're also the same company that pads HTTP requests from/to your cell phone with additional junk data so you use more KB faster.
Giving into their demands is probably not a good idea either because it would encourage others to do it.
Does anyone even know what Oceanna..er...Osama's demands were?
I'm more afraid of my own government than terrorists. I don't think killing innocent people was a goal so much as a means.
Funny how none of the major news companies will even say what he was trying to accomplish, only that he's a bad, bad, man. Terrorism bad, terroists bad. Bad bad bad. Evil.
Yeah. We know. We get it. Now tell us why.
The only other thing I can think of - which won't work either - is threaten to turn the entire area into a parking lot if another terrost attack occurs. The problem with that kind of threat is that you've given control to the terroists. A slight problem you may realize.
Well if they're hiring them, then it's pretty reasonable to assume that Google can tell them what to do. Which essentially makes them tools. And tools are not evil unless you use them for evil.
I'm not, however, delusional. I suspect that even if Google has them do only things that we would consider to be non-evil, they'll probably accomplish these goals using mostly evil means.
I'm firm believer that lobbyists are essentially evil. The fact that they work, and even non-evil groups need to employ them to accomplish anything is evil in and of itself. Maybe this makes them necessary evils, but evil nonetheless.
P.S. I think I need to work the word "evil" into my post a few more times. Evil evil evil.
Whole article, one page, no ads, only 1 image (site logo).
Firefox, adblock and the "printable view" of articles are the only things that make websites livable these days. I pity anyone not using FF & Adblock; those are the bare necessities.
And yeah, the "article" is still full of shit, but at least it doesn't assault you with ads in the print layout.
And you can't do Lvl 2 missions in a Frigate. I can barely do most of my Lvl 3 Missions in a Battlecruiser.
But hey, to each their own. Some like EVE, some like WoW, some like football. But you gotta admit, this EVE tv thing is kinda cool if you like EVE. It's more interesting to me than football.
It's all in the diphenhydramine HCl. It's the main active ingredient in both benedryl and Tylenol Simply Sleep.
I get enormous welts from mosquito bites (the whole back of my hand swelled up from a single bite one time), and either Benedryl or any OTC sleep aid will work. Except the benedryl usually has some non-drowsy additives.
Then they wouldn't have any way to know how to filter it would they?
Maybe by port number.....but they wouldn't be able to parse packets for "google" and slow those down.
My TCP/IP knowledge is rusty...but maybe you can't encrypt the destination port.......yet.
As for this:
Representative Fred Upton, head of the House telecommunications subcommittee, said competition could mean people save $30 to $40 each month on their net access fees.
It's utter bullshit. The ISPs won't lower the bills the end users, they'll just pocket the profits from prioritizing provider content.
Look for a technological workaround to this problem soon.
A PC is a personal computer - emphasis on computer. A thin client is a dumb terminal.
They even admitted that it's not a PC near the end of the article: "While the device itself consumes less power than a standard PC, users who want to run a range of applications will need to connect it to a server. This will raise the total power consumption."
And trust me, you do not want to work on a thinclient. I had to for a year while doing defense contracting. Every minute of it sucked ass. Not only was the responsiveness of the terminal dependent on the thinclient, but also on the resources available on the host terminal server but ALSO on the network connection between the two. Displaying an image, or scrolling up to and past one would bring the whole thing to an almost standstill. And god forbid you can't use firefox & flashblock. Any animated flash ad brought the whole thing completely to its knees - to the point that I had to kill the browser process.
Anyone who recommends a thinclient is probably trying to sell you one.
Are you kidding if some major "news" source started saying stuff like: "Government gone fucking batshit crazy, for the love of god people, so something!!!" instead of playing nice with, "Should the Government be allowed to tap phones? Find, out after this word from our sponsors." its ratings would go through the roof!
Imagine the ratings you'd get for that; they'd outstrip the FCC censorship fines for sure.
[side rant]God I hate that teaser shit. I deliberately change channels when they do that crap (and go read it on google before the first commercial is up).[/side rant]
I actually went to your site and looked at your resume after reading your comment telling someone else to judge you by your resume, not your sig. I went in expecting you to prove them overwhelmingly foolish and wrong - to really kick their ass. And you......didn't. Hence why I said your sig was accurate.
I looked over one of your resumes with a the harsh, critical and time-strapped eye that a potential employer would use.
Were I you, I would list your most current, most useful, most relevent skills FIRST. And your antiquated stuff not at all.
I had a mock interview with a an alumni from my college that was one of the top 150 managers at HP. It didn't get me a job, and were it real I would have bombed it, but he gave me some good advice. List your most important, most relevent stuff first, and don't list anything that makes you look bad or antiquated at all.
That resume is all the potential employer has to go by and if it makes you look antiquated they'll think you're anitquated.
I didn't look at more than one resume and don't expect your employers to either. Give them one resume, and make it your best one. Don't even list two.
If all the hiring managers you show this too take your last job to be the sole measurement of your skillset and experience, then make your "last job" the most relevent and in the most recent field/technologies. If you don't have any recent/relevent job experience, find some. Work on an open source project, or start your own using new technologies. Acually learn it, then put it on your resume ahead of everything else. Impress them in the interview with how much you really learned about it and they'll weight it the same as if it were a job. You're right, it is sad that they rate that so highly, that they don't take the time to find out more, but realize that that that is what they're going to do and defeat that bad habit of theirs instead of complaining about it.
I'm not trying to be a prick, I'm trying to help. I wish you luck if you still need it.
Funny that this story comes up now. A friend and I were discussing it this morning.
Personally I prefer *nix for work and Windows for home use.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no Windows fanboy, nor even a *nix fanboy.
The reason I like *nix for work it does work-like things better (shell scripting, command line intensive etc). But I like windows for home use mostly because I do more recreational computer use there, primarily Games, but I'm a big fan of Winamp too and I don't want to mess with things for hours to get them to just plain work.
To me they're different tools for different jobs. Until Linux is as usable as windows for everything that everybody want to use a computer for it won't beat Windows. Windows is better than Linux. There I said it! I didn't like admitting it, but it's true. As a broad generalization it's true. If you get into detail that statement falls apart becuase Windows sucks at a lot of things, but for your average home user Linux makes little sense. I wish it weren't true, I'd love to use Linux at home, but it doesn't do the things I want it to do as well as I require an OS to do them.
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Who pays those outrageous prices for candy?
I just bring my own. The lowly theater workers have yet to stop me. If they try, I'll demand my money back for my ticket and go download it instead. Despite being afraid of being stopped and having this argument ready, I've yet to need it.
Besides, I've heard that the candy/popcorn/soda is where the theater really makes its money, not the tickets. So you know the candy companies aren't getting shit.
Terrorism is a symptom of the problem. Combating it doesn't make it stop any better than treating sniffles when you have a cold. To continue the analogy, the disease is whatever it is that is pissing off the people who become terrorists off so badly that they perform terrorist acts.
We will not - no, we cannot stop terrorism. To call it war is a truly Orwellian statement. It is not war. It is not even battle. It is a futile, fruitless effort that is eroding our rights as citizens further with each passing day and accomplishing none of its purported goals.
Verizon is one of the most evil companies in existance. I wouldn't get FIOS from them if it were free. They'll never, ever get more of my money voluntarily.
Did you know they're the same company that disables bluetooth file transfers to cell phones so that you have to pay their exhorberant prices to get files on your phone?
Not to mention they rebrand the OSes of all their phones with the most hideously ugly verizon theme you can imagine. And I don't mean just a little label here and there. The whole fucking thing is redone in their godawful color scheme.
They're also the same company that pads HTTP requests from/to your cell phone with additional junk data so you use more KB faster.
They're not just evil, they're fucking evil.
Join me in boycotting them.
I don't wonder how they got there. They knowlingly committed amoral, nefarious, and shady acts.
Yes there is. Don't piss off terrorists.
Giving into their demands is probably not a good idea either because it would encourage others to do it.
Does anyone even know what Oceanna..er...Osama's demands were?
I'm more afraid of my own government than terrorists. I don't think killing innocent people was a goal so much as a means.
Funny how none of the major news companies will even say what he was trying to accomplish, only that he's a bad, bad, man. Terrorism bad, terroists bad. Bad bad bad. Evil.
Yeah. We know. We get it. Now tell us why.
The only other thing I can think of - which won't work either - is threaten to turn the entire area into a parking lot if another terrost attack occurs. The problem with that kind of threat is that you've given control to the terroists. A slight problem you may realize.
The problem isn't the programs, it's the codecs.
Get the K-Lite Codec Pack
Use Media Player Classic (included).
Your wife's phone sucks, get one that doesn't require
Well if they're hiring them, then it's pretty reasonable to assume that Google can tell them what to do. Which essentially makes them tools. And tools are not evil unless you use them for evil.
I'm not, however, delusional. I suspect that even if Google has them do only things that we would consider to be non-evil, they'll probably accomplish these goals using mostly evil means.
I'm firm believer that lobbyists are essentially evil. The fact that they work, and even non-evil groups need to employ them to accomplish anything is evil in and of itself. Maybe this makes them necessary evils, but evil nonetheless.
P.S. I think I need to work the word "evil" into my post a few more times. Evil evil evil.
Better yet, send them KY jelly, and gay porn mags. Or better yet, gay porn mags and NO KY!
This is why I love sites that have "print view":
a =187287,00.asp
http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,1217,
Whole article, one page, no ads, only 1 image (site logo).
Firefox, adblock and the "printable view" of articles are the only things that make websites livable these days. I pity anyone not using FF & Adblock; those are the bare necessities.
And yeah, the "article" is still full of shit, but at least it doesn't assault you with ads in the print layout.
It depends on what type of agent you pick.
If you pick a Command agent, 97% of your missions will be "go here & kill everything"
See here for agent types:
http://www.tesuji.co.uk/agents.php
(The reason the page looks so bad, is it works in the in-game browser.)
And the lvl 2+ missions are not easy if you're still in a frigate (the smallest ship, first you get).
The first part of the ship progression is like this:
Frigate -> Destroyer -> Cruiser -> Battlecruiser -> Battleship
And you can't do Lvl 2 missions in a Frigate. I can barely do most of my Lvl 3 Missions in a Battlecruiser.
But hey, to each their own. Some like EVE, some like WoW, some like football. But you gotta admit, this EVE tv thing is kinda cool if you like EVE. It's more interesting to me than football.
Or at all.
I'm an atheist and I don't go running around pillaging, raping and sacrificing virgins or anything.
Not every body needs an imaginary being up in the sky to tell us what is right and what is wrong.
It's all in the diphenhydramine HCl. It's the main active ingredient in both benedryl and Tylenol Simply Sleep.
I get enormous welts from mosquito bites (the whole back of my hand swelled up from a single bite one time), and either Benedryl or any OTC sleep aid will work. Except the benedryl usually has some non-drowsy additives.
I could just get a PDA for that price and read all the ebooks I want + 802.11b + email + web + bluetooth + GPS.
Try again iRex.
(No, I'm not a shill I just want one...and can't afford it...but it'd get it over this e-ink crap)
I don't use AV and I've never had a virus.
Caveat: I run Trend Micro's Free Online Housecall Virus Scan occasionally and it's always clean.
If that's "using an AV" then so be it, but I don't install the resource hogging, flawed-by-design wastes of money on my system.
I've said this all before.
I didn't know lawsuits could talk...
This follows the never written, but always true lawyer's rule of: Never sue someone who doesn't have any money.
One can safely assume that Pete Solis, you know - the guy that actually committed a crime - doesn't have nearly the money myspace.com does.
Then they wouldn't have any way to know how to filter it would they?
Maybe by port number.....but they wouldn't be able to parse packets for "google" and slow those down.
My TCP/IP knowledge is rusty...but maybe you can't encrypt the destination port.......yet.
As for this:
It's utter bullshit. The ISPs won't lower the bills the end users, they'll just pocket the profits from prioritizing provider content.
Look for a technological workaround to this problem soon.
"Thinclient PC" is a contradiction in terms.
A PC is a personal computer - emphasis on computer. A thin client is a dumb terminal.
They even admitted that it's not a PC near the end of the article: "While the device itself consumes less power than a standard PC, users who want to run a range of applications will need to connect it to a server. This will raise the total power consumption."
And trust me, you do not want to work on a thinclient. I had to for a year while doing defense contracting. Every minute of it sucked ass. Not only was the responsiveness of the terminal dependent on the thinclient, but also on the resources available on the host terminal server but ALSO on the network connection between the two. Displaying an image, or scrolling up to and past one would bring the whole thing to an almost standstill. And god forbid you can't use firefox & flashblock. Any animated flash ad brought the whole thing completely to its knees - to the point that I had to kill the browser process.
Anyone who recommends a thinclient is probably trying to sell you one.
I hate those things.
I'd rather have an IBM/Dell style "pointing stick" in the middle of the keyboard......if it had one of those I'd probably be sold on it right now.
anybody know what the tech specs are on it?
Get back to making products and selling them to make a profit.
That's a silly response. They still are, it's their lawyers that are suing apple, not their employees.
Are you kidding if some major "news" source started saying stuff like: "Government gone fucking batshit crazy, for the love of god people, so something!!!" instead of playing nice with, "Should the Government be allowed to tap phones? Find, out after this word from our sponsors." its ratings would go through the roof!
Imagine the ratings you'd get for that; they'd outstrip the FCC censorship fines for sure.
[side rant]God I hate that teaser shit. I deliberately change channels when they do that crap (and go read it on google before the first commercial is up).[/side rant]
I did!
.\_/.
I got one particularly convincing paypal phish.
It pissed me off so bad I created a valid-credit-card-number generator and gave the phisher several fake credit card numbers that passed validation.
Was what I did illegal? Probably not. Would attempting to use those numbers be? Probably.
Yeah, I was harsh and I don't apologize.
I actually went to your site and looked at your resume after reading your comment telling someone else to judge you by your resume, not your sig. I went in expecting you to prove them overwhelmingly foolish and wrong - to really kick their ass. And you......didn't. Hence why I said your sig was accurate.
I looked over one of your resumes with a the harsh, critical and time-strapped eye that a potential employer would use.
Were I you, I would list your most current, most useful, most relevent skills FIRST. And your antiquated stuff not at all.
I had a mock interview with a an alumni from my college that was one of the top 150 managers at HP. It didn't get me a job, and were it real I would have bombed it, but he gave me some good advice. List your most important, most relevent stuff first, and don't list anything that makes you look bad or antiquated at all.
That resume is all the potential employer has to go by and if it makes you look antiquated they'll think you're anitquated.
I didn't look at more than one resume and don't expect your employers to either. Give them one resume, and make it your best one. Don't even list two.
If all the hiring managers you show this too take your last job to be the sole measurement of your skillset and experience, then make your "last job" the most relevent and in the most recent field/technologies. If you don't have any recent/relevent job experience, find some. Work on an open source project, or start your own using new technologies. Acually learn it, then put it on your resume ahead of everything else. Impress them in the interview with how much you really learned about it and they'll weight it the same as if it were a job. You're right, it is sad that they rate that so highly, that they don't take the time to find out more, but realize that that that is what they're going to do and defeat that bad habit of theirs instead of complaining about it.
I'm not trying to be a prick, I'm trying to help. I wish you luck if you still need it.
Funny that this story comes up now. A friend and I were discussing it this morning.
Personally I prefer *nix for work and Windows for home use.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no Windows fanboy, nor even a *nix fanboy.
The reason I like *nix for work it does work-like things better (shell scripting, command line intensive etc). But I like windows for home use mostly because I do more recreational computer use there, primarily Games, but I'm a big fan of Winamp too and I don't want to mess with things for hours to get them to just plain work.
To me they're different tools for different jobs. Until Linux is as usable as windows for everything that everybody want to use a computer for it won't beat Windows. Windows is better than Linux. There I said it! I didn't like admitting it, but it's true. As a broad generalization it's true. If you get into detail that statement falls apart becuase Windows sucks at a lot of things, but for your average home user Linux makes little sense. I wish it weren't true, I'd love to use Linux at home, but it doesn't do the things I want it to do as well as I require an OS to do them.
Ok.
I read it. And your sig summed it up accurately.
Your last job was using COBOL.
Your skillset is antiquated.
The winner gets to have their style be the default.