But the most important thing to do is get your appearance right, because that affects other areas:
- Take a photo of yourself on a typical day. This will be your "before" picture.
- Cut your hair short, so it looks neat and clean. This cut is low maintenance and is in style right now.
- Set aside about $1000 to play with-- for your new "gear."
- Contact a friend from college who had style and invite him/her to go shopping with you.
- Visit Skechers.com and get a pair of black boots.
- Dig out your best sport shirt and a nice pair of blue jeans from your closet. Wear contacts.
- Go to your local Nautica Store and pick out a few buttondown sport shirts and sweaters that you like. Get some khakis and jeans too. Review them with your friend. About $300 should do it here.
- Go home, wear your new clothes for the next week, and be happy.
- Now that you look and feel better, go to Nordstrom the following week and get new Nordstrom socks, undershirts, CK underwear, a canvas clubbing jacket, dress shirts, maybe a leather jacket, and a nice belt. You already have a kickass pair of shoes, but another pair couldn't hurt.
- You might consider going into "The Rail" at Nordstrom and asking them their advice, since those people usually have a clue.
- Take a photo of yourself a week later, and compare it with "before." I'll bet you changed a whole lot.
Most importantly, keep in mind that these changes are gradual and that there is no instant solution. I was hopeless until I went shopping with my friends, and since then I have had an eye for good clothing. It's not that I'm shallow, it's just that knowing you look good is the biggest self-confidence booster. You also have to look in the right places. Bars are ok when you go with friends, but if you are alone then work is probably the best place, especially if you work in a large company with a lot of young available females. If you think in terms of marketing-- selling yourself to potential customers-- you are on the right track. Have confidence and be whatever you want to be.
Your opinion of republicans grossly misstates the events which have transpired in the last 15 years about censorship.
Who was the biggest backer of the V-Chip aka Violence Chip? The Democratic party-- to help "preserve our children's minds."
Who was the biggest proponent of ratings of TV shows (which are already tame)? The Democratic Party-- so parents "know what their children are watching."
Who blames school violence on the video game culture today? The Democratic party-- because pictorial violence supposedly caused all of the "recent rash of school shootings."
As for Ashcroft, you don't have the whole story. His statement that there is a culture of violence in this country does not preclude him from upholding the constitution; in fact, the media never mentions that he has consistently put his beliefs aside in the best interest of his state. You are out to get him only because his personal beliefs differ from your own.
I'm afraid you're looking in the wrong place for pro-censorship forces. Why don't you look into the liberal ideals before bashing someone whose views you won't even listen to.
It doesn't take very much to avoid the ads entirely. I trained myself to ignore them, but before learning to block them out mentally, you can turn off plugins, turn off activeX, and turn off "animate GIFs." These are all options in Internet Explorer 5. I've found this particularly useful for the new CNET ads. They are all flash, so if you disable plugins you don't have to watch or wait! What's even better is iCab or Opera. You can block individual ads, ad servers, and images that are a certain size.
Britney, Aerosmith, Backstreet, Nelly, and Mary J. Blige...the halftime show was the best I've ever seen. And Nelly and Mary J. Blige, while having no significant lines in "walk this way," gave the show significant street credibility. A triumph for marketing!
Does anyone here actually use Mac OS X? I mean, more than just tinkering with it in a store or something?
OS X is full of eye candy and easy to use. In other words, it's designed for your average consumer; this is nothing new. Whether it's based on BSD or Linux seems irrelevant to me. Obviously if I ran a server of any kind I would be using a unix variant on x86 hardware for compatibility and speed, but in the internet/website design work that I and many other mac users do, I just need basic stuff. The difference between the systems does not matter to me at all, nor does it many to any current mac user. LinuxPPC is not really a viable choice for home use, since it's on an uncommon cpu and has few really valuable apps, and Mac OS 9 just plain sucks, so OS X is the only solution because I've been locked into this hardware loop with the PPC chip.
Most Mac users don't know anything about either BSD or Linux, and they just take what sjobs decides to give them, so they don't care. Keep that in mind.
You guys aren't addressing the biggest concern of the people who are against ICANN: they (rightly) fear the centralization of authority because it leads to inevitable abuse by those with economic and political power. ICANN is a problem for me because it limits domains to "official" ones that its member registrars sell. Pressure from registrars with commercial interest leads ISPs to use only "official" root servers, and it's a bandwagon effect; if ICANN servers are used initially, the chance that a new ISP uses ICANN increases. So basically the internet names will end up with either 99% using ICANN and 1% using others, or everyone using others. Unfortunately, over 99% of ISPs currently use ICANN, so it's already set.
You guys are missing the fact that you are the ones with the knowledge necessary to implement your own authority. All it takes is organization, which is something h4x0rs are notoriously bad at. You have to be a businessman to be able to organize something this big. Unfortunately, Joe Internetuser doesn't give a fuck, so the public is of no help.
There has to be a large influential group of h4x0rs who announce to the mass media that the ICANN system is flawed and also that there is a new, superior system which encompasses all ICANN TLDs while adding thousands more. The media also doesn't give a fuck unless the general public cares. The only way this can get news coverage is with the endorsement of a large company like IBM. Unfortunately, the people who know how the internet works are all working for some dumbass manager who only sees $$$, so they aren't of any help. I'll be establishing my own TLD pretty soon, so it's obvious which side I'm on. Central authority sucks and it defeats the purpose of the internet. That is something ordinary people won't ever realize because all of their knowledge comes through the filter known as entertainment.
I'll support any effort to maintain electronic freedom if anyone else wants to put in the time. A tech users group of 100,000 users might do the trick.
I noticed that yahoo started doing the same thing recently also. They give the formula
http://srd.yahoo.com/srst/7079471/slashdot/1/12/*h ttp://www.slashdot.org/
I read something on Slashdot about how MS is trying to partition the internet into the "Microsoft Internet" (.NET) and the regular internet. To me it looks like they are taking the inevitable step of transitioning their existing, naive user base to a new software distribution model. Every company in the country uses MS Office, so the ordinary office types will want to continue using the programs; to them a subscription is the same as upgrading every year...but wait! What if all of your MS software gets upgraded automatically when you pay each year? Nobody has to go through and do a network install on each computer, since the code for upgrading will already be in NT and it can fetch the installers and put everything on the system itself. Office people will see it as a timesaver, and if they pay less for the subscription than for the regular upgrader disks, it's an advantage to them.
The concept that they won't be able to use the programs that are already on their drives once the subscription is over doesn't bother regular users. I just use BBEdit or TextEdit to make RTFs and then print them from MS Word, so Word subscriptions don't matter to me. But how many people out there care enough to use open source/open format files? Nobody in business, that's who.
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Some drug dealers already accept credit cards. It shows up on your bill as "baked goods." :-))))
But the most important thing to do is get your appearance right, because that affects other areas:
- Take a photo of yourself on a typical day. This will be your "before" picture.
- Cut your hair short, so it looks neat and clean. This cut is low maintenance and is in style right now.
- Set aside about $1000 to play with-- for your new "gear."
- Contact a friend from college who had style and invite him/her to go shopping with you.
- Visit Skechers.com and get a pair of black boots.
- Dig out your best sport shirt and a nice pair of blue jeans from your closet. Wear contacts.
- Go to your local Nautica Store and pick out a few buttondown sport shirts and sweaters that you like. Get some khakis and jeans too. Review them with your friend. About $300 should do it here.
- Go home, wear your new clothes for the next week, and be happy.
- Now that you look and feel better, go to Nordstrom the following week and get new Nordstrom socks, undershirts, CK underwear, a canvas clubbing jacket, dress shirts, maybe a leather jacket, and a nice belt. You already have a kickass pair of shoes, but another pair couldn't hurt.
- You might consider going into "The Rail" at Nordstrom and asking them their advice, since those people usually have a clue.
- Take a photo of yourself a week later, and compare it with "before." I'll bet you changed a whole lot.
Most importantly, keep in mind that these changes are gradual and that there is no instant solution. I was hopeless until I went shopping with my friends, and since then I have had an eye for good clothing. It's not that I'm shallow, it's just that knowing you look good is the biggest self-confidence booster. You also have to look in the right places. Bars are ok when you go with friends, but if you are alone then work is probably the best place, especially if you work in a large company with a lot of young available females. If you think in terms of marketing-- selling yourself to potential customers-- you are on the right track. Have confidence and be whatever you want to be.
Your opinion of republicans grossly misstates the events which have transpired in the last 15 years about censorship.
Who was the biggest backer of the V-Chip aka Violence Chip? The Democratic party-- to help "preserve our children's minds."
Who was the biggest proponent of ratings of TV shows (which are already tame)? The Democratic Party-- so parents "know what their children are watching."
Who blames school violence on the video game culture today? The Democratic party-- because pictorial violence supposedly caused all of the "recent rash of school shootings."
As for Ashcroft, you don't have the whole story. His statement that there is a culture of violence in this country does not preclude him from upholding the constitution; in fact, the media never mentions that he has consistently put his beliefs aside in the best interest of his state. You are out to get him only because his personal beliefs differ from your own.
I'm afraid you're looking in the wrong place for pro-censorship forces. Why don't you look into the liberal ideals before bashing someone whose views you won't even listen to.
It doesn't take very much to avoid the ads entirely. I trained myself to ignore them, but before learning to block them out mentally, you can turn off plugins, turn off activeX, and turn off "animate GIFs." These are all options in Internet Explorer 5. I've found this particularly useful for the new CNET ads. They are all flash, so if you disable plugins you don't have to watch or wait! What's even better is iCab or Opera. You can block individual ads, ad servers, and images that are a certain size.
Britney, Aerosmith, Backstreet, Nelly, and Mary J. Blige...the halftime show was the best I've ever seen. And Nelly and Mary J. Blige, while having no significant lines in "walk this way," gave the show significant street credibility. A triumph for marketing!
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Darwin localhost 1.2 Darwin Kernel Version 1.2: Wed Aug 30 23:32:53 PDT 2000; root:xnu/xnu-103.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
Does anyone here actually use Mac OS X? I mean, more than just tinkering with it in a store or something?
OS X is full of eye candy and easy to use. In other words, it's designed for your average consumer; this is nothing new. Whether it's based on BSD or Linux seems irrelevant to me. Obviously if I ran a server of any kind I would be using a unix variant on x86 hardware for compatibility and speed, but in the internet/website design work that I and many other mac users do, I just need basic stuff. The difference between the systems does not matter to me at all, nor does it many to any current mac user. LinuxPPC is not really a viable choice for home use, since it's on an uncommon cpu and has few really valuable apps, and Mac OS 9 just plain sucks, so OS X is the only solution because I've been locked into this hardware loop with the PPC chip.
Most Mac users don't know anything about either BSD or Linux, and they just take what sjobs decides to give them, so they don't care. Keep that in mind.
You guys aren't addressing the biggest concern of the people who are against ICANN: they (rightly) fear the centralization of authority because it leads to inevitable abuse by those with economic and political power. ICANN is a problem for me because it limits domains to "official" ones that its member registrars sell. Pressure from registrars with commercial interest leads ISPs to use only "official" root servers, and it's a bandwagon effect; if ICANN servers are used initially, the chance that a new ISP uses ICANN increases. So basically the internet names will end up with either 99% using ICANN and 1% using others, or everyone using others. Unfortunately, over 99% of ISPs currently use ICANN, so it's already set.
You guys are missing the fact that you are the ones with the knowledge necessary to implement your own authority. All it takes is organization, which is something h4x0rs are notoriously bad at. You have to be a businessman to be able to organize something this big. Unfortunately, Joe Internetuser doesn't give a fuck, so the public is of no help.
There has to be a large influential group of h4x0rs who announce to the mass media that the ICANN system is flawed and also that there is a new, superior system which encompasses all ICANN TLDs while adding thousands more. The media also doesn't give a fuck unless the general public cares. The only way this can get news coverage is with the endorsement of a large company like IBM. Unfortunately, the people who know how the internet works are all working for some dumbass manager who only sees $$$, so they aren't of any help. I'll be establishing my own TLD pretty soon, so it's obvious which side I'm on. Central authority sucks and it defeats the purpose of the internet. That is something ordinary people won't ever realize because all of their knowledge comes through the filter known as entertainment.
I'll support any effort to maintain electronic freedom if anyone else wants to put in the time. A tech users group of 100,000 users might do the trick.
I noticed that yahoo started doing the same thing recently also. They give the formula http://srd.yahoo.com/srst/7079471/slashdot/1/12/*h ttp://www.slashdot.org/
I read something on Slashdot about how MS is trying to partition the internet into the "Microsoft Internet" (.NET) and the regular internet. To me it looks like they are taking the inevitable step of transitioning their existing, naive user base to a new software distribution model. Every company in the country uses MS Office, so the ordinary office types will want to continue using the programs; to them a subscription is the same as upgrading every year...but wait! What if all of your MS software gets upgraded automatically when you pay each year? Nobody has to go through and do a network install on each computer, since the code for upgrading will already be in NT and it can fetch the installers and put everything on the system itself. Office people will see it as a timesaver, and if they pay less for the subscription than for the regular upgrader disks, it's an advantage to them.
The concept that they won't be able to use the programs that are already on their drives once the subscription is over doesn't bother regular users. I just use BBEdit or TextEdit to make RTFs and then print them from MS Word, so Word subscriptions don't matter to me. But how many people out there care enough to use open source/open format files? Nobody in business, that's who.