For a start, it's very very Christian here. Very conservative. So that means that absolutely nothing happens on Sunday. You can't even wash your car. Oh, I lie - you can go to the pub. That's it, though.
I'm sorry, but what neck of the woods did you end up in? Aside from the smaller towns there's plenty to do on Sundays. Shops etc. are closed, but that's pretty much everywhere.
Your one studied and well intentioned vote will be lost in a sea of votes based on hairstyle, looks, sound-bytes and propaganda
So basically what you're saying there's no reason whatsoever the American public couldn't elect good politicians, they're just too stupid?
Note that is not an anti-american post, people are stupid all over the place...nevertheless, your post makes no sense with regards to the GP's post. One can ALWAYS use democratic means to fight the current establishment and there's bupkiss they can do against it short of murdering/threatening you and every last person planning to vote for you or seizing control of the pathways of communication to prevent you from getting your message out. Obviously rigging elections works fine too, but that point has been debated enough lately.
The problem is that most "good" people have betting things to do than get into politics and the few that do anyway either get corrupted by the system or get out of it disgusted before this happens to them. Very few manage to make it into the higher echelons without sacrificing that which they initially held so dear.
It is, is it? Define murder exactly? The fine line between murder and self-defence is different from country to country, and even then the right smooth-talking lawyer can put one's actions just on the other side of the line. What about using lethal force to defend your children? Does that make one a murderer, a hero or both?
But basically, if you're from a major European country and here on a tourist visa, there's no fingerprinting. (Which makes the whole process pretty fucking stupid -- I mean, so now the terrorists need to get false Dutch papers instead of false Egyptian ones; great use of a few million dollars.
Don't be ridiculous. No sane Dutchman would go to the USA for their own pleasure, what with all the windmills to maintain and pot to smoke. Therefore anyone travelling to the US with a dutch passport is by definition a terrorist, a businessman or both.
Although ya know, this gives me an idea. If you can patent something as braindead as this, why not declare other, more common business practices patentable ??? profit?
You wish to patent the "????" part that comes just before "profit!"?
The French get 75 percent of their juice from nukes. How many coal miners have died in Ukraine since 1991?
Not only that, they're lining up major contracts left and right for constructing nuclear facilities in countries where lobby groups are, shall we say, taken less seriously than in some of the more "enlightened" western countries. The one nuclear plant we have in the Netherlands gets its rods from France, where they have at least in part been harvested from recycled Soviet missiles...
By the way: the President is not "George Bush, Jr." He is George Walker Bush. His father is George Herbert Walker Bush.
Ye what!? Grandpa Bush was a Dune fan? Next thing you're gonna tell me G.W. is Baron Harkonnen denying the Fremen their hajj and hordes of desert-dwelling bearded men will use the natural resource found in their sands as leverage.
I'm sorry, but when i saw the following in the little slide show linked to in the summary:
This is an example of the welcome message from a live botnet IRC session. This is what a victim machine would see -- lots of cryptic data (potentially code), an IRC connect message
i'm seriously starting to doubt the guy that set up the slide show. Maybe it's cryptic to him, but to anyone that has actually taken a look at how irc works it's plainly obvious that these are simply the server reporting what it can and cannot support in terms of modes for channels and nicks.
Windows does the "do you see the image correctly" and defaults back to low res so you can switch on the fly without hacking your XF86config-4 file. Something like this could be nice in linux, and it may be there in some distros.
Mandriva 2007 does just that. During the install I told it to configure for a generic GF6800 and it popped up a test screen asking if it looked ok.
I suggest you use your position to bypass the IT people.
Sounds like a great way to go about it, especially in a company where you just started. How about filing an incident report with IT, waiting for a while and THEN reporting it to your boss if it hasn't been fixed?
Or even better, the Apocalypse Mr Thompson has been predicting all this time will occur and after a 60 hour gaming binge the judge will come to court, hopped up on Mountain Dew and pound the living daylight out of our dear lawyer friend. Oh well...win/win situation?:)
Youtube introduced me(I'm from the Old Country) to Stewart and I had a couple of good laughs, even though the res and size of the window were abhorrent. I'd be more than happy to go to a website to watch a better quality excerpt or even full show in exchange for eye-balling some ads. Now if the ads were actually in tune with the contents of the video things could get interesting. One of the youtube clips I ran across featured an interview with Denis Leary who at some point came up with a DVD of Blackadder. Toss in an ad for said DVD and voila, you're in business.
Is it a bad sign that I saw the code and didn't even need to look at the filename to recognize it? Still using the stable branch, but props for all the good(and in some cases, not so good) work:-)
Each time I've considered Linux for home use, I've decided that right now not only is Linux not worth the trouble of switching, but that Windows actually does the job that I want of it better. The only looking to the future I do is to assume that future Windows will also be better than future Linux. I'll make the switch when linux, right now, is better than Windows, right now.
Ah, but at home there's actually a middle road. I installed Mandriva 2007(without a hitch) on this very machine in the knowledge that the odds of something happening to the XP installation were pretty remote. I have some older machines lying around with various flavors installed as testbeds and in one particular case as a development machine(Windows really isn't the right environment to run an irc server on) which has cost me nothing but a few hours, all the while still having my XP install to fall back on. Even when family members are involved, a dual-boot machine set to default to windows will be entirely usable to them. Tbqh, after having tested Mandriva for a while, I don't really see any reason why next time my mom buys a new machine she'd have to pay for Windows...
No, he isn't. I'd be quite happy to have the ability to memorize...say...series of 25 consecutive letters and numbers...so much easier than having to go back and forth between notepad and app x when it asks for a key;-)
Well, consider that a) not all governments are pretending to be paranoid as a means to suppress their people and b) what's the difference between stepping out of a teleport pad into the welcoming arms of Bubba the customs officer or stepping out of a plane?
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Shoot the officer giving said order?
The french are a lot more polite than us Dutch which is another thing I like about them.
Not all that difficult, considering the Dutch, and yes I am one of them, are about the rudest people one can find...
For a start, it's very very Christian here. Very conservative. So that means that absolutely nothing happens on Sunday. You can't even wash your car. Oh, I lie - you can go to the pub. That's it, though.
I'm sorry, but what neck of the woods did you end up in? Aside from the smaller towns there's plenty to do on Sundays. Shops etc. are closed, but that's pretty much everywhere.
Your one studied and well intentioned vote will be lost in a sea of votes based on hairstyle, looks, sound-bytes and propaganda
So basically what you're saying there's no reason whatsoever the American public couldn't elect good politicians, they're just too stupid?
Note that is not an anti-american post, people are stupid all over the place...nevertheless, your post makes no sense with regards to the GP's post. One can ALWAYS use democratic means to fight the current establishment and there's bupkiss they can do against it short of murdering/threatening you and every last person planning to vote for you or seizing control of the pathways of communication to prevent you from getting your message out. Obviously rigging elections works fine too, but that point has been debated enough lately.
The problem is that most "good" people have betting things to do than get into politics and the few that do anyway either get corrupted by the system or get out of it disgusted before this happens to them. Very few manage to make it into the higher echelons without sacrificing that which they initially held so dear.
I'd say the Daily Show is every bit as informative and reliable to tell the truth as Fox News, if not more so. That is how they are comparable.
;-)
Oh please. The average Cartoon Network show is comparable in truthiness to Fox News, hardly something to be proud about
Sorry man, you're all wrong. Everyone knows the first rule about the children is "you don't talk about the children".
"Thou shalt not murder" Is pretty clear to me.
It is, is it? Define murder exactly? The fine line between murder and self-defence is different from country to country, and even then the right smooth-talking lawyer can put one's actions just on the other side of the line. What about using lethal force to defend your children? Does that make one a murderer, a hero or both?
But basically, if you're from a major European country and here on a tourist visa, there's no fingerprinting. (Which makes the whole process pretty fucking stupid -- I mean, so now the terrorists need to get false Dutch papers instead of false Egyptian ones; great use of a few million dollars.
Don't be ridiculous. No sane Dutchman would go to the USA for their own pleasure, what with all the windmills to maintain and pot to smoke. Therefore anyone travelling to the US with a dutch passport is by definition a terrorist, a businessman or both.
Although ya know, this gives me an idea. If you can patent something as braindead as this, why not declare other, more common business practices patentable ??? profit?
You wish to patent the "????" part that comes just before "profit!"?
The French get 75 percent of their juice from nukes. How many coal miners have died in Ukraine since 1991?
Not only that, they're lining up major contracts left and right for constructing nuclear facilities in countries where lobby groups are, shall we say, taken less seriously than in some of the more "enlightened" western countries. The one nuclear plant we have in the Netherlands gets its rods from France, where they have at least in part been harvested from recycled Soviet missiles...
People can function with little math but few can excel.
But that's ok considering they can always choose to powerpoint instead.
By the way: the President is not "George Bush, Jr." He is George Walker Bush. His father is George Herbert Walker Bush.
Ye what!? Grandpa Bush was a Dune fan? Next thing you're gonna tell me G.W. is Baron Harkonnen denying the Fremen their hajj and hordes of desert-dwelling bearded men will use the natural resource found in their sands as leverage.
I'm sorry, but when i saw the following in the little slide show linked to in the summary:
This is an example of the welcome message from a live botnet IRC session. This is what a victim machine would see -- lots of cryptic data (potentially code), an IRC connect message
i'm seriously starting to doubt the guy that set up the slide show. Maybe it's cryptic to him, but to anyone that has actually taken a look at how irc works it's plainly obvious that these are simply the server reporting what it can and cannot support in terms of modes for channels and nicks.
Windows does the "do you see the image correctly" and defaults back to low res so you can switch on the fly without hacking your XF86config-4 file. Something like this could be nice in linux, and it may be there in some distros.
Mandriva 2007 does just that. During the install I told it to configure for a generic GF6800 and it popped up a test screen asking if it looked ok.
Positively hilarious, and worthy of starting a new /. meme.
KILLER!
I suggest you use your position to bypass the IT people.
Sounds like a great way to go about it, especially in a company where you just started. How about filing an incident report with IT, waiting for a while and THEN reporting it to your boss if it hasn't been fixed?
Sorry, wrong. The correct answer is "excuse me? is this my glass? my glass was full! and it was bigger! you bring me a new glass right now!"
and yes, Terry Pratchett does have a very enlightening view of human nature.
Or even better, the Apocalypse Mr Thompson has been predicting all this time will occur and after a 60 hour gaming binge the judge will come to court, hopped up on Mountain Dew and pound the living daylight out of our dear lawyer friend. Oh well...win/win situation? :)
Youtube introduced me(I'm from the Old Country) to Stewart and I had a couple of good laughs, even though the res and size of the window were abhorrent. I'd be more than happy to go to a website to watch a better quality excerpt or even full show in exchange for eye-balling some ads. Now if the ads were actually in tune with the contents of the video things could get interesting. One of the youtube clips I ran across featured an interview with Denis Leary who at some point came up with a DVD of Blackadder. Toss in an ad for said DVD and voila, you're in business.
Is it a bad sign that I saw the code and didn't even need to look at the filename to recognize it? Still using the stable branch, but props for all the good(and in some cases, not so good) work :-)
The only way the citizens of the US will support a unilateral decision to invade another country is when a nuke goes off on US soil.
*cue conspiracy theories involving the military-industrial complex*
Each time I've considered Linux for home use, I've decided that right now not only is Linux not worth the trouble of switching, but that Windows actually does the job that I want of it better. The only looking to the future I do is to assume that future Windows will also be better than future Linux. I'll make the switch when linux, right now, is better than Windows, right now.
Ah, but at home there's actually a middle road. I installed Mandriva 2007(without a hitch) on this very machine in the knowledge that the odds of something happening to the XP installation were pretty remote. I have some older machines lying around with various flavors installed as testbeds and in one particular case as a development machine(Windows really isn't the right environment to run an irc server on) which has cost me nothing but a few hours, all the while still having my XP install to fall back on. Even when family members are involved, a dual-boot machine set to default to windows will be entirely usable to them. Tbqh, after having tested Mandriva for a while, I don't really see any reason why next time my mom buys a new machine she'd have to pay for Windows...
No, he isn't. I'd be quite happy to have the ability to memorize...say...series of 25 consecutive letters and numbers...so much easier than having to go back and forth between notepad and app x when it asks for a key ;-)
such as? as someone who just spent a lot of "quality" time with VDMsound trying to get some old games to work i might be able to help.
Well, consider that a) not all governments are pretending to be paranoid as a means to suppress their people and b) what's the difference between stepping out of a teleport pad into the welcoming arms of Bubba the customs officer or stepping out of a plane?