Scarier still... it's still about the cheapest place in Denmark to buy calculators and technical books.
Which is pretty bad when I can buy the same items on a one by one basis abroad, have them shipped here, pay customs and sales tax and still have it come out cheaper.
When I say "natural" I didn't mean Jesus' birth alone.
If virgirn birth was a naturally occuring thing, it would happen all the time. Say at the same rate as having twins.
This would make Jesus' birth anything but a miracle, as it happens constantly. What makes HIS birth so special compared to all the others born of virgin mothers? Well, apart form the strange visits by deluded people who felt it nescesarry to just drop in at the same barn, but that happened at my birth as well.
Ahh... the "I've been burned once because of some schmuck, so all [whatever] are bad!" argument.
Yeah, I cut myself on a piece of paper once, so everyone should stop using paper. And once, would you believe it, I was hurt by a car - everyone should stop using those. And I'm allergic to milk, so out with that. Oh, and meat gives me zits, so no more meat for anyone. And once I was forced to listen to some drunk blabbering on and on about his clothes, so free speech should be abolished too.
Any of this registering?
I can't speak for american unions, but it is kinda funny that almost EVERY single country in western Europe has highly successfull unions, much higher working environments and lower working hours than the US, and yet manage to be able to live quite well dispite having to pay ridiculous amounts of taxes compared to the US. This was done mostly through the work of those horrible, horrible, horrible unions, which are good for nothing at all! Clearly we should nuke western Europe for being so stupid!!!
Please.
Here's a quarter. Go buy a clue, read up on unions in other countries (try Denmark - we have a lot of different unions, and at least three different ones just for IT-workers).
And when you're done with that, maybe - just maybe, you will realise that unions are good things. The US apparently has some kind of perverted idea of what a union is (apparently it's supposed to be run by the mob, set fire to factories, sabotage production and extort workers) which doesn't have shit to do with what the rest of the world thinks.
>Yes, we know, we know, MySQL isn't 99.99999% standards compatible.
I think you could remove six of those nines and still be right. Maybe even seven of them.
It's kinda like saying "Yes, we know, we know. Internet Explorer isn't 99.99999% standards compatible." except that saying such a thing brings on the flames...
What most people don't seem to get is that the database isn't your filesystem. It is to your data what the kernel is to your OS.
Do he expect a sys_call function to be executed from any random program? Why not? He seems quite willing to judging by his lack of understanding of what the database is for.
There's a reason database admins can rake in huge fees, and it's not because they think data-integrety checking is done outside the database...
Heh... I read a computer book once... can't remember the title - probably something about the Internet or something.
It didn't dawn upon me until now, but there was actually no page 404. It jumped from page 403 to 405. Completely screwed everything up, as the even numbered pages are always on the left.
I tried to hack the Penthouse computer facility the other day. Their firewall consists of 2 million images of centerfolds, so I never got past that.
Then I tried to social engineer the secretary to give me some passwords. I did manage to get some numbers from her, but they turned out to be her measurements (5'4, 120 lb, 34, 22, 33) and her phone number.
My conclusion is that it is impossible to gain access to their computer network. And that I don't really care anymore.
Didn't decided to do without one... my computer with the tuner card broke, and since I didn't have a regular tv and just a laptop for spare, I didn't have much choice but not watch tv. Then I forgot to bother fixing the computer.
I miss it, but mostly when I'm bored out of my skull. Yes, I've read some more books, but I doubt I wouldn't have read them if I still had tv.
Sure, it could be great watching Friends again (we're way behind here in Denmark), but it's not like I'll die if I don't.
Some people say "well, now I have more spare time to do more meaningfull stuff!" Yeah - like what? Read books? Did that. Now I'm out of unread books at home and the local library only has technical books:-). Get some exercise? Yeah - right! Like that's ever going to happen. And besides - what's on tv between five and six pm? Childrens shows?
Then there are saturday nights. These are exactly like they were before my tv went out. Saturday night has to be THE!!! crappiest night of the week when it comes to television. "Night of the Living Hollistic Hair Dressers". Reality shows about boring regular people put in extremely unreal situations. They are roughly as realistic as the textures in Commander Keen (but that's just one mans oppinion). Sure - it might be fun to see wether or not Sheila manages to convince Kurt to have sex with her even though they're stuck on a deserted island (never mind the television crew), that Kurt's girlfriend is on another deserted island (never mind the television crew) where she's busy fending off more dick that you see in two weeks of alt.binary.* posts, all the while trying to see if they can manage to eat the eyes out of a live tarantula, who has (just for the occasion) been dressed in a fabulous sweater by Dior, trousers by le Pen and eye liner by L'Oreal all done by the Fabulous Five. Hope I didn't leave out any reality shows.
I do miss tv. I also miss having sex. And they aren't related as far as I know.
The P-ATA cables are what? 4 inches wide and not very flexible (as in, you can't really make a good 90 turn across the cables width). Compare that to the S-ATA cables that are probably an inch wide, can be longer and are easier to place out of the way.
Well, it's one thing to be hung like a horse, as it IS a rather long slong, but it is about as hard as sponge, so most women would be very dissapointed by it.
I am not a vet, but I did have a discussion about this very subject (don't ask - too many drinks is part of it) with a female vet, and that's what she said.
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So, playing a holy warrior was forbidden, but playing a cursed vampire was cool?
...
Damn
That's 'cause we were all too busy running around raping girls, torturing animals, killing the elderly and praying to evil demons.
Bear in mind though, that that was just one afternoon, and I did do my homework afterwards.
Scarier still ... it's still about the cheapest place in Denmark to buy calculators and technical books.
Which is pretty bad when I can buy the same items on a one by one basis abroad, have them shipped here, pay customs and sales tax and still have it come out cheaper.
Considering that Gandalf was played by a gay actor*, I'm not sure that is a wise choise of a name. Galadriel or Arwen might be better.
*(he's a brilliant actor, and one of my favorites - it's a joke - laugh)
The US Internet Price is $49.99
... sit down ... $112.61
... no - wait ...
The campus bookstore at my college (DTU Denmark) charges
Granted, Denmark has a 25% sales tax. Let's add that and compare: $49.99 * 1.25 = $62.49
I believe the words I'm looking for are "HOLY FUCKING SHIT!"
Good thing I'm not a poor pennyless student
Well, send me US$ 12,000 in cash, and I'll send you a Xilinx Spartan II.
;-)
If you ask politely I'll even throw in a Digilab DI01 for free.
But you have to pay shipping and handeling.
Deal?
> Lest we end up watching pong for 90 minutes.
Too late!
Well - at we'll get to see Kirsten Dunst jumping and running in a very short skirt.
When I say "natural" I didn't mean Jesus' birth alone.
If virgirn birth was a naturally occuring thing, it would happen all the time. Say at the same rate as having twins.
This would make Jesus' birth anything but a miracle, as it happens constantly. What makes HIS birth so special compared to all the others born of virgin mothers? Well, apart form the strange visits by deluded people who felt it nescesarry to just drop in at the same barn, but that happened at my birth as well.
Well, if you believe that baby Jesus was born of a virgin, then you quite likely also believe that he is/was the son of God - divine intervention.
Divine intervention is not natural.
Hence baby Jesus is not proof that it does occur naturally.
If it did occur naturally, baby Jesus' birth would not be a miracle, which would tend to discredit the claim he is the son of God.
Ahh ... the "I've been burned once because of some schmuck, so all [whatever] are bad!" argument.
Yeah, I cut myself on a piece of paper once, so everyone should stop using paper. And once, would you believe it, I was hurt by a car - everyone should stop using those. And I'm allergic to milk, so out with that. Oh, and meat gives me zits, so no more meat for anyone. And once I was forced to listen to some drunk blabbering on and on about his clothes, so free speech should be abolished too.
Any of this registering?
I can't speak for american unions, but it is kinda funny that almost EVERY single country in western Europe has highly successfull unions, much higher working environments and lower working hours than the US, and yet manage to be able to live quite well dispite having to pay ridiculous amounts of taxes compared to the US. This was done mostly through the work of those horrible, horrible, horrible unions, which are good for nothing at all! Clearly we should nuke western Europe for being so stupid!!!
Please.
Here's a quarter. Go buy a clue, read up on unions in other countries (try Denmark - we have a lot of different unions, and at least three different ones just for IT-workers).
And when you're done with that, maybe - just maybe, you will realise that unions are good things. The US apparently has some kind of perverted idea of what a union is (apparently it's supposed to be run by the mob, set fire to factories, sabotage production and extort workers) which doesn't have shit to do with what the rest of the world thinks.
>Please, contradict me if I'm talking stupid. Happens all the time.
... was wondering if you knew the bubble burst back before y2k ...
I misread that as "please contract me"
>Yes, we know, we know, MySQL isn't 99.99999% standards compatible.
...
I think you could remove six of those nines and still be right. Maybe even seven of them.
It's kinda like saying "Yes, we know, we know. Internet Explorer isn't 99.99999% standards compatible." except that saying such a thing brings on the flames
I actually think he's being serious.
...
What most people don't seem to get is that the database isn't your filesystem. It is to your data what the kernel is to your OS.
Do he expect a sys_call function to be executed from any random program? Why not? He seems quite willing to judging by his lack of understanding of what the database is for.
There's a reason database admins can rake in huge fees, and it's not because they think data-integrety checking is done outside the database
It's be a VERY long time since I've seen a .sig that was appropriate for the post ... :-)
Heh ... I read a computer book once ... can't remember the title - probably something about the Internet or something.
It didn't dawn upon me until now, but there was actually no page 404. It jumped from page 403 to 405. Completely screwed everything up, as the even numbered pages are always on the left.
I tried to hack the Penthouse computer facility the other day. Their firewall consists of 2 million images of centerfolds, so I never got past that.
Then I tried to social engineer the secretary to give me some passwords. I did manage to get some numbers from her, but they turned out to be her measurements (5'4, 120 lb, 34, 22, 33) and her phone number.
My conclusion is that it is impossible to gain access to their computer network. And that I don't really care anymore.
Didn't decided to do without one ... my computer with the tuner card broke, and since I didn't have a regular tv and just a laptop for spare, I didn't have much choice but not watch tv. Then I forgot to bother fixing the computer.
:-). Get some exercise? Yeah - right! Like that's ever going to happen. And besides - what's on tv between five and six pm? Childrens shows?
I miss it, but mostly when I'm bored out of my skull. Yes, I've read some more books, but I doubt I wouldn't have read them if I still had tv.
Sure, it could be great watching Friends again (we're way behind here in Denmark), but it's not like I'll die if I don't.
Some people say "well, now I have more spare time to do more meaningfull stuff!" Yeah - like what? Read books? Did that. Now I'm out of unread books at home and the local library only has technical books
Then there are saturday nights. These are exactly like they were before my tv went out. Saturday night has to be THE!!! crappiest night of the week when it comes to television. "Night of the Living Hollistic Hair Dressers". Reality shows about boring regular people put in extremely unreal situations. They are roughly as realistic as the textures in Commander Keen (but that's just one mans oppinion). Sure - it might be fun to see wether or not Sheila manages to convince Kurt to have sex with her even though they're stuck on a deserted island (never mind the television crew), that Kurt's girlfriend is on another deserted island (never mind the television crew) where she's busy fending off more dick that you see in two weeks of alt.binary.* posts, all the while trying to see if they can manage to eat the eyes out of a live tarantula, who has (just for the occasion) been dressed in a fabulous sweater by Dior, trousers by le Pen and eye liner by L'Oreal all done by the Fabulous Five. Hope I didn't leave out any reality shows.
I do miss tv. I also miss having sex. And they aren't related as far as I know.
One word: Wirering.
The P-ATA cables are what? 4 inches wide and not very flexible (as in, you can't really make a good 90 turn across the cables width). Compare that to the S-ATA cables that are probably an inch wide, can be longer and are easier to place out of the way.
And they don't block airflow as much.
Well, it's one thing to be hung like a horse, as it IS a rather long slong, but it is about as hard as sponge, so most women would be very dissapointed by it.
I am not a vet, but I did have a discussion about this very subject (don't ask - too many drinks is part of it) with a female vet, and that's what she said.
Am I entirely mistaken, or does Zero Install do more or less the same af Java Web Start? Or the other way around. I have no idea which came first :-)
> AAagh! Mental images of my ex dancing! *SHUDDER!*
With CowboyNeal. NAKED!
It's funny 'cause it's true?
It's also on The New York Times' website.
Why not? It's not YOUR money!