Bullshit. I was first denied a rare burger in 1994 at Applebees. It has happened, I WAS THERE, therefore your broad-based sweeping statement of "Any place will cook your steak rare" is a complete and utter fucking falsehood.
Just use TV-out on your TV. No monitor at all. (Drop VNC server into startup so you can VNC in from another computer in case the TV-out gets turned off.)
Get a wireless keyboard and a recliner. Recline. Keyboard fits in lap well. If the recliner has big cushy arms like mine does, the keyboard and other remotes fit there as well.
Don't use a mouse; use a trackball. You wont need a mousepad, and, much more importantly, you wont need a place to PUT a mousepad either.
I actually have 2 keyboard and 2 mice; 2 wired, 2 wireless. I use my wired trackball and my wireless keyboard, but if the trackball breaks I use the wireless mouse and set up a tiny sidetable ("plant stand") about the size of a mousepad.
Also, i have an IRMAN infrared receiver, a Home Theater MX500 remote control, and Girder installed. So I can also move my mouse pointer around with my universal remote, as well as hit arrow keys, ESC, enter, Alt-F4, Windows-key, tab, shift-tab, etc. (all programmed into my learning remote and assocaited with girder).
It works out well. I can be passed out on a couch 15 feet away, see an IM blinking, pick up my remote and see what the message is. Or I can actually put the keyboard in my lap and type an email. It's a 21'x19' room and the text on my 36" tv is pretty much readable anywhere in the room.
You're a fascist who causes friends who don't follow the same laws as you to be prosecuted. You're a mini-hitler.
The average american breaks 12 laws a day. Maybe we should turn YOU in?
You ever speed? What if I could buy a radar-gun and turn in speeders? Could I follow you, then wait until you go 50.01 in a 50MPH zone and get a ticket sent to you? If I was your friend and did this, would you think I'm being a good friend?
Interracial marriages were illegal until the 1960s.
My point? Following law because it's the law is stupid. Do what is right. Narcing a friend out in face of a faceless corporation is less human than a robot.
You deserve nothing less than a savage beating that leaves you toothless. What you did to your friend is far worse than what he did to the company (who can price items high enough to still get profit with "shrinkage"), and what you did as a friend is far worse than any anecdote I've ever heard of any friend doing anything to anybody.
I hope he stomps your teeth in. I hope he firebombs your house. I hope he kills your dog. You deserve worse, narc.
Because causing tens of thousands of people to die, and causing more americans to die as troops than died on Sept 11th (give it another 6 months for that to be true, but it WILL be true), is so much better than boinking a slutty intern.
You probably thought Grand Theft Auto was okay until the Hot Coffee scandal. That would seem to be consistent with your dubious statements and beliefs.
You said: "No one forced you to read anything".
Let's stretch out what you said to the extreme, though you seem to think this a bad tactic. In my life, no one has ever held a gun to me and FORCED me to read anything. So, I guess this means I never have a right to rebut back to anything I've ever read or seen on tv. I should just sit down, shut up, and take it. Nope. Don't buy it.
You said: "Never once did I say "just following orders", or anything along those lines."
But then later said: ""Just following orders" IS a valid excuse when you were told to say X in a press release. ""
You may have never said it in your original email, but you said it now. You are saying -- in MY words, not words I'm putting into your mouth, but MY words i'm putting into my OWN mouth, in my opinion -- you are saying it IS valid to make morally corrupt pronouncements against the public interest, just because you are told to. Just checking. As far as I'm concerned, and I'm sure we'll never care to agree on this, you just validated my metaphor. Sorry about the run-on sentence though, I'm about to go on vacation to the beach and am caring less and less each second.:)
Good joke with the apt-comparison though. I think that made this thread [barely] worth it.:)
Anyway, just because you think the stretch is too much doens't mean it's not valid. You said: "comparing a PR disclosure to the third biggest genocide of all time!" But I wasn't comparing the disclosure!! I was comparing the rationale behind defending a person/paper-pusher/undering who is committing a corrupt action under the orders of others. Some orders (genocide) are more corrupt than others (bug-hiding), but I was not comparing the orders. I never said "hiding router flaws is like killing Jews". THAT would be ricockulous (riCOCKulous: stronger variant of riDIC[K]ulous). The orders are vastly different. But the idea that a person making the PR statement, scheduling the trains, WHATEVER, is immune from all rebuttal just because he is following orders is preposterous.
This isn't about the Holocaust, I know, sorry about Godwin's law and all that, but if I could, I would shoot every German who followed orders. And if I could, I would post their public details on the internet [if there was one back the] in the hopes of vigilantism. Anything to stop the beast. I would have a lot more family members now.
Now, Cisco is not a beast that warrants such extreme actions, but that doesn't make them immune from response either.
A person who makes public statements to the press is not just a corporate paper-pusher with an expectation of total privacy. I was happy they posted his email and emailed him myself. What, somehow I can read his words, but he has the right for me not to be able to respond back with my words? Interesting sense of fairness you have their. A one-sided world where corps can prounounce things with no rebuttal.
Regarding your dyslexia/dunno where you got that from, I blame that on your lack of connecting the dots of my metaphor with reality. This guy is publically rationalizing unethical behavior. Is he doing this for fun? No, he is a paid Cisco employee. It's his job. He's following orders. He's not some private citizen advocate for Cisco just stating his opinion on a letter-to-the-editor column. He's either a PR person, or someone wearing a PR-hat long enough to make a public statement. If you deal with the public, the public should be able to deal with you. This has nothing to do with slashdot stories on privacy.
And no, it's not the same as shoveling bodies. That's why it's called a metaphor. Because you are comparing something with something else that is NOT THE SAME, but of similar concept. The details are different, the concept is the same. There are only differences in the degree of things. Obviously buggy routers and genocide are orders of magnitude apart. OBVIOUSLY.
I read what you are saying as "following orders is okay even when it's bad for humanity".
In your case, we should only attack Hitler. We should not, for example, release the personal information of Eichman. After all, he was just doing his job, making sure the trains ran on time.
When you can't kill the snake, you remove it's head. If you can't remove it's head, you harass it's tail, eyes, ears, anything you can get your hands on. When you don't have the power to make a proper fight, you have to fight piddly fights instead. That's why there are Palestinian suicide bombers. They CAN'T make a true difference, so they do what little they can. I violently disagree with what they are doing, and happy would kill them before they detonated themselves, but they absolutely are not cowards. They are doing what they can, as should we. (Please don't try to read into this saying that I am encouraging bombing...)
Yes it is. The only way to fight corporations that hurt the public is to strike back. Legal avenues only work with millions of dollars and years of court cases. THE INTERNET CAN'T WAIT YEARS for security vulnerabilities to be fixed. Get off you high horse and realize it's a jungle we live in.
That's pussy-ism. They wouldn't be like that if it weren't for pussy-ism in the first place. Those who reserve having their way out of fear are complicit in making things the way they are. If everyone was "careful" to "say something" because they "might get stabbed", then noisy rowdy people would have no check and could continue on, unabated, even worse than now. Don't be part of the problem. Pussy-ism ruins the world.
Too bad about 3% of people put to death are innocent. That's not worth it. Maybe it is to YOU, but you'd change your mind if YOU were the one falsely accused.
Why doesn't he just get a fucking card with TV out? Jesus Christ, s-video out of a divx movie LOOKS THE SAME AS A DVD PLAYED FROM A DVD PLAYER. VHS looks like... VHS. Yuck. Tell your friend he's a moron and needs to shell out $35 for a low-end ATI Radeon.
Well, not by itself. There's a program called EvilLyrics. It can display the lyrics of a song AS THEY ARE SUNG. It can send it to milkdrop using milkdrop's internal messaging system.
Best visual music-listening experience ever!
However, the idea of an external program rewriting milk_msg.ini every few seconds is a less-than-perfectly-elegant solution. Better would be for milkdrop to be able to somehow receive an entire file of lyrics+timing, queue it up, and display them without any kludges. Someone please add this! It could simply be sent the filename of an LRC file, which has a timestamp and line of lyrics on each line.
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Actually the way I understood it was 1200bps was 2 channels of 600baud, while 2400bps was 4 channels of 600baud. The total baud is still 2400 even though it is 4 channels of 600 baud. I call nitpicking. Just retrosubstitute "total baud" for all past occurrences of "baud" so you can go away.
Actually, you're a fucking idiot if you believe that.
First off, 300baud or 300bps gives you about 30 characters per second. Remember, there were start and stop bits so even with no parody, a byte was 10 bits not 8. So 300bps = 30cps. Most file tranfers were in cps, characters per second. 1200bps = 120cbps.
Now, for YEARS, I had to download using X-Modem, Y-Modem(yeech), or Z-Modem (yay!). I was getting 117cps for my transfers for yeras, until I switched to a 2400bps modem (on a VT-220 dumb terminal, no less, and it wasn't even a Hayes command set!). Later I used that modem on the PC to download files at, you guessed it, at about 237cps.
Because, you see, the 2400bps modem was twice as fast as the 1200bps modem, because IT EXISTED, and even said on the modem that it was 1200bps, and came from a 40-year-old sysop who gave it to a 12-year-old me in 1988 because he upgraded to 2400bps.
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Bullshit. I was first denied a rare burger in 1994 at Applebees. It has happened, I WAS THERE, therefore your broad-based sweeping statement of "Any place will cook your steak rare" is a complete and utter fucking falsehood.
Get a wireless keyboard and a recliner. Recline. Keyboard fits in lap well. If the recliner has big cushy arms like mine does, the keyboard and other remotes fit there as well.
Don't use a mouse; use a trackball. You wont need a mousepad, and, much more importantly, you wont need a place to PUT a mousepad either.
I actually have 2 keyboard and 2 mice; 2 wired, 2 wireless. I use my wired trackball and my wireless keyboard, but if the trackball breaks I use the wireless mouse and set up a tiny sidetable ("plant stand") about the size of a mousepad.
Also, i have an IRMAN infrared receiver, a Home Theater MX500 remote control, and Girder installed. So I can also move my mouse pointer around with my universal remote, as well as hit arrow keys, ESC, enter, Alt-F4, Windows-key, tab, shift-tab, etc. (all programmed into my learning remote and assocaited with girder).
It works out well. I can be passed out on a couch 15 feet away, see an IM blinking, pick up my remote and see what the message is. Or I can actually put the keyboard in my lap and type an email. It's a 21'x19' room and the text on my 36" tv is pretty much readable anywhere in the room.
ATI tv out rules!
Your substance abuse inclusion makes you a big fucking hypocrite.
The average american breaks 12 laws a day. Maybe we should turn YOU in?
You ever speed? What if I could buy a radar-gun and turn in speeders? Could I follow you, then wait until you go 50.01 in a 50MPH zone and get a ticket sent to you? If I was your friend and did this, would you think I'm being a good friend?
My point? Following law because it's the law is stupid. Do what is right. Narcing a friend out in face of a faceless corporation is less human than a robot.
I hope he stomps your teeth in. I hope he firebombs your house. I hope he kills your dog. You deserve worse, narc.
Because causing tens of thousands of people to die, and causing more americans to die as troops than died on Sept 11th (give it another 6 months for that to be true, but it WILL be true), is so much better than boinking a slutty intern.
You probably thought Grand Theft Auto was okay until the Hot Coffee scandal. That would seem to be consistent with your dubious statements and beliefs.
Let's stretch out what you said to the extreme, though you seem to think this a bad tactic. In my life, no one has ever held a gun to me and FORCED me to read anything. So, I guess this means I never have a right to rebut back to anything I've ever read or seen on tv. I should just sit down, shut up, and take it. Nope. Don't buy it.
You said: "Never once did I say "just following orders", or anything along those lines." :)
But then later said: ""Just following orders" IS a valid excuse when you were told to say X in a press release. ""
You may have never said it in your original email, but you said it now. You are saying -- in MY words, not words I'm putting into your mouth, but MY words i'm putting into my OWN mouth, in my opinion -- you are saying it IS valid to make morally corrupt pronouncements against the public interest, just because you are told to. Just checking. As far as I'm concerned, and I'm sure we'll never care to agree on this, you just validated my metaphor. Sorry about the run-on sentence though, I'm about to go on vacation to the beach and am caring less and less each second.
Good joke with the apt-comparison though. I think that made this thread [barely] worth it. :)
Anyway, just because you think the stretch is too much doens't mean it's not valid. You said: "comparing a PR disclosure to the third biggest genocide of all time!" But I wasn't comparing the disclosure!! I was comparing the rationale behind defending a person/paper-pusher/undering who is committing a corrupt action under the orders of others. Some orders (genocide) are more corrupt than others (bug-hiding), but I was not comparing the orders. I never said "hiding router flaws is like killing Jews". THAT would be ricockulous (riCOCKulous: stronger variant of riDIC[K]ulous). The orders are vastly different. But the idea that a person making the PR statement, scheduling the trains, WHATEVER, is immune from all rebuttal just because he is following orders is preposterous.
This isn't about the Holocaust, I know, sorry about Godwin's law and all that, but if I could, I would shoot every German who followed orders. And if I could, I would post their public details on the internet [if there was one back the] in the hopes of vigilantism. Anything to stop the beast. I would have a lot more family members now.
Now, Cisco is not a beast that warrants such extreme actions, but that doesn't make them immune from response either.
Regarding your dyslexia/dunno where you got that from, I blame that on your lack of connecting the dots of my metaphor with reality. This guy is publically rationalizing unethical behavior. Is he doing this for fun? No, he is a paid Cisco employee. It's his job. He's following orders. He's not some private citizen advocate for Cisco just stating his opinion on a letter-to-the-editor column. He's either a PR person, or someone wearing a PR-hat long enough to make a public statement. If you deal with the public, the public should be able to deal with you. This has nothing to do with slashdot stories on privacy.
And no, it's not the same as shoveling bodies. That's why it's called a metaphor. Because you are comparing something with something else that is NOT THE SAME, but of similar concept. The details are different, the concept is the same. There are only differences in the degree of things. Obviously buggy routers and genocide are orders of magnitude apart. OBVIOUSLY.
I read what you are saying as "following orders is okay even when it's bad for humanity". In your case, we should only attack Hitler. We should not, for example, release the personal information of Eichman. After all, he was just doing his job, making sure the trains ran on time. When you can't kill the snake, you remove it's head. If you can't remove it's head, you harass it's tail, eyes, ears, anything you can get your hands on. When you don't have the power to make a proper fight, you have to fight piddly fights instead. That's why there are Palestinian suicide bombers. They CAN'T make a true difference, so they do what little they can. I violently disagree with what they are doing, and happy would kill them before they detonated themselves, but they absolutely are not cowards. They are doing what they can, as should we. (Please don't try to read into this saying that I am encouraging bombing...)
Yes it is. The only way to fight corporations that hurt the public is to strike back. Legal avenues only work with millions of dollars and years of court cases. THE INTERNET CAN'T WAIT YEARS for security vulnerabilities to be fixed. Get off you high horse and realize it's a jungle we live in.
Burnout 2: 2 steering wheels work simulteanous - race the wife.
Burnout 3: only 1 steering wheel works at once.
Waste $80 of mine?
That doesn't make it right.
That's pussy-ism. They wouldn't be like that if it weren't for pussy-ism in the first place. Those who reserve having their way out of fear are complicit in making things the way they are. If everyone was "careful" to "say something" because they "might get stabbed", then noisy rowdy people would have no check and could continue on, unabated, even worse than now. Don't be part of the problem. Pussy-ism ruins the world.
Too bad about 3% of people put to death are innocent. That's not worth it. Maybe it is to YOU, but you'd change your mind if YOU were the one falsely accused.
I wish my TV had DVI-in.
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Why doesn't he just get a fucking card with TV out? Jesus Christ, s-video out of a divx movie LOOKS THE SAME AS A DVD PLAYED FROM A DVD PLAYER. VHS looks like... VHS. Yuck. Tell your friend he's a moron and needs to shell out $35 for a low-end ATI Radeon.
Best visual music-listening experience ever!
However, the idea of an external program rewriting milk_msg.ini every few seconds is a less-than-perfectly-elegant solution. Better would be for milkdrop to be able to somehow receive an entire file of lyrics+timing, queue it up, and display them without any kludges. Someone please add this! It could simply be sent the filename of an LRC file, which has a timestamp and line of lyrics on each line.
when accountable voting is outlawed, only outlaws will be able to vote accountable.. or something.
Um... It was a parody on the spelling of parity. Yeah. That's the ticket.
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Actually the way I understood it was 1200bps was 2 channels of 600baud, while 2400bps was 4 channels of 600baud. The total baud is still 2400 even though it is 4 channels of 600 baud. I call nitpicking. Just retrosubstitute "total baud" for all past occurrences of "baud" so you can go away.
First off, 300baud or 300bps gives you about 30 characters per second. Remember, there were start and stop bits so even with no parody, a byte was 10 bits not 8. So 300bps = 30cps. Most file tranfers were in cps, characters per second. 1200bps = 120cbps.
Now, for YEARS, I had to download using X-Modem, Y-Modem(yeech), or Z-Modem (yay!). I was getting 117cps for my transfers for yeras, until I switched to a 2400bps modem (on a VT-220 dumb terminal, no less, and it wasn't even a Hayes command set!). Later I used that modem on the PC to download files at, you guessed it, at about 237cps.
Because, you see, the 2400bps modem was twice as fast as the 1200bps modem, because IT EXISTED, and even said on the modem that it was 1200bps, and came from a 40-year-old sysop who gave it to a 12-year-old me in 1988 because he upgraded to 2400bps.
Was that a troll, or are you just stupid?
(Me == Homeowner for 6 years, no homeowners association, living inside the D.C. beltway doing WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANT.)
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When on IMDB, I want a button that lets me queue the movie I am currently viewing in Netflix.
This might exceed the scope of what's possible with GreaseMonkey. Any movie-maniac/programmer-maniac takers?