Not sure about guns, but the interstate commerce clause and the 13-15th amendments seem to give the federal government unlimited power. Along with a broad reading of the 9th, and a very narrow reading of the tenth. It requires rather lengthy chains of legal 'logic'.
I can let bygones be bygones. What's the point in Karma: Excellent if you can't flush some down the toilet once in a while? I reserve my foes list for PWP'ers and crapflooder's anyway;)
I've written about it several times. Again, a little research would do wonders. Things are a bit better today (this having been written ~six months ago).
Your familiarity with the methods to torture adolescents make me question if you aren't the one still in High School. I was hoping that you could have at least come up with a reasonable burn or changed tactics to deal with someone of legal drinking age or higher. But you haven't. You bore me. Go away.
I don't get it. You do IT? Did the other business dry up after you did the service for Butters?
May I suggest that when you pick a handle, you be prepared for folks who are more conversant in the source material than yourself? Specifically, check information on episode 616. Removing your head from your ass, finding information that is readily available, and apologizing for being a dipshit will go a long way towards helping you in life. Do you speak without thinking with your clients?
Well, I used to think that michael was a dumbass. Perhaps there is a competition at/.HQ for most bone headed story?
So far as I (and several others) can tell, this isn't News For Nerds. It's publishing unsubstantiated rants from an AC.
To top it off, you have set this stupid lawyer (is there any other kind) up for a massive slashdotting of his email server. Chris, I'd worry about liability exposure. Larry doesn't have the cash lying around to bail your sorry ass out, and I'm sure he'll hang you out to dry when this attorney sues VA for illegal denial of service.
Really, if you wanted to quit, just say so. If you are too tired, don't post a story. This could be one of the most shoddy pieces to go up in a long time. Christ, do you even know what 'editor' means? You guys seem to think it means 'crap sifter'. No, at least take a minute to look at the story and see if it seems bogus. It used to be you needed to have two sources to put something damning into print in a reputable newspaper. Apparantly, online, you need zero.
How about these for headlines:
Shocker: Slashdot 'Editor' Does Competent Job Shocker: Slashdot Posts Yet Another Inflammatory Story Shocker: Slashdot 'Editor' Fired For Sheer Idiocy Shocker: Average Age of Slashdot Editor Revealed to be Fourteen
There was a bit of a hiccup when this story first came out. I got the static page a few times. Please, please, please tell me that someone cracked the byzantine Slashdot vault and posted this. Honestly, I'd have more respect for you for having a security hole than for posting this tripe on purpose.
If you can afford tuition at St. Johns, you can afford a couple of fucking books. When I applied (and got in. At 18, it wasn't my bag, but the curriculum was much more appealing a few years later) I think it cost in the mid 20's. Ten years later? I don't want to imagine.
Anyway, hit Project Gutenberg. Make your own compilation CD.
Have they finally cut down that tree on campus? It was pretty sickly in 1990. If it's still standing, it must be with the help of a scaffold.
One motorcycle manufacturer? Hardly. I assume you mean that outfit with the factory in York, PA? You forget Polaris (I think they're US), the now defunct EH (who went down the poop chute not due to US regulations, but mismanagement) and Indian. That also ignores the factories in the US for both Kawasaki and Honda. Are they foreign or domestic? At one point in time, the Honda Gold Wing (built in Marysville, OH) had a higher domestic part content than the Harley Davidson FLH. But there is an entity that is of particular interest to this discussion: Harley Clone builders. They buy off the shelf (S&S) engines and trannies, someone else's frame, etc. Very analogous to the clone PC makers.
But, you are right, Honda US, Kawasaki US, Polaris, etc, etc, etc. together don't equal the production of HD in any given year. (BTW, I think Kawasaki does count as a US manufacturer. They have a plant in Nebraska, built originally for the K1000 police bike. They needed a US plant to be allowed to bid on contracts for police departments. I think they also build a version of the KLR 650 for military use, but I'm not certain about that one.)
Text to speech works fine for blind people (mostly). Deaf people can see most web content. What the heck are deaf-blind people supposed to do?
One of the joys of Delphi, GEnie, Compuserve, etc. is that the discussion boards worked fine with simple telnet access, and braille tty's. The various web boards that have supplanted them don't seem like they would work as well (sorry, haven't tried any yet. Those braille tty's ain't cheap:)
Not sure about chemical waste, but I know a bit about medical waste. First, it is almost all incinerated. Well, it's supposed to be:) Incinerating motherboards and the like wouldn't be a good thing because of some of the heavy metals. Also, in the medical waste industry, the doctor or facility that generates the waste is responsible for it until it is burned. So, if your waste disposal company pitches it in a gully somewhere, the doctor gets fined, not necessarily the disposal company. What are the odds that Dell, GAteway, etc. want to take on that responsibility?
I switched (at home) from a severely modified (and broken, hence the switch:) 6.2 to Progeny. When Progeny folded, I switched to Debian. I've played with Gentoo, but Debian was less of a 'jump' than Gentoo. If I were to do it again... I don't know. The Debian package directories are massive. But building a.deb is much harder than building an.rpm. Lots of packages are available 'out there' in rpm format, but not in deb format.
Still, if you want to jump from RH, I would definately have to say that Debian might be easiest to switch to. (But chkconfig is SOOO much simpler than the Debian equivalent.)
What was the pressing need to upgrade to 8.0 anyway? I've got servers at work on stuff from 6.2 up to 7.3, and all respond quite well to 'up2date -u'. Perhaps there are some workstation type improvements?
Could someone explain what the problems are with XP wrt 2k? I use 2K on the laptop, XP on the desktop. Both seem just about as snappy and are configured similarly. XP has a little more eye candy, so what? Doesn't get in my way. Both have been (knock wood) incredibly stable relative to 98 and earlier. Both have Windows Update. Both are legit copies, so who cares if it 'phones home'. Both let me replace IE with Mozilla as the default browser. What are the problems that I'm missing?
The minicomputer at work (when I started. Mothballed a couple of years ago) backed up to a plain, consumer VCR for ages. Never had a problem with corrupt data. Never. Now, I am not dumb enough to assume that this is typical (given the technology, it's probably very atypical) but you are correct that it's been around for a long time.
Personally, for stuff that you backup regularly, I'm recommending hard drive backups to friends and family. Get an extra drive on a removable tray when you buy new machine. One night per week, copy the whole mess over.
How old is the TV? And I must say that your situation is atypical. I knew as soon as I hit 'Post' that someone out of the 600,000+ users would be in that situation.
Typically, those things include cables and batteries, along with such obscurities as RF modulators, a little-known requirement for hooking a new DVD player to an old television set.
Who the hell has a television this old (I haven't seen one without RCA input in a decade) and a DVD player? Huh? Huh? Please, tell me.
More to the point of the headline (if not the article. Yet another shitty summary of an article. According to standardized test scores, I wasn't as good at picking out the main topic. Clearly, I was leaps and bounds above CT and the rest of the gang.): Good God, will someone please port Quicken to Linux so that I can force my mother to switch? Barring that, does anyone have a copy of Win2K that I can put on her machine and not give her the admin password for?
Out of curiosity, could you enumerate the ways in which you feel that taking Constitutional rights from corporations is a bad thing? It's not something I've spent a great deal of time on, but I have trouble conjuring something that is bad to the public from doing this.
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Not sure about guns, but the interstate commerce clause and the 13-15th amendments seem to give the federal government unlimited power. Along with a broad reading of the 9th, and a very narrow reading of the tenth. It requires rather lengthy chains of legal 'logic'.
I can let bygones be bygones. What's the point in Karma: Excellent if you can't flush some down the toilet once in a while? I reserve my foes list for PWP'ers and crapflooder's anyway;)
I've written about it several times. Again, a little research would do wonders. Things are a bit better today (this having been written ~six months ago).
Your familiarity with the methods to torture adolescents make me question if you aren't the one still in High School. I was hoping that you could have at least come up with a reasonable burn or changed tactics to deal with someone of legal drinking age or higher. But you haven't. You bore me. Go away.
High school? Whatever. I've got grown up responsibilities that would make you wake up screaming you thin skinned pissant.
It looks like even the original poster thought he was being serious.
I don't get it. You do IT? Did the other business dry up after you did the service for Butters?
May I suggest that when you pick a handle, you be prepared for folks who are more conversant in the source material than yourself? Specifically, check information on episode 616. Removing your head from your ass, finding information that is readily available, and apologizing for being a dipshit will go a long way towards helping you in life. Do you speak without thinking with your clients?
Looks like Mr. Cartman even missed the joke.
Nope. I beat you by making the joke a little more obvious by two hours right here.
How much software do you actually need to order some buckets of shit and hire some Mexican kids to fling it around?
Hmm, yup, 'ignorant newbie' just about sums it up. This is a 2.4 problem. You know, 2.4, the current STABLE, safe release of the Linux kernel?
Sometime in the future, 2.4 will go down in history as one serious cluster-fuck of a kernel.
And this wasn't in the original story why? (BTW, thanks for the link)
And we are certain this is the same Phil Lelyveld why? Yeah, probably a rare name, but given the quality of the rest of the report...
Well, I used to think that michael was a dumbass. Perhaps there is a competition at /.HQ for most bone headed story?
So far as I (and several others) can tell, this isn't News For Nerds. It's publishing unsubstantiated rants from an AC.
To top it off, you have set this stupid lawyer (is there any other kind) up for a massive slashdotting of his email server. Chris, I'd worry about liability exposure. Larry doesn't have the cash lying around to bail your sorry ass out, and I'm sure he'll hang you out to dry when this attorney sues VA for illegal denial of service.
Really, if you wanted to quit, just say so. If you are too tired, don't post a story. This could be one of the most shoddy pieces to go up in a long time. Christ, do you even know what 'editor' means? You guys seem to think it means 'crap sifter'. No, at least take a minute to look at the story and see if it seems bogus. It used to be you needed to have two sources to put something damning into print in a reputable newspaper. Apparantly, online, you need zero.
How about these for headlines:
Shocker: Slashdot 'Editor' Does Competent Job
Shocker: Slashdot Posts Yet Another Inflammatory Story
Shocker: Slashdot 'Editor' Fired For Sheer Idiocy
Shocker: Average Age of Slashdot Editor Revealed to be Fourteen
There was a bit of a hiccup when this story first came out. I got the static page a few times. Please, please, please tell me that someone cracked the byzantine Slashdot vault and posted this. Honestly, I'd have more respect for you for having a security hole than for posting this tripe on purpose.
If you can afford tuition at St. Johns, you can afford a couple of fucking books. When I applied (and got in. At 18, it wasn't my bag, but the curriculum was much more appealing a few years later) I think it cost in the mid 20's. Ten years later? I don't want to imagine.
Anyway, hit Project Gutenberg. Make your own compilation CD.
Have they finally cut down that tree on campus? It was pretty sickly in 1990. If it's still standing, it must be with the help of a scaffold.
One motorcycle manufacturer? Hardly. I assume you mean that outfit with the factory in York, PA? You forget Polaris (I think they're US), the now defunct EH (who went down the poop chute not due to US regulations, but mismanagement) and Indian. That also ignores the factories in the US for both Kawasaki and Honda. Are they foreign or domestic? At one point in time, the Honda Gold Wing (built in Marysville, OH) had a higher domestic part content than the Harley Davidson FLH. But there is an entity that is of particular interest to this discussion: Harley Clone builders. They buy off the shelf (S&S) engines and trannies, someone else's frame, etc. Very analogous to the clone PC makers.
But, you are right, Honda US, Kawasaki US, Polaris, etc, etc, etc. together don't equal the production of HD in any given year. (BTW, I think Kawasaki does count as a US manufacturer. They have a plant in Nebraska, built originally for the K1000 police bike. They needed a US plant to be allowed to bid on contracts for police departments. I think they also build a version of the KLR 650 for military use, but I'm not certain about that one.)
Text to speech works fine for blind people (mostly). Deaf people can see most web content. What the heck are deaf-blind people supposed to do?
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One of the joys of Delphi, GEnie, Compuserve, etc. is that the discussion boards worked fine with simple telnet access, and braille tty's. The various web boards that have supplanted them don't seem like they would work as well (sorry, haven't tried any yet. Those braille tty's ain't cheap:)
Yes, this is a personal question (see
Not sure about chemical waste, but I know a bit about medical waste. First, it is almost all incinerated. Well, it's supposed to be:) Incinerating motherboards and the like wouldn't be a good thing because of some of the heavy metals. Also, in the medical waste industry, the doctor or facility that generates the waste is responsible for it until it is burned. So, if your waste disposal company pitches it in a gully somewhere, the doctor gets fined, not necessarily the disposal company. What are the odds that Dell, GAteway, etc. want to take on that responsibility?
I switched (at home) from a severely modified (and broken, hence the switch:) 6.2 to Progeny. When Progeny folded, I switched to Debian. I've played with Gentoo, but Debian was less of a 'jump' than Gentoo. If I were to do it again... I don't know. The Debian package directories are massive. But building a .deb is much harder than building an .rpm. Lots of packages are available 'out there' in rpm format, but not in deb format.
Still, if you want to jump from RH, I would definately have to say that Debian might be easiest to switch to. (But chkconfig is SOOO much simpler than the Debian equivalent.)
What was the pressing need to upgrade to 8.0 anyway? I've got servers at work on stuff from 6.2 up to 7.3, and all respond quite well to 'up2date -u'. Perhaps there are some workstation type improvements?
You're figuring it out:
More choice on Linux == good thing
More choice on Windows == bad thing
Could someone explain what the problems are with XP wrt 2k? I use 2K on the laptop, XP on the desktop. Both seem just about as snappy and are configured similarly. XP has a little more eye candy, so what? Doesn't get in my way. Both have been (knock wood) incredibly stable relative to 98 and earlier. Both have Windows Update. Both are legit copies, so who cares if it 'phones home'. Both let me replace IE with Mozilla as the default browser. What are the problems that I'm missing?
The minicomputer at work (when I started. Mothballed a couple of years ago) backed up to a plain, consumer VCR for ages. Never had a problem with corrupt data. Never. Now, I am not dumb enough to assume that this is typical (given the technology, it's probably very atypical) but you are correct that it's been around for a long time.
Personally, for stuff that you backup regularly, I'm recommending hard drive backups to friends and family. Get an extra drive on a removable tray when you buy new machine. One night per week, copy the whole mess over.
How old is the TV? And I must say that your situation is atypical. I knew as soon as I hit 'Post' that someone out of the 600,000+ users would be in that situation.
Typically, those things include cables and batteries, along with such obscurities as RF modulators, a little-known requirement for hooking a new DVD player to an old television set.
Who the hell has a television this old (I haven't seen one without RCA input in a decade) and a DVD player? Huh? Huh? Please, tell me.
More to the point of the headline (if not the article. Yet another shitty summary of an article. According to standardized test scores, I wasn't as good at picking out the main topic. Clearly, I was leaps and bounds above CT and the rest of the gang.): Good God, will someone please port Quicken to Linux so that I can force my mother to switch? Barring that, does anyone have a copy of Win2K that I can put on her machine and not give her the admin password for?
Out of curiosity, could you enumerate the ways in which you feel that taking Constitutional rights from corporations is a bad thing? It's not something I've spent a great deal of time on, but I have trouble conjuring something that is bad to the public from doing this.