Could you be more of a retarded, conservative pile of shit than you are already? The statistic that you quote is a lie, because it ignores things like gasoline excise taxes, the social security and medicare taxes and state taxes. Christ, every time I hear some worthless conservatarded or libertarded pile of shit make this statement I want to pistol whip them until they get off of their fat, lazy, unprincipled asses and learn something about the federal budget.
I remember when the Bush admin was cutting funding for similar satellites, and there was much rage. Now Obama's admin does it, and crickets are chirping.
Wow, your life is really barren and pathetic. Have you ever considered killing yourself? Seriously, jam a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. The world will be a better place without you.
It was data from polar satellites that alerted forecasters to the risk of tornadoes in Alabama and Mississippi back in April, Sullivan says. 'With the polar satellites currently in place we were able to give those communities five days' heads up,' she says."
Well I myself am highly in favor of meteorological disasters that kill lots of people in the red states, but don't worry, the red staters don't need any of those fancy satellites, they can just prey to evangelical NASCAR Je$u$ and he'll save them.
Cool, I say that we should do this for every government department and that we should get to pick and choose. So while I'm willing to pay a buck a month for weather data I'm not willing to pay a goddamned dime for the War on Drugs, the War in Iraq, the War in Afghanistan, our new exciting war in Libya (fuck you President Obama), ethanol subsidies, farm subsidies, subsidies to oil companies, the Transportation Safety Administration, the Department of Homeland Security the DEA, NATO (the cold war is over, why does NATO still exist?), the defense of South Korea (you're the ninth largest economy in the world, you can take care of yourselves now), missile defense (it doesn't work), any parts of the FCC other than those concerned with setting technical standards (hey evangelical fucks, it's not the government's job to censor naughty words on television, why can't you fucking Christoids turn the damned box off if you're offended, are you really that fucking stupid?) and I'm only willing to pay for about 1/4 of what the Department of Defense is doing and shouldn't have to.
Shut the fuck up you goddamned worthless conservative shitrag. Conservative shitrags like you, cowardly little punks who post AC, have fucked this country up so badly that we may never recover. And conservative shitrags love stupid government programs, like ethanol subsidies, which are championed by conservative shitrag senators such as Charles Grassley of Iowa and Sam Brownback of Kansas. Oh, and it was a conservative shitrag congress and president that gave us No Child Left Behind, the Department of Homeland Security and the War in Iraq. Conservatives have zero credibility in making statements like this, which of course is why they always post this nonsense as AC.
The last fiscally responsible Republican president we had was George H.W. Bush, and for his attempts to balance the budget he was knifed in the back by his own party.
We should beat the fucking shit out of the red states and make the useless conservative garbage and scum who live in them start paying their fair share of taxes. Conservatives are useless, stupid, lazy, good-for-nothing welfare parasites, look at Alaska for example, for every dollar that Alaska sends to Washington in federal taxes it receives $1.86 in federal spending. For every dollar California, a state which is home to Google, Apple and a few other companies, sends to Washington D.C. they get back 78 cents.
I'll submit that the reason that red states don't contribute as much to the federal treasury as blue states do is because red states are full of conservatives and conservatives are stupid, drooling, inferior morons. Seriously,we live in a high tech world and expecting a bunch of evangelical fucktards who believe in stupid shit like the Rapture and who watch NASCAR to contribute anything of value to the US economy is ridiculous. If we could just get rid of all of the useless, good-for-nothing conservative parasites in this country we'd have plenty of money to keep monitoring these satellites.
You can get most of ethanol's benefits from methanol. Engines running on methanol can run at higher compression ratios to increase performance and efficiency. In fact the cars at the Indy 500 run off of methanol. Methanol can also be synthesized from a variety of feedstocks using destructive distillation, unlike ethanol which is created by fermenting corn and then distilling the product, which is very energy intensive (the dirty little secret of many biofuel plants is that they burn coal to produce the heat to distill the ethanol out of the water). Butanol is better than ethanol because it's less miscible with water and dimethylfuran beats ethanol hands down because it's immiscible with water and has a higher energy content and boiling point. Ethanol sucks. It's nothing more than a huge handout for Iowa farmers and corrupt agribusinesses like ADM and Cargill.
A) A completely ignorant piece of shit who should do everyone a favor by killing himself with a shotgun (and please, if you do so don't fuck it up like those Judas Priest morons, jam the barrel into your mouth and then pull the trigger).
B) An employee at Lodsys.
C) An employee at Intellectual Vultures.
D) A and B.
E) A and C.
Look fuckstick. Just because you have a patent doesn't mean that it's any good. the USPTO is over worked and underfunded and as a result some incredibly bad patents are being approved. This is great if you're a parasitic scum like Lodsys or Intellectual Vultures because you can buy up a whole bunch of these bogus patents and then make money off of them by blackmailing companies into paying you license fees by holding the threat of litigation over their heads.
Let me explain it to you another way. Suppose I patent the idea for a machine that turns tap water into unlimited energy. I don't have a working model, I haven't proved the concept, in fact I have no idea how to build such a thing. I just file a patent application for a machine that turns tap water into energy and USPTO approves it. Now, a few years later you come along and actually build a machine that turns tap water into unlimited energy and offer it for sale and as soon as you do I sue you in the Eastern District of Texas for infringing upon my patent. Now, the way the patent system is currently working, it doesn't matter that I never built a machine that turned tap water into unlimited energy or even that I never had any idea of how to do so. If my bogus patent is approved by the USPTO I get to sue your ass and if I win I get to collect lots of free money from you even though you're the guy who did all of the hard work and actually invented the machine that turns tap water into unlimited energy.
Wow, you're really fucking stupid aren't you? Are you planning on having children? Please don't, your inferior genes will only detract from the quality of our gene pool. You are obviously a genetically inferior piece of shit who doesn't understand the concepts of "prior art" and "patent trolls". Lodsys are nothing more than parasites who are attempting to use bogus patents and the threat of litigation to extort money from software developers who are contributing something useful to society and as such they make ambulance chasers look like paragons of morality and virtue.
I'm sick and tired of these people and their fucking stupid and insane religious beliefs, can anyone think of a way we can get them to be like those idiot comet cultists in Los Angeles back in the 90s? You know the ones I'm talking about, the group where the men cut their own balls off and then everyone ate a bunch of Jello pudding that had been laced with tranquilizers and they all died. Can we get the Evangelical Christoids to start doing this? Tell them that their penises and testicles are evil and that they need to cut them off so that they won't sin, and then get them to believe that Jesus wants them to overdose on tranquilizers and that they'll go to Heaven and bring about the Rapture if they do?
Oh, joy, a libertard. Yeah, the free market does such a fantastic job of delivering quality services. Guess what libertard, when it comes to whoring themselves out to deal with the whims of a majority, regardless of how incredibly stupid they may be, governments have nothing on private corporations. Don't believe me? Go watch Fox News some time, Glenn Beck wasn't given a job because he's the smartest guy in the room, he was given a job because he's good at selling hate and fear to irrational dumbshits.
that says that if a government is installing security cameras in a public location that the feeds from those cameras have to be publicly accessible, via the web, and no getting around this by hiring a contractor to install a camera and then claiming that the feed is private. This wouldn't be a total solution to the problem of stupid bureaucrats indulging paranoid morons by installing cameras everywhere, but it would slow things down and it would reduce the asymmetry of information between the government and the people it is supposed to serve.
Whenever I hear a libertarian bitching about "complex and outdated" regulatory regimes I do two things, reach for my gun and hold on to my wallet, because I know that I'm about to get ripped off and fucked over by a scam artist. Yeah, isn't it wonderful how we got rid of all of those "complex and outdated" regulations like Glass-Steagall and reasonable capital ratios? Why we've just benefitted so much from the trickle-down effect, oh wait, that's not trickle down, that's just some bankster pissing all over me.
That's a really brilliant idea, ethical actional permanence. I'm going to pimp that all over the web because it's a perfect explanation for the behavior of many of the commentators on this case and for a lot of conservatives.
Slashdot is extremely hypocritical on stories like this. It only took any mention of the very un patriotic PATRIOT act to get 500 posts railing about how evil and fascist BushHitler was. Though I am a conservative and a Republican I was (and still am) amongst those who believe that law was a thousand page abomination against the Constitution, and said so here. Liberals seem to have a lot bigger problem than conservatives do criticizing "their guy" when he engages in anti freedom behavior that they constantly go to sites like this to rail against.
And yet I'm willing to bet that you voted for Bush in 2004. Republicans like you are full of shit. You worthless fucks only discovered that the document existed on the 20th of January, 2009. When a Republican is in office you fucks love shitting all over the Constitution.
If electing liberal democrats was supposed to be the solution to constant government attempts to control and squelch the Internet why is it that the majority of the worst ideas seem to come from democrat administrations? It was Bill Clinton who signed into law the DMCA, the communications "decency" act, COPA amongst many failed attempts by an administration that was embarrassed by the Internet (no one would have ever known about Monica Lewinsky had it not been for Matt Drudge and the Internet) to get some wedge of control into it.
"The majority of the worst ideas seem to come from democratsic administrations? Firstly the correct grammatical usage is "Democratic", the fact that you don't know this indicates that you're just another mindless zombie Foxbot. Secondly let's look at some of the great ideas that have come out of Republican administrations in the last 40 years.
Imposing wage and price controls - Richard M. Nixon, Republican, 1971
Taking the United States off of the gold standard - Richard M. Nixon, Republican, 1971
Escalating the War on (some) Drugs - Richard M. Nixon, Republican, 1971
Wiretapping your political opponents and authorizing break-ins at their offices - Richard M. Nixon, Republican, 1972
Selling arms to the Iranian regime that murdered 241 US Marines in Lebanon in 1983 to get money to give to the Nicaraguan Contras - Ronald Reagan, Republican 1981-1985
Spending billions of dollars to build a missile shield that doesn't work - Ronald Reagan, Republican, 1983
Getting involved in the Iran/Iraq war by covertly supporting Saddam Hussein - Ronald Reagan, Republican, 1981-1989
Backing the mujahideen and Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, thus allowing Bin Laden to create Al Qaeda, Ronald Reagan, Republican, 1981-1988
Increasing the national debt more than all other presidents in American history - Ronald Reagan, Republican, 1981 - 1989
Escalating the War on (some) Drugs even further - Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Republican, 1981 - 1993
Passing the Audio Home Recording Act, one of the first steps that led to the DMCA - George H.W. Bush, Republican 1992
Increasing the usage of civil forfeiture in cases involving drugs - Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Republican, 1981-1993
Passing the PATRIOT act - George W. Bush, Republican, 2001
Creating the TSA - George W. Bush, Republican, 2001
Letting Osama bin Laden escape at Tora Bora - George W. Bush, Republican, 2001
Starting a war with a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks based upon lies about weapons of mass destruction - George W. Bush, Republican, 2003
Cutting taxes during war time while increasing defense and social spending (Medicare Part D) thus increasing the national debt of the United States to absolutely unheard of levels - George W. Bush, Republican, 2002=2009
Claiming that the office of the Vice President is a fourth branch of government and is therefore exempt from laws applying to the executive branch (Republicans love to talk about the rule of law, until the law ap
And... Using the word "teabagger" in an argument is liberal code for, "I think Anderson Cooper is really hot and maybe I'll come out of the closet."
No, teabagger is what you stupid fucks decided to call yourselves. You can look it up here or here. Of course if you weren't a bunch of stupid fucks you might have known what it meant. Oh, and I love your statement about Anderson Cooper, typical conservative thinking, don't like someone, call them a fag. Of course it's a well known fact that guys like you who make statements like that are usually the biggest closet cases around. You're just another pathetic, scared, conservative homosexual, like Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, et cetera. I'd be willing to bet that you know quite a bit about teabagging, or at least about being teabagged.
Oh, and as far as the phrase "nanny state" goes you conservatives are the biggest nanny state motherfuckers out there. You assholes complain about the nanny state and then turn around and advocate spending money for more cops, more prisons and more soldiers to protect you from all of the things you're afraid of. Give a conservative the choice between illusory security enforced by gun-toting thugs and constitutional liberty and the rule of law and they'll take the former every time.
Steve Jobs told them that if they called it the iLegs that he'd have their legs broken, and that no, he wasn't talking about the robotic ones either.
Of course if Apple did come out with the iLegs I wonder how long it would be before an Apple engineer lost a prototype in a bar and it ended up on Gizmodo? Of course if he did he could just say "I didn't lose the prototype in a bar, it walked off by itself." I also wonder if a set of Apple iLegs would have a "find my iLegs feature" that would allow you to go to a website, use a built in GPS on the iLegs to determine where they were and then have them walk back to you. Would you be able to download a Ministry of Silly Walks app the iTunes store. Ahh, the jokes are endless.
I'm amazed that OS X only has five times the market share of Linux considering that the Linux desktop is such an abysmal piece of shit compared to MacOS X or even Windows 7.
Yeah, Linux is great for infrastructure, but Linux on the desktop is still a turd. Sure, it's a turd with lots of nifty graphical stuff built in thanks to . And where did Linux win on the back-end? Well it wasn't in replacing Windows servers, it was in replacing servers running proprietary UNIX versions, AIX, Solaris and HP/UX or in devices such as DataDomain restorers where having access to a powerful OS that lends itself to running specialized systems allows vendors to create great new products. And even on the back-end Linux's victories are confined to certain areas. Yeah, you'll find lots of companies moving from Oracle on Solaris or Oracle on HP/UX to Oracle on Linux, but you won't find anyone moving from Microsoft Exchange to Linux systems running Postfix/IMAPD.
Probably not. Upstart is a fucking disaster, and the way it was rolled out, with some services being converted to upstart scripts and others still retaining the traditional/etc/init.d/ scripts made it even worse. I'd be more impressed with Ubuntu if they'd stop fucking with their desktop, which is still a fugly, barely functional piece of shit compared to Windows 7 and MacOS and fix things like the broken software RAID configuration on Lucid installs, or upgrading rsyslog to a newer version than 4.2. or including an openssh-lpk package, or rolling back OpenLDAP package so that it installs a directory tree that's useful for centralized authentication, as it used to in Jaunty, rather than just installing the base packages and then telling you to roll your own DIT. You know, things that are actually useful for a server OS.
Of course every implementation of Linux on the desktop sucks compared to MacOS or Windows 7. "Ooooohhh, look, you can switch between desktops with a rotating cube animation. Wow, how cool, hey, does cut and paste work reliably between gvim and the terminal program or do you have to reconfigure the terminal in order to get it work properly? Do the graphics drivers work properly? Or do you end up with chunks of windows being left behind when you move them? Want to create a Linux desktop that will actually have a chance against Windows 7 or MacOS? Then forget about abortions like Gnome or KDE and instead just steal the desktop for MacOS and change it enough so that Steve Jobs can't sue you. It's worked wonders for Microsoft, and even though Windows 7 is an ugly hack with too much stupid eye-candy it's still far more functional than anything Ubuntu has produced.
I'm kind of surprised I haven't seen any comments on the bigger issue - the IT folks entrusted with this data who let data leak (or at least rumors of the content). As a system admin - if you're at that level you're already not trustworthy enough to keep that postion and would probably be reassigned depending on the severity. Understandably if it's something illegal then it needs to be report it but even still - discretion is still required. It's no one else's damned business.
No kidding. That sort of thing is corrosive, so corrosive that anyone in IT who even jokes about reading user e-mail or looking at user files should be smacked upside the head. The company I used to work for let users know that everything on their computer belonged to the company, we also let them know that we weren't going to look at it unless we absolutely had to and it was IT policy that anyone who snooped around on a user's computer without permission and supervision would be immediately fired. The few times we had problems with users, mostly guys who were hitting a lot of porn sites, which was being caught and logged by the proxy server it was locked down in IT and the only people we talked to about it were the HR department and the employee's supervisor, and gossiping about it, even within IT, was strictly verboten.
U R so smart. U can read an MSDS. Hey, why don't you play with some mercury, in the room where you masturbate to pr0n. Seriously, metallic mercury isn't that dangerous, the nasty shit is the organometallic mercury compounds such as the dimethylmercury that killed Karen Wetterhahn. Yeah, metallic mercury is soooooo dangerous, which is why they used it for thermometers for hundreds of years and why you can still find mercury sphygmomanometers in doctor's offices and why millions of people die every year from exposure to the metallic mercury in their bi-metallic thermostats.
Not only would I employ SSDS in DB intensive tasks I'd also hire DMUTPeregrine (if I were hiring people and not looking for a job myself) because of this statement:
And don't blindly trust your backups, test them first. Then keep a set off-site.
I don't know how many horror stories I've heard from people who thought they had backups but never tested their backup system to find out if they can read the data they're backing up. I used to joke that I wasn't a backup administrator, that I was a restore administrator. No one gives a shit about how successful your backups are if the CEO just deleted an important document and you don't have a backup of that network share.
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Could you be more of a retarded, conservative pile of shit than you are already? The statistic that you quote is a lie, because it ignores things like gasoline excise taxes, the social security and medicare taxes and state taxes. Christ, every time I hear some worthless conservatarded or libertarded pile of shit make this statement I want to pistol whip them until they get off of their fat, lazy, unprincipled asses and learn something about the federal budget.
Wow, your life is really barren and pathetic. Have you ever considered killing yourself? Seriously, jam a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger. The world will be a better place without you.
Well I myself am highly in favor of meteorological disasters that kill lots of people in the red states, but don't worry, the red staters don't need any of those fancy satellites, they can just prey to evangelical NASCAR Je$u$ and he'll save them.
Cool, I say that we should do this for every government department and that we should get to pick and choose. So while I'm willing to pay a buck a month for weather data I'm not willing to pay a goddamned dime for the War on Drugs, the War in Iraq, the War in Afghanistan, our new exciting war in Libya (fuck you President Obama), ethanol subsidies, farm subsidies, subsidies to oil companies, the Transportation Safety Administration, the Department of Homeland Security the DEA, NATO (the cold war is over, why does NATO still exist?), the defense of South Korea (you're the ninth largest economy in the world, you can take care of yourselves now), missile defense (it doesn't work), any parts of the FCC other than those concerned with setting technical standards (hey evangelical fucks, it's not the government's job to censor naughty words on television, why can't you fucking Christoids turn the damned box off if you're offended, are you really that fucking stupid?) and I'm only willing to pay for about 1/4 of what the Department of Defense is doing and shouldn't have to.
Shut the fuck up you goddamned worthless conservative shitrag. Conservative shitrags like you, cowardly little punks who post AC, have fucked this country up so badly that we may never recover. And conservative shitrags love stupid government programs, like ethanol subsidies, which are championed by conservative shitrag senators such as Charles Grassley of Iowa and Sam Brownback of Kansas. Oh, and it was a conservative shitrag congress and president that gave us No Child Left Behind, the Department of Homeland Security and the War in Iraq. Conservatives have zero credibility in making statements like this, which of course is why they always post this nonsense as AC. The last fiscally responsible Republican president we had was George H.W. Bush, and for his attempts to balance the budget he was knifed in the back by his own party.
We should beat the fucking shit out of the red states and make the useless conservative garbage and scum who live in them start paying their fair share of taxes. Conservatives are useless, stupid, lazy, good-for-nothing welfare parasites, look at Alaska for example, for every dollar that Alaska sends to Washington in federal taxes it receives $1.86 in federal spending. For every dollar California, a state which is home to Google, Apple and a few other companies, sends to Washington D.C. they get back 78 cents. I'll submit that the reason that red states don't contribute as much to the federal treasury as blue states do is because red states are full of conservatives and conservatives are stupid, drooling, inferior morons. Seriously,we live in a high tech world and expecting a bunch of evangelical fucktards who believe in stupid shit like the Rapture and who watch NASCAR to contribute anything of value to the US economy is ridiculous. If we could just get rid of all of the useless, good-for-nothing conservative parasites in this country we'd have plenty of money to keep monitoring these satellites.
You can get most of ethanol's benefits from methanol. Engines running on methanol can run at higher compression ratios to increase performance and efficiency. In fact the cars at the Indy 500 run off of methanol. Methanol can also be synthesized from a variety of feedstocks using destructive distillation, unlike ethanol which is created by fermenting corn and then distilling the product, which is very energy intensive (the dirty little secret of many biofuel plants is that they burn coal to produce the heat to distill the ethanol out of the water). Butanol is better than ethanol because it's less miscible with water and dimethylfuran beats ethanol hands down because it's immiscible with water and has a higher energy content and boiling point. Ethanol sucks. It's nothing more than a huge handout for Iowa farmers and corrupt agribusinesses like ADM and Cargill.
A) A completely ignorant piece of shit who should do everyone a favor by killing himself with a shotgun (and please, if you do so don't fuck it up like those Judas Priest morons, jam the barrel into your mouth and then pull the trigger).
B) An employee at Lodsys.
C) An employee at Intellectual Vultures.
D) A and B.
E) A and C.
Look fuckstick. Just because you have a patent doesn't mean that it's any good. the USPTO is over worked and underfunded and as a result some incredibly bad patents are being approved. This is great if you're a parasitic scum like Lodsys or Intellectual Vultures because you can buy up a whole bunch of these bogus patents and then make money off of them by blackmailing companies into paying you license fees by holding the threat of litigation over their heads.
Let me explain it to you another way. Suppose I patent the idea for a machine that turns tap water into unlimited energy. I don't have a working model, I haven't proved the concept, in fact I have no idea how to build such a thing. I just file a patent application for a machine that turns tap water into energy and USPTO approves it. Now, a few years later you come along and actually build a machine that turns tap water into unlimited energy and offer it for sale and as soon as you do I sue you in the Eastern District of Texas for infringing upon my patent. Now, the way the patent system is currently working, it doesn't matter that I never built a machine that turned tap water into unlimited energy or even that I never had any idea of how to do so. If my bogus patent is approved by the USPTO I get to sue your ass and if I win I get to collect lots of free money from you even though you're the guy who did all of the hard work and actually invented the machine that turns tap water into unlimited energy.
Wow, you're really fucking stupid aren't you? Are you planning on having children? Please don't, your inferior genes will only detract from the quality of our gene pool. You are obviously a genetically inferior piece of shit who doesn't understand the concepts of "prior art" and "patent trolls". Lodsys are nothing more than parasites who are attempting to use bogus patents and the threat of litigation to extort money from software developers who are contributing something useful to society and as such they make ambulance chasers look like paragons of morality and virtue.
I'm sick and tired of these people and their fucking stupid and insane religious beliefs, can anyone think of a way we can get them to be like those idiot comet cultists in Los Angeles back in the 90s? You know the ones I'm talking about, the group where the men cut their own balls off and then everyone ate a bunch of Jello pudding that had been laced with tranquilizers and they all died. Can we get the Evangelical Christoids to start doing this? Tell them that their penises and testicles are evil and that they need to cut them off so that they won't sin, and then get them to believe that Jesus wants them to overdose on tranquilizers and that they'll go to Heaven and bring about the Rapture if they do?
Oh, joy, a libertard. Yeah, the free market does such a fantastic job of delivering quality services. Guess what libertard, when it comes to whoring themselves out to deal with the whims of a majority, regardless of how incredibly stupid they may be, governments have nothing on private corporations. Don't believe me? Go watch Fox News some time, Glenn Beck wasn't given a job because he's the smartest guy in the room, he was given a job because he's good at selling hate and fear to irrational dumbshits.
that says that if a government is installing security cameras in a public location that the feeds from those cameras have to be publicly accessible, via the web, and no getting around this by hiring a contractor to install a camera and then claiming that the feed is private. This wouldn't be a total solution to the problem of stupid bureaucrats indulging paranoid morons by installing cameras everywhere, but it would slow things down and it would reduce the asymmetry of information between the government and the people it is supposed to serve.
Whenever I hear a libertarian bitching about "complex and outdated" regulatory regimes I do two things, reach for my gun and hold on to my wallet, because I know that I'm about to get ripped off and fucked over by a scam artist. Yeah, isn't it wonderful how we got rid of all of those "complex and outdated" regulations like Glass-Steagall and reasonable capital ratios? Why we've just benefitted so much from the trickle-down effect, oh wait, that's not trickle down, that's just some bankster pissing all over me.
That's a really brilliant idea, ethical actional permanence. I'm going to pimp that all over the web because it's a perfect explanation for the behavior of many of the commentators on this case and for a lot of conservatives.
every single fucking conservative who's bitching about this now would be all in favor of it and calling anyone who opposed it a traitor.
And yet I'm willing to bet that you voted for Bush in 2004. Republicans like you are full of shit. You worthless fucks only discovered that the document existed on the 20th of January, 2009. When a Republican is in office you fucks love shitting all over the Constitution.
"The majority of the worst ideas seem to come from democratsic administrations? Firstly the correct grammatical usage is "Democratic", the fact that you don't know this indicates that you're just another mindless zombie Foxbot. Secondly let's look at some of the great ideas that have come out of Republican administrations in the last 40 years.
No, teabagger is what you stupid fucks decided to call yourselves. You can look it up here or here. Of course if you weren't a bunch of stupid fucks you might have known what it meant. Oh, and I love your statement about Anderson Cooper, typical conservative thinking, don't like someone, call them a fag. Of course it's a well known fact that guys like you who make statements like that are usually the biggest closet cases around. You're just another pathetic, scared, conservative homosexual, like Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, et cetera. I'd be willing to bet that you know quite a bit about teabagging, or at least about being teabagged.
Oh, and as far as the phrase "nanny state" goes you conservatives are the biggest nanny state motherfuckers out there. You assholes complain about the nanny state and then turn around and advocate spending money for more cops, more prisons and more soldiers to protect you from all of the things you're afraid of. Give a conservative the choice between illusory security enforced by gun-toting thugs and constitutional liberty and the rule of law and they'll take the former every time.
Steve Jobs told them that if they called it the iLegs that he'd have their legs broken, and that no, he wasn't talking about the robotic ones either.
Of course if Apple did come out with the iLegs I wonder how long it would be before an Apple engineer lost a prototype in a bar and it ended up on Gizmodo? Of course if he did he could just say "I didn't lose the prototype in a bar, it walked off by itself." I also wonder if a set of Apple iLegs would have a "find my iLegs feature" that would allow you to go to a website, use a built in GPS on the iLegs to determine where they were and then have them walk back to you. Would you be able to download a Ministry of Silly Walks app the iTunes store. Ahh, the jokes are endless.
I'm amazed that OS X only has five times the market share of Linux considering that the Linux desktop is such an abysmal piece of shit compared to MacOS X or even Windows 7.
Yeah, Linux is great for infrastructure, but Linux on the desktop is still a turd. Sure, it's a turd with lots of nifty graphical stuff built in thanks to . And where did Linux win on the back-end? Well it wasn't in replacing Windows servers, it was in replacing servers running proprietary UNIX versions, AIX, Solaris and HP/UX or in devices such as DataDomain restorers where having access to a powerful OS that lends itself to running specialized systems allows vendors to create great new products. And even on the back-end Linux's victories are confined to certain areas. Yeah, you'll find lots of companies moving from Oracle on Solaris or Oracle on HP/UX to Oracle on Linux, but you won't find anyone moving from Microsoft Exchange to Linux systems running Postfix/IMAPD.
Probably not. Upstart is a fucking disaster, and the way it was rolled out, with some services being converted to upstart scripts and others still retaining the traditional /etc/init.d/ scripts made it even worse. I'd be more impressed with Ubuntu if they'd stop fucking with their desktop, which is still a fugly, barely functional piece of shit compared to Windows 7 and MacOS and fix things like the broken software RAID configuration on Lucid installs, or upgrading rsyslog to a newer version than 4.2. or including an openssh-lpk package, or rolling back OpenLDAP package so that it installs a directory tree that's useful for centralized authentication, as it used to in Jaunty, rather than just installing the base packages and then telling you to roll your own DIT. You know, things that are actually useful for a server OS.
Of course every implementation of Linux on the desktop sucks compared to MacOS or Windows 7. "Ooooohhh, look, you can switch between desktops with a rotating cube animation. Wow, how cool, hey, does cut and paste work reliably between gvim and the terminal program or do you have to reconfigure the terminal in order to get it work properly? Do the graphics drivers work properly? Or do you end up with chunks of windows being left behind when you move them? Want to create a Linux desktop that will actually have a chance against Windows 7 or MacOS? Then forget about abortions like Gnome or KDE and instead just steal the desktop for MacOS and change it enough so that Steve Jobs can't sue you. It's worked wonders for Microsoft, and even though Windows 7 is an ugly hack with too much stupid eye-candy it's still far more functional than anything Ubuntu has produced.
No kidding. That sort of thing is corrosive, so corrosive that anyone in IT who even jokes about reading user e-mail or looking at user files should be smacked upside the head. The company I used to work for let users know that everything on their computer belonged to the company, we also let them know that we weren't going to look at it unless we absolutely had to and it was IT policy that anyone who snooped around on a user's computer without permission and supervision would be immediately fired. The few times we had problems with users, mostly guys who were hitting a lot of porn sites, which was being caught and logged by the proxy server it was locked down in IT and the only people we talked to about it were the HR department and the employee's supervisor, and gossiping about it, even within IT, was strictly verboten.
U R so smart. U can read an MSDS. Hey, why don't you play with some mercury, in the room where you masturbate to pr0n. Seriously, metallic mercury isn't that dangerous, the nasty shit is the organometallic mercury compounds such as the dimethylmercury that killed Karen Wetterhahn. Yeah, metallic mercury is soooooo dangerous, which is why they used it for thermometers for hundreds of years and why you can still find mercury sphygmomanometers in doctor's offices and why millions of people die every year from exposure to the metallic mercury in their bi-metallic thermostats.
Now you have four problems. Could you Do It Wrong in any more ways?
Ooooohhh! Ooohhhh! Oooohh! I could. I'll run it on Vista and directly connect it to the internet. I can haz epic fail yet?
I don't know how many horror stories I've heard from people who thought they had backups but never tested their backup system to find out if they can read the data they're backing up. I used to joke that I wasn't a backup administrator, that I was a restore administrator. No one gives a shit about how successful your backups are if the CEO just deleted an important document and you don't have a backup of that network share.