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Like most of the one-liner posts in this thread, it's all Futurama quotes.
Except this one, which is totally unrelated, then turns into an off-topic Family Guy reference explaining it.
Que?
That is, if the sun doesn't scorch them into nothing first. Take, for example, the effects the sun have on similar objects in an environment similarly ill-suited for intelligent life: Southern California. Plastic and rubber has 9 months to a year before the sun rots it out, thin metal surfaces (aluminum in particular) fade and get worn through quickly, even factory-tinted windows bleach clear over time.
Though now that I think of it, if someone built tract housing out of cardboard (1/16th acre lots with no yard, driveway, nearby mainline transit or on-street parking) and charged at least $480,000 a unit for it and called it New San Jose, the Californians would flock to that. We should strive to make that a reality...
Wow, a little optimistic are we? Oregon has a better shot of returning to it's pre-Californian Invasion population of 2 million than Vista has of coming out before the rovers die...
Never mind the fact that like it or not, there is no right to privacy in the consitution.
Bullshit. Americans have a right to be secure in their property and papers. As in, the fed can't just walk up to you and say, "I want everything you worked on last week." Fourth amendment. Look it up.
Even the smartcar has a passenger seat and minimal trunk space to carry groceries and whatnot. Imagine a car that could *only* drive you around. To me, that's like a computer without the Internet.
Which makes me wonder: Why are bicycles (both the one-time-use $80 kind you get at WalMart and the real kind you get at a bike shop) intended for commuting/recreational use missing basic features that enable said usage? Examples off the top of my head: Kickstand (not everywhere has a bike rack, like my garage), fenders (Wet happens), at least a rear luggage rack, if not panniers and/or a front rack (stuff happens), and lights (totally unlawful to ride without lights in fog, rainy weather, at night or in tunnels). And with one-time-use bikes, one more feature is missing: Brakes capable of bringing the bike into a skid on dry, flat pavement (legally required in Oregon, but most one-time-use bikes don't have strong enough brakes to be street legal as they're sold off the rack here). Right now, the only company making bicycles with all above features on the bike standard is Human Powered Machines in Oregon, and it's a pain in the ass to find an HPM dealership outside their home town..
If TiVo doesn't offer lifetife subscriptions anymore, then it might just suggest that they won't be around for anyone's lifetime. The fact that they are partnering up with a retail chain on its last legs, RadioShack, doesn't bode well for its future. It's a pity to see such an inventive company put its survival into doubt.
No kidding. I made the mistake of going to Radio Shack for radio equipment. Wow, bad plan...ended up finding what I needed for my radio in a truck stop convenience store. The guys at Radio Shack said, "Dude, what do you think this is? A radio shop?" The irony was lost on the cashier when I pointed it out...
Unless Dell also wants to have customers who still have hair left (and thus not having torn it out in the latest RPM hell nightmare). For everyone else, there's Debian and it's derivatives.
But distros already have standardized on a unified core: Debian. Ubuntu, Knoppix, Debian itself, and many others use the same Debian core and can use each other's packages with far greater success than the RPM folks could imagine in their wildest wet dreams..
Having spent five years in California (3 in LA, 2 in SD), I can say without a doubt it is the most obnoxious place in any country you can live in on this continent. Nobody knows how to drive, read or think for themselves, few speak English (it wouldn't surprise me to learn more people speak English in Tijuana than San Diego County), the weather blows goats for bus money then walks home (80+ and smoggy 350+ days/year), traffic is perpetual and save for a very small portion around San Fransisco, there is no (functioning) public transit system, everything's expensive and there's nothing to do for under a day's wages. If living in a polluted urban wasteland with brainless, illiterate assholes for neighbors and replace your car once a year after some jackass totals it while it's parked, the Californian Wasteland is right for you.
For everyone else, what you *really* want to do is move to Nevada and telecommute from there. Better people, better weather, better traffic, better skiing, better camping, lower prices, less air pollution, people speak English, and you're close enough to The Wasteland to make a day trip most major Wasteland city.
Anecdotally, I get a terrible headache that lasts for hours if I talk even 30 seconds on a cell phone. I'm probably not typical, but I'm certain cell phones aren't as harmless as most folks (and regulatory agencies) think.
Do you get headaches around vehicles with CB or HAM radios? CBs have a legal maximum output of 4 watts, but given the noise on the 11 meter band, outputs exceeding 100 watts are common, and in excess of 250 watts are frequently found near urban centers. Ham operators can legally go as high as 1500 watts on some bands. AM Mode on CBs, ham radios and car stereos will have no problem picking up a loud humming noise from high voltage power lines for blocks around them, no matter what you set the tuner to.
I think there's something else to your headaches that isn't electromagnetically related.
How about a moderation system so all the recruiters get (-1, Redundant) or (-1, Troll) so we can actually find a job instead of an ad to an ad to an ad to some two-bit worthless temp agency.
You can't just create a little linux based utopian world inside schools and release people into the big bad world of M$ software.
Schools aren't about what we're using today. Schools are about what we'll be using tomorrow. Your suggestion to indoctrinate another generation of IT professionals is harmful to the industry as a whole.
Thanks to Oregon speaker of the House Karen Minnis (R, Wood Village), Oregon is contributing $32 million/year to that in licenses to Microsoft alone. She fought in favor of Microsoft on that in shooting down the Open Source Bill.
BTW, I live in Wood Village, and I'm looking to see if anybody else in the area would be willing to vote for me, should I run against Karen Minnis this fall for her house seat to become the first socialist state rep in Oregon.
Telephone addiction. And y'all gotta quit, it's bad for you. It's annoying and plain rude to interrupt whatever you're doing with the people who bothered to spend time in person with you, and more dangerous than alcohol while driving. So do what I did: Next time your telco monopoly says it's gonna be five months for repair (as Verizon told me when I lived in a densely populated Portland suburb), tell them don't bother and live without the phone.
Life's way better without it. People either email or jabber me instead, or spend time with me in person. Dinner is usually uninterrupted (unless one of Karen Minnis's cronys knocks on my door, in which I have to remind them that tresspassing is a crime and that they can either get the hell off my lawn and preferrably out of my city, or stay there while I go get the cop that lives next door...but that's a new problem I plan to solve by voting for someone who doesn't mistake the state legislative docket for toilet paper).
Ultimately you have to pay Verizon or whoever your local telco monopoly is so you can resell it to your customers.
Least researched post evar! Once you get to a certain size and have some major money to play with, you're not stuck with the end-consumer oriented telcos anymore. You can just take your business elsewhere.
Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T may be powerful, but they're going to have a hell of a fight if they're going up against Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon.
Or their customers. I can live without cable TV and telephone service, and I haven't had a phone in two years since Vonage refused to pay for my desk that they lit a fire on with their defective Cisco ATA186, then tried to charge me $150 for the little firestarter. I was a Verizon customer for half a year and didn't once get a dialtone before that, so it's not like I miss the phone. I have a TiVo, cable TV could cease to exist tomorrow and I'd still have plenty to watch off the antenna.
Can they live without me living with that stuff? No. It's not that hard to quit living in the past and tell people you have moved on from the phone. Broadcast TV isn't ever going to die. If they want to gouge us on the Internet, it's coming out of their pocketbooks.
That wasn't originally there, but was added after the original statement by someone else, who left a note saying: "(this may be true, but it needs a source!)".
Too much time spent on stupid shit like revert wars on Wikipedia and not enough time doing things like engaging in more than fucking token debate for important issues like whether or not Alito is a good choice to be nominated, for life to the United States Supreme Court.
Is Alito too extreme? Would he be a good justice? Who the fuck cares! Let's vote to end the debate and rubber stamp the asshole, this is taking precious time away from the congressional Wikipedia revert war! To hell with the next 90 years of the American experiment!
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Like most of the one-liner posts in this thread, it's all Futurama quotes. Except this one, which is totally unrelated, then turns into an off-topic Family Guy reference explaining it. Que?
Though now that I think of it, if someone built tract housing out of cardboard (1/16th acre lots with no yard, driveway, nearby mainline transit or on-street parking) and charged at least $480,000 a unit for it and called it New San Jose, the Californians would flock to that. We should strive to make that a reality...
Wow, a little optimistic are we? Oregon has a better shot of returning to it's pre-Californian Invasion population of 2 million than Vista has of coming out before the rovers die...
Bullshit. Americans have a right to be secure in their property and papers. As in, the fed can't just walk up to you and say, "I want everything you worked on last week." Fourth amendment. Look it up.
Which makes me wonder: Why are bicycles (both the one-time-use $80 kind you get at WalMart and the real kind you get at a bike shop) intended for commuting/recreational use missing basic features that enable said usage? Examples off the top of my head: Kickstand (not everywhere has a bike rack, like my garage), fenders (Wet happens), at least a rear luggage rack, if not panniers and/or a front rack (stuff happens), and lights (totally unlawful to ride without lights in fog, rainy weather, at night or in tunnels). And with one-time-use bikes, one more feature is missing: Brakes capable of bringing the bike into a skid on dry, flat pavement (legally required in Oregon, but most one-time-use bikes don't have strong enough brakes to be street legal as they're sold off the rack here). Right now, the only company making bicycles with all above features on the bike standard is Human Powered Machines in Oregon, and it's a pain in the ass to find an HPM dealership outside their home town..
No kidding. I made the mistake of going to Radio Shack for radio equipment. Wow, bad plan...ended up finding what I needed for my radio in a truck stop convenience store. The guys at Radio Shack said, "Dude, what do you think this is? A radio shop?" The irony was lost on the cashier when I pointed it out...
Unless Dell also wants to have customers who still have hair left (and thus not having torn it out in the latest RPM hell nightmare). For everyone else, there's Debian and it's derivatives.
But distros already have standardized on a unified core: Debian. Ubuntu, Knoppix, Debian itself, and many others use the same Debian core and can use each other's packages with far greater success than the RPM folks could imagine in their wildest wet dreams..
Having spent five years in California (3 in LA, 2 in SD), I can say without a doubt it is the most obnoxious place in any country you can live in on this continent. Nobody knows how to drive, read or think for themselves, few speak English (it wouldn't surprise me to learn more people speak English in Tijuana than San Diego County), the weather blows goats for bus money then walks home (80+ and smoggy 350+ days/year), traffic is perpetual and save for a very small portion around San Fransisco, there is no (functioning) public transit system, everything's expensive and there's nothing to do for under a day's wages. If living in a polluted urban wasteland with brainless, illiterate assholes for neighbors and replace your car once a year after some jackass totals it while it's parked, the Californian Wasteland is right for you. For everyone else, what you *really* want to do is move to Nevada and telecommute from there. Better people, better weather, better traffic, better skiing, better camping, lower prices, less air pollution, people speak English, and you're close enough to The Wasteland to make a day trip most major Wasteland city.
Except Canada, England, Japan, most of the European Union...
That just smacks too much of seperatist Quebecois hubris to be taken seriously.
The world says otherwise, as English is now the international language of trade and travel.
Do you get headaches around vehicles with CB or HAM radios? CBs have a legal maximum output of 4 watts, but given the noise on the 11 meter band, outputs exceeding 100 watts are common, and in excess of 250 watts are frequently found near urban centers. Ham operators can legally go as high as 1500 watts on some bands. AM Mode on CBs, ham radios and car stereos will have no problem picking up a loud humming noise from high voltage power lines for blocks around them, no matter what you set the tuner to.
I think there's something else to your headaches that isn't electromagnetically related.
How about a moderation system so all the recruiters get (-1, Redundant) or (-1, Troll) so we can actually find a job instead of an ad to an ad to an ad to some two-bit worthless temp agency.
Schools aren't about what we're using today. Schools are about what we'll be using tomorrow. Your suggestion to indoctrinate another generation of IT professionals is harmful to the industry as a whole.
BTW, I live in Wood Village, and I'm looking to see if anybody else in the area would be willing to vote for me, should I run against Karen Minnis this fall for her house seat to become the first socialist state rep in Oregon.
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Telephone addiction. And y'all gotta quit, it's bad for you. It's annoying and plain rude to interrupt whatever you're doing with the people who bothered to spend time in person with you, and more dangerous than alcohol while driving. So do what I did: Next time your telco monopoly says it's gonna be five months for repair (as Verizon told me when I lived in a densely populated Portland suburb), tell them don't bother and live without the phone.
Life's way better without it. People either email or jabber me instead, or spend time with me in person. Dinner is usually uninterrupted (unless one of Karen Minnis's cronys knocks on my door, in which I have to remind them that tresspassing is a crime and that they can either get the hell off my lawn and preferrably out of my city, or stay there while I go get the cop that lives next door...but that's a new problem I plan to solve by voting for someone who doesn't mistake the state legislative docket for toilet paper).
No. There's competition now from the free software world. The developers will just go where they're welcome.
Least researched post evar! Once you get to a certain size and have some major money to play with, you're not stuck with the end-consumer oriented telcos anymore. You can just take your business elsewhere.
Or their customers. I can live without cable TV and telephone service, and I haven't had a phone in two years since Vonage refused to pay for my desk that they lit a fire on with their defective Cisco ATA186, then tried to charge me $150 for the little firestarter. I was a Verizon customer for half a year and didn't once get a dialtone before that, so it's not like I miss the phone. I have a TiVo, cable TV could cease to exist tomorrow and I'd still have plenty to watch off the antenna.
Can they live without me living with that stuff? No. It's not that hard to quit living in the past and tell people you have moved on from the phone. Broadcast TV isn't ever going to die. If they want to gouge us on the Internet, it's coming out of their pocketbooks.
Thank you, Millenniumman, that was the joke.
Is Alito too extreme? Would he be a good justice? Who the fuck cares! Let's vote to end the debate and rubber stamp the asshole, this is taking precious time away from the congressional Wikipedia revert war! To hell with the next 90 years of the American experiment!
This is just what I always wanted: A poorly written browser nobody uses on a platform nobody finds comfortable!
Jabber server, PDA phones with internet access, Jabber client on the phones.
And I don't mean "roll your own" setups, but full fledged enterprise level products.
You have eliminated all realistic options.