This may very well be the bloodiest day in American history.
Pearl Harbor: 2000 dead.
Bloodiest day of fighting in the Civil War: 25,000 dead.
Estimates of the body count from this attack are in the 5-digit range. Keep in mind that about 50,000 people worked in each tower of the WTC. Do you think its possible that half of them survived?
If we ignore this kind attack, then why the fuck do we even have a military???
Sorry pal. I love all people on planet Earth, but I have to put the interests of myself and my family above all others.
The two nukes dropped on Japan was a horrific act of senseless violence, but it brought violence against Americans and American allies to a pretty quick stop.
Is it just my imagination, or are the Taiwanese motherboard/chipset makers getting really damn powerful? Can anyone name any non-Taiwanese motherboard maker still in business? The only domestic brand used to be Intel, but I don't see many products from them lately. So if I imagine that the Taiwanese businesses (including VIA) are on the same team when it comes to this issue, doesn't that give them the upper hand?
AMD chips are a completely viable alternative to Intel chips, so couldn't a bunch of pissed-off Taiwanese manufacturers get together and "punish" Intel by perhaps being a bit slow to market with whatever Intel's next socket design is, effectively giving the processor market to AMD?
I have to disagree. I agree that television is for idiots, but I don't see the similarity between TV and computers aside from the fact that they both feature cathode ray tubes.
IMHO, a good computer simulation game is better than even an average book. Simulation games are more intellectually stimulating and far more social. TV and reading are passive. Simulation games require strategy and problem-solving skills.
I kill Mortimer Goth and marry his wife every chance I get. Bella's a hottie!
It's not without consequences though, Mortimer's ghost comes back and haunts you all the time. You just have to put up with him until you have enough money to buy Mortimer's house. Before you do that, you have to evict Cassandra Goth, age 6, who has been living alone in the Goth mansion since her father was murdered and her mother shacked up with me.
Have you noticed that you can really get ahead quickly in the Sims if you decide to make every adult both bisexual and extremely promiscuous?
Hell, given enough time on autosim, all your sims will both:
a) lose their jobs and
b) turn gay.
This wouldn't ordinarily bother me, but it really pissed me off when I try to do a simulation of my own family and I catch my mother making out with my sister.
That's the point. Very large companies are extremely inefficient, which is why they resort to influence peddling. If MSFT or AOL/TW were not able to rig the rules of business in their favor, they might not be able to compete so well in the market.
Yes, we rebels could survive in Antarctica for a time. But we'd need to do some genetic engineering of kangaroos, sheep and polar bears to make usable taun-tauns for scouting the perimiter.
And the American Imperial AT-AT walkers would be on us in no time and destroy our shield generators and we'd have to evacuate anyway.
Utah does have some odd liquor laws, and hard liquor can only be sold by state-run liquor stores, but these stores are conveniently downtown (in Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Logan, at least.)
Multi-characterset editing in the same document (as of Office 2000). By which I mean Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc. MS Office is the only one that handles this at all well. It remains the only reason I need windows installed. In SO, even if I have Japanese Linux installed, inputting them into a SO document is not supported.
...but that is a feature easily used by less than 1% of all office users.
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A fucking pizza shop?
This may very well be the bloodiest day in American history.
Pearl Harbor: 2000 dead.
Bloodiest day of fighting in the Civil War: 25,000 dead.
Estimates of the body count from this attack are in the 5-digit range. Keep in mind that about 50,000 people worked in each tower of the WTC. Do you think its possible that half of them survived?
If we ignore this kind attack, then why the fuck do we even have a military???
Sorry pal. I love all people on planet Earth, but I have to put the interests of myself and my family above all others.
The two nukes dropped on Japan was a horrific act of senseless violence, but it brought violence against Americans and American allies to a pretty quick stop.
Better them than us.
If this is the way they want play, I see no good option other than responding in kind.
Is it just my imagination, or are the Taiwanese motherboard/chipset makers getting really damn powerful? Can anyone name any non-Taiwanese motherboard maker still in business? The only domestic brand used to be Intel, but I don't see many products from them lately. So if I imagine that the Taiwanese businesses (including VIA) are on the same team when it comes to this issue, doesn't that give them the upper hand?
AMD chips are a completely viable alternative to Intel chips, so couldn't a bunch of pissed-off Taiwanese manufacturers get together and "punish" Intel by perhaps being a bit slow to market with whatever Intel's next socket design is, effectively giving the processor market to AMD?
That sounds like a network administrators wet dream! That and the fact that I could administer the workstations remotely via telnet.
Ahhh... no more users installing stupid screensavers that crash their PC...
Eventually I think they'd give up and stop trying to download and install things.
Starving citizens are to be avoided.
But wiping out rival populations is quite desirable.
7th Guest.
That game had some wicked puzzles.
I have to disagree. I agree that television is for idiots, but I don't see the similarity between TV and computers aside from the fact that they both feature cathode ray tubes.
IMHO, a good computer simulation game is better than even an average book. Simulation games are more intellectually stimulating and far more social. TV and reading are passive. Simulation games require strategy and problem-solving skills.
I kill Mortimer Goth and marry his wife every chance I get. Bella's a hottie!
It's not without consequences though, Mortimer's ghost comes back and haunts you all the time. You just have to put up with him until you have enough money to buy Mortimer's house. Before you do that, you have to evict Cassandra Goth, age 6, who has been living alone in the Goth mansion since her father was murdered and her mother shacked up with me.
Yup, the Sims is great wholesome fun.
If you prevent [children] from doing stupid things, you prevent [children] from doing clever things.
...
or something like that.
Have you noticed that you can really get ahead quickly in the Sims if you decide to make every adult both bisexual and extremely promiscuous?
Hell, given enough time on autosim, all your sims will both:
a) lose their jobs and
b) turn gay.
This wouldn't ordinarily bother me, but it really pissed me off when I try to do a simulation of my own family and I catch my mother making out with my sister.
Played at expert level to teach Economics.
Seriously, that game has got a hard-core and complex economic model. Took me months to figure it out.
That's the point. Very large companies are extremely inefficient, which is why they resort to influence peddling. If MSFT or AOL/TW were not able to rig the rules of business in their favor, they might not be able to compete so well in the market.
Yes, we rebels could survive in Antarctica for a time. But we'd need to do some genetic engineering of kangaroos, sheep and polar bears to make usable taun-tauns for scouting the perimiter.
And the American Imperial AT-AT walkers would be on us in no time and destroy our shield generators and we'd have to evacuate anyway.
This is 100% false.
Utah does have some odd liquor laws, and hard liquor can only be sold by state-run liquor stores, but these stores are conveniently downtown (in Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Logan, at least.)
I agree. Compared to the WTO and World Bank, the UN looks positively progressive.
Yup. All you 'Mericans should move to a free country before the wall goes up.
I recommend New Zealand. English speaking, and very much in need of technical folks.
I have a wife and two girlfriends.
So there.
Who needs Natalie Portman when there's Madhuri Dixit?
Ms. Dixit has been detained for questioning regarding her sacreligious comments in her latest film.
Regards,
Your friends in the BJP
Multi-characterset editing in the same document (as of Office 2000). By which I mean Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc. MS Office is the only one that handles this at all well. It remains the only reason I need windows installed. In SO, even if I have Japanese Linux installed, inputting them into a SO document is not supported.
...but that is a feature easily used by less than 1% of all office users.
Actually, most large companies in Japan actually buy licenses for MS products.
My company is not one of them, but oh well.
Your link doesn't seem to work. Neither did www.hancomlinux.co.jp
Can you enlighten me? I am very very interested in an office for linux with good doublebyte support.
I have seen warez sites hosted on Taiwanese government servers.
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Mod parent up!
This is the most exciting Linux-related post I have seen in months!