Wait a minute, I distinctly saw a line in that article that read "You don't negotiate with terrorists...". What the f are they thinking? Of course you do. That's how you get terrorism and spam, to stop. Don't fight them, someone might get *hurt*. You might hurt someone's *feelings*. They might get *offended*.
And... that damn ad... I'll be sure never to buy that product, or visit salon again.
The 6581 Sound Interface Device is a neat IC. It has both digital and analog components to it. The band Machine Supremacy uses a SIDStation in their music. It's a really interesting sound, and they have a whole bunch of compleat (!) tunes for download in MP3 and OGG format.
I see your point. Well, if you think about it, everyone is basically using software that is NOT in tune with the hardware. The hardware is tested, and tested, and pretty much performs flawlessly, until you need software to control it. Ahha, there lies the problem. If the software WAS better, and didn't need constant babysitting, everyone would be better off... except for us janitors.
I pay $4 per quart for oil, * 6 is $24. Another $6 for the Wix 51515 Filter, is $30. Now, if I were going to take it to a place to get a full synthetic oil change done with a Wix Filter, and Mobil 1 Synthetic 10w30 or 5w30, I'd be paying about $60. No thanks, I'll just spend the half hour and do it myself, Keep the $30, and use it for fuel. Or ammo. Or reloading supplies. Or geeky stuff. Hell, maybe even spend it on the wife.:)
All the browser competition in the world won't help the one, big reason people use IE...
The "average" computer user is a lazy, uninformed moron.
As long as people "think" they can "use" computers, real computer "users" (who actually understand a spit of how things work) are left to be the janitors.
...some people DONT WANT IT. For instance... My grandfather, and two uncles. They don't have any interest in more than a 10-hour per month, dialup connection. That's all they need. There has to be a decent percentage of people who just are happy living life not being so damn connected. I know sometimes it bugs the hell outa me.
Everyone loves Magical Trevor 'Cuz the tricks that he does are ever so clever. Look at 'em now, disappearin' the cow. Where is the cow? Hidden right now. Takin' the bow it's Magical Trevor. Everyone has seen that the trick is clever. Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip. It's made of magic, and with a little flip... Yea, yea, yea, the cow is back. Yea, yea, yea, the cow is back. Back, back, back from his magical journey. What did he see, in the parallel dimension? He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans. Saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans. Yea, yea.
Matt Drudge was reporting this at about 10:00'ish EST last night. Good thing/. is on the ball. Typical liberal site waiting for the liberal newspaper to report about it.
Well, if you always store your gun cleaned, then you can use that as a defense. I don't think the criminal will take the time to disassemble the gun and clean the internals after a shooting. Even 1 round fired will fill the chamber and barrel with residue. If you take a couple minutes to clean both of those every time you store the gun, then the worst it can do is not help the case against you.
NY state registers the serial number of my guns to me, so they could be traced back even without fingerprint ID. Someone can bypass any lock I put on my guns, too.
Don't get me wrong, I want firearms to stay PURELY mechanical. That's why they're so damn reliable. A well engineered and manufactured gun can last a lifetime... how many electronic items can do that? (Yea, I'm sure there are examples, but they're few and far between.)
The thing that bothers me the most, is that anti-gun people want this stuff (where info in the gun can contain personal information), yet, they don't want the same sort of tracking capability on the internet, or with their computers. Shit, I'd prefer to be anonymous everywhere, but it ain't gonna happen.
Yep. I'm sure there will be pleanty of illegal guns all over the streets of NJ... just as there are today. All this shit they do to with LAWS is meaningless unless CRIMINALS all decide to OBEY the LAW and ONLY use APPROVED guns to commit CRIMES.
"Oh Fuck, I have to reboot my gun before I can defend myself!"
01. Do nothing after repeated warnings about attacks on major US sites using passenger jets. (except Ashcroft took to flying private).
There are so many warnings, if we acted on each one, we'd be going in circles. Plus, the prior administration let Osama go anyway... so if Clinton thought he wasn't that bad, why should Bush?
02. Be so influenced by the Israeli lobby as to allow the Palestinian situation to escalate out of all control. The backlash against this being one of the prime motivators of the 9/11 and other terrorists.
And do what about it? Let Palestinians take over Isreal? I say let Isreal fight back on this one. They want the land, let them bomb the hell out of the countries that send people to bomb their citizens.
03. Allow al-Qaeda/the freedom fighters formerly known as the Mujahideen to take root in Afghanistan. This group having been formed out of the remnants of groups created and financed by Bin Laden at the behest of the CIA.
Again, you have to blame Clinton, too. It happened on his watch, also.
04. In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attack allow Bin Ladens family to *fly* out of the US unquestioned.
Yea, that was a fuckup, but until you give more than just 1 sentence, I'll hold judgement on that, considering I (and you) don't know all the facts.
05. Holding back US troops to allow Bin Laden to escape from his holdout on the Pakistan border. If captured he might have some embarrassing facts to disclose.
Wait a minute, didn't the rest of the world want a coalition of forces? What's wrong with having other countries help? Kerry said bi-lateral support is now called "outsourcing". First they want it, then they dont?
06. Take a middle eastern dictatorship (Iraq) and overthrow its ruler. In the process disbanded its highly trained army and allow them to escape with most of their weapons intact. The remnants of which later joined forces with radical Islamic fundamentalists forming the bulk of the current Guerilla army. Making large parts of Iraq no go areas for US troops. Almost a year after the so called 'ceasefire'.
Uh, they're not "highly trained". A highly trained army would have put up more of a fight, in BOTH wars. Anyway, we should just bomb the shit out of the trouble ares... hell, it worked in WWII.
07. Incidentally whilst Heusen was in power and still an asset of the CIA it was his job to suppress the 'fundamentalists'. And after the first Gulf war he was totally suppressed and *no* external threat to anyone. He still could stifle the fundamentalists. So removing him has actually created a state that supports terrorism.
He still never complied with the UN's resolutions. A dozen years after that is long enough to wait for action. Like this whole N.Korea thing... Give them time to comply, if not, force them to. After talking to a kid about being bad, who still repeats their actions, you eventually have to spank them.
08. Arbitrarily dismiss and ignore the views of the USAs own allies to such an extent that *no* country apart from the UK went into Iraq with it. Chiefly because Tony Blain had no choice. The rest he bribed with contracts or getting their application to join the EU speeded up.
Just another way the EU is forcing countries to "do what we do".
09. In the process Bush did something the USSR could never achieve trough out WW11, the Warsaw Pact, the Cold war, the Cuban missile crises and the breakup of the Soviet Union. He split NATO in two. He couldn't have done better if he was Putins foreign minister.
Survival of the fittest. If you want to just let mouth-foaming dogs lie, that's your choice.
10. Provoked North Korea and Iran into going Nuclear. Something they had no incentive in doing until his famous axis of evil speech.
Ha! Provoked? No incentive? Then why did N.Korea send spies in under Clinton's watch to grab nuclear intelligence? Wait a minute... there must have been an incentive back then. Maybe it takes MORE tha
Acutally, I kinda hope that Rudy Giuliani runs in 2008. I know that the socialists will nominate Hillary "Neither my husband or I swallow" Clinton for their "man". Rudy can stand up to her, and not be beaten up by her attacks.
That was one of the very few well thought out comments to ever appear as a comment on this article. Well done. And, i'm a conservative, and a geek. It's a tough mix.
I enjoy computers, I enjoy guns, I enjoy shooting computers with guns. Go figure.
Ya know, I haven't noticed anything different in my life since the patriot act was enacted. Not a damn thing.
One thing I DID notice though, is that as soon as the clinton Ugly-Gun ban sunset, I noticed that the price of 25 round magazines for my Ruger 10/22 rifle plummetted. Instead of having to shell out $40 or $50 for one, I can now get them for $20. Much more reasonable.
"But why do you need that?" Well, the same reason slashdotters need high end video cards, fast CPU's, etc... entertainment. It's just plain fun to be able to put a plethora of holes in various computer equipment without having to change magazines. Face it, nobody's holding up a 7-11 with a.22LR rifle. In NJ, where carrying a loaded gun is flat out illegal (except for "special" people), people use loaded handguns to hold up their 7-11's. Maybe that's something people should be more worried about. For some reason, it's more of an issue for law enforcement to have more power, but it's perfectly fine for criminals to have more power. I don't get it.
Slashdot Mirror
...kinda like communism, but with more, eh?
...another 24-hour pharmacy.
...there was an "awards" show on? Really? I guess my rabbit ears didn't pick it up.
Wait a minute, I distinctly saw a line in that article that read "You don't negotiate with terrorists...". What the f are they thinking? Of course you do. That's how you get terrorism and spam, to stop. Don't fight them, someone might get *hurt*. You might hurt someone's *feelings*. They might get *offended*.
And... that damn ad... I'll be sure never to buy that product, or visit salon again.
The 6581 Sound Interface Device is a neat IC. It has both digital and analog components to it. The band Machine Supremacy uses a SIDStation in their music. It's a really interesting sound, and they have a whole bunch of compleat (!) tunes for download in MP3 and OGG format.
I guess it's evolved a bit since the 40 pound SX-64 for portability, eh? My dad and I both happen to have SX64's... With JiffyDOS. :)
That would be CommOdore.
Yes, indeed, the sky IS falling. That little chicken was correct. Who knew?
I see your point. Well, if you think about it, everyone is basically using software that is NOT in tune with the hardware. The hardware is tested, and tested, and pretty much performs flawlessly, until you need software to control it. Ahha, there lies the problem. If the software WAS better, and didn't need constant babysitting, everyone would be better off... except for us janitors.
I pay $4 per quart for oil, * 6 is $24. Another $6 for the Wix 51515 Filter, is $30. Now, if I were going to take it to a place to get a full synthetic oil change done with a Wix Filter, and Mobil 1 Synthetic 10w30 or 5w30, I'd be paying about $60. No thanks, I'll just spend the half hour and do it myself, Keep the $30, and use it for fuel. Or ammo. Or reloading supplies. Or geeky stuff. Hell, maybe even spend it on the wife. :)
$50 for the typical scan and clean. $100 for the manual registry hack with the scan.
All the browser competition in the world won't help the one, big reason people use IE...
The "average" computer user is a lazy, uninformed moron.
As long as people "think" they can "use" computers, real computer "users" (who actually understand a spit of how things work) are left to be the janitors.
Damn, I guess my view on this is pretty gloomy.
...some people DONT WANT IT. For instance... My grandfather, and two uncles. They don't have any interest in more than a 10-hour per month, dialup connection. That's all they need. There has to be a decent percentage of people who just are happy living life not being so damn connected. I know sometimes it bugs the hell outa me.
Everyone loves Magical Trevor
'Cuz the tricks that he does are ever so clever.
Look at 'em now, disappearin' the cow.
Where is the cow? Hidden right now.
Takin' the bow it's Magical Trevor.
Everyone has seen that the trick is clever.
Look at him there with his leathery, leathery whip.
It's made of magic, and with a little flip...
Yea, yea, yea, the cow is back.
Yea, yea, yea, the cow is back.
Back, back, back from his magical journey.
What did he see, in the parallel dimension?
He saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans.
Saw beans, lots of beans, lots of beans, lots of beans.
Yea, yea.
Matt Drudge was reporting this at about 10:00'ish EST last night. Good thing /. is on the ball. Typical liberal site waiting for the liberal newspaper to report about it.
Flame on.
Oh, but it's the US who pollutes more than the rest of the world, dontcha know.
...Australia? They're not signing onto it, either.
Well, if you always store your gun cleaned, then you can use that as a defense. I don't think the criminal will take the time to disassemble the gun and clean the internals after a shooting. Even 1 round fired will fill the chamber and barrel with residue. If you take a couple minutes to clean both of those every time you store the gun, then the worst it can do is not help the case against you.
NY state registers the serial number of my guns to me, so they could be traced back even without fingerprint ID. Someone can bypass any lock I put on my guns, too.
Don't get me wrong, I want firearms to stay PURELY mechanical. That's why they're so damn reliable. A well engineered and manufactured gun can last a lifetime... how many electronic items can do that? (Yea, I'm sure there are examples, but they're few and far between.)
The thing that bothers me the most, is that anti-gun people want this stuff (where info in the gun can contain personal information), yet, they don't want the same sort of tracking capability on the internet, or with their computers. Shit, I'd prefer to be anonymous everywhere, but it ain't gonna happen.
Yep. I'm sure there will be pleanty of illegal guns all over the streets of NJ... just as there are today. All this shit they do to with LAWS is meaningless unless CRIMINALS all decide to OBEY the LAW and ONLY use APPROVED guns to commit CRIMES.
"Oh Fuck, I have to reboot my gun before I can defend myself!"
01. Do nothing after repeated warnings about attacks on major US sites using passenger jets. (except Ashcroft took to flying private).
There are so many warnings, if we acted on each one, we'd be going in circles. Plus, the prior administration let Osama go anyway... so if Clinton thought he wasn't that bad, why should Bush?
02. Be so influenced by the Israeli lobby as to allow the Palestinian situation to escalate out of all control. The backlash against this being one of the prime motivators of the 9/11 and other terrorists.
And do what about it? Let Palestinians take over Isreal? I say let Isreal fight back on this one. They want the land, let them bomb the hell out of the countries that send people to bomb their citizens.
03. Allow al-Qaeda/the freedom fighters formerly known as the Mujahideen to take root in Afghanistan. This group having been formed out of the remnants of groups created and financed by Bin Laden at the behest of the CIA.
Again, you have to blame Clinton, too. It happened on his watch, also.
04. In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attack allow Bin Ladens family to *fly* out of the US unquestioned.
Yea, that was a fuckup, but until you give more than just 1 sentence, I'll hold judgement on that, considering I (and you) don't know all the facts.
05. Holding back US troops to allow Bin Laden to escape from his holdout on the Pakistan border. If captured he might have some embarrassing facts to disclose.
Wait a minute, didn't the rest of the world want a coalition of forces? What's wrong with having other countries help? Kerry said bi-lateral support is now called "outsourcing". First they want it, then they dont?
06. Take a middle eastern dictatorship (Iraq) and overthrow its ruler. In the process disbanded its highly trained army and allow them to escape with most of their weapons intact. The remnants of which later joined forces with radical Islamic fundamentalists forming the bulk of the current Guerilla army. Making large parts of Iraq no go areas for US troops. Almost a year after the so called 'ceasefire'.
Uh, they're not "highly trained". A highly trained army would have put up more of a fight, in BOTH wars. Anyway, we should just bomb the shit out of the trouble ares... hell, it worked in WWII.
07. Incidentally whilst Heusen was in power and still an asset of the CIA it was his job to suppress the 'fundamentalists'. And after the first Gulf war he was totally suppressed and *no* external threat to anyone. He still could stifle the fundamentalists. So removing him has actually created a state that supports terrorism.
He still never complied with the UN's resolutions. A dozen years after that is long enough to wait for action. Like this whole N.Korea thing... Give them time to comply, if not, force them to. After talking to a kid about being bad, who still repeats their actions, you eventually have to spank them.
08. Arbitrarily dismiss and ignore the views of the USAs own allies to such an extent that *no* country apart from the UK went into Iraq with it. Chiefly because Tony Blain had no choice. The rest he bribed with contracts or getting their application to join the EU speeded up.
Just another way the EU is forcing countries to "do what we do".
09. In the process Bush did something the USSR could never achieve trough out WW11, the Warsaw Pact, the Cold war, the Cuban missile crises and the breakup of the Soviet Union. He split NATO in two. He couldn't have done better if he was Putins foreign minister.
Survival of the fittest. If you want to just let mouth-foaming dogs lie, that's your choice.
10. Provoked North Korea and Iran into going Nuclear. Something they had no incentive in doing until his famous axis of evil speech.
Ha! Provoked? No incentive? Then why did N.Korea send spies in under Clinton's watch to grab nuclear intelligence? Wait a minute... there must have been an incentive back then. Maybe it takes MORE tha
Acutally, I kinda hope that Rudy Giuliani runs in 2008. I know that the socialists will nominate Hillary "Neither my husband or I swallow" Clinton for their "man". Rudy can stand up to her, and not be beaten up by her attacks.
That was one of the very few well thought out comments to ever appear as a comment on this article. Well done. And, i'm a conservative, and a geek. It's a tough mix.
I enjoy computers, I enjoy guns, I enjoy shooting computers with guns. Go figure.
Ya know, I haven't noticed anything different in my life since the patriot act was enacted. Not a damn thing.
.22LR rifle. In NJ, where carrying a loaded gun is flat out illegal (except for "special" people), people use loaded handguns to hold up their 7-11's. Maybe that's something people should be more worried about. For some reason, it's more of an issue for law enforcement to have more power, but it's perfectly fine for criminals to have more power. I don't get it.
One thing I DID notice though, is that as soon as the clinton Ugly-Gun ban sunset, I noticed that the price of 25 round magazines for my Ruger 10/22 rifle plummetted. Instead of having to shell out $40 or $50 for one, I can now get them for $20. Much more reasonable.
"But why do you need that?" Well, the same reason slashdotters need high end video cards, fast CPU's, etc... entertainment. It's just plain fun to be able to put a plethora of holes in various computer equipment without having to change magazines. Face it, nobody's holding up a 7-11 with a
Ah, the truth hurts.