national sales tax, VAT, whatever you call it... it really screws the lower income folks to the point of just dropping out altogether. hurts the middle income folks. the big cigars will still bitch.
no, either a fully flat income tax with a circuit-breaker for those who don't make the poverty line already... or a steeper progressive income tax so the big cigars start paying something to the government, and not to their tax attorneys... are the ways to reform the system.
DNS choke issue Re:Read the fine print for your sa
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feel free to traceroute them with the IP
traceroute 123.45.67.89
and that should fix the DNS at your ISP, at least for the moment. until they overflow the buffer memory allotted again, and the older IPs are flushed out.
as for the tax comments... aggregates are truckloads of chunks of rock. rock on.
straight from the point of a mechanical pencil to the white boxes on the tax form.
tried doing my taxes on the confuser back before they stopped supporting nt 4.0, and frankly, it took three times as long and wasn't any less enraging.
maybe next year, assuming there is a straight unencumbered download of free software directly from the irs that runs on osX, uses no third party crap whatsoever, doesn't intercommunicate on the web until the encrypted data goes out, and that only to one identified site and port... maybe then.
too many scumpuppies out there pretending to 5el1 v1@gr4 that really want your web cache.....
hee hee, microsoft, which never misses a chance to get its hands in users' pockets, is getting after somebody else who wants to do the same? TOO funny!!! ROFL!!!!!! ah, geez, how do they keep coming up with this stuff?
kerosene soot, you know. gets all over the insides. say, who's the new gatekeepers at slashdot, they have a fine sense of news and are adept at sorting out all the political lies. these guys should take over for good. anybody hear any good rumors about the new apple device for bathrooms called the iPeed?
in other news, Italy's Grokster network goes silent as clinicians attending to Pope John Paul II step on the power cord for the papal server, and the major Grok server for southern Europe is interrupted.
damned good thing he's headed out of there. now, if the new guy has some cojones and puts the hubble mission back on the schedule, we're getting somewhere.....
ted stevens r-alaska is rather goofy and should be taken with a large grain of salt. similar comments can and should be made about orrin hatch, r-utah, and john (non-)sensenbrenner, r-wisconsin. every chance you get, thanks.
every time they propose a piece of legislation, look at it and see if the average american does better under it. you will find, invariably, not.
and if Northeast Western Chuckolia doesn't want to get online under those circumstances, where data and speech is free and netizens can take care of weasels their own way, fsck 'em. in that case, they aren't ready for the truth.
have recommended AGAINST lexmark products for several years based on their tin-star-sheriff use of the DMCA to support triple-priced magic dust in their printer supplies.
I have mac os and windows ME at home, and if ME becomes fully de-supported and viciously infested by schytteware, I'll dump that digitizer machine as well for a mac mini. the only reason to use IE is to access windows update for critical patches.
if you go back far enough to have bought disks that said "100-year lifetime", you had that data.
of course, it was based on educated guesses based on short-term abuse testing and postulating that everybody would keep stuff between 65 and 70 Fahrenheit at 30-50% humidity in the dark. stored vertically in the jewel box, thank you, with all the original packaging paper stuff. unlabelled.
and ordering numbers, folks. not many websites of manufacturers tell you what they're using.
the only one I can find right now in three websites (verbatim, imation, tdk) is that tdk uses metal-stabilized cyanine dye in their CD-Rs. that would make them a "c5" sample, which is fairly resistant to stray UV, but temperature/humidity sensitive. to me, TDKs sound just a little bright, but it's not bright enough to be a car-only disk.
verbatim used to boast of using blue azochrome dye, which In The Beginning was prized by burners who wanted accurate audio. verbatim blue is still out there in the "digital vinyl" series at least. that would be an "S1" or "S3", who knows which, which has some issues with both temp/humidity as well as strong UV. Sounded good and neutral.
what I haven't seen is the richer, "tube" toned deep green of Sony and 3M 2x/4x disks of the late 90s. never knew what it was chemically, either. I'd order a case of them if I could find 'em. no "scatter-shatter" sound on those disks.
the only thing I've had issues with are budget CD-Rs with a barely-visible green coating to this point. they go away in a dark, double-shielded player in a console in the car, and have shelf life issues in the house as well. After two years, they wouldn't even pass the pre-record test of the burner. Never again.
but I can't buy for known permanance, despite NIST, because they don't call out whose disks they tested. Hope somebody consumer-oriented gets an idea from this, and beats 'em up with brand names attached. there's going to be somebody out there who has used junk disks forever and never lost a one sitting open under the cat hair on the window ledge, so anecdotal evidence is, uhhh, not reliable. even mine.
there is still one win me machine in my castle used to digitize old LPs, and it is nicely cleaned up and patched to avoid evillities. there is also no install of LookOUT! on that machine, which is always a help.
I have no idea what part of "Congress shall pass no law" these pinhead idiots in suits and ties can't understand, but the citizens have the right to free assembly and association, free speech, free religion, and the pinhead idiots can't take that away.
it is the FIRST amendment, with priority over all others.
you have issues with that, cuba and vietnam and china are calling, and if you let me know, I'll help you pack to live in the world you prefer.
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if one of the RBOCs buys lucent, they're in for a surprise. ATT/lucent fell off a lot of RBOC purchase lists when ATT started getting aggressive about stealing customers from the bells.
imagine it this way... lucent knows what your internal network is, because they bid it and coordinated designing it, when you bought their switches. they know it to the turns of the bolts that hold it to the rack, because likely as not, you outsourced the keeping of the switches to lucent field suppport. and now, a competitor wants to buy your supplier?
for that reason, I don't suppose that lucent or nortel or alcatel or fujitsu or any of the major vendors want to cuddle up at the boardroom level. bang, you have no external customers any more. not calculated to get wail streak happy about you in a geniunely pissy stock market right now.
I frankly don't want a consumer OS running my infusion pump or heart monitor... or... the fluoroscope when they're poking me with sewer snakes to ream out my arteries. I want a one-off, real-time, tested system in that FDA-licensed machine.
every time you patch a medical device software package, you have to have the patch and the entire resultant system re-certified by the FDA, in case you didn't know. months wasted, there was a thread on that a few months back. so there's a worse place to be than in IT for some hidebound outfit that expects to buy something once for life, yet expects you to absolutely protect everything all the time without fail. you want unpatched, open, life-safety crap hanging off a network, you can find it in any hospital you want to look at. better get the med-techs too drunk to fight before you ask 'em about it, though.
canon created their own chip, and sony may have as well... shoot, probably into fourth generation of them by now. point is, it's a one-trick pony and a good place to put an embedded real-time system. so are medical devices; why they are using generic OS in medical devices like NT custom and linux is way, way beyond understanding.
if you have one or two defined tasks for a system, and you can make an ASIC FSM and not be bothered any more by updates, obsolescence, hacks, and fumblefscks, why the hell not? you get into update and obsolescence issues if you want to hire generically trained folks off the streets for five weeks to build your products, and use off-the-shelf packages that every script kiddie has.
for example, all physical interface stuff in carrier data switches and the routers that connect to them are locked down tight in custom or semi-custom ASICs. it's a perfect place for a FSM, and when you get it right, the product is done for 25 years. line up the bits, shift them out when they're bytes, and shovel the stuff fast, fast, fast. no darned reason to get a sound card driver or mouse support tied up with that.
same thing with porting pixels. all you have to do is get it right once, and you're done.
who are used to the idea that if somebody wants a pop-up that says, "Hello World," it will take at least 250 top-level managers to determine the interface requirements, another 500 to do the preliminary hiring specifications for contractors, and so on.
what, they can't define some database elements and put a dozen folks on a front end in under five years?
they need to get classroom of high-school juniors on this.
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national sales tax, VAT, whatever you call it... it really screws the lower income folks to the point of just dropping out altogether. hurts the middle income folks. the big cigars will still bitch.
no, either a fully flat income tax with a circuit-breaker for those who don't make the poverty line already... or a steeper progressive income tax so the big cigars start paying something to the government, and not to their tax attorneys... are the ways to reform the system.
feel free to traceroute them with the IP
traceroute 123.45.67.89
and that should fix the DNS at your ISP, at least for the moment. until they overflow the buffer memory allotted again, and the older IPs are flushed out.
as for the tax comments... aggregates are truckloads of chunks of rock. rock on.
straight from the point of a mechanical pencil to the white boxes on the tax form.
tried doing my taxes on the confuser back before they stopped supporting nt 4.0, and frankly, it took three times as long and wasn't any less enraging.
maybe next year, assuming there is a straight unencumbered download of free software directly from the irs that runs on osX, uses no third party crap whatsoever, doesn't intercommunicate on the web until the encrypted data goes out, and that only to one identified site and port... maybe then.
too many scumpuppies out there pretending to 5el1 v1@gr4 that really want your web cache.....
hee hee, microsoft, which never misses a chance to get its hands in users' pockets, is getting after somebody else who wants to do the same? TOO funny!!! ROFL!!!!!! ah, geez, how do they keep coming up with this stuff?
kerosene soot, you know. gets all over the insides. say, who's the new gatekeepers at slashdot, they have a fine sense of news and are adept at sorting out all the political lies. these guys should take over for good. anybody hear any good rumors about the new apple device for bathrooms called the iPeed?
in other news, Italy's Grokster network goes silent as clinicians attending to Pope John Paul II step on the power cord for the papal server, and the major Grok server for southern Europe is interrupted.
don't forget to turn all your web connections off after you read this... it's Internet Spring Cleaning Day again. all your data could disappear.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/cleaning.htm
damned good thing he's headed out of there. now, if the new guy has some cojones and puts the hubble mission back on the schedule, we're getting somewhere.....
ted stevens r-alaska is rather goofy and should be taken with a large grain of salt. similar comments can and should be made about orrin hatch, r-utah, and john (non-)sensenbrenner, r-wisconsin. every chance you get, thanks.
every time they propose a piece of legislation, look at it and see if the average american does better under it. you will find, invariably, not.
and if Northeast Western Chuckolia doesn't want to get online under those circumstances, where data and speech is free and netizens can take care of weasels their own way, fsck 'em. in that case, they aren't ready for the truth.
LOL, currently lexmark ads on TV are saying that customers want a printer company that helps them print LESS.
:-D
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we gearheads KNOW how printer companies help you print less. their freakin' chunkajunks break down
so, way I see it, lexmark is now advertising printers that don't work
spread the word
have recommended AGAINST lexmark products for several years based on their tin-star-sheriff use of the DMCA to support triple-priced magic dust in their printer supplies.
bet I'm not the only one.
DMCA = no fans.
DIVE!!! DIVE!!! "Captain, it appears we are under attack by our owners!"
"Yeah, so? To the bottom, helm, we'll wait this one out, too."
I have mac os and windows ME at home, and if ME becomes fully de-supported and viciously infested by schytteware, I'll dump that digitizer machine as well for a mac mini. the only reason to use IE is to access windows update for critical patches.
if you go back far enough to have bought disks that said "100-year lifetime", you had that data.
of course, it was based on educated guesses based on short-term abuse testing and postulating that everybody would keep stuff between 65 and 70 Fahrenheit at 30-50% humidity in the dark. stored vertically in the jewel box, thank you, with all the original packaging paper stuff. unlabelled.
which happens noplace.
and ordering numbers, folks. not many websites of manufacturers tell you what they're using.
the only one I can find right now in three websites (verbatim, imation, tdk) is that tdk uses metal-stabilized cyanine dye in their CD-Rs. that would make them a "c5" sample, which is fairly resistant to stray UV, but temperature/humidity sensitive. to me, TDKs sound just a little bright, but it's not bright enough to be a car-only disk.
verbatim used to boast of using blue azochrome dye, which In The Beginning was prized by burners who wanted accurate audio. verbatim blue is still out there in the "digital vinyl" series at least. that would be an "S1" or "S3", who knows which, which has some issues with both temp/humidity as well as strong UV. Sounded good and neutral.
what I haven't seen is the richer, "tube" toned deep green of Sony and 3M 2x/4x disks of the late 90s. never knew what it was chemically, either. I'd order a case of them if I could find 'em. no "scatter-shatter" sound on those disks.
the only thing I've had issues with are budget CD-Rs with a barely-visible green coating to this point. they go away in a dark, double-shielded player in a console in the car, and have shelf life issues in the house as well. After two years, they wouldn't even pass the pre-record test of the burner. Never again.
but I can't buy for known permanance, despite NIST, because they don't call out whose disks they tested. Hope somebody consumer-oriented gets an idea from this, and beats 'em up with brand names attached. there's going to be somebody out there who has used junk disks forever and never lost a one sitting open under the cat hair on the window ledge, so anecdotal evidence is, uhhh, not reliable. even mine.
there is still one win me machine in my castle used to digitize old LPs, and it is nicely cleaned up and patched to avoid evillities. there is also no install of LookOUT! on that machine, which is always a help.
but I do seriously love my mac.
and slip sheets of it between pages of the note pads.
;)
there's always a way to crack a system
I have no idea what part of "Congress shall pass no law" these pinhead idiots in suits and ties can't understand, but the citizens have the right to free assembly and association, free speech, free religion, and the pinhead idiots can't take that away.
it is the FIRST amendment, with priority over all others.
you have issues with that, cuba and vietnam and china are calling, and if you let me know, I'll help you pack to live in the world you prefer.
if one of the RBOCs buys lucent, they're in for a surprise. ATT/lucent fell off a lot of RBOC purchase lists when ATT started getting aggressive about stealing customers from the bells.
imagine it this way... lucent knows what your internal network is, because they bid it and coordinated designing it, when you bought their switches. they know it to the turns of the bolts that hold it to the rack, because likely as not, you outsourced the keeping of the switches to lucent field suppport. and now, a competitor wants to buy your supplier?
for that reason, I don't suppose that lucent or nortel or alcatel or fujitsu or any of the major vendors want to cuddle up at the boardroom level. bang, you have no external customers any more. not calculated to get wail streak happy about you in a geniunely pissy stock market right now.
down around the 7-11, they stop correcting the equation on the restroom wall about january 24th, so it must be true.
I frankly don't want a consumer OS running my infusion pump or heart monitor... or... the fluoroscope when they're poking me with sewer snakes to ream out my arteries. I want a one-off, real-time, tested system in that FDA-licensed machine.
every time you patch a medical device software package, you have to have the patch and the entire resultant system re-certified by the FDA, in case you didn't know. months wasted, there was a thread on that a few months back. so there's a worse place to be than in IT for some hidebound outfit that expects to buy something once for life, yet expects you to absolutely protect everything all the time without fail. you want unpatched, open, life-safety crap hanging off a network, you can find it in any hospital you want to look at. better get the med-techs too drunk to fight before you ask 'em about it, though.
canon created their own chip, and sony may have as well... shoot, probably into fourth generation of them by now. point is, it's a one-trick pony and a good place to put an embedded real-time system. so are medical devices; why they are using generic OS in medical devices like NT custom and linux is way, way beyond understanding.
if you have one or two defined tasks for a system, and you can make an ASIC FSM and not be bothered any more by updates, obsolescence, hacks, and fumblefscks, why the hell not? you get into update and obsolescence issues if you want to hire generically trained folks off the streets for five weeks to build your products, and use off-the-shelf packages that every script kiddie has.
for example, all physical interface stuff in carrier data switches and the routers that connect to them are locked down tight in custom or semi-custom ASICs. it's a perfect place for a FSM, and when you get it right, the product is done for 25 years. line up the bits, shift them out when they're bytes, and shovel the stuff fast, fast, fast. no darned reason to get a sound card driver or mouse support tied up with that.
same thing with porting pixels. all you have to do is get it right once, and you're done.
nah, it was SAIC, one of the beltway bandits inside the ring interstates around DC that exist only to liberate funds from the US treasury.
who are used to the idea that if somebody wants a pop-up that says, "Hello World," it will take at least 250 top-level managers to determine the interface requirements, another 500 to do the preliminary hiring specifications for contractors, and so on.
what, they can't define some database elements and put a dozen folks on a front end in under five years?
they need to get classroom of high-school juniors on this.