Unless you are dead-set on a) Dell and b) New York, consider flying to Boston, MA (or better yet, Manchester NH) and buying your laptop in that area. There is no sales tax in NH, and there are CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City and Apple stores all nearby.
That's the whole point behind Esperanto: to be a universal second language, so that nobody is at a disadvantage when conversing with someone whose native tongue is different then yours.
I'm not generally in favor of solutions that require changes to SMTP or user behavior. My preferred solution to the spam problem would be for it to become legal to track spammers down and bludgeon them to death. Joking, a little...
But, instead of requiring a 10-second drain of CPU resources, why not simply configure the SMTP server such that a minimum of 10 seconds must pass before accepting an incoming email? I mean between receiving HELO and RCPT, for example. If less time passes, drop the connection.
I realize the computation is dependent on memory bus speed, but it does unfairly burden people who are running obsolete or very low end hardware.
I wonder if this is what Earthlink is doing? Whenever I send mail to a friend's Earthlink email address, I get a "deferral: CNAME _lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/" message in my qmail log. Shortly afterward qmail retries and the message goes through.
Just smash up the stack, Jack Burn out your fan, Stan Don't need a big ROI, Roy Just get yourself free Rip out the bus, Gus You don't need to discuss much Just forget the key, Lee And get yourself free Replace it with spam, Sam
etc.
From Paul Simon's song "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"
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> Am I the only one who thinks people who drive quickly and recklessly SHOULD have higher insurance rates?
As long as high speed is not equated with recklessness, I am with you. But where I live, the roads are choked with imcompetent %^&*heads driving SUVs, pickup trucks and minivans at speeds equal to or less then the speed limit, with no regard for such things as the painted lines on the roads, stop signs, turn signals, etc.
>I guess you have never heard of the compaq BIOS >reverse engineering that started the whole x86 PC >platform. (Yes, started it, because without out >this reverse engineering, x86 would have never been >remotely popular like it is today)
I don't know about the author of the article, but I would support having the police arrest you if you did said activity in front of my house.
Ok, how about this, then. I drive up tto your house and play loud music. You tell me to stop, and I being a reasonable person, stop.
Tomorrow the same thing happens.
And again 3 days later. And so on... Meanwhile fifty or a hundred other people are doing exactly the same thing. How soon before you call the police, and they say "Hey, nothing we can do, it's a free country". How soon before you begin cutting down the music players with automatic weapons fire?
All advertising *should* be banned. It is nothing more then an attempt to manipulate people (I will never use the term "consumers" to refer to anyone, to me it carries the kind of contemptful connotation that "parasite" does) into spending money. I use "advertising" here to mean publicly displayed, or actively directed, advertising. EBay, classified sections of newspapers don't count. The business section of phone books doesn't count. The thing these have in common is that the person will be seeking out the service/product, not having it shoved in his face.
I brought one of my IBM keyboards in from home. They're great. I also liked the ones that Everex (remember them?) shipped with their circa-1993 machines. They were very similar in feel to the IBM ones.
By some coincidence I listedned to a Wierd Al CD this morning, and now have:
Spam in the place where I live (have some more) Think about addiction, wonder if I'm a junkie now (let's eat) Spam in the place where I work (you're obsessed) Think about the way it's processed, wonder if it's some kind of meat
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Unless you are dead-set on a) Dell and b) New York, consider flying to Boston, MA (or better yet, Manchester NH) and buying your laptop in that area. There is no sales tax in NH, and there are CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City and Apple stores all nearby.
Never forget:
Spammers lie.
An even better word would be "mourn".
That's the whole point behind Esperanto: to be a universal second language, so that nobody is at a disadvantage when conversing with someone whose native tongue is different then yours.
w ente.nl/esperanto/baza_inform ilo/en.html
http://www.esperanto.org/
http://wwwtios.cs.ut
I'm not generally in favor of solutions that require changes to SMTP or user behavior. My preferred solution to the spam problem would be for it to become legal to track spammers down and bludgeon them to death. Joking, a little...
But, instead of requiring a 10-second drain of CPU resources, why not simply configure the SMTP server such that a minimum of 10 seconds must pass before accepting an incoming email? I mean between receiving HELO and RCPT, for example. If less time passes, drop the connection.
I realize the computation is dependent on memory bus speed, but it does unfairly burden people who are running obsolete or very low end hardware.
Oh, wait- that's us...
I wonder if this is what Earthlink is doing? Whenever I send mail to a friend's Earthlink email address, I get a "deferral: CNAME
_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/" message in my qmail log. Shortly afterward qmail retries and the message goes through.
I use Proxomitron in conjunction with Mozilla. Now, that *is* perfection.
Just smash up the stack, Jack
Burn out your fan, Stan
Don't need a big ROI, Roy
Just get yourself free
Rip out the bus, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just forget the key, Lee
And get yourself free
Replace it with spam, Sam
etc.
From Paul Simon's song "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"
Grillfiend? How many hit dice do they have? :-)
> Am I the only one who thinks people who drive quickly and recklessly SHOULD have higher insurance rates?
As long as high speed is not equated with recklessness, I am with you. But where I live, the roads are choked with imcompetent %^&*heads driving SUVs, pickup trucks and minivans at speeds equal to or less then the speed limit, with no regard for such things as the painted lines on the roads, stop signs, turn signals, etc.
Yeah, this is off-topic, sorry.
Interesting little related story by Jack C. Haldeman II:
h tm
http://www.sff.net/people/jack.haldeman/state2.
Or "Stupid like a fox".
My dentist must be very lax, compared to yours.
Amanda Huggenkiss?
>I guess you have never heard of the compaq BIOS >reverse engineering that started the whole x86 PC >platform. (Yes, started it, because without out >this reverse engineering, x86 would have never been >remotely popular like it is today)
And x86 being popular is a good thing why?
I don't know about the author of the article, but I would support having the police arrest you if you did said activity in front of my house.
Ok, how about this, then. I drive up tto your house and play loud music. You tell me to stop, and I being a reasonable person, stop.
Tomorrow the same thing happens.
And again 3 days later. And so on... Meanwhile fifty or a hundred other people are doing exactly the same thing. How soon before you call the police, and they say "Hey, nothing we can do, it's a free country". How soon before you begin cutting down the music players with automatic weapons fire?
All advertising *should* be banned. It is nothing more then an attempt to manipulate people (I will never use the term "consumers" to refer to anyone, to me it carries the kind of contemptful connotation that "parasite" does) into spending money. I use "advertising" here to mean publicly displayed, or actively directed, advertising. EBay, classified sections of newspapers don't count. The business section of phone books doesn't count. The thing these have in common is that the person will be seeking out the service/product, not having it shoved in his face.
I brought one of my IBM keyboards in from home. They're great. I also liked the ones that Everex (remember them?) shipped with their circa-1993 machines. They were very similar in feel to the IBM ones.
By some coincidence I listedned to a Wierd Al CD this morning, and now have:
Spam in the place where I live (have some more)
Think about addiction, wonder if I'm a junkie now (let's eat)
Spam in the place where I work (you're obsessed)
Think about the way it's processed, wonder if it's some kind of meat
etc going through my mind...
All the time. Everywhere.
There are no exceptions.
I will never reward someone for annoying me.
Hopefully someone will come up with a way to filter
these "change channel" commands. Some sort of junkbuster-like-proxy box that sits on the cable.
All advertising sucks. All the time. Anywhere.
There are no exceptions.
Has Apple and m$ ripped them off yet? :-)
http://www.soleau.com/dosgame.html
I used to play the Bolo games; they were addictive problem-solving games. Lots of fun and very challenging.
Yes, they certainly should have tried to make the ship look more primitive then TOS Enterprise; instead this one looks more "modern" then NCC-1701D...