My brother in law was in road construction, and his company was doing a new underpass near the main natural gas feed into fargo, nd. if the pipeline had been ruptured, basically everyone in that part of the city woiuld have been given up as dead, and everyone within a couty line would have been warned to evacuate -- not because of the possibility of the gas combusting, but rather because of poisoning, because the chance of it igniting was minimal, but the probabability of it killing tens of thousands of people was highly probable, since the main line doesn't have any kind of shutoff valves...
You're dead wrong... oil produces only about 3% of the us electrical requirment... while nuclear power provides nearly 30% you're right about coal, which produces about 60% of the us electrical power, but oil barely plays a role.. except in heating... which isn't electrical production, now is it... I'm citing numbers found at the DOE http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table es1b.html
Just in time for longhorn... Microsoft could easily break winamp5 so the 3 staffers left could never get it to run on longhorn, so now it looks like winamp5 will be a legacy windows xp app, that will never run right on longhorn, and never be replaced...
Well, it may not 'seem back breaking' But that is a PER citizen, that means every 2 day old infant, and 103 year old grandma on social security owes that much. so let's take for example my sister. she has 2 kids, and her boyfriend he has 5 kids. that's 9. using the rough math, for convience sake, that's $18,000 a year that bush has been costing my sister for a $750 a year tax break... That's easilly more than half my sisters income... and if you look over the histor of our nation we've always had a national debt, having a national debt isn't a terrible thing at all, it's having a Raging, growing out of control, deficit that is a problem, it's simply not sustainable to say that you're going to add $2,000 a year for the rest of history to the national debt per capita... our GDp is only growing about 2 percent a year, not sure if those are inflations adjusted growth figures, or not, basically right now as a household we've got an income of 11 trillion, and a giant fixed rate credit card with 7.4 trillion on it. our gdp is growing by 2% a year, but our credit card is growing by 7.5% a year. at that rate of deficit spending, soon our debt exceeds our annual income, which a lot of housholds do, but there comes a point if your national debt exceeds your gdp by 3 fold, it becomes impossible to do more with yoru government than simply pay the interest or default of the debts, just as happens with individuals... the most important politician in balancing the budget is in fact the president. he's the one man who can simply refuse to sign the budget as it passed the house. Clinton knew this and he shut down the government several times to achieve his balanced budget, and in fact a budget surplus, since most programs are written to automatically request x% more each year, the work clinton did actually caused the budget to remain balanced for a year and a half after he left office... but in the next 2 and a half years of dubya, he raised spending on such an enormous scale, compared to tax collection, that the brief gap of surpluses caused by clinton, might as well have never existed, our deficit growth is at the same point along the curve as it would have been had clinton never blanced the budget. If you truly beleive that the tax levels we have now are as high as you can go without hurting the economy, (as bush does) then the only option is to cut spending, which dubya doesn't stand for at all, in fact there hasn't been a single politician SINCE bill clinton willing to make any kind of cut in spending in ANY federal program. It's all about well we don't need to INcrease spending as much as we thought we did, so let's call that a 'deficit' cut. and the noobs of america will bleeive that spending billions more than have ever been spent before in history is somhow cutting growth of a cancerous federal goverment..
Slight correction, the deficit has only been growing at a rate of 1.67 bil from 2003-present day. therefor, my calculations are wrong, as i gave 4 years of deficit growth, when i should have given 2.5 years at that rate, however the rmaining 4 year projection will remain generally the same, except the dollar value falls about $3,000 Corrected numbers are $5,177.41 and $13,461.29
No, he said Deficit, not Debt. Full appologies then, Let's calculate how much you owe for the past four years, and based on that tabulate the next 4 year trend. Your average Daily Deficit Is $5.67 per day With 365.25 days per year over the past four years, $8,283.87 was how much bush cost you for his first term, assuming a constant rate of deficit spending, your total bill for 8 years of Dubya is $16,567.74 per person... That's just over half the median* income of an african american family in 2001.
...Want to welcome our New(ly re-elected) Nazi overlord der fuher g.w. bush. "We have taken new measures to protect our homeland, I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the almighty creator." - Adolf Hitler "God told me to strike at Al-Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Sadam, which I did" -G.W. see the movie version.
Remember, comparing bush to hitler is 100% valid, because it was a coup that led to hitlers rise to chancelor, just as it was a 'legal' coup that led to gw's 'election' in 2000. and although g.w. may not be a mass murderer, his determination, his fevorous religious belief that what he's doing is right, is simply too simmilar to be ignored.
-Calculate your share of the National Deficit You owe $25,286.35 per person in your family that includes infants, and the elderly. Payments may be sent Directly to TYour Local IRS office
Currently, only the fact that ActiveX and Shockwave support aren't included by default make firefox more 'secure' than internet explorer.. Sp2's IE has popup blocking, doesn't have the same url 'sploit mentioned earlier, and once you install activeX and shockwave support to firefox, it becomes just as easy a bridge into zombification of ones Pc as IE. Shockwave has been called out numerous times for numerous exploits it enables, and some of those exploits are intrinsic to the nature of shockwave -- running an application within a browser, using the local cpu's processing power. True, you can install firefox shockwave free, and you can't with ie install shockwave free, but you can always hack the ie install to 'remove' shockwave support... If shockwave applets ran in a sandbox like java applets do, it would be as secure as java, but it doesn't run in a sandbox, so there is no way to safely use a shockwave enabled browser on an untrusted site...
I'm sure that what that means is that allerca will sell most of the cats neuter, but will allow some breeders sign some sort of 'agreement' that says allerca gets x% of the resale price of bred kittens... and require that breeders only sell neuter kittens... afterall they're in this to make money, not to replace the job of local cat breeders... as long as they make a cut of the money, they don't care who breeds the cats.
that's what monsanto did, and the corn cross polinated and created hybrid corn that could reproduce, and had some of the attributes of the monsanto corn. sure cat's aren't exactly the same, but you always risk mutation/failure of the gene to altering to fully sterilize the animal.
Did full length movies all of a sudden get shorter in your world, becausing I'm seeing "quite a bit longer than two hours" here. I'm seeing quite a bit longer than 90+ minutes, as the typical 'feature-length' film runs between 90-100 minute. I'm sorry but 90 minutes is not 2 hours, in fact 2 hours is 'quite a bit longer' than 90 minutes...
OMG you had me scared. Then i realized you said STARTS to install windows 98, clearly we're all safe, as it surely doesn't Finish instlling windows 98... thank god i can sleep now knowing that your cd only starts to install windows 98, but then halts errors or asks for a CD key, or some such which of course no decent person would know the answer to that question. so we're all safe for now...
also, you don't get the $500 if you wrote the exploit as stated here.
# Submitter must not be the author of the buggy code nor otherwise involved in its contribution to the Mozilla project (such as by providing check-in reviews).
Virus is latin, not engish you insensitive clod! scroll down a bit to get the virus as plural argument Viruses is a bastardised gramatically aqward word, and using it would get you mocked, and possiblly stoned to death in the holy roman empire. Virus meaning Venom, and equivalent to ios which is greek for poison Doesn't have a 'pluralized' version in all the historical record for a simple reason. Virus Is as plural as you need for virus. While in english you can have venoms and poisons, in all the history of the holy roman empire there was only virus.
One virus two virus three virus four.... Virus is one of those sheep like works that is both singular and plural:p I have 1 sheep, but his flock of sheep is over 100. "symantec has over 10,000 active virus maintained on a set of specialized hardware..." Using viruses, is as ignoramus as using virii.. And hey, I can EVEN cite the use of virus as plural here. View all virus threats link All meaning plural, hense virus is the correct word to use for 1 virus or 10,000 virus. and you got +4 informative hah!
What I've learned is, rocket scientists just aren't as smart as they used to be! Where are our education standards?!? are these rocket scientists college dropouts? or did they get passed through because the were 'smart enough' to memorize facts for tests? and not even necisarrily more than 65% of the answers?!?! where are our standards anymore? if we just weren't AFRAID of FAILING paying college students we wouldn't have these pervasive problems... but a flunked out student can't pay tuition, and if the school doesn't get enough students they don't make enough money...
Windows defaults to making each account an administrator account. so, by default, every account is capable of reading all users documents and settings... so thys the article is weritten by someone using 'default' windows settings.
been there done that... One version of corel wordperfect was written entirely in java, and was completely cross-platform, and runnable in a browser via some simple configuration. It didn't get corel back into tghe word processing mainstream, despite being a very neat idea, it also laid the groundwork for the linux port of wordperfect, since once they had the enitire engine written in java... keeping an up to date version that ran on linux was pretty simple. but since they moved away from that version of wordperfect, they have discontinued the linux version of wordperfect. Linux simply has too many options, although I liked having a full featured commercial word processor like word perfect working on linux, the fact is, they couldn't make enough money selling it, because linux Still isn't a viabale desktop, it's a viable kiosk front end, and it's a viable server solution, and it's a viable geek os, where you're willing to live with emulation to play what games work with emulation etc.. and doom 3, if you've got the system capable of executing the linux doom 3 version... but as a real dektop platform it just can't compete... support for hardware is done after the hardware is released, with few exceptions... and very little comemrcial software is written with native support for linux. and in genenral the quality of commercial software requires a minimal level of 'completeness' in it's functionallity in order for the commercial software vendor to remain competitive. Open source projects can have grandiose plans, and only 1-2 features that only work if you edit the.config file so it compiles correctly... and still 'survive.' Ultimately this creates a vast mishmash which needs to be sifted through to find the application that acctually has the feature set, instead of just 'some' of the features. which is perfect for a geek, and a nightmare to a novice end user... imagine if there were 139 programs called essentially 'paint' and in fact, about 100 of them did little more than the feature set of a windows 3.11 paint, if that, and of the remaining 39, some of them had more complete feature sets, but many of them had obscure names that seem GIMPY to an end user.. and even once you find the full feature sets applications, virtually none of them work in a consistant style... and in fact the most full featured have the least coherent menuing systems. total nightmare for an end-user. and this is why linux is not a 'desktop' platform, there is no central design to menuing layouts etc.. despite certain efforts (gnome and kde come to mind) to make such a framework... If enough 'normal' people used linux, the problems would soon be solved, but the fact is, windows is too entrenched. I've queried numerous people i've built systems for if they'd like to try linux, that I could have it configured, and pre-loaded with the applications I've found to be the most effective... yet the general consensus I've gotten is nah, just put windows on it... er... I wondered way far from the topic i was on lol...
6 hours a day is a problem??? Jeeze I was pulling 18 hour gaming sessions when I was still in highschool -- damn final fantasy III... True back then I didn't Average 6 hrs a day, but when a good game came out 18 hours out of a day in a weekend was easy. 'Course I'm still a deadbeat gamer, and I have mass 1500 icons on b.net... and It's rare for theere to be a day I don't get 4 hours of gaming in... and it's far less rare to have 18 hour gamings sessions... than a day without at least 4 hours in front of a computer... *cough* but I pretty much gave up on being a productive member of society, and the easiest way to kill time is play pointless games that engross one and distract you from a pointless meaningless existance...
Not to mention states like minnesota are proposing that fuel be 70% ethanol... of course, that's the corn growing lobby being stronger than the oil lobby, but hey, ethanol does burn cleaner, and is renewable. Even though ethanol burning vehicles have been in sci-fi since the 50s who would have ever thought that ethanol burning vehicles would need to be no different from conventional gasoline engines, by simply cutting the ethanol with a little gasoline...
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My brother in law was in road construction, and his company was doing a new underpass near the main natural gas feed into fargo, nd. if the pipeline had been ruptured, basically everyone in that part of the city woiuld have been given up as dead, and everyone within a couty line would have been warned to evacuate -- not because of the possibility of the gas combusting, but rather because of poisoning, because the chance of it igniting was minimal, but the probabability of it killing tens of thousands of people was highly probable, since the main line doesn't have any kind of shutoff valves...
You're dead wrong... oil produces only about 3% of the us electrical requirment... while nuclear power provides nearly 30% you're right about coal, which produces about 60% of the us electrical power, but oil barely plays a role.. except in heating... which isn't electrical production, now is it...e es1b.html
I'm citing numbers found at the DOE http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/tabl
You mean 3. Go Directly to jail, Do not pass go, Do not collect $200.
Just in time for longhorn... Microsoft could easily break winamp5 so the 3 staffers left could never get it to run on longhorn, so now it looks like winamp5 will be a legacy windows xp app, that will never run right on longhorn, and never be replaced...
Well, it may not 'seem back breaking' But that is a PER citizen, that means every 2 day old infant, and 103 year old grandma on social security owes that much.
so let's take for example my sister. she has 2 kids, and her boyfriend he has 5 kids. that's 9. using the rough math, for convience sake, that's $18,000 a year that bush has been costing my sister for a $750 a year tax break... That's easilly more than half my sisters income... and if you look over the histor of our nation we've always had a national debt, having a national debt isn't a terrible thing at all, it's having a Raging, growing out of control, deficit that is a problem, it's simply not sustainable to say that you're going to add $2,000 a year for the rest of history to the national debt per capita...
our GDp is only growing about 2 percent a year, not sure if those are inflations adjusted growth figures, or not, basically right now as a household we've got an income of 11 trillion, and a giant fixed rate credit card with 7.4 trillion on it. our gdp is growing by 2% a year, but our credit card is growing by 7.5% a year. at that rate of deficit spending, soon our debt exceeds our annual income, which a lot of housholds do, but there comes a point if your national debt exceeds your gdp by 3 fold, it becomes impossible to do more with yoru government than simply pay the interest or default of the debts, just as happens with individuals... the most important politician in balancing the budget is in fact the president. he's the one man who can simply refuse to sign the budget as it passed the house.
Clinton knew this and he shut down the government several times to achieve his balanced budget, and in fact a budget surplus, since most programs are written to automatically request x% more each year, the work clinton did actually caused the budget to remain balanced for a year and a half after he left office... but in the next 2 and a half years of dubya, he raised spending on such an enormous scale, compared to tax collection, that the brief gap of surpluses caused by clinton, might as well have never existed, our deficit growth is at the same point along the curve as it would have been had clinton never blanced the budget. If you truly beleive that the tax levels we have now are as high as you can go without hurting the economy, (as bush does) then the only option is to cut spending, which dubya doesn't stand for at all, in fact there hasn't been a single politician SINCE bill clinton willing to make any kind of cut in spending in ANY federal program. It's all about well we don't need to INcrease spending as much as we thought we did, so let's call that a 'deficit' cut. and the noobs of america will bleeive that spending billions more than have ever been spent before in history is somhow cutting growth of a cancerous federal goverment..
Slight correction, the deficit has only been growing at a rate of 1.67 bil from 2003-present day. therefor, my calculations are wrong, as i gave 4 years of deficit growth, when i should have given 2.5 years at that rate, however the rmaining 4 year projection will remain generally the same, except the dollar value falls about $3,000
Corrected numbers are $5,177.41 and $13,461.29
No, he said Deficit, not Debt.
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Full appologies then, Let's calculate how much you owe for the past four years, and based on that tabulate the next 4 year trend. Your average Daily Deficit Is $5.67 per day With 365.25 days per year over the past four years, $8,283.87 was how much bush cost you for his first term, assuming a constant rate of deficit spending, your total bill for 8 years of Dubya is $16,567.74 per person...
That's just over half the median* income of an african american family in 2001.
*=http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p60-218.p
...Want to welcome our New(ly re-elected) Nazi overlord der fuher g.w. bush.
"We have taken new measures to protect our homeland, I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the almighty creator." - Adolf Hitler
"God told me to strike at Al-Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Sadam, which I did" -G.W.
see the movie version.
Remember, comparing bush to hitler is 100% valid, because it was a coup that led to hitlers rise to chancelor, just as it was a 'legal' coup that led to gw's 'election' in 2000. and although g.w. may not be a mass murderer, his determination, his fevorous religious belief that what he's doing is right, is simply too simmilar to be ignored.
-Calculate your share of the National Deficit
You owe $25,286.35
per person in your family that includes infants, and the elderly.
Payments may be sent Directly to TYour Local IRS office
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/
must learn to paste urls instead of typing them...
must learn to paste urls instead of typing them...
I thought the preferred WMD for linux users was caffine...
Oh wait penguins not linux users... doh..
Currently, only the fact that ActiveX and Shockwave support aren't included by default make firefox more 'secure' than internet explorer.. Sp2's IE has popup blocking, doesn't have the same url 'sploit mentioned earlier, and once you install activeX and shockwave support to firefox, it becomes just as easy a bridge into zombification of ones Pc as IE. Shockwave has been called out numerous times for numerous exploits it enables, and some of those exploits are intrinsic to the nature of shockwave -- running an application within a browser, using the local cpu's processing power.
True, you can install firefox shockwave free, and you can't with ie install shockwave free, but you can always hack the ie install to 'remove' shockwave support... If shockwave applets ran in a sandbox like java applets do, it would be as secure as java, but it doesn't run in a sandbox, so there is no way to safely use a shockwave enabled browser on an untrusted site...
I'm sure that what that means is that allerca will sell most of the cats neuter, but will allow some breeders sign some sort of 'agreement' that says allerca gets x% of the resale price of bred kittens... and require that breeders only sell neuter kittens...
afterall they're in this to make money, not to replace the job of local cat breeders... as long as they make a cut of the money, they don't care who breeds the cats.
that's what monsanto did, and the corn cross polinated and created hybrid corn that could reproduce, and had some of the attributes of the monsanto corn. sure cat's aren't exactly the same, but you always risk mutation/failure of the gene to altering to fully sterilize the animal.
Did full length movies all of a sudden get shorter in your world, becausing I'm seeing "quite a bit longer than two hours" here.
I'm seeing quite a bit longer than 90+ minutes, as the typical 'feature-length' film runs between 90-100 minute. I'm sorry but 90 minutes is not 2 hours, in fact 2 hours is 'quite a bit longer' than 90 minutes...
OMG you had me scared. Then i realized you said STARTS to install windows 98, clearly we're all safe, as it surely doesn't Finish instlling windows 98... thank god i can sleep now knowing that your cd only starts to install windows 98, but then halts errors or asks for a CD key, or some such which of course no decent person would know the answer to that question. so we're all safe for now...
Here you go..
# Security bug must be a remote exploit.
also, you don't get the $500 if you wrote the exploit as stated here.
# Submitter must not be the author of the buggy code nor otherwise involved in its contribution to the Mozilla project (such as by providing check-in reviews).
Virus is latin, not engish you insensitive clod!
scroll down a bit to get the virus as plural argument
Viruses is a bastardised gramatically aqward word, and using it would get you mocked, and possiblly stoned to death in the holy roman empire.
Virus meaning Venom, and equivalent to ios which is greek for poison Doesn't have a 'pluralized' version in all the historical record for a simple reason. Virus Is as plural as you need for virus. While in english you can have venoms and poisons, in all the history of the holy roman empire there was only virus.
One virus two virus three virus four.... :p I have 1 sheep, but his flock of sheep is over 100. "symantec has over 10,000 active virus maintained on a set of specialized hardware..." Using viruses, is as ignoramus as using virii..
Virus is one of those sheep like works that is both singular and plural
And hey, I can EVEN cite the use of virus as plural here.
View all virus threats link All meaning plural, hense virus is the correct word to use for 1 virus or 10,000 virus. and you got +4 informative hah!
just be thankful we dont have to dead with virc or virm or virMCMXCIX or else we'd have to listen to bad prince songs...
tonight we'll be dancing like it's MCMXCIX....
What I've learned is, rocket scientists just aren't as smart as they used to be! Where are our education standards?!? are these rocket scientists college dropouts? or did they get passed through because the were 'smart enough' to memorize facts for tests? and not even necisarrily more than 65% of the answers?!?! where are our standards anymore?
if we just weren't AFRAID of FAILING paying college students we wouldn't have these pervasive problems... but a flunked out student can't pay tuition, and if the school doesn't get enough students they don't make enough money...
Windows defaults to making each account an administrator account. so, by default, every account is capable of reading all users documents and settings... so thys the article is weritten by someone using 'default' windows settings.
been there done that... .config file so it compiles correctly... and still 'survive.' Ultimately this creates a vast mishmash which needs to be sifted through to find the application that acctually has the feature set, instead of just 'some' of the features. which is perfect for a geek, and a nightmare to a novice end user... imagine if there were 139 programs called essentially 'paint' and in fact, about 100 of them did little more than the feature set of a windows 3.11 paint, if that, and of the remaining 39, some of them had more complete feature sets, but many of them had obscure names that seem GIMPY to an end user.. and even once you find the full feature sets applications, virtually none of them work in a consistant style... and in fact the most full featured have the least coherent menuing systems. total nightmare for an end-user. and this is why linux is not a 'desktop' platform, there is no central design to menuing layouts etc.. despite certain efforts (gnome and kde come to mind) to make such a framework... If enough 'normal' people used linux, the problems would soon be solved, but the fact is, windows is too entrenched. I've queried numerous people i've built systems for if they'd like to try linux, that I could have it configured, and pre-loaded with the applications I've found to be the most effective... yet the general consensus I've gotten is nah, just put windows on it...
One version of corel wordperfect was written entirely in java, and was completely cross-platform, and runnable in a browser via some simple configuration. It didn't get corel back into tghe word processing mainstream, despite being a very neat idea, it also laid the groundwork for the linux port of wordperfect, since once they had the enitire engine written in java... keeping an up to date version that ran on linux was pretty simple.
but since they moved away from that version of wordperfect, they have discontinued the linux version of wordperfect.
Linux simply has too many options, although I liked having a full featured commercial word processor like word perfect working on linux, the fact is, they couldn't make enough money selling it, because linux Still isn't a viabale desktop, it's a viable kiosk front end, and it's a viable server solution, and it's a viable geek os, where you're willing to live with emulation to play what games work with emulation etc.. and doom 3, if you've got the system capable of executing the linux doom 3 version... but as a real dektop platform it just can't compete... support for hardware is done after the hardware is released, with few exceptions... and very little comemrcial software is written with native support for linux. and in genenral the quality of commercial software requires a minimal level of 'completeness' in it's functionallity in order for the commercial software vendor to remain competitive. Open source projects can have grandiose plans, and only 1-2 features that only work if you edit the
er... I wondered way far from the topic i was on lol...
6 hours a day is a problem??? Jeeze I was pulling 18 hour gaming sessions when I was still in highschool -- damn final fantasy III...
True back then I didn't Average 6 hrs a day, but when a good game came out 18 hours out of a day in a weekend was easy. 'Course I'm still a deadbeat gamer, and I have mass 1500 icons on b.net... and It's rare for theere to be a day I don't get 4 hours of gaming in... and it's far less rare to have 18 hour gamings sessions... than a day without at least 4 hours in front of a computer... *cough* but I pretty much gave up on being a productive member of society, and the easiest way to kill time is play pointless games that engross one and distract you from a pointless meaningless existance...
Not to mention states like minnesota are proposing that fuel be 70% ethanol... of course, that's the corn growing lobby being stronger than the oil lobby, but hey, ethanol does burn cleaner, and is renewable. Even though ethanol burning vehicles have been in sci-fi since the 50s who would have ever thought that ethanol burning vehicles would need to be no different from conventional gasoline engines, by simply cutting the ethanol with a little gasoline...