I never, ever consider a rebate when shopping for product. As the article indicates, usually the process of getting the rebate is more expensive than it's worth.
It seems you need to have a.NET Passport account to pitch an idea. Oh well, I guess I'll pitch my idea here on/. instead:
First, lead all senior management out of the Microsoft Headquarters onto the fine green grass of their Redmon campus.
Second, dress them in dunce-caps and hang signs around their necks reading things like "destroyer of innovation", "I give life to the endlessly voracious maw", and "technological rapist". All the while they are surrounded by children who beat them with sticks with nails in them, and whip them with venetian blind cord embedded with razor blades.
They are thus led to a pillory, whereupon stands a drunken axeman with a dull axe. They are sloppily beheaded, and their heads stuck upon sharpened sticks lining the entrance to the Redmond campus.
Their unknowing, soul-less minions are led out of their offices, beheaded with slightly less fanfare, their skulls stripped of their skullcovers, and piled into Kmer Rouge-like piles here and there.
Then the open source and free software crew throw a burning man festival amid their remains, dispensing martinis shaken with cracked ice, served with cheese/olive/cracker hors d'oeuvres trays, culminating with the burning to the ground of every structure on the redmond campus.
As dawn comes, the turf is plowed under, salt is strewn upon the grounds, and the Washington rains are left to turn the ruins into a muddy wasteland, never to be visited by man again.
Immediately after making the statement, Ellison dressed up his dick in a miniature kimono and beat off to goldfish porn displayed on a Network Computer.
"Arista is the home of Santana, Whitney Houston, Pink, TLC and Kenny G."
Sounds like a great basis for another "Big Brother" reality show.
How's this for a premise: put them all in a room naked with knives and tell them only one is walking out alive. Then, when whoever wins emerges from the room, kill that person.
I spend lots of money designing a printer, software drivers, and ink carts. I sell the printer at or below cost with the intention of recouping my R&D expendutures by selling the carts above cost.
So you don't sell your product at an insane price point. So what? this is how a free market works.
Exactly. If you can make a loss-leader work for you in the open market, more power to you. But if you have to artificially cripple your product to make that happen, then fuck you. Forget the loss-leader. Redo your math and see if you can still make a profit by charging a sensible pice for your product. If you can't, it wasn't meant to be - move on to something else.
Of course, the DMCA is a huge advantage to the gerrymandering leeches who want to graft ridiculously artificial conditions on the market for their own gain.
The way I look at it is - you had it, I bought it, now I own it. I do what the fuck I want with it. I can crack it, overclock it, put it inside a hollowed-out casaba melon and stuff it up my prolapsed rectum if I want to - it's none of your business.
...not to mention a pretty good cross-sectional sampling of early 80's punk rock on the sound track.
This is a quote from the movie:
Miller: A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidences and things. They don't realize that there's this like lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. I'll give you an example, show you what I mean. Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say, like, "plate", or "shrimp", or "plate of shrimp" - out of the blue, no explanation. No point in looking for one either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.
Otto: You eat a lot of acid Miller, back in the hippie days?
What's really weird is: The day after I first saw this movie, I went to see Hunter S Thompson do a "show" or "appearance" (or whatever you want to call it). He was a good 45 minutes late to the stage. I was sitting by the aisle near the stage entrance and overheard the theater manager ask this guy "Where the fuck is he?!", and the guy replied with "He's drunk - he's eating a plate of shrimp, trying to sober up."
This advertisement tells us quite a bit. Microsoft has indirectly revealed breath-taking advances in huge ball-enlargement technology.
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The war is only justified if it kills fewer people than would have died in the remainder of Saddam's rule.
That's a pretty stupid metric.
For starters, who comes in after Hussein shits the bed? One of his sons? If you believe the news reports, Uday is even more of an animal than his father.
Secondly, measuring by numbers of lives alone is ridiculous. How many people died in WWII? Is it more than would have died had Hitler been appeased? Quite possibly.
And, as distasteful as it is, the fact remains that the US has vital interests in the middle east - among them the war on terror, and OIL. Yes, oil. Without foreign oil imports, life for the average US citizen would become virtually pre-industrial. I'm not talking about having to give up the SUV and buy a Geo Metro - think late 1800's: horse-drawn wagons, wood stoves, etc. It's a VITAL INTEREST of the US to keep oil available at a reasonable cost. That doesn't mean we go in and plunder oil from the countries that produce it; but we make clear to the countries that produce it that we will not stand for malicious actions on their part that would UTTERLY PARALYZE our society. Is that wrong in terms of international law? Possibly - but when the very economic viability of a society is at risk, you can expect that it's going to flex some muscles to keep things reasonable.
And don't kid yourself that it's just the US that benefits from these low oil prices: as has been repeatedly stated in the press, the world market for oil is a commodity market. When the price is low for us, it's low for the rest of the world too.
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And the only way you will defeat terrorism is to kill every single person on the face of the earth.
You know, it's people like you with defeatist attitudes like that who drag this country down.
Instead of complaining that something's "hard", or "impossible", or "unthinkable", why not set some goals, roll up your shirt-sleeves, and get to work?! If we all pull together and work honestly and hard at it, you'd be surprised at what we could accomplish! I'll bet we could kill every single person on the face of the earth in, say, six months tops.
AdAge.com reports that an internal study by Proctor and Gamble concludes that Tivo viewers who fast forward through ads recall their content at similar rates as those watching at normal speeds
Oh, thank goodness! We still take in the shitty insulting, debasing moronic advertising even if we fast forward! Oh happy day! We can still be slaves to the unstoppable shit-machine and still have our tivos!
p.
Well, folks, once the people realize how long and how blatantly advertisers have been shitting in our mouths, with any luck at all these congenital mind-fuckers will be stood up against a wall and shot down like the verminous subhumans they are.
Soon, when your car needs an oil change, it'll tell your DirectCar equipped device which will cross-reference your location with the nearest providers. You'll click on the low bidder and the on-board DirectNavigation device will tell you how to get there.
I will forever tell MS to DirectSuck my DirectDick.
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I never, ever consider a rebate when shopping for product. As the article indicates, usually the process of getting the rebate is more expensive than it's worth.
Unfortunately, it's not :-(. I actually heard this myself (while SWITCHING CHANNELS - I was NOT watching it :-))
Shit sandwich with a cherry on top is still shit sandwich.
First, lead all senior management out of the Microsoft Headquarters onto the fine green grass of their Redmon campus.
Second, dress them in dunce-caps and hang signs around their necks reading things like "destroyer of innovation", "I give life to the endlessly voracious maw", and "technological rapist". All the while they are surrounded by children who beat them with sticks with nails in them, and whip them with venetian blind cord embedded with razor blades.
They are thus led to a pillory, whereupon stands a drunken axeman with a dull axe. They are sloppily beheaded, and their heads stuck upon sharpened sticks lining the entrance to the Redmond campus.
Their unknowing, soul-less minions are led out of their offices, beheaded with slightly less fanfare, their skulls stripped of their skullcovers, and piled into Kmer Rouge-like piles here and there.
Then the open source and free software crew throw a burning man festival amid their remains, dispensing martinis shaken with cracked ice, served with cheese/olive/cracker hors d'oeuvres trays, culminating with the burning to the ground of every structure on the redmond campus.
As dawn comes, the turf is plowed under, salt is strewn upon the grounds, and the Washington rains are left to turn the ruins into a muddy wasteland, never to be visited by man again.
But that's just me.
Immediately after making the statement, Ellison dressed up his dick in a miniature kimono and beat off to goldfish porn displayed on a Network Computer.
About 300 people in our department
How's this for a premise: put them all in a room naked with knives and tell them only one is walking out alive. Then, when whoever wins emerges from the room, kill that person.
So you don't sell your product at an insane price point. So what? this is how a free market works.
Exactly. If you can make a loss-leader work for you in the open market, more power to you. But if you have to artificially cripple your product to make that happen, then fuck you. Forget the loss-leader. Redo your math and see if you can still make a profit by charging a sensible pice for your product. If you can't, it wasn't meant to be - move on to something else.
Of course, the DMCA is a huge advantage to the gerrymandering leeches who want to graft ridiculously artificial conditions on the market for their own gain.
The way I look at it is - you had it, I bought it, now I own it. I do what the fuck I want with it. I can crack it, overclock it, put it inside a hollowed-out casaba melon and stuff it up my prolapsed rectum if I want to - it's none of your business.
This is a quote from the movie:
What's really weird is: The day after I first saw this movie, I went to see Hunter S Thompson do a "show" or "appearance" (or whatever you want to call it). He was a good 45 minutes late to the stage. I was sitting by the aisle near the stage entrance and overheard the theater manager ask this guy "Where the fuck is he?!", and the guy replied with "He's drunk - he's eating a plate of shrimp, trying to sober up."Quick and easy, and relatively small footprint and low-cpu usage...
You're kidding, right? Setting up qmail is not easy.
I do agree that once it's up and running it's great, as is courier-imap with maildirs.
Then perhaps you'd like to see my Pink Hat 10-1/2 distribution?
This advertisement tells us quite a bit. Microsoft has indirectly revealed breath-taking advances in huge ball-enlargement technology.
That's a pretty stupid metric.
For starters, who comes in after Hussein shits the bed? One of his sons? If you believe the news reports, Uday is even more of an animal than his father.
Secondly, measuring by numbers of lives alone is ridiculous. How many people died in WWII? Is it more than would have died had Hitler been appeased? Quite possibly.
And, as distasteful as it is, the fact remains that the US has vital interests in the middle east - among them the war on terror, and OIL. Yes, oil. Without foreign oil imports, life for the average US citizen would become virtually pre-industrial. I'm not talking about having to give up the SUV and buy a Geo Metro - think late 1800's: horse-drawn wagons, wood stoves, etc. It's a VITAL INTEREST of the US to keep oil available at a reasonable cost. That doesn't mean we go in and plunder oil from the countries that produce it; but we make clear to the countries that produce it that we will not stand for malicious actions on their part that would UTTERLY PARALYZE our society. Is that wrong in terms of international law? Possibly - but when the very economic viability of a society is at risk, you can expect that it's going to flex some muscles to keep things reasonable.
And don't kid yourself that it's just the US that benefits from these low oil prices: as has been repeatedly stated in the press, the world market for oil is a commodity market. When the price is low for us, it's low for the rest of the world too.
You know, it's people like you with defeatist attitudes like that who drag this country down.
Instead of complaining that something's "hard", or "impossible", or "unthinkable", why not set some goals, roll up your shirt-sleeves, and get to work?! If we all pull together and work honestly and hard at it, you'd be surprised at what we could accomplish! I'll bet we could kill every single person on the face of the earth in, say, six months tops.
Yaaay! Someone go dig up BSD, trim its hair and nails, and prop it up in the corner while we have a birthday party!
Oh, thank goodness! We still take in the shitty insulting, debasing moronic advertising even if we fast forward! Oh happy day! We can still be slaves to the unstoppable shit-machine and still have our tivos! p. Well, folks, once the people realize how long and how blatantly advertisers have been shitting in our mouths, with any luck at all these congenital mind-fuckers will be stood up against a wall and shot down like the verminous subhumans they are.
Whoa! That's far less source code than I'd expect for that.
Entertaining, and readable.
As if pretty much everything down in that old snatch wasn't all skanky and wrinkled already.
Fuck "cowboy bebop" and all this fucking peurile cartoon bullshit. Why the fuck does this meaningless shit even show up here?
Anyone know which OS is involved?
I will forever tell MS to DirectSuck my DirectDick.
Why is a porn star commenting on military training in the first place?
I use GNOME applications, along with others. I don't consider those part of the desktop environment per se.
I'm talking about windowing, application launching, menus, task switching, panels, etc.
Well, that's arguable.
Have you tried IceWM? Pretty much a full desktop environment.