Qmail appears abandoned. Many people are making patches, but what a pain in the ass, get the source then apply the 3 patches you need and hope they work together. Qmail is a great program, BUT if the author isn't going to keep improving it, then he should turn it loose to those that are.
What need is there to add on to qmail? There hasn't be an expolit (not including lame DoS) since Bernstein wrote it way back in '97. Alsoif you need a feature, do it the unix way and add it on. The code base has everything needed for basic MTU. The idea behind qmail is for the sysadmins to add on what they wish to have.
With so many companies selling Bowulf cluster, you got to wonder what makes them so diffence? I mean you have Compaq, VA Linux, Penguin Computers, the mom and pop store up the street and now SGI all doing a wget for the latest beowulf tarball and running scripts to build the package. Sorta pointless really.
We're not all young and single and without commitments. We're not all in full control of our work situations.
I think you proved the point made. It is your fault you don't have money in an account to cover your ass when you decide to say to the hell with it. It's your fault that you have your commitments.
Once you have a family and a mortgage, cars and educations to pay for, the whole "you can get another job" thing isn't quite as simple.
Having a mortgage, cars, student loans, kids, family makes everything more complex, however, it does not make it impossiable to get another job. If you just have planned your life a little better, it wouldn't be that hard.
Let me breaks news to you. With DNS and domain names, for it to be down even one minute in a year is very bad. If you understood DNS you would realize that it has built in load balancing and fail over.
I think I can sum up the one and only advantage (if you can call it that) that iptables has over ipf (aka ipfilter) in one short sentence...
You can run iptables in Linux.
wow. I guess I should toss my BSD setup and go with iptables. Hmm. Of course with iptables I spend more time trying to figure out the damn flags then writing the rules. Here look at this:
Most people just have a single PPP connection to the Internet, and don't want anyone coming back into their network, or the firewall:
The ipfilter way:
block in quick on tun0 all head 1
block out quick on tun0 all head 11
pass on tun0 from any to any keep state group 1
And with iptables it's...
insmod ip_conntrack
insmod ip_conntrack_ftp
iptables -N block
iptables -A block -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A block -m state --state NEW -i ! ppp0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A block -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -j block
iptables -A FORWARD -j block
Well, you can go far if you use insanely large cables... 12 gauge would do fine for normal sized runs though, no need to worry about noise with such a heavy cable... The computer speakers we get come with pathetic 22 or 24 awg cables, no wonder why they sound awful.
Personaly I wouldn't even use cable cables. Optical fiber would be the best way to connect a computer to an amp. In the past, every time i have ever tired to use copper cabling, regradless of size, I have always got noise. Only one sound card I know of has optical links the Creative Labs Soundblaster LIVE! Platinum 5.1 and that's with a drive bay.
spectatorion, you have to rember CmdrTaco is a far left liberal. Liberals don't give a hoot about others personal freedoms, only thier own. If endless people are fine and put into jail for petty crimes it's all the better, as long as they aren't affected. But just like any liberal, he fail to see the long term affects that you have decussed in your post.
Regulations are bad. It puts more goverment in peoples lives, increase taxes (someone has to pay), and makes life hell for everyone. No one need move goverment. Goverment is not the answer. The only answer is people doing what is right. Not accepting spam, not making so damn easy to send spam, and not looking looking to the goverment to solve all of thier personal problems.
I hope you realize, law suits like this and comments like you made doesn't help you. Think about it for one second, if I had a company, why would I risk hiring a black person when if I say "you prodcutive is lower then other people", and they blam it on me being racist then sues me for it. What if I wanted the person out of my office, then they trun around and say "he fires me becuase I'm black" then sues me. What if I feel someone else is better at management and never promote someone else and that person happens to be black then they sue me. Wouldn't I be less likely to hire a black person? HELL YEAH I WOULD BE!! I might get SUED!!
You wanna talk about racist? Your comments are racist. Where the hell you get off saying "they gets promotions 'cuase they be white?!" You expect special treat, but you haven't done anything special. So you went to school, big deal. A lot of people have. So you had a crappy high school, I did to. Heck, I didn't even finsh highschool and I made it. You have a job, big deal. Any you blame it on your color becuase people don't automatically think you're the best thing since hot shit on a stick?? What do you want? A cookie?!
Not to mention, did you get you job becuase you're more skilled or becuase of Affirmative Action? If so, maybe you don't deserved it? What make you so damn special? Oh, you're black, and the white man inslaved you. The white man owes you, huh? Bullshit. I guess it's fair to hire someone not on their skills but on the color of thier skin, but only if they are black. What bunch of crap.
Look, damn it, You haven't done anything special and you do not deserve special treatment.
I get treated like shit daily. I don;t get respect automatically, I have to EARN it. Just like i have to EARN my job. Damn it, stop whining and start earning things in your life instead of blaming everything on your skin color and expecting special treatment, and maybe people might just respect you and your race.
Having said you might have to EARN some respect this is now a flamebait....It's not... it's the sad truth..
if you look closely at the performance difference of lets say an Athlon (highest possible clock) and an Alpha (highest clock as well) then you won't see that much of a difference except in the price.
I don't know what you're looking at, but everything I have ever seen about the Alpha is super fast. Even 1.5 time faster then other chips.
A man on crack is going to do whatever it takes to get more crack, because the addiction is more powerfull than his morality. This isn't a case of a crowbar that could be used for good or ill, this is a case of a crowbar that compells you to do ill. This isn't true of all drugs, but crack is one example.
Yep! The man on crack will go out get a job and smoke crack when ever. Hell I know people like this. They had jobs. Came in every day. And was HIGHLY addicted to crack. Of course, some company won't hire a person if they do drugs. Not becuase the person can't do the job. Not becuase of any reason other then a person uses drugs. Now since Mr. Joe Crackhead can't get a job but needs crack but cracks cost out the butt, he steals from the people around him. And since crack costs alot they have to steal alot. Don't you understand? It's not the action that make an action illegal, but the people who thinks it's illegal.
My g/f was attacked by a man on PCP (prior to my meeting her). He probably wouldn't have attacked anyone, but he was higher than Voyager 1,
and completely unstoppable. She should be dead, but instead it just turned her life to hell for a year.
I'm sorry about your g/f. However how do you KNOW this man hasn't or wouldn't ttacked anyone? You say "probably" that not the least bit of being sure. You might as well say
"Since all people are good people, and all drugs make bad people bad, this was a good kind man that attacked and allmost killed my current girlfriend that was under the influace of a evil bad drug."
Does that makes sense? HELL NO!!! A "good" person doesn't do "evil" things becuase of a evil drug. People do what they do becuase it's in their nature to do it. I'm sure your girlfriend thinks he a good person...
Weed is a different case altogether, and grouping it with other drugs is stupid (and the only reason it is ever a "gateway drug"). I mean really,
have you ever seen someone smoke some weed and then go rob a store? Weed smokers are more harmless. Half the stuff the doctor gives you is worse.
Hell, some people can barely get to the store high let alone rob it...
There are many FTP clients, for instance, and most of them will do everything most people expect them to be able to do. The difference for most of
them is in the _interface_.
And now, a screenshot of the prefect ftp interface:
<i>Has the republican feeding frenzy begun, after 6 years of </i>
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I hope you know that this "6 year of incredible prosperity" was due to 250% DEPT growth compared to 20% "true" growth. Basicly intrest rates went down, people got loans, went broke, and now SOMEONE has to pay the bills.
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Oh, btw, don't blam G. W. Bush, it takes 18 to TWO years for intrest rates and poilicies to effect the market place, then four years to EIGHT years to roll through.
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Umm, how many processors does Linux run on? And someone is saying Linux won't work on p4's? Hug wash!!
Ever since I been in Linux I have heard, Linux won't run on this, it won't do this, blah blah blah. If there is one thing I have heard about Linux is it will run anywhere and do anything. Through some "default" linux kernels will burf, who uses "defualt" kernels anyways? A few months from now... Linux will be all over these P4... and thanks to slashdot, I'll will have to kick all of the Linux newbies and sale jackasses in the head when they says anything about if Linux will work on the P4.
Hopefully, I won't have to deal with thier whines...
WE need to get rid of this electoral college asap. Make peoples votes actually count. That should be the one lesson that comes out of this election
Ok, you'll need 3/4th of the states to say ya. Ok... we have 50 states... that means WE would need oh, 38 states to adgree. Ok.. how many states are willing to have this? Hmm better count it the other way... How many states don't want to get rid of the Election college... looking on a map... I can see... oh 20 states that in NO WAY IN HELL will be willing to have your New England leftist vote over rid thiers.
Gorons live in six parts of the Nation. The West Coast, New Mexico, on the mississippi, New England, South Texas (geeze, i wonder where they cam from) and the tip of Florida. The rest is Bush country. Look at the map! http://www.boortz.com/themap.htm
<i>1.Imagine that we read of an election occurring anywhere in the third world in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former prime minister and that former prime minister was himself the former head of that nation's secret police (CIA). </i>
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This might b one of the few good point of this post.
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<i>2.Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote but won based on some colonial holdover (electoral college) from the nation's past. </i>
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Self-declared winner?! Wtf!! Bush won on the election night, the first recount, and the second recount!! I wouldn't call that a "Self-declared winner".
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Colonial holdover?! This colonial hand over is what PROTECTS the smaller states from mob rule!! Name one country in the world this large, with this many people, that has freedom and isn't ruled by the mob.
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<i>3.Imagine that the self-declared winner's 'victory' turned on disputed votes cast in a province governed by his brother.
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There was disputed ballots all over the county!! You want to make it seam like this was the ONLY states were there was a disputed votes!! Sorry, but the NATIONAL average of undercount on votes is 1% to 2%.
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<i>4.Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of one district, a district heavily favoring the self-declared winner's opponent, led thousands of voters to vote for the wrong candidate.
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The ballots were design by the supporter of the loser. The ballots were used else were in the countries were there has never been any problems.
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<i>5.Imagine that members of that nation's most despised caste, fearing for their lives/livelihoods, turned out in record numbers to vote in near-universal opposition to the self-declared winner's candidacy. </i>
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huh? In fear of thier lives? Is anyone going to die becuase Gore was going to get into office?
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<i>6.Imagine that hundreds of members of that most-despised caste were intercepted on their way to the polls by state police operating under the authority of the self-declared winner's brother.
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Name one person. One damn person that was prevented from voting!! JUST ONE DAMN PERSON!!
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<i>7.Imagine that six million people voted in the disputed province and that the self-declared winner's 'lead' was only 300 votes. Fewer, certainly, than the vote counting machines' margin of error. </i>
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Yeah and imagine that 30,000k went back home after the media called the state. ANd imagine 900 votes were through out by the man and women servering this country.
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<i>8.Imagine that the self-declared winner and his political party opposed a more careful by-hand inspection and re-counting of the ballots in the disputed province or in its most hotly disputed district. </i>
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Oh heavan forbid!! Let's count dimpes and pargent chads... let's see how many votes didn't vote correctly.
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<i>9.Imagine that the self-declared winner was himself the governor of a major province, which had the worst human rights record of any province in his nation and which actually led the nation in executions.</i>
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Lower crime though.
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<i>10.Imagine that a major campaign promise of the self-declared winner was to appoint like-minded human rights violators to lifetime positions on the high court of that nation. </i>
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What the fuck are you talk about here!?
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This decision takes the power away from the states to make these kinds of decisions.
First off, it's not really a state matter. It's a fedral matter, becuase it's about electing the leading of the country. If the government let states have 100% control over the elction, then every state would have thier own method and rules of electioning the highest office in the country. There has to be laws somewhere that controls this.
Second, there's a nice little law that pretty much states you can't change the rules after the election. Say you're playing a game. Someone changes the rules on you, is that fair? Hell no! You're a lier if you say yes. Ok, how about you change the rules on them. Is that fair? No. That's what Florida Supreme Court did, they changed the rules on the elections.
Of course the republicans are the same group that believes in right to life and possesion of gus and the death penalty. What
does this mean? It means that they want mothers to have there unwanted children, so they can grow up and get guns and
then kill people and then after they have lived a life in which they were never wanted, they execute these killers. I'm sorry,
but just because people can have children does not mean they should!
Come on. No one would rob someone if they knew theier victum were packing heat. If you were a robber would you? Hell no! Think about for one second. You are a robber, rapest, murder, what ever. You want a victum. You have me, with my 9mm on my side, a knife in my boot, a shotgun in my house, and being a hand to hand combat expert, are you going to fuck me with me?! Hell no!! Now take the unarmed fool on the street. Are you going to get shot? Hell no, no gun. Are you going to get stabed? hell no, no knife. Are you going to get your nuts blasted off when you break into his hosue? Hell no, no shotgun. Are you going to get your arm bent in ways god never intended? Prehaps. That fool looks alot easier then me with the 9 right? Needless to say, I never been mug or generaly fucked with in my life. Have you?
Did you know that in texas there are people that have been executed and were later found to be innocent? Did you know
that many of these people were african american?
Are you trying to play the race card? How about this. Ok say 50% of murders are commited by blacks, 20% by whites, and 30% by others. Would there be more black or white people be executed? BLACKS!! They commited more crime!!
Ok now since we are on crime, how about this little fact about Gore. Out of all the counties won by Gore and Bush, what was the murderer living in the counties? Give up? Gore, 13 out of 100,000; bush 2.3 out of 100,000. Who voted for gore? The black, poor, murders, rapests, cheats, liers, a few males and most females of the country.
You do realize that Bush does not know enough about technology and privacy to help the internet in any way shape of form,
and if you think that he is going to appoint people who do you are sadly mistaken. He is going to turn this country back 10
years. Just you watch.
I rather have that then someone that want ISP's to log everything and later impose a email tax.
..this is a major blow to democracy in my opinion.
This is not a major blow to democracy!! Democracy isn't about presonal freedom, it's about the "Will of the People." If the will of the nutty brits is to have everything monitored, then so be it, it's their cost in freedom. You have to remember this is a country that thinks it's ok to have a camra watching their every move. Brits don't care about freedom, they want security!!
Oh this is great!! This has made my day!! I'm going to keep this for a very very very long time. If I only had mod points...
Before I go, I'm forced to somewhat defend myself in my own twisted way:
Lack of ethics ("before I went on my killing spree... I broke into his house")
Little do you realize, this was the ONLY person I ever looted. The reason why I did it was to teach the guy a lesson. See, I wasn't the only person given BO. I know at least ten (10) people who he ripped off. A few were my personal friends, others I never met. Was it right to loot his house? Sure it was. He stole everything he had. Maybe two wrong doesn't make a right, but by god, the guy quit a few days after we looted his house. That, my friend, is ethical.
Also it wasn't me that killed 40-50 people, it was my friend who I gave my UO account to, but it was me in the game. Sorry for the confusion.
Bully mentality (stealing and vandalizing characters) I killed cheaters. Bullies pick on people that haven't done anything wrong. I pick on cheaters.
Gratified by the misery of others ("Oh it was great fun")
And I bet they had great fun cheating too. if I had anything to do with making them know how it felt, I did something good for other people playing the game.
Immature (munchkin character with cliched orphan background)
Would you like a detailed histroy of my character in UO?
Justification by boredom ("It sucked so we cheated.")
blah..
Collusion ("we went cheating")
and it was fun. =)
And I'd like to point out a couple of others:
Horrid spelling
Tragic grammar
Twisted usage
Damn government schools.
One is hard pressed to imagine someone who writes as carelessly as MarNuke successfully coding a borg or a bot.
Even if I could, way would I waste my time? I rather learn network security and sysadmin stuff anyways. Of course, I could learn to write a borg or a bot, but I consider it to be a waste of my time. What would be the monetary gain of such actions? Unlike you, I don't plan on sitting infront of a computer writing code for the rest of my life. I'm going into some other field other then IT in the next few years. I tell you what, if I ever need to hire someone to write code, I'll keep you in mind. Maybe you will be out of work and prehaps I can get you for a low low.:)
MarNuke and his ilk represent perhaps the largest faction of the cheater community, especially in MMORPG environments where success does not directly depend on skill alone...
Nope. In UO I did not depend on my skill alone. That would be stupid. I used my head and found a new way to make money. No, I did not cheat. I "looted" decayed houses. It took massive about of work, but the pay off were outstanding!! All I had to do is check out a section of the map each night, 8 sections total, chart the decay houses, mark ruins, discover when they switch by checking on them in a 6 hour period, keep a record of this, and then just show up when the house decays. I had to be there withen in 20 minutes of the house's decay. Sorry kids, you don't get rich by using skills, you get rich by using your head.
The fact is this: Cheating is a part of life. Deal with it.
In the game of life you either play by the rules and work your ass off, join the cheaters, or find a way to neither play by the rule or by cheating. The third way is the true way one become sucessful in life. Know the rules.
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Mr Horse: Hmmmm... Hmmmmm... No sir, I don't like it.
heh, the PS/2 port, floppy, serial, and some other stuff are all on an ISA bus.
What need is there to add on to qmail? There hasn't be an expolit (not including lame DoS) since Bernstein wrote it way back in '97. Alsoif you need a feature, do it the unix way and add it on. The code base has everything needed for basic MTU. The idea behind qmail is for the sysadmins to add on what they wish to have.
With so many companies selling Bowulf cluster, you got to wonder what makes them so diffence? I mean you have Compaq, VA Linux, Penguin Computers, the mom and pop store up the street and now SGI all doing a wget for the latest beowulf tarball and running scripts to build the package. Sorta pointless really.
I think you proved the point made. It is your fault you don't have money in an account to cover your ass when you decide to say to the hell with it. It's your fault that you have your commitments.
Once you have a family and a mortgage, cars and educations to pay for, the whole "you can get another job" thing isn't quite as simple.
Having a mortgage, cars, student loans, kids, family makes everything more complex, however, it does not make it impossiable to get another job. If you just have planned your life a little better, it wouldn't be that hard.
Let me breaks news to you. With DNS and domain names, for it to be down even one minute in a year is very bad. If you understood DNS you would realize that it has built in load balancing and fail over.
Looks like the zones crapped out...
all the damn -P -l -s -d -p shit!
Of course, to a perl guy it easy to read, but for someone that can't stand to look at perl it's bitch
You can run iptables in Linux.
wow. I guess I should toss my BSD setup and go with iptables. Hmm. Of course with iptables I spend more time trying to figure out the damn flags then writing the rules. Here look at this:
Most people just have a single PPP connection to the Internet, and don't want anyone coming back into their network, or the firewall:
The ipfilter way:
block in quick on tun0 all head 1
block out quick on tun0 all head 11
pass on tun0 from any to any keep state group 1
And with iptables it's...
insmod ip_conntrack
insmod ip_conntrack_ftp
iptables -N block
iptables -A block -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A block -m state --state NEW -i ! ppp0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A block -j DROP
iptables -A INPUT -j block
iptables -A FORWARD -j block
Which one is easiest to read?
Please correct me if I'm wrong...
Personaly I wouldn't even use cable cables. Optical fiber would be the best way to connect a computer to an amp. In the past, every time i have ever tired to use copper cabling, regradless of size, I have always got noise. Only one sound card I know of has optical links the Creative Labs Soundblaster LIVE! Platinum 5.1 and that's with a drive bay.
spectatorion, you have to rember CmdrTaco is a far left liberal. Liberals don't give a hoot about others personal freedoms, only thier own. If endless people are fine and put into jail for petty crimes it's all the better, as long as they aren't affected. But just like any liberal, he fail to see the long term affects that you have decussed in your post.
Regulations are bad. It puts more goverment in peoples lives, increase taxes (someone has to pay), and makes life hell for everyone. No one need move goverment. Goverment is not the answer. The only answer is people doing what is right. Not accepting spam, not making so damn easy to send spam, and not looking looking to the goverment to solve all of thier personal problems.
I hope you realize, law suits like this and comments like you made doesn't help you. Think about it for one second, if I had a company, why would I risk hiring a black person when if I say "you prodcutive is lower then other people", and they blam it on me being racist then sues me for it. What if I wanted the person out of my office, then they trun around and say "he fires me becuase I'm black" then sues me. What if I feel someone else is better at management and never promote someone else and that person happens to be black then they sue me. Wouldn't I be less likely to hire a black person? HELL YEAH I WOULD BE!! I might get SUED!!
You wanna talk about racist? Your comments are racist. Where the hell you get off saying "they gets promotions 'cuase they be white?!" You expect special treat, but you haven't done anything special. So you went to school, big deal. A lot of people have. So you had a crappy high school, I did to. Heck, I didn't even finsh highschool and I made it. You have a job, big deal. Any you blame it on your color becuase people don't automatically think you're the best thing since hot shit on a stick?? What do you want? A cookie?!
Not to mention, did you get you job becuase you're more skilled or becuase of Affirmative Action? If so, maybe you don't deserved it? What make you so damn special? Oh, you're black, and the white man inslaved you. The white man owes you, huh? Bullshit. I guess it's fair to hire someone not on their skills but on the color of thier skin, but only if they are black. What bunch of crap.
Look, damn it, You haven't done anything special and you do not deserve special treatment.
I get treated like shit daily. I don;t get respect automatically, I have to EARN it. Just like i have to EARN my job. Damn it, stop whining and start earning things in your life instead of blaming everything on your skin color and expecting special treatment, and maybe people might just respect you and your race.
Having said you might have to EARN some respect this is now a flamebait....It's not... it's the sad truth..
I don't know what you're looking at, but everything I have ever seen about the Alpha is super fast. Even 1.5 time faster then other chips.
hmm.. ok..
tip tap... www
Yep! The man on crack will go out get a job and smoke crack when ever. Hell I know people like this. They had jobs. Came in every day. And was HIGHLY addicted to crack. Of course, some company won't hire a person if they do drugs. Not becuase the person can't do the job. Not becuase of any reason other then a person uses drugs. Now since Mr. Joe Crackhead can't get a job but needs crack but cracks cost out the butt, he steals from the people around him. And since crack costs alot they have to steal alot. Don't you understand? It's not the action that make an action illegal, but the people who thinks it's illegal.
My g/f was attacked by a man on PCP (prior to my meeting her). He probably wouldn't have attacked anyone, but he was higher than Voyager 1, and completely unstoppable. She should be dead, but instead it just turned her life to hell for a year.
I'm sorry about your g/f. However how do you KNOW this man hasn't or wouldn't ttacked anyone? You say "probably" that not the least bit of being sure. You might as well say
Does that makes sense? HELL NO!!! A "good" person doesn't do "evil" things becuase of a evil drug. People do what they do becuase it's in their nature to do it. I'm sure your girlfriend thinks he a good person...Weed is a different case altogether, and grouping it with other drugs is stupid (and the only reason it is ever a "gateway drug"). I mean really, have you ever seen someone smoke some weed and then go rob a store? Weed smokers are more harmless. Half the stuff the doctor gives you is worse.
Hell, some people can barely get to the store high let alone rob it...
And now, a screenshot of the prefect ftp interface:
<i>Has the republican feeding frenzy begun, after 6 years of </i>
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I hope you know that this "6 year of incredible prosperity" was due to 250% DEPT growth compared to 20% "true" growth. Basicly intrest rates went down, people got loans, went broke, and now SOMEONE has to pay the bills.
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Oh, btw, don't blam G. W. Bush, it takes 18 to TWO years for intrest rates and poilicies to effect the market place, then four years to EIGHT years to roll through.
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Umm, how many processors does Linux run on? And someone is saying Linux won't work on p4's? Hug wash!!
Ever since I been in Linux I have heard, Linux won't run on this, it won't do this, blah blah blah. If there is one thing I have heard about Linux is it will run anywhere and do anything. Through some "default" linux kernels will burf, who uses "defualt" kernels anyways? A few months from now... Linux will be all over these P4... and thanks to slashdot, I'll will have to kick all of the Linux newbies and sale jackasses in the head when they says anything about if Linux will work on the P4.
Hopefully, I won't have to deal with thier whines...
Ok, you'll need 3/4th of the states to say ya. Ok... we have 50 states... that means WE would need oh, 38 states to adgree. Ok.. how many states are willing to have this? Hmm better count it the other way... How many states don't want to get rid of the Election college... looking on a map... I can see... oh 20 states that in NO WAY IN HELL will be willing to have your New England leftist vote over rid thiers.
Gorons live in six parts of the Nation. The West Coast, New Mexico, on the mississippi, New England, South Texas (geeze, i wonder where they cam from) and the tip of Florida. The rest is Bush country. Look at the map! http://www.boortz.com/themap.htm
<i>1.Imagine that we read of an election occurring anywhere in the third world in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former prime minister and that former prime minister was himself the former head of that nation's secret police (CIA). </i>
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This might b one of the few good point of this post.
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<i>2.Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote but won based on some colonial holdover (electoral college) from the nation's past. </i>
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Self-declared winner?! Wtf!! Bush won on the election night, the first recount, and the second recount!! I wouldn't call that a "Self-declared winner".
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Colonial holdover?! This colonial hand over is what PROTECTS the smaller states from mob rule!! Name one country in the world this large, with this many people, that has freedom and isn't ruled by the mob.
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<i>3.Imagine that the self-declared winner's 'victory' turned on disputed votes cast in a province governed by his brother.
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There was disputed ballots all over the county!! You want to make it seam like this was the ONLY states were there was a disputed votes!! Sorry, but the NATIONAL average of undercount on votes is 1% to 2%.
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<i>4.Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of one district, a district heavily favoring the self-declared winner's opponent, led thousands of voters to vote for the wrong candidate.
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The ballots were design by the supporter of the loser. The ballots were used else were in the countries were there has never been any problems.
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<i>5.Imagine that members of that nation's most despised caste, fearing for their lives/livelihoods, turned out in record numbers to vote in near-universal opposition to the self-declared winner's candidacy. </i>
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huh? In fear of thier lives? Is anyone going to die becuase Gore was going to get into office?
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<i>6.Imagine that hundreds of members of that most-despised caste were intercepted on their way to the polls by state police operating under the authority of the self-declared winner's brother.
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Name one person. One damn person that was prevented from voting!! JUST ONE DAMN PERSON!!
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<i>7.Imagine that six million people voted in the disputed province and that the self-declared winner's 'lead' was only 300 votes. Fewer, certainly, than the vote counting machines' margin of error. </i>
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Yeah and imagine that 30,000k went back home after the media called the state. ANd imagine 900 votes were through out by the man and women servering this country.
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<i>8.Imagine that the self-declared winner and his political party opposed a more careful by-hand inspection and re-counting of the ballots in the disputed province or in its most hotly disputed district. </i>
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Oh heavan forbid!! Let's count dimpes and pargent chads... let's see how many votes didn't vote correctly.
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<i>9.Imagine that the self-declared winner was himself the governor of a major province, which had the worst human rights record of any province in his nation and which actually led the nation in executions.</i>
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Lower crime though.
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<i>10.Imagine that a major campaign promise of the self-declared winner was to appoint like-minded human rights violators to lifetime positions on the high court of that nation. </i>
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What the fuck are you talk about here!?
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First off, it's not really a state matter. It's a fedral matter, becuase it's about electing the leading of the country. If the government let states have 100% control over the elction, then every state would have thier own method and rules of electioning the highest office in the country. There has to be laws somewhere that controls this.
Second, there's a nice little law that pretty much states you can't change the rules after the election. Say you're playing a game. Someone changes the rules on you, is that fair? Hell no! You're a lier if you say yes. Ok, how about you change the rules on them. Is that fair? No. That's what Florida Supreme Court did, they changed the rules on the elections.
Of course the republicans are the same group that believes in right to life and possesion of gus and the death penalty. What does this mean? It means that they want mothers to have there unwanted children, so they can grow up and get guns and then kill people and then after they have lived a life in which they were never wanted, they execute these killers. I'm sorry, but just because people can have children does not mean they should!
Come on. No one would rob someone if they knew theier victum were packing heat. If you were a robber would you? Hell no! Think about for one second. You are a robber, rapest, murder, what ever. You want a victum. You have me, with my 9mm on my side, a knife in my boot, a shotgun in my house, and being a hand to hand combat expert, are you going to fuck me with me?! Hell no!! Now take the unarmed fool on the street. Are you going to get shot? Hell no, no gun. Are you going to get stabed? hell no, no knife. Are you going to get your nuts blasted off when you break into his hosue? Hell no, no shotgun. Are you going to get your arm bent in ways god never intended? Prehaps. That fool looks alot easier then me with the 9 right? Needless to say, I never been mug or generaly fucked with in my life. Have you?
Did you know that in texas there are people that have been executed and were later found to be innocent? Did you know that many of these people were african american?
Are you trying to play the race card? How about this. Ok say 50% of murders are commited by blacks, 20% by whites, and 30% by others. Would there be more black or white people be executed? BLACKS!! They commited more crime!!
Ok now since we are on crime, how about this little fact about Gore. Out of all the counties won by Gore and Bush, what was the murderer living in the counties? Give up? Gore, 13 out of 100,000; bush 2.3 out of 100,000. Who voted for gore? The black, poor, murders, rapests, cheats, liers, a few males and most females of the country.
You do realize that Bush does not know enough about technology and privacy to help the internet in any way shape of form, and if you think that he is going to appoint people who do you are sadly mistaken. He is going to turn this country back 10 years. Just you watch.
I rather have that then someone that want ISP's to log everything and later impose a email tax.
I voted or Harry Browne, btw.
Yeah!
This is not a major blow to democracy!! Democracy isn't about presonal freedom, it's about the "Will of the People." If the will of the nutty brits is to have everything monitored, then so be it, it's their cost in freedom. You have to remember this is a country that thinks it's ok to have a camra watching their every move. Brits don't care about freedom, they want security!!
Prehaps a lawsuit? PlamPlam is a little too close to Plam. I could see 3com sueing. Heck, if I was 3com I would sue...
Before I go, I'm forced to somewhat defend myself in my own twisted way:
Lack of ethics ("before I went on my killing spree... I broke into his house")
Little do you realize, this was the ONLY person I ever looted. The reason why I did it was to teach the guy a lesson. See, I wasn't the only person given BO. I know at least ten (10) people who he ripped off. A few were my personal friends, others I never met. Was it right to loot his house? Sure it was. He stole everything he had. Maybe two wrong doesn't make a right, but by god, the guy quit a few days after we looted his house. That, my friend, is ethical.
Also it wasn't me that killed 40-50 people, it was my friend who I gave my UO account to, but it was me in the game. Sorry for the confusion.
Bully mentality (stealing and vandalizing characters)
I killed cheaters. Bullies pick on people that haven't done anything wrong. I pick on cheaters.
Gratified by the misery of others ("Oh it was great fun")
And I bet they had great fun cheating too. if I had anything to do with making them know how it felt, I did something good for other people playing the game.
Immature (munchkin character with cliched orphan background)
Would you like a detailed histroy of my character in UO?
Justification by boredom ("It sucked so we cheated.")
blah..
Collusion ("we went cheating")
and it was fun. =)
And I'd like to point out a couple of others:
Horrid spelling
Tragic grammar
Twisted usage
Damn government schools.
One is hard pressed to imagine someone who writes as carelessly as MarNuke successfully coding a borg or a bot.
Even if I could, way would I waste my time? I rather learn network security and sysadmin stuff anyways. Of course, I could learn to write a borg or a bot, but I consider it to be a waste of my time. What would be the monetary gain of such actions? Unlike you, I don't plan on sitting infront of a computer writing code for the rest of my life. I'm going into some other field other then IT in the next few years. I tell you what, if I ever need to hire someone to write code, I'll keep you in mind. Maybe you will be out of work and prehaps I can get you for a low low. :)
MarNuke and his ilk represent perhaps the largest faction of the cheater community, especially in MMORPG environments where success does not directly depend on skill alone...
Nope. In UO I did not depend on my skill alone. That would be stupid. I used my head and found a new way to make money. No, I did not cheat. I "looted" decayed houses. It took massive about of work, but the pay off were outstanding!! All I had to do is check out a section of the map each night, 8 sections total, chart the decay houses, mark ruins, discover when they switch by checking on them in a 6 hour period, keep a record of this, and then just show up when the house decays. I had to be there withen in 20 minutes of the house's decay. Sorry kids, you don't get rich by using skills, you get rich by using your head.
The fact is this: Cheating is a part of life. Deal with it.
In the game of life you either play by the rules and work your ass off, join the cheaters, or find a way to neither play by the rule or by cheating. The third way is the true way one become sucessful in life. Know the rules.