You were making lots of good points until the last sentence, where your credibility plummeted. Things are never just a certain way, are they? It's always a certain group's fault, usually the group one is not a member of. Please, don't hold back from naming those certain political parties you were thinking of, we would love for you to expose these assholes who are hell-bent on dumbing down the population and stealing candy from small children.
"Passed down a family line"? WTF are you smoking? In 1988 voters in the U.S. picked George Bush Sr to be the president of this nation. Then Clinton won the next time, then won again. Then G.W. Bush won the next time. How exactly is that a "monarchy"?
Do you think it is reasonable to go for weeks/months/years without paying off what you owe?
If you haven't got the money to pay them, due to seen or unforseen circumstances, what the fuck are you supposed to do? Should these people be allowed to call and harass 24/7? No.
Dude, radians are freakin easy when you look at them the right way. Two PI = 360 degrees. Thus 180 degrees = PI, 90 degrees = PI/2, 45 degrees is PI/4, 60 degrees is PI/3, and 30 degrees is PI/6. When you keep it in terms of PI, radians are easy to work with.
Seriously though, how long before most people have broad band? I realise there are studies showing people who only really use email are sticking with dial up, but how long before ISPs start to phase out dial up, especially since phone companies are moving to VoIP?
It's going to be a long, long time before "everybody" has broadband. There are many areas of the nation where broadband is simply not available for various reasons. Here in Alabama, only people in the bigger cities have access to broadband, and many of us who live in rural areas or smaller towns just don't have access to it.
I store nearly all my personal files on my server and never carry media. 99% of the time I can get the files I need through the net. This obsession people have with actually holding data seems a little out dated these days.
Driving is not a privilege, it's a right. Since I pay to build the roads, I have the right to drive on them. However certain rights can be taken away from individuals who commit certain crimes - for example, convicted felons lose the right to vote.
In regards to my second comment: I think the first offense for drunk driving should be a stiff fine ($500-$1000) and possibly jail time depending on circumstances. Second offense should be considerably more severe, let's say mandatory 30 days jail time and one year suspended license. Third offense should be mandatory 6 months jail time and two year license suspension. Punishment for hurting/killing anyone while driving
There are some people out there who make mistakes and learn from them, and there are some people who make the same stupid choices over and over again. The first group drives drunk for the first time, pays stiff fines and possibly jail time, and never does it again. The second group does it more than once and pays the consequences.
Sometimes people don't learn, and they kill people as a result of their actions. This is sad, but the solution is not to punish first-time offenders too harshly.
You are so quick to take someone's car away from them, but here's a bit of info- in most places in the U.S. you *cannot survive* without a car. What, you expect someone to be forced to move halfway across the country because of a stupid decision that lost them the right to drive? Furthermore, who's going to move them there?
And more importantly, the penalty for driving with a suspended or revoked license should be very severe, like a year in jail.
My license was suspended once without my knowledge because I failed to mail in some stupid form to the state after an accident I was involved in. I didn't find out it was suspended until I got pulled over one day. Are you suggesting I should have spent a year in jail for that?
I don't care if they can't get to work without a car; they can take a bus, taxi, ride a bike, or better yet move someplace that's not rural.
It's easy enough for you to sit on your ass and say that.
Right, cause not only would it would make more sense to wait until 95% of America has it beat into their heads that Bush sucks before bringing Bin Laden out rather than bringing him out as soon as he's captured and using it to Bush's political advantage, but also there's no chance that the soldiers who supposedly captured him already would EVER talk or tell anyone about it.
Ah, I knew the partisan sales pitch was coming soon. So the Democrats are the party of honesty and goodness, while the Republicans are in league with Satan and enjoy stealing candy from little kids.
"5 of 622 people found the following review helpful:
***** (5 stars)
Katie.com by Katherine Tarbox was a great book to read. I would recommend it to ages 12 and up. I liked Katie.com because..."...
"203 of 203 people found the following review helpful:
* (1 star)
The writer of the book and the publishers should be ashamed of themselves...
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK, and certainly think again about buying from this publisher."
"Wow" is right. At present there is over 200 negative reviews of the book, "modded up" by at least 80-90 people each, and the few 5 star reviews have been "modded down" to nothing, giving this book a final rating of two stars.
Do y'all have any idea how many people are buying their books on Amazon these days, and how many people will see thiss? This *will* have an impact on book sales, I guarantee it. I bet Penguin will stop harassing Katie Jones and they will probably issue an official apology within a couple weeks.
55 miles is well within line of sight (LOS) range. There is no way they were using tropo scatter as it takes a lot more power than 600 mW to do a tropo shot (try 300-400 watts instead). Ducting, as you mentioned, only really comes into play in a tropo shot, not LOS. The reason I know all this is because my job in the U.S. Air Force involves working with TRC-170 tropo equipment.
For those not in the know, tropospheric scatter, or tropo, is the technique of bouncing a signal (typically UHF) off the troposphere and back down to Earth at some remote location (up to around 150 miles), beyond the normal radio horizon (maximum distance you can do a line of sight shot).
For what it's worth, these guys did pretty good, though their equipment wasn't too efficient. One of the pieces of equipment we use in the Air Force is the Tropospheric Satellite Support Radio, or TSSR, which is a small radio equipped with either a 1 foot or 2 foot dish. The 1 foot version can transmit up to 10 miles, the 2 foot version 25 miles. So I would hazard a guess that this same radio, equipped with a 3 or 4 foot dish, could hit the 55 mile distance if not more. In addition it will support four full T1s of data at any distance in its range.
But these guys did a great job working with the limited equipment they had. Especially being untrained. They deserve all the praise they've gotten.
Bad technique will never yield high speed and accuracy.
Bullshit. I started typing in the 2nd grade, first hunt and peck then gradually progressing to faster and faster. When I finally took a typing class in 10th grade I could type at 114 words per minute with only one error. Granted it took me several tries and that was the best of the bunch, but I can easily type at 100-105 WPM with infrequent errors.
My technique is about as "bad" as any. I don't use the home row. The main fingers I use is the middle finger on the left hand, first finger on the right hand, occasional ring finger for keys such as 'a', 'l', ';', etc, left thumb for space bar, and pinkies for modifiers (shift, ctrl, alt, etc).
My typing teacher would scold me on my "bad" technique, but after I put down over 100 WPM and perfect accuracy with the keyboard covered up she never really got on to me again. There is no "right" way to type. There are proven techniques such as touch typing that are known to work, but there is no "right" and "wrong" way.
I know you're just joking, but this brings up something that as an Alabama taxpayer and veteran I find interesting. My local VA office does not have Internet access, apparently because the state can't afford it. Let me run that by you again. The year is 2004 and the damn Veteran's Affairs office does not have Internet access.
Yet they can afford to pay this fuckwit to sit around and play Solitaire all day, and fire guys like the sys admin who was doing his best to expose this kind of waste and corruption that saps up all our funds?
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You were making lots of good points until the last sentence, where your credibility plummeted. Things are never just a certain way, are they? It's always a certain group's fault, usually the group one is not a member of. Please, don't hold back from naming those certain political parties you were thinking of, we would love for you to expose these assholes who are hell-bent on dumbing down the population and stealing candy from small children.
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"Passed down a family line"? WTF are you smoking? In 1988 voters in the U.S. picked George Bush Sr to be the president of this nation. Then Clinton won the next time, then won again. Then G.W. Bush won the next time. How exactly is that a "monarchy"?
Do you think it is reasonable to go for weeks/months/years without paying off what you owe?
If you haven't got the money to pay them, due to seen or unforseen circumstances, what the fuck are you supposed to do? Should these people be allowed to call and harass 24/7? No.
Dude, radians are freakin easy when you look at them the right way. Two PI = 360 degrees. Thus 180 degrees = PI, 90 degrees = PI/2, 45 degrees is PI/4, 60 degrees is PI/3, and 30 degrees is PI/6. When you keep it in terms of PI, radians are easy to work with.
Oh, I forgot to mention. It also ran and played fine before I got the TNT card.
Hmm. Half-life ran just fine on my 100MHz Pentium w/ 24 megs and a TNT 1. A bit slow, but playable.
Seriously though, how long before most people have broad band? I realise there are studies showing people who only really use email are sticking with dial up, but how long before ISPs start to phase out dial up, especially since phone companies are moving to VoIP?
It's going to be a long, long time before "everybody" has broadband. There are many areas of the nation where broadband is simply not available for various reasons. Here in Alabama, only people in the bigger cities have access to broadband, and many of us who live in rural areas or smaller towns just don't have access to it.
I store nearly all my personal files on my server and never carry media. 99% of the time I can get the files I need through the net. This obsession people have with actually holding data seems a little out dated these days.
Not everybody has broadband.
We're just like you but happier.
Dude, you live in a frigid wasteland. I don't think so.
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5) Profit
Driving is not a privilege, it's a right. Since I pay to build the roads, I have the right to drive on them. However certain rights can be taken away from individuals who commit certain crimes - for example, convicted felons lose the right to vote.
In regards to my second comment: I think the first offense for drunk driving should be a stiff fine ($500-$1000) and possibly jail time depending on circumstances. Second offense should be considerably more severe, let's say mandatory 30 days jail time and one year suspended license. Third offense should be mandatory 6 months jail time and two year license suspension. Punishment for hurting/killing anyone while driving
There are some people out there who make mistakes and learn from them, and there are some people who make the same stupid choices over and over again. The first group drives drunk for the first time, pays stiff fines and possibly jail time, and never does it again. The second group does it more than once and pays the consequences.
Sometimes people don't learn, and they kill people as a result of their actions. This is sad, but the solution is not to punish first-time offenders too harshly.
You are so quick to take someone's car away from them, but here's a bit of info- in most places in the U.S. you *cannot survive* without a car. What, you expect someone to be forced to move halfway across the country because of a stupid decision that lost them the right to drive? Furthermore, who's going to move them there?
And more importantly, the penalty for driving with a suspended or revoked license should be very severe, like a year in jail.
My license was suspended once without my knowledge because I failed to mail in some stupid form to the state after an accident I was involved in. I didn't find out it was suspended until I got pulled over one day. Are you suggesting I should have spent a year in jail for that?
I don't care if they can't get to work without a car; they can take a bus, taxi, ride a bike, or better yet move someplace that's not rural.
It's easy enough for you to sit on your ass and say that.
Right, cause not only would it would make more sense to wait until 95% of America has it beat into their heads that Bush sucks before bringing Bin Laden out rather than bringing him out as soon as he's captured and using it to Bush's political advantage, but also there's no chance that the soldiers who supposedly captured him already would EVER talk or tell anyone about it.
Did I miss anything? Oh, yeah:
Ah, I knew the partisan sales pitch was coming soon. So the Democrats are the party of honesty and goodness, while the Republicans are in league with Satan and enjoy stealing candy from little kids.
"They"? Who is "they"?
"5 of 622 people found the following review helpful:
..." ...
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***** (5 stars)
Katie.com by Katherine Tarbox was a great book to read. I would recommend it to ages 12 and up. I liked Katie.com because
"203 of 203 people found the following review helpful:
* (1 star)
The writer of the book and the publishers should be ashamed of themselves.
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK, and certainly think again about buying from this publisher."
"Wow" is right. At present there is over 200 negative reviews of the book, "modded up" by at least 80-90 people each, and the few 5 star reviews have been "modded down" to nothing, giving this book a final rating of two stars.
Do y'all have any idea how many people are buying their books on Amazon these days, and how many people will see thiss? This *will* have an impact on book sales, I guarantee it. I bet Penguin will stop harassing Katie Jones and they will probably issue an official apology within a couple weeks.
55 miles is well within line of sight (LOS) range. There is no way they were using tropo scatter as it takes a lot more power than 600 mW to do a tropo shot (try 300-400 watts instead). Ducting, as you mentioned, only really comes into play in a tropo shot, not LOS. The reason I know all this is because my job in the U.S. Air Force involves working with TRC-170 tropo equipment.
For those not in the know, tropospheric scatter, or tropo, is the technique of bouncing a signal (typically UHF) off the troposphere and back down to Earth at some remote location (up to around 150 miles), beyond the normal radio horizon (maximum distance you can do a line of sight shot).
For what it's worth, these guys did pretty good, though their equipment wasn't too efficient. One of the pieces of equipment we use in the Air Force is the Tropospheric Satellite Support Radio, or TSSR, which is a small radio equipped with either a 1 foot or 2 foot dish. The 1 foot version can transmit up to 10 miles, the 2 foot version 25 miles. So I would hazard a guess that this same radio, equipped with a 3 or 4 foot dish, could hit the 55 mile distance if not more. In addition it will support four full T1s of data at any distance in its range.
But these guys did a great job working with the limited equipment they had. Especially being untrained. They deserve all the praise they've gotten.
cd /usr/src/sys/i386/
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another freeBSD user, I see
I don't touch type, and I can do everything that you mentioned in your post.
Bad technique will never yield high speed and accuracy.
Bullshit. I started typing in the 2nd grade, first hunt and peck then gradually progressing to faster and faster. When I finally took a typing class in 10th grade I could type at 114 words per minute with only one error. Granted it took me several tries and that was the best of the bunch, but I can easily type at 100-105 WPM with infrequent errors.
My technique is about as "bad" as any. I don't use the home row. The main fingers I use is the middle finger on the left hand, first finger on the right hand, occasional ring finger for keys such as 'a', 'l', ';', etc, left thumb for space bar, and pinkies for modifiers (shift, ctrl, alt, etc).
My typing teacher would scold me on my "bad" technique, but after I put down over 100 WPM and perfect accuracy with the keyboard covered up she never really got on to me again. There is no "right" way to type. There are proven techniques such as touch typing that are known to work, but there is no "right" and "wrong" way.
And how many of those results are page after page of "Click here for more information and links on [I]unstable VIA chipset[/I]"?
Should it matter if you're spending half your time playing Solitare if you still manage to do the job you're supposed to do?
Yes, because as an Alabama taxpayers, I am paying for this asshole to play Solitaire.
I know you're just joking, but this brings up something that as an Alabama taxpayer and veteran I find interesting. My local VA office does not have Internet access, apparently because the state can't afford it. Let me run that by you again. The year is 2004 and the damn Veteran's Affairs office does not have Internet access.
Yet they can afford to pay this fuckwit to sit around and play Solitaire all day, and fire guys like the sys admin who was doing his best to expose this kind of waste and corruption that saps up all our funds?
If his boss was getting his job done and pleasing his employer, who cares how he did it?
I do, because as an Alabama taxpayer, I'm the one payin' for him to sit around and fuck off all day.