Not only that, the price of my time skyrockets when it comes to handling vast quantities of used cooking grease. I can't imagine what this guy, and his home, smelled like after such an undertaking.
For my time/money, I'll wade through man pages and dependency checks long before I'll touch a drum of boiled fat.
"2 + 2 = 4" is only an axiomatic truth because we have defined 2 and 4 so that this is true. True because of its own definition, not because we have deduced it from observations.
Dude, I like pizza and I like Chinese food. I also happen to have mostly helped college students while in college (and a bit post college). Is there another type of food that someone will bring to their door, or cook for them to pick up, is relatively cheap versus quantity, and easily shared among me and their roommates over a couple beers?
This does not mean I only like pizza, Chinese food, and beer, and that I don't like pasta and a good merlot. One, however, lends itself more readily to the social situation being discussed. It's a bit much to ask someone to take me out for an evening of fine dining because I installed Ad-Aware.
The 422 address was mentioned on the Daily Show (which did an awesome interview with him) weeks ago. They put his email address on the screen while the interviewer asked if he would mind if they displayed it, he said no, and it began flashing. It was great.
but can we please keep the knee-jerk paranoid comparisons out of the discourse?
Ahh, but should we then keep the knee-jerk "USA is still really free" comparisons out of the discourse as well? Grandparent pointed out that we no longer have 4 freedoms that are arguably essential to keeping this country free, but you pointed out we still have one, so we shouldn't be worried at all? Did I understand your argument correctly?
I don't think anyone (including grandparent) believes this country is as oppressive as the USSR or Nazi Germany, but when we are having our essential freedoms limited, perhaps we should do something before our country goes that far....
My starting salary at a non-union state university job was 43K, but I live in a small town with a rent under $300 a month. Yet another reason I could never live in NY....
By your analogy, each trip to the grocery store your car would have to develop a new problem - one which would lower your top speed, randomly kill the engine, and otherwise make your car less usable each trip.
You seem to be comparing driving the car to installing spyware. I was attempting to compare removing spyware and checking for viruses to regular maintainence on a car. Not performing regular maintainence on a car does lower its functionality, but not to the point it won't fulfill its basic role for a limited time, after which it can be replaced. If it cost be less than $1000 to buy a new car that would get me to the grocery store and back for 3 years with no maintainence, and all I wanted to do was drive to the grocery store and back for 3 years, would I maintain my car? No. That is why you can't compare basic computer knowledge and maintainence to basic car maintainence, which is what I was originally replying to.
And I have no idea what you meant by a "limited function appliance". For just about everyone on earth, a computer checks email, browses the web, and plays games. That seems rather limited to me.
Also, the tires weren't completely bald; I exagerated a bit. However, if I was driving the car on the highway in the rain, or on ice it would have probably been dangerous.
I only drove a couple miles @ 30 miles an hour to the grocery store on a well paved, low traffic road once a week during the daytime.
The only reason I know how to care for my car is because it cost $15,000. The car I drove in college cost was a 15 year old POS I got for a couple hundred bucks so I could get groceries once a week, and I never changed the oil once. I drove on bald, half flat tires for a long time (I never went on the freeway, or over 45, so I didn't really care), and I let the radiator fluid (tap water) get really low on several occasions because of a slow leak.
I didn't care. That car did what I needed it to do for as long as I needed to do it before I could afford a better one. In other words, it was exactly like a computer to most people.
After ignoring the post, you decide to click on a harmless looking link a few posts do-
"Augh!! Goatse man!!" you scream as you fling yourself away from your desk.
Landing on the ground, you notice a particulary nice pair of shoes underneath your nose. You look up slowly into the pale green face of a nauseous Vice President.
---You have been fired---
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As the article mentions, he is unfortunately a 45-year old grandfather. Not only has he reproduced already, but his spawn is reproducing quickly. It's too late, the world is doomed.
Even if it was (which it probably isn't) legal, it sure as hell isn't legal for the person you're downloading it from....which probably means you're participating in the crime. IAObviouslyNAL.
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Not only that, the price of my time skyrockets when it comes to handling vast quantities of used cooking grease. I can't imagine what this guy, and his home, smelled like after such an undertaking.
For my time/money, I'll wade through man pages and dependency checks long before I'll touch a drum of boiled fat.
"2 + 2 = 4" is only an axiomatic truth because we have defined 2 and 4 so that this is true. True because of its own definition, not because we have deduced it from observations.
Not that I'm a deconstructionist or anything.
At least link the source.
Dude, I like pizza and I like Chinese food. I also happen to have mostly helped college students while in college (and a bit post college). Is there another type of food that someone will bring to their door, or cook for them to pick up, is relatively cheap versus quantity, and easily shared among me and their roommates over a couple beers?
This does not mean I only like pizza, Chinese food, and beer, and that I don't like pasta and a good merlot. One, however, lends itself more readily to the social situation being discussed. It's a bit much to ask someone to take me out for an evening of fine dining because I installed Ad-Aware.
By the way, no one needs a stereotype nazi.
Girlfriends and mothers get tech support for free, because one puts out and the other put me out. (Not in Soviet Russia)
http://texturizer.net/firefox/faq.html#q2.2
It requires a registry key to be added if you installed from a zip file.
The 422 address was mentioned on the Daily Show (which did an awesome interview with him) weeks ago. They put his email address on the screen while the interviewer asked if he would mind if they displayed it, he said no, and it began flashing. It was great.
Anyway, I'm sure he no longer uses it.
I don't think anyone (including grandparent) believes this country is as oppressive as the USSR or Nazi Germany, but when we are having our essential freedoms limited, perhaps we should do something before our country goes that far....
Rape victims don't donate to political campaigns.
Actually, they only seized four copiers, but they were 24x.
"This $30,000 projector has better picture quality than yours."
"Oh yeah? My picture is awesome, since it's framed by $28,000 dollars in cash."
Grandparent's house in Los Altos CA: 3 bedroom, one bathroom, small living room, no dining room, tiny piece of shit. Sold for $800,000.
Parents' house in Tracy CA: 3 bedroom, two bath, dining room, two living rooms/areas. Bought for ~180,000 IIRC.
My starting salary at a non-union state university job was 43K, but I live in a small town with a rent under $300 a month. Yet another reason I could never live in NY....
And I have no idea what you meant by a "limited function appliance". For just about everyone on earth, a computer checks email, browses the web, and plays games. That seems rather limited to me.
California. And the car passed the smog test.
Also, the tires weren't completely bald; I exagerated a bit. However, if I was driving the car on the highway in the rain, or on ice it would have probably been dangerous.
I only drove a couple miles @ 30 miles an hour to the grocery store on a well paved, low traffic road once a week during the daytime.
The only reason I know how to care for my car is because it cost $15,000. The car I drove in college cost was a 15 year old POS I got for a couple hundred bucks so I could get groceries once a week, and I never changed the oil once. I drove on bald, half flat tires for a long time (I never went on the freeway, or over 45, so I didn't really care), and I let the radiator fluid (tap water) get really low on several occasions because of a slow leak.
I didn't care. That car did what I needed it to do for as long as I needed to do it before I could afford a better one. In other words, it was exactly like a computer to most people.
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After ignoring the post, you decide to click on a harmless looking link a few posts do-
"Augh!! Goatse man!!" you scream as you fling yourself away from your desk.
Landing on the ground, you notice a particulary nice pair of shoes underneath your nose. You look up slowly into the pale green face of a nauseous Vice President.
---You have been fired---
Thank you for browsing slashdot at work. Please turn to page one of the want ads to start over.
As the article mentions, he is unfortunately a 45-year old grandfather. Not only has he reproduced already, but his spawn is reproducing quickly. It's too late, the world is doomed.
Even if it was (which it probably isn't) legal, it sure as hell isn't legal for the person you're downloading it from....which probably means you're participating in the crime. IAObviouslyNAL.
That's right. Remember people, needless personification makes the baby jesus cry. Irony intentional.
So spammers rely even more heavily on hijacked machines, and my grandmother on social security suddenly has a $100,000 bill from her ISP.
Don't see that happening.
Link that actually works after they change the comic....
Use Mozilla and the flash click-to-view plug-in. No flash you don't want and all the flash you do (ahh, flash games).