Have you ever considered that maybe they patented it so that some large corporation COULDN'T? This could be a goodwill patent, similar to releasing code under the GPL (nobody can horde it completely for themselves).
Also, if I make or discover something that completely changes the world and makes it an amazingly better place, you better fscking believe I'm going to patent it and make money. I would release it to the world at a fair price (i.e. not marking it up 1000% like most drug companies), but make some money on it.
Well, seeing as how I already pay 8% sales tax online in California (since most online retailers are based in CA), this might have the effect of LOWERING the tax I pay. It depends, of course, on the tax rate they choose for this "Unified" system. If the rate is lower, will CA join up seeing as most places sell from CA and the state already gets a ton of money?
Read the post with a little more open eyes... I wasn't giving accurate numbers. There probably 10,000 telemarketing companies, but only a percentage of those are large enough to do much lobbying. The 2 million was just a rough guess... the article just said "millions" of employees. And while the population is 300 million, many of those are children and retirees that won't a) have a job affected by this, b) have a phone number, or c) vote.
The court said the FTC didn't have the power to make this law and had overstepped its bounds...
Excuse me, but not only did Congress approve this, but 50 million Americans did, too. If 50 million Americans say a law should go through, then I'm thinking that it should go through. If 100 telemarketing companies (and their 2 paltry million employees) say it shouldn't, well, majority rules in a democracy. 25 to 1, we win.
There are still plenty of appeals to come... this is a district court, so it can still go up to the Supreme Court if it has to. Even if the FTC can't get it done, there is more than enough support in Congress to pass their own law or do whatever they can do about it.
Contrary to most comments here about how this isn't needed because of uber uptimes of linux l33t users, some people would benefit from this. Any gamers who have to dual boot to windows to play some games will want this (you think HL2 will play on Wine when it comes out?). There was a time when I would reboot almost everyday (before BF1942 was playable on Wine). Sure, saving a 30 seconds or so per day isn't a big deal, but it's nice to be on par with WinXP's boot time.
Besides the V8 and the Keg one, I wouldn't say these are too extreme. This guy has some real case mods. In my opinion, if you aren't building the case from scratch, it's not really extreme.
OK, so you say it got expensive to put 38 gallons of gas in your horribly huge vehicle (my mid-size sedan only has a 15 gallon tank)... Why were you putting that much gas in? If it's so expensive, why not change your habits and drive less? Why not buy a different vehicle?
His whole point was that raising the gas price doesn't change people's habits, and you just confirmed that. You said you spent your money on gas instead of Dew, that isn't changing your driving habits (but it might mean you'll lose a little weight from the decreased sugar intake).
More to the point of your post, though, is that yes, some vehicles (trucks) need a big engine to haul crap around... but only a very small percentage of the population actually needs one of those vehicles. My grandpa drove a mid-size sedan when he was raising his 6 kids, so you can't use the "I need it to ferry around my kids" excuse. With a 38 gallon gas tank, I'm assuming you have a truck... what do you use that large of a truck for? Would an S-10 or Ranger not work to haul stuff? Or is it an SUV that usually has one person and no cargo except groceries? If you actually use your overly large vehicle, how often do you use it for its purpose? If only once a month, maybe you can get a smaller car for the daily use and not spend much more money overall since you'll have decreased gas costs (a small used car can cost $1000, which you'll save in two years of gas costs). If you absolutely use that beast everyday for work, you can have your company pay for it or deduct it as a business expense.
The thing is, nothing at all is as cheap as gas. A gallon costs $2 in L.A. A gallon of water costs almost that much. A gallon of milk is more, so is a gallon of gatorade, mountain dew, etc. In Europe gas costs $5/gallon. Do you see many SUVs and trucks over there? No. Do they have a different type of person over there with fewer needs for large vehicles? No. They have the same needs as you do, but they just don't buy them.
Umm... you must have been reading the book in reverse negative format. As supply stays constant and demand increases, there is a shift of the curve and cost goes up. Now, if you want to assume that supply is variable, as demand goes up so will supply to meet that demand; but that is assuming cost stays the same, which it won't. In the end, increased demand will always mean increased cost with a product like oil.
For technology things, that can be a different story... tech advances and larger production scales make cost of production go down, so a higher demand could make price go down but only if supply goes up.
Ummm, basketball and football aren't the only sports available for men to play. At my university, we couldn't have a men's gymnastics team or volleyball team. And I went to a rather large public university (40,000 students). At smaller colleges with less funding, sports such as wrestling, soccer, and swimming get the axe. In my highschool, we had 200 guys sign a petition to get a men's vball team going, but the administration said they couldn't.
Man, did any of you read the article? Yes, the law suits in the past were pretty silly... involving a computer's speakers making them "in the music business."
That is not the case today. Apple Computer has been sued and lost twice already to the tune of $50 million. Now they open a website named AppleMusic which sells music. If that doesn't put them in the music business, I don't know what does. Not only that, but AppleMusic could easily be confused with Apple Corp's music business.
This is a stupid mistake by a company that KNOWS they will lose a suit (since it has happened in the past with much more obscure violations). In those other suits, I would've sided with Apple Computer but not in this one.
Are you freakin kidding me? You need to reconfigure your system if you're having that kind of problem. Seriously. I was running a k6-2 350 with 384M ram and was able to run mozilla mail (much larger and slower). Thunderbird is already pretty darn fast compared to MozMail, Lotus Notes (what I am forced to use at work, what a waste or resources that is for just mail), and KMail. Granted, I have run into the occasional memory leak with TBird, but that is less than once per day (I use it all day everyday at work and home).... and it's only a 0.1 release.
"You could have requested to be added to the do
not call lists for each individual call center,
and eventually you'd have been removed from all
the call centers."
Umm, I do just that. Every time any telemarketer calls while I'm home, I tell them that. I also ask them if they are a member of the DMA (which most aren't). This will NEVER stop the illegal auto-dialed calls... it also doesn't stop the calls that come from companies that hang up if they call you and THEIR reps aren't available to talk to you (but keep your number in their list). One company called twice a day for 3 weeks only to hang up because nobody was there on their end (I called the atty general to file a complaint and finally got the issue resolved).
The whole point is that saying "put me on your do not call list" DOES NOT WORK. And, even if it did, it would take a year to get through to every call center that might call me if I waited for them to call. Not only that, but once I move and change phone numbers, the calls start right back up... a central do not call list allows me to quickly stop those calls again.
"And if they called you back within 10 years,
you could sue them. That's the law."
Have you tried to sue a telemarketer for calling? I have. It is not easy, and I did end up giving up. First off, getting the necessary info from them takes knowledge of what you need. Next, you have to go through a long, arduous process of court systems and contacting call centers and proof and stuff like that. It sucks.
"You're probably also the kind of person who
gets mad if we call as early as 8AM or as late
as 9PM, aren't you? Well, that's the US law, so
if you don't like it, contact your government
and get your laws changed."
Ummm... excuse me? Isn't that EXACTLY what this story is about? We, the U.S. people, are saying we don't want you to call. The government is finally listening and changing the law. Now, the telemarketers are getting angry. They don't like it? That's the law, as you say.
"At the end of the day, you've taken away jobs and hurt the economy. That's why this is a bad idea."
That is the worst and most idiotic argument for telemarketing I've ever heard... and it is the exact one that telemarketers use.
Yes, it will take away jobs, but you know what? I don't give a crap. Screw those people for taking a job harassing me. It's called capitalism: the market doesn't want them, so they don't prosper. Would you complain if they made SPAM illegal?
As for hurting the economy, I doubt that will matter in the long term. Sure, there will be a lot of lost jobs; but they aren't highly skilled/trained jobs, so those people can move to any other unskilled labour position. The market will adjust.
41 million people DON'T WANT THEM CALLING! That's about as many people as voted for G.W.Bush. I'm on the DMA's no call list, and I still get calls... that shows their self-regulating DOES NOT WORK!
While some of your pointers are correct, there are two shining errors.
There are so many reasons why watercooled machines don't use just DI water, that it will take me time to type them out... but here goes:
1) Pure water doesn't transfer heat as well (bad). 2) Pure water can harbor algae and junk, because you can't hermetically seal this kind of system no matter how hard you try (bad).
So water wetter is added to the water. It reduces surface adhesion, transfers heat better, and helps keep bacteria in check. Now, without pure water, you CAN use automotive components. The heater core from an old Chevette is one of the best darn radiators for watercooling out there (and $16 vs. $60).
The next error is in your amazement about turbulence in the the flow. As an aerospace engineer, I've taken classes on aerodynamics and heat transfer and have some knowledge here. I also have done the research on watercooled blocks (as have the professionals who actually make and sell them, and research it EVERY DAY!). Laminar flow is good for some things, but not for all. A plane wing is designed to ONLY have laminar flow for a portion of the airfoil, and turbulent for the rest. The seperation is a design to balance lift and drag (turbulence is better for lift, but causes drag). Now, for heat transfer, I'm a little less informed. I'm guessing that the reason why EVERY waterblock out there is designed to cause turbulent flow is to increase the number of water particles that come into contact with the hot spot. Think about laminar flow... the same water particle will flow all the way across the hot spot, increasing its temp. It will keep increasing its temp all the way across the hot spot and only transfering a small portion of the heat to the other water in the system. In turbulent flow a particle will hit the hot spot, gain temp, then move away and a cooler particle will come in to take more heat. You get much more balanced heat transfer. Laminar isn't a constantly changing flow of cold water, it is a steady flow of the same water. Turbulent flow is constantly changing.
The rest of your pointers are good, though... but it seems like, while you may have done water handling in the past, your experience with watercooling is limited.
It all depends on what your interests in watercooling is... if it is just to have quiet computers, then you don't need much. If you want cool looks and good overclocking, then you'll want higher quality stuff.
Those require no work or research, and are inexpensive. For overclocking or to make it look cool with windowed cases, you either buy an expensive kit or build yourself (which requires research).
Good kits: Asetek (good pick for a new user) danger den (good quality, requires some research) other
If you want to build your own (as good as the high end kits at the same price as the low end kits), you'll need: block (Maze 4 or similar) pump (Via Aqua) radiator (pick heater core style) reservoir (any will work) tubing (clear flex or tygon, 1/2") water wetter (any will work) clamps fan (120mm, look for quiet)
all of which can be purchased at any of those sites. The radiator can even be the heater core from an '84 Chevrolet Chevette ($16 at Autozone).
Using nuclear drives in space can be done right now, not 30 years off. The only reason we don't do it is politics. Actually, last year Pres. Bush opened a very nice hole to possibly allow their use. In my Sr. Design class in college we had nuclear drives on the mars mission. The technology is there; the money to do it is there (it's relatively inexpensive); the political backing is not. Zubrin (crackpot or not, your call) even had a design for one in his book 5 years ago.
Technically, I guess you could, but you'd have to:
disassemble the piano
put into pintos
take out and reassemble the piano, then test for quality.
Isn't it much easier to shove a piano into a van?
Now, if you are moving the pianos a long distance and the pintos can drive faster than the van, maybe the time wasted tearing down the piano can be made up.
It could use it as a bargaining chip: all CEOs really need a prank monkey to keep them amused.
They could train it as a fighting monkey to either threaten litigious CEOs or to make the EFF more money by fighting in monkey battles.
Monkeys are cute, having one at the defense table could really sway a judge or jury.
Monkeys can infiltrate bad corporations and mess up filing systems, break computers, throw feces at secretaries (the lawyers are already used to feces being thrown at them).
Actually, you misread his misspelling... he meant to say:
"...which was killing millions of Americans through puberty"
It's a hard stage in life, but regardly of Bush's policies we all have to pass through it. Some may not live to gain from it, but I believe puberty only makes us a stronger country.
I've been using Thunderbird as my primary mail client since the alpha came out a few weeks ago. It is very stable (no crashes as of yet), and has a very small memory footprint. I also like that it isn't tied to Mozilla or Firebird since they crash a lot more often.
Sure Maggie can read that spreadsheet... assuming she has the same or newer version of Excel... and that she has all the (virus friendly) macros turned on... and that she has the Toolpack Addins installed.
I used to do support for a large number of purely office users (business office managers, secretaries, etc). I was always fielding questions as to why they couldn't open one person's document or why another person couldn't open theirs. This was at a large public university, so funds weren't just growing on trees; therefore we couldn't just upgrade everytime MS did. Also, with every upgrade there are some tool/method/appearance changes; this means that Maggie has to relearn how to do her special tasks (not all of them, but some).
It just felt to me that with every Office upgrade, MS tried to do something dramatically different (as opposed to just fixing bugs or giving speed increases). And when you have a large number of users set in their ways (working nicely and efficiently), changing them on a regular basis is not a good idea.
There are two main types of carbs: Simple and Complex.
Simple carbs are those that can't be broken down into anything more useful than just calories. These are things like junk foods (cookies, chips, ice cream, etc).
Complex carbs can be broken down into simpler parts: sugar, fibre, nutrients, etc. These are things like bread and cereal, fruits and vegetables. They have calories and sugars, too, but once broken down they are healthier.
The Atkins diet ONLY succeeds because people cut out junk foods since they are carbs. It would work just as well if they only cut out junk food.
To stay on topic, though... the biggest thing for this guy is to cut out the damn beer. Alcohol is empty calories. It gives your body nothing but calories. Oh, and screw those fat asses that look at you weird at work. If they have a problem with you trying to get in shape while at work, that's their issue, not yours.
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nice try
kilo means 1000
period
only in the computer world does it mean anything else.
This site defines what computer folks should be using: the kibi
summary: kilo=1000=10^3
kibi=1024=2^10
Have you ever considered that maybe they patented it so that some large corporation COULDN'T? This could be a goodwill patent, similar to releasing code under the GPL (nobody can horde it completely for themselves).
Also, if I make or discover something that completely changes the world and makes it an amazingly better place, you better fscking believe I'm going to patent it and make money. I would release it to the world at a fair price (i.e. not marking it up 1000% like most drug companies), but make some money on it.
Well, seeing as how I already pay 8% sales tax online in California (since most online retailers are based in CA), this might have the effect of LOWERING the tax I pay. It depends, of course, on the tax rate they choose for this "Unified" system. If the rate is lower, will CA join up seeing as most places sell from CA and the state already gets a ton of money?
Read the post with a little more open eyes... I wasn't giving accurate numbers. There probably 10,000 telemarketing companies, but only a percentage of those are large enough to do much lobbying. The 2 million was just a rough guess... the article just said "millions" of employees. And while the population is 300 million, many of those are children and retirees that won't a) have a job affected by this, b) have a phone number, or c) vote.
The court said the FTC didn't have the power to make this law and had overstepped its bounds...
Excuse me, but not only did Congress approve this, but 50 million Americans did, too. If 50 million Americans say a law should go through, then I'm thinking that it should go through. If 100 telemarketing companies (and their 2 paltry million employees) say it shouldn't, well, majority rules in a democracy. 25 to 1, we win.
There are still plenty of appeals to come... this is a district court, so it can still go up to the Supreme Court if it has to. Even if the FTC can't get it done, there is more than enough support in Congress to pass their own law or do whatever they can do about it.
Contrary to most comments here about how this isn't needed because of uber uptimes of linux l33t users, some people would benefit from this. Any gamers who have to dual boot to windows to play some games will want this (you think HL2 will play on Wine when it comes out?). There was a time when I would reboot almost everyday (before BF1942 was playable on Wine). Sure, saving a 30 seconds or so per day isn't a big deal, but it's nice to be on par with WinXP's boot time.
Besides the V8 and the Keg one, I wouldn't say these are too extreme. This guy has some real case mods. In my opinion, if you aren't building the case from scratch, it's not really extreme.
OK, so you say it got expensive to put 38 gallons of gas in your horribly huge vehicle (my mid-size sedan only has a 15 gallon tank)... Why were you putting that much gas in? If it's so expensive, why not change your habits and drive less? Why not buy a different vehicle?
His whole point was that raising the gas price doesn't change people's habits, and you just confirmed that. You said you spent your money on gas instead of Dew, that isn't changing your driving habits (but it might mean you'll lose a little weight from the decreased sugar intake).
More to the point of your post, though, is that yes, some vehicles (trucks) need a big engine to haul crap around... but only a very small percentage of the population actually needs one of those vehicles. My grandpa drove a mid-size sedan when he was raising his 6 kids, so you can't use the "I need it to ferry around my kids" excuse. With a 38 gallon gas tank, I'm assuming you have a truck... what do you use that large of a truck for? Would an S-10 or Ranger not work to haul stuff? Or is it an SUV that usually has one person and no cargo except groceries? If you actually use your overly large vehicle, how often do you use it for its purpose? If only once a month, maybe you can get a smaller car for the daily use and not spend much more money overall since you'll have decreased gas costs (a small used car can cost $1000, which you'll save in two years of gas costs). If you absolutely use that beast everyday for work, you can have your company pay for it or deduct it as a business expense.
The thing is, nothing at all is as cheap as gas. A gallon costs $2 in L.A. A gallon of water costs almost that much. A gallon of milk is more, so is a gallon of gatorade, mountain dew, etc. In Europe gas costs $5/gallon. Do you see many SUVs and trucks over there? No. Do they have a different type of person over there with fewer needs for large vehicles? No. They have the same needs as you do, but they just don't buy them.
Umm... you must have been reading the book in reverse negative format. As supply stays constant and demand increases, there is a shift of the curve and cost goes up. Now, if you want to assume that supply is variable, as demand goes up so will supply to meet that demand; but that is assuming cost stays the same, which it won't. In the end, increased demand will always mean increased cost with a product like oil.
For technology things, that can be a different story... tech advances and larger production scales make cost of production go down, so a higher demand could make price go down but only if supply goes up.
Ummm, basketball and football aren't the only sports available for men to play. At my university, we couldn't have a men's gymnastics team or volleyball team. And I went to a rather large public university (40,000 students). At smaller colleges with less funding, sports such as wrestling, soccer, and swimming get the axe. In my highschool, we had 200 guys sign a petition to get a men's vball team going, but the administration said they couldn't.
Man, did any of you read the article? Yes, the law suits in the past were pretty silly... involving a computer's speakers making them "in the music business."
That is not the case today. Apple Computer has been sued and lost twice already to the tune of $50 million. Now they open a website named AppleMusic which sells music. If that doesn't put them in the music business, I don't know what does. Not only that, but AppleMusic could easily be confused with Apple Corp's music business.
This is a stupid mistake by a company that KNOWS they will lose a suit (since it has happened in the past with much more obscure violations). In those other suits, I would've sided with Apple Computer but not in this one.
Are you freakin kidding me? You need to reconfigure your system if you're having that kind of problem. Seriously. I was running a k6-2 350 with 384M ram and was able to run mozilla mail (much larger and slower). Thunderbird is already pretty darn fast compared to MozMail, Lotus Notes (what I am forced to use at work, what a waste or resources that is for just mail), and KMail. Granted, I have run into the occasional memory leak with TBird, but that is less than once per day (I use it all day everyday at work and home).... and it's only a 0.1 release.
"You could have requested to be added to the do
not call lists for each individual call center,
and eventually you'd have been removed from all
the call centers."
Umm, I do just that. Every time any telemarketer calls while I'm home, I tell them that. I also ask them if they are a member of the DMA (which most aren't). This will NEVER stop the illegal auto-dialed calls... it also doesn't stop the calls that come from companies that hang up if they call you and THEIR reps aren't available to talk to you (but keep your number in their list). One company called twice a day for 3 weeks only to hang up because nobody was there on their end (I called the atty general to file a complaint and finally got the issue resolved).
The whole point is that saying "put me on your do not call list" DOES NOT WORK. And, even if it did, it would take a year to get through to every call center that might call me if I waited for them to call. Not only that, but once I move and change phone numbers, the calls start right back up... a central do not call list allows me to quickly stop those calls again.
"And if they called you back within 10 years,
you could sue them. That's the law."
Have you tried to sue a telemarketer for calling? I have. It is not easy, and I did end up giving up. First off, getting the necessary info from them takes knowledge of what you need. Next, you have to go through a long, arduous process of court systems and contacting call centers and proof and stuff like that. It sucks.
"You're probably also the kind of person who
gets mad if we call as early as 8AM or as late
as 9PM, aren't you? Well, that's the US law, so
if you don't like it, contact your government
and get your laws changed."
Ummm... excuse me? Isn't that EXACTLY what this story is about? We, the U.S. people, are saying we don't want you to call. The government is finally listening and changing the law. Now, the telemarketers are getting angry. They don't like it? That's the law, as you say.
"At the end of the day, you've taken away jobs and hurt the economy. That's why this is a bad idea."
That is the worst and most idiotic argument for telemarketing I've ever heard... and it is the exact one that telemarketers use.
Yes, it will take away jobs, but you know what? I don't give a crap. Screw those people for taking a job harassing me. It's called capitalism: the market doesn't want them, so they don't prosper. Would you complain if they made SPAM illegal?
As for hurting the economy, I doubt that will matter in the long term. Sure, there will be a lot of lost jobs; but they aren't highly skilled/trained jobs, so those people can move to any other unskilled labour position. The market will adjust.
41 million people DON'T WANT THEM CALLING! That's about as many people as voted for G.W.Bush. I'm on the DMA's no call list, and I still get calls... that shows their self-regulating DOES NOT WORK!
While some of your pointers are correct, there are two shining errors.
There are so many reasons why watercooled machines don't use just DI water, that it will take me time to type them out... but here goes:
1) Pure water doesn't transfer heat as well (bad).
2) Pure water can harbor algae and junk, because you can't hermetically seal this kind of system no matter how hard you try (bad).
So water wetter is added to the water. It reduces surface adhesion, transfers heat better, and helps keep bacteria in check. Now, without pure water, you CAN use automotive components. The heater core from an old Chevette is one of the best darn radiators for watercooling out there (and $16 vs. $60).
The next error is in your amazement about turbulence in the the flow. As an aerospace engineer, I've taken classes on aerodynamics and heat transfer and have some knowledge here. I also have done the research on watercooled blocks (as have the professionals who actually make and sell them, and research it EVERY DAY!). Laminar flow is good for some things, but not for all. A plane wing is designed to ONLY have laminar flow for a portion of the airfoil, and turbulent for the rest. The seperation is a design to balance lift and drag (turbulence is better for lift, but causes drag). Now, for heat transfer, I'm a little less informed. I'm guessing that the reason why EVERY waterblock out there is designed to cause turbulent flow is to increase the number of water particles that come into contact with the hot spot. Think about laminar flow... the same water particle will flow all the way across the hot spot, increasing its temp. It will keep increasing its temp all the way across the hot spot and only transfering a small portion of the heat to the other water in the system. In turbulent flow a particle will hit the hot spot, gain temp, then move away and a cooler particle will come in to take more heat. You get much more balanced heat transfer. Laminar isn't a constantly changing flow of cold water, it is a steady flow of the same water. Turbulent flow is constantly changing.
The rest of your pointers are good, though... but it seems like, while you may have done water handling in the past, your experience with watercooling is limited.
If you plan to BYO, these stories (and all the others at this site) help a ton:
overview howto
kit vs DIY
It all depends on what your interests in watercooling is... if it is just to have quiet computers, then you don't need much. If you want cool looks and good overclocking, then you'll want higher quality stuff.
For just quietness, a low priced kit is fine:
iceberg 1
iceberg 2 (recommended by me)
maxxpert
aquarius 2 (also a good buy)
Those require no work or research, and are inexpensive. For overclocking or to make it look cool with windowed cases, you either buy an expensive kit or build yourself (which requires research).
Good kits:
Asetek (good pick for a new user)
danger den (good quality, requires some research)
other
If you want to build your own (as good as the high end kits at the same price as the low end kits), you'll need:
block (Maze 4 or similar)
pump (Via Aqua)
radiator (pick heater core style)
reservoir (any will work)
tubing (clear flex or tygon, 1/2")
water wetter (any will work)
clamps
fan (120mm, look for quiet)
all of which can be purchased at any of those sites. The radiator can even be the heater core from an '84 Chevrolet Chevette ($16 at Autozone).
Hope that helps.
Using nuclear drives in space can be done right now, not 30 years off. The only reason we don't do it is politics. Actually, last year Pres. Bush opened a very nice hole to possibly allow their use. In my Sr. Design class in college we had nuclear drives on the mars mission. The technology is there; the money to do it is there (it's relatively inexpensive); the political backing is not. Zubrin (crackpot or not, your call) even had a design for one in his book 5 years ago.
Really? You do?
hmmm...
mind hookin me up?
Have them email me: boarder@godineedadate.org
Or you can just tell me where they hang out.
Can you put a grand piano in a pinto?
Technically, I guess you could, but you'd have to:
disassemble the piano
put into pintos
take out and reassemble the piano, then test for quality.
Isn't it much easier to shove a piano into a van?
Now, if you are moving the pianos a long distance and the pintos can drive faster than the van, maybe the time wasted tearing down the piano can be made up.
The EFF could make really good use of a monkey...
It could use it as a bargaining chip: all CEOs really need a prank monkey to keep them amused.
They could train it as a fighting monkey to either threaten litigious CEOs or to make the EFF more money by fighting in monkey battles.
Monkeys are cute, having one at the defense table could really sway a judge or jury.
Monkeys can infiltrate bad corporations and mess up filing systems, break computers, throw feces at secretaries (the lawyers are already used to feces being thrown at them).
Actually, you misread his misspelling... he meant to say:
"...which was killing millions of Americans through puberty"
It's a hard stage in life, but regardly of Bush's policies we all have to pass through it. Some may not live to gain from it, but I believe puberty only makes us a stronger country.
I've been using Thunderbird as my primary mail client since the alpha came out a few weeks ago. It is very stable (no crashes as of yet), and has a very small memory footprint. I also like that it isn't tied to Mozilla or Firebird since they crash a lot more often.
Sure Maggie can read that spreadsheet... assuming she has the same or newer version of Excel... and that she has all the (virus friendly) macros turned on... and that she has the Toolpack Addins installed.
I used to do support for a large number of purely office users (business office managers, secretaries, etc). I was always fielding questions as to why they couldn't open one person's document or why another person couldn't open theirs. This was at a large public university, so funds weren't just growing on trees; therefore we couldn't just upgrade everytime MS did. Also, with every upgrade there are some tool/method/appearance changes; this means that Maggie has to relearn how to do her special tasks (not all of them, but some).
It just felt to me that with every Office upgrade, MS tried to do something dramatically different (as opposed to just fixing bugs or giving speed increases). And when you have a large number of users set in their ways (working nicely and efficiently), changing them on a regular basis is not a good idea.
There are two main types of carbs: Simple and Complex.
Simple carbs are those that can't be broken down into anything more useful than just calories. These are things like junk foods (cookies, chips, ice cream, etc).
Complex carbs can be broken down into simpler parts: sugar, fibre, nutrients, etc. These are things like bread and cereal, fruits and vegetables. They have calories and sugars, too, but once broken down they are healthier.
The Atkins diet ONLY succeeds because people cut out junk foods since they are carbs. It would work just as well if they only cut out junk food.
To stay on topic, though... the biggest thing for this guy is to cut out the damn beer. Alcohol is empty calories. It gives your body nothing but calories. Oh, and screw those fat asses that look at you weird at work. If they have a problem with you trying to get in shape while at work, that's their issue, not yours.