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> You'll keep wasting gas until you can't afford it.
True. Or the government could appoint someone to kick your ass every time you go to fill up. That'd discourage you too, wouldn't it?
The problem with some people is they'd rather have the government attempt to solve problems (badly) for them than solve them personally. Imagine if all the money poured into Greenpeace and other such organizations was instead invested in finding an alternate, non-polluting energy source...
From Time Bandits:
(One of Robin Hood's men punches each of the poor before he gives them the rich man's money.)
Decompilers, eh? Outstanding! I finally learned something on Slashdot. How have you used them on the job?
Oh so he observed his friend demonstrating blaster?
Is it that you can't believe anyone would be stupid enough to launch a virus with someone else watching, or, do you just believe in the inherent goodness of man?;-)
this guy is innocent... pause for breath... until proven guilty
Not to pick nits, but he's presumed innocent until proven guilty. And he might still be guilty even if he is proven innocent.
As I've said elsewhere in this thread, this guy modified the virus to email info back to his own website from the infected PCs. Doesn't take a genius (no offense intended, FBI guys) to find out who hosts it and check to see if there's source matching the virus on PCs he owns.
This guy modified the virus to email info back to his own website from the infected PCs. Doesn't take a genius (no offense intended, FBI guys) to find out who hosts it and check to see if there's source matching the virus on PCs he owns.
"And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling FBI guys!!!"
This guy modified the virus to email info back to his own website from the infected PCs. Doesn't take a genius (no offense intended, FBI guys) to find out who hosts it and check to see if there's source matching the virus on PCs he owns.
Though you probably think John Ashcroft planted the evidence.
Decompillers aren't so well known now a days so even an experenced programmer who might normally know what he is looking at might not recognise this as decompiler output and not original source code.
Back in my day we called them disassemblers.
Anyway, the author of this thread says someone witnessed him testing the virus, not modifying it.
I would hesitate to call tech support personnel "specialists". With some of the vendors I've worked with the tech support positions were filled with new hires. Once you'd spent time in tech support purgatory you got a programming position.
Anyway, when I've got a computer problem here are the steps I follow:
1. Check the vendor's web site for a solution.
2. Check web/newsgroups for a solution.
3. Email the company's tech support. Include copious documentation (Dr. Watson logs, screenshots) to convince them I have tried everything they're going to suggest already.
4. As a last resort, I suppose, actually call tech support.
Egypt today announced it is banning Matrix Reloaded because of the pointless extended dance sequence and interminable fight between Neo and Smith. Egyptian officials went on to say that there is a better storyline in the animated short film Last Flight of the Osirus.
Is this the same Chaos Computer Club whose members sold U.S. military intelligence to the KGB? Did that "make this world a little bit more friendly to intelligent beings"?
I agree with Mitreya. You must be one of those posters to comp.lang.* that gleefully tell the newbies to RTFM. They get discouraged from asking any more questions, and the answer never gets into the archives.
Space appears black because the universe is expanding--the other stars are drawing away from us; from our frame of reference this causes a change in the frequecy of light we perceive (i.e, red shift). If the universe were collapsing, space would be white.
"...we're taught that the Civil War... was fought to free the slaves... rather than the fact that the South had a lot more money and power than the North..."
Whoa, where'd you come up with that gem, Reb?
If the South had more money, why didn't they use paid labor instead of slave labor? If the South had more money why didn't it just buy a mercenary army? If the South had more power... should I go on? The Civil War wasn't fought over slavery or because "the North was jealous of the South", anymore than World War II was fought to rescue the concentration camp victims. The Civil War was fought over Federalism versus states' rights, y'all.
" A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The Bill of Rights enumerates rights of people, not the government. The people are the militia. If the people don't have guns, then you can't have a well-regulated militia. Seems pretty clear to me.
Speaking as a conservative who gets his news from sources like Clearchannel, if you want UNBIASED media coverage *of* the U.S. you would do better to listen to BBC World Service.
Is there anything more ironic than a bloody Englishman lecturing someone else about imperialism? The people who brought you Kuwait, Kashmir, Israel and the IRA for that matter? The country that caused the American Revolution? Crikey!
We're not talking about.22's or 30-0-6's here, or even 12ga. shotguns. We're talking about infantry rifles with 7.62mm ammo.
Er, U.S. infantry in WWII used the M-1 Garand which fired 30.06. An AK-47 fires a 7.62x39mm bullet. The 30.06 is bigger at 7.62x54, and consequently more lethal, with a longer range.
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> You'll keep wasting gas until you can't afford it.
True. Or the government could appoint someone to kick your ass every time you go to fill up. That'd discourage you too, wouldn't it?
The problem with some people is they'd rather have the government attempt to solve problems (badly) for them than solve them personally. Imagine if all the money poured into Greenpeace and other such organizations was instead invested in finding an alternate, non-polluting energy source...
From Time Bandits:
(One of Robin Hood's men punches each of the poor before he gives them the rich man's money.)
Robin Hood: Is, is, is that absolutely necessary?
Merry Man: "He says, yeah, he's afraid it is.
Decompilers, eh? Outstanding! I finally learned something on Slashdot. How have you used them on the job?
;-)
Oh so he observed his friend demonstrating blaster?
Is it that you can't believe anyone would be stupid enough to launch a virus with someone else watching, or, do you just believe in the inherent goodness of man?
this guy is innocent... pause for breath... until proven guilty
Not to pick nits, but he's presumed innocent until proven guilty. And he might still be guilty even if he is proven innocent.
As I've said elsewhere in this thread, this guy modified the virus to email info back to his own website from the infected PCs. Doesn't take a genius (no offense intended, FBI guys) to find out who hosts it and check to see if there's source matching the virus on PCs he owns.
Would that convince you if you were a juror?
I'm gonna post this again:
This guy modified the virus to email info back to his own website from the infected PCs. Doesn't take a genius (no offense intended, FBI guys) to find out who hosts it and check to see if there's source matching the virus on PCs he owns.
"And I would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling FBI guys!!!"
Assuming this is true. Assuming this is true???
Have you even read the news?
This guy modified the virus to email info back to his own website from the infected PCs. Doesn't take a genius (no offense intended, FBI guys) to find out who hosts it and check to see if there's source matching the virus on PCs he owns.
Though you probably think John Ashcroft planted the evidence.
Decompillers aren't so well known now a days so even an experenced programmer who might normally know what he is looking at might not recognise this as decompiler output and not original source code.
Back in my day we called them disassemblers.
Anyway, the author of this thread says someone witnessed him testing the virus, not modifying it.
I would hesitate to call tech support personnel "specialists". With some of the vendors I've worked with the tech support positions were filled with new hires. Once you'd spent time in tech support purgatory you got a programming position.
Anyway, when I've got a computer problem here are the steps I follow:
1. Check the vendor's web site for a solution.
2. Check web/newsgroups for a solution.
3. Email the company's tech support. Include copious documentation (Dr. Watson logs, screenshots) to convince them I have tried everything they're going to suggest already.
4. As a last resort, I suppose, actually call tech support.
...we built the great pyramids [kasbah.com] that survived for thousands of years that you cant even replicate today...
Great Pyramid: 6,000,000 tons, 482 ft.
Hoover Dam: 6,600,000 tons, 726 ft.
Good Lord, anyone know the stats on the Three Rivers Dam in China?
Egypt today announced it is banning Matrix Reloaded because of the pointless extended dance sequence and interminable fight between Neo and Smith. Egyptian officials went on to say that there is a better storyline in the animated short film Last Flight of the Osirus.
Is this the same Chaos Computer Club whose members sold U.S. military intelligence to the KGB? Did that "make this world a little bit more friendly to intelligent beings"?
Too bad we can't harness the energy wasted by everyone replying to this article with the same point about the Second Law of Thermodynamics...
I agree with Mitreya. You must be one of those posters to comp.lang.* that gleefully tell the newbies to RTFM. They get discouraged from asking any more questions, and the answer never gets into the archives.
I never played M.U.L.E. (1983), but I did play Utopia (1982) on the Intellivision, which preceded it. Utopia was also an economic simulation.
> I hear they're planning to send Buzz Aldrin by himself to Europe to personally pummel the ESA's people.
If that really is his name.
The BBC is government owned.
I wonder if it spends much time condemning the British Empire's colonialism in the region.
Geez, does this guy get paid by the word, or is he a regular NPR listener?
"Ricky Menjivar stands five-seven with short, spiky black hair and the scent of Calvin Klein's Crave..."
Who gives a damn? I lost interest in the story before he even got to the subject matter!
"...black holes are just an educated guess..."
Things like accretion discs, x-ray emission and gravitation lensing (e.g., Einstein's Cross) do tend to lend the theory some credence...
Space appears black because the universe is expanding--the other stars are drawing away from us; from our frame of reference this causes a change in the frequecy of light we perceive (i.e, red shift). If the universe were collapsing, space would be white.
"...we're taught that the Civil War... was fought to free the slaves... rather than the fact that the South had a lot more money and power than the North..."
Whoa, where'd you come up with that gem, Reb?
If the South had more money, why didn't they use paid labor instead of slave labor? If the South had more money why didn't it just buy a mercenary army? If the South had more power... should I go on? The Civil War wasn't fought over slavery or because "the North was jealous of the South", anymore than World War II was fought to rescue the concentration camp victims. The Civil War was fought over Federalism versus states' rights, y'all.
" A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
The Bill of Rights enumerates rights of people, not the government. The people are the militia. If the people don't have guns, then you can't have a well-regulated militia. Seems pretty clear to me.
Speaking as a conservative who gets his news from sources like Clearchannel, if you want UNBIASED media coverage *of* the U.S. you would do better to listen to BBC World Service.
Is there anything more ironic than a bloody Englishman lecturing someone else about imperialism? The people who brought you Kuwait, Kashmir, Israel and the IRA for that matter? The country that caused the American Revolution? Crikey!
We're not talking about .22's or 30-0-6's here, or even 12ga. shotguns. We're talking about infantry rifles with 7.62mm ammo.
Er, U.S. infantry in WWII used the M-1 Garand which fired 30.06. An AK-47 fires a 7.62x39mm bullet. The 30.06 is bigger at 7.62x54, and consequently more lethal, with a longer range.
"And both parties are far, far to the right of the average American as a consequence."
How do you justify this ridiculous statement? Clearly the *average* American would fall *between* the two parties' ideologies.
Is there some vast conspiracy steering the elections, or, more probably, do Americans get the government they want (and deserve)?
Does the word "Kamikaze" mean anything to you???