But to blame the US for them? Give me a break. Those wars STARTED in Europe. The British claim that we showed up late and took credit - now the original poster is insinuating that we started them. The US just can't do anything to please Europe, can it?
One of my former coworkers had a 10-year gap in his employment history. He was sworn to secrecy, he said.
We had a great time coming up with theories for what he was actually doing during those 10 years.:)
(I should mention that, for all the picking we did, we did believe him, and we felt he wasn't just hiding the job out of embarrassment or something. But you never can be sure!)
As an avid skater, I just have to point to my site's list of skating rinks with websites (rinks without websites won't be on the list, a concept many people have trouble grasping):
Err...people have been "hacking" cars since they were invented. Messing with the computer chips is newer, but it's still been going on for the last 15-20 years or so (before then, cars didn't have computers).
Air intake systems, exhaust systems, turbochargers, superchargers, brake upgrades, wheel upgrades, carburators, nitrous, and many more. These kinds of changes were all made before cars had chips in them and are still done now. (Except now you have to worry about the computer's reaction to your changes.)
--RJ
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You know, it's interesting: in some ways, cars and computers are similar (for example, starting is hard on them). It's worth noting that the people who work on each are pretty much the same: they start playing around with it, and pretty soon they're an expert mechanic or computer repairperson. It's really a matter of confidence and learning, not some mystical knowledge.
--RJ
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Hear, hear.
Like the guy that patched my tire...except, several hours later, they couldn't find the patch, after I had to return because the tire was flat again. Or the guy that 'fixed' my completely disconnected exhaust system (the bolts loosened and fell out): as soon as I fired it up, I could hear an exhaust leak. The manager couldn't believe the mechanic missed it.
At the schools I've gone to, it seemed like the review questionnaires were worded to make it difficult to say anything bad about a professor.
Unfortunately, I don't remember specific examples, but I do remember being annoyed that I couldn't easily tell the University what the problems with this professor were.
I like to pick on the Mormons as much as anybody...possibly more than anybody else. (I'm not Mormon, I'm atheist.) But, fer cryin' out loud, this joke is old. The Mormons changed the multiple-wives doctrine about a century ago, and Utah outlawed it around the same time.
Read up on Mormons and get some new fodder for humor. Don't worry-you can retire this joke and still have plenty of material. Trust me.:)
Clicking on the link got me a message from Websense about "adult content". Yeah, it's adult - children have better sense than to get stuck in these meetings.
Damn. When I played with Mandrake (back in the 8.2 days), I was thoroughly impressed with its configuration and setup routines and how everything simply worked out of the box. This is surprising.
I didn't mention it, but I agree with your original point: the average user doesn't understand the concept of symlinks - these are the same people that think deleting the desktop icon means removing the program (so much so that Windows XP has a little message that it's NOT deleting the program when you do delete the desktop icon).
Even Slackware installs the symbolic link for the JRE in the Mozilla plugins directory. If Slackware does it, I'm sure most or all of the friendlier distributions also do it.
What distribution did you install that doesn't do that?
Skylarov was arrested for something he did while in Russia that was illegal in the US.
In your example, you'd be doing something illegal in [whatever country] while you're in that country. So, yes, I'd say it's possible you'd be arrested, but it's not the same situation as Skylarov.
I had two 1986 Escorts and one 1987 Escort, all three were good cars from a reliability point of view (except the 1987 needed a ring job). My brother's 1993 Escort GT has something like 225,000 miles on it right now and still runs well, although it does burn oil. His previous car was a 1999 Escort GT that ran for 200,000 miles before needing any major work. The car he had before that was an '85 that also ran quite well.
My other brother bought an '85 (I think) Escort that had broken its timing chain. He rebuilt the engine and drove that for quite a while before selling it.
They were extremely reliable cars for us. Even the 1987 that burned so much oil never once let me sit or had trouble starting--and I was running it in zero degree F (-17 C) temperatures that winter.
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I knew what wars he was talking about...
But to blame the US for them? Give me a break. Those wars STARTED in Europe. The British claim that we showed up late and took credit - now the original poster is insinuating that we started them. The US just can't do anything to please Europe, can it?
--RJ
Wait, the US brought two wars to Germany?
Wow. I guess you can blame anything on the US if you try hard enough...
--RJ
Ironically, they were going out of style!
--RJ
One of my former coworkers had a 10-year gap in his employment history. He was sworn to secrecy, he said.
:)
We had a great time coming up with theories for what he was actually doing during those 10 years.
(I should mention that, for all the picking we did, we did believe him, and we felt he wasn't just hiding the job out of embarrassment or something. But you never can be sure!)
--RJ
So, you have the OTHER working Bigfoot that's left in the universe.
At least, I think my Bigfoot still works, but I haven't used it in a long time.
Those things had a terrible reputation...I thought mine was the only one left working.
--RJ
As an avid skater, I just have to point to my site's list of skating rinks with websites (rinks without websites won't be on the list, a concept many people have trouble grasping):
http://roller-skate.org/rinks/rinkpages.html
Enjoy. :)
--RJ
Everyone noticed it. That's why there's a "(sic)" after the word "megabytes" in the article summary...
--RJ
No wonder Toyota has that reputation for reliability! I bet they have IBM Deskstars in them!
Uh...wait...that's not right...
--RJ
Err...people have been "hacking" cars since they were invented. Messing with the computer chips is newer, but it's still been going on for the last 15-20 years or so (before then, cars didn't have computers).
Air intake systems, exhaust systems, turbochargers, superchargers, brake upgrades, wheel upgrades, carburators, nitrous, and many more. These kinds of changes were all made before cars had chips in them and are still done now. (Except now you have to worry about the computer's reaction to your changes.)
--RJ
You know, it's interesting: in some ways, cars and computers are similar (for example, starting is hard on them). It's worth noting that the people who work on each are pretty much the same: they start playing around with it, and pretty soon they're an expert mechanic or computer repairperson. It's really a matter of confidence and learning, not some mystical knowledge.
--RJ
Hear, hear.
Like the guy that patched my tire...except, several hours later, they couldn't find the patch, after I had to return because the tire was flat again. Or the guy that 'fixed' my completely disconnected exhaust system (the bolts loosened and fell out): as soon as I fired it up, I could hear an exhaust leak. The manager couldn't believe the mechanic missed it.
And don't get me started on the crooks...
--RJ
At the schools I've gone to, it seemed like the review questionnaires were worded to make it difficult to say anything bad about a professor.
Unfortunately, I don't remember specific examples, but I do remember being annoyed that I couldn't easily tell the University what the problems with this professor were.
--RJ
Hey, I just wanted to skate in college! I'd go skating every weekend, sometimes during the week, too!
...Oh... sorry, nevermind...
What?
--Skater
I like to pick on the Mormons as much as anybody...possibly more than anybody else. (I'm not Mormon, I'm atheist.) But, fer cryin' out loud, this joke is old. The Mormons changed the multiple-wives doctrine about a century ago, and Utah outlawed it around the same time.
:)
Read up on Mormons and get some new fodder for humor. Don't worry-you can retire this joke and still have plenty of material. Trust me.
Thanks.
--RJ
Heck, we might as well switch to IPv6 while we're at it! ;)
--RJ
Clicking on the link got me a message from Websense about "adult content". Yeah, it's adult - children have better sense than to get stuck in these meetings.
--RJ
I have PIII 733 with 128 megs of RAM right here running Windows 2000. It sucks: slow to load anything, slow to switch between apps.
Of course, there are several services running that I can't disable, and Lotus Notes isn't exactly light on memory either...
--RJ
Damn. When I played with Mandrake (back in the 8.2 days), I was thoroughly impressed with its configuration and setup routines and how everything simply worked out of the box. This is surprising.
I didn't mention it, but I agree with your original point: the average user doesn't understand the concept of symlinks - these are the same people that think deleting the desktop icon means removing the program (so much so that Windows XP has a little message that it's NOT deleting the program when you do delete the desktop icon).
--RJ
Even Slackware installs the symbolic link for the JRE in the Mozilla plugins directory. If Slackware does it, I'm sure most or all of the friendlier distributions also do it.
What distribution did you install that doesn't do that?
--RJ
Skylarov was arrested for something he did while in Russia that was illegal in the US.
In your example, you'd be doing something illegal in [whatever country] while you're in that country. So, yes, I'd say it's possible you'd be arrested, but it's not the same situation as Skylarov.
--RJ
1. Check their privacy policy.
2. Demand a breathalyzer. It's your right.
--RJ
You know someone has to say it...
In MY day, we had to remember the every bit ourselves!
--RJ
Not to mention the gov't tracking you down for rooting one of the rovers...
--RJ
Also, there was a time when hitting "Print Screen" (in DOS) would actually print the current screen on your printer.
--RJ
What years?
I had two 1986 Escorts and one 1987 Escort, all three were good cars from a reliability point of view (except the 1987 needed a ring job). My brother's 1993 Escort GT has something like 225,000 miles on it right now and still runs well, although it does burn oil. His previous car was a 1999 Escort GT that ran for 200,000 miles before needing any major work. The car he had before that was an '85 that also ran quite well.
My other brother bought an '85 (I think) Escort that had broken its timing chain. He rebuilt the engine and drove that for quite a while before selling it.
They were extremely reliable cars for us. Even the 1987 that burned so much oil never once let me sit or had trouble starting--and I was running it in zero degree F (-17 C) temperatures that winter.
--RJ