I just don't get all the people buying pure unadulterated shit from purely fanatical magazines chock full of COLT, GLOCK and other gun ads, not to mention the pre-fab bunkers that are both above ground and below ground for a whole lot of money.
Me? I purely don't care. I don't care. I don't care. Ask me if I care, and I'll say no.
Think I care? Screw it. If the world ends, it ends. We all got to die someday -- might as well have some company!
Let people kill themselves in the streets due to mass stupidity and people guarding their land. They're the ones not Y2K compliant playing like 1800 or 1900 in the Western USA and not 2000.
I still don't care.
Prepare? It's winter here and we get snow often. I go shopping once a week. It's not like I'll have a month of food on hand, but a week, just like the week before, and the week before that and next week and the week after...
From Dish Network, http://www.dishnetwork.com/service/questions/insta llation.htm
7. We're ready to install the dish antenna, but our homeowner's association forbids it. Can you help us?
Answer: We would love to have you as a customer. Our dish antenna size is 18" and complies with the Satellite Consumer Bill of Rights, a regulation released by the FCC on August 6, 1996. This regulation PREEMPTS local zoning ordinances and Homeowner Association covenants and restrictions on DBS dish antennas. This rule was required by Congress in the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Some HOA'S have been fighting to keep restriction rights by threatening court action on tenants with dish antennas, in some cases arguing that a dish antenna is installed in a common area, calling the air space above the homeowners roof where the dish antenna is installed, the common area. Congress is on your side in this matter. For more specific information please contact:
SBCA (Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association)..... (703) 549-6990, and at http://www.sbca.com
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION..... (202) 418-0163 and at http://www.fcc.gov
...certain material should be withheld from minors.
I got into a whole stash of 8mm stag films, porno magazines and what-not at a friend's house at around the age of 10... so what?
I am not a child molester. I am not a sex addict. I have not abused a woman. My friend and I watched the movies (I knew what 8mm was back then, he didn't), put them back and went back often!
The part that's way too out of whack with the United States at least is the lack of responsibility where it lies. From the posessor of a hot cup of coffee to parents who weren't too busy to have a kid, but suddenly don't care enough to inform, educate and mold the same.
Sure, I saw some pretty hardcore material back then, but we knew what it was. Heck, I had looked it up in an encyclopedia just a year before -- again for the naked pictures. While I was there, though, I did read the accompanying text....
In my case, some person approached me for my domain (which I was using) to purchase it. I declined on the first try. He repeatedly emails me a couple more times, phones my house(! I guess since I have my resume online, he thinks he has a right to call me and annoy -- luckily I wasn't home), and I keep declining over email. I try to give him alternatives, but he sites other sales (download.com, etc) instead. Finally he says "final offer" and I am finally relieved that this guy is going to leave me alone.
Does this mean I'm not a "squatter" since I didn't sell and I have no intention whatsoever to sell ever?
Of course, if someone offered me $1,000,000 for it, would that make me a squatter since I would sell it?
I hate this bloody term ["squatting"]. The House of Reps should do something more productive like get re-do the out-of-whack welfare system in the US and stay the hell away from my computer.
Doesn't bother me. I've used it for so long, my fingers are still trained to type "altavista.digital.com" without errors and faster than I can even think it.
So far the screenshots look like it's almost the same... not like the move from dejanews.com to deja.com... now that sucked.
I don't click on the ads anyway for large corporations (Digital/Compaq, Yahoo, etc).../. gets my clicks, still, though.
Montana has a speed limit now. Effective was May 30, 1999 or so.
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Wow...
I just mean "wow." You just don't get it at all do you? I mean really guys... these are domain names that are international, have to conform to international rules and international standards.
When I went to apply for my vanity license plates for my automobile, I had to choose one "in good taste and decency."
Go try to register something offensive in another country's TLD. I bet that you can't.. Are you going to go to the Country of Niue and complain to them? I doubt it. Are you yelling "censorship" to them? No? Why not?
Face it, you're blaming the US government because it's convenient. I'm taking odds you live here. You're under 25, no kids, not married and are pretty pissed off that you can't do whatever you please. Well cry me a river. I've had enough of you people picketing on the streets when I'm trying to get to my job for some lame-ass cause that doesn't exist. Go to work for a change.
Just because you can't register "fuckthegovernment.com" doesn't mean you can't put it on your front page of your website of "ilovegovernment.com" Now that's the way to get your message out.
Instead of fuck.com, register love.com. Instead of watchmesuckmyowncock.net, register fuzzyfurrybunny.com.
Please people, use YOUR intelligence and ingenuity to get your supposed "important" message out.
I admit I do have an Internet connection and I use it regularly....
...at work. Infrastructure and Unix environmental support deems it necessary I have a connection.
But I'm not bashing technology. I'm bashing peoples' conceptions that it it is necessary.
In the workplace, these devices will only be used by employers to give them an excuse to have their employees in a sort of always-at-work mode...
I'd see someone wearing these things on their eye and not say "that's cool," but I would be left saying "Wow... how sad." No one, and I mean that, no single person needs to be that connected, 24/7/365.25.
...Yes... more on than they currently are with laptops, pagers, cell phones, pdas, SecurID, etc. ad nauseum. I don't know about anyone else here, but at 5pm work stops and I go home. There's also an hour break in there for lunch.
There's nothing more satisfying when I go home than to "turn off my mind" and do what I want.
Heck, there were even weekends in the summer when I didn't even watch television or look at my wristwatch!
Don't get me wrong. I like computers, but things like this are going to be the end of a personalized civilization where no one will know anyone in "RL" and it will be totally online.
Sorry, I'll keep my two 21 inch CRTs, my 22-inch tall tower case, my 16-inch tall tower case and my NeXT slab until they cease to function.
The last time I turned on my "PDA" was a week ago to check an area code. Last time my pager went off was over a month ago. I use my cell phone to contact friends for lunch and/or drinking beer. I rarely use email since it's overrun with crap. I don't own a laptop since I don't see/have a need.
And I will fight to the death to not have a computer the size of 4 sticks of butter on my person. If anything is the size of 4 sticks of butter it better be Land-O-Lakes Lightly Salted.
Then again, it may be the midwestern attitude coming out of me again.
I was suffering from this up until about a year ago when I thought "there must be some other way."
I never did use a wrist brace, nor an ergonomic keyboard (still don't). You may want to look into those if you are not already using them. I was to the point of numbness from fingers to past the elbow in my right hand and partially in my left. The numbness comes after the pain stage. Even at this point I was able to test at over 60 WPM.
I now take frequent breaks from typing and staring at the screen -- either by reading a magazine, book or something related to work, but not typing. It will also help the eyes from watching a flickering screen all day and help to stop your eyes from strain. It's helped on all counts over the past two years. No sore hands, wrists, arms and no more frequent "eye-aches."
Watching my mom go through the surgery kind of left me adamant about not having the surgery. Her doctor fouled up somehow and the strength she has now is a mere fraction (10% one "specialist said) of what she used to have. Not being able to lift a gallon of milk, a pot of water, or even go back to work, or even still sleep on that arm because it still hurts.
I didn't have the time to read all the comments here, so I may be redundant. Let my possible redundancy be a reinforcement though as to the alternatives.
I plan on not even having cable service to my house when I move! Cable service has left a bad taste in my mouth for years. Satellite and DSL for me.
Inexpensive SDSL too.... $49.95 a month and servers are allowed. 1GB upload per month free, each additional $20. Unlimited downloads though. One IP (additional IP's being offered is being considered). Max is 1.024 MBps up and back if you are within 1.7 miles.
Only rule: can't resell the bandwidth. Run any services! Real good FAQ and it even addresses web hosting, and registering a domain with your IP.
If you're in the Chicago area, seriously look into this at this website. The only downside is that the bandwidth decreases the furhter you are from the phone company's CO.
No phone company either like Ameritech (Amerisuck) is involved other than at the Central Office.
However the DSL line is only for DSL... not able to be shared with the voice line.
Actually, it will be to see the half of my family still in Italy, and they're expecting me the year after next. Also it will be when my parents and relatives in the States will be going...:-)
I'm already planning a [driving] vacation to Anchorage next summer, so a skip over the pond will have to wait until the next anyway.
I'm not quite the mountain biking in Vietnam type, but congratutlations and best of luck in the future!
But this time from the other side of the wall... the executives.
This is mildly disturbing. Push push push, money money money, and the last line of the article puts it all into a perspective...
These people don't have hobbies. They don't read books or paint or travel. They do this. They have nothing else to do. There is no way out.
Sorry. If this was my lifestyle, I'd find a way out after I made myself disgustingly wealthy where I wouldn't have to work again and be well off.
Again from the article, "There is no real estate left to buy without leaving the Valley, and nobody can risk doing that," says Winblad. "So there will be no big estates."
I'd buy an island. Screw it. What good is it if you can't enjoy it. You definitely "can't take it with you" after you die, so what are you doing with it? Commendable that they don't want to see their parents in a [retirement/old age] home. I sure don't want to see mine in one either. What happens, time will only tell.
For 5 to 7 years I might be able to be into this lifestyle. Sorry, I just don't understand how people can do this for a life.
There's more to life than work. Work to live, don't live to work -- as I always say when these California-work-a-life stories come around.
Then again, maybe that's why I'm an employee, not an employer. Then again I've seen more than 75% of the US in my travels. Over the next years I'll off to Europe. Co-workers have been as far as Kuala Lumpur. What kind of life is it if you can't leave 408, 415, 510, 650 and/or 925?
Slashdot Mirror
...Information Superhighway...
Hi! Ho! YOW! I'm surfing ARPAnet!
(rearrange the letters, son!)
-m
"Why is my monitor blue?" into Mandarin Chinese...
(For those who don't know or forgot, follow this Slashdot link.
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I just don't get all the people buying pure unadulterated shit from purely fanatical magazines chock full of COLT, GLOCK and other gun ads, not to mention the pre-fab bunkers that are both above ground and below ground for a whole lot of money.
Me? I purely don't care. I don't care. I don't care. Ask me if I care, and I'll say no.
Think I care? Screw it. If the world ends, it ends. We all got to die someday -- might as well have some company!
Let people kill themselves in the streets due to mass stupidity and people guarding their land. They're the ones not Y2K compliant playing like 1800 or 1900 in the Western USA and not 2000.
I still don't care.
Prepare? It's winter here and we get snow often. I go shopping once a week. It's not like I'll have a month of food on hand, but a week, just like the week before, and the week before that and next week and the week after...
Who cares? I sure don't.
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From Dish Network, http://www.dishnetwork.com/service/questions/insta llation.htm
..... (703) 549-6990, and at http://www.sbca.com
..... (202) 418-0163 and at http://www.fcc.gov
7. We're ready to install the dish antenna, but our homeowner's association forbids it. Can you help us?
Answer: We would love to have you as a customer. Our dish antenna size is 18" and complies with the Satellite Consumer Bill of Rights, a regulation released by the FCC on August 6, 1996. This regulation PREEMPTS local zoning ordinances and Homeowner Association covenants and restrictions on DBS dish antennas. This rule was required by Congress in the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Some HOA'S have been fighting to keep restriction rights by threatening court action on tenants with dish antennas, in some cases arguing that a dish antenna is installed in a common area, calling the air space above the homeowners roof where the dish antenna is installed, the common area. Congress is on your side in this matter. For more specific information please contact:
SBCA (Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association)
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
I got into a whole stash of 8mm stag films, porno magazines and what-not at a friend's house at around the age of 10... so what?
I am not a child molester. I am not a sex addict. I have not abused a woman. My friend and I watched the movies (I knew what 8mm was back then, he didn't), put them back and went back often!
The part that's way too out of whack with the United States at least is the lack of responsibility where it lies. From the posessor of a hot cup of coffee to parents who weren't too busy to have a kid, but suddenly don't care enough to inform, educate and mold the same.
Sure, I saw some pretty hardcore material back then, but we knew what it was. Heck, I had looked it up in an encyclopedia just a year before -- again for the naked pictures. While I was there, though, I did read the accompanying text....
Let them try to get money out of me...
I can't afford to even pay attention.
I thought it was funny. Then again I got a kick out of Married with Children and ribald shows like that on the tele.
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So...
In my case, some person approached me for my domain (which I was using) to purchase it. I declined on the first try. He repeatedly emails me a couple more times, phones my house(! I guess since I have my resume online, he thinks he has a right to call me and annoy -- luckily I wasn't home), and I keep declining over email. I try to give him alternatives, but he sites other sales (download.com, etc) instead. Finally he says "final offer" and I am finally relieved that this guy is going to leave me alone.
Does this mean I'm not a "squatter" since I didn't sell and I have no intention whatsoever to sell ever?
Of course, if someone offered me $1,000,000 for it, would that make me a squatter since I would sell it?
I hate this bloody term ["squatting"]. The House of Reps should do something more productive like get re-do the out-of-whack welfare system in the US and stay the hell away from my computer.
-m
Doesn't bother me. I've used it for so long, my fingers are still trained to type "altavista.digital.com" without errors and faster than I can even think it.
So far the screenshots look like it's almost the same... not like the move from dejanews.com to deja.com... now that sucked.
I don't click on the ads anyway for large corporations (Digital/Compaq, Yahoo, etc)...
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I don't get what the f*** is so special about Comdex.
There was a vast change in the 1999 Chicago Comdex that I didn't like. Couldn't put my finger on it, but I left feeling disappointed.
Montana has a speed limit now. Effective was May 30, 1999 or so.
I walk to work : )
Wow...
I just mean "wow." You just don't get it at all do you? I mean really guys... these are domain names that are international, have to conform to international rules and international standards.
When I went to apply for my vanity license plates for my automobile, I had to choose one "in good taste and decency."
Go try to register something offensive in another country's TLD. I bet that you can't.. Are you going to go to the Country of Niue and complain to them? I doubt it. Are you yelling "censorship" to them? No? Why not?
Face it, you're blaming the US government because it's convenient. I'm taking odds you live here. You're under 25, no kids, not married and are pretty pissed off that you can't do whatever you please. Well cry me a river. I've had enough of you people picketing on the streets when I'm trying to get to my job for some lame-ass cause that doesn't exist. Go to work for a change.
Just because you can't register "fuckthegovernment.com" doesn't mean you can't put it on your front page of your website of "ilovegovernment.com" Now that's the way to get your message out.
Instead of fuck.com, register love.com. Instead of watchmesuckmyowncock.net, register fuzzyfurrybunny.com.
Please people, use YOUR intelligence and ingenuity to get your supposed "important" message out.
Now get crackin'! I wanna see results.
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The people who came up with this sound like they were on more powerful "medicinal" substances then the ones who thought up "Real World."
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I sure hope you knew I was kidding...
I was trying to sound like MS Tech Support ; )
The error is most likely on their end.
Most likely on your side.
The one time I had that error, it turned out to be a corrupted Windows 95 license.
Microsoft tech support said to reinstall with Windows 98. I went to the store and bought Win98-Full version and installed. It worked like a charm!
Itanium and have Pizza Hut shine their logo on it or just send up a rocket with their corporate logo...
Then again that's just silly and it would never happen in real life....
right?
Marge: I really think this is a bad idea.
Homer: Marge, I agree with you -- in theory. In theory, communism works. In theory.
Episode 1F15, "Bart Gets an Elephant"
I admit I do have an Internet connection and I use it regularly....
...at work. Infrastructure and Unix environmental support deems it necessary I have a connection.
But I'm not bashing technology. I'm bashing peoples' conceptions that it it is necessary.
In the workplace, these devices will only be used by employers to give them an excuse to have their employees in a sort of always-at-work mode...
I'd see someone wearing these things on their eye and not say "that's cool," but I would be left saying "Wow... how sad." No one, and I mean that, no single person needs to be that connected, 24/7/365.25.
...Yes... more on than they currently are with laptops, pagers, cell phones, pdas, SecurID, etc. ad nauseum. I don't know about anyone else here, but at 5pm work stops and I go home. There's also an hour break in there for lunch.
Sorry, but I just don't understand.
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I totally agree with this. "Where will it end?"
There's nothing more satisfying when I go home than to "turn off my mind" and do what I want.
Heck, there were even weekends in the summer when I didn't even watch television or look at my wristwatch!
Don't get me wrong. I like computers, but things like this are going to be the end of a personalized civilization where no one will know anyone in "RL" and it will be totally online.
Sorry, I'll keep my two 21 inch CRTs, my 22-inch tall tower case, my 16-inch tall tower case and my NeXT slab until they cease to function.
The last time I turned on my "PDA" was a week ago to check an area code.
Last time my pager went off was over a month ago.
I use my cell phone to contact friends for lunch and/or drinking beer.
I rarely use email since it's overrun with crap.
I don't own a laptop since I don't see/have a need.
And I will fight to the death to not have a computer the size of 4 sticks of butter on my person. If anything is the size of 4 sticks of butter it better be Land-O-Lakes Lightly Salted.
Then again, it may be the midwestern attitude coming out of me again.
-m
I urge you strongly to consider alternatives.
I was suffering from this up until about a year ago when I thought "there must be some other way."
I never did use a wrist brace, nor an ergonomic keyboard (still don't). You may want to look into those if you are not already using them. I was to the point of numbness from fingers to past the elbow in my right hand and partially in my left. The numbness comes after the pain stage. Even at this point I was able to test at over 60 WPM.
I now take frequent breaks from typing and staring at the screen -- either by reading a magazine, book or something related to work, but not typing. It will also help the eyes from watching a flickering screen all day and help to stop your eyes from strain. It's helped on all counts over the past two years. No sore hands, wrists, arms and no more frequent "eye-aches."
Watching my mom go through the surgery kind of left me adamant about not having the surgery. Her doctor fouled up somehow and the strength she has now is a mere fraction (10% one "specialist said) of what she used to have. Not being able to lift a gallon of milk, a pot of water, or even go back to work, or even still sleep on that arm because it still hurts.
I didn't have the time to read all the comments here, so I may be redundant. Let my possible redundancy be a reinforcement though as to the alternatives.
-m
I plan on not even having cable service to my house when I move! Cable service has left a bad taste in my mouth for years. Satellite and DSL for me.
Inexpensive SDSL too.... $49.95 a month and servers are allowed. 1GB upload per month free, each additional $20. Unlimited downloads though. One IP (additional IP's being offered is being considered). Max is 1.024 MBps up and back if you are within 1.7 miles.
Only rule: can't resell the bandwidth. Run any services! Real good FAQ and it even addresses web hosting, and registering a domain with your IP.
If you're in the Chicago area, seriously look into this at this website. The only downside is that the bandwidth decreases the furhter you are from the phone company's CO.
No phone company either like Ameritech (Amerisuck) is involved other than at the Central Office.
However the DSL line is only for DSL... not able to be shared with the voice line.
-m
Actually, it will be to see the half of my family still in Italy, and they're expecting me the year after next. Also it will be when my parents and relatives in the States will be going... :-)
I'm already planning a [driving] vacation to Anchorage next summer, so a skip over the pond will have to wait until the next anyway.
I'm not quite the mountain biking in Vietnam type, but congratutlations and best of luck in the future!
-m
But this time from the other side of the wall... the executives.
This is mildly disturbing. Push push push, money money money, and the last line of the article puts it all into a perspective...
These people don't have hobbies. They don't read books or paint or travel. They do this. They have nothing else to do. There is no way out.
Sorry. If this was my lifestyle, I'd find a way out after I made myself disgustingly wealthy where I wouldn't have to work again and be well off.
Again from the article, "There is no real estate left to buy without leaving the Valley, and nobody can risk doing that," says Winblad. "So there will be no big estates."
I'd buy an island. Screw it. What good is it if you can't enjoy it. You definitely "can't take it with you" after you die, so what are you doing with it? Commendable that they don't want to see their parents in a [retirement/old age] home. I sure don't want to see mine in one either. What happens, time will only tell.
For 5 to 7 years I might be able to be into this lifestyle. Sorry, I just don't understand how people can do this for a life.
There's more to life than work. Work to live, don't live to work -- as I always say when these California-work-a-life stories come around.
Then again, maybe that's why I'm an employee, not an employer. Then again I've seen more than 75% of the US in my travels. Over the next years I'll off to Europe. Co-workers have been as far as Kuala Lumpur. What kind of life is it if you can't leave 408, 415, 510, 650 and/or 925?
-m
the Democrats are the liberals.
research research research.