An incendiary response but actually pretty insightful. I' m guessing that whoever modded you flamebait did not see that your tongue was in your cheek. the key words are "if we really wanted to". That hits the nail on the head. Could we stop illegals from crossing over? Stem the flow of drugs crossing the borders? Of course. How much money do we want to throw in that direction. Don't forget though, those mexicans are propping a large segment of our economy up with their cheap replaceable labor. Therefore we don't really want to stop them we just want to control and slow them down, as dysfunctional as the whole thing sounds.
If the question is,"What makes America Great?" the answer is a loud and resounding, "IMMIGRANTS!"
is compelling: Every single person I've talked to about selling stuff says that they'll get 10 replies to an ad, and not a single person will actually show up. But the last two things that I sold on CL I only had to deal with one flake, the second guy came through and on time, as promised. The bad part is the people that flake out don't even call to say they are not coming. It is best to get a cell # or make them call 1 hour before the set time and place, and reconfirm. It is just good practice anyway. Matter of fact I sold a pair of huge speakers just last night to the second respondant to my ad. He got a good deal, and I got some Jacksons and more room in my apartment. It is good that they are doing something about the New York RE section, it is the worst in the entire world. Between the people that will sell you (ficticious) lists of landlords with no fee apartments to the fake (too good to be true) listings that are real estate agents trying to loop you in to their agency, the section is a far shot from what it used to be. It used to be the only place to find decent no-fee apartments in NYC. unfortunately the real estate industry has corrupted CL long ago just as they did the village voice before that. Thank god they are doing something about it. It is just to easy for the snakes to operate there right now. Buyer beware, as usual.
Thats the plotline to A Fistful of Dollars, Clint Eastwood rides in to town and plays two rival families against each other, and ends up with all of the money. I like how you think AxemRed.
I'm no hardware hacker, but the way I see it, we could just get one of these BIOS things from an old dell and sort of hotwire it into the motherboard, or uh maybe this daughterboard thing that Wikipedia talks about. I learned everything that I know about hardware architecture from Wikipedia. ITS SO GREAT. Anyway, it would be like using an Atari ST with the Magic Sac. Except backwards. And upside down. Kind of like putting a VW engine in a burned out Benz.
I do, as long as you have a fast ass mac. I have a dual 2.5 g5 and it runs well, but on my 450mhz single g4 you coudln't run anything else at the same time and not have tons of drawn out pinwheels. Then again, most things sucked wind on that old heap. Thats why I stuck 3 hard drives in it and made it my fileserver which it excels at, but I digress. Azureus also tons of great plugins, the coolest is the one that can scan an rss feed for your search terms and automatically add torrents for say, your favorite TV show, er I mean legal linux distro. Also I don't know what it is called, upnp i think, but it configures your cable/dsl router for you if you want it to. Azureus basically rules. I haven't even gotten into half of the things it can do... I am never quite sure if I am spelling it right though.
Isn't a lot of this in reaction to McCarthyism and the considerable domestic spying that occurred during that era, the Hoover led FBI that kept files on citizens, the hollywood blacklist, etc? Wasn't long ago when it was almost a crime to be anything but white and establishment. Probably a lot of older japanese/gay/black/socialist/leftist people could tell you about some shit from that time.
Lord knows what they would have thought of these GNAA hooligans.
I find that the BOFH mentality is usually just jokes. It takes a special kind of sociopath to want "revenge" for every perceived wrongdoing to their person. The thoughts of formatting someone's hard drive for revenge are fun to think, but the committing of the crime is an entirely different story.
I'll never buy anything transcoded to a lossy format. Apple has been ready to deliver full quality audio for some time (ALAC, apple lossless audio codec), but I am sure the labels are adamantly against _THAT_
Many of us need little diversions like this to make something as boring (don't flame me, its just my opinion) as chemistry a little less boring. If the professor is having fun with his subject it makes it that much more engaging to the students. I am sure you had at least one teacher whose passion for his/her subject had dwidled to the point that seeking tenure and pension had become more of a focus than passionately teaching students, and in turn you probably found it harder to stay awake during said teachers classes.
Another way to prevent damage is use an accelerometer which the embedded F/W will use to sense impending doom
I love that! What we really need is some sort of device that makes it jump up in the air and levitate at around 5 feet whilst beeping and flashing some bright LED's so we can find the little buggers when they get lost. Just an idea though. Anyway, back to the drawing board.
Heh, never been to the Genius Bar in Soho, NYC eh? Used to be 1 -2 hour wait was minimum. Now I think you even need to make some sort of apointment.... Don't know how that store is run now, as I was send screaming from there several times. It is a mob scene on normal shopping days.
Complaining won't work. Spraypaint swastikas on the ads, they'll be erased in no time.
(not that they're nazis, but swastikas always get the clean-up crews in action.)
And if you are lucky, you may accidentally spray paint it on some Jewish owned private property (never more than a stone's throw away in NYC) and get charged with a hate crime. Good luck solving your future problems with that "two wrongs" thingy.
Dude, you havent seen dr who 2005 !?! Freakin daleks flying all over the place blowing shit up with freakin lasers?! OMG Download the torrent immediately !!
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An incendiary response but actually pretty insightful. I' m guessing that whoever modded you flamebait did not see that your tongue was in your cheek. the key words are "if we really wanted to". That hits the nail on the head. Could we stop illegals from crossing over? Stem the flow of drugs crossing the borders? Of course. How much money do we want to throw in that direction. Don't forget though, those mexicans are propping a large segment of our economy up with their cheap replaceable labor. Therefore we don't really want to stop them we just want to control and slow them down, as dysfunctional as the whole thing sounds.
,"What makes America Great?" the answer is a loud and resounding, "IMMIGRANTS!"
If the question is
is compelling: Every single person I've talked to about selling stuff says that they'll get 10 replies to an ad, and not a single person will actually show up. But the last two things that I sold on CL I only had to deal with one flake, the second guy came through and on time, as promised. The bad part is the people that flake out don't even call to say they are not coming. It is best to get a cell # or make them call 1 hour before the set time and place, and reconfirm. It is just good practice anyway. Matter of fact I sold a pair of huge speakers just last night to the second respondant to my ad. He got a good deal, and I got some Jacksons and more room in my apartment. It is good that they are doing something about the New York RE section, it is the worst in the entire world. Between the people that will sell you (ficticious) lists of landlords with no fee apartments to the fake (too good to be true) listings that are real estate agents trying to loop you in to their agency, the section is a far shot from what it used to be. It used to be the only place to find decent no-fee apartments in NYC. unfortunately the real estate industry has corrupted CL long ago just as they did the village voice before that. Thank god they are doing something about it. It is just to easy for the snakes to operate there right now. Buyer beware, as usual.
And you don't consider that an investment? It definitely won't depreciate.
There's money to be made on both sides DRM.
Thats the plotline to A Fistful of Dollars, Clint Eastwood rides in to town and plays two rival families against each other, and ends up with all of the money. I like how you think AxemRed.
Isnt this Skinny Puppy's label? If it doesn't work out for them, they can always throw
bloody animal organs at the RIAA (a la the Vivisect tour).
Meanwhile the planet goes to hell.....
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicked Cool Ornithology for Dummies
I am sick of working with you amatures ! The correct title for the tome would be:
The Complete Idiot's Ultimate Guide to How to Learn Extreme Wicked Cool Java for Dummies in a Nutshell in 24 Hours
I'm no hardware hacker, but the way I see it, we could just get one of these BIOS things from an old dell and sort of hotwire it into the motherboard, or uh maybe this daughterboard thing that Wikipedia talks about. I learned everything that I know about hardware architecture from Wikipedia. ITS SO GREAT. Anyway, it would be like using an Atari ST with the Magic Sac. Except backwards. And upside down. Kind of like putting a VW engine in a burned out Benz.
You think it's the best one for the Mac?
I do, as long as you have a fast ass mac. I have a dual 2.5 g5 and it runs well, but on my 450mhz single g4 you coudln't run anything else at the same time and not have tons of drawn out pinwheels. Then again, most things sucked wind on that old heap. Thats why I stuck 3 hard drives in it and made it my fileserver which it excels at, but I digress. Azureus also tons of great plugins, the coolest is the one that can scan an rss feed for your search terms and automatically add torrents for say, your favorite TV show, er I mean legal linux distro. Also I don't know what it is called, upnp i think, but it configures your cable/dsl router for you if you want it to.
Azureus basically rules. I haven't even gotten into half of the things it can do... I am never quite sure if I am spelling it right though.
didn't ati diddle the drivers so that commonly used benchmarking games had higher fps too ? q3a to name 1.
or something ?
I think that was the walkthrough to a Scott Adams Adventure that I played back in the day !?!
Scott Adams Adventure 111 : Stranded on Christmas Island
"Volkswagi"
I just threw up in my mouth.
No stupids its already plural, like Vaxen.
Get it right !
Isn't a lot of this in reaction to McCarthyism and the considerable domestic spying that occurred during that era, the Hoover led FBI that kept files on citizens, the hollywood blacklist, etc? Wasn't long ago when it was almost a crime to be anything but white and establishment. Probably a lot of older japanese/gay/black/socialist/leftist people could tell you about some shit from that time.
Lord knows what they would have thought of these GNAA hooligans.
I find that the BOFH mentality is usually just jokes. It takes a special kind of sociopath to want "revenge" for
every perceived wrongdoing to their person. The thoughts of formatting someone's hard drive for revenge
are fun to think, but the committing of the crime is an entirely different story.
where you waif that right.
I really think kate moss doesn't have anything to do with this, despite the recent press tizzy.
Mac have no games, BTW
There's WoW, Nethack, UT, Q3A, MAME and BZFlag you insensitive clod ! What else do you need?
Do less evil
Duke, lets go do some crimes.
Yeah! Lets get sushi and not pay
Yeah, cause sitting on a bike seat is 'comfortable'.
truly insightful. not only that, they can make men sterile !
I'll never buy anything transcoded to a lossy format. Apple has been ready to deliver full quality audio for some time (ALAC, apple lossless audio codec), but I am sure the labels are adamantly against _THAT_
Many of us need little diversions like this to make something as boring (don't flame me, its just my opinion) as chemistry a little less boring. If the professor is having fun with his subject it makes it that much more engaging to the students. I am sure you had at least one teacher whose passion for his/her subject had dwidled to the point that seeking tenure and pension had become more of a focus than passionately teaching students, and in turn you probably found it harder to stay awake during said teachers classes.
Another way to prevent damage is use an accelerometer which the embedded F/W will use to sense impending doom
I love that! What we really need is some sort of device that makes it jump up in the air and levitate at around 5 feet whilst beeping and flashing some bright LED's so we can find the little buggers when they get lost. Just an idea though. Anyway, back to the drawing board.
I do not support the dollar -- I have nearly 98% of my currency in the only true store of wealth: gold and silver.
heh. big mistake, this guy my daughter knows has taught her to spin straw into gold and now the KING HIMSELF wishes to marry her.
rumplestilteskin or something was his name.....
Heh,
never been to the Genius Bar in Soho, NYC eh? Used to be 1 -2 hour wait was minimum. Now I think you even need to make some sort of apointment....
Don't know how that store is run now, as I was send screaming from there several times. It is a mob scene on normal shopping days.
Complaining won't work. Spraypaint swastikas on the ads, they'll be erased in no time. (not that they're nazis, but swastikas always get the clean-up crews in action.)
And if you are lucky, you may accidentally spray paint it on some Jewish owned private property (never more than a stone's throw away in NYC) and get charged with a hate crime. Good luck solving your future problems with that "two wrongs" thingy.
Dude, you havent seen dr who 2005 !?! Freakin daleks flying all over the place blowing shit up with freakin lasers?! OMG Download the torrent immediately !!