I will never understand how people come up with good, well thought out crime plans, and then totally screw up the execution by rushing things or bring too much attention to the project. Just dumb.
Well, the brilliant plan to milk billions from the Federal Reserve Bank in Denver is still going strong, undiscovered.
The cable installer for my old Mac clone (powercomputing powerwave) didn't exactly understand that it was a Mac and not a Windows machine. It took him quite some time to figure it out while I rocked with laughter. Luckily, he had no software to install on it.:)
Don't mock the poor fellow. If he _did_ have any real technical knowledge, you know he'd be with us reading/. all day.
I just wanna know why "games" like football, soccer, rugby, and hockey act out their violence (granted, without killing anybody (usually)) and are hailed as something "good for the kids"...
They're not really "games". They're prep for war. Full of nationalism & jingoism and "kill 'em!" grunting. US Football is perfect. The original Greek olympic games were all warlike things (think "javelin").
In real life, its:
10 points for guys on bicycles.
200 points for anyone pushing a baby stroller
50 points for people carrying shopping bags
Atleast, thats what my dad taught me.
He forgot to tell you: double points if they're taking evasive action.
In reality, I'm not a knight in shining armour, nor am I the evil gun-toting gangster. But both make for interesting excercises of the mind. Sort of like walking a mile in someone else's shoes, even if that someone never could be in the world as we know it.
_Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde_ by Robert Louis Stevenson explores the same thing. Which animal are you feeding?
The word "terrorist" means that civilian targets and infrastructure are targeted specifically to manipulate the emotions of a larger civilian population.
Just think: round-the-clock bombing in WW2. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo. It was called "terror bombing", I think.
People might like to think that Apple is somehow better than Microsoft, but trust me - if they had Microsoft's monopoly, their behavior would be no better, in fact, given that they would have a monopoly on hardware too - things would be much worse.
This is just an exercise in speculation. I mean, if _I_ had absolute totalitarian power, there's no telling what might happen, but I don't, so you can trust me. BWAHAHAHAH!
If the greeting card popped up with a dialog that said "I will spam everyone in your contacts, and I will install spy-ware on your machine" when you tried to execute it, then nobody in their right mind would.
If you put concrete-filled barrels on the freeway, surrounded them with cones, and posted signs for 20 miles warning about the upcoming barrels, people would most definitely be plowing into them.
You agree to waive all rights granted you under the US Constitution...
Certain rights are inalienable, meaning you can't even give them away, and they certainly cannot be taken away. Legitimately, that is, because it happens all the time.
I am a law student. Every 1st year law student(1-L) must take a class called Contracts I. I am in this course right now.
Then I suggest you stop reading/. right now and start paying attention to your professor. For crying out loud, we here on/. aren't real lawyers, we're just pretending.
You mean you don't agree with my EULA for my worm that says it has the right to format your hard drive if you agree to this EULA on page 15 paragraph 3? I'm really waiting for someone to try that. "Hey, they agreed to let me wipe out their system! It's not MY fault they're stupid."
When I was young and stupid (but I repeat myself there) I would sneak up to a friend, hold up the end of a black felt-tip marker next to his face (from behind), and then say, "don't look!" He'd always look and get line drawn across his face. I always retorted, "I _told_ you not to look."
i'm sick of seeing advertising everywhere i go-even if it is for linux. i would like to step outside and not see anything being advertised, but that is just me.
I agree. Although I love how the Houston Astros had to scramble to rename Enron Field.
Getting a bill even considered for voting is extremely difficult. A setback this earlier is probably a death sentence. If money is greasing the wheels it can only grease so much.
Once again, we see indisputable proof of venting on/. I call it the/. venting effect.
When on a cross-country flight this past december on JetBlue airlines, they specifically told us that we were permitted to use cell phones once we got above 10,000 ft.
I would hope so! How are they supposed to hold their gin & tonic, a phone, and still fly the airplane??
Ah, this reminds me of the old story (probably from Reader's Digest). A pilot inadvertently left the intercom on, and after they got to altitude and on autopilot, he commented to his co-pilot, "Now all I need is a martini and a stewardess!" A stewardess in the cabin heard it, and started running to the front, to get the intercom shut off. A passenger yelled out, "you forgot the martini!"
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You're Neal Stephenson, aren't you?
You forgot: 53% - I am not a lawyer, but I play one on /., and here's my legal opinion.
Well, the brilliant plan to milk billions from the Federal Reserve Bank in Denver is still going strong, undiscovered.
Vi or emacs? Please support your position with irrefutable proof.
I can't wait til they add email and newsgroup reading and html composing!
Yeah, but until Steve Gibson goes hysterical, it doesn't really exist.
Don't mock the poor fellow. If he _did_ have any real technical knowledge, you know he'd be with us reading /. all day.
They're not really "games". They're prep for war. Full of nationalism & jingoism and "kill 'em!" grunting. US Football is perfect. The original Greek olympic games were all warlike things (think "javelin").
He forgot to tell you: double points if they're taking evasive action.
_Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde_ by Robert Louis Stevenson explores the same thing. Which animal are you feeding?
Just think: round-the-clock bombing in WW2. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo. It was called "terror bombing", I think.
I thought it was a good chuckle, as an play on the compulsive nitpicking that goes on here at /.
This is just an exercise in speculation. I mean, if _I_ had absolute totalitarian power, there's no telling what might happen, but I don't, so you can trust me. BWAHAHAHAH!
If you put concrete-filled barrels on the freeway, surrounded them with cones, and posted signs for 20 miles warning about the upcoming barrels, people would most definitely be plowing into them.
The IRS gets it. Actually, this kind of reminds me of _The Producers_.
No doubt! And did you know that "gullible" is not in the dictionary? I know, because I checked.
Certain rights are inalienable, meaning you can't even give them away, and they certainly cannot be taken away. Legitimately, that is, because it happens all the time.
Then I suggest you stop reading /. right now and start paying attention to your professor. For crying out loud, we here on /. aren't real lawyers, we're just pretending.
When I was young and stupid (but I repeat myself there) I would sneak up to a friend, hold up the end of a black felt-tip marker next to his face (from behind), and then say, "don't look!" He'd always look and get line drawn across his face. I always retorted, "I _told_ you not to look."
Sometimes both parties are stupid.
I agree. Although I love how the Houston Astros had to scramble to rename Enron Field.
Unless they're going by the Richard Nixon rule: if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
Once again, we see indisputable proof of venting on /. I call it the /. venting effect.
What do you think first posters are doing?
I didn't know Ford TriMotors could get that high.
Ah, this reminds me of the old story (probably from Reader's Digest). A pilot inadvertently left the intercom on, and after they got to altitude and on autopilot, he commented to his co-pilot, "Now all I need is a martini and a stewardess!" A stewardess in the cabin heard it, and started running to the front, to get the intercom shut off. A passenger yelled out, "you forgot the martini!"