Last year, someone went into a convenience store in rural Michigan, and bought a candy bar. They paid for it with a $200 bill with George W Bush's face on it. The clerk gave the customer about $199.30 in change without a problem.
I think it was the manager who first raised the question about the validity of this bill later.
"I am guessing you get your 'objective' news and perspectives from a 'respectable' source like CNN"
No, they are too far left-wing and cannot be trusted. Every journalist and news source is biased, but some actually make an effort to to objective, such as AP (Associated Press).
"(aka CNN/AOL/AOLTW Books/AOLTW Interactive/Time Inc./Time Warner Cable/HBO/New Line Cinema/Turner Broadcasting/Warner Bros./Warner Music Group/etc.)"
Only two of those divisions named are news divisions: Time and CNN.
"Money didn't "flow" like that at all when cable was in its infancy. One of the selling points was that aside from the local stations, none of the other channels had commercials because you were already paying for it."
I've had cable since the late 1960s. Its real infancy: there were no channels without commercials other than the one at the bottom of the dial where the camera panned back and forth across weather dials.
The selling point was that you could receive stations period. Without cable, the broadcasters were too distant to see.
In 2003, I still have cable since it the only way to see the broadcast networks.
"I must be a bit confused. Which features has Tivo removed from my system?"
I read on Slashdot a few months about about a feature, perhaps a hardware jack, that made it easy to copy TV shows to your hard disk....and that whatever feature it was, Tivo took it away or was going to take it away. Or maybe it was an encryption that was added?
All the Russians need is one of Wilhelm Reich's cloudbusters to do whatever they want with the clouds! They'd better make sure they dress up like the Sean Connery weather guy from "The Avengers" movie while they use it.
"But everytime it rains
You're here in my head
Like the sun coming out
Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen" Cloudbusting, by Kate Bush.
"....take away those things that prevent them from thinking (television, newspapers"
If there ever was anything good to riot over, then this sort of censorship is one of them. I am one of those who believes strongly in the First Amendment, and that there is never anything to be gained this kind of censoring. If you don't like books and newspapers, don't buy them. If you don't like TV, turn it off.
I think you will be the one whose thinking atrophies.
I wonder what the goal of creating such a "Fake" story would be? Why would someone go to the bother of it?
I cannot see how it makes anyone feel differently about the United States military, one way or another. The only person I feel strongly favorable toward is that Iraqi lawyers who helped Lynch, and I do not see how that helps a "propaganda war".
Part of one of the recent telecommunications acts resulted in our cable company being banned from carrying a UPN affiliate in our area. They would have to pay fines to the government if they put a UPN affiliate in their line-up.
We might eventually get the show a week or two or three later.
Can't forget Flash. Thanks to Flash, we have the phenomenon of "flashlocking", in which you can't even enter Web sites without either upgrading Flash, or waiting while a crude cartoon that would even embarass Hanna-Barbera draws itself for 15 minutes.
Using Flash on your site is like hanging a "do not disturb" sign on your doorknob.
Here is an excellent example of a flashlocked site:
http://www.globemusic.com
The people who run it apparently have no problem with turning away the vast majority of casual browsers. If you can get in (last time I knew), the Flash-designed page was very bad: just about everything black or very dark with tiny unreadable letters.
Before the Internet, computer users enjoyed frequent crashes, lockups, bizarre messages, infinite loops, and freezes that required the three-fingered salute.
Then along came the Internet, where everything was in HTML, which had none of these problems (the worst that could happen was a screen that looked bad).
But then along came Java and Java Script, and the Internet has "caught up", so now web pages are full of frequent crashes, lockups, bizarre messages, infinite loops. Once again computer users can enjoy when they were used to in the pre-Internet days. No longer are they in an environment free of the mistakes of bad programmers .
"In terms of market share, BSD and Apple are indeed "dying"."
However, market share percentage has nothing to do with something "dying".
In an expanding computer market, you can have something lose market share while still selling more and more units and being installed on more and more desktops (or being a desktop, as with Apple), while the "other guys" are expanding faster (hence a shrinking market share).
However, you certainly can't say that something that is growing in real terms is "dying". Are *BSD and Apple dying in real terms: do fewer and fewer actual numbers of users use them?
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Last year, someone went into a convenience store in rural Michigan, and bought a candy bar. They paid for it with a $200 bill with George W Bush's face on it. The clerk gave the customer about $199.30 in change without a problem.
I think it was the manager who first raised the question about the validity of this bill later.
"I am guessing you get your 'objective' news and perspectives from a 'respectable' source like CNN"
No, they are too far left-wing and cannot be trusted. Every journalist and news source is biased, but some actually make an effort to to objective, such as AP (Associated Press).
"(aka CNN/AOL/AOLTW Books/AOLTW Interactive/Time Inc./Time Warner Cable/HBO/New Line Cinema/Turner Broadcasting/Warner Bros./Warner Music Group/etc.)"
Only two of those divisions named are news divisions: Time and CNN.
Kelerian, I don't know, but I suspect that this one is going to have a much higher percentage of troll mods than the usual item.
"The really weird thing is that there are 520 million votes for Gates."
Due to the usage of voting machines with Intel Pentium microprocessors, the vote total was actually 520,000,000.996556 votes.
"Cancel cable service."
Sorry, I have to admit I like The Simpsons. If I cancel cable, I won't be able to see it anymore.
Another Wright quote:
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger""
"Money didn't "flow" like that at all when cable was in its infancy. One of the selling points was that aside from the local stations, none of the other channels had commercials because you were already paying for it."
I've had cable since the late 1960s. Its real infancy: there were no channels without commercials other than the one at the bottom of the dial where the camera panned back and forth across weather dials.
The selling point was that you could receive stations period. Without cable, the broadcasters were too distant to see.
In 2003, I still have cable since it the only way to see the broadcast networks.
"I must be a bit confused. Which features has Tivo removed from my system?"
I read on Slashdot a few months about about a feature, perhaps a hardware jack, that made it easy to copy TV shows to your hard disk....and that whatever feature it was, Tivo took it away or was going to take it away. Or maybe it was an encryption that was added?
I've thought of Tivo and Replay TV in the past, but as time goes on the companies degrade their products by getting rid of useful features like this.
How feasable is it to do something as good, but without the crippling, on a computer with a large hard disk and good video card?
All the Russians need is one of Wilhelm Reich's cloudbusters to do whatever they want with the clouds! They'd better make sure they dress up like the Sean Connery weather guy from "The Avengers" movie while they use it.
"But everytime it rains
You're here in my head
Like the sun coming out
Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen" Cloudbusting, by Kate Bush.
"....take away those things that prevent them from thinking (television, newspapers"
If there ever was anything good to riot over, then this sort of censorship is one of them. I am one of those who believes strongly in the First Amendment, and that there is never anything to be gained this kind of censoring. If you don't like books and newspapers, don't buy them. If you don't like TV, turn it off.
I think you will be the one whose thinking atrophies.
"Your gait betrays your identity
Watch your step! The Pentagon is developing a radar-based device that can identify people by the way they walk"
That does it for me. No more walking. I'm buying a Segway.
"I can't dance, I can't talk.
the only thing about me is the way I walk" - 'Genesis'
10. They are those nice 80 year old men in the clean white coats...
9. "If you can't submit the program in batch mode, it just ain't worth submitting"
8. They're the guys with spot welders in their briefcase.
7. Compared to what they are used to, any PC or Mac is a portable computer
6. They know EBDIC, but to them edlin is a newfangled thing.
5. They know DB. They don't know Debian
4. They don't trust any machine under 3000 lbs.
3. They come home from a hard day's work with hands covered in soot and burnt oil.
2. The telltale COBOL on the resume
1. They knew all about dangling chads and punch cards without having to read Slate
I wonder what the goal of creating such a "Fake" story would be? Why would someone go to the bother of it?
I cannot see how it makes anyone feel differently about the United States military, one way or another. The only person I feel strongly favorable toward is that Iraqi lawyers who helped Lynch, and I do not see how that helps a "propaganda war".
Part of one of the recent telecommunications acts resulted in our cable company being banned from carrying a UPN affiliate in our area. They would have to pay fines to the government if they put a UPN affiliate in their line-up.
We might eventually get the show a week or two or three later.
Can't forget Flash. Thanks to Flash, we have the phenomenon of "flashlocking", in which you can't even enter Web sites without either upgrading Flash, or waiting while a crude cartoon that would even embarass Hanna-Barbera draws itself for 15 minutes.
Using Flash on your site is like hanging a "do not disturb" sign on your doorknob.
Here is an excellent example of a flashlocked site:
http://www.globemusic.com
The people who run it apparently have no problem with turning away the vast majority of casual browsers. If you can get in (last time I knew), the Flash-designed page was very bad: just about everything black or very dark with tiny unreadable letters.
The happy face logo is now seen on the Red Planet? What next? Falling prices on falling stars?
"Wal-Mars. Always low gravity. Always."
The happy face logo is now seen on the Red Planet? What next? Falling prices on falling stars?
"Wal-Mars. Always low gravity. Always."
"the first man to circumnavigate the world."
It was Sir Francis Drake, who circumcized the world with a 100 foot clipper.
You can find this and more amazing history facts at:
this guy's messy blog.
Before the Internet, computer users enjoyed frequent crashes, lockups, bizarre messages, infinite loops, and freezes that required the three-fingered salute.
Then along came the Internet, where everything was in HTML, which had none of these problems (the worst that could happen was a screen that looked bad).
But then along came Java and Java Script, and the Internet has "caught up", so now web pages are full of frequent crashes, lockups, bizarre messages, infinite loops. Once again computer users can enjoy when they were used to in the pre-Internet days. No longer are they in an environment free of the mistakes of bad programmers .
That must explain that provision buried within the DMCA that bans chewing gum, and also the penalties which can include caning.
"It's the Ningi, not the Pu that you are thinking of. And you got the size wrong."
No wonder I had all of those problems working the cash register at Milliways!
"In terms of market share, BSD and Apple are indeed "dying"."
However, market share percentage has nothing to do with something "dying".
In an expanding computer market, you can have something lose market share while still selling more and more units and being installed on more and more desktops (or being a desktop, as with Apple), while the "other guys" are expanding faster (hence a shrinking market share).
However, you certainly can't say that something that is growing in real terms is "dying". Are *BSD and Apple dying in real terms: do fewer and fewer actual numbers of users use them?
"We need someone to fill the shoes of Carl Sagan"
If he can also write a novel that can get adapted into a bad Jodie Foster movie about a giant toy gyroscope, he's got the job.
Can I get one on eBay?