Kind of a key point there folks. I'm guessing 20 or so percent of respondents said "Yeah, right. They won't "treat us fairly" so what's the point." I'm also guessing the other 15% or so said something along the lines of "I like cheese".
Don't use so many caps in your subject line, it's like screaming at a baby who is hungry.
Back in my day, we didn't even have days. We just had nights, we were too poor to afford days. Heck, sometimes we could barely afford to pay attention.
What was I saying? Oh yeah. Back in my day, we had nights. Not days. But we liked it that way. And we didn't have no fancy-schmanzy graphics for our video games. In fact, we didn't even have screens. We had dirt and sticks and used our imagination. But it was damned hard to do, sonny-Jim, cause it was always night...cause we couldn't afford to pay for daylight. Well, I do remember we got daylight twice back in Naught three, but that's cause Al Gore's dad, you might remember him, built a name for himself in the Lincoln Log industry, anyway, ole Pappy Gore felt bad about all us kids playin in the dark all the time, so he traded some Lincoln Logs for daylight from Johnie Rockefeller and we got to actually SEE the dirt we was drawin in. That was a great couple of days. I set two high scores those two days.
The problem is, there are WAY too many people out there that think QOS stands for Queen of the Stone-Age and not Quality of Service.
The ISP is in a no win situation, IMO. On the one hand, they have potentially hundreds of thousands of users using VOIP services who don't know the first thing about QOS, but do know the effects of jitter or packet loss, so they complain.
What's the ISP supposed to say? "Turn on QOS?" Not that simple. On the other hand, if they do prioritize packets, then they get people who don't want them to. So it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
Hello good sir, would you like a bucket of fail? No? *sighs*
Buckets of fail here, get your bucket of fail here.
Buckets of fail for sale.
Back on topic...I know the answer to the question I'm about to ask is going to be "because I can", but seriously, why bother with this? Not trolling, just asking a (in my mind) legit question. What could you do with this computer that would be worth it? Say you get it working, then what? Now you can point at it when someone comes over to your house and say "That computer is 25 years old!" They can say "so what can you do on it?" "Nothing".
Not only that, but c'mon, this is Kalifornia we're talking about. They're operating at a huge deficit. This type of stuff is stupid, and explains exactly why Cali is in this situation to begin with.
I've never seen a state so intent on "protecting" their citizens from themselves like California. It's sad.
(I spent 5 years in California, I love the state itself, it's a wonderful place, but damn, those folks are cutting off their noses to spite their face, I swear)
I know there are plenty of examples throughout history where the military has quelled it's own populace, but I would like to think that US troops would hopefully be above that. I never understood this mentality, the one where the people you're protecting aboard are all the sudden worthless and you should beat the crap out of them, or worse, slaughter them. I'm sure someone has researched it fully, but honestly, I don't get it.
I served for 5 years in the Marine Corps, and obviously I was never faced with this situation, but I would hope that I would see through the B.S. and refuse unlawful orders that asked me to harm the civilian populace. (defending yourself from attack is another situation though.)
57.7%. He was actually a highly over-rated QB. In today's game, he'd be kicked off the team or relegated to a 3rd string backup role before he ever had a chance to start that HOF career.
1. Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures.
2. Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
3. Inauspicious; ill-omened. [R.] [A Latinism]
Let each state (or break it down further, I'd prefer, to local municipality) handle what they consider to be obscene. What I find obscene may be right up someone else's alley. What they find obscene I may find normal. This puritanism crap has got to stop. That was years ago. Get over it, America.
*and you too, the rest of the world, especially Germany and Europe in general.
The entire car weighs less than an overweight American.
We can't help it, it's our big American penises.
More seriously...for all the Europeans saying the fatality rates in the US on highways is double what it is in Europe and elsewhere....DUH.
You have the rail and transit infrastructure. In most cases, European countries are a lot smaller. In most cases, you can WALK to the grocery store. Where I grew up, walking to the grocery store would take several DAYS. In short, our transit infrastructure (for the most part) sucks, the country is huge, and the population isn't nearly as dense.
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treated fairly.
Kind of a key point there folks. I'm guessing 20 or so percent of respondents said "Yeah, right. They won't "treat us fairly" so what's the point." I'm also guessing the other 15% or so said something along the lines of "I like cheese".
Don't use so many caps in your subject line, it's like screaming at a baby who is hungry.
Isn't this like trying to buy a ticket for the Titanic as it's going down?
Also...where's the outrage that a specific music service is available only in the UK? I live in the US! Information wants to be free! FREEEDOMMMMMMM.
I kid, I kid. Mostly though, I'm sick of seeing those comments from posters who can't access content because they live in a different country. WAAAAH.
Haven't you heard? The POOT is out as a measure of energy. People in the know(TM) these days are using the FART. (Free African Republic of Tonga)
I understand that Taco Bell has chosen to support the FART as well. Something to consider. The POOT's reign has come to an end. Long live the FART.
You win.
I concede.
The day is yours, Trebec.
0 = naught=nothing.
And some mod has no sense of humor.
Back in my day, we didn't even have days. We just had nights, we were too poor to afford days. Heck, sometimes we could barely afford to pay attention.
What was I saying? Oh yeah. Back in my day, we had nights. Not days. But we liked it that way. And we didn't have no fancy-schmanzy graphics for our video games. In fact, we didn't even have screens. We had dirt and sticks and used our imagination. But it was damned hard to do, sonny-Jim, cause it was always night...cause we couldn't afford to pay for daylight. Well, I do remember we got daylight twice back in Naught three, but that's cause Al Gore's dad, you might remember him, built a name for himself in the Lincoln Log industry, anyway, ole Pappy Gore felt bad about all us kids playin in the dark all the time, so he traded some Lincoln Logs for daylight from Johnie Rockefeller and we got to actually SEE the dirt we was drawin in. That was a great couple of days. I set two high scores those two days.
*sighs wistfully*
Go get your Grandpa his teeth, will ya sonny-Jim?
The problem is, there are WAY too many people out there that think QOS stands for Queen of the Stone-Age and not Quality of Service.
The ISP is in a no win situation, IMO. On the one hand, they have potentially hundreds of thousands of users using VOIP services who don't know the first thing about QOS, but do know the effects of jitter or packet loss, so they complain.
What's the ISP supposed to say? "Turn on QOS?" Not that simple. On the other hand, if they do prioritize packets, then they get people who don't want them to. So it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
Damn right, they manage flows. It keeps the tubes from clogging.
Duuuurrrrrr.
Sudden deceleration is what killed him.
You didn't read what I wrote did you, before you jumped up on your hickory stump and started flaming.
That's okay though, when the time comes, you'll be first against the wall. ;P
get yourself a FIRST POST! BOO YAH
Hello good sir, would you like a bucket of fail? No? *sighs*
Buckets of fail here, get your bucket of fail here.
Buckets of fail for sale.
Back on topic...I know the answer to the question I'm about to ask is going to be "because I can", but seriously, why bother with this? Not trolling, just asking a (in my mind) legit question. What could you do with this computer that would be worth it? Say you get it working, then what? Now you can point at it when someone comes over to your house and say "That computer is 25 years old!" They can say "so what can you do on it?" "Nothing".
Yeah, I know. That's why I said "I would like to think" instead of something else.
You never know.
Not only that, but c'mon, this is Kalifornia we're talking about. They're operating at a huge deficit. This type of stuff is stupid, and explains exactly why Cali is in this situation to begin with.
I've never seen a state so intent on "protecting" their citizens from themselves like California. It's sad.
(I spent 5 years in California, I love the state itself, it's a wonderful place, but damn, those folks are cutting off their noses to spite their face, I swear)
I know there are plenty of examples throughout history where the military has quelled it's own populace, but I would like to think that US troops would hopefully be above that. I never understood this mentality, the one where the people you're protecting aboard are all the sudden worthless and you should beat the crap out of them, or worse, slaughter them. I'm sure someone has researched it fully, but honestly, I don't get it.
I served for 5 years in the Marine Corps, and obviously I was never faced with this situation, but I would hope that I would see through the B.S. and refuse unlawful orders that asked me to harm the civilian populace. (defending yourself from attack is another situation though.)
If we're gonna go back to that....then Banyan Vines was 100 times better than Novell, all the way back to the early 90s (90-94).
It's a damned shame Novell (and then later, MS) ripped off their directory model.
Back in my day, BT = British Telecom.
I would assume that that's what they mean by BT.
57.7%. He was actually a highly over-rated QB. In today's game, he'd be kicked off the team or relegated to a 3rd string backup role before he ever had a chance to start that HOF career.
Look at his first three years worth of stats:
1970: 218 attempts 83 completions completion percentage of 38.1 TDs: 6 INTs: 24
1971: 373 attempts 203 completions completion percentage of 54.4 TDs: 13 INTs: 22
1972: 308 attempts 147 completions completion percentage of 47.7 TDs: 12 INTs: 12
He'd be out of the league by the time his third year started these days.
Dude, WE KNOW.
We're waiting on the AARP crowd to die off so we can take control. There's a shit-ton of baby boomers out there, they're active and they vote.
Once they're all dead, we'll "relax" more as a country.
But yeah, I agree, I'd rather see a delicious breast than some dude get blown to pieces by a gun in a movie.
Don't kid yourself though, Europe is just as screwed up as the US is, just in slightly different ways.
Obscene
Ob*scene"\, a/ [L. obscenus, obscaenus, obscoenus, ill looking, filthy, obscene: cf. F. obsc['e]ne.]
1. Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures.
2. Foul; fifthy; disgusting.
3. Inauspicious; ill-omened. [R.] [A Latinism]
Let each state (or break it down further, I'd prefer, to local municipality) handle what they consider to be obscene. What I find obscene may be right up someone else's alley. What they find obscene I may find normal. This puritanism crap has got to stop. That was years ago. Get over it, America.
*and you too, the rest of the world, especially Germany and Europe in general.
I'm still trying to figure out how they knew I call my bathroom "the Lab"
Corporations would turn your grandma into Soylent Green...wouldn't even wait for her to
become a corpse before doing it.
Wait, what? What are you saying? Soylent Green is Grandma? Oh, my God. Soylent Green is Grandma. Soylent Green is Grandma.
SOYLENT GREEN IS GRANDMA! SOYLENT GREEN IS GRANDMA!
Post aborted: Reason, don't use so many Grandmas when yelling about Soylent Green.
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Well, I believe they've made a mistake. Data shouldn't care where you are geographically, in almost every instance.
The entire car weighs less than an overweight American.
We can't help it, it's our big American penises.
More seriously...for all the Europeans saying the fatality rates in the US on highways is double what it is in Europe and elsewhere....DUH.
You have the rail and transit infrastructure. In most cases, European countries are a lot smaller. In most cases, you can WALK to the grocery store. Where I grew up, walking to the grocery store would take several DAYS. In short, our transit infrastructure (for the most part) sucks, the country is huge, and the population isn't nearly as dense.
I saw the tag but haven't seen this explicitly mentioned yet: one theory is that lack of sunspots causes Earth to warm up.
Round here, it's been the mildest summer temperature-wise in a long time.
(DC area)