See, even cheaper than I thought and less expensive to boot. Pirates get dead, ships get saved, Marines get some trigger time in. What's not to like eh?
No I don't but that's probably because I understand the problems of scaling something like that up to encompass every car in the world and I understand how Marines are deployed.
Does not make sense. Pirates aren't movie aliens and Marines(TM) are known to work quite effectively against them.
Marines cost to feed and shelter anywhere you put them so you might as well assign them to ships that are likely to be boarded and let them get some work in. Two squads of Marines do not take up very much space at all (particularly in respect to the capacity of these cargo ships). Their presence would have a negligible effect on crew and cargo. They do cost to train but that money is again going to be spent anyway no matter where they are stationed. They don't get paid all the time that they are on guard (assuming we are talking about United States Marines). They draw a monthly paycheck whether they are on guard duty off the coast of Somalia or stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan, or anywhere else. We have plenty of them, they are easily replicated to a point, and can be rapidly sent wherever they're needed.
Slippery foam covered pirates wash off and come back to try again. Dead floating in the water until the sharks get there pirates are no longer a threat.
I could see how it might look that way to someone if they spent all their time like you downloading gay porn and spanking the monkey raw. The rest of us don't see that. Sorry.
On the other hand though they play their football "all weird like" with that funky extra wide field and with almost no defense to speak of.
I think just to be safe we should add them to the axis of evil.
Absolutely. I think the operative word here is "Fuck'em".
Oh wait, you didn't say that. Well, whatever, I did.
Nobody "deserves" viruses but if you're stealing something and have something bad happen to you then don't expect too many people to feel bad for you. Climbing up another link in the food chain to get to some "completely innocent people" doesn't change that. I've had my identity stolen the old fashioned "analog way" but they still reeked havoc with my finances so I'm not completely unsympathetic about this. People who write viruses should have their fucking heads caved in as should people using them to steal information or attack people online. I mean that. I'd like to see these people just plain "disappeared" and dumped in an oil barrel full of concrete two miles offshore. That won't happen though so in the meantime why go look for trouble by doing this? People this dumb deserve to have something happen to them. If it's the end of all of their data then who's fault is that? I can't think of any answer that fits more than "Theirs".
What are some of the things that you've run into that people in your family need? I'm just wondering and not trying to torch you over it. I'm a systems admin and I am the only Mac user in my family so the only Macs I've setup were for myself (and a very, very small number of other people, I try to avoid working on other peoples stuff on my own time) and I found that they came with all the software I "needed" to get online and get the other stuff I wanted. Like I said my circumstances aren't exactly "Joe Six-Pack". What's easy for me might not be for them. Still what software did they "need" that wasn't there?
I'm also someone who has owned two PowerMacs (A Quicksilver G4 and a dual 2.0Ghz G5) and for me both of those machines fell into what I what I would consider a "Just Work" catagory. No, I guess they didn't just set themselves up and make me a cup of coffee but what I did need to do was minimal and I'd say that "Just Works" is accurate within reason. Certianly they're closer to that than any alternatives I can think of.
It's impossible not to notice that your post has been modded "Interesting" and I'd like to believe that's as in "Interesting, I can't believe some fool actually thinks Verizon had a leg to stand on when they did this".
He wanted an email address based on his name. There's nothing unreasonable about that.
You just described Harris County, Texas to a degree that's downright frightening. Recently the payroll information for the entire county was put online by the Houston Chronicle newspaper and a quick look around has confirmed, at least to my mind that the straightest path to a high salary and zero responsibility here is to excel at being a nincompoop.
I'm getting right on that by the way. Look for me in upper-middle management in about three years time.
The simple fact is that the only sandwich that McDonalds has ever excelled at is the humble dollar menu double cheeseburger. It's perfect (for what it is) in every way. With a simple set of ingredients and without any attempt at all to be healthy it's the high-water mark of McDonalds food. All of their other sandwiches are in some way flawed.
The Big Mac has shrunk to the point of being insulting. At the rate their going it will be a White Castle in about ten years. The Quarter Pounder with Cheese is usually a dry, tasteless experience. It doesn't work if it's not right off the grill. All of their assorted chicken sandwiches taste like cardboard.
McDonalds makes these stupid decisions because they try to wring another penny or two per sandwich or because they get too ambitious for their own good and try to take things "upscale" or make them healthy. Those are both bad ideas. McDonalds is for kids and it's for packing your arteries with processed cheese slices and cholesteral. It's the summit of junk food and that's all they should even try to do.
If you find yourself at a McDonalds go order a couple of their $1 double cheeseburgers. It's what you're supposed to do at McDonalds. What kind of morons go to McDonalds to get healthy food?
It was patriotic and "support the troops-ish" but it fit the material. Tony Stark is an arms manufacturer and those are the current wars being fought where his wares might turn up. If you're going to set this material in current events then Afghanistan and Iraq are the places you put it.
I liked the movie a lot and thought the overt patriotism fit right into the film perfectly. I don't know if I'd give it a 100 but back in my time you had to get a 93 or better to make an "A" and I'm good with that. Mid 90's seems about right for Iron Man to me.
Well, you're a very reasonable man (or woman) but you have to admit that it at times seems like some of your fellow "greenies" are impossible to please. Maybe it's not all the same ones but no matter what form of power generation is suggested there's always a small and usually loud group ready to throw up signs and studies as to why that suggestion will lead to something terrible and unacceptable.
I come from Houston Texas. It's a city with almost no public transportation whatsoever. Sure we have METRO which is brutally limited and of course I live in the suburbs (thanks to my nice, expensive, and very convenient car) so I get nothing from that. If I worked downtown I could take a bus in using the park and ride system but I don't. There's literally no way to get me from where I live to where I work and back again without a ridiculous amount of time and trouble being involved.
I didn't plan it like that. I'm like everybody else here in Houston. I didn't plan a damned thing. It just worked out that way because it could. I'm am utterly dependent on my car. On top of that I drive a 2006 Pontiac GTO. It gets crap mileage but it's a fun ride and fast. I love my car and I'm never giving up my car. It's just not an option on the table. I'm as indoctrinated into the American cult of the big V8 as you can get.
About three years ago I went on a vacation with my wife to London. We spent 9 days there and didn't use a car or take a cab. We walked and used the underground. It was pure heaven. I'd kill for a system like that in my town. I'd love to leave the goat at home and take a subway like that to work every day. I wouldn't lose the car but I'd drive it a hell of a lot less if I had the option.
Sounds like a job for that insane genetic scientist on the hill. I want a freshwater starfish with four asses that eats zebra mussels at an incredible pace and I want it by noon tomorrow!
Well, this is just a theory and I could very well be wrong but I think that it's just a matter of time before OSX becomes an option on any PC and a legal one at that.
I see it going from
OSX only on new Macs to...
OSX on all Macs to...
OSX on Intel Macs to...
OSX hacked onto other Intel PC's to...
OSX hacked really well onto other Intel PC's to...
OSX working well enough (albeit illegally) for the installed base to grow to...
OSX being made available as a legal product for any computer.
I know, Apple is a hardware company. It's the way things are and that's where they're money comes from and I am sure that this must be taken into account. I just think that anything that can be done with software will be done with software eventually and sooner than most people think. Encrypt it and they'll crack it. Lock it down tight and somebody will come along, unlock it, and have it on Bittorrent before the sun comes up the next morning. I think Apple knows this and I think they know that eventually they'll have to be both a hardware company AND a software company. I think that was inevitable from the day that they moved to the Intel processor.
Intel Macs appeared as a surprise to most people and I would not be at all surprised to learn that in the same way this happened there might be a group at Apple right now focused on the groundwork needed to prepare for a day when they find themselves selling an OS to most people and a complete computer to others. I imagine at some point Apple might license the OS (PcOSX?) to run on only certain high end models from HP or Dell exclusively. Later this would be expanded and eventually it would run on most everything sold. Nobody said they have to flip a switch and support everything all at once to be successful at this software company stuff.
I think they know it's only a matter of time before it happens. Apple hardware will always be sold but they've made a point of spreading out their offerrings enough to be able to withstand a transition period in their hardware sales like I described above. Mac sales are way up and the interest in OSX is rising. They'll be in a perfect position to ride this over into PC sales eventually and then they'll have an admittedly much smaller but still "Microsoft-like" source of income from OS licenses. When they start competing with Microsoft on the same hardware they're going to do very well against Vista and anything based on it.
And none of that is probably going to happen but it could and it's not crazy to imagine it happening. It's one way for them to go and it takes into account a realistic scenario that will happen whether Apple chooses to try and leverage it or not.
That has not been our experience in the least. I work in one of the largest counties in the United States (third largest at last count I believe) and we have upwards of 18,000 entries on our GAL along with a few thousand other users spread across a handful of seperate forests. It's done everything we've asked of it. It's not perfect of course and I'll readily concede that point. My experience with it however has been nothing at all like the picture you paint and no, I don't just look at the client all day.
Absolutely agree. There's something just so satisfying to me about being able to stay on a pinball machine as long as I want when that machine used to just kill me every time I had the gall to put money into it. The process of learning the table and mastering it was, at least to me unique in the world of "games". I know everybody who digs "something" thinks that one thing they like is special. That's how I saw pinball. Nothing else in an arcade even comes close. It's more like playing pool than playing Mortal Kombat if you ask me. It's also sort of like golf in the way that you're always playing against yourself really.
I'm probably speaking out of ignorance here but wouldn't it be possible to locate something like this in a part of the world that's currently not producing food like say, the Sahara desert? It seems like we have conveniently located deserts on pretty much all (or at least most) of the populated continents right? Why can't we use those instead of places growing food?
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See, even cheaper than I thought and less expensive to boot. Pirates get dead, ships get saved, Marines get some trigger time in. What's not to like eh?
No I don't but that's probably because I understand the problems of scaling something like that up to encompass every car in the world and I understand how Marines are deployed.
Are these things going to "just work" or is there going to be some sort of "not enough midichlorians" BS problem when I get mine home?
Does not make sense. Pirates aren't movie aliens and Marines(TM) are known to work quite effectively against them. Marines cost to feed and shelter anywhere you put them so you might as well assign them to ships that are likely to be boarded and let them get some work in. Two squads of Marines do not take up very much space at all (particularly in respect to the capacity of these cargo ships). Their presence would have a negligible effect on crew and cargo. They do cost to train but that money is again going to be spent anyway no matter where they are stationed. They don't get paid all the time that they are on guard (assuming we are talking about United States Marines). They draw a monthly paycheck whether they are on guard duty off the coast of Somalia or stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan, or anywhere else. We have plenty of them, they are easily replicated to a point, and can be rapidly sent wherever they're needed. Slippery foam covered pirates wash off and come back to try again. Dead floating in the water until the sharks get there pirates are no longer a threat.
It's only a matter of time until I have you back in Arkham where you belong.
I could see how it might look that way to someone if they spent all their time like you downloading gay porn and spanking the monkey raw. The rest of us don't see that. Sorry.
On the other hand though they play their football "all weird like" with that funky extra wide field and with almost no defense to speak of. I think just to be safe we should add them to the axis of evil.
The classic "Rub some dirt on it" treatment followed by the classic "Shake it off" advice.
Absolutely. I think the operative word here is "Fuck'em". Oh wait, you didn't say that. Well, whatever, I did. Nobody "deserves" viruses but if you're stealing something and have something bad happen to you then don't expect too many people to feel bad for you. Climbing up another link in the food chain to get to some "completely innocent people" doesn't change that. I've had my identity stolen the old fashioned "analog way" but they still reeked havoc with my finances so I'm not completely unsympathetic about this. People who write viruses should have their fucking heads caved in as should people using them to steal information or attack people online. I mean that. I'd like to see these people just plain "disappeared" and dumped in an oil barrel full of concrete two miles offshore. That won't happen though so in the meantime why go look for trouble by doing this? People this dumb deserve to have something happen to them. If it's the end of all of their data then who's fault is that? I can't think of any answer that fits more than "Theirs".
What are some of the things that you've run into that people in your family need? I'm just wondering and not trying to torch you over it. I'm a systems admin and I am the only Mac user in my family so the only Macs I've setup were for myself (and a very, very small number of other people, I try to avoid working on other peoples stuff on my own time) and I found that they came with all the software I "needed" to get online and get the other stuff I wanted. Like I said my circumstances aren't exactly "Joe Six-Pack". What's easy for me might not be for them. Still what software did they "need" that wasn't there?
I'm also someone who has owned two PowerMacs (A Quicksilver G4 and a dual 2.0Ghz G5) and for me both of those machines fell into what I what I would consider a "Just Work" catagory. No, I guess they didn't just set themselves up and make me a cup of coffee but what I did need to do was minimal and I'd say that "Just Works" is accurate within reason. Certianly they're closer to that than any alternatives I can think of.
"There just isn't enough bandwidth everywhere for there to be a totally online OS."
And there never will be if Microsoft creates it.
It's impossible not to notice that your post has been modded "Interesting" and I'd like to believe that's as in "Interesting, I can't believe some fool actually thinks Verizon had a leg to stand on when they did this".
He wanted an email address based on his name. There's nothing unreasonable about that.
You just described Harris County, Texas to a degree that's downright frightening. Recently the payroll information for the entire county was put online by the Houston Chronicle newspaper and a quick look around has confirmed, at least to my mind that the straightest path to a high salary and zero responsibility here is to excel at being a nincompoop.
I'm getting right on that by the way. Look for me in upper-middle management in about three years time.
Arch Deluxe? I don't think so.
The simple fact is that the only sandwich that McDonalds has ever excelled at is the humble dollar menu double cheeseburger. It's perfect (for what it is) in every way. With a simple set of ingredients and without any attempt at all to be healthy it's the high-water mark of McDonalds food. All of their other sandwiches are in some way flawed.
The Big Mac has shrunk to the point of being insulting. At the rate their going it will be a White Castle in about ten years. The Quarter Pounder with Cheese is usually a dry, tasteless experience. It doesn't work if it's not right off the grill. All of their assorted chicken sandwiches taste like cardboard.
McDonalds makes these stupid decisions because they try to wring another penny or two per sandwich or because they get too ambitious for their own good and try to take things "upscale" or make them healthy. Those are both bad ideas. McDonalds is for kids and it's for packing your arteries with processed cheese slices and cholesteral. It's the summit of junk food and that's all they should even try to do.
If you find yourself at a McDonalds go order a couple of their $1 double cheeseburgers. It's what you're supposed to do at McDonalds. What kind of morons go to McDonalds to get healthy food?
Iraq wasn't, Afghanistan was.
It was patriotic and "support the troops-ish" but it fit the material. Tony Stark is an arms manufacturer and those are the current wars being fought where his wares might turn up. If you're going to set this material in current events then Afghanistan and Iraq are the places you put it.
I liked the movie a lot and thought the overt patriotism fit right into the film perfectly. I don't know if I'd give it a 100 but back in my time you had to get a 93 or better to make an "A" and I'm good with that. Mid 90's seems about right for Iron Man to me.
Well, you're a very reasonable man (or woman) but you have to admit that it at times seems like some of your fellow "greenies" are impossible to please. Maybe it's not all the same ones but no matter what form of power generation is suggested there's always a small and usually loud group ready to throw up signs and studies as to why that suggestion will lead to something terrible and unacceptable.
I come from Houston Texas. It's a city with almost no public transportation whatsoever. Sure we have METRO which is brutally limited and of course I live in the suburbs (thanks to my nice, expensive, and very convenient car) so I get nothing from that. If I worked downtown I could take a bus in using the park and ride system but I don't. There's literally no way to get me from where I live to where I work and back again without a ridiculous amount of time and trouble being involved.
I didn't plan it like that. I'm like everybody else here in Houston. I didn't plan a damned thing. It just worked out that way because it could. I'm am utterly dependent on my car. On top of that I drive a 2006 Pontiac GTO. It gets crap mileage but it's a fun ride and fast. I love my car and I'm never giving up my car. It's just not an option on the table. I'm as indoctrinated into the American cult of the big V8 as you can get.
About three years ago I went on a vacation with my wife to London. We spent 9 days there and didn't use a car or take a cab. We walked and used the underground. It was pure heaven. I'd kill for a system like that in my town. I'd love to leave the goat at home and take a subway like that to work every day. I wouldn't lose the car but I'd drive it a hell of a lot less if I had the option.
Sounds like a job for that insane genetic scientist on the hill. I want a freshwater starfish with four asses that eats zebra mussels at an incredible pace and I want it by noon tomorrow!
We owe you and Michael Savage a debt we can never repay. Keep up the good work!
That rug really tied the room together.
Well, this is just a theory and I could very well be wrong but I think that it's just a matter of time before OSX becomes an option on any PC and a legal one at that.
I see it going from
OSX only on new Macs to...
OSX on all Macs to...
OSX on Intel Macs to...
OSX hacked onto other Intel PC's to...
OSX hacked really well onto other Intel PC's to...
OSX working well enough (albeit illegally) for the installed base to grow to...
OSX being made available as a legal product for any computer.
I know, Apple is a hardware company. It's the way things are and that's where they're money comes from and I am sure that this must be taken into account. I just think that anything that can be done with software will be done with software eventually and sooner than most people think. Encrypt it and they'll crack it. Lock it down tight and somebody will come along, unlock it, and have it on Bittorrent before the sun comes up the next morning. I think Apple knows this and I think they know that eventually they'll have to be both a hardware company AND a software company. I think that was inevitable from the day that they moved to the Intel processor.
Intel Macs appeared as a surprise to most people and I would not be at all surprised to learn that in the same way this happened there might be a group at Apple right now focused on the groundwork needed to prepare for a day when they find themselves selling an OS to most people and a complete computer to others. I imagine at some point Apple might license the OS (PcOSX?) to run on only certain high end models from HP or Dell exclusively. Later this would be expanded and eventually it would run on most everything sold. Nobody said they have to flip a switch and support everything all at once to be successful at this software company stuff.
I think they know it's only a matter of time before it happens. Apple hardware will always be sold but they've made a point of spreading out their offerrings enough to be able to withstand a transition period in their hardware sales like I described above. Mac sales are way up and the interest in OSX is rising. They'll be in a perfect position to ride this over into PC sales eventually and then they'll have an admittedly much smaller but still "Microsoft-like" source of income from OS licenses. When they start competing with Microsoft on the same hardware they're going to do very well against Vista and anything based on it.
And none of that is probably going to happen but it could and it's not crazy to imagine it happening. It's one way for them to go and it takes into account a realistic scenario that will happen whether Apple chooses to try and leverage it or not.
That has not been our experience in the least. I work in one of the largest counties in the United States (third largest at last count I believe) and we have upwards of 18,000 entries on our GAL along with a few thousand other users spread across a handful of seperate forests. It's done everything we've asked of it. It's not perfect of course and I'll readily concede that point. My experience with it however has been nothing at all like the picture you paint and no, I don't just look at the client all day.
Absolutely agree. There's something just so satisfying to me about being able to stay on a pinball machine as long as I want when that machine used to just kill me every time I had the gall to put money into it. The process of learning the table and mastering it was, at least to me unique in the world of "games". I know everybody who digs "something" thinks that one thing they like is special. That's how I saw pinball. Nothing else in an arcade even comes close. It's more like playing pool than playing Mortal Kombat if you ask me. It's also sort of like golf in the way that you're always playing against yourself really.
I'm probably speaking out of ignorance here but wouldn't it be possible to locate something like this in a part of the world that's currently not producing food like say, the Sahara desert? It seems like we have conveniently located deserts on pretty much all (or at least most) of the populated continents right? Why can't we use those instead of places growing food?