I got my most recent Mac for free. A PowerMac G4 Sawtooth that had a dead power supply. They didn't want to pay for the replacement part so they basically gave me the dead system.
Take one ATX power supply, cut four wires, splice two of them in to the other two and shazam! Free Mac.
"This summary does not describe the many exciting possibilities opened up by the WWW project, such as efficient document caching, the reduction of redundant out-of-date copies,..."
Glad to see that those "out-of-date copies' have been reduced. I don't think I could imagine how many out of date documents there would be in the world if we didn't have the web.
I'm suprised though that they didn't see the exciting possiblities opened up for online porn. Guess nobody saw that one coming.
I would have to say that Islam is possibly the one major religon in the world today that could most use lessons in how to act civilized.
Afghanistan is what percent Islamic? I confess I do not know the answer to that but I'm guessing they're in a position to give Columbia's 95% a good run. They have a massive drug problem too. Can you guess what that is? Opium ring a bell? It's all just bullshit. Catholicism isn't the reason Columbia cranks out Cocaine and Islam isn't the reason Afghanistan is pushing opium. On the other hand I don't see Columbia blowing up ancient ruins because they offend the pope. Afghanistan, to be more specific the Taliban on the other hand blasted away giant statues of Buddah.
Look, when you've got "holy" men putting out hits on people because they disagree with them then I think it's safe to say that your religon could use some lessons in civilization.
Now Judaism and Christianity may very well have done similar things in the past so do me a favor and don't go whipping some bullshit that Pope "WhoGivesAFuck" did in the dark ages out of your ass as a defense of some sort. Muslims are always bitching about "The Crusades". That was hundreds of years ago. Other religons have quit that shit by now. Islam needs to do it as well.
And yeah, you're right. Genital mutilation is an African thing. They need to cut that crap out but there's no need to go laying that on Islam. It's fucked up enough without having to go borrow shit from other groups and places.
There are good people and bad people in Muslim countries just like there are good people and bad people in every other kind of country.
Tell me something mr100percent. When is just one, and I mean it JUST ONE Muslim country going to get it right and actually have the good people running things as opposed to the bad ones? When man? When? When are we going to see a Muslim country that's not run by some corrupt family calling themselves kings or some military strongman, religous crackpot, or group of religous crackpots? Some country in the Arab world that doesn't have a worthless "President for Life"?
We have common ground! What do you know! I also as a matter of fact hate religon. When it comes to America (or this world for that matter there are two truths IMO. First "God's got nothing to do with it" and second "When they say it isn't about the money then it's only about the money". Pessimistic maybe but there it is.
Iranians have been running Iran with no help from anyone else since 1978. If half the population is under 24 and your country has been on it's lonesome for 27 years then fix it yourself.
And for the record I'm not blaming your countries problems on the people who you claim (and I take that at face value) are trying to save it. I blame them on the people who saved it back in 1978. They're still running the show as I'm sure you've noticed. They saved it from the Shah so now you go save it from the mullahs.
Yes, and I'm glad that you "absolutely" believe this. Funny how the guy who doesn't think that Iraq is any of the US's business posts openly while the guy who's all up in that moral zone about helping the helpless feels it necessary to post as AC.
Suffice to say that we (Americans) have representatives on both sides of the question.
If people are being beaten and starved but stand by while it's happening to them why is it the United States sacred duty to go fix that? Have you noticed that more US soldiers in Iraq have died since we "defeated" the Iraqi army than died before we beat them?
Not very grateful these starving, beaten people. They're worse than the army we freed them from.
Normally I'd agree with you on the irresponsible part but I'm back and forth where Iran is concerned. I'm working hard at coming up with something that could be worse than the government they already have.
I swear if Saddam wants a job he'd probably be an improvement.
Yeah, that's it asshats, Troll the guy who says it like it is.
Simplistic fucktard moderators with their high and mighty mod points. Can't answer with a post because I'm fucking right, have to answer with their temporary 5 points of power.
Bring it butt monkeys, mod me to oblivion if you want. I eat this kind of shit up for breakfast!
Then some people are going to have to die. That's the way it works in this world. Right or wrong that's just the way it is. If the majority of them want this "armed minority of asshats" to be gone then they'll do it. They did it to the Shah and they'll do it to this bunch.
Just like then though it's nobody's problem but theirs. Good luck with that guys.
Why? It seems to me that the people of Iran were pretty fired up about their little "Islamic Republic" when they started it up. Now they don't like living in one? What happened to the weekly protests and the big flag burning sing alongs?
People get what they deserve in this world. They got their Ayatollah back and now they don't like the way the country he left them is run? It's run exactly the way anyone who'd given it half a thought would have expected.
"We" don't do a damned thing. If "they" want to get back online and out of the fucking dark ages then they can go right ahead and do something about "their" situation.
The US has no business in Iraq right now. It absolutely has no business helping Iranians fix what's wrong with their country.
Some animosity towards Iran? Sure, why not. I've had a problem with that country since November 4th, 1979 and it's not going away anytime soon.
I wouldn't piss in their mouths if their throats were on fire.
Exceptionally funny. I bow to the awesome power that is this post.
The only thing that might have made my enjoyment of this post better would have been my not reading it while taking a big drink of my Diet Coke. The coughing a burning in my nose took away from my appreciation of an otherwise flawless and hilarious comment
Dude, this isn't a comment about your comment as it relates to the article. I just thought it was funny that you're pretty much describing my exact path.
I went from a Beige G3 (bought it at a county auction for $23) that I upgraded to a 500Mhz G4 with an ATI PCI card (You didn't by any chance do the Radeon 7000 PCI Edition did you?), USB/FW PCI card, and I put a gig of RAM in it. I didn't however put a DVD burner in the CD slot (I went with the CDR because it's what I had sitting around doing nothing) but I did buy a Sonnet IDE adapter.
Oddly enough last year I went to a dual 2Ghz G5 as well. I didn't go from the Beige G3 to the Dual G5 directly though. In between I bought a Dual 1Ghz G4 Quicksilver. Just close enough to seem a little creepy.
I really think the headless $500 Mac would work out well if it turns out to be real. I'm one of those obnoxious Mac drones who can turn any conversation towards the Mac if given half a chance (I'm working on that but so far no luck in making myself stop despite the fact that I know it's often counterproductive) and the one place I can never seem to make headway with PC users is the price. Sub $500 is needed to get them to consider switching even when they're clearly impressed with the rest of the Mac package.
No. see what happened is this. A large number of people recieved new computers as gifts for Christmas and unplugged their old computers. An army of zombies vanished in a single day.
Within a week the new machines were all infected and things returned to "normal".
And I believe that any "god" who would send the creations he loves so very much (limitless I believe is commonly used to describe it) to spend eternity in a "lake of fire" can, quite literally suck my balls.
He wasn't trying to write "know". He was referring to a new program that's going to be shipped with KDE called KLnow. Looks like crap on Gnome though so another program called GLnow is in the works.
And no, I don't klnow what it does. I just know that it kicks ass because it's free!
Get your own facts straight too man. In the very story you link to the first paragraph states clearly that the Red Cross had planned to allocate some of this money for other purposes. They didn't because the country called them on it and in effect made them do what they were suppposed to.
Had everyone just gone along and assumed that the Red Cross was doing what they were supposed to do with the money then that in fact would not have happened.
But you did. You knew your post would make you look like a fucking idiot when you composed it hence you posted it anonymously. He had no idea and so his "fucking idiocy" was inadvertant. Yours was intentional which is much worse.
He was an idiot not in posting what he did but rather for thinking that any of you self rightous assholes could possible have a sense of humor)
People who aren't trying to be more shocked and saddened than those around them (in other words real people, not fucktards like you) cope with things of this nature using a wide variety of tools. Humor is one of them and maybe the most common.
Who's upset? Nobody said they were upset. The guy described what he liked to do and why he liked to do it and a whole list of replying posters drew the obvious conclusion. He's a fucktard.
On the outside chance the guy you're responding to was upset then I'd say he's probably in that upset zone where you paid for something (in this case to play the game) and someone made it their mission in life to make sure that your time was spent frustrated and angry as opposed to enjoying yourself.
Assholes (virtual or right there in front of your face) tend to make people upset. It's a constant.
Your post is riddled with statements where you justify your behaviour and bestow upon yourself various compliments. "Griefing is an art", "Griefing takes intelligence, ingenuity, style and thought",
All bullshit. You are in essence an asshole, nothing more. Nobody appreciates assholes. Nobody ever has and nobody ever will.
Lord of your domain? That's a laugh. Lord of a server somewhere that you don't own and have to pay for the right to use?
The real joy of all of this is that the game makers are slowly moving towards models that will make you completely irrelevent City of Heros was absolutely brilliant in putting up with none of the bullshit people like you create. The games are a business and you and yours have no place in the future business model.
Believe me when I tell you that nobody is going to miss having you around to "appreciate". You'll behave or you'll be gone.
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The answer is I'm sure "Yes"
About 13 minutes after one of these things leaves the store someone, somewhere is going to void the warranty on it.
I just hope we get some good pictures out of the poor things "violation".
I got my most recent Mac for free. A PowerMac G4 Sawtooth that had a dead power supply. They didn't want to pay for the replacement part so they basically gave me the dead system.
Take one ATX power supply, cut four wires, splice two of them in to the other two and shazam! Free Mac.
On the WWW announcement:
"This summary does not describe the many exciting possibilities opened up by the WWW project, such as efficient document caching, the reduction of redundant out-of-date copies,..."
Glad to see that those "out-of-date copies' have been reduced. I don't think I could imagine how many out of date documents there would be in the world if we didn't have the web.
I'm suprised though that they didn't see the exciting possiblities opened up for online porn. Guess nobody saw that one coming.
Tell me about their delivery system. How's that working out for them?
I would have to say that Islam is possibly the one major religon in the world today that could most use lessons in how to act civilized.
Afghanistan is what percent Islamic? I confess I do not know the answer to that but I'm guessing they're in a position to give Columbia's 95% a good run. They have a massive drug problem too. Can you guess what that is? Opium ring a bell? It's all just bullshit. Catholicism isn't the reason Columbia cranks out Cocaine and Islam isn't the reason Afghanistan is pushing opium. On the other hand I don't see Columbia blowing up ancient ruins because they offend the pope. Afghanistan, to be more specific the Taliban on the other hand blasted away giant statues of Buddah.
Look, when you've got "holy" men putting out hits on people because they disagree with them then I think it's safe to say that your religon could use some lessons in civilization.
Now Judaism and Christianity may very well have done similar things in the past so do me a favor and don't go whipping some bullshit that Pope "WhoGivesAFuck" did in the dark ages out of your ass as a defense of some sort. Muslims are always bitching about "The Crusades". That was hundreds of years ago. Other religons have quit that shit by now. Islam needs to do it as well.
And yeah, you're right. Genital mutilation is an African thing. They need to cut that crap out but there's no need to go laying that on Islam. It's fucked up enough without having to go borrow shit from other groups and places.
There are good people and bad people in Muslim countries just like there are good people and bad people in every other kind of country.
Tell me something mr100percent. When is just one, and I mean it JUST ONE Muslim country going to get it right and actually have the good people running things as opposed to the bad ones? When man? When? When are we going to see a Muslim country that's not run by some corrupt family calling themselves kings or some military strongman, religous crackpot, or group of religous crackpots? Some country in the Arab world that doesn't have a worthless "President for Life"?
We have common ground! What do you know! I also as a matter of fact hate religon. When it comes to America (or this world for that matter there are two truths IMO. First "God's got nothing to do with it" and second "When they say it isn't about the money then it's only about the money". Pessimistic maybe but there it is.
Iranians have been running Iran with no help from anyone else since 1978. If half the population is under 24 and your country has been on it's lonesome for 27 years then fix it yourself.
And for the record I'm not blaming your countries problems on the people who you claim (and I take that at face value) are trying to save it. I blame them on the people who saved it back in 1978. They're still running the show as I'm sure you've noticed. They saved it from the Shah so now you go save it from the mullahs.
Yes, and I'm glad that you "absolutely" believe this. Funny how the guy who doesn't think that Iraq is any of the US's business posts openly while the guy who's all up in that moral zone about helping the helpless feels it necessary to post as AC.
Suffice to say that we (Americans) have representatives on both sides of the question.
If people are being beaten and starved but stand by while it's happening to them why is it the United States sacred duty to go fix that? Have you noticed that more US soldiers in Iraq have died since we "defeated" the Iraqi army than died before we beat them?
Not very grateful these starving, beaten people. They're worse than the army we freed them from.
Normally I'd agree with you on the irresponsible part but I'm back and forth where Iran is concerned. I'm working hard at coming up with something that could be worse than the government they already have.
I swear if Saddam wants a job he'd probably be an improvement.
Yeah, that's it asshats, Troll the guy who says it like it is.
Simplistic fucktard moderators with their high and mighty mod points. Can't answer with a post because I'm fucking right, have to answer with their temporary 5 points of power.
Bring it butt monkeys, mod me to oblivion if you want. I eat this kind of shit up for breakfast!
Then some people are going to have to die. That's the way it works in this world. Right or wrong that's just the way it is. If the majority of them want this "armed minority of asshats" to be gone then they'll do it. They did it to the Shah and they'll do it to this bunch.
Just like then though it's nobody's problem but theirs. Good luck with that guys.
There is a third possiblity, Sarcasm may be involved here.
And speaking as an American I do not advocate invading anyone. We don't belong in Iraq and we don't have any business invading Iran.
Why? It seems to me that the people of Iran were pretty fired up about their little "Islamic Republic" when they started it up. Now they don't like living in one? What happened to the weekly protests and the big flag burning sing alongs?
People get what they deserve in this world. They got their Ayatollah back and now they don't like the way the country he left them is run? It's run exactly the way anyone who'd given it half a thought would have expected.
"We" don't do a damned thing. If "they" want to get back online and out of the fucking dark ages then they can go right ahead and do something about "their" situation.
The US has no business in Iraq right now. It absolutely has no business helping Iranians fix what's wrong with their country.
Some animosity towards Iran? Sure, why not. I've had a problem with that country since November 4th, 1979 and it's not going away anytime soon.
I wouldn't piss in their mouths if their throats were on fire.
Exceptionally funny. I bow to the awesome power that is this post.
The only thing that might have made my enjoyment of this post better would have been my not reading it while taking a big drink of my Diet Coke. The coughing a burning in my nose took away from my appreciation of an otherwise flawless and hilarious comment
Dude, this isn't a comment about your comment as it relates to the article. I just thought it was funny that you're pretty much describing my exact path.
I went from a Beige G3 (bought it at a county auction for $23) that I upgraded to a 500Mhz G4 with an ATI PCI card (You didn't by any chance do the Radeon 7000 PCI Edition did you?), USB/FW PCI card, and I put a gig of RAM in it. I didn't however put a DVD burner in the CD slot (I went with the CDR because it's what I had sitting around doing nothing) but I did buy a Sonnet IDE adapter.
Oddly enough last year I went to a dual 2Ghz G5 as well. I didn't go from the Beige G3 to the Dual G5 directly though. In between I bought a Dual 1Ghz G4 Quicksilver. Just close enough to seem a little creepy.
I really think the headless $500 Mac would work out well if it turns out to be real. I'm one of those obnoxious Mac drones who can turn any conversation towards the Mac if given half a chance (I'm working on that but so far no luck in making myself stop despite the fact that I know it's often counterproductive) and the one place I can never seem to make headway with PC users is the price. Sub $500 is needed to get them to consider switching even when they're clearly impressed with the rest of the Mac package.
No. see what happened is this. A large number of people recieved new computers as gifts for Christmas and unplugged their old computers. An army of zombies vanished in a single day.
Within a week the new machines were all infected and things returned to "normal".
And I believe that any "god" who would send the creations he loves so very much (limitless I believe is commonly used to describe it) to spend eternity in a "lake of fire" can, quite literally suck my balls.
He wasn't trying to write "know". He was referring to a new program that's going to be shipped with KDE called KLnow. Looks like crap on Gnome though so another program called GLnow is in the works.
And no, I don't klnow what it does. I just know that it kicks ass because it's free!
Get your own facts straight too man. In the very story you link to the first paragraph states clearly that the Red Cross had planned to allocate some of this money for other purposes. They didn't because the country called them on it and in effect made them do what they were suppposed to.
Had everyone just gone along and assumed that the Red Cross was doing what they were supposed to do with the money then that in fact would not have happened.
But you did. You knew your post would make you look like a fucking idiot when you composed it hence you posted it anonymously. He had no idea and so his "fucking idiocy" was inadvertant. Yours was intentional which is much worse.
He was an idiot not in posting what he did but rather for thinking that any of you self rightous assholes could possible have a sense of humor)
People who aren't trying to be more shocked and saddened than those around them (in other words real people, not fucktards like you) cope with things of this nature using a wide variety of tools. Humor is one of them and maybe the most common.
Trust me on this one Andy, the feeling is mutual.
Didn't Godzilla once get captured by aliens who took samples of his DNA so they could build a super monster called "Mega-Tsunami"?
You know, it's not like the US has lost a whole lot of sleep over whether "the locals" would let you do something.
Niether endorsing nor condemning it, just crossed my mind.
Who's upset? Nobody said they were upset. The guy described what he liked to do and why he liked to do it and a whole list of replying posters drew the obvious conclusion. He's a fucktard.
On the outside chance the guy you're responding to was upset then I'd say he's probably in that upset zone where you paid for something (in this case to play the game) and someone made it their mission in life to make sure that your time was spent frustrated and angry as opposed to enjoying yourself.
Assholes (virtual or right there in front of your face) tend to make people upset. It's a constant.
Your post is riddled with statements where you justify your behaviour and bestow upon yourself various compliments. "Griefing is an art", "Griefing takes intelligence, ingenuity, style and thought",
All bullshit. You are in essence an asshole, nothing more. Nobody appreciates assholes. Nobody ever has and nobody ever will.
Lord of your domain? That's a laugh. Lord of a server somewhere that you don't own and have to pay for the right to use?
The real joy of all of this is that the game makers are slowly moving towards models that will make you completely irrelevent City of Heros was absolutely brilliant in putting up with none of the bullshit people like you create. The games are a business and you and yours have no place in the future business model.
Believe me when I tell you that nobody is going to miss having you around to "appreciate". You'll behave or you'll be gone.