It's about 35 miles from me on the road to Lubbock. He has some really nice fossils, but his interpretation is just plain weird. He built a huge human leg bone to show people what the "giants" would have looked like. The problem is he didn't take into account the strength of the bone and simply scaled it up to giant size. The local schools take classes on field trips to see the museum, I need to ask the high school kid that works for me what they are told when they visit. Knowing the teachers around here they teach this stuff in their class, it's shame really.
that the teacher even noticed the difference? Really, the displays of firefox and ie are fairly similar, and if you aren't looking at the very top or very bottom of the window, a layperson might not notice the difference at all
Maybe it didn't have the standard "Performed an Illegal Operation" error message. Thats quite easy to see.
I had subscriptions of all those mags so I likely still have them boxed up somewhere. I wrote a series of "how to" articles for a Commodore users group newsletter. Trying to teach them about BASIC and ML. Didn't really want to do it but the editor kept after me until I agreed. Still have 3 128's, 2 64's, and 2 vic 20's. Learned morris code on my 128 so I could upgrade to my advanced ham lic.
some (fake) snuff film (some would argue that such a film is immoral).
Why is a fake snuff film immoral? On the shelf right now I have "Gag", "Experiment in Torture", and A crummy Scifi called "Decoys". If you want to go more mainstream how about "Angel Heart"? As long as its fake it's only a movie. Ack just remembered the "Faces of Death" stuff.
This isn't directed at the parent post, but to those people that think that a fake snuff film is immoral.
I think you mean a cutting horse, although most cutting horses are quarter horses they can be any fast and smart horse. On a side note, even mules and dogs have been trained to cut cattle.
But that will only prolong the process. Sooner or later the artists will decide for themself and go with direct distribution, the music companys will bleed slowly to death. I hope it happens sooner than later.
Good morning, I think that is the nicest rebuff I've ever read on slashdot. However, My point was that because I'm not a "giant patent-wielding litigation-happy overlord" I'm more friendly to my customers. Blockbuster, Pizza hut, and a slew of others are too big to give a damn and they have consumer rights problems. I have to face my customers every day and a large number of them have known me for years. Their my friends as well as customers.
Never had anyone eat one before, but a lady brought one back one time soaking wet and said her 4 year old son thought the tape was dirty because it wouldn't play so he washed it in his wading pool.:-) she insisted on paying for it.
Well customers do have rights, but so do businesses. I've run my own business since 1986 and people (in general) think you must be rich because you own a business. I have always used a modified version of an old saying, "The customer may not always be right, but it's OK to let him think so". I forgive late movie fees all the time. In fact my late movie fees exceed my movie rental income by a wide margin. Like wise I give refunds if people don't like my pizzas or I replace a pizza that the customer thinks is over or under done. I try to make my customer happy, but then you have people that try to take advantage of you. They bring a movie back and say it won't play "on their machine" and want another one, or they bring back the almost empty pizza box and say that the pizza was over/under done and want another. These people get what they want, but the are put on my "list" to see if it keeps happening. At some point I'll politelly refuse them and tell them why. This usually stops the problem and I don't lose a customer in the process. The problem is that when a business gets too big you start to lose the personal touch. You deal with employees that would rather be somewhere else, or a boss that has no stake in the business execpt a paycheck. I would like to make more money, but this is a one man operation and most of the time I am doing as much as I can. Getting bigger would require hiring people and the problem above would begin happening.
I'm waiting for thr RIAA or MPAA to sue them because "The Windows operating system facilitates copyright infringement".
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I don't know if "dusting" a group of people would work very well because after the event the tags would get on anyone that passed thru the area. You would get identified as being at the event when you simply passed thru after it was over.
I have to agree here. I have one of these things in my videostore. It operates on 8.2 Mhz and goes off for almost no reason. Any piece of metal that is a multiple of the wavelength is will set off the alarm. Sometimes it gets so bad I just turn it off. The investment in this thing wasn't worth it as I have only had 1 (one) movie since 1986 that someone tried to steal by hiding it in their coat, I caught that one because I saw them hide it. I have many more movies go missing because people won't bring them back after renting them.
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A better thing to do is sell computers NOT operating systems.
1. Sell Super X-Bang PC $300.00
2. w/Windows Vista (with support) +$299.00
3. w/Linux (with support) + $39.95
4. Profit
Then people won't think the operating system is FREE.
Since when did any country start to respect any treaty that didn't put them in a favorable view?
There I fixed it for you.
and I can't read either.
A million geeks on slashdot and I can't get anyone to post the rest of the quote.
spiders, snakes, werewolves, sharks, dying alone, zombies, clowns, heights, big dogs, robots with human brains, Johnson's wife, and... fear itself.
And on top of that I get modded up "interesting "
Oh, Well....
"We have nothing to fear except Fear Itself®"
and spiders
Nope, Born and raised in FT.Worth. Now live in west Texas sometimes it's kinda lonely out here. :-)
Nah, There are still a few of us "liberal, Commies " around.
I'm glad somebody modded this funny, but it's more true than you might think. They don't call it the BIble belt for nothing.
It's about 35 miles from me on the road to Lubbock. He has some really nice fossils, but his interpretation is just plain weird. He built a huge human leg bone to show people what the "giants" would have looked like. The problem is he didn't take into account the strength of the bone and simply scaled it up to giant size. The local schools take classes on field trips to see the museum, I need to ask the high school kid that works for me what they are told when they visit. Knowing the teachers around here they teach this stuff in their class, it's shame really.
Annex the sudetenland.
that the teacher even noticed the difference? Really, the displays of firefox and ie are fairly similar, and if you aren't looking at the very top or very bottom of the window, a layperson might not notice the difference at all
Maybe it didn't have the standard "Performed an Illegal Operation" error message. Thats quite easy to see.
I had subscriptions of all those mags so I likely still have them boxed up somewhere. I wrote a series of "how to" articles for a Commodore users group newsletter. Trying to teach them about BASIC and ML. Didn't really want to do it but the editor kept after me until I agreed.
Still have 3 128's, 2 64's, and 2 vic 20's. Learned morris code on my 128 so I could upgrade to my advanced ham lic.
I thought so too.So I googled and found this. May be redundant now tho.
http://www.planetary.org/explore/topics/saturn/atlas.html
some (fake) snuff film (some would argue that such a film is immoral).
Why is a fake snuff film immoral? On the shelf right now I have "Gag", "Experiment in Torture", and A crummy Scifi called "Decoys". If you want to go more mainstream how about "Angel Heart"? As long as its fake it's only a movie. Ack just remembered the "Faces of Death" stuff.
This isn't directed at the parent post, but to those people that think that a fake snuff film is immoral.
(I don't have a quarterhorse yet)
I think you mean a cutting horse, although most cutting horses are quarter horses they can be any fast and smart horse. On a side note, even mules and dogs have been trained to cut cattle.
Just tried it, it just saye that it's loading and sits there.
But that will only prolong the process. Sooner or later the artists will decide for themself and go with direct distribution, the music companys will bleed slowly to death. I hope it happens sooner than later.
Good morning, I think that is the nicest rebuff I've ever read on slashdot. However, My point was that because I'm not a "giant patent-wielding litigation-happy overlord" I'm more friendly to my customers. Blockbuster, Pizza hut, and a slew of others are too big to give a damn and they have consumer rights problems. I have to face my customers every day and a large number of them have known me for years. Their my friends as well as customers.
Never had anyone eat one before, but a lady brought one back one time soaking wet and said her 4 year old son thought the tape was dirty because it wouldn't play so he washed it in his wading pool. :-) she insisted on paying for it.
Well customers do have rights, but so do businesses. I've run my own business since 1986 and people (in general) think you must be rich because you own a business. I have always used a modified version of an old saying, "The customer may not always be right, but it's OK to let him think so". I forgive late movie fees all the time. In fact my late movie fees exceed my movie rental income by a wide margin. Like wise I give refunds if people don't like my pizzas or I replace a pizza that the customer thinks is over or under done. I try to make my customer happy, but then you have people that try to take advantage of you. They bring a movie back and say it won't play "on their machine" and want another one, or they bring back the almost empty pizza box and say that the pizza was over/under done and want another. These people get what they want, but the are put on my "list" to see if it keeps happening. At some point I'll politelly refuse them and tell them why. This usually stops the problem and I don't lose a customer in the process. The problem is that when a business gets too big you start to lose the personal touch. You deal with employees that would rather be somewhere else, or a boss that has no stake in the business execpt a paycheck. I would like to make more money, but this is a one man operation and most of the time I am doing as much as I can. Getting bigger would require hiring people and the problem above would begin happening.
I'm waiting for thr RIAA or MPAA to sue them because "The Windows operating system facilitates copyright infringement".
I don't know if "dusting" a group of people would work very well because after the event the tags would get on anyone that passed thru the area. You would get identified as being at the event when you simply passed thru after it was over.
I have to agree here. I have one of these things in my videostore. It operates on 8.2 Mhz and goes off for almost no reason. Any piece of metal that is a multiple of the wavelength is will set off the alarm. Sometimes it gets so bad I just turn it off. The investment in this thing wasn't worth it as I have only had 1 (one) movie since 1986 that someone tried to steal by hiding it in their coat, I caught that one because I saw them hide it. I have many more movies go missing because people won't bring them back after renting them.
And your Grandmother dosen't count!
Oh great, now i've got the image of Stephen Hawkins dressed like Sailor Moon stuck in my head! (shudder)