The only Commodore incompetence was lack of advertising and marketing as Microsoft and Apple had done. The reports of the death of the Amiga were greatly exaggerated and it still lives on in Intel X86 PCs as AROS as a free open source alternative operating system.
"Read the rest of his comments sometime, the guy thinks that he's a space pirate from the year 4000 (no I'm not joking)."
I don't think I am a space pirate from the year 4000, I joke about being a space pirate ninja from 4096AD, I use this character to joke on the Internet and write funny articles in Wikis like Uncyclopedia. I don't know how many times I have to keep telling that to you Anonymous Cowards who never learn from your same stupid mistakes you make over and over again. Most Slashdot readers get my jokes and mod my comments up as "funny" which is why I have Excellent Karma here, and your comments keep being modded down as "troll" and you post as Anonymous Coward because you cannot back up what you are saying most of the time.
{Former Apple engineer Jean-Louis Gassee (now at BeOS, Inc.), reminiscing about Apple in the mid-'90s, said: "When the Amiga came out, everyone was scared as hell. No one could figure out how they packed so much power into its off-the-shelf parts." Apple's Mac was still black and white, cost more, and could only do one thing at a time. But, Apple advertised; Commodore didn't. "We [Apple] were really scared of the Amiga. Fortunately, Irving Gould [CEO of Commodore] helped Apple by running Commodore into the ground." (Interview with Mr. Gasse in Amazing Computing, Nov. 1996) Around the same time, Atari was also launching a multimedia computer - the Atari ST (and later the Falcon) - which was also way ahead of IBM/Microsoft's PC and Apple's Macintosh. Ironically, the two companies with the best products bit the dust, and vice-versa; Atari and Commodore put all their money into their computer development, while Apple and IBM/Microsoft instead put their money into their advertising. Since most of the public didn't know much about computers back then, advertising proved to the most important part of making computers.}
The Amiga was technically superior to Apple and PCs, but in the end it all came down to who did the most advertising and marketing hype. One of Apple's CEO admits they were scared of the Amiga and did everything they could to discredit it and ruin the company in an interview.
No love or hate of the Amiga there, just plain and simple FUD from Apple and Microsoft on the Amiga. Fear Uncertainty and Doubt, now the same thing is being done to Linux by Apple and Microsoft. The more things change the more they stay the same. Linux companies don't do much advertising and marketing either, but Apple and Microsoft do tons of advertising and marketing. Would you say at this time that does Linux even need killing at this point?
Apple has a history of retail failures in the 1990's, and almost went under until Steve Jobs went back as the iCEO and cut expenses and brought the iMacs and Next technology to save Apple. Then he had the iPod and iPhone projects that helped save it as well.
Not really brave of you to say that via Anonymous Coward, in doing so you have Frenchified yourself and bescumbered all over Slashdot as a true ninnyhammer would making a buncombe out of your own Hircismus as the corpulant feist that you really are.
Next time be a real brave hero and post it under your real name or handle, that way I won't think that you are just some scared momma's boy that hides in her basement and suffer from your own psychological problems and was only projecting your problems on me, and confirming that fact by posting as Anonymous Coward, which you really and truly are.
The FCC coupons expire too fast and most people cannot use them. DTV converters are overpriced as well. You really expect the average US citizen to buy a $60 box even with a $20 or $40 price break?
Make it worth their while, sell them a $60 VCR/DVD combo that has a DTV tuner built in, and then they will buy those and also be able to buy those DVD movies that the MPAA wants them to buy as well. Plus it will use their old VHS tapes.
When those $60 DVD/VCR/DTV Tuner combos come out I will buy one of them, they should have made them a few years ago to get people ready, but they didn't even bother.
I already have satellite TV and won't need the DTV converters, but my DVR has a DTV tuner built in and I bought a $20 antenna and $15 signal booster to get Digital TV broadcasts on it. My other TV sets are analog but DTV sets cost too much to replace them with and satellite works with analog TV sets, so no worries for me.
Ah yeah we are getting HD radio as well, Best Buy should be selling those new HD radios for automobiles if they ever decide to switch off the analog FM/AM signals. Some people switched to Satellite radio instead. But I got a CD changer that also can read MP3 CDs, so I am good enough for that as most radio stations play the same 12 songs over and over again anyway as they shill for the RIAA.
Step #1 Sell off a lot of MSFT shares on news that a new Windows operating system will be released in a few years. It drives the price up and makes Microsoft a lot of money.
Step #2 Make sure that Windows Vista bombs and has lots of bugs and incompatibilities with legacy software and hardware.
Step #3 Phase out all older versions of Windows except Windows XP. Sell as many copies of XP as you can from wharehouses. Raise $40 billion in XP sales.
Step #4 After making billions off record XP sales, stop selling XP and release a service pack for Vista that has more bugs than ever.
Step #5 Watch as software reviewers give Windows Vista the worst reviews ever.
Step #6 Announce a Windows 7.0 that will fix Vista issues in a few years.
Step #7 Laugh at all of the bad reviews of Vista and Windows 7.0, but wait for the economy to take a dive due to all the issues that Vista has caused.
Step #8 Right as the US and world economy goes into a recession and buy back $40 billion of MSFT stock at firesale prices with a weak US Dollar and low MSFT price.
Step #9 Wait a few years for the economies to get better and ready to release Windows 7.0 and then sell those MSFT shares at record prices.
Step #10 Repeat the whole process with Windows 7.0 and laugh all the way to the bank.
Bill Gates borrowed from Mel Brooks that one can make more money from a flop than from a hit.:)
I learned my ninja skills in the 1980's via mail order Ninja books like ones Ashida Kim wrote. He wants you to steal this Ninja book because everyone else has stolen it and he released it into the public domain to get even at the dummy corporations that protected the publishers that sold his book and never game him his fair share or any money at all from it. He will gladly sell you ebooks and paper books for money to learn how to be a real ninja.
If you want to learn how to be a real pirate, you can join up with the Neo-Swashbucklers and learn from them. New pirate members accepted as long as they don't troll the group or cause trouble, because if that happens we make them walk the plank.:)
Here is a reference to that but Microsoft made sure the original articles got scrubbed off the Internet. There were things Microsoft did to GEOS, GEM, the Amiga, the Atari ST, Vision, Desqview, etc to discourage OEMS and hardware and software makers from supporting them and only supporting Microsoft products like MS-DOS and Windows instead. Microsoft did the same thing to IBM over OS/2. But most of the articles about that Microsoft had scrubbed off the Internet.
The history of the Amiga clearly shows its 8-bits roots with the Atari 2600 and Atari 400/800 series that evolved into the Amiga eventually, parallel to the Macintosh.
In the 1990's PC OEMS were fighting over the Amiga, but were loyal to Microsoft. But Microsoft used the same tactics against the Amiga that they used against DR-DOS, and killed the Amiga by leveraging what OEMS could and could not do and then Gateway had to sell the Amiga division to make Microsoft happy.
"The press attention to the Microsoft case reveals their relationship with Gateway. Jim Von Holle, a former Gateway employee, describes how the company tried to punish Gateway for the type of software they shipped. Although largely in the background, it became increasingly clear why Gateway chose to develop an alternative to the Windows market. Unfortunately, just a few months later Gateway's relationship with Microsoft regarding their set-top box would have a dramatic effect upon Amiga's plans. Who could have guessed Microsoft would play a major role in the Amigas downfall?"
I have said it before, but my comments got rated down as troll, by rapid Apple and Microsoft fanboys who hate the Amiga. This time I found the links that prove it.
It was not just DR-DOS that Microsoft murdered, but the Amiga as well. Apple had a hand in it by forcing Apple dealers to lose their license if they sold Amiga computers as well as Macintoshes. Then later Apple killed the Apple Dealers and did the store within a store and web store to sell Macintoshes as revenge on Apple dealers that still tried to sell Amiga One and Classic Amiga computers along with Macs.
It would be way more profitable to be unethical, and just use a data encryption software to encrypt their entire SATA-drive MOSS server data while you are fixing it, and then say fixing it is free, but getting the password to unlock the data on your SATA-drive MOSS server will cost you dearly. A scenario right out of the BOFH and all you need to pull it off is a pimply faced youth.:)
Tell me about it, only IT contacts I get are to fix my friends and family's Windows PCs that got too many viruses for free. Geeksquad wants $300 to remove the viruses and sometimes they mess up the computers so badly via that MRI boot CD that I have to run recovery tools to recover the lost data from a damaged hard drive. Good thing I use Linux based recovery tools, because the ones Geeksquad uses are crap and I can't afford commercial tools.
Plus I "tutor" my friends and family for free, how to use Windows, how to use email, how to surf the web, why they should use Firefox instead of IE, why they should use Thunderbird instead of Outlook, web sites they should avoid, what a 419 Scam is and why they shouldn't reply to them, why those "win a free iPod" emails aren't really free but a "scam" in which they have to complete offers that cost more than the iPod is worth, etc.
Seesh, all of that for free, because "Nobody else can do it, Orion, you are our only hope!" not like they got money to pay me, they're broke like I am.
I've been out of work since 2002, and many other IT workers I know have moved on to non-IT work as all companies in our area are hiring are foreign IT workers via H1B Visas. I have been turned down for thousands of IT jobs because I am not a foreigner that is willing to work for minimum wage or almost minimum wage via a H1B IT Visa. I'd have a much better chance if I renounce my US citizenship and apply for citizenship in an Asian nation and then apply for an H1B Visa application and then I'd have a 100% chance of being hired as an IT worker in the USA. Of course it would be for a fraction of what I would be paid as a US citizen, but most of us have been out of work for so long, we start to get desperate.:)
Liberal nazis who censor things by deleting them. Deleted Wikipedia articles usually end up on Uncyclopedia and get made into funny articles that are more factual than the articles on Wikipedia that are not deleted. No offense to modern liberals or classic liberals who are nothing like liberal nazis. Barack Obama is a John F. Kennedy modern liberal and not at all like the liberal nazis that hacked Sarah Palin's email, or liberal nazis on MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Moveon.org, or blogs that do personal attacks and political smears. Not all liberals are nazis, but some if not all of the admins on Wikipedia appear to be. Uncyclopedia is liberal nazi free, just modern liberals, classic liberals, anarchists, communists, libertarians, moderates, conservatives, neocons, independents, and others who join together to write funny, but not stupid, articles. Liberal nazis usually get banned at Uncyclopedia, or we make funny articles about them instead if they keep coming back with web proxies.
At least they aren't Conservapedia the Conservative Wiki that only Neocons can edit.
Read Wikitruth for the reasons why many of us don't want to use Wikipedia anymore. Even a humor Wiki like Uncyclopedia is managed way better than Wikipedia ever will be, and we are all volunteers who do work for free.
The Uncyclopedia article was deleted and put back many times as well on Wikipedia. Apparently Jimbo and the sockpuppet Admins think we aren't notable enough to have an article on us.
Interesting ideas, but just to let you know there will be electro-magnetic fields a human being will pass through with such a device that would stop the heart and fry the brain unless it was properly shielded. When anything goes through an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, you have to properly shield it. Once you uncover the grand unified theory and prove that, you will discover how to shield against electro-magnetic fields to prevent damage. Another way is to convert the matter into energy, pass it through such a device, and then convert the energy back into matter after passing through, much like those Star Trek transporter technology if you don't mind your molecules being taken apart and put back together.
Black holes are not really black, there is a nano aspect to them in the lower dimensions that does not resemble a singularity as is commonly thought, and in some cases they are nicknamed as time eaters because they eat time and space as well as matter and energy, but regurgitate it back up in a different dimension as the Super Nova or high gravity that caused it to form punched a hole in our universe to a different universe or dimension, and the black hole appears hungry and eats all matter, energy, time, and space, to the observer, and the other end is somewhere else where everything it ate comes out eventually.
Paranoia is a survival trait, but how does a person from the future know they can trust someone in the past to not change things so their future won't exist anymore? Trust is a two-way street.
Still Chronodymanics and Chrononaughts haven't been developed or thought up yet, as this century is still stifled by atheistic and secular scientists who lack the imagination and do not even believe that such science or technology is possible and don't believe in the nano dimensions or other universes or dimensions, so they force their "version" of the Truth(TM) on us that nothing exists outside of our universe and that there are only three dimensions and completely ignore space and time as dimensions, ignore Spinosa and Einstein's theories on God and all the work on it that Hawking based on Einstein and Spinosa's work in "A Brief History of Time which explains the scientific theories that came from Christianity and religion and what God really is and the universe. That makes this modern science with a very myoptic "caveman" view of reality. But we are learning new information every year.
Ironically 4000 to 6000 years ago some of the beings who helped our civilizations gave knowledge of the universe and it was to be a user's manual for the "program" our machine (universe) runs but it got easily confused for religion when it was actually science and all of the parts the people 4000+ years ago couldn't understand rejected it and rewrote it so it made more sense to their "cavemen" mentality, but the philisophies and theories came to form ancient science and moved away from "magic" as alchemy evolved into chemistry, astrology evolved into astronomy, theology evolved into physics, etc and we got modern science thanks to the Aztecs, Babylonians, Jewish people, early Christians (Monks in a Monastery came up with scientific theories before Newton did).
God is a time traveler, he traveled back to the past to become his own son, and then traveled back to the beginning of time and became his father, and then traveled again and became the holy spirit, and has tried to change history for the good of humanity. In the original time line, Hitler won WWII, but God changed that, yet in doing so other bad things had happened, but not as bad as Nazi Germany controlling the entire world. This universe is an accident, really, The Devil worked for God and thought he could do a better job but started a war in Heaven that created this universe, and God has been cleaning things up every since. Since The Devil stole some of God's ideas, but flawed them, Jesus had to be born to try and fix things and set us back on the right path. We are all part of a program and don't know it.
you actually can get the minutes back by reversing time.
There are real time eaters out there, they exist beyond three dimensions and exist in several dimensional space. If you saw how they really look, you'd go insane like I did when I first saw them.
First learn about super strings and then we can discuss how the universe and multiverse actually work. Hawking got a lot of things wrong, the Hawking paradox was but one of them and the information and matter and energy does not simply disappear, it ends up in a different dimension. One you Terrans have not discovered yet. But keep guessing, you'll find it eventually and then learn how to reverse time.
MOVE A TO B. COMPUTE GROSS-PAY = HOURS-WORKED * HOURLY-RATE SET MY-INDEX TO 1 SET ADDRESS OF MY-LINKAGE-SECTION-ITEM TO MY-POINTER READ TRANSACTION-FILE INTO TRANSACTION-RECORD-WS
MOVE 2101 to AD BEGIN WAR SET CAPTAIN = "What happen?" SET MECHANIC = "We get signal" SET CAPTAIN = "What?" OPERATOR MAINSCREEN = TURN-ON SET CAPTAIN = "It's you!" SET CATS = "How are you gentlemen?" SET ALLYOURBASE = BELONGTOUS SET YOU = AREONTHEWAYTODESCTURCTION SET CHANCE != SURVIVE SET LAUGH = "Ha ha ha ha" OPERATOR CAPTAIN = "!!*" SET CAPTAIN = "Take off every Zig" MOVE ZIG FOR GREAT-JUSTICE
Actually J. Jonah Jameson was based loosely on Stan Lee and the Daily Burgle on the Marvel Bullpen, but Barr looks more like Stan Lee than JJJ. Stan Lee gave JJJ a Hitler mustache and a flat-top so he wouldn't look like himself. Barr has a mustache like Stan Lee and not JJJ, and no flat top, but hair like Stan Lee.
so why should McCain and Obama break the rules and get away with it? If they are late for the ballot, take them off. Rules are rules.
Barr was mistreated as not let into Saddleback Church to answer questions and he won't be part of the Presidential debates either. Also he might not be allowed on the ballot in some states even if he filed before the deadline.
Bob Barr's web site to let people know he is running under the Libertarian ticket after getting sick of what the Republicans had done under Bush. So he quit the Republicans and joined the Libertarians and are now calling both the Republicans and Democrats on their dirty tricks and rule breaking.
#1 Everything I post as Orion Blastar is meant to be funny and paranoid.
#2 I write funny articles for humor Wikis.
#3 There is a kernel of truth in almost everything I write.
#4 On Slashdot most of my comments get modded up as funny via Dadism aka Andy Kaufman humor.
#5 If I didn't make paranoid rants on the Internet, I wouldn't be on disability and have the time to read books and research things on the Internet to get ready for the big crash of 2017.
#6 Nothing is 100% true, everyone lies (Dr. Gregory House says so) so don't believe everything you read on the Internet like some dumb stoner that thinks with his emotions.
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Does Your Mom know that you post with such language using her Windows 95 Packard Bell PC and AOL Dial-up?
The only Commodore incompetence was lack of advertising and marketing as Microsoft and Apple had done. The reports of the death of the Amiga were greatly exaggerated and it still lives on in Intel X86 PCs as AROS as a free open source alternative operating system.
"Read the rest of his comments sometime, the guy thinks that he's a space pirate from the year 4000 (no I'm not joking)."
I don't think I am a space pirate from the year 4000, I joke about being a space pirate ninja from 4096AD, I use this character to joke on the Internet and write funny articles in Wikis like Uncyclopedia. I don't know how many times I have to keep telling that to you Anonymous Cowards who never learn from your same stupid mistakes you make over and over again. Most Slashdot readers get my jokes and mod my comments up as "funny" which is why I have Excellent Karma here, and your comments keep being modded down as "troll" and you post as Anonymous Coward because you cannot back up what you are saying most of the time.
You are talk about fanboy love making one irrational as Apple fanboys get irrational with Apple love?
read up on interviews about the Amiga
{Former Apple engineer Jean-Louis Gassee (now at BeOS, Inc.), reminiscing about Apple in the mid-'90s, said: "When the Amiga came out, everyone was scared as hell. No one could figure out how they packed so much power into its off-the-shelf parts." Apple's Mac was still black and white, cost more, and could only do one thing at a time. But, Apple advertised; Commodore didn't. "We [Apple] were really scared of the Amiga. Fortunately, Irving Gould [CEO of Commodore] helped Apple by running Commodore into the ground." (Interview with Mr. Gasse in Amazing Computing, Nov. 1996) Around the same time, Atari was also launching a multimedia computer - the Atari ST (and later the Falcon) - which was also way ahead of IBM/Microsoft's PC and Apple's Macintosh. Ironically, the two companies with the best products bit the dust, and vice-versa; Atari and Commodore put all their money into their computer development, while Apple and IBM/Microsoft instead put their money into their advertising. Since most of the public didn't know much about computers back then, advertising proved to the most important part of making computers.}
The Amiga was technically superior to Apple and PCs, but in the end it all came down to who did the most advertising and marketing hype. One of Apple's CEO admits they were scared of the Amiga and did everything they could to discredit it and ruin the company in an interview.
No love or hate of the Amiga there, just plain and simple FUD from Apple and Microsoft on the Amiga. Fear Uncertainty and Doubt, now the same thing is being done to Linux by Apple and Microsoft. The more things change the more they stay the same. Linux companies don't do much advertising and marketing either, but Apple and Microsoft do tons of advertising and marketing. Would you say at this time that does Linux even need killing at this point?
Apple has a history of retail failures in the 1990's, and almost went under until Steve Jobs went back as the iCEO and cut expenses and brought the iMacs and Next technology to save Apple. Then he had the iPod and iPhone projects that helped save it as well.
Not really brave of you to say that via Anonymous Coward, in doing so you have Frenchified yourself and bescumbered all over Slashdot as a true ninnyhammer would making a buncombe out of your own Hircismus as the corpulant feist that you really are.
Next time be a real brave hero and post it under your real name or handle, that way I won't think that you are just some scared momma's boy that hides in her basement and suffer from your own psychological problems and was only projecting your problems on me, and confirming that fact by posting as Anonymous Coward, which you really and truly are.
The FCC coupons expire too fast and most people cannot use them. DTV converters are overpriced as well. You really expect the average US citizen to buy a $60 box even with a $20 or $40 price break?
Make it worth their while, sell them a $60 VCR/DVD combo that has a DTV tuner built in, and then they will buy those and also be able to buy those DVD movies that the MPAA wants them to buy as well. Plus it will use their old VHS tapes.
When those $60 DVD/VCR/DTV Tuner combos come out I will buy one of them, they should have made them a few years ago to get people ready, but they didn't even bother.
I already have satellite TV and won't need the DTV converters, but my DVR has a DTV tuner built in and I bought a $20 antenna and $15 signal booster to get Digital TV broadcasts on it. My other TV sets are analog but DTV sets cost too much to replace them with and satellite works with analog TV sets, so no worries for me.
Ah yeah we are getting HD radio as well, Best Buy should be selling those new HD radios for automobiles if they ever decide to switch off the analog FM/AM signals. Some people switched to Satellite radio instead. But I got a CD changer that also can read MP3 CDs, so I am good enough for that as most radio stations play the same 12 songs over and over again anyway as they shill for the RIAA.
Step #1 Sell off a lot of MSFT shares on news that a new Windows operating system will be released in a few years. It drives the price up and makes Microsoft a lot of money.
Step #2 Make sure that Windows Vista bombs and has lots of bugs and incompatibilities with legacy software and hardware.
Step #3 Phase out all older versions of Windows except Windows XP. Sell as many copies of XP as you can from wharehouses. Raise $40 billion in XP sales.
Step #4 After making billions off record XP sales, stop selling XP and release a service pack for Vista that has more bugs than ever.
Step #5 Watch as software reviewers give Windows Vista the worst reviews ever.
Step #6 Announce a Windows 7.0 that will fix Vista issues in a few years.
Step #7 Laugh at all of the bad reviews of Vista and Windows 7.0, but wait for the economy to take a dive due to all the issues that Vista has caused.
Step #8 Right as the US and world economy goes into a recession and buy back $40 billion of MSFT stock at firesale prices with a weak US Dollar and low MSFT price.
Step #9 Wait a few years for the economies to get better and ready to release Windows 7.0 and then sell those MSFT shares at record prices.
Step #10 Repeat the whole process with Windows 7.0 and laugh all the way to the bank.
Bill Gates borrowed from Mel Brooks that one can make more money from a flop than from a hit. :)
I learned my ninja skills in the 1980's via mail order Ninja books like ones Ashida Kim wrote. He wants you to steal this Ninja book because everyone else has stolen it and he released it into the public domain to get even at the dummy corporations that protected the publishers that sold his book and never game him his fair share or any money at all from it. He will gladly sell you ebooks and paper books for money to learn how to be a real ninja.
If you want to learn how to be a real pirate, you can join up with the Neo-Swashbucklers and learn from them. New pirate members accepted as long as they don't troll the group or cause trouble, because if that happens we make them walk the plank. :)
Here is a reference to that but Microsoft made sure the original articles got scrubbed off the Internet. There were things Microsoft did to GEOS, GEM, the Amiga, the Atari ST, Vision, Desqview, etc to discourage OEMS and hardware and software makers from supporting them and only supporting Microsoft products like MS-DOS and Windows instead. Microsoft did the same thing to IBM over OS/2. But most of the articles about that Microsoft had scrubbed off the Internet.
The history of the Amiga clearly shows its 8-bits roots with the Atari 2600 and Atari 400/800 series that evolved into the Amiga eventually, parallel to the Macintosh.
In the 1990's PC OEMS were fighting over the Amiga, but were loyal to Microsoft. But Microsoft used the same tactics against the Amiga that they used against DR-DOS, and killed the Amiga by leveraging what OEMS could and could not do and then Gateway had to sell the Amiga division to make Microsoft happy.
"The press attention to the Microsoft case reveals their relationship with Gateway. Jim Von Holle, a former Gateway employee, describes how the company tried to punish Gateway for the type of software they shipped. Although largely in the background, it became increasingly clear why Gateway chose to develop an alternative to the Windows market. Unfortunately, just a few months later Gateway's relationship with Microsoft regarding their set-top box would have a dramatic effect upon Amiga's plans. Who could have guessed Microsoft would play a major role in the Amigas downfall?"
I have said it before, but my comments got rated down as troll, by rapid Apple and Microsoft fanboys who hate the Amiga. This time I found the links that prove it.
It was not just DR-DOS that Microsoft murdered, but the Amiga as well. Apple had a hand in it by forcing Apple dealers to lose their license if they sold Amiga computers as well as Macintoshes. Then later Apple killed the Apple Dealers and did the store within a store and web store to sell Macintoshes as revenge on Apple dealers that still tried to sell Amiga One and Classic Amiga computers along with Macs.
The Amiga history clearly shows the Amiga was based on Atari technology way before the Macintosh was even developed.
Nice try, but someone who used to work at Commodore Amiga knows the history of the Amiga better than most.
It would be way more profitable to be unethical, and just use a data encryption software to encrypt their entire SATA-drive MOSS server data while you are fixing it, and then say fixing it is free, but getting the password to unlock the data on your SATA-drive MOSS server will cost you dearly. A scenario right out of the BOFH and all you need to pull it off is a pimply faced youth. :)
Tell me about it, only IT contacts I get are to fix my friends and family's Windows PCs that got too many viruses for free. Geeksquad wants $300 to remove the viruses and sometimes they mess up the computers so badly via that MRI boot CD that I have to run recovery tools to recover the lost data from a damaged hard drive. Good thing I use Linux based recovery tools, because the ones Geeksquad uses are crap and I can't afford commercial tools.
Plus I "tutor" my friends and family for free, how to use Windows, how to use email, how to surf the web, why they should use Firefox instead of IE, why they should use Thunderbird instead of Outlook, web sites they should avoid, what a 419 Scam is and why they shouldn't reply to them, why those "win a free iPod" emails aren't really free but a "scam" in which they have to complete offers that cost more than the iPod is worth, etc.
Seesh, all of that for free, because "Nobody else can do it, Orion, you are our only hope!" not like they got money to pay me, they're broke like I am.
Then why are mega corporations pushing to raise the cap on H1B Visa IT limits if they "love" us US Citizen IT Workers?
I've been out of work since 2002, and many other IT workers I know have moved on to non-IT work as all companies in our area are hiring are foreign IT workers via H1B Visas. I have been turned down for thousands of IT jobs because I am not a foreigner that is willing to work for minimum wage or almost minimum wage via a H1B IT Visa. I'd have a much better chance if I renounce my US citizenship and apply for citizenship in an Asian nation and then apply for an H1B Visa application and then I'd have a 100% chance of being hired as an IT worker in the USA. Of course it would be for a fraction of what I would be paid as a US citizen, but most of us have been out of work for so long, we start to get desperate. :)
Liberal nazis who censor things by deleting them. Deleted Wikipedia articles usually end up on Uncyclopedia and get made into funny articles that are more factual than the articles on Wikipedia that are not deleted. No offense to modern liberals or classic liberals who are nothing like liberal nazis. Barack Obama is a John F. Kennedy modern liberal and not at all like the liberal nazis that hacked Sarah Palin's email, or liberal nazis on MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Moveon.org, or blogs that do personal attacks and political smears. Not all liberals are nazis, but some if not all of the admins on Wikipedia appear to be. Uncyclopedia is liberal nazi free, just modern liberals, classic liberals, anarchists, communists, libertarians, moderates, conservatives, neocons, independents, and others who join together to write funny, but not stupid, articles. Liberal nazis usually get banned at Uncyclopedia, or we make funny articles about them instead if they keep coming back with web proxies.
At least they aren't Conservapedia the Conservative Wiki that only Neocons can edit.
Read Wikitruth for the reasons why many of us don't want to use Wikipedia anymore. Even a humor Wiki like Uncyclopedia is managed way better than Wikipedia ever will be, and we are all volunteers who do work for free.
The Uncyclopedia article was deleted and put back many times as well on Wikipedia. Apparently Jimbo and the sockpuppet Admins think we aren't notable enough to have an article on us.
Interesting ideas, but just to let you know there will be electro-magnetic fields a human being will pass through with such a device that would stop the heart and fry the brain unless it was properly shielded. When anything goes through an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, you have to properly shield it. Once you uncover the grand unified theory and prove that, you will discover how to shield against electro-magnetic fields to prevent damage. Another way is to convert the matter into energy, pass it through such a device, and then convert the energy back into matter after passing through, much like those Star Trek transporter technology if you don't mind your molecules being taken apart and put back together.
Black holes are not really black, there is a nano aspect to them in the lower dimensions that does not resemble a singularity as is commonly thought, and in some cases they are nicknamed as time eaters because they eat time and space as well as matter and energy, but regurgitate it back up in a different dimension as the Super Nova or high gravity that caused it to form punched a hole in our universe to a different universe or dimension, and the black hole appears hungry and eats all matter, energy, time, and space, to the observer, and the other end is somewhere else where everything it ate comes out eventually.
Paranoia is a survival trait, but how does a person from the future know they can trust someone in the past to not change things so their future won't exist anymore? Trust is a two-way street.
Still Chronodymanics and Chrononaughts haven't been developed or thought up yet, as this century is still stifled by atheistic and secular scientists who lack the imagination and do not even believe that such science or technology is possible and don't believe in the nano dimensions or other universes or dimensions, so they force their "version" of the Truth(TM) on us that nothing exists outside of our universe and that there are only three dimensions and completely ignore space and time as dimensions, ignore Spinosa and Einstein's theories on God and all the work on it that Hawking based on Einstein and Spinosa's work in "A Brief History of Time which explains the scientific theories that came from Christianity and religion and what God really is and the universe. That makes this modern science with a very myoptic "caveman" view of reality. But we are learning new information every year.
Ironically 4000 to 6000 years ago some of the beings who helped our civilizations gave knowledge of the universe and it was to be a user's manual for the "program" our machine (universe) runs but it got easily confused for religion when it was actually science and all of the parts the people 4000+ years ago couldn't understand rejected it and rewrote it so it made more sense to their "cavemen" mentality, but the philisophies and theories came to form ancient science and moved away from "magic" as alchemy evolved into chemistry, astrology evolved into astronomy, theology evolved into physics, etc and we got modern science thanks to the Aztecs, Babylonians, Jewish people, early Christians (Monks in a Monastery came up with scientific theories before Newton did).
God is a time traveler, he traveled back to the past to become his own son, and then traveled back to the beginning of time and became his father, and then traveled again and became the holy spirit, and has tried to change history for the good of humanity. In the original time line, Hitler won WWII, but God changed that, yet in doing so other bad things had happened, but not as bad as Nazi Germany controlling the entire world. This universe is an accident, really, The Devil worked for God and thought he could do a better job but started a war in Heaven that created this universe, and God has been cleaning things up every since. Since The Devil stole some of God's ideas, but flawed them, Jesus had to be born to try and fix things and set us back on the right path. We are all part of a program and don't know it.
Not everyone will believe me, most will
you actually can get the minutes back by reversing time.
There are real time eaters out there, they exist beyond three dimensions and exist in several dimensional space. If you saw how they really look, you'd go insane like I did when I first saw them.
First learn about super strings and then we can discuss how the universe and multiverse actually work. Hawking got a lot of things wrong, the Hawking paradox was but one of them and the information and matter and energy does not simply disappear, it ends up in a different dimension. One you Terrans have not discovered yet. But keep guessing, you'll find it eventually and then learn how to reverse time.
Who is the paranoid fringer joke now?
Pot meet kettle, kettle meet pot!
there will still be COBOL.
MOVE A TO B.
COMPUTE GROSS-PAY = HOURS-WORKED * HOURLY-RATE
SET MY-INDEX TO 1
SET ADDRESS OF MY-LINKAGE-SECTION-ITEM TO MY-POINTER
READ TRANSACTION-FILE INTO TRANSACTION-RECORD-WS
MOVE 2101 to AD
BEGIN WAR
SET CAPTAIN = "What happen?"
SET MECHANIC = "We get signal"
SET CAPTAIN = "What?"
OPERATOR MAINSCREEN = TURN-ON
SET CAPTAIN = "It's you!"
SET CATS = "How are you gentlemen?"
SET ALLYOURBASE = BELONGTOUS
SET YOU = AREONTHEWAYTODESCTURCTION
SET CHANCE != SURVIVE
SET LAUGH = "Ha ha ha ha"
OPERATOR CAPTAIN = "!!*"
SET CAPTAIN = "Take off every Zig"
MOVE ZIG FOR GREAT-JUSTICE
Novell did it first and took on both Microsoft and Apple. Linux has free stuff and that Mac and PCs can run Linux and then others made Linux annoying.
Linux evolves PCs and Macs cannot.
But all of the cool people use AROS instead of Linux, Windows Vista, or Mac OSX. :)
Actually J. Jonah Jameson was based loosely on Stan Lee and the Daily Burgle on the Marvel Bullpen, but Barr looks more like Stan Lee than JJJ. Stan Lee gave JJJ a Hitler mustache and a flat-top so he wouldn't look like himself. Barr has a mustache like Stan Lee and not JJJ, and no flat top, but hair like Stan Lee.
so why should McCain and Obama break the rules and get away with it? If they are late for the ballot, take them off. Rules are rules.
Barr was mistreated as not let into Saddleback Church to answer questions and he won't be part of the Presidential debates either. Also he might not be allowed on the ballot in some states even if he filed before the deadline.
Bob Barr's web site to let people know he is running under the Libertarian ticket after getting sick of what the Republicans had done under Bush. So he quit the Republicans and joined the Libertarians and are now calling both the Republicans and Democrats on their dirty tricks and rule breaking.
This is the right link the other redirects to my journal. Thanks Slashdot.
Your real problem is lack of ethics and a code to follow here is an ethical code you might be interested in.
Nice try, but that was pathetic as usual, Anonymous. You are really starting to get on the wrong track again and scored another "own goal".
You do know:
#1 Everything I post as Orion Blastar is meant to be funny and paranoid.
#2 I write funny articles for humor Wikis.
#3 There is a kernel of truth in almost everything I write.
#4 On Slashdot most of my comments get modded up as funny via Dadism aka Andy Kaufman humor.
#5 If I didn't make paranoid rants on the Internet, I wouldn't be on disability and have the time to read books and research things on the Internet to get ready for the big crash of 2017.
#6 Nothing is 100% true, everyone lies (Dr. Gregory House says so) so don't believe everything you read on the Internet like some dumb stoner that thinks with his emotions.