Nah, the Chinese didn't grease the right people. These big government deals are all about graft, and who gets it. In the Jiang Zemin/Clinton era, times were happy...the Chinese paid, and the U.S. responded with whatever they wanted...satellite technology, nuclear secrets, influence in elections. However, the new administration of Hu Jintao evidently forgot to pay off the right people, and now the whole deal is in jeopardy. Play ball, people!
Do you do all your writing in longhand? Otherwise, there's a "spell check" option in your word processor...using it generally eliminiates misspellings.
I used to work at AMD's Austin fab. Your processor is already burned-in at the factory. Actually, we used the term to mean taking the processors and BAKING THEM IN OVENS for several days, and then returning them to our facility and testing them, where the defective ones were sorted out. I think "burning in" is just a word used by people who don't understand it properly, like "big iron" means anything larger than a Sun 220R these days.
My dad runs with the same crowd, but motor, not sail. Poker runs and that crap. I've met plenty of his wealthy buddies, been to the big houses. It's all the same, except if you really like wood interiors for some reason.
But, there's a difference between people who made their own wealth, and people who didn't work for theirs. Both kinds have one favorite activity, though: making more money.
Big deal - we had these 20 years ago, in 1985! Wired news, always on the cutting edge.
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Hm, I must have imagined driving around $1000 cars for MY ENTIRE ADULT LIFE. Decent cars can be found, it's just a matter of a little initiative. A lot of people sell perfectly good crappy cars for stupid reasons.
California is a crappy place to live if you're poor. Not just the cars, but the rent as well. I did 2 1/2 years in L.A. driving around a '91 Olds Cutlass Calais with out-of-state plates.
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They have this great invention called "used cars" which can be had for less than $1000.
If you stretch out a line that says, "12 hours drive", you can move that line all the way from Beijing in the north, to Xian in the west, to Shenzhen in the south. That's pretty much most of China. There's a lot more, area-wise, but most of it is countryside or desert.
And the roads are crap, especially when they join with bridges (*THUMP*).
Okay, I exaggerated a bit. But what is there to do in Acuna or Nuevo Laredo? Drinking and whoring, but that's more of an affair best partaken of annually, at best.
A classic out-of-touch comment, made possible by provincialism and the false concensus effect.
Texas is, how shall I put this..."big". Building a highway through the state does not entail the wholesale urban remodeling that Moses envisioned. The politicians must merely mollify pissed-off Texas landowners, who don't go quietly. These same landowners defeated an earlier proposal to build bullet trains linking all of Texas' major cities. Confiscation doesn't go over very well down in Texas.
I've been plenty of other places, and Texas is big. It's bigger than any European country. I used to live in Austin, and it's an 8-hour drive to the nearest state line. From where I live in China, you can get to almost everywhere worth going in a 12-hour drive. The state's highways are excellent and free, and an immediate drop in quality is always experienced when leaving Texas. Can't speak for the German highways, though.
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Nah, the Chinese didn't grease the right people. These big government deals are all about graft, and who gets it. In the Jiang Zemin/Clinton era, times were happy...the Chinese paid, and the U.S. responded with whatever they wanted...satellite technology, nuclear secrets, influence in elections. However, the new administration of Hu Jintao evidently forgot to pay off the right people, and now the whole deal is in jeopardy. Play ball, people!
Since when can a tsunami be considered "weather"?
For the most part
What definition were you using, nitwit?
Well, it's about time. Phrack has been dead for, oh...7-8 years now? Bury the corpse with some dignity.
Don't use it? What about when it's my freaking bank?
What part of "generally" did you not understand?
Do you do all your writing in longhand? Otherwise, there's a "spell check" option in your word processor...using it generally eliminiates misspellings.
"Chat room"? AOL has "rooms". IRC has channels. Get it straight.
I used to work at AMD's Austin fab. Your processor is already burned-in at the factory. Actually, we used the term to mean taking the processors and BAKING THEM IN OVENS for several days, and then returning them to our facility and testing them, where the defective ones were sorted out. I think "burning in" is just a word used by people who don't understand it properly, like "big iron" means anything larger than a Sun 220R these days.
I was referring to the 1903 Springfield. It wasn't clear.
You know the Springfield rifle was essentially a copy of Paul Mauser's 1898 rifle design?
But, there's a difference between people who made their own wealth, and people who didn't work for theirs. Both kinds have one favorite activity, though: making more money.
Hooray! No more toxic chemicals for making film and prints! Our mother Gaia rejoices.
Big deal - we had these 20 years ago, in 1985! Wired news, always on the cutting edge.
California is a crappy place to live if you're poor. Not just the cars, but the rent as well. I did 2 1/2 years in L.A. driving around a '91 Olds Cutlass Calais with out-of-state plates.
They have this great invention called "used cars" which can be had for less than $1000.
"When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves"
These are union shops we're talking about here. They're unfirable.
And the roads are crap, especially when they join with bridges (*THUMP*).
Okay, I exaggerated a bit. But what is there to do in Acuna or Nuevo Laredo? Drinking and whoring, but that's more of an affair best partaken of annually, at best.
Texas doesn't claim to be the biggest place on earth. But, it's big, cattle ranch or no.
Earth is cursed with trees, shrubs, grass, and scurrying creatures. With every breath We act to right this terrible wrong.
We believe in The Plan (tm).
The Plan (tm) is the final word; it brings us the knowledge of the twin pleasures: Speed and Convenience.
We believe food should be enjoyed.
"Nutrition" is an aberration of human nature. The juicy Burger and hearty Beer are Our sacrament.
We believe in the Depletion of scarce natural resources.
Some see the vessel as half full; others see it as half empty; We pour it out on the floor and laugh.
We believe in a sky roiling with Smog.
The color blue should appear nowhere but the paint on Our Hypercars (tm).
Texas is, how shall I put this..."big". Building a highway through the state does not entail the wholesale urban remodeling that Moses envisioned. The politicians must merely mollify pissed-off Texas landowners, who don't go quietly. These same landowners defeated an earlier proposal to build bullet trains linking all of Texas' major cities. Confiscation doesn't go over very well down in Texas.
I've been plenty of other places, and Texas is big. It's bigger than any European country. I used to live in Austin, and it's an 8-hour drive to the nearest state line. From where I live in China, you can get to almost everywhere worth going in a 12-hour drive. The state's highways are excellent and free, and an immediate drop in quality is always experienced when leaving Texas. Can't speak for the German highways, though.
It's not enough that they choose not to do something. YOU shouldn't have the choice to do it, either.