I'm sure new installations included Office instead of WP, but the older ones out there that don't get upgraded stay the same. Hell, they won't even run MS Office. All of my dad's cronies use WP because they're cheap bastards and have't upgraded since Windows 98 or so.
Well la-dee-dah, an Adams quote. Obviously satirewire stories were so predictable I considered it a WASTE OF MY VALUELESS TIME to write ones like them.
Better yet, smear the fungus on a canvas, cover it with feces and religious symbols, and get a lifetime fellowship (read: free money) from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts.
Powerful? Nah, satirewire was definitely one of the weak sisters of the comedy news sites. Every article on there wasn't particularly insightful, matter of fact I usually think, "I could have written that" when seeing a satirewire link. Kind of like Saturday Night Live (shudder).
The politically correct name should then be Stapledon Sphere, not Dyson Sphere.
Don't tell me The Next Generation got its facts wrong, AND passed up an opportunity to be politically correct? It pushes the limits of believability, you understand.
You can't have a Nieman-Marcus operation on a Wal-Mart budget. Not everyone is a dirty-sandals, linux-using hippie. Let me guess, you're one of those people who freaks out hardcore when you find telnet in use, right?
Yeah, it's rather funny how geeks don't know the first thing about Real Business (not suit-wearing business, the blue-collar type), and greenhorn questions like "I underbid a project, why didn't they accept my bid...isn't everyone poor like me?" make it to Ask Slashdot.
I'm sure Macintosh users would have rather cut their mouse hand off at the wrist than give up the Happy Mac icon. It's a moot point, anyway, Macs finally gave it all up a few years ago and switched to Unix.
The smaller project sounds like a loser to me. The larger the weapons system, the more components it requires, and the more employees it keeps busy, the better. The ideal system would have parts built in each and every Congressional district.
Can't call the local cops to investigate a federal crime. Calling the FBI will result in a laugh from the agent answering the phone, as the FBI refuses to assign resources to investigate such trivial infractions.
My one experience with the 6bone administrators convinced me that they were a bunch of rude, snotty elitists who never met an IPv4 packet they didn't like.
They are breaking the clearly posted rules. The commuter bus is typically a quiet place where people sleep. Sleeping is impossible with alarm clocks constantly going off.
I commute daily by bus from Parsippany, N.J. to New York City. The horror stories are endless and the bus company, Lakeland, has done nothing about curbing extreme behavior, designating quiet buses or establishing quiet zones within buses. They have a big sign that reads, essentially, "pretty please with sugar on it, don't be obnoxious." Cell phone hooligans blithely ignore it. The worst of the worst go unfettered and we have a problem that is way, way, way out of control.
I once politely but firmly asked a young woman, talking
loudly on an otherwise quiet morning commute, to quiet down. About half the riders were trying to catch a nap. She responded by saying I'd better shut my mouth, because she'd charge harassment. She also said she might get an emergency call from her kid. She proceeded to do her own harassing, talking five times louder and leaving messages elsewhere, thus inducing return calls.
A yuppie got on another morning ride, called his friend and talked loudly about weekend plans. Beleaguered, I asked him to please quiet down. He smirks and says, "Yeah, and why don't you look the other way and turn up your headset loud. And while you're at it, go get a life."
Another guy was loud, and I asked him to please be more quiet. He responded by taunting me in his phone conversation with the other party. ("This man won't let me talk... Oh, he's mean...")
An older man, on the ride home, screamed about his phone bill. A young man next to him asked for some courtesy; the guy yells, "Tough!! If you don't like it put on your headset!!"
Goodness knows, Europeans are always superior to Americans. In every regard. And those who take any opportunity to point this out are even more superior. It's only common sense.
"Turn Off Your Cell Phones. Answering a Cell Phone call during an exam constitutes cheating."
-From Rules for Exam Taking, University of Florida.
"At first I thought it was some kind of joke."
-Mary Lou Fulton, speaking of her cousin's cell phone ringing while he was taking his marriage vows.
"There are times, especially in church, when we don't need to be accessible to the world at large." -Sharlande Sledge, associate pastor at Lake Shore Baptist Church in Waco, Texas
Dr. Leroy McCloud, St. Petersburg, Florida, dentist, was surprised when a patient's cell phone rang, and downright floored when the patient answered it. After motioning for the doc to wait, the patient chatted on his cell phone for 15 minutes while sitting in the dental chair. Dr. McCloud kicked the patient out of his office.
"Cell phones, among life's most annoying instruments, are now everywhere. They should, however, never be allowed at restaurant tables, where they annoy everybody. And I mean everybody!"
-Larry King, in USA Today
"If it's for me, I'm busy"
-Singer Jubilant Sykes, when her cell phone rang during a performance.
In a meeting at the Palace with the Queen a mobile phone goes off. Her Royal Highness: "Oh, do answer it. It may be someone important."
"Your son will get into a really embarrassing situation if his cell phone goes off while he is on the parade ground."
-The Chinese People's Liberation Army, in a plea to parents not to give cell phones, which are banned in the army, to their children who have been drafted.
"I don't know if you regard this as good news or bad news, but New York City is now gonna set up a deal whereby you can use your cell phones in the subway. I don't know, to me nothing says success like getting a call on your cell phone on the D train."
-David Letterman
How unprofessional. I thought actors were supposed to "go on with the show" no matter what happens or what distractions present themselves. Using profanity as well - isn't using profanity to make a point the mark of the uneducated and vulgar? I hope the theatergoers didn't take away a bad impression from his rash action.
Even getting a standing O from the crowd is uncomfortably vulgar and provincial as well - I'd expect those sort of feelings to be more appropriate to a lynch mob than a sophisticated, educated Broadway audience.
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They were U.S. based - labor costs were too high.
I'm surprised anyone had the nerve to start manufacturing anything inside American borders. It's a miracle they lasted so long. A worker in China or Malaysia will work for a month on what an American makes in less than a shift. Add on high American taxes, restrictive labor laws, environmental costs, and the constant threat of ruin by litigation and it's no wonder nothing but a few specialized industries produce products with the label "Made in U.S.A."
Any child interested in Estes rockets is likely to be labeled a dangerous deviant the first time anything goes wrong. How can a child be considered responsible enough to handle chemical explosives like those used in engines? And don't even start on model glue.
I understand your anti-Catholic feelings. We need to have more religious intolerance in the world, not less. The Mormons are just a cult that made it big.
Ooh, how politically correct of you. God forbid anyone should be able to read linux source, much less its maintainers. It should be a tower of babel with patches in thai, chinese, and arabic.
I don't think your typical rich enviro will be sitting alongside the bums on the Metro bus. Buses don't serve the dance club areas very well, either. Best to stick with the environmentalist vehicle of choice, the SUV. This isn't flamebait, look at the parking lot at your local Sierra Club meeting, it's a real eye-opener.
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I'm sure new installations included Office instead of WP, but the older ones out there that don't get upgraded stay the same. Hell, they won't even run MS Office. All of my dad's cronies use WP because they're cheap bastards and have't upgraded since Windows 98 or so.
Well la-dee-dah, an Adams quote. Obviously satirewire stories were so predictable I considered it a WASTE OF MY VALUELESS TIME to write ones like them.
Better yet, smear the fungus on a canvas, cover it with feces and religious symbols, and get a lifetime fellowship (read: free money) from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts.
Powerful? Nah, satirewire was definitely one of the weak sisters of the comedy news sites. Every article on there wasn't particularly insightful, matter of fact I usually think, "I could have written that" when seeing a satirewire link. Kind of like Saturday Night Live (shudder).
Don't tell me The Next Generation got its facts wrong, AND passed up an opportunity to be politically correct? It pushes the limits of believability, you understand.
You can't have a Nieman-Marcus operation on a Wal-Mart budget. Not everyone is a dirty-sandals, linux-using hippie. Let me guess, you're one of those people who freaks out hardcore when you find telnet in use, right?
I'm sure Macintosh users would have rather cut their mouse hand off at the wrist than give up the Happy Mac icon. It's a moot point, anyway, Macs finally gave it all up a few years ago and switched to Unix.
What's a "soft"? Is this the latest buzzword from "Wired" magazine? Do buzzword twits still read "Wired"?
The smaller project sounds like a loser to me. The larger the weapons system, the more components it requires, and the more employees it keeps busy, the better. The ideal system would have parts built in each and every Congressional district.
I suppose I'm being pedantic, but why should I read a spelling flame by someone who doesn't know to capitalize proper nouns?
Jim Jones actually used Flavor Aid®, not Kool-Aid to kill all his cultists.
Can't call the local cops to investigate a federal crime. Calling the FBI will result in a laugh from the agent answering the phone, as the FBI refuses to assign resources to investigate such trivial infractions.
My one experience with the 6bone administrators convinced me that they were a bunch of rude, snotty elitists who never met an IPv4 packet they didn't like.
Porn is still free. Just turn on the firehose of USENET alt.binaries groups. It amazes me that people pay for porn.
They are breaking the clearly posted rules. The commuter bus is typically a quiet place where people sleep. Sleeping is impossible with alarm clocks constantly going off.
I once politely but firmly asked a young woman, talking loudly on an otherwise quiet morning commute, to quiet down. About half the riders were trying to catch a nap. She responded by saying I'd better shut my mouth, because she'd charge harassment. She also said she might get an emergency call from her kid. She proceeded to do her own harassing, talking five times louder and leaving messages elsewhere, thus inducing return calls.
A yuppie got on another morning ride, called his friend and talked loudly about weekend plans. Beleaguered, I asked him to please quiet down. He smirks and says, "Yeah, and why don't you look the other way and turn up your headset loud. And while you're at it, go get a life."
Another guy was loud, and I asked him to please be more quiet. He responded by taunting me in his phone conversation with the other party. ("This man won't let me talk ... Oh, he's mean ...")
An older man, on the ride home, screamed about his phone bill. A young man next to him asked for some courtesy; the guy yells, "Tough!! If you don't like it put on your headset!!"
Goodness knows, Europeans are always superior to Americans. In every regard. And those who take any opportunity to point this out are even more superior. It's only common sense.
"Turn Off Your Cell Phones. Answering a Cell Phone call during an exam constitutes cheating."
-From Rules for Exam Taking, University of Florida.
"At first I thought it was some kind of joke."
-Mary Lou Fulton, speaking of her cousin's cell phone ringing while he was taking his marriage vows.
"There are times, especially in church, when we don't need to be accessible to the world at large."
-Sharlande Sledge, associate pastor at Lake Shore Baptist Church in Waco, Texas
Dr. Leroy McCloud, St. Petersburg, Florida, dentist, was surprised when a patient's cell phone rang, and downright floored when the patient answered it. After motioning for the doc to wait, the patient chatted on his cell phone for 15 minutes while sitting in the dental chair. Dr. McCloud kicked the patient out of his office.
"Cell phones, among life's most annoying instruments, are now everywhere. They should, however, never be allowed at restaurant tables, where they annoy everybody. And I mean everybody!"
-Larry King, in USA Today
"If it's for me, I'm busy"
-Singer Jubilant Sykes, when her cell phone rang during a performance.
In a meeting at the Palace with the Queen a mobile phone goes off. Her Royal Highness: "Oh, do answer it. It may be someone important."
"Your son will get into a really embarrassing situation if his cell phone goes off while he is on the parade ground."
-The Chinese People's Liberation Army, in a plea to parents not to give cell phones, which are banned in the army, to their children who have been drafted.
"I don't know if you regard this as good news or bad news, but New York City is now gonna set up a deal whereby you can use your cell phones in the subway. I don't know, to me nothing says success like getting a call on your cell phone on the D train."
-David Letterman
Even getting a standing O from the crowd is uncomfortably vulgar and provincial as well - I'd expect those sort of feelings to be more appropriate to a lynch mob than a sophisticated, educated Broadway audience.
I'm surprised anyone had the nerve to start manufacturing anything inside American borders. It's a miracle they lasted so long. A worker in China or Malaysia will work for a month on what an American makes in less than a shift. Add on high American taxes, restrictive labor laws, environmental costs, and the constant threat of ruin by litigation and it's no wonder nothing but a few specialized industries produce products with the label "Made in U.S.A."
Any child interested in Estes rockets is likely to be labeled a dangerous deviant the first time anything goes wrong. How can a child be considered responsible enough to handle chemical explosives like those used in engines? And don't even start on model glue.
Yeah, I have one of those - it sucks. You have to turn it upside down and shake it to reset it when it bluescreens.
I understand your anti-Catholic feelings. We need to have more religious intolerance in the world, not less. The Mormons are just a cult that made it big.
Ooh, how politically correct of you. God forbid anyone should be able to read linux source, much less its maintainers. It should be a tower of babel with patches in thai, chinese, and arabic.
I don't think your typical rich enviro will be sitting alongside the bums on the Metro bus. Buses don't serve the dance club areas very well, either. Best to stick with the environmentalist vehicle of choice, the SUV. This isn't flamebait, look at the parking lot at your local Sierra Club meeting, it's a real eye-opener.