On the lack of noble manners. - Soldiers and leaders still have far better relationships with each other than workers and employers. So far at least, culture that rests on a military basis still towers above all so-called industrial culture: the latter in its present shape is altogether the most vulgar form of existence that has yet exisxted. Here one is at the mercy of brute need; one wants to live and has to sell oneself, but one despises those who exploit this need and buy the worker. Oddly, suibmission to powerful, frightening, even terrible persons, like tyrants and generals, is not experienced as nearly so painful as is the submission to unknown and uninteresting persons, which is what all the luminaries of industry are. What the workers see in the employer is usualy only a cunning, bloodsucking dog of a man who speculates on all misery; and the employer's name, shape, manner, and reputation are a mater of complete indifference to them. The manufacterers and entrepreneuers of business probably have been too deficient so far in all those forms and signs of a higher race that alone makes a person interesting. If the nobility of birth showed in their eyes and gestures, there might not be any socialism of the masses. For at bottom, the masses are wiling to submit to slavery of any kind, if only the higherups constantly legitimize themselves as higher, as born to commad - by having noble manners. The most common man feels that nobility cannot be improvised and that one has to honor in it the fruit of long periods of time. But the lack of higher manners and the notorious vulgarity of the manufacturers with their ruddy, fat hands give him the idea that it is only accident and luck that has elevated one person above another. Well then, he reasons: let us try accident and luck! Let us throw the dice! And thus socialism is born.
If I take a 2x4 and bash you in the face with it, do we say that your face was vulernable to a natural product moving a moderate velocity?
Every single thing in nature, and every single thing created by man is vulnerable to SOMETHING. From a natural standpoint, that is what life is, exploitation of other lifeform's vulnerabilities. Millions of bacteria are doing that in your body righ now, the very second you read this.
Well, you are wrong. That was once the case, but these days OEM prices are not radically different from retail prices.
Retail hard drives come with cables, a box, drive rails, and other fun stuff. OEM drives come with nothing. That is the only substantial difference.
With Western Digital these days, its the exact opposite. Retail drives have a 1 year warranty, and OEM drives have a 3 year warranty (they may sell special edition drives through the retail channels)
That isn't the ONLY reason to have replaceable batteries. I have a Casio E125 which I got about 3 years ago. It works great for my needs, and I can even play ogg vorbis files on it. Convert my FLAC encoded files to 64kbps vorbis files, and I can fit many hours of music on my 512MB flash card.
Problem is, the battery only lasts about 5-6 hours with the screen off. So, I keep a second battery charged. First one dies, I replace it and I am good to go...
That said, I don't upgrade to a newer PPC device because I don't see much difference between newer PPC devices and my own. The ONLY reason I have considered it is MIPS processors are no longer supported, and most new software comes out for ARM.
I dunno, I keep several word and excel documents open at once, as well as photoshop, MapPoint, Outlook, SPSS, and a business specific database open all the time... with 512 megs of ram it isn't that quick. This is especialy true if I am working with a large data set.
If you are just writing small documents in word, maybe its not a big deal... but if you are writing analytical reports and you are pulling data from several sources... you can go through that much ram very quickly.
Yes, you are correct. This no 100% accurate way to judge intoxicating hemp versus non-intoxicating hemp purely by superficial observation, a chemical test would be necessary.
Clearly, for a variety of reasons, you have failed to achieve a meaningful place in our decadent society. You have little of your youth left, I suggest you spend that last remaining vigor on something meaningful, such as instigating a revolution.
You can be a one man revolution! Think of the chaos, the disorder, the death, destruction, pain, suffering! You can be the antithesis to this putrid, overipe civilization of ours! Can't you smell the stench?
Revere death! Revere all that destroys life! Relish in the power you have over the world! Free yourself from your computer, let the rage flow from your heart! Taste the blood on your lips! Imagine that moment as your last breath is spent in mortal struggle!
In the case of Mexico, where the vast majority of its citizens have sub-average intelligence and limited self control, I think the collateral damage will be in most cases desirable.
I guarantee that this story will not end at the use of these implants as keys, but instead are the prelude to a new system of control of the degenerate population groups of Mexico. They can only export so many of their subhumans to the US. Even with massive emmigration, their subhumans are still reproducing at a tremendously rapid rate. Ultimately, these chips will provide greater security by being able to track these people and isolate them in specific districts. More advancements may even be able to determine if one of them is pregnant. Perhaps one will be able to tell if their implanted birth control device has been removed or is malfunctioning.
Mexico must take these steps very soon, otherwise their entire country will collapse. It seems as good a plan as any.
and gorgeous nights and another health issue to raise money for, for the developing world.
Or another step in the restoring of natural selection amongst the human species. Some will adapt to these changes and survive, those who cannot adapt will perish.
Groceries in my experience are incredibly cheap. Even cigarettes are cheaper than almost anywhere in the US save Virigina which has virtually no tobacco tax. You can get a huge 1000 count bottle of tylenol with codeine for $10 (canadian)
then of course there are the prostitutes which will set you back a mere $150 an hour for a beautiful 19 year old french girl.
Frankly, I go to Montreal all the time to get all sorts of stuff cheap. I go to fine restaurants every night, stay in the best hotels, drink all day every day, get two prostitutes a night, load up my car with fine clothing, and then fill her up with liquor and cigarettes at the duty free shop.
Hell, apartments are so cheap in Montreal I almost want to get one permanently to keep as a second weekend retreat.
In New York, where many finance related jobs are paid on a fee split basis, there is quite an impetus to work all the time as there is a direct relationship between how much you work and how much you earn.
When it comes to salaried positions which are more common elsewhere in the country, working longer hours probably doesn't seem as beneficial.
Further, the social aspect is due to the fact the majority of people who are working these long hours are in their twenties... Let's face it, that's when you have the energy. You want to work hard and save money so you can have an easier life as you get older, or maybe even have a family. Never the less, you still want to hang out elsewhere besides your office or apartment. Thus the coffee shop or the bar.
The point is, if just about anything electronic doesn't break within the first year -- where it's covered by law -- then it'll probably last ten years or more.
I know some states have statutory increases to warranties, but is this a federal thing? Almost all electronic items I see these days have 90 day warranties or less.
For me, this is a major issue. I can understand a $30 walkman having a 90 day warranty, but a $4,000 plasma screen TV?
Insane.
I hope you are right and all those warranties are bullshit.
In some ways your right. That is unfortunately the downside of the Capitalist society in that the more minor laws tend to be enforced by the people who have an interest in seeing them enforced. This is particulary prevelent in things like Patent law in which unless you are a large company, you are screwed if some accuses you of breaking a patent, even if its a really obvious one.
I fail to see how selective enforcement of law has anything to do with Capitalism.
Why don't you point tht section of Das Capital out to me. Oh, and try to find me a non-capitalist society that enforces all law equally.
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On the lack of noble manners. - Soldiers and leaders still have far better relationships with each other than workers and employers. So far at least, culture that rests on a military basis still towers above all so-called industrial culture: the latter in its present shape is altogether the most vulgar form of existence that has yet exisxted. Here one is at the mercy of brute need; one wants to live and has to sell oneself, but one despises those who exploit this need and buy the worker. Oddly, suibmission to powerful, frightening, even terrible persons, like tyrants and generals, is not experienced as nearly so painful as is the submission to unknown and uninteresting persons, which is what all the luminaries of industry are. What the workers see in the employer is usualy only a cunning, bloodsucking dog of a man who speculates on all misery; and the employer's name, shape, manner, and reputation are a mater of complete indifference to them. The manufacterers and entrepreneuers of business probably have been too deficient so far in all those forms and signs of a higher race that alone makes a person interesting. If the nobility of birth showed in their eyes and gestures, there might not be any socialism of the masses. For at bottom, the masses are wiling to submit to slavery of any kind, if only the higherups constantly legitimize themselves as higher, as born to commad - by having noble manners. The most common man feels that nobility cannot be improvised and that one has to honor in it the fruit of long periods of time. But the lack of higher manners and the notorious vulgarity of the manufacturers with their ruddy, fat hands give him the idea that it is only accident and luck that has elevated one person above another. Well then, he reasons: let us try accident and luck! Let us throw the dice! And thus socialism is born.
but VirtualPC has something along the line of the VMWare tools for OS/2. That is a nifty feature.
If I take a 2x4 and bash you in the face with it, do we say that your face was vulernable to a natural product moving a moderate velocity?
Every single thing in nature, and every single thing created by man is vulnerable to SOMETHING. From a natural standpoint, that is what life is, exploitation of other lifeform's vulnerabilities. Millions of bacteria are doing that in your body righ now, the very second you read this.
where the fuck do you live.
1) how does someone working a parking garage have the authority to give a ticket?
2) what kind of place differentiates between customers and employees to the degree they would hire a security guard to issue tickets?
Yeah, no shit.. it seems like yesterday I ordered my Socket 7 AMD K6, even though that was six years ago.
Well, you are wrong. That was once the case, but these days OEM prices are not radically different from retail prices.
Retail hard drives come with cables, a box, drive rails, and other fun stuff. OEM drives come with nothing. That is the only substantial difference.
With Western Digital these days, its the exact opposite. Retail drives have a 1 year warranty, and OEM drives have a 3 year warranty (they may sell special edition drives through the retail channels)
That isn't the ONLY reason to have replaceable batteries. I have a Casio E125 which I got about 3 years ago. It works great for my needs, and I can even play ogg vorbis files on it. Convert my FLAC encoded files to 64kbps vorbis files, and I can fit many hours of music on my 512MB flash card.
Problem is, the battery only lasts about 5-6 hours with the screen off. So, I keep a second battery charged. First one dies, I replace it and I am good to go...
That said, I don't upgrade to a newer PPC device because I don't see much difference between newer PPC devices and my own. The ONLY reason I have considered it is MIPS processors are no longer supported, and most new software comes out for ARM.
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I dunno, I keep several word and excel documents open at once, as well as photoshop, MapPoint, Outlook, SPSS, and a business specific database open all the time... with 512 megs of ram it isn't that quick. This is especialy true if I am working with a large data set.
If you are just writing small documents in word, maybe its not a big deal... but if you are writing analytical reports and you are pulling data from several sources... you can go through that much ram very quickly.
Yes, you are correct. This no 100% accurate way to judge intoxicating hemp versus non-intoxicating hemp purely by superficial observation, a chemical test would be necessary.
Clearly, for a variety of reasons, you have failed to achieve a meaningful place in our decadent society. You have little of your youth left, I suggest you spend that last remaining vigor on something meaningful, such as instigating a revolution.
You can be a one man revolution! Think of the chaos, the disorder, the death, destruction, pain, suffering! You can be the antithesis to this putrid, overipe civilization of ours! Can't you smell the stench?
Revere death! Revere all that destroys life! Relish in the power you have over the world! Free yourself from your computer, let the rage flow from your heart! Taste the blood on your lips! Imagine that moment as your last breath is spent in mortal struggle!
Actually, Windows NT used to run on a RISC processor, namely the DEC Alpha.
Don't forget MIPS and PowerPC
In the case of Mexico, where the vast majority of its citizens have sub-average intelligence and limited self control, I think the collateral damage will be in most cases desirable.
I guarantee that this story will not end at the use of these implants as keys, but instead are the prelude to a new system of control of the degenerate population groups of Mexico. They can only export so many of their subhumans to the US. Even with massive emmigration, their subhumans are still reproducing at a tremendously rapid rate. Ultimately, these chips will provide greater security by being able to track these people and isolate them in specific districts. More advancements may even be able to determine if one of them is pregnant. Perhaps one will be able to tell if their implanted birth control device has been removed or is malfunctioning.
Mexico must take these steps very soon, otherwise their entire country will collapse. It seems as good a plan as any.
and gorgeous nights and another health issue to raise money for, for the developing world.
Or another step in the restoring of natural selection amongst the human species. Some will adapt to these changes and survive, those who cannot adapt will perish.
sounds like a good idea to me.
Groceries in my experience are incredibly cheap. Even cigarettes are cheaper than almost anywhere in the US save Virigina which has virtually no tobacco tax. You can get a huge 1000 count bottle of tylenol with codeine for $10 (canadian)
then of course there are the prostitutes which will set you back a mere $150 an hour for a beautiful 19 year old french girl.
Frankly, I go to Montreal all the time to get all sorts of stuff cheap. I go to fine restaurants every night, stay in the best hotels, drink all day every day, get two prostitutes a night, load up my car with fine clothing, and then fill her up with liquor and cigarettes at the duty free shop.
Hell, apartments are so cheap in Montreal I almost want to get one permanently to keep as a second weekend retreat.
if you truly wrote that yourself, you are a god.
Sounds to me like someone brushed some cymbals, but it is interesting they put that in there and that you noticed it.
In New York, where many finance related jobs are paid on a fee split basis, there is quite an impetus to work all the time as there is a direct relationship between how much you work and how much you earn.
When it comes to salaried positions which are more common elsewhere in the country, working longer hours probably doesn't seem as beneficial.
Further, the social aspect is due to the fact the majority of people who are working these long hours are in their twenties... Let's face it, that's when you have the energy. You want to work hard and save money so you can have an easier life as you get older, or maybe even have a family. Never the less, you still want to hang out elsewhere besides your office or apartment. Thus the coffee shop or the bar.
You can also induce fear in the target by not actually hitting him.
.45 can seriously wound a bear, and easily kill a deer.
High calibre handguns are also useful for shooting animals. A
Suffice it to say, one shot to a limb of a human and it is gone.
Yeah, that post was definitely 1999ish
The point is, if just about anything electronic doesn't break within the first year -- where it's covered by law -- then it'll probably last ten years or more.
I know some states have statutory increases to warranties, but is this a federal thing? Almost all electronic items I see these days have 90 day warranties or less.
For me, this is a major issue. I can understand a $30 walkman having a 90 day warranty, but a $4,000 plasma screen TV?
Insane.
I hope you are right and all those warranties are bullshit.
Thermite is the stuff dreams are made of.
Funny, I still I miss Lotus Organizer 2.1.
In some ways your right. That is unfortunately the downside of the Capitalist society in that the more minor laws tend to be enforced by the people who have an interest in seeing them enforced. This is particulary prevelent in things like Patent law in which unless you are a large company, you are screwed if some accuses you of breaking a patent, even if its a really obvious one.
I fail to see how selective enforcement of law has anything to do with Capitalism.
Why don't you point tht section of Das Capital out to me. Oh, and try to find me a non-capitalist society that enforces all law equally.