It's my understanding China is one of the biggest buyers of the treasury bills that are supporting our deficit spending and keeping the dollar from crashing. It's doubtful even Mr. Bill could get Dubya to take on China at this point in the game.
An interesting fact is that while the Lunokhod robots transmitted more than 20,000 TV pictures and more than 200 TV panoramas and also conducted more than 500 lunar soil tests, their actual purpose was to try and find US made robots and/or buildings(!) on the surface of the moon.
Well, Martha Stewart's stock broker was into reefer and ecstasy. You'd be on a terminal a lot and could probably learn about math like derivatives -- if only as a personal sideline.
Read a book called "Confessions of a Stock Broker" many years ago that basically argued that they have ethics only somewhat below back street used car salesmen. I say go for it.
Used to be the military was a place where you could work hard and party hearty but with drug testing I don't know that I'd sign up for Iraq.
Hey, I've done that! (with a 5-1/4" disk MANY years ago) Of course, the computer was under the desk where I couldn't see it and there was a respectable gap between drive and case. It's actually my most embarrassing computer moment, at work no less, because I decided to get it myself. I shut the computer off but forgot the monitor, and, well,....you know.
I say "Thank Goodness". Somehow, years after the fact, the 800x600 standard is working its way through the ranks of web designers and creating web pages that have absolutely and totally unreadable type.
Special award to those who frame the main body text so the Mozilla "minimum font" setting can't touch it. You hate your company and want it to fail? Congratulations. You've created a worthless site.
And, yes, I blame Microsoft a little for setting 10 pt. as the default. "Look, Word is better! More words per page with Microsoft!" What could be better than Microsoft? Well, even smaller of course! Darn pretty layout of totally unreadable lines of fly droppings you got there, Rube.
Email postage might make sense under one of two conditions:
1) the recipient gets the postage fee
Oh, yeah. That would have been great a few years ago with dial up when some fool I didn't even know personally (campaigning for a club office no less) got an address book virus and sent me something like 10,000 emails and another 5,000 after I complained to his ISP.
But not many after I started forwarding them back to the ISP:)
During the course of two movies and four months, 'Rings' iPods stored and served up nearly one-half terabyte of digitized footage from 'Towers' and 'King.'"
What's a half terabyte? 500 gig. 75 days. Sounds like a college student with a heavy download habit.
that a fundamentalism-soaked White House would convince the governor of a state with another, yet totally different, fundamentalist religion to spearhead this millennium's new "Domesday Book (American Edition)".
I would like to think people would notice if MS searches are too skewed -- but I know better.
On Google -- well, they have the usenet archive. But what does it say about me that I like using Yahoo for searches too? Maybe even first searches.
My notice of class action lawsuit against Microsoft (Minnesota) arrived in the mail today!! Since it goes back to '94, I actually have a couple copies of NT that apply. Can it get me a Lindows computer?
Seriously, it's a good racket they have going. Hmmm... maybe I should get into it.
A student was in the news a few years ago for setting up his own part-time bookstore. Custom ordering cheaper foreign editions if I remember. The college was not amused.
You may find that your college will extend to you an offer you cannot refuse if you deem to attempt the same.
As someone who inherited granny's Pinto (Orange, about 17K miles after 8 years), I have a theory on exploding rear-ended Pintos. Look at the back side posts. The visibility was atrocious. After about four years with the thing, I had almost lane-changed onto someone a couple times.
When Yugo was retreating from the U.S., I remember an ad for them new for $3999. Hard to resist, but didn't Consumer Reports have some silly thing like the brakes fall out when they tested them?
"It's a good thing he surrounds himself with talented advisors now [!?! -me], because he struggled in Political Science 13b (71), Sociology 55a (70) and Economics 10 (71 in the fall and 72 in the spring). The transcript puts him in the 21st percentile of his class for freshman year."
Fer sure. Got us a dang intellectual in the Oval Office now! Not one of them dumb types like the Clintons what ruined everything good, decent, and holy in this here country. (and still are!)
Well, 21% isn't quite a "D" on a normal curve.
A Peterson's "Best Buy" here but I've worked salaried at an Ivy. Does that count? But the point, of course, is that, yes, the Admissions Office even at an Ivy would look very favorably at the son from Phillips Academy of a millionaire, CIA Director alum. Can you count the silver spoon checklist items? And, very likely, even as a student they strove to make him feel very much at home with visions of alumni donations to come.
I actually do not see it as hardcore ignorance, but wise time-management on his part.
The problem with GWB's style, of course, is that while he nominally makes the decisions, he seems to be surrounded by a bunch of people who realize that they just need to provide him only with the information he needs to make the decisions they want or need.
That's pretty much how it always works and why it really is a form of ignorance. The social psychology of "group think" administration was a big thing after Vietnam. The question with W and Iraq is whether these people could have conceivably been _that_ maladaptively self-deluded -- or whether they were just lying. Neither prospect should be particularly comforting to anyone.
>Bill Gates is unquestionably a great and accomplished man. The height of Nerddom.
Look up the word 'Insightful' you crack smoking mods!
Yes. Microsoft people think criticism comes only from envy and can't get over that speed bump. I've seen "Pirates of Silicon Valley" too, but that was a movie. From what I read, Bill's mother was on the board of directors of the same charity as the CEO of IBM and said "I know someone who can find you an OS for that new PC thing". Bill went out and bought one, mostly changed the drive IO parameters, and MS-DOS was born. What has always been at the front of my mind is how could someone NOT make a billion or two riding on the coat tails of that wave?
Yes, Microsoft did successfully break from IBM. But did he personally invent and write Windows? I don't think so. So "the height of nerddom". I don't think so. The guy is no Edison.
But weaselly-schrewd lying, cheating, world-class FUD spreader of a hard ball businessman, yes. The guy is a throwback to 19th Century robber barons. Which, come to think of it, probably makes him a good candidate for knighthood.
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"My Sweet Lord"! I think musicians have already been fucked.
A decade ago somebody did do a parody with a 'possem in a shack. I don't think I could handle a penguin in an igloo.
Perhaps a special Friday the 13th executive board group sepukku at 4:00?
Hard to find a lot of positive outcomes but maybe Microsoft will have to tone down security through obscurity.
It's my understanding China is one of the biggest buyers of the treasury bills that are supporting our deficit spending and keeping the dollar from crashing. It's doubtful even Mr. Bill could get Dubya to take on China at this point in the game.
An interesting fact is that while the Lunokhod robots transmitted more than 20,000 TV pictures and more than 200 TV panoramas and also conducted more than 500 lunar soil tests, their actual purpose was to try and find US made robots and/or buildings(!) on the surface of the moon.
Specifically, "weapons of mass destruction"?
Face or no face, it seems like bad Terminator karma to me. Teddy Bears -- make industrial bipeds look like Teddy Bears.
And not Space Cats.
Well, Martha Stewart's stock broker was into reefer and ecstasy. You'd be on a terminal a lot and could probably learn about math like derivatives -- if only as a personal sideline.
Read a book called "Confessions of a Stock Broker" many years ago that basically argued that they have ethics only somewhat below back street used car salesmen. I say go for it.
Used to be the military was a place where you could work hard and party hearty but with drug testing I don't know that I'd sign up for Iraq.
No. I think it is stock broker or roadie for you.
I'm all for free and open source software, but a brother's gotta eat too.
Nonsequitor.
MySQL and PostgreSQL are Mozilla-license.
Write great server code, write a great Windows client for it and sell the package as you desire.
Hey, I've done that! (with a 5-1/4" disk MANY years ago) Of course, the computer was under the desk where I couldn't see it and there was a respectable gap between drive and case. It's actually my most embarrassing computer moment, at work no less, because I decided to get it myself. I shut the computer off but forgot the monitor, and, well, ....you know.
They'll be appliances when Commander Data says,
"Dave, I think I have to go to the hospital now. Dave?"
I'm up to about 80% rechargeable usage now. (When you watch about 6 hrs. of TV/week, the remote lasts YEARS.)
Like Sterling's list. My area power company sells energy-efficient bulbs on their web site for about 1/2 price.
I say "Thank Goodness". Somehow, years after the fact, the 800x600 standard is working its way through the ranks of web designers and creating web pages that have absolutely and totally unreadable type.
Special award to those who frame the main body text so the Mozilla "minimum font" setting can't touch it. You hate your company and want it to fail? Congratulations. You've created a worthless site.
And, yes, I blame Microsoft a little for setting 10 pt. as the default. "Look, Word is better! More words per page with Microsoft!" What could be better than Microsoft? Well, even smaller of course! Darn pretty layout of totally unreadable lines of fly droppings you got there, Rube.
Email postage might make sense under one of two conditions:
:)
1) the recipient gets the postage fee
Oh, yeah. That would have been great a few years ago with dial up when some fool I didn't even know personally (campaigning for a club office no less) got an address book virus and sent me something like 10,000 emails and another 5,000 after I complained to his ISP.
But not many after I started forwarding them back to the ISP
glycoprotein, which prevents Antarctic fish from freezing
Cool. We won't need aquarium heaters.
Will they still glow in the dark?
During the course of two movies and four months, 'Rings' iPods stored and served up nearly one-half terabyte of digitized footage from 'Towers' and 'King.'"
What's a half terabyte? 500 gig. 75 days. Sounds like a college student with a heavy download habit.
that a fundamentalism-soaked White House would convince the governor of a state with another, yet totally different, fundamentalist religion to spearhead this millennium's new "Domesday Book (American Edition)".
Yup, must be
I would like to think people would notice if MS searches are too skewed -- but I know better.
On Google -- well, they have the usenet archive. But what does it say about me that I like using Yahoo for searches too? Maybe even first searches.
My notice of class action lawsuit against Microsoft (Minnesota) arrived in the mail today!! Since it goes back to '94, I actually have a couple copies of NT that apply. Can it get me a Lindows computer?
Seriously, it's a good racket they have going. Hmmm... maybe I should get into it.
A student was in the news a few years ago for setting up his own part-time bookstore. Custom ordering cheaper foreign editions if I remember. The college was not amused.
You may find that your college will extend to you an offer you cannot refuse if you deem to attempt the same.
Didn't somebody famous, like a couple hundred years ago, say that the quest for freedom is nothing but the fear of tyranny?
As someone who inherited granny's Pinto (Orange, about 17K miles after 8 years), I have a theory on exploding rear-ended Pintos. Look at the back side posts. The visibility was atrocious. After about four years with the thing, I had almost lane-changed onto someone a couple times.
When Yugo was retreating from the U.S., I remember an ad for them new for $3999. Hard to resist, but didn't Consumer Reports have some silly thing like the brakes fall out when they tested them?
You have to compile the source.
And there isn't any documentation.
"It's a good thing he surrounds himself with talented advisors now [!?! -me], because he struggled in Political Science 13b (71), Sociology 55a (70) and Economics 10 (71 in the fall and 72 in the spring). The transcript puts him in the 21st percentile of his class for freshman year."
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Fer sure. Got us a dang intellectual in the Oval Office now! Not one of them dumb types like the Clintons what ruined everything good, decent, and holy in this here country. (and still are!)
Well, 21% isn't quite a "D" on a normal curve.
A Peterson's "Best Buy" here but I've worked salaried at an Ivy. Does that count? But the point, of course, is that, yes, the Admissions Office even at an Ivy would look very favorably at the son from Phillips Academy of a millionaire, CIA Director alum. Can you count the silver spoon checklist items? And, very likely, even as a student they strove to make him feel very much at home with visions of alumni donations to come.
I actually do not see it as hardcore ignorance, but wise time-management on his part.
The problem with GWB's style, of course, is that while he nominally makes the decisions, he seems to be surrounded by a bunch of people who realize that they just need to provide him only with the information he needs to make the decisions they want or need.
That's pretty much how it always works and why it really is a form of ignorance. The social psychology of "group think" administration was a big thing after Vietnam. The question with W and Iraq is whether these people could have conceivably been _that_ maladaptively self-deluded -- or whether they were just lying. Neither prospect should be particularly comforting to anyone.
>Bill Gates is unquestionably a great and accomplished man. The height of Nerddom.
Look up the word 'Insightful' you crack smoking mods!
Yes. Microsoft people think criticism comes only from envy and can't get over that speed bump. I've seen "Pirates of Silicon Valley" too, but that was a movie. From what I read, Bill's mother was on the board of directors of the same charity as the CEO of IBM and said "I know someone who can find you an OS for that new PC thing". Bill went out and bought one, mostly changed the drive IO parameters, and MS-DOS was born. What has always been at the front of my mind is how could someone NOT make a billion or two riding on the coat tails of that wave?
Yes, Microsoft did successfully break from IBM. But did he personally invent and write Windows? I don't think so. So "the height of nerddom". I don't think so. The guy is no Edison.
But weaselly-schrewd lying, cheating, world-class FUD spreader of a hard ball businessman, yes. The guy is a throwback to 19th Century robber barons. Which, come to think of it, probably makes him a good candidate for knighthood.