The worst thing is, where I live the roads are bad, the sewers stink, they want to cut back on garbage collection, and the taxes are STILL way too high!
Further, I hear far too many people who have been offered jobs that may pay as much, or just over, the amount of their welfare check, complain that they'd rather just be on welfare and turn the job down
There's a valid reason for that. If a job pays about what their welfare check does, they would be WORSE off accepting it. They'd have to pay for child care, medical expenses, and probably a whole bunch of stuff that they don't have to worry about on the dole.
I have a question about these PayPal emails. I've been getting them too, but I don't HAVE a PayPal account. How can I give them my account information so they can straighten things out, when I don't HAVE an account?
I believe most "hispanics" are at least partly of European ancestery, which means they, like the white man, wouldn't be here without "old continent" migration.
Yeah, but there's a good reason for favoring China & India. The USA has had its chance to destroy the world. It's only fair to give China & India the same opportunity. At least, that's the argument I hear used.
I have chosen to live in a place that doesn't get floods, deadly droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, volcanos, earthquakes, plagues of locusts, or anything of the sort
Good for you, but not eveyone can afford a rocket to the moon.
Kansas City Missouri is pretty safe. We have tornados, but they usually just hit small areas, and I've never seen them in the city itself. The New Madrid fault is closer to St Louis than to KC and might not cut loose in my lifetime anyway. We had a mean ice storm in 2002 that drove me out of my house for a week, but it didn't have anything like the destruction of Katrina. The summers suck, but I've survived 45 years of them. The worst flood we ever had, in 1993, was a leaky faucet compared to Katrina.
if Knoppix can boot your machine, you can pick any recent distro (SuSE 9.3, FC4, etc)
That may or may not be true now, but it sure wasn't true the last time I tried. Knoppix 3.3 (I think that was the version) did boot, but SuSe 9.1 & FC1 did not! Admittedly, it IS YMMV; on some machines linux is as easy as you say, but not always, and it certainly wasn't true on my current machine.
I have also seen soap operas where the evil, conniving businessman manipulates the poor, naive, beautiful young woman repeatedly. Of course that was 20+ years ago.
Tivo is the other major factor (besides commercials) that has kept me away from theaters. Not only is there more on TV, but I've gotten used to pausing whenever I want, FFing past boring crap (including commercials), and Instant Replaying the good stuff (if any). None of which I can do at the theater.
The preview didn't bother me. Some of the previews were better than the actual movie! But the commercials were the last straw! It wasn't long after they started showing commercials that I stopped going to the movies.
There is actually some justification in that. It's not unusual for me to need to pee in the middle of the movie. Of course with the quality of the movies now, I might as well pee ON the movie.
I still GO OUT. I just don't go to the movies. A trip to the local casino is only slightly more expensive than the movies these days, and much more fun. Or, if the weather is good, I take the GF (and sometimes her niece) to the zoo, which is far cheaper than the movies and gives us some exersize as a bonus.
There was one day when W95 crashed 15 times! I counted! That was an extreme case, but 3-5 crashes a day were common. Win 3.1 was bad, but not THAT bad, and MS-DOS was more stable than any non-NT Dozes.
Quality? Maybe the French can get by without toilet paper (as long as they stand downwind), but we Americans use it all the time. You should try it sometime.
In this world there are two types of countries. The ones that are powerful enough to screw others and the ones that aren't. Whenever a nation gets powerful, it screws someone. When a formerly powerful nation loses it, it gripes about the powerful ones.
What you are describing is 'magic', not 'easy'. Windows - as any other OS - cannot obviously know how to interact perfectly with every possible printer in existence. Moreover, nothing proves the problems you experienced weren't caused by a third party application.
I don't expect Windows to work with every printer in existence, but I do expect it to work with MY printer. And my iBook DID work with my printer like "magic". And, if a third-party app can prevent a printer from working, I consider that a fault in the OS.
In fact, your description was so vague that it is difficult to get anything out of it. Maybe the printer wasn't properly plugged, maybe the cable was faulty, maybe it was defective, maybe the default Win driver was incompatible,.... pointless to put that on or off Microsoft's back at that stage of the discussion.
Most of the things you mention would have also prevented the printer from working under Mandrake or OSX. And it's not good if the default Win driver is incompatible with a printer that's designed to work under Windows!
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The worst thing is, where I live the roads are bad, the sewers stink, they want to cut back on garbage collection, and the taxes are STILL way too high!
There's a valid reason for that. If a job pays about what their welfare check does, they would be WORSE off accepting it. They'd have to pay for child care, medical expenses, and probably a whole bunch of stuff that they don't have to worry about on the dole.
I have a question about these PayPal emails. I've been getting them too, but I don't HAVE a PayPal account. How can I give them my account information so they can straighten things out, when I don't HAVE an account?
I believe most "hispanics" are at least partly of European ancestery, which means they, like the white man, wouldn't be here without "old continent" migration.
Yeah, but there's a good reason for favoring China & India. The USA has had its chance to destroy the world. It's only fair to give China & India the same opportunity. At least, that's the argument I hear used.
Good for you, but not eveyone can afford a rocket to the moon.
Kansas City Missouri is pretty safe. We have tornados, but they usually just hit small areas, and I've never seen them in the city itself. The New Madrid fault is closer to St Louis than to KC and might not cut loose in my lifetime anyway. We had a mean ice storm in 2002 that drove me out of my house for a week, but it didn't have anything like the destruction of Katrina. The summers suck, but I've survived 45 years of them. The worst flood we ever had, in 1993, was a leaky faucet compared to Katrina.
I ASSume it could also be used to power air conditioners. Presumably, that would be somewhat useful.
And the Socialist realizes he is a loser who will only survive if the government steals money from someone else to give to him.
That may or may not be true now, but it sure wasn't true the last time I tried. Knoppix 3.3 (I think that was the version) did boot, but SuSe 9.1 & FC1 did not! Admittedly, it IS YMMV; on some machines linux is as easy as you say, but not always, and it certainly wasn't true on my current machine.
I have also seen soap operas where the evil, conniving businessman manipulates the poor, naive, beautiful young woman repeatedly. Of course that was 20+ years ago.
That's not because they're perceived as more intellegent. It's because they're sleeping with the boss. :-P
Tivo is the other major factor (besides commercials) that has kept me away from theaters. Not only is there more on TV, but I've gotten used to pausing whenever I want, FFing past boring crap (including commercials), and Instant Replaying the good stuff (if any). None of which I can do at the theater.
The preview didn't bother me. Some of the previews were better than the actual movie! But the commercials were the last straw! It wasn't long after they started showing commercials that I stopped going to the movies.
There is actually some justification in that. It's not unusual for me to need to pee in the middle of the movie. Of course with the quality of the movies now, I might as well pee ON the movie.
I still GO OUT. I just don't go to the movies. A trip to the local casino is only slightly more expensive than the movies these days, and much more fun. Or, if the weather is good, I take the GF (and sometimes her niece) to the zoo, which is far cheaper than the movies and gives us some exersize as a bonus.
It's accurate, but it's only half the story.
Mac95 also == Mac88. Even with the switch to PPC, it used the same multitasking as Windows 3.0.
Stability? Win95? *spews Coke out nose*
There was one day when W95 crashed 15 times! I counted! That was an extreme case, but 3-5 crashes a day were common. Win 3.1 was bad, but not THAT bad, and MS-DOS was more stable than any non-NT Dozes.
Quality? Maybe the French can get by without toilet paper (as long as they stand downwind), but we Americans use it all the time. You should try it sometime.
You don't need "God" to kill. Stalin was one of the worst mass-murderers in history, and Mao was up there as well. Both atheists.
Damn! I knew those drugdealers were evil, but now they've gone too far. We need to come down on them hard!
In this world there are two types of countries. The ones that are powerful enough to screw others and the ones that aren't. Whenever a nation gets powerful, it screws someone. When a formerly powerful nation loses it, it gripes about the powerful ones.
I don't expect Windows to work with every printer in existence, but I do expect it to work with MY printer. And my iBook DID work with my printer like "magic". And, if a third-party app can prevent a printer from working, I consider that a fault in the OS.
Most of the things you mention would have also prevented the printer from working under Mandrake or OSX. And it's not good if the default Win driver is incompatible with a printer that's designed to work under Windows!
But, if Windows were as easy as Microsoft claims, there wouldn't have been anything to troubleshoot.
Personal finance for one thing. Gnucash is adaquate, but it's no Quicken.