He's still around? Seems this time he's being a whiny little crybaby that a company that provides a service for "free" to customers is allowing spammers to send mail to their accounts so long as said spammers pay for the privilege. Boo fucking Hoo. Other than looking at some ads, the service isn't costing you anything at all. If you don't like the ads, or don't like the company behind the service allowing spammers to pay (which helps pay for the infrastructure) to bypass the spam filters, then don't use the damned services.
It really isn't that hard to comprehend. You are not entitled to free email service. You'll use what is available, roll your own, or fucking deal with it. Whining about it will not solve your problem.
It's like they can't be bothered to hang their junk two more inches closer to the bowl. Perhaps they do not have an additional 2 inches of junk to hang... They could scoot their junk closer, then. I could see this being a problem for an obese guy, but everyone else has no excuse.
The people I feel most sorry for are the poor folks that have to clean up after these slobs.
I have this issue when standing on occasion where the urine, when first coming out, will decide to shoot out the side, or come out in a fan, much like water will when using a cloth hose. This is why I feel it is cleaner to sit when using a toilet. I do stand if there is a urinal to use, as they have sides that come out and solve that issue.
I've mentioned this issue in such a "sit or stand" discussion before, and had people act incredulous at the idea of it not immediately coming out straight, and it occurred to me that maybe it's because I don't have any foreskin, and people with foreskin don't have this issue for some reason. I am butchered, but have never once had a problem with urine "coming out the side". I usually hear of such issues from in tact guys, and even then, I tell them to pull their foreskin back if it is a problem. I wasn't circumcised until age 7 (or so, I don't recall *exactly*), and I never had a problem with a "crooked stream".
As to why you would have a "crooked stream", I couldn't tell you. I can only tell you that in my 23 years of being circumcised, I've never had any issues in that department (though I have had others).
It seems to me you'd want to minimise leakage. On earth spattering the surroundings is an annoyance [1], in space it can be catastrophic. Why take the chance?
1: that said, I've never understood why so many men insist on peeing standing up, when it's cleaner, more comfortable and doesn't cost more time to sit down. It *does* take more time. If I can just hang "mini me" out the front of my pants (though my zipper, in the case that I'm at work and in work clothing), or pull down the top of my shorts (in case I'm pretty much anywhere else), why would I want to pull everything down, sit down for the few seconds it takes, stand back up, pull up my pants, tuck in my shirts (in the case that I'm at work), etc?
It's just easier and quicker to aim properly.
'course, you being female, I should have expected you not to understand.
To speak on sitting down being "cleaner". I never have a problem with a messy toilet/floor. I hate it when I got into the bathroom at work, walk up to the urinal, and have to step around those lazy asses pee dribbles. It's like they can't be bothered to hang their junk two more inches closer to the bowl. I know if I can do it, they ought to be able to. At home, I aim at the bowl, not the seat, so I don't have problems there either. I don't know what it is with some guys. Sometimes I think they should be *required* to just go outside.
You don't need a lot of space on the disc to make a good game. How does Nintendo get away with fitting Mario Kart, Animal Crossing, or Tetris into 32 MiB? In fact, using more space may reduce the fun factor, as it takes time to copy the data from the disc to RAM every time the data is needed. It takes 32 MiB to hold Mario Kart? That's a feat! There's not even that many letters! (They must be borrowing letters from any number of our visitors)
27" SDTV at Walmart (Crappy brand) is around $250. 27" LCD HDTV is around $400.
Most people, I would say 99% would opt for a TV that is far far far more future proof. The 27" CRT doesn't matter. The LCD HDTV is still too expensive for the amount of TV watching I do (and the programs I watch). When I replace my TV with an HDTV, it will be with a TV that has a screen at least as tall as mine, and I think I'd have to go with a 32" to do that.
The TV I end up with will be as current as possible. I don't even see a reason to buy one right now since they keep changing the damned connectors (with more on the way!). DVI, component, HDMI, then they've added HDCP into it, not to mention that I'll have to replace my 2 or 3 year old Onkyo receiver (I'd move it elsewhere in the house) with one that has whatever the "current" video connector for the day.
Yes, it will be some time before I change my TV out (unless mine magically dies, as I've already mentioned).
However, the vast majority of new TV sets being sold (that are not portable) have been HD sets for the last 3 to 5 years now. Now that HD TV's have fallen to a price of under $1,000 (and in some cases $600), it appears that the "average" consumer would no longer buy a standard definition tv. Many of these being sold are either additions to existing TV sets in a household, or replacement of sets (working or not). It only makes sense that as people with broken TV's (or families wanting to add sets) will buy the newer technology.
Now a question for you.... If your TV died today what TV would you get? A 42" 720P set now goes for $600... That is around the same price you paid for that 25" all those years ago:-) It will only get cheaper... A 36" 1080P TV is now around $1,000.... it would make a great monitor:-) As I have posted in the past, and told those I've had this conversation with, I will buy the closest size HDTV to the one I have now, as I have no use, want, nor burning desire to have some large behemoth in my living room. If I want a giant picture (for a movie night with friends, "the game" (I don't watch sports), etc), I will pull out my projector and make the projection as big as my walls will allow. My couch is no farther than about 6 to 8 feet away from my TV (I'm saying about 7', without measuring), so there is absolutely NO reason for me to have larger than I have now. Maybe in a few years when my eye sight goes on me, then I might see about it. 'Till then, I'm thinking a 30"-ish HDTV will be all I need (and, with the research I've done, I think it'll end up 32", because I don't think they have a 30", but I could be wrong...)
Ohh.. To address something you mentioned above about what I paid for my 25" TV. I bought it sometime in late '99 or early 2000. When I purchased it (from Teh Devi.....errr... Wal*Mart), it was in the $250 range. I would never pay that much for a TV. If mine were to break today, and there weren't any decent HDTV sets on the market in the size/price point I want, I'd pull out my other 25" CRT and a coax to composite converter (so I can still use my Onkyo receiver as a source selector) My extra TV is the same brand as the one I'm using now, it just didn't have a composite video input like the one I replaced it with, so I loaned my "old" one to a friend without quite so much money as I had at the time (he decided to give it back when he moved out of state, so I put it in my spare bedroom where it has sat ever since). It's also about 4 or so years older, but still works perfectly (I check it every now and again).
Now, to answer your next question, "What would I do if my "spare" TV broke the next day?" I'd search for a 30"-ish HDTV in the $250 price point and, if I fail in finding one, I would buy a used CRT until they *are* in that price point.
Oh you are so cute and childish in justifying your way to pirate things because they don't put the it in the format you want. Love it how you guys use the internet as you diplomatic immunity when dealing with everything in the world, that because it goes on the internet it is automatically free and open for everyone to use. It's not a justification. It's a statement of fact. I don't believe I even mentioned, nor hinted, that I thought I'd be "justified" or "immune" if I downloaded the content I want from the internet. I will pirate the content I want if it becomes unavailable in a format I can use. Nothing cute about it.
Cannot even believe the elderly around here who continue to support old technology and brag about their old television get modded up; thank god some of you people don't have children or run a business as it would be hell to live with you.
Elderly? Well, judging by your attitude, I'd say you were 12 (though, for a 12 year old, your writing style is markedly different from others of that age group). Going by the assumption that you are (or are near) 12, I guess someone who is 30 would seem "elderly" to you, however, I don't believe 30 is old. I also don't believe that the DVD is "old technology" being as nearly all physical music purchases are CD, and so are the HD/BD DVD formats (just a different coating/laser in those cases).
Do us all a favor. Power down your mommies computer and tell her what you have been doing so you can be properly punished.
To contrast your existence, I, on the other hand, am planning to buy a 52" lcd with 1080p. I also wonder if you really watch any TV, if you do, how can you stand your 25" tiny box and be so proud about it? How nice for you. If I so desired, I could do the same. I'd rather put the money into my house. While I don't watch TV from 17:30 (when I get home from work) to 23:00-ish (when I go to bed), I do watch a good amount (WWE, The Powerblock (on Spike), Gearz, Holms on Homes (and shows like it), and quite a bit on Comedy Central (especially The Daily Show)). There is probably 30+ hours on my DVR right now (Dish 622, or 625, I forget the model number, but it's a two tuner, two TV 100hour DVR) waiting for me to watch because I hate watching commercials.
I really don't see the appeal of a TV much larger than the one I have. If I desired, I could just pull out my projector (that I purchased at an auction) and make a screen as large as my wall (a little over 8.5' tall by over 15' (not sure how wide it would be if I really went floor to ceeling). I think my penis is of sufficient size that I don't *need* a 52" TV (big enough, I'd think, that my neighbors across the street would be able to watch it!)
Take your superior attitude elsewhere -- we really don't need it here.
Is this the part where you tell me that DVDs will be around for ages? I doubt it. Almost all TVs produced now are HD-capable, give it 2 years for the players to go down in price and maybe another year for people to buy them and I'll bet you any money that one or both formats will be outselling DVD. I'm here to tell you that the 25" CRT I bought about 6 years ago is going along just fine. I'm also here to guarantee you that it will NOT be replaced, no matter how much Blue Ray/HD-DVD players and HDTV's drop in price, until my current TV dies, or the signals being sent to it from Dish Network and my DVD player quit working with it.
That being said, adding the fact that I am not alone in the US (let alone the rest of the world) in this line of thought, DVD's will, in fact, be around for a while. If they are not, then the movie studios are going to notice a sudden drop in revenue as people such as myself forgo purchasing ANY media and get it via the internet instead (legally or not).
homo? The first (and only) time I've seen the text in the sig you replied to was from "Mr/Mrs Garrison" (if I've spelled that correctly) in South Park. I believe it was from an episode called "Bloody Mary", but I could be wrong. I tried to search for a clip (in English!) on youtube, but my search skills have failed me.
I see nothing wrong with a lot of the music that gets made fun of here (I even listen to a lot of it). Anyway, there isn't any reason why what I mentioned wouldn't work. Simply keep track of what songs play and how often, print up a report, and if someone is "sponsoring" songs on a pay-per-play model, they can have a record that will show them all the info they need.
In addition, there is nothing preventing the station using such technology from "inserting" songs they wish/are required to at specific or random times in the playlists.
This would also work into the favor of Google and their advertising model. Have the advertising for the following week "bid" for the previous week. Have a "hook" so that Google systems can automatically insert screened advertisements (you can't have people bidding and placing advertisements without them being screened -- someone might put something profane in them!) into the segments where the advertiser bid, and it stays automatic.
What I'm trying to say is probably not coming out as clearly in this form as it is in my head, but hopefully *someone* understands my babbling.:)
(man.. if no one has previously invented such a scheme, I should have gone through the needed steps to copyright/patent/whatever the idea! I could've been rich!)
What would be cool (though not for DJ's) would be to combine the "music playing robot" with some AI. Set up a phone bank (obviously hooked up to a computer). Link it to your music catalog. Let people call in and "request" a song. Once a song gets x amount of votes, play it in the next rotation.
This would not necessarily work because too many stations use a play for pay model. The label doesnt pay, it's a lot less likely your music will get played. Even with the new laws that are supposed to guarantee x number of hours for Indy labels and such, that still accounts for very little play time not corporately endorsed.
Of course, for the Sheeple who only listen to the (one hit wonder, here today, gone tomorrow) music they are told to ("Crap 40"), I guess it may work very well...
Never mind, good idea after all... I keep forgetting the Sheeple outnumber us...;-)
The only problem is that anything that congress can do can be vetoed by the president. It starts to make you side with the senators of rome during cesar and the french revolution among others. If Congress can get 2/3 majority vote, they can overturn his veto.
Seriously, find me a bloody application that can only run on IIS. If we're talking hosting companies, I'd imagine that you'd be far more interested in something along the lines of ASP support, which is a fair argument, as many silly IT people tend to write critical, in-house web applications in VBScript, themselves.
I work for a small web design / hosting company and this is generally the issue we run into, and usually the workaround is to rewrite whatever functionality the silly IT person needs in PHP. This of course has the added benefit of being supported on every server platform in christendom, should they ever have to leave us. However, we rarely run into this issue these days, as vast majority of clients are running web apps built on PHP/MySQL.
You think you have all the answers, don't you? How about we start with the timesheet/payroll system the company I work for uses. Works in IE only, and is IIS only. With firefox, when you click the link to open your timesheet, you get a blank window. Plus, it's "Microsoft Platform" only (from it's web site).
I'm sure there are plenty others that can't be "just rewritten to php", also.
While, he wasn't talking about hosting companies. I'll bite. Most hosting companies (at least all of the ones that I checked) which offer both platforms charge less for their linux platform, even though it provides broader functionality. That makes the linux benefit really obvious, even to the clueless pointy-haired manager types. No guessing at TCO and other hard to measure metrics - instead they have two straightforward choices with two straightforward prices. Ahh, but it's not that simple. You are forgetting vendor lock-in. They may have systems that integrate with their web site that are Windows ONLY, that require IIS. You'd be amazed by how much software is locked into MS's IIS (a city government I was working for a year ago purchased a property/tax management software package that required not only Windows 2003 Standard (specifically, it couldn't be SBE or any of the other versions), but its web component *required* IIS.
So long as such requirements are in place, you will have need for hosting companies to "do" both environments.
Which do you think they'd pick? Granted it depends a lot on what kind of work needs to be done, but for something like web/email/sql server then Linux does the job very well. You can always have 1-2 Windows servers for those few clients that absolutely insist on having MsSQL and IIS. You answered your own question. Of course the hosting company would pick both, if "the bottom line" is all they care about (as you assert in your previous statement). Whether we like it or not, Windows is a HUGE market, and if all they want is to rake in the cash, there is no way they'd ignore those who wish to use a MS environment.
I guarantee you that "one of the best things" followed by "play Linkin Park" should never appear in the same sentence. I mean, jesus... why not add Korn and Slipknot to the rotation? Why not, so long as there are people in the area that like them?
Unfortunately that is almost here. Steve-FM in Columbia, SC does not have a DJ, and plays "whatever we want", so no requests. The sadder part is that it's the best station in Columbia, and has risen to be No. 1 in the area because it doesn't have a DJ. What would be cool (though not for DJ's) would be to combine the "music playing robot" with some AI. Set up a phone bank (obviously hooked up to a computer). Link it to your music catalog. Let people call in and "request" a song. Once a song gets x amount of votes, play it in the next rotation.
You are utterly ignorant when you post about in-family marriages. 95% of the time the wife is a 13 year old girl marrying a 40 year old man. You go ahead and call that consentual and please, please, tell me that values women. Of course, liberals have turned the role model for women into holocaust fitness prostitutes, so I guess, maybe, that is a value to you.
References, or your're full of shit.
Sticking our noses into other peoples businesses is what made this country number one. The fact of the matter is that our values are BETTER than the values of other people on this planet and you can only watch them screw each other up so much before you have to step in.
Why are our values "better" than the values of other people on this planet? Who the fuck made us "the boss"? It's people like you, with your "values", that got us attacked in the first place, and it's people like you, with your "values", that have America nearly universally hated on the planet.
"Better".. indeed.
In any case, we need to adjust the values of Islamic people, and Bush's vision of using 9/11 as a pretext to clean house in the middle east was exactly the correct strategic call. Invading the middle east by the USA is LONG OVERDUE. Unfortunately, the brilliant strategy was matched by lousy tactics, and so now we're in the mess. At least we are still killing tons of islamists, and that's always a good thing.
Who the hell gives us the right to decide that? If I decide that your values need to be adjusted, should I use 9/11 to invade your house and kill/detain/torture you (not necessarily in that order)? If not, why not? After all, I think my values are FAR better than yours and that you need your values adjusted.
You obviously don't realize that the "islamists" would never have looked our way if we weren't arming their friends and, in general, sticking our noses in their business, right? They would have happily gone on, for who knows how long, killing each other off, until either one of their sets of values won out in the end, or they were all gone. Either way, why should it be any of our concern? All we have to do is fly our spy planes/satellites over their land to see what they are doing, make sure they aren't coming over here, but otherwise leave them alone.
There is absolutely no reason in hell that we should be over there, and I very much doubt anything you come up with (judging by your past comments) that will change my mind on that.
Islamist nations have been attacking non-Islamist nations continuously for the last 1500 years, since the religion was founded. For as much as everyone bitches about the Crusades, few people seem willing to note that the Islamists were attacking France 300 years BEFORE that, and that, Palestine, etc, were all part of the Byzantine Empire, thus, considered Christian lands, not Islamist. They attack and attack and attack and they will not stop attacking, ever. You can't cast Islamist aggression in the same mold as petty European power politics, becuase it isn't.
Who cares if they've been attacking other nations? Let THEM worry about it. The ONLY reason we should be involved is if an attacked nation asks for help. Then we should send in our guys, back the attackers off, then leave. None of this "providing arms" bullshit. Nice to see you dumping *all* of the Islamic people into one category, though. I see you (like our VP and his trained monkey) are wearing your blinders.
What's next? Everyone in SanFran is gay, all blacks are gangsters, and all Mexicans are here illegally? I think I'm starting to see a pattern here. I'm just waiting for you to put your white hood on...
Islamists are a much more powerful enemy than the Nazis or the Soviets ever were, simply because they are the product of a culture that has survived for 1500 years of continual aggressive war against the rest of the world. And this 1500 year Islamic war against the world has come to us,
Marrying into your immediate family is generally a sort of rape in cultures where it is practiced and it certainly devalues women, so that isn't a form of expression, its a kind of an assault. Same sex marriage doesn't effect me, because I'm straight, so the issue is not THAT important to me. However, I do have some friends that are gay and to support their cause I withheld donations to the Republican Party in the last election, and you'll notice that they lost. Shooting a gun in public places is also a form of assault, as guys walking around shooting guns off tend to intimidate people, and yes, it is banned, and yelling FIRE in a crowded theater is also a form of assault, not expression, as the intent is clearly to provoke a reaction that can cause people to hurt themselves.
No, you've only demonstrated that you don't know the difference between expression and assault.
Marrying into your immediate family is most certainly not "assault", unless the other person is forced into it, which I did not specify. It certainly doesn't "devalue women", either. If that were the case, marrying *A* woman would "devalue her". The last two things I came up with can be considered "assault" only in that a threat is made (whether the intention to threaten is there or not). Looks like SOMEONE needs to learn what assault means, and that someone isn't me...
My point is that there is a huge difference between keeping an eye on things and obsessing over them, and younger people tend towards the latter.
Looks like you also need a lesson in what the word "obsess" means. Lets take my example of what the VP is currently doing. He is a public official. Elected by the PEOPLE. There is no reason on this Earth as to why he'd need so much secrecy, unless he's doing something wrong. None what-so-ever. So. Are we supposed to wait until he does something stupid like, say, attack Iran, before we get pissed off (which would most certainly provoke another attack on US soil), or should we be trying to stop his power-hungry ass before he can do anything stupid? What if he's not doing something like planning an attack on Iran, but putting together another "Patriot Act" type piece of law that he'll have his bitch...er...Bush throw into law with a signing statement (or whatever other means he has at his disposal)? Why are you so intent on letting this administration fuck something up BEFORE you care about it? The only people who would defend such crap are Republicans, which explains much when talking to you. I'd still like to know why, though.
BTW.. I'm 30.. Does that qualify me as "younger", or do I have to become older before I can start "obsessing"?
The government isn't breaking into anyone's houses that I really don't want broken into. And that's really the point. You try to invent a tyranny where none really exists, in order to inflate your own sense of self worth. Most of your complaints about supposed government oppression are petty and insult the very real oppressive places around the world. It's like everyone that calls Bush or Clinton a Nazi or a Commie, has no real clue as to what the Nazis and Commies were really all about. I've MET people that fought at Stalingrad. They were veterans of the Great Patriotic War, as they call it, got fed up with Stalin's bullshit, and came to America. They told me what hardship really was, what tyranny really was, and none of your charges against our present government actually measure up to that.
You keep on thinking that, and I'll keep in mind the entire BLOCK full of houses that my local government FORCED people out of (yea, they did pay them fair market value for their property) so that a damned WALGREENS could be built. There is no inflation of anything here. As I said before, I don't give a flying fuck about "insults in other places" when we need to take care of the shit going on HERE, first. Sticking our goddamned noses into other peoples business is what got us into Iraq in the first place. Sticki
a) starting a business b) selling a product c) changing jobs d) expressing myself however I want e) buying anything I want f) eating however much I want, when I want, where I want You cannot do any of those if they involve "illegal" drugs. Who deems what is illegal? The gub'ment. You cannot sell music (allofmp3.com style). You cannot start a business selling copied DVD's/CD's, etc.
On a different track, to stop you from "expressing yourself however you want", you cannot marry your immediate family, you cannot marry someone of the same sex (except for one state, and those marriages aren't acknowledged if you move away from that state), you cannot walk onto any street shooting a gun (whether or not people are around). Hell, you are not even able to walk into a crowded theater and yell "FIRE!"
I really could go on and on, but I think I'll move on to some other stuff you have said, now that I've totally torn apart one part of your argument.
Yes. We may not "know" what a loss of freedom really is, but we have brains. We can see when the writing is starting to be put on the wall. It doesn't matter what "other" countries in this world are doing to their populations. It only matters, first, what is happening in OUR country. We need to keep our damned hands out of the business of other people. Just one example -- what on Earth do you think our VP is trying to do by keeping his (and his office's) actions secret? Is he planning the invasion of yet *another* country? Is he spying on MORE Americans with no good reason to be doing so (if he's not already)? Is he masterminding a coup to overthrow our government so he can install himself as a dictator (and, therefore, go about shooting people in the face as he pleases)? Does he just have some sort of mental problem, and no one is able to get to him to help him? We have no idea, and that is scary, which leads into my next point (where I will be quoting you from your previous message)...
Instead of spending so much time worrying about what Dick Cheney or Hillary Clinton are doing, worry about your own life. Then, if you do run into a government law that genuinely has an immediate impact on you. If they raise taxes, or do something stupid and get the price of fuel up to $7 / gallon, then yes, riot. If interest rates hit 15-20%, then, yes, riot. If unemployment hits 20-40%, then yes, riot. But, the bottom line, is none of those things have happened. In the grand scheme of things, we're extremely fortunate to have what we have and the rest of the world only wishes they could have our petty troubles. Yes! Yes! Hear hear! Lets wait until AFTER our government officials fuck something up (while we aren't paying attention) before we get outraged! This has to be the single most stupid comment I've seen in my life. Your government is in place to serve YOU. The moment you decide you don't care what they are doing (and actually stop paying attention), you might as well leave America. You need to remember, our government may be elected, but they are still people, subject to greed, corruption, etc.
Let me ask you a question. Is it OK for me to go breaking into people's houses, so long as I don't break into yours? That is what you are saying about government.. "Whatever they do is OK, so long as it doesn't impact YOUR life."
If I've ever seen someone that needed a clue, buddy, it's you.
how appropriate that this is happening while this song is hot,, at least on the Sirius station I listen to. I knew there was a reason I didn't like country "music"... That song reaffirms it.
Please tell me that edus's aren't double taxed. When you get a new computer with an unused Vista on it, the price of that computer *did not* include a Vista license, right? Otherwise you are paying twice, once for the site license, and then every time you buy a new computer, which is totally undeserved profit./IF that's true, what i wrote above, i can see why you have "no problems". Very nice of M$ to accommodate.//If it's not, thanks for making that clear for the crowd - it'd be about honorable. As petermgreen stated in reply to you, the license schools/edu's get (probably large businesses, as well) is an "upgrade" license, however, there is no provision of *which* version of Windows has to be installed on the machine.
In our case, we get whatever the cheapest offering is, then when we decommission the machine and send it to auction, it goes with the Windows media it came with, so we get some (if not all) of the money spent on the original license back. We recently unloaded a bunch of Dell GX240's that, for the most part, went for $100+ each unit (some went as high as ~$150). That *more* than pays for the original license we had to buy with the machine in addition to adding our "upgrade".
Not everyone will do this. Our hardware department fought us over doing this because "it was too much work" to load the OS onto the machine, so I created a generic Windows install (Win2k, in the case of our GX240's) and we used Ghost to drop it to each machine. As soon as the buyer boots the machine up, they are greeted with the Windows OOBE, and away they go (no other software was loaded, not even Firefox/etc).
I work for a university in the US -- this doesn't affect us one bit. No matter what the machines come with, we wipe the drive and drop our XP image to it (a lab/classroom image or a faculty image, depending on where the machine will end up).
When I build the image, any new models we receive have their drivers added to the image with this as part of our sysprep. We use Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.x (we use the DOS based DeployCenter to actually drop the image from our central imaging server to the workstations). I also have to modify the DeployCenter boot floppy (stored as an.img file that is called by isolinux/syslinux from the UBCD4.0 custom disk I also created) to add the.DOS driver and PCI ID string so the NIC detection works properly.
I kinda went off topic there, however, the point is we have a MS Campus agreement for ~2000 seats (we are somewhere around 1600 to 1800, actually) for XP/Office2003/Vista/Office2007, so no matter what the computers we order come with, it's wiped and replaced with our own image (without even allowing the OEM drive to do its first boot).
The only people I see this affecting are businesses that use the machines as they come in, loading software on a one-by-one basis. It won't affect LARGE businesses (or those in the same situation as the university).
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He's still around? Seems this time he's being a whiny little crybaby that a company that provides a service for "free" to customers is allowing spammers to send mail to their accounts so long as said spammers pay for the privilege. Boo fucking Hoo. Other than looking at some ads, the service isn't costing you anything at all. If you don't like the ads, or don't like the company behind the service allowing spammers to pay (which helps pay for the infrastructure) to bypass the spam filters, then don't use the damned services.
It really isn't that hard to comprehend. You are not entitled to free email service. You'll use what is available, roll your own, or fucking deal with it. Whining about it will not solve your problem.
The people I feel most sorry for are the poor folks that have to clean up after these slobs.
I have this issue when standing on occasion where the urine, when first coming out, will decide to shoot out the side, or come out in a fan, much like water will when using a cloth hose. This is why I feel it is cleaner to sit when using a toilet. I do stand if there is a urinal to use, as they have sides that come out and solve that issue.
I've mentioned this issue in such a "sit or stand" discussion before, and had people act incredulous at the idea of it not immediately coming out straight, and it occurred to me that maybe it's because I don't have any foreskin, and people with foreskin don't have this issue for some reason. I am butchered, but have never once had a problem with urine "coming out the side". I usually hear of such issues from in tact guys, and even then, I tell them to pull their foreskin back if it is a problem. I wasn't circumcised until age 7 (or so, I don't recall *exactly*), and I never had a problem with a "crooked stream".
As to why you would have a "crooked stream", I couldn't tell you. I can only tell you that in my 23 years of being circumcised, I've never had any issues in that department (though I have had others).
It seems to me you'd want to minimise leakage. On earth spattering the surroundings is an annoyance [1], in space it can be catastrophic. Why take the chance?
1: that said, I've never understood why so many men insist on peeing standing up, when it's cleaner, more comfortable and doesn't cost more time to sit down. It *does* take more time. If I can just hang "mini me" out the front of my pants (though my zipper, in the case that I'm at work and in work clothing), or pull down the top of my shorts (in case I'm pretty much anywhere else), why would I want to pull everything down, sit down for the few seconds it takes, stand back up, pull up my pants, tuck in my shirts (in the case that I'm at work), etc?
It's just easier and quicker to aim properly.
'course, you being female, I should have expected you not to understand.
To speak on sitting down being "cleaner". I never have a problem with a messy toilet/floor. I hate it when I got into the bathroom at work, walk up to the urinal, and have to step around those lazy asses pee dribbles. It's like they can't be bothered to hang their junk two more inches closer to the bowl. I know if I can do it, they ought to be able to. At home, I aim at the bowl, not the seat, so I don't have problems there either. I don't know what it is with some guys. Sometimes I think they should be *required* to just go outside.
27" LCD HDTV is around $400.
Most people, I would say 99% would opt for a TV that is far far far more future proof. The 27" CRT doesn't matter. The LCD HDTV is still too expensive for the amount of TV watching I do (and the programs I watch). When I replace my TV with an HDTV, it will be with a TV that has a screen at least as tall as mine, and I think I'd have to go with a 32" to do that.
The TV I end up with will be as current as possible. I don't even see a reason to buy one right now since they keep changing the damned connectors (with more on the way!). DVI, component, HDMI, then they've added HDCP into it, not to mention that I'll have to replace my 2 or 3 year old Onkyo receiver (I'd move it elsewhere in the house) with one that has whatever the "current" video connector for the day.
Yes, it will be some time before I change my TV out (unless mine magically dies, as I've already mentioned).
Ohh.. To address something you mentioned above about what I paid for my 25" TV. I bought it sometime in late '99 or early 2000. When I purchased it (from Teh Devi.....errr... Wal*Mart), it was in the $250 range. I would never pay that much for a TV. If mine were to break today, and there weren't any decent HDTV sets on the market in the size/price point I want, I'd pull out my other 25" CRT and a coax to composite converter (so I can still use my Onkyo receiver as a source selector) My extra TV is the same brand as the one I'm using now, it just didn't have a composite video input like the one I replaced it with, so I loaned my "old" one to a friend without quite so much money as I had at the time (he decided to give it back when he moved out of state, so I put it in my spare bedroom where it has sat ever since). It's also about 4 or so years older, but still works perfectly (I check it every now and again).
Now, to answer your next question, "What would I do if my "spare" TV broke the next day?" I'd search for a 30"-ish HDTV in the $250 price point and, if I fail in finding one, I would buy a used CRT until they *are* in that price point.
Elderly? Well, judging by your attitude, I'd say you were 12 (though, for a 12 year old, your writing style is markedly different from others of that age group). Going by the assumption that you are (or are near) 12, I guess someone who is 30 would seem "elderly" to you, however, I don't believe 30 is old. I also don't believe that the DVD is "old technology" being as nearly all physical music purchases are CD, and so are the HD/BD DVD formats (just a different coating/laser in those cases).
Do us all a favor. Power down your mommies computer and tell her what you have been doing so you can be properly punished.
I really don't see the appeal of a TV much larger than the one I have. If I desired, I could just pull out my projector (that I purchased at an auction) and make a screen as large as my wall (a little over 8.5' tall by over 15' (not sure how wide it would be if I really went floor to ceeling). I think my penis is of sufficient size that I don't *need* a 52" TV (big enough, I'd think, that my neighbors across the street would be able to watch it!)
Take your superior attitude elsewhere -- we really don't need it here.
That being said, adding the fact that I am not alone in the US (let alone the rest of the world) in this line of thought, DVD's will, in fact, be around for a while. If they are not, then the movie studios are going to notice a sudden drop in revenue as people such as myself forgo purchasing ANY media and get it via the internet instead (legally or not).
In addition, there is nothing preventing the station using such technology from "inserting" songs they wish/are required to at specific or random times in the playlists.
This would also work into the favor of Google and their advertising model. Have the advertising for the following week "bid" for the previous week. Have a "hook" so that Google systems can automatically insert screened advertisements (you can't have people bidding and placing advertisements without them being screened -- someone might put something profane in them!) into the segments where the advertiser bid, and it stays automatic.
What I'm trying to say is probably not coming out as clearly in this form as it is in my head, but hopefully *someone* understands my babbling.
(man.. if no one has previously invented such a scheme, I should have gone through the needed steps to copyright/patent/whatever the idea! I could've been rich!) What would be cool (though not for DJ's) would be to combine the "music playing robot" with some AI. Set up a phone bank (obviously hooked up to a computer). Link it to your music catalog. Let people call in and "request" a song. Once a song gets x amount of votes, play it in the next rotation.
This would not necessarily work because too many stations use a play for pay model. The label doesnt pay, it's a lot less likely your music will get played. Even with the new laws that are supposed to guarantee x number of hours for Indy labels and such, that still accounts for very little play time not corporately endorsed.
Of course, for the Sheeple who only listen to the (one hit wonder, here today, gone tomorrow) music they are told to ("Crap 40"), I guess it may work very well...
Never mind, good idea after all... I keep forgetting the Sheeple outnumber us... ;-)
Seriously, find me a bloody application that can only run on IIS. If we're talking hosting companies, I'd imagine that you'd be far more interested in something along the lines of ASP support, which is a fair argument, as many silly IT people tend to write critical, in-house web applications in VBScript, themselves.
I work for a small web design / hosting company and this is generally the issue we run into, and usually the workaround is to rewrite whatever functionality the silly IT person needs in PHP. This of course has the added benefit of being supported on every server platform in christendom, should they ever have to leave us. However, we rarely run into this issue these days, as vast majority of clients are running web apps built on PHP/MySQL.
You think you have all the answers, don't you? How about we start with the timesheet/payroll system the company I work for uses. Works in IE only, and is IIS only. With firefox, when you click the link to open your timesheet, you get a blank window. Plus, it's "Microsoft Platform" only (from it's web site).I'm sure there are plenty others that can't be "just rewritten to php", also.
Nice try. Goodbye.
So long as such requirements are in place, you will have need for hosting companies to "do" both environments.
Oh, the possibilities with such a system.
You are utterly ignorant when you post about in-family marriages. 95% of the time the wife is a 13 year old girl marrying a 40 year old man. You go ahead and call that consentual and please, please, tell me that values women. Of course, liberals have turned the role model for women into holocaust fitness prostitutes, so I guess, maybe, that is a value to you.
References, or your're full of shit.
Sticking our noses into other peoples businesses is what made this country number one. The fact of the matter is that our values are BETTER than the values of other people on this planet and you can only watch them screw each other up so much before you have to step in.
Why are our values "better" than the values of other people on this planet? Who the fuck made us "the boss"? It's people like you, with your "values", that got us attacked in the first place, and it's people like you, with your "values", that have America nearly universally hated on the planet.
"Better".. indeed.
In any case, we need to adjust the values of Islamic people, and Bush's vision of using 9/11 as a pretext to clean house in the middle east was exactly the correct strategic call. Invading the middle east by the USA is LONG OVERDUE. Unfortunately, the brilliant strategy was matched by lousy tactics, and so now we're in the mess. At least we are still killing tons of islamists, and that's always a good thing.
Who the hell gives us the right to decide that? If I decide that your values need to be adjusted, should I use 9/11 to invade your house and kill/detain/torture you (not necessarily in that order)? If not, why not? After all, I think my values are FAR better than yours and that you need your values adjusted.
You obviously don't realize that the "islamists" would never have looked our way if we weren't arming their friends and, in general, sticking our noses in their business, right? They would have happily gone on, for who knows how long, killing each other off, until either one of their sets of values won out in the end, or they were all gone. Either way, why should it be any of our concern? All we have to do is fly our spy planes/satellites over their land to see what they are doing, make sure they aren't coming over here, but otherwise leave them alone.
There is absolutely no reason in hell that we should be over there, and I very much doubt anything you come up with (judging by your past comments) that will change my mind on that.
Islamist nations have been attacking non-Islamist nations continuously for the last 1500 years, since the religion was founded. For as much as everyone bitches about the Crusades, few people seem willing to note that the Islamists were attacking France 300 years BEFORE that, and that, Palestine, etc, were all part of the Byzantine Empire, thus, considered Christian lands, not Islamist. They attack and attack and attack and they will not stop attacking, ever. You can't cast Islamist aggression in the same mold as petty European power politics, becuase it isn't.
Who cares if they've been attacking other nations? Let THEM worry about it. The ONLY reason we should be involved is if an attacked nation asks for help. Then we should send in our guys, back the attackers off, then leave. None of this "providing arms" bullshit. Nice to see you dumping *all* of the Islamic people into one category, though. I see you (like our VP and his trained monkey) are wearing your blinders.
What's next? Everyone in SanFran is gay, all blacks are gangsters, and all Mexicans are here illegally? I think I'm starting to see a pattern here. I'm just waiting for you to put your white hood on...
Islamists are a much more powerful enemy than the Nazis or the Soviets ever were, simply because they are the product of a culture that has survived for 1500 years of continual aggressive war against the rest of the world. And this 1500 year Islamic war against the world has come to us,
Marrying into your immediate family is generally a sort of rape in cultures where it is practiced and it certainly devalues women, so that isn't a form of expression, its a kind of an assault. Same sex marriage doesn't effect me, because I'm straight, so the issue is not THAT important to me. However, I do have some friends that are gay and to support their cause I withheld donations to the Republican Party in the last election, and you'll notice that they lost. Shooting a gun in public places is also a form of assault, as guys walking around shooting guns off tend to intimidate people, and yes, it is banned, and yelling FIRE in a crowded theater is also a form of assault, not expression, as the intent is clearly to provoke a reaction that can cause people to hurt themselves.
No, you've only demonstrated that you don't know the difference between expression and assault.
Marrying into your immediate family is most certainly not "assault", unless the other person is forced into it, which I did not specify. It certainly doesn't "devalue women", either. If that were the case, marrying *A* woman would "devalue her". The last two things I came up with can be considered "assault" only in that a threat is made (whether the intention to threaten is there or not). Looks like SOMEONE needs to learn what assault means, and that someone isn't me...
My point is that there is a huge difference between keeping an eye on things and obsessing over them, and younger people tend towards the latter.
Looks like you also need a lesson in what the word "obsess" means. Lets take my example of what the VP is currently doing. He is a public official. Elected by the PEOPLE. There is no reason on this Earth as to why he'd need so much secrecy, unless he's doing something wrong. None what-so-ever. So. Are we supposed to wait until he does something stupid like, say, attack Iran, before we get pissed off (which would most certainly provoke another attack on US soil), or should we be trying to stop his power-hungry ass before he can do anything stupid? What if he's not doing something like planning an attack on Iran, but putting together another "Patriot Act" type piece of law that he'll have his bitch...er...Bush throw into law with a signing statement (or whatever other means he has at his disposal)? Why are you so intent on letting this administration fuck something up BEFORE you care about it? The only people who would defend such crap are Republicans, which explains much when talking to you. I'd still like to know why, though.
BTW.. I'm 30.. Does that qualify me as "younger", or do I have to become older before I can start "obsessing"?
The government isn't breaking into anyone's houses that I really don't want broken into. And that's really the point. You try to invent a tyranny where none really exists, in order to inflate your own sense of self worth. Most of your complaints about supposed government oppression are petty and insult the very real oppressive places around the world. It's like everyone that calls Bush or Clinton a Nazi or a Commie, has no real clue as to what the Nazis and Commies were really all about. I've MET people that fought at Stalingrad. They were veterans of the Great Patriotic War, as they call it, got fed up with Stalin's bullshit, and came to America. They told me what hardship really was, what tyranny really was, and none of your charges against our present government actually measure up to that.
You keep on thinking that, and I'll keep in mind the entire BLOCK full of houses that my local government FORCED people out of (yea, they did pay them fair market value for their property) so that a damned WALGREENS could be built. There is no inflation of anything here. As I said before, I don't give a flying fuck about "insults in other places" when we need to take care of the shit going on HERE, first. Sticking our goddamned noses into other peoples business is what got us into Iraq in the first place. Sticki
Looks like I screwed up part of the quoting, but hopefully you'll be able to muddle your way through. Too bad I can't edit my post! :)
b) selling a product
c) changing jobs
d) expressing myself however I want
e) buying anything I want
f) eating however much I want, when I want, where I want You cannot do any of those if they involve "illegal" drugs. Who deems what is illegal? The gub'ment. You cannot sell music (allofmp3.com style). You cannot start a business selling copied DVD's/CD's, etc.
On a different track, to stop you from "expressing yourself however you want", you cannot marry your immediate family, you cannot marry someone of the same sex (except for one state, and those marriages aren't acknowledged if you move away from that state), you cannot walk onto any street shooting a gun (whether or not people are around). Hell, you are not even able to walk into a crowded theater and yell "FIRE!"
I really could go on and on, but I think I'll move on to some other stuff you have said, now that I've totally torn apart one part of your argument. Yes. We may not "know" what a loss of freedom really is, but we have brains. We can see when the writing is starting to be put on the wall. It doesn't matter what "other" countries in this world are doing to their populations. It only matters, first, what is happening in OUR country. We need to keep our damned hands out of the business of other people. Just one example -- what on Earth do you think our VP is trying to do by keeping his (and his office's) actions secret? Is he planning the invasion of yet *another* country? Is he spying on MORE Americans with no good reason to be doing so (if he's not already)? Is he masterminding a coup to overthrow our government so he can install himself as a dictator (and, therefore, go about shooting people in the face as he pleases)? Does he just have some sort of mental problem, and no one is able to get to him to help him? We have no idea, and that is scary, which leads into my next point (where I will be quoting you from your previous message)... Instead of spending so much time worrying about what Dick Cheney or Hillary Clinton are doing, worry about your own life. Then, if you do run into a government law that genuinely has an immediate impact on you. If they raise taxes, or do something stupid and get the price of fuel up to $7 / gallon, then yes, riot. If interest rates hit 15-20%, then, yes, riot. If unemployment hits 20-40%, then yes, riot. But, the bottom line, is none of those things have happened. In the grand scheme of things, we're extremely fortunate to have what we have and the rest of the world only wishes they could have our petty troubles. Yes! Yes! Hear hear! Lets wait until AFTER our government officials fuck something up (while we aren't paying attention) before we get outraged! This has to be the single most stupid comment I've seen in my life. Your government is in place to serve YOU. The moment you decide you don't care what they are doing (and actually stop paying attention), you might as well leave America. You need to remember, our government may be elected, but they are still people, subject to greed, corruption, etc.
Let me ask you a question. Is it OK for me to go breaking into people's houses, so long as I don't break into yours? That is what you are saying about government.. "Whatever they do is OK, so long as it doesn't impact YOUR life."
If I've ever seen someone that needed a clue, buddy, it's you.
In our case, we get whatever the cheapest offering is, then when we decommission the machine and send it to auction, it goes with the Windows media it came with, so we get some (if not all) of the money spent on the original license back. We recently unloaded a bunch of Dell GX240's that, for the most part, went for $100+ each unit (some went as high as ~$150). That *more* than pays for the original license we had to buy with the machine in addition to adding our "upgrade".
Not everyone will do this. Our hardware department fought us over doing this because "it was too much work" to load the OS onto the machine, so I created a generic Windows install (Win2k, in the case of our GX240's) and we used Ghost to drop it to each machine. As soon as the buyer boots the machine up, they are greeted with the Windows OOBE, and away they go (no other software was loaded, not even Firefox/etc).
Worked quite well for us, actually.
I work for a university in the US -- this doesn't affect us one bit. No matter what the machines come with, we wipe the drive and drop our XP image to it (a lab/classroom image or a faculty image, depending on where the machine will end up).
.img file that is called by isolinux/syslinux from the UBCD4.0 custom disk I also created) to add the .DOS driver and PCI ID string so the NIC detection works properly.
When I build the image, any new models we receive have their drivers added to the image with this as part of our sysprep. We use Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 2.x (we use the DOS based DeployCenter to actually drop the image from our central imaging server to the workstations). I also have to modify the DeployCenter boot floppy (stored as an
I kinda went off topic there, however, the point is we have a MS Campus agreement for ~2000 seats (we are somewhere around 1600 to 1800, actually) for XP/Office2003/Vista/Office2007, so no matter what the computers we order come with, it's wiped and replaced with our own image (without even allowing the OEM drive to do its first boot).
The only people I see this affecting are businesses that use the machines as they come in, loading software on a one-by-one basis. It won't affect LARGE businesses (or those in the same situation as the university).