Interesting. You are right. The slashdot link is a referral the best I can tell. I didn't even realize that. I guess that's what I get for not reading TFA to begin with. That's pretty bad when the actual FA is on the beginning of the slashdot page. You really shouldn't buy from either link. Did slashdot itself add the referrer link or the reviewer? I wonder if the poster actually made any money out of this deal.
Oh fucking well. People need to move on. If the changing climate is any indication we should expect more hurricanes. What's gonna happen when NO gets a major hurricane next year? The year after? When does it fucking end and when do we keep wasting our federal taxes on rebuilding something just to be destroyed again? So the tourism is a boon to the economy? So fucking what? Maybe they need some new industry that pays the damned taxes. What would have happened if a nuclear bomb went off? The land surely wouldn't be inhabitable then and they really shouldn't view it as reinhabitable now. Earthquakes can be mitigated (for the most part), so can a great deal of other natural disasters. A hurricane is pretty all encompassing. Same thing goes for florida. There are still many, many houses there that are not recovered from last year, with no real roofing, etc. What's to happen when the next Katrina rolls through Florida? How many times do you keep rebuilding before you say enough is enough? I say make it all into a natural habitat. Let the evergreens and the gulf coastline become a huge national refuge. Christ knows that very few national parklands exist in the east and this would be a great place to start one.
All those coastal towns that were wiped out, do you think that they will all be rebuilt? What would be the fucking point? So they can all be destroyed again? It is not like the problem is going to suddenly disappear. Give up on New Orleans. It is going to cost far more money to rebuild it than it would to relocate all of those people.
I doubt the slashdot sanctioned link would include a referral. The outcry would be too great. People already complain enough about the front page product placement ads I mean stories. A referral will save you no money. It is merely a program for amazon to increase sales by trickling a very small (pennies) portion of the sale to the referrer. The amazon.com price would be the same either way. I could be totally wrong of course, but compare the prices yourself. I doubt you will see any difference.
It is also a scam. By clicking on that link and buying the book, the poster makes money. Its called a referral and it is spam. If someone wants to buy the book they can go price compare themselves. The honest thing to do would be to just simply place a referral free link to the book on amazon. Unfortunately not many people realize that by clicking the link you are generating income. The amount of money this little scheme produces really isn't worth the effort. You'd be better off begging for a quarter or something.
Don't worry. There isn't a karma bonus for funny. Thanks for the laugh though, that was a good one.:)
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Yeah. I remember this too. For all the bad things they say about Macs, they still did some things that no PC ever could and this was one of the cooler ones. Another nice thing was that it was relatively easy to select boot drives, so you could just simply plug in an external drive and boot away. PCs took a long time to catch up in this regard. Usually when it was running right, MacOS would just work for the most part and never really threw many curveballs. Prefs could be drug out of their folder, applications could be installed just by copying them onto the drive, fonts were easily dropped into the font folder, everything was relatively simple to set up and run and they all used the same paradigms. Like using a system briefcase that you can open up and add things to the right folder. Don't know about the constant floating menubar, but I guess some people liked that. For what it's worth the start bar is a lot more obtrusive and a lot more useless in the windows world. I always set it to autohide and that really should have been the default from the start.
How is this even flamebait?! What the parent said is true. We would have never have sent a man to the moon if we were not in a technological superiority race with the Soviets. While I will admit that going to the moon is an AMAZING feat for humanity to marvel at for a long time into the future, the actual scientific value of such a mission when compared to its cost is greatly diminished.
That being said, we need to go somewhere other than earth orbit. If we keep going on into the future without looking at ways to live without earth we will be doomed to eventually perish here. The planet keeps getting smaller and smaller and the population keeps increasing. Eventually in the relatively near future we will either die en masse from starvation, lack of resources, etc, and (hopefully) leave some survivors, but we could easily become extinct as well. Technology is only going to help us now. If such a mass extinction of humans occurs they will have little fertile land to live off of and very few animals to hunt. We need to kick ourselves out of the womb before we as a race die like a stillborn fetus.
The mother can only sustain our greed for consumption of natural resources for so long.
That's why you declare pauper status (if you can) so your court filing costs become free. Then you file massive 50 page responses, challenge their discovery process, and as the parent said, place the burden of proof on them. The more 50 page filings their lawyers get the faster they will drop the case. If they cannot prove that it was my IP and that I was the person responsible for downloading a movie, well then, they really don't have much of a case do they? This is precisely why the RIA and MPAA have been going towards the top of the pyramid because they would have a hard time proving that and end user was stealing their stuff, and in the end it really isn't worth all of the legal fees to get a small judgement that may or not be paid. I don't think I would ever settle. Not for the $10,000 or so that they have been settling with people lately. You sure as fuck don't get fined $10,000 when you walk into a store and steal a DVD, nor do you get jailtime. How is this any different?
I've been thinking about opening up a wireless AP so in case the lawsuits ever start rolling in I can absolve myself of all responsibility. How the hell can I be responsible for what my neighbor is doing on my network with an open, unlogged AP?
If the responsibility falls on me as a network provider than ISPs are responsible for peer-to-peer and I think there are court cases that demonstrate that they are in fact not responsible.
Case law helps tremendously. It also helps that I used to be a legal assistant.:)
That is if the tracker is hosted on the torrent site. Most of the time this is not the case. Typically all the originating site is providing a torrent which connects you to the tracker site. So the parent is correct. In 90% of the cases you are just downloading a 28k.torrent. Hardly infringement unless they can prove that you downloaded the whole file and went on to seed. See, it isn't the downloading that they typically look at, its the distribution. They want to go after the people setting up seeds and trackers a lot more than the casual person that downloads last week's episode of Deadwood.
Personally, I would love to buy things on DVD like Deadwood, but when I went out and priced Season 1, they wanted $100 for it. Since I already payed HBO to watch their channel for the whole season, I couldn't justify spending $100 to watch it again. I ended up missing the last few episodes of seson 2 and they expired on On Demand, so I was left with two choices: Wait 6 months and pay $200 for both seasons or download them all for free. It wasn't a really tough decision for me, especially considering how much more I could use the $200 for better things. I could see if it were to be like $40-50, but come on. They would probably sell a whole lot more if they dropped the price too. I mean that works out to a little less than $10 an hour for entertainment. That's more expensive than a movie ticket, nearly twice as much.
Great series though! I can't wait to see if they do a season 3 and I really hope they pick of the pieces of Carnivale because the season 2 finale was a really cheap way of ensuring there will be a season 3. All that buildup to the most anti-climatic ending of a series I've seen in a long time.
Well. What facts do you dispute? That we armed Saddam Hussein? That Donald Rumsfield was involved in selling them to him? That we supported both sides of the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s? That we installed the Taliban to help us out in the Afghanni-Soviet conflict? That we and the Soviets were both interested in the area specifically for an oil pipeline? That Rockefeller was interested as well? That the CIA has historically been involved in drug smuggling operations, like, oh say, running coke from Columbia to the west coast. Hell the guy that blew the lid on that has had multiple assasination attempts. But, he was just making it all up, right?
Its a fact that Saddam called George Bush Sr. to consult with him before he invaded Kuwait, as Bush had long standing relations with Hussein at the time.
How do you think Iraq got all of those WMDs in the first place?
I suggest if you are really curious to pull the fucking wool over your eyes you start doing some of your own investigation. The facts are out there and have been repeated many, many times.
And yes. If you read the fucking news like the other person who responded to the parent, the CCTV operators swore up and down that the cameras were working at the time of the shooting and yet the police have repeatedly stated that there is not a single video other than the one they released of the man entering the station. If that isn't a coverup attempt, I have no idea what is. By the way, protesters across the nation are now running into police violence. It will be interesting to see where this escalates on the home front. More police violence usually equates with more protesters. Wonder how long it will be before we have Kent State all over again.
Hilarious. A 19 year old security expert in the military? Is this even really possible? For amusement, I had to check out the blog of the girl. You know. The one showing off her rather nicely shaped (if not a bit small) ass. Talk about a real winner. Check out this profile:
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I like the part about how she never heard of books. Her friend's comment is absolutely stunning as well.
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Do people go to AOL Elementary and watch MTV for homework these days or something?
I am truly disappointed. To the grandparent: If these are your friends, you need to keep looking man. At least find someone with some depth for chrissakes!
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That simply isn't true. Acuras have had much better transmissions, shift linkages, suspensions, and the engines are typically tuned much more towards the performance end. Sure on paper they may look like the same car, but in a lot of ways they are much, much more refined. They aren't marketed in Japan as anything but Honda and they carry a higher price tag per model there as well. Sure they might use the same powerplant, but the Acura engine is usually guaranteed to be a much better tuned engine. The Honda prelude was one of the few Hondas to see some of this tech trickle down, but in the end, they still had cheaper shift linkages and such and were not nearly as smooth as the the Acura Integra, though they probably accelerated about the same. I don't even think that you can begin to compare the Accord and the RSX. Have you actually driven either a top end honda vs. an acura or are you just spewing forth your own excrement?
The S2000 is an amazing car and bears the Honda name. The NSX is also amazing and bears the Acura name. (and costs 4x as much) But really, these are apples and oranges.
I just read a review on the 2005 S2000 and was diappointed that they reduced the redline to 8200 RPM from 9000 RPM in an attempt to tame the beast a bit. I also read that they shifted the powerband much lower. The VTEC magic was really best produced at 8000-9000 rpm and it is kind of sad to see that they toned it down. I guess most people didn't realize that the car was meant to be driven near the redline all the time.
Cute. Very cute. All the cameras were "off". If true, that makes me suspicious if they were either deliberately turned off to avoid having to deal with pesky evidence, or the data simply erased.
Or maybe, just maybe, that Anonymous Coward is making things up.
It is true. The police had basically no information about this guy and they went up and shot him after ordering him to turn around. From reports I have heard they may have not even identified themselves. The cameras were all convieniently "not working." So there wasn't any video evidence. The police have since apologized, but the fact of the matter remains that they have murdered a man in cold blood without even trying to make a reasonable arrest.
The whole thing reeks of coverup and foul play. One would think that within days of a terrorist attack, the Underground would have made doubly sure that at least their security cameras were all rolling. Not a single video image. How about that one?
I agree with the great grandparent. Nothing is gonna stop terrorism. The more terrorists you kill, the more martyrs you create. The more innocent people you slaughter in the process, the more you fuel the source of the terrorism. IF you think this war can be won, maybe you need to start listening to the Jews for advice because clearly they are doing a wonderful job of containing just a small neighboring state. Just in case you never went to history class, white men have been killing arabs for thousands of years now in the name of holy war. How the war is on terrorism is any different is completely beyond me, what with its rhetoric about evil nations and liberation and democracy. What is the real evil? Is it the terrorists who hate us with a lot of valid reasons? Or is it the country that sponsored those terrorists in the first place as well as propped up certain dictators, like Saddam Hussein? No doubt the taliban were not the greatest of rulers, but at least they helped us keep the Soviets from taking over some prime pipeline territory. Sadly, Afghanistan is still ruled by the same corrupt warlords, nothing is much better, and the US once again could likely care less with the spotlight going to Iraq these days. If anyone thought we were going to be helping the Afghannis, well then, I must apologize for getting your hopes up. Of course, control of the opium trade is also a nice bonus for the CIA as well, because we all know how they love to smuggle drugs into America.
Now we are in Iraq. I don't know who is more evil. Saddam for killing his people with banned chemical and biological weapons or us supplying such weapons to him, knowing that he was using them on his own people. The same people that wanted us to go to war to find such weapons were the people that sold them to him, like Donald Rumsfield for instance. Maybe they had trouble sleeping at night thinking about how many hundreds of thousands of people those weapons had killed in both Iraq and Iran, then again I really doubt it. Never mind the countless thousands upon thousands of children that died from starvation alone thanks to a failed Food for Oil programme. Let us not forget that we also played Iran and Iraq like twisted Puch and Judy marionettes by supplying both sides with all sorts of weapons of mass destruction. I guess, once again, oil is likely the only motivation, because any other possibility just doesn't have nearly as much money tied to it. Don't get me started on the Rockefeller--Afghanistan connection. The choice of the twin towers makes so much sense when you see it in the right context.
Now we have police attacking protestors with stun guns and K9 dogs for blocking traffic. And we have the national guard invading raves and beating the living piss out of the participants. The police state is already here, the question is how much further will we let it go? Like many people have said. You cannot stop terrorism. If you make it impossible for people to blow up trains, they will start attacking theatres, city squares, office lobbies, etc, etc, etc. You ar
Don't know why I'm responding to this AC, but anyways, I can't really imagine throwing a computer out of the window after it clears a POST but refuses to boot. A simple chain of logic would conclude that the hard drives or the IDE interface was at fault by first trying to BOOT without the HDs plugged in and then removing and/or disabling the IDE interface in BIOS. If you can't boot, it really is best to start out at the BARE minimum and work it up from there. Typically all you need to get past a POST is a video card, a working processor, and working sticks of RAM. If you aren't getting power or the power light comes on and fades, then your power supply is of course suspect. If the computer will not do this, then rule out the video card and possibly AGP slot by placing a PCI card in if you can or at least try some sort of other video, then move on to the memory, by using some that you know for a fact should work in the motherboard you are testing. Density matters, especially on older machines. A few old sticks of 16-32 megs work great to have on hand for the odd P2 or P-III you may come across. Next, of course, you have to rule out the CPU. Of course, if you get error beeps, it is best to figure out WTF they mean and most BIOS manufacturers have pretty standard beep codes for their whole product lines.
So you get past POST? Good. Now go take a freaking break or something if you are truly frustrated. Your core components at least still work. Next attach all PCI cards and boot after each new one is added. Some cards like to sit in a master PCI slot, but most usually do not care. If you don't know what your master is, generally the first PCI slot is a good master. Once you have your cards sorted out and everything is still working you need to plug your drives back in. If you got this far, chances are you have a hard drive problem. Generally a computer should get past the POST and start looking at drives, but if you just changed your drive configuration and have master and slave set wrong (ahem parent), typically the IDE light will just light up solid when you hit the power. That's not so terrible really. You just need to make sure that each cable is aligned with pin 1 on the drive, that the slave is the second drive on the chain, and that their jumpers are all set correctly. Of course if you use a regular IDE cable and not the slim ATA cable with your hard drive, you will not be potentially utilizing the ATA capabilities of your drive. Generally a lot of computers come with two cables. One for your drives and one for your CD-ROM/RW/DVD/ETC. Honestly I don't know if the newer CD-ROM drives will take the faster cables, but if it really concerns you, you could easily search on google or hell, experiment.
Just don't throw working computers out the window. That is truly wasteful and a poor showing of geekness. The true geek would be soldering a new IDE interface (on the motherboard no less) if he needed to. Allright. Maybe not, but I digress. The point is that you destroyed a perfectly good PC because you were frustrated. I imagine that your life must be very expensive.
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When I was a younger lad (13 or so) I finally ditched the old 386-33, which served me exceptionally well, I might add. I moved up to a 486-100 that someone gave me in pity. The ZIF socket was a relatively new thing for the time, so I took it upon myself to take out the 486 and look at it. Content with looking at it, I stuck it back in the socket and turned the PC on. Nothing. I didn't have much clue back then that their was a Pin 1 and that the first pin needed to be aligned. The chip was fried. Of course, putting the chip in at every possible position and hitting the power button helped seal its fate. Thankfully, AMD made cheap 486-100s back then, and I ended up with an AMD 486-100, which wasn't as fast as the intel back then, but only really the FPU was slower and many programs back then didn't use an FPU, especially games. I think Quake was one of the first games to utilize the FPU heavily.
Fast foward. I was sitting at my girlfriend's PC and had the brilliant idea that I could overclock her 1.6ghz Athlon. After setting the FSB to a faster setting, nothing would boot. "Of course!" I thought, "it must be the CPU voltage that needs increased!" In the BIOS it was set to the default. But what exactly was the default? By taking a wild guess I picked a voltage setting somewhere in the middle of the options. Rebooted to a blank screen. I yanked the power cord and felt the heat sink. You could have cooked eggs on that sucker. $50 and a lot of bitching from my girlfriend and she had another processor that worked.
On the same machine (she built it), she forgot to put in the panel where you screw on PCI cards, so all the cards are just basically hanging on the board. She kicks out the rather nice video card that she has in it and of course fries the card and damages the AGP slot. Now there is an old Riva TNT in the board that tends to freeze every once in a while if it wiggles a bit loose.
I remember hearing stories about the older hard drive drums that would break if they were shut down improperly. Basically you have these huge drums, heavy drums that spin at high speeds and tend to shatter and throw shrapnel if precautions weren't taken in halting them properly, usually taking out equipment nearby and killing and maiming anyone that happens to be in the room. If that isn't a mishap, I don't know what else is.
I have more, but those were the best in my memory, and the two CPUs I've fried are the only real things that I've damaged, asides from that one IDE drive that I had loose and knocked around a bit while it was running. Still worked for a while after that, but boy did it have a lot of bad sectors. The clunking sound when the drive stops spinning and spins up again is always classic. I heard a syquest Macintosh optical drive make the same sound when I set it down too hard one day. Thankfully the expensive 80meg drive was fine.
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Interesting. You are right. The slashdot link is a referral the best I can tell. I didn't even realize that. I guess that's what I get for not reading TFA to begin with. That's pretty bad when the actual FA is on the beginning of the slashdot page. You really shouldn't buy from either link. Did slashdot itself add the referrer link or the reviewer? I wonder if the poster actually made any money out of this deal.
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Oh fucking well. People need to move on. If the changing climate is any indication we should expect more hurricanes. What's gonna happen when NO gets a major hurricane next year? The year after? When does it fucking end and when do we keep wasting our federal taxes on rebuilding something just to be destroyed again? So the tourism is a boon to the economy? So fucking what? Maybe they need some new industry that pays the damned taxes. What would have happened if a nuclear bomb went off? The land surely wouldn't be inhabitable then and they really shouldn't view it as reinhabitable now. Earthquakes can be mitigated (for the most part), so can a great deal of other natural disasters. A hurricane is pretty all encompassing. Same thing goes for florida. There are still many, many houses there that are not recovered from last year, with no real roofing, etc. What's to happen when the next Katrina rolls through Florida? How many times do you keep rebuilding before you say enough is enough? I say make it all into a natural habitat. Let the evergreens and the gulf coastline become a huge national refuge. Christ knows that very few national parklands exist in the east and this would be a great place to start one.
All those coastal towns that were wiped out, do you think that they will all be rebuilt? What would be the fucking point? So they can all be destroyed again? It is not like the problem is going to suddenly disappear. Give up on New Orleans. It is going to cost far more money to rebuild it than it would to relocate all of those people.
I doubt the slashdot sanctioned link would include a referral. The outcry would be too great. People already complain enough about the front page product placement ads I mean stories. A referral will save you no money. It is merely a program for amazon to increase sales by trickling a very small (pennies) portion of the sale to the referrer. The amazon.com price would be the same either way. I could be totally wrong of course, but compare the prices yourself. I doubt you will see any difference.
It is also a scam. By clicking on that link and buying the book, the poster makes money. Its called a referral and it is spam. If someone wants to buy the book they can go price compare themselves. The honest thing to do would be to just simply place a referral free link to the book on amazon. Unfortunately not many people realize that by clicking the link you are generating income. The amount of money this little scheme produces really isn't worth the effort. You'd be better off begging for a quarter or something.
Hey! I'm in New Orleans and my cell is just working fi
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It'll come. Hope you like FPS with a hint of roleplaying!
Don't worry. There isn't a karma bonus for funny. Thanks for the laugh though, that was a good one. :)
Yeah. I remember this too. For all the bad things they say about Macs, they still did some things that no PC ever could and this was one of the cooler ones. Another nice thing was that it was relatively easy to select boot drives, so you could just simply plug in an external drive and boot away. PCs took a long time to catch up in this regard. Usually when it was running right, MacOS would just work for the most part and never really threw many curveballs. Prefs could be drug out of their folder, applications could be installed just by copying them onto the drive, fonts were easily dropped into the font folder, everything was relatively simple to set up and run and they all used the same paradigms. Like using a system briefcase that you can open up and add things to the right folder. Don't know about the constant floating menubar, but I guess some people liked that. For what it's worth the start bar is a lot more obtrusive and a lot more useless in the windows world. I always set it to autohide and that really should have been the default from the start.
Aww man. Someone needs to mod this up. Its the only thing that made me laugh all night.
How is this even flamebait?! What the parent said is true. We would have never have sent a man to the moon if we were not in a technological superiority race with the Soviets. While I will admit that going to the moon is an AMAZING feat for humanity to marvel at for a long time into the future, the actual scientific value of such a mission when compared to its cost is greatly diminished.
That being said, we need to go somewhere other than earth orbit. If we keep going on into the future without looking at ways to live without earth we will be doomed to eventually perish here. The planet keeps getting smaller and smaller and the population keeps increasing. Eventually in the relatively near future we will either die en masse from starvation, lack of resources, etc, and (hopefully) leave some survivors, but we could easily become extinct as well. Technology is only going to help us now. If such a mass extinction of humans occurs they will have little fertile land to live off of and very few animals to hunt. We need to kick ourselves out of the womb before we as a race die like a stillborn fetus.
The mother can only sustain our greed for consumption of natural resources for so long.
That's why you declare pauper status (if you can) so your court filing costs become free. Then you file massive 50 page responses, challenge their discovery process, and as the parent said, place the burden of proof on them. The more 50 page filings their lawyers get the faster they will drop the case. If they cannot prove that it was my IP and that I was the person responsible for downloading a movie, well then, they really don't have much of a case do they? This is precisely why the RIA and MPAA have been going towards the top of the pyramid because they would have a hard time proving that and end user was stealing their stuff, and in the end it really isn't worth all of the legal fees to get a small judgement that may or not be paid. I don't think I would ever settle. Not for the $10,000 or so that they have been settling with people lately. You sure as fuck don't get fined $10,000 when you walk into a store and steal a DVD, nor do you get jailtime. How is this any different?
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I've been thinking about opening up a wireless AP so in case the lawsuits ever start rolling in I can absolve myself of all responsibility. How the hell can I be responsible for what my neighbor is doing on my network with an open, unlogged AP?
If the responsibility falls on me as a network provider than ISPs are responsible for peer-to-peer and I think there are court cases that demonstrate that they are in fact not responsible.
Case law helps tremendously. It also helps that I used to be a legal assistant.
Well they had to make it accessible. If they really talked like it was the 1860s people would be going "huh?"
I think its a great piece of writing personally. The monologues that Swearigen does with the indian head are fantastic.
When will they start allowing UDP traffic so we can get bittorrents anonymously?
That is if the tracker is hosted on the torrent site. Most of the time this is not the case. Typically all the originating site is providing a torrent which connects you to the tracker site. So the parent is correct. In 90% of the cases you are just downloading a 28k .torrent. Hardly infringement unless they can prove that you downloaded the whole file and went on to seed. See, it isn't the downloading that they typically look at, its the distribution. They want to go after the people setting up seeds and trackers a lot more than the casual person that downloads last week's episode of Deadwood.
Personally, I would love to buy things on DVD like Deadwood, but when I went out and priced Season 1, they wanted $100 for it. Since I already payed HBO to watch their channel for the whole season, I couldn't justify spending $100 to watch it again. I ended up missing the last few episodes of seson 2 and they expired on On Demand, so I was left with two choices: Wait 6 months and pay $200 for both seasons or download them all for free. It wasn't a really tough decision for me, especially considering how much more I could use the $200 for better things. I could see if it were to be like $40-50, but come on. They would probably sell a whole lot more if they dropped the price too. I mean that works out to a little less than $10 an hour for entertainment. That's more expensive than a movie ticket, nearly twice as much.
Great series though! I can't wait to see if they do a season 3 and I really hope they pick of the pieces of Carnivale because the season 2 finale was a really cheap way of ensuring there will be a season 3. All that buildup to the most anti-climatic ending of a series I've seen in a long time.
800 at the most.
He also claims that White people are more intellegent than black...
Following that logic, you must be black, woman, or both!
(sorry, couldn't resist the temptation)
here come a bunch of "+5 funny" jokes about jokes about proving it wrong (or more likely right).
They can't drive either.
Women with cell phones have been a menace to the roads for too long now.
Get off your phone you dumb cunts!
(For the record my girlfriend is in agreement with me on this)
May my karma burn in Hell!
Well. What facts do you dispute? That we armed Saddam Hussein? That Donald Rumsfield was involved in selling them to him? That we supported both sides of the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s? That we installed the Taliban to help us out in the Afghanni-Soviet conflict? That we and the Soviets were both interested in the area specifically for an oil pipeline? That Rockefeller was interested as well? That the CIA has historically been involved in drug smuggling operations, like, oh say, running coke from Columbia to the west coast. Hell the guy that blew the lid on that has had multiple assasination attempts. But, he was just making it all up, right?
Its a fact that Saddam called George Bush Sr. to consult with him before he invaded Kuwait, as Bush had long standing relations with Hussein at the time.
How do you think Iraq got all of those WMDs in the first place?
I suggest if you are really curious to pull the fucking wool over your eyes you start doing some of your own investigation. The facts are out there and have been repeated many, many times.
And yes. If you read the fucking news like the other person who responded to the parent, the CCTV operators swore up and down that the cameras were working at the time of the shooting and yet the police have repeatedly stated that there is not a single video other than the one they released of the man entering the station. If that isn't a coverup attempt, I have no idea what is. By the way, protesters across the nation are now running into police violence. It will be interesting to see where this escalates on the home front. More police violence usually equates with more protesters. Wonder how long it will be before we have Kent State all over again.
Hilarious. A 19 year old security expert in the military? Is this even really possible? For amusement, I had to check out the blog of the girl. You know. The one showing off her rather nicely shaped (if not a bit small) ass. Talk about a real winner. Check out this profile:
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I like the part about how she never heard of books. Her friend's comment is absolutely stunning as well.
6/22/2004 12:11:00 PM
hey hey hey whats up gherl thanks for hitting meeh back up and returning the love hehe usually people dont even reply LoL and sorry for taking forever and a year to hit you back up but i just came back from maui so been M.I.A. for a while LoL dang messages all piled up...anyways thats good that you be doing good hope you enjoy your summer as for meeh i be doing alright could be better hard to get what you want when you can't get it but just trynna enjoy the summer as best as i can so far but feel free to hit meeh up whenever you feel the need aights? HoLLa bACk PaYcEE!!!...
Do people go to AOL Elementary and watch MTV for homework these days or something?
I am truly disappointed. To the grandparent: If these are your friends, you need to keep looking man. At least find someone with some depth for chrissakes!
That simply isn't true. Acuras have had much better transmissions, shift linkages, suspensions, and the engines are typically tuned much more towards the performance end. Sure on paper they may look like the same car, but in a lot of ways they are much, much more refined. They aren't marketed in Japan as anything but Honda and they carry a higher price tag per model there as well. Sure they might use the same powerplant, but the Acura engine is usually guaranteed to be a much better tuned engine. The Honda prelude was one of the few Hondas to see some of this tech trickle down, but in the end, they still had cheaper shift linkages and such and were not nearly as smooth as the the Acura Integra, though they probably accelerated about the same. I don't even think that you can begin to compare the Accord and the RSX. Have you actually driven either a top end honda vs. an acura or are you just spewing forth your own excrement?
The S2000 is an amazing car and bears the Honda name. The NSX is also amazing and bears the Acura name. (and costs 4x as much) But really, these are apples and oranges.
I just read a review on the 2005 S2000 and was diappointed that they reduced the redline to 8200 RPM from 9000 RPM in an attempt to tame the beast a bit. I also read that they shifted the powerband much lower. The VTEC magic was really best produced at 8000-9000 rpm and it is kind of sad to see that they toned it down. I guess most people didn't realize that the car was meant to be driven near the redline all the time.
Still, truly an amazing car.
Cute. Very cute. All the cameras were "off". If true, that makes me suspicious if they were either deliberately turned off to avoid having to deal with pesky evidence, or the data simply erased.
Or maybe, just maybe, that Anonymous Coward is making things up.
It is true. The police had basically no information about this guy and they went up and shot him after ordering him to turn around. From reports I have heard they may have not even identified themselves. The cameras were all convieniently "not working." So there wasn't any video evidence. The police have since apologized, but the fact of the matter remains that they have murdered a man in cold blood without even trying to make a reasonable arrest.
The whole thing reeks of coverup and foul play. One would think that within days of a terrorist attack, the Underground would have made doubly sure that at least their security cameras were all rolling. Not a single video image. How about that one?
I agree with the great grandparent. Nothing is gonna stop terrorism. The more terrorists you kill, the more martyrs you create. The more innocent people you slaughter in the process, the more you fuel the source of the terrorism. IF you think this war can be won, maybe you need to start listening to the Jews for advice because clearly they are doing a wonderful job of containing just a small neighboring state. Just in case you never went to history class, white men have been killing arabs for thousands of years now in the name of holy war. How the war is on terrorism is any different is completely beyond me, what with its rhetoric about evil nations and liberation and democracy. What is the real evil? Is it the terrorists who hate us with a lot of valid reasons? Or is it the country that sponsored those terrorists in the first place as well as propped up certain dictators, like Saddam Hussein? No doubt the taliban were not the greatest of rulers, but at least they helped us keep the Soviets from taking over some prime pipeline territory. Sadly, Afghanistan is still ruled by the same corrupt warlords, nothing is much better, and the US once again could likely care less with the spotlight going to Iraq these days. If anyone thought we were going to be helping the Afghannis, well then, I must apologize for getting your hopes up. Of course, control of the opium trade is also a nice bonus for the CIA as well, because we all know how they love to smuggle drugs into America.
Now we are in Iraq. I don't know who is more evil. Saddam for killing his people with banned chemical and biological weapons or us supplying such weapons to him, knowing that he was using them on his own people. The same people that wanted us to go to war to find such weapons were the people that sold them to him, like Donald Rumsfield for instance. Maybe they had trouble sleeping at night thinking about how many hundreds of thousands of people those weapons had killed in both Iraq and Iran, then again I really doubt it. Never mind the countless thousands upon thousands of children that died from starvation alone thanks to a failed Food for Oil programme. Let us not forget that we also played Iran and Iraq like twisted Puch and Judy marionettes by supplying both sides with all sorts of weapons of mass destruction. I guess, once again, oil is likely the only motivation, because any other possibility just doesn't have nearly as much money tied to it. Don't get me started on the Rockefeller--Afghanistan connection. The choice of the twin towers makes so much sense when you see it in the right context.
Now we have police attacking protestors with stun guns and K9 dogs for blocking traffic. And we have the national guard invading raves and beating the living piss out of the participants. The police state is already here, the question is how much further will we let it go? Like many people have said. You cannot stop terrorism. If you make it impossible for people to blow up trains, they will start attacking theatres, city squares, office lobbies, etc, etc, etc. You ar
Yes. You are nuts. Why there is a link right there. Can't you see it?
Don't know why I'm responding to this AC, but anyways, I can't really imagine throwing a computer out of the window after it clears a POST but refuses to boot. A simple chain of logic would conclude that the hard drives or the IDE interface was at fault by first trying to BOOT without the HDs plugged in and then removing and/or disabling the IDE interface in BIOS. If you can't boot, it really is best to start out at the BARE minimum and work it up from there. Typically all you need to get past a POST is a video card, a working processor, and working sticks of RAM. If you aren't getting power or the power light comes on and fades, then your power supply is of course suspect. If the computer will not do this, then rule out the video card and possibly AGP slot by placing a PCI card in if you can or at least try some sort of other video, then move on to the memory, by using some that you know for a fact should work in the motherboard you are testing. Density matters, especially on older machines. A few old sticks of 16-32 megs work great to have on hand for the odd P2 or P-III you may come across. Next, of course, you have to rule out the CPU. Of course, if you get error beeps, it is best to figure out WTF they mean and most BIOS manufacturers have pretty standard beep codes for their whole product lines.
So you get past POST? Good. Now go take a freaking break or something if you are truly frustrated. Your core components at least still work. Next attach all PCI cards and boot after each new one is added. Some cards like to sit in a master PCI slot, but most usually do not care. If you don't know what your master is, generally the first PCI slot is a good master. Once you have your cards sorted out and everything is still working you need to plug your drives back in. If you got this far, chances are you have a hard drive problem. Generally a computer should get past the POST and start looking at drives, but if you just changed your drive configuration and have master and slave set wrong (ahem parent), typically the IDE light will just light up solid when you hit the power. That's not so terrible really. You just need to make sure that each cable is aligned with pin 1 on the drive, that the slave is the second drive on the chain, and that their jumpers are all set correctly. Of course if you use a regular IDE cable and not the slim ATA cable with your hard drive, you will not be potentially utilizing the ATA capabilities of your drive. Generally a lot of computers come with two cables. One for your drives and one for your CD-ROM/RW/DVD/ETC. Honestly I don't know if the newer CD-ROM drives will take the faster cables, but if it really concerns you, you could easily search on google or hell, experiment.
Just don't throw working computers out the window. That is truly wasteful and a poor showing of geekness. The true geek would be soldering a new IDE interface (on the motherboard no less) if he needed to. Allright. Maybe not, but I digress. The point is that you destroyed a perfectly good PC because you were frustrated. I imagine that your life must be very expensive.
When I was a younger lad (13 or so) I finally ditched the old 386-33, which served me exceptionally well, I might add. I moved up to a 486-100 that someone gave me in pity. The ZIF socket was a relatively new thing for the time, so I took it upon myself to take out the 486 and look at it. Content with looking at it, I stuck it back in the socket and turned the PC on. Nothing. I didn't have much clue back then that their was a Pin 1 and that the first pin needed to be aligned. The chip was fried. Of course, putting the chip in at every possible position and hitting the power button helped seal its fate. Thankfully, AMD made cheap 486-100s back then, and I ended up with an AMD 486-100, which wasn't as fast as the intel back then, but only really the FPU was slower and many programs back then didn't use an FPU, especially games. I think Quake was one of the first games to utilize the FPU heavily.
Fast foward. I was sitting at my girlfriend's PC and had the brilliant idea that I could overclock her 1.6ghz Athlon. After setting the FSB to a faster setting, nothing would boot. "Of course!" I thought, "it must be the CPU voltage that needs increased!" In the BIOS it was set to the default. But what exactly was the default? By taking a wild guess I picked a voltage setting somewhere in the middle of the options. Rebooted to a blank screen. I yanked the power cord and felt the heat sink. You could have cooked eggs on that sucker. $50 and a lot of bitching from my girlfriend and she had another processor that worked.
On the same machine (she built it), she forgot to put in the panel where you screw on PCI cards, so all the cards are just basically hanging on the board. She kicks out the rather nice video card that she has in it and of course fries the card and damages the AGP slot. Now there is an old Riva TNT in the board that tends to freeze every once in a while if it wiggles a bit loose.
I remember hearing stories about the older hard drive drums that would break if they were shut down improperly. Basically you have these huge drums, heavy drums that spin at high speeds and tend to shatter and throw shrapnel if precautions weren't taken in halting them properly, usually taking out equipment nearby and killing and maiming anyone that happens to be in the room. If that isn't a mishap, I don't know what else is.
I have more, but those were the best in my memory, and the two CPUs I've fried are the only real things that I've damaged, asides from that one IDE drive that I had loose and knocked around a bit while it was running. Still worked for a while after that, but boy did it have a lot of bad sectors. The clunking sound when the drive stops spinning and spins up again is always classic. I heard a syquest Macintosh optical drive make the same sound when I set it down too hard one day. Thankfully the expensive 80meg drive was fine.