Ach! You're lucky to have artificial arm replacements...I had to use a wire coathanger after M$ Access blew off my arm! It's great to use to roast marshmallows in the fire, but hell in the W.C.
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No, not Tiger Woods...get Charlton Heston interested in Open Source! Yeah--like those Gun & Doll Shows on the weekends, except it'll be Guns & Linux!
I can see the commercial now. A heavily made-up Charlton, chomping on a cigar, with a machine gun:
"EULAs? EULAs? I'll send your EULA straight to Hell! kablaaam"
"...I came not to send peace, but a sword." -- Matthew 10:34
"Ha-ha! We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill. We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, men." --Captain James T. Kirk, clay Star Trekking song on Dr. Demento radio show.
How to get your name off telemarketing lists "The Telephone Preference Service (TPS), a do-not-call service, is a service to assist those consumers in decreasing the number of national commercial calls received at home."
You can do it online or by mail. Sending it through the mail is mostly free (except for the paper, envelope, and stamp). Note that they charge $5 for the convenience of registering for the Telephone Preference Service online. Can you believe that??
Yeah, right--I don't want you jackasses to call me, but here's my credit card number and $5 so you don't do it again!
You're right. Two years ago we had a mortgage company who sold our address and phone number to every phone-spammer in North America, then three months later, sold our mortgage to another company. That was two years ago. We still get phone calls and junk mail referencing the original a**hole mortgage company (mortgage has been sold 6-8 times since then).
I'd give them a piece of my mind, but I don't think I can spare it.
I'm paying my local phone company $1.95/month for "Anonymous Caller Rejection" so if a caller has their Caller ID masked (which I do), they aren't put through.
Unfortunately, the majority of telemarketers know this and don't even use Caller ID, so these calls show up identified as "--unavailable--". I can tell my phone to reject those calls, but it takes at least one ring before the Caller ID info propagates to the phone, then only that phone stops ringing.
What this hasn't solved is the large number of nuisance hang-ups. I'm talking 5-10 per day. Sometimes there's no sound on the other end, sometimes you hear chattering of other people (like a so-called "boiler room" on telemarketers), sometimes just breathing. I'm considering getting one of those $50 TeleZapper boxes, but I'm wondering---how long before telemarketers come up with a countermeasure for it??
There are flexible protective bags for photographic film. Would one of those opaque GPS waves, or are they only for X-ray wavelengths (like those lead aprons from the dentist?). Or lead encased in plastic
Hmmm. Then there's that lead box that SuperBoy stores that kryptonite necklace inside...;-)
...animation festival. They had an entry called Harry Pothead, think it was in the last 6 months. Ahh, here it is. 3rd paragraph.
By Richard von Busack
"By contrast, "Harry Pothead and the
Magical Herb" by Los Primos Productions is
a million-dollar idea. In carrying it out,
however, the Primos went lazy and just
told the story in one set: a kitchen, where a
mom reads from the latest Harry Pothead
as her kids get high. It's illustrated radio:
cartooning for the blind."
Try going to Cyberguys and searching for cat6. Their site is framed, or I'd provide an illegal (in Denmark) deep link.
Some sample prices:
CAT6 ENHANCED PATCH CABLE, W/BOOT 3FT, US$2.97
CAT6 ENHANCED PATCH CABLE, W/BOOT 7FT, US$4.24
CAT6 ENHANCED PATCH CABLE, W/BOOT 14FT, US$7.01
CAT6 ENHANCED PATCH CABLE, W/BOOT 25FT, US$10.82
CAT6 ENHANCED PATCH CABLE, W/BOOT 50FT, US$19.33
CAT6 STRANDED 1000' BULK CABLE, US$122.00
CAT5E STRANDED 1000FT, GRAY, US$69.95
CAT5E SOLID, 1000FT, GRAY, US$67.95
Note that all the cables are cheaper if you buy 9 or more (of same color); they come in 7 different colors (gray, yellow, black, red, white, green, blue). Think the 1000' spools only come in gray, white, and blue.
If you search for BULK CABLE you'll find various lengths of patch cables all in a box (not individually bagged); sample CAT5E 7' bulk price is US$1.72 (in box of 100).
At work, I buy certain colors in specific lengths so I can simply tell a student which color cable to grab (rather than which length) for certain situations: 1'=black, 3'=blue, 7'=yellow, 14'=green, 25'=gray, 50'=white, and 100'=something bright (as a professor usually leaves it laying on the floor or across a doorway for someone to trip over and give us a lawsuit, er, a laugh). And no, I don't work for Cyberguys, just have bought many 1,000's of $$ of products over the years (mostly my employer's; I spend less for home stuff).
Place all three ingredients in a large meteorite crater, mix gently. Remote-enable the nuke, 30 second timer. Run away, run away! Bake at 3500*K for several seconds until golden...uhh...burnt. Both software and scary-alien-chimp-facelift problems solved!
That was Robert A. Heinlein's And He Built a Crooked House published in Astounding Science Fiction Magazine, 1940.
A guy unknowingly bought a tesseract house, which actually had more room inside than the external dimensions of the house.
The only problem was when an earthquake collapsed the house while he was in it, making it difficult to get out: he jumped out the living room window, only to find himself falling into the bedroom!
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...and pull out his heart!
Ach! You're lucky to have artificial arm replacements...I had to use a wire coathanger after M$ Access blew off my arm!
It's great to use to roast marshmallows in the fire, but hell in the W.C.
I thought it was the CIA that imports and then sells drugs to local distributors (who take over the sales) to raise $$ for their covert ops.
The previous URL had an embedded space as a test for the more sleepy admins.
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I can see the commercial now. A heavily made-up Charlton, chomping on a cigar, with a machine gun:
"EULAs? EULAs? I'll send your EULA straight to Hell! kablaaam "
Uhh, no wait...wasn't that Rambo?
Or whether the glass is just too damn big.
If they have to be metal, I want a sexy robot instead.
...to the phrase "get your rocks off!"
remotely take control of your vehicle whenever they feel like it,
install insecure updates at will,
snoop on your back-seat video feed,
install spyware to upload logs of played-music, or
GPS logs of where you drive or what gas stations you've been to?
"Ha-ha! We come in peace, shoot to kill,
shoot to kill,
shoot to kill.
We come in peace, shoot to kill,
shoot to kill, men."
--Captain James T. Kirk, clay
Star Trekking song on Dr. Demento radio show.
You can do it online or by mail. Sending it through the mail is mostly free (except for the paper, envelope, and stamp). Note that they charge $5 for the convenience of registering for the Telephone Preference Service online. Can you believe that??
Yeah, right--I don't want you jackasses to call me, but here's my credit card number and $5 so you don't do it again!
I want an active, learning firewall for my phone!!! Oh, and if it could send a mega-shock to phone-spammers, even better.
I'd give them a piece of my mind, but I don't think I can spare it.
Unfortunately, the majority of telemarketers know this and don't even use Caller ID, so these calls show up identified as "--unavailable--". I can tell my phone to reject those calls, but it takes at least one ring before the Caller ID info propagates to the phone, then only that phone stops ringing.
What this hasn't solved is the large number of nuisance hang-ups. I'm talking 5-10 per day. Sometimes there's no sound on the other end, sometimes you hear chattering of other people (like a so-called "boiler room" on telemarketers), sometimes just breathing. I'm considering getting one of those $50 TeleZapper boxes, but I'm wondering---how long before telemarketers come up with a countermeasure for it??
And for some humor (yeah, I wish it were true!), check out the last question on the TeleZapper page:
Does the TeleZapper create a computer virus for the caller?
Amazon.com sells StarOffice at a slight discount.
Try this instead.
MMMmmmmmm...spokesmodels....(drool, drool).
Hmmm. Then there's that lead box that SuperBoy stores that kryptonite necklace inside...;-)
It was funny.
Their site is framed, or I'd provide an illegal (in Denmark) deep link.
Some sample prices:
CAT6 ENHANCED PATCH CABLE, W/BOOT 3FT, US$2.97
CAT6 ENHANCED PATCH CABLE, W/BOOT 7FT, US$4.24
CAT6 ENHANCED PATCH CABLE, W/BOOT 14FT, US$7.01
CAT6 ENHANCED PATCH CABLE, W/BOOT 25FT, US$10.82
CAT6 ENHANCED PATCH CABLE, W/BOOT 50FT, US$19.33
CAT6 STRANDED 1000' BULK CABLE, US$122.00
CAT5E STRANDED 1000FT, GRAY, US$69.95
CAT5E SOLID, 1000FT, GRAY, US$67.95
Note that all the cables are cheaper if you buy 9 or more (of same color); they come in 7 different colors (gray, yellow, black, red, white, green, blue). Think the 1000' spools only come in gray, white, and blue.
If you search for BULK CABLE you'll find various lengths of patch cables all in a box (not individually bagged); sample CAT5E 7' bulk price is US$1.72 (in box of 100).
At work, I buy certain colors in specific lengths so I can simply tell a student which color cable to grab (rather than which length) for certain situations: 1'=black, 3'=blue, 7'=yellow, 14'=green, 25'=gray, 50'=white, and 100'=something bright (as a professor usually leaves it laying on the floor or across a doorway for someone to trip over and give us a lawsuit, er, a laugh). And no, I don't work for Cyberguys, just have bought many 1,000's of $$ of products over the years (mostly my employer's; I spend less for home stuff).
Place all three ingredients in a large meteorite crater, mix gently.
Remote-enable the nuke, 30 second timer.
Run away, run away!
Bake at 3500*K for several seconds until golden...uhh...burnt.
Both software and scary-alien-chimp-facelift problems solved!
A guy unknowingly bought a tesseract house, which actually had more room inside than the external dimensions of the house.
The only problem was when an earthquake collapsed the house while he was in it, making it difficult to get out: he jumped out the living room window, only to find himself falling into the bedroom!
...is a musical group that sang The Age of Aquarius!
Linux...as an alternative to dependence on Microsoft's Windows operating system and associated products.