is that it's a never-ending job, when the user is at the keyboard, doing things that I would never do.
I've been telling my old 'customers' that I'm retired. I then tell them that I will give them support for free for life if they buy a Mac.
This is usually met with, 'Wha? Really?"
Yup. I'm enjoying the stories of crazy Windows happenings, virus mystery, and constant crashing (Yeah, XP is ok, but not when you have 127 viruses, trojans, spyware and keyloggers all vying for a clock cycle and outgoing port.)
And I'm especially loving not working on Windows boxes.
I estimated that moderators would get the joke, which is how poorly I estimate how well I estimate.
It turns out that I estimated poorly about moderators getting the joke about how poorly I estimate how well I estimate, and furthermore, estimated poorly about how well I estimate my estimations.
I know I don't speak only for myself. Really, how could anyone ever forgo the art of a well-crafted letter, scribed with a feather quill, and sealed with wax warmed by a smoky taper?
I hardly think that email will ever catch on. In fact, the very idea fills me with mirth! RFLOL!
Your ally in words, teamhasnoi
P.S. Did you see the series premiere of 'Joey'? A smashing success by any measure! : ) LOL!
"if you're trying to take away our listeners,'' the programming that makes a station's personality and connection to listeners can't be duplicated by a computer.
John Allers, you owe me a new keyboard. Mine is full of Dr. Pepper.
You might want to tell Clear Channel that. They've obviously not gotten the memo.
No offense to those replying - I know about ten homeschooled people. One was a bastard, and probably the smartest person I will ever meet. He worked for the human genome project for awhile after college. He was a bastard because he could verbally beat your ass a million different ways before you could form a retort. He knew he could, and he used that ability liberally.
Several of my cousins were homeschooled, and that put them in another intellectual category apart from other kids their age. This resulted in the '7 going on 30' disorder, which is annoying. They're older now, and have started college, which seems to have done them a lot of good.
An acquaintance of mine was also homeschooled, he is also very smart and talented- yet insists on keeping his mullet, come hell or high water.
That might be a result of constant huffing of solvents, but you can never be sure.
So, please take my post as my experience, and not as a slight.
Yup. Pretty swell, the chilling effect. I, of course, named no specific politicians, so my post goes in the "Kill all the lawyers" bumper sticker category.
Free speech really has taken a beating when you can't voice dissent or make a comment that 'might' be misinterpreted.
I guess we should, 'Watch what we say' like good little Patriots. Ari Fleischer would be proud. McCarthy is high-fiving Hitler in hell, and I'm giving the finger to every 'elected' official that pretends to have our best interests in mind.
Besides, anyone who actually does feel the need to shoot a politician because of my post on/. should come over to my house. If you're that easily motivated, I have a lawn that needs mowing.
I can agree - education is going nowhere fast. I can't believe that kids are being taught how to use Powerpoint and Word in school. What happened to learning to think?
Teach someone to think, and they can figure out Powerpoint and Word. Teach someone Powerpoint and Word and you have an idiot who can't do anything else.
Every homeschooled person I've ever met have been crazy geniuses because they were taught how to think and reason. Of course, they are also socially inept as they didn't have to deal with masses of other children.
Keep the population stupid, and they will be more apt to eat up your propaganda. Ignorance is bliss.
hy an american flag for the/. graphic? there *are* countries outside america that practice politics. typical shortsightedness.
As a service to the editors, I fired up gimp, took the graphic and mixed every flag from every country together - what better way to promote a non-centrist discussion?
Look at my driving record. That's all that is needed. Do I have accidents, speeding tickets, and other violations? That's all that is necessary.
I'm not comparing airlines and autos, I'm comparing companies that have or will have information on private citizens - then share that info with government and other companies with no oversight.
As far as needing psychic powers - none are necessary! One only needs to look at *every other technology*. All have been abused. By no means am I a luddite; I like technology. History is all you need to look at to know that those in power like to stay there. Checks and balances need to be in place - and currently they are not.
Your voluntary contract leads to an involuntary one for me, (these boxes will become mandatory, and rates will go up anyway. You are a fool if you don't see that - it's been shown time and time again.) and I don't want it.
I rather think it is my record of accidents and claims that should be your business - that is what 'your company' deals with. No company has 'need' to know my location on an up to the minute basis. (Which is not the current state of this device, but tick-tock, there it is!)
How politics 'may' react to it is well documented and for the most part a given. Washington and the states have a history of rolling over when any sufficently large 'taxpayer' makes demands - in this case the multi-zillion dollar insurance industry. Frankly, this would fit right in with the needs of the State, as the information *will* find it's way to government databases. CAPPS3, anyone?
I've already seen Northwest airlines 'give it up' to the Fed. Why would insurance companies be different?
If anything, this info is more valuable than airlines and others, as it provides your everyday movements and destinations all in a easy to read tab delimitated file.
I noticed you had no response to 'It will be misused' statement - do you really believe that this technology will not? Or is it fact of life?
Except I can give false information to the grocery store and save 13 cents on Pillsbury Toaster Strudel, and not be brought up on charges of insurance fraud and DMCA violations and then pay more for insurance a year from now anyway.
Where I go, when I leave, how long I stay, and what route I take is no one's business but mine. (Endagering others not withstanding.)
Once these 'helpful boxes' are mandatory (and why wouldn't they be? Insurance is.) the few freedoms that have not already been raped by government and corporate interests will be no more.
Go through the Constitution, and tell me that each one hasn't already been violated by our current administration.
Good point. I already have a mom and dad, and don't need another in the form of a government mandated corporate mafia.
When is the fucking revolution coming, anyway? I can't stand this waiting around for the sequel to the Blue and the Grey. Somebody needs to get it going.
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I've been telling my old 'customers' that I'm retired. I then tell them that I will give them support for free for life if they buy a Mac.
This is usually met with, 'Wha? Really?"
Yup. I'm enjoying the stories of crazy Windows happenings, virus mystery, and constant crashing (Yeah, XP is ok, but not when you have 127 viruses, trojans, spyware and keyloggers all vying for a clock cycle and outgoing port.)
And I'm especially loving not working on Windows boxes.
I thrive on crack under pressure.
It turns out that I estimated poorly about moderators getting the joke about how poorly I estimate how well I estimate, and furthermore, estimated poorly about how well I estimate my estimations.
I estimate we've all learned something today.
I don't know.
I know I don't speak only for myself. Really, how could anyone ever forgo the art of a well-crafted letter, scribed with a feather quill, and sealed with wax warmed by a smoky taper?
I hardly think that email will ever catch on. In fact, the very idea fills me with mirth! RFLOL!
Your ally in words,
teamhasnoi
P.S. Did you see the series premiere of 'Joey'? A smashing success by any measure! : ) LOL!
How did you get Doom 3 running on OS X?!?
John Allers, you owe me a new keyboard. Mine is full of Dr. Pepper.
You might want to tell Clear Channel that. They've obviously not gotten the memo.
Several of my cousins were homeschooled, and that put them in another intellectual category apart from other kids their age. This resulted in the '7 going on 30' disorder, which is annoying. They're older now, and have started college, which seems to have done them a lot of good.
An acquaintance of mine was also homeschooled, he is also very smart and talented- yet insists on keeping his mullet, come hell or high water.
That might be a result of constant huffing of solvents, but you can never be sure.
So, please take my post as my experience, and not as a slight.
If you love the USA, you'll read /. Patriotically!
I'll take the karma hit just to say I started the newest /. meme.
I would avoid China, and instead give Microsoft paper plates and a sippy cup.
Free speech really has taken a beating when you can't voice dissent or make a comment that 'might' be misinterpreted.
I guess we should, 'Watch what we say' like good little Patriots. Ari Fleischer would be proud. McCarthy is high-fiving Hitler in hell, and I'm giving the finger to every 'elected' official that pretends to have our best interests in mind.
Besides, anyone who actually does feel the need to shoot a politician because of my post on /. should come over to my house. If you're that easily motivated, I have a lawn that needs mowing.
Teach someone to think, and they can figure out Powerpoint and Word. Teach someone Powerpoint and Word and you have an idiot who can't do anything else.
Every homeschooled person I've ever met have been crazy geniuses because they were taught how to think and reason. Of course, they are also socially inept as they didn't have to deal with masses of other children.
Keep the population stupid, and they will be more apt to eat up your propaganda. Ignorance is bliss.
As a service to the editors, I fired up gimp, took the graphic and mixed every flag from every country together - what better way to promote a non-centrist discussion?
Unfourtunately, I got this.
That's only going to cause wars.
As long as the debate is which of the 'two' parties is better, we are all fucked.
Payed for by the Committee of Karma Burning for a Freer America.
Does any o' ya know where a body can pick up some a' them punch cards an' the inner-web? My grandson, he says everybody's usin' 'em.
A man my age, well, he just wants some porn.
I'm not comparing airlines and autos, I'm comparing companies that have or will have information on private citizens - then share that info with government and other companies with no oversight.
As far as needing psychic powers - none are necessary! One only needs to look at *every other technology*. All have been abused. By no means am I a luddite; I like technology. History is all you need to look at to know that those in power like to stay there. Checks and balances need to be in place - and currently they are not.
Your voluntary contract leads to an involuntary one for me, (these boxes will become mandatory, and rates will go up anyway. You are a fool if you don't see that - it's been shown time and time again.) and I don't want it.
How politics 'may' react to it is well documented and for the most part a given. Washington and the states have a history of rolling over when any sufficently large 'taxpayer' makes demands - in this case the multi-zillion dollar insurance industry. Frankly, this would fit right in with the needs of the State, as the information *will* find it's way to government databases. CAPPS3, anyone?
I've already seen Northwest airlines 'give it up' to the Fed. Why would insurance companies be different?
If anything, this info is more valuable than airlines and others, as it provides your everyday movements and destinations all in a easy to read tab delimitated file.
I noticed you had no response to 'It will be misused' statement - do you really believe that this technology will not? Or is it fact of life?
Other than that, totally the same.
Lots of 'trials' and 'digitizing medical records' and 'chips in the hands'.
Oh wait. That's next year.
Once these 'helpful boxes' are mandatory (and why wouldn't they be? Insurance is.) the few freedoms that have not already been raped by government and corporate interests will be no more.
Go through the Constitution, and tell me that each one hasn't already been violated by our current administration.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
It will be misused. In a big way.
Oh yeah, government is more profitable.
Remember, good old Uncle Sam can buy all the records of all the insurance companies, with your tax dollars.
Why would government spy on its citizens when it can have your fearful subjects pay to have someone else do it?
Cmdr Taco, in his infinite, wisdom, has determined that, in order to stop, the spread of one liner posters, like me, everyone has to install, one.
Really, it's not so bad, once you get used, to it.
And, I get a discount, on my subscription rate! I only pay five dollars, whereas all you, have to pay 9 dollars.
So, it's a really good, deal, too.
When is the fucking revolution coming, anyway? I can't stand this waiting around for the sequel to the Blue and the Grey. Somebody needs to get it going.
I would, but Extreme Home Makeover is on.
"Please get off, you're crushing me, you sweaty bastard!"
Don't go! It's...it's a COOKBOOK!