What I want to see is Mandrake Linux 8.2 sitting on the shelf beside one of those naked machines... Why not?!? I think it would be a great seller, considering the targeted demographic: slashdotters, M$-haters (is there a difference?), nerds in general, tight-wads, Christina Ricci in a thong.
As far as the modem issue goes, I don't use the damned things anyway so there's no big loss.
I think a large floating billboard featuring Christina Ricci in dental floss bikini might drive traffic too. I hope she does a Playboy issue soon:O)
It seems that more taxes are a shoddy way to pay for NASA. Less tax means a faster cooler computer for me, so I say FUCK THIS LOSER for proposing this ridiculous tax. The same goes for ALL taxes, but this one is particularly stupid; I can spend my money in better ways than NASA ever could.
I've got a few 'pirated' copies of WinXP, both RC and final code. They are all equally viable, as all are from different manufacturers (ie, Sony, RCA, and Gigabyte) which could provide some viable data.
I've already experienced the aftermath of a cheap-ass CD from a cereal box.. toasted the drive, which was kinda old anyway. It certainly wasn't spinning faster than 24x though. Figger the price of the old drive was worth the lesson learned.
In a nutshell... you must make it less of a hassle to purchase your software than it is to crack or find a serial. Case in point: i have a friend who tried for two weeks (every single day!) to buy Macromedia's Flash, but couldn't do so.. was during the FlashMX debacle. Tried repeatedly, eventually ra out of patience. He bought it recently, but in his shoes I wouldn't have done the same. Obviously, there comes a point when sales are lost due to ridiculous imposition on the customer... considering that software is easy to procure for free, one might expect a higher level of service.
I wonder how many noticed the slashdot effect in the poll sidebar.. a pretty handy *cough.damn.near.everybody* percentage of sampled readers appear to be migrating to Linux and Apache 2.0?
There's a cool Russian sub here in Canada, if you live on the west coast and want to check it out.
Go to the New Westminster Quay, or you can phone: 520-1073 if you need directions.
I seem to recall that the owner bought it for a million (was it one or two million?) from the Russian Navy. Pretty sweet deal.. sparse accomodations, no great window seats, but well worth it:O)
The percentage of music CD's out of the total that I burn is less than 5%. There's a valid stat, though they'll never quote me. Out of those CD's burned in my household, the vast majority are backups of hard drives, a couple backup mp3 CD's (I tend to scratch my original CD collection, many are now unplayable but easy to recover) and the other four percent are undeniably "pirated" material. Heck, I had a collection of over 800 bought CD's, I've found hardly anything through peer-to-peer that I didn't already have. I think the Canadian gov't could learn a thing or two about common sense from the Dutch Kazaa ruling.
Here's a letter to send if you're too lazy to write your own.. take it and do whatever you like with it, but please send it ASAP to: majeau.claude@cb-cda.gc.ca unless you can do more than a simple comment.. thanks!
Dear Sir,
I am objecting to the CPCC proposal for further taxation on computer back-up media and other recordable Compact Discs, as I believe that the proposal will further impose unfair penalties on the honest people that use Compact Discs.
It is evident that the monies collected from the proposed tariff will be paid to representatives of the music industry, even though I personally use the Compact Disc media itself solely in a legal fashion, as I am entitled to by copyright law. I find it quite distressing that this proposal advocates paying another tax in excess of those already levied merely to support continued legal use of the Compact Disc media that I use. I contend that if I am to give money to the record industry, that I should receive fair value in exchange - and furthermore, that any transaction should be willful and deliberate, not in the form of the extortion that the proposal suggests.
I thank you for your time and consideration, and hope that this proposal is rejected summarily, so that my rights, and those of my fellow Canadians, may not be unjustly abrogated.
Sincerely, HN
Here, for your edification, is a concise refutation of whatever points you believe you have made. It is from Merriam-Webster's online dictionary.
I shall quote the relevant bits to save you from posting further uninformed drivel - it is clear that you cannot sufficiently research even the definition of a common English word, and I do this more from pity than genuine interest in your inevitable, tiresome and worthless reply. Lexicographers believe thusly was coined in the mid-19th century by either Josh Billings or Artemus Ward, American humorists who used it for comic effect. It took a century for thusly to move from parody to general use, and even today it's used more in speech than in writing. Nonetheless, thusly has established a place for itself in the language. Why? Probably because it is used primarily in ways distinct from the principal uses of thus.
You have been wrong in every post in this thread. You will continue to be wrong until you take the time to learn from your mistakes, and unfortunately you have proven that even I cannot help you in that regard... in your efforts to pack your sentences with potent imagery, you have only managed to display your own impotence I have made no such effort, despite your presumptions. You are a moron by the accepted definition of the word. my time is too valuable to waste I concede that your time may be perceived as valuable, but if the price of knowledge is leaving a few customers to wait in the drive-through, then it is well worth the time you have taken to view this post.
I strongly suggest that you buy a dictionary, a thesaurus and a book of English grammar so that you may be better prepared for my next post. Today's lesson is now over. You may put your skirt back on.
You completely and totally failed once again to lick the single crumb I held out earlier. Perhaps the fault was mine, as I did not see fit to smear it with peanut butter for you. "Thusly" is a perfectly valid and useful word, as are "jiggy" and "meatball" and hundreds of thousands of others in my dictionary. Your unwillingness to acknowledge it changes nothing; however, I was duly impressed that you have now read the definition in its entirety.. soon enough you will grasp its meaning, and maybe I will get to glue a pretty star to your report card, little lady, but in the meantime keep studying. N.
The adverb thusly was created in the 19th century as an alternative for thus in sentences such as Hold it thus or He put it thus. It appears to have been first used by humorists
This part would be quite illuminating, if you'd take the time to read the entire quotation in context... but your feeble grasp of reason is distracting, and the day is yet young.. thusly I shall leave you with this simple admonishment: "If you put it in your mouth first it won't hurt quite as much"
Oh wait, using your logic against you will work as poorly as using against me I would not use such a broken tool as your (lack of) wit against you. Here's a small clipping from a fairly good book, a charity from me to you. As you have neatly side-stepped the confines of rational argument, and your pitifully ill-informed sense of logic affords me no opportunity to riposte, I must content myself with this sop. Enjoy. The American Heritage® Book of English Usage.
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
3. Word Choice: New Uses, Common Confusion, and Constraints
282. thusly
The adverb thusly was created in the 19th century as an alternative for thus in sentences such as Hold it thus or He put it thus. It appears to have been first used by humorists, who may have been echoing the speech of poorly educated people straining to sound stylish. The word has subsequently gained some currency in educated usage, but it is still often regarded as incorrect. A large majority of the Usage Panel found it unacceptable in an earlier survey. In formal writing, thus can still be used as in the examples above; in other styles, expressions such as this way and like this are more natural.
letting a white guy off while you put a black guy in the slammer for the same crime There is no crime being committed by Sun in this instance, according to your Sherman/Tunney legal crap. Thusly your argument is null.
Shouldn't the same rules be applied all the time Yes. See the above point for clarification.
Personally, I believe the anti-trust laws are not entirely fair - by this I mean that the judicial checks and balances are not working as intended. It is clear that Microsoft is guilty of violating those laws, and many times: however, the law as it stands is simply a means of directing wealth to the legal profession. Using one's monopoly power to crush the competition, instead of using fair competitive practices (eg. delivering a better product) is the crux of this issue.
Anti-competitive practices are only illegal the USA when a company abuses monopoly in a concerted effort to squash competition - AFAIK Sun isn't a monopoly, and they haven't introduced this pricing schedule in an effort to destroy competiting platforms. Contrast that with the Microsoft agenda, please, for I cannot see the parallel that you are hinting at...
Sounds like the Nazis 0wn the USA... big surprise. It's time to hold a fire sale with these Flash Linkers, before your worldly wealth is 're-distributed' among the rich and powerful.
My father scootles to the store all the time on one of those - a big 26" Semcycle. It's fine on the hills, but - IMHO - needs some more top end. If you're not in a terrific hurry and want to strengthen your back, uni is the way to go. It's also a fantastic full-body workout on long rides, as long as you get/build a proper air cushion seat. I can't stress the seat thing enough....
I've used a Razor on the hills - but the major problem IS the hills. I melted a perfectly good shoe painfully while trying to slow down once.. a fast motorbike is my preference ANYwhere, now, although that's obviously a bad idea for some people.
If I ever forward crap on to my peeps there's a request to clip my name/email from the top of this message if you forward it on to *anybody* please because I hate it when spammers reap my name (and hundreds of others, in most cases) from a poorly-forwarded message. I don't think this has anything to do with Roadrunner's policy, but if *I* ran the joint you might see something like this come into play. "clip your headers before forwarding stuff" would be a clause in the contract, along with "You cannot sue the Spam nazi who embargoes certain IP blocks for Any Reason:O)"
broken leg? I suspect that the old and feeble will be kept off this device. You'd have to be a pretty shitty skiier to break a leg on it I think.. barring maybe a fall from a great height, and in that eventuality one need not worry about stopping the thing, as the victim would already be off.
I suspect that skiing toward the outside of the disc will simply accelerate the skiier in the same way that a slope would - one could quickly become acclimatized to the feeling, although it would be totally different from a real ski experience.
Pardon me, but isn't Black Label just Yankee piss?? I seem to recall trying it once, and 'twas indistinguishable from dull and dirty tap water. Mind you, your South African supply may not have originated in the States... As I recall, an entire 24-case wasn't up to the task one night so I've boycotted that brand ever-after.
As for Redd's, I'll have to do some research.
For a real treat, the (unfortunately) seasonal Wet Coast Winter Ale from Shaftebury is the only contest to Guinness I've encountered.. Available only in British Columbia, as far as I know, and it sells quite quickly. Last year the entire stock was gone by mid-December. Beware the 8.5% alcohol:O)
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first post!! suckers!!!
I'm here to demonstrate the protocol of "FP" for all the l4m3rz in tha house...
What I want to see is Mandrake Linux 8.2 sitting on the shelf beside one of those naked machines ... Why not?!? I think it would be a great seller, considering the targeted demographic: slashdotters, M$-haters (is there a difference?), nerds in general, tight-wads, Christina Ricci in a thong.
:O)
As far as the modem issue goes, I don't use the damned things anyway so there's no big loss.
I think a large floating billboard featuring Christina Ricci in dental floss bikini might drive traffic too. I hope she does a Playboy issue soon
It seems that more taxes are a shoddy way to pay for NASA. Less tax means a faster cooler computer for me, so I say FUCK THIS LOSER for proposing this ridiculous tax.
The same goes for ALL taxes, but this one is particularly stupid; I can spend my money in better ways than NASA ever could.
I've got a few 'pirated' copies of WinXP, both RC and final code. They are all equally viable, as all are from different manufacturers (ie, Sony, RCA, and Gigabyte) which could provide some viable data.
I've already experienced the aftermath of a cheap-ass CD from a cereal box.. toasted the drive, which was kinda old anyway. It certainly wasn't spinning faster than 24x though. Figger the price of the old drive was worth the lesson learned.
In a nutshell... you must make it less of a hassle to purchase your software than it is to crack or find a serial.
Case in point: i have a friend who tried for two weeks (every single day!) to buy Macromedia's Flash, but couldn't do so.. was during the FlashMX debacle. Tried repeatedly, eventually ra out of patience. He bought it recently, but in his shoes I wouldn't have done the same.
Obviously, there comes a point when sales are lost due to ridiculous imposition on the customer... considering that software is easy to procure for free, one might expect a higher level of service.
I wonder how many noticed the slashdot effect in the poll sidebar .. a pretty handy *cough.damn.near.everybody* percentage of sampled readers appear to be migrating to Linux and Apache 2.0?
There's a cool Russian sub here in Canada, if you live on the west coast and want to check it out.
:O)
Go to the New Westminster Quay, or you can phone: 520-1073 if you need directions.
I seem to recall that the owner bought it for a million (was it one or two million?) from the Russian Navy. Pretty sweet deal.. sparse accomodations, no great window seats, but well worth it
The percentage of music CD's out of the total that I burn is less than 5%. There's a valid stat, though they'll never quote me.
Out of those CD's burned in my household, the vast majority are backups of hard drives, a couple backup mp3 CD's (I tend to scratch my original CD collection, many are now unplayable but easy to recover) and the other four percent are undeniably "pirated" material. Heck, I had a collection of over 800 bought CD's, I've found hardly anything through peer-to-peer that I didn't already have.
I think the Canadian gov't could learn a thing or two about common sense from the Dutch Kazaa ruling.
Here's a letter to send if you're too lazy to write your own.. take it and do whatever you like with it, but please send it ASAP to:
majeau.claude@cb-cda.gc.ca
unless you can do more than a simple comment.. thanks!
Dear Sir,
I am objecting to the CPCC proposal for further taxation on computer back-up media and other recordable Compact Discs, as I believe that the proposal will further impose unfair penalties on the honest people that use Compact Discs.
It is evident that the monies collected from the proposed tariff will be paid to representatives of the music industry, even though I personally use the Compact Disc media itself solely in a legal fashion, as I am entitled to by copyright law. I find it quite distressing that this proposal advocates paying another tax in excess of those already levied merely to support continued legal use of the Compact Disc media that I use. I contend that if I am to give money to the record industry, that I should receive fair value in exchange - and furthermore, that any transaction should be willful and deliberate, not in the form of the extortion that the proposal suggests.
I thank you for your time and consideration, and hope that this proposal is rejected summarily, so that my rights, and those of my fellow Canadians, may not be unjustly abrogated.
Sincerely,
HN
Here, for your edification, is a concise refutation of whatever points you believe you have made. It is from Merriam-Webster's online dictionary.
I shall quote the relevant bits to save you from posting further uninformed drivel - it is clear that you cannot sufficiently research even the definition of a common English word, and I do this more from pity than genuine interest in your inevitable, tiresome and worthless reply.
Lexicographers believe thusly was coined in the mid-19th century by either Josh Billings or Artemus Ward, American humorists who used it for comic effect. It took a century for thusly to move from parody to general use, and even today it's used more in speech than in writing.
Nonetheless, thusly has established a place for itself in the language. Why? Probably because it is used primarily in ways distinct from the principal uses of thus.
You have been wrong in every post in this thread. You will continue to be wrong until you take the time to learn from your mistakes, and unfortunately you have proven that even I cannot help you in that regard...
in your efforts to pack your sentences with potent imagery, you have only managed to display your own impotence
I have made no such effort, despite your presumptions. You are a moron by the accepted definition of the word.
my time is too valuable to waste
I concede that your time may be perceived as valuable, but if the price of knowledge is leaving a few customers to wait in the drive-through, then it is well worth the time you have taken to view this post.
I strongly suggest that you buy a dictionary, a thesaurus and a book of English grammar so that you may be better prepared for my next post.
Today's lesson is now over. You may put your skirt back on.
You completely and totally failed once again to lick the single crumb I held out earlier. Perhaps the fault was mine, as I did not see fit to smear it with peanut butter for you. "Thusly" is a perfectly valid and useful word, as are "jiggy" and "meatball" and hundreds of thousands of others in my dictionary. Your unwillingness to acknowledge it changes nothing; however, I was duly impressed that you have now read the definition in its entirety.. soon enough you will grasp its meaning, and maybe I will get to glue a pretty star to your report card, little lady, but in the meantime keep studying.
N.
Have a bone, bitch
The adverb thusly was created in the 19th century as an alternative for thus in sentences such as Hold it thus or He put it thus. It appears to have been first used by humorists
.. thusly I shall leave you with this simple admonishment: "If you put it in your mouth first it won't hurt quite as much"
This part would be quite illuminating, if you'd take the time to read the entire quotation in context... but your feeble grasp of reason is distracting, and the day is yet young
Open up, Buttercup
Oh wait, using your logic against you will work as poorly as using against me
I would not use such a broken tool as your (lack of) wit against you. Here's a small clipping from a fairly good book, a charity from me to you. As you have neatly side-stepped the confines of rational argument, and your pitifully ill-informed sense of logic affords me no opportunity to riposte, I must content myself with this sop. Enjoy.
The American Heritage® Book of English Usage.
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
3. Word Choice: New Uses, Common Confusion, and Constraints
282. thusly
The adverb thusly was created in the 19th century as an alternative for thus in sentences such as Hold it thus or He put it thus. It appears to have been first used by humorists, who may have been echoing the speech of poorly educated people straining to sound stylish. The word has subsequently gained some currency in educated usage, but it is still often regarded as incorrect. A large majority of the Usage Panel found it unacceptable in an earlier survey. In formal writing, thus can still be used as in the examples above; in other styles, expressions such as this way and like this are more natural.
Why don't you squat on my flag-pole, little girl?
letting a white guy off while you put a black guy in the slammer for the same crime
There is no crime being committed by Sun in this instance, according to your Sherman/Tunney legal crap. Thusly your argument is null.
Shouldn't the same rules be applied all the time
Yes. See the above point for clarification.
Personally, I believe the anti-trust laws are not entirely fair - by this I mean that the judicial checks and balances are not working as intended.
It is clear that Microsoft is guilty of violating those laws, and many times: however, the law as it stands is simply a means of directing wealth to the legal profession. Using one's monopoly power to crush the competition, instead of using fair competitive practices (eg. delivering a better product) is the crux of this issue.
Anti-competitive practices are only illegal the USA when a company abuses monopoly in a concerted effort to squash competition - AFAIK Sun isn't a monopoly, and they haven't introduced this pricing schedule in an effort to destroy competiting platforms. Contrast that with the Microsoft agenda, please, for I cannot see the parallel that you are hinting at...
som of us dont' ever need a spel-checker, althogh I'm obviusly in the Minority of users. Spel-checker(s) are a tremdous waste of resources.
That said, I believe that the open Office spel-checker does work, but is not fully perfected. Knot that I care ether way...
Sounds like the Nazis 0wn the USA ... big surprise. It's time to hold a fire sale with these Flash Linkers, before your worldly wealth is 're-distributed' among the rich and powerful.
:(
they took my last $o.o2
My father scootles to the store all the time on one of those - a big 26" Semcycle. It's fine on the hills, but - IMHO - needs some more top end. If you're not in a terrific hurry and want to strengthen your back, uni is the way to go. It's also a fantastic full-body workout on long rides, as long as you get/build a proper air cushion seat.
I can't stress the seat thing enough....
I've used a Razor on the hills - but the major problem IS the hills. I melted a perfectly good shoe painfully while trying to slow down once.. a fast motorbike is my preference ANYwhere, now, although that's obviously a bad idea for some people.
-----> $o.o2
If I ever forward crap on to my peeps there's a request to clip my name/email from the top of this message if you forward it on to *anybody* please because I hate it when spammers reap my name (and hundreds of others, in most cases) from a poorly-forwarded message. I don't think this has anything to do with Roadrunner's policy, but if *I* ran the joint you might see something like this come into play. :O)"
"clip your headers before forwarding stuff" would be a clause in the contract, along with "You cannot sue the Spam nazi who embargoes certain IP blocks for Any Reason
Yes, it's only 2 cents, but please take it.
the shape of a bowl provides a more natural surface to ski on (as opposed to flat disc) and would tend to keep the snow where it belongs.
broken leg? I suspect that the old and feeble will be kept off this device. You'd have to be a pretty shitty skiier to break a leg on it I think.. barring maybe a fall from a great height, and in that eventuality one need not worry about stopping the thing, as the victim would already be off.
I suspect that skiing toward the outside of the disc will simply accelerate the skiier in the same way that a slope would - one could quickly become acclimatized to the feeling, although it would be totally different from a real ski experience.
Pardon me, but isn't Black Label just Yankee piss?? I seem to recall trying it once, and 'twas indistinguishable from dull and dirty tap water. Mind you, your South African supply may not have originated in the States... As I recall, an entire 24-case wasn't up to the task one night so I've boycotted that brand ever-after.
:O)
As for Redd's, I'll have to do some research.
For a real treat, the (unfortunately) seasonal Wet Coast Winter Ale from Shaftebury is the only contest to Guinness I've encountered.. Available only in British Columbia, as far as I know, and it sells quite quickly. Last year the entire stock was gone by mid-December. Beware the 8.5% alcohol