It cost her about 5 hours. I told her that it was really not feasable to recover the data unless it was worth a lot of money. This feature would be really really nice in that office, and it wouldn't be used to spy on anyone. Sure, it CAN be used to spy on you, but I think you have options:
1. You can cackle madly at the time the sysadmin or bossman wastes looking at old versions of files. 2. Get a job that isn't poisoned by mistrust. 3. View porn at home? 4. View porn your boss likes!
out of the 6+ billion people on this planet, only 1 billion of them enjoy these high standards. What about the rest of the world?
Dear Third World. How are things on the bottom of the barrel? I've been hearing about bombs going off somewhere or other--I really don't pay much attention. I hope they haven't been doing all that much damage, or killing too too many people. Remember, that which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. And well, that which DOES in fact kill you is sending you right on your way to Heaven, which looks remarkably like Martha's Vineyard. Which I'm sure you've never seen, because you probably don't have a TV, but imagine your neighborhood with food, water, and doctors.
How am I, you ask? I for one am enjoying the leg up provided by the oppressed masses so that I may taste the sweet nectar of health and wellbeing. I give you, third world, my personal thanks for being the stepping stool by which I reach the fountain of youth. The ladder I climb to plug my PDA into the surge-protected, line-conditioned socket. The groundcover that provides the traction on my long, arduous journey up the mountain to the hot springs of cosmopolitan sex and sensuality well into my golden years.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Third World. -Nathan Curry
Me: *click*...... *click* Officer: Hey there! What are you doing?! Me: Um, taking a picture of you beating that guy, sir. Officer: Get down on the ground! Me: Hold on while I get out my pamphlet detailing my rights as a photographer, sir. Surely it's somewhere here in my man-bag. Officer: *blam!* *blam!* *blam!*
My dad's theory--I am not, in fact, 12:-)--is that in search for a description of the universe builds upon a deprecating model, thereby making it more and more convoluted, until someone figures out a new model that simply explains everything we currently know with no caveats. I hope we're on the verge of one of them, because I really can't accept that new model for gravity in Scientific American a few months ago.
Just in the interest of fairness, I would like to add that Howard Dean was the victim of mass media character assassination. The media didn't cover him all that much until there was something off-color he did. In the 4 days following that scream--which was influenced by the fact that a)he'd just lost the first leg of the primaries, and b)he had a freaking cold--they aired that single clip of him approximately 633 times.
That's about 600 times more times than they've ever aired George Bush calling whats-his-face an asshole over a live mic.
They really didn't cover the fact that every time the country made a decision and then later realized they were wrong, Howard Dean had been waiting for them. They attacked him because his wife wasn't doing publicity with him, but chose to continue her practice at home (she's a family doctor) and RAISE THEIR 16-YEAR OLD SON.
Really, I'm not sure what values we value here in America (yes I do), but we seem to kill off any chance we have of having a human president by demonizing family-oriented life choices and displays of exhuberance.
Another one of the strengths of open source is that it can be patched indefinitely by anyone, even once it's unsupported. That means that for security, lagging behind bleeding edge can be a great idea, especially if there's a community of security-minded individuals also using the same system you're using and submitting bugfixes.
I agree with you about how lame it is to use old software, but it's lamer to be sysadmin to 100 broken bleeding-edge systems.
I hate the poorly designed bullshit of MySpace with a vengeance, but I connect with my *.WMA-Encoding Fascist Tool (WEFT) friends on there. I read their blogs, I post an occasional blog.
I do my part by encouraging people to never, ever, ever click on the stupid ads--unless of course, you get to punch a)Paris Hilton, or b)Brad Pitt.
It is one of the burdens of having friends that you sometimes have to meet them halfway. For example, I have friends back home in Mexico with whom I connect via AIM, Yahoo, AND MSN IM services. If I had my way, all my lame friends who don't know how incredibly important it is to be an elitist Technocrat would switch to jabber, but alas, I am not God yet.
I like how everyone bitches about MySpace, and then posts like 3 or 4 bulletins per week, plus blogs, rotates their pictures regularly and checks out shallow girls on there. It's funny.
It's like, "I don't like this air/but that doesn't mean I'll stop breathing it"--Built to Spill
Also, the question needs to be asked: what physical property of the universe would allow the miniscule electrical signals in human brains to be able to be receieved and understood by persons disconnected in space? Even if only by a few millimetres? To me (at least) it seems unlikely there is this unknown quality of the universe. It seems likely we would have discovered it by mistake already.
I think consciousness itself is a mystery we have far from unravelled, and something as simple as tribal consciousness wouldn't really be talked about in a tribe where the consciousness is a way of life. A fish doesn't know it's in water. It would be easy during our cultural evolution to lose that connection we had on a tribal level. What with noise pollution, rampant individualism, electromagnetic pollution, pollution, overpopulation, mistrust of humans as a de facto standard, I think it's pretty hard nowadays to hear what's going on in our heads.
Actually, thinking is the wrong word. I grew up in Mexico, lived far far far away from cities for a long time in a small community, and I KNOW that being in a city makes it nearly impossible to hear what's going on in my head unless I take a significant portion of my day to meditate.
The same thing happened during the discussion about Patrick Volkerding when he was dying. Anybody suggesting that he maybe try something other than just going to a doctor AGAIN (like changing his diet, detoxifying his system, maybe proactively using his consciousness to affect his health) was flamed out the wazoo. I suggested doing a juice fast, and people told me I was stupid, and proceeded to point out why using fallacious arguments.
First off, I respect James Randi, whose ethical stand is that people not be taken advantage of by charlatans, of which there are many. There are many charlatans in the medical field, legal field, tech field, etc. As a computer repair guy, I run into clients all the time who were told stuff like a stock LGA775 heatsink/fan is attached to the motherboard and thus will cost $400 to replace. Then they never see the guy again.
The problem with James Randi's approach is that the domain of the spirit and of spiritual practice requires a modicum of faith. That's why any method for accessing spiritual power (Christianity, Buddhism, Qi Gong) doesn't try and prove anything. They just provide a working model for the spiritual world so you can try it on, and see if you can access spiritual power using that method. Like a seminar for speaking more effectively, not everyone is as receptive to each method. Seriously, though, the problem with scrutinizing a faith-based system is that a faith-based system requires faith. I know this sounds like a cop-out, but it's true.
If you have faith, it works. If you don't have faith, it won't work. Inside quantum physics, it has been proven that the observer's desires and expectations change the outcome on a subatomic level. Thus it is in reality, and you would all be better served to put that single principle to work in your life, call it God, or call it Cthulhu.
By the way, telepathy exists. Conscious manifestation exists. And go ahead and argue with me till you're blue in the face about God, telepathy, and manifestation, it just proves that you have little faith in your own viewpoint.
bump! Bumpity bump! concur! I mean, the one thing that people can agree on is that Apple has some freaking innovative interfaces, and it would be great to see a tablet.
I mean, they *do* make the graphic design computers, don't they?
You might try fucking off.... any try eating something that was at one time alive for a change
Um. Excuse me, {the f word}head. All I was saying is that you keeping your relative health to yourself and talking about how stupid people are is a disease of the mind. So whoopee for your physical health, may it carry you through many more years of condescension and aggression.
I will give you that it's a fact that is stated in wording so broad, ambiguous, and poorly selected that it comes off as an opinion. You don't crush people into situations that require the other person's consent.
It sounds like you're telling me I should be inferring information that is NOT included in the sentence. Which is, while somewhat reasonable, not a very effective way to communicate. I notice how you infer that I imply the stupidity of the small business that signed a contract that put them out of business, when I intended no such thing.
Should I infer that you're an intellectual elitist from your overall tone? Should I then infer from that that you perceive massive shortcomings in yourself that have you overcompensate by putting others down for perceived shortcomings in the only area you find refuge? Should I infer that you'll be upset by this inferrence and reply with a scathing deconstruction of my psyche, as I have so subtly and non-commitally done with yours?
All I really said was, "That sounds like an opinion to me," which is a fact. How it got you riled up is a mystery to me.
It has crushed suppliers into a no-win situations.
That sounds like an opinion to me. Did they crush the suppliers with their giant Thor hammer? Do they keep said hammer in the back office?
Someone was complaining about how a contract with WalMart had her freaking great uncle or someone who sold pickles go out of business because they signed a contract that they could barely keep up with, and then couldn't supply to their other clients.
My recommendation is, don't sign a contract that has your company go out of business.
I agree with most everything else you say, however, especially that reporters that report lies are lying reporters. Well spoken.
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It cost her about 5 hours. I told her that it was really not feasable to recover the data unless it was worth a lot of money. This feature would be really really nice in that office, and it wouldn't be used to spy on anyone. Sure, it CAN be used to spy on you, but I think you have options:
1. You can cackle madly at the time the sysadmin or bossman wastes looking at old versions of files.
2. Get a job that isn't poisoned by mistrust.
3. View porn at home?
4. View porn your boss likes!
out of the 6+ billion people on this planet, only 1 billion of them enjoy these high standards. What about the rest of the world?
Dear Third World.
How are things on the bottom of the barrel? I've been hearing about bombs going off somewhere or other--I really don't pay much attention. I hope they haven't been doing all that much damage, or killing too too many people. Remember, that which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger. And well, that which DOES in fact kill you is sending you right on your way to Heaven, which looks remarkably like Martha's Vineyard. Which I'm sure you've never seen, because you probably don't have a TV, but imagine your neighborhood with food, water, and doctors.
How am I, you ask? I for one am enjoying the leg up provided by the oppressed masses so that I may taste the sweet nectar of health and wellbeing. I give you, third world, my personal thanks for being the stepping stool by which I reach the fountain of youth. The ladder I climb to plug my PDA into the surge-protected, line-conditioned socket. The groundcover that provides the traction on my long, arduous journey up the mountain to the hot springs of cosmopolitan sex and sensuality well into my golden years.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Third World.
-Nathan Curry
Me: *click*...... *click*
Officer: Hey there! What are you doing?!
Me: Um, taking a picture of you beating that guy, sir.
Officer: Get down on the ground!
Me: Hold on while I get out my pamphlet detailing my rights as a photographer, sir. Surely it's somewhere here in my man-bag.
Officer: *blam!* *blam!* *blam!*
for are we not men of science?
:-)--is that in search for a description of the universe builds upon a deprecating model, thereby making it more and more convoluted, until someone figures out a new model that simply explains everything we currently know with no caveats. I hope we're on the verge of one of them, because I really can't accept that new model for gravity in Scientific American a few months ago.
My dad's theory--I am not, in fact, 12
Just in the interest of fairness, I would like to add that Howard Dean was the victim of mass media character assassination. The media didn't cover him all that much until there was something off-color he did. In the 4 days following that scream--which was influenced by the fact that a)he'd just lost the first leg of the primaries, and b)he had a freaking cold--they aired that single clip of him approximately 633 times.
That's about 600 times more times than they've ever aired George Bush calling whats-his-face an asshole over a live mic.
They really didn't cover the fact that every time the country made a decision and then later realized they were wrong, Howard Dean had been waiting for them. They attacked him because his wife wasn't doing publicity with him, but chose to continue her practice at home (she's a family doctor) and RAISE THEIR 16-YEAR OLD SON.
Really, I'm not sure what values we value here in America (yes I do), but we seem to kill off any chance we have of having a human president by demonizing family-oriented life choices and displays of exhuberance.
I think they could probably just coat the front of the sticker, and allow the gas to seep in through the sticky side.
and get another one for $15. Unless it's integrated into the motherboard, then it's a problem.
Another one of the strengths of open source is that it can be patched indefinitely by anyone, even once it's unsupported. That means that for security, lagging behind bleeding edge can be a great idea, especially if there's a community of security-minded individuals also using the same system you're using and submitting bugfixes.
I agree with you about how lame it is to use old software, but it's lamer to be sysadmin to 100 broken bleeding-edge systems.
I think it's kind of fucked up that after some guy talks about what an idiot I am, I get modded flamebait rather than him.
1. boil poop
2. ???
3. Profit!
I hate the poorly designed bullshit of MySpace with a vengeance, but I connect with my *.WMA-Encoding Fascist Tool (WEFT) friends on there. I read their blogs, I post an occasional blog.
I do my part by encouraging people to never, ever, ever click on the stupid ads--unless of course, you get to punch a)Paris Hilton, or b)Brad Pitt.
It is one of the burdens of having friends that you sometimes have to meet them halfway. For example, I have friends back home in Mexico with whom I connect via AIM, Yahoo, AND MSN IM services. If I had my way, all my lame friends who don't know how incredibly important it is to be an elitist Technocrat would switch to jabber, but alas, I am not God yet.
Disclosure - I just picked up 600 Intel shares at $17.50.
I actually picked up 600 shares of dust-bunnies over the weekend for free. The rich, of course, are alway emulating the poor.
I like how everyone bitches about MySpace, and then posts like 3 or 4 bulletins per week, plus blogs, rotates their pictures regularly and checks out shallow girls on there. It's funny.
It's like, "I don't like this air/but that doesn't mean I'll stop breathing it"--Built to Spill
I think his 'less clear' statement might be the false statement, not the conclusion. Correct me if I'm wrong. (Hint: I'm not)
Also, the question needs to be asked: what physical property of the universe would allow the miniscule electrical signals in human brains to be able to be receieved and understood by persons disconnected in space? Even if only by a few millimetres? To me (at least) it seems unlikely there is this unknown quality of the universe. It seems likely we would have discovered it by mistake already.
I think consciousness itself is a mystery we have far from unravelled, and something as simple as tribal consciousness wouldn't really be talked about in a tribe where the consciousness is a way of life. A fish doesn't know it's in water. It would be easy during our cultural evolution to lose that connection we had on a tribal level. What with noise pollution, rampant individualism, electromagnetic pollution, pollution, overpopulation, mistrust of humans as a de facto standard, I think it's pretty hard nowadays to hear what's going on in our heads.
Actually, thinking is the wrong word. I grew up in Mexico, lived far far far away from cities for a long time in a small community, and I KNOW that being in a city makes it nearly impossible to hear what's going on in my head unless I take a significant portion of my day to meditate.
The same thing happened during the discussion about Patrick Volkerding when he was dying. Anybody suggesting that he maybe try something other than just going to a doctor AGAIN (like changing his diet, detoxifying his system, maybe proactively using his consciousness to affect his health) was flamed out the wazoo. I suggested doing a juice fast, and people told me I was stupid, and proceeded to point out why using fallacious arguments.
First off, I respect James Randi, whose ethical stand is that people not be taken advantage of by charlatans, of which there are many. There are many charlatans in the medical field, legal field, tech field, etc. As a computer repair guy, I run into clients all the time who were told stuff like a stock LGA775 heatsink/fan is attached to the motherboard and thus will cost $400 to replace. Then they never see the guy again.
The problem with James Randi's approach is that the domain of the spirit and of spiritual practice requires a modicum of faith. That's why any method for accessing spiritual power (Christianity, Buddhism, Qi Gong) doesn't try and prove anything. They just provide a working model for the spiritual world so you can try it on, and see if you can access spiritual power using that method. Like a seminar for speaking more effectively, not everyone is as receptive to each method. Seriously, though, the problem with scrutinizing a faith-based system is that a faith-based system requires faith. I know this sounds like a cop-out, but it's true.
If you have faith, it works. If you don't have faith, it won't work. Inside quantum physics, it has been proven that the observer's desires and expectations change the outcome on a subatomic level. Thus it is in reality, and you would all be better served to put that single principle to work in your life, call it God, or call it Cthulhu.
By the way, telepathy exists. Conscious manifestation exists. And go ahead and argue with me till you're blue in the face about God, telepathy, and manifestation, it just proves that you have little faith in your own viewpoint.
A very very tiny 80%, methinks. And an overwhelming 20% that it'll be ready next Oct.
they have NO clue when it comes to dealing. I mean, REALLY... Keeping incriminating info in their cell phone... Sheesh...
I'm only reading foreign magazines from now on. (Except Hirsute Slut Revue, which has beautifully eloquent essays)
bump! Bumpity bump! concur! I mean, the one thing that people can agree on is that Apple has some freaking innovative interfaces, and it would be great to see a tablet.
I mean, they *do* make the graphic design computers, don't they?
You might try fucking off.... any try eating something that was at one time alive for a change
Um. Excuse me, {the f word}head. All I was saying is that you keeping your relative health to yourself and talking about how stupid people are is a disease of the mind. So whoopee for your physical health, may it carry you through many more years of condescension and aggression.
And may your children marry sick people.
I generally keep my views about diet to myself
;-)
In the interest of cleaning up the gene pool your kids are going to have to fish in, you might try being a little more annoying.
I will give you that it's a fact that is stated in wording so broad, ambiguous, and poorly selected that it comes off as an opinion. You don't crush people into situations that require the other person's consent.
It sounds like you're telling me I should be inferring information that is NOT included in the sentence. Which is, while somewhat reasonable, not a very effective way to communicate. I notice how you infer that I imply the stupidity of the small business that signed a contract that put them out of business, when I intended no such thing.
Should I infer that you're an intellectual elitist from your overall tone? Should I then infer from that that you perceive massive shortcomings in yourself that have you overcompensate by putting others down for perceived shortcomings in the only area you find refuge? Should I infer that you'll be upset by this inferrence and reply with a scathing deconstruction of my psyche, as I have so subtly and non-commitally done with yours?
All I really said was, "That sounds like an opinion to me," which is a fact. How it got you riled up is a mystery to me.
It has crushed suppliers into a no-win situations.
That sounds like an opinion to me. Did they crush the suppliers with their giant Thor hammer? Do they keep said hammer in the back office?
Someone was complaining about how a contract with WalMart had her freaking great uncle or someone who sold pickles go out of business because they signed a contract that they could barely keep up with, and then couldn't supply to their other clients.
My recommendation is, don't sign a contract that has your company go out of business.
I agree with most everything else you say, however, especially that reporters that report lies are lying reporters. Well spoken.
*All my lovin', I will send to you-ou-ou*
This is actually turning me on. I can't believe it. Must...make...booty...call.....
I'm not kidding. This is both exciting and repulsive. Are there any ladies on here that have a Microsoft's doom fetish? I would like to meet you.