Whew. For a second there I was worried that Arky was involved. I've included a link for those that have never experienced Archimedes Plutonium on Usenet. He's a true net legend/kook.
Dartmouth claims he's real (I saw the photos way back when) but, nah, I'm not buying.
It's a good way to make soldiers, though. The US will never be caught pants-down like WW2 (1942-1945).
Most schooling is basically babysitting.
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A lowly IQ of 120 is all that's needed to become a successful scammer or CEO. Politics is the great equalizer in the real world.
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It's Thanksgiving and I'm going to go back to my hometown. I get to go see some slackers and jocks who never tried hard enough-- they'll be pumping the gas.
Really? Or is that just a convenient way for you to remember them as you get your revenge.
I detect a bit too much hubris and I'm sure you must be a big hit with your generation, what with the showing up in Ferraris with supermodels and stuff.
If everyone was an intellectual rock star like yourself, well, the guy that gave you wedgies way back when would just continue to do so while quoting Hegel.
Be sure to flip the unwashed plebe a quarter after s/he fills the tank and polishes your fender.
I am definitely *not* going to buy Xbox2 for my son this Christmas. It's pointless upgrading orchestrated by the genius marketing people - wah, wah, I want! coming from the children.
The marketers have learned what the "new economy" is: selling junk to kids that don't know any better.
I've seen most of the games today and they are mostly "updates" to existing ones with supposedly better graphics. Predictably, all the kids go, "cool" due to the hype.
It happened when having money became more important than everything else.
The "boomers" are starting to lose control, and they are fearful of the future (remember, this is the generation that essentially inherited everything - as opposed to "The Greatest Generation").
The boomers have built-up that which they feel comfortable with through not too much effort and they want (understandably) to hold on to it. And society and business has adapted to their wants: 30 years ago, were there 15 vice-presidents in medium-size companies?
It's just business. The difference here is that peoples' emotions are being played with and that's why some people are upset to the point of getting legal. Online dating services sell themselves as providing an alternative to the usual ways of meeting new people.
When paying, sincere customers (who have not yet been successful) find out that a scam is being orchestrated in order to keep the money flowing they can be understandably pissed-off.
That's not to say that all these services are bad, sometimes it works out quite well. It's the deception in the name of business generation that is the problem (as competition becomes frenetic, lying becomes accepted).
You have to be able to do everything from the front of the rack, which requires some design work but isn't rocket science.
Why would you need to do everything (i.e. cabling) from the rack front? Shipping containers can have access panels from all sides except the bottom (even then, that is not necessarily a problem).
Have you ever seen those RVs that are packed full but then mechanically expand to provide human access when deployed? The size limitations are for shipping only.
"ISO containers are manufactured in standard sizes. The standard width of ISO containers is 8 feet (2.44m ), the standard heights are 8 feet 6 inches (2.59m), and 9 feet 6 inches (2.9m), and the most common lengths are 20 feet (6.1m) and 40 feet (12.19m). The containers are also manufactured in a number of different lengths from 24 feet (7.31m) to 56 feet (17.22m)"
If I was an incumbent telco in any part of the world, I would be scared, I would probably try dirty games such as providing restricted internet access
What you really probably mean is, "If I was an incumbent telco middle manager..."
All those boomers with high-paid jobs need somewhere to go (see also music and movie industries) but they are addicted to the power of doing not much and getting paid handsomely for it. It's a social, not a business problem.
Sometimes people are so blinded by grief that they fall into the "I won't let this happen to anyone else no matter what it takes" mindset.
It must be horrible to lose a child and then realize that it was partially due to one's own fault. It's probably enough to cause some parents to try to punish the rest of the world/go on a crusade (often egged-on by special interest groups) rather than deal with their own feelings of guilt.
Begin the day with a friendly voice
A companion unobtrusive
Plays the song that's so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood
Off on your way, hit the open road
There is magic at your fingers
For the Spirit ever lingers
Undemanding contact in your happy solitude
Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open hearted
Not so coldly charted
It's really just a question of your honesty, yeah
Your honesty
One likes to believe in the freedom of music
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity
For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall
Concert hall
And echoes with the sounds of salesmen
Kids today (get off my lawn, etc.) have more and more expensive toys than we (I'm 43) ever did. This is because we *didn't have* the expensive toy option.
Marketers know that they can target kids and pressure parents because, well, kids haven't developed the bullshit detector gene yet.
For children, it is all want, want, want and parents cave into the whining and the "no child left behind" phenomenon of keeping up with the Jonses' PS3.
You'd need a guaranteed uptime for that, though. ISPs can offer tremendous speed but they very rarely promise uptime.
This means that while you're in Canuckistan trying to upload visit photos your home link can go down and you're screwed. Same thing goes for home-monitoring.
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Whew. For a second there I was worried that Arky was involved. I've included a link for those that have never experienced Archimedes Plutonium on Usenet. He's a true net legend/kook.
Dartmouth claims he's real (I saw the photos way back when) but, nah, I'm not buying.
It's a good way to make soldiers, though. The US will never be caught pants-down like WW2 (1942-1945).
Most schooling is basically babysitting.
A lowly IQ of 120 is all that's needed to become a successful scammer or CEO. Politics is the great equalizer in the real world.
It's Thanksgiving and I'm going to go back to my hometown. I get to go see some slackers and jocks who never tried hard enough-- they'll be pumping the gas.
Really? Or is that just a convenient way for you to remember them as you get your revenge.
I detect a bit too much hubris and I'm sure you must be a big hit with your generation, what with the showing up in Ferraris with supermodels and stuff.
If everyone was an intellectual rock star like yourself, well, the guy that gave you wedgies way back when would just continue to do so while quoting Hegel.
Be sure to flip the unwashed plebe a quarter after s/he fills the tank and polishes your fender.
Nope. He's got every possible game machine, a computer that is just short of cutting edge, a stereo, Walkman, TV, VCR, DVD, etc.
So the ex-wife and I got together and decided to
I am definitely *not* going to buy Xbox2 for my son this Christmas. It's pointless upgrading orchestrated by the genius marketing people - wah, wah, I want! coming from the children.
The marketers have learned what the "new economy" is: selling junk to kids that don't know any better.
I've seen most of the games today and they are mostly "updates" to existing ones with supposedly better graphics. Predictably, all the kids go, "cool" due to the hype.
It happened when having money became more important than everything else.
The "boomers" are starting to lose control, and they are fearful of the future (remember, this is the generation that essentially inherited everything - as opposed to "The Greatest Generation").
The boomers have built-up that which they feel comfortable with through not too much effort and they want (understandably) to hold on to it. And society and business has adapted to their wants: 30 years ago, were there 15 vice-presidents in medium-size companies?
It's just business. The difference here is that peoples' emotions are being played with and that's why some people are upset to the point of getting legal. Online dating services sell themselves as providing an alternative to the usual ways of meeting new people.
When paying, sincere customers (who have not yet been successful) find out that a scam is being orchestrated in order to keep the money flowing they can be understandably pissed-off.
That's not to say that all these services are bad, sometimes it works out quite well. It's the deception in the name of business generation that is the problem (as competition becomes frenetic, lying becomes accepted).
You have to be able to do everything from the front of the rack, which requires some design work but isn't rocket science.
Why would you need to do everything (i.e. cabling) from the rack front? Shipping containers can have access panels from all sides except the bottom (even then, that is not necessarily a problem).
Have you ever seen those RVs that are packed full but then mechanically expand to provide human access when deployed? The size limitations are for shipping only.
I hate to say it, but think outside the box!
ISO containers are the world standard:
"ISO containers are manufactured in standard sizes. The standard width of ISO containers is 8 feet (2.44m ), the standard heights are 8 feet 6 inches (2.59m), and 9 feet 6 inches (2.9m), and the most common lengths are 20 feet (6.1m) and 40 feet (12.19m). The containers are also manufactured in a number of different lengths from 24 feet (7.31m) to 56 feet (17.22m)"
And you thought Canada was a waste of space...
Floating Google cubes embedded in icebergs in northern Canuckistan, conveniently close to hydroelectric power generation.
The ice hotel concept has proven valid, so why not?
If I was an incumbent telco in any part of the world, I would be scared, I would probably try dirty games such as providing restricted internet access
What you really probably mean is, "If I was an incumbent telco middle manager..."
All those boomers with high-paid jobs need somewhere to go (see also music and movie industries) but they are addicted to the power of doing not much and getting paid handsomely for it. It's a social, not a business problem.
Sometimes people are so blinded by grief that they fall into the "I won't let this happen to anyone else no matter what it takes" mindset.
It must be horrible to lose a child and then realize that it was partially due to one's own fault. It's probably enough to cause some parents to try to punish the rest of the world/go on a crusade (often egged-on by special interest groups) rather than deal with their own feelings of guilt.
Can I still buy electronic parts there or is it all now consumer electronics only?
2001: A Space Odyssey
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/
Why? For the great visuals, lack of Hollywood cliches, relatively no-name actors and the ambiguous conclusion.
Oh yeah, and the fact that "fail-safe" computers fuck the good guys in the end. It's just like real life!
Where can I find a Radio Shack in Canada?
Alaska doesn't exactly have gigawatts lying around on street corners
But Canada does...
Bouncy-bouncy!
Begin the day with a friendly voice
A companion unobtrusive
Plays the song that's so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood
Off on your way, hit the open road
There is magic at your fingers
For the Spirit ever lingers
Undemanding contact in your happy solitude
Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open hearted
Not so coldly charted
It's really just a question of your honesty, yeah Your honesty
One likes to believe in the freedom of music
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity
For the words of the profits were written on the studio wall
Concert hall
And echoes with the sounds of salesmen
This comment had me laughing for a full 10 seconds. Well done!
I'm not so brainy and am somewhat pissed at the moment, so I'll just say:
Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist. Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away-- Half a crate of whisky every day.
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle. Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And René Descartes was a drunken fart. 'I drink, therefore I am.'
Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed, A lovely little thinker, But a bugger when he's pissed.
http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/guide/hum/phil
The Merchants of Cool.
Kids today (get off my lawn, etc.) have more and more expensive toys than we (I'm 43) ever did. This is because we *didn't have* the expensive toy option.
Marketers know that they can target kids and pressure parents because, well, kids haven't developed the bullshit detector gene yet.
For children, it is all want, want, want and parents cave into the whining and the "no child left behind" phenomenon of keeping up with the Jonses' PS3.
You'd need a guaranteed uptime for that, though. ISPs can offer tremendous speed but they very rarely promise uptime.
This means that while you're in Canuckistan trying to upload visit photos your home link can go down and you're screwed. Same thing goes for home-monitoring.
Real men can bend light.
laying fiber is 10x more expensive than copper.
Is that statement based on the technical expertise needed or the cost of the fiber?
Per foot, copper has paid for itself many times over (some say needlessly).
I want to know how you were able to predict your Slashdot UID.