If you moderated this as redundant and just noticed a karma hit, it's because I just metamoderated it as unfair. At the time this was posted only one other post had inquired as to the menaing of "woody", post #7, and only 5 minutes earlier. #7 could easily not have been up yet when this person loaded the page and I don't they should take a karma hit for it. Especially since there were so many other replies posted to this story that are much more deserving candidates for downward moderation.
Eons ago, one of my high school history teachers opined that mankind's greatest invention was that of soap, since it makes such a fundamental difference in fighting infection and disease.In line with that kind of thinking, I believe water supply and distribution, including indoor plumbing, flush toilets, sewer systems and waste treatment deserves top honors. Second place should go to refrigeration, since it can be done without our current electrical infrastructure(although not easily). After that, agricultural mechanization that lets farmers feed themselves and a lot of other people, freeing up those other people to do something other than spend all their time growing their own food.
It appears that you're living in the rain forests of Chapel Hill. In the early 70s I managed to survive summers there in high ceilinged dorm rooms using a box fan in the window (and by being considerably younger than now). If you think it's bad there, try the flat tobacco growing area around Kinston, Greenville, Goldsboro or for *real* humidity, come on down to the banks of the New River (ask anyone who's ever pulled a Skylar and gone to summer camp at Camp Lejune).
A woman of Middle Eastern appearance or name or something vague like that hid in terror in her Oklahoma City home while a mob howled outside, but when people talk about the tragedy of Oklahoma City (which it certainly was), no one mentions the miscarriage she had due to the stress of the way she was treated that day.
I guess it's just lucky she didn't have a neighbor named Al Niño, they would have probably burned down the whole block.
If record companies didn't sell CD or phonograph copies of artists' works, then people couldn't easily make copies onto tape or whatever, therefore the record companies are the prime facilitators of copyright infringement.
Somewhere out in California some poor guy named Al Niño was bombarded with phone calls blaming him for the bad weather a few years ago. How much easier is it going to be for clueless knuckledraggers to mistake John A. Doe for John B. Doe? Not to mention clueless HR departments.
There's plenty of stuff really worthy of being moderated down available. This should be marked up as funny. For a hint, check where the link in the sig *really* goes to.
Well, actually what I was gonna ask was about keeping the mouse and replacing the switch. I seem to wear them out pretty quickly myself. I've unsoldered them and switched them with the secondary or tertiary switches but that still leaves a not fully functional mouse. Although quality varies from brand to brand, the form factor seems the same. Anybody got a source for good replacement switches? I don't need 'em in OEM quantities, just about 5 or 10 or so.
Instead of making Microsoft stock holders owners of two or three very rich companies instead of just owners of one extremely rich company, Microsoft should be given the Carl Sagan treatment--fine them billions and billions of dollars. Take away the profit they gained by their monopolistic practices. Cripple their ability to monopolize the future by buying (at a rate of millions of dollars per day) into everything from cable tv companies to news networks to makers of Internet-ready dishwashers.
Interesting side note:Paul Allen has sold off almost all of his Microsoft stock. Of course what little he has left is still worth millions, but it's a very small percentage of what he used to have.
Are you sure it isn't a "keep you from buying a stereo from anybody but Citroen" measure? They aren't the first/only car company to get proprietary in that area by a long shot.
So basically Metallica is a generation or 2 behind the kids at Yale, which means in a popularity contest there they'd be running neck and neck with Paul Whiteman or Louis Armstrong?
By any chance has Metallica blown through most of what they've made so far, so that any dwindling further sales of their stuff takes on increased importance, making losses to "copiers" scarier than before?
There is already a Bob Young from Rayleigh North Carolina on the petition. Whether or not it's authentic I'll leave for some resourceful/.er to research and let us know.
Leaving aside the non-rarity of people named Bob and pople named Young, I'd be more inclined to believe it to be *that* Bob Young if he had spelled it Raleigh. Even more so if he had spelled it Durham.
I suppose the Travoltanistas have the name of the E-meter copyrighted (bet they wish they'd thought of i-Meter back then as well), maybe even the "look and feel", but can they have a copyright on the device itself? How can they sell it to somebody and then turn around who knows how long afterwards and say "We forbid you to resell it"?
Isn't that sort of like General Motors saying not only can you not sell something you made by calling it a Chevrolet, but, if you own a real Chevy, you can't stick that out on your used car lot either. Come to think of it, they'd probably like a law that says you can only trade in your old GM vehicle on a new one. But at least they aren't worried that someone will reverse engineer a Caprice and discover that it's not really an automobile (Okay, look, the Vega was a long time ago, okay?).
Wouldn't the code that runs this thing be almost a BIOS-level type thing, making a port to Linux, or any other OS, kinda like trying to implement LBA sector translation in Office 97 or Corel Draw?
Nice pictures, add a front end and a solar cell and slotless slot car here we come.
This person does have a point, despite an inability to make it graciously. It is rather unseemly to whine about not gettng free improvements to a free operating system on a schedule that suits you instead of the people actually doing the work, and it's by no means the first time that this attitude has reared its unseemly head.
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The point I was making was what if this world was created by a being who inflicts us with the occasional flood, earthquake, plague, "insert any of a number of tragedies here", et cetera, just for fun.
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If you moderated this as redundant and just noticed a karma hit, it's because I just metamoderated it as unfair.
At the time this was posted only one other post had inquired as to the menaing of "woody", post #7, and only 5 minutes earlier.
#7 could easily not have been up yet when this person loaded the page and I don't they should take a karma hit for it.
Especially since there were so many other replies posted to this story that are much more deserving candidates for downward moderation.
In preview the above had a paragraph break where the first and second sentences are jammed together without a space.
Eons ago, one of my high school history teachers opined that mankind's greatest invention was that of soap, since it makes such a fundamental difference in fighting infection and disease.In line with that kind of thinking, I believe water supply and distribution, including indoor plumbing, flush toilets, sewer systems and waste treatment deserves top honors. Second place should go to refrigeration, since it can be done without our current electrical infrastructure(although not easily). After that, agricultural mechanization that lets farmers feed themselves and a lot of other people, freeing up those other people to do something other than spend all their time growing their own food.
It appears that you're living in the rain forests of Chapel Hill.
In the early 70s I managed to survive summers there in high ceilinged dorm rooms using a box fan in the window (and by being considerably younger than now).
If you think it's bad there, try the flat tobacco growing area around Kinston, Greenville, Goldsboro or for *real* humidity, come on down to the banks of the New River (ask anyone who's ever pulled a Skylar and gone to summer camp at Camp Lejune).
I guess it's just lucky she didn't have a neighbor named Al Niño, they would have probably burned down the whole block.
Either that or they just got fed up with your inability to spell the name of the company and the product.
If record companies didn't sell CD or phonograph copies of artists' works, then people couldn't easily make copies onto tape or whatever, therefore the record companies are the prime facilitators of copyright infringement.
Somewhere out in California some poor guy named Al Niño was bombarded with phone calls blaming him for the bad weather a few years ago. How much easier is it going to be for clueless knuckledraggers to mistake John A. Doe for John B. Doe? Not to mention clueless HR departments.
Feel free, however, to mark as redundant the 87 other submissions from sorefeet to this thread.
There's plenty of stuff really worthy of being moderated down available. This should be marked up as funny. For a hint, check where the link in the sig *really* goes to.
However this post (parent of parent of this one) contains information not found in the other post to which you referred.
Does that mean they'll just moderate down his ISP? My provider's karma must be cellar dwelling by now.:-)
Well, actually what I was gonna ask was about keeping the mouse and replacing the switch.
I seem to wear them out pretty quickly myself.
I've unsoldered them and switched them with the secondary or tertiary switches but that still leaves a not fully functional mouse.
Although quality varies from brand to brand, the form factor seems the same.
Anybody got a source for good replacement switches? I don't need 'em in OEM quantities, just about 5 or 10 or so.
Take away the profit they gained by their monopolistic practices.
Cripple their ability to monopolize the future by buying (at a rate of millions of dollars per day) into everything from cable tv companies to news networks to makers of Internet-ready dishwashers.
Interesting side note:Paul Allen has sold off almost all of his Microsoft stock. Of course what little he has left is still worth millions, but it's a very small percentage of what he used to have.
Are you sure it isn't a "keep you from buying a stereo from anybody but Citroen" measure? They aren't the first/only car company to get proprietary in that area by a long shot.
Too much time? S/he conceived and created this out of the blue, typed it up, and posted it within 3 minutes of the story going up on the main board.
I'm afraid you've optimized that code beyond my ability to follow the logic involved.
By any chance has Metallica blown through most of what they've made so far, so that any dwindling further sales of their stuff takes on increased importance, making losses to "copiers" scarier than before?
Leaving aside the non-rarity of people named Bob and pople named Young, I'd be more inclined to believe it to be *that* Bob Young if he had spelled it Raleigh. Even more so if he had spelled it Durham.
Isn't that sort of like General Motors saying not only can you not sell something you made by calling it a Chevrolet, but, if you own a real Chevy, you can't stick that out on your used car lot either. Come to think of it, they'd probably like a law that says you can only trade in your old GM vehicle on a new one. But at least they aren't worried that someone will reverse engineer a Caprice and discover that it's not really an automobile (Okay, look, the Vega was a long time ago, okay?).
Nice pictures, add a front end and a solar cell and slotless slot car here we come.
Haven't actually read it all yet, I can't keep my eyes focused for that long. Does any of it have anything to do with the story?
This person does have a point, despite an inability to make it graciously. It is rather unseemly to whine about not gettng free improvements to a free operating system on a schedule that suits you instead of the people actually doing the work, and it's by no means the first time that this attitude has reared its unseemly head.
The point I was making was what if this world was created by a being who inflicts us with the occasional flood, earthquake, plague, "insert any of a number of tragedies here", et cetera, just for fun.
I'd rather vote for someone running *from* political office.