My trs-80 has a serial number below 250. Not sure exactly what the number is though, I'd have to dig it out of my dad's attic 2000 miles from here to check.
I think there's ample evidence that technology is wonderful but the people using it just suck.
Tech is advancing but our species isn't. We invented sharpened sticks to hit each other with to win food and mates and just generally let loose our ape rage.
It's only a complicated issue because the corporate IP "owners" have deliberately made it complicated.
The reality is very simple, it goes like this - Did you buy a book legally? Good, it's yours, do with it whatever the fuck you want with it, it's YOURS. YOU PAID FOR IT.
Simple. Tell them that you CAN'T guarantee that the service will stay the same if you sell the site. Because you CAN'T.
So, if you choose to sell the site, tell them you've sold it and that though their data was not stored and therefore not transferred to the new owner, you have no control over what the new owner does.
You'll lower the sale price by doing this, but if a high sale price is your goal then you wouldn't be doing this in the first place. You'd spend your time designing some stupid iPhone apps instead.
When they say "the right to pray" what the mean is "the right to make others pray, or at least feel marginalized by forcing them to stand out as not part of the group if they choose not to participate."
Anyone can pray anytime, anywhere. A kid can pray in school. What CAN'T happen is the school can;t LEAD A PRAYER and therefore use authority to enforce that religion.
That's what they are really saying, but they LIE CONSTANTLY about it, those moral religious folks.
I see it the other way. Buy everything on a card, have several email accounts and subscribe to every spammy company ever, join every social network and every website and sign up for every newsletter, post your whereabouts on foursquare and facebook places, livestream your life, put tons of photos of everything on picasa and flickr.
Yakk on your cell phone, leave your voicemails sitting for ages.
And then use cash and a pencil and paper only when you do something IMPORTANT you don't want them to know about, such as posting a message full of instructions like this.
Oh fuck.
But anyway, my point is, FLOOD THEM with useless shit. And lead your REAL life offline.
The 9/11 hijackers DID NOTHING WRONG, until they got on the plaze.
They were here under valid VISAs, they were not on any "no-fly" list, they had legitimate tickets, and they were carrying NO contraband,
The only way they could have been stopped by security is if someone in security had had a bug up their ass.
Yet ignorant people, spurred by Fox, kept repeating the lie that they "slipped past security" etc. that one unfortunate woman who had worked at the gate KILLED HERSELF because she felt such guilt, despite there having been nothing she could have done.
Meanwhile the people who ignored the "Bin Laden Determined to Strike etc." memo and then falsely blamed 9/11 on Saddam Hussein go on about their lives guilt-free.
Not just black juries. I'm white, and I'd never vote to convict someone of a petty drug charge.
Not only because they'll never let me near a jury (since I answer questions honestly) but also because almost NO petty drug charges ever make it to trial.
Virtually nobody actually goes to trial over some weed or cocaine or some pills. Virtually all cases are plea bargained.
Judges HATE to be made to have actual trials over this shit. Usually if you don't get a plea bargain offer, they just give you an ACD and let you go. Unless you're black.
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Model 1, neglected to say. There's also a model 4p up there. And a vectrex with all accessories and carts.
Obsolete tech museum.
I sold my model 100 and model 102 a few years back.
My trs-80 has a serial number below 250. Not sure exactly what the number is though, I'd have to dig it out of my dad's attic 2000 miles from here to check.
Human-phobic.
I think there's ample evidence that technology is wonderful but the people using it just suck.
Tech is advancing but our species isn't. We invented sharpened sticks to hit each other with to win food and mates and just generally let loose our ape rage.
Now we use integrated circuits. Same shit.
And look how well that went...
I see.
So it's about how the free market increases competition? ;)
Couldn't Facebook "roll their own" photo-sharing service for less than a billion dollars?
How in the hell did obvious ideas backed by a few weeks of coding become worth billions?
It's only a complicated issue because the corporate IP "owners" have deliberately made it complicated.
The reality is very simple, it goes like this - Did you buy a book legally? Good, it's yours, do with it whatever the fuck you want with it, it's YOURS. YOU PAID FOR IT.
Prices across various regions are determined by the local GTF.
Greed Tolerance Factor.
And condoms. Don't forget you'd need condoms. On your expense account.
as does eating.
EVERYONE EATS. Can't you see that?
We need recipes, restaurant reviews, articles on culinary issues, plus dieting. All health-related news too, really.
Simple. Tell them that you CAN'T guarantee that the service will stay the same if you sell the site. Because you CAN'T.
So, if you choose to sell the site, tell them you've sold it and that though their data was not stored and therefore not transferred to the new owner, you have no control over what the new owner does.
You'll lower the sale price by doing this, but if a high sale price is your goal then you wouldn't be doing this in the first place. You'd spend your time designing some stupid iPhone apps instead.
I don't have a car.
When they say "the right to pray" what the mean is "the right to make others pray, or at least feel marginalized by forcing them to stand out as not part of the group if they choose not to participate."
Anyone can pray anytime, anywhere. A kid can pray in school. What CAN'T happen is the school can;t LEAD A PRAYER and therefore use authority to enforce that religion.
That's what they are really saying, but they LIE CONSTANTLY about it, those moral religious folks.
I see it the other way. Buy everything on a card, have several email accounts and subscribe to every spammy company ever, join every social network and every website and sign up for every newsletter, post your whereabouts on foursquare and facebook places, livestream your life, put tons of photos of everything on picasa and flickr.
Yakk on your cell phone, leave your voicemails sitting for ages.
And then use cash and a pencil and paper only when you do something IMPORTANT you don't want them to know about, such as posting a message full of instructions like this.
Oh fuck.
But anyway, my point is, FLOOD THEM with useless shit. And lead your REAL life offline.
Yeah but Salt Lake City is deep in the desert. Just because people are crazy enough to build a city there doesn't mean it's not a desert.
"A noble hydrogen embrittles the common tank."
Ahhh, yes. My favorite quote. Can't remember if it's Shakespeare or Simpsons.
Further proof that the TSA is a sick joke.
They LEFT it on the plane, meaning the got it one the plane, and apparently flew in the plane with it.
Being able to find "bombs" left behind on planes after the flight is not exactly good security, is it?
He's a right-wing nutjob.
If I remember correctly, until recently there were NO transatlantic liners left. All went to places like the carribean.
There was a proposal by one outfit to start service, but who knows where that got.
Eventually? How long is eventually? Because I've used it regularly for as long as it's existed, and after all these years no problems so far.
I guess I'm sitting on a time bomb!
Yep. I won't believe ANY claims about what the CIA can do until the CIA demonstrates it publicly!
When's their next Open House, BTW?
Manufactured? No. Transplanted.
Security didn't fail on 9/11.
The 9/11 hijackers DID NOTHING WRONG, until they got on the plaze.
They were here under valid VISAs, they were not on any "no-fly" list, they had legitimate tickets, and they were carrying NO contraband,
The only way they could have been stopped by security is if someone in security had had a bug up their ass.
Yet ignorant people, spurred by Fox, kept repeating the lie that they "slipped past security" etc. that one unfortunate woman who had worked at the gate KILLED HERSELF because she felt such guilt, despite there having been nothing she could have done.
Meanwhile the people who ignored the "Bin Laden Determined to Strike etc." memo and then falsely blamed 9/11 on Saddam Hussein go on about their lives guilt-free.
Not just black juries. I'm white, and I'd never vote to convict someone of a petty drug charge.
Not only because they'll never let me near a jury (since I answer questions honestly) but also because almost NO petty drug charges ever make it to trial.
Virtually nobody actually goes to trial over some weed or cocaine or some pills. Virtually all cases are plea bargained.
Judges HATE to be made to have actual trials over this shit. Usually if you don't get a plea bargain offer, they just give you an ACD and let you go. Unless you're black.