I was very active in usenet when this shit hit. I was running a smail uucp node using Matt Dillons uucp software and was subscribing to 40 or 50 newsgroups on a Amiga 500. I remember seeing that shit in all the newsgroups that I had.
Hell, back then I would get unsolicited email all the damn time, but the difference being it was always from somebody and usually worth my time to reply to.
Them was the good old days. Usenet was useful and email was the best communication tool there was. Even if you where piping it out over a 2400 bps modem in a forward and store method.
God damn Fuckers...I hope they die a horrable death and burn in hell forever.
While all this looks good on the slashdot I will be more impressed when I see the math. Not that I will be able to understand it but I will, still the less, be impressed.
My grandfather always said never buy a pig in a poke. I think that old saying can be applied here, all though I'm not all together sure what a poke is.
Oh well that is what this dumb fuck as bought. What are the ip address for EV1 so I can go ahead and firewall them off. Hell, that would be a good way to let them know we are not too happy with them. Black hole thier ass.
Well I admit it, they had me fooled. I thought Jack had bit it, but I also thought it was the last of the season too. I figure they would just use some kind of ancent techology to bring him back or something. Richard Arnderson singed on to play one more season of sg-1, season 8, so I knew he wasn't dead forever but I did think he was out for a few episodes.
When I saw the tape of Janet getting waisted it really stuned me. I wasn't no were near expecting that. Oh well, if someone had to go, better her than Jack.
Don't have any links off hand but do a search on jack o'neil or richard dean anderson. use the words "leaving" and "stargate" on google and it should be the first or second page.
I'm reluctant to agree with you. I've been watching SG-1 since it first came on showtime. Hell, I have seasons 1-5 on dvd and love the show. Yeah, I have geek tattoo'ed across my forehead.
Anyway, I enjoy the show alot but I think it's time to end the series while its still good. Word had it season 6 was supposed to be last, I heard and I wept. Then there was a season 7 and I rejoiced. Now I heard that season 7 was to be the last and I rejoiced, then I heard there was to be a season 8 and I wept.
Needless, some of the season 7 ones have been pretty good. But not matter how many season the harp on I will watch.
I don't mind the spinn off. Stargate Atlantus sound pretty good. I just hope it don't go on to become as bad as Star Trek is.
I find that most people who look down on Ronald Regan are younger people who live in the aftermath of what he did. They have no ideal of what it was like growing up in the middle of the cold war. No ideal if this was going to be your last day on earth, or the last for the earth period.
Like it or not, Ronald Regan was one of the greatest presidents ever.
Amen to that. I remember living in a primary strike area several years ago. Primary strike meaning an estimated 20 megatons would have been dropped on it followed by another 50 or so just to make sure. I had an umbrella, a beach chair, and a bottle of tekela in the aparment. The ideal being if the war started I was going to sit out on the balcony in it, getting drunk, and watch the fireworks.
Now, thanks to Reagan my kids are growing up in a world that is at least some what safer than the one I grew up in. At least they don't go to bed at night wondering if they where going to go up in a ball of fire the next day.
Well if you would have read the article you would have found out that the treaty in question is only for nuclear weapons. It says nothing about strange shit weapons, as long as they aren't nuclear.
I think your missing part of the point there. Yeah, we can lock the sick fucks up for the rest of thier lives but at what cost. Society has to pay for room, health care, and food for these losers, sometimes at the cost of $65,000 a year. This cost increases dramaticlly if they have illness or injury. The cost of AIDS drugs for some of these asswipes can drive the cost to keep them alive to a million plus a year.
These resources would be better alocated in other locations. Notice, my original post didn't say break the law, go to the gallows. It said screw up 3 times and go to the gallows. That money that we would be using to keep one useless fuck alive would be better spent to re-educate some poor smuck who just happen to fuck up, once. The AIDS drugs could be diverted to keep a sick child alive till a cure can be found.
People seem to think that life is sacred. No it isn't. Sounds cold but that is the way it is.
Horse whipping, now there is a thought. It is still used in some asian countries that I know of. I think some of these countries have very low crime rates to boot. But then again I think some of these countries have the death penaty for pissing on the sidewalk too.
I personally wouldn't have no problem with someone getting 10 lashes at the public square for certain crimes. Maybe certian cases of domestic violence, brawlling, and the like. But I think the constitutions admendment with restrictions on cruel and unusual punishment might have had this one in mind.
Maybe some modern form of public humiliation, like the old time stocks they used to use. It might be time to bring that back for minor crimes, jaywalking, public drunkeness, pissing on the sidewalk....
It was moderated insightfull because someone else out there thinks the way I do. Tired of the revolving door for repeat offenders. Its clear the current system don't work something needs to be done. I'm not talking wholesale slaughter here, you basiclly get 3 chances then it curtains. You know the old 3 time loser option. And we couldn't be hanging jaywalkers just habital, violent ones.
Nothing unusual about capital punishment. Its been done for thousands of years, many countries still do it, hell, in biblical times it was even common. Nothing unusual there. Now the cruel, that is a matter of interpretation. Drawing and quartering, not matter how deserved, is cruel. Hanging, no, not cruel.
Oh, by the way, I don't watch Cops because I don't like the show, and I don't have a scanner to sit beside listening to the local cops. And I don't watch highspeed chases that seems to have become rather popular since a well known murder hit the road.
I wouldn't have a problem with this, but then again I'm a cold blooded motherfucker who thinks there should be a lot more capital crimes on the books. Rape, driving under the influence, certain violent crimes, drug offences, and horse theft.
Some of them might be a little extream, I can see that, but something has to be done. These sick fuck aren't getting the clue. They commit the crime, do the time, come out, and do it again.
I could be happy with some kind of three strikes law. One trip in the penal system gets you re-educated, schooling on what you did wrong, learn a trade, and when you come out you have a skill. 2nd offences is punishment, hard labor, solitary confinment, the like. Third offence is a long drop on a short rope, your damaged goods no point in waisting societies time on you anymore.
Get rid of the lethal injection crap too. It's to humane, executions are supposed to be gruesome, a thing to be feared. Where not putting a dog or a horse to sleep, we're ridding ourselves of filth. My prefered method is hanging. All it requires is a rope, a tree, and the cooperation of a good horse. Best part is all 3 are resusable and its cheap, hell, even the horse part is optional. A good bucket or chair will wheels will do just as good.
Of course I would be just as happy with the electric chair too. "Sorry fuck tard. You screwed the pooch 3 time now, time to ride the lightning."
There is one more reason that has to do with compactness of ebooks that I didn't mention. All those physical books take up space, lots of space. Now while I would love to have a bigass library of books I don't have the space for such a thing. I imagine many of my fellow geeks don't ether.
For example, last summer I cleaned out my book storage. I gave away 25 years of books that I had been hording. It come to about 3500 books that served no purpose in my closets but to take up space. I can fit that many books on to my harddrive and barely notice the space gone.
Hard drives are cheap, physical storage space isn't
Ebooks aren't dead. People just haven't caught on to the real reasons to read ebooks on your palm pilot other than a real book. Compactness, you can cram about a 100 ebooks on an average 128mb memory stick. This is the eqivilant of carrying a small library with you every where you go. An this is very important. Nothing is worse than being suck on the can with nothing to read.
This goes to my second reason with compactness. You can stick a palm pilot in you pocket when you head to the can at work. It looks less suspicous when you head to the head to take a shi than if you had a book under your arm. Boss won't notice as much.
Fuck the home made linux boxes out there, think of the tivo users. There is gold in them thar DVR's. Just think, right now my unlicensed linux box, which has better taste in tv that I do, is worth $699 to some people.
That pretty much sums it up for me. I've seen people pay a shit load of cash for the fastest top of the line PC only to plug it in to a cheap POS monitor. What is the point?
Spend the cash on a kick ass but expensive monitor because it will be the thing you stare at the most. I personally have a 19" viewsonic LCD that I paid $800 bucks for. I realized that I paid more money for my monitor than most people pay for thier PC but it has been very much worth it.
Besides you should see the PC it's attached too...
Lets not forget the "awe" factor too. A fat ass LCD/Plasma hanging on the wall is inspiring but there is something about a 60" rear projection TV that makes people stop and go "damn, that is a big tv." It's just the sear manlyness of having 300 pounds of glass and plastic taking up a huge honk'n space at the end of the room. Plasma and LCD handing on the wall just doesn't have that "grab you by the nutts" feel huge crt's have.
Why was this moderated as a troll. Looks like he has it nailed right on the head. CRT's are on the road to extenction. I have a CRT based projection screen TV but I'm willing to bet it will be last such device that I buy. My next TV will ether be LCD based or some other technology like that. I already have kicked CRT based monitors to the curb for computer use and so are many people that I know.
Well except for one. He stubornly refuses to let go of his fixation with CRT monitors. He just bought 2 19" displays for his computer. I would have rather had one good 19" LCD myself.
I would have to agree with your statement there. I was sizing up HATV's (Huge Ass TV), two years ago. At BestBuy they had the plasma's right next to the rear projections and they where all on the same HD tape loop. I could stand back and tell the difference between the two. The projection had a visibly better picture. Since then I've been back and check it out again and I can still see where rear projections have plasma beat, but those big ass LCD's look pretty damn good.
As an earlier poster stated the real problem with HD tv is the lack of content in HD. That and the quality if you ask me. HD quality ranges from Realy damn fucking good to just plan good. I've seen some HD shows that where only a little better than digital TV. Then there was the superbowl. It was like being there with nothing but a plane of glass between you and the field.
While I wouldn't have anything else for my HDTV right now than rear projection, the same doesn't apply for my computer monitor. I switched to a 19" viewsonic LCD last year and can never go back to CRT based technology for computer monitor.
All of those are crap, except for Lady and Tramp 2, which was only 'OK.' I haven't seen Lion King 1 1/2 but the premise for it would be pretty good if done right. But on the realistic side all I can tell you is to keep your expectations low so you won't be dissappointed.
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I was very active in usenet when this shit hit. I was running a smail uucp node using Matt Dillons uucp software and was subscribing to 40 or 50 newsgroups on a Amiga 500. I remember seeing that shit in all the newsgroups that I had. Hell, back then I would get unsolicited email all the damn time, but the difference being it was always from somebody and usually worth my time to reply to.
Them was the good old days. Usenet was useful and email was the best communication tool there was. Even if you where piping it out over a 2400 bps modem in a forward and store method.
God damn Fuckers...I hope they die a horrable death and burn in hell forever.
While all this looks good on the slashdot I will be more impressed when I see the math. Not that I will be able to understand it but I will, still the less, be impressed.
My grandfather always said never buy a pig in a poke. I think that old saying can be applied here, all though I'm not all together sure what a poke is.
Oh well that is what this dumb fuck as bought. What are the ip address for EV1 so I can go ahead and firewall them off. Hell, that would be a good way to let them know we are not too happy with them. Black hole thier ass.
What dumbass called this post a troll? I feel the same way. Would rather mop floors than work tech support.
I figured punter was refering to football. As in 4th down and 70 yards. Time to fall back and punt.
Screw racist shit, is was to fucking funny. Hell, I hope they make spaceships better than fucking VCR's.
They killed Daniel off and people bitched till they brought him back. Glad he is bak myself
Well I admit it, they had me fooled. I thought Jack had bit it, but I also thought it was the last of the season too. I figure they would just use some kind of ancent techology to bring him back or something. Richard Arnderson singed on to play one more season of sg-1, season 8, so I knew he wasn't dead forever but I did think he was out for a few episodes.
When I saw the tape of Janet getting waisted it really stuned me. I wasn't no were near expecting that. Oh well, if someone had to go, better her than Jack.
Don't have any links off hand but do a search on jack o'neil or richard dean anderson. use the words "leaving" and "stargate" on google and it should be the first or second page.
I'm reluctant to agree with you. I've been watching SG-1 since it first came on showtime. Hell, I have seasons 1-5 on dvd and love the show. Yeah, I have geek tattoo'ed across my forehead.
Anyway, I enjoy the show alot but I think it's time to end the series while its still good. Word had it season 6 was supposed to be last, I heard and I wept. Then there was a season 7 and I rejoiced. Now I heard that season 7 was to be the last and I rejoiced, then I heard there was to be a season 8 and I wept.
Needless, some of the season 7 ones have been pretty good. But not matter how many season the harp on I will watch.
I don't mind the spinn off. Stargate Atlantus sound pretty good. I just hope it don't go on to become as bad as Star Trek is.
I find that most people who look down on Ronald Regan are younger people who live in the aftermath of what he did. They have no ideal of what it was like growing up in the middle of the cold war. No ideal if this was going to be your last day on earth, or the last for the earth period.
Like it or not, Ronald Regan was one of the greatest presidents ever.
Amen to that. I remember living in a primary strike area several years ago. Primary strike meaning an estimated 20 megatons would have been dropped on it followed by another 50 or so just to make sure. I had an umbrella, a beach chair, and a bottle of tekela in the aparment. The ideal being if the war started I was going to sit out on the balcony in it, getting drunk, and watch the fireworks.
Now, thanks to Reagan my kids are growing up in a world that is at least some what safer than the one I grew up in. At least they don't go to bed at night wondering if they where going to go up in a ball of fire the next day.
Well if you would have read the article you would have found out that the treaty in question is only for nuclear weapons. It says nothing about strange shit weapons, as long as they aren't nuclear.
I think your missing part of the point there. Yeah, we can lock the sick fucks up for the rest of thier lives but at what cost. Society has to pay for room, health care, and food for these losers, sometimes at the cost of $65,000 a year. This cost increases dramaticlly if they have illness or injury. The cost of AIDS drugs for some of these asswipes can drive the cost to keep them alive to a million plus a year.
These resources would be better alocated in other locations. Notice, my original post didn't say break the law, go to the gallows. It said screw up 3 times and go to the gallows. That money that we would be using to keep one useless fuck alive would be better spent to re-educate some poor smuck who just happen to fuck up, once. The AIDS drugs could be diverted to keep a sick child alive till a cure can be found.
People seem to think that life is sacred. No it isn't. Sounds cold but that is the way it is.
Horse whipping, now there is a thought. It is still used in some asian countries that I know of. I think some of these countries have very low crime rates to boot. But then again I think some of these countries have the death penaty for pissing on the sidewalk too.
I personally wouldn't have no problem with someone getting 10 lashes at the public square for certain crimes. Maybe certian cases of domestic violence, brawlling, and the like. But I think the constitutions admendment with restrictions on cruel and unusual punishment might have had this one in mind.
Maybe some modern form of public humiliation, like the old time stocks they used to use. It might be time to bring that back for minor crimes, jaywalking, public drunkeness, pissing on the sidewalk....
It was moderated insightfull because someone else out there thinks the way I do. Tired of the revolving door for repeat offenders. Its clear the current system don't work something needs to be done. I'm not talking wholesale slaughter here, you basiclly get 3 chances then it curtains. You know the old 3 time loser option. And we couldn't be hanging jaywalkers just habital, violent ones.
Nothing unusual about capital punishment. Its been done for thousands of years, many countries still do it, hell, in biblical times it was even common. Nothing unusual there. Now the cruel, that is a matter of interpretation. Drawing and quartering, not matter how deserved, is cruel. Hanging, no, not cruel.
Oh, by the way, I don't watch Cops because I don't like the show, and I don't have a scanner to sit beside listening to the local cops. And I don't watch highspeed chases that seems to have become rather popular since a well known murder hit the road.
Or maybe we could just execute them?
I wouldn't have a problem with this, but then again I'm a cold blooded motherfucker who thinks there should be a lot more capital crimes on the books. Rape, driving under the influence, certain violent crimes, drug offences, and horse theft.
Some of them might be a little extream, I can see that, but something has to be done. These sick fuck aren't getting the clue. They commit the crime, do the time, come out, and do it again. I could be happy with some kind of three strikes law. One trip in the penal system gets you re-educated, schooling on what you did wrong, learn a trade, and when you come out you have a skill. 2nd offences is punishment, hard labor, solitary confinment, the like. Third offence is a long drop on a short rope, your damaged goods no point in waisting societies time on you anymore.
Get rid of the lethal injection crap too. It's to humane, executions are supposed to be gruesome, a thing to be feared. Where not putting a dog or a horse to sleep, we're ridding ourselves of filth. My prefered method is hanging. All it requires is a rope, a tree, and the cooperation of a good horse. Best part is all 3 are resusable and its cheap, hell, even the horse part is optional. A good bucket or chair will wheels will do just as good.
Of course I would be just as happy with the electric chair too. "Sorry fuck tard. You screwed the pooch 3 time now, time to ride the lightning."
There is one more reason that has to do with compactness of ebooks that I didn't mention. All those physical books take up space, lots of space. Now while I would love to have a bigass library of books I don't have the space for such a thing. I imagine many of my fellow geeks don't ether.
For example, last summer I cleaned out my book storage. I gave away 25 years of books that I had been hording. It come to about 3500 books that served no purpose in my closets but to take up space. I can fit that many books on to my harddrive and barely notice the space gone.
Hard drives are cheap, physical storage space isn't
Ebooks aren't dead. People just haven't caught on to the real reasons to read ebooks on your palm pilot other than a real book. Compactness, you can cram about a 100 ebooks on an average 128mb memory stick. This is the eqivilant of carrying a small library with you every where you go. An this is very important. Nothing is worse than being suck on the can with nothing to read.
This goes to my second reason with compactness. You can stick a palm pilot in you pocket when you head to the can at work. It looks less suspicous when you head to the head to take a shi than if you had a book under your arm. Boss won't notice as much.
Fuck the home made linux boxes out there, think of the tivo users. There is gold in them thar DVR's. Just think, right now my unlicensed linux box, which has better taste in tv that I do, is worth $699 to some people.
That pretty much sums it up for me. I've seen people pay a shit load of cash for the fastest top of the line PC only to plug it in to a cheap POS monitor. What is the point?
Spend the cash on a kick ass but expensive monitor because it will be the thing you stare at the most. I personally have a 19" viewsonic LCD that I paid $800 bucks for. I realized that I paid more money for my monitor than most people pay for thier PC but it has been very much worth it.
Besides you should see the PC it's attached too...
Lets not forget the "awe" factor too. A fat ass LCD/Plasma hanging on the wall is inspiring but there is something about a 60" rear projection TV that makes people stop and go "damn, that is a big tv." It's just the sear manlyness of having 300 pounds of glass and plastic taking up a huge honk'n space at the end of the room. Plasma and LCD handing on the wall just doesn't have that "grab you by the nutts" feel huge crt's have.
Why was this moderated as a troll. Looks like he has it nailed right on the head. CRT's are on the road to extenction. I have a CRT based projection screen TV but I'm willing to bet it will be last such device that I buy. My next TV will ether be LCD based or some other technology like that. I already have kicked CRT based monitors to the curb for computer use and so are many people that I know.
Well except for one. He stubornly refuses to let go of his fixation with CRT monitors. He just bought 2 19" displays for his computer. I would have rather had one good 19" LCD myself.
I would have to agree with your statement there. I was sizing up HATV's (Huge Ass TV), two years ago. At BestBuy they had the plasma's right next to the rear projections and they where all on the same HD tape loop. I could stand back and tell the difference between the two. The projection had a visibly better picture. Since then I've been back and check it out again and I can still see where rear projections have plasma beat, but those big ass LCD's look pretty damn good.
As an earlier poster stated the real problem with HD tv is the lack of content in HD. That and the quality if you ask me. HD quality ranges from Realy damn fucking good to just plan good. I've seen some HD shows that where only a little better than digital TV. Then there was the superbowl. It was like being there with nothing but a plane of glass between you and the field.
While I wouldn't have anything else for my HDTV right now than rear projection, the same doesn't apply for my computer monitor. I switched to a 19" viewsonic LCD last year and can never go back to CRT based technology for computer monitor.
All of those are crap, except for Lady and Tramp 2, which was only 'OK.' I haven't seen Lion King 1 1/2 but the premise for it would be pretty good if done right. But on the realistic side all I can tell you is to keep your expectations low so you won't be dissappointed.