Let me just give you a little advice there my friend. The US hasn't had a war in 50 years. I'm not talking about these little furballs like Iraq and Afganastan or even Vetnam. I'm talking War, with a capital 'W.' One where the president ask for it and congress says yes. Think WWII and your in the ballpark.
American policy on nuclear attack on our homeland or even the Americas has been total and complete destruction of the attackers with like weapons. Sure mr. middleeast terrorist might get a hold a nuke and kill a few million people but he had better think about what might happen to his homeland. There might be a good chance that we will forget the middle east is made of a bunch of little countries and reguard it as one big bullseye.
Sure he may kill a few million Americans but he will be kill more of his own in the process.
Lets put this in perspective shall we? If we have to destory this system, I don't think we are going to be worried about a little thing like Europe declaring war. Now normally Europe declaring war on the US will be a big thing but I think in the light of what ever crises has led us to "take this puppy out" will make it a small thing.
Wrong, every thing can be jammed. It might not be easy but if we had to we could jam it. I'm willing to bet that there is already plans in place to jam it if they had to. We are just asking it be easy to jam, but its not impossible.
Fair? Where do you get the ideal that this has to be fair? In fact that is the very ideal of the US Military for the last 50 years. To make any fight against us as unfair as possible. Peace through superior firepower has been the basic military phlosophy of the US for the last 50 years. Even though it don't make the hippies and the tree huggers happy it has basiclly worked.
There is nothing fair about war, that is what makes it a thing to be avoid. In a perfect world it would be unneeded, but we don't live in a prefect world. There will always be 'evil' mother fuckers out there that have to be taken out. When you have to have a bully on the block to keep the peace its best you be that bully.
Maybe one day we can join hands and sing koombya as we beat the tanks in to plowshares but right now it's best we have every trick we can use when we need it.
Its the primary language of the countries in question that has resulted in a lot of this shift back. Joe Sixpack is tired of picking up the phone and talking to some smuck with a accent that he doesn't understand. Plus when said Mr. Sixpack learns that this once belonged to a hard working American Joe gets upset and sometimes stops buy the product in question. This results inthe stock price of said company coming down.
Besides I just heard that this is a temp. move. They are moving it back to india real soon. They just couldn't find enough bad accents to cover the phones
I'm about to get Bangalored and so are a few good friends of mine did. One of the problems I have with getting Bangalored is the fact that I can't go over there and work but they can steal my job with no problem. In a fair market I have no problem with competition as long as it is on a level playing field. The facts of life state that living in America cost more than living in Bangalore. I can't compete with someone who gets paid 3 dollars a day.
No shit. When I'm dead I don't want them digging up my ass in a 100 years. Going to have my dead ass creamated and my ashes spread over a pot field, so in a year or so all my friends can get together and have one more toke on me.
I'm putting all you marketing fuckers on notice right now. You spam my cell phone, telemarket my cell phone and you will wake up with a god damn horses head in your bed....
Bah, screw jumbo and his dance with the golf dohicky. He did something stupid, got busted, and now the rest of us are laughing at him. Cruel? Maybe but that is the way the world works
The real talent I see is in the remakes of some of these clips. Some of these are pretty good when you think of what they had to work with, a dancing dork.
Wait for it to come out on DVD is the best move. DVD releases usually follow about 6 months later then you can pick it up from Netflix. If you like it you can buy it and be happy. If it sucks you will have 6 months to find out. That is my theory anyway.
Well lets see, I had one of those cheap no name powersupplies in my last system. One night it blew up. That in itself was pretty cool, had fire and shit shooting out the back of the case, smoke coming out all the holes. Now for the uncool part, every thing in the system was toasted. About 1500 bucks worth of system up in smoke.
I guess it could happen with any powersupply but in this Beast I bought the one they recommended last year.
Gee there are alot paranoid fuckers out there. From a childs point of view I think this is neat ideal. I would have loved to have one of these when I was at disney world. And so what if disney tracks your ass around the park for a couple hours.
Now these devices might have a practical use too. One of the scaryest moments in my life was when I was lost at disney land when I was six. If the officals can track a device to once certain child they can find that child in a few moments. If they can take active control of the device, they could use mickeys voice to keep the child calm and in one place.
And so what if they collect a few bits of marketing data as you wander around the park. Its not like they will be following you home to track you as you take a shit. This is pretty much a harmless little toy with a lot of good uses, if not a bit expensive.
I've been bitching about this for years. Hangings are the best way to do it. They are cheap and simple. All you really need is a tree, a rope and a good horse. The best part is all three can be reused. In a pinch you can do away with the horse and use a bucket, chair, or even a handy milk crate.
No, you have it backwards. They are stocking more DVD+R because people are buying more of them. They haven't changed the supply of DVD-R on thier shelves I don't think. But I did also notice that they have moved the blank DVD-R media to the bottem shelves and placed DVD+R media at more eye level. This has led me to believe that people are buy more DVD+R media because the carry more in stock than DVD-R.
One think is for sure DVD writers are dropping in price. A good DVD burner, no matter what type, will run you currently between 250 and 350 bucks. Truth be told I really don't see much advantage that one format holds over the other. I bought my DVD+R replacement mainly because I had a fuck ton of blank DVD+R media left. Best advice just pick one, it will be at least another year before a standard comes out. Then you should be able to pick up a compatable writer for a 150 bucks.
Here has been my experince with DVD+Rs. I bought my first DVD+R about a year ago because it was $250. That was anywhere from 50 to a 100 bucks cheaper than anything else out there. When it got fried, along with the rest of the computer, I started looking for a replacement.
The one thing that I started noticing was that all the major players where fielding DVD+Rs now. TDK, Plextor and a few others where making DVD+R and nobody seemed to be shipping DVD-R with thier shit.
Now I will admit that my research may have been bias because I had about 100 blank DVD+R laying around. Another thing that I noticed was that they local BestBuy and Compusa seem to be stocking more DVD+R than DVD-R. This was both writers and media. This as lead me to think that DVD+R is what people are buying. I think that DVD+R has won whatever DVD battle there is.
On compatablity issues there is only one DVD player that I've noticed can't play DVD+R and that was in a Compqa laptop. This Sony Vaio doesn't have any problems and neather does my PS2 nor any DVD player I've tried.
Oh and if your going to pirate movies Pinnacle has this great software called Instant Copy that will make great copies of DVD movies. It does everything but rip and burn for you. Will automaticlly re-encode a DVD-9 to DVD-5 with better quality than a (S)VCD. Not that I would encourage you to pirate movies that is.
Triangulation isn't needed. Just look for the park bench with all the geeks with laptops on it. Simple....
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Seems to me that password management software defeats the purpose of having a password. I have a simple password management system that I keep in my brain.
Pick 4 passwords that you will use. The first one keep it easy to remember and use it on all your low level sites such as news webpages.
Next, pick a harder password to use on your login accounts such as unix or isp services. Your third harder password you would use for financial shit such as bank accounts and money management sites.
Your 4th password, should I say passphrase, is what you use to protect shit you don't want anyone reading ever. Such as your pgp pass phrase or such.
The first password is a minor place holder. You should feel free to share it with just about anyone you want to. Second password you share with nobody but maybe your spouse or family members. The third password you might share with 1 or 2 more people, your wife or children when it is relivent. The 4th password you take to your grave with you. You tell no one, not even your spouse.
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Now there is a ideal. Wonder how difficult it would be to take out the motor/battery assembly and put in one from say a weedeater or a chainsaw?
I imagine you couldn't remove the electric motor and it still work but I don't think it would stop you from replacing the battery with a small generator and engine. You might even be able to get some decent range out of the bitch.
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Let me just give you a little advice there my friend. The US hasn't had a war in 50 years. I'm not talking about these little furballs like Iraq and Afganastan or even Vetnam. I'm talking War, with a capital 'W.' One where the president ask for it and congress says yes. Think WWII and your in the ballpark.
American policy on nuclear attack on our homeland or even the Americas has been total and complete destruction of the attackers with like weapons. Sure mr. middleeast terrorist might get a hold a nuke and kill a few million people but he had better think about what might happen to his homeland. There might be a good chance that we will forget the middle east is made of a bunch of little countries and reguard it as one big bullseye.
Sure he may kill a few million Americans but he will be kill more of his own in the process.
Lets put this in perspective shall we? If we have to destory this system, I don't think we are going to be worried about a little thing like Europe declaring war. Now normally Europe declaring war on the US will be a big thing but I think in the light of what ever crises has led us to "take this puppy out" will make it a small thing.
Follow me?
Wrong, every thing can be jammed. It might not be easy but if we had to we could jam it. I'm willing to bet that there is already plans in place to jam it if they had to. We are just asking it be easy to jam, but its not impossible.
Fair? Where do you get the ideal that this has to be fair? In fact that is the very ideal of the US Military for the last 50 years. To make any fight against us as unfair as possible. Peace through superior firepower has been the basic military phlosophy of the US for the last 50 years. Even though it don't make the hippies and the tree huggers happy it has basiclly worked.
There is nothing fair about war, that is what makes it a thing to be avoid. In a perfect world it would be unneeded, but we don't live in a prefect world. There will always be 'evil' mother fuckers out there that have to be taken out. When you have to have a bully on the block to keep the peace its best you be that bully.
Maybe one day we can join hands and sing koombya as we beat the tanks in to plowshares but right now it's best we have every trick we can use when we need it.
Its the primary language of the countries in question that has resulted in a lot of this shift back. Joe Sixpack is tired of picking up the phone and talking to some smuck with a accent that he doesn't understand. Plus when said Mr. Sixpack learns that this once belonged to a hard working American Joe gets upset and sometimes stops buy the product in question. This results inthe stock price of said company coming down.
Besides I just heard that this is a temp. move. They are moving it back to india real soon. They just couldn't find enough bad accents to cover the phones
I'm about to get Bangalored and so are a few good friends of mine did. One of the problems I have with getting Bangalored is the fact that I can't go over there and work but they can steal my job with no problem. In a fair market I have no problem with competition as long as it is on a level playing field. The facts of life state that living in America cost more than living in Bangalore. I can't compete with someone who gets paid 3 dollars a day.
"Don't Get Bangalored!"
No shit. When I'm dead I don't want them digging up my ass in a 100 years. Going to have my dead ass creamated and my ashes spread over a pot field, so in a year or so all my friends can get together and have one more toke on me.
I'm putting all you marketing fuckers on notice right now. You spam my cell phone, telemarket my cell phone and you will wake up with a god damn horses head in your bed....
Well what about it? Am I the only person on the planet that still uses those 2 old work horses together?
I don't give a damn about what other people use it for but I use it to pirate software and download porn.
Oh Hell yeah! That is why I got broadband.
Bah, screw jumbo and his dance with the golf dohicky. He did something stupid, got busted, and now the rest of us are laughing at him. Cruel? Maybe but that is the way the world works
The real talent I see is in the remakes of some of these clips. Some of these are pretty good when you think of what they had to work with, a dancing dork.
To quick and clean. It needs to be painful and messy to send a message.
Wait for it to come out on DVD is the best move. DVD releases usually follow about 6 months later then you can pick it up from Netflix. If you like it you can buy it and be happy. If it sucks you will have 6 months to find out. That is my theory anyway.
Well lets see, I had one of those cheap no name powersupplies in my last system. One night it blew up. That in itself was pretty cool, had fire and shit shooting out the back of the case, smoke coming out all the holes. Now for the uncool part, every thing in the system was toasted. About 1500 bucks worth of system up in smoke.
I guess it could happen with any powersupply but in this Beast I bought the one they recommended last year.
Gee there are alot paranoid fuckers out there. From a childs point of view I think this is neat ideal. I would have loved to have one of these when I was at disney world. And so what if disney tracks your ass around the park for a couple hours.
Now these devices might have a practical use too. One of the scaryest moments in my life was when I was lost at disney land when I was six. If the officals can track a device to once certain child they can find that child in a few moments. If they can take active control of the device, they could use mickeys voice to keep the child calm and in one place.
And so what if they collect a few bits of marketing data as you wander around the park. Its not like they will be following you home to track you as you take a shit. This is pretty much a harmless little toy with a lot of good uses, if not a bit expensive.
Just jerk the god damn phone off the wall. Worked for me. Sure I don't have a phone anymore, but I don't get fucked with during dinner or sex.
Karma bonus for those that can figure out when this call was.
Right On! I wish there was a rightous catagory to mod to.
and any of this a problem?
I've been bitching about this for years. Hangings are the best way to do it. They are cheap and simple. All you really need is a tree, a rope and a good horse. The best part is all three can be reused. In a pinch you can do away with the horse and use a bucket, chair, or even a handy milk crate.
No, you have it backwards. They are stocking more DVD+R because people are buying more of them. They haven't changed the supply of DVD-R on thier shelves I don't think. But I did also notice that they have moved the blank DVD-R media to the bottem shelves and placed DVD+R media at more eye level. This has led me to believe that people are buy more DVD+R media because the carry more in stock than DVD-R.
One think is for sure DVD writers are dropping in price. A good DVD burner, no matter what type, will run you currently between 250 and 350 bucks. Truth be told I really don't see much advantage that one format holds over the other. I bought my DVD+R replacement mainly because I had a fuck ton of blank DVD+R media left. Best advice just pick one, it will be at least another year before a standard comes out. Then you should be able to pick up a compatable writer for a 150 bucks.
Here has been my experince with DVD+Rs. I bought my first DVD+R about a year ago because it was $250. That was anywhere from 50 to a 100 bucks cheaper than anything else out there. When it got fried, along with the rest of the computer, I started looking for a replacement. The one thing that I started noticing was that all the major players where fielding DVD+Rs now. TDK, Plextor and a few others where making DVD+R and nobody seemed to be shipping DVD-R with thier shit.
Now I will admit that my research may have been bias because I had about 100 blank DVD+R laying around. Another thing that I noticed was that they local BestBuy and Compusa seem to be stocking more DVD+R than DVD-R. This was both writers and media. This as lead me to think that DVD+R is what people are buying. I think that DVD+R has won whatever DVD battle there is.
On compatablity issues there is only one DVD player that I've noticed can't play DVD+R and that was in a Compqa laptop. This Sony Vaio doesn't have any problems and neather does my PS2 nor any DVD player I've tried.
Oh and if your going to pirate movies Pinnacle has this great software called Instant Copy that will make great copies of DVD movies. It does everything but rip and burn for you. Will automaticlly re-encode a DVD-9 to DVD-5 with better quality than a (S)VCD. Not that I would encourage you to pirate movies that is.
Triangulation isn't needed. Just look for the park bench with all the geeks with laptops on it. Simple....
Seems to me that password management software defeats the purpose of having a password. I have a simple password management system that I keep in my brain.
Pick 4 passwords that you will use. The first one keep it easy to remember and use it on all your low level sites such as news webpages.
Next, pick a harder password to use on your login accounts such as unix or isp services. Your third harder password you would use for financial shit such as bank accounts and money management sites.
Your 4th password, should I say passphrase, is what you use to protect shit you don't want anyone reading ever. Such as your pgp pass phrase or such.
The first password is a minor place holder. You should feel free to share it with just about anyone you want to. Second password you share with nobody but maybe your spouse or family members. The third password you might share with 1 or 2 more people, your wife or children when it is relivent. The 4th password you take to your grave with you. You tell no one, not even your spouse.
Now there is a ideal. Wonder how difficult it would be to take out the motor/battery assembly and put in one from say a weedeater or a chainsaw?
I imagine you couldn't remove the electric motor and it still work but I don't think it would stop you from replacing the battery with a small generator and engine. You might even be able to get some decent range out of the bitch.