An unbiased observer might wonder about an agenda of slowing the OLPC project and the spread of open source in general.
An unbiased observer would see that Microsoft is trying to make its software available to those that might not otherwise be able to afford it. An unbiased observer might wonder if Microsoft is trying to be competative with one of it's biggest competators.
Seriously, what's wrong with you people. If Microsoft continued charging third world students $400 for it's operating system, there'd be a snarky comment about "Well, a monopoly can charge whatever they want and get away with it". If they cut costs, then its "Well, they're just trying to get them hooked! M$ is like a drug dealer loolllerskates!!!112".
Not blatant. They at least had the common sense to use Linux / Apache . The blatant astroturfing sites would have been registered to sballmer@notmicrosoft.com running IIS / Windows NT.
I don't know if you know this, but Microsoft hit #50 on the list of the "best 100 companies to work for" in Fortune 500 magazine. There's a strong push inside the company to acheive "work life balance"
The bismarck was rushed into service. There was a much worse 'bug' where if the rudder was disabled, the propellers weren't powerful enough to turn it. Which was fatal when a british torpedo hit the rudder, making it a sitting duck...
Remember when Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" and the end to all combat operations in Iraq? And how since then, there's been very little combat operations and the country has been a bastion of democracy?
The words "Free Software" and "Patent" were used in the same sentence. The loud screaming sound you hear the Richard Stallman going berserk. Don't worry, it happens every so often. Just stay out of the area in a direct line between Berkley and Redmond, and Berkley and Europe, and you should be safe.
While I do agree that the government had a duty to protect citizens from each other (within a reasonable limit), I am strongly against the government protecting people from themselves. If you can't handle walking, listening to music, and looking both ways before you cross, then it's probably a good thing you're leaving my gene pool. This level of protectionism only encourages incompetence because people will eventually get the mindset of "Well, the government hasn't banned it, so it can't be harmful".
the other thing that strikes me is how in the heck are they going to enforce this? More likely, it will be used by the cops as an excuse to haul someone in that looks suspicious, but they can't prove is doing anything wrong.
Hell, just default to ssh tunneling all traffic between all hosts. they won't be able to prove you downloaded anything, just that you pulled 500mb from port 22 of bigbazoongas.com. For all they can prove, you were aggressively reloading robots.txt.
{Cut to Strong Bad and Bubs standing at the stick, facing away from each other. Strong Bad has a CD labeled "The Goods", Bubs has a bag of cash labeled "The Payoff".}
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Or if I'm strapped for cash, I'll sell the email addresses to Bubs for use in his free weekly spamvertisements.
{Strong Bad drops the CD}
STRONG BAD: Oops! Lookit that! I dropped a CD of five-thousand email addresses!
And here I was thinking that the lack of support for powerpoints was a feature of google documents. If I have to sit through one more badly-animated snooze fest of some obscure corporate policy, I'm just going to bring my DS into work. And, since the last one I had to sit through was "Appropriate use of company resources during work hours"..... well take a guess as to how effective they were.
I can think of another useful application of my old iPod (with a battery that barely lasts 15 minutes) and a professional baseball pitcher / batter, but i don't think it's aerodynamic enough.
This nation has a serious priority issue. If even a small fraction of the money we're throwing away on Iraq were to go to things like space exploration, we'd probably have a fleet of Hubbles up there watching our first Mars landing. I'd blame this on the politicians, but someone had to vote them in. Maybe when China puts a man on Mars ahead of us will we wake up and start doing our part to advance the human race, even if it's for the wrong reason.
It was an old factoid that my history teacher gave us back in High School. Further investigation on my part leads that the only organization that cited numbers that high was the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment...
More likely, the number he gave us was the sum dead from a number of raids carried out on the city, or taken from the high end of some of the earlier estimates (Encyclopedia Colombia or Britanica), or some combination of the two. At any rate, the number of dead is much lower than I previously thought it to be. Live and Learn.
Conventional artillery takes a while to do it's work. Not to mention that South Korea probably has a ton of counter-battery artillery trained on every known artillery park within range of Seoul. A nuclear tipped missile, however, can flatten a city with only a few minutes notice, and it's likely that (If the North Korean military is smart) there are no stationary launch sites; When the word comes, a tractor-trailer will drive out of a mountain tunnel somewhere north near the border with China, shoot, and then retreat.
On top of that, there's a huge psychological effect that a nuclear bomb carrys that conventional attacks don't. Every schoolchild knows about the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Few know about the fire bombings on Dresden, even though more people were killed that night than in both Atomic bombings combined.
The first time anything worked, the test had to be a bit rigged. Now it's a test to see if another 60 billion can get us to hit a missile without the flashing light
Crap. "anti-anti-missile missile" should be "anti-anti-missile-missile missile", and "anti-anti-anti-missile-missile missile" should be "anti-anti-anti-missile-missile-missile missile". Preview next time, slep. Preview.
Hezbollah has announced they have developed an anti-anti-missile missile. "Take that, you zionist pigs!" said one spokesman. Currently Lockheed Martin is developing an anti-anti-anti-missile-missile missile to counter this new threat.
At first, I was thinking "Great, now all we can defend ourselves against all of those ICBMs that Al-Queda has laying around". But then I realized that there are countries that don't have the luxury of having a few thousand miles of ocean between them and their enemies. I think this technology would be great if deployed to South Korea, Japan, Tiawan, or Isreal. Nothing says "Screw you, Kim" like a system to completely nullify the technology that he's spent years and an equivalent of about his entire country's GDP to develop. Or a note from the IDF to hezbollah: "Can you please stop shooting missiles at us? I'm getting tired of re-loading the launcher".
"Psssst.... want some Open Office?"
"I don't know. My dad says to stay with Microsoft Office"
"Come on! It's free!"
"But at school, they said that OpenOffice is a gateway program, and that I'll soon be hitting the heavy stuff like Linux"
"This ain't linux! What's wrong with just trying just a little bit of OpenOffice"
"But my friend Jimmy started on just a little bit of OpenOffice, now he spends all of his time trolling forums and posting in Vi vs. Emacs threads. I wanted to play some Quake with him last night, and he said that he was too busy rebuilding his Gentoo system from Stage 1 with some really cool flags some guy gave him on the internet." *Starts Crying* "I don't want strange guys on the internet giving me flags!"
"what are you, some kind of wimp?"
"I'm going to walk away now. Friends don't let friends use Open Source"
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My mom gave me a good solution when I was being bullied on my 45 minute bus ride into Wilmington every day. After a month of trying to talk to the principal, bus driver, and teacher, she just told me "Next time he touches you, just punch him". Never had any trouble from him again. Best part was in the Principal's office.
"Your son should know that lying will get his suspension extended. he keeps saying that you told him to hit the other child"
"Yes, that's correct"
"errrr...hmmm. Never got that one before"
Of course, these days, I would have been expelled, and my mother brought up on "conspiracy to commit assault" charges, while the jackass on the bus that was bullying would have just picked a new target.
there should be a teacher there to protect kids on the playground, but past a certain point, kids need to learn to stand up for themselves. When they get into the world, there will always be people that will attempt to bully them, whether it's their boss trying to get them to work unpaid overtime, or any one of a hundred other things in life. If they spent their childhood running to a hug consoler, they'll never know how to handle it in real life.
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An unbiased observer would see that Microsoft is trying to make its software available to those that might not otherwise be able to afford it. An unbiased observer might wonder if Microsoft is trying to be competative with one of it's biggest competators.
Seriously, what's wrong with you people. If Microsoft continued charging third world students $400 for it's operating system, there'd be a snarky comment about "Well, a monopoly can charge whatever they want and get away with it". If they cut costs, then its "Well, they're just trying to get them hooked! M$ is like a drug dealer loolllerskates!!!112".
Unless we could impeach Cheney at the same time, the best argument against impeaching Bush is "President Cheney".
Not blatant. They at least had the common sense to use Linux / Apache . The blatant astroturfing sites would have been registered to sballmer@notmicrosoft.com running IIS / Windows NT.
I don't know if you know this, but Microsoft hit #50 on the list of the "best 100 companies to work for" in Fortune 500 magazine. There's a strong push inside the company to acheive "work life balance"
The bismarck was rushed into service. There was a much worse 'bug' where if the rudder was disabled, the propellers weren't powerful enough to turn it. Which was fatal when a british torpedo hit the rudder, making it a sitting duck...
I'm an enchanter and I'm in a chatty guild, but I don't think that I'm a casual player
Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing.
I hope that helps
The words "Free Software" and "Patent" were used in the same sentence. The loud screaming sound you hear the Richard Stallman going berserk. Don't worry, it happens every so often. Just stay out of the area in a direct line between Berkley and Redmond, and Berkley and Europe, and you should be safe.
the other thing that strikes me is how in the heck are they going to enforce this? More likely, it will be used by the cops as an excuse to haul someone in that looks suspicious, but they can't prove is doing anything wrong.
Hell, just default to ssh tunneling all traffic between all hosts. they won't be able to prove you downloaded anything, just that you pulled 500mb from port 22 of bigbazoongas.com. For all they can prove, you were aggressively reloading robots.txt.
STRONG BAD: {voiceover} Or if I'm strapped for cash, I'll sell the email addresses to Bubs for use in his free weekly spamvertisements.
{Strong Bad drops the CD}
STRONG BAD: Oops! Lookit that! I dropped a CD of five-thousand email addresses!
{Bubs throws the bag of money on the ground}
BUBS: Whoops! I dropped a quarter for each one!
http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/unused_emails
And here I was thinking that the lack of support for powerpoints was a feature of google documents. If I have to sit through one more badly-animated snooze fest of some obscure corporate policy, I'm just going to bring my DS into work. And, since the last one I had to sit through was "Appropriate use of company resources during work hours"..... well take a guess as to how effective they were.
Even better: host the blog on one of your old company's servers for a nice touch of irony.
I can think of another useful application of my old iPod (with a battery that barely lasts 15 minutes) and a professional baseball pitcher / batter, but i don't think it's aerodynamic enough.
This nation has a serious priority issue. If even a small fraction of the money we're throwing away on Iraq were to go to things like space exploration, we'd probably have a fleet of Hubbles up there watching our first Mars landing. I'd blame this on the politicians, but someone had to vote them in. Maybe when China puts a man on Mars ahead of us will we wake up and start doing our part to advance the human race, even if it's for the wrong reason.
The numbers will be inflated, but also deflated by places like the one where I work that have multiple FC6 hosts behind the same router.
More likely, the number he gave us was the sum dead from a number of raids carried out on the city, or taken from the high end of some of the earlier estimates (Encyclopedia Colombia or Britanica), or some combination of the two. At any rate, the number of dead is much lower than I previously thought it to be. Live and Learn.
On top of that, there's a huge psychological effect that a nuclear bomb carrys that conventional attacks don't. Every schoolchild knows about the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Few know about the fire bombings on Dresden, even though more people were killed that night than in both Atomic bombings combined.
The first time anything worked, the test had to be a bit rigged. Now it's a test to see if another 60 billion can get us to hit a missile without the flashing light
Crap. "anti-anti-missile missile" should be "anti-anti-missile-missile missile", and "anti-anti-anti-missile-missile missile" should be "anti-anti-anti-missile-missile-missile missile". Preview next time, slep. Preview.
Hezbollah has announced they have developed an anti-anti-missile missile. "Take that, you zionist pigs!" said one spokesman. Currently Lockheed Martin is developing an anti-anti-anti-missile-missile missile to counter this new threat.
At first, I was thinking "Great, now all we can defend ourselves against all of those ICBMs that Al-Queda has laying around". But then I realized that there are countries that don't have the luxury of having a few thousand miles of ocean between them and their enemies. I think this technology would be great if deployed to South Korea, Japan, Tiawan, or Isreal. Nothing says "Screw you, Kim" like a system to completely nullify the technology that he's spent years and an equivalent of about his entire country's GDP to develop. Or a note from the IDF to hezbollah: "Can you please stop shooting missiles at us? I'm getting tired of re-loading the launcher".
"I don't know. My dad says to stay with Microsoft Office"
"Come on! It's free!"
"But at school, they said that OpenOffice is a gateway program, and that I'll soon be hitting the heavy stuff like Linux"
"This ain't linux! What's wrong with just trying just a little bit of OpenOffice"
"But my friend Jimmy started on just a little bit of OpenOffice, now he spends all of his time trolling forums and posting in Vi vs. Emacs threads. I wanted to play some Quake with him last night, and he said that he was too busy rebuilding his Gentoo system from Stage 1 with some really cool flags some guy gave him on the internet." *Starts Crying* "I don't want strange guys on the internet giving me flags!"
"what are you, some kind of wimp?"
"I'm going to walk away now. Friends don't let friends use Open Source"
This message brought to you by Open Source Abuse Resistance Education. Just say no to Open Source
"Your son should know that lying will get his suspension extended. he keeps saying that you told him to hit the other child"
"Yes, that's correct"
"errrr...hmmm. Never got that one before"
Of course, these days, I would have been expelled, and my mother brought up on "conspiracy to commit assault" charges, while the jackass on the bus that was bullying would have just picked a new target.
there should be a teacher there to protect kids on the playground, but past a certain point, kids need to learn to stand up for themselves. When they get into the world, there will always be people that will attempt to bully them, whether it's their boss trying to get them to work unpaid overtime, or any one of a hundred other things in life. If they spent their childhood running to a hug consoler, they'll never know how to handle it in real life.