Do they really, honestly think that I'm gonna fork over one, single, red cent to them over this? And just what do they propose to do when we all refuse to un-ass any $$ when the greedy scum-bags demand we pay them??
I really would like to know what is going on in their pointy little heads over this.. They can't really belive that we are all going to sit down and write them a check, each and every one of us. We'll just keep using it, for free, as it was intended to be, and laugh them out of existence as they file fro chapter 13..
This is just TOO stupid to be for real. If it is, this is beyond sad. I never did figure out why people read papers and magazines on the toilet. Just get it over with, don't camp out in there...
Then again, the toilet is the appropriate place to use M$ products..
I tried this. When I am not in a room, it sits there getting hot, when I enter the room it takes too long to cool down. Besides, this is scheme works best when you keep all the doors closed. I leave all the doors open so my dog can go where ever he wants to.
I ended up deciding that this was not so cool after all. I prefer a remote control so that I can open and close ducts from anywhere.
Say I am laying on the couch watching TV and decide it's time for bed. I just hit a button on the remote about 10 minutes before I get up to open up and cool down the bedroom. This works better, closing and opening vents manually (so to speak).
In the end you will discover that automation is not always the best thing.
Besides, automation makes people lazy, and next thing that follows lazy is fat.. I know about that..
People throw old microwaves away at the curb all the time. Stop one day and pick one up and do an autopsy on it.
The microwave unit inside is a little metal canister with an antenna protruding from it. It rather resembles an LNB on a E* satellite dish Examine the power supply system and you will see that it's easy to gut one down to the minimal components needed to build a nukem ray gun...
Care though, it WILL cook you if you point it at yourself or others! Make sure to use a metal tube to sheild and direct the beam away from you!!
I do not have any bank accounts of any type, anywhere. I do not use banks at all. I live purely by cash and cash alone. Everything I own is paid for in full. I owe no one. I make all my payments either in cash or money orders in person or through the mail. [rant] When they do away with cash and force people to live by electronic transaction I will leave this country and move to another country, possibly a third world country where you can trade a pound of nails for 3 fish and a coil of rope for a case of bullets, where carrying a firearm openly in public is SOP.. Where you can openly carry a firearm in public is where you have TRUE freedom.. Only slaves are forbidden to own firearms..[/rant]
I turn my cell phone off until I need to use it.
I'll fry the RFID's or remove them. I won't own anything that has an RFID in it.
Mandrake 9.0 sucked. I had a LOT of trouble with it. But I stuck with it through thick and thin.
I set several friends up on it and they did pretty good but they left things alone as I set them up. They are NOT power users, very much n00bz..
I was forever power tweaking mine and it was hell. I told one friend, "Your sh*t works because MY sh*t is f*cked up"... In other words I am the guinea pig for everyone else.
I was so pissed with MDK 9.0 that I tried Suse 8.1 and it was totally screwed. Constant and FREQUENT lock up. No kernel panic, just rock hard lock ups. I gave up on Suse 8.1 after two weeks and by that time Mandrake 9.1 was out. I wiped my disks clean and started totally fresh with 9.1 and it's worked pretty darn good since then, very few problems for me and my friends love 9.1, they like the eye candy more than anything..
That aside, I *LIKED* Suse 8.1, when I could keep it running. It looked nice, it seemed pretty nice but it was far too flakey for me. I am looking forward to try 8.2 as I have a few spare machines I could try it on first.
But for now, I'm going to keep Mandrake 9.1 on my main #1 machine and yes, I will forever stay away from the.0's I should have remembered that lesson from the DOS days. I still have a factory original copy of IBM DOS 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc... I even have the tech reference manuals and the techinal repair manuals for PC, XT and AT's that I filched from a place I used to work as a tech, way back when..
Get a fat pipe broadband in and route it into a Linux box, then set a rack of switches for as many connects as you need.
Be your own ISP, sort of. You can admin the router and shape traffic, etc... With a good Linux package you can keep the peeps safe from hackers and if you see someone abusing the system from inside you can throttle them down, block ports, what ever. You make the rules.
DSL is just trash. Besides, this way the users only have to have cheap ethernet cards, can choose the OS they please, no special hardware or software required. It will work for everyone and all platforms.
Easy and cheap to install, maintain, setup, expand... Just like in an office...
I am running a server at my home on a cable modem (NOT $BC) and I use frames.
$BC decides to get nasty with me and send me evil letters threatening to sue me if I don't pay them $$$ or take my frames down.
I wipe my ass with the letter and send it back to them with a nice, brown, smelly, stain on it and inform them that they can go take a flying fsck at a rolling doughnut on a gravel road.
They continue to send me nasty-grams and I continue to return them, ass-wiped.
What do they think they can do to me? Send some sort of "enforcers" to take my server? I think not. I'll shoot them if they try it. Can you spell "heavily armed" ????
How do they propose to enforce this when they are met with armed resistence?? And I ain't talking sling shots and BB guns.....
$BC $UCKS.. Try and stop me... I'll do as I please...
I won't buy music at any price. But then again I don't download music either.
Come to think of it, I don't listen to music. I don't like ANY of it..
I just a cranky old bastard and I hate everything new.. Most "music" is trash anyway and the so called "artists" are degenerate scumbags that deserve a bullet in the head for polluting the minds of children, not a paycheck..
I am not bothered by such trivial crap as ads and popups. It is not an issue for me. Ads, popups, viruses, etc, are all things that bother OTHER PEOPLE but not *me*...
That's exactly why I switched to Linux. Thank you Linus, you did me a HUGE favor!!
Oh yeah, Warez? Serialz? What's that?? I seem to have forgotten...
"Funnily enough I think you'll find that many people do not think this is a good idea."
Maybe not, but it *IS* legal there.
Iraqi *LAW* allows private civilians to own fully automatic machine guns. The US has no right to go in and nullify *THEIR LAW* just because *WE* don't like *THEIR LAW*..
Iraq is Iraq and the US is the US. Iraq is *not* a territory or subburb of the US. US laws do not, can not and should not apply to Iraq or *any other country*.
When the US begins to impose US laws BY FORCE upon other countries then those countries are under US RULE and should consider themselves occupied and 0wnd...
First the *Israeli-run* antiquities looters lobby wants to "free" the trade of Iraq's heritage, then a US congresman introduces legislation that changes
Iraq's mobile phone standard from GSM to the American CDMA system and now Hillary *Rosen* of the RIAA wants to write the new "free" Iraq's copyright law and change it into one under which consumers have no rights.
Geez, what more "freedom" is in store for the Iraqi people? How about Diane *Feinstein* rewriting the Iraqi firearms laws from ones that allow gun
ownership to new "free" ones that ban everything more lethal than a potato peeling knife.
They are already kicking doors down searching for guns in homes and roadblocks. It's LEGAL (by Iraqi law) in Iraq for ANYONE to own an AK-47 machine gun.
Freedom New Style [TM] - Having an *alien* people run your affairs and tell you how you should feel about that.
We in the west should know we have tasted that freedom for decades. We learned how "outmoded" our old culture was and that we should be happy that there is a group of people from a *certain middle eastern region* who know best how to change it.
The Iraqi people don't know yet how "free" they're gonna be!
HAL, as in "2001" for one thing. You all know about that already.
The REAL THREAT of this is "them" using camera's to look at people from afar (or by whatever means) and eavesdropping on people when they can't get a microphone in..
You can be sure that H.L.S. will jump on this like white on rice...
I'm not at all in favor of the freenet thing, at least for me. I don't want someone using *MY* box to xfer or store kiddie porn, warez, or anything else that's illegal.
I'm OK with it being used to safe harbor sites and files for people in other countries that don't have any free speech but child porn and warez is illegal EVERYWHERE and it's WRONG. Not to mention, child porn has nothing at all to do with free speech, nothing at all. It's just sick, perverted, illegal and plain old wrong.
There is no one and no way that can convince me otherwise.
I had SBC DSL and it SUCKED. Badly. I constantly fought with them, they never got it to work right, had to unplug all but one phone just to get the modem to sync, very poor speed vs what was promised.
constant over billing, double and tripple billing, billing for installs that never happened, you name it, average over $100 a month in over billing, often worse than that.
Switched to RR and man it just smokes. That's all there is to it. All that FUD that SBC put out about your neighbors pulling the line down was just BS.
Cable is much, much, much faster and they don't rape you in the hiney every month like the DSL idiots do.
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Do they really, honestly think that I'm gonna fork over one, single, red cent to them over this? And just what do they propose to do when we all refuse to un-ass any $$ when the greedy scum-bags demand we pay them??
I really would like to know what is going on in their pointy little heads over this..
They can't really belive that we are all going to sit down and write them a check, each and every one of us. We'll just keep using it, for free, as it was intended to be, and laugh them out of existence as they file fro chapter 13..
Buh bye SCO, you really take the stupid-cake....
This is just TOO stupid to be for real.
If it is, this is beyond sad. I never did figure out why people read papers and magazines on the toilet.
Just get it over with, don't camp out in there...
Then again, the toilet is the appropriate place to use M$ products..
I tried this.
When I am not in a room, it sits there getting hot, when I enter the room it takes too long to cool down. Besides, this is scheme works best when you keep all the doors closed. I leave all the doors open so my dog can go where ever he wants to.
I ended up deciding that this was not so cool after all. I prefer a remote control so that I can open and close ducts from anywhere.
Say I am laying on the couch watching TV and decide it's time for bed. I just hit a button on the remote about 10 minutes before I get up to open up and cool down the bedroom. This works better, closing and opening vents manually (so to speak).
In the end you will discover that automation is not always the best thing.
Besides, automation makes people lazy, and next thing that follows lazy is fat.. I know about that..
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dude,
Clue.
Mobo/IRQ issues..
People throw old microwaves away at the curb all the time. Stop one day and pick one up and do an autopsy on it.
The microwave unit inside is a little metal canister with an antenna protruding from it. It rather resembles an LNB on a E* satellite dish Examine the power supply system and you will see that it's easy to gut one down to the minimal components needed to build a nukem ray gun...
Care though, it WILL cook you if you point it at yourself or others! Make sure to use a metal tube to sheild and direct the beam away from you!!
I do not have any bank accounts of any type, anywhere.
I do not use banks at all. I live purely by cash and cash alone. Everything I own is paid for in full. I owe no one.
I make all my payments either in cash or money orders in person or through the mail.
[rant]
When they do away with cash and force people to live by electronic transaction I will leave this country and move to another country, possibly a third world country where you can trade a pound of nails for 3 fish and a coil of rope for a case of bullets, where carrying a firearm openly in public is SOP.. Where you can openly carry a firearm in public is where you have TRUE freedom.. Only slaves are forbidden to own firearms..[/rant]
I turn my cell phone off until I need to use it.
I'll fry the RFID's or remove them. I won't own anything that has an RFID in it.
1984 is upon us.
Mandrake 9.0 sucked. I had a LOT of trouble with it.
.0's
But I stuck with it through thick and thin.
I set several friends up on it and they did pretty good but they left things alone as I set them up. They are NOT power users, very much n00bz..
I was forever power tweaking mine and it was hell.
I told one friend, "Your sh*t works because MY sh*t is f*cked up"... In other words I am the guinea pig for everyone else.
I was so pissed with MDK 9.0 that I tried Suse 8.1 and it was totally screwed. Constant and FREQUENT lock up. No kernel panic, just rock hard lock ups. I gave up on Suse 8.1 after two weeks and by that time Mandrake 9.1 was out. I wiped my disks clean and started totally fresh with 9.1 and it's worked pretty darn good since then, very few problems for me and my friends love 9.1, they like the eye candy more than anything..
That aside, I *LIKED* Suse 8.1, when I could keep it running. It looked nice, it seemed pretty nice but it was far too flakey for me. I am looking forward to try 8.2 as I have a few spare machines I could try it on first.
But for now, I'm going to keep Mandrake 9.1 on my main #1 machine and yes, I will forever stay away from the
I should have remembered that lesson from the DOS days. I still have a factory original copy of IBM DOS 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc... I even have the tech reference manuals and the techinal repair manuals for PC, XT and AT's that I filched from a place I used to work as a tech, way back when..
hack city..
HUGE abuse potential.
Get a fat pipe broadband in and route it into a Linux box, then set a rack of switches for as many connects as you need.
Be your own ISP, sort of. You can admin the router and shape traffic, etc... With a good Linux package you can keep the peeps safe from hackers and if you see someone abusing the system from inside you can throttle them down, block ports, what ever. You make the rules.
DSL is just trash. Besides, this way the users only have to have cheap ethernet cards, can choose the OS they please, no special hardware or software required. It will work for everyone and all platforms.
Easy and cheap to install, maintain, setup, expand... Just like in an office...
ROTFLMAO!!!
Uh, wait, this is scaring me!
I am running a server at my home on a cable modem (NOT $BC) and I use frames.
$BC decides to get nasty with me and send me evil letters threatening to sue me if I don't pay them $$$ or take my frames down.
I wipe my ass with the letter and send it back to them with a nice, brown, smelly, stain on it and inform them that they can go take a flying fsck at a rolling doughnut on a gravel road.
They continue to send me nasty-grams and I continue to return them, ass-wiped.
What do they think they can do to me? Send some sort of "enforcers" to take my server? I think not. I'll shoot them if they try it. Can you spell "heavily armed" ????
How do they propose to enforce this when they are met with armed resistence?? And I ain't talking sling shots and BB guns.....
$BC $UCKS..
Try and stop me... I'll do as I please...
I won't buy music at any price. But then again I don't download music either.
Come to think of it, I don't listen to music. I don't like ANY of it..
I just a cranky old bastard and I hate everything new.. Most "music" is trash anyway and the so called "artists" are degenerate scumbags that deserve a bullet in the head for polluting the minds of children, not a paycheck..
LOL!!!
Whoa, wait a minute, can they do that??
Uh, I would not put it past them trying something like that!!
Linux.
I am not bothered by such trivial crap as ads and popups.
It is not an issue for me. Ads, popups, viruses, etc, are all things that bother OTHER PEOPLE but not *me*...
That's exactly why I switched to Linux.
Thank you Linus, you did me a HUGE favor!!
Oh yeah, Warez? Serialz? What's that?? I seem to have forgotten...
Buh bye dumb ads and script kiddies!!
RIAA MP3 S.W.A.T. teams to mop up evil music swappers!
"Funnily enough I think you'll find that many people do not think this is a good idea."
Maybe not, but it *IS* legal there.
Iraqi *LAW* allows private civilians to own fully automatic machine guns.
The US has no right to go in and nullify *THEIR LAW* just because *WE* don't like *THEIR LAW*..
Iraq is Iraq and the US is the US. Iraq is *not* a territory or subburb of the US. US laws do not, can not and should not apply to Iraq or *any other country*.
When the US begins to impose US laws BY FORCE upon other countries then those countries are under US RULE and should consider themselves occupied and 0wnd...
First the *Israeli-run* antiquities looters lobby wants to "free" the trade of Iraq's heritage, then a US congresman introduces legislation that changes Iraq's mobile phone standard from GSM to the American CDMA system and now Hillary *Rosen* of the RIAA wants to write the new "free" Iraq's copyright law and change it into one under which consumers have no rights.
Geez, what more "freedom" is in store for the Iraqi people?
How about Diane *Feinstein* rewriting the Iraqi firearms laws from ones that allow gun ownership to new "free" ones that ban everything more lethal than a potato peeling knife.
They are already kicking doors down searching for guns in homes and roadblocks. It's LEGAL (by Iraqi law) in Iraq for ANYONE to own an AK-47 machine gun.
Freedom New Style [TM] - Having an *alien* people run your affairs and tell you how you should feel about that.
We in the west should know we have tasted that freedom for decades. We learned how "outmoded" our old culture was and that we should be happy that there is a group of people from a *certain middle eastern region* who know best how to change it.
The Iraqi people don't know yet how "free" they're gonna be!
HAL, as in "2001" for one thing. You all know about that already.
The REAL THREAT of this is "them" using camera's to look at people from afar (or by whatever means) and eavesdropping on people when they can't get a microphone in..
You can be sure that H.L.S. will jump on this like white on rice...
Hmmmm, flamebait or troll??
Tough call there, it can go either way..
They know.....
Simple.
1. Don't be drunk out of your mind, or at all for that matter.
2. Don't blog.
#1 Internet rule, "U keepa U mouth shut!" (with heavy Italian accent)
I'm not at all in favor of the freenet thing, at least for me. I don't want someone using *MY* box to xfer or store kiddie porn, warez, or anything else that's illegal.
I'm OK with it being used to safe harbor sites and files for people in other countries that don't have any free speech but child porn and warez is illegal EVERYWHERE and it's WRONG. Not to mention, child porn has nothing at all to do with free speech, nothing at all. It's just sick, perverted, illegal and plain old wrong.
There is no one and no way that can convince me otherwise.
Flame away baby, I can take it.....
I'll just use the DRM free kernels, thank you very much.
1984 is NOT an option..
I had SBC DSL and it SUCKED. Badly.
I constantly fought with them, they never got it to work right, had to unplug all but one phone just to get the modem to sync, very poor speed vs what was promised.
constant over billing, double and tripple billing, billing for installs that never happened, you name it, average over $100 a month in over billing, often worse than that.
Switched to RR and man it just smokes. That's all there is to it. All that FUD that SBC put out about your neighbors pulling the line down was just BS.
Cable is much, much, much faster and they don't rape you in the hiney every month like the DSL idiots do.