when i was working in radio we kept records of what was transmitted for 6 months. this helped primarily in training, letting us see what we were doing right and/or wrong. it also helped get us out of hot water when some people called in to complain that we had said something that we didn't say.
lets face it folks, shit like that happens, and its good to have some kind of evidence to back you up. of course if the tapes prove that you were in the wrong you're in SERIOUSLY deep shit.
on the other hand, making the complaints process easier is doubleplusbad. of course for those of you who DO want to complain, please cut and paste the form below from http://www.hourwolf.com/rezod/fcccomp.html
M*E*M*O*R*A*N*D*U*M [TODAY'S DATE] TO: THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION FROM: _____ RE: INDECENT BROADCAST OF I was []horrified []appalled []shocked []_____ to the point of []dehydration []palpitations []urination []_____ by the []disgusting []salacious []blasphemous []_____ that aired _____ in _____ on _____.
I []vomited on my dog []spilled my whiskey sour []set the house on fire []_____ when I heard the word []uvula []conundrum []caca-doody []_____ and I'm sure many young children were exposed to []personal body parts []breast implants []penis enlargers []_____ and their heinous functions when they were openly []discussed []laughed about []endorsed []_____ by a studio audience obviously filled with []lunatics []extroverts []atheists []________________ and Dada Beatniks.
Suchetha
damned lameness filter keeps getting to me, so for your edification, some gilbert and sullivan
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General. I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's; I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous; I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes! Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
gads i remember when i was in uni (96).. we had this absolutely GORGEOUS full colour laser printer in one of the comp labs.. one day we're in the lab, and a REALLY bad burning smell starts flowing.. run around sniffing for the burning plastic.. finally traced it to the printer which was making moribund sounds.. opened it up to find strings of melted plastic EVERYWHERE..
turned out that someone had decided to print some plastic bags in it..
plastic.
bags.
let a drunken room mate use your computer to get on irc... we did.. and woke up from our drunkewn stupors to find
a. mIRC open to FIVE cybersex channels
b. 7 different cyber PM sessions
c. odd streaks on teh monitor
d. puke all over the keyboard that had eaten away the plastic membrane (puke is ACID)
e. roomie lying face down on the keyboard in a puddle of puke with his dick in his hand
i seem to be having problems installing plugins and themes. when i click the "install now" button on either a theme or plugin, nothing happens. i wiped everything and cleaned installed, still no dice. any ideas?
Years later, one in a string of careless owners jettisoned Artoo and Threepio over the deserts of Ingo. After such an unceremonious disposal, Threepio and Artoo finally found some responsible masters -- the speeder racers Jord Dusat and Thall Joben. The droids helped the racers win the Boonta speeder races.
During a short stint with the Intergalactic Droid Agency, Threepio and Artoo were assigned very odd jobs, including waiting tables at Doodnik's Cafe on Tyne's Horky. The droids found themselves on auction, and soon became the property of miner Jann Tosh. It was around this time that Threepio and Artoo became embroiled in the intrigue surrounding the ascendancy of Tammuz-an's royal ruler.
Threepio and Artoo came to be property of Mungo Baobab, a trader from the Manda system. After some adventuring in and around the Roon system, Threepio and Artoo again found themselves without a master before arriving at Kalarba.
There, the Pitareeze family took in the droids, and gave them a good home. The family had acquired considerable wealth from the development of a popular hyperdrive model. Despite living in their most comfortable surroundings in months, Threepio and Artoo still managed to find trouble. They had several run-ins with not-so-legitimate businessman Olag Greck on nearby Hosk Station. In one encounter, Threepio was nearly scrapped when he was sent to compete in a gladiatorial arena match after being mistaken for the assassin droid C-3PX.
After thwarting another of Greck's schemes, Threepio and Artoo were deputized by Unit Zed, security constable for Hosk Station. The two pursued Greck and became mixed up in the cutthroat rivalry between businessmen Movo Brattakin and Boonda the Hutt. Threepio, outfitted with modified programming, even became a tool of Brattakin's, leading a droid rebellion against Boonda. By caper's end, Threepio's newfound firebrand programming was returned to its original milquetoast form.
SOLDERING IRON!!! i'll have you know you young whippersnapper that when WE installed slakware we didn't have no SOLDERING IRON. we had to climb the slopes of Mount Doom, dodging balls of flaming brimstone, and poke sticks of metal into the lava to heat them up and BRING THEM BACK IN OUR BARE HANDS!!!
*koff*koff*
and we had to LIKE it too. damn youngsters today. no appreciation for how easy they have it
i had mods but i posted on this thread before so i can't mod him up. but he gave some REALLY good advice for all those who miss the google search in firefox.
i agree with you on that one. i REALLY loved that feature. it was SO damn simple open browser/tab type search term press the "down" key until you get "search on $search_engine" and hit enter.
i REALLY hope someone decides to bring it back. it made life so much easier for me, and along with tabbed browsing and popup blocking was one of the things that made the switch away from IE SO much easier
its nice in a "ooh i'm shiny buy me" kind of way. if you DO have the cash to pay for it (usd2200 - USD2700) i may even be a nice toy. but i guess for most people all this would be is primarily an entertainment unit and a secondarily a pda.
as the article states
Don't expect this to be a desktop replacement, but do expect it to be more than adequate for MS Office, email and web browsing as well as video playback and light gaming. It's truly a portable movie player in addition to being a full Windows PC.
of course if you put a lower footprint version of windows (say 2k) on it, it may handle things better. i should also PROBABLY run linux
but for me i would personally prefer a larger laptop for half the price (and i tend to put things down and forget them) or better yet a PDA for PDA work/email and a good portable DVD/VCD/MP3/CD player for entertainment. a 5" screen is just too small for my shortsighted eyes
of course this may be a big hit in the gadget crazy japanese market. but at the risk of getting a LOT of flaming i will ask "but what use is it? especially at that price!"
i am sure i will get a lot of responses, but i still think that this is a solution looking for a problem
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
#slackware on efnet 4-22-04 12:57 am EST -5.00
<mfbian_> how will you compare slackware and freebsd
<Cheethoe> apples and oranges
<mfbian_> fair enough
<`justin`> slackware = for people that have been molested freebsd = people that want to molest their mothers
<`justin`> openbsd = for people that probably wont ever get molested
<`justin`> netbsd = molesting of all minorities, and cock asians
<mfbian_> how about gentoo
<`justin`> I dont know ask khai
--> biggy (something@1Cust26.tnt1.columbus.in.da.uu.net) has joined #slackware
<`justin`> oh wait I do know
<mfbian_> you don't know anything
--> supergoad (~supergoad@pcp08611785pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.net ) has joined #slackware
<`justin`> mfbian_: gentoo = people that want to molest their mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, dogs, but can't get it up
actually i've found that you can read/program/game while your sigfig is on the fone with you, and STILL manage to do both well... just keep going uh-huh.. and keep an ear out for certain key words ("pregnant" is a major one) and just let it buzz past you. practice and you'll actually manage to get to the point where you can game and carry on a "significant" (at least to her it will be) convo with her at the same time.
just a few answers of the top of my head
more and more people are already living over 100 years of age
Social security will be restructured. and since the old will outnumber the young thanks to lowering birth rates, guess which way they'll be restructured.
Housing will probably start to revert to a more nuclear family, so us geeks can live as long as we want in our parent's basement
the environment will get better. if you have to live 100+ years in a fscked up environment, you'll make more of an effort to FIX it rather than leaving it for your kids to do
my $0.02, YMMV
how do you guys get rid of the sweat after biking.
i do 15 miles each way, and well i sweat a lot (its the tropics here dontcherknow). i used to go for a swim until they decided that the training squads needed it at the same time that i did and i didn't feel like fighting 100 people for a lane (i can do that on my bike thankyouverymuch)
so ideas? there isn't a place where i can shower and i REALLY don't like the "unfresh" feeling
it SHOULD scare the MediCorps. one reason i believe we will never see an AIDS cure from a corporation is because it is more profitable to treat it than to cure it
pure and simple. if you cure the person, or vaccinate him you don't get another cent from him, you TREAT him, and you get his money (and lots of it) for the duration of his life.
on the other hand, look at it from the Corp's point of view.. they spend millions-billions in r&d, if they do find a cure what do you think would happen to them. the corp may feel justified in asking for wahtever price the market will take, but the people would not stand for it. the GOVERNMENT would be forced to get involved and force the corp to drop the price to a "reasonable" amount through pressure (legal or otherwise).
however you can tell someone that an expensive "treatment" is not quite as damning. after all its not a cure, and you'll just live a little longer, and maybe the treatment won't work for you
just my $0.02 (but withinflation i think its worth a LOT less
Slashdot Mirror
can i get one of your invites PLEASE??? with sugar on top?? suchetha@helagaman.com usually finds me
when i was working in radio we kept records of what was transmitted for 6 months. this helped primarily in training, letting us see what we were doing right and/or wrong. it also helped get us out of hot water when some people called in to complain that we had said something that we didn't say.
lets face it folks, shit like that happens, and its good to have some kind of evidence to back you up. of course if the tapes prove that you were in the wrong you're in SERIOUSLY deep shit.
on the other hand, making the complaints process easier is doubleplusbad. of course for those of you who DO want to complain, please cut and paste the form below from http://www.hourwolf.com/rezod/fcccomp.html
M*E*M*O*R*A*N*D*U*M
[TODAY'S DATE]
TO: THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
FROM: _____
RE: INDECENT BROADCAST OF
I was []horrified []appalled []shocked []_____ to the point
of []dehydration []palpitations []urination []_____ by the
[]disgusting []salacious []blasphemous []_____ that aired
_____ in _____ on _____.
I []vomited on my dog []spilled my whiskey sour []set the
house on fire []_____ when I heard the word []uvula
[]conundrum []caca-doody []_____ and I'm sure many young
children were exposed to []personal body parts []breast
implants []penis enlargers []_____ and their heinous
functions when they were openly []discussed []laughed about
[]endorsed []_____ by a studio audience obviously filled
with []lunatics []extroverts []atheists []________________
and Dada Beatniks.
Suchetha
damned lameness filter keeps getting to me, so for your edification, some gilbert and sullivan
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus; I know the scientific names of beings animalculous: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's; I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous; I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies, I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes! Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
.. the pony
there has to be a pony
Suchetha
gads i remember when i was in uni (96).. we had this absolutely GORGEOUS full colour laser printer in one of the comp labs.. one day we're in the lab, and a REALLY bad burning smell starts flowing.. run around sniffing for the burning plastic.. finally traced it to the printer which was making moribund sounds.. opened it up to find strings of melted plastic EVERYWHERE..
turned out that someone had decided to print some plastic bags in it..
plastic.
bags.
Suchetha
let a drunken room mate use your computer to get on irc... we did.. and woke up from our drunkewn stupors to find
a. mIRC open to FIVE cybersex channels
b. 7 different cyber PM sessions
c. odd streaks on teh monitor
d. puke all over the keyboard that had eaten away the plastic membrane (puke is ACID)
e. roomie lying face down on the keyboard in a puddle of puke with his dick in his hand
Suchetha
its called linuKKKs
Suchetha
i seem to be having problems installing plugins and themes. when i click the "install now" button on either a theme or plugin, nothing happens. i wiped everything and cleaned installed, still no dice. any ideas?
Suchetha
at AMD
or at least the heat source is
Suchetha
no but my brother-in-law's ex-roommate's cousin visited there on a school outing.
Suchetha
In other words, an electric sheep
mmm electric sheep.. now where's my magnetic gloves and kneepads?
Suchetha
oh.. *pant* *pant* *pant* sorry.. *pant*pant* wrong number... *click*
SuchethaWest Addison, Chicago, Illinois, 60613 is the address for Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs. the joke is that in the movie The Blues Brothers Elwood Blues gives a policeman who stops him the address for wrigley field as his home address.
Suchetha
Suchetha
SOLDERING IRON!!! i'll have you know you young whippersnapper that when WE installed slakware we didn't have no SOLDERING IRON. we had to climb the slopes of Mount Doom, dodging balls of flaming brimstone, and poke sticks of metal into the lava to heat them up and BRING THEM BACK IN OUR BARE HANDS!!!
*koff*koff*
and we had to LIKE it too. damn youngsters today. no appreciation for how easy they have it
Suchetha
i had mods but i posted on this thread before so i can't mod him up. but he gave some REALLY good advice for all those who miss the google search in firefox.
thanks patik.
i agree with you on that one. i REALLY loved that feature. it was SO damn simple open browser/tab type search term press the "down" key until you get "search on $search_engine" and hit enter.
i REALLY hope someone decides to bring it back. it made life so much easier for me, and along with tabbed browsing and popup blocking was one of the things that made the switch away from IE SO much easier
Suchethaits nice in a "ooh i'm shiny buy me" kind of way. if you DO have the cash to pay for it (usd2200 - USD2700) i may even be a nice toy. but i guess for most people all this would be is primarily an entertainment unit and a secondarily a pda.
as the article states
of course if you put a lower footprint version of windows (say 2k) on it, it may handle things better. i should also PROBABLY run linux
but for me i would personally prefer a larger laptop for half the price (and i tend to put things down and forget them) or better yet a PDA for PDA work/email and a good portable DVD/VCD/MP3/CD player for entertainment. a 5" screen is just too small for my shortsighted eyes
of course this may be a big hit in the gadget crazy japanese market. but at the risk of getting a LOT of flaming i will ask "but what use is it? especially at that price!"
i am sure i will get a lot of responses, but i still think that this is a solution looking for a problem
Suchethaplay ogg on linux in a beowulf cluster?
i'm sorry i'm sorry please don't hit me any more
Suchetha
and Opera
lets not forget opera
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Suchetha
#slackware on efnet 4-22-04 12:57 am EST -5.00t ) has joined #slackware
<mfbian_> how will you compare slackware and freebsd
<Cheethoe> apples and oranges
<mfbian_> fair enough
<`justin`> slackware = for people that have been molested freebsd = people that want to molest their mothers
<`justin`> openbsd = for people that probably wont ever get molested
<`justin`> netbsd = molesting of all minorities, and cock asians
<mfbian_> how about gentoo
<`justin`> I dont know ask khai
--> biggy (something@1Cust26.tnt1.columbus.in.da.uu.net) has joined #slackware
<`justin`> oh wait I do know
<mfbian_> you don't know anything
--> supergoad (~supergoad@pcp08611785pcs.waldrf01.md.comcast.ne
<`justin`> mfbian_: gentoo = people that want to molest their mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, dogs, but can't get it up
original here
Suchetha
links pornzilla - http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/
Suchetha
*fap fap fap*
actually i've found that you can read/program/game while your sigfig is on the fone with you, and STILL manage to do both well... just keep going uh-huh.. and keep an ear out for certain key words ("pregnant" is a major one) and just let it buzz past you. practice and you'll actually manage to get to the point where you can game and carry on a "significant" (at least to her it will be) convo with her at the same time.
Suchetha
just a few answers of the top of my head
more and more people are already living over 100 years of age
Social security will be restructured. and since the old will outnumber the young thanks to lowering birth rates, guess which way they'll be restructured.
Housing will probably start to revert to a more nuclear family, so us geeks can live as long as we want in our parent's basement
the environment will get better. if you have to live 100+ years in a fscked up environment, you'll make more of an effort to FIX it rather than leaving it for your kids to do
my $0.02, YMMV
Suchetha
how do you guys get rid of the sweat after biking.
i do 15 miles each way, and well i sweat a lot (its the tropics here dontcherknow). i used to go for a swim until they decided that the training squads needed it at the same time that i did and i didn't feel like fighting 100 people for a lane (i can do that on my bike thankyouverymuch)
so ideas? there isn't a place where i can shower and i REALLY don't like the "unfresh" feeling
Suchetha
it SHOULD scare the MediCorps. one reason i believe we will never see an AIDS cure from a corporation is because it is more profitable to treat it than to cure it
pure and simple. if you cure the person, or vaccinate him you don't get another cent from him, you TREAT him, and you get his money (and lots of it) for the duration of his life.
on the other hand, look at it from the Corp's point of view.. they spend millions-billions in r&d, if they do find a cure what do you think would happen to them. the corp may feel justified in asking for wahtever price the market will take, but the people would not stand for it. the GOVERNMENT would be forced to get involved and force the corp to drop the price to a "reasonable" amount through pressure (legal or otherwise).
however you can tell someone that an expensive "treatment" is not quite as damning. after all its not a cure, and you'll just live a little longer, and maybe the treatment won't work for you
just my $0.02 (but withinflation i think its worth a LOT less
Suchetha