Not defending the teachers (aka bozos) but when we were given the "air raid" signal --- we were never told if it was a drill or not. We treated each event the same way (just like Tommy Turtle told us to ).
Having drills is a good thing, I think everyone should understand practicing for various events is helpful (be it a natural or man-made mess). I don't think they thought things through very clearly (what if some of the students had reacted ala Flight 93, for example).
I saw the headline and thought.... oh, we have countries sympathetic or turning a blind eye to "HIGH SEAS NAVAL" piracy. Serious stuff, you know, with guns and RPGs... not a small family vendor stall with a DVD duplicator.
The word "piracy" has been hijacked by numbnuts....
Though the situation is much more complicated, we all know that soundbites sway the day....
I'll start calling Vista "Windows ME 2.0" when I discuss it with all the people and businesses who keep asking me about it.
Another poster astutely points out the "MS has you by balls" issue with XP (phonehome mothership ping) activation and rechecks when you want a patch. If push/shove erupts they could start winking out XP installations (sometimes even corporations do amazingly stupid things, yo?)
I take very good care of my win2k disks.... (and my ubuntu disks and my...)
I have a personal policy of allowing unintrusive ads into my view and punishing obnoxious ads (and not buying their products). Doubleclick is one of the few domains that is completely wildcarded into Oblivion by my adblocker for their behavior.
If the domain changes to "google.*".... I may just be on the hunt for another search engine, eh? Listen carefully, google-bots... right now, I've got no problem with google-ads and try to click through on anything that interests me. Change that model and you'll summon one of my less pleasant personalities:)
Lets also be clear that Viacom is just as much a "content provider" as Google is. In other words, they create NOTHING. Viacom is just another middleman between the artists and the viewers. In fact, since their products never make any money (see Viacom and others - accounting practices), they usually avoid paying out much that was earned to the artists (see various **AA member tactics).
I'm kind of the opinion that Google acquired Youtube to slam this to the mat and Viacom bit into it.
I suppose one could also argue that *this* is real entertainment as opposed to that other crap:)
Isn't it fascinating that the vast majority of rightwing bullshit talking points are coming from "Anonymous Cowards"? Maybe we should re-assign that to be "fascist thugs" after Mussolini's little unofficial minions, eh?
Halliburton is positioning itself for the incoming civil and criminal actions... they are spinning off all defense "support" contracts into a separate company (collecting all potential loss items into one bag) after already taking the profits. Two headquarters is, as a previous poster stated, inherently absurd unless you're expecting HQ#1 to be zerg'd. The US will be damned lucky if it gets a fraction of the completely missing billions of dollars back after all this is done.
What we have here are a few corporations (or actually a very small group of people of whom the Bushes and Cheneys are part) who have manipulated themselves into power, looted the US budget/treasury, damaged the governments ability to conduct oversight, and are now scampering out the door. Worse, they have fooled enough of the social and fiscal conservatives into following them for long enough to pull this scam. At this point, anyone supporting these hooligans are either embarrassed and defensive, have a financial stake in it,... or roadway gravel stupid.
(signed, former republican -- these people make Nixon look saintly)
Because (and I'm speaking as someone who's voted Republican probably since before many posters here were born and I'm going to fry my karma).... the Republican party need to spend a while in "time out" after the total fuck up they've pulled on the country between the corruption, the misrepresentation, and the disregard for the *rest* of the Bill of Rights. Both parties stink in their own ways, but at the moment I've had it with these fascist dipwads.
I'd throw you all my karma for that post if it wasn't buried in the swamp.... the puritanical views on drinking only serve to increase abuse (of course, having a decent mass transit system would also reduce drunk driving, eh?) -- joining in the birdflip from Oregon...
If the replacement OS breaks the applications that ran on the old OS... its the new OS that is broken unless the OS manufacturer published clear documentation on the application interface libraries and what had changed....
just ANOTHER reason not to blithely upgrade your OS without testing every application you care about beforehand... but of course they make that annoying as well with their install restrictions.
It looks like if I mess with Vista.. it'll be by building a new box with Vista on it and then carefully installing each program I care about from my old box and testing it (temporarily violating # of install limits, of course).
There's a very basic issue here: a significant portion of our population was apparently NEVER properly taught by their mother to PICK UP AFTER THEMSELVES. These types seem to have drifted in large part to the extractive industries and make up the "ugly consumer" base. They're now screaming and whining because they're being asked to clean up after themselves. They're also screaming and whining because they don't want to be part of the community -- they just want to take from it.
So if you see someone littering or leaving their table trashed after eating.... kill them, they're part of the problem:)
Though I've somewhat enjoyed playing the new NWN 2, I knew I was in trouble when after *first* installing it right after launch date - it had to download a multi-hundred *mega*byte patch... followed by two others in the first couple of weeks.
For that amount of byte transfer, they might as well have just saved the distribution and sold me a usage key to download over the net. People with dialup (still a large percentage of computer users thanks to telco failure to make good on promised deploys) are just fscking screwed in this environment.
I do have a satellite ISP connection... but the patch software for NWN 2 does not even have a resume feature...it restarts from scratch if the download fails or is interrupted. I blew through the Hughes Net "stupid cap levels" the first evening.
Never mind the horror of Steam, but at least it is able to resume (now if only it could throttle like torrent clients can).
I'd actually argue that the indifference arises from a few decades of our "fearless leaders" in Congress and the White House being absolute spazzes, grinches, and zealot idiots when it comes to science and space exploration. After a while, indifference is the safest emotional response. "Going to Mars, eh?" yeah yeah, sure sure. "Moon Bases, eh?" pbffffft
In my youth, I really sincerely planned on probably expiring somewhere near the Asteroid Belt (went to college in the mid 70s). I did work in NASA in the 80s... but after the Space Shuttle (the lamest camel ever constructed by strangled funds so each launch is a lot more amazing than Joe Sixpack realizes) and the ISS (so constrained by funds that it is basically a useless State Rest Stop in Space), I figure the first bases on the Moon will be an Indian/Japanese/Chinese venture and that my grandchildren will either have to immigrate to join in or go as lame American tourists. For anyone who whines about the expense: money spent on that "little adventure" in Iraq would have funded an amazing Solar System infrastructure. Hell, one day's expenditure in Human Services exceeds all the total research/science budget. Pardon me, I'm off to grumble and stew now...
I really hope they don't plan on *CHARGING* me for the byte count of those ads... and for that matter that they send me a courtesy paycheck for the extra time it takes to download ad dribble.
Basically my response is.... "ads?" no thanks the service on a 2 inch screen was iffy anyway so turn the web service off now.
You know... one can justify such bullshit all they want using terms like "publicly traded" and "answer to stockholders".... but if I had stock in a company and heard they had saved money by not doing oil-changes on their delivery trucks - I'd be selling that stock.
Treating your employees like shit just means whatever productivity you got *could* have been much much higher. The corporate concept is just fucking broken (for many more reasons than this one) and needs a serious overhaul (revolution, hang the bastards, whatever).
A poor defense coupled with an idiot judge who doesn't do his own homework and a moron plaintiff who can't manage their website....
Talk about rolling "1" on a 1d20 3 times in a row...
Internet broken, film at 11 - o wait, never mind we can't link to that now....
The government already has repeatedly shown us they're drowning in a sea of information. Imagine the number of reports that would be required to implement this and the sorts of morons who would be hired (or corporately outsourced) to interpret them. The enforcement would be a total disaster.
Ya know, I used to think McCain had a clue until about two years ago --- I can't even figure out what I'm supposed to call myself on the political spectrum anymore we've got so many dickweeds on both ends. Populist sentiments smell better when they make one fscking iota of sense. Maybe I'll use that libertarian two axis graph as a dart board to signify my "position of the day" from now on. I keep ranting at the survey people when they want me to label myself and my only choices are the obsolete "left-right" choices.
I completely agree with that... graphics are not the weak point in gaming anymore.
But I can visualize situations where some "must have" game-app will be designed with DirectX 10 (because Microsoft gave them buckets of money). Last time I paid attention DX10 was not going to be offered on XP, only on Vista. ah well, if NWN 2 pans out (module infinity) and I still have paper rpgs then we may witness a collective interwoven corporate mass suicide when (southpark ref) everyone goes outside to play:)
Yet another article that reminds me to get off my butt and convert everything in my house to Ubuntu except for the game machines. We each have two computers (one work, one game) and a few servers. They're all homebuilt.
The game machines I'll grudgingly leave as XPsp2 boxes... but it leaves the annoying thought that they'll force an upgrade to Vista down the road because the new games will require DirectX 10. At that point I may take up knitting.
But by leaving Bush where he is and letting him be Bush for two more years... the Republicans might have to actually dig up and run Jesus to win the 2008 prez election. By not impeaching him but running investigations and hearings about what the Halliburtons and the like looted and pillaged from the budget... they're just keeping all the spotlights trained on the target for the next two years. In case people aren't watching, the various Inspector Generals, GAO, and DoJ career prosecutors smell a feast of blood and they're in stealth ninja pursuit mode.
(not that I'm really fond of *ANY* party controlling both Houses and the White House).
You really *are* an idiot, aren't you? We wouldn't care if Winnie the Pooh won if he had stuffed the ballot box. It isn't a republic or a democracy. A leftist "commie" totalitarian governmment is just as nasty as the christofascist thugs in charge now. Neither possibility has anything to do with progressive or conservative philosophy and everything to do with removing the people's choice. The system is broken and it just so happens the Republicans are in the chute right now.
I am so tired of people who support their "leaders" no matter how rotted and corrupt they are.
Omigod, we must be brothers!!! Your mother is my mother!
Actually, I think your mother is most of my relatives to whom I rarely speak to anymore because of such a profound lack of critical thinking skills.
Purely a guess but it doesn't appear to be age related because I'll bet your mother is near my age (~49), so the insanity cuts across generations.
There are any number of useful applications for this besides f**king marketing logo banners... but I have to admit the first thing I thought of was "the ultimate tshirt" with my sarcastic "message of the day" on it.
Now thinkgeek can sell memory modules for shirts after the actual shirt gets sold (after which the hacks would fly).
Lets see, I've been using the Internet since the hosts file was all there was (no DNS) and it had to be copied across the network a lot. I guess that makes me a Web Veteran and I can state with confidence that The Independent is blowing smoke out of their ass. This is basic good old tradition trademark protection.... it doesn't even need the word "internet" to make it "different".
Obviously the "right" to be stupid will eventually cause our entire civilization to collapse eventually.... we should never have locked up the tigers....
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Not defending the teachers (aka bozos) but when we were given the "air raid" signal --- we were never told if it was a drill or not. We treated each event the same way (just like Tommy Turtle told us to ). Having drills is a good thing, I think everyone should understand practicing for various events is helpful (be it a natural or man-made mess). I don't think they thought things through very clearly (what if some of the students had reacted ala Flight 93, for example).
I saw the headline and thought.... oh, we have countries sympathetic or turning a blind eye to "HIGH SEAS NAVAL" piracy. Serious stuff, you know, with guns and RPGs ... not a small family vendor stall with a DVD duplicator.
The word "piracy" has been hijacked by numbnuts....
Though the situation is much more complicated, we all know that soundbites sway the day.... I'll start calling Vista "Windows ME 2.0" when I discuss it with all the people and businesses who keep asking me about it. Another poster astutely points out the "MS has you by balls" issue with XP (phonehome mothership ping) activation and rechecks when you want a patch. If push/shove erupts they could start winking out XP installations (sometimes even corporations do amazingly stupid things, yo?) I take very good care of my win2k disks.... (and my ubuntu disks and my ...)
I have a personal policy of allowing unintrusive ads into my view and punishing obnoxious ads (and not buying their products). Doubleclick is one of the few domains that is completely wildcarded into Oblivion by my adblocker for their behavior.
.... I may just be on the hunt for another search engine, eh? :)
If the domain changes to "google.*"
Listen carefully, google-bots... right now, I've got no problem with google-ads and try to click through on anything that interests me. Change that model and you'll summon one of my less pleasant personalities
Lets also be clear that Viacom is just as much a "content provider" as Google is. In other words, they create NOTHING. Viacom is just another middleman between the artists and the viewers. In fact, since their products never make any money (see Viacom and others - accounting practices), they usually avoid paying out much that was earned to the artists (see various **AA member tactics). I'm kind of the opinion that Google acquired Youtube to slam this to the mat and Viacom bit into it. I suppose one could also argue that *this* is real entertainment as opposed to that other crap :)
Isn't it fascinating that the vast majority of rightwing bullshit talking points are coming from "Anonymous Cowards"? Maybe we should re-assign that to be "fascist thugs" after Mussolini's little unofficial minions, eh? Halliburton is positioning itself for the incoming civil and criminal actions... they are spinning off all defense "support" contracts into a separate company (collecting all potential loss items into one bag) after already taking the profits. Two headquarters is, as a previous poster stated, inherently absurd unless you're expecting HQ#1 to be zerg'd. The US will be damned lucky if it gets a fraction of the completely missing billions of dollars back after all this is done. What we have here are a few corporations (or actually a very small group of people of whom the Bushes and Cheneys are part) who have manipulated themselves into power, looted the US budget/treasury, damaged the governments ability to conduct oversight, and are now scampering out the door. Worse, they have fooled enough of the social and fiscal conservatives into following them for long enough to pull this scam. At this point, anyone supporting these hooligans are either embarrassed and defensive, have a financial stake in it, ... or roadway gravel stupid.
(signed, former republican -- these people make Nixon look saintly)
Because (and I'm speaking as someone who's voted Republican probably since before many posters here were born and I'm going to fry my karma) .... the Republican party need to spend a while in "time out" after the total fuck up they've pulled on the country between the corruption, the misrepresentation, and the disregard for the *rest* of the Bill of Rights. Both parties stink in their own ways, but at the moment I've had it with these fascist dipwads.
I'd throw you all my karma for that post if it wasn't buried in the swamp.... the puritanical views on drinking only serve to increase abuse (of course, having a decent mass transit system would also reduce drunk driving, eh?) -- joining in the birdflip from Oregon...
If the replacement OS breaks the applications that ran on the old OS... its the new OS that is broken unless the OS manufacturer published clear documentation on the application interface libraries and what had changed.... just ANOTHER reason not to blithely upgrade your OS without testing every application you care about beforehand... but of course they make that annoying as well with their install restrictions. It looks like if I mess with Vista.. it'll be by building a new box with Vista on it and then carefully installing each program I care about from my old box and testing it (temporarily violating # of install limits, of course).
Of course, *every* human being is an idiotic or dumb at some random instant in time... the trick is not to be dumb "in front a tiger".
There's a very basic issue here: a significant portion of our population was apparently NEVER properly taught by their mother to PICK UP AFTER THEMSELVES. These types seem to have drifted in large part to the extractive industries and make up the "ugly consumer" base. They're now screaming and whining because they're being asked to clean up after themselves. They're also screaming and whining because they don't want to be part of the community -- they just want to take from it. So if you see someone littering or leaving their table trashed after eating.... kill them, they're part of the problem :)
Though I've somewhat enjoyed playing the new NWN 2, I knew I was in trouble when after *first* installing it right after launch date - it had to download a multi-hundred *mega*byte patch... followed by two others in the first couple of weeks. For that amount of byte transfer, they might as well have just saved the distribution and sold me a usage key to download over the net. People with dialup (still a large percentage of computer users thanks to telco failure to make good on promised deploys) are just fscking screwed in this environment. I do have a satellite ISP connection ... but the patch software for NWN 2 does not even have a resume feature ...it restarts from scratch if the download fails or is interrupted. I blew through the Hughes Net "stupid cap levels" the first evening.
Never mind the horror of Steam, but at least it is able to resume (now if only it could throttle like torrent clients can).
I'd actually argue that the indifference arises from a few decades of our "fearless leaders" in Congress and the White House being absolute spazzes, grinches, and zealot idiots when it comes to science and space exploration. After a while, indifference is the safest emotional response. "Going to Mars, eh?" yeah yeah, sure sure. "Moon Bases, eh?" pbffffft In my youth, I really sincerely planned on probably expiring somewhere near the Asteroid Belt (went to college in the mid 70s). I did work in NASA in the 80s... but after the Space Shuttle (the lamest camel ever constructed by strangled funds so each launch is a lot more amazing than Joe Sixpack realizes) and the ISS (so constrained by funds that it is basically a useless State Rest Stop in Space), I figure the first bases on the Moon will be an Indian/Japanese/Chinese venture and that my grandchildren will either have to immigrate to join in or go as lame American tourists. For anyone who whines about the expense: money spent on that "little adventure" in Iraq would have funded an amazing Solar System infrastructure. Hell, one day's expenditure in Human Services exceeds all the total research/science budget. Pardon me, I'm off to grumble and stew now...
I really hope they don't plan on *CHARGING* me for the byte count of those ads... and for that matter that they send me a courtesy paycheck for the extra time it takes to download ad dribble. Basically my response is.... "ads?" no thanks the service on a 2 inch screen was iffy anyway so turn the web service off now.
You know... one can justify such bullshit all they want using terms like "publicly traded" and "answer to stockholders" .... but if I had stock in a company and heard they had saved money by not doing oil-changes on their delivery trucks - I'd be selling that stock.
Treating your employees like shit just means whatever productivity you got *could* have been much much higher. The corporate concept is just fucking broken (for many more reasons than this one) and needs a serious overhaul (revolution, hang the bastards, whatever).
A poor defense coupled with an idiot judge who doesn't do his own homework and a moron plaintiff who can't manage their website ....
Talk about rolling "1" on a 1d20 3 times in a row...
Internet broken, film at 11 - o wait, never mind we can't link to that now....
The government already has repeatedly shown us they're drowning in a sea of information. Imagine the number of reports that would be required to implement this and the sorts of morons who would be hired (or corporately outsourced) to interpret them. The enforcement would be a total disaster. Ya know, I used to think McCain had a clue until about two years ago --- I can't even figure out what I'm supposed to call myself on the political spectrum anymore we've got so many dickweeds on both ends. Populist sentiments smell better when they make one fscking iota of sense. Maybe I'll use that libertarian two axis graph as a dart board to signify my "position of the day" from now on. I keep ranting at the survey people when they want me to label myself and my only choices are the obsolete "left-right" choices.
I completely agree with that ... graphics are not the weak point in gaming anymore.
But I can visualize situations where some "must have" game-app will be designed with DirectX 10 (because Microsoft gave them buckets of money). Last time I paid attention DX10 was not going to be offered on XP, only on Vista. ah well, if NWN 2 pans out (module infinity) and I still have paper rpgs then we may witness a collective interwoven corporate mass suicide when (southpark ref) everyone goes outside to play :)
Yet another article that reminds me to get off my butt and convert everything in my house to Ubuntu except for the game machines. We each have two computers (one work, one game) and a few servers. They're all homebuilt. The game machines I'll grudgingly leave as XPsp2 boxes ... but it leaves the annoying thought that they'll force an upgrade to Vista down the road because the new games will require DirectX 10. At that point I may take up knitting.
But by leaving Bush where he is and letting him be Bush for two more years... the Republicans might have to actually dig up and run Jesus to win the 2008 prez election. By not impeaching him but running investigations and hearings about what the Halliburtons and the like looted and pillaged from the budget ... they're just keeping all the spotlights trained on the target for the next two years. In case people aren't watching, the various Inspector Generals, GAO, and DoJ career prosecutors smell a feast of blood and they're in stealth ninja pursuit mode.
(not that I'm really fond of *ANY* party controlling both Houses and the White House).
You really *are* an idiot, aren't you? We wouldn't care if Winnie the Pooh won if he had stuffed the ballot box. It isn't a republic or a democracy. A leftist "commie" totalitarian governmment is just as nasty as the christofascist thugs in charge now. Neither possibility has anything to do with progressive or conservative philosophy and everything to do with removing the people's choice. The system is broken and it just so happens the Republicans are in the chute right now.
I am so tired of people who support their "leaders" no matter how rotted and corrupt they are.
Omigod, we must be brothers!!! Your mother is my mother! Actually, I think your mother is most of my relatives to whom I rarely speak to anymore because of such a profound lack of critical thinking skills. Purely a guess but it doesn't appear to be age related because I'll bet your mother is near my age (~49), so the insanity cuts across generations.
There are any number of useful applications for this besides f**king marketing logo banners... but I have to admit the first thing I thought of was "the ultimate tshirt" with my sarcastic "message of the day" on it. Now thinkgeek can sell memory modules for shirts after the actual shirt gets sold (after which the hacks would fly).
Lets see, I've been using the Internet since the hosts file was all there was (no DNS) and it had to be copied across the network a lot. I guess that makes me a Web Veteran and I can state with confidence that The Independent is blowing smoke out of their ass. This is basic good old tradition trademark protection .... it doesn't even need the word "internet" to make it "different".
Obviously the "right" to be stupid will eventually cause our entire civilization to collapse eventually.... we should never have locked up the tigers....