Who and at what address do I get send the bag of flaming dog poop for deciding to kill Dragon and Dungeon and resurrect them into the shambling undead thing that they are now?
My Daughter is 10 weeks old, but lets scale this up and say she was 10 Years Old instead.
Lets not.
When you have had a 10 year old you get to comment. When you have had a teen we might take you serious. But no, with a 10 week old you dont know shit about raising a kid, sorry.
she will not have a computer/game system (or TV for that matter) in her own room until she is 14 at least.
And that seals the deal. Good luck with that - in 14 years.
Really? Because you have so much understanding of a situation or a job that by merely watching a tape you will be able to judge what is going on? Here is a scenario for you:
6.5 hours of a cop sitting in his car, while it is parked, doing nothing but chatting with his cop buddies, calling his wife, and arranging for his weekend. What was he doing to earn his pay?
Your choices are:
Nothing
Monitoring traffic
Waiting for a search warrant
Waiting at a crime scene for the invetigators to finish up
So which is it? Being a government employee is not that different from being a private one. Do you complain that GE wastes your money by putting gold handles in the executive washroom with your hard earned light bulb dollars? 'No', you say 'because I chose to by those bulbs'. And you also choose to live here. You are more than welcome to move anywhere that doesn't require federal tax dollars as well. If you are going to advocate Big Brother only for government employees then you will get the government you deserve.
"for those who request it" mean people have a choice.
"...for now" FTFY. How long before it becomes: "What to you mean you don't have the" State Porn Blocker on?" Hell just look down a few articles: "Well Mr Jones, thank you for applying At GiantCorp, but it seems you elect to get porn at your home, and well, you won't be a good fit here." Yeesh, get a clue.
How about a recommendation then? I am looking for a good substitute for the old TSR Dungeon! game. Something with dungeon delving goodness pitched at the kid crowd. Got any thoughts?
individuals that memorize and repeat word for word an exact set of instructions or information. The few exceptions I see to this are usually in the Mathematics
uh? Math by Rote is making a come back because it worked so well.
You have got to be kidding me. Company X sells product Y. But to sell it Mr Z has to wash it first. Some A' keeps getting Y dirty. So Mr Z keeps washing, and washing and washing till he dies. So in your opinion A' is guilty of murder, but Company X, who let Mr Z work himself to death, never getting him an assistant or figuring out a better way to produce product Y goes scott free. Sounds to me the ones guilty of murder are the Bosses of Mr Z and Mr Z himself for being so dumb as to work himself to death.
As to your sign in front of the sore, you are partly right. It will keep out the unarmed and the armed with a knife crowd. But at the same time it will become a magnet for those that need to 'prove' themselves, and they will be heavily armed and with a purpose.
In fact a good chunk of my graduate studies dealt with seeds. I can hand you a set Mustard seeds. Each year I add one from the year before recursively - so you plant one this year, two the next (years one and two collection), three after that (years one, two and three collection), then four, etc, etc etc. So that at the end you have ten seeds from the original plant ten years ago, all the way to that same plant's seed this year.
Over time you will see the germination for that particular Mustard's offspring drop to zero. Maybe not in ten years - it is dependent on the plant, but it will happen. Then. Then some lady in Iowa is going to be digging through her great grandmothers root cellar and blow the roof off of the life of a seed. A tomato from colonial times, a spinach that looks like a bush. A corn that is a weed not a crop, a mustard her great-grandma grew.
Truth is we have wery little idea how to keep seeds. Everyone would like to believe that even if we (almost) kill our own species that our current plants will survive is smoking a biiiiig pipe. You may say sure - but if we bank a million seeds - post collapse people get to grow our best efforts. Except they don't. Because they are locked up where no one can find them, in areas that if they get exposed to the elements of the area or radiation or climate, rain, soil, that most of them will die. And if they can survive, why would you look there - you would look in the tropics, where things really grow. This whole thing is predicated on the belief that the people that survive will gather the seeds and become AG gods.
Truth is, if they are Modern Man (shortly after the Fall) They will have access to plants. If you expect MoleMen to come up and start an ag culture based on this storage, well, SciFi is your God.
Please allow me to introduce myself
Im a man of wealth and taste
Ive been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith
And I was round when jesus christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Oooooooh, my bad, I thought someone just wanted the lyrics. Sorry about that. Carry on.
Isn't it bad enough that they have to have some half dressed elf dancing on every table top in very bar in the game, but now you want them to be able to play '70s porn music to it as well? Chicka-bow-wow. Ugh.
Nor should it. It is a *WIN*modem. It always shocks me that people think they should work.
Linux didn't work with my USB DSL modem.
Linux does not work with my USB 3G modem.
Wow, they dont on my windows machine either, until I put drivers in. So you want unsupported hardware to work? Give Redmond a call and tell THEM that. What a shock, I mean I just bought a blender, and windows wont run it AT ALL. No wait, you want linux to support your card out of the box, well, you are right, and it wont run blenders either.
My X, at one point, did nothing but segfault when faced with an unknown graphics card.
My Windows doesn't even give me that.
Just last year, attempting to install Xubuntu on my old laptop resulted in mysterious installer crashes.
That you are using an old laptop and Xubuntu failed tells me that your laptop is not old, it is ancient. I have a 266Mh IBM laptop running xubuntu just fine. That you are trying it on a 10+ year old laptop tells me that you dont really know what you are doing. Guess what? Vista AND XP wont install on my Thinkpad either. WOW, they suck. Right?
When I did get it to work,....
Could it be that it was an old laptop?
Linux is not and will never be a viable alternative until the average user can...
The 'average user' can, I guess you cannot. Buy a pre-installed system. I have tossed linux at countless machines and the only one it failed at was a machine that a friend (an ME) thought that they knew what they were doing when they bought parts. He ended up buying such esoteric carp that even the windows drivers were flaky.
I *am* a technical person. But there are limits to my knowledge and thirst thereof.
You are no true nerd then, and that is fine. Then could you please stop playing at being one and then bitching about it? You want drivers? bitch to the manufacturers, not the linux folk. You are right there are more Windows drivers then linux ones. Why does this surprise you?
If you need me I will be digging up all of the Founding Fathers so we can send them to Gitmo. What a travesty. Its not revolution - its terror! What a joke.
It would be like trying to discuss or explain organic chemistry while denying the existence of the atom.
Yet oddly I can discuss organic chemistry while dismissing sub atomic particles. So as long as I take two steps I am fine, if i take only one, I am in trouble. Interesting.
Having been a bouncer and rent-a-cop I can tell you that I would rather have another bouncer at my back then Bruce Lee, and for just the reason that you were given, life experience. It's great that Bruce can kick the ass of any drunk you run into, but the Bouncer knows when to do it and Bruce will only know to do it after you have taken a few punches first. Worse, Bruce may decide that 'The Time Is Now' to start handing out whoop ass, when the Bouncer knows it is a 'tough guy' drunk about to wind down to a slobbering crying drunk in a minute or two. Give me life experience every time.
Wait, I get to choose to be 'Scum of the Earth' or an honest engineer? You made your bed, lie in it, gods know you won't talk me into it. Oh, and your Marketing Girls are morons, they have inflatable ones too - woopie!
What? this group you mean? Or perhaps you mean to talk about the Catholic church's views about Evolution? In any event the about the Church's views of sci-fi/fantasy here is a group that would like to disagree with you. Trying to pick on the Catholics for the lack of support of this sort of thing is either willfully ignorant or pure stupidity.
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You forgot "Get off my lawn!"
Who and at what address do I get send the bag of flaming dog poop for deciding to kill Dragon and Dungeon and resurrect them into the shambling undead thing that they are now?
When you have had a 10 year old you get to comment. When you have had a teen we might take you serious. But no, with a 10 week old you dont know shit about raising a kid, sorry. And that seals the deal. Good luck with that - in 14 years.
6.5 hours of a cop sitting in his car, while it is parked, doing nothing but chatting with his cop buddies, calling his wife, and arranging for his weekend. What was he doing to earn his pay?
Your choices are:
- Nothing
- Monitoring traffic
- Waiting for a search warrant
- Waiting at a crime scene for the invetigators to finish up
So which is it? Being a government employee is not that different from being a private one. Do you complain that GE wastes your money by putting gold handles in the executive washroom with your hard earned light bulb dollars? 'No', you say 'because I chose to by those bulbs'. And you also choose to live here. You are more than welcome to move anywhere that doesn't require federal tax dollars as well. If you are going to advocate Big Brother only for government employees then you will get the government you deserve.Sera
33 Hit Points? Hell my 4th level Honda Civic has almost 90 and ... oh, Horse Power ... never mind
How about a recommendation then? I am looking for a good substitute for the old TSR Dungeon! game. Something with dungeon delving goodness pitched at the kid crowd. Got any thoughts?
Sera
Spoken by a kid. I work at a junior college. This behavior infects the 18-20 set as well, and just as bad. It is a human thing not an age thing.
You have got to be kidding me. Company X sells product Y. But to sell it Mr Z has to wash it first. Some A' keeps getting Y dirty. So Mr Z keeps washing, and washing and washing till he dies. So in your opinion A' is guilty of murder, but Company X, who let Mr Z work himself to death, never getting him an assistant or figuring out a better way to produce product Y goes scott free. Sounds to me the ones guilty of murder are the Bosses of Mr Z and Mr Z himself for being so dumb as to work himself to death.
As to your sign in front of the sore, you are partly right. It will keep out the unarmed and the armed with a knife crowd. But at the same time it will become a magnet for those that need to 'prove' themselves, and they will be heavily armed and with a purpose.
I Was A Botanist That Dealt With Seeds.
In fact a good chunk of my graduate studies dealt with seeds. I can hand you a set Mustard seeds. Each year I add one from the year before recursively - so you plant one this year, two the next (years one and two collection), three after that (years one, two and three collection), then four, etc, etc etc. So that at the end you have ten seeds from the original plant ten years ago, all the way to that same plant's seed this year.
Over time you will see the germination for that particular Mustard's offspring drop to zero. Maybe not in ten years - it is dependent on the plant, but it will happen. Then. Then some lady in Iowa is going to be digging through her great grandmothers root cellar and blow the roof off of the life of a seed. A tomato from colonial times, a spinach that looks like a bush. A corn that is a weed not a crop, a mustard her great-grandma grew.
Truth is we have wery little idea how to keep seeds. Everyone would like to believe that even if we (almost) kill our own species that our current plants will survive is smoking a biiiiig pipe. You may say sure - but if we bank a million seeds - post collapse people get to grow our best efforts. Except they don't. Because they are locked up where no one can find them, in areas that if they get exposed to the elements of the area or radiation or climate, rain, soil, that most of them will die. And if they can survive, why would you look there - you would look in the tropics, where things really grow. This whole thing is predicated on the belief that the people that survive will gather the seeds and become AG gods.
Truth is, if they are Modern Man (shortly after the Fall) They will have access to plants. If you expect MoleMen to come up and start an ag culture based on this storage, well, SciFi is your God.
This might be great for Botany (and it is)
But Noah's Ark it isn't
Sera
Please allow me to introduce myself
Im a man of wealth and taste
Ive been around for a long, long year
Stole many a mans soul and faith
And I was round when jesus christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Oooooooh, my bad, I thought someone just wanted the lyrics. Sorry about that. Carry on.
Isn't it bad enough that they have to have some half dressed elf dancing on every table top in very bar in the game, but now you want them to be able to play '70s porn music to it as well? Chicka-bow-wow. Ugh.
No, it just feels that way when you work at Walmart.
I read your journal and...
If you need me I will be digging up all of the Founding Fathers so we can send them to Gitmo. What a travesty. Its not revolution - its terror! What a joke.
Sera
Having been a bouncer and rent-a-cop I can tell you that I would rather have another bouncer at my back then Bruce Lee, and for just the reason that you were given, life experience. It's great that Bruce can kick the ass of any drunk you run into, but the Bouncer knows when to do it and Bruce will only know to do it after you have taken a few punches first. Worse, Bruce may decide that 'The Time Is Now' to start handing out whoop ass, when the Bouncer knows it is a 'tough guy' drunk about to wind down to a slobbering crying drunk in a minute or two. Give me life experience every time.
odd - our generally clueless workers get it. On the rare case they don't it is usually a simple fix. Perhaps it is your infrastructure not your users?
Wait, I get to choose to be 'Scum of the Earth' or an honest engineer? You made your bed, lie in it, gods know you won't talk me into it. Oh, and your Marketing Girls are morons, they have inflatable ones too - woopie!
Isn't this what multiple profiles are for? Super fast switching would be nice this works well enough I think.
Sera
What? this group you mean? Or perhaps you mean to talk about the Catholic church's views about Evolution? In any event the about the Church's views of sci-fi/fantasy here is a group that would like to disagree with you. Trying to pick on the Catholics for the lack of support of this sort of thing is either willfully ignorant or pure stupidity.