Ya know, you made my day. I build computers for friends on the side and I have always given them what they want regardless of the legality of the situation. And recently I have finally gotten sick of it. Enough. You want a PC, fine I can build you a great one - and you are going to get a free OS and a free OSS office suite. Oh? you want MS stuff - then shell out the extra cash, I will gladly install whatever you want. But you made the point I have been feeling for a while now thank you.
Even if you don't agree with my assessment of the Bush administration's success in the war on terror, look no farther than the enemies. Hamas is handing out free copies of Fahrenheit 9/11!
You see it one way - I see it as an enemy handing out material that shows just how mutch of a boob the President is - but I would really enjoy knowing why you think they are handing it out.
You know I was asked by some republican friends of mine about Zell Miller's speech at the convention, my reply was - "It is too bad that the Rupublican Party has been beaten by terrorists." Just like you right now they were sputtering "W-W-WHAT?!" All I have heard from the right it terror, Terror, TERROR! All I hear from the right is how scared they are - despite the fact that this same bunch has been blowing crap up for years all across the globe - including the U.S. Islamic Extremeism existed before George Bush and 9/11 and it will be here a long time after he is gone. Far from winning the "War" on terror 'W' is creating new converts daily. Remember when Napster was the King of music sharing and the RIAA went after them? Everyone said "If they had only talked to them, used them - then they could have controlled the market" - but no, we understood that for every Napster you smash two will rise up to take it's place. The same is true of the islamic extremeists. Was Northern Ireland won by force of arms - or by negotiation? Was Chechnya won by force of arms? Has Afganistan been been won in the 3 years that we have been there? The truth of the matter is that the world has changed since it was as easy as sending in an army and having a defeated people kow-tow to you after they have been beaten. One thing that I always find interesting is how Republicans look at the world through 1950's tinted glasses. The world has changed greatly and sending in the troops needs to be a last resort, and in Iraq it wasn't even close to being a last resort. Why didn't George Senior go in? Have you ever read his reasoning as to why the troops pulled up short 10 years ago? the same reasons apply today.
I pride myself at my objectivity--especially with my politics... Kofi Annan and his band of dictators.
I don't even know where to begin with that. Throwing away the organization that helped keep the world from being a glowing radioactive heap just because it doesnt want one half invading the other is just plain odd. The UN does many many good things and this kind of "New World Order" stuff never ceases to amaze me.
Ted Kennedy less than a week ago likened a vote for Bush to a vote for a nuclear bomb in a major American city.
Well, I will tell you something from the left then - The president and Dick Cheaney have been (from our perspective) been lobing the same grenade at Kerry and Co since day 1. If you want to be outraged by that kind of statement (and you should) - get in line.
Fun chat though - keep up the fight! - even if I don't agree with you it is the discourse that matters the most.
And even if he went crazy in office, he'd only be there for, at most, 4 years.
See there are two problems here.
The first is that the there is a known fact that a second term President has nothing to lose and so is willing to push all his craziest stuff. This is not only a Republican issue, ask any good Republican about Clintons second term, or even better Ronnie's.
The second is that I, a person who is so liberal that it would make your teeth hurt, has many (many, many it seems:() very conservative (btw, you def, not mine, by mine...well...) friends have heard them say the following "Well, he (quote [include finger motions]) wasn't elected(/quote) Then it is only his first term right?? HUGE laughter ensues.
And as a Liberal of the First Stripe I will tell you this; we are scared of the "Patriot Act" the Eternal "War on Terror" and the loss of life in Iraq - on who ever's side. We are Dismayed at the sigle mindedness of the President, and see his "Stedfastness" as ignorance. We see Big Oil and $money$ everywhere - and it scares us. The Bush White House has done nothing to ally those fears while chuckleing about them under thier collective breath. He walked into office wanting this war and drummed up a reason - or at least that is what two of his closest advisors have said. His White House exposed an Agent for political backlash, his record as a military man is suspect. All of this bothers us, and we want it talked about, the Administration will not, "All is Good" is what they say and all we hear. From Revolution to Iraq, mine is the only generation of my family that has never gone to battle for the USA - I was born at the wrong time it seems, I have a nephew and a good friend on the ground in Iraq - I heard it said on the radio that this war is this generation's Vietnam - the other guy corrected him - he said 'No, this is Isreals West Bank.'
I am an Armchair General (same thing as an armchair quarterback, but you have to worry about MRE's) I fought the war in Iraq 5 years before we went in - there was no way to win. Truth be told Bush Sr. has several quotes about Iraq - all of them right - look them up, some great statements about why you would *never* want to go into Iraq, - Jr. should have read them.
Sorry it was you, but I had to get that off my chest. Take Care.
Something the other posters missed I think is the fact that the US is LARGE. It is very little trouble to have family and friends move hundreds of miles away. My paerents retired from the east coast to the mid west about 4 hours from me. That works out to be about 7-10 "local area"'s away. I have friends literally from coast to coast and in a country this large, and that is not an unusual thing.
I guess you have to expect that if you go against the group think.
It's a shame people can't discuss contrasting views without being modded down.
Perhaps if you wanted to discuss things rather than preach and disparage others beliefs it might help you out. Also using a term like "group think" isn't really very conversational is it now? Also, advocating a 10000:1 kill ratio wont make you many friends regardless of your political beliefs.
Dont give me projects that require the latest and the greatest. If I have to spend $300 to save $299 it isn't worth my time - though it may be really fun. If it costs $1200 - even if it involves sex it isn't going to be that fun. For example I have two old b/w gameboys lying about - tell me how to port the screens to my computer. I have tons of old hardware - tell me how to solder in flash ram from a thumbdrive into an old digital camera. Provide How-To's to the how to's, not everyone was born witha soldering iron in one hand and a Bridgeport in the other. Gimme anything that an old stick of RAM is good for. Or an old scanner, or zip drive. Have a case mod corner - I don't case mod at all - but I find them neet to look at. Starting in #3 start a basic course, a mid and advance course in electronics. Have something that involves gun powder, and another that involves a catapult..Get feature articles about cool stuff people have done, and &exactly& how they did them. Get advertisers that supply stuff - for example, short of Radio Shack I know of no place that will sell me a resistor - get me some adverts that will. Get that "Dark Tipster" guy from Tech TV to write a column. There, hell, do you guys need any actual help? Call me.
....is that Bill Gates gets his greatest wish. I hopethat both Windows and Office become uncopiable - I really do. I hope for this with all of my soul. MS is king because everyone got it for free - make them pay - and OS will rule the day.
Yup - what a pain. According to this Bill is making roughy 14 million a day. and this says (as of this writing) that Bill is worth 60 Billion Dollars. Add to this Microsofts War Chest and we can geusstimate this to be about a total of 110 Billion dollars. At 20 million a day Bill and Microsquish could "only" keep it up for ~5500 days. Now doleing it out only on business days, taking your weekends off, but no real vacation, real this means that Bill could only do it for about 20 years, this is assuming of course that Bill and Microsquish never makes another dime.
Bill was born in 1955, which when the well runs dry in 2024 he will 59 years old, not old, but hardly young anymore. So though it is a stretch, but I think it is possible to argue - that Bill could do this every day for the rest of his life.
What crap - In essense you said "I have never been in the military - but I know better because of that fact." Incredible, you have raise hubris to a new height - insulting a verteran because you have no military experience. Vote Bush, he is a moron draft doger as well.
Ah...slave to fashion, to fine wine, to cheese, to fine taste and wonderful women who know what a man likes...(sigh)...or... !!BUSH!!... sometimes slavery aint so bad.
I suppose that CG has finally come so far as to make the books possible. I hope who ever does it, does it well because the books are fantastic. Many are the days I enjoyed them, and the old SPI game as well. Casting John Carter wouldn't be too tough I don't think - Hugh Jackman comes to mind. But Dejah Thoris? That is a tough one, a young Catherine Zeta-Jones maybe? Wow, this has set my weekend - time to dust off an old campaign I had tried to get together once long ago.
I am in the same union as you. I hold the Governer and the do-nothing legislature at fault, not the union. The government wanted a bigger slice of your check, and the union went to bat for you. How much do you think 'ol Guvna Tim would hand out in real world raises if there was no union (here is a hint - think of a negative number). Sure striking sucks, always has, always will. But when the last strike loomed I polled my fellow IT folk and found out that most were seriously considering crossing the picket line. "You Fools!" I said, if there is anything that can bring the state to it's knees it is when the servers come to a grinding halt - us IT folk have more power than any other subgroup.
Blame your real boss, Tim, not the union, without the union there would be less in your (and my) paycheck.
and a great solution if I weren't stealing Illustrator (i.e. if I were running a design shop and I needed to make sure all my licenses were legit)
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I just never got to like Gimp. It's significantly gotten better over the years but it still seems like a poor substitute for photoshop
So, you can steal great software, and it is better than OSS - and if you stole the one (pardon! infringed) I will bet your photoshop licence aint "legit" either. Yet you can gripe that you can't be Open Source cuz it isn't as good. I am stunned. How about I forward your email and website to Adobe and we see what thier lawyers think of your post? OS doesn't fit you, and OS doesn't WANT your kind. Go get your hacks, and stay on MS, your time is coming.
As a non Mac person (not true - I own a Mac 512 to this day) who every so often has to deal with a users Mac, I would like to ask you a question.
so they do things like assume they need to go buy Roxio Toast because they don't have any CD burning software. It never occurs to them to try just dragging some files into the CD
Last I tried I could not burn a multi-session disk without third party software. Is (was) this true? If I pop in a cd, drag a file over, burn it, eject it, and repeat, will it work? No flame or troll, I honestly would like to know, I have more macs showing up all the time...
A pale sky color, a horizen, and then an earth tone... like being outside. Could it be that instinct makes us more aware and work more/better outside? Nah, it was all her research I am sure. Yeesh, next study: "Why having large dried blood spays on the walls causes employee absence." and "Why vomit on the carpet reduces productivity."
For those of us who have been there, I am deeply sorry for what was done to you. There is nothing worse than having to swallow your pride because you have to swallow thier garbage lesson plans. Thank You for being a teacher, however brief.
Get a Gold Star, and get to move to the front of the class.
Thank you Sir for a fine point. As the "Last Ultra-Left Gun Owner" I bow to you and your sharp mind and incisive commentary, may your life only know happiness and peace.
Plus, no one can do that Tabasco trick on you if you have the mesh (where you put tabasco on their chair, and it wicks up when their ass sweats and gives them an ass rash).
I...am utterly speachless. What have people done to you?
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Ya know, you made my day. I build computers for friends on the side and I have always given them what they want regardless of the legality of the situation. And recently I have finally gotten sick of it. Enough. You want a PC, fine I can build you a great one - and you are going to get a free OS and a free OSS office suite. Oh? you want MS stuff - then shell out the extra cash, I will gladly install whatever you want. But you made the point I have been feeling for a while now thank you.
Sera
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May all your endeavors be blessed. Thank You for being a rebel :)
Sera
You see it one way - I see it as an enemy handing out material that shows just how mutch of a boob the President is - but I would really enjoy knowing why you think they are handing it out.
You know I was asked by some republican friends of mine about Zell Miller's speech at the convention, my reply was - "It is too bad that the Rupublican Party has been beaten by terrorists." Just like you right now they were sputtering "W-W-WHAT?!" All I have heard from the right it terror, Terror, TERROR! All I hear from the right is how scared they are - despite the fact that this same bunch has been blowing crap up for years all across the globe - including the U.S. Islamic Extremeism existed before George Bush and 9/11 and it will be here a long time after he is gone. Far from winning the "War" on terror 'W' is creating new converts daily. Remember when Napster was the King of music sharing and the RIAA went after them? Everyone said "If they had only talked to them, used them - then they could have controlled the market" - but no, we understood that for every Napster you smash two will rise up to take it's place. The same is true of the islamic extremeists. Was Northern Ireland won by force of arms - or by negotiation? Was Chechnya won by force of arms? Has Afganistan been been won in the 3 years that we have been there? The truth of the matter is that the world has changed since it was as easy as sending in an army and having a defeated people kow-tow to you after they have been beaten. One thing that I always find interesting is how Republicans look at the world through 1950's tinted glasses. The world has changed greatly and sending in the troops needs to be a last resort, and in Iraq it wasn't even close to being a last resort. Why didn't George Senior go in? Have you ever read his reasoning as to why the troops pulled up short 10 years ago? the same reasons apply today.
I don't even know where to begin with that. Throwing away the organization that helped keep the world from being a glowing radioactive heap just because it doesnt want one half invading the other is just plain odd. The UN does many many good things and this kind of "New World Order" stuff never ceases to amaze me.
Well, I will tell you something from the left then - The president and Dick Cheaney have been (from our perspective) been lobing the same grenade at Kerry and Co since day 1. If you want to be outraged by that kind of statement (and you should) - get in line.
Fun chat though - keep up the fight! - even if I don't agree with you it is the discourse that matters the most.
Sera
And as a Liberal of the First Stripe I will tell you this; we are scared of the "Patriot Act" the Eternal "War on Terror" and the loss of life in Iraq - on who ever's side. We are Dismayed at the sigle mindedness of the President, and see his "Stedfastness" as ignorance. We see Big Oil and $money$ everywhere - and it scares us. The Bush White House has done nothing to ally those fears while chuckleing about them under thier collective breath. He walked into office wanting this war and drummed up a reason - or at least that is what two of his closest advisors have said. His White House exposed an Agent for political backlash, his record as a military man is suspect. All of this bothers us, and we want it talked about, the Administration will not, "All is Good" is what they say and all we hear. From Revolution to Iraq, mine is the only generation of my family that has never gone to battle for the USA - I was born at the wrong time it seems, I have a nephew and a good friend on the ground in Iraq - I heard it said on the radio that this war is this generation's Vietnam - the other guy corrected him - he said 'No, this is Isreals West Bank.'
I am an Armchair General (same thing as an armchair quarterback, but you have to worry about MRE's) I fought the war in Iraq 5 years before we went in - there was no way to win. Truth be told Bush Sr. has several quotes about Iraq - all of them right - look them up, some great statements about why you would *never* want to go into Iraq, - Jr. should have read them.
Sorry it was you, but I had to get that off my chest. Take Care.
Sera
Something the other posters missed I think is the fact that the US is LARGE. It is very little trouble to have family and friends move hundreds of miles away. My paerents retired from the east coast to the mid west about 4 hours from me. That works out to be about 7-10 "local area"'s away. I have friends literally from coast to coast and in a country this large, and that is not an unusual thing.
Sera
Perhaps if you wanted to discuss things rather than preach and disparage others beliefs it might help you out. Also using a term like "group think" isn't really very conversational is it now? Also, advocating a 10000:1 kill ratio wont make you many friends regardless of your political beliefs.
Sera
Dont give me projects that require the latest and the greatest. If I have to spend $300 to save $299 it isn't worth my time - though it may be really fun. If it costs $1200 - even if it involves sex it isn't going to be that fun. For example I have two old b/w gameboys lying about - tell me how to port the screens to my computer. I have tons of old hardware - tell me how to solder in flash ram from a thumbdrive into an old digital camera. Provide How-To's to the how to's, not everyone was born witha soldering iron in one hand and a Bridgeport in the other. Gimme anything that an old stick of RAM is good for. Or an old scanner, or zip drive. Have a case mod corner - I don't case mod at all - but I find them neet to look at. Starting in #3 start a basic course, a mid and advance course in electronics. Have something that involves gun powder, and another that involves a catapult.
Sera
Wish I had mod points - good one :)
....is that Bill Gates gets his greatest wish. I hopethat both Windows and Office become uncopiable - I really do. I hope for this with all of my soul. MS is king because everyone got it for free - make them pay - and OS will rule the day.
Lobve from MN
Sera
Yup - what a pain. According to this Bill is making roughy 14 million a day. and this says (as of this writing) that Bill is worth 60 Billion Dollars. Add to this Microsofts War Chest and we can geusstimate this to be about a total of 110 Billion dollars. At 20 million a day Bill and Microsquish could "only" keep it up for ~5500 days. Now doleing it out only on business days, taking your weekends off, but no real vacation, real this means that Bill could only do it for about 20 years, this is assuming of course that Bill and Microsquish never makes another dime.
Bill was born in 1955, which when the well runs dry in 2024 he will 59 years old, not old, but hardly young anymore. So though it is a stretch, but I think it is possible to argue - that Bill could do this every day for the rest of his life.
And the missing year vs the Kerry issues are equal right?
What crap - In essense you said "I have never been in the military - but I know better because of that fact." Incredible, you have raise hubris to a new height - insulting a verteran because you have no military experience. Vote Bush, he is a moron draft doger as well.
Sera
Ah...slave to fashion, to fine wine, to cheese, to fine taste and wonderful women who know what a man likes ...(sigh) ...or... !!BUSH!! ... sometimes slavery aint so bad.
Sera
I suppose that CG has finally come so far as to make the books possible. I hope who ever does it, does it well because the books are fantastic. Many are the days I enjoyed them, and the old SPI game as well. Casting John Carter wouldn't be too tough I don't think - Hugh Jackman comes to mind. But Dejah Thoris? That is a tough one, a young Catherine Zeta-Jones maybe? Wow, this has set my weekend - time to dust off an old campaign I had tried to get together once long ago.
Sera
I am in the same union as you. I hold the Governer and the do-nothing legislature at fault, not the union. The government wanted a bigger slice of your check, and the union went to bat for you. How much do you think 'ol Guvna Tim would hand out in real world raises if there was no union (here is a hint - think of a negative number). Sure striking sucks, always has, always will. But when the last strike loomed I polled my fellow IT folk and found out that most were seriously considering crossing the picket line. "You Fools!" I said, if there is anything that can bring the state to it's knees it is when the servers come to a grinding halt - us IT folk have more power than any other subgroup.
Blame your real boss, Tim, not the union, without the union there would be less in your (and my) paycheck.
Sera
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So, you can steal great software, and it is better than OSS - and if you stole the one (pardon! infringed) I will bet your photoshop licence aint "legit" either. Yet you can gripe that you can't be Open Source cuz it isn't as good. I am stunned. How about I forward your email and website to Adobe and we see what thier lawyers think of your post? OS doesn't fit you, and OS doesn't WANT your kind. Go get your hacks, and stay on MS, your time is coming.
As a non Mac person (not true - I own a Mac 512 to this day) who every so often has to deal with a users Mac, I would like to ask you a question.
Last I tried I could not burn a multi-session disk without third party software. Is (was) this true? If I pop in a cd, drag a file over, burn it, eject it, and repeat, will it work? No flame or troll, I honestly would like to know, I have more macs showing up all the time...Sera
A pale sky color, a horizen, and then an earth tone ... like being outside. Could it be that instinct makes us more aware and work more/better outside? Nah, it was all her research I am sure. Yeesh, next study: "Why having large dried blood spays on the walls causes employee absence." and "Why vomit on the carpet reduces productivity."
It's Obviousman! DUH!
For those of us who have been there, I am deeply sorry for what was done to you. There is nothing worse than having to swallow your pride because you have to swallow thier garbage lesson plans. Thank You for being a teacher, however brief.
Sera
Yeesh - get a clue grandparent a tower = $350 these days, Winxp + office = > $350. How is software cheap?
You Sir...
Get a Gold Star, and get to move to the front of the class.
Thank you Sir for a fine point. As the "Last Ultra-Left Gun Owner" I bow to you and your sharp mind and incisive commentary, may your life only know happiness and peace.
Sera
I...am utterly speachless. What have people done to you?