Ok I understand that but we're techy people and can cope with this stuff. Most people can't and in 2006 people are less willing to have these kinds of problems than ever before. I am sorry about your bricked pod but millions of people did run those updates without hassle (I did on my gen3 machine). Having said that I have very little experience of itunes/ipod on the PC and realise that the experience doesn't seem to be as good as the OSX from anecdotal evidence.
Q: When your pod bricked out did Apple replace it for you?
Otherwise, it's very nice: nice big screen - better than Apple's tiddly pissy iPod screen - nice UI, and it's got WiFi.
It's the same res as the iPod and for a portable device it's probably better to be smaller. They both can plug into a TV can't they? UI does seem nice to be, I agree, but part of a UI is what you get to interface with and the buttons are not as good as solution as the Apple wheel. It hasn't got WiFi in the sense that most people understand the term (connecting to the 'net, getting emails, etc) it's got a very limited song transfer ability.
I think you should buy one though and find out. Go for a brown one - they're HOT!!
it's all relative though. In the land of the 10" peen the 12" inch is king. You know what I mean - I'm beginning to feel grubby typing about schlongs so I'm stopping now.
A few days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin walked from the Big Kremlin Palace to his Residence. At one of the Kremlin squares, the president stopped to chat with the tourists. Among them was a boy aged 4 or 5.
'What is your name?' Putin asked.
'Nikita,' the boy replied.
Putin kneed, lifted the boy's T-shirt and kissed his stomach.
The world public is shocked. Nobody can understand why the Russian president did such a strange thing as kissing the stomach of an unfamiliar small boy.
The explanation may be found if we look carefully at the so-called "blank spots" in Putin's biography.
After graduating from the Andropov Institute, which prepares officers for the KGB intelligence service, Putin was not accepted into the foreign intelligence. Instead, he was sent to a junior position in KGB Leningrad Directorate. This was a very unusual twist for a career of an Andropov Institute's graduate with fluent German. Why did that happen with Putin?
Because, shortly before his graduation, his bosses learned that Putin was a pedophile. So say some people who knew Putin as a student at the Institute.
The Institute officials feared to report this to their own superiors, which would cause an unpleasant investigation. They decided it was easier just to avoid sending Putin abroad under some pretext. Such a solution is not unusual for the secret services.
Many years later, when Putin became the FSB director and was preparing for presidency, he began to seek and destroy any compromising materials collected against him by the secret services over earlier years. It was not difficult, provided he himself was the FSB director. Among other things, Putin found videotapes in the FSB Internal Security Directorate, which showed him having sex with some underage boys.
Interestingly, the video was recorded in the same conspiratorial flat in Polyanka Street in Moscow where Russian Prosecutor-General Yuri Skuratov was secretly video-taped with two prostitutes. Later, in the famous scandal, Putin (on Roman Abramovich's instructions) blackmailed Skuratov with these tapes and tried to persuade the Prosecutor-General to resign. In that conversation, Putin mentioned to Skuratov that he himself was also secretly video-taped making sex at the same bed. (But of course, he did not tell it was pedophilia rather than normal sex.) Later, Skuratov wrote about this in his book Variant Drakona.
I sense you're right there. The real *danger* is all that information that Grandma doesn't understand. Having said that though they say they don't mind cables which kind of wrecks that theory. Still think you're right though - who said this stuff was rational.
I'm reminded of a story from when I was at my British school in the eighties. We had a day trip to British Aerospace as they sponsored the technology course I was doing. At BA they had an enormous experimental radar system that the guy explained emitted MW radiation to work. To show us how much power there was in front of us he *threw* a raw sausage past the front of the thing and with much glee retrieved it and let us feel how hot it was!!
Pretty sure I was exposed to more radiation that day than in my whole life. And felt a man's hot sausage. But no-one thought of the children in those days so it didn't matter.
a) Putin's people were behind it and wished to send a strong message to anyone else opening their mouths about his Putinship's sexual habits. An utterly horrible way to die - public too.
b) Some agency is framing Putin by carrying this out as payback or to increase tensions between UK (the West?) and Russia.
Interestingly, it's all ok for the Western MSM to run this as lead and to talk about various conspiracies. In a reversed situation they would have kept it down and dismissed CTs as crazy without any thought.
There's a video there of Putin kissing the 5 year old boy's stomach. This started a lot of speculation and I have read that the KGB gathered video from a hotel room proving that he was from years ago. When Putin headed the KGB all these videos obviously disappeared. There is stuff about it on teh web if anyone needs to do some research. I suspect it's true.
Does anyone remember what the dark ages were? Looks like we're about to have a relapse.
I fully believe that. This is just the thin end of the wedge. Within decades it could be the near collapse of science as a whole. People just aren't learning it how they used to.
Jebus, people. This is really getting out of control.
I know. But like the frog slowly being brought to boil not enough people will get this until it is too late. Heck, it probably is too late already. I worry all the time about this and although the majority of people I know and work with agree to some extent nobody is really in a position to do anything about it. Who wants to stick their neck out and maybe get arrested and banned from travelling for instance?
Conclusion: we're screwed and it will only get worse.
PS: As a typical/. guy I love all the technology but if it's used to enslave mankind to the machine no amount of blue LEDs is gonna make up for it.
I'm British and have no experience of the US system apart from what gets rammed down our throats in terms of films and dramas (not flaming there but cultural imperialism is real!). Compared to my schooldays US schools seem to be pretty harsh and cruel places. From my TV-based impression, the culture of the US high school is heavily polarised between 'jocks' and 'nerds' with little inbetween, the bizarre 'prom' ritual (which must be quite distressing for a large number of people at that age), getting a car when you're 16(!) (or not, in which case you're a poor 'loser'), no uniforms so status clothing counts for a lot, junk food in the canteen, and in tough inner city schools metal detectors for foiling gun and knife attacks. It all looks really unpleasant to me and I'm not surprised people don't like being there. I once saw a book where the theory was put forward that for many years in the US the public education had been deliberately downgraded because it was of little benefit to the country to have too many educated people running around. Who's going to flip burgers or join the army to get placed in danger if they have other options?
I honestly don't really know but this is my impression from afar.
Exactly. Whenever something 'odd' goes down it always turns out there was a 'technical problem' on the CCTV system. Like the No.30 bus (Tavistock Square) or the cameras in the tunnel where Princess Di died.
Ok, put on your tinfoil hats. I suspect this is already going on. It's quite an obvious solution when you think about but one which environmentally would never be supported.
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Ok I understand that but we're techy people and can cope with this stuff. Most people can't and in 2006 people are less willing to have these kinds of problems than ever before. I am sorry about your bricked pod but millions of people did run those updates without hassle (I did on my gen3 machine). Having said that I have very little experience of itunes/ipod on the PC and realise that the experience doesn't seem to be as good as the OSX from anecdotal evidence.
Q: When your pod bricked out did Apple replace it for you?
You don't really know do you?
Otherwise, it's very nice: nice big screen - better than Apple's tiddly pissy iPod screen - nice UI, and it's got WiFi.
It's the same res as the iPod and for a portable device it's probably better to be smaller. They both can plug into a TV can't they? UI does seem nice to be, I agree, but part of a UI is what you get to interface with and the buttons are not as good as solution as the Apple wheel. It hasn't got WiFi in the sense that most people understand the term (connecting to the 'net, getting emails, etc) it's got a very limited song transfer ability.
I think you should buy one though and find out. Go for a brown one - they're HOT!!
The software didn't install? Big deal!
Odds on you're a Windows user. Not flaming but that is a big deal to the average user.
Or run it in MAME like I do for nothing. . . . .
Maybe someone makes a suck'n'blow joystick for raspberries?
(any cock-a-neys in the house?)
it's all relative though. In the land of the 10" peen the 12" inch is king. You know what I mean - I'm beginning to feel grubby typing about schlongs so I'm stopping now.
on the stomach by pulling up a shirt?
Did you see what the ex-spy wrote aswell?
9 80952
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=208238&cid=16
The Kremlin Pedophile
By Alexander Litvinenko
A few days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin walked from the Big Kremlin Palace to his Residence. At one of the Kremlin squares, the president stopped to chat with the tourists. Among them was a boy aged 4 or 5.
'What is your name?' Putin asked.
'Nikita,' the boy replied.
Putin kneed, lifted the boy's T-shirt and kissed his stomach.
The world public is shocked. Nobody can understand why the Russian president did such a strange thing as kissing the stomach of an unfamiliar small boy.
The explanation may be found if we look carefully at the so-called "blank spots" in Putin's biography.
After graduating from the Andropov Institute, which prepares officers for the KGB intelligence service, Putin was not accepted into the foreign intelligence. Instead, he was sent to a junior position in KGB Leningrad Directorate. This was a very unusual twist for a career of an Andropov Institute's graduate with fluent German. Why did that happen with Putin?
Because, shortly before his graduation, his bosses learned that Putin was a pedophile. So say some people who knew Putin as a student at the Institute.
The Institute officials feared to report this to their own superiors, which would cause an unpleasant investigation. They decided it was easier just to avoid sending Putin abroad under some pretext. Such a solution is not unusual for the secret services.
Many years later, when Putin became the FSB director and was preparing for presidency, he began to seek and destroy any compromising materials collected against him by the secret services over earlier years. It was not difficult, provided he himself was the FSB director. Among other things, Putin found videotapes in the FSB Internal Security Directorate, which showed him having sex with some underage boys.
Interestingly, the video was recorded in the same conspiratorial flat in Polyanka Street in Moscow where Russian Prosecutor-General Yuri Skuratov was secretly video-taped with two prostitutes. Later, in the famous scandal, Putin (on Roman Abramovich's instructions) blackmailed Skuratov with these tapes and tried to persuade the Prosecutor-General to resign. In that conversation, Putin mentioned to Skuratov that he himself was also secretly video-taped making sex at the same bed. (But of course, he did not tell it was pedophilia rather than normal sex.) Later, Skuratov wrote about this in his book Variant Drakona.
I sense you're right there. The real *danger* is all that information that Grandma doesn't understand. Having said that though they say they don't mind cables which kind of wrecks that theory. Still think you're right though - who said this stuff was rational.
Well done. Case closed.
I'm reminded of a story from when I was at my British school in the eighties. We had a day trip to British Aerospace as they sponsored the technology course I was doing. At BA they had an enormous experimental radar system that the guy explained emitted MW radiation to work. To show us how much power there was in front of us he *threw* a raw sausage past the front of the thing and with much glee retrieved it and let us feel how hot it was!!
Pretty sure I was exposed to more radiation that day than in my whole life. And felt a man's hot sausage. But no-one thought of the children in those days so it didn't matter.
Bush and Putin even get on......
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1392791.s
I looked into his soul . . . .
OMG!
that's right. It can be 2 things:
a) Putin's people were behind it and wished to send a strong message to anyone else opening their mouths about his Putinship's sexual habits. An utterly horrible way to die - public too.
b) Some agency is framing Putin by carrying this out as payback or to increase tensions between UK (the West?) and Russia.
Interestingly, it's all ok for the Western MSM to run this as lead and to talk about various conspiracies. In a reversed situation they would have kept it down and dismissed CTs as crazy without any thought.
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251 .shtml?id=1760111n
There's a video there of Putin kissing the 5 year old boy's stomach. This started a lot of speculation and I have read that the KGB gathered video from a hotel room proving that he was from years ago. When Putin headed the KGB all these videos obviously disappeared. There is stuff about it on teh web if anyone needs to do some research. I suspect it's true.
Does anyone remember what the dark ages were? Looks like we're about to have a relapse.
I fully believe that. This is just the thin end of the wedge. Within decades it could be the near collapse of science as a whole. People just aren't learning it how they used to.
heh heh - glad to be of assistance ;-)
good link for you here:
1 06bigbrother.htm
http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2006/221
I tried super-doping myself but it got boron after a while.
Jebus, people. This is really getting out of control.
/. guy I love all the technology but if it's used to enslave mankind to the machine no amount of blue LEDs is gonna make up for it.
I know. But like the frog slowly being brought to boil not enough people will get this until it is too late. Heck, it probably is too late already. I worry all the time about this and although the majority of people I know and work with agree to some extent nobody is really in a position to do anything about it. Who wants to stick their neck out and maybe get arrested and banned from travelling for instance?
Conclusion: we're screwed and it will only get worse.
PS: As a typical
I'm British and have no experience of the US system apart from what gets rammed down our throats in terms of films and dramas (not flaming there but cultural imperialism is real!). Compared to my schooldays US schools seem to be pretty harsh and cruel places. From my TV-based impression, the culture of the US high school is heavily polarised between 'jocks' and 'nerds' with little inbetween, the bizarre 'prom' ritual (which must be quite distressing for a large number of people at that age), getting a car when you're 16(!) (or not, in which case you're a poor 'loser'), no uniforms so status clothing counts for a lot, junk food in the canteen, and in tough inner city schools metal detectors for foiling gun and knife attacks. It all looks really unpleasant to me and I'm not surprised people don't like being there. I once saw a book where the theory was put forward that for many years in the US the public education had been deliberately downgraded because it was of little benefit to the country to have too many educated people running around. Who's going to flip burgers or join the army to get placed in danger if they have other options?
I honestly don't really know but this is my impression from afar.
Exactly. Whenever something 'odd' goes down it always turns out there was a 'technical problem' on the CCTV system. Like the No.30 bus (Tavistock Square) or the cameras in the tunnel where Princess Di died.
This is why burnt-in timecode like SMPTE on the video is essential to prevent this. If a policeman knows how to fake this he should be in another job.
Good catch, thanks for saying it.
no mod points but muahahaha, that was funny!!!
Ok, put on your tinfoil hats. I suspect this is already going on. It's quite an obvious solution when you think about but one which environmentally would never be supported.
http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/
I'm not saying that's the definitive website but I think it's worth thinking about. Ok, now reach for your -1:looney modpoints.