Metallica died in a car crash, after the Black album was released. Those short haired, talentless, hacks that are in Metallica now are some janitors that the Record Producers found working in their company basement.
Greedy Producers: "Hey guys, you wanna be Metallica?"
Under Paid Worker: "Ooh ooh I get to be Lars!"
I e-mailed congressman Tom Davis (Republican, Virginia), last year, about allowing Hybrid Vehicles to ride in HOV lanes. I recieved an e-mail back from one of his assistants. LaterI recieved a couple of letters from him; the last being about how Hybrid Vehicles will be allowed to use the alternative fuel plate, to ride in HOV.
I am not a Republican, nor are there a huge population of people in Virginia that own Hybrid Vehicles. The system seems to work to me!
Though I live in the tech hub in the DC Metro area, so that may be why Tom Davis finds e-mail to be a necessary form of communication. Perhaps in states with lower tech income, the Congressmen ignore the fact that we are in the 21st century. If I lived in one of those states, I'd be packing my bags.
I don't believe that MiniDisc is dead. Definatly not mainstream, but not dead.
I have a player in my car. I think it is a very convienient media. Using CD's in a car is such a hassle, they constantly get scratched up, the cases are so bulky. They just aren't easy to handle. I can throw my MD's on the floor, leave them strewn about on the seats and various compartments and they are still fine.
I would do the MP3 thing, but flash memory is still too expensive.
1 MD = 74 MIN @ $2/disc = ~$0.03/min
2MB = 1.5 MIN (about)
1 CARD = 48 MIN @ $60/DISC = $0.81/min
(using RIO 32 MB memory as an example)
I really think that Microsoft is running out of time. I can imagine the marketing department:
Well Bill, we've been making these inferior products, which are loaded with bugs for years now. We think there's a fairly new threat to our global domination project. Let's make up a good old Red Scare. We'll send our PR robots out and have them try the 1950's thing. I'm a good old American, this code is developed by many people, it must be bad, it must be run by those commies. We must keep our American Apple Pie values and destroy this new commie threat.
And if that doesn't work, they'll just try something stupider.
As a web developer, I find this guy to be just lazy. The well _I_ don't want to code for other browsers is just pathetic. It doesn't take a genius to code for both browsers nor is it very hard to make sites that don't make Netscape slow to a grind or crash, when you open them. If you can't use XLS MicroCrap-Only code, then use something that works, like Perl. It's easy to learn, and is pretty damn platform unspecific.
I use Perl on NT and *nix.. it has just about everything that I need for a server side scripting language! Professionaly I decided against focusing on ASP, because I don't want to be limited to one browser.
I also accept the most people do not have broadband and do not or cannot download 50mb of IE 5.0 at 56k or less! Also, to expect someone like my grandmother, my mother, or Joe Average to figure out how to download Internet Explorer or Netscape for that matter is totally ridculous!
Currently, Cobalt boxes run a customized Red Hat kernel. This article mentioned that SUN was thinking about switching Cobalt to SUN OS, because they could not support two OS's. Though many people seemed to flame them saying that most computer distributors, such as: Compaq, HP, IBM, DELL, etc; use two or more OS's.
I'd try getting sponsorship from a hardware store such as Home Depot or Ace, they'd probably be more willing to give you parts than cash, but that's probably what you need:)
Next week, slashdot will interview:
Bob Gates - janitor at Microsoft
Sammy Pick - some homeless guy
Danny Edwards - the guy that sorts the pixels at slashdot
I've never seen a keyboard converter, though it probably wouldn't be too hard (though really tedious) to make one from radio shmuck parts. You'd just have to figure out.. or find a guide to
.. the signals each key sends to the PS/2 port.
I used the dvorak keyboard shortly, but stopped for similar reasons and hard to find WinNT drivers.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Oh wait, people in public school and people under 18 don't have any rights.
1.War on drugs.
Druggies will be arested when we achieve a police state
2.Minority Religions
Minorities will be arested when we achieve a police state
3.Why give a tax cut?
Taxes won't matter when we achive a police state.
4.Electoral Reform
Other parties will be arested when we achieve a police state
5.Intellectual Property
All property will be controled by the government after we achieve a police state.
6.Encryption
Encryption will be controlled by the government when we achieve a police state.
7.Rising Political Protests
Protesters will be arested when we achieve a police state
8.Asteroid Defenses
We will hurl our millions of captives at an astroid when we achieve a police state.
9.The Future of the Country, and of Humanity
Humanity will end when we achieve a police state.
As an American, I feel obligated to go out and buy everything that my neighbors have.
So far, I own..
5 SUVs, 3 hondas (Riced-Out), 10 computers (all Compaq, Acer, and Packard Bell), 2 bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, 5 sheets of high-powered blotter acid, , a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls... oh wait
Every time that I hear a politician, someone on in the media, or some ignorant bastard on the street; start bitching about how the internet killed those poor kids.. i just want to declare genocide on the human race.
I would ask.. how dumb are these people? I worked technical support for many months.. I already know.
I wonder when.. oh when.. will people look to these troubled kids' parents for the problem.
Hmm.. let's see.. the Columbine case:
Kids treated like shit in school, probably also treated like shit by their parents (this fact was probably covered up by the media, to preserve the 'perfect' american image).. they go out and slaughter a bunch of "jocks" at their high schoool.
Well, from my experience in High School, when I was awake anyway, the "jocks" tended to be over competative assholes, not all of them, but the ones that thought the school sport was the most important thing in their lives. They insulted many of the intellectual and "odd-ball" students, probably, becasue their parents treated them the same way.
THIS COUNTRY IS FUCKING PATHETIC
I don't watch the news very much any more... I just don't care. I think I'm going to register myself as a corporation and get one of those nifty swoosh logos. I figure, once I register myself as a company, I'll be practically untouchable by the government, so I'll practice my ritual mass murders of politicians.
I recently was contacted by a Consulting company which wanted to do a background and credit check on me. I refused saying, "I don't believe that any company that I work for needs to see my credit report."
I am not interested in working for companies that want that kind of personal information.
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Metallica died in a car crash, after the Black album was released. Those short haired, talentless, hacks that are in Metallica now are some janitors that the Record Producers found working in their company basement.
Greedy Producers: "Hey guys, you wanna be Metallica?"
Under Paid Worker: "Ooh ooh I get to be Lars!"
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microsoft, it's what's for dinner
bq--3b7y4vyll6xi5x2rnrj7q.com
hey,
:)
after they red burns out, you could put some of that red reynolds wrap over it and just pretend
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microsoft, it's what's for dinner
bq--3b7y4vyll6xi5x2rnrj7q.com
You may want to consider an 'S' Corp or an LLC, there's a decent article at Office.com
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you are not what you own
I e-mailed congressman Tom Davis (Republican, Virginia), last year, about allowing Hybrid Vehicles to ride in HOV lanes. I recieved an e-mail back from one of his assistants. LaterI recieved a couple of letters from him; the last being about how Hybrid Vehicles will be allowed to use the alternative fuel plate, to ride in HOV.
I am not a Republican, nor are there a huge population of people in Virginia that own Hybrid Vehicles. The system seems to work to me!
Though I live in the tech hub in the DC Metro area, so that may be why Tom Davis finds e-mail to be a necessary form of communication. Perhaps in states with lower tech income, the Congressmen ignore the fact that we are in the 21st century. If I lived in one of those states, I'd be packing my bags.
--
you are not what you own
I don't believe that MiniDisc is dead. Definatly not mainstream, but not dead.
:)
I have a player in my car. I think it is a very convienient media. Using CD's in a car is such a hassle, they constantly get scratched up, the cases are so bulky. They just aren't easy to handle. I can throw my MD's on the floor, leave them strewn about on the seats and various compartments and they are still fine.
I would do the MP3 thing, but flash memory is still too expensive.
1 MD = 74 MIN @ $2/disc = ~$0.03/min
2MB = 1.5 MIN (about)
1 CARD = 48 MIN @ $60/DISC = $0.81/min
(using RIO 32 MB memory as an example)
I'll stick with my MD for now
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you are not what you own
I really think that Microsoft is running out of time. I can imagine the marketing department:
Well Bill, we've been making these inferior products, which are loaded with bugs for years now. We think there's a fairly new threat to our global domination project. Let's make up a good old Red Scare. We'll send our PR robots out and have them try the 1950's thing. I'm a good old American, this code is developed by many people, it must be bad, it must be run by those commies. We must keep our American Apple Pie values and destroy this new commie threat.
And if that doesn't work, they'll just try something stupider.
--
you are not what you own
There's a program that I have used a few times called optout, you can download it at: http://grc.com/optout.htm
There's an interesting blurb on their site, mentioning a Spyware Control Act.
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you are not what you own
As a web developer, I find this guy to be just lazy. The well _I_ don't want to code for other browsers is just pathetic. It doesn't take a genius to code for both browsers nor is it very hard to make sites that don't make Netscape slow to a grind or crash, when you open them. If you can't use XLS MicroCrap-Only code, then use something that works, like Perl. It's easy to learn, and is pretty damn platform unspecific.
.. it has just about everything that I need for a server side scripting language! Professionaly I decided against focusing on ASP, because I don't want to be limited to one browser.
I use Perl on NT and *nix
I also accept the most people do not have broadband and do not or cannot download 50mb of IE 5.0 at 56k or less! Also, to expect someone like my grandmother, my mother, or Joe Average to figure out how to download Internet Explorer or Netscape for that matter is totally ridculous!
--
you are not what you own
Currently, Cobalt boxes run a customized Red Hat kernel. This article mentioned that SUN was thinking about switching Cobalt to SUN OS, because they could not support two OS's. Though many people seemed to flame them saying that most computer distributors, such as: Compaq, HP, IBM, DELL, etc; use two or more OS's.
--
you are not what you own
I'd try getting sponsorship from a hardware store such as Home Depot or Ace, they'd probably be more willing to give you parts than cash, but that's probably what you need :)
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you are not what you own
I could picture it ...
:(
Hey, I didn't hit the Bill Gates button
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you are not what you own
I didn't get that e-mail, maybe you selected:
Do you NOT want to receive a bunch of crap
* No, send me a bunch of crap.
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you are not what you own
How about a robot that's powered by Crack or Herion .. hmm .. reminds me of the model industry.
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you are not what you own
I'm sure some third world country would or has paid them a few billion for a couple nucular missiles.
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you are not what you own
Next week, slashdot will interview:
Bob Gates - janitor at Microsoft
Sammy Pick - some homeless guy
Danny Edwards - the guy that sorts the pixels at slashdot
--
you are not what you own
I've never seen a keyboard converter, though it probably wouldn't be too hard (though really tedious) to make one from radio shmuck parts. You'd just have to figure out .. or find a guide to
.. the signals each key sends to the PS/2 port.
:)
I used the dvorak keyboard shortly, but stopped for similar reasons and hard to find WinNT drivers.
Good luck with you search
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you are not what you own
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Oh wait, people in public school and people under 18 don't have any rights.
--
you are not what you own
1.War on drugs.
Druggies will be arested when we achieve a police state
2.Minority Religions
Minorities will be arested when we achieve a police state
3.Why give a tax cut?
Taxes won't matter when we achive a police state.
4.Electoral Reform
Other parties will be arested when we achieve a police state
5.Intellectual Property
All property will be controled by the government after we achieve a police state.
6.Encryption
Encryption will be controlled by the government when we achieve a police state.
7.Rising Political Protests
Protesters will be arested when we achieve a police state
8.Asteroid Defenses
We will hurl our millions of captives at an astroid when we achieve a police state.
9.The Future of the Country, and of Humanity
Humanity will end when we achieve a police state.
--
you are not what you own
1) War on Drugs
.. uh what was the question?
.. uh .. I invented the internet .. man
by Tim Doran
Bush: snooooooooooooort
Gore: dude
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you are not what you own
how about fe-male? or female?
which one is it?
i see my karma falling falling
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you are not what you own
Wow at prices between US$3252 to US$7769 i could afford at 15% interest rate .. er .. um .. well i could put a down payment on a decent car.
What a fucking waste of money.
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you are not what you own
As an American, I feel obligated to go out and buy everything that my neighbors have.
..
So far, I own
5 SUVs, 3 hondas (Riced-Out), 10 computers (all Compaq, Acer, and Packard Bell), 2 bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, 5 sheets of high-powered blotter acid, , a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls... oh wait
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you are not what you own
Wow!
.. i just want to declare genocide on the human race.
.. how dumb are these people? I worked technical support for many months .. I already know.
.. oh when .. will people look to these troubled kids' parents for the problem.
.. let's see .. the Columbine case:
.. they go out and slaughter a bunch of "jocks" at their high schoool.
... I just don't care. I think I'm going to register myself as a corporation and get one of those nifty swoosh logos. I figure, once I register myself as a company, I'll be practically untouchable by the government, so I'll practice my ritual mass murders of politicians.
That was a really good article.
Every time that I hear a politician, someone on in the media, or some ignorant bastard on the street; start bitching about how the internet killed those poor kids
I would ask
I wonder when
Hmm
Kids treated like shit in school, probably also treated like shit by their parents (this fact was probably covered up by the media, to preserve the 'perfect' american image)
Well, from my experience in High School, when I was awake anyway, the "jocks" tended to be over competative assholes, not all of them, but the ones that thought the school sport was the most important thing in their lives. They insulted many of the intellectual and "odd-ball" students, probably, becasue their parents treated them the same way.
THIS COUNTRY IS FUCKING PATHETIC
I don't watch the news very much any more
Maybe not.
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you are not what you own
I own an original Windows CD .. i made it with my CD burner.
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you are not what you own
I recently was contacted by a Consulting company which wanted to do a background and credit check on me. I refused saying, "I don't believe that any company that I work for needs to see my credit report."
I am not interested in working for companies that want that kind of personal information.
--
you are not what you own