There have been two attempts in my life to mug me. The first one was quickly solved when mugger #1 (of 2) took a nasty hit into his genital area, bending over and then getting kicked in the face. The second one resulted in some bruises for me, but that mugger was good for a hospital stay afterwards. I have found three things to work:
1. Look like you don't have a lot of valuables. 2. Refuse to be a victim. If you get attacked, fight back. Who guarantees that after your credit/debit card is stolen, they don't make sure you don't become a witness against them? The judge? The five or seven folks that got shot in a holdup of a fast-food joint in NY city some years back? Drink your purple Kool-Aid. Muggers positively hate to get hurt. They will choose their victims accordingly. 3. Avoid dangerous countries/places that put the criminal's rights above your own and ban guns and useful implements ontop of it. Namely the UK. 4. Enact gun-carrying laws. If the mugger has to play Russian roulette, he won't go robbing (or raping) any longer. Just look at the Florida or Kentucky crime stats. 5. 3 Strikes and you're in for 10 years extra. I'm not for life-long sentences, but if you have comitted your 3rd grave crime, ten years extra would probably straighten you out if that measure is coupled with some professional education so that once you get out of jail, you have some know-how and don't have to sink back into delinquency.
A large, dangerous dog isn't bad neither, but you can't have fido everywhere you go.
If a machine has 128 Bytes of RAM, I'm wondering how one can even program a game that is remotely fun by yesterday's (1985) standards. Let's see - 1 frame on TV needs:
- 320x240 pixel or 76800 pixels. Let's say every one of these pixels has 2 bits (acceptable by 'yesterdays' standards. So alone to hold one frame in an accepatble resolution and color depth, one needs some 19200 bytes of RAM. If one looks at the 2600, we're far away from that, even if we say we can divide that by four since the Atari most probably had some area-drawing commands like any other hardware.
I have a C64 which at least capable to display that. OTOH, there are people who are complete minimalists and will be able to think that an Atari 2600 is fun, and since Atari games look even worse than C64 games and have less gameplay, they can live with even less resolution.
If it avoids the US getting back more coffins, it can't hurt. The problem is the US bombed Saddam out of his palaces and captured him, and now they need to replace him with something as diabolical as him in order to avoid having to clean up the other countries when they get islamistic governments hell-bent on blowing up Americans and Israelis.
Somehow, I feel posting a link on the front page of./ could be called Slashdot-Kiri.
There are sites that specifically forbid their membership to post links to that site on Slashdot for the express reason that the website will go down or cost a lot of money.
There some users who simply don't bother. I had one in my company.
He's a capacity in R/3, but else pretty computer illiterate. He had truckloads of crap installed on his home computer. Then he got some spyware junk that displayed porn pages everytime he wanted to use IE.
He became windows-literate because he's deeply religious and didn't want to see smut on his screen. In the process, he also installed Linux because he couldn't stand that crap anymore (with Mozilla, which is pretty immune to such junk, at least for the time).
It's not the 179$ who are the problem.I pay probably quite a few bucks more to maintain a Solaris 9 machine in my house.
I'm from the 'proprietary Unix' crowd, mainly AIX (due to the fact that it runs everything I need on rather big iron).
I ran from Windows 6 years ago. I'm on one hand a Machead at heart, on the other I like to have a flexible OS, and if possible for free. Since RedHat won't add things like an MP3 player, or for that instance, a player that will play encrypted DVDs, I switched to Mandrake on the desktop side, never to look back (on the server side, at least here at home, I run a combination of Linux and Solaris). If RedHat offered me all these features, and some more stuff that would normally be on the page of the Penguin Liberation Front, I'd have stayed with RH.
If I do not have this flexibilty on desktop operating systems, they're gone from my private machine. This includes Windows, BTW.
Tax evasion is a misdemeanor, and not a crime. That's why the German politicians hate the Swiss so much (the real thing they'd do is to spend goddamn less public money).
Tax fraud is a crime even here and so far, and we'll extradite foreigners who commit that crime to the country requesting it, if the tax fraud claim holds up in our courts (and the other country gets the evidence as well). We have the principle of reciprocal punishability, and a crime is not a crime here, the foreign country is screwed up and they won't get anything from us.
Furthermore, Swiss citizens cannot be extradicted from Switzerland against their will
There's a very simple weapon against China, and it's ultimately more effective than nukes.
Don't buy stuff made in China. It's a bit difficult with quite a few things like computer mice or Levi's jeans (and at least for jeans, there are probably other brands), but one can try. For my part, I usually try to buy Taiwanese instead.
Uh, wasn't it Mao that once said "All power comes from gun barrels"?
I refuse to go to the UK for a few reasons. Guns being a minor one, but CCTVs and such bull manure being the main one. And oh, if I can't even carry a Victorinox Cybertool in my vest pocket for the idiot fear of getting arrested for carrying a weapon, this country doesn't really need my Tourist dollars.
It wouldn't hurt if the Brits got their behind kicked around by the Germans again. They have become socialist sheeple who unconditionally believe their nanny state will care for them.
It actually does. By taking away their freedoms. One by one.
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I suspect it should better be pronounced BORG and means that all Linux distros will be assimilated.
There was a man from Lillehammer
Who had attrocious grammar
His poetry stunk
So he did a bunk
And works in Florida as a spammer.
IMO a bit better, and actually really rhymes.
There have been two attempts in my life to mug me. The first one was quickly solved when mugger #1 (of 2) took a nasty hit into his genital area, bending over and then getting kicked in the face. The second one resulted in some bruises for me, but that mugger was good for a hospital stay afterwards. I have found three things to work:
1. Look like you don't have a lot of valuables.
2. Refuse to be a victim. If you get attacked, fight back. Who guarantees that after your credit/debit card is stolen, they don't make sure you don't become a witness against them? The judge? The five or seven folks that got shot in a holdup of a fast-food joint in NY city some years back? Drink your purple Kool-Aid. Muggers positively hate to get hurt. They will choose their victims accordingly.
3. Avoid dangerous countries/places that put the criminal's rights above your own and ban guns and useful implements ontop of it. Namely the UK.
4. Enact gun-carrying laws. If the mugger has to play Russian roulette, he won't go robbing (or raping) any longer. Just look at the Florida or Kentucky crime stats.
5. 3 Strikes and you're in for 10 years extra. I'm not for life-long sentences, but if you have comitted your 3rd grave crime, ten years extra would probably straighten you out if that measure is coupled with some professional education so that once you get out of jail, you have some know-how and don't have to sink back into delinquency.
A large, dangerous dog isn't bad neither, but you can't have fido everywhere you go.
I wouldn't count on a .32 ACP being anemic.
.32s killed more criminals than now with 9mm. Even a .22 is able to kill you.
.30-06 and .308 Winchester.
It's all about shot placement, actually.
The local police here, when armed with
OTOH, there are lots of people who survived hits by
If a machine has 128 Bytes of RAM, I'm wondering how one can even program a game that is remotely fun by yesterday's (1985) standards. Let's see - 1 frame on TV needs:
- 320x240 pixel or 76800 pixels. Let's say every one of these pixels has 2 bits (acceptable by 'yesterdays' standards. So alone to hold one frame in an accepatble resolution and color depth, one needs some 19200 bytes of RAM. If one looks at the 2600, we're far away from that, even if we say we can divide that by four since the Atari most probably had some area-drawing commands like any other hardware.
I have a C64 which at least capable to display that. OTOH, there are people who are complete minimalists and will be able to think that an Atari 2600 is fun, and since Atari games look even worse than C64 games and have less gameplay, they can live with even less resolution.
If it avoids the US getting back more coffins, it can't hurt. The problem is the US bombed Saddam out of his palaces and captured him, and now they need to replace him with something as diabolical as him in order to avoid having to clean up the other countries when they get islamistic governments hell-bent on blowing up Americans and Israelis.
Somehow, I feel posting a link on the front page of ./ could be called Slashdot-Kiri.
There are sites that specifically forbid their membership to post links to that site on Slashdot for the express reason that the website will go down or cost a lot of money.
I'm blocking China and Korea. Both of them.
h tml for a small placative explanation of at least one admin who had enough.
China mainly because they don't freaking care about spam.
Korea because of their abysmal network security record.
Read http://snoop.alphanet.ch/?q=antispam/china-korea.
That Mr Soto seriously needs a trepanation of his skull with some pointed object, or even more efficent, a bullet.
I think using ebonics could provide an additional layer of cover.
enough typewriters, they can come up with the works of Shakespeare.
.com boom? :)
Or maybe given enough Indians, they can come up with the
And I'd like to see all the Swiss Germans yelling "Chummt der Sprutz?" (does it come...) when the install some MS software. :)
Of course, some MS software might be "spritzig" and geeks in Germany might have to redefine "Eine gespritzte Schorle"....
You mean "you shall not covet your neighbor's wife" or something to that effect?
There some users who simply don't bother. I had one in my company.
:)
He's a capacity in R/3, but else pretty computer illiterate. He had truckloads of crap installed on his home computer. Then he got some spyware junk that displayed porn pages everytime he wanted to use IE.
He became windows-literate because he's deeply religious and didn't want to see smut on his screen. In the process, he also installed Linux because he couldn't stand that crap anymore (with Mozilla, which is pretty immune to such junk, at least for the time).
Sometimes, faith can move mountains.
It's not the 179$ who are the problem.I pay probably quite a few bucks more to maintain a Solaris 9 machine in my house.
I'm from the 'proprietary Unix' crowd, mainly AIX (due to the fact that it runs everything I need on rather big iron).
I ran from Windows 6 years ago. I'm on one hand a Machead at heart, on the other I like to have a flexible OS, and if possible for free. Since RedHat won't add things like an MP3 player, or for that instance, a player that will play encrypted DVDs, I switched to Mandrake on the desktop side, never to look back (on the server side, at least here at home, I run a combination of Linux and Solaris). If RedHat offered me all these features, and some more stuff that would normally be on the page of the Penguin Liberation Front, I'd have stayed with RH.
If I do not have this flexibilty on desktop operating systems, they're gone from my private machine. This includes Windows, BTW.
The Knoppix CD will happily boot with a usable Linux and it reads NTFS harddisks.
Ring of Priapos +1, you mean?
(Description: Transform you into an upstanding member of the society, +1 charm)
And e give North Korea a few spammers to treat them in their luxury holiday ressorts like Camp 21.
Would probably solve a few problems with the intense traffic on port 25/
Hold on....
Tax evasion is a misdemeanor, and not a crime. That's why the German politicians hate the Swiss so much (the real thing they'd do is to spend goddamn less public money).
Tax fraud is a crime even here and so far, and we'll extradite foreigners who commit that crime to the country requesting it, if the tax fraud claim holds up in our courts (and the other country gets the evidence as well). We have the principle of reciprocal punishability, and a crime is not a crime here, the foreign country is screwed up and they won't get anything from us.
Furthermore, Swiss citizens cannot be extradicted from Switzerland against their will
I think running Windows is already legally aiding and abetting spamming. I wonder whether this is punishable...
Against 0wned Windoze b0xen, there's one cure: dul.sorbs.net. Keeps off dialup spammers and the virus-infected boxes.
And SA takes care of the rest usually.
Your god-given right.
But do the rest of the world a small favor - keep your unemployed.
There's a very simple weapon against China, and it's ultimately more effective than nukes.
Don't buy stuff made in China. It's a bit difficult with quite a few things like computer mice or Levi's jeans (and at least for jeans, there are probably other brands), but one can try. For my part, I usually try to buy Taiwanese instead.
While everybody pays the 30 pieces of silver....
Yes.
And they can defend their right to free speech.
Uh, wasn't it Mao that once said "All power comes from gun barrels"?
I refuse to go to the UK for a few reasons. Guns being a minor one, but CCTVs and such bull manure being the main one. And oh, if I can't even carry a Victorinox Cybertool in my vest pocket for the idiot fear of getting arrested for carrying a weapon, this country doesn't really need my Tourist dollars.
It wouldn't hurt if the Brits got their behind kicked around by the Germans again. They have become socialist sheeple who unconditionally believe their nanny state will care for them.
It actually does. By taking away their freedoms. One by one.