I never had an issue with them. Those who CARED about the vote would've checked the card when they removed it from the machine to make sure all the little holes were punched all the way through.........
Dave's articles were the reason I bought the paper, straight to the sunshine magazine inside the paper.
You can never run out of material making fun of Florida, it's all true, really it is....:-/
Wishing death upon anyone, you are as much the problem as those who rush to war.
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Soccer tends to be something Americans play in school and grow out of. It doesn't strike a chord with most of us. I do watch it though.
As far as scale goes, I don't really think Americans care that most of the world doesn't watch it. What is important is that most Americans watch the superbowl for one reason or the other.
Nobody cares about the stupid super bowl except the US-Americans.
Care to back that statement, it seems to be a pretty concrete one. I know I can refute it.
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We call it football, because that's what it is. The game you play is soccer. I speak American English, not English. I think that's where you are confused, they might seem the same, but they are different in many ways.
Many Americans view soccer the same way you view football. As someone who has played both games, you obviously don't have a clue as to what football is about.
Soccer is fun to watch, but that gets old when my country keeps losing. I just cheer for a country from the Americas win.
What's really funny about this whole thing is oil contributes more to the terrorists than drugs ever could and legalized drugs would do nothing more than publicly expose those with hidden addictions. They could then seek help without the stigma associated with drugs.
Good come back.
It looks as if you might have outgrown slashdot, or maybe slashdot has degenerated from what it was in the 'day', all of the comments after you seem to indicate some slashdotters can't see beyond the tip of their nose.
We need to seriously fix these temperature swings.
It hit a tad above freezing in S.FLA last night, it hasn't been this cold in probably ten years or more and it would normally be a nice 80F. Native Floridians are missing the cold weather survival skills that even people in the Georgia and Alabama have.
Oh yeah, you don't get any OJ if it doesn't warm up some!
Go ahead, you can be judged by a panel of your peers, that is if you can call them that.
If they didn't get out of jury duty they're not my peers.
Then when they rule against you, you will be fined out the ass, or if it's criminal be bubba's bitch.
People accept pleas for a reason, they are a sure thing, with a jury God only knows your fate.
The court system won't run out of money, it will just take longer to get your case through the system. Then when the budget for next year comes around they will get more money to push the cases through a bit faster.
Face it, if you pirate music, or rather, enable the piracy of anything there are consequences, if you don't like the consequences don't do it!
As far as I can determine, SCO is attempting to charge those that have moved from SCO to Linux and are running THEIR libraries. SCO is simply attempting to collect from those directly using their ip in the form of these libraries.
Here is a relevant link explaining what this is all about LINUX ABI
Well, I guess if anyone on Slasdot ever does your experiment and gets killed they can use your slashdot post in court against you. Oh they'd be dead, ok nevermind.:-)
Earlier today an AC was cooked to a crisp after an experiment went horribly wrong, his last comment was 'they were out of distilled, but I have this 2 liter bottle of seltzer'. There was mass hysteria reported on Slashdot when they heard of the news. He is survived by a cat, a dog, a vat of lard, 30 hard core porno videos, and one bitchin' computer.
One other design change I'd like to see added is no joints inside of the power supply that might leak over time. I would bend a U of copper tubing and braze it to a chunk of copper, then do the mica sandwhich, remember the plastic bushing on the front of the screw as well.
The heat sink should be isolated from everything inside the power supply!!
This is not a recommendation, Don't do this, you could kill yourself.
The tax will make it better for us, but not for them. They will go further than they have now to keep their bottom line on an upward trend. I'd rather attempt every solution before proposing a new tax or regulation.
If the locals of these countries could make their own brand of shoe, that would be the best solution, they might be sold at a discount store initially, but it will work, just as it has for every other emerging country including the US in it's early days. These countries should provide basic human rights and that's what the UN is for.
I understand all of this strife over people working 18 hour days for a crust of bread, but if they had no means of support wouldn't they be starving? So let's leave that alone for the moment......
A solution would be to purchase shoes from the US or Europe where labor standards are enforced and let Nike and others who have subpar working conditions know.
Nike would still sell shoes, but not to as many people, they would feel the pain before it affected those making your $150.00 shoes for pennies.
Those who do the endorsements would be another place to go after, public people rarely like to be linked with the exploitation of human beings.
Most people have good intentions when it comes to the causes of people in other countries, but that's all they are, intentions.
Isn't most of the stuff we use made by impoverished people anyhow?
No, I'm actually closer to a lawyer, fangs and all (that was to be my first profession, easy money calls though) . That would make me one of those consultant types. Pay me lots of money and I will tell you what you're doing wrong, pay me more and I'll tell you how to fix it, even more and I will fix it myself, business does suck now though.
BTW......
C'mon defaming DarthWiggle, you make me sound like I beat puppies with a baseball bat.
I'm glad my smiley insurance paid off, I wasn't sure if the slip and fall thing was going to be obvious.:-)
The aircraft is still in the developmental stage but Moshier envisions a day when the sky is full of people dashing across town in the flying machines that operate much like a helicopter.
Most people can barely drive in 2 dimensions without a cellphone, now give them 3 dimensions and a cellphone. Charles Darwin would be a very proud man.
Yep, on his side with fangs and claws deeply embedded, sucking the last drop of blood from his veins and waiting for the next victum to slip and fall into your unholy clutches.
Just kidding, lawyers are people too.....I think:-)
I thought those commercials were actually kind of cool.
They put holes all through one of the advertised cars, not something you see every day and they were of a high quality, and yes I watched all of them that came down on the TiVo.
I liked seeing James Brown barter his soul for youth with the devil.
I prefer shorts, like the stuff they put on IFC sometimes, so these commercials, while having bold product placement, were fun to watch.
The soldier of the furture come equipped with everything he needs to operate in a hostile environment.
The nutrient patch Eating means downtime, and downtime means certain death (we tell them that so we can save on the scrambled egg MREs)
The NRG patch To keep the soldier of the future alert and in the business of acting as the freeworld's finest killing machine, we have the NRG patch, a potent time release combination of caffine, cocaine, methamphetimine(sp?), and some of the best drugs every developed for narcolepsy. (If they run for 24 hours straight we can get three times the use out of them)
The Mind patchEverything you need to keep moral high and your soldiers too, eliminate battle fatigue, reduce stress, and give them the ability to see the colors of the world with our unique combination of nicotein, lsd, pcp, thc and various other combinations of letters. ( They'll be so addicticed they will battle to get their fix)
Recreation patch This patch features a combination of drugs recovered from Roswell, Viagra and birthcontrol to take the male and female integrated army to the next stage, no more ping pong or other games of skill. It's the oldest form of recreation known to man, all induced at appropriate times by appropriate couples with the use of this patch.(If they screw like bunnies they might just forget we sent them to hell)
Better living through chemistry, it's not just a motto, it's a way of life!
Microsoft marketing.NET is like ford running dumptruck commercials during the superbowl. It's a commercial product, if I need a compiler I know where to get it, if I need a tool I know where to go (I'll start in Redmond first).
.NET has bombarded me from every direction, I usually keep up with MS stuff despite my dislike for them, I gave up on this, the term seems to mean everything Microsoft, but it then seems to mean specific things in certain instances. It's f&cking confusing.
I half thought the MS marketeers were watching the smurfs and instead of smurf the used the word.NET
New Smurf technology enabled my Smurf application with expanded communication using the Smurf framework on the Smurf advanced server.
Yes, it's Tridge of SAMBA, you know that cool program that lets us share files without running broken NFS implementations on windows, yep he's done quite a bit of work on his tivo, including importing guide data since he's in Australia.
I am by no means bashing the euro way of doing things, I'm just tired of very closed minded people saying get with the program.
What program?
It all works well here, Contrary to what some euros believe, just because some Americans get pissy about not being catered to doesn't mean it doesn't work. If there is a demand here it will be filled.
I have so many minutes I never use them all, I would have to be on the phone for an excessive amount of time to come close.
I don't feel I pay too much for what I get out of it, nothing is free, and I appreciate someone being able to call me from a landline w/o a charge.
I bear the burden, I gave them my number and that likely means I wish to talk to them again, but if not caller id solves that quickly.
There is etiquett involved while speaking to an American on a cell phone, you should ask if they wish the conversation to be continued on a landline, with you calling them back on that landline if they desire. I personally am a just the facts type person on the phone(usually due to driving), unless I'm home, then I have that landline. I like my nice big phone for long conversations, or the planetronics handsfree (I have one for the cellpone, but I like the landline one better.
Now as far as the text messaging goes, I know 14 year olds can use it effectivly, but it's a limitation forced on people due to the form factor of the phone. I played around with it in the office for awhile and did sorta get the hang of it, and never used it again, it's just too easy to dial the number. Sorry, but with the price of cheap laptops and PDAs it's hard to see the point.
I'd say the only problem I've had with the cell phone companies are the lack of informed individuals when you call them.
Nascar does need to return to its roots, it really should just be a stock car with a roll cage and straight pipes, this would put some serious pressure on the manufacturers to actually sell what they race. It woud reduce the twitchyness at high speed that many American cars posess.
When reading this take into account I'm replying to the euros that have a "it's better in europe" argument, many european friends I have here do not posess such an arrogant attitude.
To the euros who say, why is it the US does X different, I would reply because we can.
You have no choice, GSM is what you will eat, you will eat it long after it's been a cutting edge standard and you will wonder why you are stuck with an aging standard in a world that is spinning faster and faster by the day.
Now for the euros you get screwed everytime you pick the phone up with metering, so I could see how inane text messageing would be the way to go, but personally when I think of cell phone I think of phone, not device with sucky ergonomics to type messages in.
Corporations aren't in the habit of forking over money whenever the users get a tingle they need X feature. Show them the money and they will show you the features. That said I have not met but a very few people on this side that use anything other than voicemail on their cell phones. Everything else is a toy to the majority of users. I'm not lumping slashdot readers in with the general populace, but for Joe sixpack it is true.
And as for the phones.....
Analog sucked period, the smallest phone I could get in '94 felt as if it were going to catch fire on long conversations. I personally like the Qualcomm standard (CDMA I think)used in the old PrimeCo phones, I hardly ever had a breakup in my area, coverage at the time wasn't great, but for most of my uses it had crystal clear reception. All of the other providers ATT, TMobile (in particular) and Cingular(better than the rest, but below primeco) had less than stellar performance (I'm not sure what standard they used)
I just drove 2000 mile across the country, I have free roaming and nationwide long distance. So I'd say I have no problems with my phone, it does what it should and I see no reason why we should conform just to be like the rest of the world, what for a few inconvienced international travelers? If you have the money to come here you have the cash to buy a cheap prepaid cell phone in 711 or radioshack, that's what I would do if I traveled to europe.
Damn now you'll be bitching about how Japan and the US use lower voltages than europe and different plugs too, it's a bitch ain't it?
If I cared about karma I'd run for office.
I had thought about certification by the state, eh, it won't work as many other slashdotters have pointed out. I fix my own car because of this, I don't do haircuts though.
We need a national union of techs and SAs, with apprenticeships for the newbies who think they know it all (as you get more experience you realize just how little you knew then). This would give corporations a pool of skilled people to pull applicants from. It would also increase job security, allowing us to work until retirement in this trade rather than being pushed aside for someone who is younger and demands less pay. This would make our trade a career and not just something that was once a hobby and is now a job.
That would be my solution, but I have no clue as to how it would work....
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Yes, those machines were really easy to use,
:-/
I never had an issue with them. Those who CARED about the vote would've checked the card when they removed it from the machine to make sure all the little holes were punched all the way through.........
Dave's articles were the reason I bought the paper, straight to the sunshine magazine inside the paper.
You can never run out of material making fun of Florida, it's all true, really it is....
Real Karma will bite you in the ass for that.
Wishing death upon anyone, you are as much the problem as those who rush to war.
Soccer tends to be something Americans play in school and grow out of. It doesn't strike a chord with most of us. I do watch it though.
As far as scale goes, I don't really think Americans care that most of the world doesn't watch it. What is important is that most Americans watch the superbowl for one reason or the other.
Nobody cares about the stupid super bowl except the US-Americans.
Care to back that statement, it seems to be a pretty concrete one. I know I can refute it.
We call it football, because that's what it is. The game you play is soccer. I speak American English, not English. I think that's where you are confused, they might seem the same, but they are different in many ways.
Many Americans view soccer the same way you view football. As someone who has played both games, you obviously don't have a clue as to what football is about.
Soccer is fun to watch, but that gets old when my country keeps losing. I just cheer for a country from the Americas win.
What's really funny about this whole thing is oil contributes more to the terrorists than drugs ever could and legalized drugs would do nothing more than publicly expose those with hidden addictions. They could then seek help without the stigma associated with drugs.
Good come back. It looks as if you might have outgrown slashdot, or maybe slashdot has degenerated from what it was in the 'day', all of the comments after you seem to indicate some slashdotters can't see beyond the tip of their nose.
Need to add a little comment here just to bitch.
We need to seriously fix these temperature swings.
It hit a tad above freezing in S.FLA last night, it hasn't been this cold in probably ten years or more and it would normally be a nice 80F. Native Floridians are missing the cold weather survival skills that even people in the Georgia and Alabama have.
Oh yeah, you don't get any OJ if it doesn't warm up some!
Cold weather clothes....for what, oh that's why I'm shivering.
Go ahead, you can be judged by a panel of your peers, that is if you can call them that.
If they didn't get out of jury duty they're not my peers.
Then when they rule against you, you will be fined out the ass, or if it's criminal be bubba's bitch.
People accept pleas for a reason, they are a sure thing, with a jury God only knows your fate.
The court system won't run out of money, it will just take longer to get your case through the system. Then when the budget for next year comes around they will get more money to push the cases through a bit faster.
Face it, if you pirate music, or rather, enable the piracy of anything there are consequences, if you don't like the consequences don't do it!
As far as I can determine, SCO is attempting to charge those that have moved from SCO to Linux and are running THEIR libraries. SCO is simply attempting to collect from those directly using their ip in the form of these libraries.
Here is a relevant link explaining what this is all about LINUX ABI
Well, I guess if anyone on Slasdot ever does your experiment and gets killed they can use your slashdot post in court against you. Oh they'd be dead, ok nevermind. :-)
Earlier today an AC was cooked to a crisp after an experiment went horribly wrong, his last comment was 'they were out of distilled, but I have this 2 liter bottle of seltzer'. There was mass hysteria reported on Slashdot when they heard of the news. He is survived by a cat, a dog, a vat of lard, 30 hard core porno videos, and one bitchin' computer.
One other design change I'd like to see added is no joints inside of the power supply that might leak over time. I would bend a U of copper tubing and braze it to a chunk of copper, then do the mica sandwhich, remember the plastic bushing on the front of the screw as well.
The heat sink should be isolated from everything inside the power supply!!
This is not a recommendation, Don't do this, you could kill yourself.
The tax will make it better for us, but not for them. They will go further than they have now to keep their bottom line on an upward trend. I'd rather attempt every solution before proposing a new tax or regulation.
If the locals of these countries could make their own brand of shoe, that would be the best solution, they might be sold at a discount store initially, but it will work, just as it has for every other emerging country including the US in it's early days. These countries should provide basic human rights and that's what the UN is for.
I understand all of this strife over people working 18 hour days for a crust of bread, but if they had no means of support wouldn't they be starving? So let's leave that alone for the moment......
A solution would be to purchase shoes from the US or Europe where labor standards are enforced and let Nike and others who have subpar working conditions know.
Nike would still sell shoes, but not to as many people, they would feel the pain before it affected those making your $150.00 shoes for pennies.
Those who do the endorsements would be another place to go after, public people rarely like to be linked with the exploitation of human beings.
Most people have good intentions when it comes to the causes of people in other countries, but that's all they are, intentions.
Isn't most of the stuff we use made by impoverished people anyhow?
No, I'm actually closer to a lawyer, fangs and all (that was to be my first profession, easy money calls though) . That would make me one of those consultant types. Pay me lots of money and I will tell you what you're doing wrong, pay me more and I'll tell you how to fix it, even more and I will fix it myself, business does suck now though.
:-)
BTW......
C'mon defaming DarthWiggle, you make me sound like I beat puppies with a baseball bat.
I'm glad my smiley insurance paid off, I wasn't sure if the slip and fall thing was going to be obvious.
The aircraft is still in the developmental stage but Moshier envisions a day when the sky is full of people dashing across town in the flying machines that operate much like a helicopter.
Most people can barely drive in 2 dimensions without a cellphone, now give them 3 dimensions and a cellphone. Charles Darwin would be a very proud man.
Yep, on his side with fangs and claws deeply embedded, sucking the last drop of blood from his veins and waiting for the next victum to slip and fall into your unholy clutches.
:-)
Just kidding, lawyers are people too.....I think
I thought those commercials were actually kind of cool. They put holes all through one of the advertised cars, not something you see every day and they were of a high quality, and yes I watched all of them that came down on the TiVo. I liked seeing James Brown barter his soul for youth with the devil. I prefer shorts, like the stuff they put on IFC sometimes, so these commercials, while having bold product placement, were fun to watch.
The soldier of the furture come equipped with everything he needs to operate in a hostile environment.
The nutrient patch Eating means downtime, and downtime means certain death (we tell them that so we can save on the scrambled egg MREs)
The NRG patch To keep the soldier of the future alert and in the business of acting as the freeworld's finest killing machine, we have the NRG patch, a potent time release combination of caffine, cocaine, methamphetimine(sp?), and some of the best drugs every developed for narcolepsy. (If they run for 24 hours straight we can get three times the use out of them)
The Mind patchEverything you need to keep moral high and your soldiers too, eliminate battle fatigue, reduce stress, and give them the ability to see the colors of the world with our unique combination of nicotein, lsd, pcp, thc and various other combinations of letters. ( They'll be so addicticed they will battle to get their fix)
Recreation patch This patch features a combination of drugs recovered from Roswell, Viagra and birthcontrol to take the male and female integrated army to the next stage, no more ping pong or other games of skill. It's the oldest form of recreation known to man, all induced at appropriate times by appropriate couples with the use of this patch.(If they screw like bunnies they might just forget we sent them to hell)
Better living through chemistry, it's not just a motto, it's a way of life!
Microsoft marketing .NET is like ford running dumptruck commercials during the superbowl. It's a commercial product, if I need a compiler I know where to get it, if I need a tool I know where to go (I'll start in Redmond first).
.NET has bombarded me from every direction, I usually keep up with MS stuff despite my dislike for them, I gave up on this, the term seems to mean everything Microsoft, but it then seems to mean specific things in certain instances. It's f&cking confusing.
.NET
I half thought the MS marketeers were watching the smurfs and instead of smurf the used the word
New Smurf technology enabled my Smurf application with expanded communication using the Smurf framework on the Smurf advanced server.
Yes, it's Tridge of SAMBA, you know that cool program that lets us share files without running broken NFS implementations on windows, yep he's done quite a bit of work on his tivo, including importing guide data since he's in Australia.
I am by no means bashing the euro way of doing things, I'm just tired of very closed minded people saying get with the program.
What program?
It all works well here, Contrary to what some euros believe, just because some Americans get pissy about not being catered to doesn't mean it doesn't work. If there is a demand here it will be filled.
I have so many minutes I never use them all, I would have to be on the phone for an excessive amount of time to come close.
I don't feel I pay too much for what I get out of it, nothing is free, and I appreciate someone being able to call me from a landline w/o a charge.
I bear the burden, I gave them my number and that likely means I wish to talk to them again, but if not caller id solves that quickly.
There is etiquett involved while speaking to an American on a cell phone, you should ask if they wish the conversation to be continued on a landline, with you calling them back on that landline if they desire. I personally am a just the facts type person on the phone(usually due to driving), unless I'm home, then I have that landline. I like my nice big phone for long conversations, or the planetronics handsfree (I have one for the cellpone, but I like the landline one better.
Now as far as the text messaging goes, I know 14 year olds can use it effectivly, but it's a limitation forced on people due to the form factor of the phone. I played around with it in the office for awhile and did sorta get the hang of it, and never used it again, it's just too easy to dial the number. Sorry, but with the price of cheap laptops and PDAs it's hard to see the point.
I'd say the only problem I've had with the cell phone companies are the lack of informed individuals when you call them.
Nascar does need to return to its roots, it really should just be a stock car with a roll cage and straight pipes, this would put some serious pressure on the manufacturers to actually sell what they race. It woud reduce the twitchyness at high speed that many American cars posess.
When reading this take into account I'm replying to the euros that have a "it's better in europe" argument, many european friends I have here do not posess such an arrogant attitude.
To the euros who say, why is it the US does X different, I would reply because we can.
You have no choice, GSM is what you will eat, you will eat it long after it's been a cutting edge standard and you will wonder why you are stuck with an aging standard in a world that is spinning faster and faster by the day.
Now for the euros you get screwed everytime you pick the phone up with metering, so I could see how inane text messageing would be the way to go, but personally when I think of cell phone I think of phone, not device with sucky ergonomics to type messages in.
Corporations aren't in the habit of forking over money whenever the users get a tingle they need X feature. Show them the money and they will show you the features. That said I have not met but a very few people on this side that use anything other than voicemail on their cell phones. Everything else is a toy to the majority of users. I'm not lumping slashdot readers in with the general populace, but for Joe sixpack it is true.
And as for the phones.....
Analog sucked period, the smallest phone I could get in '94 felt as if it were going to catch fire on long conversations. I personally like the Qualcomm standard (CDMA I think)used in the old PrimeCo phones, I hardly ever had a breakup in my area, coverage at the time wasn't great, but for most of my uses it had crystal clear reception. All of the other providers ATT, TMobile (in particular) and Cingular(better than the rest, but below primeco) had less than stellar performance (I'm not sure what standard they used)
I just drove 2000 mile across the country, I have free roaming and nationwide long distance. So I'd say I have no problems with my phone, it does what it should and I see no reason why we should conform just to be like the rest of the world, what for a few inconvienced international travelers? If you have the money to come here you have the cash to buy a cheap prepaid cell phone in 711 or radioshack, that's what I would do if I traveled to europe.
Damn now you'll be bitching about how Japan and the US use lower voltages than europe and different plugs too, it's a bitch ain't it? If I cared about karma I'd run for office.
I had thought about certification by the state, eh, it won't work as many other slashdotters have pointed out. I fix my own car because of this, I don't do haircuts though.
We need a national union of techs and SAs, with apprenticeships for the newbies who think they know it all (as you get more experience you realize just how little you knew then). This would give corporations a pool of skilled people to pull applicants from. It would also increase job security, allowing us to work until retirement in this trade rather than being pushed aside for someone who is younger and demands less pay. This would make our trade a career and not just something that was once a hobby and is now a job.
That would be my solution, but I have no clue as to how it would work....
Heheh....Man that is a good one, you had me rolling on the ground in painful laughter.