In Soviet Canada the Government pays the lobbies to influence Law.
Joking aside;
Another thing happened just recently in my neck of the woods that I am really pissed about. I live in Windsor, Ontario (Across the river from Detroit, Michigan). This past week the 'Hell's Angels' motorcycle club/gang/mafia was in town. The police setup checkpoints on the roads (that they knew the bikers would be traveling along {ingress and egress fromthe club-house}) and took the drivers license + insurance documents of EVERYBODY that drove on these public roads.
The reason: They HOPED to catch some of the bikers that had arrest warrents in other parts of the country!
I was/am LIVID. I wrote the newspaper; called the local radio station, complained to the Local members of Parliment. We are 1 step away from East-Block communist oppression. I am surprised that they didn't just click thier Jack-Boots and say "Papers! Please!"
**The Hells Angels are considered the largest (and now ONLY) organized crime syndicate in Canada.
Wouldn't it be easiest to just state that anything that exists in the solar plane is a planet and anything that isn't is just a captured satelite?
I know that this would exclude Pluto and all other Ort Cloud objects.
This is a complicated question, but what is wrong with an easy answer?
Re:Why football (soccer) isn't more popular in N.A
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You might have misunderstood my point. I dislike basketball too, it appears that the only difference between the two are the fequency of goals.
Why football (soccer) isn't more popular in N.Amer
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I live in Canada. I like hockey & (American) Football (NFL/CFL). I hate soccer for the same reasons I hate basketball and golf. It is slow, boring and from the looks of things involves very little strategy.
Here is my impression of all soccer & basketball games I have ever seen: "Smith steals the ball, weaves his way through traffic, shoots AND SCORES!!" "Adams passes the ball to Jones, Jones weaves his way through traffic, shoots AND SCORES!!"... ad infinitum....
Basketball: this will happen 100 times in a game. Soccer: this will happen 4 times in a game.
run down the field/court, shoot, score. Rinse, Lather, Repeat. Soccer seems to maintain a frenetic pace only matched by Golf. Sorry but it's not for me.
Things will only get worse for compaines untill they realize that they can't get something for nothing.
I have been out of work for 6 months, this is an example "Help Wanted" that I recently read:
Minimum MUST HAVE requirements: 5 Years Oracle 5+ Years Windows System Admin 5 years Help Desk 5 years Citrix 7 Years C++, VB, (and a few others)
Salary Range: $20,000 - $25,000/year (Canadian)
They are trying to fill 4 jobs with 1 person who would work for $10/hour!
Computers are my passion, but with many places pulling shit like this I think I'll keep it as my hobby and go look for another career.
Recurring theme; Use your brain!
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Hmm, here is another list that might resonate more.
--------------- *Oldies but goodies Go Chess --------------- *More recent classics Civ II Risk Seawolf Monolopy/Checkers (Just hear me out on this one) ---------------
The pattern that makes these popular and still "Fun To Play!" is that it requires you to use your brain and think strategy. (And to a lessor extent this applies to Monopoly/Checkers) Sudoku is a recent blip on this theme. Any game that allows you to beat any other opponent based solely on your mental ability will be coveted by the non-jocks of the world, (and we ALWAYS outnumber the jocks.)
It doesn't require physical skill. (Which is why most FPS games are mere blips in the pan, would you really devote 20+hrs to Wolfenstien3D again these days?) One brain vs another, priceless domination.
1) It gives Google _more_ of an incentive to develop GPay and Googles Ebay (G-Bay?). 2) Now all 3 companies that we love to hate are all in one convient package (Pay-Pal, Ebay, MS)
This is Scary because: Given the excellent security record that Microsoft OSs' have do we really want pay-pal tied into the OS? OR even worse if Microsoft thinks* you are not using a "Geniune" copy of it's OS, will it put a lock you your paypal account and/or deduct the amount straight from your account. AND EVEN WORSE: This will make it _very_ easy for MS to start charging $xx/(day/week/month) for using Windows.
OMG the sky is falling! =) Should make for interesting times. (The Chinese proverb: "May you live in Interesting Times" is apt I think)
As a bored teenager many years ago I decided to read Moby Dick simply because it is considered a classic (and I wanted to know what the big deal was) {as a bonus, Picard kept making several references to it too}.
While it was quite slow in places, I did enjoy the book. But I sence that my reaction to it might be unique.
Am I the only person who thought it was (mostly) Very Funny?
Disclaimer: yes there are some very somber parts, and humor was not the "all-encompassing" point to the book. Lest we forget the real moral to the story either.
But, damn I was Laughing out Loud at several parts of the story. My mom would ask "What's so funny?" My reply of "Moby Dick", would only cause her to give me an odd look.
I have often wondered why there wasn't more "CIA" style encryption being used. Have 2 passwords for any encryption, 1 password decrypts the contents, the other FULLY erases/destroys the data.
John Smith 1234 Anystreet Anytown, CA 90210 (123)456-7890
DOB: 1/1/1900 email: aolsux@aol.com Mothers maiden name: mommy
Easy to remember on any site I visit. the moral of the story, NEVER give out true information to ANY online site. You make exceptions on an as-needed basis. (eg. bank, 1 or 2 trustworthy sites to shop from.)
You select custom Powerups: 1 Speedup (of course) 2 two-way 3 tailgun (never really used it) 4 Laser 5 Option (the ones that follow you, not the ones that fly in formation) 6 smaller
That was a good post. AND you have just given me a reason to buy a PSP. cool Gradius on a PSP.
Do you know if Gradius 4 has 'removed' the original perfect combo of weapons? I was playing a PS2 version of the game somewhere (rented a system) and noticed that all the best stuff had been greyed-out and not available.
I currently have 19000+ songs in my collection (thank-god for NFS) and Amarok easily manages the whole thing. With the ability to connect to an MySQL DB (or it will use its own internal SQLlite if you don't have MySQL to connect to) it keeps track of ALL of you music information (including coverart and ID3Tags).
This is the best tool for music collections you will ever use. Smart-Playlists Score-based tracking of your music full support for streaming. "similar songs" suggestions Music Brainz tagging support and a metric ass-load of 3rd party scripts.
Version 1.4 is rock solid. I have converted several friends to using Linux strictly based on how powerfull Amarok is.
Easy Recipe to follow;
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75% Reinvent the wheel 20% Lets play it safe so we don't scare content providers away. 3% There are quite a few geeks on the IntarWeb who are doing this, lets do it ourselves so we can milk money from the $Mass_Market_Idiots 2% I heard about this whole TV-Internet convergence thing in 1996 and I have never seen anybody else get it right, maybe we can do it!
As a bonus, we can sell Processors equiped with SFT Technology! (Super.Fast.Television) We will call it SaFeTy Chip!
Does a 'n00b' system admin run Debian? not usually.
Debian is preferred because (a) "apt-get" makes life so blindingly simple that you don't need to worry about 90% of the hassels that come with other distros (rpm-hell anyone?) (b) It's stable (c) "It Just Works!" (tm)
Ubuntu is: ALL the best of Debain + Quicker updates. How long did it take for Debain to support SATA in the stable release? Too damn long!
Ubuntu is not totally user friendly, ie it wasn't untill Dapper that there was a GUI for setting up a pppoe internet connection. (try telling Mom to: open a terminal, type pppoe-conf, and follow the prompts.) Sounds great on paper.
My mom, Uncle x2, wife, Mother & Father in-laws, and CLIENTS all run Ubuntu because it is easier for me to manage/admin. I'm not a n00b. I got desperately tired of waiting for Debian Stable. Now I have all the good of Debian + modern packages.
I looked at this and I thought, "so what, how many fps do kids need in their games anyways?" Then the exact next thought was: "Bah the drivers are still fubar in linux so why should I care." 3rd: "How many/.'ers will make the same comments?"
So offically, pass me a hat. I quit. Ahh games I do miss them so (the best FPS will always be StarSeige Tribes), and eye-candy; nah it'll probably slow down my compile times.
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3.2.1.Joke
In Soviet Canada the Government pays the lobbies to influence Law.
Joking aside;
Another thing happened just recently in my neck of the woods that I am really pissed about.
I live in Windsor, Ontario (Across the river from Detroit, Michigan). This past week the 'Hell's Angels' motorcycle club/gang/mafia was in town. The police setup checkpoints on the roads (that they knew the bikers would be traveling along {ingress and egress fromthe club-house}) and took the drivers license + insurance documents of EVERYBODY that drove on these public roads.
The reason: They HOPED to catch some of the bikers that had arrest warrents in other parts of the country!
I was/am LIVID. I wrote the newspaper; called the local radio station, complained to the Local members of Parliment.
We are 1 step away from East-Block communist oppression. I am surprised that they didn't just click thier Jack-Boots and say "Papers! Please!"
**The Hells Angels are considered the largest (and now ONLY) organized crime syndicate in Canada.
Disclaimer:
I know nothing about astronomy.
Wouldn't it be easiest to just state that anything that exists in the solar plane is a planet and anything that isn't is just a captured satelite?
I know that this would exclude Pluto and all other Ort Cloud objects.
This is a complicated question, but what is wrong with an easy answer?
You might have misunderstood my point.
I dislike basketball too, it appears that the only difference between the two are the fequency of goals.
I live in Canada. I like hockey & (American) Football (NFL/CFL).
... ad infinitum ....
I hate soccer for the same reasons I hate basketball and golf.
It is slow, boring and from the looks of things involves very little strategy.
Here is my impression of all soccer & basketball games I have ever seen:
"Smith steals the ball, weaves his way through traffic, shoots AND SCORES!!"
"Adams passes the ball to Jones, Jones weaves his way through traffic, shoots AND SCORES!!"
Basketball: this will happen 100 times in a game.
Soccer: this will happen 4 times in a game.
run down the field/court, shoot, score.
Rinse, Lather, Repeat.
Soccer seems to maintain a frenetic pace only matched by Golf.
Sorry but it's not for me.
Things will only get worse for compaines untill they realize that they can't get something for nothing.
I have been out of work for 6 months, this is an example "Help Wanted" that I recently read:
Minimum MUST HAVE requirements:
5 Years Oracle
5+ Years Windows System Admin
5 years Help Desk
5 years Citrix
7 Years C++, VB, (and a few others)
Salary Range: $20,000 - $25,000/year (Canadian)
They are trying to fill 4 jobs with 1 person who would work for $10/hour!
Computers are my passion, but with many places pulling shit like this I think I'll keep it as my hobby and go look for another career.
Hmm, here is another list that might resonate more.
---------------
*Oldies but goodies
Go
Chess
---------------
*More recent classics
Civ II
Risk
Seawolf
Monolopy/Checkers (Just hear me out on this one)
---------------
The pattern that makes these popular and still "Fun To Play!" is that it requires you to use your brain and think strategy. (And to a lessor extent this applies to Monopoly/Checkers)
Sudoku is a recent blip on this theme.
Any game that allows you to beat any other opponent based solely on your mental ability will be coveted by the non-jocks of the world, (and we ALWAYS outnumber the jocks.)
It doesn't require physical skill. (Which is why most FPS games are mere blips in the pan, would you really devote 20+hrs to Wolfenstien3D again these days?)
One brain vs another, priceless domination.
IMHO this is great news.
1) It gives Google _more_ of an incentive to develop GPay and Googles Ebay (G-Bay?).
2) Now all 3 companies that we love to hate are all in one convient package (Pay-Pal, Ebay, MS)
This is Scary because:
Given the excellent security record that Microsoft OSs' have do we really want pay-pal tied into the OS? OR even worse if Microsoft thinks* you are not using a "Geniune" copy of it's OS, will it put a lock you your paypal account and/or deduct the amount straight from your account.
AND EVEN WORSE: This will make it _very_ easy for MS to start charging $xx/(day/week/month) for using Windows.
OMG the sky is falling! =)
Should make for interesting times.
(The Chinese proverb: "May you live in Interesting Times" is apt I think)
As a bored teenager many years ago I decided to read Moby Dick simply because it is considered a classic (and I wanted to know what the big deal was) {as a bonus, Picard kept making several references to it too}.
While it was quite slow in places, I did enjoy the book. But I sence that my reaction to it might be unique.
Am I the only person who thought it was (mostly) Very Funny?
Disclaimer: yes there are some very somber parts, and humor was not the "all-encompassing" point to the book. Lest we forget the real moral to the story either.
But, damn I was Laughing out Loud at several parts of the story. My mom would ask "What's so funny?" My reply of "Moby Dick", would only cause her to give me an odd look.
It may be 30x more then the LOC, but how many VW Bugs would it take if they were full of backup tapes?
I have often wondered why there wasn't more "CIA" style encryption being used.
Have 2 passwords for any encryption, 1 password decrypts the contents, the other FULLY erases/destroys the data.
John Smith
1234 Anystreet
Anytown, CA
90210
(123)456-7890
DOB: 1/1/1900
email: aolsux@aol.com
Mothers maiden name: mommy
Easy to remember on any site I visit.
the moral of the story, NEVER give out true information to ANY online site.
You make exceptions on an as-needed basis.
(eg. bank, 1 or 2 trustworthy sites to shop from.)
You select custom
Powerups:
1 Speedup (of course)
2 two-way
3 tailgun (never really used it)
4 Laser
5 Option (the ones that follow you, not the ones that fly in formation)
6 smaller
Same thoughts here, ..brain tickle...
!!! OMG Gradius !!!
That was a good post. AND you have just given me a reason to buy a PSP. cool Gradius on a PSP.
Do you know if Gradius 4 has 'removed' the original perfect combo of weapons? I was playing a PS2 version of the game somewhere (rented a system) and noticed that all the best stuff had been greyed-out and not available.
I currently have 19000+ songs in my collection (thank-god for NFS) and Amarok easily manages the whole thing.
With the ability to connect to an MySQL DB (or it will use its own internal SQLlite if you don't have MySQL to connect to) it keeps track of ALL of you music information (including coverart and ID3Tags).
This is the best tool for music collections you will ever use.
Smart-Playlists
Score-based tracking of your music
full support for streaming.
"similar songs" suggestions
Music Brainz tagging support
and a metric ass-load of 3rd party scripts.
Version 1.4 is rock solid. I have converted several friends to using Linux strictly based on how powerfull Amarok is.
http://amarok.kde.org/
You won't ever need anything else.
I do remember seeing something very similar when I was younger too.
How acid lakes are formed.
Another description.
You were thinking about Maurice and Katja Krafft, the French vulcanologists that lost their lives in Japan in 1991.
The googles, they do nothing.
75% Reinvent the wheel
20% Lets play it safe so we don't scare content providers away.
3% There are quite a few geeks on the IntarWeb who are doing this, lets do it ourselves so we can milk money from the $Mass_Market_Idiots
2% I heard about this whole TV-Internet convergence thing in 1996 and I have never seen anybody else get it right, maybe we can do it!
As a bonus, we can sell Processors equiped with SFT Technology!
(Super.Fast.Television)
We will call it SaFeTy Chip!
Another Plato fan in the house? (Check out my sig)
My favorite Democracy quote is not from Plato.
"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch."
Ubuntu is not _just_ for n00bs.
Does a 'n00b' system admin run Debian?
not usually.
Debian is preferred because
(a) "apt-get" makes life so blindingly simple that you don't need to worry about 90% of the hassels that come with other distros (rpm-hell anyone?)
(b) It's stable
(c) "It Just Works!" (tm)
Ubuntu is: ALL the best of Debain + Quicker updates.
How long did it take for Debain to support SATA in the stable release? Too damn long!
Ubuntu is not totally user friendly, ie it wasn't untill Dapper that there was a GUI for setting up a pppoe internet connection. (try telling Mom to: open a terminal, type pppoe-conf, and follow the prompts.)
Sounds great on paper.
My mom, Uncle x2, wife, Mother & Father in-laws, and CLIENTS all run Ubuntu because it is easier for me to manage/admin.
I'm not a n00b. I got desperately tired of waiting for Debian Stable. Now I have all the good of Debian + modern packages.
That is why you should NEVER believe quotes on books, movie reviews, games, etc. Even if it is in print it is far too easy to take out of context.
Take this for example:
"The main-chase scene in Matrix 2 is the best I have ever seen; it's too bad the rest of the movie couldn't keep pace."
Spin enabled: "...Matrix 2 is the best I have ever seen.."
Anybody with half of an education should know this stuff.
Demo the ****ware, if you like it buy it!
Before you run away let me easy some of your concerns.
I've been using Ubuntu since Hoary was first available. (Debian Sid before that) Up untill a week ago I was running Dapper too.
That screenshot was _VERY LIKELY_ caused by the "apt-get dist-upgrade" style command.
The only time I have ever seen a "please reboot now" was after a new kernel version was downloaded.
I am back on Hoary now, but only because I was having other problems.
Actually, now that I actually try to USE the links, I must apologize.
It was a good effort poster
Thank-you poster for including cache links!
Yes, untill I get my jetpack and spinfuser back I am not happy.
(yes I do play ET, but I wish I could get Tribes or Tribes 2 to work with linux)
I am offically an Old-Fart(tm).
/.'ers will make the same comments?"
I looked at this and I thought, "so what, how many fps do kids need in their games anyways?"
Then the exact next thought was: "Bah the drivers are still fubar in linux so why should I care."
3rd: "How many
So offically, pass me a hat. I quit.
Ahh games I do miss them so (the best FPS will always be StarSeige Tribes), and eye-candy; nah it'll probably slow down my compile times.
"So if she floats, she must be made of wood."
"Burn the witch!"