You definitely have a point there. Therefore, the only way to incite violent revolution is to decapitate the government::wraps tinfoil around his monitor at cat5::... essentially to take out the main leadership before it can come down on you like a metric assload of bricks.
I definitely agree with you about the US->fascist dictatorship bit. It's coming; the question is, who will have the foresight and vision and power to stop it?
Create an e-mail mailing list. Put it in your.sig. Let's get stuff done. Let's see how many people we can get to sign up to this list, and start to become a political force.
sean dot flynn at gmail dot com. I'm a Florida resident, and a voting Libertarian.
Y'know, I say this out of my ass, because this is my recollection of "something I Read on the Internet", but apparently California already complies with all of the new stuff on this bill, so you don't get benefits.
Besides, didn't Ahnold already let illegals get drivers' licenses anyway?
"But Mr. Dent, the PPD file has been available on our web site for the last nine months."
"Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to fetch it, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually saying anything about it or anything."
"But the file was available."
"Available? I had to finagle my way into a non-advertised server to download it."
"That's our Linux Support Server."
"With Telnet."
"Ah, well, the HTTP interface had probably gone."
"So had the T3. I got it at FIFTY bytes per second."
"But look, you got the file, didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was made available fifteen directories deep, stuck on the other side of a dusty symlink with a label saying "CONFIDENTIAL -- BEWARE OF LAWYER."
1. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who... exemplified... the most disagreeable traits of his time" (David Cannadine).
Okay. Has anyone else noticed that you still have to be an MSDN subscriber? The basic basic MSDN subscription package is $100, and it goes up from there. No, thanks. I don't want to pay to be your beta software. Find someone else to bend over for you, Billy.
"I like an escalator, because an escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You'll never see an 'Escalator Out of Order' sign, only 'Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.'"...thanks for the memories, Mitch.
Vector drawing is one of those things that sounds like a useless add-on until you consider how much time and disk cash you devote to every two-bit logo you see every day.
That's why I've switched my WD Raptor to using a credit card account instead of solid-state cash. Easy monthly payments, and none of the latency!
Also, the worst thing an incompetant PC tech can do is reduce your computer to a state that requires a format and re-install to fix.
-cough- Bullshit. I wish.
I was working for a tech firm here in Northwest Florida (Netdata Consulting Services; I am no longer employed there, but not because of this).
Simple task: Switch out a processor. It was one of the old Socket 7 chips, before they had the good sense to put a little screwdriver-place on the bracket that holds the heatsink to the motherboard.
Flathead screwdriver slipped, and punched down on the board. Severed five of the data lines going into the socket. Needless to say, the computer didn't start; needed a new board - which was difficult, because Socket 7 boards hadn't been in production for about 4 years at the time. Ebay. Yippee.
Ah, if only "reformat and reinstall" cured everything.
As a side note, my computer and my Chevy S-10 would go for about the same price retail, although I suspect this says more about my truck than my computer...
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You definitely have a point there. Therefore, the only way to incite violent revolution is to decapitate the government ::wraps tinfoil around his monitor at cat5:: ... essentially to take out the main leadership before it can come down on you like a metric assload of bricks.
I definitely agree with you about the US->fascist dictatorship bit. It's coming; the question is, who will have the foresight and vision and power to stop it?
According to [your] parent poster, it was because the Vietnamese didn't post a significant and immediate threat to the stability of our government.
If it had, we -probably- would've turned Vietnam into a smoking hole in the ground, forests and civilians be damned.
He has a point.
Only on Slashdot could this get modded "Offtopic". My heart goes out to you.
All those little peashooters that you people call "guns" can't do shit against real military hardware.
Tell the Iraqi insurgents. And the Palestinians.
Sign me up.
.sig. Let's get stuff done. Let's see how many people we can get to sign up to this list, and start to become a political force.
Create an e-mail mailing list. Put it in your
sean dot flynn at gmail dot com. I'm a Florida resident, and a voting Libertarian.
Sign me up!
Y'know, I say this out of my ass, because this is my recollection of "something I Read on the Internet", but apparently California already complies with all of the new stuff on this bill, so you don't get benefits.
Besides, didn't Ahnold already let illegals get drivers' licenses anyway?
Encrypted, it is. Uses YodaCrypt 1.0, it does. Learn, you must.
No, no. This is "funny", for the uninitiated. =)
73 de KI4IIB
...'scuse me; the cousin from England called. How much is a fuckload in metric assloads?
"But Mr. Dent, the PPD file has been available on our web site for the last nine months."
"Oh yes, well, as soon as I heard I went straight round to fetch it, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually saying anything about it or anything."
"But the file was available."
"Available? I had to finagle my way into a non-advertised server to download it."
"That's our Linux Support Server."
"With Telnet."
"Ah, well, the HTTP interface had probably gone."
"So had the T3. I got it at FIFTY bytes per second."
"But look, you got the file, didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was made available fifteen directories deep, stuck on the other side of a dusty symlink with a label saying "CONFIDENTIAL -- BEWARE OF LAWYER."
disingenuous
Pronunciation Key (dsn-jny-s)
adj.
1. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who... exemplified... the most disagreeable traits of his time" (David Cannadine).
Okay. Has anyone else noticed that you still have to be an MSDN subscriber? The basic basic MSDN subscription package is $100, and it goes up from there. No, thanks. I don't want to pay to be your beta software. Find someone else to bend over for you, Billy.
"I like an escalator, because an escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You'll never see an 'Escalator Out of Order' sign, only 'Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.'" ...thanks for the memories, Mitch.
YAY! A fellow ham. 73 de Sean, KI4IIB
2.8Ghz -> 9081 AMD Cybermarks -> 84.7 ISO 9011:2005 quartets -> 1.7E10 Intel TruePerfs.
I think that was fairly obvious.
Right, but what's that in Metric Assloads / sec^2?
My Volkswagen Jetta got 25mpg.
1986 Volkswagen Jetta.
GLI.
One-half metric assload.
+1, Funny works, in this case.
So're you, apparently =)
Vector drawing is one of those things that sounds like a useless add-on until you consider how much time and disk cash you devote to every two-bit logo you see every day.
That's why I've switched my WD Raptor to using a credit card account instead of solid-state cash. Easy monthly payments, and none of the latency!
Sorry! This joke can only be made once! per day
Better luck next time.
OH MY GOD THAT'S FUNNY!!! ...mod me insightful, please. That was insight. I'm helping.
+5 insightufl. INsifht.
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time for bed
Seventy-four inch minidisk?!! I don't even think my EPs are that wide!!
Slashdotted at two comments. I blame it all on those pesky "subscribers". Slashdotting the page before us commoners can do it.
What, are we not GOOD enough to slashdot FlexBeta?? HMMM?
...Stand down, son.
--Commodore Obvious
Also, the worst thing an incompetant PC tech can do is reduce your computer to a state that requires a format and re-install to fix.
-cough- Bullshit. I wish.
I was working for a tech firm here in Northwest Florida (Netdata Consulting Services; I am no longer employed there, but not because of this).
Simple task: Switch out a processor. It was one of the old Socket 7 chips, before they had the good sense to put a little screwdriver-place on the bracket that holds the heatsink to the motherboard.
Flathead screwdriver slipped, and punched down on the board. Severed five of the data lines going into the socket. Needless to say, the computer didn't start; needed a new board - which was difficult, because Socket 7 boards hadn't been in production for about 4 years at the time. Ebay. Yippee.
Ah, if only "reformat and reinstall" cured everything.
As a side note, my computer and my Chevy S-10 would go for about the same price retail, although I suspect this says more about my truck than my computer...