This sounds so much like one of the first Sci Fi books I ever read in high school called, "Microscopic gods" (or was it "Microcosmic gods"?) -- I think it was. A scientist creates microscopic evolution. He keeps experimenting, forcing "stresses" on the creatures to make them evolve. They eventually become sentient, intelligent, creative. To fund his research he invents wireless power. A congressman hooks up with him and uses subterfuge to wrist the new power invention from him. Meanwhile, his microscopic gods keep evolving until they are more advanced than the scientist himself. They refer to him as their "father" or "god" or something. The congressman sends in the military, using the wireless power, to take over the scientist's lab and even washington I think. The scientist sends a request to his creatures to invent an invulnerable forcefield to withstand the attack. They do so, but make it only big enough to cover their little area. He cannot contact them. They send him a -- for the first time ever -- message humbly asking if the parameters were right since they suspected he could not reach them. They also provide the means for him to communicate back. He tells them to increase the size to cover his island and they do. All the planes using the wireless power to take over the country crash, and senator is fouled and the scientist lives happily ever after in his grey, dome, shelled, island with his little gods. The story ends stating the military continues to use the dome for target practice....
I believe nothing short of stopping the use of fossil fuels will do much good. I do agree with Prof. Tolkien who once said that the combustion engine was the worse nightmare ever witnessed upon mankind -- or something to that affect. His works are filled with green=good (elves) and industry=bad (saruman).
"Under the patent cooperation agreement, Novell's customers receive directly from Microsoft a covenant not to sue. Novell does not receive a patent license or covenant not to sue from Microsoft, and we have not agreed with Microsoft to any condition that would contradict the conditions of the GPL. Our agreement does not affect the freedom that Novell or anyone else in the open source community, including developers, has under the GPL and does not impose any condition that would contradict the conditions of the GPL. Therefore, the agreement is fully compliant with the GPL,"
That reminds me of another, historical, agreement:
"Under the treaty, England receives directly from Germany a promise not to attack Poland. England does not receive a promise not to attack Germany, and we have not agreed with Germany to any condition that would contradict the conditions of previous treaties. Our agreement does not affect the freedom that Poland or any other country in Europe, including France, has under previous treaties and does not impose any condition that would contradict the conditions of such treaties. Therefore, the treaty is fully compliant with all previous treaties."
It warms my heart to hear someone argue the virtues of capitalism. If I make money and so happen to, in part, quote a copyrighted book or sing a copyrighted song, then I can be sued. After all, I'm not sharing the income with the owner/author of the work. Lemme see how the bar owner handling this thing the right way would go:
11/09/06
Dear Mr. MmCartney,
I am a big fan of the Beatles and I own and manage a bar in a back alley on the more average side of town. I live in a trailer and drive a 1994 Honda. Let me digress: I sell cheap beer and frozen cheese sticks to my guests. Once a night, we have "Beatles Night" where more folks show up to hear me sing your songs. I would like to have permission to do this and am willing to share part of the profits that night. I look forward to hearing from you....
12/09/06
Dear Mr. McCartney,
I still have not heard from you regarding using your copyrighted material. RSVP.
01/09/07
Dear Mr. McCartney,
I am not sure my letters are reaching you. If anyone receives this who can pass the information on to Mr. McCartney please do and RSVP.
02/09/07
Dear Mr. McCartney,
I am now losing patrons who are going to another bar in town that has a "Beatles Night." I so badly want to comply with the law. RSVP
03/09/07
Dear Mr. McCartney,
I am going to go ahead and perform your songs. I am taking your unresponsiveness as evidence that you approve. If you still wish to be paid then please let me know.
(Six months later)
From the law office of Hams, Bacon & Hams,
We understand you are unlawfully using Sir. McCartney's copyrighted materials to profit. We ask you cease immediately and be informed that we are taking action to garner funds profited in the past from using this material....
I didn't have a clue what I wanted to be. Everything interested me, so I got a B.A. in liberal arts: majored in Eng Lit. Minored in classic Greek. Lots of history/philosophy. Got a full scholarship to grad school and got a masters in philosophy.
By this point, I thought I would be a professor. The thing is, to support myself I did computer work throughout. I finished my masters to find myself full-time employed in IT. Until I could figure it all out, I kept doing IT work and got promoted twice. I'm now a senior engineer specializing in IT security and regulatory compliance. I wear many hats in the area including policy writing.
I'm near 40 now and still waiting to find out what I'll be when I grow up....
Never had a single computer class in my life or received a certificate.
I enjoy Linux, coding & walks in the park in the evening....
Chamberlain and the British population, like the rest of those who suffered through the horrors of WWI, would do anything not to go to war again. Germany was intimidating all of Europe with war and with its great military might. Chamberlain's sole purpose was appeasement: avoid war at all costs. He worked on agreement after agreement, meeting after meeting, with Germany attempting to appease the devouring hunger of Germany's military and at the same time assuage England she was safe, no worries about war. However, the decisions he made only served to bolster Germany, embolden them toward more aggression and buy time to continue building their might.
In the end, he fed Germany's purpose, war-effort and conquest. Basically, he was an unwilling and incredulous sellout.
"Under the patent cooperation agreement, Novell's customers receive directly from Microsoft a covenant not to sue. Novell does not receive a patent license or covenant not to sue from Microsoft, and we have not agreed with Microsoft to any condition that would contradict the conditions of the GPL. Our agreement does not affect the freedom that Novell or anyone else in the open source community, including developers, has under the GPL and does not impose any condition that would contradict the conditions of the GPL. Therefore, the agreement is fully compliant with the GPL,"
That reminds me of another, historical, agreement:
"Under the treaty, England receives directly from Germany a promise not to attack Poland. England does not receive a promise not to attack Germany, and we have not agreed with Germany to any condition that would contradict the conditions of previous treaties. Our agreement does not affect the freedom that Poland or any other country in Europe, including France, has under previous treaties and does not impose any condition that would contradict the conditions of such treaties. Therefore, the treaty is fully compliant with all previous treaties."
I'm rather shocked that CT made that statement. Surely he is not saying that web pages are not written to the drive. Well, no, that's exactly what he said. This is computer geek-stuff 101....
That reminds me of another, historical, agreement:
"Under the treaty, England receives directly from Germany a promise not to attack Poland. England does not receive a promise not to attack Germany, and we have not agreed with Germany to any condition that would contradict the conditions of previous treaties. Our agreement does not affect the freedom that Poland or any other country in Europe, including France, has under previous treaties and does not impose any condition that would contradict the conditions of such treaties. Therefore, the treaty is fully compliant with all previous treaties."
I think you are correct. I definitely learned some hard lessons in all of that, but bottom line, I should have resolved to a formal letter which I never did. I did get it resolved by forcing managers to actually do their job, but it took two months.
The error in my thinking was assuming these people would do as good a job as I would, were I in their shows....
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the fact that they were enforcing it what this is all about? To make your point true, it would need to be proven that they turned a blind eye on others who did the same thing (downloaded porn). The issue at hand is the user claims to not have been aware as he did not read the click-through -- he just clicked through it. This gets back to my point, that no matter what, users don't read. In our orientation, and in all communications, we let the end-user know that knowing our computer policy is their responsibility and a requirement of employment.... And, yes, we do enforce it.
I made the geek-error of buying a house before inquiring about Internet access. The location was great -- a huge lake just 100 yards in my back yard. Lovely setting. No Internet. I was depressed. Researched and researched options to finally decide to try GPRS through Cingular.
I will say that as far as surfing at home I might as well have bought a land line and used dialup. The connectivity simply blew. Yes, I'm talking GPRS here as someone will surely point out is inferior, but that's not the worst of it. Besides constant drops and inability to get connected a major problem arose. I do want to say that I did enjoy surfing the web while stuck in several traffic jams -- made the wait much more bearable.
So, I get it for around $80 extra a month. I justified the cost based on not having a land line, paying for dialup, etc. The difference was minimal and the mobility made sense. So, around the second payment I get this extra charge of around $30 or so. I walk into the Cingular store where I bought it, to the girl who helped me, and she made a phone call or two and got the charges dismissed, no questions asked. I don't even think I really looked at what the charges were for.
Another 4 or 5 months go by and I'm still using the service. I get this bill one day for an extra $1000. I was mildly shocked, looked over it to realize that these were voice charges for the phone number on the Erickson, wireless card Cingular provided for my laptop. This began a huge odyssey with Cingular. The charges piled up over the next 2 or 3 months and equaled $2500. For 2 solid months I called, walked into the cingular store, emailed, wrote letters, everything. For the first few weeks no one at cingular would believe that I had done anything less than taken the Erickson PCMCIA device out of the laptop, put the SIM card into a phone and made phone calls totaling 1000s of dollars. I even showed them where data and voice calls were showing on the bill at the exact same time, and that with the technology I was using, this was impossible. They still failed to believe me, or, really, show any care at all. It was maddening as each person I talked to seemed to have the job of deflection. It was a basic, "I can't help you, and I don't know who can." No matter how far up the ladder I went.
Finally, after weeks I got through to a manager at their support center who heard my plea, looked at the bill, saw what I saw -- simultaneous data/voice calls -- and got the first month's charges dismissed. I told him there would be more charges, probably, next month and wanted him to help. He said he would. He didn't. For the 2nd months charges, I leaned on the local store manager (I now know why he works behind a vault-door with a key code to get in). He began the investigation anew, as if nothing happened. His method of investigating the bill was to actually call the voice numbers on my Erickson SIM card, and ask the people if they new me (....). He did this even though I showed him the same facts that data and voice calls were simultaneous which was technically impossible.
He finally was convinced when, on a specific day I walked in to the physical store and swapped out the Erickson SIM card, and voice calls showed at the very moment across the country. I had to ask him to look at ledgers that would show the date/time when I was in the store swapping out the SIM card, and then compare that to the roaming voice call made 1000 mils away in Roanoke VA at the same time. His response was, "you do have a point." (....).
I even took half-days off from work to stand in the Cingular store waiting to talk to someone, or on hold with their support. No one cared, no one knew why. It even went through their tech division and security divisions twice I was told, to come back each time with "nothing wrong on our end. This guy is making these voice calls."
In the end, it had to go two managers above the local store manager to dismiss the final month. I was told by the one guy
As someone who writes and has to figure out ways to get people to understand and see a corporate policy, I can relate to this. My questions is, was a click-through the only means by which the business promoted its policy? We put out important, "need-to-know" policies in more than one way. We have click-throughs, a printed magazine that's shipped to each employee and have even made posters to be hung up in break-rooms. We use other methods as well. Our users are saturated I feel. Still, I have to question this judgement. I'm thinking the judge probably doesn't like, or maybe even use, a computer. A click-through is simply the best, and easiest way, to get the information in front of a user. There is always a fine line between getting the policy to the end user and not bugging them. The bottom line is users will still fail to read, or understand, the policy regardless. Every day, I field questions from people -- even folks who work down the hall -- regarding our policy that's been distributed in every way I mentioned above. People even begin to write new policies that say the exact same things already out there, without any knowledge that they received it in bulk this same year. I'm like, "you know, we already have a policy on that. It's in that big, blue magazine I saw on your credenza stacked with all your cisco books. And, it's on the corporate portal that's the home page of your browser. And, it's in your start menu -- that thing that says, "Computer Policy" that you have to by-pass each time you go to "All Programs."
Bottom line: People don't know because they don't read. That's not the fault of a click-through....
Vandalism? A guy promotes his own theory using wiki and finally gets busted. Htf is this vandalism?
And, besides, having a graduate degree myself and written tons of papers: misinformation, unchecked facts and self-promotions are rife across all libraries. As one of my professors told me, "I discovered, way back, as a student, that I could find a source to make any point I wanted...."
Ah, the great unwashed. What would we do without them....
You forget that one microsoft attaboy! is equal to a million apple and linux attaboys! And one apple/linux theoretical vulnerability is likewise calculated to one windows actual vulnerability.
Let's not forget codered: when microsoft, according to the media, fixed the Internet. No one reported that they were the reason codered existed in the first place....
I simply have this problem called memory. I clearly remember what the left had to say about Ruby Ridge. To hear the left, now, making the same defenses conservatives did about the Weaver family, but instead about clear enemies of the U.S., is hypocrisy. For you to make those same statements makes me think you are, indeed, left (i.e., wrong). This really isn't that difficult a logical path to follow.
Who are you? I do not know. You hide behind "anonymous coward" when a de-identifiable/. handle would more than suffice. Which, I say, adds even more to what I think about you....
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This sounds so much like one of the first Sci Fi books I ever read in high school called, "Microscopic gods" (or was it "Microcosmic gods"?) -- I think it was. A scientist creates microscopic evolution. He keeps experimenting, forcing "stresses" on the creatures to make them evolve. They eventually become sentient, intelligent, creative. To fund his research he invents wireless power. A congressman hooks up with him and uses subterfuge to wrist the new power invention from him. Meanwhile, his microscopic gods keep evolving until they are more advanced than the scientist himself. They refer to him as their "father" or "god" or something. The congressman sends in the military, using the wireless power, to take over the scientist's lab and even washington I think. The scientist sends a request to his creatures to invent an invulnerable forcefield to withstand the attack. They do so, but make it only big enough to cover their little area. He cannot contact them. They send him a -- for the first time ever -- message humbly asking if the parameters were right since they suspected he could not reach them. They also provide the means for him to communicate back. He tells them to increase the size to cover his island and they do. All the planes using the wireless power to take over the country crash, and senator is fouled and the scientist lives happily ever after in his grey, dome, shelled, island with his little gods. The story ends stating the military continues to use the dome for target practice....
Love the hitler comment. I guess they'll see colonel sander's head and think, "look. It's him. Bro's sprouted a tee...."
It made more sense without the k....
I believe nothing short of stopping the use of fossil fuels will do much good. I do agree with Prof. Tolkien who once said that the combustion engine was the worse nightmare ever witnessed upon mankind -- or something to that affect. His works are filled with green=good (elves) and industry=bad (saruman).
A little off-topic mebe, but still....
Really nice.... How much?
Impress your air girlfriend!...
Solution to Pollution
Conjunction junction, what's your function?...
As I offered earlier:
"Under the patent cooperation agreement, Novell's customers receive directly from Microsoft a covenant not to sue. Novell does not receive a patent license or covenant not to sue from Microsoft, and we have not agreed with Microsoft to any condition that would contradict the conditions of the GPL. Our agreement does not affect the freedom that Novell or anyone else in the open source community, including developers, has under the GPL and does not impose any condition that would contradict the conditions of the GPL. Therefore, the agreement is fully compliant with the GPL,"
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4685037869.html
That reminds me of another, historical, agreement:
"Under the treaty, England receives directly from Germany a promise not to attack Poland. England does not receive a promise not to attack Germany, and we have not agreed with Germany to any condition that would contradict the conditions of previous treaties. Our agreement does not affect the freedom that Poland or any other country in Europe, including France, has under previous treaties and does not impose any condition that would contradict the conditions of such treaties. Therefore, the treaty is fully compliant with all previous treaties."
Sincerely,
Neville Chamberlain
It warms my heart to hear someone argue the virtues of capitalism. If I make money and so happen to, in part, quote a copyrighted book or sing a copyrighted song, then I can be sued. After all, I'm not sharing the income with the owner/author of the work. Lemme see how the bar owner handling this thing the right way would go:
11/09/06
Dear Mr. MmCartney,
I am a big fan of the Beatles and I own and manage a bar in a back alley on the more average side of town. I live in a trailer and drive a 1994 Honda. Let me digress: I sell cheap beer and frozen cheese sticks to my guests. Once a night, we have "Beatles Night" where more folks show up to hear me sing your songs. I would like to have permission to do this and am willing to share part of the profits that night. I look forward to hearing from you....
12/09/06
Dear Mr. McCartney,
I still have not heard from you regarding using your copyrighted material. RSVP.
01/09/07
Dear Mr. McCartney,
I am not sure my letters are reaching you. If anyone receives this who can pass the information on to Mr. McCartney please do and RSVP.
02/09/07
Dear Mr. McCartney,
I am now losing patrons who are going to another bar in town that has a "Beatles Night." I so badly want to comply with the law. RSVP
03/09/07
Dear Mr. McCartney,
I am going to go ahead and perform your songs. I am taking your unresponsiveness as evidence that you approve. If you still wish to be paid then please let me know.
(Six months later)
From the law office of Hams, Bacon & Hams,
We understand you are unlawfully using Sir. McCartney's copyrighted materials to profit. We ask you cease immediately and be informed that we are taking action to garner funds profited in the past from using this material....
Heh. t3hn00b....
I didn't have a clue what I wanted to be. Everything interested me, so I got a B.A. in liberal arts: majored in Eng Lit. Minored in classic Greek. Lots of history/philosophy. Got a full scholarship to grad school and got a masters in philosophy.
By this point, I thought I would be a professor. The thing is, to support myself I did computer work throughout. I finished my masters to find myself full-time employed in IT. Until I could figure it all out, I kept doing IT work and got promoted twice. I'm now a senior engineer specializing in IT security and regulatory compliance. I wear many hats in the area including policy writing.
I'm near 40 now and still waiting to find out what I'll be when I grow up....
Never had a single computer class in my life or received a certificate.
I enjoy Linux, coding & walks in the park in the evening....
Sure.
Chamberlain and the British population, like the rest of those who suffered through the horrors of WWI, would do anything not to go to war again. Germany was intimidating all of Europe with war and with its great military might. Chamberlain's sole purpose was appeasement: avoid war at all costs. He worked on agreement after agreement, meeting after meeting, with Germany attempting to appease the devouring hunger of Germany's military and at the same time assuage England she was safe, no worries about war. However, the decisions he made only served to bolster Germany, embolden them toward more aggression and buy time to continue building their might.
In the end, he fed Germany's purpose, war-effort and conquest. Basically, he was an unwilling and incredulous sellout.
Draw your own comparisons to the topic at hand.
As I offered earlier:
"Under the patent cooperation agreement, Novell's customers receive directly from Microsoft a covenant not to sue. Novell does not receive a patent license or covenant not to sue from Microsoft, and we have not agreed with Microsoft to any condition that would contradict the conditions of the GPL. Our agreement does not affect the freedom that Novell or anyone else in the open source community, including developers, has under the GPL and does not impose any condition that would contradict the conditions of the GPL. Therefore, the agreement is fully compliant with the GPL,"
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4685037869.html
That reminds me of another, historical, agreement:
"Under the treaty, England receives directly from Germany a promise not to attack Poland. England does not receive a promise not to attack Germany, and we have not agreed with Germany to any condition that would contradict the conditions of previous treaties. Our agreement does not affect the freedom that Poland or any other country in Europe, including France, has under previous treaties and does not impose any condition that would contradict the conditions of such treaties. Therefore, the treaty is fully compliant with all previous treaties."
Sincerely,
Neville Chamberlain
I'm rather shocked that CT made that statement. Surely he is not saying that web pages are not written to the drive. Well, no, that's exactly what he said. This is computer geek-stuff 101....
That reminds me of another, historical, agreement:
"Under the treaty, England receives directly from Germany a promise not to attack Poland. England does not receive a promise not to attack Germany, and we have not agreed with Germany to any condition that would contradict the conditions of previous treaties. Our agreement does not affect the freedom that Poland or any other country in Europe, including France, has under previous treaties and does not impose any condition that would contradict the conditions of such treaties. Therefore, the treaty is fully compliant with all previous treaties."
Sincerely,
Neville Chamberlain
Yes virginia, there is a global warming?
It's kinda like santa klaus: whether real or imaginary, the spirit of it is alive and well in people's hearts....
I think you are correct. I definitely learned some hard lessons in all of that, but bottom line, I should have resolved to a formal letter which I never did. I did get it resolved by forcing managers to actually do their job, but it took two months.
The error in my thinking was assuming these people would do as good a job as I would, were I in their shows....
Good points, and I stand corrected. I did not read the article, but quickly responded to the blurb....
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the fact that they were enforcing it what this is all about? To make your point true, it would need to be proven that they turned a blind eye on others who did the same thing (downloaded porn). The issue at hand is the user claims to not have been aware as he did not read the click-through -- he just clicked through it. This gets back to my point, that no matter what, users don't read. In our orientation, and in all communications, we let the end-user know that knowing our computer policy is their responsibility and a requirement of employment.... And, yes, we do enforce it.
I made the geek-error of buying a house before inquiring about Internet access. The location was great -- a huge lake just 100 yards in my back yard. Lovely setting. No Internet. I was depressed. Researched and researched options to finally decide to try GPRS through Cingular.
I will say that as far as surfing at home I might as well have bought a land line and used dialup. The connectivity simply blew. Yes, I'm talking GPRS here as someone will surely point out is inferior, but that's not the worst of it. Besides constant drops and inability to get connected a major problem arose. I do want to say that I did enjoy surfing the web while stuck in several traffic jams -- made the wait much more bearable.
So, I get it for around $80 extra a month. I justified the cost based on not having a land line, paying for dialup, etc. The difference was minimal and the mobility made sense. So, around the second payment I get this extra charge of around $30 or so. I walk into the Cingular store where I bought it, to the girl who helped me, and she made a phone call or two and got the charges dismissed, no questions asked. I don't even think I really looked at what the charges were for.
Another 4 or 5 months go by and I'm still using the service. I get this bill one day for an extra $1000. I was mildly shocked, looked over it to realize that these were voice charges for the phone number on the Erickson, wireless card Cingular provided for my laptop. This began a huge odyssey with Cingular. The charges piled up over the next 2 or 3 months and equaled $2500. For 2 solid months I called, walked into the cingular store, emailed, wrote letters, everything. For the first few weeks no one at cingular would believe that I had done anything less than taken the Erickson PCMCIA device out of the laptop, put the SIM card into a phone and made phone calls totaling 1000s of dollars. I even showed them where data and voice calls were showing on the bill at the exact same time, and that with the technology I was using, this was impossible. They still failed to believe me, or, really, show any care at all. It was maddening as each person I talked to seemed to have the job of deflection. It was a basic, "I can't help you, and I don't know who can." No matter how far up the ladder I went.
Finally, after weeks I got through to a manager at their support center who heard my plea, looked at the bill, saw what I saw -- simultaneous data/voice calls -- and got the first month's charges dismissed. I told him there would be more charges, probably, next month and wanted him to help. He said he would. He didn't. For the 2nd months charges, I leaned on the local store manager (I now know why he works behind a vault-door with a key code to get in). He began the investigation anew, as if nothing happened. His method of investigating the bill was to actually call the voice numbers on my Erickson SIM card, and ask the people if they new me (....). He did this even though I showed him the same facts that data and voice calls were simultaneous which was technically impossible.
He finally was convinced when, on a specific day I walked in to the physical store and swapped out the Erickson SIM card, and voice calls showed at the very moment across the country. I had to ask him to look at ledgers that would show the date/time when I was in the store swapping out the SIM card, and then compare that to the roaming voice call made 1000 mils away in Roanoke VA at the same time. His response was, "you do have a point." (....).
I even took half-days off from work to stand in the Cingular store waiting to talk to someone, or on hold with their support. No one cared, no one knew why. It even went through their tech division and security divisions twice I was told, to come back each time with "nothing wrong on our end. This guy is making these voice calls."
In the end, it had to go two managers above the local store manager to dismiss the final month. I was told by the one guy
As someone who writes and has to figure out ways to get people to understand and see a corporate policy, I can relate to this. My questions is, was a click-through the only means by which the business promoted its policy? We put out important, "need-to-know" policies in more than one way. We have click-throughs, a printed magazine that's shipped to each employee and have even made posters to be hung up in break-rooms. We use other methods as well. Our users are saturated I feel. Still, I have to question this judgement. I'm thinking the judge probably doesn't like, or maybe even use, a computer. A click-through is simply the best, and easiest way, to get the information in front of a user. There is always a fine line between getting the policy to the end user and not bugging them. The bottom line is users will still fail to read, or understand, the policy regardless. Every day, I field questions from people -- even folks who work down the hall -- regarding our policy that's been distributed in every way I mentioned above. People even begin to write new policies that say the exact same things already out there, without any knowledge that they received it in bulk this same year. I'm like, "you know, we already have a policy on that. It's in that big, blue magazine I saw on your credenza stacked with all your cisco books. And, it's on the corporate portal that's the home page of your browser. And, it's in your start menu -- that thing that says, "Computer Policy" that you have to by-pass each time you go to "All Programs."
Bottom line: People don't know because they don't read. That's not the fault of a click-through....
Vandalism? A guy promotes his own theory using wiki and finally gets busted. Htf is this vandalism?
And, besides, having a graduate degree myself and written tons of papers: misinformation, unchecked facts and self-promotions are rife across all libraries. As one of my professors told me, "I discovered, way back, as a student, that I could find a source to make any point I wanted...."
Wiki is the bomb. Lay off it!...
Ah, the great unwashed. What would we do without them....
You forget that one microsoft attaboy! is equal to a million apple and linux attaboys! And one apple/linux theoretical vulnerability is likewise calculated to one windows actual vulnerability.
Let's not forget codered: when microsoft, according to the media, fixed the Internet. No one reported that they were the reason codered existed in the first place....
I'm near 40. I just want to stay healthy....
I simply have this problem called memory. I clearly remember what the left had to say about Ruby Ridge. To hear the left, now, making the same defenses conservatives did about the Weaver family, but instead about clear enemies of the U.S., is hypocrisy. For you to make those same statements makes me think you are, indeed, left (i.e., wrong). This really isn't that difficult a logical path to follow.
/. handle would more than suffice. Which, I say, adds even more to what I think about you....
Who are you? I do not know. You hide behind "anonymous coward" when a de-identifiable