You accept it as fact because you don't look at the evidence per se, you make up your mind and then look for the facts to support your conclusion.
Scientists cannot explain what caused the ice ages and warm tropical periods when no humans existed and now we're supposed to believe they know for sure that humans are warming up the planet?
Are these the same scientists that can't predict the weather tommorrow or next week with any amount of certainty? Or the ones that predicted planet wide catastrophe due to the Gulf War I Kuwaiti oil fires? Or the same ones still debating what killed the dinosaurs?
It wasn't too long ago that all the scientists accepted as fact that the Sun revolved around the flat Earth, that we could never fly and a number of other fallacies.
At any rate, Americans don't mind if it warms up a few degrees, after the snowiest winter on record for many places and record cold, it would be welcome.
The fact is that you cannot take 100 years of weather data, a few ice core samples, some computer models tweaked to your theories conclusion and make any valid conclusions about what is causing global warming with any real certainty. You can, but it is dishonest.
It appears the climate is changing by many different measurements. What is not clear is that humans have anything to do with it.
We've had numerous ice ages and warm eras on the planet before humans even existed.
Scientists can't explain that yet, much less link human activity into the equation.
Of course it's only common sense to take care of the environment but most of what I've seen is junk science. It's along the lines of "a glacier is retreating...so your SUV is bad."
This is purely political. The planet will be here doing just fine long after all humans are dead.
China won't do shit if we nuke Pyong Yang. They're too busy building up the economy. The last thing they need is a war.
And even if they do jump bad, it's better to take them now than to deal w/ them later.
North Korea might have a nuke or two, so what. They would all die and we might lose LA, no lose there either...hehe.
Nuking them now is the best option before they get enough nukes to blackmail the rest of the world.
Give us money or we nuke Seoul.
Give us food or we nuke Tokyo.
Give us everything or we nuke somebody.
If you have a nuke, why do anything at all? Just blackmail the liberal retards to give you everything you need. There are plenty of Bill Clintons, Chamberlains, French, Germans around who will oblige you every desire.
-Nazz
If your company is making a profit, why the squeeze? How about increasing market share or raising the price of your products or services? Or creating better products or services or some new ones?
Most companies act like there's some big emergency, when really the goal is to make or beat analysts by a penny or two so the CEO's stock goes up. Management gets rich and the workers get screwed.
You want to save your job, then work on getting out of the rat race entirely.
-Nazz
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...it's amazing that people think "thin-slicing" is something amazing.
This is called first impressions whether it's a person, product, service or whatever.
The fact you can write a book about the obvious and make lots of money doing so is what the book is really about.
-Nazz
Most anything is a pain in the ass to do in Linux. You always need some library that you don't have or have to compile.
make clean
make install
make meASandwich
ooops..buggy makefile...oops some error in some.c program.
2 hours Googling Groups and find some guy back in 1997 who asked the same question and hasn't received a reply yet. Been there, done that.
OS X is light years ahead. KDE, Gnome? The Linux GUIs are just horrible. There's no style or usability at all. It looks like Windows 95.
You will never get a standard deskop GUI because it's open source and too many distros. Without a standard GUI, it will never work for average home users. Grandma goes to the neighbor for help and he's running a completely different UI w/ different apps to do the same tasks.
Linux is an example of what not to do.
-Nazz
Free software doesn't pay the bills. Sure, they make money from "support", but then the software is not free, is it?
Free software is the one thing that's worse than outsourcing.
Let's all work for free and sing Kumbaya! Woohoo.
As opposed to CNN "news", maybe the New York Times "news"?
FOX is alot more balanced than the rest of the bleeding heart liberal networks. The only reason you think they are not is because they actually express opinions from both sides of the aisle.
The rest of the networks just give you the liberal, tree hugging, politically correct, anti-war rhetoric drivel.
First the DEMs said you can't go into Afghanistan, because no one has ever been successful, we did, we won and they had elections.
Then the DEMS said, you can't go into Iraq. Two weeks later we were "bogged" down. Then we took Baghdad and most of the country. Then they said it was a "quagmire". Now the Iraqis are voting and dancing in the streets.
Now the DEMs are saying let's not "overhype" the situation.
It's as if the democrats care more about the habitat of the red tailed squirrel or the cruel treatment of chickens than they do about freedom of other people.
If they elect Howard Dean as the DNC chairman, they can kiss the presidency goodbye for the next 50 years.
-Nazz
yeah, i love my 12" iBook, but the case scratches too much, so I'd like to buy the 12" Powerbook.
I fly all the time for business and there's nothing better than a 12" laptop. I would really like the backlit keyboard on the 12" and was hoping Apple could do this, but apparently not.
When are they going to get some graphics cards that can do some serious screen resolutions? I've heard all of the 100dpi crap, but leave the decision to the end user as to what display mode to use. Even the crappiest Dell Inspirion 8600 can do 1920 x 1200 pixels resolution and has a graphics card w/ 128 MB of RAM.
You meant to say, "At least with Java you can guarantee everything will look like shit no matter where it runs."
Java GUI apps look like something that came from Sun. Ugly ass.
Nazz
Yeah, show me a website powered by Java and I'll show you one slow ass website.
No big websites use Java. Yahoo, MSN, Google, Dell, eBay, CNN.
Imagine Google trying to use Java....lol.
-Nazz
...went to the web site and tried to download...
So much for java.
Warning: Too many connections in/home/eclipse-php-classes/system/dbconnection.clas s.php on line 27
Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in/home/eclipse-php-classes/system/dbconnection.clas s.php on line 27
Unable to connect to the database server at this time.
A good year? With that shitty looking interface? I'm not trolling, but that GUI looks like 1987 x windows I used to work with.
You think that is nice? I guess Linux standards are getting lower and lower.
-Nazz
Instead of listening to Joel, whoever he is that admits "I'm so hopelessly out of date that I can't really figure out AIM", here's some better advice from young programmers.
1. Don't go into programming. You cannot compete with off shore programmers.
2. If you are dumb enough to do anyway, always get jobs at the top notch companies, ie Fortune 100.
3. Who you work for is more important that what you do.
4. Worry about your career early on and don't just think that doing a good job is all there is.
5. Work on your own product and company along the way so you can leave the rat race behind.
6. Never stop learning.
7. Learn about selling and marketing.
8. Always think 80/20.
9. Don't confuse urgent issues with important issues.
10. Always use feedback to improve your thinking and actions.
If you're still programming at 45, you screwed up big time along the way.:-)
-Nazz
Maybe one of those PhDs can change the lame...
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...ass homepage that's been there since the beginning.
The Google Geeks are still driving little Japanese cars? Fuckin' waste of money those two have racked up. They don't even have hot girlfriends. Geeks will remain geeks no matter how much money they have.
Amiga's kicked mac's ass. That old little ass Mac w/ the screen the size of my watch. WTF was that?
Shit even Atari ST's were better.
I have Macs now because of OS X, that is the only reason Macs are cool.
THe worst of it is, there are still idiots running "Classic". lol.
-Nazz
It pays the cost to be the boss!
Here's an idea, once you fly up the Shuttle and you suspect a problem with the wing, send an Astronaut out for a spacewalk and check the fuckin' wing. If there's a problem, just hang at the space station or take an emergency re-entry vehicle....and if a spacewalk is too dangerous, then we shouldn't be in space in the first place.
-Nazz
If the entire network is overseas and run from there, there's no point in having the IT manager in the US when there's an equally qualified Indian IT Director in the network center.
Why would they need you? They can just make the decisions there.
You should be using your MBA to start your own business. Stop working on someone else's dream and start working on yours.
-Nazz
OS X is great. One of the best features that you will never notice is you can just close your laptop and it sleeps perfect. Open it up and your right where you left off without any crashes or lockups like under my new Dell Latitude D600 I have at work.
The only thing really missing from OS X is a real relational database. Sybase is there, but they're pretty much history. Oracle has a 10g pre-release out and that should be available soon.
Other than that, it's a much better GUI than anything Linux has. KDE, Gnome....pleeeaase.
Also, everything just works. Digital cameras, usb drives, printers, scanners, name it. Never had any problems that I have had w/ Linux or w/ a PC.
I've been bitching about the scrolling since OS X was release. Looks like this release finally fixed my concerns.
On my iBook 800mhz G3 scrolling is sweet. So, for you lucky G5 types, you should be all set.
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You accept it as fact because you don't look at the evidence per se, you make up your mind and then look for the facts to support your conclusion. Scientists cannot explain what caused the ice ages and warm tropical periods when no humans existed and now we're supposed to believe they know for sure that humans are warming up the planet? Are these the same scientists that can't predict the weather tommorrow or next week with any amount of certainty? Or the ones that predicted planet wide catastrophe due to the Gulf War I Kuwaiti oil fires? Or the same ones still debating what killed the dinosaurs? It wasn't too long ago that all the scientists accepted as fact that the Sun revolved around the flat Earth, that we could never fly and a number of other fallacies. At any rate, Americans don't mind if it warms up a few degrees, after the snowiest winter on record for many places and record cold, it would be welcome. The fact is that you cannot take 100 years of weather data, a few ice core samples, some computer models tweaked to your theories conclusion and make any valid conclusions about what is causing global warming with any real certainty. You can, but it is dishonest.
It appears the climate is changing by many different measurements. What is not clear is that humans have anything to do with it.
We've had numerous ice ages and warm eras on the planet before humans even existed.
Scientists can't explain that yet, much less link human activity into the equation.
Of course it's only common sense to take care of the environment but most of what I've seen is junk science. It's along the lines of "a glacier is retreating...so your SUV is bad."
This is purely political. The planet will be here doing just fine long after all humans are dead.
-Nazz
China won't do shit if we nuke Pyong Yang. They're too busy building up the economy. The last thing they need is a war. And even if they do jump bad, it's better to take them now than to deal w/ them later. North Korea might have a nuke or two, so what. They would all die and we might lose LA, no lose there either...hehe. Nuking them now is the best option before they get enough nukes to blackmail the rest of the world. Give us money or we nuke Seoul. Give us food or we nuke Tokyo. Give us everything or we nuke somebody. If you have a nuke, why do anything at all? Just blackmail the liberal retards to give you everything you need. There are plenty of Bill Clintons, Chamberlains, French, Germans around who will oblige you every desire. -Nazz
If your company is making a profit, why the squeeze? How about increasing market share or raising the price of your products or services? Or creating better products or services or some new ones? Most companies act like there's some big emergency, when really the goal is to make or beat analysts by a penny or two so the CEO's stock goes up. Management gets rich and the workers get screwed. You want to save your job, then work on getting out of the rat race entirely. -Nazz
Most anything is a pain in the ass to do in Linux. You always need some library that you don't have or have to compile. make clean make install make meASandwich ooops..buggy makefile...oops some error in some .c program.
2 hours Googling Groups and find some guy back in 1997 who asked the same question and hasn't received a reply yet. Been there, done that.
OS X is light years ahead. KDE, Gnome? The Linux GUIs are just horrible. There's no style or usability at all. It looks like Windows 95.
You will never get a standard deskop GUI because it's open source and too many distros. Without a standard GUI, it will never work for average home users. Grandma goes to the neighbor for help and he's running a completely different UI w/ different apps to do the same tasks.
Linux is an example of what not to do.
-Nazz
Free software doesn't pay the bills. Sure, they make money from "support", but then the software is not free, is it? Free software is the one thing that's worse than outsourcing. Let's all work for free and sing Kumbaya! Woohoo.
As opposed to CNN "news", maybe the New York Times "news"? FOX is alot more balanced than the rest of the bleeding heart liberal networks. The only reason you think they are not is because they actually express opinions from both sides of the aisle. The rest of the networks just give you the liberal, tree hugging, politically correct, anti-war rhetoric drivel. First the DEMs said you can't go into Afghanistan, because no one has ever been successful, we did, we won and they had elections. Then the DEMS said, you can't go into Iraq. Two weeks later we were "bogged" down. Then we took Baghdad and most of the country. Then they said it was a "quagmire". Now the Iraqis are voting and dancing in the streets. Now the DEMs are saying let's not "overhype" the situation. It's as if the democrats care more about the habitat of the red tailed squirrel or the cruel treatment of chickens than they do about freedom of other people. If they elect Howard Dean as the DNC chairman, they can kiss the presidency goodbye for the next 50 years. -Nazz
yeah, i love my 12" iBook, but the case scratches too much, so I'd like to buy the 12" Powerbook.
I fly all the time for business and there's nothing better than a 12" laptop. I would really like the backlit keyboard on the 12" and was hoping Apple could do this, but apparently not.
When are they going to get some graphics cards that can do some serious screen resolutions? I've heard all of the 100dpi crap, but leave the decision to the end user as to what display mode to use. Even the crappiest Dell Inspirion 8600 can do 1920 x 1200 pixels resolution and has a graphics card w/ 128 MB of RAM.
I love Apple, but these are not "pro" laptops.
Skipping another round of laptop upgrades...
-Nazz
You meant to say, "At least with Java you can guarantee everything will look like shit no matter where it runs." Java GUI apps look like something that came from Sun. Ugly ass. Nazz
Yeah, show me a website powered by Java and I'll show you one slow ass website. No big websites use Java. Yahoo, MSN, Google, Dell, eBay, CNN. Imagine Google trying to use Java....lol. -Nazz
on that crappy software and improved their cars
their competitive advantage would be ten-fold.
Why should Ford's be any worse than Mercedes, BMW, Hondas or Toyotas?
Stop building crap and starting kicking some ass.
-Nazz
A good year? With that shitty looking interface? I'm not trolling, but that GUI looks like 1987 x windows I used to work with. You think that is nice? I guess Linux standards are getting lower and lower. -Nazz
Instead of listening to Joel, whoever he is that admits "I'm so hopelessly out of date that I can't really figure out AIM", here's some better advice from young programmers. 1. Don't go into programming. You cannot compete with off shore programmers. 2. If you are dumb enough to do anyway, always get jobs at the top notch companies, ie Fortune 100. 3. Who you work for is more important that what you do. 4. Worry about your career early on and don't just think that doing a good job is all there is. 5. Work on your own product and company along the way so you can leave the rat race behind. 6. Never stop learning. 7. Learn about selling and marketing. 8. Always think 80/20. 9. Don't confuse urgent issues with important issues. 10. Always use feedback to improve your thinking and actions. If you're still programming at 45, you screwed up big time along the way. :-)
-Nazz
...ass homepage that's been there since the beginning.
The Google Geeks are still driving little Japanese cars? Fuckin' waste of money those two have racked up. They don't even have hot girlfriends. Geeks will remain geeks no matter how much money they have.
Nazz
Amiga's kicked mac's ass. That old little ass Mac w/ the screen the size of my watch. WTF was that? Shit even Atari ST's were better. I have Macs now because of OS X, that is the only reason Macs are cool. THe worst of it is, there are still idiots running "Classic". lol. -Nazz
Load *.* ? Dude, didn't you have the FastLoad cartridge? Load % baby...hehe.
It pays the cost to be the boss! Here's an idea, once you fly up the Shuttle and you suspect a problem with the wing, send an Astronaut out for a spacewalk and check the fuckin' wing. If there's a problem, just hang at the space station or take an emergency re-entry vehicle. ...and if a spacewalk is too dangerous, then we shouldn't be in space in the first place.
-Nazz
Using VoIP you can encrypt your call on the fly, route that shit through some proxy servers and there "ain't" no tappin' baby. -Nazz
If the entire network is overseas and run from there, there's no point in having the IT manager in the US when there's an equally qualified Indian IT Director in the network center. Why would they need you? They can just make the decisions there. You should be using your MBA to start your own business. Stop working on someone else's dream and start working on yours. -Nazz
OS X is great. One of the best features that you will never notice is you can just close your laptop and it sleeps perfect. Open it up and your right where you left off without any crashes or lockups like under my new Dell Latitude D600 I have at work.
The only thing really missing from OS X is a real relational database. Sybase is there, but they're pretty much history. Oracle has a 10g pre-release out and that should be available soon.
Other than that, it's a much better GUI than anything Linux has. KDE, Gnome....pleeeaase.
Also, everything just works. Digital cameras, usb drives, printers, scanners, name it. Never had any problems that I have had w/ Linux or w/ a PC.
-Nazz
I've been bitching about the scrolling since OS X was release. Looks like this release finally fixed my concerns. On my iBook 800mhz G3 scrolling is sweet. So, for you lucky G5 types, you should be all set. Nice.