Who's going to be the first to test it on a slightly less than legal CD key?:D
If you are going to the effort (well, no effort at all really) of pirating XP, then pirate VMware or Virtual PC as well. Your very own test environment!
Frankly, I don't give a damn one way or the other what someone calls someone else. I'm white. If someone wants to call me "whitey" or "cracker", I might think it's kind of funny, but other than that, it doesn't mean anything to me.
Don't underestimate the power of words, they are how we communicate our thoughts. What is said and how it is said makes all the difference.
It's funny that, when you are on the top of the pile that names don't bother you. You are white, and I'll guess straight, middle class and probably (some flavour of) christian.
If you have no experience of discrimination then you don't know what you are talking about. Before you argue with me, tell me the last time that you didn't get a job *because* you are white, someone abused you or spat on you in the street, or the last time you were beaten up because of it.
I just don't have any sympathy for people overindulging in their own victim hood. There are people starving around the world, an African continent full of AIDS, people without access to uncontaminated drinkable water, and someone is going to complain about the choice of word that someone uses to describe them...
Whilst I too have little sympathy for people who won't help themselves, I do have sympathy for those who have to deal with everything that comes with being in a minority. These are not imaginary problems, they are real, and they cause real harm to the people involved. Try to bear that in mind the next time you have to deal with one of *those* people.
If you don't vote, however, you really have no right to complain about the way things work. This is a democracy after all, even if it has its share of problems, and individuals can work to change things, even if they aren't 100% successful.
Would you like Pepsi or Coke?
When all choices are identical, does that really mean that you are making a choice at all?
Anyone know of a large island that is well connected to the Internet?...offhand I'd say Australia.;)
You've obviously not been here. You see, we have this little thing called Telstra, which is an organisation dedicated to preventing the Australian people from accessing the internet by any means possible.
The sysadmin's decision to "spy" on his boss was a poor one, regardless of the scenario.
Stupid one, you mean.
What kind of sys admin can't delete sol.exe and remove user rights to install programs. Problem solved.
No user with any sense is going to ask you "Why doesn't solitaire work on my system?". If they do, you tell them that, as solitaire is not a business application, it is outside the scope of your role to ensure that it functions.
We lock users out of games, apps we don't want them to use, etc. Easy.
I mean, I know you can do a lot of things to make yourself dumb, but what can you do to make yourself smart?
Make mistakes and learn from them
Ask questions
Talk to other people
Learn how to listen (as opposed to just hearing)
Learn how to debate and argue (intelligently as opposed to agressively). Try arguing for something that you don't believe to be true, it's a good exercise.
Read anything and everything
Don't watch TV
Avoid things that will damage your brain (alcohol, cigarettes, glue-sniffing...)
Eat regularly, and avoid eating rubbish. Your brain runs on glucose, and it gets the shits when it doesn't have anything to eat.
Sleep enough, and sleep at night not during the day
Reduce stress
Exercise
Meditate
Deal with illness and pain as rapidly as possible. They hamper your ability to think.
Don't be so smug. One say you too will be old, and when you are, the kids with their direct brain computer interfaces will look at you type on your small keyboard and use your small calculator and say "hmm, move on Grandpa".
That's when you stuff a paperclip into the port into their brain and laugh as they have a fit on the floor... not making fun of my ctrl-alt-del now, are you bitch?
I recently bought a big TV (because it was cheap) and I didn't use it at all until I hooked up a pc and started watching my divx, xvid, et al. A TV that obeys my will and shows only things I like to watch is a good TV.
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If you are going to the effort (well, no effort at all really) of pirating XP, then pirate VMware or Virtual PC as well. Your very own test environment!
Apparently, it is however a free meal ticket.
White trash is white trash after all, no doubt about it.
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Satan. Like all lawyers. It's part of the admittance to the bar, you must lease your soul to the dark lord whilst you are practicing.
Don't underestimate the power of words, they are how we communicate our thoughts. What is said and how it is said makes all the difference.
It's funny that, when you are on the top of the pile that names don't bother you. You are white, and I'll guess straight, middle class and probably (some flavour of) christian.
If you have no experience of discrimination then you don't know what you are talking about. Before you argue with me, tell me the last time that you didn't get a job *because* you are white, someone abused you or spat on you in the street, or the last time you were beaten up because of it.
I just don't have any sympathy for people overindulging in their own victim hood. There are people starving around the world, an African continent full of AIDS, people without access to uncontaminated drinkable water, and someone is going to complain about the choice of word that someone uses to describe them ...
Whilst I too have little sympathy for people who won't help themselves, I do have sympathy for those who have to deal with everything that comes with being in a minority. These are not imaginary problems, they are real, and they cause real harm to the people involved. Try to bear that in mind the next time you have to deal with one of *those* people.
Mee'sah wanna exterminate.
Would you like Pepsi or Coke?
When all choices are identical, does that really mean that you are making a choice at all?
Considering you gave us this little bit of crap, and *thousands* of others just like it, I'd suggest that you shut your bitch mouth right now.
Or our politicians, apparently.
You've obviously not been here. You see, we have this little thing called Telstra, which is an organisation dedicated to preventing the Australian people from accessing the internet by any means possible.
You forgot
4. Multi-thread the program so that the UI is still responsive
5. Profit!
Stupid one, you mean.
What kind of sys admin can't delete sol.exe and remove user rights to install programs. Problem solved.
No user with any sense is going to ask you "Why doesn't solitaire work on my system?". If they do, you tell them that, as solitaire is not a business application, it is outside the scope of your role to ensure that it functions.
We lock users out of games, apps we don't want them to use, etc. Easy.
Or, as one of my angry co-workers called me: "Fucking Terrorist!"
A system where by my thoughts would be controlled by a computer. That would be the dream of many a politician right now.
No, that would be Bergman.
Firefly was too good for American TV, which is why it got canned. God I hate America.
You'll never know.
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I hope others find it as useful as I have.
That's when you stuff a paperclip into the port into their brain and laugh as they have a fit on the floor ... not making fun of my ctrl-alt-del now, are you bitch?
Mmmmmm, rubbery!
You can't, but you CAN trust them to lie.
PC games will do just fine, because I'll be damned if I will pony up the money for any game that features cute characters or green blood.
Never underestimate the power of big.
I too had a bigger monitor than my TV.
I recently bought a big TV (because it was cheap) and I didn't use it at all until I hooked up a pc and started watching my divx, xvid, et al. A TV that obeys my will and shows only things I like to watch is a good TV.
Where are my insightful mod points when I need them?