even if you have absolutely no credit left on the meter (including emergency credit), they have to allow you power between the hours of 9pm and 7am... some weird law to protect mothers and children. They have to get a court order to turn the supply off.
they won't get it... far too much of the infrastructure relies on Linux and BSD. AND if they try to get it, I, for one, will certainly be out there in the streets protesting...
I had an unexpected present from Wales awaiting me on my doormat last year when I came home from a camping trip. A fixed penalty offer of £60 fine with 3 points or contest it and go to trial... barstards... not only did it cost £60 and 3 points, it also cost me an extra £30 on my car insurance as I had to declare it... the nice lady on the other end of the phone said that they had had an awfull lot of people having to notify them of speeding points in the last year...
I actually have to do this... I have a pre-payment card meter for my Electricity (long story, crap credit rating, can't have a normal meter) and have to fill it up regularly to avoid the power going off... so I know pretty well how much electricity I use as I have to keep feeding the beast to avoid my uptime on my LAN server getting killed from no power.
I'm currently having to stick some £15 a week into it (Winter and the heating is on) so I know if things can be reduced by turning them really off.
ps, I get 30 minutes grace with the server as it's the only thing on the UPS... so I have enough time to get the emergency credit activated which gives me a couple of days to get credit put on the payment card.
[...] If you want to follow me, you've got to play pinball. And put in your earplugs put on your eyeshades you know where to put the caulk
Hey you getting drunk, so sorry! I've got you sussed. Hey you smoking Mother Nature! This is a bust! Hey hung up old Mr. Normal, Don't try to gain my trust! 'Cause you ain't gonna follow me any of those ways Although you think you must
Guests: We're not gonna take it We're not gonna take it We're not gonna take it We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it Never did and never will We're not gonna take it Gonna break it, gonna shake it, let's forget it better still
Tommy: Now you can't hear me, your ears are truly sealed. You can't speak either, your mouth is filled. You can't see nothing, and pinball completes the scene. Here comes Uncle Ernie to guide you to Your very own machine.
Guests: We're not gonna take it We're not gonna take it We're not gonna take it We're not gonna take it
We're not gonna take it Never did and never will Don't want no religion And as far as we can tell We ain't gonna take you Never did and never will We're not gonna take you We forsake you Gonna rape you Let's forget you better still. [...]
however, I found this page searching for your lyrics as I've never heard them before... even more amusing given our current discussion context...
actually, that's why the somellier pours out a small amount and presents it to the "head" of the table to check... you're supposed to do a taste test of it before accepting the remainder of the bottle...
don't use teabags... I know what you're getting at, but , instead, chuck DRM'd CDs and DVDs into a furnace... in public, with the media present, and explain to them exactly why your NOT gonna take it anymore...
reminds me of the movie Tommy, where the disciples were made to wear earplugs, blindfolds and put corks in their mouths and told to play pinball... in the end, the disciples told him where to shove the cork...
we, the consumers, have the ultimate power... we can just stop buying or watching their crap... don't pirate it though, just don't buy it or subscribe to stations which force this on you...
I used to be in your position too - really wanted to get in to Pratchett but was pretty daunted by the sheer weight of his main contribution to literature, the Disc World - it's such a massive series of books.
from that perspective then, I was lucky... you see, there was only the one Pratchett book available when I started reading them... my copy of "The Colour of Magic" is from the first edition...
that's most likely where this has come from... Can you imagine trying to reverse engineer the stuff to work out sensible names for it? Note the patch does NOT fix the crappy variable names, just fixes the buffer allocation
so what OS does their movie viewer software run? there's no clue on their website, and I'm not going through the rigmarole of pre-reg just to find it's Microsoft XP only...
I still have my old Minolta XGM SLR which I bought back in 1983... still works fine... perhaps that's their biggest problem, they couldn't get me to upgrade... all I've bought for it since have been a couple of lenses and film... I would have liked a digital back for it, but they never bothered, prolly wanted me to buy a new camera instead...
ha ha... I actually bought a GeForce FX 5500 today... as an upgrade from some nvidia relic from 1999 (CT6970, GeForce256 32MB).../me well behind the curve
or flightgear... it also has a framerates option, so you could post the rate you get for the default startup in both windowed mode and maximised mode... just mention what your display settings are though.
As a Debian user of 7 or 8 years I get a little nervous at this. My choice of (vastly superior) operating system is what makes me feel different. Have a little mercy on a nerds elitist insecurities please! Im the guy who always discovered underground bands years ahead of everyone else, and when they finally became mainstream I wanted to disown them. My 'discovery' felt _violated_ by the hoards of unwashed sheep jumping on the wagon.
well, if you think Debian is getting too mainstream, there's always the wild wooly frontiers of something like Plan 9...
correct, and when you find that some features of a site are not working and you absolutely have to use it, then you can enable it temporarilly for that site for that session only...
The removal of the blog contents was done by a Chinese MSN employee in China. The overall Microsoft was not involved in this and as a matter of fact seems to be scrambling in full damage control mode. However, since it was done by a MSN(China) employee in China under a legal request by the government of China, technically everything is kosher.
Ultimately, they're still Microsoft employees... the parent company cannot wash their hands of it. They are responsible for the actions of ALL their employees and the policies of ALL their subsidiaries....
the "I was only acting under orders" defense doesn't wash when those orders are morally reprehensible. The employees AND the corporation have a moral responsibility that they're ducking.
(for those of you who haven't realized it, the Council on Foreign Relations is the primary political institution of the power elite in the USA and behind the facade controls both political parties)
would they, by any chance, be mostly Skull & Bones members?
Since I have a LAN, I have a hardware firewall by default (WiFi+10/100 Ethernet router),
why do people seem to believe that because it's in a little sealed box that it's hardware??? it's running software inside it... and in all probability, it's Linux that is running.
un-fscking-believable the straws some microsoft fanboys will cling to when their world starts to tumble down around their ears... fancy claiming that Firefox users are less likely to be churchgoers by claiming that the figures are squiffed by the IE users being at church... admit it... IE is losing ground BIG TIME... and websites had better sit up and notice and start coding for standards compliance rather than just targeting the one browser.
What's interesting is that any number of prophets all say the same basic thing. St. John the Divine (book of Revelation), Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, Hopi tradition, Mayan tradition, etc... A couple short years of chaos, and then the emergence of a real peace.
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even if you have absolutely no credit left on the meter (including emergency credit), they have to allow you power between the hours of 9pm and 7am... some weird law to protect mothers and children. They have to get a court order to turn the supply off.
they won't get it... far too much of the infrastructure relies on Linux and BSD. AND if they try to get it, I, for one, will certainly be out there in the streets protesting...
I had an unexpected present from Wales awaiting me on my doormat last year when I came home from a camping trip. A fixed penalty offer of £60 fine with 3 points or contest it and go to trial... barstards... not only did it cost £60 and 3 points, it also cost me an extra £30 on my car insurance as I had to declare it... the nice lady on the other end of the phone said that they had had an awfull lot of people having to notify them of speeding points in the last year...
I'm currently having to stick some £15 a week into it (Winter and the heating is on) so I know if things can be reduced by turning them really off.
ps, I get 30 minutes grace with the server as it's the only thing on the UPS... so I have enough time to get the emergency credit activated which gives me a couple of days to get credit put on the payment card.
however, I found this page searching for your lyrics as I've never heard them before... even more amusing given our current discussion context...
actually, that's why the somellier pours out a small amount and presents it to the "head" of the table to check... you're supposed to do a taste test of it before accepting the remainder of the bottle...
I get a connection refused when following that link and also when pasting the plain link into another tab...
reminds me of the movie Tommy, where the disciples were made to wear earplugs, blindfolds and put corks in their mouths and told to play pinball... in the end, the disciples told him where to shove the cork...
we, the consumers, have the ultimate power... we can just stop buying or watching their crap... don't pirate it though, just don't buy it or subscribe to stations which force this on you...
from that perspective then, I was lucky... you see, there was only the one Pratchett book available when I started reading them... my copy of "The Colour of Magic" is from the first edition...
it's probably obfuscated stuff that they released to fulfil their GPL obligations when they used and improved KHTML for use in safari
The KDE Project has released a significant update to its K Desktop Environment software that includes refinements to the Konqueror Web browser derived from a collaboration with Apple Computer's Safari browser team....
that's most likely where this has come from... Can you imagine trying to reverse engineer the stuff to work out sensible names for it? Note the patch does NOT fix the crappy variable names, just fixes the buffer allocation
so what OS does their movie viewer software run? there's no clue on their website, and I'm not going through the rigmarole of pre-reg just to find it's Microsoft XP only...
just ignore the first sentence... it's daft.
I still have my old Minolta XGM SLR which I bought back in 1983... still works fine... perhaps that's their biggest problem, they couldn't get me to upgrade... all I've bought for it since have been a couple of lenses and film... I would have liked a digital back for it, but they never bothered, prolly wanted me to buy a new camera instead...
means the competition's cameras are too cheap and we have no margin left...
ha ha... I actually bought a GeForce FX 5500 today... as an upgrade from some nvidia relic from 1999 (CT6970, GeForce256 32MB)... /me well behind the curve
or flightgear... it also has a framerates option, so you could post the rate you get for the default startup in both windowed mode and maximised mode... just mention what your display settings are though.
well, if you think Debian is getting too mainstream, there's always the wild wooly frontiers of something like Plan 9...
correct, and when you find that some features of a site are not working and you absolutely have to use it, then you can enable it temporarilly for that site for that session only...
Ultimately, they're still Microsoft employees... the parent company cannot wash their hands of it. They are responsible for the actions of ALL their employees and the policies of ALL their subsidiaries....
the "I was only acting under orders" defense doesn't wash when those orders are morally reprehensible. The employees AND the corporation have a moral responsibility that they're ducking.
would they, by any chance, be mostly Skull & Bones members?
why do people seem to believe that because it's in a little sealed box that it's hardware??? it's running software inside it... and in all probability, it's Linux that is running.
un-fscking-believable the straws some microsoft fanboys will cling to when their world starts to tumble down around their ears... fancy claiming that Firefox users are less likely to be churchgoers by claiming that the figures are squiffed by the IE users being at church... admit it... IE is losing ground BIG TIME... and websites had better sit up and notice and start coding for standards compliance rather than just targeting the one browser.
the Esc key works just as well in Firefox... :)
now this is stupid...they should be gop.gov.us and housedemocrats.gov.us... you Yanks are not the world government yet...
hurray... Linux on the desktop at last...