Isn't it possible for a country to NOT be an ally on the US and ALSO NOT be a terrorist country? Is that now the definition of a terrorist... "not an ally of the us?"
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that was sarcasm. Just in case anyone is confused.
Definitely. In all seriousness though, Castro wouldn't do it. Whatever you think of the guy and his politics you have to admit he's outlasted a lot of his fellow dictators. The guy's not stupid. He's knows how to stay off the radar.
I understand why the guy is pissed, but I wouldn't be mouthing off like that.
If the Kiwis handed him off to the US Mil on some trumped up Material Support charge he'd disappear into a secret military prison never to be heard from again...I don't think being high profile would help him. Not in a "post-911 world"....
So what? When he's goes to the Job interview do they show him their UN approved IANAT certificate?
Personally if I could design and build cruise missles I wouldn't want it well known. I don't need to give Al Qaeda reason to kidnap me my strap electrodes to my balls and lock me in an underground machine shop in the middle of the Tora Bora.
Just because you see attributes among the poor does not mean that those attributes are exclusively found among the poor.
Jesus H Christ. I guess the words "statistically" and "tend to" have lost all meaning in the English Language. Looking over what I wrote I don't see any point where I implied that these attributes were exclusive to the poor.
And just to head off the 20 other people standing in line to wail on me for daring to say something that may in any way construed as politically incorrect, let me throw in a disclaimer. This is simply an observation based on reading I have done and my own personal experience with the members of my very large family who just happen to be members of all econimic classes (except for maybe that top 10%). I am neither implying or condoning any conclusive statement or action based on the aforementioned observation.
Whats really starnge about this is that its not a very sophisticated scam. A few years back I was almost phone scammed but only because the scammers had a lot of info from an old lawsuit I was invovled in with about 300 other people. They called me up claiming the company had settled and they need to info before they could send me my cheque. So I started spilling my guts until she asked me for my #SS and alarm bells started going off in my head. I asked what for and she started fast talking me. They almost had me. They had a lot of info they couldn't have gotten from public records. They even had my name right, which is unusual for telemarketers because my name is long and wierd and poeple tend to chop off the end or misspell it.
stories like these constantly increase my admiration and respect for mother nature's constant efforts to refine and improve our gene pool. I love natural selection.
Not really. Statistically the poor and uneducated tend to have MORE children than eductaed middle class and above families. Take a drive though your local ghetto/trailer park and check out the preganant teenage high school dropouts with three kids trailing behind them.
The sad thing is most girl geeks I know end up with guys like hio (or they're esbians). I don't get it. Its not like there's a shortage of geek guys, and there are actual geek guys who shower daily and can hold a conversation about something non-geeky.
I just wish I knew where to start. See this all started when I fell in love a few months ago.
Being the geek that I am, there no way I'm going to buy something and not upgrade it or at the very least know how it works. So I've been reading whatever I can get my hands on and watching stuff like Horsepower TV . But everything I read is either basic stuff, like changing your oil or really advanced stuff about engine timings and camshafts that lose me after the first paragraph.
I haven't felt so clueless since I accidently took an advanced Philosphy class in my freshman year.
when i first started slapping computers together, things were easy enough to do without too much worry... general rule of thumb: if it don't fit, don't force it.
Agreed. I haven't built a system since an O/C Celeron 2 800 running at 900 Mhz was a kickass system, but in my experience the hardest part was figuring out with components your board supported. Most componenets could ONLY be connected the right way and it was just about impossible to connect things the right way in the wrong place. As my co-workers used to say when I worked at Old Navy: "A partially trained Monkey could do the job, and the customers would probably treat him better"
Building my first PC was no where near as confusing as the first bike I built, or the Car Engine I hope to rebuild in the future (as soon as I can listen to one of those muscle car guys talk about engines without my eyes glazing over, and parts of my brain BSODing)
I think the difference between UPS and the rest is that UPS is a union shop (every employee is a Teamster). I saw horrible employes that never got fired because of the union.
Nail on the head. Not to bad talk unions. My health benifits were awesome, and management could not push you around, it almost made up for the shitty pay. But I saw some guys that needed to be fired. Guys who made my life more difficult with their half-assedness that mnagment couldn't touch because of the union. Its really a double-edged sword.
...trust me, this is a bad idea. I did a year as a Loader/Unloader at UPS. With the way we treated those packages I'm surporised andyone gets anything from UPS in good condition. One time the Stanley Cup came through my hub and got lost for 3 days. Management had us combing the building for the crate. And on the third day it just showed up in the international section. Whoever stole it must have realized the shitstorm they had started up. Before thanksgiving one year we had 50 Turkeys packed in ice that somehow didn't make it on the last truck (on Monday we had a small hill of individually packed rotting meat floating in water. I've got a million UPS horror stories. Trust me you don't want to ship anything UPS. And if you do ship UPS, package your stuff so that it could at least withstand being drop kicked 20 feet into a metal wall...
Now that was a cool mag. I remeber they did a reveiw of Tomb Raider 4 once that was literally there reveiw of Tomb Raider 3 with correction in red pen, There point being of course that no improvements were made between 3 & 4.
I have every issue of their 2 year run. Too bad they went bellyup.
I did this to my Mom's computer. Deleted all the shortcuts to IE except for the one on the desktop which I put just below the firefox shortcut and then pointed to firefox.exe. I said hey Mom use Firefox (knowing she'd use Ie anyway, which wasn't a problem since it would start firefox ) Three months later I'm there for a visit and she's using IE and getting stuck in pop-up hell.
Apparently her ISP software linked directly to Iexplorer.exe and when it asked her to make it default she clicked yes.
Not her fault but still makes you want to slam yur head against the monitor screen.
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rofl! I actually meant the writing on the back of bus thing.,
but your car dirt core samples are very umm...interesting.
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MY god I actually agree with an AC.
Satan must be out shopping for ski pants.
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you mind my friend have obviously never been to New York...
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I read the article. Did you?
moron.
Al Qaeda wouldn't want to get sued for IP infringement...
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that was sarcasm. Just in case anyone is confused.
Definitely. In all seriousness though, Castro wouldn't do it. Whatever you think of the guy and his politics you have to admit he's outlasted a lot of his fellow dictators. The guy's not stupid. He's knows how to stay off the radar.
If the Kiwis handed him off to the US Mil on some trumped up Material Support charge he'd disappear into a secret military prison never to be heard from again...I don't think being high profile would help him. Not in a "post-911 world"....
Personally if I were Fidel Castro, I'd be giving this guy a call....
Personally if I could design and build cruise missles I wouldn't want it well known. I don't need to give Al Qaeda reason to kidnap me my strap electrodes to my balls and lock me in an underground machine shop in the middle of the Tora Bora.
And just to head off the 20 other people standing in line to wail on me for daring to say something that may in any way construed as politically incorrect, let me throw in a disclaimer. This is simply an observation based on reading I have done and my own personal experience with the members of my very large family who just happen to be members of all econimic classes (except for maybe that top 10%). I am neither implying or condoning any conclusive statement or action based on the aforementioned observation.
Whats really starnge about this is that its not a very sophisticated scam. A few years back I was almost phone scammed but only because the scammers had a lot of info from an old lawsuit I was invovled in with about 300 other people. They called me up claiming the company had settled and they need to info before they could send me my cheque. So I started spilling my guts until she asked me for my #SS and alarm bells started going off in my head. I asked what for and she started fast talking me. They almost had me. They had a lot of info they couldn't have gotten from public records. They even had my name right, which is unusual for telemarketers because my name is long and wierd and poeple tend to chop off the end or misspell it.
Not really. Statistically the poor and uneducated tend to have MORE children than eductaed middle class and above families. Take a drive though your local ghetto/trailer park and check out the preganant teenage high school dropouts with three kids trailing behind them.
This natural selection thing has got some bugs.
Women are strange.
Being the geek that I am, there no way I'm going to buy something and not upgrade it or at the very least know how it works. So I've been reading whatever I can get my hands on and watching stuff like Horsepower TV . But everything I read is either basic stuff, like changing your oil or really advanced stuff about engine timings and camshafts that lose me after the first paragraph.
I haven't felt so clueless since I accidently took an advanced Philosphy class in my freshman year.
Best use for an AMD CPU. EVER.
Agreed. I haven't built a system since an O/C Celeron 2 800 running at 900 Mhz was a kickass system, but in my experience the hardest part was figuring out with components your board supported. Most componenets could ONLY be connected the right way and it was just about impossible to connect things the right way in the wrong place. As my co-workers used to say when I worked at Old Navy: "A partially trained Monkey could do the job, and the customers would probably treat him better"
Building my first PC was no where near as confusing as the first bike I built, or the Car Engine I hope to rebuild in the future (as soon as I can listen to one of those muscle car guys talk about engines without my eyes glazing over, and parts of my brain BSODing)
Confronted with this stat. the MPAA cronies would probably claim that if not for "piracy" it would be 50% higher...
and we're supposed to cry for their loss. I saw Dodgeball this weekend at my cousins den of piracy. Utter Rubbish. Makes me glad I didn't spend $10.
Nail on the head. Not to bad talk unions. My health benifits were awesome, and management could not push you around, it almost made up for the shitty pay. But I saw some guys that needed to be fired. Guys who made my life more difficult with their half-assedness that mnagment couldn't touch because of the union. Its really a double-edged sword.
LOL! This sounds exactly like the UPS I know.
...trust me, this is a bad idea. I did a year as a Loader/Unloader at UPS. With the way we treated those packages I'm surporised andyone gets anything from UPS in good condition. One time the Stanley Cup came through my hub and got lost for 3 days. Management had us combing the building for the crate. And on the third day it just showed up in the international section. Whoever stole it must have realized the shitstorm they had started up. Before thanksgiving one year we had 50 Turkeys packed in ice that somehow didn't make it on the last truck (on Monday we had a small hill of individually packed rotting meat floating in water. I've got a million UPS horror stories. Trust me you don't want to ship anything UPS. And if you do ship UPS, package your stuff so that it could at least withstand being drop kicked 20 feet into a metal wall...
Yes! at least 1 fan of PC Accel still exists. I stopped reading game mags when they went belly-up. All other pailed in comparison.
I have every issue of their 2 year run. Too bad they went bellyup.
Apparently her ISP software linked directly to Iexplorer.exe and when it asked her to make it default she clicked yes.
Not her fault but still makes you want to slam yur head against the monitor screen.
but your car dirt core samples are very umm...interesting.
Satan must be out shopping for ski pants.
you mind my friend have obviously never been to New York...
if they called it SclockPoint I might actually buy it.