On the subject of patent trolls, Blackboard fits this, despite being such a horrible piece of crap.
A-fucking-men to that chief. Blackboard is, bar none, the single nastiest most unintuitive piece of shit I have every had to deal with. It makes Lotus Notes circa 1995 look like genius. It makes Microsoft Clippy look like a good idea. I hate it. I want it gone. I would rather spend hours photocopying stuff and calculating grades by hand without a calculator than deal with that nasty piece of crap.
Or "Democrat" for ease of pronunciation. Democrats, just like Republicans, get billions in corporate donations every year. You think they are not colluding? You think NBC, ABC, and other television corporations are not just drooling to see Obama win this year?
Oh, I see, so the Media (run by Giant International Conglomerates) are colluding with the Democratic Party to get Obama in, and that's Socialism. Beyond the obvious stupidity and ignorance of your position... Oh, but that's right - you're a troll, and Trolls don't have to think clearly or stay on topic - they just have to spew their idiocy and watch everyone react.
FOX is less socialist than NBC, CBS, ABC, et cetera, but they are still socialist.
BWAHAHAHAAAA!!!! You're a troll. But a funny troll. Assuming you're not a troll, and you actually believe that, here's a clue: They Are All Giant Corporations. PRIVATE Corporations. Run for PROFIT and in the interest of their Owner (in the case of Fox) or the shareholders of the Conglomerates that own them (the rest).
They are NOT Socialist. If they were SOCIALIST they would be run by and for the workers on a non-profit basis.
Oh - and by the way - re: Healthcare - the only major (G7 or G8) industrialised nation that DOESN'T have national health is the USA, and all the health statistics for the USA are behind everyone else except a few stats where Russia and China are behind.
So, assuming you're a troll - thanks - that was really funny. Fox... Socialist.
BWAHAHAAaaaa!!! Who'd-a-thunk-it? Awesome. What an idiot.
make a movie in Flash or Director that simulates a BSoD, and set it as a full screen start up item. Computer starts, they get to see your desktop for 3 seconds and suddenly : BANG! BSoD.
Next: cry or act completely bummed out.
They will say "Let's restart it" and bingo: it happens again. They will let you pass. As you complain about Microsoft's craptastic OS.
over 1 human. Heck - I'll take 5 or a 1000 robots over a human.
We don't need to send people there. It's far away, really cold, and subject to intense radiation. Getting a human there would be expensive and of questionable value, especially given the sophistication of robots these days.
What's important is the data, not one or a small handful of humans having the privilege of wandering about the place.
In tab 1, go to Google maps and type in 3800 Steelhead way, the dalles, Oregon.
In tab 2, do the same in mapquest.
In both views turn on the Aerial/satellite view.
Note: in mapquest, the Google facilities are CLEARLY visible. In Google, they are not. In fact, in the google view, it's nothing but open fields...
In Google, click on street view, and go northwest along Steelhead until your about midway. Use the mapquest map to check your position relative to the buildings.
Then turn the google street view camera north, and BINGO - you can see the Google facilities in the distance a couple blocks north, even though they are not visible in the google satellite view.
Nothing like using Google's surveillance systems against itself. In less fraternal moments, I would call them a bunch of Paranoid Morons, but then I remember - "never attribute evil to a situation where incompetence or stupidity are simpler explanations..."
Nah - they're paranoid morons... thank god for mapquest...
RIAA: So's like youse punk wit yer fancy fuckin' internet is like hornin' in on our little operation, ya see? And we don't like that kind of fuckin' bullshit, because dis wuz our game, since like forevah, you got dat, fucker? And since we got all da money, and youse punks ain't nuttin' but a bunch a snotty surfer upstart assholes, and since we got da guvmint on our payroll they like supply all the guns and muscle we need to keep our little operation goin', so's youse stupid little fuckin punks are gonna PAY US DA FUCKIN MONEY - YA GOT THAT MOTHERFUCKER? Cuz if you DON'T get wit da program, we're gonna have some of our boys come in and bust your little gig up! And KICK YER FUCKIN ASS. And take you away at gun point, and kidnap you fer years and stick you wit Bubba da Butt Bandit - but it'll be by way of da guvmint, so's like it'll be called "arrest" and "imprisonment" when actually, it's just us, SHAKIN YOUR WORTHLESS ASS DOWN!
So's like we're good businessmen types - we ain't like typical thugs - ya know - we ain't no fuckin Tony Soprano - we can set this up all business like. So's whats you gotta do is dis: give us 10% of what you make right off da top. No shit motherfucker. 10%. Right now. Don't like it? Prepare to get FUCKED, cuz we WILL FUCK YOU UP. Ya got dat, fucker?
Good - so we expect our checks to come rollin' in at the top of the month. Got that? If yer late, or stop payin', yer fucked, and we WILL come after ya, you stupid little fuck. GOT THAT? Good. Now run along and make us some money, fucker."
Pelosi is bush's enabler. she represents San Francisco. She is part of the problem. My point stands. California Uber Alles. Suede Denim Secret Police are still fascists.
Sorry I didn't see your comment before I posted. I completely agree. This is ALL bullshit. It's called Security Theatre. Furthermore, if you are trying to get "data" into the USA, there are many many ways of doing it that don't require bringing a computer.
It's just fascist horseshit. The bill is NOT a sudden outbreak of common sense. It is typical Democrat jelly-spined acquiescence to the boot heel of the paranoid military-industrial war machine.
Anita - do yourself a favour: GET OUT OF THE COUNTRY WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
WHY are they confiscating the computers in the first place? Anyone with even the slightest bit of sense could move huge amounts of data through the interweb, encrypted to and from one anonymous point to another. and if it's encrypted more than once, it's nearly impossible to decrypt. and if you then take that and turn it into a.bmp file, then it just seems to be a collection of static-like images with precious little info. And all you have to do is dump the data to a CDR or DVDR and stick with the rest of your music collection.
This bill is NOT a sudden outbreak of common sense. A sudden outbreak of common sense would be to abandon this idiotic practice for the security theatre it is.
And people wonder why I left and don't like returning to the USA. California uber alles.
AND in the left corner: Marcus Dweebius, a Windows fan since the age of ten, Marcus is a 23 year old virgin who was recently laid off from his IT job at GiantBankCorp, who moved his job to India, because the board of directors need to make their yacht payments, and the credit crisis is crimping their style.
AND...
in the Right corner: Kitty. Kitty's birthday is 31 July, a REAL LEO at heart, and she is completely pissed off at Microsoft Windows Vista, because it's a roiling piece of shit. Back at home, Kitty has two little cubs who are waiting for their lioness mom to come home with the information that will allow them to install a new video card, and 170 lbs of fresh fatty cold cuts for noshies.
WHO will emerge victorious? Marcus Dweebius or Kitty? Stay tuned to find... oh never mind. She just killed Marcus with a single swipe. Now she's chewing him a new butthole. Eeeew! And well - it looks like she found her cold cuts. That's all for today! tune in again next week when we have a fascist soccer mom go up against a major figure in federal politics.
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What about the Black Hole right HERE!!!
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Seconds after the sucker got turned on, a black hole opened up in my office and ate my lunch. It suddenly evapourated, but left a stink behind. As it was a cheese sandwich, I think we can safely determine that black holes are lactose intolerant.
oh balderdash. How much did they test the mouse? sure It probably lived its miserable mouse life in its miserable mouse cage, but:
what was its affect?
Do you think they tested for how nice it was, or how friendly it was, or how smart it was? Probably not. They probably tested it to see if it would eat and shit properly, and live a statistically reasonable length of time in its nasty little mouse cage.
What was its preference in flavours?
Do you think it preferred sunflowers over millet or was it really fond of quinoa? Do you think they tested for that? Probably not.
Was it outgoing or shy or psychotic?
They probably couldn't tell. Did it have ADD? Probably never tested for it.
No, it's not just junk. And the test you're describing was purely to see if removing a set of DNA resulted in something other than a still birth or a giant furry virus, by comparison to the finessed set of criteria I'm looking at.
No, it's not junk. What it is, we don't know, but when we investigate, we find meaning. And saying they found no defects is meaningless. John Wayne Gacy was a perfectly functioning human. He just liked to KILL PEOPLE AND EAT THEM. Was it genetic? Probably not. But the ability to do so, by definition, had to be. (as opposed to say, antelope...)
I'd love to see the results of removing Junk DNA from a human's genome, and then pump it into an egg and grow it up all normal like and see what kind of walking cancer emerges.
Junk DNA doesn't exist. It's just DNA we don't understand.
I stopped watching TV years ago. I still "watch TV" but only in the sense of viewing DVDs (for "quality viewing") or streaming video off youTube (for keeping up with immediate contemporary stuff, like Bill Maher).
TV is done. It's going to die faster than radio, because I can listen to radio in my car.
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Correct. If he was a douchebag, he'd look like THIS or This.
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A-fucking-men to that chief. Blackboard is, bar none, the single nastiest most unintuitive piece of shit I have every had to deal with. It makes Lotus Notes circa 1995 look like genius. It makes Microsoft Clippy look like a good idea. I hate it. I want it gone. I would rather spend hours photocopying stuff and calculating grades by hand without a calculator than deal with that nasty piece of crap.
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Oh, I see, so the Media (run by Giant International Conglomerates) are colluding with the Democratic Party to get Obama in, and that's Socialism. Beyond the obvious stupidity and ignorance of your position... Oh, but that's right - you're a troll, and Trolls don't have to think clearly or stay on topic - they just have to spew their idiocy and watch everyone react.
You're an idiot. And a Troll.
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Vote for Chthulu!!!
YES!!! Blame what needs to be blamed: Capitalism itself! SMASH THE STATE!!!! DESTROY the bourgeoisie! WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!!!
Short of that - hang all Republicans. It's a start.
Short of that, wine about it all on Slashdot...
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They are NOT Socialist. If they were SOCIALIST they would be run by and for the workers on a non-profit basis.
Oh - and by the way - re: Healthcare - the only major (G7 or G8) industrialised nation that DOESN'T have national health is the USA, and all the health statistics for the USA are behind everyone else except a few stats where Russia and China are behind.
So, assuming you're a troll - thanks - that was really funny. Fox... Socialist.
BWAHAHAAaaaa!!! Who'd-a-thunk-it? Awesome. What an idiot.
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Next: cry or act completely bummed out.
They will say "Let's restart it" and bingo: it happens again. They will let you pass. As you complain about Microsoft's craptastic OS.
Perfect.
And easy to undo.
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We don't need to send people there. It's far away, really cold, and subject to intense radiation. Getting a human there would be expensive and of questionable value, especially given the sophistication of robots these days.
What's important is the data, not one or a small handful of humans having the privilege of wandering about the place.
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In tab 1, go to Google maps and type in 3800 Steelhead way, the dalles, Oregon.
In tab 2, do the same in mapquest.
In both views turn on the Aerial/satellite view.
Note: in mapquest, the Google facilities are CLEARLY visible. In Google, they are not. In fact, in the google view, it's nothing but open fields...
In Google, click on street view, and go northwest along Steelhead until your about midway. Use the mapquest map to check your position relative to the buildings.
Then turn the google street view camera north, and BINGO - you can see the Google facilities in the distance a couple blocks north, even though they are not visible in the google satellite view.
Nothing like using Google's surveillance systems against itself. In less fraternal moments, I would call them a bunch of Paranoid Morons, but then I remember - "never attribute evil to a situation where incompetence or stupidity are simpler explanations..."
Nah - they're paranoid morons... thank god for mapquest...
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Once I made a program that would give that screen and the chimes, and put it in my friend's start up folder. Priceless...
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So's like we're good businessmen types - we ain't like typical thugs - ya know - we ain't no fuckin Tony Soprano - we can set this up all business like. So's whats you gotta do is dis: give us 10% of what you make right off da top. No shit motherfucker. 10%. Right now. Don't like it? Prepare to get FUCKED, cuz we WILL FUCK YOU UP. Ya got dat, fucker?
Good - so we expect our checks to come rollin' in at the top of the month. Got that? If yer late, or stop payin', yer fucked, and we WILL come after ya, you stupid little fuck. GOT THAT? Good. Now run along and make us some money, fucker."
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Pelosi is bush's enabler. she represents San Francisco. She is part of the problem. My point stands. California Uber Alles. Suede Denim Secret Police are still fascists.
It's just fascist horseshit. The bill is NOT a sudden outbreak of common sense. It is typical Democrat jelly-spined acquiescence to the boot heel of the paranoid military-industrial war machine.
Anita - do yourself a favour: GET OUT OF THE COUNTRY WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
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This bill is NOT a sudden outbreak of common sense. A sudden outbreak of common sense would be to abandon this idiotic practice for the security theatre it is.
And people wonder why I left and don't like returning to the USA. California uber alles.
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AND...
in the Right corner: Kitty. Kitty's birthday is 31 July, a REAL LEO at heart, and she is completely pissed off at Microsoft Windows Vista, because it's a roiling piece of shit. Back at home, Kitty has two little cubs who are waiting for their lioness mom to come home with the information that will allow them to install a new video card, and 170 lbs of fresh fatty cold cuts for noshies.
WHO will emerge victorious? Marcus Dweebius or Kitty? Stay tuned to find... oh never mind. She just killed Marcus with a single swipe. Now she's chewing him a new butthole. Eeeew! And well - it looks like she found her cold cuts. That's all for today! tune in again next week when we have a fascist soccer mom go up against a major figure in federal politics.
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what was its affect?
Do you think they tested for how nice it was, or how friendly it was, or how smart it was? Probably not. They probably tested it to see if it would eat and shit properly, and live a statistically reasonable length of time in its nasty little mouse cage.
What was its preference in flavours?
Do you think it preferred sunflowers over millet or was it really fond of quinoa? Do you think they tested for that? Probably not.
Was it outgoing or shy or psychotic?
They probably couldn't tell. Did it have ADD? Probably never tested for it.
No, it's not just junk. And the test you're describing was purely to see if removing a set of DNA resulted in something other than a still birth or a giant furry virus, by comparison to the finessed set of criteria I'm looking at.
No, it's not junk. What it is, we don't know, but when we investigate, we find meaning. And saying they found no defects is meaningless. John Wayne Gacy was a perfectly functioning human. He just liked to KILL PEOPLE AND EAT THEM. Was it genetic? Probably not. But the ability to do so, by definition, had to be. (as opposed to say, antelope...)
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Junk DNA doesn't exist. It's just DNA we don't understand.
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TV is done. It's going to die faster than radio, because I can listen to radio in my car.
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