I worked as a paralegal "research analyst" working directly for the lawyers involved, and I can assure all that the break up of ATT was not the defeat of some evil megacorp at the hands of some valiant heroic upstarts. It was an ugly battle by giant corporations, all of whom were evil Evil EVIL, when they weren't being incompetent and utterly stupid.
Did ATT deny MCI, Sprint, ITT, sonitrol, and everyone else involved access to their lines?
Yep.
Was MCI a giant grasping hellhole bent not on defeating ATT, but becoming ATT?
Yep.
Was Sprint an incompetent bunch of losers who couldn't find their own butts with a flashlight, a map, and both hands at the ready?
Yep.
Was Sonitrol along for the ride?
Yep.
Was ITT a vast corrupt corporation run by thugs?
Yep.
It's all there in the evidence - which fills a freakin' warehouse somewhere. Representatives of ITT threating people, Sprint incapable of figuring out how to bill their customers, MCI pulling all kinds of nasty shenanigans on ATT and other providers - and ream after ream of circuit listings noting that the denial of service was for "Reasons Unknown" - it was ugly. Truly nasty. There were no good guys in that case.
And now ATT wants to rebuild its empire. Well, it's a different world now with VOIP, Cellphones, cable modems, etc. Even if they do corner the DSL market, there's another market out there...
I don't if I should laugh or cry for all my wasted effort in that messy trial.
"In an era where we've already got government-created and funded media outlets and the Pentagon bribing Iraqi journalists to run favorable war stories, not to mention other departments paying journalists to endorse their positions, it begs the question, how much more can they possibly do?"
Well, DUH: how's this for starters?
1. GET THE FUCK OUT OF IRAQ. AND STAY OUT.
2. DEVELOP NON-PETROLEUM ENERGY SYSTEMS, ASAP.
3. RENOUNCE EMPIRE
OK, dumbass - I edited your work. Here are your own thoughts back at you in a better package.
What they don't realise is that language changes, and every generation understands this. When language changes in a radical way, someone will whine and cry out in defence of the older understanding of what constitutes literacy and proper grammar. In 1940, George Orwell said people were writing English poorly, and soon they wouldn't be able to communicate at all. He was wrong, as we clearly have a functioning world with millions of English speakers some 70 years later. I'm not certain, but I believe the ancient Romans or Greeks also complained of the same debasement of their language. They bemoaned and bleated that the young people of their time were a generation that looked down on the world, showing no moral principles and a feeble understanding of grammar and spelling.
I think the people who complain about the language skills of the young have old minds stuck in a new world where communication practices have changed radically and rapidly. The elderly often have difficulty communicating with youth, but the young are the future, and as long as they can communicate effectively, that is sufficient.
Now that was just a quick edit of the stinking tourde you squeezed out for us here on Slashdot. If you are going to write about how narrow-minded prigs are holding back the Voice of Yoot', then kindly do so in a way that demonstrates a fundamental and careful grasp of the language. Otherwise, all you are doing is proving the point of the article - that young people are borderline illiterate dopes incapable of formulating complex thoughts or elucidating anything of insight or value.
Now, kindly go back to school and learn how to write.
space tourism is. Let's see.... spend millions, likely billions, putting together a special kind of airport so rich idiots can go zoom-zoom in a big fast rocket. And send that vehicle up using an irreplaceable resource. That's going to look really great in 10 years when people all over the world will be struggling to heat their homes in the winter.
Heck - that alone would be reason enough for some neocon dumbass to go invade them - just out of spite... It's like straight out of Syriana...
"You want to know what we think of you people? We think 100 years ago you were living in tents and chopping each other's heads off, and in another 100 years, that's exactly where you're going to be. Now, on behalf of my company, I am happy to accept your money."
Space is not empty. Every cubic meter has about 1 hydrogen atom, and in the solar system, (IIRC) there is one tiny grain of grit per cubic kilometer. blow off from comets, fragments from asteroid collisions, etc. There's tons of it. When you look up at the Milky Way, the dark areas are gas and dust - dust is tiny grains of material.
So, all you would need is some tiny fleck of quartz (which is what sand is) slam into a ship at near light speed. It would explode on impact with the force of a small bomb.
and that's why all this talk of near light speed travel is just so much wishful thinking.
Moving a grain of sand out of the way would take so much energy at light speed, that I can't imagine HOW they would avoid it.
I'm not "Arguing from ignorance" I'm just pointing out that accellerating to near light speed is hard enough - getting all the crap out of the way (like one random hydrogen atom every cubic meter - at light speed the energy adds up...quick) would be really difficult, and even a grain of sand (of which there is a lot) drifting through space could prove explosively dangerous at near light speed. Accleration is only one part of the game. The other part is preventing collsions with tiny objects and the rest is delivering your payload (probe, nuclear bomb, whatevaahhhh) to your target (planet, space colony, etc.)
I'm of the opnion that the vast majority of people who will EVER go into space have already been there.
RS
47 IS the weirdest number...REALLY...
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that not only do non-whole, non-half values (e.g., 47)
47 really really IS the WEIRDEST number... Really. There's even a group dedicated to it:
If you ever go look at one of their workstations, like the XW9300, you'll notice that there's a lot more "innovation" there than at Dell or most other manufacturers.
So who the fuck are you? Carly's boy toy? (badoom-tish!)
Seriously, though - you are correct in that *LIMITED* sense re: a few of HP's offerings are worthwhile. HOWEVER: most of their crap IS made by 3rd party crap houses in China. And all the testing you talk about is of ZERO consequence when you're talking about their bread and butter products.
By and large HP's takeover of Compaq was a hoax. The *REAL* reason was to get HP onto Compaq's HR policies, which saved the company $400m, every year, forever. This pleased the stock holders and completely fucked over the rank and file. My wife works at HP and she lost a week of vacation and ended up at the top of her pay curve after the takeover. She hasn't had a raise in 4 years, but she is one of the most productive members of her group. Why? Pay curve restrictions. She'd have to get a "different" job (i..e. more BULLSHIT than creative work) to get ANY pay raise.
As a consequence, we've had to scale back our lives a good bit, and that pisses us both off. So, when Gateway went on the rocks, I figured: hey: another 3rd rate computer maker on the rocks - smells like blood in the water...
And then HP will become the BIGGEST COMPUTER MAKER in the entire WORLD!
HP will INNOVATE and INVENT the computer of the future! While other clone makers like Dell and IBM have their computers built by third party sweatshops in China, HP will BUY Gateway, and LEAD the world into a technical future of INNOVATION and EXCELLENCE.
RS
ps: if HP *does* buy the rotting carcass of Gateway, I'll laugh so hard...
OK: picture this : you're a pathetic fucked up junkie shithead, and between screwing crack hos and zoning out on TV, you find out that "there's a cure for AIDS" and you're totally jazzed. So you zip down town and you get hooked up with the latest and the greatest, and it takes (x) treatments to be effective.
Well, you find this One Little Crack Ho kind of interesting, so you skip oen of the treatments, and thne she has this insane idea of moving to (x) city and you go for it, because you feel healthy and you're too fucking high to remember that you need a few more treatments to kill HIV.
So you move to X City with the love of your life (an ex crack ho) and you're fucking her all the time and she gets AIDS and she hates you, and dumps your sorry junkie ass....
So, there you are in X City, and you find some other Crack Ho to fuck, and some of the HIV in your system is now familiar with the anti-HIV killer drugs you took last month, but it survived, and it doesn't give a rats ass about this new treatment -because it has evolved into a NEW AIDS pathogen.
ANd you go and pump some crack ho full of your special AIDS spooge, and she goes and fuckes some other retard and he gets the new super strong virus and passes it on to some other crack ho.
I don't see this "cure" as a cure. I see it as a "ratcheting up" of the bbio-arms race.
for one thing, there won't be the idiotic "PowerPC/x86 is faster than x86/PowerPC" arguments - with a level playing field, the apps "will" operate at the same speed. If an OS handles something better or faster, the results will be immediate and obvious.
Apple won't have to worry about quantities of chips - they're in line along withh Dell, HP, and the rest of them for the chips. Apple won't have to announce something and then have it finally show up in the store 6 months later because Moto or IBM fucked up and dropped the ball on delivering the chips.
Also: the Power6 is a server chip, and IIRC, it wouldn't naturally have an Altivec processor. Given Apple has jumped ship, I don't see IBM spending a lot of time tweaking a Power6 into a "G6" config with Apple compatible Altivec instruction sets, etc.
So, no - Apple did the right thing running to Mommy Intel.
I just wish Adobe/Macromedia would get off their ARSE and cough up the software I need sooner.
it's really very simple - if I can't work in CMYK colourspace for professional colour separation, then the app is a nonstarter - it's dead right out of the gate.
when gimp can do CMYK, I'll look at it. But until then - sorry - I have work to do, and I don't get paid to futz around with stuff that doesn't work - I get paid to Make Shit Happen, and if it is in print, it's in CMYK, period - no ifs, no ands or buts.
The Swiss invented it. The English misuse it, and the Italians abuse it. The Americans say it is money, and the Hindus say it doesn't exist. Me? I say time is a thief!"
Peter Lorey, from Beat the Devil, dir. John Huston, written by T. Capote.
By Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, from their best record, Dazzle Ships. Oddly prophetic...
Telegraph
Ive got a telegraph in my hand.
Words on paper, written in sand.
Weve got telegraph, right across this land.
It doesnt mean a damn thing.
We dont understand.
But who needs telegraph anyway?
We've got telegraph, right across this land.
It doesnt mean a damn thing. (damn thing)
We dont understand, (we never understood!)
Gods got a telegraph on his side.
It makes Him powerful, gives Him pride.
Even in America (God bless America!)
They understand the value of the telegraph.
By publishing the "work arounds" the media (including all youze geeks on/.) have done the fascist pigfuckers running the Chinese.gov a Big Fat Favour - you have saved them hours and hours of research in finding pages TO BLOCK.
Example: Teeanamen Skware.
An incorrect spelling like that gets published, say HERE, and is noted by some Chinese equivalent of Winston Smith in the Chinese Minitrue, and its passed over to the directorate for inclusion on words to ban. Eventually you run out of room to run, even if you spell (correctly or otherwise) in variants of 1337.
The only way to HELP the Chinese find this info is to keep it on the QT, as a sub rosa info exchange. Of course, the Big Businesses that own the Major Media are *not* interested in that - they support the fascist pigfuckers in Beijing because they're the ones supporting our idiotic adventures in Babylonia by buying our debt, they're the ones who are keeping the rapacious maw of the town busting barns of WalMart in stock with cheap goods, and they're the ones who are most interested in watching the USA drive right off the energy / debt cliff.
We have to be clear: the Fascist Chinese
( calling them communist is an insult to the memory of the likes of Rosa Luxembourg, Karl Leibknecht, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Georg Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, etc. and all the other great left wings thinkers of our modern era, just as calling a fascist like G.W. Bush and DICK Cheney "conservatives" is an insult to the memory of great conservative thinkers like Hayek, Hamilton, Burke, etc. )
will do whatever it takes to stay in power, including killing innocent people. The greatest political threat to humanity in this world today is this fascism - so deeply entrenched in China, and flowering so madly in the TV addled American Middle Class. We, as the "intelligent" bunch, need to be much SMARTER in how we deal with these fascist pigfuckers. And providing inverse roadmaps for greater repression is NOT a way to help them. We need to be quieter about our solutions and louder in our criticism. Oil production is peaking, and it's going to be a fight to the death for the rest of this century over what remains. Tthe Chinese want more - WAY MORE - and they will cheerfully use the laziness, greediness, and shortsighted stupidity of Americans against Americans in order to direct us to the cliff of self-destruction. The greedy fascist pigfuckers in China.gov AND the Bush Junta must be stopped - the Bush bunch and their big business buddies are too stupid to know they are being played, big time.
When I saw the headline "Cooking Dinner from the Road" I thought it was going to be a Roadkill Cookbook - you know - stuff like Mashed Squirrel, or Kung Pow Kitty, or Pigeon puree....
But nooooo - nothing *useful* like that - just some spiffy high tech wankery for the Jetson's crowd.
They continue with lay offs and massive payments to the big wigs (scum), cutting down telecommuting (idiots), they have NO real technology vision beyond rebranding stuff from Canon et al who build their crap but use "INVENT" as their logo (hypocritical dorks), but they're willing to piss $10b away on a chip no one wants or needs.
Brilliant. Carly's been gone for a while, but it seems the shit heads she brought on board are still making (stupid) decisions there. This Itanium/Itanic thing is just the latest round in the long slow HP death spiral.
During 1977 the U.S. government enacted the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which was substantially revised during 1988. The provisions of the FCPA prohibit the bribery of foreign government officials by U.S. citizens and prescribe accounting and record-keeping practices.
What? This IS the oil industry we're takin' about, right?
While I don't particularly relish the prospect of eavesdropping without warrants, the fact is that warrants take a gigundous mountain of paperwork to get, and that sometimes they really won't be obtainable fast enough to make a difference.
Your statement would be sensible IF it wasn't for the simple fact that:
a: They have 72 hours to get back with the FISA court to explain an unwarranted wire tap.
b: We just happen to have a nice little thing called the Constitution which states in EXPLICITLY CLEAR LANGUAGE:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Now, what part of that statement ELUDES your understanding? HMmmmmmm???
If idiots like you prevail, we will ALL end up with the government YOU deserve.
Thank you for being so much like the United States : the single greatest betrayal of the human spirit in recorded history.
You brought to the net the simplest and best search engine, and then elaborated with genuinely useful tools to make the web a better place. When it came time to IPO, you did it on your own terms, and you have been rewarded for your efforts. When the jackbooted thugs from the Bush Junta kicked at your door asking for identified searches, you told them to go stuff it.
But when the biggest bunch of shit-eating fascist scum sucking pigs on the planet - that corrupt collection of power mad douchebags - the repressive grab-asses from china.gov tell you to censor your searches and WHAT DO YOU TELL BIG BROTHER IN BEIJING? Did you tell them to kindly go take a flying fuck in a rolling donut? Did you tell these butt munching freaks they could lick the dingleberries out of your butt? Did you remind them of their past and continuous disregard for all that is human and decent and say "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE?" DID YOU? DID YOU DO NO EVIL?
Fuck no.
You FELL ON YOUR KNEES and said "Yes, massa - just don't send me back to da fields!" and did some corporate cock-gobbling.
You people have lost ALL credibility. You have jumped the shark. We thought you were diffferent. You're not. You suck. What a money shot this is. You will be destroyed. It was cool while it lasted. Nice knowin' ya. Don't let the door hit you on the ass when you leave. Buh Bye!
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Did ATT deny MCI, Sprint, ITT, sonitrol, and everyone else involved access to their lines?
Yep.
Was MCI a giant grasping hellhole bent not on defeating ATT, but becoming ATT?
Yep.
Was Sprint an incompetent bunch of losers who couldn't find their own butts with a flashlight, a map, and both hands at the ready?
Yep.
Was Sonitrol along for the ride?
Yep.
Was ITT a vast corrupt corporation run by thugs?
Yep.
It's all there in the evidence - which fills a freakin' warehouse somewhere. Representatives of ITT threating people, Sprint incapable of figuring out how to bill their customers, MCI pulling all kinds of nasty shenanigans on ATT and other providers - and ream after ream of circuit listings noting that the denial of service was for "Reasons Unknown" - it was ugly. Truly nasty. There were no good guys in that case.
And now ATT wants to rebuild its empire. Well, it's a different world now with VOIP, Cellphones, cable modems, etc. Even if they do corner the DSL market, there's another market out there...
I don't if I should laugh or cry for all my wasted effort in that messy trial.
RS
So, AOL can do anything it wants, I don't care.
AOL is like so... 15 years ago...
RS
However, the retards doing the moderating today rated me "Flamebait".
Stupid fucks.
RS
Well, DUH: how's this for starters?
1. GET THE FUCK OUT OF IRAQ. AND STAY OUT.
2. DEVELOP NON-PETROLEUM ENERGY SYSTEMS, ASAP.
3. RENOUNCE EMPIRE
That would be a good start.
RS
What they don't realise is that language changes, and every generation understands this. When language changes in a radical way, someone will whine and cry out in defence of the older understanding of what constitutes literacy and proper grammar. In 1940, George Orwell said people were writing English poorly, and soon they wouldn't be able to communicate at all. He was wrong, as we clearly have a functioning world with millions of English speakers some 70 years later. I'm not certain, but I believe the ancient Romans or Greeks also complained of the same debasement of their language. They bemoaned and bleated that the young people of their time were a generation that looked down on the world, showing no moral principles and a feeble understanding of grammar and spelling.
I think the people who complain about the language skills of the young have old minds stuck in a new world where communication practices have changed radically and rapidly. The elderly often have difficulty communicating with youth, but the young are the future, and as long as they can communicate effectively, that is sufficient.
Now that was just a quick edit of the stinking tourde you squeezed out for us here on Slashdot. If you are going to write about how narrow-minded prigs are holding back the Voice of Yoot', then kindly do so in a way that demonstrates a fundamental and careful grasp of the language. Otherwise, all you are doing is proving the point of the article - that young people are borderline illiterate dopes incapable of formulating complex thoughts or elucidating anything of insight or value.
Now, kindly go back to school and learn how to write.
Fucktard.
RS
Heck - that alone would be reason enough for some neocon dumbass to go invade them - just out of spite... It's like straight out of Syriana...
"You want to know what we think of you people? We think 100 years ago you were living in tents and chopping each other's heads off, and in another 100 years, that's exactly where you're going to be. Now, on behalf of my company, I am happy to accept your money."
Sometimes people are so pathetic.
RS
Now I have an 8.5 x 11 scanner that does 2400 dpi in a single pass and it only cost me $89 on sale at Best Buy.
Amazing what happens in a dozen years...
RS
So, all you would need is some tiny fleck of quartz (which is what sand is) slam into a ship at near light speed. It would explode on impact with the force of a small bomb.
and that's why all this talk of near light speed travel is just so much wishful thinking.
RS
I'm not "Arguing from ignorance" I'm just pointing out that accellerating to near light speed is hard enough - getting all the crap out of the way (like one random hydrogen atom every cubic meter - at light speed the energy adds up...quick) would be really difficult, and even a grain of sand (of which there is a lot) drifting through space could prove explosively dangerous at near light speed. Accleration is only one part of the game. The other part is preventing collsions with tiny objects and the rest is delivering your payload (probe, nuclear bomb, whatevaahhhh) to your target (planet, space colony, etc.)
I'm of the opnion that the vast majority of people who will EVER go into space have already been there.
RS
47 really really IS the WEIRDEST number... Really. There's even a group dedicated to it:
The 47 Society
So TFA comes as no surprise...
RS
So who the fuck are you? Carly's boy toy? (badoom-tish!)
Seriously, though - you are correct in that *LIMITED* sense re: a few of HP's offerings are worthwhile. HOWEVER: most of their crap IS made by 3rd party crap houses in China. And all the testing you talk about is of ZERO consequence when you're talking about their bread and butter products.
By and large HP's takeover of Compaq was a hoax. The *REAL* reason was to get HP onto Compaq's HR policies, which saved the company $400m, every year, forever. This pleased the stock holders and completely fucked over the rank and file. My wife works at HP and she lost a week of vacation and ended up at the top of her pay curve after the takeover. She hasn't had a raise in 4 years, but she is one of the most productive members of her group. Why? Pay curve restrictions. She'd have to get a "different" job (i..e. more BULLSHIT than creative work) to get ANY pay raise.
As a consequence, we've had to scale back our lives a good bit, and that pisses us both off. So, when Gateway went on the rocks, I figured: hey: another 3rd rate computer maker on the rocks - smells like blood in the water...
RS
HP will INNOVATE and INVENT the computer of the future! While other clone makers like Dell and IBM have their computers built by third party sweatshops in China, HP will BUY Gateway, and LEAD the world into a technical future of INNOVATION and EXCELLENCE.
RS
ps: if HP *does* buy the rotting carcass of Gateway, I'll laugh so hard...
Well, you find this One Little Crack Ho kind of interesting, so you skip oen of the treatments, and thne she has this insane idea of moving to (x) city and you go for it, because you feel healthy and you're too fucking high to remember that you need a few more treatments to kill HIV.
So you move to X City with the love of your life (an ex crack ho) and you're fucking her all the time and she gets AIDS and she hates you, and dumps your sorry junkie ass....
So, there you are in X City, and you find some other Crack Ho to fuck, and some of the HIV in your system is now familiar with the anti-HIV killer drugs you took last month, but it survived, and it doesn't give a rats ass about this new treatment -because it has evolved into a NEW AIDS pathogen.
ANd you go and pump some crack ho full of your special AIDS spooge, and she goes and fuckes some other retard and he gets the new super strong virus and passes it on to some other crack ho.
I don't see this "cure" as a cure. I see it as a "ratcheting up" of the bbio-arms race.
RS
Apple won't have to worry about quantities of chips - they're in line along withh Dell, HP, and the rest of them for the chips. Apple won't have to announce something and then have it finally show up in the store 6 months later because Moto or IBM fucked up and dropped the ball on delivering the chips.
Also: the Power6 is a server chip, and IIRC, it wouldn't naturally have an Altivec processor. Given Apple has jumped ship, I don't see IBM spending a lot of time tweaking a Power6 into a "G6" config with Apple compatible Altivec instruction sets, etc.
So, no - Apple did the right thing running to Mommy Intel.
I just wish Adobe/Macromedia would get off their ARSE and cough up the software I need sooner.
RS
when gimp can do CMYK, I'll look at it. But until then - sorry - I have work to do, and I don't get paid to futz around with stuff that doesn't work - I get paid to Make Shit Happen, and if it is in print, it's in CMYK, period - no ifs, no ands or buts.
RS
Peter Lorey, from Beat the Devil, dir. John Huston, written by T. Capote.
RS
Telegraph
Ive got a telegraph in my hand.
Words on paper, written in sand.
Weve got telegraph, right across this land.
It doesnt mean a damn thing.
We dont understand.
But who needs telegraph anyway?
We've got telegraph, right across this land.
It doesnt mean a damn thing. (damn thing)
We dont understand, (we never understood!)
Gods got a telegraph on his side.
It makes Him powerful, gives Him pride.
Even in America (God bless America!)
They understand the value of the telegraph.
Hand in hand, (hand in hand)
RS
Example: Teeanamen Skware.
An incorrect spelling like that gets published, say HERE, and is noted by some Chinese equivalent of Winston Smith in the Chinese Minitrue, and its passed over to the directorate for inclusion on words to ban. Eventually you run out of room to run, even if you spell (correctly or otherwise) in variants of 1337.
The only way to HELP the Chinese find this info is to keep it on the QT, as a sub rosa info exchange. Of course, the Big Businesses that own the Major Media are *not* interested in that - they support the fascist pigfuckers in Beijing because they're the ones supporting our idiotic adventures in Babylonia by buying our debt, they're the ones who are keeping the rapacious maw of the town busting barns of WalMart in stock with cheap goods, and they're the ones who are most interested in watching the USA drive right off the energy / debt cliff.
We have to be clear: the Fascist Chinese
( calling them communist is an insult to the memory of the likes of Rosa Luxembourg, Karl Leibknecht, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Georg Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, etc. and all the other great left wings thinkers of our modern era, just as calling a fascist like G.W. Bush and DICK Cheney "conservatives" is an insult to the memory of great conservative thinkers like Hayek, Hamilton, Burke, etc. )
will do whatever it takes to stay in power, including killing innocent people. The greatest political threat to humanity in this world today is this fascism - so deeply entrenched in China, and flowering so madly in the TV addled American Middle Class. We, as the "intelligent" bunch, need to be much SMARTER in how we deal with these fascist pigfuckers. And providing inverse roadmaps for greater repression is NOT a way to help them. We need to be quieter about our solutions and louder in our criticism. Oil production is peaking, and it's going to be a fight to the death for the rest of this century over what remains. Tthe Chinese want more - WAY MORE - and they will cheerfully use the laziness, greediness, and shortsighted stupidity of Americans against Americans in order to direct us to the cliff of self-destruction. The greedy fascist pigfuckers in China .gov AND the Bush Junta must be stopped - the Bush bunch and their big business buddies are too stupid to know they are being played, big time.
RS
But nooooo - nothing *useful* like that - just some spiffy high tech wankery for the Jetson's crowd.
RS
Brilliant. Carly's been gone for a while, but it seems the shit heads she brought on board are still making (stupid) decisions there. This Itanium/Itanic thing is just the latest round in the long slow HP death spiral.
RS
What? This IS the oil industry we're takin' about, right?
RS
While I don't particularly relish the prospect of eavesdropping without warrants, the fact is that warrants take a gigundous mountain of paperwork to get, and that sometimes they really won't be obtainable fast enough to make a difference.
Your statement would be sensible IF it wasn't for the simple fact that:
a: They have 72 hours to get back with the FISA court to explain an unwarranted wire tap.
b: We just happen to have a nice little thing called the Constitution which states in EXPLICITLY CLEAR LANGUAGE:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Now, what part of that statement ELUDES your understanding? HMmmmmmm???
If idiots like you prevail, we will ALL end up with the government YOU deserve.
RS
Bunch of hypocritical morons. THANK YOU Google...
Thank you for being so much like the United States : the single greatest betrayal of the human spirit in recorded history.
You brought to the net the simplest and best search engine, and then elaborated with genuinely useful tools to make the web a better place. When it came time to IPO, you did it on your own terms, and you have been rewarded for your efforts. When the jackbooted thugs from the Bush Junta kicked at your door asking for identified searches, you told them to go stuff it.
But when the biggest bunch of shit-eating fascist scum sucking pigs on the planet - that corrupt collection of power mad douchebags - the repressive grab-asses from china.gov tell you to censor your searches and WHAT DO YOU TELL BIG BROTHER IN BEIJING? Did you tell them to kindly go take a flying fuck in a rolling donut? Did you tell these butt munching freaks they could lick the dingleberries out of your butt? Did you remind them of their past and continuous disregard for all that is human and decent and say "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE?" DID YOU? DID YOU DO NO EVIL?
Fuck no.
You FELL ON YOUR KNEES and said "Yes, massa - just don't send me back to da fields!" and did some corporate cock-gobbling.
You people have lost ALL credibility. You have jumped the shark. We thought you were diffferent. You're not. You suck. What a money shot this is. You will be destroyed. It was cool while it lasted. Nice knowin' ya. Don't let the door hit you on the ass when you leave. Buh Bye!
RS
"They talk about pantene colors and RGB values"
Pantene colors? What? Tan? I think it's PANTONE colours, monkeyboy.
Bunch a freakin' hippies who can't spell...gaaaah.
RS
how about "cappy blartfargler"?
or "spifter"?
or "hyperbludgeon"?
or "static penis"?
or "Compubags"?
or "Frizzlicious Pep Tingle"?
or "My Mommy's Rolling Pin"?
or "American Electronic Secretions"?
or "apple code recidivism"?
or "apple crime videodisc"?
or "applied crevice misdo"?
or "applied comic deviser"?
or something like that?
RS