And that's why George W. Bush is a symptom of what's wrong with the US today, not the cause. People like you, however, are.
While I applaud you for trying to maintain a sane and rational outlook and avoid falling into these conspiracy theories, this issue has far too many coincidences for you to dismiss like that. What would it take for you to change your stance from "no biggie, just a little smoke, no fire" to "fuck me, that's an awful lot of coincidence, maybe I should entertain the possibility that something is wrong here."
Hell, even assuming there's zero conspiracy, just a lot of blunders, should still make you nervous as it still means there's been a perversion of democracy.
And that's why George W. Bush is a symptom of what's wrong with the US today, not the cause. People like you, however, are.
While I applaud you for trying to maintain a sane and rational outlook and avoid falling into these conspiracy theories, this issue has far too many coincidences for you to dismiss like that. What would it take for you to change your stance from "no biggie, just a little smoke, no fire" to "fuck me, that's an awful lot of coincidence, maybe I should entertain the possibility that something is wrong here."
Hell, even assuming there's zero conspiracy, just a lot of blunders, should still make you nervous as it still means there's been a perversion of democracy.
This tends to be my ultimate point in arguments with religious nuts. Even if you can convince me that faith is better than proof, etc., I still don't like God very much. I mean, we tend to put people who behave like that in prisons or asylums, and I'm supposed to worship the guy?
Thank you, this has been exactly my point about this whole nonsense. This could as easily lead to the downfall to some telcos as it could bring us a tiered internet.
While I'll agree with you that their offerings do tend to emphasize quantity over quality, they're still pretty much the only game in town when it comes to modifying the look and feel of the windows GUI. I think it's that (succesful) point that allows them to be so nonchalant about piracy.
There's your mistake right there: Instead of something less forgiving like PGR3, try one of the Burnout games. My wife and I can easily spend a couple hours playing that together, laughing like little children at all the wanton destruction we've created.
TB has never really scaled... it slows down as your inbox gets larger for example - now takes over 3 minutes to open one of my work inboxes (10,000+ messages).
I think that would be fairly true of any email app with that many messages. Maybe it's time to archive a little? One quick and dirty way to do it is to zip your mail folder, store it someplace else, then delete the first 9000 (or so) messages. If you need 'em that bad, it won't take long to restore them. (Having said all that, some sort of archive/export feature in TB would be great).
Mod parent up. Hollywood is chock full of stupid political shit like this. Between the beginning of the year and Oscar time, Academy voters are courted, potential Oscar-worthy movies are advertised and marketed to death, and studio heads generally become salesmen of the worst kind.
And that's the reason, come Oscar night, that so many shitty movies get rewarded when far superior fare exists: It's not about the art, it's about how well the movie was pushed and sold to the Academy members.
Uhh, did I miss something? Isn't this what modding, metamodding, friends and foes lists are for? With just five minutes' tweaking,/. gets a lot more readable.
IMHO, things are just fine. The problem here isn't crappy links/submitters, it's the OT discussion about that that's the problem, and quite frankly, that happens (in wildly divergent ways) in pretty much all threads.
Quit yer bitching, and go mess around with your preferences, for I do not have enough cheese to go with all this whine!
I learned the hard way to buy my domain names and my hosting from different companies. Tried to get control of the domain back, but that was a no-go, so I had to wait until it expired, then bought it back. Thankfully there was nothing major at stake, I just needed a new email address for a while.
Thnaks for the correction, but it still strikes me that we get the worst of both: Either it's a hyper-succesful company that basically exists due to slave, or quasi-slave labour; or a mildly succesful comapany that would be nothing but memories if it weren't for large chunks of taxpayer money.
Everybody loses except a few thousand majority shareholders, executives and politicians, yet these are the systems that are held up as paragons to emulate.
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While I applaud you for trying to maintain a sane and rational outlook and avoid falling into these conspiracy theories, this issue has far too many coincidences for you to dismiss like that. What would it take for you to change your stance from "no biggie, just a little smoke, no fire" to "fuck me, that's an awful lot of coincidence, maybe I should entertain the possibility that something is wrong here."
Hell, even assuming there's zero conspiracy, just a lot of blunders, should still make you nervous as it still means there's been a perversion of democracy.
WTF? Don't know how that happened...was supposed to be in reply to this post. Sorry about that!
While I applaud you for trying to maintain a sane and rational outlook and avoid falling into these conspiracy theories, this issue has far too many coincidences for you to dismiss like that. What would it take for you to change your stance from "no biggie, just a little smoke, no fire" to "fuck me, that's an awful lot of coincidence, maybe I should entertain the possibility that something is wrong here."
Hell, even assuming there's zero conspiracy, just a lot of blunders, should still make you nervous as it still means there's been a perversion of democracy.
Still, you've learned something, right?
[Exhortation that you all get a life]
This tends to be my ultimate point in arguments with religious nuts. Even if you can convince me that faith is better than proof, etc., I still don't like God very much. I mean, we tend to put people who behave like that in prisons or asylums, and I'm supposed to worship the guy?
Yer damn straight! You can have my C64 when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!
Thank you, this has been exactly my point about this whole nonsense. This could as easily lead to the downfall to some telcos as it could bring us a tiered internet.
You think you have problems? I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue...
While I'll agree with you that their offerings do tend to emphasize quantity over quality, they're still pretty much the only game in town when it comes to modifying the look and feel of the windows GUI. I think it's that (succesful) point that allows them to be so nonchalant about piracy.
'Fess up, you still do it, otherwise how else are you going to get all those first posts?
Awww, this was a happy thread until you reminded me of that.
Is there nything you can't do?
There's your mistake right there: Instead of something less forgiving like PGR3, try one of the Burnout games. My wife and I can easily spend a couple hours playing that together, laughing like little children at all the wanton destruction we've created.
Memo to self: Send re-programmed Terminator unit back in time from 2047 to 1999 to kill Larry page.
Or his parents were hippies.
I think that would be fairly true of any email app with that many messages. Maybe it's time to archive a little? One quick and dirty way to do it is to zip your mail folder, store it someplace else, then delete the first 9000 (or so) messages. If you need 'em that bad, it won't take long to restore them. (Having said all that, some sort of archive/export feature in TB would be great).
And that's the reason, come Oscar night, that so many shitty movies get rewarded when far superior fare exists: It's not about the art, it's about how well the movie was pushed and sold to the Academy members.
IMHO, things are just fine. The problem here isn't crappy links/submitters, it's the OT discussion about that that's the problem, and quite frankly, that happens (in wildly divergent ways) in pretty much all threads.
Quit yer bitching, and go mess around with your preferences, for I do not have enough cheese to go with all this whine!
I learned the hard way to buy my domain names and my hosting from different companies. Tried to get control of the domain back, but that was a no-go, so I had to wait until it expired, then bought it back. Thankfully there was nothing major at stake, I just needed a new email address for a while.
I like your sig, though.
Must be nice in your world.
Everybody loses except a few thousand majority shareholders, executives and politicians, yet these are the systems that are held up as paragons to emulate.