Maybe this might interest you, maybe not. I know you won't believe that, despite the slap on the wrist here, this is standard operating procedure, but it is. I suppose you're going to try to convince me otherwise, but you can bet there are quite a few thousand people being held under similar circumstances, and only by the luck of the draw would anybody be able to prove it. It took over forty years in this case. Only time will bear me out. But history already has, and you can sit and nitpick over specific transgressions not repeating themselves, but the motivation continues unabated. So, yeah, right, we might not invade Vietnam again, but that didn't stop us from doing the exact same thing to Iraq. Tomorrow Iran, the day after, Mexico. Chile is on our side now, so next it was Nicaragua, or El Salvador, or Grenada. Nope, the government is inherently corrupt simply because nobody will vote the crooks out. It's a display of voter corruption, who is looking for a bigger piece of the action for themselves. The parties of Tea-pot Dome, Railroad scandals, Vietnam, Watergate, Iran/Contra(with Pablo and Manny), the Middle east fiasco(going back 60 years now), Enron, Savings and Loan, 9/11, El Qaida(sp), Saddam, the Shah, Pinochet, Somoza, prohibition(past and present) with all its tidy profits, Afganistan (with its nice opium profits that you will never believe the government is involved in, despite the Iran/Contra thing), etc, etc, etc, still has its iron grip on the power and on your minds. Never weakening for even a micro-second. The government has absolutely no reason to clean up its act. The fact of the matter is that you cannot move this kind of money without attracting all sorts of scavengers and scoundrels. It's like a carcass in the Savanna. They come from all around. It's all good, man. You keep the faith, and believe what they tell you on the TeeVee. Their evidence looks so much more convincing when the pretty little news anchors wiggles her butt in front of all those plots and graphs showing how well off you are. Doesn't matter if it's true, it just has to look true. And big flashy banners definitely look true, so, true it must be, because the government says so. Excuse me if I'm not impressed. Once I get a big fancy studio, I'll be able to produce convincing evidence, just like they do. In the meantime do your own damn research. The evidence is sitting there, waiting for you to notice. Here's a good place to start while still barely scratching the surface. Have fun.
But, as all of our customers have access to our's and other's(namely cable) broadband.
Don't how it works there, but our cable company gets its internet from the phone company. But you can be assured that, even in your area, the cable and phone companies do exchange "bodily fluids" so to speak (not really sure how they disguise the cross ownership), and will cooperate with each other when needed. Your only hope for now is to nominate and vote into office some people that will look after your interests. And as they say in Vegas, "Good luck".
Don't believe me then. Feel free to believe the stuff they make up on the TV. That would be your prerogative. My truth is naked and ugly. Doesn't make it less true. Of course you won't see it that way. It's all about presentation anyway. They have theirs all packaged real pretty and nicely displayed. You buy the magic beans at 20% interest over a 30 year period, and I'll have another beer, bought and paid for on the spot. I'm not going to get an ulcer over it.
...you can perform some serious parallel processing.
You know, I wish people would make up their mind on these things. First we are being told that parallel is faster, then it's serial. Using hard drive interfacing here. What's it gonna be? Are we going to be told ten years from now the inline serial processing is faster? This is like these "nutritionists" telling us that eggs are bad for you and margarine is good. Later they come out with just the opposite. I guess I'll just keep what I have until it runs out of smoke and then buy whatever is out there. Well, okay, dumpster dive for whatever is in there.
But anyway, your point is well taken, it's like using RAID to move data faster in and out of a set of hard drives. I can hardly wait for the same speeds to come out of my service provider:-)
the network will soon be faster than the computer. Any chance we can syphon off of this speed to do some computing? Make the network become the computer?
They are probably trying to keep certain hardware specs out of sight to prevent others from building a competing product. However, I thought that what patents on the hardware are supposed to do. Eh...I use whatever I find in the dumpster. I feel so poverty stricken using an nVidia with only 32mb of RAM:-), but it seems to be sufficient for playing Solitaire.
People like you love to whine a lot and throw out a lot of accusations.
Yes, well, some of us retain our memories of past transgressions, and would like to prevent future ones. Others choose to forget the the pain of, say, Vietnam(that other great war for profit) and Watergate, and "political enemies" lists, and jump right into Iran/Contra, Savings and Loans, crooked Arkansas land deals that mysteriously disappear off the radar when a fat chick enters the scene, Enron, Iraq II, and addition to that, see to to it that those criminals are able to keep their ill gotten gains, and give them their old jobs back. All so we can put on a happy face and wear the flag proudly. No, sir, I don't whine. I laugh as I watch you sink into the morass so willingly. Apparently you don't like it when the slaves get uppity. Makes you feel just a little uncomfortable, doesn't it? Just a little scared we might "ruin everything" when your life is going so smoothly? Hehehe. I like watching you(editorial) squirm, as you all come out of the woodwork to defend the monster that enslaves you. It really is quite a show from my POV. Always remember, the safest place to be is in the center of the herd. Of course that's the position you all fight each other for. Everybody knows what happens to stragglers.
Oops, I'm sorry. You're right. Everybody's on the up an' up. There are no crooks. They're all honest as can be. Nevermind. You keep those blinders on tight, keep taking those painkillers, and you won't feel a thing. Sweet dreams.
It's that many of these sweetheart contracts are conducted in secret and marked "Friends, and friends of friends" or "No foes, they don't want you in their sandbox". We should be forcing them to hold these discussions in full view of the public. No, it's no fancy conspiracy. It's just plain ol' stealing from the cookie jar. We let them get away with it and they know we will, so they dig deeper until somebody makes a fuss and then back off a little. The really sad part is that I see the same names that go back to the Nixon era and before. And the corporations behind them go back at least two centuries, maybe twenty-two. Business is that good. Nice little lemonade stand they got there. With Vito Corleone protectin' 'em from any usurpers and keeping the riff-raff out.
It's not that kind of insider trading like you hear about in the high drama of Wall Street. Though there is plenty of that also. Most inside traders don't get caught. 10% maybe. This is a whole 'nother economy in and of itself. Off the books and running parallel to the "official" economy. All business of this magnitude operate with more than one set of books. As long as the government is involved, and you can't sue it, none of these pirates will be held accountable, outside the one or two that will be thrown in front of the bus for good PR. And the government won't be held accountable because 99% of of you keep handing the power right over to them over and over. How are you going to deal with the crooked bankers that make all this happen as long as these same bankers hold the mortgage on your house? You're not going to do anything. It has been this way for thousands of years. There is no indication that it's going to change anytime soon. For them the risk is nil.
Zap 'em all. Let god sort 'em out:-) But seriously, considering their lack of etiquette, I don't care to hear people screaming into their phones on the bus or train anymore I do in the restaurant.
...who would then be deprived of any income from his 'ox cart'.
Why? He can still use his ox cart to make money by...hauling stuff in it? For instance, when his college buddy asks for help moving to his new bachelor pad. He would have invented it because he needed it, not just because he thinks he can make a quick buck selling them with 0% financing to people who might not need one. We're talking refrigerators and eskimos here.
...if they couldn't they have trouble making any money from them so in the end no one would really bother.
So, you honestly believe that the ox cart would still be state of the art transportation if that was the fact? I don't think so. What we would return to would be "necessity is the mother of invention", and the only thing missing would be junk inventions being marketed to people who don't need them, but would buy them if convinced otherwise.
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What are you doing, Dave?
Maybe this might interest you, maybe not. I know you won't believe that, despite the slap on the wrist here, this is standard operating procedure, but it is. I suppose you're going to try to convince me otherwise, but you can bet there are quite a few thousand people being held under similar circumstances, and only by the luck of the draw would anybody be able to prove it. It took over forty years in this case. Only time will bear me out. But history already has, and you can sit and nitpick over specific transgressions not repeating themselves, but the motivation continues unabated. So, yeah, right, we might not invade Vietnam again, but that didn't stop us from doing the exact same thing to Iraq. Tomorrow Iran, the day after, Mexico. Chile is on our side now, so next it was Nicaragua, or El Salvador, or Grenada. Nope, the government is inherently corrupt simply because nobody will vote the crooks out. It's a display of voter corruption, who is looking for a bigger piece of the action for themselves. The parties of Tea-pot Dome, Railroad scandals, Vietnam, Watergate, Iran/Contra(with Pablo and Manny), the Middle east fiasco(going back 60 years now), Enron, Savings and Loan, 9/11, El Qaida(sp), Saddam, the Shah, Pinochet, Somoza, prohibition(past and present) with all its tidy profits, Afganistan (with its nice opium profits that you will never believe the government is involved in, despite the Iran/Contra thing), etc, etc, etc, still has its iron grip on the power and on your minds. Never weakening for even a micro-second. The government has absolutely no reason to clean up its act. The fact of the matter is that you cannot move this kind of money without attracting all sorts of scavengers and scoundrels. It's like a carcass in the Savanna. They come from all around. It's all good, man. You keep the faith, and believe what they tell you on the TeeVee. Their evidence looks so much more convincing when the pretty little news anchors wiggles her butt in front of all those plots and graphs showing how well off you are. Doesn't matter if it's true, it just has to look true. And big flashy banners definitely look true, so, true it must be, because the government says so. Excuse me if I'm not impressed. Once I get a big fancy studio, I'll be able to produce convincing evidence, just like they do. In the meantime do your own damn research. The evidence is sitting there, waiting for you to notice. Here's a good place to start while still barely scratching the surface. Have fun.
But, as all of our customers have access to our's and other's(namely cable) broadband.
Don't how it works there, but our cable company gets its internet from the phone company. But you can be assured that, even in your area, the cable and phone companies do exchange "bodily fluids" so to speak (not really sure how they disguise the cross ownership), and will cooperate with each other when needed. Your only hope for now is to nominate and vote into office some people that will look after your interests. And as they say in Vegas, "Good luck".
We should perform a deep pocket (just watch out for the "banana" there) inspection of the ISPs that are doing this.
Don't believe me then. Feel free to believe the stuff they make up on the TV. That would be your prerogative. My truth is naked and ugly. Doesn't make it less true. Of course you won't see it that way. It's all about presentation anyway. They have theirs all packaged real pretty and nicely displayed. You buy the magic beans at 20% interest over a 30 year period, and I'll have another beer, bought and paid for on the spot. I'm not going to get an ulcer over it.
...you can perform some serious parallel processing.
:-)
You know, I wish people would make up their mind on these things. First we are being told that parallel is faster, then it's serial. Using hard drive interfacing here. What's it gonna be? Are we going to be told ten years from now the inline serial processing is faster? This is like these "nutritionists" telling us that eggs are bad for you and margarine is good. Later they come out with just the opposite. I guess I'll just keep what I have until it runs out of smoke and then buy whatever is out there. Well, okay, dumpster dive for whatever is in there.
But anyway, your point is well taken, it's like using RAID to move data faster in and out of a set of hard drives. I can hardly wait for the same speeds to come out of my service provider
...I can positively conclude, with no medical tranning...
:-)
Maybe you ought to get some medical training, so you can remove all doubt
Sometimes you feel like a nut
Sometimes you don't...
So, are you one of those squirrels that play with their nuts, instaed of storing them for the winter?
P.S. - I'm gonna get you.
*i'm gonna get ya, i'm gonna get ya
look out boy cause i'm gonna get ya
i'm gonna make you love me
ooh yes i will yes i will
and i'm gonna make you love me
ooh yes i will yes i will (you know i will)*
Now see what you did? I'm going to have that damn song playing in my head all day. I hope you're happy! You rat
the network will soon be faster than the computer. Any chance we can syphon off of this speed to do some computing? Make the network become the computer?
They are probably trying to keep certain hardware specs out of sight to prevent others from building a competing product. However, I thought that what patents on the hardware are supposed to do. Eh...I use whatever I find in the dumpster. I feel so poverty stricken using an nVidia with only 32mb of RAM :-), but it seems to be sufficient for playing Solitaire.
People like you love to whine a lot and throw out a lot of accusations.
Yes, well, some of us retain our memories of past transgressions, and would like to prevent future ones. Others choose to forget the the pain of, say, Vietnam(that other great war for profit) and Watergate, and "political enemies" lists, and jump right into Iran/Contra, Savings and Loans, crooked Arkansas land deals that mysteriously disappear off the radar when a fat chick enters the scene, Enron, Iraq II, and addition to that, see to to it that those criminals are able to keep their ill gotten gains, and give them their old jobs back. All so we can put on a happy face and wear the flag proudly. No, sir, I don't whine. I laugh as I watch you sink into the morass so willingly. Apparently you don't like it when the slaves get uppity. Makes you feel just a little uncomfortable, doesn't it? Just a little scared we might "ruin everything" when your life is going so smoothly? Hehehe. I like watching you(editorial) squirm, as you all come out of the woodwork to defend the monster that enslaves you. It really is quite a show from my POV. Always remember, the safest place to be is in the center of the herd. Of course that's the position you all fight each other for. Everybody knows what happens to stragglers.
Oops, I'm sorry. You're right. Everybody's on the up an' up. There are no crooks. They're all honest as can be. Nevermind. You keep those blinders on tight, keep taking those painkillers, and you won't feel a thing. Sweet dreams.
Don't mind me. I leave out whole words.
Should read: I believe you need all five fingers to make the thing work, right?
on one of those five finger keyboards? I believe you need all five fingers to make the work, right? Maybe he lost a couple to an angry sea bass.
Word. Go back to your old keyboard. You only need one finger to work it.
It's that many of these sweetheart contracts are conducted in secret and marked "Friends, and friends of friends" or "No foes, they don't want you in their sandbox". We should be forcing them to hold these discussions in full view of the public. No, it's no fancy conspiracy. It's just plain ol' stealing from the cookie jar. We let them get away with it and they know we will, so they dig deeper until somebody makes a fuss and then back off a little. The really sad part is that I see the same names that go back to the Nixon era and before. And the corporations behind them go back at least two centuries, maybe twenty-two. Business is that good. Nice little lemonade stand they got there. With Vito Corleone protectin' 'em from any usurpers and keeping the riff-raff out.
yours: 22:08 Wednesday 25 July 2007
mine: 22:42 Wednesday 25 July 2007
You don't fool me. I know you went back into the past to make your comment appear before mine. I shall receive my punishment with honor.
Yes. And you can stop showering.
Its up to the parents to monitor what they're doing not the state.
Yeah well, most parents just as soon leave it up to the state, and they are voting accordingly.
...what has insider trading to do with it?
It's not that kind of insider trading like you hear about in the high drama of Wall Street. Though there is plenty of that also. Most inside traders don't get caught. 10% maybe. This is a whole 'nother economy in and of itself. Off the books and running parallel to the "official" economy. All business of this magnitude operate with more than one set of books. As long as the government is involved, and you can't sue it, none of these pirates will be held accountable, outside the one or two that will be thrown in front of the bus for good PR. And the government won't be held accountable because 99% of of you keep handing the power right over to them over and over. How are you going to deal with the crooked bankers that make all this happen as long as these same bankers hold the mortgage on your house? You're not going to do anything. It has been this way for thousands of years. There is no indication that it's going to change anytime soon. For them the risk is nil.
Man! I need a way to defeat redirects. Alright try this. #$%#$%*&#$!!!Completely ruins the effect.
Would spinning one those color wheels they use at the discos at 10,000rpm work?
Zap 'em all. Let god sort 'em out :-) But seriously, considering their lack of etiquette, I don't care to hear people screaming into their phones on the bus or train anymore I do in the restaurant.
...who would then be deprived of any income from his 'ox cart'.
Why? He can still use his ox cart to make money by...hauling stuff in it? For instance, when his college buddy asks for help moving to his new bachelor pad. He would have invented it because he needed it, not just because he thinks he can make a quick buck selling them with 0% financing to people who might not need one. We're talking refrigerators and eskimos here.
Shouldn't be too difficult. Just have it trigger when the built in GPS indicates a speed of, say, higher than 20kph.
...if they couldn't they have trouble making any money from them so in the end no one would really bother.
So, you honestly believe that the ox cart would still be state of the art transportation if that was the fact? I don't think so. What we would return to would be "necessity is the mother of invention", and the only thing missing would be junk inventions being marketed to people who don't need them, but would buy them if convinced otherwise.
The FAQ ruined the whole thing. It should have read:
Q: Where do I send my licensing fees? I couldn't find any information on how to send them in.
A: Please send a check or money order for $699usd to,
The SCO Group
355 South 520 West
Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042 USA
Please wait six to eight weeks for a framed, autographed copy of your permit