- You install Ubuntu for them. - Create an account for you, Grandma and/or Grandpa (or just you and an account for them) - Once installed, run all updates. - Make sure wireless/ethernet are working and get them on the internet. - Setup Firefox, Thunderbird, VLC, Shotwell(or F-Prot) for picture management - Install Ubuntu restricted extras - Install Open Office - Setup printer and/or scanner - Install open-ssh server - Setup DyDNS account for their IP and add to their router (if possible) - Setup forwarding on their broadband router for SSH connection - Setup shorewall (or whatever firewall) - Put all their needed icons on the desktop - Spend time with Grandma/Grandpa to show them how to use the computer.
- How to get into their profile
- How to use email and web
- How to get to their pictures and documents
- How to manage their pictures
- How to print something
- How to scan a picture, save it and retrieve it.
- How to create, save and retrieve a document.
- How to start, reboot, shutdown the computer. - (Optional)
- Show grandma/grandpa where the games are.
- Install games for grandma/grandpa
- Eat cookies that grandma made.
- Drink grandpa's beer.
- Show grandpa where to see boobies on the interwebs.
- Show grandpa how to clear his cache and history.
I don't think that there would have been any profit. Consider if even $500 in groceries were stolen.. How many people at minimum wage working for one hour would cost $500.00?
I wouldn't discount the fact that the company that owns/runs the "robot cops" isn't fudging the speeds as well. As the article says, the company gets 40% of the money from the ticket. When it comes down to the more tickets that are sent out the more money the company gets... well, you get the picture.
And the fact that Germany and Japan both have had American bases in them since WWII which brings billions/trillions of American dollars in to help fund all the rebuilding of that infrastructure.
I thought smokers were already punished.. From what I understand a pack of cigarettes is around 50 cents with 4 dollars of taxes put on to it. What would the government do if everyone that smoked quit. That's hundreds of billions of dollars a year if not more.
And on top of all the double/triple/etc dipping that the government will be doing, Who is going to pay for this new electric gadget to be added to my vehicle.. Oh yeah. I will. Most likely costing atleast 200 to 300 bucks just so the government can tax me even more money. Yeah... thanks but no thanks.
Yeah right. Detroit is probably the most corrupt shit hole in the entire world. Probably wouldn't be too far off in saying that a 9.0+ earthquake and Tsunami would do wonders for increasing Detroit's value/worth.
Nice chart, right off the bat I noticed no listing for Connecticut or Delaware (apparently those states don't get any sun) and they abbreviated KN for Kansas and NB for Nebraska, I quit reading after that.
Probably due to old buildings not being up to code.. still you would think it would be cheaper to renovate an older building than to tear it down and build a newer one. Plus the fact that the old buildings from the early 20th century are so much more beautiful than the modern day glass crap that's built these days.
Would you be talking about the same Katrina victims that when they got their "Katrina Credit Card" went out and bought Gucci hand bags, Nike shoes etc but then complained that they had no food?
I could maybe see Harry Potter but Twilight? Come on. In 20 years it will still be crap, not only that but you probably won't even be able to get 99 cents for Twilight...
Not to mention go to a used game place and get it for 1/2 1/4 the price. Do you really need to play the newest game that comes out? Almost every one of my 360 games are used because I don't feel that $70 for a game is worth it to me.
"The Slashdotters aren't pretending to be experts on oil drilling, and don't need to know how to do it responsibly."
On the contrary.. many Slashdotters do believe that they are experts on everything because they can just "wiki" it and always seem to have some resolve that the "experts" should have done.
Beer is actually a very good idea. Beer is brewed and thus is "clean" to drink. Plus it's good for a long time. Just pop a few into a snow bank when you're ready to drink them unless you would rather drink them warm.
When I worked for the helpdesk I would always love the customers that would get Vonage and then think that they didn't need their phone line any more... the same phone line that would carry their DSL connection... soooooooo they would cancel their phone service and the DSL went with it. Yes, these are the people that we'd either eat first or throw to the zombies as fodder.
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Guide to setup Ubuntu for Grandma/Grandpa
- You install Ubuntu for them.
- Create an account for you, Grandma and/or Grandpa (or just you and an account for them)
- Once installed, run all updates.
- Make sure wireless/ethernet are working and get them on the internet.
- Setup Firefox, Thunderbird, VLC, Shotwell(or F-Prot) for picture management
- Install Ubuntu restricted extras
- Install Open Office
- Setup printer and/or scanner
- Install open-ssh server
- Setup DyDNS account for their IP and add to their router (if possible)
- Setup forwarding on their broadband router for SSH connection
- Setup shorewall (or whatever firewall)
- Put all their needed icons on the desktop
- Spend time with Grandma/Grandpa to show them how to use the computer.
- How to get into their profile
- How to use email and web
- How to get to their pictures and documents
- How to manage their pictures
- How to print something
- How to scan a picture, save it and retrieve it.
- How to create, save and retrieve a document.
- How to start, reboot, shutdown the computer.
- (Optional)
- Show grandma/grandpa where the games are.
- Install games for grandma/grandpa
- Eat cookies that grandma made.
- Drink grandpa's beer.
- Show grandpa where to see boobies on the interwebs.
- Show grandpa how to clear his cache and history.
Does that mean that he gets more than 79 virgins? Have you seen most of those women??? Uhg.. no wonder they're virgins.
I don't think that there would have been any profit. Consider if even $500 in groceries were stolen.. How many people at minimum wage working for one hour would cost $500.00?
I wouldn't discount the fact that the company that owns/runs the "robot cops" isn't fudging the speeds as well. As the article says, the company gets 40% of the money from the ticket. When it comes down to the more tickets that are sent out the more money the company gets... well, you get the picture.
And the fact that Germany and Japan both have had American bases in them since WWII which brings billions/trillions of American dollars in to help fund all the rebuilding of that infrastructure.
Sounds like you were a teen that needed a job and/or a hobby.
I thought smokers were already punished.. From what I understand a pack of cigarettes is around 50 cents with 4 dollars of taxes put on to it. What would the government do if everyone that smoked quit. That's hundreds of billions of dollars a year if not more.
We could always call it sleeting?
And on top of all the double/triple/etc dipping that the government will be doing, Who is going to pay for this new electric gadget to be added to my vehicle.. Oh yeah. I will. Most likely costing atleast 200 to 300 bucks just so the government can tax me even more money. Yeah... thanks but no thanks.
Yeah right. Detroit is probably the most corrupt shit hole in the entire world. Probably wouldn't be too far off in saying that a 9.0+ earthquake and Tsunami would do wonders for increasing Detroit's value/worth.
Nice chart, right off the bat I noticed no listing for Connecticut or Delaware (apparently those states don't get any sun) and they abbreviated KN for Kansas and NB for Nebraska, I quit reading after that.
Like the Archeologies in Sim City 2000?
Probably due to old buildings not being up to code.. still you would think it would be cheaper to renovate an older building than to tear it down and build a newer one. Plus the fact that the old buildings from the early 20th century are so much more beautiful than the modern day glass crap that's built these days.
Would you be talking about the same Katrina victims that when they got their "Katrina Credit Card" went out and bought Gucci hand bags, Nike shoes etc but then complained that they had no food?
No... Gordon Freeman!! :)
And I was really getting to like that hot T-Mobile Girl.
There's no need for this. If the government would remove the ban on industrial hemp we would have all the fuel we could ever need.
I could maybe see Harry Potter but Twilight? Come on. In 20 years it will still be crap, not only that but you probably won't even be able to get 99 cents for Twilight...
Maybe the guys that designed the internet infrastructure in Japan need to design the land/cel phone infrastructure.
From what I know, most schools require the students to turn off their phones and leave them in their lockers.
Yep and the "special" iPad holder will cost anywhere from 30 bucks up to the hundreds of dollars to hold that "piece of paper" sized iPad.
Not to mention go to a used game place and get it for 1/2 1/4 the price. Do you really need to play the newest game that comes out? Almost every one of my 360 games are used because I don't feel that $70 for a game is worth it to me.
"The Slashdotters aren't pretending to be experts on oil drilling, and don't need to know how to do it responsibly."
On the contrary.. many Slashdotters do believe that they are experts on everything because they can just "wiki" it and always seem to have some resolve that the "experts" should have done.
Beer is actually a very good idea. Beer is brewed and thus is "clean" to drink. Plus it's good for a long time. Just pop a few into a snow bank when you're ready to drink them unless you would rather drink them warm.
When I worked for the helpdesk I would always love the customers that would get Vonage and then think that they didn't need their phone line any more... the same phone line that would carry their DSL connection... soooooooo they would cancel their phone service and the DSL went with it. Yes, these are the people that we'd either eat first or throw to the zombies as fodder.