Damn, you guys are lucky to have 3 mbit. 2 mbit access has only just become available here (wide scale and at reasonable cost) in the last 6 months or so. Guess who was one of their first customers? (Hint: me)
We don't have cable, we do have satellite (At US$30/per gig @ 384kbps), we do have DSL (US$40/up to 600mbyte @ 6mbps), and the fastest, cheapest internet access available to consumers is Wireless - some sort of radio link - I forget the exact technology involved.
Business options are similar, but often exactly the same service involving a higher cost.
Business: Same as above - all servies have a business equivalent plus http://www.wave.co.nz/business/radiowave.htm l http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/products/internet /cn highspeed/
Most major NZ ISPs resell at least one of the above services. So, you yankees: stop your bitching! Telecom New Zealand (www.telecom.co.nz) is totally holding back NZ broadband by charging unbearably high prices for their service: Cost to User: 20c/MB (if you go over your limit) Cost to Telecom: 0.005c/MB.
You would think that instead of having 3GB limits on their most frequently pushed plan (256kbps/3GB), that they would have like 256kbps/10GB or something... I don't know why they set the limits so low - every other provider is much better value. The only reason they have so many customers is because of their marketing budget. They literally blast their ads on every channel every night telling you how great their "broadband" is. It's sickening.
And don't even get me started on their packet-queuing BS - if you have more than one person using Jetstream (Their name for ADSL), you can't do anything else, like, stream video, play online games or anything because you will timeout and/or skip. This, unfortunately, goes contrary to what they advertise the product as being useful for!
Anyway. Thats my rant...
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As a web-host, I see hundreds of various probes on my Apache httpd servers daily - usually searching for a way to execute cmd.exe or to send a malformed URL to crash the server.
I just wish I could send a popup box message to their PC's telling them something along the lines of "Uh... wrong OS, dumbass.".
(FYI We run RHEL3, RH9, Fedora, Gentoo, and BSD as a general rule). I am considering the possibility of adding a couple of Windows boxen, but I would definately hire someone else to manage them - I don't have the time or patience to deal with crashy servers, continual maintenance and so on - I would probably want [my Windows server admin] to have a live-feed of the logs if I did run a Win Server to ensure that it didn't get screwed over in 10 seconds flat.
I can see it now... Me: "ahh... our new Windows box is online." WAdmin: "Yes, so far so go... oh, wait, someone is attempting to..." Me: "Damnit. Thats gotta be a new world record. 15 seconds before being 0wn3d."
Hell, if I do get a Windows Server, I would probably at least run Apache httpd/Win32 on them - mostly because I don't like IIS. My overall intention for adding Windows boxen is for those wanting to run ASP/.Net (I know about mono), but if I don't run IIS, I assume I can't run ASP/.Net without adding mono anyway, which defeats the purpose of having Windows boxen available.
Like, one guy can manage a hundred Linux/BSD servers without difficulty, but one guy would have a hard time dealing with 10 Windows Servers. Or at least I have heard/read numbers similar... but I'm sure it was an exaggeration.
(et al ad infinitum - I got too lazy to write more)
Nows the part where I start going more crazy than I was before.
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Since when did SCO actually let anyone look at the so-called infringing code?
Personally, I think they mad ethe story up to try and put the sh*t up IBM. Why they thought this would work I don't know...
There could be grounds there, but as one of the parents say, chances are, any relevant patents are probably long-expired.
I make 1000% MORE (per hour) than I did 2½ years ago, and 600% more than I did 1½ years ago. I started on ~$8/hour, then moved jobs to $12/hour, now I'm on $80-$185/hour, depending on location of callout and time of day. Reason?
I started my own consultancy. Fine for people who know how. The first thing I did was learn how to conduct an excellent business by putting to practice things I had learned with my (well respected) employer. I then established a strategy of exactly what I wanted. I planned and did all of that stuff - figured out what people were looking for and what they would want from a "professional" such as myself.
Don't get me wrong, if I do say so myself, I am very good at what I do, and have plenty of experience to boot. I have only ever had one project end on a bad note, and IMHO it was because of the lack of enthusiasm from the other party for getting that project completed, plus our inability to reach them when we wanted something, such as material for their website or whatever - yet if they wanted something they wanted it yesterday... you know the story. I found out later that he was a notoriously slow-payer and thus bad debtor... so...:) we moved on and got on with business.
Anyway...
Then, I hired a top-notch marketing/PR person, and a competant salesperson. For the first few weeks, I really couldn't afford to pay them a salary. But I knew with my selling skills, I would need them, so, I took a risk, and put them on commission, anyway. (Plus, I took advantage of the trial-period policies set in place by the government which says that you are allowed to inform successful candidates that they are on trial period only and so on).
I explained to them exactly what was required of them (Realistically, if you can't bring in 3x what I pay you, then I can't afford to keep you on, and my accountant will not be happy - so, it depends on you as to what will happen in 3 weeks time. If all goes well, I will pay you a 3 week salary-lump-sum of $X and we will go on a salary of $X per year from there and so on).
Basically, this was their opportunity to leave if they decided that they weren't as qualified for the job as they had made out in their interview. It helped me weed out a couple of people.
Since that time (Feb 04), I've given my successful candidate a raise in their base-salary of about $5k a year, sent him on holiday and upgraded the company facilities (car and we are looking at new offices) Plus, the work he's bringing in is also leading to steady expansion of the company, where we are about to fork out some of our different services under different brands within our organization, and where I am going to hire 2 new people for hardware tech and web design, and we are on our way to becoming wholesale suppliers to the regional arm of a large multinational.
In a nutshell, business is going really well, and I'm looking forward to finishing a major project in January which means that in about 1 year from now, we hope to break our 2nd millionth dollar. (given that the project is for the national education system, and will be paying us about $1/day/user times ~24000 users)
Unfortunately, I can't credit that project entirely to our PR guy, but rather to the large amount of time I've spent since February networking with hundreds of small business owners at business development conferences. BUT - without the PR guy, I would imagine that we would be struggling to stay afloat enough to finish said project.
Damn, that is expensive. Here in Hamilton (New Zealand), you can get a reasonably nice (new) house for about NZ$300k or a reasonably nice established house in an established neighbourhood for about $250k... Exchange rate is about US$0.64/NZ$1.00 at the moment, so that makes it about $170k and $200k respectively.
Unfortunately, unless you have an MCSE (yes, it still seems to be valued here - at least if you have 5+ years of experience and are applying for a job at one of the larger corperates), you'll be hard pressed to find a good tech job.
The lifestyle is pretty good, and if you've got some working capital (about $20k) and a good idea, you could probably start a business. I worked for about 2 years and have done that. Worked for me quite nicely. (But, I am only 19 - so despite my "decade" of experience working with DOS, WinNT, SCO Unix and Linux, I'm a bit young for most of them)
If you do need to rent, you would be looking at NZ$250-400/wk for something pretty good. $400 will get you a nice exec home in the suburbs, or you can be closer to town (My town is like 30-45 minutes from one end to the other - at rush hour) and still have a nice big character home/bungalow/good ol solid 1930s/1940s railway home for around the $300-$350/week mark.
Salary ranges from NZ$35k/year at entry level to $80+k/yr at senior engineer level - so don't expect to make serious cash, but, cost of living is'nt nearly as high as the US of UK, so if you wanted, you could live on $25k a year easily - including rent, power, phone, broadband, satellite tv, car, gas etc.
Of course, the city with all the tech jobs (Auckland) is a bit more expensive on the housing front - about double the price to buy a home as compared to here in Hamilton. I suppose you could commute 1½ hours each way if you wanted - 126kms and mostly open road... but anyway, there is a bunch of info around for anyone who cares.
Man, I really didn't mean for this to sound like an advertisment:)
Sounds like my office... But I have two Windows PCs (Desktop and Laptop), a Mac (G5) and two Linux boxen Running Fedora 2 and Gentoo respectively. Now I just need a Sun Workstation and I'll be set.
I also have OS/2 on CD and SCO Unix on CD. I just need to find my license diskettes for them. Then I will install OS/2, at least - I liked OS/2 back in the day... actually came in handy recently - I was the only tech who knew anything about it when my company was hired to do some work for a govt department here... But anyway, enough reminiscing.
Actually, I might go download SuSe and Debian to try em out right now. They can't be that different, can they?
I would say that Longhorn might just be the MS equivalent of Half Life 2/Other vaporware due for release when its finally the biggest, bestest, fastest and strongest.
I have one word for Microsoft (with reference to "WinFS"), though: SPOTLIGHT.
Oh well, I suppose that, as long as we don't get any releases as bad as Windows ME, we should just let MS do it's work and see what they come up with... and subsequently switch to MacOS/BSD or Linux and...not buy Windows (Longhorn) when it is eventually released.
Well, even Microsoft has 30, 60, 90 and 180 day trial versions of it's software. No good for home (l)users, no good for corperates, but perfect for geeks (at least, geeks like me) who hammer their systems with data and apps (not spyware or virii, mind you) and need to reinstall every couple of months or so anyway - regardless of OS, regardless of license and regardless of hardware config.
So in the event that I didn't get a copy of Windows courtesy of my company, I would be able to use it (a trial version) without issues anyway because by the time the re-install period came up, I probably would have done it already.
Here's the thing: Which would they consider more illegitamate? A cracked trial version (on one of their distribution CD's) or an outright copy, like a copy of the Corp edition of Windows or whatever? I know, both are bad, but which one would be worse... to them?
People always wonder why my machine seems so fast even though it might be shittier hardware than theirs - and I would say that it's because I maintain the software so often.
Speaking of which, Ghost comes in handy for doing all this. (Grabs system off a DVD or two, depending on which machine it is). When I do my Windows machine, I don't have to worry about re-activating it and talking to some suspicious MS activation guy, cause my Ghost images are already activated. When I do my linux machine(s) its all nice and customized the way I like it.
Damn. Rambling again. Sorry if I went off the subject.
What, so you're saying MS gets a cut of the sale of Blank CD/DVD discs over there? That would be a good deal, I reckon.
In reality, I don't think it would affect MS too much if everyone simply pirated other products... though it would mean that:
a) they couldn't claim a ~90% install base b) demise of lan parties with screwed up networks c) demise of sponsered gamers running windows... d) the chinese government (and most other countries in the region) would be able to come out with products like ChinaOS - the OS which forces you and your computer to work for your country, while stripping your rights'.
...and yet we are still considered part of it by some publications. In fact, I dont know if I'm more surprised that we aren't part of the continent of Antarctica according to some publications (mostly American, probably)
Oh yeah, and people from like, Alabama and Tenessee (etc) hate states with people who have opposable thumbs... That must really get up their nose... they see people with thumbs all the time on TV - mostly WWE, I would guess.
Hey! Computers (and decent broadband) are only rare here because there is so little populations... and most people in New Zealand are sheep farmers.:)
As opposed to the things that live in places like Auckland. (Non-Aucklanders generally despise Auckland the same way Floridans hate Cuba, Texans/Californians despise Mexico... and the rest of the US hates Canada.
[sarcasm] I got 6 with my Gmail Account [/sarcasm]... Anyway, wasn't the "minumum" you're allowed to buy like, 5 shares or something?
I would have _loved_ to have brought some Google shares, (even just for bragging rights) but unfortunately I'm not a US citizen, nor do I live in the US, nor have I even bothered to go to the US.
Heavily guarded borders, you say? What about the coast of the State of (Oregon?) - According to Fareinheit 911/Michael Moore, there is all of 1 (one) troopers guarding ~100mi of Pacific coastline.
What would be funny is if:
Person X: Linux is way better than Windows
[MSN] THIS MESSAGE BROUGHT TO YOU BY/. (OSDN)
Person Y: No, Linux is too hard...
[MSN] THIS MESSAGE BROUGHT TO YOU BY APPLE, MAC OS X
or
Person X: Linu
[MSN] This word is not allowed in MSN messenger. Please try again.
or
Person X: Linu
[MSN] MSN HAS CAUSED A GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT IN MSMSGS.EXE:)
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Damn, you guys are lucky to have 3 mbit. 2 mbit access has only just become available here (wide scale and at reasonable cost) in the last 6 months or so. Guess who was one of their first customers? (Hint: me)
m lt /cn highspeed/
We don't have cable, we do have satellite (At US$30/per gig @ 384kbps), we do have DSL (US$40/up to 600mbyte @ 6mbps), and the fastest, cheapest internet access available to consumers is Wireless - some sort of radio link - I forget the exact technology involved.
Business options are similar, but often exactly the same service involving a higher cost.
Residential:
http://www.jetstream.co.nz - DSL
http://www.wiredcountry.co.nz - Wireless
http://www.ihug.co.nz - Satellite
Business:
Same as above - all servies have a business equivalent plus
http://www.wave.co.nz/business/radiowave.ht
http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/products/interne
Most major NZ ISPs resell at least one of the above services. So, you yankees: stop your bitching! Telecom New Zealand (www.telecom.co.nz) is totally holding back NZ broadband by charging unbearably high prices for their service:
Cost to User: 20c/MB (if you go over your limit)
Cost to Telecom: 0.005c/MB.
You would think that instead of having 3GB limits on their most frequently pushed plan (256kbps/3GB), that they would have like 256kbps/10GB or something... I don't know why they set the limits so low - every other provider is much better value. The only reason they have so many customers is because of their marketing budget. They literally blast their ads on every channel every night telling you how great their "broadband" is. It's sickening.
And don't even get me started on their packet-queuing BS - if you have more than one person using Jetstream (Their name for ADSL), you can't do anything else, like, stream video, play online games or anything because you will timeout and/or skip. This, unfortunately, goes contrary to what they advertise the product as being useful for!
Anyway. Thats my rant...
As a web-host, I see hundreds of various probes on my Apache httpd servers daily - usually searching for a way to execute cmd.exe or to send a malformed URL to crash the server.
I just wish I could send a popup box message to their PC's telling them something along the lines of "Uh... wrong OS, dumbass.".
(FYI We run RHEL3, RH9, Fedora, Gentoo, and BSD as a general rule). I am considering the possibility of adding a couple of Windows boxen, but I would definately hire someone else to manage them - I don't have the time or patience to deal with crashy servers, continual maintenance and so on - I would probably want [my Windows server admin] to have a live-feed of the logs if I did run a Win Server to ensure that it didn't get screwed over in 10 seconds flat.
I can see it now...
Me: "ahh... our new Windows box is online."
WAdmin: "Yes, so far so go... oh, wait, someone is attempting to..."
Me: "Damnit. Thats gotta be a new world record. 15 seconds before being 0wn3d."
Hell, if I do get a Windows Server, I would probably at least run Apache httpd/Win32 on them - mostly because I don't like IIS. My overall intention for adding Windows boxen is for those wanting to run ASP/.Net (I know about mono), but if I don't run IIS, I assume I can't run ASP/.Net without adding mono anyway, which defeats the purpose of having Windows boxen available.
Like, one guy can manage a hundred Linux/BSD servers without difficulty, but one guy would have a hard time dealing with 10 Windows Servers. Or at least I have heard/read numbers similar... but I'm sure it was an exaggeration.
(et al ad infinitum - I got too lazy to write more)
Nows the part where I start going more crazy than I was before.
Since when did SCO actually let anyone look at the so-called infringing code?
Personally, I think they mad ethe story up to try and put the sh*t up IBM. Why they thought this would work I don't know...
There could be grounds there, but as one of the parents say, chances are, any relevant patents are probably long-expired.
I make 1000% MORE (per hour) than I did 2½ years ago, and 600% more than I did 1½ years ago. I started on ~$8/hour, then moved jobs to $12/hour, now I'm on $80-$185/hour, depending on location of callout and time of day.
:) we moved on and got on with business.
Reason?
I started my own consultancy. Fine for people who know how. The first thing I did was learn how to conduct an excellent business by putting to practice things I had learned with my (well respected) employer. I then established a strategy of exactly what I wanted. I planned and did all of that stuff - figured out what people were looking for and what they would want from a "professional" such as myself.
Don't get me wrong, if I do say so myself, I am very good at what I do, and have plenty of experience to boot. I have only ever had one project end on a bad note, and IMHO it was because of the lack of enthusiasm from the other party for getting that project completed, plus our inability to reach them when we wanted something, such as material for their website or whatever - yet if they wanted something they wanted it yesterday... you know the story. I found out later that he was a notoriously slow-payer and thus bad debtor... so...
Anyway...
Then, I hired a top-notch marketing/PR person, and a competant salesperson. For the first few weeks, I really couldn't afford to pay them a salary. But I knew with my selling skills, I would need them, so, I took a risk, and put them on commission, anyway. (Plus, I took advantage of the trial-period policies set in place by the government which says that you are allowed to inform successful candidates that they are on trial period only and so on).
I explained to them exactly what was required of them (Realistically, if you can't bring in 3x what I pay you, then I can't afford to keep you on, and my accountant will not be happy - so, it depends on you as to what will happen in 3 weeks time. If all goes well, I will pay you a 3 week salary-lump-sum of $X and we will go on a salary of $X per year from there and so on).
Basically, this was their opportunity to leave if they decided that they weren't as qualified for the job as they had made out in their interview. It helped me weed out a couple of people.
Since that time (Feb 04), I've given my successful candidate a raise in their base-salary of about $5k a year, sent him on holiday and upgraded the company facilities (car and we are looking at new offices) Plus, the work he's bringing in is also leading to steady expansion of the company, where we are about to fork out some of our different services under different brands within our organization, and where I am going to hire 2 new people for hardware tech and web design, and we are on our way to becoming wholesale suppliers to the regional arm of a large multinational.
In a nutshell, business is going really well, and I'm looking forward to finishing a major project in January which means that in about 1 year from now, we hope to break our 2nd millionth dollar. (given that the project is for the national education system, and will be paying us about $1/day/user times ~24000 users)
Unfortunately, I can't credit that project entirely to our PR guy, but rather to the large amount of time I've spent since February networking with hundreds of small business owners at business development conferences. BUT - without the PR guy, I would imagine that we would be struggling to stay afloat enough to finish said project.
Marketing/PR guys can really be worth their salt!
Damn, that is expensive. Here in Hamilton (New Zealand), you can get a reasonably nice (new) house for about NZ$300k or a reasonably nice established house in an established neighbourhood for about $250k... Exchange rate is about US$0.64/NZ$1.00 at the moment, so that makes it about $170k and $200k respectively.
:)
Unfortunately, unless you have an MCSE (yes, it still seems to be valued here - at least if you have 5+ years of experience and are applying for a job at one of the larger corperates), you'll be hard pressed to find a good tech job.
The lifestyle is pretty good, and if you've got some working capital (about $20k) and a good idea, you could probably start a business. I worked for about 2 years and have done that. Worked for me quite nicely. (But, I am only 19 - so despite my "decade" of experience working with DOS, WinNT, SCO Unix and Linux, I'm a bit young for most of them)
If you do need to rent, you would be looking at NZ$250-400/wk for something pretty good. $400 will get you a nice exec home in the suburbs, or you can be closer to town (My town is like 30-45 minutes from one end to the other - at rush hour) and still have a nice big character home/bungalow/good ol solid 1930s/1940s railway home for around the $300-$350/week mark.
Salary ranges from NZ$35k/year at entry level to $80+k/yr at senior engineer level - so don't expect to make serious cash, but, cost of living is'nt nearly as high as the US of UK, so if you wanted, you could live on $25k a year easily - including rent, power, phone, broadband, satellite tv, car, gas etc.
Of course, the city with all the tech jobs (Auckland) is a bit more expensive on the housing front - about double the price to buy a home as compared to here in Hamilton. I suppose you could commute 1½ hours each way if you wanted - 126kms and mostly open road... but anyway, there is a bunch of info around for anyone who cares.
Man, I really didn't mean for this to sound like an advertisment
Sounds like my office... But I have two Windows PCs (Desktop and Laptop), a Mac (G5) and two Linux boxen Running Fedora 2 and Gentoo respectively. Now I just need a Sun Workstation and I'll be set.
I also have OS/2 on CD and SCO Unix on CD. I just need to find my license diskettes for them. Then I will install OS/2, at least - I liked OS/2 back in the day... actually came in handy recently - I was the only tech who knew anything about it when my company was hired to do some work for a govt department here... But anyway, enough reminiscing.
Actually, I might go download SuSe and Debian to try em out right now. They can't be that different, can they?
I would say that Longhorn might just be the MS equivalent of Half Life 2/Other vaporware due for release when its finally the biggest, bestest, fastest and strongest.
...not buy Windows (Longhorn) when it is eventually released.
I have one word for Microsoft (with reference to "WinFS"), though: SPOTLIGHT.
Oh well, I suppose that, as long as we don't get any releases as bad as Windows ME, we should just let MS do it's work and see what they come up with... and subsequently switch to MacOS/BSD or Linux and
I'm surprised that the more creepy /.ers around aren't planning to use any chips or whatever as earrings
You are saying that like Google has Gmail running on a single-cpu dell box a la $99/month at EV1.net...
Yeah, so now that they're delaying this new "FS", until 20xx, if consumers want that sort of functionality, they can just switch to MacOS.
I plan to. In Feb 2005 I'm buying me a nice shiny new Dual Processor G5 with a sexy Cinema display.
I could go for one of their new all-in-one jobbies, but I do like the G5 as it was when it was released...
Well, even Microsoft has 30, 60, 90 and 180 day trial versions of it's software. No good for home (l)users, no good for corperates, but perfect for geeks (at least, geeks like me) who hammer their systems with data and apps (not spyware or virii, mind you) and need to reinstall every couple of months or so anyway - regardless of OS, regardless of license and regardless of hardware config.
So in the event that I didn't get a copy of Windows courtesy of my company, I would be able to use it (a trial version) without issues anyway because by the time the re-install period came up, I probably would have done it already.
Here's the thing: Which would they consider more illegitamate? A cracked trial version (on one of their distribution CD's) or an outright copy, like a copy of the Corp edition of Windows or whatever?
I know, both are bad, but which one would be worse... to them?
People always wonder why my machine seems so fast even though it might be shittier hardware than theirs - and I would say that it's because I maintain the software so often.
Speaking of which, Ghost comes in handy for doing all this. (Grabs system off a DVD or two, depending on which machine it is). When I do my Windows machine, I don't have to worry about re-activating it and talking to some suspicious MS activation guy, cause my Ghost images are already activated. When I do my linux machine(s) its all nice and customized the way I like it.
Damn. Rambling again. Sorry if I went off the subject.
What, so you're saying MS gets a cut of the sale of Blank CD/DVD discs over there? That would be a good deal, I reckon.
... d) the chinese government (and most other countries in the region) would be able to come out with products like ChinaOS - the OS which forces you and your computer to work for your country, while stripping your rights'.
In reality, I don't think it would affect MS too much if everyone simply pirated other products... though it would mean that:
a) they couldn't claim a ~90% install base
b) demise of lan parties with screwed up networks
c) demise of sponsered gamers running windows
Or something. I'm rambling again now...
...and yet we are still considered part of it by some publications. In fact, I dont know if I'm more surprised that we aren't part of the continent of Antarctica according to some publications (mostly American, probably)
Oh yeah, and people from like, Alabama and Tenessee (etc) hate states with people who have opposable thumbs... That must really get up their nose... they see people with thumbs all the time on TV - mostly WWE, I would guess.
Hey! Computers (and decent broadband) are only rare here because there is so little populations... and most people in New Zealand are sheep farmers. :)
As opposed to the things that live in places like Auckland. (Non-Aucklanders generally despise Auckland the same way Floridans hate Cuba, Texans/Californians despise Mexico... and the rest of the US hates Canada.
Are you saying that coffeepots, times square, highways and people working in cubefarms aren't interesting?
I see your point.
See subject.
I figured that once cameras of equivalent resolution got to about ~US$20-$40, it would be about time I replaced my old Sony PSCP20 1.3MP Digicam.
Now have two nice 6 & 8MP ones - a Sony DSCF828 and a Nikon D70 - one for business and one for personal use.
Still use the old 1.3MP camera for like, set-up shots and taking to parties and stuff...
Everyone I know got 6 invites last week...
Maybe a) They each (co-founders) have new girlfriends... (playboy bunnies?)
or b) Buy hard drives for the millions of gmail accounts...
What, so like, AOL, Nokia/Palm/Alcatel/Siemens/Motorola AND Sony rejected MS'es buyout offers?
Wow... the dot-com boon really is over...
[sarcasm] I got 6 with my Gmail Account [/sarcasm]... Anyway, wasn't the "minumum" you're allowed to buy like, 5 shares or something?
I would have _loved_ to have brought some Google shares, (even just for bragging rights) but unfortunately I'm not a US citizen, nor do I live in the US, nor have I even bothered to go to the US.
Kind of like the movie "The Village"... isn't that one of the ones where a bunch of people aren't allowed out "in the interest of their safety"?
Infowars has a great thing on US Govt VS It's citizens in the form of "911: the road to tyranny"
Heavily guarded borders, you say? What about the coast of the State of (Oregon?) - According to Fareinheit 911/Michael Moore, there is all of 1 (one) troopers guarding ~100mi of Pacific coastline.
Heavily guarded my ass.
What would be funny is if: Person X: Linux is way better than Windows [MSN] THIS MESSAGE BROUGHT TO YOU BY /. (OSDN)
Person Y: No, Linux is too hard...
[MSN] THIS MESSAGE BROUGHT TO YOU BY APPLE, MAC OS X
or
Person X: Linu
[MSN] This word is not allowed in MSN messenger. Please try again.
or
Person X: Linu
[MSN] MSN HAS CAUSED A GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT IN MSMSGS.EXE :)