Funny, I thought the only thing on that road were used car lots and roads to "Duplex City"... neither places I would want to be. Oh, yeah, and the "Fraternal Order of the Eagles"" where my Grandfather had his wedding reception after marrying a Sasquatch.
A lawyer friend (o.k. acquantence, as I don't think he has friends) has sued EVERY LAST ONE of the used car lots on that street.
Regardless, I would never send some poor pizza boy there, even for a good joke.
oops, did I just admit to a familiarity with Bradenton? SHIT!
-QTone
Mod down as necessary, I just had to berate my hometown on/.
Remember Saving Private Ryan? Remember the "sticky bombs"? That was Composition A. You can blow the treads off of a tank with a sock full of the stuff. Imagine what a boatload of it will do.
I'm sorry in advance, but to quote Lo Wang: "Sticky Bomb like you!"
I used to work for Best Buy in Sarasota, FL. I was instructed on MANY occasions to fire up the shrink-wrapper and make merchandise look new.
The only time we didn't do it was if the item was in a blister pack and we COULDN'T make it unnoticable.
Interesting in concept, but the beauty of nature is that it is written in self-modifying code. Good code survives, bad dies off. Also, code that was bad at one time is beneficial or benign now.
Look at the cycles of virii in nature. Initially they are devastating, but with each iteration less so. The cycle goes something like this:
Infection--->Immunity--->Assimilation
Many virii which used to kill human are now part of our DNA.
Computer virii mimic natural ones through the first two steps, but I don't see a way that the third can be achieved.
Also, like in nature (well, through genetic engineering) a virus can be "written" to cure an ailment...there's just no telling if it will kill the host in the process. This is one area where these "white knight" virii are very much like their biological counterparts. They frequently cause the same amount of a disruption as their darkside counterparts, and frequently for the same reasons: Bad Coding on the part of the script kiddie cut-and-pasting the virus in the first place.
"If God had intended for man to fly, He would've given him wings."
Humans weren't "MEANT" to leave earth? No more than they were "meant" to live in a cold climate, but through natural adaptation (body fat) or technological innovation (clothes) man moved into inhospitable environments. Space is just a more hostile environment, but nothing that can't be overcome.
God didn't give man wings, but did give man a brain.
"You should be asking why we lost the one that we had."
It's because the government subsidized passenger train service at the time. The money on the rails is freight. Passenger service has ALWAYS been a losing proposition for the lines.
When the government withdrew the passenger train subsidies, the rail lines went right back to freight only. The only one left with government funding was Amtrak.
Now we see what's happening to them when the government cuts their funding...severe cutbacks in service and insolvency. They can't make money on passengers.
As far as America's love affair with cars, that may be true, but our cities, for the most part, are big enough to support them. Our major cities did not start out as cramped, little, walled medieval towns build for handcarts and pedestrians.
--QTone
"French or Gay, you ask? Well, I can only say I'm not FRENCH."
...the reason to avoid backward compatability is actually to accomodate a major change in archetecture which improves the quality of the games, I'm all for it. If it is the coice between Dazzling Graphics and superior realism and gameplay, fine.
In other words, if it is the new hotness, dump the old-and-busted.
With people all in a tizzy about elections and the flaws therein, it is time to realize that, in all probability, nobody (or at least VERY few) reading this site has EVER placed a vote that actually elected a president.
In the current electoral college system, all the voting that takes place on election day is simply another poll to let the real electors kow who the ignorant masses prefer. This influences their voting, sure, but there is absolutely nothing that says they have to cast their votes in the same way the public indicated.
This system has, of course, been in place for a long time. Way before Bush, Kerry and Nader (well, maybe not Nader, he seems to be the eternal election spoiler.)
If you think the choice was ever really yours, you're deluding yourself.
Poor programming by Sasser's creator makes infected machines shut down.
That should make the writers happy... that their ineptitude made global news.
I am not impressed with the foo of these cut-and-paste virus coders. There was a time when it was actually difficult to code one of these things, but come on... they are open-source now.
to capitalize on your brilliant idea, you don't deserve the money.
If you come up with some brilliant sceme, but are a person whose idea:implementation ratio is really bad, find someone to partner with who has the drive and split the profit$.
Don't wait until others implement your idea and then claim some right of ownership.
The idea of patenting a concept pisses me off anyway... A process, fine. A product, certainly.
It is the result of the concept that should be patrentable, not the concept itself.
... when you think yoou've won a war, and in fact it was only a battle.
Just a couple of things.
1. Do not let your guard down.
2. Always fight when anyones rights are abused, lest there be nobody left when *yours* are.
--Qtone
I *am* one of the quiet ones...
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yeah, I hate for my beer to be warm when I get a DUI. And I'd definately need another cold beer after shooting one of my hunting buddies.
Of course, the only hunting I do usually involves buying someone a drink....
--QTone
Funny, I thought the only thing on that road were used car lots and roads to "Duplex City"... neither places I would want to be. Oh, yeah, and the "Fraternal Order of the Eagles"" where my Grandfather had his wedding reception after marrying a Sasquatch.
/.
A lawyer friend (o.k. acquantence, as I don't think he has friends) has sued EVERY LAST ONE of the used car lots on that street.
Regardless, I would never send some poor pizza boy there, even for a good joke.
oops, did I just admit to a familiarity with Bradenton? SHIT!
-QTone
Mod down as necessary, I just had to berate my hometown on
Remember Saving Private Ryan? Remember the "sticky bombs"? That was Composition A. You can blow the treads off of a tank with a sock full of the stuff. Imagine what a boatload of it will do.
I'm sorry in advance, but to quote Lo Wang:
"Sticky Bomb like you!"
--QTone
worse than the fact that things are unstable:
what are the chances that the cleanup effort will CAUSE the most-feared explosion.
Also, is took these tards 60 years to think that this might be a problem?
Apathetic bloody planet... I have no sympathy.
-Qtone
I used to work for Best Buy in Sarasota, FL. I was instructed on MANY occasions to fire up the shrink-wrapper and make merchandise look new.
The only time we didn't do it was if the item was in a blister pack and we COULDN'T make it unnoticable.
-QTone
be on a No-Drive List?
He seems much more dangerous there than flying (unless, of course, it is a small plane where he exceeds the weight limit.)
And I won't even go into the possibility of a No-Vote List for Senators...
--Qtone
Still not French
Interesting in concept, but the beauty of nature is that it is written in self-modifying code. Good code survives, bad dies off. Also, code that was bad at one time is beneficial or benign now.
Look at the cycles of virii in nature. Initially they are devastating, but with each iteration less so. The cycle goes something like this:
Infection--->Immunity--->Assimilation
Many virii which used to kill human are now part of our DNA.
Computer virii mimic natural ones through the first two steps, but I don't see a way that the third can be achieved.
Also, like in nature (well, through genetic engineering) a virus can be "written" to cure an ailment...there's just no telling if it will kill the host in the process. This is one area where these "white knight" virii are very much like their biological counterparts. They frequently cause the same amount of a disruption as their darkside counterparts, and frequently for the same reasons: Bad Coding on the part of the script kiddie cut-and-pasting the virus in the first place.
Just a rambling...
--Qtone, Not French
"If God had intended for man to fly, He would've given him wings."
Humans weren't "MEANT" to leave earth? No more than they were "meant" to live in a cold climate, but through natural adaptation (body fat) or technological innovation (clothes) man moved into inhospitable environments. Space is just a more hostile environment, but nothing that can't be overcome.
God didn't give man wings, but did give man a brain.
Luckily, man built wings of his own.
--Qtone
This statement is false.
And if it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.
--QTone
...I'd rather hear someone in India who has a good reason for not understanding me, rather than a Canadian who is clueless, eh?
No offence intended to Canadians, just worthless tech support.
--QTone, not French
...of my technical advisor's litterbox, that life could consist or stealthy, rust-colorerd felines.
--QTone, not French
I'll take "Swords" for $1000, Trebeck!
Oh, yeah. We got Death Star.
"You should be asking why we lost the one that we had."
It's because the government subsidized passenger train service at the time. The money on the rails is freight. Passenger service has ALWAYS been a losing proposition for the lines.
When the government withdrew the passenger train subsidies, the rail lines went right back to freight only. The only one left with government funding was Amtrak.
Now we see what's happening to them when the government cuts their funding...severe cutbacks in service and insolvency. They can't make money on passengers.
As far as America's love affair with cars, that may be true, but our cities, for the most part, are big enough to support them. Our major cities did not start out as cramped, little, walled medieval towns build for handcarts and pedestrians.
--QTone
"French or Gay, you ask? Well, I can only say I'm not FRENCH."
...the reason to avoid backward compatability is actually to accomodate a major change in archetecture which improves the quality of the games, I'm all for it.
If it is the coice between Dazzling Graphics and superior realism and gameplay, fine.
In other words, if it is the new hotness, dump the old-and-busted.
I am, however, not holding my breath
--QTone42
Gay or French? No, just Gay, thank you.
With people all in a tizzy about elections and the flaws therein, it is time to realize that, in all probability, nobody (or at least VERY few) reading this site has EVER placed a vote that actually elected a president.
In the current electoral college system, all the voting that takes place on election day is simply another poll to let the real electors kow who the ignorant masses prefer. This influences their voting, sure, but there is absolutely nothing that says they have to cast their votes in the same way the public indicated.
This system has, of course, been in place for a long time. Way before Bush, Kerry and Nader (well, maybe not Nader, he seems to be the eternal election spoiler.)
If you think the choice was ever really yours, you're deluding yourself.
Didn't Steve Urkle have one of these?
...*MY* GMail has a billion kagillion MB's! At that size, who really cares?
No "Buy It Now" button?
damn.
--QTone
Poor programming by Sasser's creator makes infected machines shut down.
That should make the writers happy... that their ineptitude made global news.
I am not impressed with the foo of these cut-and-paste virus coders. There was a time when it was actually difficult to code one of these things, but come on... they are open-source now.
No-kung-foo-required.
THIS. Seriously though... Linux is still a novelty, and for the forseeable future will continue to be.
to capitalize on your brilliant idea, you don't deserve the money.
If you come up with some brilliant sceme, but are a person whose idea:implementation ratio is really bad, find someone to partner with who has the drive and split the profit$.
Don't wait until others implement your idea and then claim some right of ownership.
The idea of patenting a concept pisses me off anyway... A process, fine. A product, certainly.
It is the result of the concept that should be patrentable, not the concept itself.
Now we'll hear everything John Kerry even *thinks* about the lying crooks out to get him!
/am/ one of the quiet ones.
--QTone
-I
... when you think yoou've won a war, and in fact it was only a battle. Just a couple of things. 1. Do not let your guard down. 2. Always fight when anyones rights are abused, lest there be nobody left when *yours* are. --Qtone I *am* one of the quiet ones...
... the idea:implementation ratio for the folks *I* know who could do this is pretty bad.
--Qtone42