I was talking with a security guard at a Taco Bell in the San Fernando valley who told me about his experience with a Jehovah's Witness....
It seems the security guard worked for two different rent-a-cop agencies part time, so was rarely at home. It was a Saturday when this happened, and he said it was his first full day off in two months, so he was sleeping in...
Around 9 AM, his door bell rings...so he goes to the door, and meets the JW (Jehovah's Witness). The JW gives his spiel, and is told the guard isn't interested...in fact is told that this is his first full day off in 2 months and he wants to be left alone. The guard closes the door and goes back to sleep...
An hour later his door bell rings again...he wanders out, opens the door, and there is the exact same JW. Now, he's a nice guard, but at the moment he's a bit testy. He explains again that it's his first day off, yada yada yada, and tells the JW that the next time it happens he'll be face to face with a shotgun...
Of course, an hour later the JW has rung the door bell again, so the guard grabs his (loaded) shotgun, races to the door, throws it open, and levels the gun at the JW. The JW drops his bike and books and runs for his life...
A few hours later, the JW shows up with the cops, having told them that he was threatened with bodily harm. The tin-badge explains to the cops the whole thing, and the last he saw of the JW, he was being hauled off to prison for tresspassing and being a public nuisance.
If they move their calling ops overseas then they'll have to pay international connect charges. I can't see that happening. What I can see happening is telemarketers saying "oh, you did business with XYZ company and they've told ABC company that you'd like their product too, so we have a loophole."
If/when I ever get a job, DNC list signup notwithstanding, the Telezapper is going back online.
The cow would be the artist. The milk would be the music. Better question would be why buy the milk at the grocery store when you can get a friend to lift a jug for you.
I agree that nobody has a monopoly on good or bad (unfortunately a lot of Utah Mormons don't realize that).
Church procedures exist for expelling someone convicted of a felony. I'm not clear on the details since I haven't had to be a part of the process. In any case, it doesn't seem to me that McBride is doing this in innocence, which prompted my comments about his honesty and honor. We'll see what happens, but whether or not he pays for it in this life, rest assured he'll have to face up to it in the next life.
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Hmm. Well, I do, and my family does, and lots of others of us do, so maybe you should revise your assesment that no Mormons keep the sabbath day holy.
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I'm a non-Utah mormon so maybe that helps me see the truth more clearly that not everything from Utah is saintly:)
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I wish it had been infiltrated by Scientology. Right now Darl is giving Mormons a bad name:(
Yeah...Mormons (also known as Latter Day Saints, from the full church title (official web site here) are christians, which means the Ten Commandments apply. Actually, one of the things that we are supposed to be is "honest in our dealings with our fellow man." I'll let you be the judge of whether he's doing that, but speaking for myself, I think his Bishop should have a private chat with him about honesty.
I guess they're hoping to acquire^h^h^h^h^h^h^hextort enough from their suit against IBM to pay for suing everyone else. I think if you're going to do the frivolous lawsuit thing that the RIAA has a better plan: screw the small fish who can't afford to fight it. IBM ain't gonna settle this one the way an average linux user might, simply because they have orders of magnitude more money. SCO bit off more than they can chew just taking on IBM, let alone with what appears to be a baseless case.
What I want to see is IBM win, then go after SCO's assets (what few will be left) and press for criminal charges against its execs.
Whatever happens, after reading ESR's Haloween 9 yesterday, I don't think anybody should want to keep the OpenServer cruft...win it and then put it out of everyone's misery.
See...I never thought about sending a spammer paper spam, but I think you could do one better than that. Call the Jehovah's Witnesses and tell them the guy is interested in talking to them:}
You think that's bad? At my last company, we had a QA tech who would take a screen shot of a 404 error, embed it in a Word document, and email it to us asking if there was a problem. Since most of us (code monkeys) used Linux...yeah.
your sig says "Unix, Computers and science fiction... What else can one want in life ?" I can think of at least three more things I could want...a job, money, and a hot woman....
Hey...I was where you are about 5 years ago and now I'm reasonably proficient. If I can figure this stuff out, there's hope for just about anyone:)
It took me about 6 months to move around comfortably...I've added Perl programming skills, some trivial sed stuff, and various grep and regex stuff to my toolkit over the remaining years.
A friend of mine in college who helped me learn Linux (I already had a little background in Solaris as a user) told me that if you were to graph "knowledge of the OS" on a horizontal axis and "what you can do" on a vertical axis, then on the Microsoft graph, the plot would be logarithmic (you may learn tons more, but you can't do a whole lot more) while on the *NIX graph, it would be exponential (takes a bit of knowledge to get going, but then incremental additions translate to much, much more power).
Forgive my density, but are you saying that's a command that will allow me to install Perl modules from CPAN on my gentoo system and have them registered to be rebuilt in the event that I have a boring day and decide to do 'emerge -e world' ?
I didn't...I don't go see R rated movies. I guess if any (or all) of the LOTR movies came out for IMAX, I'd probably go see them just because. I just would have expected that with all of George Lucas' addiction to digital movies he would have filmed Ep II in such a way that it wouldn't look so bad when blown up...and based on that I'm a tad leery of anything not designed for the IMAX experience from the beginning...ho hum:)
According to the LOTR web site, the extended version of TTT comes out in November, so you're right.....unless he has a source who got him a copy of it several months early.
All those folks who think MPAA == evil will probably have downloaded the movie from their favorite source:)
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I'd be excited about seeing them on IMAX too if I hadn't been disappointed with the IMAX Star Wars Episode II release. It looked fuzzy, the way something does if you blow it up 2x. Unless PJ shot with IMAX film, I think we'd get the same result:(
Heh. Yeah, if you want documented proof that whoever got your missive and time is no object. I suspect that the gentleman who wrote the analysis had a pressing desire to resolve the problem, hence his reliance on email and phone calls. Maybe there's a better solution to this, but I think I'd've done the same in his position.
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I was talking with a security guard at a Taco Bell in the San Fernando valley who told me about his experience with a Jehovah's Witness....
It seems the security guard worked for two different rent-a-cop agencies part time, so was rarely at home. It was a Saturday when this happened, and he said it was his first full day off in two months, so he was sleeping in...
Around 9 AM, his door bell rings...so he goes to the door, and meets the JW (Jehovah's Witness). The JW gives his spiel, and is told the guard isn't interested...in fact is told that this is his first full day off in 2 months and he wants to be left alone. The guard closes the door and goes back to sleep...
An hour later his door bell rings again...he wanders out, opens the door, and there is the exact same JW. Now, he's a nice guard, but at the moment he's a bit testy. He explains again that it's his first day off, yada yada yada, and tells the JW that the next time it happens he'll be face to face with a shotgun...
Of course, an hour later the JW has rung the door bell again, so the guard grabs his (loaded) shotgun, races to the door, throws it open, and levels the gun at the JW. The JW drops his bike and books and runs for his life...
A few hours later, the JW shows up with the cops, having told them that he was threatened with bodily harm. The tin-badge explains to the cops the whole thing, and the last he saw of the JW, he was being hauled off to prison for tresspassing and being a public nuisance.
If they move their calling ops overseas then they'll have to pay international connect charges. I can't see that happening. What I can see happening is telemarketers saying "oh, you did business with XYZ company and they've told ABC company that you'd like their product too, so we have a loophole."
If/when I ever get a job, DNC list signup notwithstanding, the Telezapper is going back online.
- Sony Vaio running stock Red Hat 6.x (slightly dead at the moment)
- Dell Optiplex running almost latest Gentoo install with one CPU
- Custom dual Xeon 2 GHz with hyperthreading enabled running Red Hat 9
So how many CPUs can I license? 1? 2? 3? 5? 6?Times $700? Time to get a job at KFC to pay for my licenses...
The cow would be the artist. The milk would be the music. Better question would be why buy the milk at the grocery store when you can get a friend to lift a jug for you.
Sorry to mess up the low user ID pride :)
I agree that nobody has a monopoly on good or bad (unfortunately a lot of Utah Mormons don't realize that).
Church procedures exist for expelling someone convicted of a felony. I'm not clear on the details since I haven't had to be a part of the process. In any case, it doesn't seem to me that McBride is doing this in innocence, which prompted my comments about his honesty and honor. We'll see what happens, but whether or not he pays for it in this life, rest assured he'll have to face up to it in the next life.
Hmm. Well, I do, and my family does, and lots of others of us do, so maybe you should revise your assesment that no Mormons keep the sabbath day holy.
I'm a non-Utah mormon so maybe that helps me see the truth more clearly that not everything from Utah is saintly :)
I wish it had been infiltrated by Scientology. Right now Darl is giving Mormons a bad name :(
Yeah...Mormons (also known as Latter Day Saints, from the full church title (official web site here) are christians, which means the Ten Commandments apply. Actually, one of the things that we are supposed to be is "honest in our dealings with our fellow man." I'll let you be the judge of whether he's doing that, but speaking for myself, I think his Bishop should have a private chat with him about honesty.
I guess they're hoping to acquire^h^h^h^h^h^h^hextort enough from their suit against IBM to pay for suing everyone else. I think if you're going to do the frivolous lawsuit thing that the RIAA has a better plan: screw the small fish who can't afford to fight it. IBM ain't gonna settle this one the way an average linux user might, simply because they have orders of magnitude more money. SCO bit off more than they can chew just taking on IBM, let alone with what appears to be a baseless case.
What I want to see is IBM win, then go after SCO's assets (what few will be left) and press for criminal charges against its execs.
Whatever happens, after reading ESR's Haloween 9 yesterday, I don't think anybody should want to keep the OpenServer cruft...win it and then put it out of everyone's misery.
See...I never thought about sending a spammer paper spam, but I think you could do one better than that. Call the Jehovah's Witnesses and tell them the guy is interested in talking to them :}
You think that's bad? At my last company, we had a QA tech who would take a screen shot of a 404 error, embed it in a Word document, and email it to us asking if there was a problem. Since most of us (code monkeys) used Linux...yeah.
Sounds like it. I'll have to play with it :)
your sig says "Unix, Computers and science fiction... What else can one want in life ?" I can think of at least three more things I could want...a job, money, and a hot woman....
Hey...I was where you are about 5 years ago and now I'm reasonably proficient. If I can figure this stuff out, there's hope for just about anyone :)
It took me about 6 months to move around comfortably...I've added Perl programming skills, some trivial sed stuff, and various grep and regex stuff to my toolkit over the remaining years.
A friend of mine in college who helped me learn Linux (I already had a little background in Solaris as a user) told me that if you were to graph "knowledge of the OS" on a horizontal axis and "what you can do" on a vertical axis, then on the Microsoft graph, the plot would be logarithmic (you may learn tons more, but you can't do a whole lot more) while on the *NIX graph, it would be exponential (takes a bit of knowledge to get going, but then incremental additions translate to much, much more power).
FWIW
Forgive my density, but are you saying that's a command that will allow me to install Perl modules from CPAN on my gentoo system and have them registered to be rebuilt in the event that I have a boring day and decide to do 'emerge -e world' ?
Now that's informative. Somebody should mod you up.
I didn't...I don't go see R rated movies. I guess if any (or all) of the LOTR movies came out for IMAX, I'd probably go see them just because. I just would have expected that with all of George Lucas' addiction to digital movies he would have filmed Ep II in such a way that it wouldn't look so bad when blown up...and based on that I'm a tad leery of anything not designed for the IMAX experience from the beginning...ho hum :)
According to the LOTR web site, the extended version of TTT comes out in November, so you're right.....unless he has a source who got him a copy of it several months early.
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All those folks who think MPAA == evil will probably have downloaded the movie from their favorite source :)
I'd be excited about seeing them on IMAX too if I hadn't been disappointed with the IMAX Star Wars Episode II release. It looked fuzzy, the way something does if you blow it up 2x. Unless PJ shot with IMAX film, I think we'd get the same result :(
Heh. Yeah, if you want documented proof that whoever got your missive and time is no object. I suspect that the gentleman who wrote the analysis had a pressing desire to resolve the problem, hence his reliance on email and phone calls. Maybe there's a better solution to this, but I think I'd've done the same in his position.
McBride is a BYU-ite? Please tell me the man isn't LDS...
does abusing the paper clip involve Microsoft Office?