Here in SF, $1,000 will get you a rat hole. It's repugnant that for $825 I was in a lease of a unit that had:
-- tilted flooring,
-- a hole under the radiator through which mice or rats would emerge,
-- kitchen cabinet doors so overpainted as to be unable to shut without slamming (and then slamming would rip out the hinge screws),
-- screens non-existent (so bugs would fly in),
-- an airway so dust-filled as to be a wonder my computer didn't short out),
-- a window-situated garbage that would back up,
-- a toilet that had a leaky seal in the flooring (so water, (clear fortunately) ended up leaking to the transition strip of the bathroom entry)
-- a shower having doors that slid shut or open on their own (so, I had to de-rail one from the track, and ended up gouging the lower track...)
-- a bath tub which could not hold water
-- closets too oblong to be useful, and too high to use without a chair
-- a radiator that would be shut of most of the year, and then hissed like hell, so much so (louder than my 1999 Gateway computer p/s & CPU fans) that I had to use ear-covering headphones with high music to drown out the hiss)
-- a window that wouldn't open or shut without extreme effort
-- a bathroom and a bedroom window that were screwed permanently closed
-- unit having tons of pre-1930's paint (the building was built before (or just after?) the big quake (1906ish), and the manager was proud that it survived the 1989 quake and that the firefighters were amazed that it had suffered not structural damage (this, being near Union Square)
This, I feel is TYPICAL of raggedy-assed properties in San Fransideshow. It's appalling and embarrassing and it's a travesty that to get into NEW structures costs some $1500 or more if they're not government set-aside units for low-income. It's amazing that all the money this government and the wealthy have for funding wars around the world is not being spend on war against blight rental units.
Study the competition (or, in more base terms, know your enemy...).
Hell, the US is GOOD at out-sourcing, even outsourcing education. Sure, foreign students from abroad attend some of the ivy league (lower-casing intentional) schools here, but many attend in Europe, too. Some even attend here, then SPEND their time in Europe after having had enough of the US, but are still in school and have too many friends here.
Plus, there are cultural reasons (corruption, leadership by cronies and elders who might not see the logic in empowering their local populations), or other reasons in regions where there's just not enough money and will to outright build new, world-class, competitive, lasting and door-knocking throngs of students. So, they ship them out or allow them to be recruited by US colleges needing cash infusion.
Do you KNOW how many Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Indian students HERE in the US come from families that put them up in $1,000/month apartments, send them to renowned as well as dubious schools or "academies" that cost $80,000 to $200,000 for maybe 3 or 4 years? LOTS. It's a churning industry, and they keep getting fuller and fuller. Recruiting or otherwise attracting well-off kids whose parents want the brightest futures for their kids. Not saying ALL Asian families are that way, though.
This isn't so shocking. My Gateway P-6301 shocks me when I remove it from the backpack. The casing is that shiny, or glossy, stylish plastic. I suppose the matte finish and other laptops might also discharge shocks to the handler. But, in any case, Dell's or mine, this can't be good for the laptops. I better ground out before I bring it to a grinding halt, I suppose...
the heeling, healing heels of the SETI report. I can hear "THIS is the DAWNING of the AGE of aQUEERiUS.... AGE of aQUEERiUUUSSS.. a-QUEER-EE-UhhhhSSS...."
SOMEwhere in there is an embedded, county/parish/municipality based digitized asshole:
Contempt Modes
CM1 "SCUMBAG, get ON the GROUND NOW, or i WILL DROP YOU." CM2 "Turn the FUCK around. PUT your DAMNED hands UP." CM3 "FREEZE, MOTHERFUCKAH.*" CM4 "Don't FUCKIN' LIE TO ME, PEDRO/Patel/Nguyen/(sub a name you want)I'm gonna deport your ass." CM5 "Go back where you came from..."
(As someone given false tickets at least 1 time by local police and TWO times by CHP, and nearly screwed by the judges on the case/docket, I can say contempt of cop is NOT something you want to engage in.)
* (When I part-timed at Emporium in 1989 in Almaden (back then, mostly white, not Asian, neighborhood) there was a theft in progress. Loss Prevention (Caucasian) were in hot pursuit scaling and hopping escalators and chasing the suspects/shoplifters (Black) and not gaining on them. (They were WAY too fast to be caught). Angry, one of the shorter LP yelled "FREEZE, MOTHAFUCKA!! This thin, old, short white lady nearly fainted when she heard the words. I think she wasn't bothered by the hot foot pursuit. I think the profanity stunned her, hehehe...)
I didn't see "Monkey's". Even if I'd seen "Monkeys'", I'd think several monkeys in series, but not in unison/parallel/hive/collective. I'm thinking BORG VINCULUM. As described by one 7of9 (oh, I wish she were mine...)... anyway...
I see an infinite number of monkeys (chimpanzees) and an infinite number of T9-alloy exoskeletons, and I STILL don't see War and Peace. I see WAR and PIECES (of battle-wrecked exoskeletons...
The same that applied in pre-digital, digital ages:
Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate. There. Now, transferring that age to this age, add: "Don't digitize or compress; decompression not guaranteed" the membership.
Intel's working on making software and hardware advances to cut the boot time. AMD will likely follow suit, as will other BIOS vendors/makers. That can't but HELP be good for Linux.
But, I suppose Linux can boot in under 14 seconds if it's an embedded device doing non-PC work.
Suspend and hibernate are nice, but maybe even this could be good for VirtualBox and other virtual machine environments.
And "Our Passion, Your Potential" should get them into buttloads of trouble if they start making product health comparisons. If they REALLY want to help, consumers be passionate about being healthy, they should combine silverlight or that table thingy of theirs, some holography, and a scanner. Then:
-- Scan the shopper's body, -- detect chemicals known to be preservatives and additives, in the body -- compare the products dropped into the cart, near the cart, or somewhere in the store -- suggest, via holographic example, the havoc or harm wrought on the body
OK, you Linuxers, implement this BEFORE msoft does. If you want the jump on 'em, take this idea and RUN! RUN LINUX!
But, even magazines in the shipping industry need to (or as a courtesy and self-protection measure) seek permission of vessel owners (not the ship's master or captain, but the holding or owning company) before running even favorable or industry-improvement/kudos articles and such in professional journals.
Even museum ships and other ships (except military, which are funded by tax dollars; however, since the DOD and other nations' MoDs farm out whole jobs to commercial concerns, these firms ay try to claim image rights... just look at Boeing and Lockheed Martin, et al; to use their craft in movies you might need or dearly WANT to get their permission. They may or may not fund your project, but if they give you money, you better not turn on them and write a scathing review or produce embarrassing/humiliating footage...) try to claim copyrights over the STRUCTURES. Some of it surely is tourism dollars funneling...
Even yachts and small craft are being copyrighted. See:
The lame thing is that in the early days of this new program (say, around 2000-2003-ish) USLIBCONG expected these "fashion designs" to fit on a single sheet of 8.5"x11" paper. But, people seeking to contain or constrain competition began submitting multiple sheets (despite the cost of doing so) because all the details could not fit and be legible. I even submitted 5 sheets of 24"x36" for a ship I designed*. I modeled it after the USN DDG-51, but "enhanced" it (for fictional, not hydrodynamic) reasons. (They WILL charge extra for over-sized and over-count sheets, last I checked...)
* Yes, I did contact the USN Public Affairs Officer, told them what I was doing, and I was told that the US public paid for the work on the DDG-51, and the US public can model after it. But, people modeling ships and planes and affixing company names will be in a different category and in need of rights permissions in some scenarios. Obviously, Boeing doesn't want 747s being depicted in crashes attributed to passenger mischief.
aren't a corporation that extracts or extorts billions out of other corporations and squeezes billions out of those people and corporations and governments trapped in ms code. So, you needn't empathise nor sympathise for the likes of msoft.
Byung-Gu gets ahold of your rear with his phallic, silver, steam-delivering alien anal probe.
He says, "See this here?... It's headed for a special place..." LOL!
He says no one has been able to stand it for more than an hour (I suppose he meant ALIENS, not humans...), but at least he lubes the thing. When it arrives on screen, it's a stunner. If you live in SF, you can borrow it from SFPL. Or, you can buy it online... Funny as hell. Crosses every imaginable film/movie genre in about 2 hours. Can't make stuff like this in the US...
Ground beef... heheheh Chuck, roast, prime round, round eye, UP CHUCK...? If you equate their leadership to Star Trek's mad admirals, you can start corporate Mad Cow DisEase...
And if you DHCP their ass and bind an address, you'll be bound to grief on their ground beef.
(The Anti-Trust can keep steaming along. I'm pro-DIStrust of them. But, I AM happy that vista runs inside my VirtualBox-equipped PCLinuxOS2007 computer. Installed without too much of an issue, just about 45 minutes, 2 or 3 virtual reboots, and some minor tweaking (turn of UAC, need some vid drivers, need to activate the NIC or find a way to share files tween Linux and Blista...)...)
You just GOTTA keep those drives. Sounds like you're kinda "hard" up, hehehe.
Maybe you could go to one of those semi-active volcanos and just disk-cuss-throw them there. Just be sure you don't spin right round like a record and end up following those bits and bytes. Then, it won't be a matter of what or whom is Dead or Alive....
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Here in SF, $1,000 will get you a rat hole. It's repugnant that for $825 I was in a lease of a unit that had:
-- tilted flooring,
-- a hole under the radiator through which mice or rats would emerge,
-- kitchen cabinet doors so overpainted as to be unable to shut without slamming (and then slamming would rip out the hinge screws),
-- screens non-existent (so bugs would fly in),
-- an airway so dust-filled as to be a wonder my computer didn't short out),
-- a window-situated garbage that would back up,
-- a toilet that had a leaky seal in the flooring (so water, (clear fortunately) ended up leaking to the transition strip of the bathroom entry)
-- a shower having doors that slid shut or open on their own (so, I had to de-rail one from the track, and ended up gouging the lower track...)
-- a bath tub which could not hold water
-- closets too oblong to be useful, and too high to use without a chair
-- a radiator that would be shut of most of the year, and then hissed like hell, so much so (louder than my 1999 Gateway computer p/s & CPU fans) that I had to use ear-covering headphones with high music to drown out the hiss)
-- a window that wouldn't open or shut without extreme effort
-- a bathroom and a bedroom window that were screwed permanently closed
-- unit having tons of pre-1930's paint (the building was built before (or just after?) the big quake (1906ish), and the manager was proud that it survived the 1989 quake and that the firefighters were amazed that it had suffered not structural damage (this, being near Union Square)
This, I feel is TYPICAL of raggedy-assed properties in San Fransideshow. It's appalling and embarrassing and it's a travesty that to get into NEW structures costs some $1500 or more if they're not government set-aside units for low-income. It's amazing that all the money this government and the wealthy have for funding wars around the world is not being spend on war against blight rental units.
Study the competition (or, in more base terms, know your enemy...).
Hell, the US is GOOD at out-sourcing, even outsourcing education. Sure, foreign students from abroad attend some of the ivy league (lower-casing intentional) schools here, but many attend in Europe, too. Some even attend here, then SPEND their time in Europe after having had enough of the US, but are still in school and have too many friends here.
Plus, there are cultural reasons (corruption, leadership by cronies and elders who might not see the logic in empowering their local populations), or other reasons in regions where there's just not enough money and will to outright build new, world-class, competitive, lasting and door-knocking throngs of students. So, they ship them out or allow them to be recruited by US colleges needing cash infusion.
Do you KNOW how many Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Indian students HERE in the US come from families that put them up in $1,000/month apartments, send them to renowned as well as dubious schools or "academies" that cost $80,000 to $200,000 for maybe 3 or 4 years? LOTS. It's a churning industry, and they keep getting fuller and fuller. Recruiting or otherwise attracting well-off kids whose parents want the brightest futures for their kids. Not saying ALL Asian families are that way, though.
Was he pawned? Will he return as a queen, a bishop, a knight?
This isn't so shocking. My Gateway P-6301 shocks me when I remove it from the backpack. The casing is that shiny, or glossy, stylish plastic. I suppose the matte finish and other laptops might also discharge shocks to the handler. But, in any case, Dell's or mine, this can't be good for the laptops. I better ground out before I bring it to a grinding halt, I suppose...
on the WRONG arm of the LAW
the heeling, healing heels of the SETI report. I can hear "THIS is the DAWNING of the AGE of aQUEERiUS.... AGE of aQUEERiUUUSSS.. a-QUEER-EE-UhhhhSSS...."
So, will AT&T still be "The RIGHT Choice"?
Or, more, will AT&T ask themselves, "Was it the RIGHT choice?"?
Will they have a green light on on their foreheads?
(And, will their entry into the world mark them as greenhorns?)
SOMEwhere in there is an embedded, county/parish/municipality based digitized asshole:
Contempt Modes
CM1 "SCUMBAG, get ON the GROUND NOW, or i WILL DROP YOU."
CM2 "Turn the FUCK around. PUT your DAMNED hands UP."
CM3 "FREEZE, MOTHERFUCKAH.*"
CM4 "Don't FUCKIN' LIE TO ME, PEDRO/Patel/Nguyen/(sub a name you want)I'm gonna deport your ass."
CM5 "Go back where you came from..."
(As someone given false tickets at least 1 time by local police and TWO times by CHP, and nearly screwed by the judges on the case/docket, I can say contempt of cop is NOT something you want to engage in.)
* (When I part-timed at Emporium in 1989 in Almaden (back then, mostly white, not Asian, neighborhood) there was a theft in progress. Loss Prevention (Caucasian) were in hot pursuit scaling and hopping escalators and chasing the suspects/shoplifters (Black) and not gaining on them. (They were WAY too fast to be caught). Angry, one of the shorter LP yelled "FREEZE, MOTHAFUCKA!! This thin, old, short white lady nearly fainted when she heard the words. I think she wasn't bothered by the hot foot pursuit. I think the profanity stunned her, hehehe...)
I didn't see "Monkey's". Even if I'd seen "Monkeys'", I'd think several monkeys in series, but not in unison/parallel/hive/collective. I'm thinking BORG VINCULUM. As described by one 7of9 (oh, I wish she were mine...)... anyway...
I see an infinite number of monkeys (chimpanzees) and an infinite number of T9-alloy exoskeletons, and I STILL don't see War and Peace. I see WAR and PIECES (of battle-wrecked exoskeletons...
NO, I not am on durgs.
"What is Fair Use in the Digital Age?"
The same that applied in pre-digital, digital ages:
Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate. There. Now, transferring that age to this age, add: "Don't digitize or compress; decompression not guaranteed" the membership.
What?
Intel's working on making software and hardware advances to cut the boot time. AMD will likely follow suit, as will other BIOS vendors/makers. That can't but HELP be good for Linux.
But, I suppose Linux can boot in under 14 seconds if it's an embedded device doing non-PC work.
Suspend and hibernate are nice, but maybe even this could be good for VirtualBox and other virtual machine environments.
And, I thought we were seeing another case of:
Wal-Mart spying on employees via us of former government intelligence gathering employees.
http://www.google.com/search?q=walmart+cia+securiity&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
in the story/review?
Hmmm....
They... will... be... ass... immolated...
I wonder if there's a connection between the SEC probing ms' rear and ms' wanting to probe others' rears...
You've GOT it, TOYOTA!
(Or, just get a Honda 3-wheeler or other model)
Time for slogan changes:
Dell could have "Dell's Hells"
HP INvent needs to be PREvent (fiery laptops; incessantly, infuriatingly jamming duplexer HPLJ 2340...)
And "Our Passion, Your Potential" should get them into buttloads of trouble if they start making product health comparisons. If they REALLY want to help, consumers be passionate about being healthy, they should combine silverlight or that table thingy of theirs, some holography, and a scanner. Then:
-- Scan the shopper's body,
-- detect chemicals known to be preservatives and additives, in the body
-- compare the products dropped into the cart, near the cart, or somewhere in the store
-- suggest, via holographic example, the havoc or harm wrought on the body
OK, you Linuxers, implement this BEFORE msoft does. If you want the jump on 'em, take this idea and RUN! RUN LINUX!
ms messenger flies by Uranus...
But, even magazines in the shipping industry need to (or as a courtesy and self-protection measure) seek permission of vessel owners (not the ship's master or captain, but the holding or owning company) before running even favorable or industry-improvement/kudos articles and such in professional journals.
Even museum ships and other ships (except military, which are funded by tax dollars; however, since the DOD and other nations' MoDs farm out whole jobs to commercial concerns, these firms ay try to claim image rights... just look at Boeing and Lockheed Martin, et al; to use their craft in movies you might need or dearly WANT to get their permission. They may or may not fund your project, but if they give you money, you better not turn on them and write a scathing review or produce embarrassing/humiliating footage...) try to claim copyrights over the STRUCTURES. Some of it surely is tourism dollars funneling...
Even yachts and small craft are being copyrighted. See:
U.S. Copyright Office - Registration of Vessel Hull Designs
http://www.copyright.gov/vessels/
U.S. Copyright Office - Protection for Fashion Design
http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat072706.html
The Learning Page-Getting Started: Copyright
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/cpyrt/
U.S. Copyright Office - Forms
http://www.copyright.gov/forms/
The lame thing is that in the early days of this new program (say, around 2000-2003-ish) USLIBCONG expected these "fashion designs" to fit on a single sheet of 8.5"x11" paper. But, people seeking to contain or constrain competition began submitting multiple sheets (despite the cost of doing so) because all the details could not fit and be legible. I even submitted 5 sheets of 24"x36" for a ship I designed*. I modeled it after the USN DDG-51, but "enhanced" it (for fictional, not hydrodynamic) reasons. (They WILL charge extra for over-sized and over-count sheets, last I checked...)
* Yes, I did contact the USN Public Affairs Officer, told them what I was doing, and I was told that the US public paid for the work on the DDG-51, and the US public can model after it. But, people modeling ships and planes and affixing company names will be in a different category and in need of rights permissions in some scenarios. Obviously, Boeing doesn't want 747s being depicted in crashes attributed to passenger mischief.
aren't a corporation that extracts or extorts billions out of other corporations and squeezes billions out of those people and corporations and governments trapped in ms code. So, you needn't empathise nor sympathise for the likes of msoft.
Say, Greyfox. Nothing like redundant sphincters that can log in and mod down the hell out of people, huh?
Byung-Gu gets ahold of your rear with his phallic, silver, steam-delivering alien anal probe.
He says, "See this here?... It's headed for a special place..." LOL!
He says no one has been able to stand it for more than an hour (I suppose he meant ALIENS, not humans...), but at least he lubes the thing. When it arrives on screen, it's a stunner. If you live in SF, you can borrow it from SFPL. Or, you can buy it online... Funny as hell. Crosses every imaginable film/movie genre in about 2 hours. Can't make stuff like this in the US...
http://www.kfccinema.com/reviews/horror/savethegreenplanet/savethegreenplanet.html
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10004650-save_the_green_planet/
http://www.loveasianfilm.com/reviews/savethegreenplanet.html
Ground beef... heheheh Chuck, roast, prime round, round eye, UP CHUCK...? If you equate their leadership to Star Trek's mad admirals, you can start corporate Mad Cow DisEase...
And if you DHCP their ass and bind an address, you'll be bound to grief on their ground beef.
(The Anti-Trust can keep steaming along. I'm pro-DIStrust of them. But, I AM happy that vista runs inside my VirtualBox-equipped PCLinuxOS2007 computer. Installed without too much of an issue, just about 45 minutes, 2 or 3 virtual reboots, and some minor tweaking (turn of UAC, need some vid drivers, need to activate the NIC or find a way to share files tween Linux and Blista...)...)
Noo, noo, noo..
You just GOTTA keep those drives. Sounds like you're kinda "hard" up, hehehe.
Maybe you could go to one of those semi-active volcanos and just disk-cuss-throw them there. Just be sure you don't spin right round like a record and end up following those bits and bytes. Then, it won't be a matter of what or whom is Dead or Alive....