Why do so many people continue to use Windows when all they do is complain about it? I have installed SP2 on numerous machines and have had absolutely no problems. I like Windows for what I use it for, and for purposes where I feel that Windows is not the best choice I also run multiple linux machines.
If you don't like Windows or are just anti-microsoft, then just stop using their products. Maybe this doesn't happen because if everyone who had problems with Microsoft switched to linux or some other open source OS then they'd have nothing left to bitch about.
Does anyone else remember when it was suggested that ebonics be recognized as its own language, and that it should be taught in school? I was a freshman in high school at the time, I think it was back in 1997...
Most big cities already have cameras at stoplights and on freeways, and those are in place to catch people for speeding and running lights. Having cameras in place to catch people firing guns in public sounds like a better use of government surveillance.
On the other hand, its time for me to build that homemade silencer that I've been putting off for the past few years...
I would sooner trust my life to an athiest that any religious person.
See, to me, making a statement like that just makes you seem like an asshole. Whether or not you are religious, what right do you have to claim that those who believe in something different from you are stupid? That goes for both athiests and religious zealots. Just because someone believes in a god doesn't mean they are any less intelligent than you. And just because someone doesn't agree with your religious views doesn't mean that they are stupid either.
However, you are a complete moron if you think that someone is stupid just because they believe in something that you don't.
I too have not found anything in Houston. The only places that are calling me back are staffing companies with short 2 month contracts. While my current job does suck, I'm not going to leave it for something temporary. I too plan on joining the military if things don't start to look up for me by May.
See, this is hilarious. I didn't even vote for Bush, yet because I'm tired of hearing you pussies cry all the time that makes me a Republican. Bringing up Bush and Republicans has nothing to do with this topic. And people modding me down because I'm tired of hearing people cry about Republicans, which last time I checked, have NOTHING TO DO WITH EVIDENCE OF HUMANS FROM 50,000 YEARS AGO BEING DISCOVERED IN AMERICA. Yet I am the one who is modded down for being off topic...
I agree that I would like to have this kind of system, it would keep people from driving 30 under the speed limit as well as keep drivers moving so that there aren't huge traffic pile-ups. When they think they have a final working model, they should introduce it to Houston first.
Um, what evidence do you have of this climate change? I have seen no drastic change in the frequency of El Nino over the past 225 million years. El Nino is largely affected by the earth's temperature, so if the temperature is rising, then the frequency of this phenomenon would increase. However, through the use of dendrochronology one can look at the rings of a modern tree and compare them to those of a 225 million year old petrified tree, showing that the frequency of El Nino 225 million years ago is practically identical to that of today.
You also have to keep in mind that we are still technically coming out of an ice age.
Holy shit. Would you shut the fuck up already? I'm fucking tired of hearing all of you assholes bitch and bitch about bush this and religious right that as well as all of your bitching about conservatives and republicans. Just shut the fuck up already. Quit crying and go kill yourself. Just because your side didn't win doesn't mean you have the right to fucking bitch and complain about it.
They are certainly not doing a good job of helping companies within their countries. Private companies for their own part, and for that matter citizens, are pretty much on their own in the cyberworld.
I do not agree with this statement at all. I believe that the government is doing too much to protect private corporations in the cyberworld.
This show has a record of being completely inaccurate. I know it is just a TV show and everything, but you have to admit that they are at least trying to uphold the image that this is how real cops solve real crimes.
In a physics class I took in college we watched a few episodes so the professor could point out all the stupid inaccurate references. In one episode some worker fell off of a building and died because his drill shorted out and electrocuted him and he fell over the railing. The cop was talking about how he was falling at a velocity of 9.8m/s squared. He was obviously refering to the acceleration of gravity, or the writers don't know the difference between velocity and acceleration. That is just one example of how they take reality and bend it to make the show interesting and dramatic.
Don't get me wrong though, I think it is interesting and fun to watch. Perhaps it might intrigue others and influence them to learn how things really happen. Either that or someone will copy one of the brutal murders off of the show...
until they can figure out how to stop creating sinkholes that open up under minivans with children inside.
Good, killing two birds with one stone. I thank Verizon for helping remove more soccer-mom-driven minivans from the road. And as for the children... maybe now I can go seen a R rated movie without having some kid crying up and down the isles.
I spent the first half of my high school career in California, and the 2nd half in Katy, a suburb of Houston. I can tell you right now that Texas high schools have more things in common with a Nazi prison camp than they do with most other high schools. My school had no windows, it was always 70 degrees, and everyone always wore the same thing: Polo shirt and jeans. This wasn't mandatory, everyone just liked to wear the exact same thing. Kind of reminded me of that movie, Disturbing Behavior.
Spring is a suburb of Houston, sort of. I went to a high school in a different suburb and all I have to say is that I'm not surprised. My sister is a senior at the same high school that I graduated from in 2000. There are always police in the cafeteria watching everyone and now they have implemented a new policy which allows them to "randomly" drug test anyone who decides to park their cars on campus.
Schools in most of Texas are very strict about attendance, as well as dress code and a variety of other things. The more students that attend, the more funding the school district gets. They tried to raise attendance rates by offering exemptions for finals. If you have an A in the class you were allowed 3 absences, 2 with a B, and 1 with a C. If you met those requirements, you didn't have to take the final. Either this wasn't working or they have just gotten more greedy.
That is a brilliant deduction, but had you RTFA you would have noticed " Bentley said she expects AOL will phase out existing broadband customers in the rest of the country in a similar manner over the next year." moron...
I don't know where everyone is getting their information on the requirements for "exempt" status, but I was actually researching this the other day and I stumbled across this. It is the Fair Labor Standards Act fact sheet. It states that "Exempt computer employees may be paid at least $455 on a salary basis or on an hourly basis at a rate not less than $27.63 an hour."
Also interesting is "Being paid on a "salary basis" means an employee regularly receives a predetermined amount of compensation each pay period on a weekly, or less frequent, basis. The predetermined amount cannot be reduced because of variations in the quality or quantity of the employee's work."
One important thing to remember is that this is nothing the planet hasn't seen before. Things have gotten no worse than they were 200 million years ago. There have been plenty of studies in dendrochronology that prove this and that while the earth might be heating up, its nothing the planet can't handle.
Thats the same kind of mentality that awards people for spilling hot coffee on themselves. I think the only people that should be held liable for their decisions are the actual decision makers. Everyone knows Windows isn't what we would call entirely stable. Thats why nuclear facilities and any facility where security and stability are key are advised against using Windows.
The idiots who decided to "upgrade" from Unix to Windows should be held accountable, not Microsoft or the lowly tech who was supposed to reboot the system.
I really wish Microsoft would go out of business, quickly and quietly. I don't hate Bill Gates, I don't hate Windows, I'm just tired of hearing everyone bitch about them so much.
What kind of a sick and twisted world are we living in when a man who does so many great things is villified because some people don't like his product? Microsoft aside, the man donates more money to charities than any one person that I can think of at the moment. Maybe some of you flamers should go out and donate billions of dollars to charities, maybe then you'll have some room to speak badly of Bill Gates, because after all, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
studies have shown can help prevent the oxidation of blood plasma by toxic-free radicals that trigger many aging diseases, including cancer, diabetes, heart disease and cataracts
Its amazing how scientists claim that beer can help prevent cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, but they fail to mention the harmful side effects, such as sclerosis of the liver, beer goggles, and sometimes even the dreaded "whiskey-dick".
Ok, all you did was say over and over again that "the internet is dying". You said it about 8 times in fact. Now, instead of being annoyingly redundant, how about some reasons why its dying? You can't just say "its dying" 12 times and not even give a hint to why that is.
Oh really. It is my Consititutional right to own a firearm, yet for some reason, I am not permitted to have one on campus, or in a liquor store, or a bar... Why do you think that is? Universities are allowed to apply as many restrictions as they want, because you agree to them when you agree to attend and live on campus. It sucks, but its part of college. You sign a contract agreeing to their rules.
Then again, the only way they'd know where the signal was coming from was if they went war-driving through all the university apartment complexes.
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Why do so many people continue to use Windows when all they do is complain about it? I have installed SP2 on numerous machines and have had absolutely no problems. I like Windows for what I use it for, and for purposes where I feel that Windows is not the best choice I also run multiple linux machines.
If you don't like Windows or are just anti-microsoft, then just stop using their products. Maybe this doesn't happen because if everyone who had problems with Microsoft switched to linux or some other open source OS then they'd have nothing left to bitch about.
Does anyone else remember when it was suggested that ebonics be recognized as its own language, and that it should be taught in school? I was a freshman in high school at the time, I think it was back in 1997...
That idea was as short lived as it was stupid.
Most big cities already have cameras at stoplights and on freeways, and those are in place to catch people for speeding and running lights. Having cameras in place to catch people firing guns in public sounds like a better use of government surveillance.
On the other hand, its time for me to build that homemade silencer that I've been putting off for the past few years...
I would sooner trust my life to an athiest that any religious person.
See, to me, making a statement like that just makes you seem like an asshole. Whether or not you are religious, what right do you have to claim that those who believe in something different from you are stupid? That goes for both athiests and religious zealots. Just because someone believes in a god doesn't mean they are any less intelligent than you. And just because someone doesn't agree with your religious views doesn't mean that they are stupid either.
However, you are a complete moron if you think that someone is stupid just because they believe in something that you don't.
I too have not found anything in Houston. The only places that are calling me back are staffing companies with short 2 month contracts. While my current job does suck, I'm not going to leave it for something temporary. I too plan on joining the military if things don't start to look up for me by May.
See, this is hilarious. I didn't even vote for Bush, yet because I'm tired of hearing you pussies cry all the time that makes me a Republican. Bringing up Bush and Republicans has nothing to do with this topic. And people modding me down because I'm tired of hearing people cry about Republicans, which last time I checked, have NOTHING TO DO WITH EVIDENCE OF HUMANS FROM 50,000 YEARS AGO BEING DISCOVERED IN AMERICA. Yet I am the one who is modded down for being off topic...
A lot of good this thing will do when some asshole is going 35 mph on the freeway in a 1985 Ford Aspire spewing black fumes out of the exhaust.
Sending wireless warning signal...
Sending wireless warning signal...
Sending wireless warning signal...
and then you crash.
I agree that I would like to have this kind of system, it would keep people from driving 30 under the speed limit as well as keep drivers moving so that there aren't huge traffic pile-ups. When they think they have a final working model, they should introduce it to Houston first.
Um, what evidence do you have of this climate change? I have seen no drastic change in the frequency of El Nino over the past 225 million years. El Nino is largely affected by the earth's temperature, so if the temperature is rising, then the frequency of this phenomenon would increase. However, through the use of dendrochronology one can look at the rings of a modern tree and compare them to those of a 225 million year old petrified tree, showing that the frequency of El Nino 225 million years ago is practically identical to that of today. You also have to keep in mind that we are still technically coming out of an ice age.
Holy shit. Would you shut the fuck up already? I'm fucking tired of hearing all of you assholes bitch and bitch about bush this and religious right that as well as all of your bitching about conservatives and republicans. Just shut the fuck up already. Quit crying and go kill yourself. Just because your side didn't win doesn't mean you have the right to fucking bitch and complain about it.
They are certainly not doing a good job of helping companies within their countries. Private companies for their own part, and for that matter citizens, are pretty much on their own in the cyberworld. I do not agree with this statement at all. I believe that the government is doing too much to protect private corporations in the cyberworld.
This show has a record of being completely inaccurate. I know it is just a TV show and everything, but you have to admit that they are at least trying to uphold the image that this is how real cops solve real crimes.
In a physics class I took in college we watched a few episodes so the professor could point out all the stupid inaccurate references. In one episode some worker fell off of a building and died because his drill shorted out and electrocuted him and he fell over the railing. The cop was talking about how he was falling at a velocity of 9.8m/s squared. He was obviously refering to the acceleration of gravity, or the writers don't know the difference between velocity and acceleration. That is just one example of how they take reality and bend it to make the show interesting and dramatic.
Don't get me wrong though, I think it is interesting and fun to watch. Perhaps it might intrigue others and influence them to learn how things really happen. Either that or someone will copy one of the brutal murders off of the show...
until they can figure out how to stop creating sinkholes that open up under minivans with children inside.
Good, killing two birds with one stone. I thank Verizon for helping remove more soccer-mom-driven minivans from the road. And as for the children... maybe now I can go seen a R rated movie without having some kid crying up and down the isles.
I spent the first half of my high school career in California, and the 2nd half in Katy, a suburb of Houston. I can tell you right now that Texas high schools have more things in common with a Nazi prison camp than they do with most other high schools. My school had no windows, it was always 70 degrees, and everyone always wore the same thing: Polo shirt and jeans. This wasn't mandatory, everyone just liked to wear the exact same thing. Kind of reminded me of that movie, Disturbing Behavior.
Spring is a suburb of Houston, sort of. I went to a high school in a different suburb and all I have to say is that I'm not surprised. My sister is a senior at the same high school that I graduated from in 2000. There are always police in the cafeteria watching everyone and now they have implemented a new policy which allows them to "randomly" drug test anyone who decides to park their cars on campus.
Schools in most of Texas are very strict about attendance, as well as dress code and a variety of other things. The more students that attend, the more funding the school district gets. They tried to raise attendance rates by offering exemptions for finals. If you have an A in the class you were allowed 3 absences, 2 with a B, and 1 with a C. If you met those requirements, you didn't have to take the final. Either this wasn't working or they have just gotten more greedy.
Right... time to start...
That is a brilliant deduction, but had you RTFA you would have noticed " Bentley said she expects AOL will phase out existing broadband customers in the rest of the country in a similar manner over the next year." moron...
I don't know where everyone is getting their information on the requirements for "exempt" status, but I was actually researching this the other day and I stumbled across this. It is the Fair Labor Standards Act fact sheet. It states that "Exempt computer employees may be paid at least $455 on a salary basis or on an hourly basis at a rate not less than $27.63 an hour."
Also interesting is "Being paid on a "salary basis" means an employee regularly receives a predetermined amount of compensation each pay period on a weekly, or less frequent, basis. The predetermined amount cannot be reduced because of variations in the quality or quantity of the employee's work."
One important thing to remember is that this is nothing the planet hasn't seen before. Things have gotten no worse than they were 200 million years ago. There have been plenty of studies in dendrochronology that prove this and that while the earth might be heating up, its nothing the planet can't handle.
Thats the same kind of mentality that awards people for spilling hot coffee on themselves. I think the only people that should be held liable for their decisions are the actual decision makers. Everyone knows Windows isn't what we would call entirely stable. Thats why nuclear facilities and any facility where security and stability are key are advised against using Windows. The idiots who decided to "upgrade" from Unix to Windows should be held accountable, not Microsoft or the lowly tech who was supposed to reboot the system.
I really wish Microsoft would go out of business, quickly and quietly. I don't hate Bill Gates, I don't hate Windows, I'm just tired of hearing everyone bitch about them so much.
What kind of a sick and twisted world are we living in when a man who does so many great things is villified because some people don't like his product? Microsoft aside, the man donates more money to charities than any one person that I can think of at the moment. Maybe some of you flamers should go out and donate billions of dollars to charities, maybe then you'll have some room to speak badly of Bill Gates, because after all, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
studies have shown can help prevent the oxidation of blood plasma by toxic-free radicals that trigger many aging diseases, including cancer, diabetes, heart disease and cataracts Its amazing how scientists claim that beer can help prevent cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, but they fail to mention the harmful side effects, such as sclerosis of the liver, beer goggles, and sometimes even the dreaded "whiskey-dick".
Ok, all you did was say over and over again that "the internet is dying". You said it about 8 times in fact. Now, instead of being annoyingly redundant, how about some reasons why its dying? You can't just say "its dying" 12 times and not even give a hint to why that is.
Here's a link to some information about the newly photographed planet from NASA
People can find statistics stating anything. 33% of all people know that.
Oh really. It is my Consititutional right to own a firearm, yet for some reason, I am not permitted to have one on campus, or in a liquor store, or a bar... Why do you think that is? Universities are allowed to apply as many restrictions as they want, because you agree to them when you agree to attend and live on campus. It sucks, but its part of college. You sign a contract agreeing to their rules. Then again, the only way they'd know where the signal was coming from was if they went war-driving through all the university apartment complexes.