Dig a little deeper than 2003 (when your ref's happened). There have been many cases of firearms mfg.'s being successfully sued in conjunction with shooting trials over the past several decades.
Basically, anything that SHOULD fall under common sense is being taken to civil court to avoid personal responsibility during the past several decades.
If you look at civil/liability court cases from oh, let's say 1980 onward, you will find an alarming increase in what I call 'lack of common sense/personal responsibility' cases being brought to court.
The attitude of 'it's not my fault due to X' is taking over our society like stink on shit.
You can see this attitude all throughout the posts on this article...blame AOL, Blame MS, Blame Kazzaa, Blame other users, Blame Goatse, Blame God, etc.
I hope she gets her ass handed to her on a platter over this. Kazzaa, AOL, and my intro...MS are not to blame here. She either needs to restrict her PC access to trusted users, or learn WTF...just like driving a car needs a certain minimal knowledge and responsibility to use or loan out.
Too tough on the user you say?? Balderdash...look at the amount of articles that hinge on the fact that clueless PC users cause so many problems. Until this is dealt with, this kind of shite will keep happening.
No different than the mess that 'Product Warning Labels' have been causing due to the fact that as a society ALL humans deserve to cheat the Darwin's Awards, and lower our intellect as a whole.
Err....maybe?!?!? I don't know anything about his(?-I will assume 'his') website, just his torrents I've picked up from ThePirateBay and Mininova. If one of his torrents have 10 or more seeders, I have always had good results. His files have always been as described, and 'just worked'. I don't know what else to say, or expect.
Maybe it's different here in the USA with torrents...I honestly don't know, but you surprise me somewhat. Is it really that different outside the USA?
LOL!! I remember playing the same game when I was installing. I seem to remember the installer really playing up the whole *do something else while this installs* meme...Great stuff!
Also agree with you on the whole SCO deal...I can't help but to mentally translate SCO into scummy for some reason though...just me perhaps, oh well.:-)
I have to say that Ive taken a perverse delight in the truly professional reaming IBM's Nazgul have given ole Daryl and friends at Scummy- err, I mean SCO, though. I guess I'm just a baaaad, baaaaaaaad boy!
Thanks for the info. I have never visited demonoid's site- just picked up his stuff from TPB and Mininova.
I can attest to the goodness of his torrents I have used (I look for 10+ seeders when I search for torrents, and give an added bonus for demonoid's torrents from my experience with them).
I have to agree with you on the counter-intuitive part. I would hope he only does it for his own use/ego, but I am not that fresh of the turnip truck.
No, I don't have an invite, or to be honest...have never visited his(?) site. What I can tell you for sure is that EVERY torrent I've gotten from him has been functionable, relevant to what I was looking for, and was maintained and working. Most I picked up via www.piratebay.org, or www.mininova.org.
What I usually do is this: 1. go to torrent site (two I use are listed above) and search in category for desired torrent. 2. order the displayed torrents by seeders 3. look for demonoid as submitter/tracker with at least 10 seeders 4. download and start the torrent 5. ???? 6. PROFIT!
HehHehHeh!...couldn't resist...sorry.;)
I can see mine was Caldera's Open Linux Base ver. 1.1. It came with a lilo boot floppy, an install cd-rom, and a very well laid out user manual that made installs and the configuration pretty straight forward. (disclaimer: purchased at flea market in 1996 for $0.50 USD...installed on several 386 and 486 pc's just because...)
Why, oh why, did I go to XP?
Happy to be on Kubuntu for the past year-year and a half??!!?
Your post reminded me about some behavior study done in either the late 1960's or early 1970' at the Berkley campus of one of the CA univerities (UCLA, USC, whatever).
They set up an experiment asking for paid ($300.00 comes to mind) volunteers who would drink a half gallon of their favorite beverage (alcohalic beverages were limited to beer) during a two hour time frame (no bathroom trips allowed), then retire to a small room as a group, taking seats in a circle facing in. In the room, you could have as much of your drink as desired. The catch to collecting your pay was that in order to leave thew room, you had to wet yourself-piss in your pants/skirt while sitting there in the group.
The results were interesting reading related directly to your post....very few persons chose to just quickly piss themselves in front of everyone, collect they money, and get on with there day-with $$$$!. The largest majority went through various heroic efforts to resist publicly doing a privat thing. Several poor sods actually held out long enough to spook the researchers into rushing them to the hospital for needed toxicity treatment and/or burst bladders.
Pretty typical human generated bell curve I guess, but I am not a sociologist.
Some of my details are probably suspect...going from memory of an article I read in the mid 1970's in high school.
"LOL!!! n00bs, we pwned yur ass!! All yur base R belong to us!!!"
Maybe it's from spending too much time playing Battlefield 1942 on line a few years ago, but scrubbing my brain with bleach did not erase some of the more eloquent prose from some of the kiddies.
I've been keeping track of your discussions, and the net/security geek side of me wants to rend my hair (what little is left!), the practical side of me that has ran across similar and other bizarre/arcane systems in my jobs can only wish you the best.
Amazing is the number of mfg./industry systems are still running on Win95,98, and even a bunch on DOS!...all kinds of networking and interface hacks required to keep the woolly mammoths plodding along.
I salute you, and award you the 'Wiley Coyote: Sooper Genius' trophy for dedication to the mission and 'stick to it-ness' to the grind...may you prosper. (no sarcasm intended!):-)
Alas, as in most bureaucratic systems the Peter Principle applies.
Sorry, no Mod points for you from me....if I had some I would have given you +1 informative!
The MD that delivered me was listed by the IRS as a 'Professional Gambler' instead of a Doctor because of his poker winnings in Vegas, they far outweighed his earnings as a Medical Doctor. LOL!
He basically said the same as you, only more succinctly!...He was 84 years old then.....in 1958!
Be that as it may, you are attributing herd behavior to a predator (cat) that you are comparing to a nomadic omnivore (man).
Very few humans can be classed as predators now days based on behavior.
And yes, this is part of my college degree, and state certification as a Veterinary Technician.
Humans as predators have not been an issue in nature since cities were formed. (yes- a small, but insignificant % have been, and will always remain predators in the terms you want to compare us with cats.)
But don't complain if the cat,instead of acting confused, just jumps up and shreds your scrotum, pisses in your coffee, and shits on your pillow...just as an experiment to see if that confuses you.
Some cats, and some people are readily capable of thoughts/actions outside of herd mentality.
A lot of books (heck-even movies) have claimed all kinds of wacky things...so what?
For all we know, the EARTH was NOT created by evolution. LIFE may/probably came by way of the theory of evolution as we understand it at this time, but the Earth was believed/theorised to have formed from dust and other matter coming to stick together. (I'm keeping it simple for you)
Are you this god you speak of to be able to say with certainty that "Fact is, no one will ever really know for sure."?
Those that have also boldly made similar statements since recorded history have found themselves eating those very words, or proven wrong later. What flavor of sauce for crow do you prefer?
Anyway, just something that does not need to be thought about as science...Intelligent Design or Creationism.
Don't try and bring philosophy and religion into a science discussion...it dramatically increases the odds you will be treated with well deserved derision.
As for TFA...GO! GO! U.K.!! Good to hear of this decision.
So, you're saying this god entity is a programmer? He/She/It sure left a lot of bugs! *swats another fly*
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Hear! Hear!
I was going to suggest 'pimping' XP with Kubuntu 7.04, but you covered it better.
I ran XP Pro for 5 years, got pretty good at setting it up for malware and security, but had to mess with it seemingly constantly, or re-installing too often. I hated it, but it ran the games I wanted to play, so I stuck with it, trying different distributions of *nix and not quite catching on. Afterall, if current *nix distro gave me fits, I always could reboot into XP.
When WGA declared my retail, legit XP Pro as pirated, and after the phone call to try and straighten it out, I finally saw the light...added my XP Pro install cd to the collection of AOL trial discs in a big box (I plan on making something 'oooh! Shiny! with them someday) and installed Kubuntu Dapper and have not looked back.
The one game that I can't seem to get working with Linux (Battlefield 1942, Desert Combat, BF Vietnam) I have played enough that when we LAN I can use my buddy's spare pc to play on without a significant loss of skills. For the other Win only games, I play them on Win98 in a VM on Kubuntu with no problems.
Not everyone is like me, but I'm better off now than I was drinking the MS Koolaide. YMMV.
"It is worth the drive to TAMU sometime to see the 1943 tiger flick "We've never been licked!'"
Okay, I'm lost here.
What is TAMU, and what is a 'tiger flick'?
Not being (or trying to be) a smartass, just my curiosity is aroused now.
Okay-done the Google search, it has Robert Mitchum in it...about a Texas college student going to Japan after being accused of consorting with the Japanese while in college.
Also found TAMU as Texas A&M University.....never mind the questions I had, but thanks for the heads up for the info!
Just got home from work and I guess almost instant gratification was not fast enough when I went 'WTF?' But then common sense took hold again.
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Dig a little deeper than 2003 (when your ref's happened). There have been many cases of firearms mfg.'s being successfully sued in conjunction with shooting trials over the past several decades.
Basically, anything that SHOULD fall under common sense is being taken to civil court to avoid personal responsibility during the past several decades.
If you look at civil/liability court cases from oh, let's say 1980 onward, you will find an alarming increase in what I call 'lack of common sense/personal responsibility' cases being brought to court.
The attitude of 'it's not my fault due to X' is taking over our society like stink on shit.
You can see this attitude all throughout the posts on this article...blame AOL, Blame MS, Blame Kazzaa, Blame other users, Blame Goatse, Blame God, etc.
I hope she gets her ass handed to her on a platter over this. Kazzaa, AOL, and my intro...MS are not to blame here. She either needs to restrict her PC access to trusted users, or learn WTF...just like driving a car needs a certain minimal knowledge and responsibility to use or loan out.
Too tough on the user you say?? Balderdash...look at the amount of articles that hinge on the fact that clueless PC users cause so many problems. Until this is dealt with, this kind of shite will keep happening.
No different than the mess that 'Product Warning Labels' have been causing due to the fact that as a society ALL humans deserve to cheat the Darwin's Awards, and lower our intellect as a whole.
Back in the day, rebranding would get you hanged for a livestock thief.
All I can say is: Die Boldly, Diebold...the sooner the better. I'm tired of 'running iron' elections being acceptable.
Hang 'em high, and dry!
No mod points to give you, but very well done!
Nah. nevermind...3 tons!= The Moon.
I guess I also go for the Moose and the Squirrel option, since I didn't see a CowboyNeil option.
This wasn't a poll?!?!?
Nevermind.....
Hey, you kids...GET OFF OF MY LAWN!
"Either way, my system would be compromised by either 24 or 25 viruses..."
24 or 25 out of 25?
Hmmm....
Does mean that *nix is finally ready for the desktop?..Just like Windows?
Uhmm..w00t!?!?
Disclaimer: coming to you from a Feisty Kubuntu PC that is running ClamAV.
Err....maybe?!?!?
I don't know anything about his(?-I will assume 'his') website, just his torrents I've picked up from ThePirateBay and Mininova.
If one of his torrents have 10 or more seeders, I have always had good results. His files have always been as described, and 'just worked'. I don't know what else to say, or expect.
Maybe it's different here in the USA with torrents...I honestly don't know, but you surprise me somewhat. Is it really that different outside the USA?
LOL!!
:-)
I remember playing the same game when I was installing. I seem to remember the installer really playing up the whole *do something else while this installs* meme...Great stuff!
Also agree with you on the whole SCO deal...I can't help but to mentally translate SCO into scummy for some reason though...just me perhaps, oh well.
I have to say that Ive taken a perverse delight in the truly professional reaming IBM's Nazgul have given ole Daryl and friends at Scummy- err, I mean SCO, though. I guess I'm just a baaaad, baaaaaaaad boy!
Thanks for the info. I have never visited demonoid's site- just picked up his stuff from TPB and Mininova.
I can attest to the goodness of his torrents I have used (I look for 10+ seeders when I search for torrents, and give an added bonus for demonoid's torrents from my experience with them).
I have to agree with you on the counter-intuitive part. I would hope he only does it for his own use/ego, but I am not that fresh of the turnip truck.
No, I don't have an invite, or to be honest...have never visited his(?) site.
;)
What I can tell you for sure is that EVERY torrent I've gotten from him has been functionable, relevant to what I was looking for, and was maintained and working. Most I picked up via www.piratebay.org, or www.mininova.org.
What I usually do is this:
1. go to torrent site (two I use are listed above) and search in category for desired torrent.
2. order the displayed torrents by seeders
3. look for demonoid as submitter/tracker with at least 10 seeders
4. download and start the torrent
5. ????
6. PROFIT!
HehHehHeh!...couldn't resist...sorry.
But ignore 5 & 6 for serious answer.
Hear! Hear!
Demonoid is de man!
Most of my worthwhile/usable downloads are generated by Demonoid.
Usable should have been in ALL CAPS!
I can see mine was Caldera's Open Linux Base ver. 1.1. It came with a lilo boot floppy, an install cd-rom, and a very well laid out user manual that made installs and the configuration pretty straight forward.
(disclaimer: purchased at flea market in 1996 for $0.50 USD...installed on several 386 and 486 pc's just because...)
Why, oh why, did I go to XP?
Happy to be on Kubuntu for the past year-year and a half??!!?
Your post reminded me about some behavior study done in either the late 1960's or early 1970' at the Berkley campus of one of the CA univerities (UCLA, USC, whatever).
They set up an experiment asking for paid ($300.00 comes to mind) volunteers who would drink a half gallon of their favorite beverage (alcohalic beverages were limited to beer) during a two hour time frame (no bathroom trips allowed), then retire to a small room as a group, taking seats in a circle facing in. In the room, you could have as much of your drink as desired. The catch to collecting your pay was that in order to leave thew room, you had to wet yourself-piss in your pants/skirt while sitting there in the group.
The results were interesting reading related directly to your post....very few persons chose to just quickly piss themselves in front of everyone, collect they money, and get on with there day-with $$$$!. The largest majority went through various heroic efforts to resist publicly doing a privat thing. Several poor sods actually held out long enough to spook the researchers into rushing them to the hospital for needed toxicity treatment and/or burst bladders.
Pretty typical human generated bell curve I guess, but I am not a sociologist.
Some of my details are probably suspect...going from memory of an article I read in the mid 1970's in high school.
Maybe he will run into those internets that where sent on Friday that have not been deliverd yet...or trucks.
No, mine was along these lines:
"LOL!!! n00bs, we pwned yur ass!! All yur base R belong to us!!!"
Maybe it's from spending too much time playing Battlefield 1942 on line a few years ago, but scrubbing my brain with bleach did not erase some of the more eloquent prose from some of the kiddies.
I've been keeping track of your discussions, and the net/security geek side of me wants to rend my hair (what little is left!), the practical side of me that has ran across similar and other bizarre/arcane systems in my jobs can only wish you the best.
:-)
Amazing is the number of mfg./industry systems are still running on Win95,98, and even a bunch on DOS!...all kinds of networking and interface hacks required to keep the woolly mammoths plodding along.
I salute you, and award you the 'Wiley Coyote: Sooper Genius' trophy for dedication to the mission and 'stick to it-ness' to the grind...may you prosper. (no sarcasm intended!)
Alas, as in most bureaucratic systems the Peter Principle applies.
Fight on, Rock on, Dude!
Sorry, no Mod points for you from me....if I had some I would have given you +1 informative!
The MD that delivered me was listed by the IRS as a 'Professional Gambler' instead of a Doctor because of his poker winnings in Vegas, they far outweighed his earnings as a Medical Doctor. LOL!
He basically said the same as you, only more succinctly!...He was 84 years old then.....in 1958!
Yes, I'm older than dirt, but still kicking!
OMG! Hey! You kids get off my lawn!
Nelson: "Ha! Ha!"
Now you're bitchin' 'cause you have yer cute lil' cube, Macboy?
LOL!
Be that as it may, you are attributing herd behavior to a predator (cat) that you are comparing to a nomadic omnivore (man).
Very few humans can be classed as predators now days based on behavior.
And yes, this is part of my college degree, and state certification as a Veterinary Technician.
Humans as predators have not been an issue in nature since cities were formed. (yes- a small, but insignificant % have been, and will always remain predators in the terms you want to compare us with cats.)
But don't complain if the cat,instead of acting confused, just jumps up and shreds your scrotum, pisses in your coffee, and shits on your pillow...just as an experiment to see if that confuses you.
Some cats, and some people are readily capable of thoughts/actions outside of herd mentality.
Homer Simpson has this reaction when confronted with ANYTHING that he thinks may be edible-whether it actually is or not.
Homer: "Hmmm! !"
On one episode he discovered a jar of petroleum jelly (vaseline) and it turned into:
Homer:'Hmmm! JELLY! " and he starts eating it, licks clean the now empty jar, and starts looking for more.
Hope this helps.
After DHS gets done with you, only 10 major points of entry will seem like a good thing.
After going through 'Security', you will leak like a sieve. But after that first deflowering, it shouldn't be that bad the next time.
But you'll never be able to fly Virgin Airways again.
Just to point out.
A lot of books (heck-even movies) have claimed all kinds of wacky things...so what?
For all we know, the EARTH was NOT created by evolution. LIFE may/probably came by way of the theory of evolution as we understand it at this time, but the Earth was believed/theorised to have formed from dust and other matter coming to stick together. (I'm keeping it simple for you)
Are you this god you speak of to be able to say with certainty that "Fact is, no one will ever really know for sure."?
Those that have also boldly made similar statements since recorded history have found themselves eating those very words, or proven wrong later.
What flavor of sauce for crow do you prefer?
Anyway, just something that does not need to be thought about as science...Intelligent Design or Creationism.
Don't try and bring philosophy and religion into a science discussion...it dramatically increases the odds you will be treated with well deserved derision.
As for TFA...GO! GO! U.K.!! Good to hear of this decision.
So, you're saying this god entity is a programmer? He/She/It sure left a lot of bugs! *swats another fly*
Hear! Hear!
I was going to suggest 'pimping' XP with Kubuntu 7.04, but you covered it better.
I ran XP Pro for 5 years, got pretty good at setting it up for malware and security, but had to mess with it seemingly constantly, or re-installing too often.
I hated it, but it ran the games I wanted to play, so I stuck with it, trying different distributions of *nix and not quite catching on. Afterall, if current *nix distro gave me fits, I always could reboot into XP.
When WGA declared my retail, legit XP Pro as pirated, and after the phone call to try and straighten it out, I finally saw the light...added my XP Pro install cd to the collection of AOL trial discs in a big box (I plan on making something 'oooh! Shiny! with them someday) and installed Kubuntu Dapper and have not looked back.
The one game that I can't seem to get working with Linux (Battlefield 1942, Desert Combat, BF Vietnam) I have played enough that when we LAN I can use my buddy's spare pc to play on without a significant loss of skills. For the other Win only games, I play them on Win98 in a VM on Kubuntu with no problems.
Not everyone is like me, but I'm better off now than I was drinking the MS Koolaide. YMMV.
"It is worth the drive to TAMU sometime to see the 1943 tiger flick "We've never been licked!'"
Okay, I'm lost here.
What is TAMU, and what is a 'tiger flick'?
Not being (or trying to be) a smartass, just my curiosity is aroused now.
Okay-done the Google search, it has Robert Mitchum in it...about a Texas college student going to Japan after being accused of consorting with the Japanese while in college.
Also found TAMU as Texas A&M University.....never mind the questions I had, but thanks for the heads up for the info!
Just got home from work and I guess almost instant gratification was not fast enough when I went 'WTF?'
But then common sense took hold again.