Does having H1N1 grant you access to the strategic national Tamiflu stockpile?
Yes. The company my father and his wife work for has it stockpiled and we sent away for it in the spring. I don't know if we get access to the national stockpile, but I know the company he works for (a drug company) has it.
No modern religion forces family members to give up their loved ones, picket outside the house of an 'unbeliever', or essentially, slavery.
Islam prohibits Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men, proscribes death penalty for abandoning Islam (which any Muslim is required to carry out should he get the opportunity), and provides a legal framework for slavery, including female sexual slavery.
The bible also has many things to say about a womans' right (or lack of). It also outlines slavery. It also claims an old man built a ship and gathered two of every species and survived a flood on a massive scale. I think that Scientology is just the easy one to pick on right now because it's popular and you won't catch much flak. If you go after Judaism you'll be verbally attacked and probably modded down, but if you bash the Catholic church by making pederast priest jokes or insult Scientology you'll get away with it fine. If you go after Muslims, you'll get death threats.
Have you ever tried stowing a desktop tower, monitor and keyboard under an airplane seat? I'd say the laptop is still relatively portable even if it needs to be plugged in.
Yes. It almost worked but the person next to me spilled their dry martini on my CRT and got electrocuted. Stupid turbulence...
On the good old CSS/TF2 system, you could just connect to a server and download the campaign from there directly and fast, if the server used a fastdownload host. I guess there was a reason for this, so the slow downloaders would not reserve a spot but Valve should have had the custom maps available over Steam.
The "sv_downloadurl" cvar was put in place long before CSS came out. I ran a 1.6 server in late 2003 to 2005 and once I talked my host into giving me some webspace and bandwidth I immediately saw a massive increase on people joining my server and more donations to pay for the server bill. Sometimes I didn't even pay for it because of the amount of cash coming in.
This was all before any idiot could run a server and you had to hack away at configuration files and manually install mods, maps, etc -- much like installing Linux! None of this "One-Click-Install" mods and maps they have these days.
Imagine the lost sales if Valve had blocked mods on half-life and we never received counter-strike, I know that is an extreme example of mods driving sales, but they do to a point anywhere.
Well I think the big thing is that Half Life was made incredibly popular by the mods that were made for it. I played Counter Strike before I even knew what Half Life was. Once I played it, it was definitely an amazing game, but it still is what got me indoctrinated into the series.
I can honestly say for a fact that I was planning on buying this game (Fuck preorders, I'm not that hellbent on getting it), and now I won't because of this. I'd run a dedicated server on my spare computer in my house and my friends would play. Now we're gonna move onto a different game because of this. There's $50 gone for them.
Power goes out? You think I would rely on the power company for my precious servers? Hell no. I have my own generators - an array of solar, wind, steam, and diesel. It's all within the 18 million dollar budget.
You left out coal, oil, and nuclear.
And gerbils on wheels!...Just keep Richard Gere (Or Larry David) away from them.
If one party is found, at the end, to have wasted the other party's time in court with needless hearings and motions, the first party can get attorney's fees. I won almost $6000 in fees against my ex-wife because of her shenanigans in an on-going custody fight (not that I think I'll ever see a dime of that money, of course, just because someone owes you money doesn't mean you can actually collect it).
Al Sharpton never paid the $345k that he owes in damages for the Tawana Brawley case. Perfect example.
Yes turning people's consoles into bricks IS fraud, and both the U.S. and EU governments should drag Nintendo into court and rape them for millions of dollars in punishment. BUT until that happens (if ever), we the people have a right to replace the consoles that Nintendo turned into trash, just the same as you have a right to shoot someone who stabs you in the stomach. It's called self-defense - protecting yourself from getting screwed.
Yes, but Nintendo has a defense that Average Joe Sixpack doesn't have -- a large team of attorneys and enough money to throw around to shut up anybody attacking them.
NOBODY CAN DRIVE AND BE SAFE, since there's always a risk of accident. Seriously... it's all about risk management. Reading a traffic text message is no different than the electronic signs over the highway that say "Traffic ahead! Slow down now!" or a "Construction Jun 17-25 10pm to 5am" signs on some of our highways here. Or a billboard.
Do you reach into your pocket and take one of your hands off the wheel to read a billboard or an electronic sign? I suppose you do the same thing at every speed limit posting.
I realize that the idea will panic a lot of people because we have a lot of power-hungry cops who abuse any flexibility that they're given (e.g. ticketing somebody for drinking through a straw while driving), but are we really going to make separate laws for texting, lipstick application, shaving, talking on the phone, changing shirts, peeing into a Gatorade bottle, beating the kids in the back seat to shut them up, checking your purse to make sure you remembered your dry-cleaning ticket, changing the time on the radio to reflect daylight savings, eating a taco, eating a burrito, etc?
There's also Careless Driving. It's a $120 fine and 3 points on your license in Pennsylvania. My sibling got one after rear ending someone. Nobody was hurt, no major damage to the other party, but their airbags deployed. Careless driving and distracted driving sound very similar, since it's careless to do something distracting while driving.
Being serious, this is only indirectly for end users, and people bitching about slow connections here would be like me bitching in a NASA thread about how it isn't fair that NASA has crafts going 20,000 MPH while my bicycle is still stuck at a max of about 30mph. Different toys for different uses. This is clearly an infrastructure tool, one that offers much better speeds and lower costs of deployment than the current stuff.
My entire point is that even if this was deployed, the end user such as myself would probably still be capped at an unreasonable 5mbit download and a fraction of that for the upload. The USA has fallen behind severely in internet speeds while other countries are providing 100mbit right to your door at the same cost.
That said, I'd really be happy if I could just get FIOS where I live. It is absurd to me that, living in downtown Chicago, I can't get anything better than Comcast cable.
Up until about a year ago you couldn't get FIOS in Philadelphia. They're now starting to deploy it in some parts but it's going to take a while to be deployed. It'll be nice for people in the city to have an option since WiMAX crashed and burned.
I don't see anything OT about this thread, but apparently since it doesn't have to do with the theory of deploying 100Petabit fiber, it has to be OT. It's not like I'm throwing in a hot grits Natalie Portmen comment. Mod me down more, I have plenty karma to burn while you groupthink mods waste your points.
I really don't think this was intended for end users. You could have all media saved on computers over the course of a week. Whining that you wont get that seems extreme. Also I doubt HD vids on netflick are 20gigs.
I'd be happy with a fraction of a 100-Petabit connection with no cap. Most people are stuck with lousy 768/128kbit DSL or Comcast with their shared lines and bandwidth caps. Some don't even have that luxury, they have to use dial-up.
Too bad nobody in the USA will ever get that. Even if we were to get a connection that fast, it would have a 20GB/mo cap so the second you stream one HD flick on Netflix, your cap is filled and you're stuck at a measly 768kbit/sec down until the first of the month.
"...he'll come home with a Cisco switch and an APC rackmount battery backup."
Sounds like dad is the alpha geek of the family.
Yes, it would be absolutely awesome if he did, but it's shit he doesn't need. I'd find a use for it, but for his SOHO application a catalyst switch is unnecessary.
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Completely agreed. The staff at Best Buy or whatever other brick and mortar store carries computers is so completely clueless that it's comical. Why should online vendors be much different?.
I think what's worse is when the sales person is actually good and can persuade someone into buying a product they don't need. I have to go to computer stores with my Dad when he tries to buy something simple like an ethernet cable or a power strip or he'll come home with a Cisco switch and an APC rackmount battery backup.
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Best of luck to you. Glad to see you found a light at the end of the tunnel of cube farms.
And what does the executive do that justifies his income?
He lacks a soul.
And precisely how much killing do you currently do in IT???
Does throwing CRTs off the roof count? If yes, then one.
Does having H1N1 grant you access to the strategic national Tamiflu stockpile?
Yes. The company my father and his wife work for has it stockpiled and we sent away for it in the spring. I don't know if we get access to the national stockpile, but I know the company he works for (a drug company) has it.
No modern religion forces family members to give up their loved ones, picket outside the house of an 'unbeliever', or essentially, slavery.
Islam prohibits Muslim women from marrying non-Muslim men, proscribes death penalty for abandoning Islam (which any Muslim is required to carry out should he get the opportunity), and provides a legal framework for slavery, including female sexual slavery.
The bible also has many things to say about a womans' right (or lack of). It also outlines slavery. It also claims an old man built a ship and gathered two of every species and survived a flood on a massive scale. I think that Scientology is just the easy one to pick on right now because it's popular and you won't catch much flak. If you go after Judaism you'll be verbally attacked and probably modded down, but if you bash the Catholic church by making pederast priest jokes or insult Scientology you'll get away with it fine. If you go after Muslims, you'll get death threats.
Have you ever tried stowing a desktop tower, monitor and keyboard under an airplane seat? I'd say the laptop is still relatively portable even if it needs to be plugged in.
Yes. It almost worked but the person next to me spilled their dry martini on my CRT and got electrocuted. Stupid turbulence...
Anything?
Personally I don't care how hot you look, if you smell like an unwashed goat with an intestinal infection, I ain't buying.
That's my fetish, you insensitive clod!
Not since I discovered girls.
Find a girl who reads comics. Problem solved.
Get out.
On the good old CSS/TF2 system, you could just connect to a server and download the campaign from there directly and fast, if the server used a fastdownload host. I guess there was a reason for this, so the slow downloaders would not reserve a spot but Valve should have had the custom maps available over Steam.
The "sv_downloadurl" cvar was put in place long before CSS came out. I ran a 1.6 server in late 2003 to 2005 and once I talked my host into giving me some webspace and bandwidth I immediately saw a massive increase on people joining my server and more donations to pay for the server bill. Sometimes I didn't even pay for it because of the amount of cash coming in.
This was all before any idiot could run a server and you had to hack away at configuration files and manually install mods, maps, etc -- much like installing Linux! None of this "One-Click-Install" mods and maps they have these days.
Imagine the lost sales if Valve had blocked mods on half-life and we never received counter-strike, I know that is an extreme example of mods driving sales, but they do to a point anywhere.
Well I think the big thing is that Half Life was made incredibly popular by the mods that were made for it. I played Counter Strike before I even knew what Half Life was. Once I played it, it was definitely an amazing game, but it still is what got me indoctrinated into the series.
I can honestly say for a fact that I was planning on buying this game (Fuck preorders, I'm not that hellbent on getting it), and now I won't because of this. I'd run a dedicated server on my spare computer in my house and my friends would play. Now we're gonna move onto a different game because of this. There's $50 gone for them.
Power goes out? You think I would rely on the power company for my precious servers? Hell no. I have my own generators - an array of solar, wind, steam, and diesel. It's all within the 18 million dollar budget.
You left out coal, oil, and nuclear.
And gerbils on wheels! ...Just keep Richard Gere (Or Larry David) away from them.
Unless you have a dynamic IP address, where you're still confined to somebody else's mail server for sending email out...
DynDNS.
It was a real pain to remove as I remember.
SmitFraudFix.
If one party is found, at the end, to have wasted the other party's time in court with needless hearings and motions, the first party can get attorney's fees. I won almost $6000 in fees against my ex-wife because of her shenanigans in an on-going custody fight (not that I think I'll ever see a dime of that money, of course, just because someone owes you money doesn't mean you can actually collect it).
Al Sharpton never paid the $345k that he owes in damages for the Tawana Brawley case. Perfect example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Sharpton#Tawana_Brawley_controversy
>>>fraud, which is a felony.
Yes turning people's consoles into bricks IS fraud, and both the U.S. and EU governments should drag Nintendo into court and rape them for millions of dollars in punishment. BUT until that happens (if ever), we the people have a right to replace the consoles that Nintendo turned into trash, just the same as you have a right to shoot someone who stabs you in the stomach. It's called self-defense - protecting yourself from getting screwed.
Yes, but Nintendo has a defense that Average Joe Sixpack doesn't have -- a large team of attorneys and enough money to throw around to shut up anybody attacking them.
NOBODY CAN DRIVE AND BE SAFE, since there's always a risk of accident. Seriously... it's all about risk management. Reading a traffic text message is no different than the electronic signs over the highway that say "Traffic ahead! Slow down now!" or a "Construction Jun 17-25 10pm to 5am" signs on some of our highways here. Or a billboard.
Do you reach into your pocket and take one of your hands off the wheel to read a billboard or an electronic sign? I suppose you do the same thing at every speed limit posting.
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I realize that the idea will panic a lot of people because we have a lot of power-hungry cops who abuse any flexibility that they're given (e.g. ticketing somebody for drinking through a straw while driving), but are we really going to make separate laws for texting, lipstick application, shaving, talking on the phone, changing shirts, peeing into a Gatorade bottle, beating the kids in the back seat to shut them up, checking your purse to make sure you remembered your dry-cleaning ticket, changing the time on the radio to reflect daylight savings, eating a taco, eating a burrito, etc?
There's also Careless Driving. It's a $120 fine and 3 points on your license in Pennsylvania. My sibling got one after rear ending someone. Nobody was hurt, no major damage to the other party, but their airbags deployed. Careless driving and distracted driving sound very similar, since it's careless to do something distracting while driving.
Wood chips, some glue, lots of air, coated with a thin layer of plastic. A cookie floats. Would you build a life raft out of cookies?
That sounds like a delicious raft.
no, not using gov't computers for porn. that's fine by me...
that the guy almost used a "think of the children" defense for his actions. now THAT's fucked up.
these young women are from poor countries and need to make money to help their parents
It's because he needed something to tug on your heartstrings.
Being serious, this is only indirectly for end users, and people bitching about slow connections here would be like me bitching in a NASA thread about how it isn't fair that NASA has crafts going 20,000 MPH while my bicycle is still stuck at a max of about 30mph. Different toys for different uses. This is clearly an infrastructure tool, one that offers much better speeds and lower costs of deployment than the current stuff.
My entire point is that even if this was deployed, the end user such as myself would probably still be capped at an unreasonable 5mbit download and a fraction of that for the upload. The USA has fallen behind severely in internet speeds while other countries are providing 100mbit right to your door at the same cost.
That said, I'd really be happy if I could just get FIOS where I live. It is absurd to me that, living in downtown Chicago, I can't get anything better than Comcast cable.
Up until about a year ago you couldn't get FIOS in Philadelphia. They're now starting to deploy it in some parts but it's going to take a while to be deployed. It'll be nice for people in the city to have an option since WiMAX crashed and burned.
I don't see anything OT about this thread, but apparently since it doesn't have to do with the theory of deploying 100Petabit fiber, it has to be OT. It's not like I'm throwing in a hot grits Natalie Portmen comment. Mod me down more, I have plenty karma to burn while you groupthink mods waste your points.
I really don't think this was intended for end users. You could have all media saved on computers over the course of a week. Whining that you wont get that seems extreme. Also I doubt HD vids on netflick are 20gigs.
I'd be happy with a fraction of a 100-Petabit connection with no cap. Most people are stuck with lousy 768/128kbit DSL or Comcast with their shared lines and bandwidth caps. Some don't even have that luxury, they have to use dial-up.
Too bad nobody in the USA will ever get that. Even if we were to get a connection that fast, it would have a 20GB/mo cap so the second you stream one HD flick on Netflix, your cap is filled and you're stuck at a measly 768kbit/sec down until the first of the month.
"...he'll come home with a Cisco switch and an APC rackmount battery backup."
Sounds like dad is the alpha geek of the family.
Yes, it would be absolutely awesome if he did, but it's shit he doesn't need. I'd find a use for it, but for his SOHO application a catalyst switch is unnecessary.
Completely agreed. The staff at Best Buy or whatever other brick and mortar store carries computers is so completely clueless that it's comical. Why should online vendors be much different?.
I think what's worse is when the sales person is actually good and can persuade someone into buying a product they don't need. I have to go to computer stores with my Dad when he tries to buy something simple like an ethernet cable or a power strip or he'll come home with a Cisco switch and an APC rackmount battery backup.