So is our involvement in Iraq, but my Son (who was there for a year, incidentally) still keeps trying to tell the one about how he "went 10,000 miles to smoke a camel".
So was our involvement in Viet Nam, but my cousin (who spent three tours there on the front line) still has a T-shirt which proclaims "Participant, Southeast Asian Wargames - Second Place".
Your post - isn't funny, insightful, interesting, informative - isn't overrated, offtopic, trollish or flamebait - in short, your post doesn't seem to exist. I think I'd rather be "-1 funny" than -----.
Unless you want to assert that G*D gave us an unfair advantage, I'd say all you old-worlders and third-worlders had exactly the same shot we did at snarfing up all the world's goodies!
Then again, maybe G*D is on our side after all! We got the "New World", all you guys got was a crummy "Old World". All we had to do was get rid of the people that were on our land before we got here and voila' - instant success story.
You're just jealous 'cuz your world is out of warranty!;^D
"Chilling effect on future baseless lawsuits". Uh, Earth to archeopterix, just what effect do you anticipate if SCO is permitted to proceed with their assertion that they own all *NIX OS's?
SCO was hoping that the "Big Boys" (IBM, Microsoft, HP, SUN) would knuckle under in return for a sweetheart deal (the previously mentioned "One Dollar", or some similarly trivial figure for the "Big Boys" to pony up). Hellfire, I'm sure SCO would've settled for no remuneration from the "Big Boys", if they could only have gotten their hands on a legal judgement that they really do own all the *NIX code on Earth.
IBM doesn't want to crush SCO, they just don't want to be crushed by a mosquito with delusions of grandeur.
Trust me: win, lose or draw - this is not the last time *AA will be sued. Their previous policy of attacking only the defenseless was mind-shatteringly brilliant. Unfortunately, now they're not involved with granny and her "computer thingie", or taking nickels off school-kids - they've attacked somebody's income, somebody with more than a few G's to lose! Damned straight they're gonna fight back like hell. I just hope the RIAA doesn't choose to settle out-of-court.
It's even worse than that. My son-in-law is quite clear that as long as a black-hat doesn't prevent him from doing what he wants with his computer, he doesn't care what use said black hat puts his machine to without his knowledge or consent.
Last time his broadband broke, I refused to fix it. His machine is now completely secure from internet exploits! Apologies to my daughter - she didn't care one way or the other, so neither do I. Educational attempts rapidly turned into arguments which I don't feel the need to indulge in.
Oh, and their modem doesn't work (or so I'm told). Oh, well.
Sure - monitor all possible frequencies, then select the ones which have the thread of the conversation you're after and discard the rest.
Uh, you do see where that could be as difficult as following the frequency hops, right? You'll hear everything your enemy is saying, alright - along with several thousand radio channels of noise, gibberish, unrelated conversations, etc. The S/N (signal to noise) ratio will accomplish the same objective as encryption.
If you need the F/X in order to enjoy the show, either the show isn't very thought-provoking or you personally lack any entertaining thoughts!:^P
That said, if the point of watching television or a movie is to "suspend disbelief" for awhile (What? We don't have ships that can travel faster than light? What do you mean, "teleportation is theoretically impractical"?), then F/X can only do so much. Yeah, we knew that all the aliens were guys in makeup. With the exception of a certain flop-eared Jamaican with brain damage, virtually all the aliens are guys in rubber suits. It looks ridiculous - so what? We know that in the story, all we need to know is that this guy isn't from around here; what do I care that the odds of life on another planet being bipedal, let alone humanoid, are pretty slim.
Y'know, if you aren't within, say, 1 or 2 au's of a star like ours, your ship's just gonna be a shadow passing in front of a starfield, right? Incidentally, fights in space are more likely to look like B5 than the Battle of Britain.
We remember the original Star Trek. It captured our imaginations when first we saw it. Captured our imaginations when first we saw it. Captured our imaginations. We don't need no stinking CGI enhancement!
Actually, I shortened the story considerably . . . what I did to that employer was actually an honest mistake (probably springing from recognition that I should never have accepted their job offer in the first place). In effect, I think I may have subconsciously sabotaged myself. That said, once the deed was done I recognized immediately that were I honest about my actions my employer would've concluded that they were intentional (and would probably have sued me into oblivion).
Having recast the unfortunate incident as gross incompetence (perhaps not too far from the truth?) I chose to take the fullest possible advantage of the situation. Sorry, kids - morals are great, but Number One comes first! There's an IT shop in a Midwest town which I'm sure still curses my name when it is spoken; but my income has more than doubled since then, I don't get adrenaline rushes on my way to work anymore, I don't feel like I'm working in the IT equivalent of a labor camp, I actually like and respect my coworkers - I wish I had done everything on purpose, it would've been a sweet example of Machiavellian perfection. As it stands, it was merely a marvellous coincidence.
Oh, and I don't do management. I'm firmly convinced that people will rise to their own level of incompetence - this level is mine.
Our problem is that we don't have a Sheridan, a Delenn, Rangers or White Stars to stand up here. Otherwise, JMS was a lot more on-target back then than I like to think about. Go President Clark - err, I mean, Bush.
Oh, well . . . at least there's no Psi Corps (yet).
then the OSI, now finally it's morphed into . . . erm, uh . . . what did the old OSI turn into after that? Anybody remember? Did it ultimately become our CIA? I find I can't remember, ever since that weekend at the hospital in Virginia . . . or was that a weekend drinking tequila in Sonora? Damn! It's almost as though I was force-fed psychoactive drugs and - something - was said to me over and over. Why can't I remember?
he said they were my family jewels. I agreed to pay my (then) employer back for some useless training if I left the company in less than a year.
The damage to their corporate IT infrastructure was minimal and easily repaired, I got my family jewels back, and since they fired me they can't collect the $5000+ for classroom training - and all for proving to them that I was grossly incompetent (but not so incompetent as to start an investigation into corporate sabotage).
My god, I'm scum!
In truth, it seems like a non-issue to me.
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Our use of grammer, syntax, even sentence construction has changed radically over the last two centuries - so much so that it is unlikely at best that a contemporary US citizen would even be able to have a conversation with one of our founding fathers (assume that there are no temporal issues to interfere).
One of the points a teacher once impressed on me is that the English language is a "living" language - new words and new usage are central to that definition as "living". The English language is a language of usage. If enough people use the language in a certain way, then that way of speaking or writing becomes acceptable. For example, I can google on a subject if I need more information. Erm, how do I AltaVista something? Oh, wait; AltaVista isn't defined as a verb nowadays, but Google is, or at least google is (Google is a proper name, of course).
Now, Latin and Hebrew are good examples of dead languages. One Rabbi I studied under told me that the closest you could come in Hebrew to saying "Jumbo Jet" might literally be translated as "big silver bird that flies fast". Those are dead languages; any unacceptable use of grammar or syntax is incorrect.
English, however, adapts and grows to accomodate the concepts and lifestyle of its users - hence, googling, IM'ing, and a whole host of other newfound verbs and nouns which weren't in the lexicon a decade ago. If online chat clients encourage people to find briefer ways to express themselves, perhaps this is simply English evolving into a more compact, precise form.
You don't seem to have much of a sense of humor.
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So was our involvement in Viet Nam, but my cousin (who spent three tours there on the front line) still has a T-shirt which proclaims "Participant, Southeast Asian Wargames - Second Place".
Your post - isn't funny, insightful, interesting, informative - isn't overrated, offtopic, trollish or flamebait - in short, your post doesn't seem to exist. I think I'd rather be "-1 funny" than -----.
(8^)
Then again, maybe G*D is on our side after all! We got the "New World", all you guys got was a crummy "Old World". All we had to do was get rid of the people that were on our land before we got here and voila' - instant success story.
You're just jealous 'cuz your world is out of warranty!;^D
What, this surprises you?
Easy on the flames - it started out as an Oprah joke!
We permitted the evangelical right to seize power in the United States in a coup d'etat the likes of which Machiavelli would have been impressed with!
SCO was hoping that the "Big Boys" (IBM, Microsoft, HP, SUN) would knuckle under in return for a sweetheart deal (the previously mentioned "One Dollar", or some similarly trivial figure for the "Big Boys" to pony up). Hellfire, I'm sure SCO would've settled for no remuneration from the "Big Boys", if they could only have gotten their hands on a legal judgement that they really do own all the *NIX code on Earth.
IBM doesn't want to crush SCO, they just don't want to be crushed by a mosquito with delusions of grandeur.
Trust me: win, lose or draw - this is not the last time *AA will be sued. Their previous policy of attacking only the defenseless was mind-shatteringly brilliant. Unfortunately, now they're not involved with granny and her "computer thingie", or taking nickels off school-kids - they've attacked somebody's income, somebody with more than a few G's to lose! Damned straight they're gonna fight back like hell. I just hope the RIAA doesn't choose to settle out-of-court.
Your standard seems to be a two-edged sword.
Last time his broadband broke, I refused to fix it. His machine is now completely secure from internet exploits! Apologies to my daughter - she didn't care one way or the other, so neither do I. Educational attempts rapidly turned into arguments which I don't feel the need to indulge in.
Oh, and their modem doesn't work (or so I'm told). Oh, well.
Uh, you do see where that could be as difficult as following the frequency hops, right? You'll hear everything your enemy is saying, alright - along with several thousand radio channels of noise, gibberish, unrelated conversations, etc. The S/N (signal to noise) ratio will accomplish the same objective as encryption.
That said, if the point of watching television or a movie is to "suspend disbelief" for awhile (What? We don't have ships that can travel faster than light? What do you mean, "teleportation is theoretically impractical"?), then F/X can only do so much. Yeah, we knew that all the aliens were guys in makeup. With the exception of a certain flop-eared Jamaican with brain damage, virtually all the aliens are guys in rubber suits. It looks ridiculous - so what? We know that in the story, all we need to know is that this guy isn't from around here; what do I care that the odds of life on another planet being bipedal, let alone humanoid, are pretty slim.
Y'know, if you aren't within, say, 1 or 2 au's of a star like ours, your ship's just gonna be a shadow passing in front of a starfield, right? Incidentally, fights in space are more likely to look like B5 than the Battle of Britain.
We remember the original Star Trek. It captured our imaginations when first we saw it. Captured our imaginations when first we saw it. Captured our imaginations. We don't need no stinking CGI enhancement!
32G and 16G units are also available.
Extend . . .
(wait for it) . . .
Extinguish!
"Hi! I'm Clippy! I see you're exploiting loopholes in Windows. Would you like to:
"* Tell your zombies to phone home for a head count
"* Plant a malicious WMF at a popular web site to get more zombies
"* Do some illegal file sharing (since all file sharers are black hats)
"* I'm not a script kiddie and don't need any help
" (CANCEL) (OKAY)"
except for SpongeBob, and Mr. Crabs, and Squidward, and . . .
Only kidding, honey - it was the other women on the beach, honest!
Having recast the unfortunate incident as gross incompetence (perhaps not too far from the truth?) I chose to take the fullest possible advantage of the situation. Sorry, kids - morals are great, but Number One comes first! There's an IT shop in a Midwest town which I'm sure still curses my name when it is spoken; but my income has more than doubled since then, I don't get adrenaline rushes on my way to work anymore, I don't feel like I'm working in the IT equivalent of a labor camp, I actually like and respect my coworkers - I wish I had done everything on purpose, it would've been a sweet example of Machiavellian perfection. As it stands, it was merely a marvellous coincidence.
Oh, and I don't do management. I'm firmly convinced that people will rise to their own level of incompetence - this level is mine.
Oh, well . . . at least there's no Psi Corps (yet).
then the OSI, now finally it's morphed into . . . erm, uh . . . what did the old OSI turn into after that? Anybody remember? Did it ultimately become our CIA? I find I can't remember, ever since that weekend at the hospital in Virginia . . . or was that a weekend drinking tequila in Sonora? Damn! It's almost as though I was force-fed psychoactive drugs and - something - was said to me over and over. Why can't I remember?
The damage to their corporate IT infrastructure was minimal and easily repaired, I got my family jewels back, and since they fired me they can't collect the $5000+ for classroom training - and all for proving to them that I was grossly incompetent (but not so incompetent as to start an investigation into corporate sabotage).
My god, I'm scum!
One of the points a teacher once impressed on me is that the English language is a "living" language - new words and new usage are central to that definition as "living". The English language is a language of usage. If enough people use the language in a certain way, then that way of speaking or writing becomes acceptable. For example, I can google on a subject if I need more information. Erm, how do I AltaVista something? Oh, wait; AltaVista isn't defined as a verb nowadays, but Google is, or at least google is (Google is a proper name, of course).
Now, Latin and Hebrew are good examples of dead languages. One Rabbi I studied under told me that the closest you could come in Hebrew to saying "Jumbo Jet" might literally be translated as "big silver bird that flies fast". Those are dead languages; any unacceptable use of grammar or syntax is incorrect.
English, however, adapts and grows to accomodate the concepts and lifestyle of its users - hence, googling, IM'ing, and a whole host of other newfound verbs and nouns which weren't in the lexicon a decade ago. If online chat clients encourage people to find briefer ways to express themselves, perhaps this is simply English evolving into a more compact, precise form.
I'll try tags in the future.
The ending of a sentence with a preposition is a practice up with which I will not put. - W. Churchill (?)
Then again, it's not like the people in question were ever likely to have great skills at written composition, is it?
OMG, I am so 1337! C my l337 grammer skilz!