>>> I find that the people who gripe loudest about the problems with e-mail are the ones who have poor or no spam filtering.
I agree. I was about to abandon using my ISP's email service when I realized that they had spam blocking features that I needed to turn on in order to use. Once I did that the Spam dropped to a fairly acceptable level.
Then, recently they changed their webmail interface to one I didn't like and I was thinking of abandoning them again, but I hit on a better solution. I set up my ISP's webmail to forward everything to a GMAIL account and delete it. I set up my GMAIL account to let me reply as if I were using my ISP's account. Now I can do all my email from GMAIL, I still get the ISP's filtering, and I get GMAIL's filtering on top of that.
Since I only use Gmail now I can access my mail from anywhere I can get a browser. Oh, and GMAIL lets you run your entire session under SSL, which my ISP didn't.
I don't see email going away at all. I just see people having to be a little smarter about how they use it, as I have had to.
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." - George Bernard Shaw
That's an example of why Ayn Rand never supported the Libertarian Party. She said privatizing police functions would only lead to a competition in the use of force.
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. " - Winston Churchill
>>> Do you laugh at people who make fun of you without praising you first? Didn't think so.
Ever seen Carlos Mencia? He attacks everyone in the audience and everyone laughs. Are you saying that leftist media types just can't take a joke? Are you saying they won't even laugh at a joke that is against Bush if they have been the butt of a joke as well?
This is a pretty serious indictment of liberals. Coupled with the way Colbert bombed, it implies they can neither take a joke, nor make one, when the chips are down.
Colbert shilled for the hard left's 'Defeat at any Price' lobby so completely that his act was largely not funny, even to the leftist media types in attendence.
When you do a comedic show in front of a live audience and they don't laugh that is 'bombing'.
Colbert overplayed it and it didn't work. Part of the problem was that he followed the President. Bush had just put on a very good show that was funny and self-deprecating. On the strength of that, the audience had to have been, at least temporarily, in an appreciative mood for his effort. They were not ready to buy into Colbert's badly staged ankle-biting routine at that moment.
Many of them may not have understood what he was trying to do either, since he made very poor attempts at pretending he was pro-Bush and then immediately attacked him non-stop for the rest of the show. It made Colbert look like a mental case if you were not aware of his Stephen Colbert character and what it is supposed to be about (a parody of Bill O'Reilly).
Colbert was stunning the audience into silence. The audience was composed of White House Correspondents, hardly a conservative group. They didn't think he was funny. Everyone there politely tolerated Colbert's show because that's what is expected.
I watch The Colbert Report regularly and love his send up of O'Rielly. The problem was, he didn't make a good enough attempt to establish any credibility for his 'Pro-Bush' facade. By blowing that off and concentrating the entire show on anti-Bush rhetoric, he came off as a mean-spirited, crack-pot comedian with mild schizophrenia as his only redeeming gimick.
>>> Why do people eat at McDonalds instead of the mom and pop diner 2 blocks away that serves better burgers?
Because if they are not from around there they don't know if the mom and pop burgers are good or not. But they have a pretty good idea what the McDonalds food is like. They don't expect it to be very good, but they expect it to be the same as ever, and cheap.
Novell is leveraging their legacy Netware installations to push Linux sales. With our existing Netware Multiple Licence Agreement, we are allowed to install additional SUSE boxes at no extra charge.
That gives us a no-cost way of getting familiar with the systems.
I believe 'well regulated' means that the militia (the armed populous) are not meant to function as a standing army, or to run amok with no chain of command. They are only to come together as a cohesive paramilitary unit in times of recognized emergency.
So if my cousin, myself, and 100 friends decide on our own to take over the State House, we would be acting against the Constitution.
But if there were an armed invasion crossing our borders from Mexico and our local authorities called upon the militia to form up and oppose it, that would be Constitutional.
If the combined impact of all the wants of all the gamers isn't enough to improve the average quality of new games, how can it be enough to have a significant effect on politics?
Microdata made multi-user 16 bit business minicomputers that ran the Pick operating system. I started working for them in the late 1970's and built a system out of spare parts we had in the repair shop.
It had a built in relational database with 'English' as the retrieval language. It also had Basic, and even came with a few demo games. I spent a lot of time extending the games to do more and then playing them with the other guys in the office. Each person had their own dumb terminal attached via serial port to the computer.
When the Commodore 64 arrived, and finally came down in price to about $250, I got one of those. Then I had to get another one because the first one ended up running a game BBS I had written, so it was tied up all the time and I needed another 'development' machine.
I got an Amiga 1000 in 1985 and used that until my employer gave me an Epson laptop PC (no hard drive). At that point I decided the PC was going to win out and sold the Amiga.
Boss: "What's all that weird stuff running on your desktop?"
Me: This window is Suse Linux 9 running under VMWare, This window is Netware 6.5 running under VMware, and this window is the universe running under VMware to find out where I'd be right now if I hadn't flunked calculus in 1975.
I think the parent (AC) is correct, except for one exception.
In an environment where there was no motion there would be no passage of time. In an environment where there was no memory there would be no concept of time.
Time is an illusion.
The only way to time travel would be to force every particle of matter and every bit of energy back to where it was at some point we remember from the past. Then we would have the perfect illusion of time travel.
Nobody could ever prove it wasn't time travel because everything we could ever use to disprove it would have been affected.
Does a company that operates in multiple countries have to obey the laws of each country within that jurisdiction? I think the answer should be yes.
If the answer is no, then the long forcast nightmare of multi-national corporations which supplant elected governments and recognize no rights or laws but those they choose will be at hand.
"Inside every small problem, is a large problem struggling to get out." - Talbot's Law of The Expanding Universe
>>> The age of the wild west is over. Barbed wire has been invented. We inter the age of the Cattle baron.
I doubt that the utility companies will be able to force Internet users to pay more just to use their bandwidth. Maybe they could if technical innovation and competition were stagnant forces, but they are not.
If the cost of Internet service increases significantly, or even fails to drop over time, it will create incentives for new players to offer new options. Maybe it will be wireless, maybe it will be networking over power lines, maybe it will be something else.
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." - George Bernard Shaw
>>> Do we need any further evidence that congress people and their staff have too much time on their hands?
Maybe not, but think of all the evil they could do if they really applied themselves all of the time. I sleep better at night knowing they waste a lot of their time fiddling Wikipedia entries and blogging, etc.
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." - Bill Cosby
Just make it the startup page on your browsers instead of bookmarking it. I did that, but then Websense started blocking it at work, so I wrote a php/mysql-based version of my own. I aimed it towards people who like motor vehicles and called it www.motorheadmarks.com
I see that Websense is no longer blocking del.icio.us at work, but I'm glad I went to the trouble to write my own, just for the experience. I still use my own to manage my bookmarks and it's the startup page on all my browsers, but when I want to search other people's bookmarks I usually use del.icio.us.
You have it wrong. It was not the filter or the pump or the fuel line. It was the large pipe from the fuel FILLER inlet on the side of the car (where the gas cap goes).
You are probably wrong about the cars having an electric fuel pump too, since this was in the early 1970's.
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The parent post brings up an aspect of this I didn't really know about. I assumed the ISP's were doing their filtering with automated systems.
Since the post is AC and at 0 points I thought I'd point it out.
>>> I find that the people who gripe loudest about the problems with e-mail are the ones who have poor or no spam filtering.
I agree. I was about to abandon using my ISP's email service when I realized that they had spam blocking features that I needed to turn on in order to use. Once I did that the Spam dropped to a fairly acceptable level.
Then, recently they changed their webmail interface to one I didn't like and I was thinking of abandoning them again, but I hit on a better solution. I set up my ISP's webmail to forward everything to a GMAIL account and delete it. I set up my GMAIL account to let me reply as if I were using my ISP's account. Now I can do all my email from GMAIL, I still get the ISP's filtering, and I get GMAIL's filtering on top of that.
Since I only use Gmail now I can access my mail from anywhere I can get a browser. Oh, and GMAIL lets you run your entire session under SSL, which my ISP didn't.
I don't see email going away at all. I just see people having to be a little smarter about how they use it, as I have had to.
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." - George Bernard Shaw
That's an example of why Ayn Rand never supported the Libertarian Party. She said privatizing police functions would only lead to a competition in the use of force.
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. " - Winston Churchill
>>> Do you laugh at people who make fun of you without praising you first? Didn't think so.
Ever seen Carlos Mencia? He attacks everyone in the audience and everyone laughs. Are you saying that leftist media types just can't take a joke? Are you saying they won't even laugh at a joke that is against Bush if they have been the butt of a joke as well?
This is a pretty serious indictment of liberals. Coupled with the way Colbert bombed, it implies they can neither take a joke, nor make one, when the chips are down.
The two "W's" act was very funny. It killed.
Colbert shilled for the hard left's 'Defeat at any Price' lobby so completely that his act was largely not funny, even to the leftist media types in attendence.
When you do a comedic show in front of a live audience and they don't laugh that is 'bombing'.
Colbert overplayed it and it didn't work. Part of the problem was that he followed the President. Bush had just put on a very good show that was funny and self-deprecating. On the strength of that, the audience had to have been, at least temporarily, in an appreciative mood for his effort. They were not ready to buy into Colbert's badly staged ankle-biting routine at that moment.
Many of them may not have understood what he was trying to do either, since he made very poor attempts at pretending he was pro-Bush and then immediately attacked him non-stop for the rest of the show. It made Colbert look like a mental case if you were not aware of his Stephen Colbert character and what it is supposed to be about (a parody of Bill O'Reilly).
I watched the show live.
Bush and Bush were hilarious.
Colbert was stunning the audience into silence. The audience was composed of White House Correspondents, hardly a conservative group. They didn't think he was funny. Everyone there politely tolerated Colbert's show because that's what is expected.
I watch The Colbert Report regularly and love his send up of O'Rielly. The problem was, he didn't make a good enough attempt to establish any credibility for his 'Pro-Bush' facade. By blowing that off and concentrating the entire show on anti-Bush rhetoric, he came off as a mean-spirited, crack-pot comedian with mild schizophrenia as his only redeeming gimick.
Bush killed, Colbert shilled.
>>> Why do people eat at McDonalds instead of the mom and pop diner 2 blocks away that serves better burgers?
Because if they are not from around there they don't know if the mom and pop burgers are good or not. But they have a pretty good idea what the McDonalds food is like. They don't expect it to be very good, but they expect it to be the same as ever, and cheap.
Novell is leveraging their legacy Netware installations to push Linux sales. With our existing Netware Multiple Licence Agreement, we are allowed to install additional SUSE boxes at no extra charge.
That gives us a no-cost way of getting familiar with the systems.
"Michelle Makin will be gratefull to this ruling..."
Since you meant 'Michelle Malkin will be gratefull for this ruling...', I have to agree. The ruling makes good sense and so does she.
Read her book, "Invasion" if you want to get an idea of the true state of our border controls and what that is really costing us.
I believe 'well regulated' means that the militia (the armed populous) are not meant to function as a standing army, or to run amok with no chain of command. They are only to come together as a cohesive paramilitary unit in times of recognized emergency.
So if my cousin, myself, and 100 friends decide on our own to take over the State House, we would be acting against the Constitution.
But if there were an armed invasion crossing our borders from Mexico and our local authorities called upon the militia to form up and oppose it, that would be Constitutional.
If the combined impact of all the wants of all the gamers isn't enough to improve the average quality of new games, how can it be enough to have a significant effect on politics?
... And what IF Spartucus had a Piper Cub airplane to attack the Romans?
Microdata made multi-user 16 bit business minicomputers that ran the Pick operating system. I started working for them in the late 1970's and built a system out of spare parts we had in the repair shop.
It had a built in relational database with 'English' as the retrieval language. It also had Basic, and even came with a few demo games. I spent a lot of time extending the games to do more and then playing them with the other guys in the office. Each person had their own dumb terminal attached via serial port to the computer.
When the Commodore 64 arrived, and finally came down in price to about $250, I got one of those. Then I had to get another one because the first one ended up running a game BBS I had written, so it was tied up all the time and I needed another 'development' machine.
I got an Amiga 1000 in 1985 and used that until my employer gave me an Epson laptop PC (no hard drive). At that point I decided the PC was going to win out and sold the Amiga.
Boss: "What's all that weird stuff running on your desktop?"
Me: This window is Suse Linux 9 running under VMWare, This window is Netware 6.5 running under VMware, and this window is the universe running under VMware to find out where I'd be right now if I hadn't flunked calculus in 1975.
>>> Wouldn't it be easier to simulate the universe on a computer?
>>> And then just jump in on whatever time frame you want?
I'd like to see the VMware beta for that!
I think the parent (AC) is correct, except for one exception.
In an environment where there was no motion there would be no passage of time. In an environment where there was no memory there would be no concept of time.
Time is an illusion.
The only way to time travel would be to force every particle of matter and every bit of energy back to where it was at some point we remember from the past. Then we would have the perfect illusion of time travel.
Nobody could ever prove it wasn't time travel because everything we could ever use to disprove it would have been affected.
To me the primary issue is this:
Does a company that operates in multiple countries have to obey the laws of each country within that jurisdiction? I think the answer should be yes.
If the answer is no, then the long forcast nightmare of multi-national corporations which supplant elected governments and recognize no rights or laws but those they choose will be at hand.
"Inside every small problem, is a large problem struggling to get out." - Talbot's Law of The Expanding Universe
Yesterday I had mod points and today I don't. That's why I haven't modded you up.
>>> The age of the wild west is over. Barbed wire has been invented. We inter the age of the Cattle baron.
I doubt that the utility companies will be able to force Internet users to pay more just to use their bandwidth. Maybe they could if technical innovation and competition were stagnant forces, but they are not.
If the cost of Internet service increases significantly, or even fails to drop over time, it will create incentives for new players to offer new options. Maybe it will be wireless, maybe it will be networking over power lines, maybe it will be something else.
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." - George Bernard Shaw
>>> McCarthy never knew about VENONA
Actually, you don't know that. Even though President Truman was not trusted with info about Venona, J. Edgar Hoover may have trusted McCarthy with it.
>>> Do we need any further evidence that congress people and their staff have too much time on their hands?
Maybe not, but think of all the evil they could do if they really applied themselves all of the time. I sleep better at night knowing they waste a lot of their time fiddling Wikipedia entries and blogging, etc.
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." - Bill Cosby
Just make it the startup page on your browsers instead of bookmarking it. I did that, but then Websense started blocking it at work, so I wrote a php/mysql-based version of my own. I aimed it towards people who like motor vehicles and called it www.motorheadmarks.com
I see that Websense is no longer blocking del.icio.us at work, but I'm glad I went to the trouble to write my own, just for the experience. I still use my own to manage my bookmarks and it's the startup page on all my browsers, but when I want to search other people's bookmarks I usually use del.icio.us.
http://www.motorheadmarks.com/
Sorry,
You have it wrong. It was not the filter or the pump or the fuel line. It was the large pipe from the fuel FILLER inlet on the side of the car (where the gas cap goes).
You are probably wrong about the cars having an electric fuel pump too, since this was in the early 1970's.
You know we did.
Otherwise you wouldn't have this posted AC.