To be honest, I would rather have said I graduated from Dartmouth College than from Upper Canada Shlabotnick University.
A long time ago, I was going to a 'university' So was a friend. His parents always said "Ahh yess- our son attends Univeusattey".
When someone asked what I was doing, I just said simply "I'm going to school".
I was studying Physics- quantm mech, etc.. whats the point of elaboration?
My friend's parents quickly pointed out he was "deeply involved in sociological tautological fundamental crapological theory" or some such shit. The questioner nodded sagely.
So who gives a fuck.
I was graduated. He wasn't.
Face it- it's all BS. Until you face the HR recruiter guy...
So far, I haven't heard much about the drilling of new Hydrogen wells in the US.
But I believe the Saudis will soon have some Hydrogen wells online. They are busy drilling them now.
Iran is also busy doing this.
OK, all you Americans with your shiny new hydrogen-powered GM cars-
Get your chequebooks... er, CHECKbooks out!
I suspect I am even more rural than you.
The local GM dealer (about 12 Km away) will be closing down soon, so-
l will then be subjected only to the lights of the giant Toyota dealer about 25 Km away!
TRIUMPH of our Western civilisation!
But ya gotta love that rural nightsky.
I would have sold any one of them for no less than $1000, including my favorite-
a 1972 Ernest Hemmingway T-shirt that I bought for $2 while sitting at the
bar in Sloppy Joe's in Key West Florida, from a stoned barmaid for $2.
It was slightly small, and my ex-wife thought it made me too 'muscular'.
Besides she didn't like the look of that macho "as--le' on the front of the shirt.
Of course probably no one would have given me $1000 for a T-shirt; nevertheless that WAS my selling price.
Valuable? Yes. I DO SAY!;-)
I went back to Sloppy Joe's a few years ago and tried to buy a new T-shirt.
Sloppy Joe's had turned into some kind of faux McDonalds, the bartender was wearing a tie, and all their
merchandise was available from their emporium on the side, including a much inferior T-shirt, made in Sri Lanka, for only $24 !! Grrrr...
F--k Key West! I ain't NEVER going back there again.
As a techie, I used to read several of my BOSSES email. I didn't want to, but I had to get rid of the P3n1S ads. (My immediate boss was a very straight woman)
Later, this job was taken over by an anal-rententive network 'manager', replete with CNA, FUKSA, etc certificates plastered on his office walls.
His solution?
Reject all emails coming from Hotmail and Yahoo!
He actually thought that's where the spam was originating.
(You should have heard the screams come from upper management then!)
Eventually I advised him of network spam filter programs, which were then just starting to become available...
Thank goodness, I remained a lowly techie, thus defeating the Peter principle.
Yet about half the spam that gets through my system comes from HotMail and GMail
Sigh... if you're going to be another one of these tedious/. Microsoft basher, you should learn to get it right.
Both Hotmail and Gmail do an excellent job of spam filtering.
Try looking at your 'Hotmail' email wrapper sometimes.
You DO know what that is, don't you?
I have to disagree about educating the dirty "0.001 percenters" that unwittingly support the spam.
They will never dry up, just as some people will never stop littering.
There will always be incivists out there, and unless we can somehow
impose draconian measures on the whole population (internet or real world)
the litter will always be present.
OK, Singapore appears to have stopped littering. But do we want this policing on the internet?
Perhaps the only way is to revive that old reprehensible suggestion of somehow forcing ISPs to tax every email sent- say 1 mil ($0.1 cents) per message.
For my 600 messages sent per month, it would cost me 60 cents.
For the spammer's 50 million, it would cost him $50,000.
Would his "A postcard for you, Dear" be worth it then?
Oops- this latter one, and most spam these days, are sent by zombies.
Well, perhaps once they got their monthly ISP bill, they would do something about installing a good up-to-date antivirus!
I, for one would welcome our new spamassassin overlord, if it,
in addition to assassinating spam, would trace back to the originator
of this nefarious stuff and do the same to the spammer!
All I know is that I am now sitting 50' or so away from my wired LAN.
I'm out in the open-air porch, sippin on a mint julep, and with my Toshiba laptop running.. uhhh, VISTA.
I'd really LOVE to use the Feisty Fox that I installed 'flawlessly' on the laptop, but alas it will NOT run the wireless Atheros included in the laptop.
When I peruse the internet to find out how to fix this, I just get a lot of shit about MADWifi, NDIS wrappers and all manner of obscure command-lvl linux.
"YA DON'T KNOW UNIX COMMAND-LEVEL? TOO BAD, YOU STUPID ASSHOLE!"
That's the kind of "help" I generally get on some of the help forums...
Well, yes I have occasionally used the Chmod, grep, etc years ago.. but I'm not prepared to memorize 50 new commands for my terminal session.
I'd love to convert some of my friends (who all have wireless) to Ubuntu, but...
They seem quite happy with their Vista or XP, that like mine, connected flawlessly the first time.
Why should they trust Linux?
Thank goodness it's a reputable mag. Not that silly "New Scientist" or "Sciam".
Or perhaps even the naive Lancet.
I recall fondly the article in Newsweek five years or so ago, promoting Melatonin.
I will LIVE FOREVER! Providing I keep chewing those Melatonin pills.
Whatever happened? Please, Newsweek- tell me that my Mitochondria are still long and firm, like other important parts of my being. You promised me!
Oh my! Is Melatonin passé now?
No matter! I shall follow the Newsweek scientists faithfully!
Slashdot Mirror
Tokamak YOU!
>>>half-line r = pi/2 has ever made me a more rounded individual or better person.
Huh? trying to square the circle, are you? Rounded you say?
(sigh) Must be a sine of the times...
"Know thyself" - Socrates.
Hey, lissen, assolle!
I have studied Mathematic! And Physic too.
You haven't. So shut ups.
To be honest, I would rather have said I graduated from Dartmouth College than from Upper Canada Shlabotnick University.
A long time ago, I was going to a 'university' So was a friend. His parents always said "Ahh yess- our son attends Univeusattey".
When someone asked what I was doing, I just said simply "I'm going to school".
I was studying Physics- quantm mech, etc.. whats the point of elaboration?
My friend's parents quickly pointed out he was "deeply involved in sociological tautological fundamental crapological theory" or some such shit. The questioner nodded sagely.
So who gives a fuck.
I was graduated. He wasn't.
Face it- it's all BS. Until you face the HR recruiter guy...
So far, I haven't heard much about the drilling of new Hydrogen wells in the US.
But I believe the Saudis will soon have some Hydrogen wells online. They are busy drilling them now.
Iran is also busy doing this.
OK, all you Americans with your shiny new hydrogen-powered GM cars-
Get your chequebooks... er, CHECKbooks out!
Lovely.
I suspect I am even more rural than you.
The local GM dealer (about 12 Km away) will be closing down soon, so-
l will then be subjected only to the lights of the giant Toyota dealer about 25 Km away!
TRIUMPH of our Western civilisation!
But ya gotta love that rural nightsky.
Fuck YOU! you punk!
..uhh...
I am 66, and I have had 28 Lifetime events!
Uhh, lesseee... OK. So I forgot about 23 of them, but nevertheless- Respect your elders, you li'l pupsquaick!
Wait! I think I remember event #21...
No...
Ah, well it's just/. No one will notice. Fuk, just a bunchakids anyhoo!
Zzzzz..
>>> Valuable you say? (muhmuhmuahaha)
;-)
Valuable, I DO SAY!
I would have sold any one of them for no less than $1000, including my favorite- a 1972 Ernest Hemmingway T-shirt that I bought for $2 while sitting at the bar in Sloppy Joe's in Key West Florida, from a stoned barmaid for $2. It was slightly small, and my ex-wife thought it made me too 'muscular'. Besides she didn't like the look of that macho "as--le' on the front of the shirt.
Of course probably no one would have given me $1000 for a T-shirt; nevertheless that WAS my selling price.
Valuable? Yes. I DO SAY!
I went back to Sloppy Joe's a few years ago and tried to buy a new T-shirt.
Sloppy Joe's had turned into some kind of faux McDonalds, the bartender was wearing a tie, and all their merchandise was available from their emporium on the side, including a much inferior T-shirt, made in Sri Lanka, for only $24 !! Grrrr...
F--k Key West! I ain't NEVER going back there again.
Huh!
Lucky you.
My ex-wife threw out (unbeknownst to me) all my old raggedy (AND VERY VALUABLE) T-shirts from that era!
Grrrr.!
Huh!
/. !!
Some guy further up this thread cited Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach"
I'll bet that's the first time Matthew Arnold ever got play in
HA!
As a techie, I used to read several of my BOSSES email. I didn't want to, but I had to get rid of the P3n1S ads. (My immediate boss was a very straight woman)
Later, this job was taken over by an anal-rententive network 'manager', replete with CNA, FUKSA, etc certificates plastered on his office walls.
His solution?
Reject all emails coming from Hotmail and Yahoo! He actually thought that's where the spam was originating.
(You should have heard the screams come from upper management then!)
Eventually I advised him of network spam filter programs, which were then just starting to become available...
Thank goodness, I remained a lowly techie, thus defeating the Peter principle.
Yet about half the spam that gets through my system comes from HotMail and GMail
... if you're going to be another one of these tedious /. Microsoft basher, you should learn to get it right.
Sigh
Both Hotmail and Gmail do an excellent job of spam filtering.
Try looking at your 'Hotmail' email wrapper sometimes.
You DO know what that is, don't you?
I have to disagree about educating the dirty "0.001 percenters" that unwittingly support the spam.
They will never dry up, just as some people will never stop littering.
There will always be incivists out there, and unless we can somehow impose draconian measures on the whole population (internet or real world) the litter will always be present.
OK, Singapore appears to have stopped littering. But do we want this policing on the internet?
Perhaps the only way is to revive that old reprehensible suggestion of somehow forcing ISPs to tax every email sent- say 1 mil ($0.1 cents) per message.
For my 600 messages sent per month, it would cost me 60 cents.
For the spammer's 50 million, it would cost him $50,000.
Would his "A postcard for you, Dear" be worth it then?
Oops- this latter one, and most spam these days, are sent by zombies.
Well, perhaps once they got their monthly ISP bill, they would do something about installing a good up-to-date antivirus!
I for one, bow to our new Panspermia Overlords.
Now go wash your hands.
Huh!
You have yet to meet the thunderpuppies!
What's in a game?
I for one, welcome all.
....as Homer would say.
I, for one would welcome our new spamassassin overlord, if it,
in addition to assassinating spam, would trace back to the originator
of this nefarious stuff and do the same to the spammer!
I'm currently Working on this idea myself now...!
All I know is that I am now sitting 50' or so away from my wired LAN.
I'm out in the open-air porch, sippin on a mint julep, and with my Toshiba laptop running.. uhhh, VISTA.
I'd really LOVE to use the Feisty Fox that I installed 'flawlessly' on the laptop, but alas it will NOT run the wireless Atheros included in the laptop.
When I peruse the internet to find out how to fix this, I just get a lot of shit about MADWifi, NDIS wrappers and all manner of obscure command-lvl linux.
"YA DON'T KNOW UNIX COMMAND-LEVEL? TOO BAD, YOU STUPID ASSHOLE!"
That's the kind of "help" I generally get on some of the help forums...
Well, yes I have occasionally used the Chmod, grep, etc years ago.. but I'm not prepared to memorize 50 new commands for my terminal session.
I'd love to convert some of my friends (who all have wireless) to Ubuntu, but... They seem quite happy with their Vista or XP, that like mine, connected flawlessly the first time.
Why should they trust Linux?
In Soviet CSS...
Colour is spelled "color".
And I bet Sir Tim doesn't give a FF....
(heh heh! I finally got to use Soviet and CSS together!)
Squirrel spies on, ummm..
???... no, wait! -
YOU spy on squirrel! (for a change)
>>Perhaps a long string of relay squirrels is the answer?
...
Yes, but I suspect you'll have trouble fitting the tiny sneakers on to their feet.
.
-
Checkers computers play YOU!
??
Wait a sec..
Alberta? Soviet?
Sorry, obviously an oxymoron.
Wow!
..
I bet you've done a lot of this 'out of body' and LSD stuff!
sounds neat! Groovy, even!
Are you dead?
Oh wait- I forgot. You are an "anonymous coward"
Ah, well. But kin ah git some o' thet "LSD"? Like, it must be far out!!
.
.
.
.
Well!
Thank goodness it's a reputable mag. Not that silly "New Scientist" or "Sciam".
Or perhaps even the naive Lancet.
I recall fondly the article in Newsweek five years or so ago, promoting Melatonin.
I will LIVE FOREVER! Providing I keep chewing those Melatonin pills.
Whatever happened? Please, Newsweek- tell me that my Mitochondria are still long and firm, like other important parts of my being. You promised me!
Oh my! Is Melatonin passé now?
No matter! I shall follow the Newsweek scientists faithfully!
I for one, welcome our new cheese-eating Python overlords!
and let us hope we find their tiny dimension accommodating to us.