The lack of broadband service by the major media conglomerates is a good thing. Get them to work with locals to install their own fibre backbone, install a wireless infrastructure and bid adieu to the verizons of the world.
I can't remember a single failure of 'yum update' in the 8 years that I've been running redhat systems (after abandoning Windoze because of the never ending system update reboots). nice try, coward, now go back to trying to fix your XP SP3 install.
I know, you could use steganography to hide your stolen tunes in your stolen mpegs.
Until someone offers better sound quality than CDs for downloads (DRM free, of course, and ideally using patent free algorithms, flac for example), I will continue to buy CDs. That doesn't mean I support the RIAA, I don't, they are scum. It means that when I buy my music I want a built in backup, music downloads don't offer that, as far as I'm aware. If there were a reliable source that let me store my tunes online that might be a different story, but even then I wouldn't trust the bastards to stay in business.
I got bitten by the glossy screen thing on the lenovo ideapad that I bought recently. I'd heard good things about it running linux (fedora, ubuntu, etc) and didn't even think to investigate this issue with what I assumed was just a low cost ThinkPad. For an otherwise fine laptop, I hate the glossy screen. I think it is in response to Apple's use of glossy LCD screens on their iMacs and notebooks.
I already hate Jobs, and that company of his, Apple. The iPod is an overpriced piece of crap, whose sole purpose is to prop up the iTunes beast, and doesn't support any FOSS codecs because it doesn't make business sense to them. The iPhone is pretty, but really, it's about 90% software this thing, and hell if I'm going to spend that much for a fscking phone. And as for OSX, you can have it, I have no need for that either.
And yes, I hate Bill Gates too, and I'm old enough to remember when IBM was the big evil empire and Microsoft was the scrappy underdog. Been a long time since I've felt that way about Microsoft though, and I only grudgingly used Windoze through the Win98s days.
Happily windoze free for 8 years, thanks very much, and I haven't felt like launching my desktop out the window once since (an almost daily occurance when I used Win95, 98 and even the much vaunted virus petri dish XP... install, update, reboot, update, reboot, reboot, install, reboot... fsck off with the reboots!)
Tell her to pick a favourite book, choose a page number she can remember, and pick the first letter of every word from the first sentence on that page.
It's the British government's job to kowtow shamelessly to American commercial interests. Who do these colonials think they are? They'll be wanting to extradite innocent people next. If you look closely you'll find that we have a Conservative government (with a 36% "mandate") in power at the moment, that is why our country is looking more and more foolish in the eyes of the rest of the world. And unfortunately, it doesn't look like the stalemate that has created this minority governmetn is going to go away any time soon, so we may be stuck with the CONS (the leader is kind of like Mike Huckabee, only fatter).
And last night some fscking right wing lunatic called me a "moonbat liberal", the power of his command of the english language was really rather staggering, and left me a little shaken, and unable to sleep.
They come out with this fscking claim EVERY TIME there is a possiblity of passing the Canadian DMCA by the Conservative party of Canada, with its 36% "mandate" in a minority parliament.
That's it man, that's exactly right. Bands only need PR now, they can easily and cheaply distribute their own digital tunes, or even CDs (which I will continue to buy until Flac downloads become the norm). These guys are just flailing, "hey here's an idea, why don't we implement a schnoozle on the schnizlegripper, that'll stop 'em, you know, those pirates!"
I wish they'd add a decent extent based filesystem to their install defaults. I'd love to have xfs in there by default and not have to install a separate module.
Christianity is not full of hypocrites, just the leaders. The pope, and all of the other sham shamans who populate american politcal xtianity. They are all in it for their own good, and they can all go to hell, as far as I'm concerned. Of course, there is no such FUCKING place as hell so, unfortunately, they won't.
They have spent close to 1 trillion dollars on that pet project of Bush/Cheney, at the behest of the oil industry.
You could have a lot of broadband, cancer research, military r&d spending and find and kill Osama Bin Laden for 1 trillion dollars. Of course, that's not what they want, and they'd never have killed bin Laden because of Bush's ties to the family and the saudi royals.
Because it took me two years to figure out that OOXML had *nothing whatsoever* to do with Open Office. Evil scum should be flailed just for creating that confusion.
Can we flail Steve Jobs too, just for good measure?
That should be "Fuck You Two". I'm burning all of my U2 albums -- good thing I hate U2, most over rated band in the past 30 years, hands down. Fscking papists can all go to hell.
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The lack of broadband service by the major media conglomerates is a good thing. Get them to work with locals to install their own fibre backbone, install a wireless infrastructure and bid adieu to the verizons of the world.
I just estimated approx 12 hours until the big satanic odometre turns over. I'm getting a mini-cooper to save on fuel after that.
I can't remember a single failure of 'yum update' in the 8 years that I've been running redhat systems (after abandoning Windoze because of the never ending system update reboots). nice try, coward, now go back to trying to fix your XP SP3 install.
Until someone offers better sound quality than CDs for downloads (DRM free, of course, and ideally using patent free algorithms, flac for example), I will continue to buy CDs. That doesn't mean I support the RIAA, I don't, they are scum. It means that when I buy my music I want a built in backup, music downloads don't offer that, as far as I'm aware. If there were a reliable source that let me store my tunes online that might be a different story, but even then I wouldn't trust the bastards to stay in business.
wtf?
Imagine if you had 6 of them in a raid5 setup, boot time might be pretty tedious if one had to enter 6 (different, of course) passwords.
I got bitten by the glossy screen thing on the lenovo ideapad that I bought recently. I'd heard good things about it running linux (fedora, ubuntu, etc) and didn't even think to investigate this issue with what I assumed was just a low cost ThinkPad. For an otherwise fine laptop, I hate the glossy screen. I think it is in response to Apple's use of glossy LCD screens on their iMacs and notebooks.
Okay, like an iPod with out ogg vorbis ... oh wait, nevermind.
hey, arsewipe! You are supposed to be representing us, the consumers, not them the ISPs. Stupid fcuking conservative cunts.
now there's an oxymoron for a new generation: web 2.0 talent
I already hate Jobs, and that company of his, Apple. The iPod is an overpriced piece of crap, whose sole purpose is to prop up the iTunes beast, and doesn't support any FOSS codecs because it doesn't make business sense to them. The iPhone is pretty, but really, it's about 90% software this thing, and hell if I'm going to spend that much for a fscking phone. And as for OSX, you can have it, I have no need for that either.
... install, update, reboot, update, reboot, reboot, install, reboot ... fsck off with the reboots!)
And yes, I hate Bill Gates too, and I'm old enough to remember when IBM was the big evil empire and Microsoft was the scrappy underdog. Been a long time since I've felt that way about Microsoft though, and I only grudgingly used Windoze through the Win98s days.
Happily windoze free for 8 years, thanks very much, and I haven't felt like launching my desktop out the window once since (an almost daily occurance when I used Win95, 98 and even the much vaunted virus petri dish XP
Go Linux, rah.
Where's Pat Paulson when you need him. Ralph, go away.
Tell her to pick a favourite book, choose a page number she can remember, and pick the first letter of every word from the first sentence on that page.
How many times do we have to go through this? The fix is easy,
1. select all personal folders
2. drag to trash
3. empty trash
Easy!
Asshole.
I guess this is what the repuglicans want to replace these liberal activist judges with, assholes.
They come out with this fscking claim EVERY TIME there is a possiblity of passing the Canadian DMCA by the Conservative party of Canada, with its 36% "mandate" in a minority parliament.
That's it man, that's exactly right. Bands only need PR now, they can easily and cheaply distribute their own digital tunes, or even CDs (which I will continue to buy until Flac downloads become the norm). These guys are just flailing, "hey here's an idea, why don't we implement a schnoozle on the schnizlegripper, that'll stop 'em, you know, those pirates!"
These people are obviously insane religious lunatics. Tell them to go to teh hell.
I wish they'd add a decent extent based filesystem to their install defaults. I'd love to have xfs in there by default and not have to install a separate module.
Christianity is not full of hypocrites, just the leaders. The pope, and all of the other sham shamans who populate american politcal xtianity. They are all in it for their own good, and they can all go to hell, as far as I'm concerned. Of course, there is no such FUCKING place as hell so, unfortunately, they won't.
That, my friends, is the atheists dilemma.
Heh heh, good one.
Cue the creationist rant, "yeah, but it's just a theory".
They have spent close to 1 trillion dollars on that pet project of Bush/Cheney, at the behest of the oil industry.
You could have a lot of broadband, cancer research, military r&d spending and find and kill Osama Bin Laden for 1 trillion dollars. Of course, that's not what they want, and they'd never have killed bin Laden because of Bush's ties to the family and the saudi royals.
Because it took me two years to figure out that OOXML had *nothing whatsoever* to do with Open Office. Evil scum should be flailed just for creating that confusion.
Can we flail Steve Jobs too, just for good measure?
That should be "Fuck You Two". I'm burning all of my U2 albums -- good thing I hate U2, most over rated band in the past 30 years, hands down. Fscking papists can all go to hell.