HERE! HERE!! I was gonna mod you up but I decided to comment instead...
I disapprove of everything the TSA does. What they seem to do, more than anything, is to indoctrinate people into being docile toward people in uniform. I'm not a docile individual. Security theater is revolting, and I refuse to participate in any way.
ANYbody who puts up with being groped by the TSA is either a sheep, or is so desperate to get somewhere in a hurry that they ignore the fact that an abortion like the TSA (or the IRS also, for that matter) has NO business in an.. allegedly free.. country like the United States. The tactics these organizations (and MANY others in todays "government") use have NO basis in the Constitution and are sickening to anyone who loves this country and detests where it is headed.. I'm a 63 y/o Vietnam veteran and the last time I flew was in Sept 2003, and based on that experience, I've clearly concluded I'm done with flying on commercial airlines.. My experience was, admittedly, not as bad as the horror stories I've read since then, but it was enough to show me that I'm not going to tolerate ANY abuse from people who have no business in a police-like uniforn, and rather should be peddling hamburgers at McDonalds.. Everytime I hear of someone standing up to these thugs, I feel there may still be *some* hope for America.
Here's a suggestion... Why don't they just skip the "pleasantries" and just tax EVERYbody 100% of EVERYthing.. You know that's where states like the People's Republics of Massachusetts, New York and California (and a few others) are heading towards.. All these new taxes that these "bastions of socialism" keep dreaming up and passing simply cause a mass exodus of businesses (and people) from these states.. Unless they want to quit hiding their true intentions and put up concertina wire and trip mines around their borders and create an "Iron Curtain" to prevent their citizens from escaping, like their ideal, the old Soviet Union did, these new taxes/regulations are gonna keep driving business away from these states. I was a lifetime Calfornian, but wife and I began to see the writing on the wall in the mid 90s and moved from California to Nevada. My only complaint is we, here in Nevada, now seem to be trying really hard to go down the road California is traveling and I for one, don't care a bit for it.. Guess its time to move to an actual red state, since Nevada now seems to be getting bluer and bluer....
Wow! EA got caught in a big bald-face lie..Guess those lying lessons they took from Congress and the Whitehouse paid off.. But just like Congress and the Whitehouse, they continually lie to the American people and everybody (at least the low-information voters) keep putting them in office, despite the fact that every time their lips move, another lie comes out of their mouths.. And EA will continue to get gamers with short-term-memories buying their crap, forgetting this fiasco, and of course EA is counting on this... EA's got a LONG ways to go to lie as well as Congress and "Dear Leader", but they've got a good start with this whopper.. Kinda reminds me of Microsoft stating that you absolutely could not.. it was absolutely impossible to remove IE from XP, it could NOT be done.. Then somebody (or somebodies) smarter than MS came along and made NLite, which gave you a nice slimmed down copy of XP, withOUT IE (or WMP or a bunch of other cruft)...
On another note.. Remember you heard it here first.. I'm gonna bet that EA is soooo pissed that somebody found out about their whopper lie that they'll sic their legal department on the poor schlub that discovered the lie... You know the drill.. attack him for DMCA circumvention...
Why do so many liberals feel threatened by any source of power outside of government?
I'm gonna bet its because they think that government is the "supreme being", not God.. None of the Christian churches "hold a gun to your head", but that is not really true with Islam.. Its their way or the highway and you stand a good chance of having your head chopped off as a non-believer/infidel if you aren't on board with their program....
We used to use the stacks of phone books that would appear periodically at my last dayjob as monitor stands. one or two of them propped the monitor up to eye level. The phone book "fairy" would bring close to a pallet-full of phone books and they'd sit there for months, but for the few "monitor-propping" ones taken, then magically disappear when it became clear they were excess (or the appropriate manager got tired of seeing them sitting there..). At home, we still get them every so often, and they go straight into the trash.. Nobody in my household has used one in years..
I'm guessing that they're running an elaborate experiment to see just what one has to do to ruin a distro thoroughly and completely. Otherwise, none of this makes any sense.
And they're doing a damn fine job of it.. I'd been a staunch supporter/user of Ubuntu since 7.04, and used Linux since 1994. When I upgraded to 12.04LTS and had that steaming turd Unity as my only UI choice out of the box, I decided to move on to LMDE and MATE. I feel right at home with it, and won't miss Ubuntu a'tall...
That's the next big thing... "trials" based on the old soviet union model.. A "judge", the "prosecutor", and a gallery filled with drafted people as witnesses to show that the "trial" was fair.. Woe be unto any of them who did not "toe the partyline".. The accused and his lawyer were no where to be found, or more correctly the accused was rotting away in Lubianka prison, and he had what passed for a "defense lawyer", who was employed by the prosecutors office.. Oh yes, every one of the gallery witnesses would testify that the trial was completely fair under the USSR "constitution".. America is heading down THAT road at an ever-increasing rate...
If Dennis is got the $$$ to float this kind of a plan, why the hell doesn't he get onboard with the Mars-One group? They actually have a pretty fleshed-out plan to put human colonists on Mars starting in 2023. They could really use a large influx of $$$ to get their plan going.. From what I've read, they have it pretty well planned out to send the first 4 colonists to Mars in 2023, but still need a lot more sponsors/funding...
If you happen to be home when the criminal breaks in, you don't want to "mess up" the thief.. you want him taking a permanent dirtnap... If you just "mess him up", one of several things will happen.. One: when he gets out of the hospital, he will come back VERY angry and likely bring friends/guns along with him.. Not good.. Two: While he's in the hospital, an ambulance chaser pays him a visit and puts dollar-signs in the crooks eyes.. Ergo, you, the homeowner find yourself a victim of the current "justice" system. Double-plus-NOT-good.. Sure, if you kill him, any family he has can try to get you into the "justice" system on a manslaugther charge, but *most* civilized states (Texas, I'm looking at you..) have laws based on the "Castle" doctrine and that lawsuit won't go anywhere.. Of course, if you happen to live in one of the bat-s**t insane liberal states (California? now I'm looking at YOU..), you probably better not kill him or even have a home-defense firearm or you're in deep kimchi....
I rent several Xen-based 512mb Linux virtual servers to run some club websites, and a mail server. They cost me a total of $28.50 semi-annually each (or $5/mo monthly). They include 20GB of disk space, and a 1TB/month transfer. I also have an older Dell 1U server which I'm gonna be retiring soon, as it's sucking my electric bill down to ruin. I'm planning to sign up for another VPS and migrate the functions on the Dell box over. Of course, you have to weigh the cost of bandwidth to/from this VPS, ie: if you're on an ISP who cheats you with a absurdly low monthly cap. If you're not a big Linux fan, they also have Xen-based Windows offerings at slightly higher prices.. In case you're interested, google "virpus networks"... I don't own em, work for em, have stock in em, just a happy customer...
I advise all my clients who are *still* on windows to stay the hell away from IE period.. Firefox/Chrome/Opera are FAR superior to the "swiss-cheese" security environment of MS's turd browser.. So that I'm not *completely* negative, they have come a long ways with what I've seen of IE10, but they make up for that win with the abortion they call Unity/Windows 8.. I'm sure Metro is just fine on a tablet, but on a desktop with keyboard/mouse??? They HAD to be smoking some serious shit...
Screw Microsoft and their Azure platform.. I'm working on a project where I'll need a cloud Linux VM. The choice is between an Azure VM, which I signed up for a freeby 90 day eval, and a 1 year freeby AWS tiny instance.. Obviously I was leaning towards AWS, but figured "what the heck, lets see what this Azure platform is all about".. I went ahead and signed up for the 90 day eval.. Set up a CentOS VM, lit it off, planning to load the project code on to, but got buried in honey-doos, and only got back to the VM after about a month, having lost 1/3 of the eval period. After getting most of the honey-doos done, I went back and signed up for an AWS tiny instance, to eval the two side-by-side... A week or so later, still WELL within the 90 days, I get an email from MS telling me I'm getting close to exhausting the resources allocated to the VM and I need to put a credit card on the account to continue.. Mind you, this VM was idle, since I'd yet to get to installing the project I wanted it for... I said "screw MS" and cancelled the account, and went with AWS.. I got a whole year free before I have to start paying for my project...
So, sparky, anybody who likes Dell systems, and has had good experiences with their support and dares to tell about it on a public forum is, to you, a shill... Have I got that right?? I also like Dell's enterprise systems (Optiplex/Precision/PowerEdge/Latitude), and the support for those systems. Since until about 2 years ago, I'd been supporting about 200 of these Dell systems in my then day-job, and have been doing so for 10+ years, I think I might know a thing or two about these Dell systems, and have some credibility in what I've experienced with their support... But you go right ahead and keep calling people shills who haven't had the same experience as you....
I signed up with a virtual private server vendor, who had a super-good price on a Xen-based Debian server. I noted that they had what seemed to be a fairly good SLA (99.9% uptime). I signed up originally on month-to-month to see how they performed, and was pleasantly surprised, so I then switched to semi-annual on the Xen server. I needed another node for another project, and determined that one of their OpenVZ slices would do the job at a lower price. A few weeks after signing up for the OpenVZ slice, I was notified about a maintainance window coming up on the host that my OpenVZ slice was running on. The window was listed as approx 45 min to do some a/c power shuffling around at the datacenter.. All well and good. The maintainance window came and went, no vps...Nothing from trying to boot the server from the SolusVM console. So, I put a ticket in, got told that the node my vps was on had problems and was not coming back up. Ok so far.. They're gonna bust their SLA on this one.. I replied back on the ticket to see if they had ANY estimate of recovery.. Silence.. Next morning.. still silence, still no vps.. That afternoon.. still silence, still no vps.. Finally I hit their facebook page and finally got some satisfaction.. Finally after over 24 hours, the vps came back up... Wondering what compensation they'd give for an over 24-hour outage, I put a ticket in asking that very thing.. No reply for several days.. Finally I decided to call them.. Come to find out, they claimed, since this was a maintainance window, there was no SLA compensation due... Huh??? The window was 45 min.. the server was down over 24 hours.. After a semi-nice but firm email reply to them on my original ticket, they opted to provide a "courtesy credit" of 1/2 month.. Not gonna name the vendor because *other* than this issue, they've been great..
Besides, SpaceX has sill not begun regular commercial operation.
Umm.. you are incorrect, sir.. The last SpaceX launch was the first of the NASA contracted supply missions to ISS.. They most certainly HAVE begun commercial operation.. The first mission to ISS was a combination mission which was originally intended to be a simple fly-by, with a second grapple/dock mission. It was decided to combine the two.
Which is a pile of bull-s**t.. At least in the case of Sprint, even IF you have a Sprint-branded phone you bought outright, say on eBay, they STILL require a contract and a ETF if you decide to leave before the end of the contract.. In the case of Sprint, I have first-hand knowledge.. Had a spare LG smartphone that said "Sprint" on it, wanted to let the wife use it, the drone at the Sprint store insisted I had to have a contract.. Walked out, sold the phone, and forgot about that idea.. I strongly suspect the other carriers do the same damn thing.. What needs to happen, and of course, NEVER will, is these carriers need to be slapped silly for this kind of s**t
This kind of shit is soooo FAR beyond merely shooting yourself in the foot, its more like pointing a gun at your foot, letting loose one round, blowing half your foot off, then blithly taking the gun, shooting the rest of the original foot off, taking a morphene shot to kill the pain, then turning the gun on your other foot, and doing the same thing again.. The old MontyPython skit with the guy getting his limbs shot off and continuing to taunt his attacker is kind of appropriate for California.. To keep ratcheting down on business like they're doing will ONLY work in a *completely* totalitarian country, one that includes barbed wire fences on the borders, landmines, tank traps, reminicient of the old "Iron Curtain".. When a business can weigh the pros-cons of staying/leaving and decides to pack it up and head for one of the states that are welcoming business, like Texas, f'instance, with no chance of being shot while going over the fence, the "geniuses" in Sacramento can only sit back and watch their tax-base leave the state. Of course, in the world that the California liberal bureaucrat lives in, they never see this.. Up until the reality of the situation jumps up and bites them on the ass.. namely when they have 20+ million mouths on the government feed trough and ZERO tax-paying businesses.. I was born in California many moons ago, in what is now "liberal-ville", better known as the "City By The Bay"... such a lovely town, gone to hell by the Nancy Pelosi-liberals.. The wife and I saw the handwriting on the wall back in the mid 90s and moved to Las Vegas Nevada.. Best move we ever made.. With that, we had to fight with the State Franchise Tax Board for nearly 3 years after moving to prove to them we no longer had any income from the State.. It finally took a tax attorney to rattle their cage and get their b.s. stopped. I hate to think about ALL the hassle any business will get today when they move out of California... My thoughts are with them...
I upgrade quite a few older systems with malware-infested XP installs, and up until about a year ago, I'd been installing Ubuntu 10.04, with the users of said systems happy and content with the classic Gnome UI, as I'd theme'ed it as close to XP as I could. When 12.04 was released, I decided to see what this new Unity looked like for myself, since I'd heard all the grief online about it in earlier 2011 versions of Ubuntu, but I only install/use LTS versions. I installed it on a spare drive and put it in my laptop, and after a week of coming close to tearing my hair out by the roots when trying to use it, I decided it was DEFINATELY not for me, BUT perhaps one of my less-techy users might like it.. This was not to be.. I prepared two base installs of 12.04 and installed the drives on two of my XP-to-10.04 users, and after only a few days, they both called me and said "get this $@%#$Q!# off my machine!!".. I put their 10.04 drives back in their machines, and began to think what I'd was gonna do when 10.04 EOL'ed.. Since then, I've begun moving these and several new upgrades over to Mint/Debian with Cinnamon.. Once again, they're happy as clams..
Do they have some sort of psychiatric issue that prevents them from behaving like normal human beings?
Umm.. THAT'S what normal human beings DO when they don't like something.. They complain about it, and hopefully stop using it.. AND if you don't like them complaining about it, don't read the comments.. Otherwise, YOU are the one with the "psychiatric issue"....
Too little.. too late.. I'd been a staunch user/supporter of Ubuntu since 7.04, when I was introduced to it after using Slackware/Redhat/Fedora since 1994. But the Gnome3/Unity b.s. soured me on Ubuntu, and caused me to move to Debian/Mint, which AFAIK, already implements "rolling release"..
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HERE! HERE!! I was gonna mod you up but I decided to comment instead...
I disapprove of everything the TSA does. What they seem to do, more than anything, is to indoctrinate people into being docile toward people in uniform. I'm not a docile individual. Security theater is revolting, and I refuse to participate in any way.
ANYbody who puts up with being groped by the TSA is either a sheep, or is so desperate to get somewhere in a hurry that they ignore the fact that an abortion like the TSA (or the IRS also, for that matter) has NO business in an .. allegedly free .. country like the United States. The tactics these organizations (and MANY others in todays "government") use have NO basis in the Constitution and are sickening to anyone who loves this country and detests where it is headed.. I'm a 63 y/o Vietnam veteran and the last time I flew was in Sept 2003, and based on that experience, I've clearly concluded I'm done with flying on commercial airlines.. My experience was, admittedly, not as bad as the horror stories I've read since then, but it was enough to show me that I'm not going to tolerate ANY abuse from people who have no business in a police-like uniforn, and rather should be peddling hamburgers at McDonalds.. Everytime I hear of someone standing up to these thugs, I feel there may still be *some* hope for America.
Runaway1956, I salute you!!!
Here's a suggestion... Why don't they just skip the "pleasantries" and just tax EVERYbody 100% of EVERYthing.. You know that's where states like the People's Republics of Massachusetts, New York and California (and a few others) are heading towards.. All these new taxes that these "bastions of socialism" keep dreaming up and passing simply cause a mass exodus of businesses (and people) from these states.. Unless they want to quit hiding their true intentions and put up concertina wire and trip mines around their borders and create an "Iron Curtain" to prevent their citizens from escaping, like their ideal, the old Soviet Union did, these new taxes/regulations are gonna keep driving business away from these states. I was a lifetime Calfornian, but wife and I began to see the writing on the wall in the mid 90s and moved from California to Nevada. My only complaint is we, here in Nevada, now seem to be trying really hard to go down the road California is traveling and I for one, don't care a bit for it.. Guess its time to move to an actual red state, since Nevada now seems to be getting bluer and bluer....
Wow! EA got caught in a big bald-face lie..Guess those lying lessons they took from Congress and the Whitehouse paid off.. But just like Congress and the Whitehouse, they continually lie to the American people and everybody (at least the low-information voters) keep putting them in office, despite the fact that every time their lips move, another lie comes out of their mouths.. And EA will continue to get gamers with short-term-memories buying their crap, forgetting this fiasco, and of course EA is counting on this... EA's got a LONG ways to go to lie as well as Congress and "Dear Leader", but they've got a good start with this whopper.. Kinda reminds me of Microsoft stating that you absolutely could not.. it was absolutely impossible to remove IE from XP, it could NOT be done.. Then somebody (or somebodies) smarter than MS came along and made NLite, which gave you a nice slimmed down copy of XP, withOUT IE (or WMP or a bunch of other cruft)...
On another note.. Remember you heard it here first.. I'm gonna bet that EA is soooo pissed that somebody found out about their whopper lie that they'll sic their legal department on the poor schlub that discovered the lie... You know the drill.. attack him for DMCA circumvention...
Why do so many liberals feel threatened by any source of power outside of government?
I'm gonna bet its because they think that government is the "supreme being", not God.. None of the Christian churches "hold a gun to your head", but that is not really true with Islam.. Its their way or the highway and you stand a good chance of having your head chopped off as a non-believer/infidel if you aren't on board with their program....
We used to use the stacks of phone books that would appear periodically at my last dayjob as monitor stands. one or two of them propped the monitor up to eye level. The phone book "fairy" would bring close to a pallet-full of phone books and they'd sit there for months, but for the few "monitor-propping" ones taken, then magically disappear when it became clear they were excess (or the appropriate manager got tired of seeing them sitting there..). At home, we still get them every so often, and they go straight into the trash.. Nobody in my household has used one in years..
I'm guessing that they're running an elaborate experiment to see just what one has to do to ruin a distro thoroughly and completely. Otherwise, none of this makes any sense.
And they're doing a damn fine job of it.. I'd been a staunch supporter/user of Ubuntu since 7.04, and used Linux since 1994. When I upgraded to 12.04LTS and had that steaming turd Unity as my only UI choice out of the box, I decided to move on to LMDE and MATE. I feel right at home with it, and won't miss Ubuntu a'tall...
That's the next big thing... "trials" based on the old soviet union model.. A "judge", the "prosecutor", and a gallery filled with drafted people as witnesses to show that the "trial" was fair.. Woe be unto any of them who did not "toe the partyline".. The accused and his lawyer were no where to be found, or more correctly the accused was rotting away in Lubianka prison, and he had what passed for a "defense lawyer", who was employed by the prosecutors office.. Oh yes, every one of the gallery witnesses would testify that the trial was completely fair under the USSR "constitution".. America is heading down THAT road at an ever-increasing rate...
If Dennis is got the $$$ to float this kind of a plan, why the hell doesn't he get onboard with the Mars-One group? They actually have a pretty fleshed-out plan to put human colonists on Mars starting in 2023. They could really use a large influx of $$$ to get their plan going.. From what I've read, they have it pretty well planned out to send the first 4 colonists to Mars in 2023, but still need a lot more sponsors/funding...
If you happen to be home when the criminal breaks in, you don't want to "mess up" the thief.. you want him taking a permanent dirtnap... If you just "mess him up", one of several things will happen.. One: when he gets out of the hospital, he will come back VERY angry and likely bring friends/guns along with him.. Not good.. Two: While he's in the hospital, an ambulance chaser pays him a visit and puts dollar-signs in the crooks eyes.. Ergo, you, the homeowner find yourself a victim of the current "justice" system. Double-plus-NOT-good.. Sure, if you kill him, any family he has can try to get you into the "justice" system on a manslaugther charge, but *most* civilized states (Texas, I'm looking at you..) have laws based on the "Castle" doctrine and that lawsuit won't go anywhere.. Of course, if you happen to live in one of the bat-s**t insane liberal states (California? now I'm looking at YOU..), you probably better not kill him or even have a home-defense firearm or you're in deep kimchi....
I rent several Xen-based 512mb Linux virtual servers to run some club websites, and a mail server. They cost me a total of $28.50 semi-annually each (or $5/mo monthly). They include 20GB of disk space, and a 1TB/month transfer. I also have an older Dell 1U server which I'm gonna be retiring soon, as it's sucking my electric bill down to ruin. I'm planning to sign up for another VPS and migrate the functions on the Dell box over. Of course, you have to weigh the cost of bandwidth to/from this VPS, ie: if you're on an ISP who cheats you with a absurdly low monthly cap. If you're not a big Linux fan, they also have Xen-based Windows offerings at slightly higher prices.. In case you're interested, google "virpus networks"... I don't own em, work for em, have stock in em, just a happy customer...
Superbowl: A giant toilet we flush cash down every year for no gain.
Thus the name I've used for quite a while to describe it when asked "are you gonna watch the super-bowl?".. I reply "oh you mean the toilet-bowl"
Stupid statements for 500, Alex...
"640K ought to be enough for anybody..."
also...
"The internet is just a passing fad" and "We will never make a 32 bit operating system..."
BZZT!
Statements Microsoft have made?
CORRR-ECCT!!
I advise all my clients who are *still* on windows to stay the hell away from IE period.. Firefox/Chrome/Opera are FAR superior to the "swiss-cheese" security environment of MS's turd browser.. So that I'm not *completely* negative, they have come a long ways with what I've seen of IE10, but they make up for that win with the abortion they call Unity/Windows 8.. I'm sure Metro is just fine on a tablet, but on a desktop with keyboard/mouse??? They HAD to be smoking some serious shit...
Screw Microsoft and their Azure platform.. I'm working on a project where I'll need a cloud Linux VM. The choice is between an Azure VM, which I signed up for a freeby 90 day eval, and a 1 year freeby AWS tiny instance.. Obviously I was leaning towards AWS, but figured "what the heck, lets see what this Azure platform is all about".. I went ahead and signed up for the 90 day eval.. Set up a CentOS VM, lit it off, planning to load the project code on to, but got buried in honey-doos, and only got back to the VM after about a month, having lost 1/3 of the eval period. After getting most of the honey-doos done, I went back and signed up for an AWS tiny instance, to eval the two side-by-side... A week or so later, still WELL within the 90 days, I get an email from MS telling me I'm getting close to exhausting the resources allocated to the VM and I need to put a credit card on the account to continue.. Mind you, this VM was idle, since I'd yet to get to installing the project I wanted it for... I said "screw MS" and cancelled the account, and went with AWS.. I got a whole year free before I have to start paying for my project...
So, sparky, anybody who likes Dell systems, and has had good experiences with their support and dares to tell about it on a public forum is, to you, a shill... Have I got that right?? I also like Dell's enterprise systems (Optiplex/Precision/PowerEdge/Latitude), and the support for those systems. Since until about 2 years ago, I'd been supporting about 200 of these Dell systems in my then day-job, and have been doing so for 10+ years, I think I might know a thing or two about these Dell systems, and have some credibility in what I've experienced with their support... But you go right ahead and keep calling people shills who haven't had the same experience as you....
I signed up with a virtual private server vendor, who had a super-good price on a Xen-based Debian server. I noted that they had what seemed to be a fairly good SLA (99.9% uptime). I signed up originally on month-to-month to see how they performed, and was pleasantly surprised, so I then switched to semi-annual on the Xen server. I needed another node for another project, and determined that one of their OpenVZ slices would do the job at a lower price. A few weeks after signing up for the OpenVZ slice, I was notified about a maintainance window coming up on the host that my OpenVZ slice was running on. The window was listed as approx 45 min to do some a/c power shuffling around at the datacenter.. All well and good. The maintainance window came and went, no vps...Nothing from trying to boot the server from the SolusVM console. So, I put a ticket in, got told that the node my vps was on had problems and was not coming back up. Ok so far.. They're gonna bust their SLA on this one.. I replied back on the ticket to see if they had ANY estimate of recovery.. Silence.. Next morning.. still silence, still no vps.. That afternoon.. still silence, still no vps.. Finally I hit their facebook page and finally got some satisfaction.. Finally after over 24 hours, the vps came back up... Wondering what compensation they'd give for an over 24-hour outage, I put a ticket in asking that very thing.. No reply for several days.. Finally I decided to call them.. Come to find out, they claimed, since this was a maintainance window, there was no SLA compensation due... Huh??? The window was 45 min.. the server was down over 24 hours.. After a semi-nice but firm email reply to them on my original ticket, they opted to provide a "courtesy credit" of 1/2 month.. Not gonna name the vendor because *other* than this issue, they've been great..
CBS (Used to stand for Columbia Broadcasting System)
Now known as the CBS section of the US Department Of Propaganda, a new cabinet-level department created by Mr Obama...
Besides, SpaceX has sill not begun regular commercial operation.
Umm.. you are incorrect, sir.. The last SpaceX launch was the first of the NASA contracted supply missions to ISS.. They most certainly HAVE begun commercial operation.. The first mission to ISS was a combination mission which was originally intended to be a simple fly-by, with a second grapple/dock mission. It was decided to combine the two.
Which is a pile of bull-s**t.. At least in the case of Sprint, even IF you have a Sprint-branded phone you bought outright, say on eBay, they STILL require a contract and a ETF if you decide to leave before the end of the contract.. In the case of Sprint, I have first-hand knowledge.. Had a spare LG smartphone that said "Sprint" on it, wanted to let the wife use it, the drone at the Sprint store insisted I had to have a contract.. Walked out, sold the phone, and forgot about that idea.. I strongly suspect the other carriers do the same damn thing.. What needs to happen, and of course, NEVER will, is these carriers need to be slapped silly for this kind of s**t
This kind of shit is soooo FAR beyond merely shooting yourself in the foot, its more like pointing a gun at your foot, letting loose one round, blowing half your foot off, then blithly taking the gun, shooting the rest of the original foot off, taking a morphene shot to kill the pain, then turning the gun on your other foot, and doing the same thing again.. The old MontyPython skit with the guy getting his limbs shot off and continuing to taunt his attacker is kind of appropriate for California.. To keep ratcheting down on business like they're doing will ONLY work in a *completely* totalitarian country, one that includes barbed wire fences on the borders, landmines, tank traps, reminicient of the old "Iron Curtain".. When a business can weigh the pros-cons of staying/leaving and decides to pack it up and head for one of the states that are welcoming business, like Texas, f'instance, with no chance of being shot while going over the fence, the "geniuses" in Sacramento can only sit back and watch their tax-base leave the state.
Of course, in the world that the California liberal bureaucrat lives in, they never see this.. Up until the reality of the situation jumps up and bites them on the ass.. namely when they have 20+ million mouths on the government feed trough and ZERO tax-paying businesses.. I was born in California many moons ago, in what is now "liberal-ville", better known as the "City By The Bay"... such a lovely town, gone to hell by the Nancy Pelosi-liberals.. The wife and I saw the handwriting on the wall back in the mid 90s and moved to Las Vegas Nevada.. Best move we ever made.. With that, we had to fight with the State Franchise Tax Board for nearly 3 years after moving to prove to them we no longer had any income from the State.. It finally took a tax attorney to rattle their cage and get their b.s. stopped. I hate to think about ALL the hassle any business will get today when they move out of California... My thoughts are with them...
The only Mint thats rolling release is the Debian version...
hehe I see why you're posting as AC.. I wonder what you've been smoking/shooting to make you say something like that..
I upgrade quite a few older systems with malware-infested XP installs, and up until about a year ago, I'd been installing Ubuntu 10.04, with the users of said systems happy and content with the classic Gnome UI, as I'd theme'ed it as close to XP as I could. When 12.04 was released, I decided to see what this new Unity looked like for myself, since I'd heard all the grief online about it in earlier 2011 versions of Ubuntu, but I only install/use LTS versions. I installed it on a spare drive and put it in my laptop, and after a week of coming close to tearing my hair out by the roots when trying to use it, I decided it was DEFINATELY not for me, BUT perhaps one of my less-techy users might like it.. This was not to be.. I prepared two base installs of 12.04 and installed the drives on two of my XP-to-10.04 users, and after only a few days, they both called me and said "get this $@%#$Q!# off my machine!!" .. I put their 10.04 drives back in their machines, and began to think what I'd was gonna do when 10.04 EOL'ed.. Since then, I've begun moving these and several new upgrades over to Mint/Debian with Cinnamon.. Once again, they're happy as clams..
Do they have some sort of psychiatric issue that prevents them from behaving like normal human beings?
Umm.. THAT'S what normal human beings DO when they don't like something.. They complain about it, and hopefully stop using it.. AND if you don't
like them complaining about it, don't read the comments.. Otherwise, YOU are the one with the "psychiatric issue"....
Too little.. too late.. I'd been a staunch user/supporter of Ubuntu since 7.04, when I was introduced to it after using Slackware/Redhat/Fedora since 1994. But the Gnome3/Unity b.s. soured me on Ubuntu, and caused me to move to Debian/Mint, which AFAIK, already implements "rolling release"..