Real men bill the client directly, with an arrow stuck into their door, shot from a bow they've made by hand with a string they've strung themselves from tanned bear entrails.
If payment is tardy, the second arrow should be lit on fire before the bill is sent.
... there are a few small point I'd like you to consider:
I've known many techs [1]that not only didn't care about the rules of the English language, [2]they actually regarded their ignorance of such rules as a perverse badge of honor, as if mastering the intricacies of the language [3]was somehow beneath them.
Unless your tech acquaintances were of the non-human variety, referring to them as "that" is not standard. "Who" covers both singular and plural, and should have been used in place of "that".
By using "they", you create a run-on sentence with "techs... didn't care" and "they... regarded". I suggest "language, but actually...".
The phrase "as if mastering" introduces a subjunctive clause. In a subjunctive case, always use "were", not "was".
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is one more really good album cover.
I believe the RIAA is suffering from the lack of hydrogen-fueled airships. All they have now are rock stars looking old, male hip-hop artists looking mean, and female hip-hop artists looking... as female as possible.
Give me a snapshot of burning hell falling from the sky once in a while, and maybe I'll pay $19.95 for your amelodious drivel.
NEW DATA SHOWS ANALOG BROADCASTING CUT-OFF WILL IMPACT FEW U.S. TV SETS AND HOMES
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CEA's calculations are based partially on information from Nielsen Media Research, which shows there are 109.7 million U.S. television households, each owning an average of 2.6 televisions. CEA employed the firm of Opinion Research Corporation and explored how each of the 285 million television sets is used. The study found that only 5.2 million (3 percent) of TVs in households subscribing to cable are not connected to cable service. Of these, approximately 474,000 are used exclusively to view something other than television programming, leaving 4.7 million TVs (less than 3 percent) in these households used for viewing OTA television. Just over seven million (9.8 percent) of the 71 million TVs in satellite households are used for viewing OTA broadcasts while only 200,000 of the 3.46 million TVs in households subscribing to both cable and satellite are used for OTA viewing.
"Clearly, the vast majority of TVs in the United States are not used to view over-the-air television and we can presume that these numbers will diminish as more and more Americans subscribe to pay TV services, including coming technologies such as TV-over-IP, via telephony and even powerline," said Shapiro. "More than 88 percent of today's TVs are connected to cable or satellite service or are used to play videogames, watch pre-recorded content or some other non-broadcast television function."
which France has defiled over many years with their constant testing of nuclear weapons, I strongly support France's desires to house a nuclear fusion reactor in their own country for once. It will certainly make a change from them blasting the hell out of, and irradiating, the unlucky natives living on atolls that fall under France's colonial umbrella.
I'm pretty sure they weren't doing tests "constantly", they never blasted the hell out of any natives, and they've never had a fusion reactor there.
My only desire would be that the safety procedures at the new reactor are placed under the control of a third party - preferably a college frat house, its members well supplied with halucinogenic drugs, and who could control the reactor's safety computer systems (based on Windows ME) over the Internet from their own dormrooms via a non-secured link.
So you want a nuclear disaster to happen in France? Just because they blew up some uninhabited sandbars in the middle of the world's largest ocean? Nice.
The guy at my neighborhood hardware store knows more about my buying habits that I do. In fact, when I needed some shingles to patch around a skylight, he knew (before I told him "Uh, brown?") which shingles I needed. He had kept some from my last order, 5 years ago, just in case I ever needed some.
He also knows that if I look at sandpaper, I may need some other sandpaper or mineral spirits or screws or glue or something else. He knows what "something else" is by seeing what I've looked at on my trip through his store.
I hope he doesn't get sued for infringing their patent. I might need to patch my roof again soon.
He's a pretty cool dude, once you get past the ego and the constant attempts at world domination.
I consider a huge ego a prerequisite to being cool. It's a warlord thing, so lesser beings might not understand.
As for attempting world domination, that just comes along with the super powers. You get some free time, you get that old itch to conquer, and one thing leads to another.
Now, if you're talking about increasing cloud cover or saturating the air with water, you have something that could actually affect total global climate....
Exactly. The actual seawater, being full of salt, isn't much good except to make an inland sea. What to do is make a big (Texas-sized) marsh, or maybe just a salt flat. The evaporation from the salt flat does cool its immediate area, but not enough to make a measurable change of global impact.
You'd get "marsh effect" rain, though, just as Buffalo gets lake-effect rain and snow. That would be fresh water, and would eventually form streams and rivers. I think it would actually break even financially, once it stabilized enough to grow crops there.
As for it being a closed system, yes. The point is to put the water in the hot spots. We've got a lot of water, but it's not in the right places.
The real problem with my hair-brained scheme is political. Libya, Chad, Niger, Sudan. They'd fight over a box of rocks.
we're trying to phase out coal. That technology never really panned out for us, even though we mine a lot of good coal here. Our Amish lobby is just too strong. We'll still sell it to Colorado, though.
We're going back to wood. The initial leading choice for the fuel is oak, since those are the biggest, oldest trees we have. When those are gone, the maple crop should be ready.
I use RG-58 coax (old ethernet cable) for my speaker wires. It works great.
I had a bunch of old coax cable and patch panel stuff laying around. I needed a couple of speaker wires. A couple of crimps later I had audio, and that got me started.
I'm going to use the rest of it to wire the whole house (well, the deck, two bedrooms, and a bathroom) for sound.
>How stupid do you all have to be not to notice >that the price tag is $500 billion,
Still enough money to move a bunch of water, with solar power.
>Not at all cooler. In fact, it would make the earth >warmer because you'd be wasting energy moving water >around needlessly.
With solar-powered water pumps? Taking desert sunlight and turning it into mechanical motion, and then using that to cool off millions of square miles of hot sand would make the earth warmer? Don't be silly. There is some heat generated by the electric pumps, but nothing like the amount of cooling that results even from capturing the sunlight before it heats the sand.
Then you turn all of that seawater into vapor, salt, and plants. The plants absorb more sunlight. Except for the mosquitoes, it would be paradise. After a few years, you could probably pay for the thing with tourism money.
For that kind of dough, wouldn't it be easier just to move the Earth to a higher orbit (further from Sol)?
$200 trillion (2.0 x 10e14 dollars), or even $1 trillion, is a big chunk of change to go spending on something we don't even know would fix the problem. What if it's not enough? How much money do you dump down the hole (or in this case, throw into the air) before you start thinking about alternate solutions?
How much seawater could you pump into the central Sahara for $1 trillion? Make a giant salt marsh the size of say, Texas. Still plenty of desert left over, don't worry. But how much cooler would that make the globe? Don't even use 4-degree Celsius water from the Atlantic, but get 20C water from the Red Sea. It'll fill back up.
Or, maybe we could just accept the changes in climate as the natural order of things (even if they're our fault - we're natural, too). If the oceans rise, move to higher ground.
How a product is promoted is the entire point of the decision. The law as a whole is concerned as much, or more, with intent as with action. Promoting a product for its illegal uses is akin to encouraging and even aiding the illegal activity. The Court affirmed that to be true for copyright infringement, the same as anything else.
Holding manufacturers harmless for things they promote for illegal purposes would result in a crime wave, fueled by 30-second spots on TV.
While a spate of infomercials on how to rob a bank with a loaf of C4 might be interesting, I think on balance the public good is best served by some sensible limits to free speech.
The Americans are just doing what the client wants, if they are doing anything at all. That's not in the same league as setting the policy, which is certainly coming from Iran.
Ask yourself this: if the Iranians didn't want the censorship, would American companies be helping them do it, if they even are? No, of course not.
And probably if there are people at Cisco doing any dirty work, they are Iranian, or mid-eastern, anyway. Don't jump to the conclusion that just because the company is American everyone who knows their OS has to be American, too.
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"As more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."
Salaries are for women and feebs.
Real men bill the client directly, with an arrow stuck into their door, shot from a bow they've made by hand with a string they've strung themselves from tanned bear entrails.
If payment is tardy, the second arrow should be lit on fire before the bill is sent.
After that, you may have to get nasty.
My mind filled in: "oh, the Twilight Zone guy".
Then I realized that Rod Serling was probably dead of lung cancer by now, and that I didn't know who Bruce Sterling was.
as big as an elephant, but it got away.
Cranio-Rectal Syndrome.
is one more really good album cover.
... as female as possible.
I believe the RIAA is suffering from the lack of hydrogen-fueled airships. All they have now are rock stars looking old, male hip-hop artists looking mean, and female hip-hop artists looking
Give me a snapshot of burning hell falling from the sky once in a while, and maybe I'll pay $19.95 for your amelodious drivel.
And I'm not even a Led Zep fan.
Really? Do you live on a boat, or underwater?
I'm pretty sure they weren't doing tests "constantly", they never blasted the hell out of any natives, and they've never had a fusion reactor there.
So you want a nuclear disaster to happen in France? Just because they blew up some uninhabited sandbars in the middle of the world's largest ocean? Nice.
I think your priorities are a little mixed up.
Who can remember that long ago? I had to google it to verify that you were right. Luckily, it was still in Google's cache.
I, for one, welcome duplicate stories.
The guy at my neighborhood hardware store knows more about my buying habits that I do. In fact, when I needed some shingles to patch around a skylight, he knew (before I told him "Uh, brown?") which shingles I needed. He had kept some from my last order, 5 years ago, just in case I ever needed some.
He also knows that if I look at sandpaper, I may need some other sandpaper or mineral spirits or screws or glue or something else. He knows what "something else" is by seeing what I've looked at on my trip through his store.
I hope he doesn't get sued for infringing their patent. I might need to patch my roof again soon.
I consider a huge ego a prerequisite to being cool. It's a warlord thing, so lesser beings might not understand.
As for attempting world domination, that just comes along with the super powers. You get some free time, you get that old itch to conquer, and one thing leads to another.
Exactly. The actual seawater, being full of salt, isn't much good except to make an inland sea. What to do is make a big (Texas-sized) marsh, or maybe just a salt flat. The evaporation from the salt flat does cool its immediate area, but not enough to make a measurable change of global impact.
You'd get "marsh effect" rain, though, just as Buffalo gets lake-effect rain and snow. That would be fresh water, and would eventually form streams and rivers. I think it would actually break even financially, once it stabilized enough to grow crops there.
As for it being a closed system, yes. The point is to put the water in the hot spots. We've got a lot of water, but it's not in the right places.
The real problem with my hair-brained scheme is political. Libya, Chad, Niger, Sudan. They'd fight over a box of rocks.
Germans are so efficient.
Now the French will be their power-producing, cheese-eating, wine-drinking thralls.
Why doesn't the U.N. do something?
we're trying to phase out coal. That technology never really panned out for us, even though we mine a lot of good coal here. Our Amish lobby is just too strong. We'll still sell it to Colorado, though.
We're going back to wood. The initial leading choice for the fuel is oak, since those are the biggest, oldest trees we have. When those are gone, the maple crop should be ready.
isn't it about time France surrendered to Germany? What's it been, over 60 years now? Way overdue.
I use RG-58 coax (old ethernet cable) for my speaker wires. It works great.
I had a bunch of old coax cable and patch panel stuff laying around. I needed a couple of speaker wires. A couple of crimps later I had audio, and that got me started.
I'm going to use the rest of it to wire the whole house (well, the deck, two bedrooms, and a bathroom) for sound.
>How stupid do you all have to be not to notice
>that the price tag is $500 billion,
Still enough money to move a bunch of water, with solar power.
>Not at all cooler. In fact, it would make the earth
>warmer because you'd be wasting energy moving water
>around needlessly.
With solar-powered water pumps? Taking desert sunlight and turning it into mechanical motion, and then using that to cool off millions of square miles of hot sand would make the earth warmer? Don't be silly. There is some heat generated by the electric pumps, but nothing like the amount of cooling that results even from capturing the sunlight before it heats the sand.
Then you turn all of that seawater into vapor, salt, and plants. The plants absorb more sunlight. Except for the mosquitoes, it would be paradise. After a few years, you could probably pay for the thing with tourism money.
Having RTFA, I see he meant it was fun to look at all the cool treats in store for Knoppix users.
I was hoping he didn't mean morbidly obese, toothless, and spoiled rotten by overindulgent or inattentive parents.
For that kind of dough, wouldn't it be easier just to move the Earth to a higher orbit (further from Sol)?
$200 trillion (2.0 x 10e14 dollars), or even $1 trillion, is a big chunk of change to go spending on something we don't even know would fix the problem. What if it's not enough? How much money do you dump down the hole (or in this case, throw into the air) before you start thinking about alternate solutions?
How much seawater could you pump into the central Sahara for $1 trillion? Make a giant salt marsh the size of say, Texas. Still plenty of desert left over, don't worry. But how much cooler would that make the globe? Don't even use 4-degree Celsius water from the Atlantic, but get 20C water from the Red Sea. It'll fill back up.
Or, maybe we could just accept the changes in climate as the natural order of things (even if they're our fault - we're natural, too). If the oceans rise, move to higher ground.
>ruling not about what they failed to do
Right. GP was about how not to get sued (how to be a good citizen).
Holding manufacturers harmless for things they promote for illegal purposes would result in a crime wave, fueled by 30-second spots on TV.
While a spate of infomercials on how to rob a bank with a loaf of C4 might be interesting, I think on balance the public good is best served by some sensible limits to free speech.
Those admins look big, but nowhere near 3000 pounds each. Besides, if they would just log in they wouldn't have to post as AC any more.
The Americans are just doing what the client wants, if they are doing anything at all. That's not in the same league as setting the policy, which is certainly coming from Iran.
Ask yourself this: if the Iranians didn't want the censorship, would American companies be helping them do it, if they even are? No, of course not.
And probably if there are people at Cisco doing any dirty work, they are Iranian, or mid-eastern, anyway. Don't jump to the conclusion that just because the company is American everyone who knows their OS has to be American, too.
For every N drives they sell, I would put at N the number of people who at some point say,
"Ooops -- oh, crap."
Is Murphy's Law just not taught any more?