so its not ok to say fuck, but its ok bastardize a black boy and his family for being black? who's the fuckin one that's twisted here? FUCK is one out of 7 words out of 40,000+ in the english language that the FCC doesn't let you say on TV and Radio.. which are far from actual outlets of freedom of speech.. remember, we're on the internet here.. i don't think you made any point at all in your previous message.. if you want to defend the acts of racism, go somewhere else.. the word fuck and hating black people are obviously two totally different things.. its an inflection.. not a expression of hatred towards an entire race of fucking people you fucking dimwit..
well said.. i'm all for free speech as well, but no matter what, governments around the world always draw the line somewhere.. i think its perfectly feasible and right to screw this bastard over.. Free Speech is all about making sure the people with the smallest voices can be heard.. but nobody wants to fuckin hear someone that simply expresses extreme uneducated hatred towards another human being's peaceful family and for no reason other than stupidity.. Race is just one of those things that you shouldn't even talk about.. why we haven't been able to just group everyone in to the category of "humans" in stead of black humans and white humans, is something I'll probably never understand.. we've already scientifically proven that every human being derived from Africa, so what the fuck is the point in singling out blacks, whites, yellows and reds? tradition? your father hated, so you need to hate to? man.. i thought the purpose of being a human being was to be a part of this grander scheme of things to make the world a better place and to evolve mentally.. whenever i hear generalizations and thoughts regarding race, i just see a primative caveman jumping and screaming like his food bowl was empty..
thats not bad lookin' at all! i'm glad the developers of FVWM are still working on newer things.. its nice to be able to make use of older machines.. plus, ANYTHING is better than ol' FVWM95... you know what i'm talkin about...
just my personal opinion of course, but that thing looks pretty bad ass.. i think i'll buy one.. i think the mere trendiness of ipods is the whole reason i dont want the damn thing.. atleast with a Zune, I can still be a geek instead of a "cool guy" like Apple likes to portray in their commercials..
Good to see another Maryland slashdotter.. I'm from Ocean City, and things didn't seem so bad over here from what I can tell.. there's an enormous amount of political partisanship statewide, and it always makes me quite curious when things like this happen.. i've always been a skeptic, but it certainly doesn't help calm me down much when I read articles like this, and the person who I really don't want to win the election, gets elected.. you definitely don't see paper malfunctioning..
coming from someone who USED to be a hardcore PC gamer back in Apogee's prime, and a hardcore NES and Sega Genesis fan, I can honestly say that after the Genesis, I haven't bought one video game console.. I've played a fair share, and yes they're all pretty much fun, but its never prompted me to buy one.. and nowadays, I certainly steer clear of most consoles especially when they are over $400.. to me its just ridiculous to invest that kinda money in to a game console when you could buy a sweet ass computer that will ALWAYS do much much more, bar-none..
HOWEVER....... due to recent events in gaming history, like the fucking Nintendo Wii, they're finally going to get me back as a console consumer.. simply because its not just another bullshit system.. the thing was designed specifically to entertain.. its not going to be designed to replace your PC.. its there for entertainment.. and its not going to cost you a fortune.. not to mention, the interaction is going to be 40 bajillion times better than a Xbox 360 and a PS3.. there's simply much more you can do with those controllers.. regardless of what your defense for the Xbox 360 and PS3, they still have regular ass controllers.. and compared to the Wii, its just plain boring.. Nintendo has certainly striked my interest, and has gotten be very excited about this new system.. this is all coming from the perspective of someone who does not play games on a regular basis, and doesn't care much for consoles to begin with.. but the damn Wii is just going to flat-out kick everyone's ass..
always bullshit when i hear things like this.. its like when the dumb ass that wrote that Google Documentary and made them look like the biggest most horrible big brother company thats out there, all because of how powerful Google Earth is.. FOR SHAME GOOGLE for allowing terrorists to pinpoint locations!! oh come-the-fuck-on.. every bit of satellite imagery that's out there has nothing to even do with google.. governments and scientists work together in providing PUBLIC geographic data.. Google simple is one of the very few people that actually use it..
what about space debris and asteroids possibly colliding right into the elevator? is there much debris that flies between the path of the earth and the moon?
you're absolutely right.. its never been my idea of a perfect career that's for sure.. but they certainly made it seem like it was going to be this very large and growing business when I first started.. it was exciting.. my bosses have been in the historical autograph business for about 23 years now.. we used to have big major live auctions every year, selling various George Washington letters, strainds of Abe Lincoln's baby hair, Buffalo Bill's handguns, and all sorts of crazy things.. all with proper provenance and authentication of course.. so they've built themselves up quite a reputation over the past couple decades.. their name is common throughout the market, and things were looking up until we stopped doing our live auctions, and tried to become a full fledged ebay business.. just goes to show ya that sometimes the old fashion way can be much more profittable in some ways..
not only would there be many people in the crowd that were participating at the auction, we would also sync it up with Ebay Live Auctions, opening the doors to hundreds of other collectors worldwide.. one of the things that made the live auctions work properly, was our nice and fast internet connection at the hotel ballroom where the auction was held..
dialup does work for the time being.. but to really make money, ya definitely gotta spend money, especially when it comes to technology.. they'll learn that soon enough.. for now, I cut my hours back to part time, saving them nearly $800 a month in payroll.. and the 3 days a week that I work, gives me the ability to accomplish the same amount of work that I did before.. i continue to stay as a favor, and because the job is quite relaxed dispite when I cuss at the modem.. it does have the potential to dive, but every few months we always have to come up with a new strategy.. I just wish the huge corporations like Mediacom, Comcast, and Verizon would simply help a brotha out and spend the money they could so easily make in return after years of our devoted consumerism.. thanks for the reply
i definitely agree with you 100%.. we've proposed so many ideas to my bosses about this.. about increasing productivity with just a littlre investment in our internet connection.. the only problem is, they both see that we're still easily getting our work done, and on time.. she has one of those, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" kind of mentalities.. for the amount we pay for a business phone line, and the local ISP, its probably damn near close to the monthly price of a DSL connection.. and she knows that, which is why she won't even try any other option until we can get one of the standard broadband services.. there are local initiatives in our town to deliver wireless internet access.. hopefully they'll keep expanding.. thanks for your comment..
well, you aren't taking many things in to consideration.. for example, our EBAY bill.. It costs about 2000-3000 dollars a month.. our office/warehouse rental bill, about another $2000 a month.. Payroll.. another $5000 a month between the 3 of us.. and approximately only $2000-4000 a week in sales.. you NEED to make a profit to buy NEW items to sell on ebay.. we haven't had spendable profit in probably about 2 years.. once you pay all these things, you seriously cannot afford any more fucking bills..
try working for an ebay powerseller that lists 500 items a week, where the office is located the bumfuck of delaware, and using a dialup connection shared with 3 employees for 4 years straight.. each person's job requires an internet connection, and the bosses aren't exactly willing to put forth much money for anything tech related.. there has been no broadband offered here, yet my boss's house which is 2 miles away, can get cable internet.. I've looked in to distributing their net connection from home, to the office, but no can do due to line of site and expensive equipment.. same goes with satellite.. the satellite providers charge way too much, for a crappy service.. some even have download limitations that decrease your service to dialup speeds if you overflow your quota bucket.. that's after you spend a couple hundred in equipment, and probably around $100 a month for a business connection..
we're right on the border to where Medicom and Comcast seperate.. and verizon is simply a joke.. I've actually contacted the President of Verizon for Delaware's district, to no avail.. One of those typical, "I'll get back to you on that" phone calls.. For us to get DSL, would require them to spend a few thousand dollars in running new lines underground, as well as special hardware for the fucking FIBER FED PG BOX literally a hundred yards from our office.. Cable companies have also said, that they'll need to dig underground, costing thousands, just to lay some cable to our little warehouse..
I've thought of every possible solution, and they are either too cost worthy, or they simply won't work.. we can't afford to have downtime, and dialup is better than nothing at all.. but I did do the math, and we lose a maximum of a 1000 hours every year in productivity due to waiting for pages to load, uploading high res images for products, and the bulk submission of hundreds of ebay items.. ahh well.. i've definitely gotten used to it, but it makes me wonder how much more money we could make, if we just had a faster internet connection.. I certainly understand that even a crappy satellite investment could help us out big time.. but my bosses are still struggling to pay the monthly bills, so its really out of the question until someone like Verizon, Mediacom, or Comcast can offer a decent $30-70 a month internet connection..
still tryin? geesh.. how can anyone just sit there, and let something like Pluto, who has about 50 big round objects, exactly like itself, that orbit our sun, still remain a planet without calling the other dwarves, planets as well?? it just doesn't make any scientific sense to hang on to keeping pluto as one of our "Planets" just because of the old story books, and the "childhood" memories.. its just sad that we're trying to alter the facts, and alter history, just because of TRADITION.. tradition is good in some situations, but when it holds us back from progressing our knowledge base, its just wrong..
i really think Google should strengthen its ties with Linux and help to make it something sweet.. all these years they've had something in common, and that's free software.. i guess its not exactly the best capital venture they could take, but what made them so popular is the number of people that use their services.. what better way to keep on promoting yourself to massive amounts of people, than with the opensource/free software movement? who knows.. maybe it shouldn't be their main point of concentration at the moment.. its quite possible that with an Apple and Google partnership, more capital for Google, could mean more money to buy time to contribute the the *nix world..
i personally don't think the damn kids need to use the "internet" in particular during classroom time any way.. they should just make sure the kids can't use the damn internet.. i think its perfectly fine for a kid to use their laptop to take notes on, to make spreadsheets, design portfolios for projects, powerpoint presentations, calculations, and etc... you know.. the things computers are supposed to be used for when it comes to education.. if they need to use the internet for research, then they can use the internet outside of the classroom.. maybe a Wifi lan in the library, and computers for all students to use.. and simply block all the stupid popular sites.. what the hell is so hard about that?
see, unfortunately, you typically condesend like a republican usually does, without even THINKING about what the fuck is actually wrong with this whole ordeal.. instead of actually realizing the problem, you automatically think anything against Bush is something Democrat related.. christ man, even republicans can't stand Bush.. half of republicans realize that he's a damn retard that makes his party look really bad.. the other half simply can't stop listening to what Sean Insanity says, or Bill O'RLY ???
i wouldn't really like to see Apple takeover this whole movement.. not as long as they're charging for their software.. an Apple OS of any sort will probably never be opensource as well.. the fact they even mention Linux is kind of strange, considering it's *BSD they should be talking about.. they're two totally different things, and will remain seperate for quite some time I think..
first of all, fuck fox news.. second of all, we don't need to be teaching kids anything that isn't true.. its simple.. if pluto deserves to be called a planet, then so does the other 50 things exactly like pluto that is in our solar system.. i personally liked the idea of calling all those dwarf planets in our solar system, "Plutons", leaving a nice legacy of Pluto to be learned by children.. I think that people should be taught that we made a mistake, and we corrected it because over time we became smarter, and developed better technology to help understand these kinds of things.. but to keep living a lie, is just wrong.. who cares about your childhood sexual fantasies with pluto.. just fuckin drop it already..
i think we all need to stop living in a fucking False world first of all.. the reason why so much shit is fucked up on this planet, is because we fucking lie to people.. the beliefs of religion have controlled us for way too long, and an INTENSE amount of blood has been spilled all in the name of "God".. We're trying to convince the world about something that we have NO idea even exists??? WE KILL PEOPLE OF OTHER RACES AND BELIEFS OVER SOMETHING WE'RE NOT EVEN SURE EXISTS??? ARE YOU FUCKING OUT OF YOUR MIND?? The only good thing religion has brought to people, is the community aspect of it all.. it brings people together.. PEOPLE is what brings people together.. not God.. since when has HE been a requirement for the sociology of human existence? NEVER... we've gotten along fine without christianity and other religions for 100,000 years, I don't think we need to continue this shit any longer..
sorry to burst people's bubbles, but its really not hard to grasp the fact that humans, at one point in time were no smarter than your average animal in the african wilderness.. please keep in mind, that animals of all kinds, have been communicating and feeling for MILLIONS of years before we even came in to existence.. these animals could feel energy.. happiness, lonliness, boredom, and fear, were all things that animals have felt for a long long long time.. these are the main emotions that humans fear.. the one thing that differentiates ourselves from those animals, is a larger memory capacity, and better communication.. and THAT is something that the force of "Life" has decided it needed, in order to keep on living.. Life makes decisions on it's own.. whenever it feels the need to explore the sky, it grows wings.. whenever it needs to walk on land, it grows feet to walk on land.. and whenever it feels the need to think, it grows the ability to think.. whether or not someONE or someTHING is actually controlling this, we'll never know.. but its a god damn FACT that we simply evolved from the rest of the respectable creatures on this Earth..
its especially crazy for people to call it a Theory, when there are living things today, that evolve right in front of our very eyes.. some people just like to think they are "special".. so special, that they couldn't of POSSIBLY been evolved from the PRIMATIVE creatures on our stinky planet..
i swear, i think people really under estimate nature and animals.. it doesn't take much to realize that around 50,000-100,000 years ago, the first so called "man" was incredibly awed and shocked by Fire.. later found out that he could use fire as a tool to make part of his life more efficient.. and then of course after thousands of years of language and communication with other humans, and the coming of emotions due to being awestruck, it makes perfect sense that we are who we are today, because of the slowly, but rather quickly, mental evolutionary process..
I tell you what really pisses people off, is that the media makes such a huge ordeal about when the prices of listing fees go up.. Then, a month or two down the road, you get a special email from Bill Cobb.. He always beats around the bush, talking about how Ebay needs to expand.. Then down at the very bottom of his email he mentions that "oh yea, btw, our listing rates for store and auctions are increasing again.. thanks for your business.. KTHX BUH BYE!!" that shit is so damn annoying.. i hate getting emails from him, because you know its only to justify his reasonings for yet another rate increase..
its all about word of mouth.. when ebay fucks off, the sellers and buyers alike spread the word like wildfire.. they tell their friends how much ebay has been pissing them off, and it really shows in the sales reports.. i've been selling Historical Documents on ebay for 5 years now, and business has always been up and down.. but it really sucks when business is down, and the rates increase.. it hurts us rather than helps us.. what the fuck is ebay doing with our money?? I haven't gotten any new help nor seen any benefit from these rate increases.. If the rate increases are supposedly "good for the company and good for sellers" how come its not paying off?? Its like taxes.. They can potentially be a great thing, but the people collecting the fucking money are just putting it right in their pockets...
indeed, I do like VMware's method, but I like yours as well.. Debian, has an EXCELLENT package for making your own diskless cluster.. saves tons on HD's if you have plenty of people to use it.. its basically like an NFS-boot for many clients.. runs X great.. here's a great link for the Diskless Cluster HOWTO
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so its not ok to say fuck, but its ok bastardize a black boy and his family for being black? who's the fuckin one that's twisted here? FUCK is one out of 7 words out of 40,000+ in the english language that the FCC doesn't let you say on TV and Radio.. which are far from actual outlets of freedom of speech.. remember, we're on the internet here.. i don't think you made any point at all in your previous message.. if you want to defend the acts of racism, go somewhere else.. the word fuck and hating black people are obviously two totally different things.. its an inflection.. not a expression of hatred towards an entire race of fucking people you fucking dimwit..
well said.. i'm all for free speech as well, but no matter what, governments around the world always draw the line somewhere.. i think its perfectly feasible and right to screw this bastard over.. Free Speech is all about making sure the people with the smallest voices can be heard.. but nobody wants to fuckin hear someone that simply expresses extreme uneducated hatred towards another human being's peaceful family and for no reason other than stupidity.. Race is just one of those things that you shouldn't even talk about.. why we haven't been able to just group everyone in to the category of "humans" in stead of black humans and white humans, is something I'll probably never understand.. we've already scientifically proven that every human being derived from Africa, so what the fuck is the point in singling out blacks, whites, yellows and reds? tradition? your father hated, so you need to hate to? man.. i thought the purpose of being a human being was to be a part of this grander scheme of things to make the world a better place and to evolve mentally.. whenever i hear generalizations and thoughts regarding race, i just see a primative caveman jumping and screaming like his food bowl was empty..
thats not bad lookin' at all! i'm glad the developers of FVWM are still working on newer things.. its nice to be able to make use of older machines.. plus, ANYTHING is better than ol' FVWM95... you know what i'm talkin about...
just my personal opinion of course, but that thing looks pretty bad ass.. i think i'll buy one.. i think the mere trendiness of ipods is the whole reason i dont want the damn thing.. atleast with a Zune, I can still be a geek instead of a "cool guy" like Apple likes to portray in their commercials..
Good to see another Maryland slashdotter.. I'm from Ocean City, and things didn't seem so bad over here from what I can tell.. there's an enormous amount of political partisanship statewide, and it always makes me quite curious when things like this happen.. i've always been a skeptic, but it certainly doesn't help calm me down much when I read articles like this, and the person who I really don't want to win the election, gets elected.. you definitely don't see paper malfunctioning..
HOWEVER....... due to recent events in gaming history, like the fucking Nintendo Wii, they're finally going to get me back as a console consumer.. simply because its not just another bullshit system.. the thing was designed specifically to entertain.. its not going to be designed to replace your PC.. its there for entertainment.. and its not going to cost you a fortune.. not to mention, the interaction is going to be 40 bajillion times better than a Xbox 360 and a PS3.. there's simply much more you can do with those controllers.. regardless of what your defense for the Xbox 360 and PS3, they still have regular ass controllers.. and compared to the Wii, its just plain boring.. Nintendo has certainly striked my interest, and has gotten be very excited about this new system.. this is all coming from the perspective of someone who does not play games on a regular basis, and doesn't care much for consoles to begin with.. but the damn Wii is just going to flat-out kick everyone's ass..
always bullshit when i hear things like this.. its like when the dumb ass that wrote that Google Documentary and made them look like the biggest most horrible big brother company thats out there, all because of how powerful Google Earth is.. FOR SHAME GOOGLE for allowing terrorists to pinpoint locations!! oh come-the-fuck-on.. every bit of satellite imagery that's out there has nothing to even do with google.. governments and scientists work together in providing PUBLIC geographic data.. Google simple is one of the very few people that actually use it..
what about space debris and asteroids possibly colliding right into the elevator? is there much debris that flies between the path of the earth and the moon?
not only would there be many people in the crowd that were participating at the auction, we would also sync it up with Ebay Live Auctions, opening the doors to hundreds of other collectors worldwide.. one of the things that made the live auctions work properly, was our nice and fast internet connection at the hotel ballroom where the auction was held..
dialup does work for the time being.. but to really make money, ya definitely gotta spend money, especially when it comes to technology.. they'll learn that soon enough.. for now, I cut my hours back to part time, saving them nearly $800 a month in payroll.. and the 3 days a week that I work, gives me the ability to accomplish the same amount of work that I did before.. i continue to stay as a favor, and because the job is quite relaxed dispite when I cuss at the modem.. it does have the potential to dive, but every few months we always have to come up with a new strategy.. I just wish the huge corporations like Mediacom, Comcast, and Verizon would simply help a brotha out and spend the money they could so easily make in return after years of our devoted consumerism.. thanks for the reply
i definitely agree with you 100%.. we've proposed so many ideas to my bosses about this.. about increasing productivity with just a littlre investment in our internet connection.. the only problem is, they both see that we're still easily getting our work done, and on time.. she has one of those, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" kind of mentalities.. for the amount we pay for a business phone line, and the local ISP, its probably damn near close to the monthly price of a DSL connection.. and she knows that, which is why she won't even try any other option until we can get one of the standard broadband services.. there are local initiatives in our town to deliver wireless internet access.. hopefully they'll keep expanding.. thanks for your comment..
with the amount of money i'd spend on 4 phone lines, i'd just get a satellite connection + equipment.. thanks for the recommendation though.
well, you aren't taking many things in to consideration.. for example, our EBAY bill.. It costs about 2000-3000 dollars a month.. our office/warehouse rental bill, about another $2000 a month.. Payroll.. another $5000 a month between the 3 of us.. and approximately only $2000-4000 a week in sales.. you NEED to make a profit to buy NEW items to sell on ebay.. we haven't had spendable profit in probably about 2 years.. once you pay all these things, you seriously cannot afford any more fucking bills..
find me a warehouse to fit 20 years worth of collectible archives that is in our area.. believe me, we've looked.. moving isn't cheap either..
we're right on the border to where Medicom and Comcast seperate.. and verizon is simply a joke.. I've actually contacted the President of Verizon for Delaware's district, to no avail.. One of those typical, "I'll get back to you on that" phone calls.. For us to get DSL, would require them to spend a few thousand dollars in running new lines underground, as well as special hardware for the fucking FIBER FED PG BOX literally a hundred yards from our office.. Cable companies have also said, that they'll need to dig underground, costing thousands, just to lay some cable to our little warehouse..
I've thought of every possible solution, and they are either too cost worthy, or they simply won't work.. we can't afford to have downtime, and dialup is better than nothing at all.. but I did do the math, and we lose a maximum of a 1000 hours every year in productivity due to waiting for pages to load, uploading high res images for products, and the bulk submission of hundreds of ebay items.. ahh well.. i've definitely gotten used to it, but it makes me wonder how much more money we could make, if we just had a faster internet connection.. I certainly understand that even a crappy satellite investment could help us out big time.. but my bosses are still struggling to pay the monthly bills, so its really out of the question until someone like Verizon, Mediacom, or Comcast can offer a decent $30-70 a month internet connection..
still tryin? geesh.. how can anyone just sit there, and let something like Pluto, who has about 50 big round objects, exactly like itself, that orbit our sun, still remain a planet without calling the other dwarves, planets as well?? it just doesn't make any scientific sense to hang on to keeping pluto as one of our "Planets" just because of the old story books, and the "childhood" memories.. its just sad that we're trying to alter the facts, and alter history, just because of TRADITION.. tradition is good in some situations, but when it holds us back from progressing our knowledge base, its just wrong..
i really think Google should strengthen its ties with Linux and help to make it something sweet.. all these years they've had something in common, and that's free software.. i guess its not exactly the best capital venture they could take, but what made them so popular is the number of people that use their services.. what better way to keep on promoting yourself to massive amounts of people, than with the opensource/free software movement? who knows.. maybe it shouldn't be their main point of concentration at the moment.. its quite possible that with an Apple and Google partnership, more capital for Google, could mean more money to buy time to contribute the the *nix world..
i personally don't think the damn kids need to use the "internet" in particular during classroom time any way.. they should just make sure the kids can't use the damn internet.. i think its perfectly fine for a kid to use their laptop to take notes on, to make spreadsheets, design portfolios for projects, powerpoint presentations, calculations, and etc... you know.. the things computers are supposed to be used for when it comes to education.. if they need to use the internet for research, then they can use the internet outside of the classroom.. maybe a Wifi lan in the library, and computers for all students to use.. and simply block all the stupid popular sites.. what the hell is so hard about that?
see, unfortunately, you typically condesend like a republican usually does, without even THINKING about what the fuck is actually wrong with this whole ordeal.. instead of actually realizing the problem, you automatically think anything against Bush is something Democrat related.. christ man, even republicans can't stand Bush.. half of republicans realize that he's a damn retard that makes his party look really bad.. the other half simply can't stop listening to what Sean Insanity says, or Bill O'RLY ???
i wouldn't really like to see Apple takeover this whole movement.. not as long as they're charging for their software.. an Apple OS of any sort will probably never be opensource as well.. the fact they even mention Linux is kind of strange, considering it's *BSD they should be talking about.. they're two totally different things, and will remain seperate for quite some time I think..
first of all, fuck fox news.. second of all, we don't need to be teaching kids anything that isn't true.. its simple.. if pluto deserves to be called a planet, then so does the other 50 things exactly like pluto that is in our solar system.. i personally liked the idea of calling all those dwarf planets in our solar system, "Plutons", leaving a nice legacy of Pluto to be learned by children.. I think that people should be taught that we made a mistake, and we corrected it because over time we became smarter, and developed better technology to help understand these kinds of things.. but to keep living a lie, is just wrong.. who cares about your childhood sexual fantasies with pluto.. just fuckin drop it already..
sorry to burst people's bubbles, but its really not hard to grasp the fact that humans, at one point in time were no smarter than your average animal in the african wilderness.. please keep in mind, that animals of all kinds, have been communicating and feeling for MILLIONS of years before we even came in to existence.. these animals could feel energy.. happiness, lonliness, boredom, and fear, were all things that animals have felt for a long long long time.. these are the main emotions that humans fear.. the one thing that differentiates ourselves from those animals, is a larger memory capacity, and better communication.. and THAT is something that the force of "Life" has decided it needed, in order to keep on living.. Life makes decisions on it's own.. whenever it feels the need to explore the sky, it grows wings.. whenever it needs to walk on land, it grows feet to walk on land.. and whenever it feels the need to think, it grows the ability to think.. whether or not someONE or someTHING is actually controlling this, we'll never know.. but its a god damn FACT that we simply evolved from the rest of the respectable creatures on this Earth..
i swear, i think people really under estimate nature and animals.. it doesn't take much to realize that around 50,000-100,000 years ago, the first so called "man" was incredibly awed and shocked by Fire.. later found out that he could use fire as a tool to make part of his life more efficient.. and then of course after thousands of years of language and communication with other humans, and the coming of emotions due to being awestruck, it makes perfect sense that we are who we are today, because of the slowly, but rather quickly, mental evolutionary process..
I'd simply elbow drop the little bastard from the top rope..
its all about word of mouth.. when ebay fucks off, the sellers and buyers alike spread the word like wildfire.. they tell their friends how much ebay has been pissing them off, and it really shows in the sales reports.. i've been selling Historical Documents on ebay for 5 years now, and business has always been up and down.. but it really sucks when business is down, and the rates increase.. it hurts us rather than helps us.. what the fuck is ebay doing with our money?? I haven't gotten any new help nor seen any benefit from these rate increases.. If the rate increases are supposedly "good for the company and good for sellers" how come its not paying off?? Its like taxes.. They can potentially be a great thing, but the people collecting the fucking money are just putting it right in their pockets...
indeed, I do like VMware's method, but I like yours as well.. Debian, has an EXCELLENT package for making your own diskless cluster.. saves tons on HD's if you have plenty of people to use it.. its basically like an NFS-boot for many clients.. runs X great.. here's a great link for the Diskless Cluster HOWTO