It's been a while, but unless things have changed, if you sell any product to the government, according to the law you are required to charge the government no more than what you charged under the best discount to any other party for the same quantity and product.
MIL-SPEC is the key here. Make a version that doesn't meet some sort of specification for the civilian market (cheap) and leave the properly spec'd item jacked up! (just to elaborate on what you said here:)
Sometimes the method is to have two different 'models' or configurations in the price list, that accomplish the purpose.
It gets even hairier when you deal with other suppliers who want to get in on the free-for-all. Oh, and the people who pitch needless services from those suppliers for huge premiums (profits all around!) and then when those services start causing the company more issues than they're worth they have to try and figure out a way to make that magic elixir look like snake oil without seeming crooked. God help me I love it so. I could write a book it gets so absurd.
What do you mean you've never seen a government bulk discount? Happens all the time. For any item where the number needed by the government is in the thousands or more, you can bet they're paying less per unit than you would be if you wanted to purchase just one of the same item from a store. It's no different than when big companies buy in bulk.
Oh yeah, what I said definitely reads wrong. Sorry. I mean not like a special for-gov't-only bulk discount. You are correct and I am uhhh sloppy:/...my bad!
santax. Don't bother, it is never a good idea to continue debate once an Israeli-supporter gets started. It's really hard to defend Israel as an active peace-seeking nation with such gems as:
Speaking to his cabinet Sunday, Olmert said: "The government's position was from the outset that if there is shooting at the residents of the south, there will be a harsh Israeli response that will be disproportionate."
Israel is a bit of an enigma, it can't be contained with facts nor will it accept statistics it hasn't created. Once the British gave Jews free reign over the Holy Land they haven't looked back. They decided to have a little holocaust of their own and assume ownership of Palestinian land that has been passed down through generations and did so with no regard for the tensions it may cause in the future. I understand why they did it, and they got away with it so in all honesty they did a bang-up job America could stand to learn a few things from about Thoroughness. It's a volatile region but Israel could do a lot better making peace, just as America could. But they won't, and terrorism shall sadly continue and thrive. And people with views half as "radical" as I will be labelled Anti-Semites and crucified for voicing such opinions.
Basically, I treated it like everything else the government buys for me with my money: I googled it, found the highest price and then added about 100-200% for an estimate. Guess it doesn't transfer well to all military expenditures.
Your methods are quite sound, I work for a major company mostly (almost completely) fueled by the defense industry and I can say that I have no reason to believe our government gets any type of discount whatsoever, foreign governments do, but it's widely known that Uncle Sam doesn't mind paying MSRP.
Basically, look at the lowest price you can find on a reputable AR-15, then take 10-20% off of that to estimate what the government is paying.
Why? I'm not trying to be a smartass but why would the government get 10-20% off? I've never seen an instance where a government organisation got a "bulk discount"
The Sager NP8660 http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4590 can be configured with a 9800M GT and T9600 for far less than the FLAMING GAY ORANGE Asus G50V. Plus, it is 15.4" (The fastest 15.4" laptop ever made) The Asus G50V is 15.4, sports the far weaker 9700M, and since it has two hard drive bays it's nearly as large as a 17" and did I mention it only comes in FLAMING GAY ORANGE? You can get a 1920x1200 MATTE screen for the Sager, instead of those glossy screens that morons love so much that hardly any other laptop manufacturer still uses them. I had a G1S, it was nice but I think it's the last decent Asus product that will ever be made. Their giant Republic of Gamers emblem, and blue blinken light bonanza plastered over a giant candy tangerine shell, it's just too tacky. Asus is so dead to me.
And if you have been given a liquidity injection recently, you can even get the x9100 and have all the fun that the Alienware kids are having. If not, as your attorney, I advise you to just buy it anyway and file for bankruptcy when the time comes.
America creates these people, and then can't even fit them in jail. This kid is going to jail, losing his chance at college, and basically going to turn into ANOTHER drain on America. The savages that are American prosecutors and judges, see this as a victory. With this typical close-minded American mentality Iraq can be considered a victory, if you do a body count or see victory as perpetual conflict and properly destroyed futures. I see the typical blood thirsty Americreeps are chiming in on this one, and I read right through their comments to their core values; "I have no balls/do no wrong, I am a Saint who is scared of my own shadow, I have no fun, ever, and am very bitter that I live in constant fear; so I'll scrutinize everyone else, out of sheer jealousy of course." These are the people who can be seen glued to FOX News making judgments about whatever stupid celebrity is making unwarranted headlines...each is an absolute nobody, trying to cope with their personal sense of failure by judging others.
When you think of this as a victory, just keep in mind most people come out of prison far from rehabilitated; they come out ready to make your life, as a law-abiding citizen, a living hell. Your tax dollars wasted, your entire infrastructure crumbling, this is just another destroyed soul; an individual that will never regain stability, education, or employment. A true American criminal. Just like the victim, his life is screwed forever. Eye for an eye? I'm surprised Americans are at war with radical Islam with values like this! You guys would fit right in over there! Our prison system is simply a place for criminal minds to grow, and gangs to fill their ranks quicker than could be possible anywhere else. It is full of repeat offenders who lose their ability to function in the outside world, it's the same death sentence every time. Or at least, a 'completely wasted life sentence.'
Thank you, American justice system, we will soon have another bitter criminal lurking in the darkness. We're all doomed.
#2 if you look through history, the average GLOBAL temperature over a one year period has typically hovered around 0 deg C (sp?) for most of history. I hear that is an important temperature for something..... Anytime the temperature strays from freezing dramatic changes happen to the global environment.
I keep doing the calculations and I'm still getting 32 degrees. Are you sure you aren't making a mistake?
Circumcision removes the most sensitive part of the penis
Like any of you guys could last 26 seconds in a woman WITHOUT that most sensitive part. You should be happy you're getting nearly a half minute's worth out of that prostitute.
unless they allow private citizens to own nuclear weapons, no amount of firepower you amass will do you a damned bit of good, right?
Iraqi insurgents don't have nuclear weapons and I'd say they're doing relatively well against us. They cost us billions of dollars every day, and thousands of lives each year. Nukes make a country unlivable, the radioactive decay would make this land worthless for years to come, the government wouldn't do that... Nuke where the most fighting would take place, right? So New York? Washington, DC? The entire eastern seaboard? Nuke their own ports and sub bases? Nuke their weapons caches? Nuke their capitol city?! If you want to see what urban combat against clandestine rebels who oppose the acting government would be like, hit up Iraq; I'm sure the Army can make room for you.
Sure it seems impossible for full scale chaos in America, but say there's a shortage on oil, and subsequently food, in the near future. How impossible is it then?
This has nothing to do with gun rights, by the way. My point is just, no one needs guns to kill people (see: IEDs a la Iraq) and it's quite naive to think our government can't be fought simply because of the tools they built in an arms race with Russians for over 40 years. In guerrilla warfare through city streets, masked by civilians, fighting an enemy who has lived their entire life within the confines a a few square miles, they're all sitting ducks. Read the news sometime! Spy satellites are simply a bit of insurance, it will help notice patterns, like how they find weapons caches in Iraq and then monitor them via satellite before striking it. Make no mistake that they put spy satellites up with the intent of searching for their... ENEMIES!
You are correct about the rationale, you certainly wouldn't want the government to know you own semi automatic weapons if you intend on fighting that government WITH those weapons. Only insecure fools trying to compensate for shortcomings would justify their gun like that, the type of person who wouldn't have the nardules to even use it in that situation.
Damn, you're right, I forgot about that. If he doesn't know that I should tell him. Only now, you have me wondering if I am just assuming he is Puerto Rican because in my area most Spanish speaking people are (in which case I REALLY feel like a jerk.) I'm sure he'd know that if he were, or maybe he's afraid for some reason.
Whatever the case may be, that's how I found out you cannot get any debit card, prepaid, refillable, whatever it may be, without fullly identifying yourself. In which case, just get a credit card, or bank account/debit card.
I talked to a Puerto Rican man that worked for contractors doing the roof at my workplace, he was interested in the internet and wanted to buy things from it. But you need a credit card, which means Social Security numbers and the like. So I turned him on to the prepaid debit cards, I felt they were made for people in his position. Wrong. That whole "fighting the laundering of money to terror groups" crap is in full effect, and you cannot get one of those things without entering Social Security numbers and everything.
He got refunded by a check, which he had to take to a check cashing place and get screwed the 5% or whatever, and I felt like a jerk. So I just ordered him the jacket he wanted and he paid me in (quite hard-earned) cash, and to think I'm paid to not be in work for the duration of the roofing because I complained to my doctor that the asphalt stuff smell is bothering me.
Mega Man 3 gets my vote, the music, the scenery, the battles, all of it had my imagination whirling at the young age of 6 when I first popped in that cartridge. I liked Mario, Excite-bike, and plenty of other games that were out at the time, but for some reason (divine intervention possibly) my mom picked that game out as a Christmas present and it has to be the greatest thing I've ever been given.
As for more recent gaming, I have been playing Battlefield 2142 since it came out and that is a really great game all around, I'd say (if you're in to shooters) it's the best thing to play right now, but Mega Man 3 (and all of the others on NES) really had that full video game impact only a true classic can bring.
This list kinda makes me wanna buy a Wii, they need to get Mega Man on virtual console.
The NSA has been doing this for years by now. Who knows how far along they've come in emulating the human brain, atleast ten years ago they sought out to do so using their supercomputers to crunch data picked up through eavesdropping. Think about your search/browsing history, chat/email history, and possibly a few of your phone conversations all being put together by the next big brother "freedom bureau" of the future to make up your "threat report"
The angle of the dangle is directionally proportionate to the heat of the meat and inversely proportionate to the sag of the bag. This is relevant, because the quintessential measure of man's cosmic purpose, and the understanding that comes of each discovery and revelation, is dwarfed by the new questions that then arise. In conclusion, one can conclude, that the effects on the world of physics are far-reaching but, in a closing statement, by nature, never insurmountable.
Very correct. I'm playing fl0won an overclocked Opteron 148 and it bogs down pretty hard sometimes. I think more power is great, give me more MIPS, and more memory bandwidth please (mostly for my 3d games.) It really is impossible to have enough, and contrary to what seems are many's beliefs, there will always be opportunities to use more power. I don't see why so many slashdotters hate on more powerful desktop processors, come on, more power, MORE POWER... (those who remember the show "Home Improvement" know the sound that proceeds)
Meh, you're all missing a key point. The 8800 GTS 640MB ($370) is a better deal than the x1950 XTX because of how good the 16xQ-AA setting looks. x1950 XTX only has up to 8x unless you add another, therefore- it fails.
My parents didn't understand the computer at all, however it was a new decade and they knew I'd need one. At 8 years old, on my first 'real' computer, Doom had changed my life forever. A large step from Mega Man, or 'meggyman' as I called it when I was 3 years old, blowing up monsters with a shotgun was simply thrilling and the first person perspective was both the most immersing and imaginative experience technology had for me. I remember the distinct growl from the PC speaker scaring the bejesus out of me, and by the time my parents caught on it was around the "mortal kombat is making our kids insane week." When I ran through a level with them watching any scrap of fear they may have had vanished and cheered me on as I vaporized monster after monster. After all, this is no worse than scary movies, no worse than cop dramas, no worse than the 6 o'clock news. If you know what murder means, what a fatal stabbing is, the mental imagery you conjure from hearing that is just as damaging; that is, it is completely NOT damaging.
I owned a BB gun, my dad and I shot off model rockets every weekend, so I was responsible around things that could be classified as weapons or explosives, I still played outside much more than on my computer, so I didn't get fat; maybe my parents just knew I wasn't a fuck-up. After all, the 'vibe' your own child emits is the easiest for any half-decent parent to read. Maybe more parents should be able to determine those kinds of things, I guess it's hard to say, I'd doubt a parent would hand their 8 year old kid a copy of a bloody shooter, but if the kid is exposed to it and likes it they could have a lot of fun; people think too hard about the simulation of video games, and not the fun. Just as shooting a can with a BB gun can be a fun way to experience physics, a shooter is a fun way to experience the act of shooting and destruction in a safe and legal manner. Would you send your kid to counseling for building and destroying a lego tower because you think he's going to be a terrorist? No.
These days, shooters are more graphically intense, more immersing, and focus more on semi-realistic human against human combat. To imagine a kid playing Battlefield 2142, I'd honestly be more afraid of what they read in the in-game chat than seeing ragdolls fall down from in front of their crosshair. But, to fly around, drive around, shoot a tank, and rampage with a battlewalker; if I happened upon anything like that back when I was playing Doom, I'd feel cheated to have it taken away because my parents didn't trust that I wasn't going to fill up a car with plastique explosives and blow it up into an armoured personnel carrier, or, perhaps more reasonably; stab/shoot someone at school. Above all, I would be insulted, and would my view of my parents would be altered forever; to think they'd even consider me a potential killer!
Maybe they should make some more kid-friendly first person games, I bet that'd be a blast for them, and yes kids grow up too damn quick these days. Innocence is a terrible thing to waste, and a tragedy for anyone who witnesses it being taken away from a child too early. But how much of that could possibly be video games? What about cell phones? Reality TV? Public school? Materialism? The media gets into our kid's heads earlier and earlier, and a global collective of misguided parents follow every lead the same machine throws them for sources of their offspring's troubles. It's as old as the hills, I suppose, and video games are just the latest scapegoat. I'm too young to have kids, but I am guilty of using discretion with my little sister years ago, we'd always play Mario Kart and Waverace because I didn't think she should play Goldeneye. A bit of that is sexism, had I a little brother, I'm sure I would have taught him the way of the gun early on. But, you can call me a success story, a kid who stumbled upon Doom at a young, impressionable age, and only good came of it, fond memories and an early boosted interest in technology. It's not all bad.
Just as you could always tell a Genesis kid from a Super Nintendo kid, since the ps3/360 are too similar, the closest thing is DS vs PSP kids. I was a Genesis kid. Who were you?
PSP is awesome. I just finished The Warriors and it was one of the best games I've played in a while, there isn't a handheld that compares in screen size and graphics quality/power.
The greatest racing game, Burnout, in all of it's glory on handheld (not a busted looking DS version.) That alone can't be topped. I was playing it on the late train home from NYC and all of the drunks couldn't help but look over my shoulder and stare, like moths. Methinks they need to market to drunk teenagers, like everything else.
OK, since I used Windows XP (gaming, what else?) I am used to reinstalls, so on one of my drives I keep all of the applications/sp2 I'd need on reinstall. Then make sure to shut off welcome screen, firewalls, etc and let automatic updates download and install once. Once. Then to installing the games!
I should do a reinstall drill, see how quickly I can get my system back to normal, right now I'd say, including auto update and driver downloads, about 3 hours. Not counting a few days later when I realize I've forgotten something
For Linux, I am n00b so I don't get *too* picky, but that still takes about the same amount of time. Configuring a Debian router on a 667 Celery through a net install took a bit longer, lots to download. But I've never had to 'reinstall'
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It's been a while, but unless things have changed, if you sell any product to the government, according to the law you are required to charge the government no more than what you charged under the best discount to any other party for the same quantity and product.
MIL-SPEC is the key here. Make a version that doesn't meet some sort of specification for the civilian market (cheap) and leave the properly spec'd item jacked up! (just to elaborate on what you said here:)
Sometimes the method is to have two different 'models' or configurations in the price list, that accomplish the purpose.
It gets even hairier when you deal with other suppliers who want to get in on the free-for-all. Oh, and the people who pitch needless services from those suppliers for huge premiums (profits all around!) and then when those services start causing the company more issues than they're worth they have to try and figure out a way to make that magic elixir look like snake oil without seeming crooked. God help me I love it so. I could write a book it gets so absurd.
What do you mean you've never seen a government bulk discount? Happens all the time. For any item where the number needed by the government is in the thousands or more, you can bet they're paying less per unit than you would be if you wanted to purchase just one of the same item from a store. It's no different than when big companies buy in bulk.
Oh yeah, what I said definitely reads wrong. Sorry. I mean not like a special for-gov't-only bulk discount. You are correct and I am uhhh sloppy :/ ...my bad!
Speaking to his cabinet Sunday, Olmert said: "The government's position was from the outset that if there is shooting at the residents of the south, there will be a harsh Israeli response that will be disproportionate."
Israel is a bit of an enigma, it can't be contained with facts nor will it accept statistics it hasn't created. Once the British gave Jews free reign over the Holy Land they haven't looked back. They decided to have a little holocaust of their own and assume ownership of Palestinian land that has been passed down through generations and did so with no regard for the tensions it may cause in the future. I understand why they did it, and they got away with it so in all honesty they did a bang-up job America could stand to learn a few things from about Thoroughness. It's a volatile region but Israel could do a lot better making peace, just as America could. But they won't, and terrorism shall sadly continue and thrive. And people with views half as "radical" as I will be labelled Anti-Semites and crucified for voicing such opinions.
Basically, I treated it like everything else the government buys for me with my money: I googled it, found the highest price and then added about 100-200% for an estimate. Guess it doesn't transfer well to all military expenditures.
Your methods are quite sound, I work for a major company mostly (almost completely) fueled by the defense industry and I can say that I have no reason to believe our government gets any type of discount whatsoever, foreign governments do, but it's widely known that Uncle Sam doesn't mind paying MSRP.
Basically, look at the lowest price you can find on a reputable AR-15, then take 10-20% off of that to estimate what the government is paying.
Why? I'm not trying to be a smartass but why would the government get 10-20% off? I've never seen an instance where a government organisation got a "bulk discount"
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You idiots don't know how to use a proxy? I'm baffled by how many people here haven't that figured out.
And if you have been given a liquidity injection recently, you can even get the x9100 and have all the fun that the Alienware kids are having. If not, as your attorney, I advise you to just buy it anyway and file for bankruptcy when the time comes.
When you think of this as a victory, just keep in mind most people come out of prison far from rehabilitated; they come out ready to make your life, as a law-abiding citizen, a living hell. Your tax dollars wasted, your entire infrastructure crumbling, this is just another destroyed soul; an individual that will never regain stability, education, or employment. A true American criminal. Just like the victim, his life is screwed forever. Eye for an eye? I'm surprised Americans are at war with radical Islam with values like this! You guys would fit right in over there! Our prison system is simply a place for criminal minds to grow, and gangs to fill their ranks quicker than could be possible anywhere else. It is full of repeat offenders who lose their ability to function in the outside world, it's the same death sentence every time. Or at least, a 'completely wasted life sentence.'
Thank you, American justice system, we will soon have another bitter criminal lurking in the darkness. We're all doomed.
I keep doing the calculations and I'm still getting 32 degrees. Are you sure you aren't making a mistake?
Like any of you guys could last 26 seconds in a woman WITHOUT that most sensitive part. You should be happy you're getting nearly a half minute's worth out of that prostitute.
Iraqi insurgents don't have nuclear weapons and I'd say they're doing relatively well against us. They cost us billions of dollars every day, and thousands of lives each year. Nukes make a country unlivable, the radioactive decay would make this land worthless for years to come, the government wouldn't do that... Nuke where the most fighting would take place, right? So New York? Washington, DC? The entire eastern seaboard? Nuke their own ports and sub bases? Nuke their weapons caches? Nuke their capitol city?! If you want to see what urban combat against clandestine rebels who oppose the acting government would be like, hit up Iraq; I'm sure the Army can make room for you.
Sure it seems impossible for full scale chaos in America, but say there's a shortage on oil, and subsequently food, in the near future. How impossible is it then?
This has nothing to do with gun rights, by the way. My point is just, no one needs guns to kill people (see: IEDs a la Iraq) and it's quite naive to think our government can't be fought simply because of the tools they built in an arms race with Russians for over 40 years. In guerrilla warfare through city streets, masked by civilians, fighting an enemy who has lived their entire life within the confines a a few square miles, they're all sitting ducks. Read the news sometime! Spy satellites are simply a bit of insurance, it will help notice patterns, like how they find weapons caches in Iraq and then monitor them via satellite before striking it. Make no mistake that they put spy satellites up with the intent of searching for their... ENEMIES!
You are correct about the rationale, you certainly wouldn't want the government to know you own semi automatic weapons if you intend on fighting that government WITH those weapons. Only insecure fools trying to compensate for shortcomings would justify their gun like that, the type of person who wouldn't have the nardules to even use it in that situation.
Whatever the case may be, that's how I found out you cannot get any debit card, prepaid, refillable, whatever it may be, without fullly identifying yourself. In which case, just get a credit card, or bank account/debit card.
He got refunded by a check, which he had to take to a check cashing place and get screwed the 5% or whatever, and I felt like a jerk. So I just ordered him the jacket he wanted and he paid me in (quite hard-earned) cash, and to think I'm paid to not be in work for the duration of the roofing because I complained to my doctor that the asphalt stuff smell is bothering me.
Apply directly to the forehead, Apply directly to the forehead!
The Who.
As for more recent gaming, I have been playing Battlefield 2142 since it came out and that is a really great game all around, I'd say (if you're in to shooters) it's the best thing to play right now, but Mega Man 3 (and all of the others on NES) really had that full video game impact only a true classic can bring.
This list kinda makes me wanna buy a Wii, they need to get Mega Man on virtual console.
The NSA has been doing this for years by now. Who knows how far along they've come in emulating the human brain, atleast ten years ago they sought out to do so using their supercomputers to crunch data picked up through eavesdropping. Think about your search/browsing history, chat/email history, and possibly a few of your phone conversations all being put together by the next big brother "freedom bureau" of the future to make up your "threat report"
The angle of the dangle is directionally proportionate to the heat of the meat and inversely proportionate to the sag of the bag. This is relevant, because the quintessential measure of man's cosmic purpose, and the understanding that comes of each discovery and revelation, is dwarfed by the new questions that then arise. In conclusion, one can conclude, that the effects on the world of physics are far-reaching but, in a closing statement, by nature, never insurmountable.
Very correct. I'm playing fl0won an overclocked Opteron 148 and it bogs down pretty hard sometimes. I think more power is great, give me more MIPS, and more memory bandwidth please (mostly for my 3d games.) It really is impossible to have enough, and contrary to what seems are many's beliefs, there will always be opportunities to use more power. I don't see why so many slashdotters hate on more powerful desktop processors, come on, more power, MORE POWER... (those who remember the show "Home Improvement" know the sound that proceeds)
Meh, you're all missing a key point. The 8800 GTS 640MB ($370) is a better deal than the x1950 XTX because of how good the 16xQ-AA setting looks. x1950 XTX only has up to 8x unless you add another, therefore- it fails.
I can say... Bloggers take themselves far too seriously. No one else does. :/
I owned a BB gun, my dad and I shot off model rockets every weekend, so I was responsible around things that could be classified as weapons or explosives, I still played outside much more than on my computer, so I didn't get fat; maybe my parents just knew I wasn't a fuck-up. After all, the 'vibe' your own child emits is the easiest for any half-decent parent to read. Maybe more parents should be able to determine those kinds of things, I guess it's hard to say, I'd doubt a parent would hand their 8 year old kid a copy of a bloody shooter, but if the kid is exposed to it and likes it they could have a lot of fun; people think too hard about the simulation of video games, and not the fun. Just as shooting a can with a BB gun can be a fun way to experience physics, a shooter is a fun way to experience the act of shooting and destruction in a safe and legal manner. Would you send your kid to counseling for building and destroying a lego tower because you think he's going to be a terrorist? No.
These days, shooters are more graphically intense, more immersing, and focus more on semi-realistic human against human combat. To imagine a kid playing Battlefield 2142, I'd honestly be more afraid of what they read in the in-game chat than seeing ragdolls fall down from in front of their crosshair. But, to fly around, drive around, shoot a tank, and rampage with a battlewalker; if I happened upon anything like that back when I was playing Doom, I'd feel cheated to have it taken away because my parents didn't trust that I wasn't going to fill up a car with plastique explosives and blow it up into an armoured personnel carrier, or, perhaps more reasonably; stab/shoot someone at school. Above all, I would be insulted, and would my view of my parents would be altered forever; to think they'd even consider me a potential killer!
Maybe they should make some more kid-friendly first person games, I bet that'd be a blast for them, and yes kids grow up too damn quick these days. Innocence is a terrible thing to waste, and a tragedy for anyone who witnesses it being taken away from a child too early. But how much of that could possibly be video games? What about cell phones? Reality TV? Public school? Materialism? The media gets into our kid's heads earlier and earlier, and a global collective of misguided parents follow every lead the same machine throws them for sources of their offspring's troubles. It's as old as the hills, I suppose, and video games are just the latest scapegoat. I'm too young to have kids, but I am guilty of using discretion with my little sister years ago, we'd always play Mario Kart and Waverace because I didn't think she should play Goldeneye. A bit of that is sexism, had I a little brother, I'm sure I would have taught him the way of the gun early on. But, you can call me a success story, a kid who stumbled upon Doom at a young, impressionable age, and only good came of it, fond memories and an early boosted interest in technology. It's not all bad.
I ranted pretty
Just as you could always tell a Genesis kid from a Super Nintendo kid, since the ps3/360 are too similar, the closest thing is DS vs PSP kids. I was a Genesis kid. Who were you?
The greatest racing game, Burnout, in all of it's glory on handheld (not a busted looking DS version.) That alone can't be topped. I was playing it on the late train home from NYC and all of the drunks couldn't help but look over my shoulder and stare, like moths. Methinks they need to market to drunk teenagers, like everything else.
waht's the prbolem yuo can't spel? LLO, u r is dumb!
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I should do a reinstall drill, see how quickly I can get my system back to normal, right now I'd say, including auto update and driver downloads, about 3 hours. Not counting a few days later when I realize I've forgotten something
For Linux, I am n00b so I don't get *too* picky, but that still takes about the same amount of time. Configuring a Debian router on a 667 Celery through a net install took a bit longer, lots to download. But I've never had to 'reinstall'