... USB monitors exist. Small, not terribly effective for 3D rendering, but they work well for anything you'd be doing in an emergency like you described. Asus makes some, as does MIMO (and theirs are touch-capable, some with webcams). They're all run off of a single USB plug (two if your ports are underpowered) and have respectable resolutions.
Stop drinking the koolaid. AIG got a bailout because of their donations to key members of the government:
It was the set up for an analogy, jackass.
Besides, with AIG removed from the picture, the various contrived securities at the core of this would have even less basis for existence, all the companies tied up in this would be forced to pay out on their debts and financial institutions worldwide would be fucked royally, whether they bought these securities or not.
Yes AIG was a central player in fucking this up, but the method they used tied the whole fucking world to their sinking ship.
This is a global fucking market. You and the rest of your idiot isolationist brethren have yet to figure out that we Americans are no longer on an island with administrative duties for the world (and never should have been) - we have consequences that follow our actions.
So. While AIG does not deserve this for any reason, they still have a shitstorm to clean up. People say not to give the clean up responsibilities to the people who fucked it up. I say we treat them like the overgrown children they are and make them clean up their own mess - if we don't, the next companies to do this shit will feel completely invincible.
AIG's donations have zero to do with this. Why would we pay them back for screwing up? The total they donated ($330446) is a mere 0.000003888% of the $85 billion they received from the Fed. There is no way the donations were the root impetus for the rescue.
I know I want to give someone just over 257228 times the amount of money they give me, especially when they fuck up.<sarcasm/>
...if only because of its sheer size. Google:AIG::Pirate Bay:First National Bank of Podunk The little bank didn't get any of the bailout funds, but AIG, with a broader scope of services and more clout, did. Why? They are linchpins in the field. Prosecution there will show the flaw in the argument, and retroactive changes don't look good. So, all players know someone got screwed, and they move on.
Either way, the big guy won't get screwed, because he'll fuck you back.
You're right, nothing I said directly contradicts anything you said. Taken in the context of the parent comment, though, you are taking a contradictory position. The spirit of this argument is that sections of freeway between cities could be used as tollways which restricts travel. You're just saying that intra-city tollways exist on interstate freeway sections, which has nothing to do with the argument at hand.
Check your arguments. Do they make sense in the context of the problem at hand? If not, DON'T USE THEM. Instead, try making an argument that is clearly in the scope of the conversation.
... that was a typical, ill-conceived response. You have failed to understand the way the interstate system works.
Having worked in an engineering firm for some years, I can tell you that "interstate" almost never means what it says (I-45 only goes from Galveston to Dallas - at which point it becomes I-35/US-75 and splits off towards Oklahoma. Go figure). Also, major metropolitan areas are generally in control of the sections of interstate running through their respective jurisdictions. They receive little federal funding (if any) directly and instead rely on the state's highway budget.
As a result, the cities involved have total right to make those sections of freeway toll roads. They must fund their on repairs and maintenance and are given the leeway necessary to do that.
Next time you decide to make a retarded comment like that, think it through.
I'm still waiting for a.deb to throw it on my Ubuntu box, but I'm still quite satisfied. My only few gripes are that it doesn't have very good documentation within the browser (for things like hotkeys and the like)
...holy BALLS this is fast! I just grabbed it from www.google.com/chrome and dear gods above and below this thing flies.
Whatever they did with the scratch-built javascript vm was worth it. Oh. My. God.
Not meant to be a slashvertisement, but there you have it. I can't wait for it to come out for Linux.
Firefail and IE need to move over - this is going to be big, once people hear about it.
... or is the phrase "reboot the TV" just a sad state of affairs? Seriously, folks: TVs have - with the exception of older models which needed to warm up the tubes - always been "instant-on" devices, and I, for one, have become accustomed to that.
The idea of having a start up time for a TV while some micro-kernel boots inside its guts is repulsive, and having the signal shunted around within that morass of silicon to implement fucking permissions is a vile, horrible thought.
I pay the bastards enough for the satellite service, and they certainly make enough on the five minutes of advertisements they air every tenth minute... Why should I be forced to watch the scant programming they do offer on their terms?
Comcast calls it PowerBoost - basically, it's a marketing tactic. It starts at 15mbps down and throttles back after about 15 seconds or so on the assumption that most users only download ~10mb at a time for a "large" download. They actually call it a feature and use it in their advertising (targeted at idiots and users who don't know better).
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Close, but a pipe is what I was just smoking. The thingie under your sink is a series of tubes (not a big truck).
And nothing of value was lost.
... USB monitors exist. Small, not terribly effective for 3D rendering, but they work well for anything you'd be doing in an emergency like you described. Asus makes some, as does MIMO (and theirs are touch-capable, some with webcams). They're all run off of a single USB plug (two if your ports are underpowered) and have respectable resolutions.
Stop drinking the koolaid. AIG got a bailout because of their donations to key members of the government:
It was the set up for an analogy, jackass.
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Besides, with AIG removed from the picture, the various contrived securities at the core of this would have even less basis for existence, all the companies tied up in this would be forced to pay out on their debts and financial institutions worldwide would be fucked royally, whether they bought these securities or not.
Yes AIG was a central player in fucking this up, but the method they used tied the whole fucking world to their sinking ship.
This is a global fucking market. You and the rest of your idiot isolationist brethren have yet to figure out that we Americans are no longer on an island with administrative duties for the world (and never should have been) - we have consequences that follow our actions.
So. While AIG does not deserve this for any reason, they still have a shitstorm to clean up. People say not to give the clean up responsibilities to the people who fucked it up. I say we treat them like the overgrown children they are and make them clean up their own mess - if we don't, the next companies to do this shit will feel completely invincible.
AIG's donations have zero to do with this. Why would we pay them back for screwing up? The total they donated ($330446) is a mere 0.000003888% of the $85 billion they received from the Fed. There is no way the donations were the root impetus for the rescue.
I know I want to give someone just over 257228 times the amount of money they give me, especially when they fuck up.<sarcasm
...if only because of its sheer size. Google:AIG::Pirate Bay:First National Bank of Podunk The little bank didn't get any of the bailout funds, but AIG, with a broader scope of services and more clout, did. Why? They are linchpins in the field. Prosecution there will show the flaw in the argument, and retroactive changes don't look good. So, all players know someone got screwed, and they move on. Either way, the big guy won't get screwed, because he'll fuck you back.
... sic semper tyrannus!
You're right, nothing I said directly contradicts anything you said. Taken in the context of the parent comment, though, you are taking a contradictory position. The spirit of this argument is that sections of freeway between cities could be used as tollways which restricts travel. You're just saying that intra-city tollways exist on interstate freeway sections, which has nothing to do with the argument at hand.
Check your arguments. Do they make sense in the context of the problem at hand? If not, DON'T USE THEM. Instead, try making an argument that is clearly in the scope of the conversation.
... that was a typical, ill-conceived response. You have failed to understand the way the interstate system works.
Having worked in an engineering firm for some years, I can tell you that "interstate" almost never means what it says (I-45 only goes from Galveston to Dallas - at which point it becomes I-35/US-75 and splits off towards Oklahoma. Go figure). Also, major metropolitan areas are generally in control of the sections of interstate running through their respective jurisdictions. They receive little federal funding (if any) directly and instead rely on the state's highway budget.
As a result, the cities involved have total right to make those sections of freeway toll roads. They must fund their on repairs and maintenance and are given the leeway necessary to do that.
Next time you decide to make a retarded comment like that, think it through.
"Turner House of Pancakes" Love it. Phrasejacked.
That is all.
Yeah - Larry Craig was a dishonorable discharge from his mother's womb.
Kitty litter is more what you're looking for.
Gasp! A discovery to mull! I had always assumed by the old logic that it maintained its heat but just extinguished the light!
... The Sun may be very very hot.
By which I mean it redirects you to a Google hosted page rather than having local documentation.
I'm still waiting for a .deb to throw it on my Ubuntu box, but I'm still quite satisfied. My only few gripes are that it doesn't have very good documentation within the browser (for things like hotkeys and the like)
...holy BALLS this is fast! I just grabbed it from www.google.com/chrome and dear gods above and below this thing flies. Whatever they did with the scratch-built javascript vm was worth it. Oh. My. God. Not meant to be a slashvertisement, but there you have it. I can't wait for it to come out for Linux. Firefail and IE need to move over - this is going to be big, once people hear about it.
people will keep using it until they stop
That tends to happen with damn near everything. Kinda like how you find stuff in the last place you look - if you're not a moron, you stop looking.
Your life would be mired by hopelessness.
It isn't already?
... or is the phrase "reboot the TV" just a sad state of affairs? Seriously, folks: TVs have - with the exception of older models which needed to warm up the tubes - always been "instant-on" devices, and I, for one, have become accustomed to that.
The idea of having a start up time for a TV while some micro-kernel boots inside its guts is repulsive, and having the signal shunted around within that morass of silicon to implement fucking permissions is a vile, horrible thought.
I pay the bastards enough for the satellite service, and they certainly make enough on the five minutes of advertisements they air every tenth minute... Why should I be forced to watch the scant programming they do offer on their terms?
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This shit was on several other blogs about three days ago - hell, I even covered it for The Daily Cougar (University of Houston's newspaper)
...the only voice of common sense in the whole apple organization, past or present.
Comcast calls it PowerBoost - basically, it's a marketing tactic. It starts at 15mbps down and throttles back after about 15 seconds or so on the assumption that most users only download ~10mb at a time for a "large" download. They actually call it a feature and use it in their advertising (targeted at idiots and users who don't know better).
"continue its court battle, SCO's main business, with Novell Inc. over royalties from the Unix server operating system" or am I crazy?