"Homework or a few minutes of e-mail, not a big deal... Wasting four hours on a video game because you need to "relax"... It gives a clear message: I'm not wanted. And when it's my boyfriend doing that, then it's elevate to not only aren't I wanted, but that I'm less attractive than a hunk of circuits and plastic. So yeah, most girls are going to be rightly pissed about that!"
Aren't you injecting you're views into his life? What if he started demanding you stop speaking to your friends other than hello/goodbye? Stop writing so much into it. He doesn't see that much in it which is insensitive and you're being oversensitive/overreacting, short version, you're both being selfish. If you don't tell him how you feel, don't beat-around-the-bush about it, you'll never get past it and he'll never know. You might be lucky and he'll be sensitive enough to notice later but I wouldn't count on it or him saying anything about it. Guys tend to accept point blank and not read into anything so stop playing word games and tell him bluntly what you think and why.
Like any of us, give him something more interesting and you won't have so many problems. Just remember, he's doing his thing and you're doing yours. We're creatures of habit, let him have a reason to change the habit.
"If you can leave any time you like, it's not a prison. It's just a really shitty hotel."
Except it's not a shitty hotel when you have to use windows at work or to play with your friends. Then it is a little less than a prison.
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"Almost everything that is highly advanced is the result of alien technology and is never explained or understood. Much of it functions on an almost mystical or magical level."
By that description it's not science fiction anymore, but fantasy.
Except it does describe a trend. And as much as there are differences, corporate software makers affect more people and make more money than many countries. They are also more willing to act in their corporate and CEO's interest to the detriment of everyone else, even their own stockholders. This is unethical behavior that should be bordering on criminal at minimum. Unethical behavior is supposed to be discouraged, you make it sound like they should get a candy bar. Considering that civil/privacy rights are under attack from just about everywhere, maybe a strong reaction is whats needed to get something done.
You left out that many of the laws that caused the current problems were instituted and passed by republicans since 1994. You know, the 'contract with america' or better phrased 'the contract to screw america'. The 1999 dissolution of the 1933 Glass-Steagall reforms was an earmark injected by a republican into a must pass bill at the last minute. And let's not forget that bush appointees including Greenspans successor, who are supposed to know what they are doing, were at the controls of this train for the last eight years that has now wrecked. The republican party had near overwhelming control of all three branches of government for more than six years and at least two branches were criminally negligent at the switches.
And when he gets off he can sue you for damages as a call to police is part of the public record and so would his arrest, which means he, his lawyer, and the police can find you. The post is meaningless without a real action to give it relevance so "could be charged" isn't meaningful. Don't forget the police could come after you as crank calls are a criminal offense in some places too.
I would have copied it too as proof in case I'm quietly sanctioned for doing the right thing. Revenge goes on all the time especially when dealing with the control game that masquerades as a school administration.(like that's the only place it goes on) The bad part is it's a damned if you do or damned if you don't scenario. In school, innocent until proven guilty doesn't exist and it seems no where else either considering how public this has become. Personally I hope the parents sue the district and go after the fools in charge.
I almost hope the kid kills himself thereby turning the witchhunt into a nightmare for the school. With a little luck some of those control freaks would go to prison for torturing a kid for doing the right thing. One thing the kid definitely has learned that doing the right thing sucks, says a lot about how screwed up the school system is doesn't it. Guess he's going to be home schooled from now on, probably better off too.
He probably wanted to get paid for finding the fault and reporting it. Capitalism in the purest sense, shows the kid knows what's important in life. Calling it blackmail is the tightwads way out, funny when it's an individual it's blackmail, when it's a corporation it's business. This whole thing smells of a cop out. It's not like the whole thing is damning, a sensitive file with student access smells like the school is covering its ass, quite a common thing actually.
You forgot a few lines under windows: 8) Installing drivers for the various third party cards(nvidia,ati,linksys, etc). 9) Updating third party drivers from their various websites. 10) Installing disc based third party applications(games, antivirus, etc) and net applications(skype, anti-malware, etc) 11) Updating disc based third party applications from the net. There's often several reboots during steps 8,9, and sometimes 10.
And two under ubuntu: 5) Update ubuntu from net. 6) Installing various third party applications from repositories.
It's definitely easier to install Ubuntu than WindowsXP.
It's censorship when that's all that the tool is for. If it's used and we all know it will be. We also know what the tool will be used for, so stop beating around the bush. It will quietly appear and before you know it you won't be able to say linux or bsd in any media except face to face and I'm sure they're working on that. I won't get into other words except privacy, constitution, bill of rights, freedom, first amendment, censorship, Obama, ubuntu, pc-bsd, the various four letter words, etc.
Has it occurred to anyone that only governments and corporations (cheney's background) think debt doesn't matter. The rest of us individuals and small businesses have to balance our budgets. For the rest of us, there's a little name for this financial situation that has become normal for government and corporations, it's called bankruptcy!
Maybe we should remove the tax exempt status from all of these politicking(parasites) churches/religions. With all the churches in the country being taxed the national debt would be gone in a year and for once the government would be doing the public a useful service of getting rid of greedy manipulative churches/religions as a business. Of course, that would basically get rid of all religions(yea!). Or maybe just get rid of all religion anyway and instantly evolve into "homo-intelligent and sensible".
Alaska attacked by our enemies?
They made a movie about it in the 80's starring Rock Hudson. Basically the premise was the soviets took over our pipeline to get us to drop a food embargo. It didn't end well.
Maybe businessmen should learn to adapt their wordprocessing methods and mindset (just like when they started using word) to what works better just like in everything else they do. When you don't adapt you're often not in business very long. Yes, it's fundamentally a business relationship except that users/businesses get to use the OSS for free and OSS programmers, except in company supported projects, burn up their limited spare time on writing the software for little if any return.
And guess who made the negative version of hacker popular? Ronald Reagan.(Ronny!) Slow memory loss wasn't a deserving enough death for the guy. It should have been worse for mister record deficits and manipulating (ok, outright lying to) the public about hackers to get laws passed.
This is a 12 year old kid we're talking about. Have his parents put him to bed without supper and no computer for a month because what he said was wrong, not that he said it which wasn't wrong. Now the principal is an adult who should have known better and should be taken down a few notches for overstepping his authority. The guy got revenge plain and simple. Next time the fool should, you know, maybe contact the parents who are the responsible parties. The constitution applies to the kid too. The judge overstepped as well.
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"Homework or a few minutes of e-mail, not a big deal... Wasting four hours on a video game because you need to "relax"... It gives a clear message: I'm not wanted. And when it's my boyfriend doing that, then it's elevate to not only aren't I wanted, but that I'm less attractive than a hunk of circuits and plastic. So yeah, most girls are going to be rightly pissed about that!"
Aren't you injecting you're views into his life? What if he started demanding you stop speaking to your friends other than hello/goodbye? Stop writing so much into it. He doesn't see that much in it which is insensitive and you're being oversensitive/overreacting, short version, you're both being selfish. If you don't tell him how you feel, don't beat-around-the-bush about it, you'll never get past it and he'll never know. You might be lucky and he'll be sensitive enough to notice later but I wouldn't count on it or him saying anything about it. Guys tend to accept point blank and not read into anything so stop playing word games and tell him bluntly what you think and why.
Like any of us, give him something more interesting and you won't have so many problems. Just remember, he's doing his thing and you're doing yours. We're creatures of habit, let him have a reason to change the habit.
"If you can leave any time you like, it's not a prison. It's just a really shitty hotel."
Except it's not a shitty hotel when you have to use windows at work or to play with your friends. Then it is a little less than a prison.
"Almost everything that is highly advanced is the result of alien technology and is never explained or understood. Much of it functions on an almost mystical or magical level."
By that description it's not science fiction anymore, but fantasy.
"Anyway, I wonder just how awful this movie will end up being. Is it considered an even or odd-numbered film?"
If you go by the numbers it's Star Trek XI. In other words it's eleven. I doubt I'll waste my time seeing it.
Except it does describe a trend. And as much as there are differences, corporate software makers affect more people and make more money than many countries. They are also more willing to act in their corporate and CEO's interest to the detriment of everyone else, even their own stockholders. This is unethical behavior that should be bordering on criminal at minimum. Unethical behavior is supposed to be discouraged, you make it sound like they should get a candy bar. Considering that civil/privacy rights are under attack from just about everywhere, maybe a strong reaction is whats needed to get something done.
Why not? Whether they dream of it or not, their fingers will eventually be wrapped around our balls anyway.
Oh god, we're screwed!!!
If pc-bsd knows about it maybe some real resources will be put into correcting the problem.
Or see what kind of government you have and start protesting.
Motherboards are $50-100. Go get one that works or report the problem to Canonical so it can be fixed.
You left out that many of the laws that caused the current problems were instituted and passed by republicans since 1994. You know, the 'contract with america' or better phrased 'the contract to screw america'. The 1999 dissolution of the 1933 Glass-Steagall reforms was an earmark injected by a republican into a must pass bill at the last minute. And let's not forget that bush appointees including Greenspans successor, who are supposed to know what they are doing, were at the controls of this train for the last eight years that has now wrecked. The republican party had near overwhelming control of all three branches of government for more than six years and at least two branches were criminally negligent at the switches.
And when he gets off he can sue you for damages as a call to police is part of the public record and so would his arrest, which means he, his lawyer, and the police can find you. The post is meaningless without a real action to give it relevance so "could be charged" isn't meaningful. Don't forget the police could come after you as crank calls are a criminal offense in some places too.
I would have copied it too as proof in case I'm quietly sanctioned for doing the right thing. Revenge goes on all the time especially when dealing with the control game that masquerades as a school administration.(like that's the only place it goes on) The bad part is it's a damned if you do or damned if you don't scenario. In school, innocent until proven guilty doesn't exist and it seems no where else either considering how public this has become. Personally I hope the parents sue the district and go after the fools in charge.
I almost hope the kid kills himself thereby turning the witchhunt into a nightmare for the school. With a little luck some of those control freaks would go to prison for torturing a kid for doing the right thing. One thing the kid definitely has learned that doing the right thing sucks, says a lot about how screwed up the school system is doesn't it. Guess he's going to be home schooled from now on, probably better off too.
He probably wanted to get paid for finding the fault and reporting it. Capitalism in the purest sense, shows the kid knows what's important in life. Calling it blackmail is the tightwads way out, funny when it's an individual it's blackmail, when it's a corporation it's business. This whole thing smells of a cop out. It's not like the whole thing is damning, a sensitive file with student access smells like the school is covering its ass, quite a common thing actually.
You forgot a few lines under windows:
8) Installing drivers for the various third party cards(nvidia,ati,linksys, etc).
9) Updating third party drivers from their various websites.
10) Installing disc based third party applications(games, antivirus, etc) and net applications(skype, anti-malware, etc)
11) Updating disc based third party applications from the net.
There's often several reboots during steps 8,9, and sometimes 10.
And two under ubuntu:
5) Update ubuntu from net.
6) Installing various third party applications from repositories.
It's definitely easier to install Ubuntu than WindowsXP.
It's censorship when that's all that the tool is for. If it's used and we all know it will be. We also know what the tool will be used for, so stop beating around the bush. It will quietly appear and before you know it you won't be able to say linux or bsd in any media except face to face and I'm sure they're working on that. I won't get into other words except privacy, constitution, bill of rights, freedom, first amendment, censorship, Obama, ubuntu, pc-bsd, the various four letter words, etc.
Has it occurred to anyone that only governments and corporations (cheney's background) think debt doesn't matter. The rest of us individuals and small businesses have to balance our budgets. For the rest of us, there's a little name for this financial situation that has become normal for government and corporations, it's called bankruptcy!
Maybe we should remove the tax exempt status from all of these politicking(parasites) churches/religions. With all the churches in the country being taxed the national debt would be gone in a year and for once the government would be doing the public a useful service of getting rid of greedy manipulative churches/religions as a business. Of course, that would basically get rid of all religions(yea!). Or maybe just get rid of all religion anyway and instantly evolve into "homo-intelligent and sensible".
The DOJ is sure screwing it up trying to get Ted Stevens.
Alaska attacked by our enemies? They made a movie about it in the 80's starring Rock Hudson. Basically the premise was the soviets took over our pipeline to get us to drop a food embargo. It didn't end well.
Maybe businessmen should learn to adapt their wordprocessing methods and mindset (just like when they started using word) to what works better just like in everything else they do. When you don't adapt you're often not in business very long. Yes, it's fundamentally a business relationship except that users/businesses get to use the OSS for free and OSS programmers, except in company supported projects, burn up their limited spare time on writing the software for little if any return.
There is "lyx"(lyx.org), a graphical front-end for latex for the latex averse who don't want to program their documents.
And guess who made the negative version of hacker popular? Ronald Reagan.(Ronny!) Slow memory loss wasn't a deserving enough death for the guy. It should have been worse for mister record deficits and manipulating (ok, outright lying to) the public about hackers to get laws passed.
Let's not forget the principal is a public official and is also bound by that constitution as a government representative.
This is a 12 year old kid we're talking about. Have his parents put him to bed without supper and no computer for a month because what he said was wrong, not that he said it which wasn't wrong. Now the principal is an adult who should have known better and should be taken down a few notches for overstepping his authority. The guy got revenge plain and simple. Next time the fool should, you know, maybe contact the parents who are the responsible parties. The constitution applies to the kid too. The judge overstepped as well.