And of the two, despite diseases like Alzheimer's, who could get the job done? Ronaldus Magnus.
Fritz Hollings out as commerce committee chair!
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No matter what your party affiliation is, you have to be encouraged by the growing possibility of Republicans taking back control of the Senate. That would mean our favorite Hollywood apologist, Senator Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., would no longer set the agenda for the commerce committee. That along should make a geek upbeat about this election.
As for voting glitches, I only have this to say. If you have a complaint about an election process, better to voice it before the election, not during or after when your party's candidate is losing or has lost. The reports that lawyers are on standby for each major party infuriates me. Either the process is goofed to begin with or it isn't. Maybe I'm just an idealist, but I believe any discrepencies with the voting processes are going to affect all candidates, not just losing ones.
Now you may have a strong preference for multiplayer games, and you are entitled to that, but I believe emphasizing multiplay encourages poor design, story, and that immersive factor. The run around a level, spray lead, and taunt FPS games are the same no matter how you dress them up.
I don't have the data to back this up, but I suspect these FPS games are where the development dollars are going, and I think that is unfortunate. I think developers can create not just exciting new games, but new genres. That's how stale games are now. There's just not enough risk being taken on design and story.
The judge's job is to maximize the value of Worldcom, thus making sure that Worldcom's creditors get as much money as possible.
So Worldcom's creditors should expect $25 million in the near future? I'm not trying to troll; I want to understand the logic. Yes, the judge has to ensure that all assets are revealed and accounted for. I don't see how he should ensure bankroll for a bankrupt company, especially when we all know that bonus dough is going to a select few at the top of Worldcom's food chain. I mean fuck, what about the folks that put in an honest day's work, who depended on the decision makers at the top to at minimum not assfuck their company?
I'm starting to sound like Michael Moore, and for that I truly apologize. But let's call a spade a spade.
I appreciate your idealism. I really do, but I'm not going to give you a free pass to call capitalism inherently evil. Capitalism goes a long way towards stimulating invention and progress. Broadband internet access is one such example. Yeah, the world could be better, but we aren't going to see it by growing dredlocks and setting the Space Needle on fire.
I bought and read this book, and I was seriously disappointed. I suppose there's only so much you can add to botched automation that ends up kill people. I just wanted good anecdotes. I was interested to read about the pitfalls of a fly-by-wire airplane, but I could have done without the filler from experts basically saying over and over, "This stuff is dangerous."
Don't waste your time with this book. Look for interesting anecdotes on the web.
Until you upgraded to a C-64 and bought the floppy drive that accomodated it. You know the sound that a bum makes when he tries to clear his throat? Yeah, that's your C-64's floppy drive loading Flight Simulator for the next two minutes.
This is offtopic, but I'm going to launch anyways...golf is a great game. It is an outdoor activity (something most folks in here need), it sharpens your focus and patience, and it is by-and-large environmentally friendly. Like few other activities, golf reveals the true character of a person.
I do not have square mileage of certain terrains, but this is poppycock when you consider several areas of land including deserts, mountain ranges, and even Antarctica, a sizeable land mass under ice. No this report is incorrect.
Worse than having commericials before movies (rental or at the theater) are the mistmatches you see. I bought a Shirley Temple VHS for my nieces a couple of years ago. Here's a video presumably for kids, and at the beginning is the scene where Marilyn Monroe is sitting naked by a pool! Unreal! How vacant does a this video's producer and his studio have to be?
Let's not limit the scope of such requests to CEOs. Yeah, CEOs suck. But the folks that make these kinds of requests are more likely to be lieutenants on the rise. I always found senior managers (one rung below partner in most consulting practices) to be the most absurd. These are the kinds of "users" that'll have an issue, you'll check in on them, and their system tray has conquered everything to the right of the Start button.
Run your battery down in 30 seconds! Great!
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All these features that Sprint, et all are pitching like games, color displays, et cetera: how much battery are you gonna have left when you want to use your phone for calls? Call me a minimalist, but I don't want a PDA with my phone or Legend of the Return of Kung Fu.
No doubt wonders like Sun Tzu's Art of War, Leonardo's Workshop, Military Academy, Battlefield Medicine, Intelligence Agency, Pentagon, and Strategic Missle Defense. Right?
We should be moving the clock forward in Fall and back in Spring. I fucking hate sunlight in the morning and having it taken away from me in the evening. I rather like waking up and going to work in the dark. Plus, the more light I have in the evening, the longer I can ride my bike. Why are we doing it backwards?
If only this recession would drive off the real imposters in our IT industry. I deal with people who are adverse to sorting data in Excel sheets and others who do not have the requisite *intuition* to move things along. You are right, this can only help, but I think it will be a nippy day in Hades before the IT industry ever adequately rids itself of the pretenders.
Even during the Great Depression, there were people making it like General George Squier. He founded Muzak, that droning music, you know. He did well when just about everybody was losing their arse.
I think the #1 problem with our American economy is the dependence on financing for fucking everything. Nothing is priced to sell, priced to own anymore. Even "as-seen-on-TV" stuff is going this route. No more $19.95, kids. It's three easy payments of $60. At least with a house, you can make a reasonable assumption that you will gain in the long run. But why on earth would anyone pay interest on anything that depreciates, period?
Furniture. Appliances. Home electronics. How many of these things do you have enough cash for to walk into the store, lay down legal tender, and walk out with them under your arm? And automobiles. Don't even begin with automobiles.
Until prices return to earth where you and I can make a purchase without a financial institution getting in the way, the economy is gonna sit like a brick. I'm not calling for runaway deflation, but we Americans have to bring our spending in check.
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Doesn't it?
And of the two, despite diseases like Alzheimer's, who could get the job done? Ronaldus Magnus.
As for voting glitches, I only have this to say. If you have a complaint about an election process, better to voice it before the election, not during or after when your party's candidate is losing or has lost. The reports that lawyers are on standby for each major party infuriates me. Either the process is goofed to begin with or it isn't. Maybe I'm just an idealist, but I believe any discrepencies with the voting processes are going to affect all candidates, not just losing ones.
Would you cut off your right hand to become left-handed?
I agree but wonder, if this is typically the case, why do companies, businesses, and individuals persist on using such long, useless verbage?
I don't have the data to back this up, but I suspect these FPS games are where the development dollars are going, and I think that is unfortunate. I think developers can create not just exciting new games, but new genres. That's how stale games are now. There's just not enough risk being taken on design and story.
So Worldcom's creditors should expect $25 million in the near future? I'm not trying to troll; I want to understand the logic. Yes, the judge has to ensure that all assets are revealed and accounted for. I don't see how he should ensure bankroll for a bankrupt company, especially when we all know that bonus dough is going to a select few at the top of Worldcom's food chain. I mean fuck, what about the folks that put in an honest day's work, who depended on the decision makers at the top to at minimum not assfuck their company?
I'm starting to sound like Michael Moore, and for that I truly apologize. But let's call a spade a spade.
I appreciate your idealism. I really do, but I'm not going to give you a free pass to call capitalism inherently evil. Capitalism goes a long way towards stimulating invention and progress. Broadband internet access is one such example. Yeah, the world could be better, but we aren't going to see it by growing dredlocks and setting the Space Needle on fire.
I bought and read this book, and I was seriously disappointed. I suppose there's only so much you can add to botched automation that ends up kill people. I just wanted good anecdotes. I was interested to read about the pitfalls of a fly-by-wire airplane, but I could have done without the filler from experts basically saying over and over, "This stuff is dangerous."
Don't waste your time with this book. Look for interesting anecdotes on the web.
I, I, I believe someone has his stapler...
Until you upgraded to a C-64 and bought the floppy drive that accomodated it. You know the sound that a bum makes when he tries to clear his throat? Yeah, that's your C-64's floppy drive loading Flight Simulator for the next two minutes.
This is offtopic, but I'm going to launch anyways...golf is a great game. It is an outdoor activity (something most folks in here need), it sharpens your focus and patience, and it is by-and-large environmentally friendly. Like few other activities, golf reveals the true character of a person.
I do not have square mileage of certain terrains, but this is poppycock when you consider several areas of land including deserts, mountain ranges, and even Antarctica, a sizeable land mass under ice. No this report is incorrect.
It worked for Rob Gordon in High Fidelity. It should work for you.
You meant to type GNU/Linux, right?
Sincerely,
RMS
Worse than having commericials before movies (rental or at the theater) are the mistmatches you see. I bought a Shirley Temple VHS for my nieces a couple of years ago. Here's a video presumably for kids, and at the beginning is the scene where Marilyn Monroe is sitting naked by a pool! Unreal! How vacant does a this video's producer and his studio have to be?
Let's not limit the scope of such requests to CEOs. Yeah, CEOs suck. But the folks that make these kinds of requests are more likely to be lieutenants on the rise. I always found senior managers (one rung below partner in most consulting practices) to be the most absurd. These are the kinds of "users" that'll have an issue, you'll check in on them, and their system tray has conquered everything to the right of the Start button.
All these features that Sprint, et all are pitching like games, color displays, et cetera: how much battery are you gonna have left when you want to use your phone for calls? Call me a minimalist, but I don't want a PDA with my phone or Legend of the Return of Kung Fu.
Where do you want it today?
It wouldn't work. There's no registry to scan.
No doubt wonders like Sun Tzu's Art of War, Leonardo's Workshop, Military Academy, Battlefield Medicine, Intelligence Agency, Pentagon, and Strategic Missle Defense. Right?
We should be moving the clock forward in Fall and back in Spring. I fucking hate sunlight in the morning and having it taken away from me in the evening. I rather like waking up and going to work in the dark. Plus, the more light I have in the evening, the longer I can ride my bike. Why are we doing it backwards?
If only this recession would drive off the real imposters in our IT industry. I deal with people who are adverse to sorting data in Excel sheets and others who do not have the requisite *intuition* to move things along. You are right, this can only help, but I think it will be a nippy day in Hades before the IT industry ever adequately rids itself of the pretenders.
Times are truly what you make of them...
Furniture. Appliances. Home electronics. How many of these things do you have enough cash for to walk into the store, lay down legal tender, and walk out with them under your arm? And automobiles. Don't even begin with automobiles.
Until prices return to earth where you and I can make a purchase without a financial institution getting in the way, the economy is gonna sit like a brick. I'm not calling for runaway deflation, but we Americans have to bring our spending in check.