Unfortunately you're right. I have a sportsbike (Ninja), and whenever someone sees it, they immediately think of the morons doing wheelies, riding around in shorts and a tshirt. Most of those people don't stay on the road for more than a couple years, as they end up getting harvested for organs after their first wreck. It amazes me that when I'm riding down the highway, some young kid will pull up beside me and start reeving his engine wanting to race me. Of course, that's when I just turn onto a road with a ton of twisties and zip through that knowing the squids haven't even learned how to roll through a curve at regular speeds while keeping the shiny side up.
Most of the time, it's the parents to blame for buying their immature, arrogant, hot shot, soon to be a future donor, kid a motorcycle without making them go through a MSF training course first.
California (statemaster.com stats)
#1 in Forcible rape
#1 in Gonorrhea Cases
#1 in Suicides
#2 in Cumulative AIDS Cases All Ages
#2 in Syphilis Cases
#3 in Deaths due to HIV
#3 in New AIDS Cases All Ages
#4 in Motor vehicle theft (per capita)
#4 in Prevalence of Poor Mental Health
2nd to last in Overall Child Health Status
The education stats aren't anything to celebrate over either.
Yeah, I bet everyone in Alabama wishes they could be as sophisticated as those out West.
What an idiotic generalization. It's very obvious that you've never traveled much at all. Try going to parts of Virginia, Oregon, the Dakota, Arkansas, Washington if you want to see backwoods. If you want to see horrible living and trash, you have plenty of options to chose from: New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and the list goes on and on.
I highly suggest you leave your neighborhood sometime and actually experience the rest of the country if you can. That type of life education would certainly do you some good so you don't make statements like you just did showing how little you really know.
I work with VB.NET a good bit, and this is fantastic news. I'm going to try it out with some of my current projects and see how it goes. This is excellent news, IMHO.
I still have not come across any proven facts of Evolution. Those things that I pointed out were not considered jokes, and were considered big finds that "proved" Evolution was real. Of course they did so to make a buck and get famous. The problem is that everything they find some human with a deformity, that it is the "missing link".
How about this game. Hopefully I'll have time to respond. Post one specific finding that proves evolution from the past that you base your belief in please.
Mutation is not the same as Evolution, and does not discredit my claim of all of the larger events that Evolutionists stake their livelyhood on as being a fact, has been proven to be fake.
Once again: Piltdown, Java, Nebraska, Orce, Neanderthal, Yale DNA Hybridization Scandal, etc... All proven fakes. You know it, I know it, others are too blind to care to even look it up.
So many parts of the "religion" of Evolution have been disproven over and over, and more and more fraud about "scientists" trying to make a name for themselves, that it's nearly impossible to give the theory much serious thought. Piltdown, Java, Nebraska, Orce, Neanderthal, Yale DNA Hybridization Scandal, etc... The list goes on and on. Yet, not matter how many times it's disproved, the sheep will throw their full faith in it. Evolution is way too easy to disprove.
I run SUSE on my desktop, and tried SUSE on my laptop, but it just ran way too slow and seemed to be unstable. I installed Ubuntu Breezy on my laptop, and it runs great. I don't have any slow response times, and never have had a single lockup like I did with SUSE (most lockups occured when either running Firefox or listening to MP3's with amaroK). Granted, that may have just been KDE causing the problems, and it's more of a KDE vs Gnome issue with my laptop. But, my laptop is an older laptop (P3 600 with 256MB RAM), but it is extremely quick. SUSE works awesome on my desktop, so I haven't even thought of trying a different distro there. Anyways, that's just my two cents on this.
The point is for newbies to Linux, like myself, they are able to get everything installed with a single script that would take hours and headaches to get setup. I'm sure I could have gotten all of the codecs installed manually by taking the time to research and install everything by hand. However, with Automatix, I was able to get all of my codecs, firefox plugins, MS TTF, Java, and DMA done in one easy move. If I were try to just get those items installed and setup with my limited knowledge, I would have really struggled, and probably reverted back to Windows, as Ubuntu would still have been crippled in my mind. But, because of Automatix, I'm now running Ubuntu full time, and not missing anything I would have had to do without if I couldn't have got it setup by myself.
Bush would have won by an even larger margin if that heavily democratic district didn't keep shutting down their voting machines and tried to "stuff the ballot boxes" with illegal votes. Not to mention the democrats trying to block military absentee votes, that always favor republicans.
Okay, I'll take you on.
You say the war was all of Bush's doing. This is obviously a clear sign of your misunderstanding of what power the President actually has. All of your elected liberals voted for the war as well. The exception is your hero, Kerry, after voting for the war decided he didn't want to supply our troops with any armor. What a POS.
Also, you might want to avoid "popular opinion" regarding the war, and stop listening to Hollywood. Do a bit of reading, it will help you out. Start with this article:
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060219-092126-178 8r.htm
Katrina - I don't want to hear any of your "please take care of us because we're too damn stupid and want to live below sea level" crap. I live in Mississippi, and Katrina did alot more damage in this state than it did in the cess pool known as New Orleans. I have a family member killed by Katrina. I see the devestation done by Katrina every single day.
If you want to place "blame" on Katrina, then that lies 100% with the city of New Orleans, and the state of Louisiana. The FACT is that the city didn't have any plain in place. Their big plan? Put them in the SuperDome. Have you ever been in there? It really is a dump, and was contracted out to the lowest builder. The state didn't invest any money into the city to prepare for such things to take place.
It is NOT the federal government's responsibility to take care of a bunch of idiots that chose to live in a place below sea level. That's like saying if I wanted to build a house on top of an active volcano, that it is the federal government's responsibility to make sure my house doesn't get damaged, and to give me handouts for such stupidity.
Louisiana has the most corrupted government among all of the states in the US. There is no denying that. Do you know that in NOLA, there are only two hospitals that actually have working ER's? Guess what the city is doing right now? Spending money throwing a parade.
If you really believe it is the federal governments responsibility to take care of you, then I absolutely pity you. If you want a socialist system, there's other nations that you'd be thrilled to live in. However, I don't want nor need the federal government to hold my hand throughout my life. It's people like you that expect the federal government to give you handouts that burdens our system so badly. Now run along to your mailbox. I'm sure you've got a welfare check in it waiting for ya.
What exactly is so horrible about Access? For setting up a simple relational DB in a small office, it works really well. There's nothing complicated about creating the database, nor anything complicated about interfacing it. There's plenty of functionality in it that serve small business very well. Not to mention, small businesses won't have to shell out extra cash for things such as Crystal Reports.
Also, if it's how you're interfacing the DB that you particular don't like, you can write a few simple ASP pages (or whatever you'd like) to work with the database, and you can do pretty much anything you want.
I will agree with you that OOBase has a LONG ways to go. But, it is a very young product, and hopefully it's next release will have more features to it.
Those how most of these socialists on here react. Remember, the popular thing to do these days is to bash the US. It helps with the inferiority complex of these little socialists.
With such a large scale of PC's, you would NOT want to try to make a massive overhaul of the infrastructure. Also, you would need to consider if even migrating to a different OS would be beneficial.
The first step, however, would be to take one of the smaller departments and identify that department's computing needs. What do they use their computers for? What hardware do they rely on? Is there a third party application that is heavily relied on? Then, after identifying those items, see if there are alternatives in another OS. If you find alternatives in Linux, setup a "test" workstation in that department. Pick out one user, and train that use on how to perform his/her tasks on that workstation. Do not force someone to do this that isn't willing, or that is hesitant about it. Find someone that is genuinly interested in giving something different a try. Then, ask that use to spend a few hours each day doing their work on that test workstation. Have them document any problems that they run into. This testing phase should last for at least a month. Stay close and in touch with the user. If they get frustrated because they can't perform a specific task, you need to be able to provide an immediate solution.
The biggest plus you can ever possibly have with migrating to another platform is for the users to be on your side. That's who management is really going to pay attention to. If the user can be as productive or more productive with a solution that costs substaintially less in licensing, etc.., then management is really going to pay serious attention.
Where I work (much smaller company with only 300 desktops), we rely very heavily on a third party application that simply cannot be run on Linux. However, I have brought Linux into the picture by setting up an education lab running K12LTSP. I was able to demonstrate to management productivity and cost savings by bringing back to life older Win 98 PC's that were collecting dust and ready to get thrown out, as well as addressing the needs of the school on our campus. I saved the company several thousands of dollars by going this route.
When management wanted to start monitoring and restricting Internet activity when I first arrived, I put together a proposal of commercial applications vs open source applications. The result is a Linux proxy (running Mandrake) with squid and squidGuard. Reports of activity are automatically generated each midnight, and management is capable of viewing these reports through their webbrowser. Again, I was able to save the company several thousands of dollars.
While replacing desktops simply isn't an option for us, I have made Linux a very viable solution to address needs that we had here, while saving the company money, and making me look like a hero in the process.:o)
The sun and moon and stars do provide light to the Earth. That doesn't mean that the Earth is the center of the universe.
Sorry, but your post still doesn't support the "center of the universe" comment.
It wouldn't change anything at all. I think your basic lack of knowledge of Christianity is really showing.
Please specify the many religious claims that a distant planet that could contain life would refute.
Evolution does not contradict Creationism. Evolution just says how life came to be, but it doesn't say why it came to be. It does not, however, disprove the message conveyed in Genesis that God created the earth and the life on it. The theory of evolution is also unable to explain why things took the course as they did, as it just explains scientifically how it happened, but not the question of why. Nor does evolution explain where and how any of this first started.
Now, if you want to ask if evolution contradicts the literal translation in Genesis of "how" it happened, then the answer is yes. However, the principal and overall "theme" of Genesis in the creation of the world cannot be disproved, and to be fair, it cannot be proven either. The only thing that can be disproved is the literal translation - which comes from written text from a time period when minds were much simpliar, and things such as single celled organisms were simply too complex in nation to explain.
In saying all of this, and the fact that only a literal translation of only book in a collection of many books can be conflicted, it is also possible that God was the force behind evolution.
The US was inforcing UN sancations. That's right, the same UN that is having a hissy fit. Oh, I forgot, we aren't supposed to enforce UN sanctions. We should have just kept on telling Saddam to stop firing at US plans that were enforcing the no fly zones, and keep asking him to let the UN inspectors do their jobs, and eventually, because even though he used chemical weapons no his own people, he's just a great guy and would have been all buddy buddy with the whole world, and then there would be peace for all.
What fairly tale do you live in??
You have missed the big question. Why the hell should we let socialists have any say so over something that we invented and rely upon? Is something wrong right now?
And to clarify a couple of things:
1. Did we demand from Gugliemo Marconi that he give us all of his equipment, or did we build our own? The radio argument was just stupid at best.
2. Canadians are foreigners and are socialists. So your dual citizenship doesn't mean sh*t.
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Unfortunately you're right. I have a sportsbike (Ninja), and whenever someone sees it, they immediately think of the morons doing wheelies, riding around in shorts and a tshirt. Most of those people don't stay on the road for more than a couple years, as they end up getting harvested for organs after their first wreck. It amazes me that when I'm riding down the highway, some young kid will pull up beside me and start reeving his engine wanting to race me. Of course, that's when I just turn onto a road with a ton of twisties and zip through that knowing the squids haven't even learned how to roll through a curve at regular speeds while keeping the shiny side up. Most of the time, it's the parents to blame for buying their immature, arrogant, hot shot, soon to be a future donor, kid a motorcycle without making them go through a MSF training course first.
California (statemaster.com stats) #1 in Forcible rape #1 in Gonorrhea Cases #1 in Suicides #2 in Cumulative AIDS Cases All Ages #2 in Syphilis Cases #3 in Deaths due to HIV #3 in New AIDS Cases All Ages #4 in Motor vehicle theft (per capita) #4 in Prevalence of Poor Mental Health 2nd to last in Overall Child Health Status The education stats aren't anything to celebrate over either. Yeah, I bet everyone in Alabama wishes they could be as sophisticated as those out West.
What an idiotic generalization. It's very obvious that you've never traveled much at all. Try going to parts of Virginia, Oregon, the Dakota, Arkansas, Washington if you want to see backwoods. If you want to see horrible living and trash, you have plenty of options to chose from: New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and the list goes on and on. I highly suggest you leave your neighborhood sometime and actually experience the rest of the country if you can. That type of life education would certainly do you some good so you don't make statements like you just did showing how little you really know.
But can it run Linux?
Great post. I'd mod you up if I could. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I work with VB.NET a good bit, and this is fantastic news. I'm going to try it out with some of my current projects and see how it goes. This is excellent news, IMHO.
I still have not come across any proven facts of Evolution. Those things that I pointed out were not considered jokes, and were considered big finds that "proved" Evolution was real. Of course they did so to make a buck and get famous. The problem is that everything they find some human with a deformity, that it is the "missing link". How about this game. Hopefully I'll have time to respond. Post one specific finding that proves evolution from the past that you base your belief in please.
Mutation is not the same as Evolution, and does not discredit my claim of all of the larger events that Evolutionists stake their livelyhood on as being a fact, has been proven to be fake. Once again: Piltdown, Java, Nebraska, Orce, Neanderthal, Yale DNA Hybridization Scandal, etc... All proven fakes. You know it, I know it, others are too blind to care to even look it up.
Piltdown, Java, Nebraska, Orce, Neanderthal, Yale DNA Hybridization Scandal, etc... Logic? Not even close. Proven fraud? You bet!
What about it is a fact? Java? Piltdown? Nebraska? Neanderthal? Which PROVEN fraud are you using for your "fact"?
So many parts of the "religion" of Evolution have been disproven over and over, and more and more fraud about "scientists" trying to make a name for themselves, that it's nearly impossible to give the theory much serious thought. Piltdown, Java, Nebraska, Orce, Neanderthal, Yale DNA Hybridization Scandal, etc... The list goes on and on. Yet, not matter how many times it's disproved, the sheep will throw their full faith in it. Evolution is way too easy to disprove.
Like I'd stop watching the mom beating the child in the middle of the aisle to watch something about nutrition!
I run SUSE on my desktop, and tried SUSE on my laptop, but it just ran way too slow and seemed to be unstable. I installed Ubuntu Breezy on my laptop, and it runs great. I don't have any slow response times, and never have had a single lockup like I did with SUSE (most lockups occured when either running Firefox or listening to MP3's with amaroK). Granted, that may have just been KDE causing the problems, and it's more of a KDE vs Gnome issue with my laptop. But, my laptop is an older laptop (P3 600 with 256MB RAM), but it is extremely quick. SUSE works awesome on my desktop, so I haven't even thought of trying a different distro there. Anyways, that's just my two cents on this.
The point is for newbies to Linux, like myself, they are able to get everything installed with a single script that would take hours and headaches to get setup. I'm sure I could have gotten all of the codecs installed manually by taking the time to research and install everything by hand. However, with Automatix, I was able to get all of my codecs, firefox plugins, MS TTF, Java, and DMA done in one easy move. If I were try to just get those items installed and setup with my limited knowledge, I would have really struggled, and probably reverted back to Windows, as Ubuntu would still have been crippled in my mind. But, because of Automatix, I'm now running Ubuntu full time, and not missing anything I would have had to do without if I couldn't have got it setup by myself.
Bush would have won by an even larger margin if that heavily democratic district didn't keep shutting down their voting machines and tried to "stuff the ballot boxes" with illegal votes. Not to mention the democrats trying to block military absentee votes, that always favor republicans.
Good thing it wasn't a cartoon, or else we'd end up losing some more KFC's!
Okay, I'll take you on. You say the war was all of Bush's doing. This is obviously a clear sign of your misunderstanding of what power the President actually has. All of your elected liberals voted for the war as well. The exception is your hero, Kerry, after voting for the war decided he didn't want to supply our troops with any armor. What a POS. Also, you might want to avoid "popular opinion" regarding the war, and stop listening to Hollywood. Do a bit of reading, it will help you out. Start with this article: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060219-092126-178 8r.htm
Katrina - I don't want to hear any of your "please take care of us because we're too damn stupid and want to live below sea level" crap. I live in Mississippi, and Katrina did alot more damage in this state than it did in the cess pool known as New Orleans. I have a family member killed by Katrina. I see the devestation done by Katrina every single day.
If you want to place "blame" on Katrina, then that lies 100% with the city of New Orleans, and the state of Louisiana. The FACT is that the city didn't have any plain in place. Their big plan? Put them in the SuperDome. Have you ever been in there? It really is a dump, and was contracted out to the lowest builder. The state didn't invest any money into the city to prepare for such things to take place.
It is NOT the federal government's responsibility to take care of a bunch of idiots that chose to live in a place below sea level. That's like saying if I wanted to build a house on top of an active volcano, that it is the federal government's responsibility to make sure my house doesn't get damaged, and to give me handouts for such stupidity.
Louisiana has the most corrupted government among all of the states in the US. There is no denying that. Do you know that in NOLA, there are only two hospitals that actually have working ER's? Guess what the city is doing right now? Spending money throwing a parade.
If you really believe it is the federal governments responsibility to take care of you, then I absolutely pity you. If you want a socialist system, there's other nations that you'd be thrilled to live in. However, I don't want nor need the federal government to hold my hand throughout my life. It's people like you that expect the federal government to give you handouts that burdens our system so badly. Now run along to your mailbox. I'm sure you've got a welfare check in it waiting for ya.
The blind hatred you libbys have for Bush is just unreal. I bet you blame El Nino on Bush as well, don't ya?
What exactly is so horrible about Access? For setting up a simple relational DB in a small office, it works really well. There's nothing complicated about creating the database, nor anything complicated about interfacing it. There's plenty of functionality in it that serve small business very well. Not to mention, small businesses won't have to shell out extra cash for things such as Crystal Reports. Also, if it's how you're interfacing the DB that you particular don't like, you can write a few simple ASP pages (or whatever you'd like) to work with the database, and you can do pretty much anything you want. I will agree with you that OOBase has a LONG ways to go. But, it is a very young product, and hopefully it's next release will have more features to it.
Those how most of these socialists on here react. Remember, the popular thing to do these days is to bash the US. It helps with the inferiority complex of these little socialists.
With such a large scale of PC's, you would NOT want to try to make a massive overhaul of the infrastructure. Also, you would need to consider if even migrating to a different OS would be beneficial. The first step, however, would be to take one of the smaller departments and identify that department's computing needs. What do they use their computers for? What hardware do they rely on? Is there a third party application that is heavily relied on? Then, after identifying those items, see if there are alternatives in another OS. If you find alternatives in Linux, setup a "test" workstation in that department. Pick out one user, and train that use on how to perform his/her tasks on that workstation. Do not force someone to do this that isn't willing, or that is hesitant about it. Find someone that is genuinly interested in giving something different a try. Then, ask that use to spend a few hours each day doing their work on that test workstation. Have them document any problems that they run into. This testing phase should last for at least a month. Stay close and in touch with the user. If they get frustrated because they can't perform a specific task, you need to be able to provide an immediate solution. The biggest plus you can ever possibly have with migrating to another platform is for the users to be on your side. That's who management is really going to pay attention to. If the user can be as productive or more productive with a solution that costs substaintially less in licensing, etc.., then management is really going to pay serious attention. Where I work (much smaller company with only 300 desktops), we rely very heavily on a third party application that simply cannot be run on Linux. However, I have brought Linux into the picture by setting up an education lab running K12LTSP. I was able to demonstrate to management productivity and cost savings by bringing back to life older Win 98 PC's that were collecting dust and ready to get thrown out, as well as addressing the needs of the school on our campus. I saved the company several thousands of dollars by going this route. When management wanted to start monitoring and restricting Internet activity when I first arrived, I put together a proposal of commercial applications vs open source applications. The result is a Linux proxy (running Mandrake) with squid and squidGuard. Reports of activity are automatically generated each midnight, and management is capable of viewing these reports through their webbrowser. Again, I was able to save the company several thousands of dollars. While replacing desktops simply isn't an option for us, I have made Linux a very viable solution to address needs that we had here, while saving the company money, and making me look like a hero in the process. :o)
The sun and moon and stars do provide light to the Earth. That doesn't mean that the Earth is the center of the universe. Sorry, but your post still doesn't support the "center of the universe" comment.
It wouldn't change anything at all. I think your basic lack of knowledge of Christianity is really showing. Please specify the many religious claims that a distant planet that could contain life would refute. Evolution does not contradict Creationism. Evolution just says how life came to be, but it doesn't say why it came to be. It does not, however, disprove the message conveyed in Genesis that God created the earth and the life on it. The theory of evolution is also unable to explain why things took the course as they did, as it just explains scientifically how it happened, but not the question of why. Nor does evolution explain where and how any of this first started. Now, if you want to ask if evolution contradicts the literal translation in Genesis of "how" it happened, then the answer is yes. However, the principal and overall "theme" of Genesis in the creation of the world cannot be disproved, and to be fair, it cannot be proven either. The only thing that can be disproved is the literal translation - which comes from written text from a time period when minds were much simpliar, and things such as single celled organisms were simply too complex in nation to explain. In saying all of this, and the fact that only a literal translation of only book in a collection of many books can be conflicted, it is also possible that God was the force behind evolution.
The US was inforcing UN sancations. That's right, the same UN that is having a hissy fit. Oh, I forgot, we aren't supposed to enforce UN sanctions. We should have just kept on telling Saddam to stop firing at US plans that were enforcing the no fly zones, and keep asking him to let the UN inspectors do their jobs, and eventually, because even though he used chemical weapons no his own people, he's just a great guy and would have been all buddy buddy with the whole world, and then there would be peace for all. What fairly tale do you live in??
You have missed the big question. Why the hell should we let socialists have any say so over something that we invented and rely upon? Is something wrong right now? And to clarify a couple of things: 1. Did we demand from Gugliemo Marconi that he give us all of his equipment, or did we build our own? The radio argument was just stupid at best. 2. Canadians are foreigners and are socialists. So your dual citizenship doesn't mean sh*t.