I wonder how often a satelite gets hit by one of those suckers... and if they buy insurance to cover that possibility.
It's stuff like that that makes you think twice about becoming an astronaut. Course, if you're thinking along those lines, willing to strap yourself to what basically amounts to a bomb just to get a new perspective on this world, you're too damned crazy to worry about the occasional meteor shower.
Stuff like this might actually have an impact. If we just write a billion emails to our gov't reps we're just spamming them too -- sort of:) We'd be doing it as a collective, that's all.
Thanks. I always wanted to know. Now the question I'm faced is with -- Why?.... Am I covered in mayo because I make a better battery when I'm all smeared up? Or is this life I'm living some sorta really nasty wet dream?
...of the universe as we know it. Does our galaxy make it out into some other dimension, do we get sucked into a black hole, or, since we are so damned important, are we completely unaffected?
Fast food restaurants can *really* go to town now
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Just think, your mouth will be watering so damn bad by the time you place your order, with that hunger-inducing paint, that you're gonna order the super-duper size fries with your combo and the irritating paint in the seating area will have you outa there in no time flat.
Plus, in public washrooms they can put nice relaxing colors on the wall so you can have a peaceful BM.... perhaps with the fresh scent of pine to boot!
Before people go spouting off, congratulating the judge on this momentus ruling, I hope we also step back and evaluate what the implications of this decision are. Privacy and anonymity are not the same.
Re:And, uh... doesn't Cisco make routers?
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When did cisco _not_ use email?
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I mean, for Cisco to trace back to when they did n't use email and use stats from those days to compare to modern day worker productivity, they're going to have to account for a lot more than just the fact that they have email now.
Although I think this idea of catering to LUGS is one that other companies should look at more often as well, I still think the main thrust is best placed with the distributions.
Demo versions need to get shipped with _all_ distributions who's general mandate includes gamers. So many first-time users have no idea what sorts of games are available for linux. The other thing is that people who already paid money for a boxed linux CD are also more likely to pay money for the full version of a game -- maybe even give those people a mail-in rebate or something.
Essentially, money exchanges hands --which is a good thing for the economy most of the time. As for the quality of service, only those paying for it can aptly testify to it's merits. Who knows, maybe it' ll have free dilbert comics or back issues of playboy attached. Or maybe all subscribers get a l33t mailbox @cert. The rest of us, those of us who's prejudice prevents us from evaluating the service to be rolled out, will simply live in blissful lack of priviledge. We will instead have to resort to bug reports put together by a bunch of volunteers... with no dilbert comics , and no free pr0n.
I realize that this is all highly speculative, and your own views may prevent you from seeing the reason in my comments, but I shall not hold that a gainst you, as each is entitled to their own opinion, their own viewpoint, and yes --their own prejudice.
May goatse.cx live forever in the minds of those unfortunate enough to have the experience without ample protection.
Long before the studies on accelerated cell growth, acute reflexes, and cancer risk asessment for users of cellular phones, there was already widespread common knowledge of the health risks inherent in the use of the everyday payphone.
The difference is the type of risk involved. It's not so easily scientifically abstracted as a microwave can be. The biological risks are very real and proof of them is beyond any doubt. A common cold virus is but one example of how simple the threat is. A flu virus is an example of how a payphone can kill you.
Scrap the payphones! While we're at it, scrap interac, atms, public washrooms, and anything else that biologically exposes you to such high risks. I say get a cathoder, use only your credit card so you don't have to touch those dirty keypads, and get a satelite phone if you need connectivity. But for goodness sake, whatever you do, don't use a payphone!
If it's nostalgia you've got, put em in a museum, behind bullet proof glass, with high security alarms! Those damned payphones can't be trusted for nuthin. They're the primary cause for a generation of hackers with endless sniffles -- don't let this happen to Your children!
Basically, you can pick up and leave right now if you like. Hell, anyone can. If most of the current linux user base would stop using it and switch to some other OS, it wouldn't really make things worse for the rest of us.
On the other hand, if linux were to go closed source, there'd be an even greater amount of users who would stop using it, seeing as they won't be able to fix stuff that inevitably comes up and they won't be able to audit the code themselves.
As for your comments about intellectual propery and Linus having the copyright to linux, You'd be tter do some research before opening your mouth and proving yourself a fool. Why not check out the list of kernel authors, and see if anywhere they've assigned their copyright to Linus?
I wonder if this will give solar power technology the boost it needs to keep California out of th e dark.... oh wait! Scratch that! A fat lotta good solar power's gonna do at night. And if you're gonna have massive battery storage, you may as well build another bunch of nuclear reactors!
Hardware manufacturers writing bloated code so we buy their hardware? tcha... whatever! So I'm gonna go out and design the latest and greatest motherboard and make sure that the hardware operates inefficiently?
Maybe firmware updates that would progressively slow down the system while adding imaginary bug fixes would help -- hmmm kinda like those M$ update pack. "We didn't actually fix any of the bugs, but this update pack will give those bugs the necessary support to evolve into standard features"... Of course.. we're talking about hardware here, not software..... So is that M$ mouse of yours flash upgradeable? Think about it.
Much like the middle east Crisis, you can't get the leaders of a nation to actually make their citizens to forgive and move towards peace. Hell, it's actually a good thing, because if our politicians could do that, they could sway public opinion for other stuff too.... kinda makes you think.
This will be like having a free online survey of everyone who got hacked... Pretty soon we'll have the perfect profile for the vulnerable admin/setup and targetting spam,hacks,etc at. A little bit of stats work and you may as well have been handed the emails/ip's of the vulnerable systems. Better still, when their database does get hacked, how much do you wanna bet that info is gonna be worth?
Commercial free programming at a jacked up price. Happens all the time. Forget about dreaming, call up your cable company, tell them that all your commercials are belong to us, and order some pr0n channels!
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Just when I thought I'd seen the ultimate bsd troll, see that it's spawned yet another.
wooyaaah... We're done for now.
It's stuff like that that makes you think twice about becoming an astronaut. Course, if you're thinking along those lines, willing to strap yourself to what basically amounts to a bomb just to get a new perspective on this world, you're too damned crazy to worry about the occasional meteor shower.
Thanks. I always wanted to know. Now the question I'm faced is with -- Why? .... Am I covered in mayo because I make a better battery when I'm all smeared up? Or is this life I'm living some sorta really nasty wet dream?
...of the universe as we know it. Does our galaxy make it out into some other dimension, do we get sucked into a black hole, or, since we are so damned important, are we completely unaffected?
Just think, your mouth will be watering so damn bad by the time you place your order, with that hunger-inducing paint, that you're gonna order the super-duper size fries with your combo and the irritating paint in the seating area will have you outa there in no time flat.
Plus, in public washrooms they can put nice relaxing colors on the wall so you can have a peaceful BM.... perhaps with the fresh scent of pine to boot!
I'm gonna copyright the sound of a computer booting up, then license it to everyone. bwahahaha I'm gonna be rich!
Before people go spouting off, congratulating the judge on this momentus ruling, I hope we also step back and evaluate what the implications of this decision are. Privacy and anonymity are not the same.
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I mean, for Cisco to trace back to when they did n't use email and use stats from those days to compare to modern day worker productivity, they're going to have to account for a lot more than just the fact that they have email now.
Demo versions need to get shipped with _all_ distributions who's general mandate includes gamers. So many first-time users have no idea what sorts of games are available for linux. The other thing is that people who already paid money for a boxed linux CD are also more likely to pay money for the full version of a game -- maybe even give those people a mail-in rebate or something.
I realize that this is all highly speculative, and your own views may prevent you from seeing the reason in my comments, but I shall not hold that a gainst you, as each is entitled to their own opinion, their own viewpoint, and yes --their own prejudice.
May goatse.cx live forever in the minds of those unfortunate enough to have the experience without ample protection.
The difference is the type of risk involved. It's not so easily scientifically abstracted as a microwave can be. The biological risks are very real and proof of them is beyond any doubt. A common cold virus is but one example of how simple the threat is. A flu virus is an example of how a payphone can kill you.
Scrap the payphones! While we're at it, scrap interac, atms, public washrooms, and anything else that biologically exposes you to such high risks. I say get a cathoder, use only your credit card so you don't have to touch those dirty keypads, and get a satelite phone if you need connectivity. But for goodness sake, whatever you do, don't use a payphone!
If it's nostalgia you've got, put em in a museum, behind bullet proof glass, with high security alarms! Those damned payphones can't be trusted for nuthin. They're the primary cause for a generation of hackers with endless sniffles -- don't let this happen to Your children!
On the other hand, if linux were to go closed source, there'd be an even greater amount of users who would stop using it, seeing as they won't be able to fix stuff that inevitably comes up and they won't be able to audit the code themselves.
As for your comments about intellectual propery and Linus having the copyright to linux, You'd be tter do some research before opening your mouth and proving yourself a fool. Why not check out the list of kernel authors, and see if anywhere they've assigned their copyright to Linus?
I wonder if this will give solar power technology the boost it needs to keep California out of th e dark. ... oh wait! Scratch that! A fat lotta good solar power's gonna do at night. And if you're gonna have massive battery storage, you may as well build another bunch of nuclear reactors!
Hardware manufacturers writing bloated code so we buy their hardware? tcha... whatever! So I'm gonna go out and design the latest and greatest motherboard and make sure that the hardware operates inefficiently? Maybe firmware updates that would progressively slow down the system while adding imaginary bug fixes would help -- hmmm kinda like those M$ update pack. "We didn't actually fix any of the bugs, but this update pack will give those bugs the necessary support to evolve into standard features" ... Of course.. we're talking about hardware here, not software..... So is that M$ mouse of yours flash upgradeable?
Think about it.
How about I demand all domain names that contain the names of my companies: a, e, i, o, and u ??
Much like the middle east Crisis, you can't get the leaders of a nation to actually make their citizens to forgive and move towards peace. Hell, it's actually a good thing, because if our politicians could do that, they could sway public opinion for other stuff too.... kinda makes you think.
Damn! just think! Yet another reason to work from home.
This will be like having a free online survey of everyone who got hacked... Pretty soon we'll have the perfect profile for the vulnerable admin/setup and targetting spam,hacks,etc at. A little bit of stats work and you may as well have been handed the emails/ip's of the vulnerable systems. Better still, when their database does get hacked, how much do you wanna bet that info is gonna be worth?
Commercial free programming at a jacked up price. Happens all the time. Forget about dreaming, call up your cable company, tell them that all your commercials are belong to us, and order some pr0n channels!