I figured MN4 was your reaction to Gigli. Pity your asteroid doesn't travel as fast this way as the signal carrying the abominable movie out to you did. If we're to be exterminated, I'd rather end it quick rather than risk that sort of mistake to be repeated again.
You mean making shit up is more work than just remembering? Next thing you know, those wacky scientists will discover that creating is harder than copying, running is harder than walking, and water is actually wet!
I don't often see outdoor applications of paint that aren't discolored to some degree after five years unless it is high quality paint and washed regularly. Repainting once every five years for those kind of benefits seems more than a fair trade-off to me.
Heh, yeah, learned that one the heard way when I came out one morning to discover that my three year old daughter was learning that a Sharpie is the most fun toy ever. I did get it off of the monitor screens fairly easily, but had to use acetone to get it off of the table and left some nice smooth patches behind. Unfortunately a few CDs were lost as well, so I now lock those away and just make copies of the ones that I need often and can't get cracks for. I'd like to copy them all and stash the originals in a safe, but that's just too much copying for my lazy ass.:)
When I saw those boxes last month, it took me a while to figure out what the $10 price tag was for, since I'm not quite so stupid as to believe that id is going to sell Doom 3 for ten bucks although I am apparently stupid enough not to have derived the whole idea of what the box was about without any explanation other than a $10 price tag with no other mention of paying more at some point. To this point, I'm still assuming that the $10 is a deposit on the total order, whatever insane amount that might be since that was conveniently left off of the boxes. Never having bothered with preordering anything before though, I wouldn't swear on it. Once again, marketing trumps clarity. To be completely honest, I did harbor a little tiny hope that it might have been a fuckup on Best Buy's part of the actual preorder price that might go in my favor.;) Whatever the case, I think I'll just stick to buying products that exist for now.
Precisely. I am actually fairly content with Windows XP, but I really don't like the lack of customization. Its install everything and the kitchen sink and then hope that there's a way of removing a lot of what you don't want on there and customizing the rest to your liking.
As much fun as it is to burn extra resources running something like DesktopX just to do simple things like customize the GUI, I'd really rather not have those resources being eaten up for a function that is already handled by the GUI sans better configuration tools. I think that the way Windows is set up now is great for users who don't know shit about computers and never will, because support such a standardized environment is a breeze. Click here, click there, what does it say? Okay, click this and done. However, for those of us who have a clue about that sort of thing, there should be an equivalent to Expert mode installs that allow us to select what is installed piece by piece and then pillage the configs to set everything just how we want it.
I want a pop, pop, pop, pop. I want a... Shasta. Grr, damned advertising culture.;) Seriously though, that was good stuff, and the three liter bottles combined with two liter bottles were great for making gravity bongs, or so I've heard.
Case in point: Battlefield 1942. It was released over a year ago at $50 a copy in your typical mass retail outlet (Best Buy, CompUSA, etc.). A typical game will drop in price a couple months after release a few bucks, then again a couple months later, etc. But because it sold so damned well, Battlefield 1942 just received its first price break of about $10 at these same outlets less than a month ago, and I suspect that is more of a result of the impending release of a new Battlefield 1942 boxed set than due to any sort of nonsense regarding increased sales leading to lower prices.
The stores and perhaps EA simply realized that people were continuing to buy the game at the original price, so they didn't bother to lower it until absolutely necessary as a means of promoting new sales. It is all about taking people for as much as you can squeeze them for. While more idealistic pursuits like love and peace may take precedence at an individual level, material wealth appears to be the most important thing to humanity as a whole. You can either accept it and try to fight for a piece of the pie or you can cling to idealism and be one of the used.
My daughter recently started preschool. Last week, her daily progress report listed that she wandered off a couple of times without permission, tried to con another kid out of his lollypop, and kept wanting to explore other aspects of the lessons being taught. However, she did receive glowing praise for being quiet when she was supposed to do so. I was torn between concern and pride, concern that my daughter may have inherited her old man's more devious traits and pride at realizing that she is already showing a remarkable aptitude at them.;)
Should my daughter someday learn to navigate networks undetected, I'll be a bit concerned about what sort of activities that she might be considering, knowing the possible reprocussions that are more prevalent today of those activities that provided a few chuckles for my friends and I and a bit of a headache for the phone company when I was younger. But at the same time, I will feel a measure of pride at her developing a skill that requires quite a bit of dedication, know-how, and guts to become proficient at. Just as I will concerning any skill that she might master that doesn't involve the consumption of other humans or the destruction of my toys.
What you probably meant only in jest I actually find to be a possible aspiration, since as a parent I can only provide my daughter with knowledge, rudimentary experience, and my personal interpretation of right and wrong. Only when I see what she accomplishes using her own insights and self-reliance will I truly know the quality of my parenting. If that happens to be when she turns the networking world on its head by devising a methodology of navigating any network that she can access undetected, then so be it.:)
But how about the 40-tons-of-poop-in-the-living-room-of-his-new-$700,000-home thing? Hit the local university and wander the frats with an offer of free cases of beer and the memories of a lifetime for anyone who will help you pull it off. Be sure to get lots of pictures and put up a website so the rest of us can enjoy as well.
Duh, because a perfectly ethical and honest politician said that it was wrong. Don't let that nonsense about it being a transaction between two willing participants fool you. Uncle Sam knows best.
Except there is no requirement to accept website advertising, so not accepting something that one is not required to is perfectly fine. The website operator might want you to, but then I might want everyone who stops by my website to send me $100 as well. Doesn't mean I'm entitled to it, otherwise I'd password protect the shit and charge for subscriptions, just as the websites that you mentioned should if they expect their users to fund their activities.
But then again, if I don't find their advertising annoying to the point that it detracts from my desire to access their content, such as the banner up there at the top of this page, then I personally don't mind the ads. Point being that what you are talking about is at the option of the user, while spam is not.
Damn straight, spam is no reason to resort to murder. Of course, if any of you ARE just loony enough to go visit this asshole with pneumatic nail gun in hand and I read about it in the paper, I'd imagine that I'd spend the next week or so with a big sloppy grin on my face. But its still wrong so you shouldn't do it. Or something.
If my postman could guarantee that 2 envelopes out of 3 that land in my letterbox will be sollicited, I'd be very happy.
Although I'd imagine that if you were the one paying the postage on that one out of three, you'd be plenty pissed. I get paper mail for free; email I pay for. These marketing pricks aren't allowed to spew their bile via fax and cell phone for the same reason, but email is an exception just because the cost to those of us receiving it isn't itemized. Hell, a website popup I can deal with, if I'm getting that advertising in exchange for desired content, and I can simply avoid the website if its not worth it to me. Spam is basically the popup without the content, and by the time it gets to the point where you can filter it out, it has already accrued its costs by passing through the network and into the email server. Just because these spammers only cost a little bit to a whole lot of people doesn't mean that it shouldn't still be considered criminal.
Its just posturing to cover up how these people want to feel that their otherwise mundane lives are more significant and exciting through association. Somehow by associating themselves with what they perceive to be greater hardship, they feel that they are superior people.
Its the same reason why on 9/11/01 half of a nation of over 280 million people seemingly had some sort of personal connection to an attack that "only" (in terms of scale) killed 3,000. The post that you replied to, denouncing the original post of this thread for not being a severe enough example of crowding, is a perfect example of this rather bizarre phenomenon. The nice part about it is that it is incredibly easy to develop studies for.;)
Have it apply only to commercial mailings. Even legitimate commercial mailers, like the couple of computer parts shops that I get deal sheets from by request, wouldn't be put off too badly, since their mailings only go to people who actually want their mailings, so they get much better turnaround and the volume is much smaller. A five thousand customer mailing would only cost fifty bucks, which they'll very likely get back in the first couple of returns. It'd certainly make the commercial mailers a hell of a lot more likely to make sure that their mailings are always opt-in rather than opt-out. But these spamming fucks would go out of business in a big damn hurry having to pay ten grand for every million messages sent.
On a side note, this bitch keeps throwing out the "we're just legitimate business people" load of crap, yet when describing the operation of a typical mailing: "Mr. Connell paced the e-mails -- instructing his computer to send them out in batches of 150 -- to stay under the radar screens of the Internet-service providers he channeled the messages through. It took him more than a week to finish the job." No really, we are just humble little entrepeneurs... who have to hide what we are doing in order to get away with it. Sure hope the guy/gal who works on her brakes the next time reads the article and remembers her when she comes in to the shop.
Fuck that. The room is the perfect litmus test; keep it just the way it is. When you bring a chick in and she says "awesome" and starts identifying the different hardware in the room, bust out the ring and propose. Hot chicks are fun for a week or two, but they get annoying really fucking fast. Geek chicks are forever.
I'm not sure what's funnier: that z_gringo thought that setting a DHCP assigned address as a static IP was a good idea in the first place, or that he still thought it was a good idea even after puto explained how pointless that it was in great detail.:) Being a geek is great and all, but there is such a thing as getting carried away.;)
Hey! My invisible friend is better than yours! You'd better pay your (and our) taxes, ya Scientologist bastards!
Not that I'm embittered by having to pay property taxes just because I won't let people sit around my house to chant, sing, and play Mad Cannibal using bread and wine to simulate scarfing down a fellow human being. And I guarantee you that sitting around in my robe playing Grand Theft Auto 3 is a hell of a lot more "nonprofit" than asking everyone within hearing range to throw money at me so that I can cover "costs".
But I'M the one with my eyes closed, I just need faith. Funny, that's what the con artists downtown keep telling me when they try to sharp me.
They still weren't allowed to do it with anything prerecorded then either, but the networks being able to pull the sympathetic tragedy card if the FCC tries to call them on their extra ratings grabber (Dude, ABC's coverage is pretty cool, but CNN is letting people cuss and stuff!) kept that particular concern at bay. I just find it sad that particular words or concepts are actually legally censored in the "land of the free". I've probably said the word "fuck" about three million times over the past 20 years and am still waiting for someone's heart to explode in their chest to justify the censorship of it over the airwaves.
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Yeah, but it sure beat watching the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Seriously, its really that bad.
I figured MN4 was your reaction to Gigli. Pity your asteroid doesn't travel as fast this way as the signal carrying the abominable movie out to you did. If we're to be exterminated, I'd rather end it quick rather than risk that sort of mistake to be repeated again.
You mean making shit up is more work than just remembering? Next thing you know, those wacky scientists will discover that creating is harder than copying, running is harder than walking, and water is actually wet!
So no E3 in 2015 hosted on the Clarke Orbit Convention Center? Gah, and I was so looking forward to booth babes in zero-g.
I don't often see outdoor applications of paint that aren't discolored to some degree after five years unless it is high quality paint and washed regularly. Repainting once every five years for those kind of benefits seems more than a fair trade-off to me.
Heh, yeah, learned that one the heard way when I came out one morning to discover that my three year old daughter was learning that a Sharpie is the most fun toy ever. I did get it off of the monitor screens fairly easily, but had to use acetone to get it off of the table and left some nice smooth patches behind. Unfortunately a few CDs were lost as well, so I now lock those away and just make copies of the ones that I need often and can't get cracks for. I'd like to copy them all and stash the originals in a safe, but that's just too much copying for my lazy ass. :)
When I saw those boxes last month, it took me a while to figure out what the $10 price tag was for, since I'm not quite so stupid as to believe that id is going to sell Doom 3 for ten bucks although I am apparently stupid enough not to have derived the whole idea of what the box was about without any explanation other than a $10 price tag with no other mention of paying more at some point. To this point, I'm still assuming that the $10 is a deposit on the total order, whatever insane amount that might be since that was conveniently left off of the boxes. Never having bothered with preordering anything before though, I wouldn't swear on it. Once again, marketing trumps clarity. To be completely honest, I did harbor a little tiny hope that it might have been a fuckup on Best Buy's part of the actual preorder price that might go in my favor. ;) Whatever the case, I think I'll just stick to buying products that exist for now.
Thousands of years of human sociological evolution nicely summed up in a single sentence. Well done.
Precisely. I am actually fairly content with Windows XP, but I really don't like the lack of customization. Its install everything and the kitchen sink and then hope that there's a way of removing a lot of what you don't want on there and customizing the rest to your liking.
:)
As much fun as it is to burn extra resources running something like DesktopX just to do simple things like customize the GUI, I'd really rather not have those resources being eaten up for a function that is already handled by the GUI sans better configuration tools. I think that the way Windows is set up now is great for users who don't know shit about computers and never will, because support such a standardized environment is a breeze. Click here, click there, what does it say? Okay, click this and done. However, for those of us who have a clue about that sort of thing, there should be an equivalent to Expert mode installs that allow us to select what is installed piece by piece and then pillage the configs to set everything just how we want it.
That and real symbolic links, dammit.
I want a pop, pop, pop, pop. I want a... Shasta. Grr, damned advertising culture. ;) Seriously though, that was good stuff, and the three liter bottles combined with two liter bottles were great for making gravity bongs, or so I've heard.
Case in point: Battlefield 1942. It was released over a year ago at $50 a copy in your typical mass retail outlet (Best Buy, CompUSA, etc.). A typical game will drop in price a couple months after release a few bucks, then again a couple months later, etc. But because it sold so damned well, Battlefield 1942 just received its first price break of about $10 at these same outlets less than a month ago, and I suspect that is more of a result of the impending release of a new Battlefield 1942 boxed set than due to any sort of nonsense regarding increased sales leading to lower prices.
The stores and perhaps EA simply realized that people were continuing to buy the game at the original price, so they didn't bother to lower it until absolutely necessary as a means of promoting new sales. It is all about taking people for as much as you can squeeze them for. While more idealistic pursuits like love and peace may take precedence at an individual level, material wealth appears to be the most important thing to humanity as a whole. You can either accept it and try to fight for a piece of the pie or you can cling to idealism and be one of the used.
Of course they wouldn't. This isn't a police state. Just watch what you say at all times and you will be fine.
My daughter recently started preschool. Last week, her daily progress report listed that she wandered off a couple of times without permission, tried to con another kid out of his lollypop, and kept wanting to explore other aspects of the lessons being taught. However, she did receive glowing praise for being quiet when she was supposed to do so. I was torn between concern and pride, concern that my daughter may have inherited her old man's more devious traits and pride at realizing that she is already showing a remarkable aptitude at them. ;)
:)
Should my daughter someday learn to navigate networks undetected, I'll be a bit concerned about what sort of activities that she might be considering, knowing the possible reprocussions that are more prevalent today of those activities that provided a few chuckles for my friends and I and a bit of a headache for the phone company when I was younger. But at the same time, I will feel a measure of pride at her developing a skill that requires quite a bit of dedication, know-how, and guts to become proficient at. Just as I will concerning any skill that she might master that doesn't involve the consumption of other humans or the destruction of my toys.
What you probably meant only in jest I actually find to be a possible aspiration, since as a parent I can only provide my daughter with knowledge, rudimentary experience, and my personal interpretation of right and wrong. Only when I see what she accomplishes using her own insights and self-reliance will I truly know the quality of my parenting. If that happens to be when she turns the networking world on its head by devising a methodology of navigating any network that she can access undetected, then so be it.
But how about the 40-tons-of-poop-in-the-living-room-of-his-new-$700 ,000-home thing? Hit the local university and wander the frats with an offer of free cases of beer and the memories of a lifetime for anyone who will help you pull it off. Be sure to get lots of pictures and put up a website so the rest of us can enjoy as well.
Ummm... What's wrong with being a crack dealer?
Duh, because a perfectly ethical and honest politician said that it was wrong. Don't let that nonsense about it being a transaction between two willing participants fool you. Uncle Sam knows best.
Except there is no requirement to accept website advertising, so not accepting something that one is not required to is perfectly fine. The website operator might want you to, but then I might want everyone who stops by my website to send me $100 as well. Doesn't mean I'm entitled to it, otherwise I'd password protect the shit and charge for subscriptions, just as the websites that you mentioned should if they expect their users to fund their activities.
But then again, if I don't find their advertising annoying to the point that it detracts from my desire to access their content, such as the banner up there at the top of this page, then I personally don't mind the ads. Point being that what you are talking about is at the option of the user, while spam is not.
Damn straight, spam is no reason to resort to murder. Of course, if any of you ARE just loony enough to go visit this asshole with pneumatic nail gun in hand and I read about it in the paper, I'd imagine that I'd spend the next week or so with a big sloppy grin on my face. But its still wrong so you shouldn't do it. Or something.
If my postman could guarantee that 2 envelopes out of 3 that land in my letterbox will be sollicited, I'd be very happy.
Although I'd imagine that if you were the one paying the postage on that one out of three, you'd be plenty pissed. I get paper mail for free; email I pay for. These marketing pricks aren't allowed to spew their bile via fax and cell phone for the same reason, but email is an exception just because the cost to those of us receiving it isn't itemized. Hell, a website popup I can deal with, if I'm getting that advertising in exchange for desired content, and I can simply avoid the website if its not worth it to me. Spam is basically the popup without the content, and by the time it gets to the point where you can filter it out, it has already accrued its costs by passing through the network and into the email server. Just because these spammers only cost a little bit to a whole lot of people doesn't mean that it shouldn't still be considered criminal.
Its just posturing to cover up how these people want to feel that their otherwise mundane lives are more significant and exciting through association. Somehow by associating themselves with what they perceive to be greater hardship, they feel that they are superior people.
;)
Its the same reason why on 9/11/01 half of a nation of over 280 million people seemingly had some sort of personal connection to an attack that "only" (in terms of scale) killed 3,000. The post that you replied to, denouncing the original post of this thread for not being a severe enough example of crowding, is a perfect example of this rather bizarre phenomenon. The nice part about it is that it is incredibly easy to develop studies for.
Have it apply only to commercial mailings. Even legitimate commercial mailers, like the couple of computer parts shops that I get deal sheets from by request, wouldn't be put off too badly, since their mailings only go to people who actually want their mailings, so they get much better turnaround and the volume is much smaller. A five thousand customer mailing would only cost fifty bucks, which they'll very likely get back in the first couple of returns. It'd certainly make the commercial mailers a hell of a lot more likely to make sure that their mailings are always opt-in rather than opt-out. But these spamming fucks would go out of business in a big damn hurry having to pay ten grand for every million messages sent.
On a side note, this bitch keeps throwing out the "we're just legitimate business people" load of crap, yet when describing the operation of a typical mailing: "Mr. Connell paced the e-mails -- instructing his computer to send them out in batches of 150 -- to stay under the radar screens of the Internet-service providers he channeled the messages through. It took him more than a week to finish the job." No really, we are just humble little entrepeneurs... who have to hide what we are doing in order to get away with it. Sure hope the guy/gal who works on her brakes the next time reads the article and remembers her when she comes in to the shop.
Fuck that. The room is the perfect litmus test; keep it just the way it is. When you bring a chick in and she says "awesome" and starts identifying the different hardware in the room, bust out the ring and propose. Hot chicks are fun for a week or two, but they get annoying really fucking fast. Geek chicks are forever.
I'm not sure what's funnier: that z_gringo thought that setting a DHCP assigned address as a static IP was a good idea in the first place, or that he still thought it was a good idea even after puto explained how pointless that it was in great detail. :) Being a geek is great and all, but there is such a thing as getting carried away. ;)
Hey! My invisible friend is better than yours! You'd better pay your (and our) taxes, ya Scientologist bastards!
Not that I'm embittered by having to pay property taxes just because I won't let people sit around my house to chant, sing, and play Mad Cannibal using bread and wine to simulate scarfing down a fellow human being. And I guarantee you that sitting around in my robe playing Grand Theft Auto 3 is a hell of a lot more "nonprofit" than asking everyone within hearing range to throw money at me so that I can cover "costs".
But I'M the one with my eyes closed, I just need faith. Funny, that's what the con artists downtown keep telling me when they try to sharp me.
They still weren't allowed to do it with anything prerecorded then either, but the networks being able to pull the sympathetic tragedy card if the FCC tries to call them on their extra ratings grabber (Dude, ABC's coverage is pretty cool, but CNN is letting people cuss and stuff!) kept that particular concern at bay. I just find it sad that particular words or concepts are actually legally censored in the "land of the free". I've probably said the word "fuck" about three million times over the past 20 years and am still waiting for someone's heart to explode in their chest to justify the censorship of it over the airwaves.
What, the exploding sheep flying about with capes on weren't enough for you? ;)