I had this boss back in 2000 that tried to shut his off and they offered him 2 free months. He said No so they offered a third month. He said okay I can live with that. I worked for him until 2003 and he never got a bill from AOL. A friend in Las Vegas asked me to uninstall AOL from his comp because he was going to go cable. I uninstalled three different versions from his drive and we set up the cable modem and restarted and AOL pops up first thing then complains it needs to be updated to take advantage of a new deal AOL has. Thank god for Knoppix, i booted it up and went through all of the little cubby holes the Aol makes for itself(And enjoyed some popup free nudity) then rebooted windows and got an error message saying I needed to updateAOL because one or more of it's components was missing or corrupt. Eventually He found his windows cd and we did the three finger salute and cleaned up the drivewith a bootdisk and started over. Elapsed time= 12 hours, Elapsed beer= 1 case 4 bottles, Amount of rapidly thinning hair left on my head = none. AOL is only good for the free cd's. You can glue two together with fishing line for a hanger and hang it and several others in a fruit tree and birds will stay away.
Remember, the chinese do not have a profit motive, they have a power motive so they could just corner the market by dropping prices until the competition screams. Think of the whole world and not just us for a minute, If price is the object then the rest of the world will go to the chinese standard in the scenario I have weaved and what will the US do? In the end there will be a few manufacturers who will license out to the chinese just to keep in the game and the rest will just die.
Are the chinese so naive to think they are on a level field with the rest of the world. Do they really think that throwing tantrums will help them. The world, quite understandably, cringes everytime a deal with china has to be made. We all want to
reap the rewards of a market that size but we are also loathe to keep making the same rationalizations over and over so we can sleep at night with the image of that student going under that tank.
Goals. What I love doing is updating windows after a clean install. I keep a stack of drives by my comp and about once a day or so I reinstall windows on one of them and get every update. Sometimes if I feel evil I'll do it twice. What can they do about it? Not a damn thing. There is nothing in the EULA that says I can only install windows once on one drive and never reinstall. I just haven't found the right drive yet and yes I do make sure that only that drive has that windows license on it.
I wonder what would happen if more people tried my little hobby, what would microsoft try to do to stop it and would that stand up in court.
to any god or government
well well I get more hate mail from little pussies who just can't let a person talk without proving their inferiority. Go back to blowing your boyfriend
Somebody who used to be in charge saying things should be different. It's like I always say, Take everything a newfound friend says with a grain of salt. Who's the money behind them and what are their goals.
Don't expect any relevant numbers out of Intel. If their shit could stand up in the real world everybody and his cousin would have the damn thing to run tests on so Intel could sit back and say "Yup we're back". Instead they are only giving out numbers from contrived benchmarks because
AMD pwned 'em again.
You are exactly right and if they choose to sue somebody else nobody can go back to this settlement and say you did this so you can't sue us. They probably figure they have more people they can go after they just need a more sympathetic judge.
We should be careful with any solution from congress as nobody ever gets away scot free except the congressmen. This is a problem that we see because,frankly, we don't trust these yahoos in the telecom business any farther than we care to shove rusty nails into our eyes. There may never be a problem( you can laugh, I'll wait a minute) and all the foofooraw will be for nothing. On the other hand we also need to be wary of friends that have come along lately, some of them talk a good game but have their own agendas just the same. In the end I think the market will prevail. Even the limited companies we have to choose from are more suspicious than smart and we could have a price war blow in if one thinks the rest are gearing up to screw them. Maybe it's time for a little creative finagling on our part.
In the lineup I saw that sempron did end up in the middle of the pack of p4's they had tested for speed and heat and power consumption and it also performed as well as many of the p4's in the lineup and loads better than the celerons and pentium d's. It took no small amount of convincing to get me to switch and finding out that I would spend much less for the same power was just gravy. The XPS I couldn't tell you about but I know it didn't like ut2k4 at all.
I have the luxury of using an Intel centrino laptop and an AMD powered laptop side by side and I gotta say that If intel is doing so much better how come I don't see it. I am not a drone, I just
won't be going back without some serious consideration.
I would only take one if they would fit in the same boards that my AMD does. Like I said I got that setup and was running FEAR,UT2K4,HALO,GTA SA, and others full speed right away and without any tweaking. I never got that kind wear from any board built for Intel.
Intel could give the damned things away and I'll still buy AMD. Along with cheaper power the company also has a lot of good board makers behind it. I couldn't believe it when I could build a screamer with second string stuff for nothing darn near. I had been a faithful Intel drone for years and turned my brain off to everybody saying good things about AMD, a bad socket 7 box years ago, so I was surprised at how well low end stuff was doing against intel's best. I got a sempron 3100+ in a biostar Tforce 6100 skt754 1 gig3200 ddr and a nvidia 6600le pcie card. It
blows everything away including the dell xps my dad got this year. Intel will have to really blow
everybody away to get market share back,cheaper crap is still crap
The only problem with your argument is that we already paid for these telco's to carry more bandwidth than what they are giving us. content providers are what induce us to buy access(read bandwidth). Why should we pay to access content and then
let the telco's make google pay to provide it? that's double dipping. To provide a more accurate analogy you might say that
the situation is comparable to ordering a pizza by phone.You and the pizza place both pay for the telephone equipment that connects you.ISP's and everybody with a website have to pay some kind of fees for the physical connections that allow the internet to be, just like you pay the fee for your physical access be it phone line or cable.Now how would you feel if instead of just ordering that pizza you had choose which level information you were allowed to transmit about what you wanted to order,
then the pizza place would have to choose which level of service it wanted to be able to tell you about it's products or when your order would come keeping in mind that there is a middle man who would cut the call if the amount of information exceeded
the limit on either side. That is what the telco's want, that is what the lying,thieving,maladroit bastards think is fair.
They make you pay for every last goddamned inch of line and every pound of equipment they use either through your phone bill or
by getting congress to grant money or tax breaks(which adds up to costing us either way),then they want to charge you for every scrap of information that you transmit over those lines. I would love to see everybody canceling their telco offered
internet access and landline phone service just to see how sorry we can make the little bastards,they're days of being the only
game in town are long over
I think the congress should put out it's own game. It could be a 3d takeoff
on Civilization. You start out with a whole country that is running well but a terrible noise is coming out of your speakers. That noise is millions of complaints made by people in your game's country. You shut the voices up by writing laws and getting them passed. The kicker is that when you propose
a law the game switches to a different set of noises,louder and more obnoxious, these are the voices of opponents to your law(lobbyists,congressmen,citizens, etc.) and they are almost enough to drive you from the game. You have to either rewrite your law to quiet those voices or make additions to your law and promises of support for other laws
that may be proposed until it gets popular enough to face a vote. I won't go into the mind-numbing amount of work still ahead with getting through
conference committee to iron out differences between the house and senate
version of the bill or facing a possible veto or even judicial challenges
that could pop up out of nowhere(not to mention frivolous lawsuits),let's
assume you get past all of that and you get the law you wanted written into the books. Now the game switches back and wait for the peace and quiet to
tell you "ya done good kid" only to find the noise in your speakers louder and more obnoxious because the country moved on to another gripe or your law is the new gripe. You do have weapons at your disposal to aid you in your quest for peace. You have personality which is displayed as a bar graph, influence which is displayed as a stack of money,and power which is displayed on your character as increasing or decreasing size. Losing or gaining any or all of these weapons determines how hard it is to get your law passed. The real excitement in this game however is the fact that once you start playing you can't stop, it won't shut down and the noise doesn't stop or decrease in volume unless you pass the right laws. Also,don't think you'll get away with just unplugging if you get tired. The game is programmed to wipe out every file on your computer except what is needed to play the game and it will be there when you restart. The only way to get out is to lose the next election but heaven help you if you play badly enough to cause that.
The world will buy what Russia has to sell just to knock the piss out of Americans. If they piss off American politicians so much the better. The world could give a rat fuck what the US wants. The thing with pirate bay had to be because Britain called, Nobody would lift a finger to help the US
right now. Our war in Iraq cost several European businesses and banks billions that were tied up in contracts with Saddam.
I don't know, I see real ugliness coming from this. What if Paris drops off the front page again? The last time she had to wait for some dweeb(who I think she paid) to hack her phone. Now she will set up a spam server to sell pictures of herself in compromising positions, or worse yet copies of her latest single. This is one technology whose time is never.
If the cretins that run the telco's had built the proper infrastructure in the first place, instead of selling the pig in a poke we ended up with, there would not be any need to allocate bandwidth. I hope the day comes that somebody pulls out all of the agreements that were made over the years and the telco's have to account for every one. It's all part of the congressional
record, doesn't anybody read in Washington anymore?
That stroke of luck is needed unfortunately. I know that it seems like treason right now to defend the government,but this law protects the politicos you like as well as the ones you hate. Given the nature of this country with it's myriad colorful old fogies,it is not impossible to imagine that one person could bring Washington to a screeching halt over any dumbass thing that tickled his sphincter
by filing a frivolous lawsuit. It is a pain for the person who has an honest gripe but you wouldn't
ever be able to bring suit the other way either because as sure as god made little green apples 10 million other suits would be filed ahead of yours and your taxes would go to more lawyers than it already does which is, in itself, an unforgivable crime(lawsuit anyone).
This is the end. We should all move to russia now. I wonder if all the other countries that we brought democracy to look at us and laugh. I know the communists do, they said that you can't run a country with too much freedom and by god they were right. That 200 and some years we spent speaking our own minds and writing down our own thoughts and pissing on stupid politicians was a waste of time, now the true meaning of representative republic is rearing it's ugly head. In a way it really is our fault, we have sat back and let other people run our lives for us because we were too busy working or playing to care about what our government was doing. There is still time to beat this into submission. You need to start now because if they choke the right to free speech we are really done for. We must flood the DOJ with emails telling them that we see what they are trying to do, they don't need the kind of secrets they are trying to keep hidden, they certainly never have a trump for freedom of the press, and failure to abide by the constitution in it's entirety is cause for a little prosecution against our esteemed Attorney General.
Does anybody remember what the price for a VHS tape was before they started putting ads in the damn
things? I do. My mom payed 60$for Star Wars. One movie on a crappy tape. I don't think 70$ for a bunch of movies or tv shows will faze anybody given the fact that it will only be like 2 fillups at the gas station or A good meal's worth of money
Nothing that weasel bastard Conyers says about a republican is true. He couldn't be objective with a gun to his head. In reality nobody knows what,if anything, may have gone wrong. Ohio was not the only place with voting irregularities, Washington's governor's race was decided by a judge that said evidence of even widespread vote tampering was not enough to call for a recount or revote. The winner there was a democrat with ties to the judge.
Unfortunately the middle school civics class is taught by people who are just as confused about the mandate of the Supreme Court. They now believe that the court is where many of the great moral and ethical issues of our time should be decided(hence the great fear of conservative judges)and that will remain true until the democrats take over the government again.
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I had this boss back in 2000 that tried to shut his off and they offered him 2 free months. He said No so they offered a third month. He said okay I can live with that. I worked for him until 2003 and he never got a bill from AOL. A friend in Las Vegas asked me to uninstall AOL from his comp because he was going to go cable. I uninstalled three different versions from his drive and we set up the cable modem and restarted and AOL pops up first thing then complains it needs to be updated to take advantage of a new deal AOL has. Thank god for Knoppix, i booted it up and went through all of the little cubby holes the Aol makes for itself(And enjoyed some popup free nudity) then rebooted windows and got an error message saying I needed to updateAOL because one or more of it's components was missing or corrupt. Eventually He found his windows cd and we did the three finger salute and cleaned up the drivewith a bootdisk and started over. Elapsed time= 12 hours, Elapsed beer= 1 case 4 bottles, Amount of rapidly thinning hair left on my head = none. AOL is only good for the free cd's. You can glue two together with fishing line for a hanger and hang it and several others in a fruit tree and birds will stay away.
Remember, the chinese do not have a profit motive, they have a power motive so they could just corner the market by dropping prices until the competition screams. Think of the whole world and not just us for a minute, If price is the object then the rest of the world will go to the chinese standard in the scenario I have weaved and what will the US do? In the end there will be a few manufacturers who will license out to the chinese just to keep in the game and the rest will just die.
Are the chinese so naive to think they are on a level field with the rest of the world. Do they really think that throwing tantrums will help them. The world, quite understandably, cringes everytime a deal with china has to be made. We all want to reap the rewards of a market that size but we are also loathe to keep making the same rationalizations over and over so we can sleep at night with the image of that student going under that tank.
Goals. What I love doing is updating windows after a clean install. I keep a stack of drives by my comp and about once a day or so I reinstall windows on one of them and get every update. Sometimes if I feel evil I'll do it twice. What can they do about it? Not a damn thing. There is nothing in the EULA that says I can only install windows once on one drive and never reinstall. I just haven't found the right drive yet and yes I do make sure that only that drive has that windows license on it. I wonder what would happen if more people tried my little hobby, what would microsoft try to do to stop it and would that stand up in court.
to any god or government well well I get more hate mail from little pussies who just can't let a person talk without proving their inferiority. Go back to blowing your boyfriend
Not flexible morals, Negotiable, just like any good prostitute.
Somebody who used to be in charge saying things should be different. It's like I always say, Take everything a newfound friend says with a grain of salt. Who's the money behind them and what are their goals.
Don't expect any relevant numbers out of Intel. If their shit could stand up in the real world everybody and his cousin would have the damn thing to run tests on so Intel could sit back and say "Yup we're back". Instead they are only giving out numbers from contrived benchmarks because AMD pwned 'em again.
You are exactly right and if they choose to sue somebody else nobody can go back to this settlement and say you did this so you can't sue us. They probably figure they have more people they can go after they just need a more sympathetic judge.
We should be careful with any solution from congress as nobody ever gets away scot free except ,frankly, we don't trust these yahoos in the telecom business any farther than we care to shove rusty nails into our eyes. There may never be a problem( you can laugh, I'll wait a minute) and all the foofooraw will be for nothing.
the congressmen. This is a problem that we see because
On the other hand we also need to be wary of friends that have come along lately, some of them talk a good game but have their own agendas just the same. In the end I think the market will prevail. Even the limited companies we have to choose from are more suspicious than smart and
we could have a price war blow in if one thinks the rest are gearing up to screw them. Maybe it's time for a little creative finagling on our part.
In the lineup I saw that sempron did end up in the middle of the pack of p4's they had tested for speed and heat and power consumption and it also performed as well as many of the p4's in the lineup and loads better than the celerons and pentium d's. It took no small amount of convincing to get me to switch and finding out that I would spend much less for the same power was just gravy. The XPS I couldn't tell you about but I know it didn't like ut2k4 at all.
I have the luxury of using an Intel centrino laptop and an AMD powered laptop side by side and I gotta say that If intel is doing so much better how come I don't see it. I am not a drone, I just won't be going back without some serious consideration.
I would only take one if they would fit in the same boards that my AMD does. Like I said I got that setup and was running FEAR,UT2K4,HALO,GTA SA, and others full speed right away and without any tweaking. I never got that kind wear from any board built for Intel.
Intel could give the damned things away and I'll still buy AMD. Along with cheaper power the company also has a lot of good board makers behind it. I couldn't believe it when I could build a screamer with second string stuff for nothing darn near. I had been a faithful Intel drone for years and turned my brain off to everybody saying good things about AMD, a bad socket 7 box years ago, so I was surprised at how well low end stuff was doing against intel's best. I got a sempron 3100+ in a biostar Tforce 6100 skt754 1 gig3200 ddr and a nvidia 6600le pcie card. It blows everything away including the dell xps my dad got this year. Intel will have to really blow everybody away to get market share back,cheaper crap is still crap
The only problem with your argument is that we already paid for these telco's to carry more bandwidth than what they are giving us. content providers are what induce us to buy access(read bandwidth). Why should we pay to access content and then let the telco's make google pay to provide it? that's double dipping. To provide a more accurate analogy you might say that the situation is comparable to ordering a pizza by phone.You and the pizza place both pay for the telephone equipment that connects you.ISP's and everybody with a website have to pay some kind of fees for the physical connections that allow the internet to be, just like you pay the fee for your physical access be it phone line or cable.Now how would you feel if instead of just ordering that pizza you had choose which level information you were allowed to transmit about what you wanted to order, then the pizza place would have to choose which level of service it wanted to be able to tell you about it's products or when your order would come keeping in mind that there is a middle man who would cut the call if the amount of information exceeded the limit on either side. That is what the telco's want, that is what the lying,thieving,maladroit bastards think is fair. They make you pay for every last goddamned inch of line and every pound of equipment they use either through your phone bill or by getting congress to grant money or tax breaks(which adds up to costing us either way),then they want to charge you for every scrap of information that you transmit over those lines. I would love to see everybody canceling their telco offered internet access and landline phone service just to see how sorry we can make the little bastards,they're days of being the only game in town are long over
I think the congress should put out it's own game. It could be a 3d takeoff on Civilization. You start out with a whole country that is running well but a terrible noise is coming out of your speakers. That noise is millions of complaints made by people in your game's country. You shut the voices up by writing laws and getting them passed. The kicker is that when you propose a law the game switches to a different set of noises,louder and more obnoxious, these are the voices of opponents to your law(lobbyists,congressmen,citizens, etc.) and they are almost enough to drive you from the game. You have to either rewrite your law to quiet those voices or make additions to your law and promises of support for other laws that may be proposed until it gets popular enough to face a vote. I won't go into the mind-numbing amount of work still ahead with getting through conference committee to iron out differences between the house and senate version of the bill or facing a possible veto or even judicial challenges that could pop up out of nowhere(not to mention frivolous lawsuits),let's assume you get past all of that and you get the law you wanted written into the books. Now the game switches back and wait for the peace and quiet to tell you "ya done good kid" only to find the noise in your speakers louder and more obnoxious because the country moved on to another gripe or your law is the new gripe. You do have weapons at your disposal to aid you in your quest for peace. You have personality which is displayed as a bar graph, influence which is displayed as a stack of money,and power which is displayed on your character as increasing or decreasing size. Losing or gaining any or all of these weapons determines how hard it is to get your law passed. The real excitement in this game however is the fact that once you start playing you can't stop, it won't shut down and the noise doesn't stop or decrease in volume unless you pass the right laws. Also,don't think you'll get away with just unplugging if you get tired. The game is programmed to wipe out every file on your computer except what is needed to play the game and it will be there when you restart. The only way to get out is to lose the next election but heaven help you if you play badly enough to cause that.
If only they made an R rated movie worth going to. I haven't downloaded a movie that isn't public domain since Fight Club.
The world will buy what Russia has to sell just to knock the piss out of Americans. If they piss off American politicians so much the better. The world could give a rat fuck what the US wants. The thing with pirate bay had to be because Britain called, Nobody would lift a finger to help the US right now. Our war in Iraq cost several European businesses and banks billions that were tied up in contracts with Saddam.
I don't know, I see real ugliness coming from this. What if Paris drops off the front page again? The last time she had to wait for some dweeb(who I think she paid) to hack her phone. Now she will set up a spam server to sell pictures of herself in compromising positions, or worse yet copies of her latest single. This is one technology whose time is never.
If the cretins that run the telco's had built the proper infrastructure in the first place, instead of selling the pig in a poke we ended up with, there would not be any need to allocate bandwidth. I hope the day comes that somebody pulls out all of the agreements that were made over the years and the telco's have to account for every one. It's all part of the congressional record, doesn't anybody read in Washington anymore?
That stroke of luck is needed unfortunately. I know that it seems like treason right now to defend the government,but this law protects the politicos you like as well as the ones you hate. Given the nature of this country with it's myriad colorful old fogies,it is not impossible to imagine that one person could bring Washington to a screeching halt over any dumbass thing that tickled his sphincter by filing a frivolous lawsuit. It is a pain for the person who has an honest gripe but you wouldn't ever be able to bring suit the other way either because as sure as god made little green apples 10 million other suits would be filed ahead of yours and your taxes would go to more lawyers than it already does which is, in itself, an unforgivable crime(lawsuit anyone).
This is the end. We should all move to russia now. I wonder if all the other countries that we brought democracy to look at us and laugh. I know the communists do, they said that you can't run a country with too much freedom and by god they were right. That 200 and some years we spent speaking our own minds and writing down our own thoughts and pissing on stupid politicians was a waste of time,
now the true meaning of representative republic is rearing it's ugly head. In a way it really is our fault, we have sat back and let other people run our lives for us because we were too busy working or playing to care about what our government was doing. There is still time to beat this into submission.
You need to start now because if they choke the right to free speech we are really done for. We must flood the DOJ with emails telling them that we see what they are trying to do, they don't need the kind of secrets they are trying to keep hidden, they certainly never have a trump for freedom of the press, and failure to abide by the constitution in it's entirety is cause for a little prosecution
against our esteemed Attorney General.
Does anybody remember what the price for a VHS tape was before they started putting ads in the damn things? I do. My mom payed 60$for Star Wars. One movie on a crappy tape. I don't think 70$ for a bunch of movies or tv shows will faze anybody given the fact that it will only be like 2 fillups at the gas station or A good meal's worth of money
Nothing that weasel bastard Conyers says about a republican is true. He couldn't be objective with a gun to his head. In reality nobody knows what,if anything, may have gone wrong. Ohio was not the only place with voting irregularities, Washington's governor's race was decided by a judge that said evidence of even widespread vote tampering was not enough to call for a recount or revote. The winner there was a democrat with ties to the judge.
Unfortunately the middle school civics class is taught by people who are just as confused about the mandate of the Supreme Court. They now believe that the court is where many of the great moral and ethical issues of our time should be decided(hence the great fear of conservative judges)and that will remain true until the democrats take over the government again.