I found some storage units that consist of clear plastic drawers. I find this very helpful in determining what is in a particular drawer before searching through it.
Like the original poster, my previous system was just a collection of small cardboard boxes. It took forever to find anything. The clear plastic is a great improvement.
I don't know what you people are talking about. Almost all of the spam I get contains nothing but links to websites where they sell their crap. There is no one to "reply" to.
You guys are dreaming. What needs to happen is to track down the spammers, and then torture and kill them. Make a few examples and this will stop.
The obvious problem is that you'd be spending all your time responding to spammers. Even if you are using fake information that would be very time consuming.
No, what we need is a "tech mafia" that tracks down spammers and assasinates them. After a few examples have been made there should be a big drop in spam.
In the past, corporations were very powerful, but their relationship to government was mostly to create an environment that would allow them to be more profitable.
There are two things that make today's corporatocracy different: 1. The first is the sheer size of the corporations (not to mention their global reach).
2. The second is how their lobbying efforts extend not only to maximize profits, but to do it at the expense of individual rights and liberties.
Once again, what does it matter if it is a pre-release movie or not? Three years in prison and a $250,000 fine for making a single copy? Compare that to the punishment meted out for doing something that is truly dangerous, like DUI. It's outrageous.
In the past, totalitarian governments were usually based on some flavor of fascism or communism. We are now witnessing the birth of a new form of totalitarianism -- corporatocracy. In this form of government, the corporations inform the "people's representatives" of what laws are to be passed, as well as what specific punishments are to be imposed for breaking those laws.
It's not that I think that copyright infringement is OK. It is just that the punishments for breaking the law seem extremely harsh, given the nature of the crime. It also seems backwards that corporations can dictate what legistlation gets passed rather than the people, whom the legistlature supposedly represents.
This is not at all what I see.
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I predict a much darker, less interesting future.
Advertisers will want to find ways to get their messages in the programs. Right now, the method is to insert the messages in breaks of ever-increasing time which occur at greater and greater frequency. People use PVR's to fight this trend.
The next logical step, then, is to insert the advertising directly into the contents of the programming. This is already happening now to a small extent, but I believe in the future it will get worse.
Here is an example of what I envision: One character, Bob, pulls out his cell phone. A second character, George, sees it.
George: Hey, that's a cool cellphone you got there.
Bob: Yeah. It's a Noksung. I got it with my T-Cingle PCS. It was free! Look, I can take full-motion video with it and uselessly hog screeds of bandwidth with aimless nonsense.
George: Wow! Can I have a look?
Bob: Sure. T-Cingle PCS is running a special right now. 3,000,000 anytime minutes for nine cents a month.
George: Great. I'm going to sign up for that right after we solve this murder. Wait! is that a Taco's Jr. over there. Pull in, they've got a new sushi-cajun burrito on their value menu for 34 cents!.....
etc, etc, etc.
Surprisingly enough, people will probably actually watch this crap.
If he was murdered, why didn't the murderers take his knife, axe, etc? Surely these would have been valuable commodities back then. Why would they have been left with the body?
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I noticed porchmonkey.net, yardape.org, bluelip.com, and niggersmustdie.com are still available.
LOL! This is great! People can't explain how we computer geeks can do our jobs, so we must be defective some how. Yes! That's it. A "normal" person would never want to spend 8 to 16 hours a day in front of a computer. They must be "abnormal" somehow. "Hey, look! Here's a syndrome that looks similar. Why, hell! Those geeks are autistic!" I love this! Not only can I get paid big bucks programming, I can draw disability too! Get some of those tax dollars back! WOW!
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In Soviet Russia, pan sticks to YOU!
Toothpaste, tic-tacs, and deodorant? Someone is trying to send you a message pal. Do people often ask you to stand down-wind of them?
It makes me wanna puke!
I don't know for sure, but since this is Norway, there probably is not a jury.
Apparently double-jeopardy is allowed there too.
I'd hate to be at the mercy of their legal system.
I found some storage units that consist of clear plastic drawers. I find this very helpful in determining what is in a particular drawer before searching through it.
Like the original poster, my previous system was just a collection of small cardboard boxes. It took forever to find anything. The clear plastic is a great improvement.
Worst... joke... ever.
I don't know what you people are talking about. Almost all of the spam I get contains nothing but links to websites where they sell their crap. There is no one to "reply" to.
You guys are dreaming. What needs to happen is to track down the spammers, and then torture and kill them. Make a few examples and this will stop.
The obvious problem is that you'd be spending all your time responding to spammers. Even if you are using fake information that would be very time consuming.
No, what we need is a "tech mafia" that tracks down spammers and assasinates them. After a few examples have been made there should be a big drop in spam.
In the past, corporations were very powerful, but their relationship to government was mostly to create an environment that would allow them to be more profitable.
There are two things that make today's corporatocracy different:
1. The first is the sheer size of the corporations (not to mention their global reach).
2. The second is how their lobbying efforts extend not only to maximize profits, but to do it at the expense of individual rights and liberties.
Once again, what does it matter if it is a pre-release movie or not? Three years in prison and a $250,000 fine for making a single copy? Compare that to the punishment meted out for doing something that is truly dangerous, like DUI. It's outrageous.
Perhaps they'll change the name to Aryans Online.
In the past, totalitarian governments were usually based on some flavor of fascism or communism. We are now witnessing the birth of a new form of totalitarianism -- corporatocracy. In this form of government, the corporations inform the "people's representatives" of what laws are to be passed, as well as what specific punishments are to be imposed for breaking those laws.
It's not that I think that copyright infringement is OK. It is just that the punishments for breaking the law seem extremely harsh, given the nature of the crime. It also seems backwards that corporations can dictate what legistlation gets passed rather than the people, whom the legistlature supposedly represents.
Golf wars?
I need one of these to use on my neighbor's stereo.
That's FORTY-two, not FOURTY-two.
I predict a much darker, less interesting future.
Advertisers will want to find ways to get their messages in the programs. Right now, the method is to insert the messages in breaks of ever-increasing time which occur at greater and greater frequency. People use PVR's to fight this trend.
The next logical step, then, is to insert the advertising directly into the contents of the programming. This is already happening now to a small extent, but I believe in the future it will get worse.
Here is an example of what I envision: One character, Bob, pulls out his cell phone. A second character, George, sees it.
George: Hey, that's a cool cellphone you got there.
Bob: Yeah. It's a Noksung. I got it with my T-Cingle PCS. It was free! Look, I can take full-motion video with it and uselessly hog screeds of bandwidth with aimless nonsense.
George: Wow! Can I have a look?
Bob: Sure. T-Cingle PCS is running a special right now. 3,000,000 anytime minutes for nine cents a month.
George: Great. I'm going to sign up for that right after we solve this murder. Wait! is that a Taco's Jr. over there. Pull in, they've got a new sushi-cajun burrito on their value menu for 34 cents!.....
etc, etc, etc.
Surprisingly enough, people will probably actually watch this crap.
Ah yes. The good ol' days.
I liked computers better when I was the only one I knew who had one.
Exactly. Do CDROMs operate differently than CD players?
Seems to me that if I put this CD in my Linux box that it should play just fine.
A CD doesn't seem like a "smart" device. How does it know it's in a CD player instead of a CDROM on a computer?
That's utter nonsense.
Beware of folk etymology.
The real question here is, how can we turn this into some sort of weapon! Boo-yah!
SCO announces IBM now under double-secret probation.
If he was murdered, why didn't the murderers take his knife, axe, etc? Surely these would have been valuable commodities back then. Why would they have been left with the body?
I noticed porchmonkey.net, yardape.org, bluelip.com, and niggersmustdie.com are still available.
LOL! Where do I sign up?!
LOL! This is great! People can't explain how we computer geeks can do our jobs, so we must be defective some how. Yes! That's it. A "normal" person would never want to spend 8 to 16 hours a day in front of a computer. They must be "abnormal" somehow. "Hey, look! Here's a syndrome that looks similar. Why, hell! Those geeks are autistic!" I love this! Not only can I get paid big bucks programming, I can draw disability too! Get some of those tax dollars back! WOW!