That's untrue. There are many other midi events. Maybe you only have a bottom-of-the-line Casio keyboard, that doesn't send out aftertouch signals, but you just need to upgrade your equipment in that case.
Actually, Manning gave them to a Foreign National.
And all your clever (?) rhetoric won't obscure the fact that he was part of a military organization that was under an oath to behave in a certain fashion. And don't get all Godwinny about it. If you do, you're full of shit and YHL.
The KKK was always mostly democrat. I live in the part of the US now where the KKK was the most powerful in the first half of the 20th century. They were always a "people's" type organization. Kind of like the Lions Club or the Freemasons. The blue-blood Republicans of the era wanted nothing to do with them. Belonging to the KKK in that era just meant you belonged to a civic club. One that hated blacks, all minorities and (most of all) the Roman Catholic Church (far more than they hated blacks, who were already 'down' and out of sight for the most part), but a 'civic group' nonetheless. KKK members controlled most branches of Government in Indiana during the 1930's. They were as mainstream as it gets. And populist. Like the Democrats.
Those 'temporary' WWII buildings existed all over. When I was at the U of Minnesota in the late 70's there were several Temporary buildings in the courtyard behind the main Engineering building (Lind hall) that were still in use.
In my circles, you'd get their email address and the name of the BBS they mainly used. Then you'd need the phone number for that BBS, if it wasn't on one of the 'networks' of BBSes like FidoNet or the WWIV networks.
During the Windows 95 beta period, people who had beta-test copies of Windows 95 could log onto MSN for free. And there was a gateway to the Internet through it. I downloaded a lot of Linux software that way, because it was a free unlimited connection.
Nobody in that period in the 'online service' market anticipated The Internet would blow the online world open the way it did. Places like AOL and CompuServe were the big players, and they cared enough about Microsoft's MSN service to do a lot of screeching about the MSN icon on the desktop by default. It wasn't yet about Internet Access, and wasn't for a little while longer afterwards.
In 1995 Microsoft had this thing called MSN. It was supposed to compete with proprietary Online Services like AOL and CompuServ. At the time the Internet wasn't very commercialized, and the big players in consumer-grade 'online' were still thinking it would remain proprietary.
You're right about Jim Clark and Netscape carefully timing things. They stole the Mosaic codebase and team and hoped to own the web, with end-to-end Netscape Browser and Server technology, and proprietary tags and hooks.
That is true, but in the earliest days of DOS, Microsoft had the only port of UNIX to the 8086 processor. Called Xenix. I have a Xenix box from that era and it runs Microsoft Xenix. It's an 8086 processor machine with 512k of RAM, and it supports users on 5 dumb terminals simultaneously. It is NOT a Pee Cee.
It's an Altos 586 box.
(Microsoft later divested themselves of their UNIX franchise, and it was re-branded the Santa Cruz Operation, aka SCO.)
The USSR was a hollowed out husk of a country by the end of the cold war. Their ideology had destroyed their country. They had the heavy industry to produce tanks, but not the resources, nor the infrastructure, to give the people what they wanted.
I'm not so sure they would have ever been able to take over the world. Their 'global domination' ideology was bankrupt by the time Stalin came to power.
You don't get out in the world and see very many real people, do you? It would help if you'd put down those Richie Rich comic books that apparently define your reality.
I mean, really. Get out some. Maybe even acknowledge that everybody in 'Washington' isn't a villain from some Batman movie.
The advances in electronics in the last 25 years have been to further miniaturize the electronic circuits. And the smaller stuff gets, the more vulnerable it is to radiation.
The laws of physics haven't been revoked, nor have new phenomena been discovered that changes anything.
I've noticed recently that a lot of places have suddenly switched to the Facebook commenting system for their websites with that assumption that forcing people to post with their real names will cut down on trolling.
Do you want to know something really weird? One of the biggest Facebook 'presences' in terms of a mass membership is the constellation of games from Zynga. FarmVille, Mafia Wars, etc. Hugely successful operation they've got going there.
But the 'Zynga Forums'? A completely separate web presence. You can't even authenticate on the Zynga Forums using a Facebook account. Anybody can be anybody on their Forums, because you sign up for an account with a completely separate process from FB.
Maybe it's not so weird, considering the Love/Hate relationship that Zynga and Facebook have with each other. Zynga makes their money from people playing games, in many cases people who don't care whether their 'real identity' is out there, and even in some cases, people who specifically do NOT WANT their real identity associated with the fact that they spend any time at all online playing games. You don't post on your resume that you're a Level 97 Farmer on FarmVille.
Zynga exists in a symbiotic relationship with Facebook, and is run by the same sort of crooked fucks at the top level of the organization. But they really don't like being beholden to Facebook for their entire business.
I have three. I highly recommend you get some. If everybody just took a few minutes to do their civic duty and seed Facebook with two or three fake 'identities' it would be taken down in short order.
There's no better way of saying 'fuck you Zuck' than to open a few new fake accounts.
It isn't anonymnity or the lack thereof that the Zuck is concerned with.
Facebook is a giant filter. Similar to the really stupid ads you hear on low budget talk radio. Any moron should be able to tell that it's not the real deal when the announcer says to 'dial within the next ten minutes.' But if you're the kind of huckster who deals in that sort of business, you want just exactly and only the sort of suckers who will dial that number to call. In fact, establishing contact with them can be more valuable than the initial sale will realize.
Similarly, Facebook only wants the 'uh, who cares?' crowd. They don't want smart or aware people in the groups of 'users' they herd around and sell to their real customers (the businesses they wholesale their userbase to.) Like the radio advertisers, he's in the business of compiling big lists of suckers.
More damage has been done to me by the fact that my brother is completely incapable of not saying the stupidest shit at the most inopportune and inappropriate times than will probably ever be done by my Facebook profile.
Has your brother friended you yet on Facebook? If not, has he tagged you on his Facebook page, or the page of any of his friends, or your common relatives, etc.?
And I understand that the fuckers in the KKK wore hoods for a reason.
The hoods that the KKK wore were part of the pagentry.
Believe it or not, the KKK was the mainstream in many of the communities they were active in. It was in some ways the equivalent of being a Freemason, just the 'bad' kind. The people in the KKK were known by other people in their communities around them. When they put the hoods on, it was so they could act collectively as a faceless crowd. Not to keep people from knowing who they were.
But as TFA points out, this is discouraged on Facebook
Sure, it is. There are enforcers and mechanisms in place on FB to actively discourage fakes and made-up identities.
That mechanism, however, only serves to increase the value of said fake and made-up identities.
The only reason I have my (several) Facebook accounts is for several games I decided to spend a little time fooling around with. I sincerely feel sorry for the people I encounter while playing said games who 'choose to only play the game with people they really know.' Then they whine a lot about how few 'neighbors' they have and how it means they don't get many of the various 'share this' bullshit items that said games are all about passing around.
Jesus H. Christ. If you want to play a little game with just people you know in real life, go get a card table, dumbasses.
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That's untrue. There are many other midi events. Maybe you only have a bottom-of-the-line Casio keyboard, that doesn't send out aftertouch signals, but you just need to upgrade your equipment in that case.
Shouldn't you be off somewhere writing code?
When you wave your dick around like that, it doesn't win any points.
You're being really stupid. Did you know that?
Actually, Manning gave them to a Foreign National.
And all your clever (?) rhetoric won't obscure the fact that he was part of a military organization that was under an oath to behave in a certain fashion. And don't get all Godwinny about it. If you do, you're full of shit and YHL.
The IRS only collects taxes if you have a taxable income. They have no pretext to go door-to-door.
Really, you don't seem to know a fuck of a lot about America. For all your smugness.
The KKK was always mostly democrat. I live in the part of the US now where the KKK was the most powerful in the first half of the 20th century. They were always a "people's" type organization. Kind of like the Lions Club or the Freemasons. The blue-blood Republicans of the era wanted nothing to do with them. Belonging to the KKK in that era just meant you belonged to a civic club. One that hated blacks, all minorities and (most of all) the Roman Catholic Church (far more than they hated blacks, who were already 'down' and out of sight for the most part), but a 'civic group' nonetheless. KKK members controlled most branches of Government in Indiana during the 1930's. They were as mainstream as it gets. And populist. Like the Democrats.
Those 'temporary' WWII buildings existed all over. When I was at the U of Minnesota in the late 70's there were several Temporary buildings in the courtyard behind the main Engineering building (Lind hall) that were still in use.
In my circles, you'd get their email address and the name of the BBS they mainly used. Then you'd need the phone number for that BBS, if it wasn't on one of the 'networks' of BBSes like FidoNet or the WWIV networks.
During the Windows 95 beta period, people who had beta-test copies of Windows 95 could log onto MSN for free. And there was a gateway to the Internet through it. I downloaded a lot of Linux software that way, because it was a free unlimited connection.
Nobody in that period in the 'online service' market anticipated The Internet would blow the online world open the way it did. Places like AOL and CompuServe were the big players, and they cared enough about Microsoft's MSN service to do a lot of screeching about the MSN icon on the desktop by default. It wasn't yet about Internet Access, and wasn't for a little while longer afterwards.
In 1995 Microsoft had this thing called MSN. It was supposed to compete with proprietary Online Services like AOL and CompuServ. At the time the Internet wasn't very commercialized, and the big players in consumer-grade 'online' were still thinking it would remain proprietary.
You're right about Jim Clark and Netscape carefully timing things. They stole the Mosaic codebase and team and hoped to own the web, with end-to-end Netscape Browser and Server technology, and proprietary tags and hooks.
That is true, but in the earliest days of DOS, Microsoft had the only port of UNIX to the 8086 processor. Called Xenix. I have a Xenix box from that era and it runs Microsoft Xenix. It's an 8086 processor machine with 512k of RAM, and it supports users on 5 dumb terminals simultaneously. It is NOT a Pee Cee.
It's an Altos 586 box.
(Microsoft later divested themselves of their UNIX franchise, and it was re-branded the Santa Cruz Operation, aka SCO.)
The USSR was a hollowed out husk of a country by the end of the cold war. Their ideology had destroyed their country. They had the heavy industry to produce tanks, but not the resources, nor the infrastructure, to give the people what they wanted.
I'm not so sure they would have ever been able to take over the world. Their 'global domination' ideology was bankrupt by the time Stalin came to power.
You don't get out in the world and see very many real people, do you? It would help if you'd put down those Richie Rich comic books that apparently define your reality.
I mean, really. Get out some. Maybe even acknowledge that everybody in 'Washington' isn't a villain from some Batman movie.
The advances in electronics in the last 25 years have been to further miniaturize the electronic circuits. And the smaller stuff gets, the more vulnerable it is to radiation.
The laws of physics haven't been revoked, nor have new phenomena been discovered that changes anything.
switched to nuclear-powered cars
By that, you mean, of course, people who switched to electric cars. Correct?
I like the Smurf Village app, too. It's one of the better 'farming' type games on the iPod. I can't imagine spending real money on it, though.
500 million 'accounts.' How many users they have is kinda unknown.
I've noticed recently that a lot of places have suddenly switched to the Facebook commenting system for their websites with that assumption that forcing people to post with their real names will cut down on trolling.
Do you want to know something really weird? One of the biggest Facebook 'presences' in terms of a mass membership is the constellation of games from Zynga. FarmVille, Mafia Wars, etc. Hugely successful operation they've got going there.
But the 'Zynga Forums'? A completely separate web presence. You can't even authenticate on the Zynga Forums using a Facebook account. Anybody can be anybody on their Forums, because you sign up for an account with a completely separate process from FB.
Maybe it's not so weird, considering the Love/Hate relationship that Zynga and Facebook have with each other. Zynga makes their money from people playing games, in many cases people who don't care whether their 'real identity' is out there, and even in some cases, people who specifically do NOT WANT their real identity associated with the fact that they spend any time at all online playing games. You don't post on your resume that you're a Level 97 Farmer on FarmVille.
Zynga exists in a symbiotic relationship with Facebook, and is run by the same sort of crooked fucks at the top level of the organization. But they really don't like being beholden to Facebook for their entire business.
I have three. I highly recommend you get some. If everybody just took a few minutes to do their civic duty and seed Facebook with two or three fake 'identities' it would be taken down in short order.
There's no better way of saying 'fuck you Zuck' than to open a few new fake accounts.
It isn't anonymnity or the lack thereof that the Zuck is concerned with.
Facebook is a giant filter. Similar to the really stupid ads you hear on low budget talk radio. Any moron should be able to tell that it's not the real deal when the announcer says to 'dial within the next ten minutes.' But if you're the kind of huckster who deals in that sort of business, you want just exactly and only the sort of suckers who will dial that number to call. In fact, establishing contact with them can be more valuable than the initial sale will realize.
Similarly, Facebook only wants the 'uh, who cares?' crowd. They don't want smart or aware people in the groups of 'users' they herd around and sell to their real customers (the businesses they wholesale their userbase to.) Like the radio advertisers, he's in the business of compiling big lists of suckers.
But proportionate to the membership numbers, more people are getting laid through Craigs List than either of the two.
But if you want to get Zucked, theres just one place to head.
More damage has been done to me by the fact that my brother is completely incapable of not saying the stupidest shit at the most inopportune and inappropriate times than will probably ever be done by my Facebook profile.
Has your brother friended you yet on Facebook? If not, has he tagged you on his Facebook page, or the page of any of his friends, or your common relatives, etc.?
What point was that?
Grandparent commenter was pointing out how ludicrous it would be to solicit medical advice on an online forum. Nothing more, that I can see.
And I understand that the fuckers in the KKK wore hoods for a reason.
The hoods that the KKK wore were part of the pagentry.
Believe it or not, the KKK was the mainstream in many of the communities they were active in. It was in some ways the equivalent of being a Freemason, just the 'bad' kind. The people in the KKK were known by other people in their communities around them. When they put the hoods on, it was so they could act collectively as a faceless crowd. Not to keep people from knowing who they were.
But as TFA points out, this is discouraged on Facebook
Sure, it is. There are enforcers and mechanisms in place on FB to actively discourage fakes and made-up identities.
That mechanism, however, only serves to increase the value of said fake and made-up identities.
The only reason I have my (several) Facebook accounts is for several games I decided to spend a little time fooling around with. I sincerely feel sorry for the people I encounter while playing said games who 'choose to only play the game with people they really know.' Then they whine a lot about how few 'neighbors' they have and how it means they don't get many of the various 'share this' bullshit items that said games are all about passing around.
Jesus H. Christ. If you want to play a little game with just people you know in real life, go get a card table, dumbasses.