As any homeowner can tell you, the time to get rid of crabgrass (and any other weed) is when you see the first plant off in the back corner of your yard, not when it's teken over and killed off that expensive Kentucky Bluegrass you paid so much money for.
The best way to protect your rights is to stop those who would take them away from you right at the start, and not when you have no rights left.
Part of the problem that the Internet is creating is that what might be illegal and offensive in one place (say, child porn, or the showing of an woman's face) is perfectly legal and normal in another. While I would like to stamp out KP, I don't want to ban the display of any female face.
The issue here is larger than just the kiddie porn. The issue is your right to access whatever information you want.
So, today they decide to block access to certain child porn sites. Okay. CP is gross and disgusting.
Then they decide that they don't like people looking at bukkake and jap scat. Well, both of those are pretty nasty. Can't argue too much with that.
Then they ban all access to gay porn. Well, I'm not fan of gay porn, so it doesn't effect me at all. Life goes on.
Then they ban all porn, even Playboy.com. Hey! I like some of that more "normal" stuff! Give it back, damnit!
Then they decide that they are going to block sites that espouse radical political views that they don't like. Well, I don't like some of those fringe groups, but I want to read Jesse Ventura's homepage! Damnation!
Then they ban any sites that might be distuirbing tio any child anywhere. Great. 90% of the Internet just vanished.
Then they banish anything they don't like at all. Even some of teh kid-friendly sites (you know that girl from "So Wierd" is just a bit too developed for young boys to be looking at, have to protect them from those naughty thoughts, you know...). And the Net disapears forever.
That, Dear Friends is the issue. They will always go for the most extreme cases first, the material that no one wants to stand up and defend. After they get the legal precident, they go after everything they don't like.
The correct solution is to go after the creators and sellers of child porn. Not to open the Pandora's box they are playing with.
There is no issue here. You either do the work corectly, and that means by the school's/teacher's standards, or you get dinged for it.
I used to work for a nursing school. One of the first semester computerized tests raquired that all numerical answers be entered to the first decimal point. The program would not accepts "2" for "2.0". You were either right, or wrong. Period.
Considering that very few modem component makers are desiging or building newer systems that can withstand the radiation and other riggors of space travel, I'm not terribly surprised.
You don't need a shitload of computational power to run the shuttle. What you do need is a computer that will actually work in space. And guess what, Sparky? That brand new Pentium 4 or Athlon you've got on your desk won't work. The systems need to be hardened at the fab level in order to work.
It's time they stopped milking this dead cow and let it rest. With the exception of II, IV and VI, they all sucked. One great movie, two resaonably good mivies and seven pieces of festing dog vomit. That's one screwed up track record.
I'd rather be able to feed my kids, put a roof over their heads, clothes on their backs, shoes on their feet, and keep them from having to beg in the streets.
Or should artists have to get day jobs so cheap bastards like you can have the fruits of their labor for free.
Go to Hell.
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Things I have personally witnessed while working for computer stores and in college computer labs:
A computer from a farm was brought in because it wouldn't boot. There was a layer of dust in the machine over an ince and a half thick. The power supply took five minutes to clean with a compressor.
An APPLE 2E brought in because it could not boot. A dead lizard was found inside the system. Removed lizard, system worked.
A bright young fellow brought in his brand new 80MB SCSI hard drive he bought for his Mac SE30. Seems it had some defective sectors. He took the cover off to look for imperfections. He didn't find any. Put the cover back on and wondered why the drive woirked for 30 seconds before dieing with a horrendous squeal.
Customer bought an Everex RAM-3000 board (remember those?) and 3MB of RAM chips (18 chips per MB). Came back and said system wasn't seeing the new memory. Looking at his system we noted that the case was hot enough to burn the skin. Opened system up and found that every single chip had been installed backwards. Remounted chips and the thing worked.
Brand new technician installed a 16MHZ 80387 math coporcessor. Booted system and it started to smoke. Inspected motherboard and found that the 387 was sitting in the socket 90-degrees rotated.
Kid in computer lab comes in to use a floppy-based accounting tutorial. Reads instrustions in book. Takes 5.25" floppy disk out of jacket, takes out pocket knife (you can see it coming, can't you?) and cuts open disk shell. Removes media from shell. Inserts media in drive. Can't figure out why it doesn't work.
Kid who built his own computer brings it into the shop. It won't POST. Look insode and see that he was using an XT power supply on an AT motherboard. He had removed the plug at the end of the power cable and had soldered the wires to the connectors on the MB.
Once removed 0.5" of cat hair from a computer. Cat hair is conductive, you know.
Computer came in from a metal shop. Motherboard was covered in (wait for it!) metal shavings and metal dust. Never did get that one working.
I have also removed an unknown number of 5.25" floppy disks and CDs from between the drives, as users mistake gap for drive. And I can't even remember the number of "which one is the ANY KEY?" calls I used to get in the DOS days.
Screw world peace. What the hell is world peace worth when radicals feel free to attack innocent civilians? Justice, si, not peace, is what is needed. Without justice, there can be no peace.
You're not insane. The thing is that The Pentagon didn't collapse (it would take a huge explosion to do that!). The Pentagon was not as photogenic a target as the WTC towers. About 200 or so people were killed there and a relatively small part of the building was destroyed. The WTC towers, on the other hand, present a much more dramatic, and therefore create higher ratings, image. Ever notice that there was almost no coverage at all of the plane that hit the cornfield?
It's all a matter of showing off hwat get's people to watch.
I don't know if you are old enough to remember when the Challanger exploded, but the way the news agencies handled it was very similar. At first it was "The Brave Challanger Seven" and within days it degernated into "The Brave, Virginal, Pure as Snow Christa McCallough (sp?) And The Six Paid NASA Goons". Very disgusting and repugnent. Why did they do this? Ratings. It's all about the ratings.
There is no grand conspiracy behind it. Just short-term greed.
He didn't say George W "Huked on fonix werkt four me!" Bush was any better, did he?
Clinton deserves all the abuse he gets. As for the idiots that elected his wife, well, I pity them (not so much that I don't openly laugh in their faces).
Funny how my measly and tossed away vote for Nader kept Al Gore out of office. Funny to think in a stae with three whole E.C. votes that has always voted about 80% Republican that I'm at fault because Jeb Bush and the Supreme Court gave the election to GW.
Pull your head out of your ass, pal.
I voted for the candidate that I actually liked an drespected. Not for the lesser of two evils. I suggest you do the same, or just shut the fuck up, yourself.
For that it might almost be worth it. Only if they edit out every scene she's not in and replace the soundtrack with some generic porno soundtrack music.
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As any homeowner can tell you, the time to get rid of crabgrass (and any other weed) is when you see the first plant off in the back corner of your yard, not when it's teken over and killed off that expensive Kentucky Bluegrass you paid so much money for.
The best way to protect your rights is to stop those who would take them away from you right at the start, and not when you have no rights left.
Part of the problem that the Internet is creating is that what might be illegal and offensive in one place (say, child porn, or the showing of an woman's face) is perfectly legal and normal in another. While I would like to stamp out KP, I don't want to ban the display of any female face.
The issue here is larger than just the kiddie porn. The issue is your right to access whatever information you want.
So, today they decide to block access to certain child porn sites. Okay. CP is gross and disgusting.
Then they decide that they don't like people looking at bukkake and jap scat. Well, both of those are pretty nasty. Can't argue too much with that.
Then they ban all access to gay porn. Well, I'm not fan of gay porn, so it doesn't effect me at all. Life goes on.
Then they ban all porn, even Playboy.com. Hey! I like some of that more "normal" stuff! Give it back, damnit!
Then they decide that they are going to block sites that espouse radical political views that they don't like. Well, I don't like some of those fringe groups, but I want to read Jesse Ventura's homepage! Damnation!
Then they ban any sites that might be distuirbing tio any child anywhere. Great. 90% of the Internet just vanished.
Then they banish anything they don't like at all. Even some of teh kid-friendly sites (you know that girl from "So Wierd" is just a bit too developed for young boys to be looking at, have to protect them from those naughty thoughts, you know...). And the Net disapears forever.
That, Dear Friends is the issue. They will always go for the most extreme cases first, the material that no one wants to stand up and defend. After they get the legal precident, they go after everything they don't like.
The correct solution is to go after the creators and sellers of child porn. Not to open the Pandora's box they are playing with.
There is no issue here. You either do the work corectly, and that means by the school's/teacher's standards, or you get dinged for it.
I used to work for a nursing school. One of the first semester computerized tests raquired that all numerical answers be entered to the first decimal point. The program would not accepts "2" for "2.0". You were either right, or wrong. Period.
The courts have already decided that it's theft.
Can I edit "Plane Crazy" so he doesn't come across as a jerk?
Considering that very few modem component makers are desiging or building newer systems that can withstand the radiation and other riggors of space travel, I'm not terribly surprised.
You don't need a shitload of computational power to run the shuttle. What you do need is a computer that will actually work in space. And guess what, Sparky? That brand new Pentium 4 or Athlon you've got on your desk won't work. The systems need to be hardened at the fab level in order to work.
Great. Now I've got to get vomit out of this keyboard.
Gene L Coon is why the first series was so good. Look at the first three seasons of Next Generation if you don't beleive me.
It's time they stopped milking this dead cow and let it rest. With the exception of II, IV and VI, they all sucked. One great movie, two resaonably good mivies and seven pieces of festing dog vomit. That's one screwed up track record.
I've got a pile of old TV episodes on DivX and (shudder) Real Player. My wife would love to watch them on the TV rather than at her computer desk.
Read the fucking manual and learn to do it yourself. Laziness is not an excuse.
I'd rather be able to feed my kids, put a roof over their heads, clothes on their backs, shoes on their feet, and keep them from having to beg in the streets.
Or should artists have to get day jobs so cheap bastards like you can have the fruits of their labor for free.
Go to Hell.
I have also removed an unknown number of 5.25" floppy disks and CDs from between the drives, as users mistake gap for drive. And I can't even remember the number of "which one is the ANY KEY?" calls I used to get in the DOS days.
Write on!
Screw world peace. What the hell is world peace worth when radicals feel free to attack innocent civilians? Justice, si, not peace, is what is needed. Without justice, there can be no peace.
Not much to add here.
You're not insane. The thing is that The Pentagon didn't collapse (it would take a huge explosion to do that!). The Pentagon was not as photogenic a target as the WTC towers. About 200 or so people were killed there and a relatively small part of the building was destroyed. The WTC towers, on the other hand, present a much more dramatic, and therefore create higher ratings, image. Ever notice that there was almost no coverage at all of the plane that hit the cornfield?
It's all a matter of showing off hwat get's people to watch.
I don't know if you are old enough to remember when the Challanger exploded, but the way the news agencies handled it was very similar. At first it was "The Brave Challanger Seven" and within days it degernated into "The Brave, Virginal, Pure as Snow Christa McCallough (sp?) And The Six Paid NASA Goons". Very disgusting and repugnent. Why did they do this? Ratings. It's all about the ratings.
There is no grand conspiracy behind it. Just short-term greed.
He didn't say George W "Huked on fonix werkt four me!" Bush was any better, did he?
Clinton deserves all the abuse he gets. As for the idiots that elected his wife, well, I pity them (not so much that I don't openly laugh in their faces).
Funny how my measly and tossed away vote for Nader kept Al Gore out of office. Funny to think in a stae with three whole E.C. votes that has always voted about 80% Republican that I'm at fault because Jeb Bush and the Supreme Court gave the election to GW.
Pull your head out of your ass, pal.
I voted for the candidate that I actually liked an drespected. Not for the lesser of two evils. I suggest you do the same, or just shut the fuck up, yourself.
Try reading for comprehension. It will make you look less like a total ass.
I don't want a "platform"! I want a browser. But, that's why I use Opera.
For that it might almost be worth it. Only if they edit out every scene she's not in and replace the soundtrack with some generic porno soundtrack music.
I'm just sick of the damned ads because they are so pathetically lame. They look like crap I would have designed in high school.
Geeks don't have to be nerds, you know.