Apple shipped 2,164,000 Macintosh® computers, representing 34 percent growth over the year-ago quarter and exceeding the previous quarterly record for Mac® shipments by 400,000.
Two MILLION in three months? That's one hella botnet! So, how many more macs do they have to sell before the Mac virus that Norton has been warning about for the last ten years actually gets released in the wild?
Good thing I like the unpopular nerd OS Mandriva! It's so unpopular even the 3v1L H4x4rZ haven't heard of it;)
Or known anyone who was. Twenty years or so ago I had a friend who drove his cab to the Hay Homes here (since demolished) and a robber with a gun wanted his money. He only had fifty cents on him and the robber shot him through the heart.
The robber spent two years in prison. Kevin Mitnick spent more time for whistling into a telephone.
Well, picking your pocket is a worse crime than picking mine, but I maintain that sticking a gun in your face and demanding your wallet is still a worse crime than picking my pocket.
My specifications when I bought my latest TV were far more modest: "I want the biggest TV I can get for under a thousand dollars." I wound up with a forty two inch flat screen Trinitron that weighs 214 pounds IIRC.
It has the added advantage of being hard to steal!
There are a couple of recent Dilbert cartoons that apply to your nickname. March 8, March 10, March 11, yesterday, and today's. Not sure if Jesus is going to be there tomorrow, as he was packing his belongings into a cardboard box in today's.
It's probably easier to get a gun on the black market.
Black market firearms are stolen, not smuggled.
This is true.. however I believe my point still stands. Feel free to disagree.
I do. Your illustration illustrated nothing.
I don't see how this would "protect others from your weakness".
The same way anti-gambling, anti-drug, and anti-alcohol laws protect people from the weakness of others. Your point was that things that can be abused harm others, I'm saying not only should government not protect us from ourselves but it can't. I'm pointing out that your arguments against freedom are hollow exersizes in verbal logic.
If they don't ask, then they don't know the guy is married, and they'd be blameless. It wouldn't change anything.
Despite the fact that you obviously DID read where I said if there were an anti-adultery law she would NOT be blameless, and he surely wouldn't. You take the stand that most adultery is caused by prostitution, but the fact is very little adultery is with prostitutes. Most adultery is between friends whose flirting goes too far, often (maybe usually) between a married man and a married woman whose marriages are already in bad shape, or there wouldn't be any adultery (or prostitution) to begin with.
However I don't think this would change anything with the current prostitution situation, as I mentioned above.
If she can continue her trade without threat of arrest, why woudn't she? I know hookers, most of their clients are elderly widowers.
I don't think prostitution is good for society
I do. I'm convinced if it were't for his prostitutes, my 86 year old WWII veteran widower friend would have been dead a long time ago.
it is largely opinion influenced by religion
I did an elecrtonic search of the bible for "whore" and discovered that the bible doesn't condemn the whores, but it does condemn pimps and men who sell their daughters into prostition, and says consorting with them is foolish. I was surprised.
I think you disagree with me largely because you're one of the "unwilling populace"
I am, but like I said, although I'm no gambler I'm against anti-gambling laws. I believe this country was founded on freedom, and I think everyone ought to have the maximum amount of it.
I am confused, however, by your claim that people who depend on a gambler for their living are not victims of his habit. Could you clarify that?
victim/vktm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[vik-tim] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation -noun 1. a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency: a victim of an automobile accident. 2. a person who is deceived or cheated, as by his or her own emotions or ignorance, by the dishonesty of others, or by some impersonal agency: a victim of misplaced confidence; the victim of a swindler; a victim of an optical illusion. 3. a person or animal sacrificed or regarded as sacrificed: war victims. 4. a living creature sacrificed in religious rites.
Again, an alcoholic's family is in far worse shape than a gambler's. An adulterer's husband is in far worse shape than a prostitute's client's family. You seem to pick and choose among harmful behaviors you don't like. As long as your behavior isn't harming me, I don't see why it's any of my (or my government's) business. If it's between you and your family then again, it should be none of my or my government's business.
Some people (you seem to be one) want a nanny-state government that will protect them from themselves, or protect you from your family. Others (I'm one) want government to be as inobtrusive as possible, and that means activities such as gambling, drugs, alcohol, prostitution, bestiality, and other things I find horribly obscene but otherwise don't affect me are none of my or my government's damned business.
He probably had no idea Firefox even existed until he was told he needed to switch browsers
Heh, I'll be 56 next month, and I was the one who clued my now 21 year old daughter on to Firefox AND Mandriva! You young guys think nerds were invented yesterday, but the fact is that the now 68 year old Niel Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, famously said "I have always been and will always be a pocket-protector wearing nerd."
You guys seem to forget that real people have social lives
Housework done I went to Felber's for a beer. As I pulled up I noticed that I'd misnamed the barber shop next door in these journals - it wasn't Floyd the barber, but Fred the barber. There was an old man in Felber's I recognized (kind of) from some other bar, God knows where. And a younger neocon I'd seen once at George Ranks a few years ago and written a K5 diary entry on that I can't find now. Bored, I finished my single beer and toyed with my phone, and noticed that "Linda" had called the previous evening. So I called her back.
"Mary Jane" had wanted to shoot some pool and had used Linda's phone to call. Yes, the same "Mary Jane" and "Linda" whose names I've changed here who had been involved in the Lance debacle the night of the lunar eclipse. I told them sure, but I couldn't shoot but a few games as my daughter was coming to town.
An earlier one (the night of the loonie eclipse) had a game of pool that resulted in an attempted murder. Have no life? Then simply live mine vicariously! Now I know why my journals (and Paxil Diaries a few years ago at K5) are so popular.
I suspect that the reason you knew where it was on your '74 LeMans was that you had to do it - probably more than once
Yes, but only once. That was an exceptionally dependable car (esp. for its time). In 300,000 miles I changed a water pump and a clutch (and the oil of course). My 68 Mustang, in contrast, well I spent more time under the hood of that piece of shit than I did behind the drivers' seat.
Don't look for logic when race is involved - there's no logic in the whole concept of race
You won't get argument form me there. Racism is a rich man's tool to keep poor and middle class blacks and whites at each others' throats, and as a whip to get us to send our children off to war on the other side of the globe.
Barack Obama's mother was white, but you only ever hear him referred to as "black" - and that is in fact how he self-identifies
And yet, according to the Jews you're not Jewish unless your mother is Jewish. Which does make logical sense, as no man can ever know for certain if he's a father (unless he's a virgin), and no child can know for certain who his father is. OK, they have genetic tests now but until this century the above statement was true.
I don't think that using them once or twice a year will put you in any significant danger
Unless the dog knocks it over and your house burns down! I understand that they're a lot safer than they used to be, though.
"Don't ask, don't tell" was instituted for a reason.
That was military policy, instiututed by Democratic Commander in Chief Bill Clinton. What does "don't ask, don't tell" have to do with Republicans? And what does the bartender who's been married 12 times have to do with homosexuality? Obviously if he was gay he wouldn't have married 12 women!
On a side note, I'm decidedly not gay and they still let me in. I wonder if the Blue Grouch would be as welcoming to a gay person.
I'm sure they would, but the guy who owns Felber's is decidedly homophobic.
I'm not trying put you down, but that sleazy crack bothered me a little.
Farley's is sleazy, believe me. It's probably the sleaziest bar in town. It's not a gay bar though, the gay bar is next door. I hear the bar next door is a pretty nice bar, haven't been there.
Usually (at least here) the sleazy bars are redneck bars.
sleazy/slizi, slezi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[slee-zee, sley-zee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation -adjective, -zier, -ziest. 1. contemptibly low, mean, or disreputable: sleazy politics. 2. squalid; sordid; filthy; dilapidated: a sleazy hotel. 3. thin or poor in texture, as a fabric; cheap; flimsy: a sleazy dress; a sleazy excuse.
He actually said "bullsnot"? Since when is "snot" a dirty word? Come to think if it, I don't think I've ever heard the word "snot" on TV so maybe it is.
And not only did he misspell "udder", a bull's nose isn't its udder. Bulls don't even have udders! That would be as useless as tits on a bull!
Look, guys, this is an adult forum. People post pictures of goatse and tubgirl. I have journals about drunken whores here, for fuck's sake! If you can't say a word, just don't say it rather than using asterisks. It's a spade, damn it, not a "pointy shovel".
When someone says "That snot funny!" I laugh my ass off.
Virtually everyone else can get one legally with relatively little hassle.
So why would a criminal need to smuggle one from a different country when he can simply steal one from his neighbor?
It is legal both to own a car and to drive a car - but you must be licensed.
You have no constitutional right to car ownership, nor driving.
It's not illegal in many states.
Which begs the question, why not?
Allowing it in people's homes would have no effect other than reducing the government's money intake, which would lead to raised taxes
That's the most pathetic excuse for restricting my rights I've ever heard.
But it's not the government's job to protect you from your own weakness, it's the government's job to protect other people from your weakness
So why isn't there a law against my giving money away?
It's much easier for the government to say "No prostitution" than to say "Only unmarried people can see prostitutes" because while the first is possible to enforce, the second is not.
Oh, so you want to restrict my freedom because it's easier? It still doesn't solve the problem you want to solve, if the actual problem is adultery. How about making it illegal to knowingly have sex with a married person, for a married person to have sex with anyone except their spouse, and to withhold marital status for purposes of having sex?
You mean "if you're for drug prohibition".
Yes, correct, I wrote that wrong.
I say these things that I think should be illegal, however I don't think a country should impose laws on an unwilling populace.
I'll agree with that, too. I hate tobacco, having been addicted to the stuff for thirty years (haven't had a cigarette for 8 years now) but 3/4 of adults DON'T smoke.
I used conservative in the standard manner - as a synonym for "Republican" conservative
And again, I use the dictionary (link is to the definition of "conservative"). Republicans haven't been conservative for a long time now.
Er... you're saying there's no evidence that gambling is an addictive habit whose victims include those who depend on the gambler for a living?
No. Although is she depends on a gambler for her living she should divorve the idiot and get a job!
Bleeding edge tech! Hasn't even been invented yet!
OK, you got me. It's from the Dead Milkmen song "Stuart" on their "Death Rides A Pale Cow" CD. And it wasn't really "burlout" but that's what it sounds like in the song so I thought it would make a good name for new (uninvented) tech. At least as good as "TWAIN" and far less retarded than "WiFi". What they actually said in "Stuart" was "burrow owl".
You know what Stuart? I like you. You're not like the other people here in the trailer park. Oh no, don't get me wrong, they're fine people, good Americans. But they're content to sit back, maybe watch a little Mork and Mindy on channel 57. Maybe kick back a cool Coors 16-ouncer. They're good fine people, Stuart. But they don't know what the queers are doing to the soil.
You know that Johnny Werzner kid - the kid who delivers papers in the neighborhood? He's a fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack, but I don't believe it. Anyway, for his 10th birthday, all he wanted was a burrow owl, just like his old man. "Dad, get me a burrow owl. I'll never ask for anything else as long as I live". So the guy breaks down and buys him a burrow owl. Anyway at 10:30 the other night I go out into my yard and there's the Werzner kid looking up in the tree. I said, "What are you looking for?" He said, "I'm looking for my burrow owl." I say, "Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows that a burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?!" Now Stuart, do you think a kid like that is gonna know what the queers are doing to the soil?
I first became aware of this, about 10 years ago, the summer my oldest boy Bill Jr. died. You know that carnival that comes to town every year? Well this year it came with a ride called the Mixer. The man said "Keep your head and arms inside the mixer at all times." But Bill Jr., he was a daredevil, just like his old man. He was leaning out saying, "Hey everybody! Look at me, look at me!" POW! He was decapitated. They found his head over by the snowcone concession. A few days after that, I open up the mail and there's a pamphlet in there, from Pueblo, Colorado. And it's addressed to Bill Jr. And it's entitled, "Do you know what the queers are doing to our soil?"
Now Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large U.S. city with a big underground homosexual population - Des Moines, Iowa, perfect example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can't build on it, you can't grow anything in it. The government says it's due to poor farming. But I know what's really going on, Stuart. I know it's the queers. They're in it with the aliens. They're building landing strips for gay Martians. I swear to God.
You know what Stuart, I like you. You're not like the other people, here in the trailer park.
"Death Rides A Pale Cow" is a fine piecs of art, right up there with Stravinski and Cash.
Comcast is a monopoly here in Springfield. Cable companies are monopolies about everywhere. Get some competetion and the market can take care of itself, but monopolies must be regulated to prevent them from running roughshod over the people who need the services only they can (and in most cases, their monopoly is protected by law) provide.
And cars on balance are much more reliable and free of maintenance
True, I'm not a luddite. I wouldn't trade my 2002 for anything made twenty years ago even if it only had ten miles on it (well, maybe to sell, a car like that would be valuable). I just bemoan the fact that I can't work on them any more, even if you can. Changing the water pump on my '74 LeMans was dirt simple, I don't even know where the battery is on my Concorde, let alone the water pump.
don't know where you get your shoes, either, but I've never had a pair with round vinyl laces
Usually they're a nylon/cotton mix. My last pair of shoes had velcro, the pair I just got has flat cotton laces, so apparently I'm not the only one who thinks round nylon is brain-dead. It looks like the old tech has come back in that case, as well as stereo knobs.
Ok, now I wish someone would explain why "Scotsman" isn't racist, "Irishman" isn't racist, "Englishman" isn't racist, but "Chinaman" is? Where's the logic? How is naming a man's country of origin and calling him a "man" in any way racist?
Kerosine heaters stink and are dangerous. A better technology would be a small electrical generator to power the fan and thermostat. Or better yet, a gravity furnace and power pile. Or even better still, a technology I have yet to see, a gas furnace that uses the furnace's heat to henerate electricity to sell back to the power company!
Heh, when I update Windows for friends the first thing I do is install Linux dual-boot and disable networking in Windows, but first I tell them that's the only way I'll do it.
It was Doc's Lounge, before it was sold and became the Blue Grouch. The divorced man was tending bar. The bar's owner was Danny Krell, a highly decorated Vietnam Veteran (silver star and two purple hearts) who sold the bar to have more time for veteran affairs. Danny is a Republican who is close personal friends with Democrat Senator Dick Durbin.
So it wasn't the kind of sleazy bar you might imagine.
Slashdot Mirror
Because if too many people use it you will have to install anti-virus!
Hmm... Two MILLION in three months? That's one hella botnet! So, how many more macs do they have to sell before the Mac virus that Norton has been warning about for the last ten years actually gets released in the wild?
Good thing I like the unpopular nerd OS Mandriva! It's so unpopular even the 3v1L H4x4rZ haven't heard of it
Or known anyone who was. Twenty years or so ago I had a friend who drove his cab to the Hay Homes here (since demolished) and a robber with a gun wanted his money. He only had fifty cents on him and the robber shot him through the heart.
The robber spent two years in prison. Kevin Mitnick spent more time for whistling into a telephone.
Yes, sometimes new equipment IS necessary. But it doesn't take a lot of computing horsepower to browse the web, so that's a pretty lame example.
*WOOSH!*
Well, picking your pocket is a worse crime than picking mine, but I maintain that sticking a gun in your face and demanding your wallet is still a worse crime than picking my pocket.
But I'm weird like that.
My specifications when I bought my latest TV were far more modest: "I want the biggest TV I can get for under a thousand dollars." I wound up with a forty two inch flat screen Trinitron that weighs 214 pounds IIRC.
It has the added advantage of being hard to steal!
There are a couple of recent Dilbert cartoons that apply to your nickname. March 8, March 10, March 11, yesterday, and today's. Not sure if Jesus is going to be there tomorrow, as he was packing his belongings into a cardboard box in today's.
I saw someone's sig once that read "give a man a match and he'll stay warm for a day. Set him on fire and he'll stay warm for the rest of his life!"
Not entirely on the actual topic so I'm checking "no karma".
I agree, the actual song is a lot funnier.
Black market firearms are stolen, not smuggled.
This is true.. however I believe my point still stands. Feel free to disagree.
I do. Your illustration illustrated nothing.
I don't see how this would "protect others from your weakness".
The same way anti-gambling, anti-drug, and anti-alcohol laws protect people from the weakness of others. Your point was that things that can be abused harm others, I'm saying not only should government not protect us from ourselves but it can't. I'm pointing out that your arguments against freedom are hollow exersizes in verbal logic.
If they don't ask, then they don't know the guy is married, and they'd be blameless. It wouldn't change anything.
Despite the fact that you obviously DID read where I said if there were an anti-adultery law she would NOT be blameless, and he surely wouldn't. You take the stand that most adultery is caused by prostitution, but the fact is very little adultery is with prostitutes. Most adultery is between friends whose flirting goes too far, often (maybe usually) between a married man and a married woman whose marriages are already in bad shape, or there wouldn't be any adultery (or prostitution) to begin with.
However I don't think this would change anything with the current prostitution situation, as I mentioned above.
If she can continue her trade without threat of arrest, why woudn't she? I know hookers, most of their clients are elderly widowers.
I don't think prostitution is good for society
I do. I'm convinced if it were't for his prostitutes, my 86 year old WWII veteran widower friend would have been dead a long time ago.
it is largely opinion influenced by religion
I did an elecrtonic search of the bible for "whore" and discovered that the bible doesn't condemn the whores, but it does condemn pimps and men who sell their daughters into prostition, and says consorting with them is foolish. I was surprised.
I think you disagree with me largely because you're one of the "unwilling populace"
I am, but like I said, although I'm no gambler I'm against anti-gambling laws. I believe this country was founded on freedom, and I think everyone ought to have the maximum amount of it.
I am confused, however, by your claim that people who depend on a gambler for their living are not victims of his habit. Could you clarify that?
The dictionary can.Again, an alcoholic's family is in far worse shape than a gambler's. An adulterer's husband is in far worse shape than a prostitute's client's family. You seem to pick and choose among harmful behaviors you don't like. As long as your behavior isn't harming me, I don't see why it's any of my (or my government's) business. If it's between you and your family then again, it should be none of my or my government's business.
Some people (you seem to be one) want a nanny-state government that will protect them from themselves, or protect you from your family. Others (I'm one) want government to be as inobtrusive as possible, and that means activities such as gambling, drugs, alcohol, prostitution, bestiality, and other things I find horribly obscene but otherwise don't affect me are none of my or my government's damned business.
I would have guessed there were 50 of them. There's one in Canada and another in Australia as well, but only one has an Alderman named Simpson!
Heh, I'll be 56 next month, and I was the one who clued my now 21 year old daughter on to Firefox AND Mandriva! You young guys think nerds were invented yesterday, but the fact is that the now 68 year old Niel Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, famously said "I have always been and will always be a pocket-protector wearing nerd."
You guys seem to forget that real people have social lives
You've obviously never seen any of my journals.An earlier one (the night of the loonie eclipse) had a game of pool that resulted in an attempted murder. Have no life? Then simply live mine vicariously! Now I know why my journals (and Paxil Diaries a few years ago at K5) are so popular.
And replacing someone's desktop machine that works perfectly well gets you a web presence how, exactly?
I suspect that the reason you knew where it was on your '74 LeMans was that you had to do it - probably more than once
Yes, but only once. That was an exceptionally dependable car (esp. for its time). In 300,000 miles I changed a water pump and a clutch (and the oil of course). My 68 Mustang, in contrast, well I spent more time under the hood of that piece of shit than I did behind the drivers' seat.
Don't look for logic when race is involved - there's no logic in the whole concept of race
You won't get argument form me there. Racism is a rich man's tool to keep poor and middle class blacks and whites at each others' throats, and as a whip to get us to send our children off to war on the other side of the globe.
Barack Obama's mother was white, but you only ever hear him referred to as "black" - and that is in fact how he self-identifies
And yet, according to the Jews you're not Jewish unless your mother is Jewish. Which does make logical sense, as no man can ever know for certain if he's a father (unless he's a virgin), and no child can know for certain who his father is. OK, they have genetic tests now but until this century the above statement was true.
I don't think that using them once or twice a year will put you in any significant danger
Unless the dog knocks it over and your house burns down! I understand that they're a lot safer than they used to be, though.
How is P2P like a cancer? If you mean because it's growing exponentially, then movie company profits are like cancer.
That was military policy, instiututed by Democratic Commander in Chief Bill Clinton. What does "don't ask, don't tell" have to do with Republicans? And what does the bartender who's been married 12 times have to do with homosexuality? Obviously if he was gay he wouldn't have married 12 women!
On a side note, I'm decidedly not gay and they still let me in. I wonder if the Blue Grouch would be as welcoming to a gay person.
I'm sure they would, but the guy who owns Felber's is decidedly homophobic.
I'm not trying put you down, but that sleazy crack bothered me a little.
Farley's is sleazy, believe me. It's probably the sleaziest bar in town. It's not a gay bar though, the gay bar is next door. I hear the bar next door is a pretty nice bar, haven't been there.
Usually (at least here) the sleazy bars are redneck bars.
Lots of sleazy bars in Springfield.
piracy is a more serious offense than robbery.
Huh? And this guy makes how much money every year?
He actually said "bullsnot"? Since when is "snot" a dirty word? Come to think if it, I don't think I've ever heard the word "snot" on TV so maybe it is.
And not only did he misspell "udder", a bull's nose isn't its udder. Bulls don't even have udders! That would be as useless as tits on a bull!
Look, guys, this is an adult forum. People post pictures of goatse and tubgirl. I have journals about drunken whores here, for fuck's sake! If you can't say a word, just don't say it rather than using asterisks. It's a spade, damn it, not a "pointy shovel".
When someone says "That snot funny!" I laugh my ass off.
-mcgrew
Virtually everyone else can get one legally with relatively little hassle.
So why would a criminal need to smuggle one from a different country when he can simply steal one from his neighbor?
It is legal both to own a car and to drive a car - but you must be licensed.
You have no constitutional right to car ownership, nor driving.
It's not illegal in many states.
Which begs the question, why not?
Allowing it in people's homes would have no effect other than reducing the government's money intake, which would lead to raised taxes
That's the most pathetic excuse for restricting my rights I've ever heard.
But it's not the government's job to protect you from your own weakness, it's the government's job to protect other people from your weakness
So why isn't there a law against my giving money away?
It's much easier for the government to say "No prostitution" than to say "Only unmarried people can see prostitutes" because while the first is possible to enforce, the second is not.
Oh, so you want to restrict my freedom because it's easier? It still doesn't solve the problem you want to solve, if the actual problem is adultery. How about making it illegal to knowingly have sex with a married person, for a married person to have sex with anyone except their spouse, and to withhold marital status for purposes of having sex?
You mean "if you're for drug prohibition".
Yes, correct, I wrote that wrong.
I say these things that I think should be illegal, however I don't think a country should impose laws on an unwilling populace.
I'll agree with that, too. I hate tobacco, having been addicted to the stuff for thirty years (haven't had a cigarette for 8 years now) but 3/4 of adults DON'T smoke.
I used conservative in the standard manner - as a synonym for "Republican" conservative
And again, I use the dictionary (link is to the definition of "conservative"). Republicans haven't been conservative for a long time now.
Er... you're saying there's no evidence that gambling is an addictive habit whose victims include those who depend on the gambler for a living?
No. Although is she depends on a gambler for her living she should divorve the idiot and get a job!
OK, you got me. It's from the Dead Milkmen song "Stuart" on their "Death Rides A Pale Cow" CD. And it wasn't really "burlout" but that's what it sounds like in the song so I thought it would make a good name for new (uninvented) tech. At least as good as "TWAIN" and far less retarded than "WiFi". What they actually said in "Stuart" was "burrow owl"."Death Rides A Pale Cow" is a fine piecs of art, right up there with Stravinski and Cash.
Show me the locality where that is happening.
Comcast is a monopoly here in Springfield. Cable companies are monopolies about everywhere. Get some competetion and the market can take care of itself, but monopolies must be regulated to prevent them from running roughshod over the people who need the services only they can (and in most cases, their monopoly is protected by law) provide.
Show me the trend to decreased bandwidth.
Comcast Sued Again over P2P Throttling
bar the use of emerging tools that ISPs can use to prevent piracy
It's not the ISP's job to prevent copyright infringement, nor should it be.
And cars on balance are much more reliable and free of maintenance
True, I'm not a luddite. I wouldn't trade my 2002 for anything made twenty years ago even if it only had ten miles on it (well, maybe to sell, a car like that would be valuable). I just bemoan the fact that I can't work on them any more, even if you can. Changing the water pump on my '74 LeMans was dirt simple, I don't even know where the battery is on my Concorde, let alone the water pump.
don't know where you get your shoes, either, but I've never had a pair with round vinyl laces
Usually they're a nylon/cotton mix. My last pair of shoes had velcro, the pair I just got has flat cotton laces, so apparently I'm not the only one who thinks round nylon is brain-dead. It looks like the old tech has come back in that case, as well as stereo knobs.
Ok, now I wish someone would explain why "Scotsman" isn't racist, "Irishman" isn't racist, "Englishman" isn't racist, but "Chinaman" is? Where's the logic? How is naming a man's country of origin and calling him a "man" in any way racist?
Kerosine heaters stink and are dangerous. A better technology would be a small electrical generator to power the fan and thermostat. Or better yet, a gravity furnace and power pile. Or even better still, a technology I have yet to see, a gas furnace that uses the furnace's heat to henerate electricity to sell back to the power company!
I'm not a gambler, but I would still bet large sums of money he never heard of slashdot.
Heh, when I update Windows for friends the first thing I do is install Linux dual-boot and disable networking in Windows, but first I tell them that's the only way I'll do it.
Knowledge is indeed power!
It was Doc's Lounge, before it was sold and became the Blue Grouch. The divorced man was tending bar. The bar's owner was Danny Krell, a highly decorated Vietnam Veteran (silver star and two purple hearts) who sold the bar to have more time for veteran affairs. Danny is a Republican who is close personal friends with Democrat Senator Dick Durbin.
So it wasn't the kind of sleazy bar you might imagine.