You're right, my memory is faulty. It was indeed Quake I that Reznor did and Sonic Mayhem that did the sountdrack for Quake II, its box credits Rob Zombie for the "theme" for Quake II and Sonic Mayhem for the game's soundtrack.
I should have gone to the wayback machine and looked at my own damned web site >slaps self on head<
I have used this system a few times. If it is 'unintelligible' perhaps you should think about a different cell phone
It was a Razr the last time i had to activate it. And that was the very least of its being a pain in the ass. The whole thing was a pain in the ass. Yet the pirates don't have to put up with it. IMO it's brain-dead stupid of Microsoft to do. It isn't saving or making one poenny for them, it's only pissing off their paying customers while doing absolutely nothing whatever to deter copyright infringement.
For some reason most 'old' distros turn EVERYTHING on by default.
Mandriva 8.2, 2005 IIRC. Nothing is turned on by default, and if you tell it to turn something stupid on it scolds you severely.
The only thing I agree with here is the fact that out of box I am treated as if I am 'stealing' software.
That's not the worst of it. The worst part is that proving you're not trying to 'steal' from them is such a PITA. I couldn't care less what Microsoft thinks about me, but making things hard for a legitimate, paying customer is brain-dead stupid.
Truth is rare on wikipedia, the articles there prove nothing -- other than how easy people will believe in information that basically looks correct, even when it's rarely no more than a pile of badly-written lies.
How true! I personally prefer the Uncyclopedia, and it says Igor Sikorsky doesn't exist. Oh wait, here he is, apparently he changed his name to "Smith". Hell, if I had a Russian name during the cold war I'd change it to "Smith" too!
Ignore that nonsense on Wikipedia, Uncyclopedia is way more accurate.
And we Linux users are called zealots! Some people can't stand criticism, I see, and some of them have mod points.
Now mod this one down too, astrograss boy. At least this comment deserves downmodding. In fact I'm modding it down myself with the "no karma bonus box".
No we don't. We like EXPENSIVE labor. In fact we think we should be paid twice what we're being paid, if not even more.
The only ones who want cheap labor don't supply labor. Most of us work for a living. And most of those who want us to work for starvation wages are in other countries running the multinational corporations we Americans labor for.
We like a growing populace when the fertility rate is below replacement levels
Wrong again. The fertility rate is falling but is not yet so low as to be below replacement levels. citation and quote:
In the United States, the total fertility rate - the number of children a woman has in her lifetime - fell from seven or eight in 1800 to slightly more than two today, says J. David Hacker, assistant professor of history at Binghamton University. And with a five-year $667,237 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Hacker hopes to find out why.
And WE don't want a rising population. YOU who want us to work more cheaply do, so you don't have to pay those of us who have to work for a living as much.
hundreds, never mind millions, aren't going to be made.
modded -1, inaccurate. I have friends in many bands, and all have CDs they they sell at their shows, and all give away MP3s on the internet.
Most are making a living at it, albeit a modest one. One fellow that used to be my neighbor made so much mooney singing in bars with his band he quit his day job as a union carpenter!
The RIAA is no longer needed to record and distribute music. I suspect that the reason this century's music mostly sucks is that the labels can't get decent bands any more. I know my friend Joe Frewe was approached by two different labels and he told both of them to fuck off.
Someone commented on a comment I made in the last/. RIAA story and he included a link that unfortunately wasn't modded up (he posted it too late I think). Here's that fellow's link again; it fits here perfectly.
Is there such a thing as "typical NIN"? Quake players cheered when we heard Reznor was doing the sound for Quake II, and they said the same thing, "not typical NIN".
I think that's one of the best things about that band - there is no such thing as "typical" NIN.
What you propose is what they've been doing, and the the problem gets worse. Mexicans know if they get caught breaking and entering and invading our homeland, all that will happen to them is they'll be sent back to Mexico. There's no penalty whatever for trying to sneak in.
If they know there's a penalty for being caught, fewer of them will try. If we can afford to incarcerate people for growing a harmless plant we can afford to incarcerate them for invading our homeland.
Now you want to grant them citizenship? Do you live in Mexico by chance?
Pat Robertson, the wolf in sheep's clothing we were warned about, has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the athiests on slashdot put together.
And the people who elect and line the pockets of those people who run things want to continue to buy crap they don't need at low, low prices.
Like the old folks used to say, "yeah and the people in hell want icewater, too." That's exactly the reason we need to keep illegals out.
They really do jobs Americans won't do
No, they'll do the jobs Americans can't afford to do.
would either go on welfare (get more money that way and avoid shitty work)
Tell me, Mr. Journalist, why does it seem that nobody in your profession heard about the welfare reform that happened under the Clinton Administration? The entitlement AFDC was replaced by TANF. It's no longer an entitlement, there is a five year lifetime limit and you can only get welfare for a maximum of two years at a time.
Going on welfare is no longer an option in the US, unlike Europe. Who bones chickens in Europe?
You say you'ld bet the farm, you're a farmer AND a journalist? I smell bovine excrement. The longer the coming economic crash is staved off, the more severe and pinful it's going to be when it happens.
... or would resort to crime (selling drugs/sex/stolen property).
The girls in my whorem tell me that a lot of guys want them to take it up the ass. I say that anybody who wants to put it in the back door is gay, but they disagree. Personally, I wouldn't put my dick anywhere I wouldn't put my tongue.
$30k/year. See A Letter from Prison. Do you know how much it costs a state for an illegal alien with no driver's license and no insurance to have a head on collision?
Do you know how expensive it is to lock someone up for 5 years for growing a harmless plant? Let the drug "criminals" out and you'll have plenty of money and space to incarcerate those who really do pose a threat to us!
I'm not buying Vista, or pirating XP. My copy of XP is legal, purchased at Best Buy for a hundred bucks (actually a little more).
As Windows is so damned insecure, I won't get on the internet with it, period. I mostly use an old distro of GNU/Linux/KDE, and that's what I surf with. When I install Windows I unplug the ethernet, and disable networking in Windows before I plug the LAN back in.
Even were I to trust a patched copy of Windows, it takes longer to patch than a cracker can find the machine and add it to his botnet.
As a consequence, activation is a complete and itter pain in the ass. I have to call their damned computer in Redmond with my cell phone, which costs me by the minute. I then have to key in a very long unintelligible string, talking to a computer that has more trouble understaning me than a phone monkey in India.
Windows is getting flakey again (one slashdotter says I must have a bad memory chip, but I had this problem before and reinstalling Windows fixed it. I don't see how reinstalling Windows would fix a bad memory chip. And Mandriva runs flawlessly, why wil Linux work flawlwssly with a bad memory chip but not Windows?
So before I reinstall that piece of shit operating system that I paid way, way too much for, could one of you pirates point me to a patch that Microsoft calls a crack?
On second thought, never mind. I have no way of knowing that the patch/crack isn't a trojan. If anybody can figure a way out of this goddamned stupid activation mess that frustrates and annoys the hell out of me, a paying customer, while doing nothing whatever to slow pirates down I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
-mcgrew (not the security guy, that's a differen mcgrew)
We already have more people in prison, both in terms of percentage of population and quantity, than any other country on the planet, including such glorious examples of freedom and democracy as China and Russia. Now you want to add another 11 million people to the prison system?
Let out all the nonviolent drug offenders and you'll have plenty of room.
The sad thing is that some of the imprisoned would be better off under this system than they were in their home countries. At least they'll get fed three times a day and have a warm place to sleep.
The entire country of Mexico is a warm place to sleep.
It currently costs ~$30,000 a year to keep a person in prison. Do you really think an illegal alien who is not breaking any other laws is costing taxpayers that much?
Yes. I've heard (so take it with a grain of salt; there's no way to corroborate it) that most undocumented aliens are paid "under the table", so that's tax revenue that would be actually paid if he were being paid legitimately. Then there's the cost of the illegals driving without licenses or insurance and unable to even read the road signs; that's what prompted the investigation that resulted in Illinois' last Governor being put in prison; when he was Secretary of State you could get an Illinois drivers' license without even being able to read English, and the story that broke the scandal was children being burned alive in a fiery crash caused by an illegal alien who had gotten a CDL by bribery and couldn't even read the road signs, since they're printed in English. And the food stamps. And most likely a dozen things I can't think of off the top of my head.
They're not very damned likely to not be breaking any other laws. If they're here illegally they can't have much respect for the law anyway, even if they have a clue what the laws actually are!
Also, if you really want to stop illegal immigration, don't make illegal entry a felony -- make employing illegal immigrants a felony, and start throwing the people who employ them in jail
I say we do both; throw the aliens AND their employers in jail.
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You're right, my memory is faulty. It was indeed Quake I that Reznor did and Sonic Mayhem that did the sountdrack for Quake II, its box credits Rob Zombie for the "theme" for Quake II and Sonic Mayhem for the game's soundtrack.
I should have gone to the wayback machine and looked at my own damned web site >slaps self on head<
I have used this system a few times. If it is 'unintelligible' perhaps you should think about a different cell phone
It was a Razr the last time i had to activate it. And that was the very least of its being a pain in the ass. The whole thing was a pain in the ass. Yet the pirates don't have to put up with it. IMO it's brain-dead stupid of Microsoft to do. It isn't saving or making one poenny for them, it's only pissing off their paying customers while doing absolutely nothing whatever to deter copyright infringement.
For some reason most 'old' distros turn EVERYTHING on by default.
Mandriva 8.2, 2005 IIRC. Nothing is turned on by default, and if you tell it to turn something stupid on it scolds you severely.
The only thing I agree with here is the fact that out of box I am treated as if I am 'stealing' software.
That's not the worst of it. The worst part is that proving you're not trying to 'steal' from them is such a PITA. I couldn't care less what Microsoft thinks about me, but making things hard for a legitimate, paying customer is brain-dead stupid.
If the firewall is so good (and I hear it's on by default) then why are all the botnets made of Windows machines?
Truth is rare on wikipedia, the articles there prove nothing -- other than how easy people will believe in information that basically looks correct, even when it's rarely no more than a pile of badly-written lies.
How true! I personally prefer the Uncyclopedia, and it says Igor Sikorsky doesn't exist. Oh wait, here he is, apparently he changed his name to "Smith". Hell, if I had a Russian name during the cold war I'd change it to "Smith" too!
Ignore that nonsense on Wikipedia, Uncyclopedia is way more accurate.
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And we Linux users are called zealots! Some people can't stand criticism, I see, and some of them have mod points.
Now mod this one down too, astrograss boy. At least this comment deserves downmodding. In fact I'm modding it down myself with the "no karma bonus box".
See you on metamod day.
Wow! Paranoid much?
I wouldn't be, but unfortunately I'm literate.
So it's just a word, like "brasierre", that isn't descriptive in any way? I'm still lost. I'd make a lousy lawyer!
A day of war, you mean.
But we don't care. We like cheap labor.
No we don't. We like EXPENSIVE labor. In fact we think we should be paid twice what we're being paid, if not even more.
The only ones who want cheap labor don't supply labor. Most of us work for a living. And most of those who want us to work for starvation wages are in other countries running the multinational corporations we Americans labor for.
We like a growing populace when the fertility rate is below replacement levels
Wrong again. The fertility rate is falling but is not yet so low as to be below replacement levels. citation and quote: And WE don't want a rising population. YOU who want us to work more cheaply do, so you don't have to pay those of us who have to work for a living as much.
hundreds, never mind millions, aren't going to be made.
/. RIAA story and he included a link that unfortunately wasn't modded up (he posted it too late I think). Here's that fellow's link again; it fits here perfectly.
modded -1, inaccurate. I have friends in many bands, and all have CDs they they sell at their shows, and all give away MP3s on the internet.
Most are making a living at it, albeit a modest one. One fellow that used to be my neighbor made so much mooney singing in bars with his band he quit his day job as a union carpenter!
The RIAA is no longer needed to record and distribute music. I suspect that the reason this century's music mostly sucks is that the labels can't get decent bands any more. I know my friend Joe Frewe was approached by two different labels and he told both of them to fuck off.
Someone commented on a comment I made in the last
-mcgrew
The difference is, nobody WANTS vista!
Not Typical NIN
Is there such a thing as "typical NIN"? Quake players cheered when we heard Reznor was doing the sound for Quake II, and they said the same thing, "not typical NIN".
I think that's one of the best things about that band - there is no such thing as "typical" NIN.
I might emigrate when I retire, as not only is pot legal but I hear prostitution is, too.
I have great respect for prostitutes. They perform a needed service for society, and frankly, it appalls me that my countrymen villify them.
What you propose is what they've been doing, and the the problem gets worse. Mexicans know if they get caught breaking and entering and invading our homeland, all that will happen to them is they'll be sent back to Mexico. There's no penalty whatever for trying to sneak in.
If they know there's a penalty for being caught, fewer of them will try. If we can afford to incarcerate people for growing a harmless plant we can afford to incarcerate them for invading our homeland.
Now you want to grant them citizenship? Do you live in Mexico by chance?
Come on in here, dear boy, have a cigar, you're gonna go far.
Irony is almost always funny.
Someone I once knew at K5 had that as her sig. Is your name Elaine by chance? (yes, I do understand the turtles, unlike the hamsters)
Pat Robertson, the wolf in sheep's clothing we were warned about, has converted more Christians to athiesm than all the athiests on slashdot put together.
Like the old folks used to say, "yeah and the people in hell want icewater, too." That's exactly the reason we need to keep illegals out.
They really do jobs Americans won't do
No, they'll do the jobs Americans can't afford to do.
would either go on welfare (get more money that way and avoid shitty work)
Tell me, Mr. Journalist, why does it seem that nobody in your profession heard about the welfare reform that happened under the Clinton Administration? The entitlement AFDC was replaced by TANF. It's no longer an entitlement, there is a five year lifetime limit and you can only get welfare for a maximum of two years at a time.
Going on welfare is no longer an option in the US, unlike Europe. Who bones chickens in Europe?
You say you'ld bet the farm, you're a farmer AND a journalist? I smell bovine excrement. The longer the coming economic crash is staved off, the more severe and pinful it's going to be when it happens.
They already are. Nothing would change.
The girls in my whorem tell me that a lot of guys want them to take it up the ass. I say that anybody who wants to put it in the back door is gay, but they disagree. Personally, I wouldn't put my dick anywhere I wouldn't put my tongue.
$30k/year. See A Letter from Prison. Do you know how much it costs a state for an illegal alien with no driver's license and no insurance to have a head on collision?
Do you know how expensive it is to lock someone up for 5 years for growing a harmless plant? Let the drug "criminals" out and you'll have plenty of money and space to incarcerate those who really do pose a threat to us!
Great, give our elections to the Russians.
I'm not buying Vista, or pirating XP. My copy of XP is legal, purchased at Best Buy for a hundred bucks (actually a little more).
As Windows is so damned insecure, I won't get on the internet with it, period. I mostly use an old distro of GNU/Linux/KDE, and that's what I surf with. When I install Windows I unplug the ethernet, and disable networking in Windows before I plug the LAN back in.
Even were I to trust a patched copy of Windows, it takes longer to patch than a cracker can find the machine and add it to his botnet.
As a consequence, activation is a complete and itter pain in the ass. I have to call their damned computer in Redmond with my cell phone, which costs me by the minute. I then have to key in a very long unintelligible string, talking to a computer that has more trouble understaning me than a phone monkey in India.
Windows is getting flakey again (one slashdotter says I must have a bad memory chip, but I had this problem before and reinstalling Windows fixed it. I don't see how reinstalling Windows would fix a bad memory chip. And Mandriva runs flawlessly, why wil Linux work flawlwssly with a bad memory chip but not Windows?
So before I reinstall that piece of shit operating system that I paid way, way too much for, could one of you pirates point me to a patch that Microsoft calls a crack?
On second thought, never mind. I have no way of knowing that the patch/crack isn't a trojan. If anybody can figure a way out of this goddamned stupid activation mess that frustrates and annoys the hell out of me, a paying customer, while doing nothing whatever to slow pirates down I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
-mcgrew (not the security guy, that's a differen mcgrew)
Would you please stop posting anonymously? Thanks. BTW, that link was on topic, and nobody is making you read the journals.
We already have more people in prison, both in terms of percentage of population and quantity, than any other country on the planet, including such glorious examples of freedom and democracy as China and Russia. Now you want to add another 11 million people to the prison system?
Let out all the nonviolent drug offenders and you'll have plenty of room.
The sad thing is that some of the imprisoned would be better off under this system than they were in their home countries. At least they'll get fed three times a day and have a warm place to sleep.
The entire country of Mexico is a warm place to sleep.
It currently costs ~$30,000 a year to keep a person in prison. Do you really think an illegal alien who is not breaking any other laws is costing taxpayers that much?
Yes. I've heard (so take it with a grain of salt; there's no way to corroborate it) that most undocumented aliens are paid "under the table", so that's tax revenue that would be actually paid if he were being paid legitimately. Then there's the cost of the illegals driving without licenses or insurance and unable to even read the road signs; that's what prompted the investigation that resulted in Illinois' last Governor being put in prison; when he was Secretary of State you could get an Illinois drivers' license without even being able to read English, and the story that broke the scandal was children being burned alive in a fiery crash caused by an illegal alien who had gotten a CDL by bribery and couldn't even read the road signs, since they're printed in English. And the food stamps. And most likely a dozen things I can't think of off the top of my head.
They're not very damned likely to not be breaking any other laws. If they're here illegally they can't have much respect for the law anyway, even if they have a clue what the laws actually are!
Also, if you really want to stop illegal immigration, don't make illegal entry a felony -- make employing illegal immigrants a felony, and start throwing the people who employ them in jail
I say we do both; throw the aliens AND their employers in jail.