And I still hate that God damned criminal organization Sony and the sociopathic sons of bitches who run it, thanks to them fucking up my computer with a rootkit.
Did the Amazon downloads trade Dumb Restrictions on Media for rootkits, like they did with the CDs? It's entirely feasable, all they would have to do is use WMA and its virus-friendly code, and rename the WMA files to MP3. The virus would bite everyone using Windows Media Player.
Has anyone bought one of these and tried it in Winamp? WMA files renamed to MP3 won't play in Winamp.
No, I'm still not buying anything with the Sony name. Once bitten, twice shy. I can't trust them as far as Cowboy Neal can spit a dead rat.
-mcgrew
PS- this is a flame, not flamebait. If you want to mod it down, tag it some other way.
Microsoft has embraced the open-source community over the past few years in a very different way than before
My daughter's cats have embraced mice over the past few years in a very different way than before. Previously they would lay the dead mouse by my dining room chair, now they just eat the mouse.
Don't forget Microsoft's mantra: Embrace, extend, extinguish. Much like my daughter's cats; mantra about mice.
And rather that use that technology to filter packets that contain things like, oh let's say,...hate propaganda,
Hate propaganda should not be "filtered". And "filtered" is a poor euphamism for "censored". If vile and disgusting speech is allowed, then I'm assured that my own speech won't be "filtered". My own speech often offends various parties; I linked to the uncyclopedia article about crack when someone used the term "bling" earlier today and somehumorless dork called my post "racist". So I linked the uncyclopedia entry on "whit epeople" (redirected from "carckers" for him. Humorless twats.
Nothing should be "filtered" except for stuff YOU want filtered from YOUR machine, and even then YOU should do your own filtering. Not the government, not the phone company, YOU.
I found when visiting Thaland in the USAF that being immersed in a culture is the best way to learn the language. I'd learned Spanish in high school, and it did NOT prepare me for working at Disney World. If they'd dropped me off in Mexico after my two years of Spanish I'd have starved; I wouldn't have been any better off than I was in Thailand, where it onlt took a few weeks to start learning anough Thai to get by on.
For the record, I am anti-abortion, but I don't believe that the decision should rest with anyone except the parents, doctor, and God.
As to the death penalty, since the government of my country is killing in my name then I do have a stake in that.
Jesus said to treat others like I would want to be treated. Well, I wouldn't want you meddling in my personal business that you have no stake in, so I'll not meddle in someone else's abortion decisions. If anyone asked me my opinion of should they have an abortion I'd say no, but I'm not going to force my personal beliefs on anyone.
Forget what those guys said, don't even bother learning any foreign languages, or anything else you're not likely to learn.
The caveat is, if you want to study a French author then you'd better learn French. But learning French will otherwise do you no good whatever in Kansas, and if you ever move to France or BC then you can learn French.
It is handy, however, to be able to curse at a person in a language they don't undertand (Puta, su madre es un perro y usted es mierde. Besa mi cula). Also when you see the dual language signs when mopping the floor it's handy to know that "piso mujado" does not mean ":no pissing on the floor".
Learn your own language. Become as literate in it as you possibly can.
The hard part: once you learn a thing or three, you need to go back and do #1 and 2 again. Forever
A fellow named Dennis Ringering, one of my undergrad instructors, was heard more than once telling some knowitall punk "I've already forgotten more than you've ever learned".
Are you telling me that destroying medical records is less harmful that marijuana? The GP isn't. But the US government is. The same US government that has us at war with Iraq? The same US government that wrote the DMCA?
Oh right, THAT US government! No, I'm not a big fan of them.
Why is it that tobacco is highly addictive and kills almost every one of its users yet is legal, while marijuana is no more habit forming than orange juice, has never killed anyone (no known overdose amount and no known adverse health effects) yet can get you put in prison?
Well, when you're idling you're getting zero mpg. And you have to overcome inertia to get moving again. The optimum is to coast until it turns green; stopping wastes gas.
Look out your window. See that guy with the necktie? He's on drugs, his drug dealer is Walgreens. See that black guy without a necktie? He's on drugs too, but his don't come from walgreens. See that white guy without a necktie? He's on drugs too. He gets his from the black guy.
My favorite drugs in order of emjoyment:
aspirin (I have arthritis)
caffiene (coffee, Pepsi)
Alcohol (beer, whiskey)
Reefer
Beano
I hire prostitutes because I like to fuck and non-prostitute women aren't attracted to nerds. I don't just hire them, I'm friends with quite a few hookers I don't even have sex with!
I don't know how long Linda's going to be in jail, but I agree with you wholeheartedly; she shluldn't be in jail at all. As you can see form my journals, I like to smoke pot and hire prostitutes. Many of my friends are hookers. Linda is; she's going up on a prostitution charge when she gets out of prison on the reefer charge. Where are the "pro-choice" people when it comes to drugs and prostitution? Where's MY choice? How is my smoking a joint anybody's business but my own, especially how is it government's business?
Pro choice: It's ok to remove a fetus, but not to insert a drug
pro Life: It's not ok to abort a blastocyst but it's OK to execute a grown human.
Doublespeck: see Orwell's "1984" for both "pro-life" and "pro-choice".
Better yet don't vote for either wing of the Corporate party. I split my vote between the ultimate pro-choicers (Libertarians) and the Geens.
A vote for a candidate who will pass laws for the corporations and against you is worse than a wasted vote. As I like to smoke put and bang hookers a vote for a Democrat or Republican is a vote for my own incarceration. As someone's sig says, "oh look, my tax dollars at work coming to arrest me!"
Your gas guage is NOT a good indicator. Fill your car and drive 100 miles. Fill it again, see how much gas you used, and drive back with cruise and fill it again. See how much gas you used/saved.
You're NOT going to get better mileage without cruise than with, on any car. Your imprecise gas guage says nothing.
It's possible that you get better mileage at 70 than 55 but not very damned likely, unless your 55 is on a two lane road and your 70 is interstate. Wind drag costs gasoline. I was flabbergasted when I had a blowout 100 miles away and had to drive home at 50 with that donut spare. My car's computer keeps a running tob on gas mileage, my normal 27-30mpg at 68mpg went to 36mpg doing 50! And my car's a 2002, aerodynamic.
And yes, a manual transmission will get better mileage than an automatic, unless it;'s a newer automatic with a locking overdrive; when in overdrive/high newer cars don't have the slippage necessary in an older automatic.
to slow down and then move 20 MPH slower for a half-mile simply to not stop doesn't help anyone
True, doing that would be stupid. If using a manual tranny, when the light turns red your best bet is to put the clutch in then. That saves even more than simply taking your foot off the gas in an automatic.
But you won't likely get as annoyed as you wouldn't be (necessarily) driving.
I would as long as I was buying the gasoline! Your brakes turn the momentum you bought with gasoline into heat and throws it away. I'm cheap, I don't like throwing good money away.
I'm not for commuting the guy's sentence, as I responded in another comment. But erasing medical records, while dastardly and dangerous, isn't quite a breathtakingly shocking as shooting a dozen people dead within a fifteen minute time span.
compensate for slower reaction times and loss of motor skills they had in their youth
Some youth don't have too great of reaction time or motor skills, and a whole lot of 40s and 50s folks don't have a lot of maturiety or good judgement.
When I was young I was so quick I could shatch a fly out of the air. Now I can only snatch the old ones out of the air.
Accident rates start rising again as people get on into their 60's and the effects of decreased vision, the onset of heart disease, diabetes, and the host of other problems which affect the elderly start to take their toll
With the execption of less common problems like macular degeneration, your eyesight will suffer from two things: the hardening of the focusing lens, or "age related presbyopia" (farsightedness) which doesn't affect distance vision but makes it hard to read the speedometer and hits in your 40s, and cataracts, which is the focusing lens (which will no longer focus, as it's gotten hard) becoming less transparent.
When you reach your 70s and 80s is when most folks' motor skills and reflexes start deteriorating to the point that it makes driving unsafe. And the brain ages like all the other organs; what a young person calls a "brain fart" my 80 year old mom calls a "senior moment".
Often the elderly gradually retreat from driving, but it remains a vital lifeline to their independence. They shy away from driving at night or in bad weather, or in situations where traffic is heavy and complex
Not my ornery 86 year old friend Ralph, who scares the hell out of me when I ride with him. I think he does it on purpose.
they treasure their ability to get to the store, the pharmacy, or the local bridge game
Ralph treasures his ability to pick up young hookers on the east side. Where else is an 86 year old widower going to get laid?
My 76 year old dad doesn't own a computer or cell phone, saying "I did without for 76 years and I don't need them now". His father-in-law said the same thing about indoor plumbing, and still used the outhouse after my Uncle put a bathroom in Grandpa's house. My mom (his daughter) has a computer and a cell phone.
Everybody's different. Ralph would be a good driver of he wasn't such an ornery old coot. But then he probably wouldn't have known all those hookers he introduced me to either.
No, you seriously need a sense of humor. Nobody with skin that thin should be on the internet, especially slashdot.
How many Irish does it take to screw in a light bulb? Three, one to hold the bulb and two to drink until the room spins.
Now THAT'S a racist joke. It pertains to my own heritage. Aain, lose the politically correct thin skin and grow a sense of humor or get the fuck off the internet you humorless twat.
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And I still hate that God damned criminal organization Sony and the sociopathic sons of bitches who run it, thanks to them fucking up my computer with a rootkit.
Did the Amazon downloads trade Dumb Restrictions on Media for rootkits, like they did with the CDs? It's entirely feasable, all they would have to do is use WMA and its virus-friendly code, and rename the WMA files to MP3. The virus would bite everyone using Windows Media Player.
Has anyone bought one of these and tried it in Winamp? WMA files renamed to MP3 won't play in Winamp.
No, I'm still not buying anything with the Sony name. Once bitten, twice shy. I can't trust them as far as Cowboy Neal can spit a dead rat.
-mcgrew
PS- this is a flame, not flamebait. If you want to mod it down, tag it some other way.
I think I can decrypt that for you:
Microsoft has embraced the open-source community over the past few years in a very different way than before
My daughter's cats have embraced mice over the past few years in a very different way than before. Previously they would lay the dead mouse by my dining room chair, now they just eat the mouse.
Don't forget Microsoft's mantra: Embrace, extend, extinguish. Much like my daughter's cats; mantra about mice.
And rather that use that technology to filter packets that contain things like, oh let's say, ...hate propaganda,
Hate propaganda should not be "filtered". And "filtered" is a poor euphamism for "censored". If vile and disgusting speech is allowed, then I'm assured that my own speech won't be "filtered". My own speech often offends various parties; I linked to the uncyclopedia article about crack when someone used the term "bling" earlier today and somehumorless dork called my post "racist". So I linked the uncyclopedia entry on "whit epeople" (redirected from "carckers" for him. Humorless twats.
Nothing should be "filtered" except for stuff YOU want filtered from YOUR machine, and even then YOU should do your own filtering. Not the government, not the phone company, YOU.
A board chairman really shouldn't give a rats *ss what the stock price is.
What does the International Space Station have to do with it? And didn't that experiment with rats end last year?
Oh, you meant "ass".
I'm wondering how you made that typo, considering that the A key is so far away from the assterisk.
Cursing is not required. If you don't want to say "ass" say "butt".
My knowledge of piglatin and geek makes me a better programmer and whiskey drinker!
I found when visiting Thaland in the USAF that being immersed in a culture is the best way to learn the language. I'd learned Spanish in high school, and it did NOT prepare me for working at Disney World. If they'd dropped me off in Mexico after my two years of Spanish I'd have starved; I wouldn't have been any better off than I was in Thailand, where it onlt took a few weeks to start learning anough Thai to get by on.
For the record, I am anti-abortion, but I don't believe that the decision should rest with anyone except the parents, doctor, and God.
As to the death penalty, since the government of my country is killing in my name then I do have a stake in that.
Jesus said to treat others like I would want to be treated. Well, I wouldn't want you meddling in my personal business that you have no stake in, so I'll not meddle in someone else's abortion decisions. If anyone asked me my opinion of should they have an abortion I'd say no, but I'm not going to force my personal beliefs on anyone.
Forget what those guys said, don't even bother learning any foreign languages, or anything else you're not likely to learn.
The caveat is, if you want to study a French author then you'd better learn French. But learning French will otherwise do you no good whatever in Kansas, and if you ever move to France or BC then you can learn French.
It is handy, however, to be able to curse at a person in a language they don't undertand (Puta, su madre es un perro y usted es mierde. Besa mi cula). Also when you see the dual language signs when mopping the floor it's handy to know that "piso mujado" does not mean ":no pissing on the floor".
Learn your own language. Become as literate in it as you possibly can.
The hard part: once you learn a thing or three, you need to go back and do #1 and 2 again. Forever
A fellow named Dennis Ringering, one of my undergrad instructors, was heard more than once telling some knowitall punk "I've already forgotten more than you've ever learned".
For further study see my journal,How to succeed in life if you've been unfortunate enough to graduate from college
Are you telling me that destroying medical records is less harmful that marijuana?
The GP isn't. But the US government is.
The same US government that has us at war with Iraq? The same US government that wrote the DMCA?
Oh right, THAT US government! No, I'm not a big fan of them.
Why is it that tobacco is highly addictive and kills almost every one of its users yet is legal, while marijuana is no more habit forming than orange juice, has never killed anyone (no known overdose amount and no known adverse health effects) yet can get you put in prison?
Well, when you're idling you're getting zero mpg. And you have to overcome inertia to get moving again. The optimum is to coast until it turns green; stopping wastes gas.
Look out your window. See that guy with the necktie? He's on drugs, his drug dealer is Walgreens. See that black guy without a necktie? He's on drugs too, but his don't come from walgreens. See that white guy without a necktie? He's on drugs too. He gets his from the black guy.
My favorite drugs in order of emjoyment:
- aspirin (I have arthritis)
- caffiene (coffee, Pepsi)
- Alcohol (beer, whiskey)
- Reefer
- Beano
I hire prostitutes because I like to fuck and non-prostitute women aren't attracted to nerds. I don't just hire them, I'm friends with quite a few hookers I don't even have sex with!Perhaps you would prefer this article, or this article?
You illustrate my point well.
I don't know how long Linda's going to be in jail, but I agree with you wholeheartedly; she shluldn't be in jail at all. As you can see form my journals, I like to smoke pot and hire prostitutes. Many of my friends are hookers. Linda is; she's going up on a prostitution charge when she gets out of prison on the reefer charge. Where are the "pro-choice" people when it comes to drugs and prostitution? Where's MY choice? How is my smoking a joint anybody's business but my own, especially how is it government's business?
Pro choice: It's ok to remove a fetus, but not to insert a drug
pro Life: It's not ok to abort a blastocyst but it's OK to execute a grown human.
Doublespeck: see Orwell's "1984" for both "pro-life" and "pro-choice".
Better yet don't vote for either wing of the Corporate party. I split my vote between the ultimate pro-choicers (Libertarians) and the Geens.
A vote for a candidate who will pass laws for the corporations and against you is worse than a wasted vote. As I like to smoke put and bang hookers a vote for a Democrat or Republican is a vote for my own incarceration. As someone's sig says, "oh look, my tax dollars at work coming to arrest me!"
Well, not having RTFA that is new to me. The summary said "medical records", insurance records is a whole 'nother ball game.
PLEAD the fifth? Not me, I'm drinking the damned thing!
I see, kind of like Triallian's "empathy gun".
You should set some of your logic bombs off in close proximity to some middle east suicide bombs! And shoot them with Trillian's gun.
Your gas guage is NOT a good indicator. Fill your car and drive 100 miles. Fill it again, see how much gas you used, and drive back with cruise and fill it again. See how much gas you used/saved.
You're NOT going to get better mileage without cruise than with, on any car. Your imprecise gas guage says nothing.
It's possible that you get better mileage at 70 than 55 but not very damned likely, unless your 55 is on a two lane road and your 70 is interstate. Wind drag costs gasoline. I was flabbergasted when I had a blowout 100 miles away and had to drive home at 50 with that donut spare. My car's computer keeps a running tob on gas mileage, my normal 27-30mpg at 68mpg went to 36mpg doing 50! And my car's a 2002, aerodynamic.
And yes, a manual transmission will get better mileage than an automatic, unless it;'s a newer automatic with a locking overdrive; when in overdrive/high newer cars don't have the slippage necessary in an older automatic.
to slow down and then move 20 MPH slower for a half-mile simply to not stop doesn't help anyone
True, doing that would be stupid. If using a manual tranny, when the light turns red your best bet is to put the clutch in then. That saves even more than simply taking your foot off the gas in an automatic.
But you won't likely get as annoyed as you wouldn't be (necessarily) driving.
I would as long as I was buying the gasoline! Your brakes turn the momentum you bought with gasoline into heat and throws it away. I'm cheap, I don't like throwing good money away.
Normal must be pretty lousy
It is for someone 55 years old! Wearing contacts I needed strong reading glasses to read the date on a dime.
I'm not for commuting the guy's sentence, as I responded in another comment. But erasing medical records, while dastardly and dangerous, isn't quite a breathtakingly shocking as shooting a dozen people dead within a fifteen minute time span.
compensate for slower reaction times and loss of motor skills they had in their youth
Some youth don't have too great of reaction time or motor skills, and a whole lot of 40s and 50s folks don't have a lot of maturiety or good judgement.
When I was young I was so quick I could shatch a fly out of the air. Now I can only snatch the old ones out of the air.
Accident rates start rising again as people get on into their 60's and the effects of decreased vision, the onset of heart disease, diabetes, and the host of other problems which affect the elderly start to take their toll
With the execption of less common problems like macular degeneration, your eyesight will suffer from two things: the hardening of the focusing lens, or "age related presbyopia" (farsightedness) which doesn't affect distance vision but makes it hard to read the speedometer and hits in your 40s, and cataracts, which is the focusing lens (which will no longer focus, as it's gotten hard) becoming less transparent.
When you reach your 70s and 80s is when most folks' motor skills and reflexes start deteriorating to the point that it makes driving unsafe. And the brain ages like all the other organs; what a young person calls a "brain fart" my 80 year old mom calls a "senior moment".
Often the elderly gradually retreat from driving, but it remains a vital lifeline to their independence. They shy away from driving at night or in bad weather, or in situations where traffic is heavy and complex
Not my ornery 86 year old friend Ralph, who scares the hell out of me when I ride with him. I think he does it on purpose.
they treasure their ability to get to the store, the pharmacy, or the local bridge game
Ralph treasures his ability to pick up young hookers on the east side. Where else is an 86 year old widower going to get laid?
My 76 year old dad doesn't own a computer or cell phone, saying "I did without for 76 years and I don't need them now". His father-in-law said the same thing about indoor plumbing, and still used the outhouse after my Uncle put a bathroom in Grandpa's house. My mom (his daughter) has a computer and a cell phone.
Everybody's different. Ralph would be a good driver of he wasn't such an ornery old coot. But then he probably wouldn't have known all those hookers he introduced me to either.
No, you seriously need a sense of humor. Nobody with skin that thin should be on the internet, especially slashdot.
How many Irish does it take to screw in a light bulb? Three, one to hold the bulb and two to drink until the room spins.
Now THAT'S a racist joke. It pertains to my own heritage. Aain, lose the politically correct thin skin and grow a sense of humor or get the fuck off the internet you humorless twat.