but keep in mind, we've only had a short go at it, i mean, the world's only as old as those 2000 years you spoke of...as i try to keep a straight face.
you assholes, not paying up, HOW IS GOD SUPPOSED TO FEED THE BABY JESUS, NOW? oh yeah...that omnipotence thing...maybe jesus needs a new pair of those weird-kid boots with buckles and spikes 'n shit all over 'em. he kinda strikes me as a rebel...
i've tried bribes, extortion, blackmail, physical violence, attempted hypnosis, clandestine activites, begging and pleading...maybe now i'll be able to get my friends to vote if i tell them that they're gonna vote for a dude who wears an eyepatch.
a few years when the president said he was gonna get broadband into every home in america, you'd think it would hafta be kinda cheap...but it wasn't cheap enough to make me stay with a company (comcast) offering a 3-4mbit cable line, bad service, snotty-ass bitches who probably couldn't set the time on a digital watch, let alone get my modem added to the account in under 20 minutes ("oh, oops, that was the wrong address, i'm sorry" not joking) working the support centers. gogo gadget 10mbit-dsl-in-a-low-usage-area. another interesting thing, when i got comcast shut off the rep seemed genuinely surprised that i'd had my service for as long as i did without paying for my cable modem.
me: i bought it a few days before you guys hooked me up. i still have the receipts and warranties.
her: no, that's the one we rented to you.
me: no. it isn't. you guys never game me a modem and you never charged me modem rental fees.
her: well, to date you have incurred rental charges of three hundred and...
me: *sounds of me laughing and rolling around on the floor with snot coming out of my nose and blood pouring out of my ears, eventually shitting my pants because of the aneurysm i got from laughing so hard. EMS hangs up the phone a half an hour later.*
The internet, and Myspace in particular, has never been a place that's considered to be 100% private and anonymous...even less so when you're putting information and images directly involving your personal life on a web site that's as popular as Myspace is. I think Myspace is fantastic. If some jerkass is going to put nothing but pictures of his beerbong/kegstand adventures on his Myspace and then make posts about that kinda stuff, I wouldn't hire him if I saw his Myspace. It's a fantastic way to see a persons character when you're considering them for employment. If you don't know how to make your own web site, do NOT expect privacy on Myspace or any other site like it. I just don't know how or why this is news...we get it. Employers use the internet just like everyone else. NEXT.
but here we are. More and more people seem to forget that the science half of computer science isn't there just to help make a fancy phrase. I was lucky and had good science teachers in high school, which helped get me really into computers. I don't see nearly as many kids who're interested in science as there were when I went to high school. It's a shame on two parts; one, those kids are going to grow up without the basic problem-solving and research skills that a good education in the sciences provides, meaning they'll end up being the dumbasses calling you because they forgot their fucking login info again. Two, without having science stressed enough in heir own educations, there's a good chance that they won't pass the fever on to their kids and we'll all have more incompetent people to deal with.
I use both Windows and Linux. I started with Windows and got into Linux maybe 5 or 6 years later. Linux is probably something you should learn on your own time, not while you're at work. If you have the time to sit there and do a little (HAHAHAHAH) reading, you'll get it. It's not hard. The first time I used a computer, I didn't know anything about DOS or Windows. Then I learned how to use it. The same goes for Linux. I didn't know it, then I learned it. Does anyone else ever remember being given some sort of learning-for-a-lifetime speech in school? Or seeing the posters? They weren't kidding.
I've sent her a number of letters over the years, never received any response other than a standard thank-you-for-your-interest-and-or-concern letter with a stamped signature at the bottom.
I'm from Colorado. Whenever she's here she's always talking about how all different sorts of Americans need to do all sorts of things to give up different freedoms. She also has a committee that oversees the EPA in a time which is seeing many places with water with the pH of vinegar. She's useless.
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but keep in mind, we've only had a short go at it, i mean, the world's only as old as those 2000 years you spoke of...as i try to keep a straight face.
you assholes, not paying up, HOW IS GOD SUPPOSED TO FEED THE BABY JESUS, NOW? oh yeah...that omnipotence thing...maybe jesus needs a new pair of those weird-kid boots with buckles and spikes 'n shit all over 'em. he kinda strikes me as a rebel...
i've tried bribes, extortion, blackmail, physical violence, attempted hypnosis, clandestine activites, begging and pleading...maybe now i'll be able to get my friends to vote if i tell them that they're gonna vote for a dude who wears an eyepatch.
a few years when the president said he was gonna get broadband into every home in america, you'd think it would hafta be kinda cheap...but it wasn't cheap enough to make me stay with a company (comcast) offering a 3-4mbit cable line, bad service, snotty-ass bitches who probably couldn't set the time on a digital watch, let alone get my modem added to the account in under 20 minutes ("oh, oops, that was the wrong address, i'm sorry" not joking) working the support centers. gogo gadget 10mbit-dsl-in-a-low-usage-area. another interesting thing, when i got comcast shut off the rep seemed genuinely surprised that i'd had my service for as long as i did without paying for my cable modem.
me: i bought it a few days before you guys hooked me up. i still have the receipts and warranties.
her: no, that's the one we rented to you.
me: no. it isn't. you guys never game me a modem and you never charged me modem rental fees.
her: well, to date you have incurred rental charges of three hundred and...
me: *sounds of me laughing and rolling around on the floor with snot coming out of my nose and blood pouring out of my ears, eventually shitting my pants because of the aneurysm i got from laughing so hard. EMS hangs up the phone a half an hour later.*
The internet, and Myspace in particular, has never been a place that's considered to be 100% private and anonymous...even less so when you're putting information and images directly involving your personal life on a web site that's as popular as Myspace is. I think Myspace is fantastic. If some jerkass is going to put nothing but pictures of his beerbong/kegstand adventures on his Myspace and then make posts about that kinda stuff, I wouldn't hire him if I saw his Myspace. It's a fantastic way to see a persons character when you're considering them for employment. If you don't know how to make your own web site, do NOT expect privacy on Myspace or any other site like it. I just don't know how or why this is news...we get it. Employers use the internet just like everyone else. NEXT.
i'm gonna go buy some pearl jam cds, t-shirts and concert tickets. bbl.
but here we are. More and more people seem to forget that the science half of computer science isn't there just to help make a fancy phrase. I was lucky and had good science teachers in high school, which helped get me really into computers. I don't see nearly as many kids who're interested in science as there were when I went to high school. It's a shame on two parts; one, those kids are going to grow up without the basic problem-solving and research skills that a good education in the sciences provides, meaning they'll end up being the dumbasses calling you because they forgot their fucking login info again. Two, without having science stressed enough in heir own educations, there's a good chance that they won't pass the fever on to their kids and we'll all have more incompetent people to deal with. I use both Windows and Linux. I started with Windows and got into Linux maybe 5 or 6 years later. Linux is probably something you should learn on your own time, not while you're at work. If you have the time to sit there and do a little (HAHAHAHAH) reading, you'll get it. It's not hard. The first time I used a computer, I didn't know anything about DOS or Windows. Then I learned how to use it. The same goes for Linux. I didn't know it, then I learned it. Does anyone else ever remember being given some sort of learning-for-a-lifetime speech in school? Or seeing the posters? They weren't kidding.
I've sent her a number of letters over the years, never received any response other than a standard thank-you-for-your-interest-and-or-concern letter with a stamped signature at the bottom.
I'm from Colorado. Whenever she's here she's always talking about how all different sorts of Americans need to do all sorts of things to give up different freedoms. She also has a committee that oversees the EPA in a time which is seeing many places with water with the pH of vinegar. She's useless.