The last planes were downed with box cutters from walmart. Show me the anti razor blade system. I think they called it TSA or something and it worked so very well. Can't wait to spend 40 billion more tax dollars on this crap.
Chickens! Why it seems they've come home to roost!
I always said that as soon as customers started loosing legally purchased media and having real difficulties with brand new hardware that the days or DRM would be over. Could that day be here already?! Happy 2008 all.
Should a teenager be shot for trying to leave a restaurant without paying the check?!
If you've ever watched COPS, you know exactly how this went down. The kid was leaving, perhaps even unintentionally forgetting to pay the check, a guy jumps out right in front of his car, no uniform or ID, and before the kid even has a chance to figure out what the hell is going on, bullets are flying thru the window.
The cop of course says that he was in fear for his life because the SUV was going to run him down.
News flash. Its a parking lot. STEP OUT OF THE FRIGGIN' WAY!
Sometimes *ITS OK* for the bad-boy teenager to get away. TAKE HIS FRIGGIN PLATE AND FILE A REPORT!!!!
It IS NOT acceptable to stand in the way of a car full of teenagers, draw your piece and blaze away just so "the bad guy won't get away"! This is doubly true when OFF DUTY.
Sometimes in the name of public safety, its just better to chill out and LET IT GO, dude.
Sorry about the rant here but I just see more and more of this out of control escalation with power-drunk authorities who seem to think 100-mph chases, tasers, tear-gas, guns, dogs, and god knows what all else are perfectly acceptable to deploy at any time in the middle of suburban neighborhoods, simply as long as there's a (likely minority) fellow running from them.
Plus, have you ever tried to BUY cubes? A single 8x8 Herman Miller cubicle and desk without any of the fancy glass or wiring is more than $10,000!!! This is a fantastic way to just throw some IKEA crap in a room and tell everyone to get to work. Now about my BHP bi-yearly bonus...
Yeah, like patent law has any freaking thing whatsoever to do with the english language. I'd say that it is rather a deliberate, systematic perversion of the english language.
I do the same trick. I've had more than 300 systems running for around 3.5 years, both read only and read write with plain old ext3. Not a single cf card has failed. Nearly 1/5 of all the rotating disks we've delployed in the same time frame have either failed completely of shown some sort of strange behavior or smartd error. Booting off the cf card leaves us with enough system after the mechanical disk fails to tell us what has gone wrong without an expensive truck roll.
It is true that eventually cf cards will wear out due to write fatigue. It will happen much much later than mechanical disks will fail for all of the reasons that they do. This seems to be true "even if you do a lot of writes".*
*The sample space here is around 300 systems for a bit over 3 years, 24/7 operation.
... that politicians want to achieve anything. They only want to LOOK like they are achieving something. Whether or not they actually achieve that something never even crosses their weasely little minds.
They could have been trading Britney Spears files online or some other hard core criminal activity. Best to make an example of them now before they progress to this level of criminal activity.
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The mind boggles.
The last planes were downed with box cutters from walmart. Show me the anti razor blade system. I think they called it TSA or something and it worked so very well. Can't wait to spend 40 billion more tax dollars on this crap.
Chickens! Why it seems they've come home to roost!
I always said that as soon as customers started loosing legally purchased media and having real difficulties with brand new hardware that the days or DRM would be over. Could that day be here already?! Happy 2008 all.
Ha! The Andy Rooney of the tech world! How long until all of his articles are just him complaining about being old?!
In the US of A you went from "not a life form of any kind" to "probable terror suspect" on the day you were born!
I'm NOT driving something that looks like that!!!!
Its bad enough that you'd be on the road with giant SUV's but this... even a subaru outback could beat this thing up and take its lunch money.
Police in general seem to be completely unable to gauge the gravity of situations.
This happened around here recently:
http://www.nbc4.com/news/8703066/detail.html
Should a teenager be shot for trying to leave a restaurant without paying the check?!
If you've ever watched COPS, you know exactly how this went down. The kid was leaving, perhaps even unintentionally forgetting to pay the check, a guy jumps out right in front of his car, no uniform or ID, and before the kid even has a chance to figure out what the hell is going on, bullets are flying thru the window.
The cop of course says that he was in fear for his life because the SUV was going to run him down.
News flash. Its a parking lot. STEP OUT OF THE FRIGGIN' WAY!
Sometimes *ITS OK* for the bad-boy teenager to get away. TAKE HIS FRIGGIN PLATE AND FILE A REPORT!!!!
It IS NOT acceptable to stand in the way of a car full of teenagers, draw your piece and blaze away just so "the bad guy won't get away"! This is doubly true when OFF DUTY.
Sometimes in the name of public safety, its just better to chill out and LET IT GO, dude.
Sorry about the rant here but I just see more and more of this out of control escalation with power-drunk authorities who seem to think 100-mph chases, tasers, tear-gas, guns, dogs, and god knows what all else are perfectly acceptable to deploy at any time in the middle of suburban neighborhoods, simply as long as there's a (likely minority) fellow running from them.
Worse still, all of the things I've said I'd do over the years if DNF ever got released!!!
Sidebar: Any other red-staters see any irony in shortening Duke-Nukem Forever to DNF?
Man with three take average, have smaller margin of error.
that someone suggested an orangutan. But don't call him a monkey, he hates that.
and answer some small questions for us!
You just said Microsoft, AI and Santa Claus in the same sentence... Why am I thinking of Futurama?
Plus, have you ever tried to BUY cubes? A single 8x8 Herman Miller cubicle and desk without any of the fancy glass or wiring is more than $10,000!!! This is a fantastic way to just throw some IKEA crap in a room and tell everyone to get to work. Now about my BHP bi-yearly bonus...
Yeah, like patent law has any freaking thing whatsoever to do with the english language. I'd say that it is rather a deliberate, systematic perversion of the english language.
That guy is jumping over a shark!
Have you ever even tried to look at abacus pr0n?
...don't be evil MOST of the time.
Good tirade, but it needed a lot more mmmkaay's.
No amount of "giving to charity" will sanitize this anti-capitalist, corporatist, bullshit greed.
OOhhh... I know. Give 2% to some charity. That should solve our pr problems! Shame on them for even bringing it up.
Its WAY cheaper to just way till the congressfool gets elected and THEN purchase him.
Seriously, simple economics, folks.
I do the same trick. I've had more than 300 systems running for around 3.5 years, both read only and read write with plain old ext3. Not a single cf card has failed. Nearly 1/5 of all the rotating disks we've delployed in the same time frame have either failed completely of shown some sort of strange behavior or smartd error. Booting off the cf card leaves us with enough system after the mechanical disk fails to tell us what has gone wrong without an expensive truck roll.
It is true that eventually cf cards will wear out due to write fatigue. It will happen much much later than mechanical disks will fail for all of the reasons that they do. This seems to be true "even if you do a lot of writes".*
*The sample space here is around 300 systems for a bit over 3 years, 24/7 operation.
... that politicians want to achieve anything. They only want to LOOK like they are achieving something. Whether or not they actually achieve that something never even crosses their weasely little minds.
I find that "Goodbye and thanks for all the fish." works nicely in situations such as this.
The combined an unsafe plane with an unsafe car.
Hilarity will no doubt ensue.
They could have been trading Britney Spears files online or some other hard core criminal activity. Best to make an example of them now before they progress to this level of criminal activity.