May the non-denominational powers that guide this universe be well in your favor??? How you assume! My universe is guided by no-one, you insensitive clod!
Look at any large power structure.. Think the CEO of your major corp is telling you everything? Do you think he's being told everything? Politics are played not just in government, and secrecy is always involved, it's what gets them off or something.
I was really pissed off when, some time a few months after 9/11, some politician in california, don't remember who, went all blabby to everyone about a suspected terror attack imminent on one of the major bridges in the US. STFU and go there to meet and catch them, don't put up a big sign saying, "Hey we know your plan!!" Was there an attack on a bridge after that? No of course not, and why would there be? An opportunity to get more sections of the snake presented itself, and was dashed away just like that.
Not exactly, I can see where you're going with that, but the problem is probably that you have these colors to match to the moods after the fact. They were probably chosen because some marketdroids thought they looked good that way. A coin toss could have reversed the two you don't like.
Honestly, I would give anything to get away from the Internet for two weeks. A disconnection, though probably disorienting for a couple days, would be so pleasant.
Been there, done that, loved it to pieces, would gladly do it again. Did not give a rat's ass about tech, computers, the net, any of that, while climbing around in a 40,000 year old canyon for several days. Do it, you will remember it forever.
"We couldn't plan a weekend getaway," confirmed Kim V, presumably from the house in which she had been imprisoned since the web embargo.
So Kim's parents, nor her grandparents, were ever able to go anywhere for the weekend? How in the hell did we as a species ever get this far, that we can suddenly become a bunch of helpless twits? Christ it's amazing, that in such a short time, humanity has gone so far backwards, head firmly planted in ass, as to be generating shit like this. I do take the article to be something of a joke, I mean it *has* to be.. Fuck, this is crazy, I have to stop drinking while reading this site...
I don't know about falling back to SMB, but at least fix NFS? If a machine with shares has a failure, I do not expect to have problems with the machine that was previously accessing those shares. Unless I'm running Linux.
I got my first computer at age twelve (a Timex-Sinclair ZX-81), and at the time I felt it was several years later than I would have liked. At much younger ages, when at a mall with parents, I would have to be dragged away from computers on display at some store, which was very frustrating. I got to spend mere minutes at a time with a machine in those years. The computer became the main disciplinary tool for my parents, by the time I was 16 my C64 would be taken away and locked up for the stupidest reasons, and I'd be in the middle of a major programming project. Fucking tards, glad I was adopted because I would hate to think I share genes with those assholes.
Fuck stupid parents that don't pay attention to the drives of their children. If your kid acts like a future IT geek, then set him up, regardless of age. If not, then let him focus on what he wants to focus on. He'll want to kill you 30 years later if you don't.
I'm totally with you, and not just because I tend towards suicidal thoughts. No, not at all. If I could die on Mars, WOW!! That would make up for anything I might have tried and failed to accomplish on Earth. Seriously, I can't think of a better way to go, and we are all going to go at some time or another. Let me, please! I'll go die on Mars, and try to get as much for you out of it as I can before I do.
Sidenote: I don't think Al Qaeda would be trying to kill people if they had a way to move away from the influences they dislike.
An interesting notion, but I'm not so sure. I think that such people don't need to be right, as much as they need others to be wrong. That's hard to accomplish when your whole faction moves to its own planet, never to see anybody else again. I think they'd go even crazier, and declare war on Earth.
If he lived in England the first 23 years of his life, then he is British, regardless of where he lives now, or what citizenship he may have gained elsewhere..
Now, if his family had moved when he was 5 or something, that would be different.
Amazing reading skills you have there, to have been able to clairvoyantly determine that the poor family was using a digital, and not a $10.00 throwaway.
One guy has done nothing wrong (legal gun owner) and is trying to defend himself. The other guy is in the commission of a crime that assaults another.
Probably because it's a crime to threaten anybody with a loaded gun, unless you happen to be law-enforcement. Even then, they have loads of paperwork to file and whatnot just for drawing their sidearm, they have to fully justify that action. Here in Canada, a cop was recently terminated from the force for drawing his gun and shooting in the general direction of a suspect fleeing in a vehicle. A couple of years ago in Edmonton, a store owner who slept in the back room of his store, was rudely awakened at 3 am by a pickup truck smashing through the front window. He came out of the back to find two guys loading a $10,000 TV into the truck. He shot one of them (not fatally), they got away anyhow, and the store owner was charged. His gun wasn't registered, that was the crux of the issue. The would-be burgler (who initially lied to authorities about the source of his injury) was not charged with anything, as far as I recall.
If the mugger doesn't have a gun, and you do, and you threaten him with it, the law will be on his side. If anybody were to die in that encounter, it would more likely be the lesser-armed mugger, and you would be deemed a cold-blooded murderer.
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What if it lands in dogshit?
"It's just sprinkles, it's like sprinkles..."
May the non-denominational powers that guide this universe be well in your favor???
How you assume! My universe is guided by no-one, you insensitive clod!
Look at any large power structure.. Think the CEO of your major corp is telling you everything? Do you think he's being told everything? Politics are played not just in government, and secrecy is always involved, it's what gets them off or something.
I was really pissed off when, some time a few months after 9/11, some politician in california, don't remember who, went all blabby to everyone about a suspected terror attack imminent on one of the major bridges in the US. STFU and go there to meet and catch them, don't put up a big sign saying, "Hey we know your plan!!" Was there an attack on a bridge after that? No of course not, and why would there be? An opportunity to get more sections of the snake presented itself, and was dashed away just like that.
You do realize that the whole thing is CG... YES?
What's your point? Get in. (pulls gun) I said, get in.
And a really clever one at that, dammit they beat me to it!
Am I on my own on this one?
Not exactly, I can see where you're going with that, but the problem is probably that you have these colors to match to the moods after the fact. They were probably chosen because some marketdroids thought they looked good that way. A coin toss could have reversed the two you don't like.
If the moon got a big enough chunk knocked out of it though, even if that didn't hit us, the surfing would be AWESOME!!!!
That's why I get all perked up when I hear news of a major solar flare erupting. Damn things keep missing...
Honestly, I would give anything to get away from the Internet for two weeks. A disconnection, though probably disorienting for a couple days, would be so pleasant.
Been there, done that, loved it to pieces, would gladly do it again. Did not give a rat's ass about tech, computers, the net, any of that, while climbing around in a 40,000 year old canyon for several days. Do it, you will remember it forever.
"We couldn't plan a weekend getaway," confirmed Kim V, presumably from the house in which she had been imprisoned since the web embargo.
So Kim's parents, nor her grandparents, were ever able to go anywhere for the weekend? How in the hell did we as a species ever get this far, that we can suddenly become a bunch of helpless twits? Christ it's amazing, that in such a short time, humanity has gone so far backwards, head firmly planted in ass, as to be generating shit like this. I do take the article to be something of a joke, I mean it *has* to be.. Fuck, this is crazy, I have to stop drinking while reading this site...
I don't know about falling back to SMB, but at least fix NFS? If a machine with shares has a failure, I do not expect to have problems with the machine that was previously accessing those shares. Unless I'm running Linux.
I got my first computer at age twelve (a Timex-Sinclair ZX-81), and at the time I felt it was several years later than I would have liked. At much younger ages, when at a mall with parents, I would have to be dragged away from computers on display at some store, which was very frustrating. I got to spend mere minutes at a time with a machine in those years. The computer became the main disciplinary tool for my parents, by the time I was 16 my C64 would be taken away and locked up for the stupidest reasons, and I'd be in the middle of a major programming project. Fucking tards, glad I was adopted because I would hate to think I share genes with those assholes.
Fuck stupid parents that don't pay attention to the drives of their children. If your kid acts like a future IT geek, then set him up, regardless of age. If not, then let him focus on what he wants to focus on. He'll want to kill you 30 years later if you don't.
I'm totally with you, and not just because I tend towards suicidal thoughts. No, not at all. If I could die on Mars, WOW!! That would make up for anything I might have tried and failed to accomplish on Earth. Seriously, I can't think of a better way to go, and we are all going to go at some time or another. Let me, please! I'll go die on Mars, and try to get as much for you out of it as I can before I do.
Sidenote: I don't think Al Qaeda would be trying to kill people if they had a way to move away from the influences they dislike.
An interesting notion, but I'm not so sure. I think that such people don't need to be right, as much as they need others to be wrong. That's hard to accomplish when your whole faction moves to its own planet, never to see anybody else again. I think they'd go even crazier, and declare war on Earth.
If he lived in England the first 23 years of his life, then he is British, regardless of where he lives now, or what citizenship he may have gained elsewhere..
Now, if his family had moved when he was 5 or something, that would be different.
You have to love a system that requires downtime as part of uptime.
You mean like MMORPGS that shut down everything and bring it all back up again every single day, to make sure things keep running smoothly?
Yep, $10 to $20 in that range. Digital doesn't mean 'expensive' anymore.
Amazing reading skills you have there, to have been able to clairvoyantly determine that the poor family was using a digital, and not a $10.00 throwaway.
This is like saying 20% of them enjoy their imaginary friends.
That's just not right!
But my imaginary friends have sex with me.
Would you rather destroy Rome or own it?
It won't fit in my basement, so I'm going to go ahead and say 'destroy'.
So you just use 2 in total?
Now where did I put that abacus?
I'm sorry, I coughed on it, better make sure to scan it for infection first.
Yep, Free Information has no obligation to accuracy. Therefore, Information wants to be wrong!
One guy has done nothing wrong (legal gun owner) and is trying to defend himself. The other guy is in the commission of a crime that assaults another.
Probably because it's a crime to threaten anybody with a loaded gun, unless you happen to be law-enforcement. Even then, they have loads of paperwork to file and whatnot just for drawing their sidearm, they have to fully justify that action. Here in Canada, a cop was recently terminated from the force for drawing his gun and shooting in the general direction of a suspect fleeing in a vehicle. A couple of years ago in Edmonton, a store owner who slept in the back room of his store, was rudely awakened at 3 am by a pickup truck smashing through the front window. He came out of the back to find two guys loading a $10,000 TV into the truck. He shot one of them (not fatally), they got away anyhow, and the store owner was charged. His gun wasn't registered, that was the crux of the issue. The would-be burgler (who initially lied to authorities about the source of his injury) was not charged with anything, as far as I recall.
If the mugger doesn't have a gun, and you do, and you threaten him with it, the law will be on his side. If anybody were to die in that encounter, it would more likely be the lesser-armed mugger, and you would be deemed a cold-blooded murderer.