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| 2001/6/28 [Reference/Tax] UID:21655 Activity:high |
6/27 If I buy a house, I will have to sell 1/2 of my options and ESPP and
pay more than 1/2 of my post tax saving to the mortgage. On top of
that, I will need to mow the lawn, put in the fertilizer, spray
pests, add Weed-B-Gone, re-tile the kitchen, re-grout the bathtub,
repaint the interior, wash the carpet, fix the faucet, repair the
air conditioner, and mow the lawn. I will spend most of my vacation
in Home Depot. Fuck! Who ingrained this stupid idea that you gotta
get a house? Fannie Mae and Kaufman and Broad?
\_ man condo
\_ More to the point,
man condom
\_ The federal government. If they eliminated the tax advantages
it might be a different ballgame. It's also a good way to
gain leverage on an investment. -dim
\_ yeah, fuck house and marriage and child tax breaks. this is a
clear example of the majority screwing over the minority.
\_ Home Depot sucks, go to a real hardware store. -tom
\_ Care to expound? I've always enjoyed trips to HD
\_ They have crappy quality for most of their stuff, nothing
with any style, they don't have funky screws or parts you
need for projects (unless you want to buy 100 of them),
and the people who work there are 90% morons. -tom
\_ if you want a really funky part within 24 hours, i
think that <DEAD>www.mcmaster-carr.com<DEAD> is by far the best
online story of any kind, and certainly the largest
supplier of weird hardware. Want a 2 meter metric
threaded rod? at your door by 4:00 pm tomorow.
\_ Just pay someone to do the yard ($5 per hr per person) |
| 2001/6/28 [Uncategorized] UID:21656 Activity:nil |
6/27 Anybody know if those 10-10-xxx numbers work for local toll calls?
Pac Bell is charging me an arm and a leg and I don't want to switch
to MCI or other local toll provider. Thanks. (My cell phone reception
sucks at my house otherwise I wouldn't have this problem.)
\_ They work as long as the company code that you're dialing (which
is what a 1010XXX number is) corresponds to a company that supports
local calls. If you're not sure, check with that company. |
| 2001/6/28 [Academia/GradSchool] UID:21657 Activity:very high |
6/27 Thanks ranga, I'm going to enroll in Kaplan next week. It ain't
cheap but at least my credit card limit is high. What school did
you apply to and where are you now?
\_ I have yet to apply. I was planning on applying last dec. but
the company I work for was purchased during that period so I
didn't have enough time to fill out the applications. Things
have settled down now so I'm going to apply this fall. I'm
looking at the farm, Cal, UCSC, UCLA and USC. My first choice
is the farm since it is close to work. Also my old boss is a
prof. so he wants me to go to the farm as well. My concern
is that they may not accept me for EE because my degree from
Cal isn't EE and my GPA was kinda low (above 3, but not by
much). I've been told that I can probably make up for that
with publications and strong letters of rec.
I'm sure you can figure out where I'm at now from the wtmp
records. ----ranga
\_ is UCSD any good?
\_ They have the SuperComputer center down there and
several of the profs work on network routing and
redundancy problems which is my primary area of
interest. Anyway, my first choice is still the
farm. ----ranga
\_ STOP! http://epinion.com has a lower opinion of Kaplan than Princeton.
\_ epinion? Using epinion for this type of info is the same
as using osopinion in order to figure out which OS to run.
\_ I just found out that starting in Oct99, the GRE Writing
Assessment may be required. Did you take that?
\_ required for what?
\_ I don't know of any school that requires this for eng. |
| 2001/6/28 [Uncategorized] UID:21658 Activity:nil |
6/27 I want to join an organized crime syndicate. How do I do this?
\_ 1 800 MICR0SOFT, ask for Services
\_ That's 1 800 RU LEGIT D00D!
\_ You're already part of one. The fearsome motd.public mob.
\_ You might try to find the JLCs. They are based in Jack London
square, and were looking for more members a month ago. |
| 2001/6/28 [Recreation/Computer/Games, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:21659 Activity:high |
6/28 R U:
pro-MS? anti-MS? neutral?
There are probably a lot more neutrals in the general population
than those who are taking a stand. (csua motd is not the general
population)
\_ Anti-MS!! Especially right now. Installing a game on my
Win98 partition made Windows unusable. Splendid!
\_ Win98 is perhaps the finest gaming PC platform i've seen, as
far as variety of games go. I find that whenever i want to
play games, i always load vmware, load windows98 and then run
a game.
\_ I prefer Win95 for gaming. When I feel like playing a
game that's not available for Mac, I launch up VPC with
Win95, install and go. I can't wait until they release
the MacOS X native version of VPC. |
| 2001/6/28 [Transportation/Car] UID:21660 Activity:nil |
6/28 Great porn engine: http://images.google.com |
| 2001/6/28 [Reference/Law/Court, Politics/Domestic/Crime] UID:21661 Activity:high |
6/28 Court Reverses Microsoft Breakup Order
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Tech/Microsoft_Antitrust_Tria
\_ "Trial"
F**K!!!
Maybe tjb had paid Judge Jackson to bad-mouth against M$.
\_ No, M$ paid off the higher court judges or threatened
them and/or their families. This judgement was obtained
by bribery or extortion, which how all crime syndicates
obtain "justice".
\_ The Bush Administration cut off funding for prosecution
of the case. So, in a roundabout sort of way, yes.
\_ Isn't this particular hearing just based on the M$
briefs vs. the findings of facts (no prosecution
involvement). |
| 2001/6/28 [Uncategorized] UID:21662 Activity:nil |
6/28 [ k1nn3y cl34nup cr3w wuz h3r3 ] |
| 2001/6/28 [Uncategorized] UID:21663 Activity:nil |
6/28 Requiescat In Pacem -- Jack Lemmon (1925-2001) |
| 2001/6/28 [Uncategorized] UID:21664 Activity:nil |
6/28 M$ Sued for patent violations:
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/11609.html |
| 2001/6/28 [Science/Space, Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs] UID:21665 Activity:nil |
6/28 anyone versed in emacs mule features here? i tried to help
someone at work edit tis-620 (thai) text but i'm a fish out of
water. thanks, karlcz. |
| 2001/6/28 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:21666 Activity:nil |
6/28 I'm trying to SSH into a PIX box. i've tried ssh -l "" HOSTNAME
and that asks for the password for @HOSTNAME. I would think
this would work but it doesn't. (the problem here being that
the Cisco PIX just asks for a password not a username).
What is the correct way to connect?
\_ ssh -l <username> <hostname>
\_ Maybe (s)he didn't want to reveal his remote login name to
someone who can do a ps on the local host?
\_ AFAIK you need to add a user to the PIX before it will allow
you to login. - cisco alum |
| 2001/6/28-29 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus] UID:21667 Activity:high |
6/28 The gcc man page says:
-trigraphs
Support ANSI C trigraphs. The `-ansi' option im-
plies `-trigraphs'.
What are ANSI C trigraphs?
\_ the cpp man page says:
-trigraphs
Process ANSI standard trigraph sequences. These are
three-character sequences, all starting with `??', that are
defined by ANSI C to stand for single characters. For
example, `??/' stands for `\', so `'??/n'' is a character
constant for a newline. Strictly speaking, the GNU C
preprocessor does not support all programs in ANSI Standard
C unless `-trigraphs' is used, but if you ever notice the
difference it will be with relief.
You don't want to know any more about trigraphs.
\_ They were added to ANSI C in order to add support for
characters such as '{','}','[',']','#' which aren't
available on european keyboards (they use the keys
that were ment for these characters for thier accented
characters). If the stupid europeans could get thier
act together and learn english and use normal computers
like the rest of humanity we would never have had to
deal with this bullshit. |
| 2001/6/28-29 [Science/Space] UID:21668 Activity:high |
6/28 This is awesome! If I ever have kids....
http://www.jesuschristsuperstore.net/lfigurespages/lfgod.html
\_ better:
http://www.jesuschristsuperstore.net/lfigurespages/lfallah.html
\_ I used to have a whole set of biblical action figures in my office.
it was done with kitsch intent.
Reactions were quite varied. Especially when people would have Mary
in threesomes with Job and Golliath. Most people understood
it was done with kitsch intent. The ones who didn't were
usually exteremely offended.
\_ speaking of things to get for the kids:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/drywater010627.html
\_ fuck you. - angel of the lord. |
| 2001/6/28-29 [Computer/SW/Compilers] UID:21669 Activity:very high |
6/28 Is there an equivalent for Perl's '-c' option in javac?
\_ JLint at http://www.ispras.ru/~knizhnik jikes -nowrite +B
\_ jikes is the superior Java compiler
\_ jikes is the STANDARD SUPERIOR JAVA COMPILER!
\_ JIKES! JIKES! JIKES is the STANDARD! Superior Java
Compiler.
\_ jikes is as useful as Essence of Emerile while eating
a shit sandwich. |
| 2001/6/28-29 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:21670 Activity:insanely high |
6/29 To complement the satanism that happened yesterday and 2 days ago:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2001/06/28/national1211EDT0622.DTL
\_ ya that ruling was BS
"But it threw out the allegation that Microsoft illegally gained
a Web browser monopoly, and sent back to the lower court the
question of whether Microsoft improperly bundled its Windows
operating system with its Web browser. "
anything they bundle in the OS should be illegal. It is really
nice and convient that they do still- it has killed a lot of
companies which could have provided some flourishing industries.
\_ People only have a right to buy what people wish to sell
them. How would you like it if anyone buying your old car had
the 'right' to just pick the parts they liked, and leave the
rest to you?
\_ People only have a right to buy what people wish to sell them.
How would you like it if anyone buying your old car had the
'right' to just pick the parts they liked, and leave the rest
to you?
\_ i'll sell you my old car at gunpoint then. you have to buy
all of it, ok? I'll sell it cheap too. - paolo
the vendors to sell Microsoft stuff. If the
vendors also sold linux-equipped systems, Microsoft
allegedly raised prices or revoked the offending
vendor's licenses. -mice
\_ Troll. No one is forcing you to buy Windows. If you are
buying, it means you want it. If you don't want it, don't
buy.
\_ I think the case had more to do with Microsoft forcing
the vendors to sell Microsoft stuff. If the vendors also
sold linux-equipped systems, Microsoft allegedly raised
prices or revoked the offending vendor's licenses. -mice
\_ Microsoft is not forcing (i.e. using force) anyone
to do anything. If Microsoft positions itself in
such a way as to make it advantageous for vendors to
sell Windows, good for it. But they are not using
force.
\_ why should this be illegal? they didn't "force", they
gave better deals in exchange for exclusivity. you
could always have bought a Macintosh, Sun, IBM, HP,
Amiga, etc.
\_ I guess you would have been comfortable paying
the Standard Oil and AT&T taxes in addition to
state and federal tax.
\_ the point is that the competition was always
there. the real issue is the developer support.
people use windows primarily to get the software
they can't use on other OSes. that is fact. why
didn't all the other OSes recognise this and
try to work together to build a common dev API?
because they all want to be like microsoft
themselves. Apple is just an incompetent M$.
\_ WTH are you talking about? M$ is the one
vendor that always does one offs. Sun,
HP, IBM, and even Apple (with MacOS X)
all support common UNIX apis. M$ is the
one with proprietary WIN32 shit.
\_ More inept troll. I don't want Windows. Unfortunately,
MS has managed to convince enough people to use Windows
that it is not financially feasible for me not to buy
Windows. Having been forced to purchase Windows, an OS
I don't want, I find it even further infuriating to find
IE, a browser I don't want, inextricably linked to the OS.
--erikred
\_ HP bundles Netscape. Sun bundled Hotjava. SGI
bundles Netscape. What's the problem? --dim
\_ the problem is, HP, Sun, and SGI are not using
their monopoly power to kill a competitor
(Netscape). HP and SGI aren't even bundling
their own product. Do you really not
understand this? -tom
\_ Make up your mind. Financially advantageous == want.
\_ this logic is flawed. you say you don't want windows,
yet you buy it of your own free will. you contradict
yourself, in addition to not formatting properly.
\_ Untrue: I buy Windows because not buying Windows
puts me at a disadvantage when doing business with
people who use Windows. To say that I buy
Windows of my own free will ignores the pressure
a market-dominant OS brings to bear on those who
do not wish to buy into said OS yet are forced to
do business with those who have bought into said
OS. As for formatting, ok thnx. --erikred
\_ why are you forced to do business with these
people? why did they choose windows?
\_ Huh? Its not financially feasible for you to buy/beg
a cheap computer and net install Free/Net/OpenBSD
(which are all FREE)? I don't understand. Perhaps you
mean that without knowing windows you cannot get a
job. In which case I completely disagree. Its is quite
easy to get a job coding for UNIX, and these jobs pay
quite a bit better than windows jobs.
\_ You're obviously confused about both the law and
economics. The law changes when you have a monopoly.
\_ The law is not always right. I am talking about rights,
which the law does not always enforce consistently. You
can't argue from 'law' because 'laws' are often unjust.
For instance, they were unjust in Nazi Germany.
\_ You go Randy! Invoking Nazi Germany, that's the way
to make a point in online forums!
\_ Go go gadget well-reasoned post!
\_ This is stupid. Did you know that the free market is
broken when you have a (non-natural) monopoly? It's
inefficient, bad for consumers, bad for the country, etc.
\_ There are no (long-standing, stable) monopolies in
a free market system. Give me one counter-example,
or, failing that, give a reasonable account of how
one might arise.
\_ oh god. Please ignore the troll behind the
curtain. -tom |
| 2001/6/28-29 [Recreation/Food] UID:21671 Activity:high |
6/28 Anybody know what ingredient goes into a piece of sashimi? Aside
from the fish itself of course. I'm trying to find out if there's
any preservatives or other stuff in sushis. I can taste the MSG if
a restaurant uses it. I want to find out if I can taste the other
stuff in sashimi. Thanks.
\_ I think it's supposed to be nothing else at all until you dip that
plain piece of fish into wasabi and soy sauce right before you eat
it. Just fish, wasabi and soy sauce.
\_ Your choice for good sushi? I love Jiro's in Union City.
\_ Sashimi is raw fish and nothing else. The only variable is the
freshness of the fish. "Ikezukure" is sashimi from a fish that is
still twitching in front of you. It don't get fresher than that.
- ulysses
\_ Nothing in sashimi, but for nigiri and rolls, the rice could
contain a coat of rice vinegar. |
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