GUNS: Every one should carry concealed

Monday, May 24, 2010

http://uncabob.blogspot.com/2010/05/guns-as-equalizers.html

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Guns as Equalizers

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I am reminded of the classical definition of a liberal: someone who would rather see a woman raped and strangled with her own panty-house rather than defend herself with a handgun.

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I trust a woman with a gun more than any cop or politician!

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FUN: “Customer Service”

Monday, May 24, 2010

FROM MY BORGATA FILE

Went for salads for lunch.

Amusing incident happened.

F said he’d buy the beer. He got hot stuff from the Japanese grill. We all got salads. (Ain’t I being dietetic? You’ll see when I am but a wisp of a boy. A figment of my former self.)

The guy at the Japanese grill told him that “no one sold beer in the food court”.

So F naturally believed him and bought what M calls “a fountain drink”.

A big one.

(Nice profit for the Japanese grill. Wonder if they have sales incentives for the shift? You’ll see why I ask that.)

Being a know-it-all, I went to the Philly Steak Sandwich place to confirm. Sure they still sold it.

Back at the table, F was annoyed. We razzed him about not wanting to pay for the beer.

I translated the “Japanese” for him: “I don’t sell beer and I don’t care what you want!”.

Everyone laughed.

ROFL!

ROFL?

OK, I guess you had to be there.

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TECHNOLOGY: Diskless Booting; why not cdrom booting?

Monday, May 24, 2010

http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/05/08/0455244/Diskless-Booting-For-the-Modern-Age

Diskless Booting For the Modern Age on Saturday May 08, @05:08AM
Posted by timothy on Saturday May 08, @05:08AM
from the who-needs-moving-parts dept.

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An anonymous reader writes “Ever wonder what happened to PXE? Intel’s popular standard for diskless booting hasn’t been updated since 1999, and has missed out on such revolutions as wireless Ethernet, cloud computing, and iSCSI. An open source project called Etherboot has been trying to drag PXE into the 21st century. One of their programmers explains how to set up diskless booting for your cloud, using copy-on-write to save space.”

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Having had to “clean” more than one machine — freinds, family, workmates, fellow alums, complete strangers (I love helping) — I have really never ever understood why we don’t boot from a CDROM.

Persistent virus infections, hiding in boot records, would be impossible.

Given that a reboot for desktops are relatively rare and for notebooks are infrequent, we could have true “change control”.

Never understood that?

Can you help me out and explain it?

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