"Hey Cowboy Neal, what's my nethack.alt.org password?"

I always read it as another "white people suck" movie, but this time, "white people suck in space", which is equally weird, because Cameron is about as white as they come.

I don't think it is so much "white people suck" as it is "white guilt". Which is too bad because visually the movie was fantastic. Plot wise I felt like I was being lectured to instead of being entertained. I have no interest in buying this movie when it comes out.

This is just an observation, but when I hear things like "We got 80% off list price for technology X from our vendor" it makes me wonder what the real value of the product is. After reading this maybe the value of the product is really irrelevant and in our world of commerce it depends on how influential you are. If that is the case how can they patent how the world currently works?

I remember when "Systems Administrator" was the thing to be. You were the guy that everyone went to for a solution to their problem. Taking pride in an elegant environment where everything just clicked.

Nowadays getting audited for things like SOX, PCI and HIPAA compliancy is just not fun. I was doing more IT paperwork than IT. That's why I got out of the private sector and I haven't looked back. IMHO legislators have taken the fun out of IT.

I've got to patent the tweeting toilet

GnuWife: What the hell are all these paypals?

...how?

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    \em nor could she use Microsoft Word to type up her papers.
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Isn't this an institution of higher learning?  What happened to using \LaTeX.  All you need is vi.
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