You have to read this…

You are kidding arent you ?
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
Posted by: jerryleecooper Posted on: 03/14/07

No, he’s not kidding.

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I was going through some videos on my hard drive and I found this gem I grabbed off my DVR last year. My parents were over for Christmas and we were watching 1 vs. 100 and this beautiful girl came out. Watch in wonder as she is completely stumped by this question…

(If your browser asks you to download the .FLV file, just refresh and try again; I had to make changes to my template and Firefox users are finding that Firefox caches your shit until the cows come home)

Had this kid not caught this shit on video, do you think anyone would’ve believed him?

Disgusting. I hope they fire the fuck out of this guy.

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Wow… Just… Wow…

Wow…

Just…

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And before you watch it, a word of warning. You’re not allowed to not watch it. Once you start, you have to watch the whole thing, end to end.

Wow.

Just…

Wow…

via Blogebrity

Seventh grade girls don the traditional Islamic symbol of female oppression in Amherst…

Nice. It’s so nice to teach girls to be subservient at an early age. Reduces the beatings you’re obligated to give ‘em later.

Back story here, by Kim Priestap who I swear is utterly brilliant.

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Dr ElBaradei said a nuclear-armed Iran would be terrible but the jury was still out as to whether the country even wanted nuclear weapons.

But he said you could not “bomb knowledge”, and he was scathing towards those who still favoured air strikes after the experience of intervention in Iraq.

“I wake every morning and see 100 Iraqis innocent civilians are dying,” he said. “I have no brief other than to make sure we don’t go into another war or that we go crazy into killing each other. You do not want to give additional argument to new crazies who say ‘let’s go and bomb Iran.’”

Asked who the “new crazies” were he replied: “Those who have extreme views and say the only solution is to impose your will by force.”

Dr ElBaradei said he was not referring to President George Bush but his remarks are likely to be interpreted as a swipe at those neo-conservatives in the US who still favour military action.

Yeah because God knows he wouldn’t want to take a swipe at Bush…

Anyway, does anyone else have a problem with the director of the IAEA essentially saying that his job is to not allow a war in Iran? His job has nothing to do with a war anywhere. His job is to report if a country is developing a nuke, inspect it, stop it, or get the fuck out of the way. Period.

You can make the argument that his job has repercussions, but that doesn’t equate to “making sure” he doesn’t give ammo to the crazies who want to bomb Iran. After an admission like that, you have to wonder how much information he’s looking at through the filter of “yes it’s bad, but would it cause a war if I reported it?”

And while we’re on the subject, since our good friend has mentioned he doesn’t want to give the “crazies” more ammo, and that he wasn’t referring to President Bush when he said it, who the hell was he talking about?

In the light of Iran’s secretive dealings with black market nuclear suppliers he said it owed his agency a confession over its once clandestine activities.

In his latest report, last week, he said Iran continued to enrich uranium and information on its activities was now “deteriorating.”

Then I’d say you’d have to stop worrying about people bombing Iran and start actually worrying about what they’re doing that you don’t know about, huh?

Source: BBC via Hotair.

Funniest part is that at the end of that call, we still don’t know if the account was cancelled or suspended…

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Abortion factory Planned Parenthood directly violates California Law right on video… According to the poster of the video:

A Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles, CA encourages a 15 year old girl with a 23 year statutory rapist boyfriend to illegally change her age to become eligible for an unreported abortion. This directly violates California penal code 11165.7.

Part I:

Part II:

Planned Parenthood is nothing more than an abortion factory. Notice how you never hear the suggestion of adoption. Not once. Next time they tell you all about how they’re just an organization of finding the right choice for a child, ask yourself… Have you ever heard of anyone getting adoption advice from PP?

via Stop the ACLU

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I’m not even commenting on the gross stupidity of this story…

MILLERSVILLE, Pa. - A 27-year-old Millersville University graduate filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the college for denying her an education degree and teaching certificate after a controversial Internet photograph surfaced last year shortly before graduation.

The picture shows Stacy Snyder of Strasburg wearing a pirate hat while drinking from a plastic “Mr. Goodbar” cup. The photograph taken during a 2005 Halloween party was posted on Snyder’s MySpace Web page with the caption “Drunken Pirate.”

“The day before graduation, the college confronted me about the picture,” Snyder said Thursday. “I was told I wouldn’t be receiving my education degree or teaching certificate because the photo was ‘unprofessional.’ ”

Snyder said she apologized for the photograph, but Jane S. Bray, dean of the School of Education, and Provost Vilas A. Prabhu refused to issue the bachelor of science degree in education and teaching certificate Snyder earned.

Instead, the college issued Snyder a bachelor of arts degree in English.

Makes you wonder why anything outside of school can be considered grounds for not graduating. I hope they end up being forced to give her the degree she earned.

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Marty was stranded in Greece after his credit cards got stolen on the metro. He called WaMu to cancel his cards and then when he tried to confirm they were closed, he got transferred from department to department. In the meantime, thieves continued to run his bill up to $5800. Marty’s cellphone minutes continued to drain. No one could help him because the Consumer Lending Department “was closed over the weekend.” WaMu must believe that identity theft is only committed during the weekday.

Hear the call here.

Read the complete post from Marty here.

Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, would it have killed the guy to at least take Marty’s name and find out who should call him back and pass along a message?

via Consumerist

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I’m NEVER EVER EVER NEVER EVER eating pork again. Ugh…

UPDATE: Snopes says it ain’t so…

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Not for nothing… What the hell is going on at Fox?

I’m not the typical “Fox is right wing scum” folks although I admit I watch MSNBC and CNN a lot more these days mainly because Fox’s choice of stories and overuse of the “Fox News Alert” horsecrap.

This, however slickly it’s edited, really does not look good for Fox News…

It’s not just the stories… It’s the inanity of all of it. His middle name is Hussein? He smokes? He’s black?

That’s hard news?

Blech…

If this is what we’re getting already, I’m leaving this country and coming back after the elections are over.

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Very, apparently. Check out this website for a new drug called Havidol (click to embiggen if necessary):

Wow… Looks pretty authentic, right? Check this out, though, from Reuters:

But Mahmood said it really took off over the Internet. In the first few days after the Web site (www.havidol.com) went up, it had 5,000 hits. The last time he checked it had reached a quarter of a million.

“The thing that amazes me is that it has been folded into real Web sites for panic and anxiety disorder. It’s been folded into a Web site for depression. It’s been folded into hundreds of art blogs,” he added.

The parody is in response to the tactics used by the drug industry to sell their wares to the public. Consumer advertising for prescription medications, which are a staple of television advertising in the United States, was legalised in the country in 1997.

Cooper said she intended the exhibit to be subtle.

“The drug ads themselves are sometimes so comedic. I couldn’t be outrageously spoofy so I really wanted it to be a more subtle kind of parody that draws you in, makes you want this thing and then makes you wonder why you want it and maybe where you can get it,” she added.

Mahmood said that in addition to generating interest among the artsy crowd, doctors and medical students have been asking about the exhibit.

“I think people identify with the condition,” he said.

The condition? I love it! He’s as funny as the ad! The name of the drug is Havidol. (Have-it-all). In the “gift shop” is a shirt that has a slogan on it that says, “When more is not enough.” You have to wonder if maybe these drug companies know exactly what they’re doing when they make these ads. “Here’s a condition you might have, check with your doctor, and ask for our drug.”

I think this is a very interesting social experiment that was done without even the realization of the experimenter.

Well done, Justine!

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via Gothamist:

February 8, 2007 — A loaded ammo clip was found aboard an American Airlines jet that had just arrived at Kennedy Airport from the Dominican Republic, and now cops are trying to find its owner.

The bullets were discovered in a seat-back pocket at about 10:30 p.m. Jan. 29 by a worker cleaning the jet after its flight from Santo Domingo, authorities said yesterday.

The plane, which had arrived at Kennedy about two hours earlier, also visited Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, that day.

Read more at the NY Post

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If mice freak you out, this is not the video to watch, but I promise you’ve never seen anything like it!

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“Senator Mary Landrieu’s outrageous outburst this morning in which she remarked that we ‘would have been better off if the terrorists had blown up our levees’ is the latest episode in a stream of recent Democratic blame-shifting and accusations. Landrieu appears to be joining with Governor Blanco among the ungrateful Louisiana Democrats that seem to have forgotten the federal government has already appropriated billions and billions of dollars of aid to the state and its citizens, only to have Blanco’s Road Home Program set a new standard in bureaucratic inefficiency. The notion that Louisiana would be better off if terrorists attacked our state should be unthinkable to an elected Senator. Did she forget the terrorist attacks on our country a few years ago and the suffering that the people of New York and the country as a whole felt?” stated Republican Party of Louisiana Chairman, Roger Villere, Jr.

That’s almost so stupid that I have a hard time believing she actually said it. Anyone have some kind of actual record on this?

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Genarlow Wilson sits in prison despite being a good son, a good athlete and high school student with a 3.2 GPA. He never had any criminal trouble. On the day he was to sit for the SAT, at seventeen years old, his life changed forever. He was arrested. In Douglas County he was accused of inappropriate sexual acts at a News Year’s Eve party. A jury acquitted him of the allegation of Rape but convicted him of Aggravated Child Molestation for a voluntary act of oral sex with another teenager. He was 17, and she was 15.

Along with the label “child molester” which will require him throughout his life to be on a sexual offender registry, Genarlow received a sentence of eleven years — a mandatory 10 years in prison and 1 year on probation.

On July 1st, the new Romeo and Juliet law went into effect in Georgia for any other teen that engages in consensual sexual acts. That change in the law means that no teen prosecuted for consensual oral sex could receive more than a 12 months sentence or be required to register as a sex offender.

Had this law been in effect when Genarlow Wilson was arrested, or had been done after the Marcus Dixon case, Genarlow would not now be in jail.

Genarlow and his mother are overjoyed that no one else in Georgia will have to know their pain. In the meantime, however, the legal fight goes on for Genarlow Wilson.

Genarlow has been incarcerated since February 25, 2005.

Check out the site here to see what you can do and thanks to Mark Cuban for pointing out a story that I’ll bet most people have never even heard of.

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Note the idiot with the baby who lept out of her seat with the kid’s head bouncing around. Nice job, baby’s mama.

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Portland sure is dangerous this time o’ year.

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