Do you get viruses or spyware? If you are computer savvy enough not to get them then buy the cheapest windows machine you can find.
Before you do that I would check out Ubuntu and since you have an older computer I would check out the Xubuntu variant which is especially aimed at using less resources and so better for older computers. I run Xubuntu off of a usb thumb drive on my office computer and it is more responsive than XP running off the hard drive.
http://www.xubuntu.org/
download it and burn it to a cd (yes it is small enough to fit on a cd!) and try it as a live cd (reboot with the cd in the drive and it will run off the cd) so you can test it out. Running off of the cd is much slower than it is installed but it will give you an idea of whether or not it fits your needs.
At least this commercial effectively gets across the message that clean coal is a "lie" or that it doesn't work. The other one with the guy out in the middle of nowhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdHuB7Ovl2o gives the impression that this clean coal is so clean that it is invisible and has no impact on nature at all. Not the best way to get across your message.
All the people I know who aren't in the USA but want to watch USA shows on websites use hotspot shield http://hotspotshield.com/
(Actually the other day an acquaintance was mentioning something that she said was better but I don't remember what it was)
To say that "people very high up within google" were responsible for the anti-gay marriage ads is a conspiracy theory at best. I don't think that google's corproate position is anti-gay marriage because of that any more than I think that they don't believe in evolution because I used to regularly get ads in gmail for that anti-evolution movie Ben Stein was in.
So they want us to watch these shows and then don't tell us what network they are on? That makes a lot of sense.
30 Rock is the only show on the list I watch or want to watch. I might watch Big Bang Theory or Gary Unmarried but you couldn't pay me to watch another show about a cop, doctor, or lawyer no matter how good or unique it is.
and by first, he means not the first. Thief: Deadly Shadows allowed you to see your body in the first person perspective as well.
I'm still looking forward to playing Mirror's Edge though.
How does this teach them anything? According to the story they were told that one of the kids was hit by a drunk driver not that the kid was himself drunk and got in a car accident. So what is the lesson being taught here? Not that you shouldn't drive drunk. No, it seems that the message being taught here is "you could be killed by a drunk driver at any time!" So rather than teaching them not to drink and drive they are teaching them to be paranoid and worried about things that they have no control over.
That's nice teachering there...
The version of Louie Louie by the Kingsmen is probably one of the most famous mistakes. The singer comes in too early on one of the verses says two syllables then stops.
It doesn't matter how nice smokers are, smoke still smells like ass. I can tell which students of mine are smokers when they walk into the classroom because if I'm within 5 feet of them they stink of smoke.
Smoke smells like ass. Whether or not it causes cancer I'm just glad I can come home from the bar without having to put my clothes in a plastic bag before I go to sleep so they won't make my house stink.
I am so sick of the 9/11 conspiracy people. There are much much better ways to spend your time and energy than daydreaming about some conspiracy. There are real injustices going on that the current administration gleefully admits to. Spend your time and energy on those things instead of trying to uncover some sort of vast conspiracy.
The saddest part was the end of each episode where you saw just how far Dennis Miller has slid. With his easy jokes and dated references it is just sad to see him doing such bad material. He's the new Chevy Chase.
His whole argument amounts to, "These damn kids these days! Why back when I was a kid..."
His definition of "community" is very narrow and posits without justification that the things that he values are the best.
I watched it twice. I saw sketches and bits about how funny sexual harassment and foreigners are and how ugly Hillary Clinton was.
With comedy gold like that, how did it fail???
I mean, like, everyone knows that protests don't change anything.
One of my proudest moments was back when the current war in iraq was just starting and someone in the college paper wrote a column basically saying the same thing about protests being ineffective.
My response? I just took the online copy of his column and search and replaced "protests" with "newspaper columns" and sent it off as a letter to the editor. They published it.
You know what? I'm a lot more concerned about the things the current administration ADMITS to doing than I am about some conspiracy.
Throwing American citizens in military brigs for years without charging them with any crime, wiretaping American citizens, torturing prisoners, ignoring congressional subpoena, no-bid contracts, unchecked spending, and an attorney general who must have a serious memory problem.
That's more than enough for me to be pissed about. I don't need to go looking for more.
wikipedia claims that Whirlpool makes most Kenmore things (Whirlpool bought Maytag) but the vacuums are made by Panasonic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmore_Appliances
standard wikipedia accuracy disclaimers apply
The October 2006 issue of Consumer Reports rats Uprights highest.
Their top rated Upright vacuums are
1. Kenmore Progressive with direct Drive 35922
2. Electrolux Oxygen3
3. Kenmore Progressive with direct Drive 36932
5 Hoover WindTunnel Bagless Self Propelled U6630-900
6 Dyson DC15 The Ball All Floors
canisters they recommend are by electrolus, 3 kenmore models a Bosch and a Sebo model.
So it looks like Consumer Reports is saying Kenmore are the best. I would have never guessed that.
The part about "the WMDs are in Syria!" and "The planes are in Iran!" had such a great conspiracy theory ring to them. I loved it.
However, it does remind me that whenever people have extreme views there will always be someone with more extreme and crazier views.
While listening to Media Matters which, despite the title, is typically about how the war in Iraq was wrong or how Bush sucks (both things that I agree with but find discussions of them like preaching to choir) they were taking phone calls and got a caller who was convinced that not only was Bush horrible but that the Franciscans were secretly in control. Then not two calls later they got a call from someone who was convinced that an alleged string of missing children in England was because the CIA was taking them.
Ahhh conspiracy theories. You got to love them.
Do you get viruses or spyware? If you are computer savvy enough not to get them then buy the cheapest windows machine you can find. Before you do that I would check out Ubuntu and since you have an older computer I would check out the Xubuntu variant which is especially aimed at using less resources and so better for older computers. I run Xubuntu off of a usb thumb drive on my office computer and it is more responsive than XP running off the hard drive. http://www.xubuntu.org/ download it and burn it to a cd (yes it is small enough to fit on a cd!) and try it as a live cd (reboot with the cd in the drive and it will run off the cd) so you can test it out. Running off of the cd is much slower than it is installed but it will give you an idea of whether or not it fits your needs.
posted by jccalhoun 15 years ago
In "Get clean coal clean! (NEW Air Freshener)."
At least this commercial effectively gets across the message that clean coal is a "lie" or that it doesn't work. The other one with the guy out in the middle of nowhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdHuB7Ovl2o gives the impression that this clean coal is so clean that it is invisible and has no impact on nature at all. Not the best way to get across your message.
posted by jccalhoun 15 years ago
In "Curious I'm-not-a-hacker George."
All the people I know who aren't in the USA but want to watch USA shows on websites use hotspot shield http://hotspotshield.com/ (Actually the other day an acquaintance was mentioning something that she said was better but I don't remember what it was)
posted by jccalhoun 15 years ago
In "Google has a new year's present for Mac users."
To say that "people very high up within google" were responsible for the anti-gay marriage ads is a conspiracy theory at best. I don't think that google's corproate position is anti-gay marriage because of that any more than I think that they don't believe in evolution because I used to regularly get ads in gmail for that anti-evolution movie Ben Stein was in.
posted by jccalhoun 15 years ago
In "The 10 best US tv shows you're not watching."
So they want us to watch these shows and then don't tell us what network they are on? That makes a lot of sense. 30 Rock is the only show on the list I watch or want to watch. I might watch Big Bang Theory or Gary Unmarried but you couldn't pay me to watch another show about a cop, doctor, or lawyer no matter how good or unique it is.
posted by jccalhoun 15 years ago
In "Victory in Vomit:"
and by first, he means not the first. Thief: Deadly Shadows allowed you to see your body in the first person perspective as well. I'm still looking forward to playing Mirror's Edge though.
posted by jccalhoun 16 years ago
In "There's a model shortage in New York."
How does this teach them anything? According to the story they were told that one of the kids was hit by a drunk driver not that the kid was himself drunk and got in a car accident. So what is the lesson being taught here? Not that you shouldn't drive drunk. No, it seems that the message being taught here is "you could be killed by a drunk driver at any time!" So rather than teaching them not to drink and drive they are teaching them to be paranoid and worried about things that they have no control over. That's nice teachering there...
posted by jccalhoun 16 years ago
In "10 recording bloopers that made the album."
The version of Louie Louie by the Kingsmen is probably one of the most famous mistakes. The singer comes in too early on one of the verses says two syllables then stops.
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
In "The smoking ban will not last forever"
It doesn't matter how nice smokers are, smoke still smells like ass. I can tell which students of mine are smokers when they walk into the classroom because if I'm within 5 feet of them they stink of smoke.
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
Smoke smells like ass. Whether or not it causes cancer I'm just glad I can come home from the bar without having to put my clothes in a plastic bag before I go to sleep so they won't make my house stink.
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
In " Robert Fisk: Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11"
I am so sick of the 9/11 conspiracy people. There are much much better ways to spend your time and energy than daydreaming about some conspiracy. There are real injustices going on that the current administration gleefully admits to. Spend your time and energy on those things instead of trying to uncover some sort of vast conspiracy.
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
In "Richard Dawkins Proved Wrong:"
The saddest part was the end of each episode where you saw just how far Dennis Miller has slid. With his easy jokes and dated references it is just sad to see him doing such bad material. He's the new Chevy Chase.
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
In "The downside of diversity."
His whole argument amounts to, "These damn kids these days! Why back when I was a kid..." His definition of "community" is very narrow and posits without justification that the things that he values are the best.
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
In "Richard Dawkins Proved Wrong:"
I watched it twice. I saw sketches and bits about how funny sexual harassment and foreigners are and how ugly Hillary Clinton was. With comedy gold like that, how did it fail???
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
In "The Exciting World of South Korean Protests"
I mean, like, everyone knows that protests don't change anything. One of my proudest moments was back when the current war in iraq was just starting and someone in the college paper wrote a column basically saying the same thing about protests being ineffective. My response? I just took the online copy of his column and search and replaced "protests" with "newspaper columns" and sent it off as a letter to the editor. They published it.
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
In "Intel, improving your efficiency through racism?"
Intel has issued an apology for the ad.
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
In "CBS Reported Flight 93 Crashed Into Camp David."
You know what? I'm a lot more concerned about the things the current administration ADMITS to doing than I am about some conspiracy. Throwing American citizens in military brigs for years without charging them with any crime, wiretaping American citizens, torturing prisoners, ignoring congressional subpoena, no-bid contracts, unchecked spending, and an attorney general who must have a serious memory problem. That's more than enough for me to be pissed about. I don't need to go looking for more.
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
In "Curious George: Sucking it up"
wikipedia claims that Whirlpool makes most Kenmore things (Whirlpool bought Maytag) but the vacuums are made by Panasonic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmore_Appliances standard wikipedia accuracy disclaimers apply
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
The October 2006 issue of Consumer Reports rats Uprights highest. Their top rated Upright vacuums are 1. Kenmore Progressive with direct Drive 35922 2. Electrolux Oxygen3 3. Kenmore Progressive with direct Drive 36932 5 Hoover WindTunnel Bagless Self Propelled U6630-900 6 Dyson DC15 The Ball All Floors canisters they recommend are by electrolus, 3 kenmore models a Bosch and a Sebo model. So it looks like Consumer Reports is saying Kenmore are the best. I would have never guessed that.
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
In "Get these motherfucking neocons off this motherfucking boat!"
The part about "the WMDs are in Syria!" and "The planes are in Iran!" had such a great conspiracy theory ring to them. I loved it. However, it does remind me that whenever people have extreme views there will always be someone with more extreme and crazier views. While listening to Media Matters which, despite the title, is typically about how the war in Iraq was wrong or how Bush sucks (both things that I agree with but find discussions of them like preaching to choir) they were taking phone calls and got a caller who was convinced that not only was Bush horrible but that the Franciscans were secretly in control. Then not two calls later they got a call from someone who was convinced that an alleged string of missing children in England was because the CIA was taking them. Ahhh conspiracy theories. You got to love them.
posted by jccalhoun 17 years ago
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