This was over ten years ago ... 15/20 years ago it was a real pain to try to get a copy of Windows and a key ... it was relatively easy to do if you lived in a big city (I used to deal with a computer guy in Hamilton, Ontario and he had memorized three Windows keys that he just kept reusing) ... the problem was in maintaining systems, updating them and in the changes, it kept messing with your setup and eventually triggering the system that it was an illegal key. Then you had to either disconnect from the internet, find a way around it or find a new key. I don't live near a big city and we didn't have easy access to the internet or forums or groups back then so it was frustrating to keep finding the latest ways to get a cracked copy, institution copy, company copy or hack to keep your system running. I don't work for a big company, don't have access to a school or institution so it was always difficult.
I used to get so frustrated with it all that eventually it was just easier to buy a copy rather than do anything else. Saying all that, I think I only ever bought four Windows OS over the years anyway. And before I learned about Linux and Open Source software, I was the same as most unaware people and just bought the software titles I thought I needed .... plus the security software! ... I remember I maintained a copy of Norton Antivirus for years before I realized it was literally turning my system into molasses.
Yeah ..... I don't think America will be doing anything until the stacked rows of body bags reaches about four high .... and even then, the decisions they'll make will be to save the economy first than in human lives
How embarrassing is it though ... to go through all that training and indoctrinating and messaging of 'sacrificing yourself for your country' ... only to be addressed by an orange idiot who went out of his way to avoid the things you are being trained and taught to do.
This is one of the many reasons why I dumped Windows and moved onto to Linux about ten years ago. I don't have that much money and back then I constantly budgeted what I had to pay for .... I wasn't going to spend hundreds on Windows, then hundreds more on subscriptions for things I could get for free in the Open Source Software realm where viruses and security were almost nonexistant. As soon as I dumped Windows, I no longer had to pay for the OS, the office suite, the image editor or the security software. I've saved so much money over the years.
If she can survive a Russian monarchy, a Russian revolution, the First World War, the Second World war and Nazi invasion, Russian Communist Authoritarianism, forced relocation to Siberia, Soviet government control, the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian oligarchs and modern day Social Media ..... I think we can survive what is happening today.
I will always find it hilarious that the US military accepts any kind of speech or presentation from someone who actively didn't want to join the armed forces and avoided being drafted when so many other people from his generation had no choice.
Under the age of about 20 you enjoy the sex appeal of Star Trek
But beyond that you enjoy it for the scifi .... because if you want sex ... there's like 10 billion hours of free porn online .... and before the internet, you could fill the ancient halls of the library of Alexandria ten times over with the amount of porn mags that were available back then.
Good marbling on that steak .... what species is it?
Don't forget to season and marinate it with Romulan spices and barbecue it next to the warp core for 0.00000003 seconds at 14,000 degrees, flip and leave it for another 0.00000003 seconds.
This was over ten years ago ... 15/20 years ago it was a real pain to try to get a copy of Windows and a key ... it was relatively easy to do if you lived in a big city (I used to deal with a computer guy in Hamilton, Ontario and he had memorized three Windows keys that he just kept reusing) ... the problem was in maintaining systems, updating them and in the changes, it kept messing with your setup and eventually triggering the system that it was an illegal key. Then you had to either disconnect from the internet, find a way around it or find a new key. I don't live near a big city and we didn't have easy access to the internet or forums or groups back then so it was frustrating to keep finding the latest ways to get a cracked copy, institution copy, company copy or hack to keep your system running. I don't work for a big company, don't have access to a school or institution so it was always difficult.
I used to get so frustrated with it all that eventually it was just easier to buy a copy rather than do anything else. Saying all that, I think I only ever bought four Windows OS over the years anyway. And before I learned about Linux and Open Source software, I was the same as most unaware people and just bought the software titles I thought I needed .... plus the security software! ... I remember I maintained a copy of Norton Antivirus for years before I realized it was literally turning my system into molasses.