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Columbia Pictures as well. That may have been a mistake, see HERE

Why exactly would this be modded "Funny"? Peak Oil is terribly serious, and our lives will depend on how we get energy in the very near future. A bit of reading on the subject.

Since the dawn of the Automobile Revolution, automobile marques have been proactive in their approach to appeal to certain segments of society. By targeting these groups, automakers would find a much higher loyalty rate in an increasingly unloyal industry. Even today this tradition continues, with companies such as Toyota appealing to the youth market with its Scion brand, BMW and Mercedes appealing to the affluent market, Buick appealing to the understated senior market, and Subaru and Volvo appealing to the aging hippy market. One demographic spoken for by a large multinational automaker that often raises a bit of controversy, however, is the gay and lesbian market. It is within these confines that Honda finds its must staunch loyalists.

The connection stems much further than their not-so-subtle "H" logo. Since the inception of Honda by founder Kilimanjaro Honda in Tokyo, Japan in 1948, Honda has had a long line of successful industry firsts. Honda's first products imported to the United States were motorcycles capable of producing almost twice as much horsepower as their American brethren. Sold out of a small shop in San Francisco, their demographic was clear. From day one, Honda coined the term "Crotch Rocket" to target the gay and lesbian community. It wasn't long before Honda had made its first inroads in gaining market share in the vital west coast community.

While commercially successful, Honda didn't wish to fight a one-front war against Christians. In 1962, Honda started producing the HX100, their first entry into the area of gas powered lawn mowers. This allowed residents to show off their sexual preference to neighbors when not commuting. The new market, however, was something Honda was not experienced in, and proved to be initially unsuccessful. Honda faced several lawsuits alleging their lawnmowers oxidized almost instantly when mowing over damp grass.

It wasn't before long that founder Honda realized that the next battle would have to be fought in the ever-expanding industry of automobiles. In 1972, Honda began offering the United States its first car, the Honda Civic. While industry brass wanted to call it the "Civic Lesson," for the lesson it was trying to teach regarding the homosexual agenda, "Lesson" was eventually dropped from the title before release. Honda's experience in the lawn equipment market proved beneficial in their foray into automobiles, as the first generation of Civic Lessons were powered by their 49cc lawnmower engines producing a then-respectable 20 horsepower.

The response from the homosexual community was very positive, and sales of Civic Lessons matched other popular rivals in the west coast market from Toyota and AMC. Initial figures had pinned sales at achieving a 53% homosexual rate of buyers of Civic Lessons, a figure that has yet to be beat. The Civic Lesson proved to be a remarkable car for the homosexual market, as these families did not have any children and thus did not need room for a back seat. Honda foresaw new potential, however, with gay and lesbian

I think MMOGs short-circuit something very, very important. As human beings, we have mechanisms that keep us from stagnating. If we sit in one spot for hours on end, we get bored. But MMOGs are a behaviorist's wet dream, providing a complex system of goals, rewards, whatever it takes to keep the player online for as long as possible. Some people can do this and not fuck up their lives. some cannot.

A friend of a friend who got hooked on Everquest wound up losing custody of her child (under six years old, I think) because she couldn't be bothered to take care of of it---the game was more important. That frightens me.

If we don't get human contact, we die. Literally, we die. (Look at prisoners kept in solitary confinement for months or years in the early days of prisons---their bodily needs are taken care of, but they lose the will to live.) Well, some people can become hermits, but most people can't.

If we didn't go to such lengths to short-circuit these mechanisms---like boredom---the Hikikomori would have to leave their rooms. It's a dead end, and it's self-destructive.

And that's why, despite enjoying Warcraft III immensely, I will never touch World of Warcraft.

You must live in a Blue State, which pays more in taxes than it receives. Not a Red State, which gets that spending surplus at the expense of the Blue States. Or perhaps California Blue County. Or maybe you live in a Red County, which is why you're whining about paying taxes to support the government that protects and enables your wealth, instead of those poor people who get so little benefit from it. Oh, it's their fault they're poor - education and birth have nothing to do with the relative level of opportunities in this country. BTW, what did you spend your tax rebate on? Job-creating stocks in the market, or more gas for your SUV? Which was made by poor people, the oil for which gas was secured by poor people.

No wonder you posted Anonymously. You know how expensive it is to keep your kind of class war masked, and how just furious you'd make Muffy if someone noticed your privilege showing.

What pisses me off the most is how people like you are ruining the possibility of a national sales tax, to replace the ridiculously rigged income tax. Which would give us a chance to protect minimum survival expenses from taxation, while getting corporations and rich people like you and I to pay our share of the government that serves us. Instead of pounding poor people so hard that they become completely ungovernable, and take more than the little bit bled off for them today.

Make up your mind.

Do you want activist judges or do you want judges who follow the law?

You don't like the Kelo case - you shouldn't. But the remedy is not at the federal court level; there's no case law or precedent to support it.

Most states already prohibit these kind of takings - you know, the kind of taking of private land that made Bush millions of bucks when it was done in Texas. The rest of the states should follow suit, but it would be legislating from the bench if the Supremes would have done it..

I just came back form a 3 week vacation in Shanghai. From my Holiday Inn hotel room I was able to access Slashdot, google mail, yahoo mail and cox mail but was not able to access MarshallBrain's main blog http://marshallbrain.blogspot.com/ nor his SadTech Blog http://sadtech.blogspot.com/. I was glad to be able to keep up with my e-mail and the state of technology when I was on vacation.

I just came back form a 3 week vacation in Shanghai. From my Holiday Inn hotel room I was able to access Slashdot, google mail, yahoo mail and cox mail but was not able to access MarshallBrain's main blog http://marshallbrain.blogspot.com/ nor his SadTech Blog http://sadtech.blogspot.com/. I was glad to be able to keep up with my e-mail and the state of technology when I was on vacation.

He was wrong about "The cathedral and the bazaar" as well.

--Tylor

I've written a small thing on this very subject actually, a coupel of weeks back.
I've always wondered why it is that people write as poorly as they do, when it comes to writing online.
My guess is that it's because they want to express themselves in the same way, and at the same speed as they would if they were talking to you. This, of course, mostly applies to emails and IMs and irc and such.
I know I'm not a great speller, but I do tend to get my grammar correctly. Also, what my brain doesn't catch, the spellchecker usually does.

Reading many of the responses to this question has made my day - so much so that despite it being so late in the discussion I'm going to past a response anyway!

For many years now I have been on this very bandwagon - trying to improve the use of the English language as much as I possibly can for two distinct reasons.

Firstly, and most importantly for me, I am dyslexic and so have trouble with language even when used correctly. If, however, language is used incorrectly then it becomes that much more difficult to read and understand.

Secondly, the misuse of language can be harmful. Take for instance the word "paranoid" often used in ways much like "I'm paranoid my head is going to explode!" or "I'm paranoid I've got bowel cancer" or similar, when what is really meant is I'm scared, worried, frightened, fearful, terrified, anxious or otherwise afraid. If, then, a person goes to a doctor complaining of paranoia - what do they really mean? How do you treat that individual? Although perhaps a poor example it demonstrates my point and I'm sure more quick minded people than I can come up with more serious examples.

Those are the main reasons I continue my crusade for better use of language, but let us not forget language is also an art form when used correctly. Bastardising language detracts from that beauty, which is a loss to us all.

Of course I make many mistakes myself, I am only human after all, but I encourage people to pick me up on them whenever I make them so I can continue to learn and improve my own use of language.

One further thing to note is that often words are spelt more like they sound than people think - the problem, in my uneducated view, is two fold, one of laziness on the part of the speaker (a problem we all succumb to at some time or other) and the other is the lack of the ear of the listener to pick up nuances in the sounds that can make all the difference (not a disability in any way but rather an indication of sounds not registered as important during early childhood - as can be shown by the oriental difficulty of distinguishing between the 'l' and 'r' sounds of the English language). However, these issues are to some extent the drive of language evolution - and without them we may have less rich language now.

Finally anyone with trouble with spelling and/or grammar may be well advised to use their favourite word processing package to write all their post, notes, comments, etc. At least that way you can be fairly certain you're correctly representing your thoughts and ideas!

My blog post on this very issue.

KoA

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Jython has been stable for years now, and is a much better-designed language than groovy appears likely to become. Where'sthe love?

Which is sad, because as much as PHP sucks, J2EE solutions suck just as badly in different ways. (That's another article.)

The Americans got there first, long before us British created the Jedi religion to anoy the cenus beuro they were experimenting with ESP, atral projection and 'force choaking' goats.

Oh.... and trying to walk thorugh walls.

Classic.

More here: http://c0dingm0nk3y.blogspot.com/2004/11/revenge-o f-jedi-goat.html

Their idea of geocoding doesn't integrate well with their map interface yet. Geocoding, for Google, is a part of search, and if you search, you have to geocode against Page Rank and the bounding box of the map you're looking at ... and this doesn't work right at all. It currently always gives strange results.

They put the satellite views in! That lets everyone inject a bit of reality into their web pages. This API is so simple ... soon little maps & satellite images, with GIS overlays, will be dripping from every website.

"Take for instance the Siebel database. Now I've never used that interface. But I'd love to go to it and say 'who is the account manager for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia?'," Ballmer told the partners.

I can say one thing for sure. He's DEFINITELY never used the Siebel interface! ;-)

This article honestly sounds like Ballmer was getting a bit beat up by Microsoft's partners and shareholders. They've basically gotten him to admit that .NET is .NOT, Microsoft can't even search its own desktop (Quote: "It's important for people who search a corporate network,"), and that SQL Server development has ground to a halt (ceding victory to Oracle). He then goes on to make a set of pathetic promises ("In the next six months, we'll catch Google in terms of relevancy," and, 'This may be addressed in the next release [of SQL Server] in 18 months, Ballmer said, but conceded he "really didn't know",' and, "Government has really been pushing for stronger interoperability. We can't support open source, but we can support interoperability,") and say that Microsoft will never give up the fight.

I'm sorry, but Ballmer has effectively admitted that Microsoft is now irrelevent. He's trying to grip at pavement by muttering about interop and standards compliance. This is an amazingly similar situation to the introduction of Netscape Navigator. Microsoft almost missed the boat then, but managed to throw enough resources, money, and outright theft behind capturing the browser market. Microsoft's best attempts today only come out as a pathetic whimper. No super-search engine, no desktop search, nothing. If Ballmer was smart, he'd get his boys to activate the existing Databasse File System in NTFS, then use it to push Google and Apple away from the Desktop. Once solid in that area, they should tie it into their online search engine, thus using their desktop monopoly against their competitors.

On the bright side, I am quite glad that Microsoft isn't that good anymore. At the very least, they have to watch where they step with the justice department looking over their shoulders. :-)

I am no fan of trivial patents, particularly things like one-click shopping, but I am confident that the work the patent descibes is non-trivially inventive.

Personally, I would be pretty interested in prior art. I sure tried to find it then, because I just wanted to generate really good recommendations -- I did not set out to reinvent the wheel.

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu / blog / pics

Specifically, CBR assumes a symbolic rich representation of prior cases, and a pre-built distance function for measuring the similarity of the current situation to prior cases.

Most of the AI in CBR is in 1) choosing the right representation, and 2) coming up with the right similarity metric.

In the technique that Linden et al have patented, they make no assumption about a representationally rich framework for describing events -- in other words, they didn't have to spend months coming up with the right representation of the data. Also, and more importantly, they probably did not pre-build a similarity metric to match against prior cases. Instead, they applied statistical techniques to come up with the right similarity metric.

There are likely other differences -- I don't think CBR circa 1999 was applied to commercial transaction data in order to generate sales recommendations. B

The nearest I know of is that both CBR and Memory Based Reasoning likely were tried by other companies to do credit card fraud detection, which itself is a transactional problem involving large amounts of data. Still, that's pretty far from "I see you're buying a Sony plasma TV, would you also like to buy a Denon DVD player?"

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu / blog / pics

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu / blog / pics

At the time the patent was filed, it was extremely uncommon for systems to make automatic recommendations based solely on the behavior of users. When I did my work at Alexa Internet (which was acquired by Amazon) in the late 90s, I had to solve a number of issues which had not been dealt with, both from an engineering perspective and from a quality of results perspective -- few companies, and no academic researchers that I am aware of -- had both the amount of data and the technical talent required to process it in order to test and refine recommendation systems based on transactional information.

My work in this area became Amazon's "customers who shopped for X also shopped for Y feature." Greg Linden, the first name on this patent, is now doing interesting recommendation work with his site Findory.

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu / blog / pics.

I've watched the pilot. Clever, but the first half _sucks_. Uses pretty much every cliche in the book.

Clichés are clichés for a reason. They work because they meet the viewers' expectations.

I assume you're talking about the setup for the show, where we get the "what is the Global Frequency" talk, the introduction of the "new guy" into the world of the series, etc.

I'm curious how you would handle the following:

1. Introducing your principal cast of characters
2. Introducing the viewer to the premise of the show, e.g. the Global Frequency is a borderline-outlaw network of specialists and operatives that tackle Things Man Was Not Meant To Know
3. Establishing the plot of the story for the pilot
4. Establishing the elements that viewers can expect from the show: a rotating cast of characters, weird science, "black ops" action, and the Global Frequency effect

without ending up with either the pilot we got or having something like this at the beginning of the show?

By the way, this wasn't the final pilot; the GF ringtone was only a placeholder, and the music wasn't finished either. It was a version that was shopped around to networks, which would have been finished had they been picked up. John Rogers, the producer, said he would've reshot elements of the pilot they been picked up, particulaly the opening scene in the alley.

Jay (=

Well, I guess Slashdot already have a quite complete coverage of Google stuff, but if you wan't to beat the rush for some hours I recommend the Google Blog (with RSS)

If you're a PokerStars player, search for user "WilWheaton" and maybe we can play together I like to play the 10 +1 MTT SNGs. If I have the time and bankroll, and enough people are interested, I may try to put together a weekly geek/blogger 20+2 tournament.

If you're a PokerStars player, search for user "WilWheaton" and maybe we can play together I like to play the 10 +1 MTT SNGs. If I have the time and bankroll, and enough people are interested, I may try to put together a weekly geek/blogger 20+2 tournament.

If you're a PokerStars player, search for user "WilWheaton" and maybe we can play together I like to play the 10 +1 MTT SNGs. If I have the time and bankroll, and enough people are interested, I may try to put together a weekly geek/blogger 20+2 tournament.

1. Coerce customers and suppliers
2. Drive all competitors under
3. Inflate prices due to monopoly power
4. Create vast hoardes of minimum-wage slaves
5. ???
6. Profit
7. Take over planet

404 Not Found. Way to go! You found one very effective way to take down spam blogs: Slashdot 'em!

Still, I wish I could have studied that page for comparison. I found http://bobthebuilder123.blogspot.com/ one day in my blog referrer logs. I wondered why people interested in Bob the Builder had linked to me. They hadn't. The whole page is nothing but spam - all posted on one sunny day this month. If you can help me see what gonorrhea has to do with Bob the Builder I'd be very much obliged.

At any rate, I'd pointed this site out to blogger.com but would like to know what was different with the page you linked to from "Bob's" page because it's still up. Interesting side note, though. With the changes Google made to their page ranking system recently these stupid blogs may fade away. I can't find http://bobthebuilder123.blogspot.com/ in Google. No page ranking, no purpose for existing.

404 Not Found. Way to go! You found one very effective way to take down spam blogs: Slashdot 'em!

Still, I wish I could have studied that page for comparison. I found http://bobthebuilder123.blogspot.com/ one day in my blog referrer logs. I wondered why people interested in Bob the Builder had linked to me. They hadn't. The whole page is nothing but spam - all posted on one sunny day this month. If you can help me see what gonorrhea has to do with Bob the Builder I'd be very much obliged.

At any rate, I'd pointed this site out to blogger.com but would like to know what was different with the page you linked to from "Bob's" page because it's still up. Interesting side note, though. With the changes Google made to their page ranking system recently these stupid blogs may fade away. I can't find http://bobthebuilder123.blogspot.com/ in Google. No page ranking, no purpose for existing.

I have been coding webpages since March of 1995. I have learned HTML 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and now CSS1.0 and CSS2.0 and... As exciting as all that can be sometimes I just want to post my thoughts and be done with it. There's nothing wrong with efficiency. Blog sites can be great time savers. I used to have a web journal, wrote entries in my Palm Pilot, hotsynced the data to my Mac and ftp'd it onto my server using Applescript - all the while snorting at all the newbies using blog sites. Then I decided I valued my time better. I opened up a blog in January of this year (http://thesplinteredmind.blogspot.com/ and have had a blast. I post once a week.

Now, my blog isn't going to be popular. I cover mostly neurological problems and how to deal with them. But I've had some fascinating discussions with complete strangers because of my blog and I'll continue blogging into the forseeable future. Because of Google many people find my blog despite it being a small fish in a big and noisy blog sea. Google is a great tool and I'm glad they index blogs. Now, I'm as upset as the next guy about spam blogs, but "crap" blogs are relative. You may read my blog and find it lame. Others, including myself, would disagree with you. But if you don't find the subjects I write about interesting or valuable, so what?

Slashdot cracks me up sometimes. What is it to some of you guys if somebody wants to blather on and on about their breakfast or their boyfriend? If the site is a bore move on, but you could tell that from the Google search, right? Seriously, I haven't found many blogs that come up in my searches that aren't related to my searches. Not as much as parked domain sites and adsense whores at any rate.

Not all bloggers can't be bothered to code a web page. In fact, because I do code I'm able to personalize my site. Every month I tinker and tinker with the code when I find some time. Blogging may be an exercize in vanity, but then so isn't hosting your own website. In fact, the whole web publishing scene is about personal expression, and what's wrong with that?

If you have a few minutes, click on the randomizer button at the top of the screen that reads "Next Blog" a couple of times. I'd be willing to say that at least 2 out of every 10 blogs is a spam farm.

It's just fucking sad.

...(not to mention that burning (e.g. oxydizing) hydrogen creates water vapor, which is a far more efficient greenhouse gas than CO2)...

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=142

Water vapour: feedback or forcing?

Whenever three or more contrarians are gathered together, one will inevitably claim that water vapour is being unjustly neglected by 'IPCC' scientists. "Why isn't water vapour acknowledged as a greenhouse gas?", "Why does anyone even care about the other greenhouse gases since water vapour is 98% of the effect?", "Why isn't water vapour included in climate models?", "Why isn't included on the forcings bar charts?" etc. Any mainstream scientist present will trot out the standard response that water vapour is indeed an important greenhouse gas, it is included in all climate models, but it is a feedback and not a forcing. From personal experience, I am aware that these distinctions are not clear to many, and so here is a more in-depth response...

...
While water vapour is indeed the most important greenhouse gas, the issue that makes it a feedback (rather than a forcing) is the relatively short residence time for water in the atmosphere (around 10 days).


http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2005/01/water-vapour- is-not-dominant.html
...
Water vapour is a "reactive" GHG with a short atmospheric lifetime of about 1 week. If you pump out a whole load of extra water vapour it won't stay in the atmosphere; it would condense as rain/snow and we'd be back to where we started. If you sucked the atmosphere dry of moisture, more would evaporate from the oceans. The balance is dynamic of course: humidity of the air varies by place and time, but its a stable balance.

In contrast, CO2 has a long lifetime (actually calculating a single "lifetime" for it doesn't work; but a given CO2 pulse such as we're supplying now will hang around for.. ohh... a century or more). It doesn't rain out (amusing factoid: the surface temperature of the deep interior Antarctica in winter can be colder than the freezing point of CO2; but this doesn't lead to CO2 snow (sadly, it would be fun) because the freezing point is lower because of the lower pressure because its higher up). So if you put in extra CO2 the climate warms a bit; because of this move WV evaporates (it doesn't have to, but just about all models show that the relative humidity tends to be about constant; so if you heat the atmos that means that the absolute humidity will increase). This in turn warms the atmosphere warms up a bit more; so more water gets evaporates. This is a positive feedback but a limited one: the increments (if you think of it that way) get smaller not larger so there is no runaway GH effect.

So: adding CO2 to the atmosphere warms it a bit and ends up with more WV. Adding WV does nothing much and the atmos returns to equilibrium. This is why WV is not the *dominant* GHG; its more like a submissive GHG :-)

Sheep with human brains and other organs.
or
Google Search
- The glow from the firefly has been inserted into tobacco plants making them glow in the dark.
or Google Search
- A human embryo cloned using a cell from a man's leg and a cow's ovum lived and developed for twelve days until it was terminated.
or Google Search
- Goats bred with a spider gene produce milk which is processed to make "BioSteel".. The US military has set up their own goat farm to make bulletproof vests, aerospace and medical supplies.
or Google Search
- Extended Life Spans
or Google Search

This is not just a turning point in history. It's also the fulcrum upon which technology balances our very evolution. ted

Check out this site for some information about the guy behind DVForge.

Executive summary: seems fishy.

Right now, in south central Alaska, it is 50 degrees outside. It was in the 80's earlier. I have worked on projects all over Alaska, and it gets hot and humid in the Brooks Range and Fairbanks areas, then drops to -40 for weeks at a time in the winter. Other areas are milder, but humid. I read that Anchorage is one of the sweatiest areas of the U.S., and I'm glad I don't live there. But it is Bikini season here, a ways north.

As for the 'self-sufficient oil', most of our oil is sent to the small states, and we supply 25% of the U.S. oil consumption. OTOH, we have vast supplies of untapped gas, coal, and radioactive materials.

And 'physical security'? Better look at a map. Alaska is not a small island off the coast of California. It's the air crossroads of the world, and within spitting distance of Siberia. It is the only part of the U.S. to be occupied by enemy forces during WWII. Of course, everyones grandma has a gun, and knows how to use it. And we have the greatest concentration of veterans of all the states. I pity the fool who attacks Alaska.

KoA

Navy to Test Shape Shifting Catamaran in Alaska

this important news story: http://donkeymoshiach.blogspot.com/2005/06/diamond s-of-redemption.html was censored by the Iranians.:-)

As previously posted on my blog: http://flap-jack.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]

Contains material from the book "Practical Bootiatrics and Applied Cosmoproctology: Train Your Own Butt-Bitch and Save!" by Dr. C. Moore Buttz.

** ** **

First let me correct some stupid shit that people think about being a booty girl.

1) A booty girl is a fat girl, especially a girl with a big ass.
2) A booty girl is a girl that likes to be fucked in the ass.

#1 is wrong, wrong, wrong. Like the damn song says, you don't have to be fat but it don't hurt. Fuckin' Axe Murderer leavin out the most important part.

#2 is more complicated. Liking to be fucked in the ass comes later. It's a side effect. The main thing, what makes her a booty girl to begin with, is being obsessed with her own ass, which is really the same thing as being obsessed only with herself and not giving a fuck about anybody else.

After that, there are three stages.

ONE

Stage one, she's just bitchy and anal-retentive acting as a result of her ass-centeredness (self-centeredness). This all goes hand in hand and is really all the same thing. Two more things happen as a result of this.

One, she physically becomes constipated as a result of keeping her ass so tight all the time. This is literally what 'anal retentive' means. Sooner or later this leads to the need for invasive medical procedures.

Secondly, it affects her relationships and makes it ever more likely that someone will want to fuck her in the ass as punishment for being such a bitch.

However, being in Stage One means that she doesn't dare allow either of these things to happen. This is because her anus is her ego, which she can't allow anyone to touch or threaten.

If you have a girlfriend who freaks out anytime you so much as start to stick your finger in her ass, you my friend have a stage one booty girl on your hands.

TWO

A Stage Two booty girl likes being fucked in the ass. She really does. It gets her off, or at least helps get her off. She will not admit it, not even to her best friend, unless she is very, very drunk and stoned. She will not even admit it to you, the one who does the assfucking. She will not talk about it, she will not ask for it. But when you do it, she likes it. Unlike a Stage One, she will let you enter her anus and not threaten to sue your ass for trying.

You might ask how you can tell the different between a Stage Two and a girl who isn't a booty girl at all and who just doesn't give a fuck if you fuck her in the ass or not. Such a girl, you might as well be back humping your pillow like when you were 12. But how much of a fucking dumbass are you? How fucking clueless are you about the needs of the woman you are fucking? Can't you tell when a bitch is faking an orgasm? Do I have to go all Seinfeld on your ass?

The best part about a Stage Two is precisely that she doesn't talk about it. She keeps that shit a secret, because she's still a little bit ashamed of it. One advantage is this makes her much less likely to let anybody else but you have her anally while you are dating her, since she wants to keep the secret shame of the fact that she likes being a butt-bitch known to as few people as possible. If there were some way for you to fuck her in the ass and *you* not know about it, that's what she'd probably prefer. But you know, and she knows. You've been there. You've been to the dark hidden place where no one else can go, even if she cheats on you and lets somebody fuck her in the cunt or in the mouth.

So how did she get to Stage Two to begin with? If you figured out last time that you have a Stage One, how do you move her to place where you can enjoy her sweet, sweet, behind? The answer to that question is simple. She gets to Stage Two by means of having her ass penetrated. On multiple separate occasions. As many times as it takes for her to realize that she likes it.

"But Flapjack", I hea

A better link with more detailed history is here

One should read here:

The True History Of Jack Campbell and MacMice/DVForge: A Lie Each Week

I have been unbiasly advocating against this guy for 3 years now. His scams, lies, and illegal activity is corroding the entire 3rd party Apple peripheral industry. He is costing companies such as Griffin and DLO nightmarish litigation and security concerns.

He breaks dozens of Apple trademark naming rules.

I applaud DLO's actions - they are the first of MANY that are about to really sock it to him from the buzz I have been collecting on my BLOG.

The ONLY reason no one (including Apple) has taken action so far - he has been relatively insignificant and is so deep in debt that if sued - would be a waste of effort.

As previously posted on my blog: http://flap-jack.blogspot.com/

Contains material from the book "Practical Bootiatrics and Applied Cosmoproctology: Train Your Own Butt-Bitch and Save!" by Dr. C. Moore Buttz.

** ** **

First let me correct some stupid shit that people think about being a booty girl.

1) A booty girl is a fat girl, especially a girl with a big ass.
2) A booty girl is a girl that likes to be fucked in the ass.

#1 is wrong, wrong, wrong. Like the damn song says, you don't have to be fat but it don't hurt. Fuckin' Axe Murderer leavin out the most important part.

#2 is more complicated. Liking to be fucked in the ass comes later. It's a side effect. The main thing, what makes her a booty girl to begin with, is being obsessed with her own ass, which is really the same thing as being obsessed only with herself and not giving a fuck about anybody else.

After that, there are three stages.

ONE

Stage one, she's just bitchy and anal-retentive acting as a result of her ass-centeredness (self-centeredness). This all goes hand in hand and is really all the same thing. Two more things happen as a result of this.

One, she physically becomes constipated as a result of keeping her ass so tight all the time. This is literally what 'anal retentive' means. Sooner or later this leads to the need for invasive medical procedures.

Secondly, it affects her relationships and makes it ever more likely that someone will want to fuck her in the ass as punishment for being such a bitch.

However, being in Stage One means that she doesn't dare allow either of these things to happen. This is because her anus is her ego, which she can't allow anyone to touch or threaten.

If you have a girlfriend who freaks out anytime you so much as start to stick your finger in her ass, you my friend have a stage one booty girl on your hands.

TWO

A Stage Two booty girl likes being fucked in the ass. She really does. It gets her off, or at least helps get her off. She will not admit it, not even to her best friend, unless she is very, very drunk and stoned. She will not even admit it to you, the one who does the assfucking. She will not talk about it, she will not ask for it. But when you do it, she likes it. Unlike a Stage One, she will let you enter her anus and not threaten to sue your ass for trying.

You might ask how you can tell the different between a Stage Two and a girl who isn't a booty girl at all and who just doesn't give a fuck if you fuck her in the ass or not. Such a girl, you might as well be back humping your pillow like when you were 12. But how much of a fucking dumbass are you? How fucking clueless are you about the needs of the woman you are fucking? Can't you tell when a bitch is faking an orgasm? Do I have to go all Seinfeld on your ass?

The best part about a Stage Two is precisely that she doesn't talk about it. She keeps that shit a secret, because she's still a little bit ashamed of it. One advantage is this makes her much less likely to let anybody else but you have her anally while you are dating her, since she wants to keep the secret shame of the fact that she likes being a butt-bitch known to as few people as possible. If there were some way for you to fuck her in the ass and *you* not know about it, that's what she'd probably prefer. But you know, and she knows. You've been there. You've been to the dark hidden place where no one else can go, even if she cheats on you and lets somebody fuck her in the cunt or in the mouth.

So how did she get to Stage Two to begin with? If you figured out last time that you have a Stage One, how do you move her to place where you can enjoy her sweet, sweet, behind? The answer to that question is simple. She gets to Stage Two by means of having her ass penetrated. On multiple separate occasions. As many times as it takes for her to realize that she likes it.

"But Flapjack", I hear you whining,

That'd work really well for the pictures, but what about the videos?

Flip books!

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu / pics / blog

The Year of the Linux Desktop: 2003
2004: The Year of the Linux Desktop?
2004 Won't Be the Year of the Linux Desktop
2005 Will Be the Year of the Linux Desktop

Because KDE suffers from featuritis?

Because KDE has a better infrastructure for further development?

Because KDE developers are more fanatic about the project?

I can surely say that at least one GNOME developer submited a proposal for a desktop agnostic enhacement (if you're really interested, you might want to check this).

Seriously, the possibilities are too broad to make a correct statement. But I can point some of the possible reasons:

• People think GNOME is pretty much feature complete, regarding high level enhacement possibilities.
• People are afraid of developing stuff for GNOME due to some issues (real or not) with the platform itself.
• People that use and prefer GNOME have a more broad view of their system, and think GNOME is just another component, instead of their whole computer experience, thus thinking there are other areas that need more attention than their Desktop Environment.

I think the most accurate, though, is that KDE simply has a larger user base that have programming skills. I guess we can't be too far from reality if we establish a relationship between that (attracted people with programming skills) and the proposals present in this "contest".

I'm even tempted to speculate that GNOME (as a Desktop Environment, but certainly not as a development platform) is much more successful than KDE. Even if KDE's userbase is larger, it just means that people that use GNOME are much more oblivious to all this programming stuff, meaning it's prefered by Joe Sixpack.

Of course, all this becomes non-sense when you realize that Linux itself isn't even listed, while FreeBSD is so high (considering that Linux has a much wider user base and many more people contributing to it).

So, two possibilities remain:

1. The ammount of people with spirit of initiative, high coding skills, creative and rethorical (afterall, you got to convince them you are "worthy").
2. People that have their kids starving and really need this to feed them.

So, either KDE attracts super human beings or GNOME attracts only rich bastards to whom 1000 dollars mean nothing.

KoA

Alaska men should hit the trail for breasts

Not only that, but guess how many steps in the supply chain are involved in the production and distribution of rice??? 85 steps... there are 85 steps on average between the rice farmer and the consumer. Now, can someone explain to me the value add that 85 different people/businesses have on a BAG OF RICE?!?! That's why rice costs 4x what it should. These steps exist because of the traditional, family relationships between the various businesses. They've done it this way for centuries, so they're loath to change. Although... the government under Koizumi is starting to remove this idiocy. Regards, St Wendeler Another Rovian Conspiracy

Umm, you're completely ignorant.

India is a free-market economy, although there are pockets of socialist local governments. (Notably, those areas of India are falling behind economically.)

Now, had you mentioned China instead of India, you might have had a point. They have a One Country, Two System philosophy. Economic freedom, as long as the authoritarian government says it's okay. ;-)

And the solution the decreased wages from the illegal immigrants isn't to erect a barrier on the border. It's to implement the guest worker program that Bush is pushing for - BECAUSE ONCE THESE HARDWORKING INDIVIDUALS CAN COME IN LEGALLY, THEY WON'T BE BLACKMAILED INTO EARNING $0.50/HOUR. Oh, and US minimum wage laws would likely apply to them.

And Western Europe is less free market than you might think. The EU in particular is becoming fortress Europe, with non-member countries seeing increased tariffs when trying to export to EU countries. Example - Regulations on non-EU bananas (dictating appropriate size AND SHAPE) would amaze you.

Regards,
St Wendeler
Another Rovian Conspiracy

Opera has released their first update to Opera 8 for Windows and Unix/Linux.

The upgrade, Opera 8.01, contains mainly security and bug fixes. In addition, Opera has also made many improvements to its handling of JavaScript.

Secunia released today 3 security advisories for Opera 8, all of which have security fixes in this new version. Apparently, Secunia delayed these security advisories to give Opera some time to respond.

Opera has also introduced Browser JavaScript, a JavaScript file that automatically fixes incompatible Web pages, out of date scripts, and pages that inadvertently block Opera. The script file is distributed by Opera (the company). Opera checks for updates to Browser JavaScript once every week. The feature is disabled by default, as it's not ready for prime time yet. Some performance issues still need to be worked out before it becomes a standard feature in a future release.

Note to Blogger users, Blogger now works with Opera 8.01.

Finally someone from PayPal is speaking up:

http://paypaldoesntsuck.blogspot.com/

Seriously, learn the facts. You ARE FDIC insured with PayPal.

Talked about it here.