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You might get a visit from Steve, who might say:

"Dude, You're gettin' a Cell!"

I wonder which is worse anyway, downloading music, or Smoking pot. Good job, Steve!

then that makes this guy a genius

Home Theater: Full-on unihibited masturbation with the lube of your choice.
Movie Theater: Newspaper in your lap - and the real possibility of ending up like Pee Wee Herman

I didn't read anything in the reports of Jobs's remarks that suggested he was claiming more than to have been sensitised to wider design issues by his calligraphy classes and being in a position, chief head kicker for the Mac development project, where he could force a brake through the conceptual bottlenecks which had long separated end user computing and elegance. (emphasis mine)

But while we're talking about "conceptual bottlenecks" to "elegance": power-of-position is clearly not the effective ingredient, or we might have seen more elegance displayed by the dark side. Jobs famously claimed Micro$oft lacks taste*. It is true that Jobs always displayed taste and even humanism (from a distance!) while amassing his billions; conversely Gates' cheap avarice and common-thug mentality were only sharpened. I see from Google that the comparison has been made many times.

the high cost of retooling developers' brains

generation after generation insisting such a revolution was also inevitable

needed Gore's political initiative to break through the final barriers to the commercial Web

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*In the same interview, Jobs refers to proportional fonts: "The only problem with Microsoft is they just have ... absolutely no taste, ... In the sense that they ... don't bring much culture into their product ... - well you know proportionally spaced fonts come from type setting and beautiful books, that's where one gets the idea - if it weren't for the Mac they would never have that in their products..." which is essentially the same claim he made at Stanford, but without saying "and the Mac wouldn't have had them if not for my calligraphy class".

I think Terry Farrell is cuter too, but calling Jeri a "prude" because she didn't want to screw her husband in a club where there were "cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling," is a little unfair.

What the hell's the point of being a sex symbol if you aren't actually willing to have freaky sex? It's like having a world-class sports car and never getting it out of first gear.

According to the court documents, Ms. Ryan claimed that her husband attempted to pressure her into having public sex with him in front of an audience.

Now, I don't doubt they went to the clubs in question. However, having been in that situation, I find it highly unlikely that anyone who did any even a modicum of research (as she claims he did) wouldn't have learned the basic etiquette[NSFW] that is expected in such venues.

Likewise, I have a hard time believing that a highly successful stockbroker -- someone who makes his living by being persuasive and a good negotiator -- could have been as tactless and inept as she describes. Hell, I'm a socially-challenged computer geek, and even I can do a better job of convincing a woman to go to a swing club than that.

I think Terry Farrell is cuter too, but calling Jeri a "prude" because she didn't want to screw her husband in a club where there were "cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling," is a little unfair.

What the hell's the point of being a sex symbol if you aren't actually willing to have freaky sex? It's like having a world-class sports car and never getting it out of first gear.

According to the court documents, Ms. Ryan claimed that her husband attempted to pressure her into having public sex with him in front of an audience.

Now, I don't doubt they went to the clubs in question. However, having been in that situation, I find it highly unlikely that anyone who did any even a modicum of research (as she claims he did) wouldn't have learned the basic etiquette[NSFW] that is expected in such venues.

Likewise, I have a hard time believing that a highly successful stockbroker -- someone who makes his living by being persuasive and a good negotiator -- could have been as tactless and inept as she describes. Hell, I'm a socially-challenged computer geek, and even I can do a better job of convincing a woman to go to a swing club than that.

I think Terry Farrell is cuter too, but calling Jeri a "prude" because she didn't want to screw her husband in a club where there were "cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling," is a little unfair.

What the hell's the point of being a sex symbol if you aren't actually willing to have freaky sex? It's like having a world-class sports car and never getting it out of first gear.

According to the court documents, Ms. Ryan claimed that her husband attempted to pressure her into having public sex with him in front of an audience.

Now, I don't doubt they went to the clubs in question. However, having been in that situation, I find it highly unlikely that anyone who did any even a modicum of research (as she claims he did) wouldn't have learned the basic etiquette[NSFW] that is expected in such venues.

Likewise, I have a hard time believing that a highly successful stockbroker -- someone who makes his living by being persuasive and a good negotiator -- could have been as tactless and inept as she describes. Hell, I'm a socially-challenged computer geek, and even I can do a better job of convincing a woman to go to a swing club than that.

According to the court documents, Ms. Ryan claimed that her husband attempted to pressure her into having public sex with him in front of an audience.

I think Terry Farrel is cuter too, but calling Jeri a "prude" because she didn't want to screw her husband in a club where there were "cages, whips and other apparatus hanging from the ceiling," is a little unfair.

Sounds like you should have heeded their warnings.

Not quite sure what you mean.

I'm not gay, if that's what you're getting at. I just think it's a shame to see people so clouded by nonsensical religious bigotry that they'd condemn kids to be raised without any parents at all rather than gay ones.

I do miss religion and the comforts that it brought. I liked singing in church, I liked feeling like I would go to heaven when I died, I liked the sense of purpose and mission my life had.

But it's all lies. Comfortable, well-meaning lies, but also hurtful, destructive lies, too. I just couldn't stand it. Better to know the truth, even if it isn't what you want to hear, than to waste your life. I'm glad I'm a scientifically-minded geek who can appreciate the numinous in this universe without having to also believe in a white-bearded old man who condemns every human being who doesn't follow his bizarre, evil rules to an eternity of torture and suffering.

The god of the Bible is horrendous, a mass murderer, a child murderer. It's funny how Christians are honest enough to condemn someone like Susan Smith for drowning her two children, but can't bring themselves to acknowledge that, if their beliefs about the Biblical flood are true, then Jehovah murdered thousands of children by drowning.

Anyway.

My point in all this was just to say to the parent poster that, yes, there are a lot of people being raised by religious fanatics, and some of them actually are geeks.

...and Spike Lee is miffed as well.

Due to one of my ill-advised college frat-party hook-ups, followed by years of rejection / pr0n, my keyboard is now a fantastic breeding ground for Herpes Simplex 2. His official name is "Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard," though I affectionately refer to him as Ron Mexico.

Ok, refusing to take legal $2 bills is pretty bad, But isn't accepting $200 bills worse?

Sponges are a key example of multicellular life

No, its not called a sponge, its called a falafel thing.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackri s16.html

-Bill

Ok, so, it works something like this.
1) You plug your car into the house.
2) Your house gets electricty from "somewhere."
3) That somewhere is a diesel fired power plant.

4) The electric company notifies the cops of your excessive electricity usage.
5) Armed narcotics agents arrive with a search warrant and ransack your house looking for a grow operation.

You'd have to be nuts to plug a car into the wall if you live in the United States.

"We must protest and make a fuss before somebody thinks of blaming us"

You have no idea how right you really are.

MSNBC have to point the finger at someone. Otherwise people might look closer to home. Like MSN.

The kid had a profile on MSN as Solitude where he listed:

Interest categories:
Military, High Schools, Death & Dying

Picture:
From the Gus Van Sant movie about a highschool shooting.

Favorite Things:
moments where control becomes completely unattainable...

times when maddened psycho paths briefly open the gates to hell, and let chaos flood through...

those few individuals who care enough to reclaim their place...

Hobies and Interests:
Plannning

Waiting

Hating

And then he linked to his homepage where he had a flash animation called Target Practice, which was about a guy going on a rampage with guns, killing police officers, then blowing his own brains out - which is pretty much exactly what he subsequently did.

I'm imagining, in all the hand wringing, MSNbc isn't going to be asking, "Why don't we automatically have flags go up when an under 18 lists their only three interests as the combination of Military, High Schools and Death & Dying?"

I'm not suggesting such invasion of people's privacy should be encouraged or practice, nor should MSN be held accountable for not doing anything to stop this. But the point is there that it's deeply hypocritical for one part of MSN to point at an exceptionally vague connection to video games while another part hosted what was pretty much his premeditated confession.

"We must protest and make a fuss before somebody thinks of blaming us"

You have no idea how right you really are.

MSNBC have to point the finger at someone. Otherwise people might look closer to home. Like MSN.

The kid had a profile on MSN as Solitude where he listed:

Interest categories:
Military, High Schools, Death & Dying

Picture:
From the Gus Van Sant movie about a highschool shooting.

Favorite Things:
moments where control becomes completely unattainable...

times when maddened psycho paths briefly open the gates to hell, and let chaos flood through...

those few individuals who care enough to reclaim their place...

Hobies and Interests:
Plannning

Waiting

Hating

And then he linked to his homepage where he had a flash animation called Target Practice, which was about a guy going on a rampage with guns, killing police officers, then blowing his own brains out - which is pretty much exactly what he subsequently did.

I'm imagining, in all the hand wringing, MSNbc isn't going to be asking, "Why don't we automatically have flags go up when an under 18 lists their only three interests as the combination of Military, High Schools and Death & Dying?"

I'm not suggesting such invasion of people's privacy should be encouraged or practice, nor should MSN be held accountable for not doing anything to stop this. But the point is there that it's deeply hypocritical for one part of MSN to point at an exceptionally vague connection to video games while another part hosted what was pretty much his premeditated confession.

here I posted it above, but it goes to the same effect.

The article on thesmokinggun.com that MSNBC mentions is here, which includes an archived link to the flash clip Weise made about shooting people. Also, his band's message board was located at http://6sik6.proboards25.com/, but it has since been taken down. No Google Cache of it either.

Kind of scary stuff... for the most part he seemed like a fairly normal kid.

Something I'd pointed out before when a case like this came up: In my state, there was a school shooting in 1980 or 81. It made Columbine look like Sesame Street On Ice. Something like 90 people were hospitalized, and it came down to a gunfight with the police. The shooters (there were six of them, all social outcasts as if I had to point that out) were more organized than any of the ones on the news here. They positioned themselves so that there was no line-of-sight from outside to them, and blockaded themselves into a hallway.

All the crimes that get blamed on video games have one thing in common: They have no special identifying characteristics. Had those six gunmen in 1980 been dressed in red and yelled, "Death to the Amerikanski!" they would have been called Communists and Russia would have been blamed. As it happened, they had long hair and thusly drugs were blamed.

This guy was sick, in more ways than one. Look at his MSN profile. That's not the result of somebody playing too many video games, it's a product of a very deeply disturbed mind.

Unfortuantely, there's the whole timestamp issue.

In any case, I'm glad you like "Quality is Job 36." I'm thinking of having it tatooed on my forehead. Better yet, perhaps I should get a chloroform soaked rag and hide in the shadows in the executive parking lot. Now, that would be one amusing police report and mug shot for The Smoking Gun

The cheapest lawyers cost about $200 an hour, and sometimes paralegals will help you fill out the paperwork. But even so it will take several lawyer hours to churn out a boiler plate court filing (many examples at The Smoking Gun ).

Hmm. Didn't ex-con George Bush* goes to Harvard Business School? I guess deflecting blame isn't all they teach there.

*

Perhaps by "dates" he was referring to "tricks". If so, then I imagine that Hugh Grant wouldn't find the Mac Mini sexier.

thesmokinggun.com has a nice piece on this, http://www.thesmokinggun.com/louie/louie.html , and David Marsh wrote and entire book on the history of the song.

I would be quite surprised if someone as acquainted with the business world and its laws as Bill Gates would turn to such recklessly illegal tactics as extortion or blackmail.

You never saw the videos of Bill Gates testifying under oath, did you? Or see here.

Um, no. The memos were claimed to be fakes before 60 minutes even aired that evening. It wasn't a group effort. As for obviousness, no one has demonstrated the 3 new documents (which backed up previously-substantiated claims about Bush's dereliction of duty to the Texas National Guard during the Vietnam war) are fakes. All that has been shown is the 3 new documents cannot be shown to be genuine. There is a difference.

What we do know is that the arrest card for Bush's DUI (he lied about while running for Texas Governor) is genuine. George W. Bush is the first criminal convict to hold the White House. But that's not too surprising.

Excellent budget, Prez! Your fiscal responsibility is compassionate.

Hopefully, this guy won't get the case.

children

I'll believe this argument when people start inscribing the date of conception instead of birth on headstones. Btw, GWB calls himself a born-again Christian, not a conceived-again Christian. Bush is, however, neither born again nor Christian. Rather, he is a convicted criminal and a liar. And he holds the distinction of being the governor who signed the most death warrants in history back in Texas. Bush is analogous to the corrupt government system back in Biblical times who had Jesus Christ put to death. And while Jesus forgave his murderers (and I'm sure Bush too), he never stooped to say what they did was okay. Killing people is against God's law. Children are people too. Being born is God's definition of coming into the world. One only need visit a church cemetery to know this truth. You can also find out how we define leaving the world there, too.

Lest there be any confusion on an earlier point, let me restate for the record: George W. Bush, crowned 43rd President of the United States of America in 2001, is a convicted criminal. Please, for the Love of God, stop worshipping false idols.

Sorry. The story is fully documented in spite of the recently discovered and possibly forged memos (even the "independent" investigation didn't say they were forged). Bush's disappearance occurred the same month mandatory drug testing first went into effect for service personel in the national guard. Any record of Bush having taken the mandatory physical during his missing year of service does not exist. Years later Bush would be arrested and convicted of drunk driving. George W. Bush is the first person in history to have a criminal record before becoming the United States presidents. Boy, how standards have slipped. First, Nixon. Then Bush. The Republican party sure can pick them. Would you like some dirty tricks with your chips?

Maybe Bush's nephew called it for them. And, yes, Bush did have warning (the August 6, 2001 Daily Briefing entitled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US."

Unfortunately, George W. Bush was on vacation (at his ranch in Texas he bought just before running for governor there) and he did nothing after being read the daily briefing. Bush's presidential inaction was in spite of the warning in the briefing he received that "Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft" and that "FBI information [...] indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country [the U.S.] consistent with preparations for hijacking or other types of attacks, including recent surveillence of federal buildings in New York." This is the daily briefing that Rice called a historical document.

I'm sorry if you think exposing serious neglect of duty by public servants is bias. I would consider your non-support of accountability in government a serious shortcoming.

Check out Bill's Mug Shot

"Microsoft boss Bill Gates was photographed by the Albuquerque, New Mexico police in 1977 after a traffic violation (details of which have been lost over time)."

From this article on The Smoking Gun.

While we are on the topic of pics of Bill Gates, has anyone else seen his mug shots?

Bill O'Reilly: Shut up

Bill O'Reilly (again): Shut up

Bill O'Reilly (to son of 9/11 victim): Shut up ... (or i'll... use middle eastern food as a sponge? check out the third line from the bottom there, folks... )

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Well, it's more clever than asking for change for a million dollar bill. I'll give them that.

arbitrary

And it's already been ruined by pranksters making stamps of various unsavory characters.

Read all about it!

Woohoo, even Bill Gates has a mug shot! :)

Here's a sample

Yes, as so was your boses behavior when he, while driving drunk, killed a woman.

Well, that's pretty much off the topic--so what? That doesn't change the fact that what he's saying is correct.

But if we're merely trading partisan barbs, it is fascinating how many prominent politicians are guilty of drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter.

Yes, as so was your boses behavior when he, while driving drunk, killed a woman.

Well, that's pretty much off the topic--so what? That doesn't change the fact that what he's saying is correct.

But if we're merely trading partisan barbs, it is fascinating how many prominent politicians are guilty of drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter.

what a nut bar

An expert recently sent a half-jest letter to the editor of a journal suggesting that Bushisms were an indicator of early-onset senility. Probably just too many youthful indiscretions but you never know.

As for the flaring error in this story's title, you heard it here first. Taco's seemingly-trollish typos are in fact an early sign of his early mental demise.

why doesn't stern organize mass complaint filings

He did.

...sit back and see what happens.

He did.

then if the fcc takes no action on thousands of letters, he can genuinely talk about hypocricy

He did. That was the clip you were commenting on.

(1) ... The Kerry campaign trying to stop the broadcast through legal and procedural actions. How does this enhance free speech?

Interesting issue. Are there any limits on the freedom of a broadcaster? Just ask Howard Stern!

A TV station or a radio station uses a public resource, the RF spectrum, essentially for free. That's a big government subsidy (think how much cell phone providers pay for a few MHz of spectrum.). Not only that, but the FCC polices the spectrum -- if I try to set up a 50KW RF amp and broadcast in any Sinclair licensed frequency/area, the FCC will come down on me like a ton of bricks, shut me down and throw me in jail.

In return for exclusive use of protected spectrum, broadcasters agree to certain conditions. For a long time they had no choice, but now there's cable, and satellite, neither of which has exclusive use of a public resource, and on those media broadcasters are much more free to define content (Howard Stern will be moving to satellite radio, and I've heard that Michael Moore is trying to present a cable pay per view event before Nov 2).

What are the FCC conditions? Here's the FCC's brief description. In particular there's the FCC Fairness Doctrine and the Equal Time rule. I think a fair application of equal time might be to broadcast the anti- Kerry movie one night, and Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 in the same timeslot the next night. Somehow I doubt Sinclair Broadcasting is devoted enough to free speech to do that.

Actually, your free speech question may be a red herring here. Sinclair doesn't have a great track record on free speech. Last May, Sinclair censored Ted Koppel's Nightline broadcast of the names of our Iraq war dead. Check out this story quoting John McCain:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) sent a letter to the president and CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, David Smith, about the broadcaster's decision to pre-empt Friday night's broadcast of "Nightline.

"I write to strongly protest your decision to instruct Sinclair's ABC affiliates to preempt this evening's Nightline program. I find deeply offensive Sinclair's objection to Nightline's intention to broadcast the names and photographs of Americans who gave their lives in service to our country in Iraq," McCain wrote.

"I supported the President's decision to go to war in Iraq, and remain a strong supporter of that decision," McCain continued.

"But every American has a responsibility to understand fully the terrible costs of war and the extraordinary sacrifices it requires of those brave men and women who volunteer to defend the rest of us; lest we ever forget or grow insensitive to how grave a decision it is for our government to order Americans into combat," he wrote.

. . .

"It is, in short, sir, unpatriotic. I hope it meets with the public opprobrium it most certainly deserves," he concluded.

My conclusion: these Sinclair folks are hardly paragons of free speech.

(2) I would suggest you see the broadcast before protesting. Maybe it isn't what you think it is -- who knows?

Great idea! Will you babysit my kids while I'm doing that? I'm willing to let the marketplace decide this issue too. Fahrenheit 9/11 was a for-profit venture that has earned somewhere in the neighborhood of $250,000,000. I'd say th

Our current president has a DUI conviction on his record and that didn't stop him.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0922042speed1 .html

god if you can hear me, please let my car's accelerator malfunction.

Anybody remembers "BJ and the Bear" episode when at the end of a chase, BJ sends Bear to cut off the truck's brakes?