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So your agurement is "Because someone else does it, it's ok for me to do it" ?
Bullshit, the internet is a chance we have to make things different. Look at maddox he nevers put ads up, and he gets tens of thousands of hits, or what about Wikipedia. They are doing what everyone should be doing, I provide you this content for free, in return you provide your content for free.

When adbanners first came out, people were fine with them. Then more and more came out, pop-ups, pop-unders, spyware, everything. Had it just stayed at adbanners everything would have been fine. Now we are left with no choice but to block them. Most people don't block text ads. So use them if you must. But first think about what you are providing, is it a "I want money" or a for the public good website?

The internet is one medimum that corp's haven't yet taken control of. Do you want them to?
Or would you prefer the people to remain in control, and live by our rules, not the rule of the almighty dollar?

/rant

The Five across the eyes is an unappreciated move indeed...

This was the same argument that Maddox exposed in his site. I love Maddox; most of the time he is insigthful and bitter, but he's wrong this time.

You didn't knew the man before the accident. You didn't knew how he was after the accident. This isn't a sympathy call; you simply don't know what happened through his mind. But the fact that he cared to open a foundation to help people with his problem is something to be very respectful of. Personally, i don't think he thought his foundation would be of any help to him in his lifetime.
Hm. You can't help everyone at the time. It's a fact, you can't be everywhere and help everyone, you only have two hands. Why he started the foundation, well, your guess is as good as mine, but instead of sitting on all his publicity money (and the one he made before), he decided to help someone else. He in the process? Of course. But yet, he did his part. He should get, at the very least, the benefit of doubt. Don't call the man selfish because you didn't knew if he cared about a disease before hand. You know you don't for quite a few aswell.

Think of that before bashing someone whose legacy will help a lot of people in the future.

Sorry, maddox already called for a 3-wheel version, he has prior-art
http://maddox.xmission.net/c.cgi?u=segway_more_com plicated_than_it_needs_to_be
check that out, funny as always

Happened to me already, with a friend who saw "Contact" - he didn't care much about the movie and thought the book wasn't worth it. Took me a while to convince him to give it a try, and now he's grateful.

Slightly OT, but check http://maddox.xmission.net/c.cgi?u=i_robot for a rather accurate description of my feelings torwards "I, Robot". The book was only OK, but the movie completely butchered it.

Obligatory link:

http://maddox.xmission.net/signs.html

Actually, somebody agrees with you, a fellow came up with a better design which requires no complicated electronics.

I find Maddox's segway design ideas intriging.

Astrology is bullshit. Astrology is bullshit. Astrology is bullshit.

Heh.

Astrology is one of the stupidist beliefs out there, but the methodical way that serious astrologers observe the positions of the planets in the constelations of the eliptical (a.k.a. the zodiac) cannot be faulted in most cases. Astrology's weakness lies wholly in its assumptions that planet positions effect anything on earth except the tides. Astrology is false, but very accurate, they are two seperate issues.

By the way, if you dislike Astrology as much as I do you may like this page by the very popular (and very manly) maddox.

Read this please

I'm not going through the trouble of adding fucking backslashes when people are parsing what I write, not computers, you self-righteous turd.

awww fuck, heres the link again.

"Actually, after a few viewings, Matrix Reloaded stands up very well to a literature-type analysis. I know quite a few people that hated the movie because they simply didn't understand it."

There are two words why Matrix Reloaded sucked: Keanu's ass.

(Thanks to Maddox for the ultimate end to all MR-related conversations...)

"Actually, after a few viewings, Matrix Reloaded stands up very well to a literature-type analysis. I know quite a few people that hated the movie because they simply didn't understand it."

There are two words why Matrix Reloaded sucked: Keanu's ass.

(Thanks to Maddox for the ultimate end to all MR-related conversations...)