Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the thats-pretty-hilarious dept.
Cire writes "Saw this one off 3DNews, some guy has written step by step instructions on how to turn your computer case into one that looks like a Furry Cow. " It's shagadelic, baby!
Moooooooooooooooof!! Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
-- -- K
Re:Does the name "Ilse Koch" ring a bell?
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Kid+Zero
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Geez... Do the words "Fake Fur" ring a bell? And what does this have to do with Nazi's? Someone thought I'd be cute to cover his case with fake cow fur/skin. Big Deal.
Granted, your section is saddening, deeply troubling and makes me depressed. I'll to eat a few pounds of prime rib in my leather coat and make hamburgers for the homeless tomorrow. Oh the shame.
I'd have no problem with a horse-hide case. I've got a horse-hide chair stuffed with horse-hair already! Hell, I'd probably eat horse as well! I'm sorry, but a horse is a domestic pack animal, not unlike a mule, and not far off-field from a cow. Cats, dogs, rats, etc fall into a seperate category; They were domesticated for pleasure, not food or utility.
Some minor corrections there:
First off, rats were originally domesticated for use in labs, not as pets. (That came later.)
Second, dogs were domesticated (or, some theorise, humans and dogs domesticated each other) in a sort of symbiotic relationship relating to hunting--in other words, we helped each other hunt. Furthermore, up until fairly recently (we're talking in the past 300 years or so), most dogs (and most cats, for that matter) were utility animals, NOT household pets. (Hell, on farms TODAY the barn-cats are seen more as utility-cats than pets, and the same goes for the border-collies that may be working dogs on the farm.)
Also, what dogs were bred for besides as working dogs varies a great deal with the culture. The Aztecs, for instance, DID eat dog (it was considered a delicacy) and actually bred a type of dog that was hairless for easier preparation as food. (This being the Mexican Hairless, of course.) There is also some evidence that Chihuahua dogs were originally bred as food animals (no, I am not making this up, and I think we can stop the bad Taco Bell jokes now:).
As it is, I'd feel better about the cow cases, because (in all odds) they are using skins from cows that were headed to slaughter ANYWAYS--the moo is going to be a side of beef or at least stew meat anyways. At least they're using all of the cow; it's not like they're killing thousands of Holsteins just to rip off their skins and leaving the carcasses to rot (a la the bison of the old West) or anything.
I'd be a little more leery of horse, and more leery still of dog and cat, because (typically) most people in Western cultures don't eat those animals, and (at least with slaughterhouses for horses) most of the time foreign buyers have to be found for the horsemeat so that they can use the entire animal. (Dogmeat seems to be limited to some Asian cultures; I don't know of anyone who eats cats. Cat would probably taste horrid anyways, seeing as kitties are obligate carnivores.) Also, horses sent for slaughter tend to be either old horses or are mustangs that are illegally being sent to slaughter (the federal "adopt-a-mustang" program does stipulate that animals are not to be sent to slaughter; hundreds go to slaughter anyways).
Then again, I'm weird in that I think if you are going to take an animal's life (for food or skins), you should do right by the animal to use as much of it as you can. This puts me in the rather odd position of being ok with hunting deer for food or eating cows, but not being ok with trophy hunts or killing animals just for skins. *shrug*
-- -Windigo The Feral (NYAR!)
Re:welcome to the new slashdot!
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DarkClown
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do they now get free advertising since they own Slashdot? i could really care less. but what the fuck do you think? like you said - they own the shit and can do whatever they want with it. i would think that you'd be grateful to VA for not linux.commifying slashdot.
Spritz it with a dilute saline solution and let it evaporate: sweat. If you attach an oscillating brush-tipped appendage to swat the flies away, you'll really be in business.
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"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
-Graduation gift computers that look more like a trophy: They'd just languish in the back of the closet with the box of graduation day pen and pencil sets.
-Computer cases that look like furniture: We had these back in the seventies. The PC was the desk, and vice-versa.
-TARDIS cases from Dr Who: Accompanied by the 'Tardis' E theme, no doubt!
-stealth cases: Hide it in the wall, hang a picture over it.
-null case: Drywall screws and a nearby wall. A Beowulf cluster as modern art!
-beer keg computers: The fun part is emptying the case!
-fish aquarium cases: Sealed in resin, you too can forgo the traditional tank heater with this fan-free Xeon. Wait. You'd kill the fish. Too hot.
-Macintosh: Cram an E-Machines Celeron into one of those fishbowls, I dare you!
Yes. Ever ridden a horse? Cow fur is similar, albeit a bit more coarse. That and cows rarely smell as nice!
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Re:No, it Is Not Shagadelic
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technos
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I'd have no problem with a horse-hide case. I've got a horse-hide chair stuffed with horse-hair already! Hell, I'd probably eat horse as well! I'm sorry, but a horse is a domestic pack animal, not unlike a mule, and not far off-field from a cow. Cats, dogs, rats, etc fall into a seperate category; They were domesticated for pleasure, not food or utility.
-- .sig: Now legally binding!
Re:No, it Is Not Shagadelic
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technos
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Apologies. Meant to reply to the parent. My bad..
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The plastic is coated
by
Tony+Hammitt
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Just like in the clear case we're talking about, the plastic is coated with a conductive paint which shields the RF interference. Having the case off OTOH lets the RF noise leak out. Good thing the wattage is pretty low for the high frequency stuff. The FCC could take a dim view of a little FM station in every household...
This has got to be the silliest waste of money I've ever seen. (bar the Govt. of course)
Who would want one of these things? Got to admit it's sort of funny but at the same time sort of disturbing at the same time. Gateway is going to have a field day with this guy.
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More race stuff in one place,
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Re:welcome to the new slashdot!
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348
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3 cheers! Thats funny. Since we can't get to the cow story due to Slashdots DoS attack your post was well timed.
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More race stuff in one place,
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Here's step by step instructions on how to turn yourself into something that looks like a furry cow. 1. Get a job as a programmer or sysadmin. 2. Work at it for at least a year. 3. Visit/. regularly
As long as you start with sufficient body hair, I guarantee you'll be a 400lb furry beast that grazes constantly. If you visit/. enough you'll also develop a herd mentality. --Shoeboy
The Hindus got to it...
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Mr.+Piccolo
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as it's now marked "403 Forbidden".
-- Glückwünsche, haben Sie Slashdot ermordet, indem Sie zum korporativen Druck beugten und Subskriptionen einlei
/.ed:-( Guess I'll have to check out the links in the "Older Stuff" section. The "Older Stuff" section is often like my old girlfriend. Sure it's not that new, and most of my friends have been there . . . but she's available when I call.
I already e-mailed the 3dnews guy asking him if he has a cached copy of the whole thing, so don't flood him:)
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Re:welcome to the new slashdot!
by
Taxing+Bastard
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is anyone else feeling slightly patronised by thes e comments being posted in way offtopic places? this is the third time now after all. If VA wants to advertise on Slashdot, why don't they do what other people do and buy some banner ad space? Or do they now get free advertising since they own Slashdot?
Slashdot Mirror
Moooooooooooooooof!!
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
-- K
Geez... Do the words "Fake Fur" ring a bell? And what does this have to do with Nazi's? Someone thought I'd be cute to cover his case with fake cow fur/skin. Big Deal.
Granted, your section is saddening, deeply troubling and makes me depressed. I'll to eat a few pounds of prime rib in my leather coat and make hamburgers for the homeless tomorrow. Oh the shame.
Technos dun said:
Some minor corrections there:
First off, rats were originally domesticated for use in labs, not as pets. (That came later.)
Second, dogs were domesticated (or, some theorise, humans and dogs domesticated each other) in a sort of symbiotic relationship relating to hunting--in other words, we helped each other hunt. Furthermore, up until fairly recently (we're talking in the past 300 years or so), most dogs (and most cats, for that matter) were utility animals, NOT household pets. (Hell, on farms TODAY the barn-cats are seen more as utility-cats than pets, and the same goes for the border-collies that may be working dogs on the farm.)
Also, what dogs were bred for besides as working dogs varies a great deal with the culture. The Aztecs, for instance, DID eat dog (it was considered a delicacy) and actually bred a type of dog that was hairless for easier preparation as food. (This being the Mexican Hairless, of course.) There is also some evidence that Chihuahua dogs were originally bred as food animals (no, I am not making this up, and I think we can stop the bad Taco Bell jokes now :).
As it is, I'd feel better about the cow cases, because (in all odds) they are using skins from cows that were headed to slaughter ANYWAYS--the moo is going to be a side of beef or at least stew meat anyways. At least they're using all of the cow; it's not like they're killing thousands of Holsteins just to rip off their skins and leaving the carcasses to rot (a la the bison of the old West) or anything.
I'd be a little more leery of horse, and more leery still of dog and cat, because (typically) most people in Western cultures don't eat those animals, and (at least with slaughterhouses for horses) most of the time foreign buyers have to be found for the horsemeat so that they can use the entire animal. (Dogmeat seems to be limited to some Asian cultures; I don't know of anyone who eats cats. Cat would probably taste horrid anyways, seeing as kitties are obligate carnivores.) Also, horses sent for slaughter tend to be either old horses or are mustangs that are illegally being sent to slaughter (the federal "adopt-a-mustang" program does stipulate that animals are not to be sent to slaughter; hundreds go to slaughter anyways).
Then again, I'm weird in that I think if you are going to take an animal's life (for food or skins), you should do right by the animal to use as much of it as you can. This puts me in the rather odd position of being ok with hunting deer for food or eating cows, but not being ok with trophy hunts or killing animals just for skins. *shrug*
-Windigo The Feral (NYAR!)
do they now get free advertising since they own Slashdot?
i could really care less. but what the fuck do you think? like you said - they own the shit and can do whatever they want with it. i would think that you'd be grateful to VA for not linux.commifying slashdot.
here
Missing a couple of images, mail me if you've got them. I have some other in my cache I can pull too.
Hey bleeding heart --
if you read the article you will see that is not real cow skin (unfortunately)
DrLunch.com The site that tells you what's for lunch!
Spritz it with a dilute saline solution and let it evaporate: sweat.
If you attach an oscillating brush-tipped appendage to swat the flies away, you'll really be in business.
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
-Designer cases: I need me an eel-skin case!
-Graduation gift computers that look more like a trophy: They'd just languish in the back of the closet with the box of graduation day pen and pencil sets.
-Computer cases that look like furniture: We had these back in the seventies. The PC was the desk, and vice-versa.
-TARDIS cases from Dr Who: Accompanied by the 'Tardis' E theme, no doubt!
-stealth cases: Hide it in the wall, hang a picture over it.
-null case: Drywall screws and a nearby wall. A Beowulf cluster as modern art!
-beer keg computers: The fun part is emptying the case!
-fish aquarium cases: Sealed in resin, you too can forgo the traditional tank heater with this fan-free Xeon. Wait. You'd kill the fish. Too hot.
-Macintosh: Cram an E-Machines Celeron into one of those fishbowls, I dare you!
.sig: Now legally binding!
Yes. Ever ridden a horse? Cow fur is similar, albeit a bit more coarse. That and cows rarely smell as nice!
.sig: Now legally binding!
I'd have no problem with a horse-hide case. I've got a horse-hide chair stuffed with horse-hair already! Hell, I'd probably eat horse as well! I'm sorry, but a horse is a domestic pack animal, not unlike a mule, and not far off-field from a cow. Cats, dogs, rats, etc fall into a seperate category; They were domesticated for pleasure, not food or utility.
.sig: Now legally binding!
Apologies. Meant to reply to the parent. My bad..
.sig: Now legally binding!
Just like in the clear case we're talking about, the plastic is coated with a conductive paint which shields the RF interference. Having the case off OTOH lets the RF noise leak out. Good thing the wattage is pretty low for the high frequency stuff. The FCC could take a dim view of a little FM station in every household...
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The shareholder is always right.
It was by the Arrogant Worms... Canadians, I believe. I've heard the screams of the vegetables...
You'll eat it and you'll like it.
I'd much rather have this case: http://www.hard ocp.com/news_images/2000/february_2000/clearcase.j pg.
Talk about open computing... =)
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
Wasn't Hindus, its the /. DoS attack. Sounds so much cooler than the /. effect. Very Cosmopolitan.
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.
Who would want one of these things? Got to admit it's sort of funny but at the same time sort of disturbing at the same time. Gateway is going to have a field day with this guy.
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.
3 cheers! Thats funny. Since we can't get to the cow story due to Slashdots DoS attack your post was well timed.
More race stuff in one place,
than any one place on the net.
copyright violation blah blah jail blah violation blah blah cease and decist blah blah blah...
Reply:
Don't have a cow, man.
Here's step by step instructions on how to turn yourself into something that looks like a furry cow. /. regularly
/. enough you'll also develop a herd mentality.
1. Get a job as a programmer or sysadmin.
2. Work at it for at least a year.
3. Visit
As long as you start with sufficient body hair, I guarantee you'll be a 400lb furry beast that grazes constantly. If you visit
--Shoeboy
as it's now marked "403 Forbidden".
Glückwünsche, haben Sie Slashdot ermordet, indem Sie zum korporativen Druck beugten und Subskriptionen einlei
/.ed :-(
Guess I'll have to check out the links in the "Older Stuff" section.
The "Older Stuff" section is often like my old girlfriend. Sure it's not that new, and most of my friends have been there . . . but she's available when I call.
I already e-mailed the 3dnews guy asking him if he has a cached copy of the whole thing, so don't flood him
--
The shareholder is always right.
is anyone else feeling slightly patronised by thes e comments being posted in way offtopic places?
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this is the third time now after all. If VA wants to advertise on Slashdot, why don't they do what other people do and buy some banner ad space? Or do they now get free advertising since they own Slashdot?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/02/09/04
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/02/10/14
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