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The Diamond Age
bigner writes "The new diamond age is here and will revolutionize the computer industry. Diamonds show amazing potential as a superior semiconductor."
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FP!
Down with low-low rise pants!
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#homestarrunner
frist psot! mark webb is my god!
So now computers can get me laid!!!
Just another day in Paradise
Are they all busy at a convention for chai-sipping tools? Christ, I'm so happy to see a REAL f|rst p0st again...
And I can't get laid? Are girls really that grossed out by foreskins that they won't have sex with guys that have them?
Thanks, I'd like to know because girls don't like me.
Though even a Speak-n-Spell could tell you "diomonds" was incorrect...
Regards,
Hank Kingsley
Stop turning /. into a Wired repeater service.
Awful Link of the Day ..:: Dirty Thug Recordz ::.. (thanks SeANMcBAY) - Everybody knows how much I love the Insane Clown Posse and their fans. If you don't know, then I'll estimate this amount for you right here: a whole hell of a lot! If I had to choose between hanging out with ICP fans and getting shot in the face with a staple gun until my eyeballs are full of so much metal that they could be used as bizarre paperweights, I'd probably choose the ICP fan option after a mere two weeks or so of deliberation. "Dirty Thug Recordz" is not only a record label for dirty thugs, but it's also a record label that uses a "z" instead of the traditionally more accepted "s." That's how you can tell if somebody is "from the streets"; you ask them to spell out the phrase "from the streets" to you and if they spell it as "from the streetz" then you know they're hardcore. If they spell it "from tha ztreetz" then that's like six times as hardcore. If they admit they never learned how to read or write, then they're just the pinnacle of coolness and you should take a bullet for them at the earliest chance.
As you can probably guess, "Dirty Thug Recordz" is run by a chubby white kid who wears makeup. Now I'd really hate to make any sweeping generalizations here, but that accurately describes every ICP fan in existence. In order to be DOWN WIT DA CLOWNZ, you must first prove you are a pasty, doughy, chubby white kid from the suburbs who has access to your mother's stage performance makeup and a younger brother who will use a paint roller to smear your face with the shit. Then you have to write like this:
WHATS UP SLUGZ THIS IZ MAD MAN MOLO WIT A PEACE OF NEWZ FOR DAT ASS. CHECK IT KILLA-C HAS JUST INFORMED ME THAT THE RE-RELEASE 4 RIVAZ OV BLOOD HAS JUST BEEN FINISHED AND SENT OFF FOR THE FINAL MASTERING STAGES WHICH WILL BE COMPLETED EARLY NEXT WEEK. LISTEN UP THIS IS FOR YOU WHO GOT THE RIVAZ OV BLOOD PRE RELEASE SAMPLER REMEMBER "KILLLAZ REALM" WASNT ON DAT WELL IF YOU WANT THAT ON THIS SHIT.. OR IF YOU DIDNT GET THAT AND WANT TO HERE IT...FUCKIN VOTE....SEND EMAILS TO "vote@dirtythug.com" THEY MUST BE RECIEVED BY MONDAY AUG 11TH AT 5:00 PM SO FUCKIN VOTE... OK THEN... ALSO THE RE-RELEASE DATE FOR RIVAZ OV BLOOD WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOME TIME NEXT WEEK SO KEEP THEM DIRTY EYEZ UP ON THIS SHIT!!!!!!!UNTIL NEXT TIME MUTHA FACKOOS.....KEEP THE MURD UP! MCL MOLO
Oh no! "RIVAZ OV BLOOD"! That album sounds so incredibly hardcore that I don't think I can possibly fathom its potential impact on my worthless, insignificant life! Maybe "Killa-C" raps about how life is unfair because his mom wouldn't lend him the Station Wagon when he really wanted to go see the sequel to "The Matrix!" Or maybe there's a rap about "representin'" from "central Wisconsin!" Either way, I'm absolutely blown away by the sheer amount of tru' thuggin' going on here, and the only thing possibly more uplifting than this site is the number of people who will email me to complain about making fun of the dynamic white trash ICP duo. TRU JUGGALOS REPRESENT, SEND DAT WEBMASTER DA NASTY AZZ EMAILZ WERD UP TO DA TRAILER PARK, MOMMA NEEDS SOME SMOKES!
PS: In a highly non-ironic twist, this dumbass has performed in Appleton, Wisconsin. Yes, Appleton.
PPS: There's a lot of pornography on this site too, which is about the only entertaining thing there. Wait, aren't these XXX photos breaking his white trash ToS?
PPPS: Make sure to listen to "Death Vision," a song which has the most beautiful ten-second opening in the history of recorded information.
(also stolen, this from somethingawful.com BOYEEE)
Look goatse.cx runs Linux more then it does IIS.
Microsoft is a kid learning in the monopoly game. Imagine them buying arms to insure that India invades Pakistan with the promise of a law to force Windows on all PC in both countries. That's what is going on in the Diamond industry. (I hope Bill is not reading this).
I am hoping for years that artificial diamonds floods the market.
I saw in a documentary in 1997. The color is what they could not remove (mainly yellow).
But still the Diamond industry (read De Beers with 98% of the world market for jewelry diamonds, 75% of total market by value) was trying to push hard to make these "illegal", by forcing some laser markings in the factory, permit to produce and all kinds of hurdles. When it failed (totally impractical, and government don't give a F about De Beers), they thought about marking their own "natural" diamonds, but that would mean loosing the huge market of illegal/smuggling diamond rings, and the best money laundering system in the world with strong ties to arms smuggling (and a lot more).
No way the diamond industry would do that, how would they pay Sierra-Leone and it's neighbors to wage war to insure the flow of diamonds? In the 80's De Beers gave arms to both sides in Sierra-Leone against promises for years of diamond exploitation without tax. No matter who wins, they had their diamonds. The whole geopolitics instability is good for the circulation of diamonds, insuring no local laws (not for long anyway).
The few scandals in the oil market are nothing compared to the diamond industry (except for the amounts of money involved of course). Each time I hear about bringing justice in an oil rich country I think of these African soils "owned" by De Beers, with the population kept in war and poverty for the riches of the De Beers owners.
Note: De Beers are not allowed to do business in the US because of their monopole, but nothing is done to stop the flow of diamonds by De Beers "independent" representatives to cross the border every day from western Canada.
De Beers started the whole and "If he loves you he will buy you a diamond" and "A Diamond is (love) forever" in early 1900. Now people believe that a diamond ring goes down ages back. Not true at all, a gold ring for both husband and bride was the norm.
... aren't you amazed at the quantity of people who say "Damn de Beers and their blood diamonds! I will never support a company like that!" and are still dressed in Nike shoes, Adidas shorts and t-shirt and Calvin Klein underwear? (I have to admit taking a shot at Calvin Klein is gratuitous and maybe they really do have good working environments, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't)