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Best and Worst Books of 2003?
Thousandstars writes "I saw the article on the best and worst movies of 2003, and, being a literature geek, I thought it would also be appropriate to ask for the best and worst books of 2003. In fiction, Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver is toward the top of my best list. How about everyone else?"
first "pingular is a douche bag" post
BAd: First posts, and goatse...
I'm just wondering, if they can stand the new DMCA rules..
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I thought I'd really like charlies angels - .. even went to see it with 3-4
..
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chicks - guns
chicks.
BUT that movie sucked!
NOT worth renting, NOT worth
seeing on HBO/Showtime
probably not worth watching when I'm
in a in a near death coma for years
Never read it. Still, talking of movies, have you seen Return of the King yet? I'm hoping they'll bring out a book of it, but I guess it's only just out, so we'll have to wait.
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"*shrug*
Kind of hard to deny it when you're:
1) One of the founding members of a prominent fan club
2) Credited in the WoT FAQ
3) Chief Editor of the 2nd WoT RPG netbook (almost done!)
etc., etc....
I've met some great people who liked Jordan at one point or another. Most of us don't anymore, but the communities are still strong and fun.
The Humblest Mollusk on the Net
If there's one area linux is still lacking, its OLE copy-paste, drag'n'drop, and a standard set of GUI protocols for applications. KDE was there to solve this. But noooooooooooo. Now you have two different GUIs. Divide and conquer. GNOME and KDE.
So we have zero progress. A vunerability of open source is exactly this: that there may be similar programs and no standard way. Usually this is solved with wisdom from the developers: if there's a good product you don't duplicate. Was the qt license worth this fork of standards? Is miguel only interested in selling Ximian because GNOME is the "gnu desktop"? Wasn't the same miguel who did Mono, the OSS C#?
I'll often, in debate, equate Michael Moore to being the "liberal Ann Coulter," but in all fairness it's really not the case. Moore is absolutely batshit insane and his ultra-liberal and oftentimes hypocritical/conflicting views on many issues leave much to be desired, but I never got the impression from him, even through that shitfest that was the Oscars, that he blamed conservatives for all of the problems in this country. Sure, he might have named plenty of neocons that he didn't like at various times, but he never set out to imply that conservatives in general were the reason for the sorry state of affairs in America right now.
This isn't meant to defend Moore, by the way; I still can't stand him. It's meant to demonize Coulter for being the hateful, overly-emotional and illogical cunt she is.
Okay, enough with trying to be funny.....this is really getting old.
The books have been out for a very, very long time. Now, with that said, stop trying to be funny. You're making yourselves out to be idiots!
If you wouldn't make such remarks in real life, why make them in an online and public forum?
I hate liberals. If you are a liberal, do not reply.
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