"Black people always used to say 'I'm in the house,' instead of 'I'm here'. But white people started to say, 'In the house.' So we switched it to, 'In the hizz-ouse.' 'In the hizz-ouse,' became 'In the hizz-izz-ouse', and white people started saying that, and we had to change it to 'Hizzy', then 'The hizzle,' which we had to change to 'Hizzle-fo-zizzle.' Now, because white people say 'Hizzle-fo-zizzle,' we have to say 'Flippity-floppity-floop.'" - Chef, "SouthPark"
props n. colloq. -- Props is a shortening of propers, itself a colloquialism implying "proper respect". Originated in African-American vernacular (Early 90s). No longer a part of the vernacular, as African-Americans stop using slang as soon as we hear white people using it. Ex. You get mad props for that.
I can just get in the car with the phone in my pocket. If a call comes in, it show up on the car's touchscreen and I touch an icon to pick it up. It mutes the stereo and the call audio comes through the stereo speakers. The microphone is in the mirror. Sound quality is great.
That is the coolest shit I have ever heard in my life. Holy Moses. I just got my T616 today (AT&T is handing them out gratis to new subscribers) and I'm happy as a little girl. Are there any other car stereos that support the Bluetooth handsfree feature? Something aftermarket?
Hmmm...you may be right. Now an IT director when laying out his annual budget can lay out columns for Office Software, Initial Cost, and Support. No way any PHB can argue with the numbers laid out that way. You're getting a comparable (superior, IMO) product PLUS support if something goes wrong. Not to mention $0 to upgrade versus massive annual Microsoft tithes. Not to mention not being tied to one platform. Not to mention...
Now if only IT departments will start cutting costs this way INSTEAD of offshoring everything. I can hope, can't I?
Maxxx Orbison: What's your name, again? Sancho: I am Sancho. Maxxx Orbison: Look, I get a lot of people auditioning all the time. What makes you think that you'd be good enough for porno? Sancho: I am Sancho. Maxxx Orbison: Great... but what do you do? Sancho: What do I do? I am Sancho. Maxxx Orbison: And...? Sancho: And there are many Jeffs in the world, and many Toms as well. But I... am Sancho. Maxxx Orbison: And...? Sancho: Are you Sancho? No you are not. Neither is Scott Baio Sancho. Frank Gifford is not Sancho. But I... Maxxx Orbison: You... are Sancho! Sancho: That's right. Maxxx Orbison: Okay, you're hired.
What's funny about this is, what got me started wanting a region-switching DVD player is the fact that Orgazmo is only available in region 2 DVD.
Especially as the good people over at OO.o keep improving their software. I myself gave OO another look when 1.1 came out. Impressed is not the word. It removed any and all complaints I had about the software from the pre-1.0 and 1.0 versions. I actually PREFER it to the Office suite now, and I use it on my Powerbook, Windows partition, and Linux machine.
This is definitely one of those cases where an open source product is obviously of greater value than it's commercial counterpart, both financially and from a quality standpoint.
The right to privacy would be a double-edged sword. I can see corporations claiming right to privacy on business data and the like. I don't think that corporations should be viewed as "citizens" under the law anyway, but that's me.
I still, however, maintain that a constitutionally guaranteed right to individual privacy (encompassing medical information, all activities in or around a home or residence, purchases and other financial information, and library rentals) would do more good, especially under our current neo-Draconian administration, with it's flagrant disregard for the individual.
Sorry, that almost turned into a political rant. *goes to get more coffee*
I'm in the market for a new DVD player, m'self. Mind recommending something multi-region? Not region-free, 'cuz as I understand it, certain region-encoded DVDs will refuse to play on a player that returns it's region as '0'. Google search is turning up a bunch of "HACK YOUR DVD! B3 L33t!" type links, so I thought I'd ask this happy bunch.
At least the adult industry (as always) has it right. All pr0n DVDs are region free!
The data may be used for 'secondary purposes' other than anti-terrorism measures if requested from US Customs by other law enforcement agencies."
Like McDonald's late-night security guards. Or anyone who whips up some FBI letterhead and sends a fax. You'd be surprised how easily organizations will fling about our beverage selections and hotel porno rentals without a care for our privacy or their sense of morality.
Can anyone think of any act, any act at all, where a United States citizen is guaranteed privacy by law? Are phone calls with your lawyer and conversations with your psychiatrist still honored, or is that gone too?
Hm. I wonder if I can get Ted Kennedy's hotel porno rentals. Anyone got a template for FBI letterhead?
This goes for any future Spidey villians down the road too: Venom (obviously), Carnage (you just know they're going to throw him in on the Venom pic), Return of Green Goblin/Hobgoblin (again, can't you just see the whole Osborn family mess in one picture).
God please not Carnage. The "Holy shit this groovy black costume I picked up during the Secret Wars is alive!" storyline promptly ceased being entertaining when the Marvel execs decided "Hey, if they like Venom, why don't we give them FIVE! WEEEE!". I'm big on Eddie Brock, and I like how they slipped him in the first movie, and I'm definitely looking forward to seeing Sam Raimi work his Mojo on a Venom story. Not to mention seeing the big "Venom grin" on the big screen. (If his first appearance is in complete darkness where all you can see is the grin, like in the comics, I will shit myself).
Oh, and definitely do a Green Goblin II/Hobby Gobby thing, though I don't remember which one was Osbourne Jr.. I had the first Hobgoblin storyline when I was a kid (all the way up through Inferno, where he turned into a real demon), but I'm at a loss on specifics.
I don't know that Shocker or Vulture or Kraven would translate well, or make interesting movie characters, personally.
Perhaps it's just me (it seems the 'geek' community's official party line is to hate this game), but few things stir my blood like the music from FFVII. Maybe it's just because that game was instrumental to my procrastination sophomore year, but any time I hear...
Estuans interius ira vehementi Estuans interius ira vehementi Sephiroth! Sephiroth!
Amen to that. I'm spending Christmas in a hotel 200 miles from my home all for a 3.5 week contract writing Tivoli scripts. Hopefully it'll lead to something longer-term. Think some happy thoughts for me.
I wonder how many access points you would find by flying over the Pentagon
Good luck getting into D.C. airspace. In fact, good luck even filing a flight plan that takes you within 1 mile of D.C. airspace. Come up on the radar as headed in that direction, and it'll be 1) Warning 2) Command 3) Blowing you into tasty bite-sized flaming chunks.
Better I think to stick to warflying where there's no chance of actually being fired upon.:)
There's nothing wrong with choice, variety being the spice of life and all. I personally use(d) WinAMP in Windows because I could feed it a directory of tunes and it would parse and play them for me, complete with pattern searching and sorting by genre (like iTunes). Find me an mp3 player in Linux that does that and I'll marry it. Yes, I'm familiar with Rhythmbox, but I'd like something a little more mature if you don't mind.
It's a common misconception that automatic weapons are illegal, when in fact the federal right to bear arms applies to almost any weapon you can think of. Federal statutes imply heavy licensing fees on the ownership of such weapons, and the sale of such weapons is also heavily controlled and vigorously fined, but once you get past all those things, you can stockpile to your hearts content.
Some states (Michigan being one of them) still ban the ownership of said weapons without a license. I don't know how stringent the licensing policy is, but this is the state that gave the world Ted Nugent and the Michigan Militia.
So, to sum up, you can own all the heavy weaponry you like, but you may not conceal or hunt with said weapons, nor own or transport without a license or you're going to jail (your ass == meat) for 2 to 5 years per offense. Going to jail is not the same thing as having a federal agency come to your home and kill you and everyone else there. Comparing the two is like the kind of people that watch a man being beaten to death by the police and want to discuss how the man was on drugs or causing a disturbance, or resisting or whatever else. None of those things justifies your being killed.
17 year-old Drew Gamble has broken the world "I am possibly the most pathetic human in the world" endurance record by continuously playing the rhythm-action arcade game for 371/2 hours.
Though maybe he's in training to do some weekend raving once he gets to college. Playing 37 hours of DDR while taking crystal meth and surrounded by strobe lights...now you're playing with power.
I have NWN as well as the first expansion, and I've never gone online. I guess I misunderstood completely the way that it worked; I was of the mind that you pick a module, find some other folks that want to play it, play through the module, end of story. Mind telling me where to find some of these persistent world servers?
Maybe I'm all alone, but IMO, the appeal of the Star Wars Universe is the Jedi mythos. This is why every other Star Wars licensed game to date has allowed you to "Use the Force" in some way shape or form (even the Atari Empire Strikes Back game. Anyone else remember that?).
THIS game on the other hand seems to want me to pay $50 + subscription fee specifically to be a supporting cast member. It wants me to be Stormtropper #3 or Rebel Infantry #9. It's 300,000 subscribers in, and now it has ONE "possible" Jedi, that now everyone in the game will be trying to kill. This just doesn't seem like my idea of a good time.
But maybe I'm missing the appeal. Can anyone clarify for me?
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I can't remember a child star that did well past puberty.
Dude. Come on.
That's an obvious one. Punky Brewster is also quite the piece. Not to mention Nikki Cox. Dear, sweet Jesus.
Never mind, I found it:
"Black people always used to say 'I'm in the house,' instead of 'I'm here'. But white people started to say, 'In the house.' So we switched it to, 'In the hizz-ouse.' 'In the hizz-ouse,' became 'In the hizz-izz-ouse', and white people started saying that, and we had to change it to 'Hizzy', then 'The hizzle,' which we had to change to 'Hizzle-fo-zizzle.' Now, because white people say 'Hizzle-fo-zizzle,' we have to say 'Flippity-floppity-floop.'"
- Chef, "SouthPark"
Yep. Still funny.
"Flippity-floppity-floop"
LOL! I heard that somewhere...was it on SNL or something like that?
props n. colloq. -- Props is a shortening of propers, itself a colloquialism implying "proper respect". Originated in African-American vernacular (Early 90s). No longer a part of the vernacular, as African-Americans stop using slang as soon as we hear white people using it. Ex. You get mad props for that.
I can just get in the car with the phone in my pocket. If a call comes in, it show up on the car's touchscreen and I touch an icon to pick it up. It mutes the stereo and the call audio comes through the stereo speakers. The microphone is in the mirror. Sound quality is great.
That is the coolest shit I have ever heard in my life. Holy Moses. I just got my T616 today (AT&T is handing them out gratis to new subscribers) and I'm happy as a little girl. Are there any other car stereos that support the Bluetooth handsfree feature? Something aftermarket?
Hmmm...you may be right. Now an IT director when laying out his annual budget can lay out columns for Office Software, Initial Cost, and Support. No way any PHB can argue with the numbers laid out that way. You're getting a comparable (superior, IMO) product PLUS support if something goes wrong. Not to mention $0 to upgrade versus massive annual Microsoft tithes. Not to mention not being tied to one platform. Not to mention...
Now if only IT departments will start cutting costs this way INSTEAD of offshoring everything. I can hope, can't I?
Sancho? Is that you?
Maxxx Orbison: What's your name, again?
Sancho: I am Sancho.
Maxxx Orbison: Look, I get a lot of people auditioning all the time. What makes you think that you'd be good enough for porno?
Sancho: I am Sancho.
Maxxx Orbison: Great... but what do you do?
Sancho: What do I do? I am Sancho.
Maxxx Orbison: And...?
Sancho: And there are many Jeffs in the world, and many Toms as well. But I... am Sancho.
Maxxx Orbison: And...?
Sancho: Are you Sancho? No you are not. Neither is Scott Baio Sancho. Frank Gifford is not Sancho. But I...
Maxxx Orbison: You... are Sancho!
Sancho: That's right.
Maxxx Orbison: Okay, you're hired.
What's funny about this is, what got me started wanting a region-switching DVD player is the fact that Orgazmo is only available in region 2 DVD.
Especially as the good people over at OO.o keep improving their software. I myself gave OO another look when 1.1 came out. Impressed is not the word. It removed any and all complaints I had about the software from the pre-1.0 and 1.0 versions. I actually PREFER it to the Office suite now, and I use it on my Powerbook, Windows partition, and Linux machine.
This is definitely one of those cases where an open source product is obviously of greater value than it's commercial counterpart, both financially and from a quality standpoint.
Keep up the good work, OO.o!
The right to privacy would be a double-edged sword. I can see corporations claiming right to privacy on business data and the like. I don't think that corporations should be viewed as "citizens" under the law anyway, but that's me.
I still, however, maintain that a constitutionally guaranteed right to individual privacy (encompassing medical information, all activities in or around a home or residence, purchases and other financial information, and library rentals) would do more good, especially under our current neo-Draconian administration, with it's flagrant disregard for the individual.
Sorry, that almost turned into a political rant. *goes to get more coffee*
I'm in the market for a new DVD player, m'self. Mind recommending something multi-region? Not region-free, 'cuz as I understand it, certain region-encoded DVDs will refuse to play on a player that returns it's region as '0'. Google search is turning up a bunch of "HACK YOUR DVD! B3 L33t!" type links, so I thought I'd ask this happy bunch.
At least the adult industry (as always) has it right. All pr0n DVDs are region free!
The data may be used for 'secondary purposes' other than anti-terrorism measures if requested from US Customs by other law enforcement agencies."
Like McDonald's late-night security guards. Or anyone who whips up some FBI letterhead and sends a fax. You'd be surprised how easily organizations will fling about our beverage selections and hotel porno rentals without a care for our privacy or their sense of morality.
Can anyone think of any act, any act at all, where a United States citizen is guaranteed privacy by law? Are phone calls with your lawyer and conversations with your psychiatrist still honored, or is that gone too?
Hm. I wonder if I can get Ted Kennedy's hotel porno rentals. Anyone got a template for FBI letterhead?
But our whole society is based on ranking people.. does my High /. ID make me inferior?
:)
Yes.
This goes for any future Spidey villians down the road too: Venom (obviously), Carnage (you just know they're going to throw him in on the Venom pic), Return of Green Goblin/Hobgoblin (again, can't you just see the whole Osborn family mess in one picture).
God please not Carnage. The "Holy shit this groovy black costume I picked up during the Secret Wars is alive!" storyline promptly ceased being entertaining when the Marvel execs decided "Hey, if they like Venom, why don't we give them FIVE! WEEEE!". I'm big on Eddie Brock, and I like how they slipped him in the first movie, and I'm definitely looking forward to seeing Sam Raimi work his Mojo on a Venom story. Not to mention seeing the big "Venom grin" on the big screen. (If his first appearance is in complete darkness where all you can see is the grin, like in the comics, I will shit myself).
Oh, and definitely do a Green Goblin II/Hobby Gobby thing, though I don't remember which one was Osbourne Jr.. I had the first Hobgoblin storyline when I was a kid (all the way up through Inferno, where he turned into a real demon), but I'm at a loss on specifics.
I don't know that Shocker or Vulture or Kraven would translate well, or make interesting movie characters, personally.
Perhaps it's just me (it seems the 'geek' community's official party line is to hate this game), but few things stir my blood like the music from FFVII. Maybe it's just because that game was instrumental to my procrastination sophomore year, but any time I hear...
Estuans interius ira vehementi
Estuans interius ira vehementi
Sephiroth!
Sephiroth!
I get all tingly.
I....think I've said too much.
Amen to that. I'm spending Christmas in a hotel 200 miles from my home all for a 3.5 week contract writing Tivoli scripts. Hopefully it'll lead to something longer-term. Think some happy thoughts for me.
I wonder how many access points you would find
:)
by flying over the Pentagon
Good luck getting into D.C. airspace. In fact, good luck even filing a flight plan that takes you within 1 mile of D.C. airspace. Come up on the radar as headed in that direction, and it'll be 1) Warning 2) Command 3) Blowing you into tasty bite-sized flaming chunks.
Better I think to stick to warflying where there's no chance of actually being fired upon.
Totem for me, thanks.
There's nothing wrong with choice, variety being the spice of life and all. I personally use(d) WinAMP in Windows because I could feed it a directory of tunes and it would parse and play them for me, complete with pattern searching and sorting by genre (like iTunes). Find me an mp3 player in Linux that does that and I'll marry it. Yes, I'm familiar with Rhythmbox, but I'd like something a little more mature if you don't mind.
Heh.
It's a common misconception that automatic weapons are illegal, when in fact the federal right to bear arms applies to almost any weapon you can think of. Federal statutes imply heavy licensing fees on the ownership of such weapons, and the sale of such weapons is also heavily controlled and vigorously fined, but once you get past all those things, you can stockpile to your hearts content.
Some states (Michigan being one of them) still ban the ownership of said weapons without a license. I don't know how stringent the licensing policy is, but this is the state that gave the world Ted Nugent and the Michigan Militia.
So, to sum up, you can own all the heavy weaponry you like, but you may not conceal or hunt with said weapons, nor own or transport without a license or you're going to jail (your ass == meat) for 2 to 5 years per offense. Going to jail is not the same thing as having a federal agency come to your home and kill you and everyone else there. Comparing the two is like the kind of people that watch a man being beaten to death by the police and want to discuss how the man was on drugs or causing a disturbance, or resisting or whatever else. None of those things justifies your being killed.
Thanks for listening.
They don't give out Nobel prizes for "Most Novel New Method to Kill People".
Actually...
I count 16 Nobel Prize winners highlighted. Sure they didn't EXACTLY win for what their discoveries were used for, but still.
men who can't have entertainment without strippers, sports or people injuring themselves/others
Hmmm...if only there were some sort of sport...where strippers....injured themselves....and others!
Hmmm....
To be fair, Fallout is itself a remake of Wasteland, itself an excellent game.
17 year-old Drew Gamble has broken the world "I am possibly the most pathetic human in the world" endurance record by continuously playing the rhythm-action arcade game for 371/2 hours.
Though maybe he's in training to do some weekend raving once he gets to college. Playing 37 hours of DDR while taking crystal meth and surrounded by strobe lights...now you're playing with power.
I have NWN as well as the first expansion, and I've never gone online. I guess I misunderstood completely the way that it worked; I was of the mind that you pick a module, find some other folks that want to play it, play through the module, end of story. Mind telling me where to find some of these persistent world servers?
Maybe I'm all alone, but IMO, the appeal of the Star Wars Universe is the Jedi mythos. This is why every other Star Wars licensed game to date has allowed you to "Use the Force" in some way shape or form (even the Atari Empire Strikes Back game. Anyone else remember that?).
THIS game on the other hand seems to want me to pay $50 + subscription fee specifically to be a supporting cast member. It wants me to be Stormtropper #3 or Rebel Infantry #9. It's 300,000 subscribers in, and now it has ONE "possible" Jedi, that now everyone in the game will be trying to kill. This just doesn't seem like my idea of a good time.
But maybe I'm missing the appeal. Can anyone clarify for me?