You're a fucking idiot. It's precisely because of government intervention that you're capable of carrying out a safe, happy, healthy life.
That is, unless you want the government to cease all regulation with regards to transportation safety standards, food safety standards, building codes, etc. I suppose that's all typical liberal elitism too, eh?
Actually I think a system like this could work pretty well. And then if you have any disputes, you settle them in the Thunderdome.
R2D2 just walks up to any ATM, opens a panel, sticks an interface in, twists a few times, and takes all the cash he wants
You know, R2-D2 was always kind of easy-going about how he used that data jack. He'd just stick it in any old port he could find, and give it a few turns until he got what he needed. The problem is those data-jack interfaces are very prone to viral transmission. Plus computers are becoming more and more selective in terms of what kinds of data packets they'll accept. As a result, it's becoming very rare these days to find an unprotected data port. It's not like the old days where he could find a data port ready and waiting on any given street corner.
If the lesson here is "People like to see the phones in a store" then Radio Shack, for instance, should take note. I need to be able to use the phone before I buy it to see if it's any good. If all you've got are dummy mock-ups, that doesn't do me any good.
Most laptop's have a fairly easy to remove keyboard.
Why not call the supplier and ask how much a local keyboard retails for? Undo the screws, replace the keyboard and voila, your international laptop has been localised.
Warranty?
I don't know if this is true of most laptops - but on mine (a EEE 901) removing the keyboard doesn't void the warranty. Users are allowed to remove the keyboard, replace the RAM and (IIRC) the large SSD and maybe even the wi-fi card, all without voiding the warranty. You only void the warranty once you really crack the thing open, remove the outer casing and RF shield or whatever. Replacing the keyboard doesn't even require opening the case. All you've got to do is press down a couple tabs and the thing pops right out...
I prefer my screen without an anti-glare coating outside. All an anti-glare coating does is turns a specular dot into a diffuse white out, the specular dot can be got rid of by angling the screen, the diffuse white out can't.
I think you mean a matte screen, not an anti-glare screen...
Anti-glare coating can be (and should be) a part of a gloss screen - it reduces glare by changing the reflective properties of the surface. More of the light passes through the monitor glass instead of being bounced off.
Personally, this time around I've stuck with matte screens - although a diffuse reflection is bound to white-out the screen to some extent in a bright environment, to me this still sounded like a better idea than having nearly mirror-like reflectivity on the screen... After all, the sun's not the only light source around, there's all the reflected environmental light as well. Getting a reflection of the grassy field surrounding me seems just as bad as getting the sun - either way, I can't read the screen. That said, I haven't tried glossy screens outdoors yet - It could be that the anti-reflective coatings are quite a lot better at eliminating this problem than I tend to think they are. I'll have to give it a try sometime with my wife's laptop before buying my next laptop or monitor...
Sorry. Whenever I start typing about the Cybermen, my hands start to shake. I don't know why, but it's nothing to do with seeing Colin Baker trying to stop them from implanting circuitry in his friend's skull when I was six.
Heh, nice. Sometimes I feel like I really missed out by not watching Doctor Who when I was a kid (they ran it on public television in the US, apparently - I could have seen the sixth and seventh doctor's adventures as they came out...)
Other times, I feel like I watched quite enough TV as a kid and my life wouldn't have been significantly improved had I watched more.:)
Ever watched "The Tenth Planet"? The Cybermen are so goofy in their first appearance, but it's great stuff...
So, what now, get another actor that leaves after a season, and wrap the series completely? IIRC, the next will be the last reincarnation, right?
No, there's twelve regenerations. The first doctor doesn't count as a "regeneration"... i.e. the fifth doctor identifies himself as the fourth regeneration... So there would be thirteen doctors.
But, of course, all it takes is one line of script to change that - some simple justification for a thirteenth regeneration.
The Master, of course, already got around the limit on regenerations, via stolen bodies and at least one regeneration. There have been at least 17 Masters (The rotting corpse Master was "The Master's Final Regeneration" attempting to avoid the curse of fatal death... So the Anthony Ainley stolen-body Master was #14, the guy the Daleks fried in the TV movie was #15, the new Master in the TV movie was #16... Prof. Yana could have been an older #16 or another regeneration, which means Harold Saxon was at least #17...) Of course, the Doctor wouldn't prolong his life by stealing someone else's (hence, Wilfred's still alive) - but they just need an excuse, it doesn't have to make any kind of sense.:)
If the show's still going strong when we hit Doctor #13, I expect they'll make a big deal of his impending death and try to create suspense over whether he'll regenerate at all... (But, of course, we're bound to get some insight to whether the show will continue...)
He's, what, two or three years younger than Peter Davison was when he started? Five years younger than David Tennant when he started?
I do feel like they've maybe been overdoing the "youthful doctor" thing... But I like how Smith has played it. He has a young face but it's like he lets a little of his inner codger show through.:)
If they ever do make him really twelve, though... Ouch.. I don't normally speak too badly of "Wesley Crusher" (I was a kid, Wesley was my hero!) but a kid playing a know-it-all lead sounds like a recipe for pain... I'm not old enough yet to think of Matt Smith as a "kid".:)
As someone who has been rewatching the Tom Baker episodes I can honestly say that they do not stand the test of time.
Oh, bah! Wha'chu talkim' bout?
I mean, probably like a lot of fans in the US I started with Tom Baker, and it was actually a long time before I even saw any other doctors... And so more recently I've watched episodes with the other doctors and enjoyed them quite a lot - to the point that Tom Baker is no longer "the" doctor to me, or even necessarily the "best" doctor or the best "classic" doctor... But I went through a bunch of his episodes while watching the classic series episodes (all that I have, I mean) - and actually, he's quite good.
But bring him back? Might be fun for a visit but otherwise I'm enjoying the process of moving forward.
at least some of the episodes like "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances" or "The Time of Angels"/"Flesh and Stone" are far too dark for a children's show.
Bah! Maybe American children. Hiding behind the sofa from the Doctor Who aliens is a right of passage for British children.
If you know that you're grandmother lives on the other side of the Atlantic, you'll probably also know that she will die at some point.
And when you figure out how to predict exactly when, you'll be able to make a lot of money.
It's true, the betting pool on the date your grandma is gonna die has been getting rather large of late - personally I think the whole thing is morbid, but who am I to stand in the way of good, clean fun?
it did not work, she was rapped and then LATER found a payphone
updating her facebook did not do jack squat
Would you have bet money that I hadn't read the article?
If so... well, you would have won. However - since you're acting like you know it all, here is the relevant quote from the article.
The complaint states she then pushed her dresser in front of her door, climbed out a window and ran to a payphone to call her mother, who had received the message from the girl's Facebook friend and was already on her way.
The girl's mother had already received the message from the girl's Facebook friend and was already on her way. So the damn message did work. Suck it, AC.
Even if it didn't work - again, if it's all you've got, you use it!
It's best not to make bad jokes based on grammar when English is not you r first language. There was nothing wrong with the GP's sentence and your "joke" is disgusting and not funny.
If you don't think my jokes are funny, that's cool. Sometimes I'm actually not funny.
And I'd tend to agree, there was actually nothing wrong with the phrase I was intentionally misinterpreting. If things had gone down the way I'd suggested, the original sentence would have been more naturally phrased as "my friend got his rifle and tried to rape his mother while someone was breaking into the house".
But the joke wasn't based on grammar, it was based on misinterpreting grammar... Like a lot of the Police Squad gags or half the stuff from Airplane.
"Cigarette?" "Yes, it is."
"I live a pretty solitary life, just me, the open road, and my bike." "A loner?" "No, I own it."
"Surely, you must be joking."
And so on... The simple fact that, under normal circumstances, these phrases would not be misinterpreted is the whole basis of the joke.
Yes I understand that it is an iPOD, that is the first thing I would pick up in an emergency!
If it's all you've got, sure! Why not? It worked, didn't it?
are you fucking kidding me, find a telephone, bang 3 buttons and you're connected to the police, even after when she DID finally figure out what the hell a phone does, she STILL didnt call the cops, she calls her MOM wtf
When someone is raped, they don't necessarily want the police. They want the support of someone they trust implicitly. They want comfort and a feeling of safety. They may feel too ashamed to share the story with strangers. Talking to the police, doing a rape kit, having somebody picking spooge samples out of you - these are difficult steps on the path to revenge-via-police, and revenge may not be high on the rape victim's list of priorities, you know?
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You're a fucking idiot. It's precisely because of government intervention that you're capable of carrying out a safe, happy, healthy life.
That is, unless you want the government to cease all regulation with regards to transportation safety standards, food safety standards, building codes, etc. I suppose that's all typical liberal elitism too, eh?
Actually I think a system like this could work pretty well. And then if you have any disputes, you settle them in the Thunderdome.
When captured by the police, he let out a terrible cry: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
R2D2 just walks up to any ATM, opens a panel, sticks an interface in, twists a few times, and takes all the cash he wants
You know, R2-D2 was always kind of easy-going about how he used that data jack. He'd just stick it in any old port he could find, and give it a few turns until he got what he needed. The problem is those data-jack interfaces are very prone to viral transmission. Plus computers are becoming more and more selective in terms of what kinds of data packets they'll accept. As a result, it's becoming very rare these days to find an unprotected data port. It's not like the old days where he could find a data port ready and waiting on any given street corner.
If the lesson here is "People like to see the phones in a store" then Radio Shack, for instance, should take note. I need to be able to use the phone before I buy it to see if it's any good. If all you've got are dummy mock-ups, that doesn't do me any good.
I'm with you on this one, but bow ties need to go the way of the fez.
Fezzes are cool.
Most laptop's have a fairly easy to remove keyboard.
Why not call the supplier and ask how much a local keyboard retails for? Undo the screws, replace the keyboard and voila, your international laptop has been localised.
Warranty?
I don't know if this is true of most laptops - but on mine (a EEE 901) removing the keyboard doesn't void the warranty. Users are allowed to remove the keyboard, replace the RAM and (IIRC) the large SSD and maybe even the wi-fi card, all without voiding the warranty. You only void the warranty once you really crack the thing open, remove the outer casing and RF shield or whatever. Replacing the keyboard doesn't even require opening the case. All you've got to do is press down a couple tabs and the thing pops right out...
I prefer my screen without an anti-glare coating outside. All an anti-glare coating does is turns a specular dot into a diffuse white out, the specular dot can be got rid of by angling the screen, the diffuse white out can't.
I think you mean a matte screen, not an anti-glare screen...
Anti-glare coating can be (and should be) a part of a gloss screen - it reduces glare by changing the reflective properties of the surface. More of the light passes through the monitor glass instead of being bounced off.
Personally, this time around I've stuck with matte screens - although a diffuse reflection is bound to white-out the screen to some extent in a bright environment, to me this still sounded like a better idea than having nearly mirror-like reflectivity on the screen... After all, the sun's not the only light source around, there's all the reflected environmental light as well. Getting a reflection of the grassy field surrounding me seems just as bad as getting the sun - either way, I can't read the screen. That said, I haven't tried glossy screens outdoors yet - It could be that the anti-reflective coatings are quite a lot better at eliminating this problem than I tend to think they are. I'll have to give it a try sometime with my wife's laptop before buying my next laptop or monitor...
Sorry. Whenever I start typing about the Cybermen, my hands start to shake. I don't know why, but it's nothing to do with seeing Colin Baker trying to stop them from implanting circuitry in his friend's skull when I was six.
Heh, nice. Sometimes I feel like I really missed out by not watching Doctor Who when I was a kid (they ran it on public television in the US, apparently - I could have seen the sixth and seventh doctor's adventures as they came out...)
Other times, I feel like I watched quite enough TV as a kid and my life wouldn't have been significantly improved had I watched more. :)
Ever watched "The Tenth Planet"? The Cybermen are so goofy in their first appearance, but it's great stuff...
Who is this guy?
Yes!
Of course the Doctor will remain a British alien, but there's no reason he has to be white. How about a Indian?
"Lots of planets have an India, my friend!"
So, what now, get another actor that leaves after a season, and wrap the series completely? IIRC, the next will be the last reincarnation, right?
No, there's twelve regenerations. The first doctor doesn't count as a "regeneration"... i.e. the fifth doctor identifies himself as the fourth regeneration... So there would be thirteen doctors.
But, of course, all it takes is one line of script to change that - some simple justification for a thirteenth regeneration.
The Master, of course, already got around the limit on regenerations, via stolen bodies and at least one regeneration. There have been at least 17 Masters (The rotting corpse Master was "The Master's Final Regeneration" attempting to avoid the curse of fatal death... So the Anthony Ainley stolen-body Master was #14, the guy the Daleks fried in the TV movie was #15, the new Master in the TV movie was #16... Prof. Yana could have been an older #16 or another regeneration, which means Harold Saxon was at least #17...) Of course, the Doctor wouldn't prolong his life by stealing someone else's (hence, Wilfred's still alive) - but they just need an excuse, it doesn't have to make any kind of sense. :)
If the show's still going strong when we hit Doctor #13, I expect they'll make a big deal of his impending death and try to create suspense over whether he'll regenerate at all... (But, of course, we're bound to get some insight to whether the show will continue...)
give me a doctor that can have the balls to wear a bow tie and a fucking fez!
Fezzes are cool.
Well done, Mr. Smith.
Dr. Who is NOT:
-twelve years old
Sorry, but it just doesn't work.
He's, what, two or three years younger than Peter Davison was when he started? Five years younger than David Tennant when he started?
I do feel like they've maybe been overdoing the "youthful doctor" thing... But I like how Smith has played it. He has a young face but it's like he lets a little of his inner codger show through. :)
If they ever do make him really twelve, though... Ouch.. I don't normally speak too badly of "Wesley Crusher" (I was a kid, Wesley was my hero!) but a kid playing a know-it-all lead sounds like a recipe for pain... I'm not old enough yet to think of Matt Smith as a "kid". :)
As someone who has been rewatching the Tom Baker episodes I can honestly say that they do not stand the test of time.
Oh, bah! Wha'chu talkim' bout?
I mean, probably like a lot of fans in the US I started with Tom Baker, and it was actually a long time before I even saw any other doctors... And so more recently I've watched episodes with the other doctors and enjoyed them quite a lot - to the point that Tom Baker is no longer "the" doctor to me, or even necessarily the "best" doctor or the best "classic" doctor... But I went through a bunch of his episodes while watching the classic series episodes (all that I have, I mean) - and actually, he's quite good.
But bring him back? Might be fun for a visit but otherwise I'm enjoying the process of moving forward.
Thank god and away with him as fast as possible - the new series was so damn bad. Hope it gets better with another actor.
What's wrong with this year's series? I thought Amy's Crack was great! I'm a big fan of it!
Bah! Maybe American children. Hiding behind the sofa from the Doctor Who aliens is a right of passage for British children.
That's "rite of passage"...
Doctor Who isn't sci-fi. It's a sci-fantasy show for children.
Whatever the fuck it is, I like it.
Airlines should probably be treated like public utilities
What, like urinals? I can do that.
If you know that you're grandmother lives on the other side of the Atlantic, you'll probably also know that she will die at some point.
And when you figure out how to predict exactly when, you'll be able to make a lot of money.
It's true, the betting pool on the date your grandma is gonna die has been getting rather large of late - personally I think the whole thing is morbid, but who am I to stand in the way of good, clean fun?
Excuse me, a bank loan to cross the Atlantic???
Hey, it worked for Chris Columbus.
Was this when he was making the Harry Potter films?
apparently you DID NOT READ THE ARTICLE
it did not work, she was rapped and then LATER found a payphone
updating her facebook did not do jack squat
Would you have bet money that I hadn't read the article?
If so... well, you would have won. However - since you're acting like you know it all, here is the relevant quote from the article.
The complaint states she then pushed her dresser in front of her door, climbed out a window and ran to a payphone to call her mother, who had received the message from the girl's Facebook friend and was already on her way.
The girl's mother had already received the message from the girl's Facebook friend and was already on her way. So the damn message did work. Suck it, AC.
Even if it didn't work - again, if it's all you've got, you use it!
It's best not to make bad jokes based on grammar when English is not you r first language. There was nothing wrong with the GP's sentence and your "joke" is disgusting and not funny.
If you don't think my jokes are funny, that's cool. Sometimes I'm actually not funny.
And I'd tend to agree, there was actually nothing wrong with the phrase I was intentionally misinterpreting. If things had gone down the way I'd suggested, the original sentence would have been more naturally phrased as "my friend got his rifle and tried to rape his mother while someone was breaking into the house".
But the joke wasn't based on grammar, it was based on misinterpreting grammar... Like a lot of the Police Squad gags or half the stuff from Airplane.
"Cigarette?"
"Yes, it is."
"I live a pretty solitary life, just me, the open road, and my bike."
"A loner?"
"No, I own it."
"Surely, you must be joking."
And so on... The simple fact that, under normal circumstances, these phrases would not be misinterpreted is the whole basis of the joke.
It's called "Rape"...
Yes I understand that it is an iPOD, that is the first thing I would pick up in an emergency!
If it's all you've got, sure! Why not? It worked, didn't it?
are you fucking kidding me, find a telephone, bang 3 buttons and you're connected to the police, even after when she DID finally figure out what the hell a phone does, she STILL didnt call the cops, she calls her MOM wtf
When someone is raped, they don't necessarily want the police. They want the support of someone they trust implicitly. They want comfort and a feeling of safety. They may feel too ashamed to share the story with strangers. Talking to the police, doing a rape kit, having somebody picking spooge samples out of you - these are difficult steps on the path to revenge-via-police, and revenge may not be high on the rape victim's list of priorities, you know?
This easily the best application that Facebook has ever been used for.
I don't know, I think "Farmville" is pretty good, too.