Another handicap when writing is left-handedness. Because our language is written left-to-right, left-handed people tend to require much more time to write than right handed people do (and I should know because I am one).
Following a bicycle accident, I was left with less than perfect coordination in my right arm, rendering it useless for writing. I had to re-learn it all with the left hand, but with not much success - I am forced to write print. But the thing that irks me the most is that I cannot use fountain pens anymore (and I **LOOOVE** fountain pens) because I would ruin one in less than a week.
A very good friend of my father once offered me a Mont-Blanc pen, which I sadly had to turn-down because I would not have wanted to ruin so precious a gift.
Fitting classroom computers with a digitizer pad and programming the thing to properly recognize nothing but the finest handwriting (with individual variations) would cure that problem real quick.
I was wondering about this just two or three weeks ago, and tested with Mozilla and IE 6. Both of them can display PNG files, but it's only Mozilla that could render the 256-level alpha channel properly. Made for some very neat effects. IE didn't manage the transparency at all.:-(
This is totally ridiculous and stupid. The best system is already in place: a GAS TAX. With this, people pay for the quantity of gas they use, and therefore proportionnally to the pollution they cause. But the kicker is that it is as simple as collecting so much money for each liter of gas sold. The collection infrastructure is already there and working. No need to add another bureaucracy.
Hell, let's have Miss Vermont AND Max sue slashdot and myself for posting the whole thing here:
The
Miss Vermont Story
This is the
complete and unabridged story of my relationship with Katy Johnson, known to my
friends and her fans as Miss Vermont. I normally don't like writing about the
specific details of relationships or hook-ups for many reasons, but this is
an exception. After putting up the giant hypocrisy that is her
webpage, she has to be ready for what I write.
I must prepare
you, in advance, for what you are about to read...it is as ridiculous and
surreal as anything I have have ever written, and possibly anything you have
ever read. This relationship was outlandish even by Tucker Max standards. You
may not believe some of what is written here. To that, I can only tell you that
I have several witnesses to most of the events here, and the wedding was, well, a
wedding, so there were hundreds of people there.
Furthermore, this
is a long story, because I didn't want to leave out any of the details, lest the
story seem forced or less amazing that it really was.
And to Katy: Even
though you haven't responded to the email I sent you, I know you check this site
every few weeks. You are welcome to email me with corrections or additions to the
story. If I got something wrong or left something out, please let me know and
I'll be happy to change it. In fact, I'll go farther. If you want to write your
own version of our relationship, I swear to my god, that I will post it,
COMPLETELY UNABRIDGED, right next to mine. This is your opportunity to rebut
anything I say here.
_____________________
The summer after law school graduation, I moved to Boca
Raton, Florida and took a job managing my father's restaurants. I wasn't really
expecting to meet a girl I would like, as the general
intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere above functionally
retarded. After I had been in Boca about two months, I hadn't really had any
sort of relationship other than emotionally uninvolved sex with morally
suspicious girls, and I eventually resigned myself to vacant sex with the vapid
idiots that infest South Florida.
One day I was at my gym, The Athletic Club of Boca Raton.
It is a massive airplane hanger of a building; a gym, health club, spa,
lounge and restaurant rolled into one. Basically, it's the type of place where
guttural grunts and flexing underneath tight shiny shirts passes for foreplay.
Welcome to Florida. For several years it's been the in place to
workout in Boca, one of the primest meat markets in a town full of butcher
shops. I usually tried to avoid peak hours and the
throngs of scantily clad gold-digging whores positioning themselves for fifth
husbands. Don't mistake me--staring at dozens of immense fake breasts spilling out of sports bras
is fun for a while, but it gets old quick, especially when those breasts are
attached to faces that tell the story vacant personalities do not. These women have
circled the drain a few times, and no manner of plastic surgery or trips to the
spa can hide that despair that years of whorish behavior and emotional prostitution
leaves in the eyes.
I was in the free weight section of the gym, and one girl
kept catching my eye, more for what she wasn't showing rather than what she was.
She had a navy blue hat on, pulled tight over her face, a loose fitting white
cotton T-shirt, and green basketball shorts. Not the standard Boca female gym
outfit. Staring at her between sets, I realized that she was very attractive. By
trying to hide that attractiveness, she became even better looking. The logo on
her shorts said, Vermont Law, which gave me the perfect in. My law
degree would finally get some good use.
I
approached her as she paused between sets, and asked if she had attended law
school at Vermont. She told me she didn't, that she went to undergrad there, but
that she was attending Stetson for law school.
Does this means that Microsoft will pull-out of California???
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See also the jet-powered beer cooler.
There is a big error in the semantics of the title of that page. It is not a jet-powered beer-cooler, but a beer-cooler powered jet engine: the energy needed to expand the gas from the tank is taken by the water (and the beer cans in the water). Whatever you do with the gas afterwards is irrelevant.
We humbly request your extraordinary assistance.
I am the widow of Makeu Safeglouglou, who was minister of useless things. My husband was killed as he was about to mount a lap dancer in a Ouagadougou stripper bar.
Help us transfer several billion sperm celles frozen in a sperm bank account!
I am no less north-american than you are. However, your totally pointless reply denotes that it is YOU who has the inferiority complex. Europe was there thousands of years before the US, and the solidity of experience clearly shows well against the immature rashness of nouveau-riche yankees...
What this country needs is a political party set up to champion the cause of the motorists.
Oh, great. Now besides the AAA and GM and Chrysler and Ford, another bunch of loonies dedicaced in protecting motorists' "rights" to maim and kill and destroy the environment.
All this to guzzle more oil and get hated even more by the rest of the planet.
It's a good start, but it's overkill for too little.
Road safety would be significantly enhanced if cars were fitted with event recorders that would be queried by police at regular intervals, the idea is to automatically ticket illegal behaviour like speeding or avoiding to stop at stop signs. Such a system could obviously be used to track vehicle whereabouts. One could also imagine having to swipe one driver's licence through the onboard computer to positively identify drivers.
First, it is a problem that has governments and corporations and users - in fact everyone except the spammers - are all on one side. It should be possible to get an international agreement to ban spam in this case. International agreements can/do work if they have support and they are realistic (for example banning CFCs worked).
What's to prevent rogue nations (such as the Grand Duché du Luxembourg or Brazil or Lybia) from not enforcing those agreements???
Since the US acts just like nazi germany in the late 1930's, Europe will have to declare war on the US within the next 10 years, and they will need their own GPS-like system.
There is a british movie (whose title escapes me) about a bunch of crooks escaping from a London prison during a football game and sneaking into the printing plant to print banknotes on the actual printing presses with actual real banknote papers. They then sneak back into prison without anyone noticing....
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A very good friend of my father once offered me a Mont-Blanc pen, which I sadly had to turn-down because I would not have wanted to ruin so precious a gift.
Fitting classroom computers with a digitizer pad and programming the thing to properly recognize nothing but the finest handwriting (with individual variations) would cure that problem real quick.
And be given a pair of concrete slippers as a parting gift.
Good riddance. Clueless and Witless has been one of the worst spam supporters that ever been.
This is totally ridiculous and stupid. The best system is already in place: a GAS TAX. With this, people pay for the quantity of gas they use, and therefore proportionnally to the pollution they cause. But the kicker is that it is as simple as collecting so much money for each liter of gas sold. The collection infrastructure is already there and working. No need to add another bureaucracy.
Does this means that Microsoft will pull-out of California???
I am the widow of Makeu Safeglouglou, who was minister of useless things. My husband was killed as he was about to mount a lap dancer in a Ouagadougou stripper bar.
Help us transfer several billion sperm celles frozen in a sperm bank account!
And this baby goes easier on fuel, too...
I am no less north-american than you are. However, your totally pointless reply denotes that it is YOU who has the inferiority complex. Europe was there thousands of years before the US, and the solidity of experience clearly shows well against the immature rashness of nouveau-riche yankees...
It is YOU who have to show just cause in order to get a driver's licence. Something like passing a driver's test for example.
Driving would not be required in the US if you stupid yankees had not gutted public transportation systems over the last 50 years.
But even so, driving is not a right, but a privilege that can be revoked if you're not playing nice to your fellow citizens.
You are therefore a public menace since you deliberately threaten the life of innocent bystanders. You are obviously unfit to have a drivers' licence.
All this to guzzle more oil and get hated even more by the rest of the planet.
Boy, those yankeers are stupid!
Road safety would be significantly enhanced if cars were fitted with event recorders that would be queried by police at regular intervals, the idea is to automatically ticket illegal behaviour like speeding or avoiding to stop at stop signs. Such a system could obviously be used to track vehicle whereabouts. One could also imagine having to swipe one driver's licence through the onboard computer to positively identify drivers.
Since the US acts just like nazi germany in the late 1930's, Europe will have to declare war on the US within the next 10 years, and they will need their own GPS-like system.
There is a british movie (whose title escapes me) about a bunch of crooks escaping from a London prison during a football game and sneaking into the printing plant to print banknotes on the actual printing presses with actual real banknote papers. They then sneak back into prison without anyone noticing....