As far as sexual deviancy is concerned, DALnet is probably worse than the Undernet, but there again, I was privy to learning about the existence of a huge number of different forms of dysfunctional sexuality...Paedophilia, beastiality, scatology, BDSM, various types of oral fixations, group sex, fetishism is countless other different forms, transsexuality, etc etc
Wow, bigotry alive and well on slashdot. While Paedophilia is completely and totally wrong, any of the other kinks mentioned are just that kinks, and just because it isn't your kink doesn't make it dysfunctional.
...was over at US Air, where a large number of selfish and uncaring union employees decided to mess up a huge number of their customer's Christmas plans.
While stupid stuff like this software problem is embarrassing, and the SBS and the people who wrote the software should hang their heads in shame it was still unintentional and is nowhere as shameful as the deliberate sabotage done to US Air's customers by their union employees.
I have a little mail-server on the end of my cable line for my domain which has three mail accounts on it. I always find it immensely frustrating that my mail server is on MAPS DUL list and people who subscribe to MAPS block my mail.
It's not been a big enough issue that I've installed SASL for my postfix server, but it would be nice to get off the list.
Actually I know the guy (well virtually anyway), who made the Paris Hilton figure. He is a reputable sculptor, and designer of extremely limited run toys, including a line of serial killer action figures.
I don't think he deserves to be in the same class as the other two auctions listed.
I've got mine on a shelf. They're not virgin having been played many many times each, but the picture quality and sound quality is still excellent.
I'm disappointed that with all the technology available in DVDs we won't get an option to include/exclude the additional stuff Lucas stuck in the films.
I first built Gentoo on a ThinkPad 570e two years ago. At that time I was using SMC wireless equipment and all went swimmingly well.
Last March I upgraded to a ThinkPad R31 and installed Gentoo on it. It had internal wireless, and that worked beautifully until the hardware quit. I then plugged in my trusty SMC wireless card and built PCMCIA wireless support and all worked perfectly again.
New Mexico is the same state where one of their legislators proposed that all motorcyclists who were killed in accidents and were not wearing helmets would automatically become organ donors. Fortunately this idea was shot down, and I hope the interlock idea is too.
I've been using and abusing my Land's End notebook case for over five years and love it and wouldn't trade it for the world. Other bags have gotten better reviews, but this bag has never let me down and has outlived four different notebook computers
You could package them cutely and send millions of them all over the country so people could write drivers for them and then you could send them cease and desist orders...
My wife got me the latest Honor Harrington book for Christmas. I had never read any of the books in the series, so I broke out the CD and read much of book one on my notebook. I then finished it from a print copy I got from the library. I read all of book two off the CD. My wife read the one from the library, but decided she couldn't read online, and purchased copies of books two, three, four and five of the series.
Baen's cluefulness opened up a whole new world to me (as I have never been much of a science fiction fan). I support them with my dollars because they have done such a good job on such a cool thing as their CD's.
Dang, I wish I hadn't burned my Mod points before seeing this reply!
That is such a great response. I am terrible at answering questions about minutiae that a man or grep or google can turn up. I can't remember all the details, but the thing that separates me from others is that I always know where to find the answers.
So, I'm going to reply to my own message in response to those who replied to the original.
What I gather from what all three of you have said, is, that we can think governments have been and might in the future be oppressive when it comes to something that liberals abhor, such as a national ID card, but governments are always nice and respect the best interests of all their citizens both now and in the future, when it comes to a something that liberals love such as gun control.
All you who believe that we don't need and will never need our guns obviously haven't been paying attention to our lovely Attorney General, John Ashcroft, and that other wonderful fellow, the Secretary of Homeland Defense, Tom Ridge.
I got stopped by the Department of Homeland Security the other day on my way to the airport. It was far more surreal than I expected it to be. When I rolled down the window of my car to talk to the nice officer, I half expected him to say "Can I see your papers please?"
Sounds like a good argument for the 2nd Ammendment
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...by simply ignoring the horrific examples of abusive governments throughout history. How can a responsible thinker so easily shrug off the need to protect oneself from the unknown abuses of the future just because one may think things are relatively agreeable at present?"
This is a perfect example of why gun ownership is a good idea and why our forefathers thought the Second Ammendment was a good idea.
I'm an RHCE, but I now have Gentoo on all my Linux boxes. I won't be going back any time soon.
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You want to pollute the sun?
I can't believe it. Just think about all that garbage ending up on the sun Eventually the mound of used tires will create a giant black spot on the sun and will bring about a new ice age everywhere the tire shadow falls!
How could you even suggest such an environmentally unsound idea!
I regularly tell people that they should be polite if not for altruistic reasons then for selfish reasons. People have accussed me of being extraordinarily polite: "Yes sir, No sir, Yes Ma'am, No Ma'am," etc. I regularly get treated better by the checker who is half my age, or the fast food cashier, or any number of other individuals; far better than the person in front of me or behind me in line.
So, am I polite for altruistic reasons, or for selfish reasons? It's an interesting question. I would have to say for both reasons.
I've bought a couple of them for my three sons and myself. $19.95, two games out at a time, as many games as you can get in 30 days. It's a heck of a deal, there've even been times where we got a game in the morning, decided it sucked and returned it that afternoon for something new.
I usually get one game for the kids (T rating or lower and one game for me M rated). [I have to get something that only I can play cause my kids kick my butt on anything I play with them!].
Blockbuster doesn't necessarily have the best selection, but they've generally got enough to keep us interested.
The minute I saw this headline I knew I needed to mention Soul of a New Machine you got there first!
It is one of the books that shaped my love of technology. An excellent and entertaining read. Sure the technology is *really* old, I read it getting on for twenty years ago, but the engineers then were facing fascinating problems just as contemporary engineers do.
Several of my co-workers saw it yesterday at a matinee. When they returned to the office I quizzed them relentlessly on whether it was appropriate for an eight year old. I got several unqualified 'yes's' and one qualified 'yes'.
So Travis and I went to see Spider-man together last night. We both jumped a couple of times, and both thoroughly enjoyed it. If I was on the ratings committee (or whatever it is that does the ratings) I would have probably rated it PG, not PG-13.
The final fight is pretty graphic, and has what could have been a very gory scene, however, the editing was well done and everyone understood exactly what happened without any blood.
Travis told me that we would have to buy it when it comes out on DVD. He also told me he wished that William (his five-year-old brother) could see it. But when I reminded him that William hides around the corner of the room at the scary scenes in Disney movies, he re-assessed the situation and said maybe William shouldn't see it.
That said, we both agreed that my youngest son Kellan (who will be four tomorrow) would have thoroughly enjoyed it.
I hope this helps someone make, what can be, a difficult decision--at least for parents who care what their kids feed into their brains.
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...I think I would rather take my chances with the terrorists.
I'm a dual citizen UK/US. Lived in the States since I was a little boy. This has affected me more profoundly than I thought possible
Thank you for this post.
Wow, bigotry alive and well on slashdot. While Paedophilia is completely and totally wrong, any of the other kinks mentioned are just that kinks, and just because it isn't your kink doesn't make it dysfunctional.
Oh I agree that US Air Management aren't angels. However, that does not mitigate the behaviour by those employees.
Sick out some other time. Doing this to innocent Christmas travellers was completely inappropriate.
...sites every few minutes with an RSS aggregator that I set to check them every hour.
I'm a web junky, and RSS reader allows me to feed my need, and have more time for other things.
...was over at US Air, where a large number of selfish and uncaring union employees decided to mess up a huge number of their customer's Christmas plans.
While stupid stuff like this software problem is embarrassing, and the SBS and the people who wrote the software should hang their heads in shame it was still unintentional and is nowhere as shameful as the deliberate sabotage done to US Air's customers by their union employees.
I watched the second eruption of Mt. Saint Helens from my bedroom window.
Everyone knew that the Mountain was going to blow. They had attempted an evacuation of everyone.
Yes it was a rare event, but it wasn't a surprise.
I have a little mail-server on the end of my cable line for my domain which has three mail accounts on it. I always find it immensely frustrating that my mail server is on MAPS DUL list and people who subscribe to MAPS block my mail.
It's not been a big enough issue that I've installed SASL for my postfix server, but it would be nice to get off the list.
Actually I know the guy (well virtually anyway), who made the Paris Hilton figure. He is a reputable sculptor, and designer of extremely limited run toys, including a line of serial killer action figures.
I don't think he deserves to be in the same class as the other two auctions listed.
I've got mine on a shelf. They're not virgin having been played many many times each, but the picture quality and sound quality is still excellent.
I'm disappointed that with all the technology available in DVDs we won't get an option to include/exclude the additional stuff Lucas stuck in the films.
I first built Gentoo on a ThinkPad 570e two years ago. At that time I was using SMC wireless equipment and all went swimmingly well.
Last March I upgraded to a ThinkPad R31 and installed Gentoo on it. It had internal wireless, and that worked beautifully until the hardware quit. I then plugged in my trusty SMC wireless card and built PCMCIA wireless support and all worked perfectly again.
New Mexico is the same state where one of their legislators proposed that all motorcyclists who were killed in accidents and were not wearing helmets would automatically become organ donors. Fortunately this idea was shot down, and I hope the interlock idea is too.
I've been using and abusing my Land's End notebook case for over five years and love it and wouldn't trade it for the world. Other bags have gotten better reviews, but this bag has never let me down and has outlived four different notebook computers
You could package them cutely and send millions of them all over the country so people could write drivers for them and then you could send them cease and desist orders...
...If he had to put that load of tripe on their site himself, or if they had to pay some poor sod extra to do it for him.
Placing that in public view would be about the same type of job as pumping septic tanks, or emptying the tanks on the portable toilets.
My wife got me the latest Honor Harrington book for Christmas. I had never read any of the books in the series, so I broke out the CD and read much of book one on my notebook. I then finished it from a print copy I got from the library. I read all of book two off the CD. My wife read the one from the library, but decided she couldn't read online, and purchased copies of books two, three, four and five of the series.
Baen's cluefulness opened up a whole new world to me (as I have never been much of a science fiction fan). I support them with my dollars because they have done such a good job on such a cool thing as their CD's.
Dang, I wish I hadn't burned my Mod points before seeing this reply!
That is such a great response. I am terrible at answering questions about minutiae that a man or grep or google can turn up. I can't remember all the details, but the thing that separates me from others is that I always know where to find the answers.
So, I'm going to reply to my own message in response to those who replied to the original.
What I gather from what all three of you have said, is, that we can think governments have been and might in the future be oppressive when it comes to something that liberals abhor, such as a national ID card, but governments are always nice and respect the best interests of all their citizens both now and in the future, when it comes to a something that liberals love such as gun control.
All you who believe that we don't need and will never need our guns obviously haven't been paying attention to our lovely Attorney General, John Ashcroft, and that other wonderful fellow, the Secretary of Homeland Defense, Tom Ridge.
I got stopped by the Department of Homeland Security the other day on my way to the airport. It was far more surreal than I expected it to be. When I rolled down the window of my car to talk to the nice officer, I half expected him to say "Can I see your papers please?"
This is a perfect example of why gun ownership is a good idea and why our forefathers thought the Second Ammendment was a good idea.
I'm an RHCE, but I now have Gentoo on all my Linux boxes. I won't be going back any time soon.
You want to pollute the sun?
I can't believe it. Just think about all that garbage ending up on the sun Eventually the mound of used tires will create a giant black spot on the sun and will bring about a new ice age everywhere the tire shadow falls!
How could you even suggest such an environmentally unsound idea!
This is a very interesting statement.
I regularly tell people that they should be polite if not for altruistic reasons then for selfish reasons. People have accussed me of being extraordinarily polite: "Yes sir, No sir, Yes Ma'am, No Ma'am," etc. I regularly get treated better by the checker who is half my age, or the fast food cashier, or any number of other individuals; far better than the person in front of me or behind me in line.
So, am I polite for altruistic reasons, or for selfish reasons? It's an interesting question. I would have to say for both reasons.
I've bought a couple of them for my three sons and myself. $19.95, two games out at a time, as many games as you can get in 30 days. It's a heck of a deal, there've even been times where we got a game in the morning, decided it sucked and returned it that afternoon for something new.
I usually get one game for the kids (T rating or lower and one game for me M rated). [I have to get something that only I can play cause my kids kick my butt on anything I play with them!].
Blockbuster doesn't necessarily have the best selection, but they've generally got enough to keep us interested.
The minute I saw this headline I knew I needed to mention Soul of a New Machine you got there first!
It is one of the books that shaped my love of technology. An excellent and entertaining read. Sure the technology is *really* old, I read it getting on for twenty years ago, but the engineers then were facing fascinating problems just as contemporary engineers do.
Several of my co-workers saw it yesterday at a matinee. When they returned to the office I quizzed them relentlessly on whether it was appropriate for an eight year old. I got several unqualified 'yes's' and one qualified 'yes'.
So Travis and I went to see Spider-man together last night. We both jumped a couple of times, and both thoroughly enjoyed it. If I was on the ratings committee (or whatever it is that does the ratings) I would have probably rated it PG, not PG-13.
The final fight is pretty graphic, and has what could have been a very gory scene, however, the editing was well done and everyone understood exactly what happened without any blood.
Travis told me that we would have to buy it when it comes out on DVD. He also told me he wished that William (his five-year-old brother) could see it. But when I reminded him that William hides around the corner of the room at the scary scenes in Disney movies, he re-assessed the situation and said maybe William shouldn't see it.
That said, we both agreed that my youngest son Kellan (who will be four tomorrow) would have thoroughly enjoyed it.
I hope this helps someone make, what can be, a difficult decision--at least for parents who care what their kids feed into their brains.