The study also found that people who frequently play car racing games are more likely to drive late-model Japanese subcompacts, and modify these vehicles with such embellishments as randomly placed stickers, ugly and near-useless bolt-on aftermarket spoilers, shorter suspension coils, chrome tailpipes, neon undercarriage lighting, and highly reflective aftermarket rims.
Interestingly, no actual performance gains are realized from such modifications.
I wish the reporting would be more accurate. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for anything even remotely resembling accurate reporting when it comes to everyone's favorite Scapegoat for Corporate Greed(TM), otherwise known as Halliburton.
And, predictably, I get modded down as flamebait for not participating in the Apple Kool-Aid Drinkers' Club. It's *not* about the products (which are great), it *is* about their snotty advertising tactics. Get that through your skull, please.
Thank you. That annoying ad campaign has done more to turn me off to the idea of buying Apple products than anything else. I'd like to get an iPod, but I just can't bring myself to do it because of the prospect of joining the legions of annoying faux-hipster Apple fanboys out there. Worst. Ad. Campaign. Ever.
Actually, Ron Moore, the originator of the new BSG series, originally wanted the space battles to be completely silent. The muffled sound effects are a compromise concession to the network suits, who wanted "sounds." Go figure.
Come on, what could *possibly* be more important than making sure every child in this country can post mindless drivel on their MySpace account at any time?
But you cannot monitor EVERYTHING your child does.
No, but you can sure whip his ass until he can't sit down anymore when you DO find out. Sooner or later he'll figure out how to behave.
Oh, wait, sorry, can't do that anymore in this PC day and age...gee, why is it that kids these days don't know right from wrong? Glad I don't have any.
I used to live in Oak Ridge as a kid, and loved it. It's a weird town, but it's pretty cool, for what it is. Don't forget about the Graphite Reactor. If the tour is the same as it was back in the day, you can see the spent fuel rods cooling in the water tank. They glow a nice blue. I'm not a physicist, but they claimed that it was perfectly safe.
As far as the rest of East Tennessee, are you kidding? There's a *ton* of cool stuff to do. For starters, take a trip to the Smoky Mountains. Very nice. Then there's the whole Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge thing. Yeah, it's cheesy and tourist-trappy, but it's entertaining. Lots of cool things to do in and around Knoxville, as well. Especially next week, when I go up to the Cal/UT game...I can't wait!
Ahem, excuse me, but have you forgotten? This is/., and on/., you're supposed to act like too much of a snot-nosed elitist to actually *admit* that you have a MySpace page.
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Either that, or more journalists. I hear that they're about 15% human.
The study also found that people who frequently play car racing games are more likely to drive late-model Japanese subcompacts, and modify these vehicles with such embellishments as randomly placed stickers, ugly and near-useless bolt-on aftermarket spoilers, shorter suspension coils, chrome tailpipes, neon undercarriage lighting, and highly reflective aftermarket rims.
Interestingly, no actual performance gains are realized from such modifications.
Cue Grammar Nazi...Damn I love this joint!
It sure as hell doesn't work on mine.
Oh, shit, wait...
It also explains most of the posts on /. as well.
How can this be FUD? I mean, we're talking about moving *away* from Microsoft here, so there's no way this can be FUD! Not on /.!
...considering that as of this morning, the Shuttle crew has turned into its very own episode of the Jerry Springer Show.
If a report were issued that global warming was not manmade and a thinktank offered a similar reward, would you also call it a bribe?
/., because the story would have never made it past the editors in the first place.
Not here on
Either that, or go ahead and actually follow through with the threat...
...surely the seeds of our destruction lay garnished in our technological 'advancements'
They didn't listen on Caprica, either. Look where that got 'em.
And, predictably, I get modded down as flamebait for not participating in the Apple Kool-Aid Drinkers' Club. It's *not* about the products (which are great), it *is* about their snotty advertising tactics. Get that through your skull, please.
Thank you. That annoying ad campaign has done more to turn me off to the idea of buying Apple products than anything else. I'd like to get an iPod, but I just can't bring myself to do it because of the prospect of joining the legions of annoying faux-hipster Apple fanboys out there. Worst. Ad. Campaign. Ever.
Actually, Ron Moore, the originator of the new BSG series, originally wanted the space battles to be completely silent. The muffled sound effects are a compromise concession to the network suits, who wanted "sounds." Go figure.
Come on, what could *possibly* be more important than making sure every child in this country can post mindless drivel on their MySpace account at any time?
...that this topic is in the 'Politics' section. That may say more about /. than it does about Clear Channel.
But you cannot monitor EVERYTHING your child does.
No, but you can sure whip his ass until he can't sit down anymore when you DO find out. Sooner or later he'll figure out how to behave.
Oh, wait, sorry, can't do that anymore in this PC day and age...gee, why is it that kids these days don't know right from wrong? Glad I don't have any.
The day that video becomes interactive is the day when I can reach through my TV screen and slap the livin' shit out of Tony Kornheiser.
I used to live in Oak Ridge as a kid, and loved it. It's a weird town, but it's pretty cool, for what it is. Don't forget about the Graphite Reactor. If the tour is the same as it was back in the day, you can see the spent fuel rods cooling in the water tank. They glow a nice blue. I'm not a physicist, but they claimed that it was perfectly safe.
As far as the rest of East Tennessee, are you kidding? There's a *ton* of cool stuff to do. For starters, take a trip to the Smoky Mountains. Very nice. Then there's the whole Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge thing. Yeah, it's cheesy and tourist-trappy, but it's entertaining. Lots of cool things to do in and around Knoxville, as well. Especially next week, when I go up to the Cal/UT game...I can't wait!
Yes, but in this case, I meant marketing drivel about the television, rather than on the television.
It's not television, it's a little better. Use the handy formula below as a guide:
Television + Marketing Drivel = "Visual Radio"
Hope that clears it up for you.
Ahem, excuse me, but have you forgotten? This is /., and on /., you're supposed to act like too much of a snot-nosed elitist to actually *admit* that you have a MySpace page.
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