Ah yes, the elusive Supperman. I was very unhappy when Marvel finally decided to have him killed off by his arch-nemesis Bulimiax.
Now that was brutal ending for a superhero - he was literally chewed up and spit back out.
Re:Do we need the anti-smoking jab
on
A Geek Funeral
·
· Score: 1
Second hand sodomy! Oh won't someone think of the children!
Unless I missed something in biology, I'm pretty sure children will never be the end result of sodomy no matter how many hands you choose to sodomize with.
I get a huge kick out of the fact that the name is a likely play on the X-Men hero "Dazzler", who used light to disorient people.
Or it could be that the name is a likely play on the word "dazzle", as in "to lose clear vision especially from looking at bright light", but your guess is good too...
It's like you run a used car lot and a junkyard on leased property. The cops drop off an impounded clunker at your junkyard but somehow accidentally left a file cabinet with copies of the confidential criminal records of 1300 people in it. Don't ask me how they forgot that file cabinet, let alone why they would put a file cabinet in an impound vehicle (although I do think that absurdity fits the analogy neatly). When they discovered their own idiocy they get a judge to give them permission to retrieve it. They come knocking on the gates of the junkyard, which is unfortunately not very profitable and so did not have someone there at the time to let them in to retrieve/destroy the records/vehicle. So instead they call the property owner (remember, you just lease) and have your junkyard and your used car lot, and your own personal vehicles nuked from orbit.
I know this might be slightly off-topic, but I think that the issues Slashdot has been having are due to an unexpected spike in traffic after they posted the story of how 3D Realms was switching over to Epic's Unreal Engine for the upcoming Duke Nukem Forever. I'm pretty stoked about this and am saving up to be able to afford a Voodoo2 - DNF is gonna be da bomb!!
When was the last time you got laid taking a chick to a video-game?
Value is where you find it, my friend.:)
To be completely fair it's not likely he would get laid taking a chick anywhere. In fact, this whole "taking a chick somewhere" premise seems to be a bit shaky.
I've just added a comment on SideWiki that this Slashdot article is trite and redundant, except for a few incredibly meta-insightful comments made by that famed/. user "Arthur Grumbine".
Also, how is 'CTRL+ALT+arrow key' easier than 'touch the desktop that looks like the one you want'? Hell, even your grandmother could do the second one.
True. But my grandmother doesn't keep her hands in the "home" position on the keyboard. By "easier" I meant "more efficient over thousands of uses" not "more intuitive to understand how to use the first time". Moving a hand away from keyboard, and then back, each time I want to switch desktops is significantly more inefficient - and this is based on months of experience working with a KVM switch placed right in front of my keyboard.
I don't know 'bout you but CTRL+ALT+arrow-keys (or Win+arrow-keys) seems a little easier to me, especially to quickly cycle between more than 3 desktops.
What's that you say?! A troll has a link in his sig to a website that is wrong!?! Rally the Internet Justice League - this evil cannot be allowed to stand unopposed!!!
I was going to go through your currently "Insightful" post line-by-line, questioning the need for the pounds of food you require to make a single sandwich, but in the interest of charity I will just assume you are either Dagwood Bumstead, The Flash, The Incredible Hulk, or just morbidly obese. Seriously, though: a loaf of bread, a pound of bacon/ham, a jar of Miracle Whip, a head of lettuce, and a large bag of fritos?! Good thing you snuck in a couple healthy cups of cottage cheese and a piece of fruit to balance it out.
That sounds better to me too. Punishing these people is a start but the reality is we need to do a better job of educating consumers. As long as there are suckers there will be people trying to scam them.
Hear! Hear! In fact, I have just the cure-for-naivete/stupidity you're looking for... right here and for a limited time only I'm willing to offer you a secret extract derived the the lubricant glands of the rare pythonus imaginarius. This elixir has been known cure even the most obstinately held absurd beliefs, why just the other day it helped cure some poor fool who thought he could solve the problem of confidence men by "educating consumers" - God's honest truth - the poor bastard actually believed that!! Act now and receive, as my gift to you, a one-size fits all societal curative ideology! Don't pass this opportunity up!!
Bravo! This was so well-written, yet general enough to be a response to most of these "security-first" news articles that I had to google around to see if it was just copy-pasta. Glad to say this appears to original. Well said, sir.
Now the current government is lower than what I scrape off my shoe but I think the people are better than you believe.
You do realize the dissonance this statement has when speaking about a supposedly democratic nation. Unless someone besides "the people" elected their current government and adore their Supreme Leader so much?
"Total Revenue" does not equal "made" in the normal sense. General Motors, now Motors Liquidation Company had Total Revenue for the last twelve months of 129 billion dollars. Yet they lost money overall (gross profit = $-1.6B) over that same period of time. What's their worth on the market right now, if you wanted to buy all their shares? 467 million dollars. Perot Systemsdid turn a gross profit of $487 million over the last year, but that puts the buy price at 8 times the yearly profit, maybe a good deal (there's a lot of other factors that are important, though) but not as much of a "steal" as you might have thought.
Generally speaking, speaking in generalities about a particular case is not always the wisest thing to do. Especially in something as complex as buying a multi-billion dollar corporation.
Sounds pretty fluffy to me. I know a lot of people quitting smoking... but they claim that the reason is because the price has doubled in the last year where I live, not because it's cool.
FTFY. I quit smoking (11 years at a pack a day)) within this last year as well, and while I believe that I quit for my own reasons, I'm open to the possibility that I was influenced by those around me. Particularly, now that I reflect on it, I see that 3 close friends had quit within 3-4 months prior to me quitting. Also, 4 other of my friends have quit since I quit. Sure, we all have our own reasons, but that's not to say we're not strongly influenced/motivated-to-action by each other.
It's either a prevailing belief that man shouldn't play God by manipulating the most fundamental aspects of our intelligent design, or too much time spent playing and watching Resident Evil. Hmmm... I wonder which it is...
So the idea is that making it easier to leave google makes you more likely to stay with google?
Those fools! Didn't they learn anything from AOL's incredible success bolstered in great part by their refusal to let customers get away from them without hours customer service torment and continued credit card charges!?! And what's with offering all this stuff for free?! This Google company is just another hare-brained flash-in-the-pan get-rich-quick scheme... I'm glad I abstained from buying from their initial public offering. You guys thought you were worth $100 share?!! Laughable.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah yes, the elusive Supperman. I was very unhappy when Marvel finally decided to have him killed off by his arch-nemesis Bulimiax.
Now that was brutal ending for a superhero - he was literally chewed up and spit back out.
Second hand sodomy! Oh won't someone think of the children!
Unless I missed something in biology, I'm pretty sure children will never be the end result of sodomy no matter how many hands you choose to sodomize with.
I get a huge kick out of the fact that the name is a likely play on the X-Men hero "Dazzler", who used light to disorient people.
Or it could be that the name is a likely play on the word "dazzle", as in "to lose clear vision especially from looking at bright light", but your guess is good too...
It's like you run a used car lot and a junkyard on leased property. The cops drop off an impounded clunker at your junkyard but somehow accidentally left a file cabinet with copies of the confidential criminal records of 1300 people in it. Don't ask me how they forgot that file cabinet, let alone why they would put a file cabinet in an impound vehicle (although I do think that absurdity fits the analogy neatly). When they discovered their own idiocy they get a judge to give them permission to retrieve it. They come knocking on the gates of the junkyard, which is unfortunately not very profitable and so did not have someone there at the time to let them in to retrieve/destroy the records/vehicle. So instead they call the property owner (remember, you just lease) and have your junkyard and your used car lot, and your own personal vehicles nuked from orbit.
I know this might be slightly off-topic, but I think that the issues Slashdot has been having are due to an unexpected spike in traffic after they posted the story of how 3D Realms was switching over to Epic's Unreal Engine for the upcoming Duke Nukem Forever. I'm pretty stoked about this and am saving up to be able to afford a Voodoo2 - DNF is gonna be da bomb!!
When was the last time you got laid taking a chick to a video-game?
Value is where you find it, my friend. :)
To be completely fair it's not likely he would get laid taking a chick anywhere. In fact, this whole "taking a chick somewhere" premise seems to be a bit shaky.
At least that was my expedience when I was a bartender, many decades ago.
Maybe if you took your time you would have enjoyed your patrons a little more :-P
I've just added a comment on SideWiki that this Slashdot article is trite and redundant, except for a few incredibly meta-insightful comments made by that famed /. user "Arthur Grumbine".
Also, how is 'CTRL+ALT+arrow key' easier than 'touch the desktop that looks like the one you want'? Hell, even your grandmother could do the second one.
True. But my grandmother doesn't keep her hands in the "home" position on the keyboard. By "easier" I meant "more efficient over thousands of uses" not "more intuitive to understand how to use the first time". Moving a hand away from keyboard, and then back, each time I want to switch desktops is significantly more inefficient - and this is based on months of experience working with a KVM switch placed right in front of my keyboard.
I don't know 'bout you but CTRL+ALT+arrow-keys (or Win+arrow-keys) seems a little easier to me, especially to quickly cycle between more than 3 desktops.
Mi tio dijo que se iba.
WTF?
That website is horrible and factually wrong.
What's that you say?! A troll has a link in his sig to a website that is wrong!?! Rally the Internet Justice League - this evil cannot be allowed to stand unopposed!!!
I was going to go through your currently "Insightful" post line-by-line, questioning the need for the pounds of food you require to make a single sandwich, but in the interest of charity I will just assume you are either Dagwood Bumstead, The Flash, The Incredible Hulk, or just morbidly obese. Seriously, though: a loaf of bread, a pound of bacon/ham, a jar of Miracle Whip, a head of lettuce, and a large bag of fritos?! Good thing you snuck in a couple healthy cups of cottage cheese and a piece of fruit to balance it out.
That sounds better to me too. Punishing these people is a start but the reality is we need to do a better job of educating consumers. As long as there are suckers there will be people trying to scam them.
Hear! Hear! In fact, I have just the cure-for-naivete/stupidity you're looking for... right here and for a limited time only I'm willing to offer you a secret extract derived the the lubricant glands of the rare pythonus imaginarius. This elixir has been known cure even the most obstinately held absurd beliefs, why just the other day it helped cure some poor fool who thought he could solve the problem of confidence men by "educating consumers" - God's honest truth - the poor bastard actually believed that!! Act now and receive, as my gift to you, a one-size fits all societal curative ideology! Don't pass this opportunity up!!
Bravo! This was so well-written, yet general enough to be a response to most of these "security-first" news articles that I had to google around to see if it was just copy-pasta. Glad to say this appears to original. Well said, sir.
so I must have leaned something.
[Citation Required]
Now the current government is lower than what I scrape off my shoe but I think the people are better than you believe.
You do realize the dissonance this statement has when speaking about a supposedly democratic nation. Unless someone besides "the people" elected their current government and adore their Supreme Leader so much?
"Total Revenue" does not equal "made" in the normal sense. General Motors, now Motors Liquidation Company had Total Revenue for the last twelve months of 129 billion dollars. Yet they lost money overall (gross profit = $-1.6B) over that same period of time. What's their worth on the market right now, if you wanted to buy all their shares? 467 million dollars. Perot Systems did turn a gross profit of $487 million over the last year, but that puts the buy price at 8 times the yearly profit, maybe a good deal (there's a lot of other factors that are important, though) but not as much of a "steal" as you might have thought.
Generally speaking, speaking in generalities about a particular case is not always the wisest thing to do. Especially in something as complex as buying a multi-billion dollar corporation.
How many programmers today have ever programmed Cobol, and used punch cards. That is how I started out.
Why when I was young we used we used rocks and we were grateful!
The new pizzas came later, but, interestingly enough, they also examined the dead fly carcasses.
Sounds pretty fluffy to me. I know a lot of people quitting smoking... but they claim that the reason is because the price has doubled in the last year where I live, not because it's cool.
FTFY. I quit smoking (11 years at a pack a day)) within this last year as well, and while I believe that I quit for my own reasons, I'm open to the possibility that I was influenced by those around me. Particularly, now that I reflect on it, I see that 3 close friends had quit within 3-4 months prior to me quitting. Also, 4 other of my friends have quit since I quit. Sure, we all have our own reasons, but that's not to say we're not strongly influenced/motivated-to-action by each other.
It's not just PCs! Have you never seen a Mac-head with a latte?
(I object to the term PC for a computer, it's mostly misleading)
I object to the term "whoosh". I think it's insulting and Politically inCorrect.
It's either a prevailing belief that man shouldn't play God by manipulating the most fundamental aspects of our intelligent design, or too much time spent playing and watching Resident Evil. Hmmm... I wonder which it is...
So the idea is that making it easier to leave google makes you more likely to stay with google?
Those fools! Didn't they learn anything from AOL's incredible success bolstered in great part by their refusal to let customers get away from them without hours customer service torment and continued credit card charges!?! And what's with offering all this stuff for free?! This Google company is just another hare-brained flash-in-the-pan get-rich-quick scheme... I'm glad I abstained from buying from their initial public offering. You guys thought you were worth $100 share?!! Laughable.
parents sue deep pockets (twitter)
That phrase, I don't think it means what you think it means.