...don't want non-americans looking at A-Team, McGuyver...
Can you imagine how destructive The Terrorists would be after watching just these two shows?!! I support this region-locking all the way! Make Those Terrorists pay for the DVDs if they want to learn our greatest guerrilla warfare tactics and improvised weapon-building methods!
There's nothing quite like doing research in the hopes of spending billions to defend oneself against the absurdly unlikely. A nuke detonated in LOE?!? A natural phenomenon the likes of which has been recorded exactly ONCE in the last 150 years?!
Aha! It's all part of MS agenda to sell more peripherals! Each mouse is undergoing at least twice as many clicks with Vista, therefore, their clicking life has been reduced in half, and MS will sell that many more mice over the years.
How clear it is now that we see their TRUE strategy with Vista! How could we have been SO blind?!!
It takes a peculiar kind of curiosity in a mod to go with "interesting" instead of "funny" for the parent. Please keep yourself as far away as possible from me and the gene pool.
Just to lightn the mood a little...
I suppose if you were struck by something that decreased your opacity continuously until you were transparent, the last moments might seem like you were "vapor", but that definitely strikes me as an intentionally opaque way of describing the phenomenon.
To support your assertion of a slashvertisement in the replies here there seems to be a strong redundancy of links to this "smart dude's" blog, posted by ACs.
Whether the threat is real or not, someone seems to be intent on getting as much attention as possible.
I would argue that gym is different than academic courses, and therefore should be graded differently.
I'll take that challenge!! I would argue that you were obviously a 98-lb weakling in high school, and therefore your personal experience with humiliation in aforementioned gym class has prejudiced you beyond the ability to conduct a rational argument. I win.
Ad hominem is an argument. Technically.
...why wouldn't you deserve at least that high of a grade anyway, in recognition of your talent?
Since everyone else focused on the "settle for a B" part in their replies, I'll take this clause.
What world do you come from where you "deserve" a certain grade in high school "in recognition of your talent"?!!? If high school was like some college courses, sure, you could just "show 'em the talent" in the form of your score on some monstrous final exam. Grades in high school, for the last century at least, however, are supposed to reflect some combination of material learned, and fortitude when faced with grunt labor. I've heard this was to prepare/condition the non-academic for assembly-line style jobs. And although this would, in some post-WWII-era mentality, make some kind of sense of the "busy work" foisted on us all, as well as the 50-55 minute class periods (just like Pa's shifts in the factory) I have no real evidence in support of this.
But still, "in recognition of your talent"?!? Considering the fact that no high school I've heard of has EVER had cumulative tests (that is, that all the later tests covered all the material in the earlier tests), I have to wonder: how they are going to know he had "talent" in all the subject matter he wasn't there/tested for?!
Principal: What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
The judge, however, didn't seem to think much of Powell's answer. "I find your choice of conduct to be frivolous and ridiculous," he said. "But I guess you complied by taking legal tender there of $1,000 by the deadline and therefore, I am not going to hold you in contempt."
The judge did use the courts discretionary power to fine the defendant, though that is a very different kind of action, legally.
How can you NOT think of the CHILDREN!?! This is definitive. The children can only be safe by banning iPhones.
It's a terrible price we all must pay...but when you next see a child not being raped or murdered, you'll know you did your part to make that happen, and it will all be worth it.
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Uh...if that's all you need from a phone why would you consider any but the cheapest (free w/ plan) phones?!?
...don't want non-americans looking at A-Team, McGuyver...
Can you imagine how destructive The Terrorists would be after watching just these two shows?!! I support this region-locking all the way! Make Those Terrorists pay for the DVDs if they want to learn our greatest guerrilla warfare tactics and improvised weapon-building methods!
There's nothing quite like doing research in the hopes of spending billions to defend oneself against the absurdly unlikely. A nuke detonated in LOE?!? A natural phenomenon the likes of which has been recorded exactly ONCE in the last 150 years?!
If only there was some kind of Adamsian Perspective Ray we could shoot these people with.
Aha! It's all part of MS agenda to sell more peripherals! Each mouse is undergoing at least twice as many clicks with Vista, therefore, their clicking life has been reduced in half, and MS will sell that many more mice over the years.
How clear it is now that we see their TRUE strategy with Vista! How could we have been SO blind?!!
Hey, mods, a low UID does NOT demand instant insightful/interesting!
That's what she said!
It takes a peculiar kind of curiosity in a mod to go with "interesting" instead of "funny" for the parent.
Please keep yourself as far away as possible from me and the gene pool.
So write a better song, and don't sing Happy Birthday.
Doing what you're suggesting may end up having disastrous unintended consequences.
Whooooosh
Recursive commenting, eh? Very meta.
I'm sure wild bison and buffaloes are a lot sharper.
Citation desperately needed.
That's what she said!
You just made me cry.
Just to lightn the mood a little...
I suppose if you were struck by something that decreased your opacity continuously until you were transparent, the last moments might seem like you were "vapor", but that definitely strikes me as an intentionally opaque way of describing the phenomenon.
To support your assertion of a slashvertisement in the replies here there seems to be a strong redundancy of links to this "smart dude's" blog, posted by ACs.
Whether the threat is real or not, someone seems to be intent on getting as much attention as possible.
My kingdom for a mod point!!
What about Bob?!
I would argue that gym is different than academic courses, and therefore should be graded differently.
I'll take that challenge!! I would argue that you were obviously a 98-lb weakling in high school, and therefore your personal experience with humiliation in aforementioned gym class has prejudiced you beyond the ability to conduct a rational argument. I win.
Ad hominem is an argument. Technically.
...why wouldn't you deserve at least that high of a grade anyway, in recognition of your talent?
Since everyone else focused on the "settle for a B" part in their replies, I'll take this clause.
What world do you come from where you "deserve" a certain grade in high school "in recognition of your talent"?!!? If high school was like some college courses, sure, you could just "show 'em the talent" in the form of your score on some monstrous final exam. Grades in high school, for the last century at least, however, are supposed to reflect some combination of material learned, and fortitude when faced with grunt labor. I've heard this was to prepare/condition the non-academic for assembly-line style jobs. And although this would, in some post-WWII-era mentality, make some kind of sense of the "busy work" foisted on us all, as well as the 50-55 minute class periods (just like Pa's shifts in the factory) I have no real evidence in support of this.
But still, "in recognition of your talent"?!? Considering the fact that no high school I've heard of has EVER had cumulative tests (that is, that all the later tests covered all the material in the earlier tests), I have to wonder: how they are going to know he had "talent" in all the subject matter he wasn't there/tested for?!
Principal: What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Sounds like someone is having a hard time distinguishing between their enemies then and their enemies now.
3, 2, 1...
Its hard to find anything entertaining that costs around 0.5c per hour.
I didn't realize you could buy anything for 1/2 a copper, and definitely not anything in the Real World, pennies being primarily zinc.
The judge, however, didn't seem to think much of Powell's answer. "I find your choice of conduct to be frivolous and ridiculous," he said. "But I guess you complied by taking legal tender there of $1,000 by the deadline and therefore, I am not going to hold you in contempt."
The judge did use the courts discretionary power to fine the defendant, though that is a very different kind of action, legally.
Exactly what went through my head. Followed immediately by, "Should I see how much they are?".
How can you NOT think of the CHILDREN!?! This is definitive. The children can only be safe by banning iPhones.
It's a terrible price we all must pay...but when you next see a child not being raped or murdered, you'll know you did your part to make that happen, and it will all be worth it.
Seriously. This thread has cracked me up! Wait...was there humor in your post that I missed?! Crap! I may be restarting the cycle!!