Here's a personal story about profanity and a content company... My user name for my cable account is an expletive describing my feelings about the cable company. What's interesting though, is that apparently I'm not the only one who feels this way about the company, since 'fuckyourogers' has been taken and I've had to add numbers on the end of it. What's even MORE interesting though have been my attempts to get technical support on my account. But during my somewhat angry registration process I didn't hit any snags where the cable company thought my username was inappropriate.
Not sure if that'll work. Some internet companies apparently block all encrypted traffic. I'm thinking of Rogers Cable as my example (feel free to correct me though). I mean really it's their own business if they want to shaft their customers. Unfortunately most people either don't care that this sort of stuff is going on, or don't know of any other ISPs they can go to as alternatives.
Good god that makes so much sense! That would eliminate the problem of slow charge times all together.
I'm gonna spend all my mod points giving your comments positive mods.
I imagine they'll have to do something to beef up our current electrical infrastructure. They're always going on about brown outs during heat waves when everybody's running their air conditioners non stop. They're gonna have to do something preemptive if people are charging their cars all the time. I mean what'll happen to gas stations? It's gonna be a long time before we see recharge times take as little time as it does to fill a tank with gasoline, so they'll probably have to have a lot more outlets everywhere for people to plug into. Like you'd get into work and plug in your car and by the time you were ready to go home your car would be charged.
I found it strange that Blizzard announced Diablo 3 several weeks before E3. It seems to me that, that would be something that in the past they would have waited for E3 to announce. To me that's a good sign that E3 has become irrelevant. Like a lot of other people have said, gaming websites are a much better venue for announcing upcoming games and consoles.
I imagine in the future the only people attending E3 will be Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. They'll only be attending to announce their new consoles which will consist of stapling a memo with a coloured picture on the bulletin board in the lobby.
I lived in Quebec for 3 years and I had to get Boomerang installed in my car before they'd sell me insurance. And that was 4 years ago that I lived there. So I'm not actually lying. Just because some information doesn't fall into your limited realms of comprehension doesn't mean it's false. It just means you're a douche bag.
In Quebec vehicle tracking GPS systems have been mandatory for years. It's mostly because the government made a deal with the car insurance people so all cars had to have the device installed as an 'anti theft' measure. It's a good example of how little it takes to force those things on people.
It's clearly intended to taunt Yahoo!. What better way to intimidate a company that won't let you take them over than to team up with their inferior competitor?
I doubt it. I imagine they probably gave the studios they farmed the games out to production deadlines, so they'll be shipped well before we ever see Duke Nukem Forever.
And yeah it'd be awesome to see some new Commander Keen games.
I posted a picture of a penis monster saying 'Hi I'm Muhammad' with a caption that said 'I'm pretty sure this is what Muhammad probably looked like' on my flickr account and it hasn't been taken down. I'm not that familiar with Flickr but I was 100% sure that pic would have been taken down.
I guess the lesson here is, in Flickr's eyes a photo of a child with a cigarette is more objectionable than openly insulting somebody's religion.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2143/2214325041_4e6ed4516b_o.jpg
Oh no the jig is up! My real name isn't Cathoderoytube! My real name isn't even Roy! I don't know how to fix tvs! For the love of god don't throw me in jail!
It's baffling to think this 'micro blogging' nonsense is really coming to the point where there's competition for it. Back in my day folks didn't particularly care if you were vacuuming, or watching a DVD. I guess one of the boons of this web 2.0 is convincing people that other people really really care what they're doing at any given time.
Just for the record, I'm currently sitting at my desk in my underpants drinking whiskey right out of the bottle while openly weeping.
Considering the practices of Bell Canada these days I'm sure they would happier than pigs in shit to help out the anti-piracy initiative. They're already one of the front runners in the campaign.
There's another group on Facebook called 'I've had unprotected sex with 258 crack whores I've picked up at homeless shelters and I haven't caught any life threatening STD's yet'. I think that group and the text messaging while driving group should join forces. They could rename the groups 'we're a gaggle of stupid morons who're really pushing it'
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Here's a personal story about profanity and a content company... My user name for my cable account is an expletive describing my feelings about the cable company. What's interesting though, is that apparently I'm not the only one who feels this way about the company, since 'fuckyourogers' has been taken and I've had to add numbers on the end of it.
What's even MORE interesting though have been my attempts to get technical support on my account. But during my somewhat angry registration process I didn't hit any snags where the cable company thought my username was inappropriate.
Funny how life works...
"Bowls of strawberries and muffins lie around the rest area"
In their defense, strawberries are in season. Might as well eat them while they're good.
Worried about our precious Karma are we?
Not sure if that'll work. Some internet companies apparently block all encrypted traffic. I'm thinking of Rogers Cable as my example (feel free to correct me though). I mean really it's their own business if they want to shaft their customers. Unfortunately most people either don't care that this sort of stuff is going on, or don't know of any other ISPs they can go to as alternatives.
Well then you just use a VPN. Check and mate.
Yeah that doesn't work, we just use Tor.
I think it's a fair trade. Xbox 360 gets Final Fantasy XIII, and the PS3 gets Penny Arcade.
Good god that makes so much sense! That would eliminate the problem of slow charge times all together. I'm gonna spend all my mod points giving your comments positive mods.
I imagine they'll have to do something to beef up our current electrical infrastructure. They're always going on about brown outs during heat waves when everybody's running their air conditioners non stop. They're gonna have to do something preemptive if people are charging their cars all the time. I mean what'll happen to gas stations? It's gonna be a long time before we see recharge times take as little time as it does to fill a tank with gasoline, so they'll probably have to have a lot more outlets everywhere for people to plug into. Like you'd get into work and plug in your car and by the time you were ready to go home your car would be charged.
I found it strange that Blizzard announced Diablo 3 several weeks before E3. It seems to me that, that would be something that in the past they would have waited for E3 to announce.
To me that's a good sign that E3 has become irrelevant. Like a lot of other people have said, gaming websites are a much better venue for announcing upcoming games and consoles.
I imagine in the future the only people attending E3 will be Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. They'll only be attending to announce their new consoles which will consist of stapling a memo with a coloured picture on the bulletin board in the lobby.
I lived in Quebec for 3 years and I had to get Boomerang installed in my car before they'd sell me insurance.
And that was 4 years ago that I lived there. So I'm not actually lying. Just because some information doesn't fall into your limited realms of comprehension doesn't mean it's false. It just means you're a douche bag.
It apparently has a 97% success rate. The trick is you have to pay to get your car back.
In Quebec vehicle tracking GPS systems have been mandatory for years. It's mostly because the government made a deal with the car insurance people so all cars had to have the device installed as an 'anti theft' measure. It's a good example of how little it takes to force those things on people.
It's clearly intended to taunt Yahoo!. What better way to intimidate a company that won't let you take them over than to team up with their inferior competitor?
Because I like virtual whores! Okay?! Satisfied?!
Don't you judge me!
I doubt it. I imagine they probably gave the studios they farmed the games out to production deadlines, so they'll be shipped well before we ever see Duke Nukem Forever.
And yeah it'd be awesome to see some new Commander Keen games.
Nice signature by the way. You don't see enough MM references in this day in age.
I posted a picture of a penis monster saying 'Hi I'm Muhammad' with a caption that said 'I'm pretty sure this is what Muhammad probably looked like' on my flickr account and it hasn't been taken down. I'm not that familiar with Flickr but I was 100% sure that pic would have been taken down. I guess the lesson here is, in Flickr's eyes a photo of a child with a cigarette is more objectionable than openly insulting somebody's religion. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2143/2214325041_4e6ed4516b_o.jpg
Oh no the jig is up! My real name isn't Cathoderoytube! My real name isn't even Roy! I don't know how to fix tvs! For the love of god don't throw me in jail!
It's baffling to think this 'micro blogging' nonsense is really coming to the point where there's competition for it. Back in my day folks didn't particularly care if you were vacuuming, or watching a DVD. I guess one of the boons of this web 2.0 is convincing people that other people really really care what they're doing at any given time.
Just for the record, I'm currently sitting at my desk in my underpants drinking whiskey right out of the bottle while openly weeping.
Considering the practices of Bell Canada these days I'm sure they would happier than pigs in shit to help out the anti-piracy initiative. They're already one of the front runners in the campaign.
Thank YOU for noticing. It wouldn't be the internet without people like yourself
Yes, yes I know the perils of writing anything on the internet these days. Just take some consolation that I didn't use 'pwn' or 'lol' in my post.
A good example is the word 'stupid'
Just off the top of my head I can think of quite a few synonyms
Idiot
Moron
Nitwit
Simpleton
Asinine
Fool
Jackass
Rum-dumb
Dense
Oaf
Thick
Unintelligent
Witless
Geomicroblogging
There's another group on Facebook called 'I've had unprotected sex with 258 crack whores I've picked up at homeless shelters and I haven't caught any life threatening STD's yet'. I think that group and the text messaging while driving group should join forces. They could rename the groups 'we're a gaggle of stupid morons who're really pushing it'