I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that you're either studying or have studied in University psychology with a major in social studies. If you haven't, then you probably should:P
True, though not the point in this case. The story poster wanted something to prevent accidental exposure. Google safesearch is usually pretty good at keeping "offensive" materials off screen. Try searching for "cock" with safesearch on, and you get a lot of roosters. To be exposed to porn on Google image search, she'd need to turn safesearch off, thus making the exposure deliberate.
I remember now, seeing that link. Dodo are currently offering unlimited downloads on their 256kbps plan. I'm with Optus, but I want to change to Internode. With Optus, I have a 20GB download limit with 40GB of bonus data since the home phone is Optus too. With most on-peak/off-peak plans I've seen, when you exceed your on-peak you still get your off-peak data at the speed you pay for. Not true with Optus. A single kilobyte over their 20GB limit, and the 40GB bonus is gone.
One particular Australian ISP I was looking at, I forget who. It may have been Dodo or something, it always seems right to blame Dodo for these things, sold ridiculously low download caps (in the less than a gigabyte range) coupled with reasonable speeds (so as to very quickly eat the allotted cap up), and charged excess usage at 10c per megabyte. And they had the audacity to throttle usage after the cap was exceeded.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you think your ISP might not be using lube when it fucks you, try spending some time in Australia.
God forbid terrorist game players ever leave the grip of their game consoles....
Exactly why legislation like this should be shot down! If game players are driven from their consoles by puritans, we'll become terrorists! Clearly every house with a game console in it must be covertly replaced with a very deep crater, to ensure this terrorist threat never be allowed to materialise.
I think the single largest cause of asthma is poor doctoring. Misdiagnosis. Yes, it does exist. Yes, there are plenty of legitimate sufferers. For a while though, like ADHD is today, Asthma was the cool new diagnosis bandwagon, and everyone had to get on it. I was misdiagnosed when I was about 6, and the inhalers actually perpetuated the symptoms I'd already displayed (probably a cold at the time). I eventually threw them away when I was nine, and within a week I could suddenly walk to school without feeling like I was drinking crushed glass. Since getting rid of my inhalers, my fitness has dramatically increased (though it seemed to plateau when I discovered Slashdot).
If you actually have asthma, I obviously mean no offence, but if you were diagnosed back when it was all the rage, I'd be at least questioning that diagnosis. No doctor is infallible, and a second opinion is worthwhile for any major diagnosis.
One comedian I saw a few years back said that the English celebrate the 4th of July too. They call it "Fuck off, puritans!!!" *kicking motion* "... day"
I'd probably go so far as to say that gaming is about a hundred times better for you, physically and mentally, than watching TV. TV doesn't seem to engage my mind, or get my heart rate up - watching TV is just something I do when I need a change of screenery.
Unfortunately, television isn't that idiot-proof story telling box. Lots of idiots break their TVs, and don't even get me started on the whole Wii crowd. I have a Wii, and folks: It's called a 'wrist strap' for a reason, and it's not made of steel cabling.
A My Little Pony Playhouse? The spatial warping technology involved in cramming little ponies into a house and having enough room for anything resembling 'play' is intriguing. Where might I obtain these... 'little ponies'?
In Monkey Island 1, you could 'die' by staying underwater for 10 minutes. Guybrush did say he could hold his breath for ten minutes, and it just shows he was exactly right. Also, when you actually get to Monkey Island, there is a joke about death in Sierra's adventure games on the cliff. It crumbles under Guybrush, and the Sierra save/load/quit dialogue comes up. He soon bounces back up thanks to a rubber tree. I forget if you could die in the second game or not, but in the third, it was a vital part of a puzzle. Alright, so that's actually a fake death, but the characters nearby talk at length about how they didn't think you could die in a Lucasarts adventure game.
Get the law changed? I don't have political connections, telecommunications infrastructure or an oil company... How the hell do people expect me to afford that?!
Oh my god! The Kindle 2 is responsible for the recession! Depriving the publisher's reading-eye-lackeys of jobs, and therefore money, has a MASSIVE follow on effect. They stop spending money on things like food and music (read 'internet access'), then the supermarkets and the record labels tighten the belt, drive up prices, and push more customers out of the market in an ever worsening spiral of dooooooooooooooooooooom!
I want to see this modded insightful, just so I can imagine a few people coughing and spluttering before their brains pop in something close to disbelieving outrage.
That isn't actually as stupid as it sounds... A torrent site like that would be pretty good, I think. Sure, it wouldn't have the variety of most torrent sites, but you would at least get a small review on whatever you wanted to download.
To put it another way, reminding people of the way they were taught to divide in primary school, dividing by anything is splitting it up into that many groups. Exactly how can you divide something into zero groups? The answer isn't infinite, because that would imply creating more stuff to put in those groups. If you divide by zero, whatever it is your dividing has nowhere to go.
We tried that, here in Australia. I don't know any numbers for sure, but I'm pretty certain the owners of all the poker machines made a ridiculous amount of money that week.
MY solution is to get those dealers of drugs and prison-contraband in charge of our telcos and industries. At least they seem like they know what they're doing, and they're always interested in keeping their customers happy. Can't have your junkies getting their fix from another dealer now, can you?
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I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that you're either studying or have studied in University psychology with a major in social studies. If you haven't, then you probably should :P
I'm pretty tired, and believe it or not, I misread "cashless" as "cacheless" anyway...
If your piss is frosty, I'd recommend seeing a doctor.
True, though not the point in this case. The story poster wanted something to prevent accidental exposure. Google safesearch is usually pretty good at keeping "offensive" materials off screen. Try searching for "cock" with safesearch on, and you get a lot of roosters. To be exposed to porn on Google image search, she'd need to turn safesearch off, thus making the exposure deliberate.
Pretentious? That's a feature! Without pretence, I have nothing!
I remember now, seeing that link. Dodo are currently offering unlimited downloads on their 256kbps plan. I'm with Optus, but I want to change to Internode. With Optus, I have a 20GB download limit with 40GB of bonus data since the home phone is Optus too. With most on-peak/off-peak plans I've seen, when you exceed your on-peak you still get your off-peak data at the speed you pay for. Not true with Optus. A single kilobyte over their 20GB limit, and the 40GB bonus is gone.
One particular Australian ISP I was looking at, I forget who. It may have been Dodo or something, it always seems right to blame Dodo for these things, sold ridiculously low download caps (in the less than a gigabyte range) coupled with reasonable speeds (so as to very quickly eat the allotted cap up), and charged excess usage at 10c per megabyte. And they had the audacity to throttle usage after the cap was exceeded.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you think your ISP might not be using lube when it fucks you, try spending some time in Australia.
God forbid terrorist game players ever leave the grip of their game consoles....
Exactly why legislation like this should be shot down! If game players are driven from their consoles by puritans, we'll become terrorists! Clearly every house with a game console in it must be covertly replaced with a very deep crater, to ensure this terrorist threat never be allowed to materialise.
I think the single largest cause of asthma is poor doctoring. Misdiagnosis. Yes, it does exist. Yes, there are plenty of legitimate sufferers. For a while though, like ADHD is today, Asthma was the cool new diagnosis bandwagon, and everyone had to get on it. I was misdiagnosed when I was about 6, and the inhalers actually perpetuated the symptoms I'd already displayed (probably a cold at the time). I eventually threw them away when I was nine, and within a week I could suddenly walk to school without feeling like I was drinking crushed glass. Since getting rid of my inhalers, my fitness has dramatically increased (though it seemed to plateau when I discovered Slashdot).
If you actually have asthma, I obviously mean no offence, but if you were diagnosed back when it was all the rage, I'd be at least questioning that diagnosis. No doctor is infallible, and a second opinion is worthwhile for any major diagnosis.
One comedian I saw a few years back said that the English celebrate the 4th of July too. They call it "Fuck off, puritans!!!" *kicking motion* "... day"
Counter Strike class? Is that what you guys called your IT classes in school? We called it Quake class.
I'd probably go so far as to say that gaming is about a hundred times better for you, physically and mentally, than watching TV. TV doesn't seem to engage my mind, or get my heart rate up - watching TV is just something I do when I need a change of screenery.
Unfortunately, television isn't that idiot-proof story telling box. Lots of idiots break their TVs, and don't even get me started on the whole Wii crowd. I have a Wii, and folks: It's called a 'wrist strap' for a reason, and it's not made of steel cabling.
A My Little Pony Playhouse? The spatial warping technology involved in cramming little ponies into a house and having enough room for anything resembling 'play' is intriguing. Where might I obtain these... 'little ponies'?
In Monkey Island 1, you could 'die' by staying underwater for 10 minutes. Guybrush did say he could hold his breath for ten minutes, and it just shows he was exactly right. Also, when you actually get to Monkey Island, there is a joke about death in Sierra's adventure games on the cliff. It crumbles under Guybrush, and the Sierra save/load/quit dialogue comes up. He soon bounces back up thanks to a rubber tree. I forget if you could die in the second game or not, but in the third, it was a vital part of a puzzle. Alright, so that's actually a fake death, but the characters nearby talk at length about how they didn't think you could die in a Lucasarts adventure game.
Get the law changed? I don't have political connections, telecommunications infrastructure or an oil company... How the hell do people expect me to afford that?!
Unfortunately, it seems we Australians don't actually exist. We're figments of our own imaginations (wait... what?).
Refer to my signature. For those who have them turned off, it says "IANAL, however I HAVE completed every Phoenix Wright game..."
Oh my god! The Kindle 2 is responsible for the recession! Depriving the publisher's reading-eye-lackeys of jobs, and therefore money, has a MASSIVE follow on effect. They stop spending money on things like food and music (read 'internet access'), then the supermarkets and the record labels tighten the belt, drive up prices, and push more customers out of the market in an ever worsening spiral of dooooooooooooooooooooom!
I want to see this modded insightful, just so I can imagine a few people coughing and spluttering before their brains pop in something close to disbelieving outrage.
Pants, adj. "Of poor quality". eg "Idle is pants"
That isn't actually as stupid as it sounds... A torrent site like that would be pretty good, I think. Sure, it wouldn't have the variety of most torrent sites, but you would at least get a small review on whatever you wanted to download.
To put it another way, reminding people of the way they were taught to divide in primary school, dividing by anything is splitting it up into that many groups. Exactly how can you divide something into zero groups? The answer isn't infinite, because that would imply creating more stuff to put in those groups. If you divide by zero, whatever it is your dividing has nowhere to go.
We tried that, here in Australia. I don't know any numbers for sure, but I'm pretty certain the owners of all the poker machines made a ridiculous amount of money that week.
MY solution is to get those dealers of drugs and prison-contraband in charge of our telcos and industries. At least they seem like they know what they're doing, and they're always interested in keeping their customers happy. Can't have your junkies getting their fix from another dealer now, can you?