I am Xorpquan, the Supreme Subcommander in charge of Auditing and Accounting section of First Xenu Intergallactic Bank of 47 Ursae Majoris with due respect and regards. I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction.
During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to Porshgar the Mighty who died on the 4th day of the 5th year of the rule of Lord Emperor Tashyon in a Torplack Race and the fund has been dormant in his/her account with this bank without any claim of the fund in our custody either from his family or relation. The said amount was 1,853,831,184 Credits. As it may Interest you to know, Meanwhile all the arrangement to put claim over this sum as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign account has been put in place.
On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 20% of the total Sum as gratification, while 3% will be set aside upon conclusion, to take care of expenses that may arise during the time Of transfer both local and intergalactic like Yushan Pirate Raids, asteroidal clearance, e.t.c, while %25 will be for me and my partner.
All other necessary information will be sent to you When I hear from you. I suggest you get back to me on my private e-mail address as Soon as possible stating your wish in this deal.
The most famous is never get involved in a format war in media, but only slightly less well-known is this: Never go in against Microsoft when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha *thud*
But seriously, I had zero intention of buying EITHER format until it was all sorted. My XBox buddies ran right out and got themselves HD-DVD. Foolish, but then again, the fact that they owned Xbox 360s already proved that. Now I'll CONSIDER a Blu-Ray player - if the prices drop sharply, and if I can find one that will let me play both my R1 and R2 DVDs.
Difference: The PS2 played PS1 games. PS3 does NOT play PS2 games. Therefore, do not want. I'll save a few hundred and buy a stand-alone blu-ray, IF I bother at all.
Boo-hoo, somebody who I don't know, have never met, and will never meet, called me a fatty online! Time to become an hero!
Please. When I was a kid I was fat and nerdy, back when being nerdy wasn't cool AT ALL. I was physically assaulted on a nearly daily basis, and if I had access to a gun, I'd have been the prototype for Columbine. So I have zero sympathy for somebody TYPING something mean. If you're that mentally unstable, the gene-pool is well served by your removal.
Could it be they are offering this framework due to the ABYSMAL performance of their new Phenom processors? And will it be enough to save them, now that their stock has taken a sharp nosedive?
The Atari 2600 joysticks that I owned had more longevity than any other controller I've ever owned.
My parents got me an Atari for Christmas in 1981 (I know the year because they also got me Yar's Revenge, and it was released 1981 according to Wikipedia). It came with two joysticks. As a kid, I played with my Atari a LOT. Like, several hours every day, for at least the next two years. Then we got a Commodore 64, and guess what - it used the exact same joysticks, and on the C64 they saw even heavier usage (I did, in fact, copy that floppy with friends, often).
My last Atari joystick survived until 1988-89 or thereabouts, albeit in rather diminished form - the rubber came off the stick itself, so it was reduced to a thin white plastic column coming from the big black base, but it was still functioning there at the end. The other joystick did die sometime before that (it wasn't responding so well when pushed up).
Oh, I don't know. The countertop recipe idea might not be so bad. I do a lot of cooking, myself, because I enjoy it. Sometimes I buy ingredients for a future recipe weeks in advance, especially if I find it on sale (frozen meat, spices, etc), and I may buy more than I immediately need to store for later use. Or I may want to use up something - I almost never cook anything involving cream because I know that most of the cream will go to waste after I'm done with the recipe it called for. If the counter can keep inventory of my food and suggest recipes based on that, well, that might be nice. Not a necessity, to be sure, but nice.
I used to be an auto insurance adjuster with a three-state territory (MD, DC, and VA) (yeah, I'm counting DC - that's where the majority of my cases were). As such, I had to obtain police reports, often. Police reports, at least with regards to auto accidents, are public record. If you just happen to drive past an accident, and note when and where it was, you can request a police report if you like.
NONE of the municipalities I dealt with had any online availability. I had to physically mail them a request, and almost ALL police jurisdictions charged for copies of the accident reports. In DC, it was $3. In Prince George County, MD, it was $5. I know there was one municipality in VA that charged $15 for the report (I THINK it was Orange, VA, but I could be wrong).
If Drupal requires a 260 page book to make a theme, their theme system is TOO COMPLICATED.
I used to use Postnuke for one of my sites. I designed my own theme for it, and it was pretty nice - you can see a PARTIALLY saved version of it here. I figured out how to make it by looking at the code for existing themes, which was not too dissimilar to standard HTML, and hacked around with it. In version.750 they switched to a new theme system called Xandria, breaking my old theme. I never managed to convert it to Xandria, because I find the Xandria language to be incomprehensible. The documentation, what little of it there was, was equally incomprehensible, and there were no (working) conversion tools.
So, like, I'm confused. Who is actually answering these questions here? The title and story intro say the questions are answered by the "Ron Paul campaign." So does that mean this is, in fact, Ron Paul himself answering, or his people, or a combination, or...?
"why would you want to play a Paladin (a weak fighter bolted to a weak cleric) when you could play one of the core four and do something well?"
Because you're ROLE-PLAYING. Aren't you? You aren't just rolling dice and putting the business end of a sword into randomly-generated monsters to acquire their gold and +2 swords (+4 vs. randomly-generated monsters), are you?
1) Money put in the bank is insured. FDIC and all that. 2) Money put in the bank is physically guarded. A robber would have to put life and limb on the line to get at it. 3) You can't identify me or anything about me from my money. Its just a pile of green paper.
NOTHING online is insured. And the hackers on steroids from Ebaumsworld are anonymous, so there's pretty much no risk to them haxing your shit.
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Dear Sir,
I am Xorpquan, the Supreme Subcommander in charge of Auditing and Accounting section of First Xenu Intergallactic Bank of 47 Ursae Majoris with due respect and regards. I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction.
During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a very huge sum of money belonging to Porshgar the Mighty who died on the 4th day of the 5th year of the rule of Lord Emperor Tashyon in a Torplack Race and the fund has been dormant in his/her account with this bank without any claim of the fund in our custody either from his family or relation. The said amount was 1,853,831,184 Credits. As it may Interest you to know, Meanwhile all the arrangement to put claim over this sum as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign account has been put in place.
On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 20% of the total Sum as gratification, while 3% will be set aside upon conclusion, to take care of expenses that may arise during the time Of transfer both local and intergalactic like Yushan Pirate Raids, asteroidal clearance, e.t.c, while %25 will be for me and my partner.
All other necessary information will be sent to you When I hear from you. I suggest you get back to me on my private e-mail address as Soon as possible stating your wish in this deal.
In the name of great Lord Emperor Tashyon,
Supreme Subcommander Xorpquan
We can't do it as well as Intel yet, therefore it sucks. BUY NVIDIA.
We're doomed.
Oh, wait, HOW long will it take this radiation to reach Earth from 6,500 light years away?
But seriously, I had zero intention of buying EITHER format until it was all sorted. My XBox buddies ran right out and got themselves HD-DVD. Foolish, but then again, the fact that they owned Xbox 360s already proved that. Now I'll CONSIDER a Blu-Ray player - if the prices drop sharply, and if I can find one that will let me play both my R1 and R2 DVDs.
Jeepers, that's really cool.
Meanwhile, I can't even get FIOS service in Philadelphia, one of our major cities, despite my keen desire to purchase it.
What is the burglar's got a point-ed stick?
Difference: The PS2 played PS1 games. PS3 does NOT play PS2 games. Therefore, do not want. I'll save a few hundred and buy a stand-alone blu-ray, IF I bother at all.
Boo-hoo, somebody who I don't know, have never met, and will never meet, called me a fatty online! Time to become an hero!
Please. When I was a kid I was fat and nerdy, back when being nerdy wasn't cool AT ALL. I was physically assaulted on a nearly daily basis, and if I had access to a gun, I'd have been the prototype for Columbine. So I have zero sympathy for somebody TYPING something mean. If you're that mentally unstable, the gene-pool is well served by your removal.
Don't mod me down, I may hurt myself.
Could it be they are offering this framework due to the ABYSMAL performance of their new Phenom processors? And will it be enough to save them, now that their stock has taken a sharp nosedive?
How many comics have been turned into highly successful movies, let's see, off the top of my head:
...not to mention lesser successes (Catwoman, etc)
Batman
Superman
Fantastic 4
X-Men
Spiderman
The Hulk
Hellboy
Blade
That's the kind of "ghetto" I'd like to be stuck in. How many book->movie conversions have had such success, percentage-wise?
POOL'S CLOSED
The Atari 2600 joysticks that I owned had more longevity than any other controller I've ever owned.
My parents got me an Atari for Christmas in 1981 (I know the year because they also got me Yar's Revenge, and it was released 1981 according to Wikipedia). It came with two joysticks. As a kid, I played with my Atari a LOT. Like, several hours every day, for at least the next two years. Then we got a Commodore 64, and guess what - it used the exact same joysticks, and on the C64 they saw even heavier usage (I did, in fact, copy that floppy with friends, often).
My last Atari joystick survived until 1988-89 or thereabouts, albeit in rather diminished form - the rubber came off the stick itself, so it was reduced to a thin white plastic column coming from the big black base, but it was still functioning there at the end. The other joystick did die sometime before that (it wasn't responding so well when pushed up).
I replaced it with a Sega Genesis controller.
Oh, I don't know. The countertop recipe idea might not be so bad. I do a lot of cooking, myself, because I enjoy it. Sometimes I buy ingredients for a future recipe weeks in advance, especially if I find it on sale (frozen meat, spices, etc), and I may buy more than I immediately need to store for later use. Or I may want to use up something - I almost never cook anything involving cream because I know that most of the cream will go to waste after I'm done with the recipe it called for. If the counter can keep inventory of my food and suggest recipes based on that, well, that might be nice. Not a necessity, to be sure, but nice.
BeOS, how grand.
Too bad no-one uses it.
Oh well, nevermind.
I prefer the term "Artificial Hardware Test" myself.
More cornbread?
...security breaches YOU!
"Public record" does not mean "free."
I used to be an auto insurance adjuster with a three-state territory (MD, DC, and VA) (yeah, I'm counting DC - that's where the majority of my cases were). As such, I had to obtain police reports, often. Police reports, at least with regards to auto accidents, are public record. If you just happen to drive past an accident, and note when and where it was, you can request a police report if you like.
NONE of the municipalities I dealt with had any online availability. I had to physically mail them a request, and almost ALL police jurisdictions charged for copies of the accident reports. In DC, it was $3. In Prince George County, MD, it was $5. I know there was one municipality in VA that charged $15 for the report (I THINK it was Orange, VA, but I could be wrong).
I see what you did there.
I used to use Postnuke for one of my sites. I designed my own theme for it, and it was pretty nice - you can see a PARTIALLY saved version of it here. I figured out how to make it by looking at the code for existing themes, which was not too dissimilar to standard HTML, and hacked around with it. In version .750 they switched to a new theme system called Xandria, breaking my old theme. I never managed to convert it to Xandria, because I find the Xandria language to be incomprehensible. The documentation, what little of it there was, was equally incomprehensible, and there were no (working) conversion tools.
So I simply stopped using Postnuke.
So, like, I'm confused. Who is actually answering these questions here? The title and story intro say the questions are answered by the "Ron Paul campaign." So does that mean this is, in fact, Ron Paul himself answering, or his people, or a combination, or...?
"why would you want to play a Paladin (a weak fighter bolted to a weak cleric) when you could play one of the core four and do something well?"
Because you're ROLE-PLAYING. Aren't you? You aren't just rolling dice and putting the business end of a sword into randomly-generated monsters to acquire their gold and +2 swords (+4 vs. randomly-generated monsters), are you?
Call me back when you have at least a beta. Even then I wouldn't think that front-page worthy. Save that for the final release.
Also, get off my lawn, you damn kids.
1) Money put in the bank is insured. FDIC and all that.
2) Money put in the bank is physically guarded. A robber would have to put life and limb on the line to get at it.
3) You can't identify me or anything about me from my money. Its just a pile of green paper.
NOTHING online is insured. And the hackers on steroids from Ebaumsworld are anonymous, so there's pretty much no risk to them haxing your shit.
If you want to keep something "private," DO NOT PUT IT ON THE INTERNET.