i was in the room with some friends who were playing this game a week or two ago, when one of their characters died. the voice over said something to the effect of "your character has died due to incontinent demise". man, what a shitty way to go...
That reminds me, since I've been trekking thru the Andes for the last four years I haven't check the price of my 10,000 shares of Webvan stock recently. Let's see, the last report I got from them was in January '01... so here i go entering their symbol into Yahoo financials... WHAT THE !%#%!#^##! DOES DELISTED MEAN?!?!!? Well, at least I still have my precious VerticalNet stock...
That's the difference between me and you... you believe that the Christian God is all-knowing, including the future and the outcome of our individual lives, therefore virtually anything can be argued and substantiated by saying "God and the bible say it, therefore it's true." I, on the other hand, do not believe in the Christian God, or his omniscient powers, or fatalism, so us arguing the point is pointless.
For the love of god, who in the hell thought this was anything but funny? Look people, the universe does not give a rat's ass that we count to ten. That is, the fact that we have ten digits in our numbering system is COMPLETELY arbitrary. So is the fact that we have 26 letters in our alphabet. I guarantee you all that if we had four fingers on each hand like the Simpsons characters, we'd be counting in octal. Anyone that manages to apply any sort of relation between letters and numbers to come up with some sort of code which bears any sort of relevance is deluding themselves.
Think about it this way... the Bible was originally written in Hebrew. The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. Do you really think that the Christian God (should he exist) thought far enough ahead to include people in the bible who numerological name conversions would apply in English? No, that's absolutely absurd.
This is why I swerve to hit these wacky numerologists out there. They're so blissfully ignorant of the arbitrariness of our numbering system and number of letters in our English alphabet that they try to apply some grandiose scheme to letters in order to convince people that they're some kind of mystic.
Whenever I go grocery shopping at Genuardi's or Acme, when I get to the checkout and the clerk asks if I have my super-fantastic discount card, I pat my pockets, give my wallet a cursory once over, and check my key ring, then shrug sheepishly and tell them I must've left it at home. At this point the clerk just runs her own. Granted, I go to the lines with the cutest chicks and say it with a great deal of charm...
Henry Ford did something similar to this in the early 20th century. Other automobile manufacturers claimed to have a patent or some such nonsense on what a car is. They didn't like Ford and wouldn't "license" the idea to him, and threatened to sue anyone who bought a car from Ford. Ford insured his customers against any lawsuit brought against them by the other car manufacturers. It was a huge coup for his business and Ford eventually won out his lawsuit against the other manufacturers.
this will be a problem as more efficient, lighter cars share the road with Hummers
So once you get all the Humvee's off the road, are you going to go after the tractor trailers which weigh many times more and are far greater in number?
More evidence that Europeans are a more civilized in their driving?
Uh... have you ever seen people driving around the Arc de Triumphe in Paris? Take a look at this picture I took from atop the Arc de Triumphe in November '01:
I once had a hamster named Forest that would hours and hours running in his little habitrail wheel. He loved that wheel so much that he drug some of his bedding into it to sleep there. Then he decided to start using it as his bathroom, too. So when he'd start running, there would literally be a shit storm in his wheel. Hamster poop and bedding flying everywhere. And, of course, all the flying debris would make its way out thru the airholes and onto my desk. I had to clean my desk of hamster shit at least once a day.
Can you imagine the havoc this would've caused inside a computer case? Little poop pellets landing on the cpu and causing quite a stink from the heat, or hitting the cpu fan and being thrown everywhere... no thanks, I like my cat who is scared of my computers.
That's why I propose we name tomorrow, April 2nd, "April Bitch-Slap Day", where we get back at all the pathetic losers who play pathetic jokes with an old-fashioned slap upside their head, followed by an ass-kicking if the joke was especially bad.
Online, I've taken to shopping where I can get free shipping
Free shipping isn't always all it's cracked up to be. A few months ago I was in the market for a 200 gig hard drive and started by looking around on pricewatch.com. One company (I don't remember the name) was offering free shipping and the drive for a pretty good deal. When I clicked through to the site and added the drive to my shopping cart, they forced me to include a 1 year warranty for $10, but shipping was still free. I've always been a bit wary about these scams so I downloaded the order page, removed the warranty HTML form element, and submitted. Lo and behold, there was no mandatory warranty listed (and no additional cost) on the order, AND free shipping! In the end I went with another vendor because those clowns don't deserve my business and I didn't want to deal with the hassle of them calling me or sneaking the $10 charge in.
Aren't we the people that bitch endlessly when we hear about people getting jail time for cracking someone's system? Now were equating spammers with mother rapers and father stabbers... that's just great. Way to be hypocritical.
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but i just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance
wouldn't it be, "In Soviet Russia, Supreme Court selects president"? oh, wait...
i was in the room with some friends who were playing this game a week or two ago, when one of their characters died. the voice over said something to the effect of "your character has died due to incontinent demise". man, what a shitty way to go...
jesus tap dancing christ, it's a joke!
World War 90210
i'd rather risk getting fat than getting a nail in the foot.
That reminds me, since I've been trekking thru the Andes for the last four years I haven't check the price of my 10,000 shares of Webvan stock recently. Let's see, the last report I got from them was in January '01... so here i go entering their symbol into Yahoo financials... WHAT THE !%#%!#^##! DOES DELISTED MEAN?!?!!? Well, at least I still have my precious VerticalNet stock...
so many porn jokes...
that's probably true now, i read that in a book several years ago.
if you do a count(1) instead of a count(*), it works faster since it doesn't have to return any actual fields.
That's the difference between me and you... you believe that the Christian God is all-knowing, including the future and the outcome of our individual lives, therefore virtually anything can be argued and substantiated by saying "God and the bible say it, therefore it's true." I, on the other hand, do not believe in the Christian God, or his omniscient powers, or fatalism, so us arguing the point is pointless.
For the love of god, who in the hell thought this was anything but funny? Look people, the universe does not give a rat's ass that we count to ten. That is, the fact that we have ten digits in our numbering system is COMPLETELY arbitrary. So is the fact that we have 26 letters in our alphabet. I guarantee you all that if we had four fingers on each hand like the Simpsons characters, we'd be counting in octal. Anyone that manages to apply any sort of relation between letters and numbers to come up with some sort of code which bears any sort of relevance is deluding themselves.
Think about it this way... the Bible was originally written in Hebrew. The Hebrew alphabet has 22 letters. Do you really think that the Christian God (should he exist) thought far enough ahead to include people in the bible who numerological name conversions would apply in English? No, that's absolutely absurd.
This is why I swerve to hit these wacky numerologists out there. They're so blissfully ignorant of the arbitrariness of our numbering system and number of letters in our English alphabet that they try to apply some grandiose scheme to letters in order to convince people that they're some kind of mystic.
Strom Thurmond
Whenever I go grocery shopping at Genuardi's or Acme, when I get to the checkout and the clerk asks if I have my super-fantastic discount card, I pat my pockets, give my wallet a cursory once over, and check my key ring, then shrug sheepishly and tell them I must've left it at home. At this point the clerk just runs her own. Granted, I go to the lines with the cutest chicks and say it with a great deal of charm...
thanks for the links, i couldn't remember the details about the situation, just the gist of it from a law class i took a year or so ago.
Henry Ford did something similar to this in the early 20th century. Other automobile manufacturers claimed to have a patent or some such nonsense on what a car is. They didn't like Ford and wouldn't "license" the idea to him, and threatened to sue anyone who bought a car from Ford. Ford insured his customers against any lawsuit brought against them by the other car manufacturers. It was a huge coup for his business and Ford eventually won out his lawsuit against the other manufacturers.
this will be a problem as more efficient, lighter cars share the road with Hummers
So once you get all the Humvee's off the road, are you going to go after the tractor trailers which weigh many times more and are far greater in number?
More evidence that Europeans are a more civilized in their driving?
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Uh... have you ever seen people driving around the Arc de Triumphe in Paris? Take a look at this picture I took from atop the Arc de Triumphe in November '01:
http://www.leroybrown.com/images/europe_01/index.
You think this is civilized?
I once had a hamster named Forest that would hours and hours running in his little habitrail wheel. He loved that wheel so much that he drug some of his bedding into it to sleep there. Then he decided to start using it as his bathroom, too. So when he'd start running, there would literally be a shit storm in his wheel. Hamster poop and bedding flying everywhere. And, of course, all the flying debris would make its way out thru the airholes and onto my desk. I had to clean my desk of hamster shit at least once a day.
Can you imagine the havoc this would've caused inside a computer case? Little poop pellets landing on the cpu and causing quite a stink from the heat, or hitting the cpu fan and being thrown everywhere... no thanks, I like my cat who is scared of my computers.
That's why I propose we name tomorrow, April 2nd, "April Bitch-Slap Day", where we get back at all the pathetic losers who play pathetic jokes with an old-fashioned slap upside their head, followed by an ass-kicking if the joke was especially bad.
Since the Linux hackers have written an entire kernel...
Where have you been for the past nine months? Didn't you hear? SCO wrote the Linux kernel!
they appear to have changed their cheatin' ways
I spoke too soon. After some poking around, I found out that if you choose "no warranty" on a hard drive, you get this notice:
"NO-WARRANTY HARD DRIVES are the ones from overseas, and do not have the warranty support in the USA"
So they still find a way to screw you, but at least they let you know that they're trying to screw you.
One company (I don't remember the name) was offering free shipping and the drive for a pretty good deal...
It was this company: www.isystor.com, but they appear to have changed their cheatin' ways. Warranties are no longer mandatory.
Online, I've taken to shopping where I can get free shipping
Free shipping isn't always all it's cracked up to be. A few months ago I was in the market for a 200 gig hard drive and started by looking around on pricewatch.com. One company (I don't remember the name) was offering free shipping and the drive for a pretty good deal. When I clicked through to the site and added the drive to my shopping cart, they forced me to include a 1 year warranty for $10, but shipping was still free. I've always been a bit wary about these scams so I downloaded the order page, removed the warranty HTML form element, and submitted. Lo and behold, there was no mandatory warranty listed (and no additional cost) on the order, AND free shipping! In the end I went with another vendor because those clowns don't deserve my business and I didn't want to deal with the hassle of them calling me or sneaking the $10 charge in.
Aren't we the people that bitch endlessly when we hear about people getting jail time for cracking someone's system? Now were equating spammers with mother rapers and father stabbers... that's just great. Way to be hypocritical.