unless you don't like Mallrats", in which case, bite me again:)
I like Mallrats (not as much as Dogma, but still quite a lot). Its Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back that is utterly unwatchable (except the Good Will Hunting II part. Now thats a sequel I want to see.)
Your sisters only copy of her dissertation was on a floppy?
Sister-in-law, but yes. She doesn't make backup of things she tapes on video, or on cassette, why would it occur to her that computers are inherently likely to fuck you over? This is a basically a non-computer user, and it was shortly after the Win95 hype, when computers were being pushed as user friendly and utterly reliable. We cognoscenti know to make backups, newbies don't, and thats why they care about stability.
Word trashed it? I'd find it more likely that the floppy just died, as they sometimes do.
The floppy was in perfect health (I checked afterwards). I also checked the MS Webpage after, it was a known issue to do with early implementations of FastSave. And this was in the mid-90s, so don't bring the "should've downloaded a patch" bollocks.
What's your sister majoring in anyway, GYM?
No, it was a professional qualification, and she was, and is, a (highly qualified) nurse, you patronising little shit.
Yes they do (or rather, the ones I know do). They're as likely to blame themselves as the software for crashes, though (at lot of my family say things like "It said General Protection Fault, what did I do wrong?"
And, having spent half a day reconstructing my sister-in-law's dissertation from a floppy where Word had decided to trash it, I can guarantee that many home users care very much about stability (I've never heard such language from her, before or since).
>I try to remain as open-minded as I can manage. So God may/may not exist,
You're a man (or woman) after my own heart. Although I am agnostic I have a lot of respect for a great many religious people, from Desmond Tutu to Johnny Cash. For my sins (and want of a better phrase) I do occasionally allow myself a game of "bait the fundamentalist".
No, you gave me C&V saying I wouldn't be forgiven if I blasphemed the spirit. You then told me that mockery was blasphemy, but you didn't back it up with scripture. Tell me why you believe mockery is blasphemy.
> but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven
Thats fair enough. (I guess. I thought the penitent had all their sins forgiven. I was brought up a Catholic, and thats what the told me. Surely I wasn't lied to by a church? All those confessions for nothing! "Hail Mary, mother of god..." See, just thinking about it has caused the old programming to kick back in. But I digress).
> The Gift of Tounges is from the HOLY SPIRIT, so if you talk bad about them, you BLASHPHEME the SPIRIT!
And thats just your interpretation. Theres nothing up there that says that mockery=blasphemy. Bzzzt, thanks for playing, troll. Now remember, I want chapter and verse where I'm told that mocking the holy spirit is blasphemy.
I suggest we set up a website to promote a lawsuit where the guidelines are more ambiguous. I recommend registering "www.hoovervacuumcleanersDONTsuck.com"
I'm a runner, training for a marathon who presently using a MiniDisc player for entertainment on those long runs. But, having pretty much trashed one in this way, I'm pretty wary about using it, and I do worry about it.
So, what I wan't to know is: Do these, and MP3 players in general, have any moving parts, and are they very resistance to shock, vibration and continuous movement?
The last time the games really mattered was in 1936, when Jesse Owens beat out Hitler's alleged Master Race competitors. It's been all downhill since then.
Whilst I agree with the thrust of your thesis, you can't track the decline that far back. The problems really started in 1976. The Montreal games were a financial disaster (it is rumoured that the city still hasn't fully settled the account). The 1980 games were marred by the (justified) US boycott due to the previous war in Afghanistan, but I enjoyed them (hey, a Brit won the 100m for God's sake, and Coe and Ovett larged it big style on the track.) But the Russians were prepared to take the economic hit as they thought a successful games w/o the Yanks would be a propaganda coup. The commercialisation really took off in LA in 1984. Desperate not to lose money, the city authorities did a great job finding sponsorship, in the absence of the communist block the US won everything not nailed down (except the women's 3000m, but thats another story) and everyone got rich. No surprises then, that thats been pretty much the format ever since.
Besides, for political impact, Tommie Smith's 1968 protest was the equal of Jesse, to my mind.
It's not much worse than other sites such as... BBC...
The BBC web page renders quite well (certainly usably) with pretty much every browser under the sun. And they pride themselves on this. They even provide some of their streaming media in OGG Vorbis for God's sake.
Thats a dreadful analogy. Criminals will get good encryption, not because they will breach US export regulations, but because the rest of the world is not as dumb as you seem to think. We understand crypto just as well as the US, and we can write our own. (CLUE: The recently adopted AES is called Rijndael, because it was invented in Belgium).
If Tony Blair wasn't such a toadying arsehole he might actually hear the people telling him that public transport should be run as a public service!
But that would mean renationalisation, which would require expenditure, which would require tax rises, which, as we all now, and despite what they say, is absolutely anathema to the electorate. Thats why Byers tried to push Railtrack into receivership, and a low cost renationalisation by-the-back-door. I guess the theory was "if we're to be attacked for mishandling the railways, we may as well reclaim enough power so that it is our fault if it all goes tits-up." Nothing got my more than those Tory "Where Are The Trains?" posters. I'm with these guys. (jeez, that last link was hard to find).
A bizarre neither-sexy-or-dirty soft core porn show with various unerotic scantily clad second-rate actresses in poorly thought out "psycho-sexual" situations. All narrated/introduced by a frankly embarrassed looking Duchovny.
I'm not interested in joining the Fashionably Left. Could you please give him his own category so I can filter him?
Me too! Feed me nothing but opinions that are entirely in sync with my own. That way, I too need never be prodded by informed debate into having an intelligent original thought of my own.
Free writing (I hesitate to say literature, because the definition is kinda nebulous) has flourished. Look how cheap printing/DTP led to an increase in fanzines and the like (not to mention the ubiquitous fanfic). Free music is everywhere, from the folk night at your local coffeehouse, to wannabe techno moguls releasing their dance tunes on MP3.com Distribution was once a problem but the interweb is well on its way to putting paid to that. Why are there more indie films getting made that ever before.
90%+ of it is crap, but thats just Sturgeon's Law (and besides, have you tried to sit through "Pearl Harbor", or read "A Mothers Gift"?)
even in peacetime the output of Europe didn't match the US
Maybe that was true before the Great Depression, but it wasn't in the period 1933-39, which affected the US worse than Europe (tho' Europe was badly hit). Its much more relevant to note that (a) Europe had been fighting a war of unprecedented scale for over 2 years before Pearl Harbor. (b) The US did not get its mines, factories etc. bombed near-continuously from 1942-1945.
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Now thats funny. Can I redistribute it?
Who should I credit it to?
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Richard Nixon (blowing a bugle)
Ahem
(Sadly, theres also this)
The floppy was in perfect health (I checked afterwards). I also checked the MS Webpage after, it was a known issue to do with early implementations of FastSave. And this was in the mid-90s, so don't bring the "should've downloaded a patch" bollocks.
No, it was a professional qualification, and she was, and is, a (highly qualified) nurse, you patronising little shit.
And, having spent half a day reconstructing my sister-in-law's dissertation from a floppy where Word had decided to trash it, I can guarantee that many home users care very much about stability (I've never heard such language from her, before or since).
You're a man (or woman) after my own heart. Although I am agnostic I have a lot of respect for a great many religious people, from Desmond Tutu to Johnny Cash. For my sins (and want of a better phrase) I do occasionally allow myself a game of "bait the fundamentalist".
No, you gave me C&V saying I wouldn't be forgiven if I blasphemed the spirit. You then told me that mockery was blasphemy, but you didn't back it up with scripture. Tell me why you believe mockery is blasphemy.
Thats fair enough. (I guess. I thought the penitent had all their sins forgiven. I was brought up a Catholic, and thats what the told me. Surely I wasn't lied to by a church? All those confessions for nothing! "Hail Mary, mother of god..." See, just thinking about it has caused the old programming to kick back in. But I digress).
> The Gift of Tounges is from the HOLY SPIRIT, so if you talk bad about them, you BLASHPHEME the SPIRIT!
And thats just your interpretation. Theres nothing up there that says that mockery=blasphemy. Bzzzt, thanks for playing, troll. Now remember, I want chapter and verse where I'm told that mocking the holy spirit is blasphemy.
OK troll. Quote chapter and verse where it mentions that "mocking speaking in tongues" is blasphemy?
Surely you mean "The evidence
I suggest we set up a website to promote a lawsuit where the guidelines are more ambiguous. I recommend registering "www.hoovervacuumcleanersDONTsuck.com"
I'm a runner, training for a marathon who presently using a MiniDisc player for entertainment on those long runs. But, having pretty much trashed one in this way, I'm pretty wary about using it, and I do worry about it.
So, what I wan't to know is: Do these, and MP3 players in general, have any moving parts, and are they very resistance to shock, vibration and continuous movement?
Besides, for political impact, Tommie Smith's 1968 protest was the equal of Jesse, to my mind.
Yes and those people have those Belgian names because they're Belgian.
Thats a dreadful analogy. Criminals will get good encryption, not because they will breach US export regulations, but because the rest of the world is not as dumb as you seem to think. We understand crypto just as well as the US, and we can write our own. (CLUE: The recently adopted AES is called Rijndael, because it was invented in Belgium).
Oh fuck, I appear to be very off topic.
Well, you did ask.
90%+ of it is crap, but thats just Sturgeon's Law (and besides, have you tried to sit through "Pearl Harbor", or read "A Mothers Gift"?)
Where does he say that the opposition crumble?