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  1. Re:Not true? on Facebook Blocks Users From Mentioning BugMeNot.com · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It failed for me, so I tested it and took a screen shot, and posted that to Facebook:

    http://photos-320.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v336/183/39/578793320/n578793320_854188_1264.jpg

  2. Jon Stewart Or Steven Colbert on Jack Thompson Calls Cops on Penny-Arcade · · Score: 1

    Someone Please Get Jack An Interview On Comedy Central. That Would Be So Much Fun to Watch.

  3. Re:Movie Showtimes / Reviews on Google Delivering Factual Answers · · Score: 1

    With all of these feautres, I wonder how long it will be until Google sells a handheld/palmtop device that is just a front end for Google.

  4. Is Anyone Else Reminded Of: on Ambulances to Get Virtual Doctors On Board · · Score: 2, Funny
  5. Other Organizations. on How Can Techies Give Back? · · Score: 1

    I work with a charity organization called Promise Of Iris - Pagan Outreach. I'd recommend looking outside of the tech industry, since while there are a few options looking for geeks, there are lots of other organizations desperately in need of one. How many smaller scale Non-Profit groups do you know that could use someone to set up their web server?

  6. Skins... on Marvel Clamps Down On Game Skins · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It doesn't matter to Marvel if they advertise, if they don't protect the IP at least in name only, they can't complain if someone sells a 'Marvel Super Heroes Skins CD' along side their latest video game.

    Personally, I'd guess a MMPORG based in the Marvelverse.

  7. Re:Appropriate SOVIET RUSSIA reference on A New Generation Of MOOs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I run a MOO, called 'The Keep'. It's something I'm constantly tinkering with, and always adding new areas and sections. My friends, both online and off, also work to build new things. I don't expect this to ever finish. The building is what the point is. It is almost an art from, allowing me to express myself, as well as provide a wonderful dream world to escape to.

    It reminds me of a quote from Walt, about Disneyland:
    Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.


    In other words, the point of a MOO isn't to finish it, but to create it, and to continue having that outlet.

  8. Re:DIE BUFFY DIE! on Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Officially Over · · Score: 1

    I'm sure I'm not the first to say this, but Buffy might have initially hooked viewers with boobs (or Alyson Hannigan, if you're me), but the story lines are amazing. Joss (the head honcho) will take everything you expect, then give you the opposite. The damsel in distress for the show is the guy, the pretty girl is the strongest amongst them, and the smart, rational one is the kid sister. Once you get used to his style he'll even throw you curve balls and do something normal. Joss also doesn't take the show too seriously. He makes comments about how standard things are ("Dawn's in trouble? Just another Tuesday night in Sunnydale."). It's a very well put together show.

    Give it a few episodes, You'd be surprised how well It's written.

  9. Re:Been A While on Your Valentine's Day Plans for 2003? · · Score: 1

    P.S. If you're getting a good wine, don't forget the corkscrew. If you've got a Geek Tool, then you're already set.

    (Yes, that was the mistake I made that day. The next year, she gave me the above linked Geek Tool as a birthday present.)

    Good Luck!

  10. Been A While on Your Valentine's Day Plans for 2003? · · Score: 1

    It's been a while since I've had a chance to play the romantic, but here goes.

    My favorite V-Day was one when I lived in an appartment with a roommate. To get away for the night, I got us a hotel room. If you have a place to yourself, you can do this there. Get a bucket, and fill it with ice. Add one bottle of wine. Make sure you get a type she likes. If you're not sure what she likes, try those fruity wines like Arbor Mist, they're generally liked, and fairly cheap. Then, go and get a dozen roses. Split the roses in half, and give half to her as soon as you see her that day. With the other half, make a trail that leads from the door to the bed. Put the wine, and two wine glasses, next to the bed. Lining the path with candles. Also, next to the bed, get a bottle/tube of massage oil, the kind actually intended to rub into someone's back (Google turned up this as an example) and start the evening off with a long backrub for her. Long as in hours (you can type for hours, your hands are strong, right?). From there, you can end the evening as you see fit. ;^)

  11. Re:Faramir got jobbed (Nit Pick) on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I noticed that after I posted it. My bad.

  12. To Err Is Human, To Really Screw Up You Need A PC on Nintendo's Playstation Settlement Bombshell (or not...updated) · · Score: 2

    Ironically enough, the 'Fortune' at the bottom of my page is:

    People don't usually make the same mistake twice -- they make it three times, four time, five times...

    So, we'll see a duplicate of this posted?

  13. Re:Faramir got jobbed (Nit Pick) on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 2

    I thought that was Minas Tirth, not Gondor (At least not the white city).

    Then again, they shouldn't have been there, either.

  14. Re:Bad idea on The Economics of Spam · · Score: 1

    Just wanted to say a quick 'thank you' to everyone who defended me by telling the original poster to RTFA.

  15. Re:Lets Here It For Indepth Reporting on The Economics of Spam · · Score: 1

    I wish I could mod this post up. That most definitely deserves it.

    I also hope someone points Laura to this thread, it might work as a 'scared strait' concept.

  16. Re:Alright, you know that's not fair, unless... on The Economics of Spam · · Score: 2

    I wonder if that house is in a residential zone. If she's working from it, that might mean she's operating a commercial entity in a residential zone, and I be the fines for that are fun...

  17. Lets Here It For Indepth Reporting on The Economics of Spam · · Score: 5, Informative

    We know:

    Her name: Laura Betterly
    Her kids names: Chris, 10, and Craig, 11
    The city she lives in: DUNEDIN, Fla
    What her house is like: 5,000-square-foot home, with a pool
    And it even had a picture of her.

    A quick Google turns up:

    Betterly, Laura
    717 Weathersfield Dr.
    Dunedin, FL 34698-7437
    United States
    (1) 727-447-2037
    (1) 727-468-2037

    -----------
    How about someone in Florida drive over there and tell her that the other 99.999% of her email recipients are wishing her bodily harm, and also that they know where she lives.

    Hell, why don't we all call her?

  18. Re:Which OS? on Talk To Xanth Creator Piers Anthony · · Score: 2
    I know this was meant as a joke, but I do know people who use computers for magical workings. 'Technopagan' is usually a good word for it.

    Personally, I've done some spellcraft using my MOO (linked in the sig). I'd be interested in how Peirs would answer that.

  19. Re:Technically on Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 2

    (I was going to email you privately, but your address isn't posted.)

    It is saying 'the one god', since It's singular, and it is saying 'the only' by omitting the rest.

    Besides, I don't have a god. I have a Goddess. The pledge, as it stands, makes no allowance for her.

    What if I had no god, as the one who brought the suit? Why do I have to believe in any god?

    What if I have two gods? It is singular, and accepting that the nation is under 'god' means that one of my gods is slighted.

    And also, what if I believed in a system where god wasn't above, but that the anti-god for me was? To use chritian names: What if I worshipped Satan, below us in Hell, and thought of Jahova (sp?), above us in Heaven as evil? Saying this would promote evil to me.

    I converted to Paganism in my senior year of highschool. At the same time I stopped saying the pledge. My teacher noticed I was sitting during it, and sent me to the principals. The principal asked me why, then called my mother. My mother took the news uninterested. (She was/is a wonderful mother, she just didn't care that I didn't say the pledge, that was my choice, she told me later). I was sent back to class, where my teacher dispised me for the rest of the year.

  20. Re:Almost on H2K2 Conference · · Score: 2

    PEnnsylvania 6-5000

    The old format for phone numbers was a word, then five digits. You take the first two leters (PE) and type them out (those little letters over the numbers).

    P is on the 7 key, E is on the 3, hence:
    73 6 - 5000

  21. ...You Asked For It... on Two Directions for the Future of Supercomputing · · Score: 2

    Google Sets:
    Predicted Items
    Deep Blue
    Stand Away
    Solitaer
    Floor planing
    Master Mind
    Reaching Horizons
    Freedom Call
    DEEP RED
    etc
    Queen Of The Night
    Painkiller
    Today's Technology
    Recent developments in AI
    His literary influences
    Angels Cry
    Never Understand
    Red
    After rain
    The Renju International Federation
    Game of Go Ring
    Gateway Inc
    Dell Computer Corp
    IBM
    Carry On
    The future of AI
    Food Chain Fish
    Deep Yellow
    Violet
    ZITO
    Forest Green

  22. Springboard Modules on Handspring's New Handhelds · · Score: 2

    Well, at least those early adopters of the springboard will be able to buy the soon-to-be-defunt technology for cheap. Once the port is offically no longer support, who'd want that stuff? I'll be bargain basement. (I hope)

  23. Re:don't forget friction on Impossible Movie Stunts? · · Score: 2

    FYI: Lucy Lawless was the punk girl, who said (Mild Spoiler) 'A guy with eight hands? Sounds hap.' (or something to that effect.)

  24. Defending The Wall Crawler on Impossible Movie Stunts? · · Score: 3, Informative

    He falls faster than MJ because she's laying flat, and he's in a diving posture, causing less air resistance. Also, if neither had hit terminal velocity, and when he jumped he did something to push himself downwards, he could be able to move downwards faster than her, initially, until they both reached terminal velocity and stopped accellerating. Like if I were to drop a call and fire a gun into the ground. The bullet would reach first, because it started moving downwards faster.

    At least that's how I want to think of it, I liked the movie.

  25. Re:I'm movin... on Iceland Moving to Hydrogen Economy · · Score: 1

    Okay, I Was Reading The Comments To See If Anyone Else Thought Of Bjork, I'm Very Comforted to See I'm Not Alone.

    ...And Do They Have Any Decent Tech Jobs Over There?