My wife's profession requires a certain number of hours of continuing education credits per year to remain licensed. One option is online courses. To make sure you actually spend time, the questions are on a webpage with a timer! Even if it takes you 10 seconds to read a question and answer it, you must leave the page open for however long - I think it's like 10 minutes each question! So, she'll answer a question, go do some housework, come back in x minutes, answer another, go do something else, etc, etc, etc. It's silly.
Hi Check out Postal 2... www.gopostal.com or www.postal2.com. If you enjoy pointless violence, this is for you! Show your support by purchasing this game. Don't be a pirating ass-tard! This game is nice. Real nice. Heh.
After getting all the way through and "beating" the game, you can play an "Enhanced Game" where you have special powers and some of the weapons behave differently. Think urine=flame-thrower!
walk up to every windows machine and know exactly where to go to get what...
Except when you hit the magic Windows machine of Joe Jackass 'Leet Windows Power User who moved his taskbar to the top, is using a high-contrast flourescent color scheme, and is using 2mb wav files for every stinking windows event, has a screensaver that kicks on after 1 minute of idle time and features that guy saying "Hey Vern!" over and over, has changed all desktop items from the somewhat useful standard to one identical image - say golf balls, has renamed shortcuts from the application name to what they REALLY are; for example, Internet Explorer is now The Internet.......
How about web authors around the world organizing a Blow Up IE Day, where they make their webpages blow up (crash) IE when people view them with IE? Or, perhaps a less abrasive campaign where MS's plans to continually take users' money is outlined in plain, simple terms? Really, we can sit around whining about this, or do something.
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There's a big difference; namely reality. When a loser goes to a ball game or a convention, they spend real money to be with other real people who share a common interest. They risk their real lives driving/walking/biking there and back. They consume real resources and have an impact on the real world.
That's why there are pretend worlds and crap online, so you don't risk losing actual assetts. You play a car-racing GAME because you don't want to trash your ACTUAL car. If you crash your car in the game, do you cry and try to find someone to sue? No, because it's fairly obvious that it's PRETEND. You will not suffer REAL financial hardships because of this; you won't have to buy a new car. You won't have to shell out REAL money for repairs. You spend time in imaginary places to avoid real consequences. Now you want to get real compensation for imaginary losses? Okay, but how about if we then make a law that if your imaginary character dies, you must be killed too? Sure, you want the good of reality, and the good of imaginary. You want to have your cake and eat it too. And you want to waste our time on this. Go blow a dog.
I love DnOiPaL... it's one of my all-time favorites. Actually, it's probably my favorite. It's especially good if you find yourself working in a restaurant; as I was when I first read it.
Orwell is great. Forget all the crap they taught you in high school about 1984 and Animal Farm. I just finished Coming Up For Air, and am now reading Homage To Catalonia. About a year ago, give or take, I read Burmese Days. Many years ago I read Keep The Aspidistra Flying... will probably read that soon too.
What do I like most about Orwell? I don't know. Maybe because when I'm reading him, I catch myself saying "That's it. Exactly." Good, Good Stuff. Very well written, not too pretentious.
I was under the impression that a gram was the weight (or mass, whatever) of 1 cubic centimeter of water. Then, a kilogram would be 1000 of these. Water is fairly common, on this planet anyway.
What's with using 1000 of something as a standard? Why don't we then call what we now call a gram a micro-kilogram?
Is/are there any Anti-Microsoft advocacy groups out there? I'm talking about respectable, legitimate groups that have seriously documented how and why Microsoft's practices are bad. I'm not talking about Joe H4X0R's I-Hate-Microsoft geocities webpage.
If not, perhaps there should be, with the goal to educate people who help MS - the suits who are suckered in to the Ad campaigns and really have no idea about such things.
Am I the only one who thinks there's nothing lower on the food chain than a Windows fanatic? Like the guy on that webpage, or the creepy wind-bags in PC Magazine? As a Linux Geek, at least I have a clue as to how and why things work; rather than a boner from the latest cute icons and wallpapers. Cripes.
So, when you save a picture, do you have to fill out a questionaire? I can picture it now:
Clippy: I see that you're trying to save a file. I see that this file has a.jpg extention. This must be a picture. If you're not comfortable with extentions, I can hide these for you in the future. Please take a moment to fill out this questionaire in order to save your file.
1. Is this a photo? yes no
2. Did you take this photo? yes no
3. If you didn't take this photo, do you have the legal right to save this file to your hard-drive? yes no
4. If you didn't take this photo, please type in the Name and Social Security Number of whoever did take this photo. (No information is being sent to Microsoft at this time).:
5. If you're ready to save this, please click Yes. If not, please click No. If you'd like some time to think about it, click Later. If you'd like more information about Microsoft's revolutionary new file system, click Help.
OK. Please stand by as the information about this file is verified with Microsoft (note: you need an internet connection to proceed. Click Set Up My Internet Now to commit to a 12-month subscription to Microsoft Windows (formerly MSN) and to activate access to your hard-drive.). Once we've verified your legal right to save this file to your hard-drive, you'll be given a short (5-7 minute) questionaire to provide further details about this file to make finding it easier the next time you plan to view it with Microsoft Photo Monkey. Thank you for choosing Microsoft!
The new Notes feature seems rather silly. It's like a "drafts" folder in their mail client. If you create a "note" and double-click it, it opens up as an email. It's odd, and seems useless to me.
Otherwise, 7.10 is good. I've purchased Opera and am happy to have done so.
I have created a nice collection of floppy images created with dd in Linux. (Win3x,Win9x,NT,driver disks, etc) Now, when losers come around looking for such and such a floppy, I dump one for them. These would easily fit onto a cd, most likely with a tiny Linux distribution (I haven't tried any of the really small ones, but am sure they exist
Miss Stalin: My hobbies include horseback riding, walking on the beach, and singing in my church choir. If I become Miss World, I'll make sure everyone gets a bag of Doritos.
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I knew that damn little teddy bear icon in my windows directory was up to no good!!!!!
My wife's profession requires a certain number of hours of continuing education credits per year to remain licensed. One option is online courses. To make sure you actually spend time, the questions are on a webpage with a timer! Even if it takes you 10 seconds to read a question and answer it, you must leave the page open for however long - I think it's like 10 minutes each question! So, she'll answer a question, go do some housework, come back in x minutes, answer another, go do something else, etc, etc, etc. It's silly.
Hi
Check out Postal 2... www.gopostal.com or www.postal2.com. If you enjoy pointless violence, this is for you! Show your support by purchasing this game. Don't be a pirating ass-tard! This game is nice. Real nice. Heh.
After getting all the way through and "beating" the game, you can play an "Enhanced Game" where you have special powers and some of the weapons behave differently. Think urine=flame-thrower!
walk up to every windows machine and know exactly where to go to get what...
Except when you hit the magic Windows machine of Joe Jackass 'Leet Windows Power User who moved his taskbar to the top, is using a high-contrast flourescent color scheme, and is using 2mb wav files for every stinking windows event, has a screensaver that kicks on after 1 minute of idle time and features that guy saying "Hey Vern!" over and over, has changed all desktop items from the somewhat useful standard to one identical image - say golf balls, has renamed shortcuts from the application name to what they REALLY are; for example, Internet Explorer is now The Internet.......
How about web authors around the world organizing a Blow Up IE Day, where they make their webpages blow up (crash) IE when people view them with IE? Or, perhaps a less abrasive campaign where MS's plans to continually take users' money is outlined in plain, simple terms? Really, we can sit around whining about this, or do something.
There's a big difference; namely reality. When a loser goes to a ball game or a convention, they spend real money to be with other real people who share a common interest. They risk their real lives driving/walking/biking there and back. They consume real resources and have an impact on the real world.
That's why there are pretend worlds and crap online, so you don't risk losing actual assetts. You play a car-racing GAME because you don't want to trash your ACTUAL car. If you crash your car in the game, do you cry and try to find someone to sue? No, because it's fairly obvious that it's PRETEND. You will not suffer REAL financial hardships because of this; you won't have to buy a new car. You won't have to shell out REAL money for repairs. You spend time in imaginary places to avoid real consequences. Now you want to get real compensation for imaginary losses? Okay, but how about if we then make a law that if your imaginary character dies, you must be killed too?
Sure, you want the good of reality, and the good of imaginary. You want to have your cake and eat it too. And you want to waste our time on this. Go blow a dog.
I love DnOiPaL... it's one of my all-time favorites. Actually, it's probably my favorite. It's especially good if you find yourself working in a restaurant; as I was when I first read it.
Orwell is great. Forget all the crap they taught you in high school about 1984 and Animal Farm. I just finished Coming Up For Air, and am now reading Homage To Catalonia. About a year ago, give or take, I read Burmese Days. Many years ago I read Keep The Aspidistra Flying... will probably read that soon too.
What do I like most about Orwell? I don't know. Maybe because when I'm reading him, I catch myself saying "That's it. Exactly." Good, Good Stuff. Very well written, not too pretentious.
You could read the article.
I was under the impression that a gram was the weight (or mass, whatever) of 1 cubic centimeter of water. Then, a kilogram would be 1000 of these. Water is fairly common, on this planet anyway.
What's with using 1000 of something as a standard? Why don't we then call what we now call a gram a micro-kilogram?
Is/are there any Anti-Microsoft advocacy groups out there? I'm talking about respectable, legitimate groups that have seriously documented how and why Microsoft's practices are bad. I'm not talking about Joe H4X0R's I-Hate-Microsoft geocities webpage.
If not, perhaps there should be, with the goal to educate people who help MS - the suits who are suckered in to the Ad campaigns and really have no idea about such things.
Thanks.
Am I the only one who thinks there's nothing lower on the food chain than a Windows fanatic? Like the guy on that webpage, or the creepy wind-bags in PC Magazine? As a Linux Geek, at least I have a clue as to how and why things work; rather than a boner from the latest cute icons and wallpapers.
Cripes.
So, when you save a picture, do you have to fill out a questionaire? I can picture it now:
.jpg extention. This must be a picture. If you're not comfortable with extentions, I can hide these for you in the future. Please take a moment to fill out this questionaire in order to save your file.
Clippy: I see that you're trying to save a file. I see that this file has a
1. Is this a photo? yes no
2. Did you take this photo? yes no
3. If you didn't take this photo, do you have the legal right to save this file to your hard-drive? yes no
4. If you didn't take this photo, please type in the Name and Social Security Number of whoever did take this photo. (No information is being sent to Microsoft at this time).:
5. If you're ready to save this, please click Yes. If not, please click No. If you'd like some time to think about it, click Later. If you'd like more information about Microsoft's revolutionary new file system, click Help.
OK. Please stand by as the information about this file is verified with Microsoft (note: you need an internet connection to proceed. Click Set Up My Internet Now to commit to a 12-month subscription to Microsoft Windows (formerly MSN) and to activate access to your hard-drive.). Once we've verified your legal right to save this file to your hard-drive, you'll be given a short (5-7 minute) questionaire to provide further details about this file to make finding it easier the next time you plan to view it with Microsoft Photo Monkey. Thank you for choosing Microsoft!
The same amount you pay them for grammar lessons.
So long as they keep the Vulcan chick with the knockers, I'm there.
s cary" bad guys. Enough already!
What we don't need, are more of those dumb-ass "putty-on-the-bridge-of-my-nose-means-I'm-really-
This is a good game, but they'd probably give it an X rating.
The new Notes feature seems rather silly. It's like a "drafts" folder in their mail client. If you create a "note" and double-click it, it opens up as an email. It's odd, and seems useless to me.
Otherwise, 7.10 is good. I've purchased Opera and am happy to have done so.
Or buy a used one on EBAY. Slap Linux on it. Sleep well at night.
I have created a nice collection of floppy images created with dd in Linux. (Win3x,Win9x,NT,driver disks, etc) Now, when losers come around looking for such and such a floppy, I dump one for them. These would easily fit onto a cd, most likely with a tiny Linux distribution (I haven't tried any of the really small ones, but am sure they exist
No. It is very silly to assign human attributes to non-human things, in this case, a pc.
Next question please.
Yeah, journalistic integrity. Yip skip.
Miss Stalin: My hobbies include horseback riding, walking on the beach, and singing in my church choir. If I become Miss World, I'll make sure everyone gets a bag of Doritos.
Thank You.
This is what I would call a Dead Horse Genre.
Just like Dracula.
And Frankenstein.
And Planet Of The Apes.
And Lord Of The Rings.
It's been done, adequately.
More than once.
Stop it already.
Stop it Stop it Stop it!!!!
Hmmm. Haven't seen it, don't care to. I'm not big on Southern Belles.
An American classic.
One deserving of a sequel. A GOOD sequel.