Since reaching adulthood, I've fallen off my bike one time, and of course I wasn't wearing a helmet.
I was riding on a paved road just over a mile from home and noticed that my front tire was just steering into a crack in the pavement just wide enough to accept my front tire.
The front of my bike came to an immediate halt, but due to those damned laws of inertia, me and the back of the bike kept going. The bike frame bent just behind the handle bars to about a 15 degree angle, and I went over the handle bars - thankfully my face broke my fall...
My hands were underneath of me while I slid on the pavement, removing a spot of epidermis about the size of a quarter on each, just below the index finger.
I was wearing glasses, and the left lens ended up opaque from being ground against the pavement. When I got up and brushed myself off, I was more than 10 feet from my bike. I was bleeding profusely from below and above my left eye and oozing plasma from my hands and one knee.
I called a friend who came and picked me up and took me home. I woke up my brother just to scare the piss out of him (it worked) and went and looked in the mirror. When I caught myself saying, "Hey, I think that white thing is my skull", I knew it was time to go to the emergency room.
I fractured the sub-orbital ridge (the lower part of the eye socket) and required a couple dozen stitches in my face to close up the wounds. The worst part of the whole experience was having to have the wounds scrubbed to remove the dirt and gravel they picked up. That was the only part that really hurt.
I was lucky, or at least that's what approximately 12,000 nurses and doctors told me that day, because apparently they all felt it was necessary to come by and tell me how stupid I was to ride without a helmet.
Because, if you're like most people, you carry your phone with you everywhere you go, and leave your digital camera behind - unless you know in advance that you'll need it.
I use the camera in my phone all the time for those times when I didn't know I'd need my camera with me (i.e., a co-worker falls asleep at his desk and starts drooling).
You need to shift paradigms and stop thinking of it as a full-feature camera being shoe-horned into a product and start thinking of it as the equivalent of those disposable cameras you can buy (because you forgot to bring your nice camera), only without having to buy anything...
You should try a different MMORPG, like Asheron's Call: Dark Majesty.
Turbine has done almost everything possible to make the game enjoyable without the need to give up your 'real life' and stay in the game 24/7.
The graphics are a little antiquated (a new graphics engine is due out next year) but the game play is still going strong, and you don't have to constantly pay for expansion packs ($20-30 extra every 6 months) as Turbine adds new content (dungeons, monsters, weapons, etc) in every month's patch.
And it has player-owned housing, something that EQ still has yet to provide... I have a nice lake-side cottage up in the mountains.
well, it feels like I weigh a few ounces over one ton...
I should have continued my original comment to say "what about all the people who make Twinkies and Jolt! Cola, they're going to be out of a job if I slim down to those dimensions"... then it might have actually been funny.
2. A dollar not earned is still lost revenue. In the bookstore example, you forgot to mention that the bookstore owner bought the book from the publisher with the expectation of being able to sell it. If his stock does not sell because everyone has already illegally obtained a copy, that is a very real loss. You are just playing with words. A penny saved is a penny earned, after all.
Except in this specific example, the bookseller simply rips the cover off the book and returns the cover to the publisher for a full refund. Haven't you ever read the fine print inside that tells you that if you bought this book with no cover, then you've ripped off the publisher?
Who wants to worry about someone hacking their TV and deleting all their recordings? Who wants to worry about whether or not you're lights will stay on/off because some scriptkiddie wrote a BlinkenLitez for your neighborhood? Who wants to come home to find out their house is heated to a balmy 97 degrees because someone hacked their thermostat? Who wants to come home to find their oven has been running all day on Broil?
Just think, a phone designed by apple would be the coolest thing ever.And the most expensive phone ever... and it would only work with Apple's cellular service, which would be simple to use but also, very expensive.
Mike Lin has a companion program that I also recommend, StartupMonitor. It keeps track of any attempt to add a new item to your startup lists and it pops up and asks you if you really want "evil_gambling_plugin.exe" to run at startup.
It's kind of like ZoneAlarm, but for your startup processes.
You can get this and other utilities at his website
Would you care when one of those morons built a rocket that came apart, killing everyone on board and raining down debris? You would certainly complain bitterly if it was one of your family on board, or if it was your house that was hit by debris.
That's what they get for flying Crazy Eddie's Discount House of Space Travel!
If you remember from the movie, there was no one real "Dread Pirate Roberts", every time the current DPR would get enough money to retire on, he would fire the whole crew and promote one person to be the new DPR, who would in turn hire a whole new crew who all believed him to be the true DPR.
Well, now thanks to new developments in multi-level marketing and exciting work from home opportunities, you can also be a Dread Pirate Roberts and never have to attack a single ship at sea! That's right, all you need to do is recruit additional Dread Pirate Roberts beneath you and let them do all the fighting for you and you get 10% of everything they steal!
Call now to find out if DPR openings are available in your area! Hurry, because all the really good locations are almost full!
Send $19.95 for information on our exciting, turn-key, piracy from home business opportunity!
No, Kangaroo is an aboriginal word which translates roughly as "I don't know", so when the "new world" explorers encountered kangaroos for the first time and asked a native what they were called, well you can figure it out from there.
Not quite as well known as Columbus incorrectly naming the Native Americans as "Indians", but another useless bit of trivia, none-the-less...
A lock and key is only good if you make it a point to lock it each and every time you get up from your desk. Your laptop can be just as easily stolen as you make a quick run to the restroom as it can be if you left it unattended overnight.
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Since reaching adulthood, I've fallen off my bike one time, and of course I wasn't wearing a helmet.
I was riding on a paved road just over a mile from home and noticed that my front tire was just steering into a crack in the pavement just wide enough to accept my front tire.
The front of my bike came to an immediate halt, but due to those damned laws of inertia, me and the back of the bike kept going. The bike frame bent just behind the handle bars to about a 15 degree angle, and I went over the handle bars - thankfully my face broke my fall...
My hands were underneath of me while I slid on the pavement, removing a spot of epidermis about the size of a quarter on each, just below the index finger.
I was wearing glasses, and the left lens ended up opaque from being ground against the pavement. When I got up and brushed myself off, I was more than 10 feet from my bike. I was bleeding profusely from below and above my left eye and oozing plasma from my hands and one knee.
I called a friend who came and picked me up and took me home. I woke up my brother just to scare the piss out of him (it worked) and went and looked in the mirror. When I caught myself saying, "Hey, I think that white thing is my skull", I knew it was time to go to the emergency room.
I fractured the sub-orbital ridge (the lower part of the eye socket) and required a couple dozen stitches in my face to close up the wounds. The worst part of the whole experience was having to have the wounds scrubbed to remove the dirt and gravel they picked up. That was the only part that really hurt.
I was lucky, or at least that's what approximately 12,000 nurses and doctors told me that day, because apparently they all felt it was necessary to come by and tell me how stupid I was to ride without a helmet.
Because, if you're like most people, you carry your phone with you everywhere you go, and leave your digital camera behind - unless you know in advance that you'll need it.
I use the camera in my phone all the time for those times when I didn't know I'd need my camera with me (i.e., a co-worker falls asleep at his desk and starts drooling).
You need to shift paradigms and stop thinking of it as a full-feature camera being shoe-horned into a product and start thinking of it as the equivalent of those disposable cameras you can buy (because you forgot to bring your nice camera), only without having to buy anything...
Haven't we met somewhere before?
Incredibly priced dog shit is still dog shit.
Sure, but if you ever have a need for dog shit, why should you have to pay full MSRP?
You should try a different MMORPG, like Asheron's Call: Dark Majesty. Turbine has done almost everything possible to make the game enjoyable without the need to give up your 'real life' and stay in the game 24/7. The graphics are a little antiquated (a new graphics engine is due out next year) but the game play is still going strong, and you don't have to constantly pay for expansion packs ($20-30 extra every 6 months) as Turbine adds new content (dungeons, monsters, weapons, etc) in every month's patch. And it has player-owned housing, something that EQ still has yet to provide... I have a nice lake-side cottage up in the mountains.
well, it feels like I weigh a few ounces over one ton...
I should have continued my original comment to say "what about all the people who make Twinkies and Jolt! Cola, they're going to be out of a job if I slim down to those dimensions"... then it might have actually been funny.
I blame it on the allergy medicine...
I'm going to have to lose a ton of weight to fit into a 2" x 1.4" jacket...
2. A dollar not earned is still lost revenue. In the bookstore example, you forgot to mention that the bookstore owner bought the book from the publisher with the expectation of being able to sell it. If his stock does not sell because everyone has already illegally obtained a copy, that is a very real loss. You are just playing with words. A penny saved is a penny earned, after all.
Except in this specific example, the bookseller simply rips the cover off the book and returns the cover to the publisher for a full refund. Haven't you ever read the fine print inside that tells you that if you bought this book with no cover, then you've ripped off the publisher?
You could always get the Single Window extension from here.
I thought I implied in my message that I don't want to use it.
The parent comment that I respopnded to implied that every sentient being in the known universe would want this, I was pointing out that I don't.
Sorry if it went zipping right over your head.
Who wants to worry about someone hacking their TV and deleting all their recordings? Who wants to worry about whether or not you're lights will stay on/off because some scriptkiddie wrote a BlinkenLitez for your neighborhood? Who wants to come home to find out their house is heated to a balmy 97 degrees because someone hacked their thermostat? Who wants to come home to find their oven has been running all day on Broil?
I know I don't.
Do pre-sales count as "sales in '04"?
You're right, Dell doesn't have a choice of buying from:
Larry's House of Decent Quality Hard Drives
or
Crazy Eddie's Discount House of Crap!
It's not Dell's fault that Eddie had the lowest bid...
Just think, a phone designed by apple would be the coolest thing ever.And the most expensive phone ever... and it would only work with Apple's cellular service, which would be simple to use but also, very expensive.
Arrrr, Matey, Welcome aboard!
The Dread Pirate Roberts (LLC) welcomes you at your new rank of: Cabin Boy
You only need to enlist 3 people beneath you to be promoted to the rank of 3rd Mate.
Just remember that 10% of all that money that starts filling up your PC belongs to me...
Mike Lin has a companion program that I also recommend, StartupMonitor. It keeps track of any attempt to add a new item to your startup lists and it pops up and asks you if you really want "evil_gambling_plugin.exe" to run at startup.
It's kind of like ZoneAlarm, but for your startup processes.
You can get this and other utilities at his website
Would you care when one of those morons built a rocket that came apart, killing everyone on board and raining down debris? You would certainly complain bitterly if it was one of your family on board, or if it was your house that was hit by debris.
That's what they get for flying Crazy Eddie's Discount House of Space Travel!
How do you fit 7 monkeys inside a light bulb?
If you remember from the movie, there was no one real "Dread Pirate Roberts", every time the current DPR would get enough money to retire on, he would fire the whole crew and promote one person to be the new DPR, who would in turn hire a whole new crew who all believed him to be the true DPR.
Well, now thanks to new developments in multi-level marketing and exciting work from home opportunities, you can also be a Dread Pirate Roberts and never have to attack a single ship at sea! That's right, all you need to do is recruit additional Dread Pirate Roberts beneath you and let them do all the fighting for you and you get 10% of everything they steal!
Call now to find out if DPR openings are available in your area! Hurry, because all the really good locations are almost full!
Send $19.95 for information on our exciting, turn-key, piracy from home business opportunity!
Shouldn't this be a Slashdot Politics story instead?
I fail to see how this has anything to do with anyone's online rights...
No, Kangaroo is an aboriginal word which translates roughly as "I don't know", so when the "new world" explorers encountered kangaroos for the first time and asked a native what they were called, well you can figure it out from there.
Not quite as well known as Columbus incorrectly naming the Native Americans as "Indians", but another useless bit of trivia, none-the-less...
What anti-matter weapons?
Money *is* the root of all evil.
Send me $9.95 for more information...
A lock and key is only good if you make it a point to lock it each and every time you get up from your desk. Your laptop can be just as easily stolen as you make a quick run to the restroom as it can be if you left it unattended overnight.
They taste like Spotted Owl with just a hint of Snail Darter. The bigger ones taste like Bald Eagle.