You're right. I should have said "birth-boy"; it would have been less ambiguous. I decided to lean towards an insult that would have the same emotive impact (albiet for different reasons) in our culture AND theirs, which only managed to confuse the distinctions I was trying to make.
Been there, actually. I couldn't get a bank account because the bank allowed someone else to withdraw and close my account, so they red-flagged me rather than do a real investigation. This was in 1994-ish. It is now 2004, and I finally have a bank account again (I guess after awhile, they stop re-reporting the same problem).
It gets better, though: My account went $300 over because of all the overdraft fees they piled due to someone having cleaned me out, and they got real pissy when I refused to pay on the grounds that I could prove it wasn't me who withdrew the money. It finally got so ridiculous that my dad forced me to cave and pay them the damn $300 - that's when my troubles REALLY started.
They lost the record that I had paid. They refused to accept my receipt of payment as legitimate. They reported me as someone who owes a bank money, so noone else would give me an account. They demanded the money again. My dad made me cave again. Another $300. So they reported me again. And again. And again.
Even though I've already demonstrated that the money has been paid, TWICE, AND even though these things go off your record after 3 years, they kept re-reporting it as if it had just happened in 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2002. My girlfriend's father finally managed to help get me on her account, so now I have a joint account so long as nothing fucks THIS up. I'm now 30 years old.
Feh. You know, I wouldn't MIND a "Super Ultra Mega-Expanded Edition", personally. If they were smart, and interested in really soaking us all, they'd do something like this:
A $450 'Ultimate Edition' box, that comes with all 3 Extended Edition movies on 10 DVDs, with 2 CDs of soundtrack, and all three books (plus The Hobbit) in hardbound, AND a rolled-up parchment map of Middle Earth, with annotations of everyone's journeys throughout the movie.
If they wanted to REALLY soak us (and make it worth it!), they could up it to $750 for a 'Limited Edition' version (only 10,000 made!), with each having an extra, random object:
Either one of the Elven, Dwarven or Human Rings, or Sting, or an Elven Cloak and leaf brooch, or a Horn of Gondor, or other similar item: 9,999 in all. Then have the 10,000th box have a reproduction of the One Ring, and a certificate for a vacation to New Zealand, and lunch with Peter Jackson.
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You'd be surprised what sorts of disasters can happen with coal mining.
If it WAS the feds, that would be entrapment, which would rock - it would mean we could use it all we want, for the most illegal shit immaginable, and it would be an instant 'get out of jail free' card when it all went down.
On the other hand, if it's private, then an FBI subpoena can bust us all.
Interesting. I'm thinking a bit further ahead, though.
Can we grow *DIFFERENT* bones than we have now? I wouldn't mind longer legs (statistically, being taller means being treated better, getting a better salary, and all sorts of social perks).
Moreso, can we grow, say, digigrade running legs so I can get a 30 mph stride? How about growing new, hyper-extensible joints that don't get arthritis, don't dislocate painfully, and can turn anyone into a contortionist?
... until said idea gets perverted into a tool of abuse rather than the template of liberty it was designed as.
I've had very similar experiences, myself. A big part of the problem, I've noticed, is that people refuse to accept that they're doing it - they have any number of bullshit rationalizations for what they're doing, when really they're just letting the baser parts of their brain dictate behavior. Fundamentally, people are bullies and sycophants because that's what feeds our lower neural wiring - just look at most other primate species if you don't believe me.
And people *DON'T* stop pulling bullshit after age 18, they just learn better and more 'acceptable' ways to do it - things like stealing office supplies and framing you for it, filing spurrious sexual harrassment lawsuits against people they don't like, or claiming date rape against someone who wasn't even at the party.
People are dicks. Congratulations for being able to realize it and say it; you're head and shoulders above the rest of the monkeys.
'Thalidomide' is the biggy? Heh. I've got a MUCH bigger one for you.
Hint: Why is the elemental symbol for lead Pb?
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Heh. My girlfriend and I are both web designers. This makes it MUCH easier to communicate about color, especially since we each have different definitions for the word "grey".
"Hand me my grey shirt."
"You mean the greyish-blue one or the greenish-grey one?"
Check back with me when anybody in those parties gets a clue about how primate elections are conducted and won.
Well, primate "elections" are usually conducted and won by the new dominant male publically and savagely attacking the old dominant male, winning, and then everyone throwing feces at the old dominant male until he's forced out of the pack.
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Really, they're both subsets of the same topic, which is "Reasons why I think other people should change to suit me".
Politics is just the practical side of that, while religion is the abstract side.
You're right. I should have said "birth-boy"; it would have been less ambiguous. I decided to lean towards an insult that would have the same emotive impact (albiet for different reasons) in our culture AND theirs, which only managed to confuse the distinctions I was trying to make.
My bad.
That's deltas, vagina-boy. Betas are clerical.
of like the LotR Trilogy box platinum extended boxed set with gondor I ordered today.
That's out!? WHERE!?!?!
Been there, actually. I couldn't get a bank account because the bank allowed someone else to withdraw and close my account, so they red-flagged me rather than do a real investigation. This was in 1994-ish. It is now 2004, and I finally have a bank account again (I guess after awhile, they stop re-reporting the same problem).
It gets better, though: My account went $300 over because of all the overdraft fees they piled due to someone having cleaned me out, and they got real pissy when I refused to pay on the grounds that I could prove it wasn't me who withdrew the money. It finally got so ridiculous that my dad forced me to cave and pay them the damn $300 - that's when my troubles REALLY started.
They lost the record that I had paid. They refused to accept my receipt of payment as legitimate. They reported me as someone who owes a bank money, so noone else would give me an account. They demanded the money again. My dad made me cave again. Another $300. So they reported me again. And again. And again.
Even though I've already demonstrated that the money has been paid, TWICE, AND even though these things go off your record after 3 years, they kept re-reporting it as if it had just happened in 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2002. My girlfriend's father finally managed to help get me on her account, so now I have a joint account so long as nothing fucks THIS up. I'm now 30 years old.
I saw this article, and immediately thought of this poster. Apparently, truer words were never spoken.
Technically, isn't antimatter the only *true* WMD? Everything else doesn't so much *destroy* mass as *convert* it, right?
Not at all, because the RIAA would NEVER sign the corporation; it would only 'deal' with the performers directly, as natural persons.
While Jason Lee will probably do an admirable job, I would like to personally protest that they did not cast John Lithgow as Syndrome.
I mean, COME ON people!
I'm assuming that with 700MB CDs (and with some of the scores re-used between films), you could fit all 3 soundtracks onto 2 discs.
Feh. You know, I wouldn't MIND a "Super Ultra Mega-Expanded Edition", personally. If they were smart, and interested in really soaking us all, they'd do something like this:
A $450 'Ultimate Edition' box, that comes with all 3 Extended Edition movies on 10 DVDs, with 2 CDs of soundtrack, and all three books (plus The Hobbit) in hardbound, AND a rolled-up parchment map of Middle Earth, with annotations of everyone's journeys throughout the movie.
If they wanted to REALLY soak us (and make it worth it!), they could up it to $750 for a 'Limited Edition' version (only 10,000 made!), with each having an extra, random object:
Either one of the Elven, Dwarven or Human Rings, or Sting, or an Elven Cloak and leaf brooch, or a Horn of Gondor, or other similar item: 9,999 in all. Then have the 10,000th box have a reproduction of the One Ring, and a certificate for a vacation to New Zealand, and lunch with Peter Jackson.
You'd be surprised what sorts of disasters can happen with coal mining.
Sure, but they still can't use it in a court of law if THEY entice users to utilize the service.
We can only hope.
If it WAS the feds, that would be entrapment, which would rock - it would mean we could use it all we want, for the most illegal shit immaginable, and it would be an instant 'get out of jail free' card when it all went down.
On the other hand, if it's private, then an FBI subpoena can bust us all.
Interesting. I'm thinking a bit further ahead, though.
Can we grow *DIFFERENT* bones than we have now? I wouldn't mind longer legs (statistically, being taller means being treated better, getting a better salary, and all sorts of social perks).
Moreso, can we grow, say, digigrade running legs so I can get a 30 mph stride? How about growing new, hyper-extensible joints that don't get arthritis, don't dislocate painfully, and can turn anyone into a contortionist?
... until said idea gets perverted into a tool of abuse rather than the template of liberty it was designed as.
I've had very similar experiences, myself. A big part of the problem, I've noticed, is that people refuse to accept that they're doing it - they have any number of bullshit rationalizations for what they're doing, when really they're just letting the baser parts of their brain dictate behavior. Fundamentally, people are bullies and sycophants because that's what feeds our lower neural wiring - just look at most other primate species if you don't believe me.
And people *DON'T* stop pulling bullshit after age 18, they just learn better and more 'acceptable' ways to do it - things like stealing office supplies and framing you for it, filing spurrious sexual harrassment lawsuits against people they don't like, or claiming date rape against someone who wasn't even at the party.
People are dicks. Congratulations for being able to realize it and say it; you're head and shoulders above the rest of the monkeys.
See, here's what I don't understand:
1. Why is 'All About the Pentiums' parodying 'All Abount the Benjamins', and not satirizing computer users?
2. Why is 'Amish Paradise' parodying 'Gangsta Paradise', and not satirizing the Amish?
3. Why is 'Trigger Happy' parodying a Beatles song, and not satirizing the NRA?
4. Why is 'Jerry Springer' parodying 'One Week', and not satirizing Jerry Springer?
5. Why is 'Beverly Hillbillies' parodying 'Money for Nothing', and not satirizing the Beverly Hillbillies?
6. Why is 'Bedrock Anthem' parodying 'Under the Bridge'/'Give it Away Now', and not satirizing The Flinstones?
Is there a nuance here I'm not grasping?
Indeed. The Sons of Liberty are calling; will you answer?
'Thalidomide' is the biggy? Heh. I've got a MUCH bigger one for you.
Hint: Why is the elemental symbol for lead Pb?
Heh. My girlfriend and I are both web designers. This makes it MUCH easier to communicate about color, especially since we each have different definitions for the word "grey".
"Hand me my grey shirt."
"You mean the greyish-blue one or the greenish-grey one?"
*sigh* "70809E, Honey!"
"Ok, thanks!"
Check back with me when anybody in those parties gets a clue about how primate elections are conducted and won.
Well, primate "elections" are usually conducted and won by the new dominant male publically and savagely attacking the old dominant male, winning, and then everyone throwing feces at the old dominant male until he's forced out of the pack.
Sound familiar?
Huh. I wonder why they toned it down? The article DOES mention the database-checking, so it's not just correction of an editorial mistake.
Not at all; #2 is relatively easy, but not trivial. #1 is trivial in the sense of "30 seconds in in notepad".
#1 is trivially easy. #2, not so much.
No, just the machinegun. Although you could easily modify each weapon so that they all work that way; I can't see why you wouldn't, actually.