You remind me of what I read in Freakonomics about backyard pools...
They kill more children under 10 than handguns do - and there are way more handguns in the US than backyard pools. 6 million pools / 200+ million handguns. Yet your child has a 1:11,000 chance of dying in a pool vs. 1:1,000,000+ than dying from a handgun, accidental or deliberate.,', You should be moar afraid of the pool than the bugs.
Anyhoo, if it weren't for OUR FRIENDS the spiders, we'd be over-run by bugs! Stop killing 'em! The biomass of insects is greater than that of people! There is a precarious balance of power at stake!
Where do I sign? Those drugs meetings get real boring and I want to see them stamped out!
Ooh, sex offenders. I'll take number four please. For some of those fellers against 'race' it should say 'pure' or 'Aryan'. I wasn't into men until I started watching 'Oz'.:(
This is called a CARTERPILLAR. As a cyclist I see lots of them - so many I am considering becoming an Automotive Entomologist:) One day we will ride over the top of them, on Trials bikes. I beg to differ on the matter of their creation and possible solutions - "except for removing anything that could be perceived as a hilltop." You leave them damn hills alone. That's what we like to call a 'view'. Alt.pave-the-earth is/so/ 1994.
You would have to also remove all the other little things that cause drivers to take their attention away from the flow of traffic...
Their cell phones
Their spouses
Their children
Their in-dash DVD player / entertainment system (why aren't these illegal?)
Their fuzz-buster
Their Burger King meal
Their car radio
The blonde in the 'vette in the outside lane
The billboards advertising the latest blockbuster
The turbo gauge on the dashboard (hi, ricer crowd! pls die!)
and let's not forget THEIR FSCKING SATNAV.
Do you remember when people used to know where they were going, before they turned the key? Those were the days.
BG: There was a version of Tetris (anyone?) that allowed 'omg bullshit' combinations of rotate and joystick L or R to slot blocks into 'unreachable' positions - http://epictetris2.ytmnd.com/ When 'omg bullshit' conspiracy theories about 9/11 started to spread, it was inevitable that the two memes would trainwreck sooner or later.
There's a wii version around for the benefit of Gen.s Z and Y as well...
Reminds me of Sagan's idea for terraforming Venus. Bomb the bejeezus out of it with something that will start breaking down the atmosphere, rinse, repeat, wait,...?, profit!
The Mars 96 never crashed... it delivered its Penetrator (fnarr!) and inseminated the planet... as planned. Unf unf unf FTW! FTM!
Right up until someone pointed out the premise of the series: that if it weren't for this noble white man, great grandson of a man who swore an oath against piracy, 'the jungle', (ie. insert any failed African state here) would tear itself apart and resort to savagery. Cannibalism anyone.
For a man who was supposed to be dedicating his life to fight piracy he sure spent a lot of time in the jungle in a purple leotard bossing the natives around. Maybe he forgot how to sail, or something.
(Everyone knows the best comic evarrr is Roger Mellie. I mean 'It's a tie between 'The ABC Warriors' and 'telnet:Nemesis.com.au the Warlock'.)
Because I'm presuming the poster is male, and heterosexual, and I wouldn't instruct him to engage in an activity that he might actually enjoy. If, on the other hand, the poster is male, and gay, or female and either gay or straight, and they want to eat mine, cooked up or turgid, that's fine too. AHH NOM NOM NOM. Actually, you're right. Behold my mangina! | Y | Consume my flying ejaculate! ~~
'Guitar Hero' is a misnomer - with only five buttons, a wammy bar and single 'string' to pluck, 'Sequencer Hero' would be a more accurate name.
The perceived lameness of this original composition, is a shock because you're having an 'emperor's new clothes' moment. How shit do you think all those rockin' songs would be if each fret was limited to a single note per string, you know, like a real guitar?
I would like to see more on the pick and the wammy could be used to access different sets of notes to increase the range of the instrument. The inrestesting thing is, most early musical instruments only had a few holes / input points, best example I can think of is the Ocarina. Paging Orobouros to the thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG1eOsmj8wQ
(ps your mom's only got three holes, you should hear the music we make together BAM)
I think the youtube link was the problem here - if you read the site first and went 'hmm looks interesting this guy's put a lot of effort into it' and so on - instead of comparing it to the million 'you tube guitar hero' videos you've seen, where hand/eye coordination allows twitch freaks to sound as good as Mustaine - you'd have given this a bit more support than 'LOL sux F5 what next?'
"Give me perpetual instant gratification, or give me death." - with apologies to MacLuhann, Biafra, and Henry, in that order.
I hold grave fears for Australia, from an IT and Legal vewpoint, now that we've signed that FTA... which could really stand for Fuck The Australians. The patriot in me thinks it stands for Fuck The Americans... but why should I listen to him anymore?
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You remind me of what I read in Freakonomics about backyard pools...
They kill more children under 10 than handguns do - and there are way more handguns in the US than backyard pools. 6 million pools / 200+ million handguns. Yet your child has a 1:11,000 chance of dying in a pool vs. 1:1,000,000+ than dying from a handgun, accidental or deliberate. ,', You should be moar afraid of the pool than the bugs.
Anyhoo, if it weren't for OUR FRIENDS the spiders, we'd be over-run by bugs! Stop killing 'em! The biomass of insects is greater than that of people! There is a precarious balance of power at stake!
[tinfoil hat coated with cobwebs on]
shoop da woop
"Why, that sucker's huge!"
They can compact hundreds of Canadian runaways per hour ...
http://digg.com/people/Teen_Compacted_In_Wis_Garbage_Truck_Survives
serendipitous captcha word: mortally.
Can we please have a Godwin's Law for Car Analogies? Please
I hope you can all stop laughing at the Russians 'shooping a map for a moment to take the time to check out the following:
go to http://www.flashearth.com/ and select the Microsoft VE (with labels) radio button.
in the 'search' field type in
Godi, Italy
and then gradually scroll out. Look! It's-a da magical NATO run-a-way, and she is a covered in trees so nobody bomb-a her!
C/- http://cryptome.org/ - there were heaps of them.
Where do I sign? Those drugs meetings get real boring and I want to see them stamped out!
Ooh, sex offenders. I'll take number four please. For some of those fellers against 'race' it should say 'pure' or 'Aryan'. I wasn't into men until I started watching 'Oz'. :(
(captcha serendipity: 'sexually')
Isn't Maven a demo scene coder?
Oh, Skaven. My bad.
This is called a CARTERPILLAR. As a cyclist I see lots of them - so many I am considering becoming an Automotive Entomologist :) One day we will ride over the top of them, on Trials bikes. I beg to differ on the matter of their creation and possible solutions - "except for removing anything that could be perceived as a hilltop." You leave them damn hills alone. That's what we like to call a 'view'. Alt.pave-the-earth is /so/ 1994.
You would have to also remove all the other little things that cause drivers to take their attention away from the flow of traffic...
Do you remember when people used to know where they were going, before they turned the key? Those were the days.
... this stuff writes itself.
"You need to make sure there aren't any backdoors left open - they leave systems extremely vulnerable to the Greek 'brute force' approach."
(All systems love anal - some of them just don't know it yet.)
Misguided japes at the Seppos aside - did anyone else think of Kazakhistan's Tourism Bureau when they read this headline?
They've launched more crap into space than say, the UK and Austria^H^Halia combined, but still :)
"Now we develop science for rocket attack on those %$#@! Uzbekh dogs!"
http://www.mechanicalcat.net/richard/log/Python/Why_there_s_few_women_in_IT
Leave the NSFW tags for the somethingawful forums. /. should work out if it wants to pander to the low-brow, undergrad audience. Maybe it has.
Prior art: http://wtctetris.ytmnd.com/ or is it http://tetriswtc.ytmnd.com/
BG: There was a version of Tetris (anyone?) that allowed 'omg bullshit' combinations of rotate and joystick L or R to slot blocks into 'unreachable' positions - http://epictetris2.ytmnd.com/ When 'omg bullshit' conspiracy theories about 9/11 started to spread, it was inevitable that the two memes would trainwreck sooner or later.
There's a wii version around for the benefit of Gen.s Z and Y as well ...
and let slip the nerds of war.
-- apologies to Shakespeare, &c.
Reminds me of Sagan's idea for terraforming Venus. Bomb the bejeezus out of it with something that will start breaking down the atmosphere, rinse, repeat, wait, ...?, profit!
The Mars 96 never crashed ... it delivered its Penetrator (fnarr!) and inseminated the planet ... as planned. Unf unf unf FTW! FTM!
" It's so gay. Sapphic. They should have sent a Lesbian ... "
*bzzzzzz*
Apologies to the late Sagan
www.liveleak.com/view?i=434_1216567261
What a champ. Bound and blindfolded - "It Makes a Fellow Proud to be a Soldier."
Runner-up?
Spirit Award?
Sounds like your ex was beautiful on the inside, IYKWIM, AITYD.
I loved the Phantom.
Right up until someone pointed out the premise of the series: that if it weren't for this noble white man, great grandson of a man who swore an oath against piracy, 'the jungle', (ie. insert any failed African state here) would tear itself apart and resort to savagery. Cannibalism anyone.
For a man who was supposed to be dedicating his life to fight piracy he sure spent a lot of time in the jungle in a purple leotard bossing the natives around. Maybe he forgot how to sail, or something.
(Everyone knows the best comic evarrr is Roger Mellie. I mean 'It's a tie between 'The ABC Warriors' and 'telnet:Nemesis.com.au the Warlock'.)
PES? PEZ!
If you ever wondered how much your vote is worth ... just look in the mouth of your Woody Woodpecker PEZ dispenser.
Can't wait for the new line - "America's Worst Presidents" - Tom Lehrer could do the ads.
o/` o/` Whatever became of Hubert, Has anyone heard a thing? o/` o/`
Because I'm presuming the poster is male, and heterosexual, and I wouldn't instruct him to engage in an activity that he might actually enjoy. If, on the other hand, the poster is male, and gay, or female and either gay or straight, and they want to eat mine, cooked up or turgid, that's fine too. AHH NOM NOM NOM. Actually, you're right. Behold my mangina! | Y | Consume my flying ejaculate! ~~
Dear /.,
Eat a cock. I posted this days ago, with a link to the NZ article, and you wait for a UK one?
The GNAA will hear of this. As will Man/Woman in his never-ending quest to rehabilitate the swastika.
'Guitar Hero' is a misnomer - with only five buttons, a wammy bar and single 'string' to pluck, 'Sequencer Hero' would be a more accurate name.
The perceived lameness of this original composition, is a shock because you're having an 'emperor's new clothes' moment. How shit do you think all those rockin' songs would be if each fret was limited to a single note per string, you know, like a real guitar?
I would like to see more on the pick and the wammy could be used to access different sets of notes to increase the range of the instrument. The inrestesting thing is, most early musical instruments only had a few holes / input points, best example I can think of is the Ocarina. Paging Orobouros to the thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG1eOsmj8wQ
(ps your mom's only got three holes, you should hear the music we make together BAM)
I think the youtube link was the problem here - if you read the site first and went 'hmm looks interesting this guy's put a lot of effort into it' and so on - instead of comparing it to the million 'you tube guitar hero' videos you've seen, where hand/eye coordination allows twitch freaks to sound as good as Mustaine - you'd have given this a bit more support than 'LOL sux F5 what next?'
"Give me perpetual instant gratification, or give me death." - with apologies to MacLuhann, Biafra, and Henry, in that order.
fuck you, anonymous coward :D ... i'm smarter than the average bear!
I hold grave fears for Australia, from an IT and Legal vewpoint, now that we've signed that FTA ... which could really stand for Fuck The Australians. The patriot in me thinks it stands for Fuck The Americans ... but why should I listen to him anymore?
Alex four point oh -- currently experiencing identity crisis, please hold
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