"You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!"
What, particularly, makes you consider them economically liberal? They've always seemed like staunch defenders of free-market operation to me.
Sounds economically liberal to me. If you define "liberal" as meaning no one should tell you what to do, then a free market, without tariffs, borders, taxes etc. would be the ideal.
Maybe they should be spending more time trying to get a processor that will hit 700 Mhz than on silly lawsuits and tacky plastic cases.
Sure, it's Apples fault that Motorola can't/won't get their chip to go faster. I guess we should give full credit to Microsoft for hitting 1 GHz! Blah blah blah, it's not your MHz, it's how you use them blah blah blah.
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It is/. policy to disable any and all troll accounts. Trolls should be AC, that's what it's for!
--Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco
I'm going to risk a Karma hit here, and say that This Sucks. I have no great love of Trolls, but saying they should post AC is not a good idea. Once a Troll reaches -1 they are can post to their hearts content, and not be annoying anyone who doesn't want to be annoyed (or those on Moderation duty). Disabling them, OTOH, means they go get a new account, and their Trolling ways are back in the face of everyone cruising at +1.
Of course, they may be a good reason for this policy that hasn't occurred to me, and you are all welcome to point it out to me.
If you don't like the jokes, don't read the Humor section fool. Posting in the thread saying "I don't like this story! Post some Monty Python Scripts instead!" will get you modded down, and deservedly so!
I'm told in some parts of the world it is illegal to even mention the holocaust... does anyone know if this is true?
In New Zealand, there has recently been a storm in a teacup over politicians using the word to describe the colonisation of New Zealand last century. The Prime Minister told her underlings that they were not allowed to use the H word. However, it's only a political thing, and it's not illegal for anyone to say Holocaust.
If the USA was anything like 90% of the rest of the world, the country would be in flames from the rioting, looting, civil unrest, and outright rebellion that would have inevitably followed an election this close.
Didn't he state what this article is stating in Jurassic Park? That the long-necked dinosaurs would hold theirs heads close to the ground, and therefore beable to graze over a wider area than a short-necked version would.
The movie, however, was a piece of shit that replacing the intriguing ideas of the book with "Oh, look at the dinosaurs! Don't they look so real?"
See also Walking With Dinosaurs, an excellent pseudo-documentary with much better dinosaurs.
Oh, and I don't want to hear about the problems of wasting computer space and time...snail mail spam kills trees and costs us millions in delivery costs, pollution (gotta deliver it right?), etc.
Yes, but the mail box fillers have to pay for the paper, pay for the delivery, basically pay for everything except you putting it straight into the trash. Doing a flyer run costs the company a fair bit. On the other hand, SPAMMERS only pay for the connection time it takes to send off half a million SPAMS (assuming they already have a computer).
My favourite analogy for explain SPAM to beginners is to compare it to someone sending a fax. YOU pay for the paper, YOU are disrupted when the phone rings etc.
If spam is bad, lets hit it at the heart an criminalize the business practice as a whole, INCLUDING snail mail and telemarketing.
I wouldn't mind my SPAM so much, if it weren't all MultiLevel Marketing schemes (AKA Pyramid Schemes). However, I must agree with you on Telemarketing. KILL TELEMARKETING UNTIL IT IS DEAD! If you can KILL SPAM while you're at it, then hooray!
Exactly. I find the idea of people fornicating inside of an MRI machine delightful, rather than just amusing. Talk about performance anxiety - trying to keep an erection in the middle of a machine making loud booming noises.
And don't forget they had to stay still and lined up properly for about 15 seconds while the machine did the scan.
Personally, I think if there are such gaps in human knowledge, it is the responsiblity of science to fill those gaps, and I hereby donate my body to science for any further experiments.
Many southern hemisphere cities can see it. I just checked, and it said that it will be visible in Christchurch, New Zealand for five minutes on the 27th August.
Sure, it may not be the best seat in the house, but if the ISS was in a geostationary orbit, like you say, it would be over the equator, and thus as much of the Southern Hemisphere could see as the Northern hemisphere. You would still be wrong:-)
Sounds like Lucas has a good revenue stream lined up for the next couple of years... (as if the already released SW games and movies, and t-shirts, etc etc etc didn't already bring him enough cash)
What do you think he's going to make the next two Star Wars movies out of? He's trying to bring in as much money as possible (and reduce shooting costs) because, lets face it, making epic movies isn't cheap. And he'll have to buy some spectacular eye-candy to bring us in for Episode II, seeing as Jar Jar will return for it.
IIRC, the problem was that the heat would cause the spring holding the laser would go soft (ie, not be springy enough) so the laser was unable to focus on the CD. Turning your playstation upside down made the spring redundant and fixed the problem.
Or is the keyboard going to be classified "legacy" like that stupid 3.5 floppy drive?
I think getting rid of the 3.5 drive was one of the best things Apple did, but WHY OH WHY didn't they replace it with a CD writer? An incredible opportunity squandered!
Your point about citizens pushing for consititutional protection is a good one, except that NZ DOESNT have a consititution.
I think the Treaty of Waitangi would take care of that. It states that NZ basically took Britians laws and made them our own. If Britain doesn't need a constiution, then NEITHER DO WE!! (cue God Save The Queen)
Huh? Erotic pictures of thumbnails? Hot Teenage Fingerprints Show It All Just 4 U? Free Lesbian Hangnail mpegs? Lefty and Rightys' First Time Ever? All Nude Mud ThumbWrestling?
they know who you are, or who you at least claim to be.
So how useful can this information really be to a company? I know that I lie my arse off on those forms, and I'm betting I'm not the only one. Can they seriously expect this stuff to be accurate?
Also: Whatif Daddy Jack-off had spent all night downloading Pron on the family computer (hiding them in a folder marked "Financial") His little daughter Suzie goes online the next morning looking for Barbie clothes, and gets bombarded with "Barley Legal Barbie shows it for the first time!!1!" ads. Basically, I'm asking how do these things deal with multiple users of single computers?
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"You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!"
Don't be stupid. I'm too smart! I would never fall for such a blatant Troll! Of course it's true, this guy on the Internet told me so! I...
Doh!
I'm going to stand in the corner and think about what I have done.
Of course, they may be a good reason for this policy that hasn't occurred to me, and you are all welcome to point it out to me.
I want my Singing Rock Lobster to scream out a pornographic soundtrack as it humps its rock. Can I assume it would work the same way?
Also, Killfrog has the best Boogie Bass around.
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If you don't like the jokes, don't read the Humor section fool. Posting in the thread saying "I don't like this story! Post some Monty Python Scripts instead!" will get you modded down, and deservedly so!
The mod system needs a (-1, Lame)
According to this weeks Onion, it already is!
"Look, here in this bottle! It's Cold Fusion I tells ya!"
Didn't he state what this article is stating in Jurassic Park? That the long-necked dinosaurs would hold theirs heads close to the ground, and therefore beable to graze over a wider area than a short-necked version would.
The movie, however, was a piece of shit that replacing the intriguing ideas of the book with "Oh, look at the dinosaurs! Don't they look so real?"
See also Walking With Dinosaurs, an excellent pseudo-documentary with much better dinosaurs.
Yes, but the mail box fillers have to pay for the paper, pay for the delivery, basically pay for everything except you putting it straight into the trash. Doing a flyer run costs the company a fair bit. On the other hand, SPAMMERS only pay for the connection time it takes to send off half a million SPAMS (assuming they already have a computer).
My favourite analogy for explain SPAM to beginners is to compare it to someone sending a fax. YOU pay for the paper, YOU are disrupted when the phone rings etc.
I wouldn't mind my SPAM so much, if it weren't all MultiLevel Marketing schemes (AKA Pyramid Schemes). However, I must agree with you on Telemarketing. KILL TELEMARKETING UNTIL IT IS DEAD! If you can KILL SPAM while you're at it, then hooray!
Why on earth would I want to lose 3"? Now, if they can tell me how to add 3" (If you know what I mean), I might be interested.
Personally, I think if there are such gaps in human knowledge, it is the responsiblity of science to fill those gaps, and I hereby donate my body to science for any further experiments.
Don't mind me. I'm just pissed off because I submitted this story 2 days ago. And was rejected.
Many southern hemisphere cities can see it. I just checked, and it said that it will be visible in Christchurch, New Zealand for five minutes on the 27th August. :-)
Sure, it may not be the best seat in the house, but if the ISS was in a geostationary orbit, like you say, it would be over the equator, and thus as much of the Southern Hemisphere could see as the Northern hemisphere. You would still be wrong
Can you imagine Patrick Stewart saying "D'oh!" in that rich voice of his.
No, it's going to be Michael Caine.
"I just don't understand this character. Is this guy brain damaged, or like Rainman or something?"
What do you think he's going to make the next two Star Wars movies out of? He's trying to bring in as much money as possible (and reduce shooting costs) because, lets face it, making epic movies isn't cheap. And he'll have to buy some spectacular eye-candy to bring us in for Episode II, seeing as Jar Jar will return for it.
IIRC, the problem was that the heat would cause the spring holding the laser would go soft (ie, not be springy enough) so the laser was unable to focus on the CD. Turning your playstation upside down made the spring redundant and fixed the problem.
Huh? Erotic pictures of thumbnails? Hot Teenage Fingerprints Show It All Just 4 U? Free Lesbian Hangnail mpegs? Lefty and Rightys' First Time Ever? All Nude Mud ThumbWrestling?
Yes, I know. I'm just being silly.So how useful can this information really be to a company? I know that I lie my arse off on those forms, and I'm betting I'm not the only one. Can they seriously expect this stuff to be accurate?
Also: Whatif Daddy Jack-off had spent all night downloading Pron on the family computer (hiding them in a folder marked "Financial") His little daughter Suzie goes online the next morning looking for Barbie clothes, and gets bombarded with "Barley Legal Barbie shows it for the first time!!1!" ads. Basically, I'm asking how do these things deal with multiple users of single computers?