Maybe it's because it's late, because I've had a few beers, or something else. I have to tell you that is, without a doubt, the FUNNIEST thing I have ever read on Slashdot in the 6 or 7 years (?) I have been prowling around here.
I didn't think it was all that bad. Granted, I'm glad I only had to pay the discount rate ($5.00) instead of the evening rate ($9.50,) but overall I'm not complaining.
There was a guy in the theater behind me that, apparently, didn't like it at all, however. At least I'm guessing he didn't like it because, as the lights were coming up, he said to his friends, "That made Battlefield Earth look like a Kurosawa film."
I seem to remember a line that if the government becomes tyrannical, it is our responsibility to "throw it off."
Actually, the line you're thinking of is from the Declaration of Independence. It says, in essence, that if a government becomes corrupt, it is the duty of the citizenry to abolish it.
Quick and easy (but only good if you like rice...)
Take equal amounts of water and Minute Rice (one cup water/rice, two cups, et cetera - so long as you have the same amount of each.) Add one or two boullion cubes for every cup of water you use, and as soon as the water boils, throw in the rice. Remove from heat and put the lid on. After sitting for about five minutes or so, the water should be completely absorbed by the rice.
Garnish with Tabasco, salt, pepper, naked sorority girls, etc.
Remember when the "I Love You" virus hit a couple of years ago? At the time I was working for Advance Auto Parts as their assistant webmaster. I was driving to work hearing about this "terrible new virus" that was causing damage worldwide, and I remember wondering which one of the idiot sales/marketing/etc. nimrods would be the first to unleash it on our building.
The sad thing is that it wasn't anyone from any of those groups. It was one of our lead LAN analysts - someone we all thought would have known better.:-)
My wife and I were at my in-laws house watching "O Brother Where Art Thou?" and with about 5 or 6 minutes left to go, my friends came by to pick me up to go see this movie.
I should have stayed with my wife.
This has got to be one of the worst movies I have seen in recent memory. The plot had more holes than a swiss cheese factory. K-riminey-SHIT! I mean, where do you start with a movie this forgettably bad? Let's see:
-No explanation as to the theory or workings (or, for that matter, the origins) of the time machine. This I can sort of forgive, since that (from what I understand) is the way that it was in the actual book.
-Before it becomes obvious that she is going to die no matter what he does, he goes about the same routine (going to the rink, etc.) I would have gone back a couple of extra days and gotten her into a totally different scenario, so to speak (that is, rather than a different location within the same scenario as he did by going into town instead of the park.) In fact, when the camera starts to pan around the rink a second time, I looked at my friend and asked when Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell show up.
-These Eloi, according to the (apparently) lone English speaking person outside of Dr. Hartdigen, all learn English in their childhood as a tradition. You learn an apparently long-dead language for no reason at all? That's like me teaching my 3 year old son Sanskrit because I have some spare time. In addition, exactly who is it that teaches the language? All of the adults have "gone from this place" as she likes to continually say and all of the other people in the colony have, as she explains to Hartdigen, forgotten it (as they have had no practical use for it in their entire lives.) This also makes you ask yourself that, with all that having been explained, how does this one lone girl speak the language so well with only one other person (her little sister) to speak it with?
-When Hartdigen "talks" to Orlando Jones in the library, he is told that there is no practical application of time travel because time travel is impossible. However, when he leaves his workshop originally, he leaves all of his calculations, equations, and other material that would prove otherwise behind. Surely in the however may-odd thousand or so years that pass between those two events SOMEONE would have been able to figure all of that out and conclude that it is, indeed, possible, right?
-Speaking of the 7-Up guy, how is it that the entire system that he embodies (that big globe thing and all) gets basically dumped in somebody's back yard and remains untouched and working for 800,000 YEARS?
I suppose I could go on, but, frankly, if any of you are still reading at this point, I'll be amazed.:-)
Contribution doesn't need to entail money. That's why Linux has been able to do as well as it has - because people are able to contribute to its growth by submitting code improvements and such...
Do any of you remember Crystal Pepsi? I thought that they gave up on that. However, when I was in basic training for the Air Force, I saw a Pepsi truck pull up to the door of the tunnel, where all the Training Instructors did all their administrative stuff. Lo and behold, on the side of the truck was a big ol' Crystal Pepsi ad. This was just back in 1997, long after they stopped making it (or so I thought.) Do they still market it anywhere, or was that just a *really* old delivery truck? I moved back to Roanoke, Virginia, when I left the AF and I haven't seen a bottle of that in, well, God only knows how long.
I think the person who designed this ballot card did a horrible job
The woman that designed it, Theresa LePore, said (to the Sun-Sentinel) the following:
"I was trying to make the print bigger so elderly people in Palm Beach County can read it. We sent out sample ballots to all registered voters and no one said a word."
So it's not like nobody had ever seen them before. If there was a question about the usability of the ballots, someone should have raised it earlier.
Well, I live in Roanoke (SW Virginia) where it's considered a traffic jam if you have more than three cars on the road at the same time, so that's never a real problem around here.:-)
I got to the polls at about 7:30 this morning and was back in my car on my way to work by 7:40. Not too bad.
Oh, and for what it's worth, down here we still have those old "big red lever" type machines.
One thing that galls me when I talk to people about getting out and voting is when they say "I'm just one person. To me, there's no real difference between Bush and Gore anyway, so why bother?"
I'll tell you why: Because there is MORE on the ballot than just those two people. There are local referendums, laws and such to vote on, not to mention your state and congressional representatives, so you need to get out there and vote if for no other reason than to try and make your own state a better place to be.:-)
Although one thing that they *did* kinda have in their favor was a little 90 second vid clip of some chick getting nailed by these two guys beside a pool. Somewhere along the way somebody overlaid "Satisfy You" by Cracker on it. Now every time I hear that song I see that chick at the pool. Wierd.
Well, actually, it's just a matter of semantics. The Scotch call it Whisky without the e, but we Americans call the same stuff Whiskey with the e.
******
How an industry claims loss of revenue when they report record earnings is the real problem here. Record companies are making more money this year than last year. Where is this loss of revenue caused by the Internet?
That's a lot like how the members of Congress rip their opponents about "cutting" the federal budget ---
Party member A submits a request for budget X to be increased by Y dollars, say 1.5 million. Opposing party member B requests different amount Z, say 1.25 million. This outrages original party member A, so he says that his opponent wants to "cut" the budget by a quarter of a million dollars!
See? In actuality, party member B is proposing an increase of 1.25 million dollars, but party member A wants party member B to look bad, so he uses a deceptive tactic to make his point.
I think that's what's going on here.
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a) If the action is illegal you can refuse to do it and "blow the whistle". There are laws that no action can be taken against a whistleblower so you are theoretically safe (I don't know how well this works in practice, though).
Actually, this doesn't work very well at all in the real world. David Hackworth, an ex-Army Colonel, has plenty of examples of people that were reduced in rank, given bad performance reveiews, and just about anything else you can think of when they tried to use the "Whistleblower's Act," as it's called, report the dishonesty and blatant CYA olympics going on in all branches of the service. ===== if ($post eq "finished") { print "sig\n";
They develop their next language and call it "B-Flat" and say that it's such a vast improvement on C# that it wraps itself all the way around the musical scale. They'll have the entire range of musical notes covered in one fell swoop!
That way they can make you pay for the EULA any time you want to pick up a guitar. ----- if ($post eq "finished") { print "sig\n";
"If I believe something, doesn't that mean I'm advocating it in some way, even if it's just generally voicing that opinion?"
Umm, no. Belief and advocacy are two totally different things. I *believe* that the Holocaust ocurred, because there is a plethora of credible evidence to support the idea that it did. I cannot, however, say that I *advocate* what happened. ----------------------
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Big example: given the choice, would anyone here really chose cybersex over sex in person?
;-)
You realize, don't you, that it's a bit of a stretch to think that most of the people here will have the opportunity to make such a choice?
Maybe it's because it's late, because I've had a few beers, or something else. I have to tell you that is, without a doubt, the FUNNIEST thing I have ever read on Slashdot in the 6 or 7 years (?) I have been prowling around here.
I didn't think it was all that bad. Granted, I'm glad I only had to pay the discount rate ($5.00) instead of the evening rate ($9.50,) but overall I'm not complaining.
There was a guy in the theater behind me that, apparently, didn't like it at all, however. At least I'm guessing he didn't like it because, as the lights were coming up, he said to his friends, "That made Battlefield Earth look like a Kurosawa film."
Ouch.
I seem to remember a line that if the government becomes tyrannical, it is our responsibility to "throw it off."
Actually, the line you're thinking of is from the Declaration of Independence. It says, in essence, that if a government becomes corrupt, it is the duty of the citizenry to abolish it.
Quick and easy (but only good if you like rice...)
Take equal amounts of water and Minute Rice (one cup water/rice, two cups, et cetera - so long as you have the same amount of each.) Add one or two boullion cubes for every cup of water you use, and as soon as the water boils, throw in the rice. Remove from heat and put the lid on. After sitting for about five minutes or so, the water should be completely absorbed by the rice.
Garnish with Tabasco, salt, pepper, naked sorority girls, etc.
Remember when the "I Love You" virus hit a couple of years ago? At the time I was working for Advance Auto Parts as their assistant webmaster. I was driving to work hearing about this "terrible new virus" that was causing damage worldwide, and I remember wondering which one of the idiot sales/marketing/etc. nimrods would be the first to unleash it on our building.
The sad thing is that it wasn't anyone from any of those groups. It was one of our lead LAN analysts - someone we all thought would have known better.
My wife and I were at my in-laws house watching "O Brother Where Art Thou?" and with about 5 or 6 minutes left to go, my friends came by to pick me up to go see this movie.
I should have stayed with my wife.
This has got to be one of the worst movies I have seen in recent memory. The plot had more holes than a swiss cheese factory. K-riminey-SHIT! I mean, where do you start with a movie this forgettably bad? Let's see:
-No explanation as to the theory or workings (or, for that matter, the origins) of the time machine. This I can sort of forgive, since that (from what I understand) is the way that it was in the actual book.
-Before it becomes obvious that she is going to die no matter what he does, he goes about the same routine (going to the rink, etc.) I would have gone back a couple of extra days and gotten her into a totally different scenario, so to speak (that is, rather than a different location within the same scenario as he did by going into town instead of the park.) In fact, when the camera starts to pan around the rink a second time, I looked at my friend and asked when Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell show up.
-These Eloi, according to the (apparently) lone English speaking person outside of Dr. Hartdigen, all learn English in their childhood as a tradition. You learn an apparently long-dead language for no reason at all? That's like me teaching my 3 year old son Sanskrit because I have some spare time. In addition, exactly who is it that teaches the language? All of the adults have "gone from this place" as she likes to continually say and all of the other people in the colony have, as she explains to Hartdigen, forgotten it (as they have had no practical use for it in their entire lives.) This also makes you ask yourself that, with all that having been explained, how does this one lone girl speak the language so well with only one other person (her little sister) to speak it with?
-When Hartdigen "talks" to Orlando Jones in the library, he is told that there is no practical application of time travel because time travel is impossible. However, when he leaves his workshop originally, he leaves all of his calculations, equations, and other material that would prove otherwise behind. Surely in the however may-odd thousand or so years that pass between those two events SOMEONE would have been able to figure all of that out and conclude that it is, indeed, possible, right?
-Speaking of the 7-Up guy, how is it that the entire system that he embodies (that big globe thing and all) gets basically dumped in somebody's back yard and remains untouched and working for 800,000 YEARS?
I suppose I could go on, but, frankly, if any of you are still reading at this point, I'll be amazed.
OH,
MY
GOD!
I had never heard of Brittney Cleary before, so I did a Google search on her to figure out just who the hell she is.
I found this.
Sad, eh?
Yes, like Linux.
Contribution doesn't need to entail money. That's why Linux has been able to do as well as it has - because people are able to contribute to its growth by submitting code improvements and such...
Well, depending on which side of the fence you prefer to stand on:
Or . . .
Take yer pick.
Well said!
That's some of the most lucid commentary to surface since this shit started.
Do any of you remember Crystal Pepsi? I thought that they gave up on that. However, when I was in basic training for the Air Force, I saw a Pepsi truck pull up to the door of the tunnel, where all the Training Instructors did all their administrative stuff. Lo and behold, on the side of the truck was a big ol' Crystal Pepsi ad. This was just back in 1997, long after they stopped making it (or so I thought.) Do they still market it anywhere, or was that just a *really* old delivery truck? I moved back to Roanoke, Virginia, when I left the AF and I haven't seen a bottle of that in, well, God only knows how long.
>> ^--the only conservative on slashdot
:-)
I beg to differ, good sir! I myself am a huge fan of P.J. O'Rourke. Don't consider yourself the sole voice of reason out here.
Seagis
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I think the person who designed this ballot card did a horrible job
The woman that designed it, Theresa LePore, said (to the Sun-Sentinel) the following:
"I was trying to make the print bigger so elderly people in Palm Beach County can read it. We sent out sample ballots to all registered voters and no one said a word."
So it's not like nobody had ever seen them before. If there was a question about the usability of the ballots, someone should have raised it earlier.
Well, I live in Roanoke (SW Virginia) where it's considered a traffic jam if you have more than three cars on the road at the same time, so that's never a real problem around here. :-)
I got to the polls at about 7:30 this morning and was back in my car on my way to work by 7:40. Not too bad.
Oh, and for what it's worth, down here we still have those old "big red lever" type machines.
One thing that galls me when I talk to people about getting out and voting is when they say "I'm just one person. To me, there's no real difference between Bush and Gore anyway, so why bother?"
I'll tell you why: Because there is MORE on the ballot than just those two people. There are local referendums, laws and such to vote on, not to mention your state and congressional representatives, so you need to get out there and vote if for no other reason than to try and make your own state a better place to be.
Although one thing that they *did* kinda have in their favor was a little 90 second vid clip of some chick getting nailed by these two guys beside a pool. Somewhere along the way somebody overlaid "Satisfy You" by Cracker on it. Now every time I hear that song I see that chick at the pool. Wierd.
I can't bring myself to even look at that one picture in the last chapter.
:-)
OK. Here I sit at work without the opportunity to visit a library or a local bookstore to see exactly what's in this picture.
What's the draw of the last chapter, guys? I'm curious.
Well, actually, it's just a matter of semantics. The Scotch call it Whisky without the e, but we Americans call the same stuff Whiskey with the e.
******
That's a lot like how the members of Congress rip their opponents about "cutting" the federal budget ---
See? In actuality, party member B is proposing an increase of 1.25 million dollars, but party member A wants party member B to look bad, so he uses a deceptive tactic to make his point.
I think that's what's going on here.
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a) If the action is illegal you can refuse to do it and "blow the whistle". There are laws that no action can be taken against a whistleblower so you are theoretically safe (I don't know how well this works in practice, though).
Actually, this doesn't work very well at all in the real world. David Hackworth, an ex-Army Colonel, has plenty of examples of people that were reduced in rank, given bad performance reveiews, and just about anything else you can think of when they tried to use the "Whistleblower's Act," as it's called, report the dishonesty and blatant CYA olympics going on in all branches of the service.
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Or, better yet:
They develop their next language and call it "B-Flat" and say that it's such a vast improvement on C# that it wraps itself all the way around the musical scale. They'll have the entire range of musical notes covered in one fell swoop!
That way they can make you pay for the EULA any time you want to pick up a guitar.
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>> Yet another lame MS "techonology" marketing name. LOL !!!
Technology? I think not.
Rather, I think that things like this are what they mean when they use the word "innovate."
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Troll Anon Coward.
He thinks that Mac beats fine Tux
however, can't spell.
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"If I believe something, doesn't that mean I'm advocating it in some way, even if it's just generally voicing that opinion?"
Umm, no. Belief and advocacy are two totally different things. I *believe* that the Holocaust ocurred, because there is a plethora of credible evidence to support the idea that it did. I cannot, however, say that I *advocate* what happened.
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