Calling Creationism "Intellignt Design" is basically marketing spin on behalf of the fundamentalists.
A lot of people see evolution itself as "intelligent design:" Some big omnipotent all-powerful robed bearded dude(ette) set up the system, threw a bunch of stuff into the pot, and gave it a good hard spin. Evolution is part of that system. I think that's what the Roman Catholics are getting at.
The Fundamentalists are saying that intelligent design is the aforementioned dude(ette) waving his arms and making everything wih one big POOF! Which is a nice way to explain things - if you're a little kid.
Its nice to see the religion of my youth stepping away from crackpottery a bit. I mean, sure, they're still fairly totemic (what catholic doesn't remember the hubub in church when a splinter of the cross came through on one of its tours) and they like big ceremony (but really, who doesn't?) and they think homosexuals are going to burn in eternal damnation forever no matter what; just give them a little time. Its a big slow boat to steer.
...or the USA will continue down the path towards being just another Saudi Arabia: a rich, fundamentalist country full of nutjobs, a wealthy elite, and a desperately impoverished and ignorant populace.
I don't know where the fuck you live, but the boat is in the dock already.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but.... OOH! Oprah Is on!
it never seemed to me that Google ever bought into that dot-com silliness. They made a nice little search engine, then let it just do it's thing with some tending and development and let the world discover it. There were no huge Super Bowl ads, there wasn't a lot of jumping up and down and arm waving and screaming "LOOK AT US! AREN'T WE COOL!?"
They simply made someting that worked well, and let people find their own use for it. Thats pretty much what they do with all their projets now. They build it, we find uses for it, they save a fat wad of cash not developing rediculous ad campaigns and trying to force "impressions of their brand" on us, yet they're the most recognizable internet brand out there.
Maybe these other corporations need to take a look at that - do something well and you don't HAVE TO make a bunch of noise to get people to notice you, because you'll be seen useful.
The movies have taught us one thing: the amount of insubstantial noise made over a film is directly proportional to its crappiness. I'm amazed how few people have learned that lesson yet.
Once this lesson is actually learned, the entire markeing/branding industry will go direcly into the shitter; but is that a BAD thing? Maybe those people can go get real jobs actually MAKING something of use.
I was asking for reasons Joe needs a cluster for. You gave no examples of that.
Gameserver that runs bots for you to practice your bunnyhopping and 1337 sniper pwning skillz against
You think ONE old machine is gonna run my CS server AND a bunch of bots? CLUSTER!
Pornsnarfing bot that takes the time to md5 files andd make sure you dont already have them, then uses image-comparison to toss away the smaller versions of what you already have.
Image comparison software is fairly processor intensive, and if youre gonna go get porn, you got LOTS of images to sift through. CLUSTER!
That evil spam thing...
You can snarf more and faster with a cluster, thus - MORE PROFIT!!!!
I'm just being an off the cuff smartass now, but you're right. The examples I gave COULD be run from one box, one wimpy old box, but it would be slow - cluster a bunch of wimpy old boxes... SPEED and PROFIT!
(Then again, maybe someone that knows a bit more about clustering might wanna speak up here.)
What application (that Joe Average uses) would benefit from clustering?
Well, a place to put that gigantic collection of music and/or images and/or videos would be one. A mediaserver, basically.
A separate machine that is just another drive. clickity clickity click to map a shared drive seems easier than prying the HD out of the old box and slaving it into the new to the average joe, though it actually isnt
A machine that you can administer remotely for junior when he just NEEDS to get online while youre doinig something else
Automatic backup of user data from the main drive. "I wanna back up these areas... Clickity clickity clickity click!
Gameserver that runs bots for you to practice your bunnyhopping and 1337 sniper pwning skillz against
Running up your SETI@home scores (do peoplpe still do this?)
HomeMade TiVO
Constant non-crashing slideshow with media of your choice. Run a long cable to a flat panel and VOILA Instant ART!
Home recipie server
Worlds bulkiest PDA
Snooping on the main machine when the kids are using it unsupervised
Learn to program, run them on TEST machine without fucking up the new one. Learn to take machines aart and put them together again. Give it to the kids, make them ultra-hip geeksters.
Test machiine for changing settings youre just not sure about.
unhook from network. load virus, and run it. Watch the explosions!
Strip components out of case and cram them into football helmet - impress your buds at next football party!
Pornsnarfing bot that takes the time to md5 files andd make sure you dont already have them, then uses image-comparison to toss away the smaller versions of what you already have.
1. Sell soul to satan 2. Startup Email address sniffing bot 3. Compile list for a few weeks/months 4. PROFIT (5. Get as kicked when you inadvertently mention this scheme to geek friends)
The kicker of all of this is it would take the bigbrains that actually hack up all this linuxy goodnes not much time to put it a fairly simple set of "wizards" for.... "Make this a backup machine" "make this a spy-on-junior-logger" "make this a..."
You get the idea.
The best thing about all this is that you just brush the dust off the old CD you used to build the FIRST box for your new one, patch and update, and with a little bit of configging and clicking, Joe Sixpack is finding all sorts of new things a spare computer can do for you.
..just checking your damn email every couple of minutes? Also, with the slight delay, maybe - though probably not - people will start typing in semi-coherent sentences again.
If you REALLY neeed to have a conversation with someone in real time, pick up the goddamn phone.
I don't really see how you could call it a Trojan. People are saying that it's mentioned in the EULA, and thats disclosure of its existence. We now even know exactly what the Warden is doing, and its fairly innocuous. Now, if Blizzard flips out and sudenly grabs every online user's machine and uses it to start attacking Valve's Steam system, the that would be something worth bitching and moaning about.
Not to mention the fact that it would bring some real heat down on Blizzard.
Either way, the cat is out of the bag, and for the most part there's no real harm done beyond all of the frantic arm waving and yelling about "IT COULD POSSIBLY BE TRANSMITTING MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER ON THE NETWORK". Hell, it could possibly be finding naked images on your machine and building the biggest porn collection in the world for Blizzard, but that would hamper your speed and affect gameplay, so they probably arent doinig that.
The main thing here is this: If you dont want that shit on your computer, don't play the game.
If WoW's subscriber base goes in the toilet, you can bet they'll build a patch that yanks warden right out of the game, they you can rejoin only to qut in two months because chaters have spoiled yet another game, which will give you SOMETHING NEW to bitch about. Yay!
Another thing to consider - where are all the guys that have been playing things like Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat in VAC protectes servers? Or the guys that willingly use things like PunkBuster while gaming? I also agree that all of these measures will eventually be beaten, and that assholes will ruin multiplayer games wherever they go, but I'm glad they're in place to slow down the "casual" cheater.
Automobiles Play Large Role in American Life - The planning and layout of American cities has caused the AUTOMOBILE (sometimes also konwn as a "car") to pllay a large role in American life. Rich people drive better cars than poor people, and are less likely to take the bus from the suburbs to their jobs.
People are Getting Older - Studies are comfirming that from the moment Americans are born, they continue to age without any slowing of getting older as time passes. marketers have taken to calling this segment of the population "Agers," and see them as a vastly untapped market. New Marketing initiatives are directed at placing small LCD advertising screens in individual Hospital incubators.
In Las Vegas, Lots of People Gamble! - Studies have found that many people that travel to Las Vegas are spending their disposable income on the pasttime of gambling. Wealthier peoplpe tend to spend more money on gambling, and do it more often that poorer people. Officals released the following statement, "Its really, really interesting. We're totally flummoxed by this unexpected data."
Wealthier Americans Have More Money - US Census reports show that the 50% of the people that make more money than the other 50% usually have more money and buy more expensive things. Trends show that 100% of the half of the wealthier americans will still be in the top half of people with more money.
Puppies are Cute! - The US Census Bureau releases a report today finding that 97% of all second graders found puppies to be "cute" in a double-blind test. A full 83% of girls tested additionally made that liittle squealing sound when initially shown the test animals. Children that did not find the puppies cute were immediately detained and later sent to the TY Corporation (maker of "Beanie-Babies") for re-education.
Journalism Degrees Given out Like Candy - With the need for more and more places to put advertising, so-called news outlets are clamoring for people to write "stories" that 30 years ago would get your typewriter taken away and your ass busted to the print shop. To fill the need for this constant generation of tripe, American colleges and universities have been filling the need by giving Journalism degrees to pretty much anyone that owns a pencil and one of them small notepads. "We blame FOX News," was the only statement released by the Soceity of American Journalism. In a side report, sensors indicate that the corpse loctated in the grave of Edward R. Murrow is reportedly spinning at a rate of roughly 2400 revolutions per second.
Of Course. It was on Channel 4, I was it maybe 4 months ago. Of course, they'd have to redo it to show it in the States, becuase - being made for English television - the producers tossed in titties pretty much everywhere they could (English TV is really awful, but is also TOTALLY FLIPPIN' SWEET.)
BUT, They covered the whole story in all its grand silliness and buffoonery from the start. "The Letter" that was sent to transfer the domain name was so horribly done, and with about 30 seconds of fact-checking pretty much anyone could have seen that something was just not right with it.
Anyhow, If anyone knows of a torrent of this thing out there, I'm sure people would find it highly entertaining.
I went and got a myspace account a while ago to muck around with and about 2 months ago I started getting these alert emails saying I had all sorts of new messages! Yay! The deal is they get a free account and just stert finding males to try to scam. They typically find some decent looking picture to put on the account, too.
heres a great example:
Hello my name is Sherry,i am 29years Old.......i am from Southafrica,But i am with my Father is from Nigeria. i have Register on this Site about 1month now but this is the 4time for me to come here.........The Reason why i am telling you this is that i dont want you to waste my time,and i dont want to waste your time neither. About me and my Family. My name is Sherry,thats my English name. dont have Work,Because i just Finish my Course. i Study:Business administrator. i am Nice and Caring Sencere and Honest Openmind. I need someone that is Ready to Settle Down now and Start Family. i am not here for Playing games i am New to this and i dont want anyone to Hurt me and i dont want to hurt anyone.....i see your Profile and i like what you Look Like If you have Intrest about me you can let me Know by Contacting me back. babysherry112@yahoo.com OR Sherrybaby113@hotmail.com. Hope to hear from you Soon
YES!!!! I bait them a little every once in a while via the myspace messaging, but rapidly get bored with it.
Anyone sles seeing this kind of crap on them other goofy FoaF sites?
And really, until you can manage people as easily as you can manage a server, then you won't have this problem. Of course, people are going to complain when you plug a terminal into the base of their skull, but thats what they get for not paying attention to hearing "This is a password. It is called a password because it allows you and only you to log into your account and access the files only you should have a right to. Do not pick one that is easy for other people to guess, and do not ever give it to anyone else. That means anyone." a half dozen times.
Interestingly - - - I gig at this one club where its painfully obvious that noone there is goiing to underrstand how to log in to a compuuter with a secure password and use it for simple timeclock functions. Their solution? Fingerprint reader. Works like a charm, and nobody forgets their fingers when they come to work.
sidenote: Schools have this problem? Hell, I've worked at more than one technology company that has this problem. Goddam bizdev girls.
The fact of the matter is, THEY can track you by your phone if THEY want to. THEY have been able to track you a bunch of other ways before this, if THEY wanted to. Maybe not your exact location right now, but close enough to go get you if THEY wanted to.
Then again, is it worth all the time worrying about THEM tracking you when most of the time THEY dont give a good goddamn if you're even alive, much less where you are at any given point in time, so long as you don't do anything horribly wrong.
I really can't see why people worry about this so much <ramblin> Things THEY could do to use the cell phone system more: THEY could even use it to tell the highway partol where to put the speed traps now and start giving out a grip of speeding tickets. This would give an economic boost via court fees and fines, not to mention generating income for traffic court lawyers, whoc would then kick that back into the economy in the form of buying luxury items. Then we get a surplus of money in the government coffers, and they kick it back to the population of their respective states as a rebate every year, redistributing wealth from the people who can't seem to follow traffic laws to everyone else. (What? Have to speed to get where you're going? Sorry. Allow yourself more time to get where you;re goinig. Live closer to where you work. Your choice.)
Get stopped for doing something wrong and give the cops some fake id... lets check that against your cell phone, just for fun. "Sir, not to racially profile, but your cell phone says youre Eunice Witherspoon. You sure don't LOOK like a Eunice Witherspoon, being a man and all."
Or, like it has beeen said a million times already - you don't HAVE to have a cell phone. Carry a bunch of quarters and some disenfectant on you and use payphone! </ramblin>
This video prompts the following feelings: A) This thing should be an entire topic on its own.
B) This mother should be
1) Instantly yanking the power cord on this thing adan stuffing it in a locked cabinet
2) Slapping this child about the head and upper body with an open hand
3) Grounding hiim in his room with zero to do but read and fold laundry
4) Sending him to military school next chance there is for enrollment
C) I hate this kid.
1) I'll lay 7/5 that he's in Jail inside of 10 years.
2) Hes really bad a playing whatever he's playing
"It may continue to grow in China," Mr. Pachter added, "but not in Europe or the U.S. We don't need the imaginary outlet to feel a sense of accomplishment here. It just doesn't work in the U.S. It just doesn't make any sense."
I don't know what country Mr. Pachter lives in, but its not the one where people watch this much TV a day, or gamble this much, or blah blah blah...
We were a small company that sold sex toys. Kiddies from eastern europe and southeast asia LOVED to test credit cards against our store.
This was when we were first getting up and running with minimal staff. One day we looked and saw "JESUS CHRIST! Someone Just bought $678 worth of fake cock! Yeah!"
We then realized these folks were just testing to see if the credit card numbers they stole were still active, and cancelled the order.
I wrote all sorts of checking routines and so on to make it harder to submit that kind of shit, but in the end it was just easier to not even let placecs like Hungary and Pakistan in, becuase really, it was more trouble to week out the fakes than the odd valid order a year from those areas is worth.
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I do beleive its in Mona Lisa Overdrive. Molly takes that Yak guys daughter around and they go see the Finn's construct. Hes become sort of a street oracle.
Its a really well written scene.
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He got his brain dumped into a Memory Conntruct and bolted down in an alley.
They gave him a laser, too.
Much cooler than some damn video screen that narsissistic people who cant deal with the basics of something that happens to us all.
Yeah, go buy your fucking video tombstone, you tool.
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Calling Creationism "Intellignt Design" is basically marketing spin on behalf of the fundamentalists.
A lot of people see evolution itself as "intelligent design:"
Some big omnipotent all-powerful robed bearded dude(ette) set up the system, threw a bunch of stuff into the pot, and gave it a good hard spin. Evolution is part of that system. I think that's what the Roman Catholics are getting at.
The Fundamentalists are saying that intelligent design is the aforementioned dude(ette) waving his arms and making everything wih one big POOF! Which is a nice way to explain things - if you're a little kid.
Its nice to see the religion of my youth stepping away from crackpottery a bit. I mean, sure, they're still fairly totemic (what catholic doesn't remember the hubub in church when a splinter of the cross came through on one of its tours) and they like big ceremony (but really, who doesn't?) and they think homosexuals are going to burn in eternal damnation forever no matter what; just give them a little time. Its a big slow boat to steer.
I don't know where the fuck you live, but the boat is in the dock already.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but.... OOH! Oprah Is on!
it never seemed to me that Google ever bought into that dot-com silliness. They made a nice little search engine, then let it just do it's thing with some tending and development and let the world discover it. There were no huge Super Bowl ads, there wasn't a lot of jumping up and down and arm waving and screaming "LOOK AT US! AREN'T WE COOL!?"
They simply made someting that worked well, and let people find their own use for it. Thats pretty much what they do with all their projets now. They build it, we find uses for it, they save a fat wad of cash not developing rediculous ad campaigns and trying to force "impressions of their brand" on us, yet they're the most recognizable internet brand out there.
Maybe these other corporations need to take a look at that - do something well and you don't HAVE TO make a bunch of noise to get people to notice you, because you'll be seen useful.
The movies have taught us one thing: the amount of insubstantial noise made over a film is directly proportional to its crappiness. I'm amazed how few people have learned that lesson yet.
Once this lesson is actually learned, the entire markeing/branding industry will go direcly into the shitter; but is that a BAD thing? Maybe those people can go get real jobs actually MAKING something of use.
Gameserver that runs bots for you to practice your bunnyhopping and 1337 sniper pwning skillz against
You think ONE old machine is gonna run my CS server AND a bunch of bots? CLUSTER!
Pornsnarfing bot that takes the time to md5 files andd make sure you dont already have them, then uses image-comparison to toss away the smaller versions of what you already have.
Image comparison software is fairly processor intensive, and if youre gonna go get porn, you got LOTS of images to sift through. CLUSTER!
That evil spam thing...
You can snarf more and faster with a cluster, thus - MORE PROFIT!!!!
I'm just being an off the cuff smartass now, but you're right. The examples I gave COULD be run from one box, one wimpy old box, but it would be slow - cluster a bunch of wimpy old boxes... SPEED and PROFIT!
(Then again, maybe someone that knows a bit more about clustering might wanna speak up here.)
What application (that Joe Average uses) would benefit from clustering?
Well, a place to put that gigantic collection of music and/or images and/or videos would be one. A mediaserver, basically.
A separate machine that is just another drive. clickity clickity click to map a shared drive seems easier than prying the HD out of the old box and slaving it into the new to the average joe, though it actually isnt
A machine that you can administer remotely for junior when he just NEEDS to get online while youre doinig something else
Automatic backup of user data from the main drive. "I wanna back up these areas... Clickity clickity clickity click!
Gameserver that runs bots for you to practice your bunnyhopping and 1337 sniper pwning skillz against
Running up your SETI@home scores (do peoplpe still do this?)
HomeMade TiVO
Constant non-crashing slideshow with media of your choice. Run a long cable to a flat panel and VOILA Instant ART!
Home recipie server
Worlds bulkiest PDA
Snooping on the main machine when the kids are using it unsupervised
Learn to program, run them on TEST machine without fucking up the new one. Learn to take machines aart and put them together again. Give it to the kids, make them ultra-hip geeksters.
Test machiine for changing settings youre just not sure about.
unhook from network. load virus, and run it. Watch the explosions!
Strip components out of case and cram them into football helmet - impress your buds at next football party!
Pornsnarfing bot that takes the time to md5 files andd make sure you dont already have them, then uses image-comparison to toss away the smaller versions of what you already have.
1. Sell soul to satan
2. Startup Email address sniffing bot
3. Compile list for a few weeks/months
4. PROFIT
(5. Get as kicked when you inadvertently mention this scheme to geek friends)
The kicker of all of this is it would take the bigbrains that actually hack up all this linuxy goodnes not much time to put it a fairly simple set of "wizards" for....
"Make this a backup machine"
"make this a spy-on-junior-logger"
"make this a..."
You get the idea.
The best thing about all this is that you just brush the dust off the old CD you used to build the FIRST box for your new one, patch and update, and with a little bit of configging and clicking, Joe Sixpack is finding all sorts of new things a spare computer can do for you.
For Free.
..just checking your damn email every couple of minutes? Also, with the slight delay, maybe - though probably not - people will start typing in semi-coherent sentences again.
If you REALLY neeed to have a conversation with someone in real time, pick up the goddamn phone.
Fucking IM.
I don't really see how you could call it a Trojan. People are saying that it's mentioned in the EULA, and thats disclosure of its existence. We now even know exactly what the Warden is doing, and its fairly innocuous. Now, if Blizzard flips out and sudenly grabs every online user's machine and uses it to start attacking Valve's Steam system, the that would be something worth bitching and moaning about.
Not to mention the fact that it would bring some real heat down on Blizzard.
Either way, the cat is out of the bag, and for the most part there's no real harm done beyond all of the frantic arm waving and yelling about "IT COULD POSSIBLY BE TRANSMITTING MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER ON THE NETWORK". Hell, it could possibly be finding naked images on your machine and building the biggest porn collection in the world for Blizzard, but that would hamper your speed and affect gameplay, so they probably arent doinig that.
The main thing here is this: If you dont want that shit on your computer, don't play the game.
If WoW's subscriber base goes in the toilet, you can bet they'll build a patch that yanks warden right out of the game, they you can rejoin only to qut in two months because chaters have spoiled yet another game, which will give you SOMETHING NEW to bitch about. Yay!
Another thing to consider - where are all the guys that have been playing things like Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat in VAC protectes servers? Or the guys that willingly use things like PunkBuster while gaming? I also agree that all of these measures will eventually be beaten, and that assholes will ruin multiplayer games wherever they go, but I'm glad they're in place to slow down the "casual" cheater.
You obviously didn't see the Hott Succubus in the costume contest.
She can violate my DMCA any day!
(This post was sarcasm.)
You need to print the entire EULA and christen every page of it with your own blood.
WITH factiods to help them on their way!
Automobiles Play Large Role in American Life - The planning and layout of American cities has caused the AUTOMOBILE (sometimes also konwn as a "car") to pllay a large role in American life. Rich people drive better cars than poor people, and are less likely to take the bus from the suburbs to their jobs.
People are Getting Older - Studies are comfirming that from the moment Americans are born, they continue to age without any slowing of getting older as time passes. marketers have taken to calling this segment of the population "Agers," and see them as a vastly untapped market. New Marketing initiatives are directed at placing small LCD advertising screens in individual Hospital incubators.
In Las Vegas, Lots of People Gamble! - Studies have found that many people that travel to Las Vegas are spending their disposable income on the pasttime of gambling. Wealthier peoplpe tend to spend more money on gambling, and do it more often that poorer people. Officals released the following statement, "Its really, really interesting. We're totally flummoxed by this unexpected data."
Wealthier Americans Have More Money - US Census reports show that the 50% of the people that make more money than the other 50% usually have more money and buy more expensive things. Trends show that 100% of the half of the wealthier americans will still be in the top half of people with more money.
Puppies are Cute! - The US Census Bureau releases a report today finding that 97% of all second graders found puppies to be "cute" in a double-blind test. A full 83% of girls tested additionally made that liittle squealing sound when initially shown the test animals. Children that did not find the puppies cute were immediately detained and later sent to the TY Corporation (maker of "Beanie-Babies") for re-education.
Journalism Degrees Given out Like Candy - With the need for more and more places to put advertising, so-called news outlets are clamoring for people to write "stories" that 30 years ago would get your typewriter taken away and your ass busted to the print shop. To fill the need for this constant generation of tripe, American colleges and universities have been filling the need by giving Journalism degrees to pretty much anyone that owns a pencil and one of them small notepads. "We blame FOX News," was the only statement released by the Soceity of American Journalism. In a side report, sensors indicate that the corpse loctated in the grave of Edward R. Murrow is reportedly spinning at a rate of roughly 2400 revolutions per second.
...in England.
Of Course. It was on Channel 4, I was it maybe 4 months ago. Of course, they'd have to redo it to show it in the States, becuase - being made for English television - the producers tossed in titties pretty much everywhere they could (English TV is really awful, but is also TOTALLY FLIPPIN' SWEET.)
BUT, They covered the whole story in all its grand silliness and buffoonery from the start. "The Letter" that was sent to transfer the domain name was so horribly done, and with about 30 seconds of fact-checking pretty much anyone could have seen that something was just not right with it.
Anyhow, If anyone knows of a torrent of this thing out there, I'm sure people would find it highly entertaining.
I love it when people sling around the word "n00b" for no real reason.
offtopic me now!
heres a great example:
YES!!!! I bait them a little every once in a while via the myspace messaging, but rapidly get bored with it.
Anyone sles seeing this kind of crap on them other goofy FoaF sites?
And really, until you can manage people as easily as you can manage a server, then you won't have this problem. Of course, people are going to complain when you plug a terminal into the base of their skull, but thats what they get for not paying attention to hearing "This is a password. It is called a password because it allows you and only you to log into your account and access the files only you should have a right to. Do not pick one that is easy for other people to guess, and do not ever give it to anyone else. That means anyone." a half dozen times.
Interestingly - - - I gig at this one club where its painfully obvious that noone there is goiing to underrstand how to log in to a compuuter with a secure password and use it for simple timeclock functions. Their solution? Fingerprint reader. Works like a charm, and nobody forgets their fingers when they come to work.
sidenote: Schools have this problem? Hell, I've worked at more than one technology company that has this problem. Goddam bizdev girls.
The fact of the matter is, THEY can track you by your phone if THEY want to. THEY have been able to track you a bunch of other ways before this, if THEY wanted to. Maybe not your exact location right now, but close enough to go get you if THEY wanted to.
Then again, is it worth all the time worrying about THEM tracking you when most of the time THEY dont give a good goddamn if you're even alive, much less where you are at any given point in time, so long as you don't do anything horribly wrong.
I really can't see why people worry about this so much
<ramblin>
Things THEY could do to use the cell phone system more:
THEY could even use it to tell the highway partol where to put the speed traps now and start giving out a grip of speeding tickets. This would give an economic boost via court fees and fines, not to mention generating income for traffic court lawyers, whoc would then kick that back into the economy in the form of buying luxury items. Then we get a surplus of money in the government coffers, and they kick it back to the population of their respective states as a rebate every year, redistributing wealth from the people who can't seem to follow traffic laws to everyone else. (What? Have to speed to get where you're going? Sorry. Allow yourself more time to get where you;re goinig. Live closer to where you work. Your choice.)
Get stopped for doing something wrong and give the cops some fake id... lets check that against your cell phone, just for fun. "Sir, not to racially profile, but your cell phone says youre Eunice Witherspoon. You sure don't LOOK like a Eunice Witherspoon, being a man and all."
Or, like it has beeen said a million times already - you don't HAVE to have a cell phone. Carry a bunch of quarters and some disenfectant on you and use payphone!
</ramblin>
(hey, new submission posting form!)
This video prompts the following feelings:
A) This thing should be an entire topic on its own.
B) This mother should be
1) Instantly yanking the power cord on this thing adan stuffing it in a locked cabinet
2) Slapping this child about the head and upper body with an open hand
3) Grounding hiim in his room with zero to do but read and fold laundry
4) Sending him to military school next chance there is for enrollment
C) I hate this kid.
1) I'll lay 7/5 that he's in Jail inside of 10 years.
2) Hes really bad a playing whatever he's playing
Ah, ColdFusion. Is there anything is can't not do?
Pre-emptive apology:
relax, proles... I'm friggin KIDDING.
Damn.
Take your holy war elsewhere.
night some condombreak drove by me
Condombreak?
Condombreak?!?
BRILLIANT!
I havent laughed so hard since I learned the word asshat
A) People die.
B) Things happen, we do not live in a controllable environment.
C) The second you stop one thing from happening, something nastier will come up and take its place.
D) Maybe messing with something as large and complicated as THE WEATHER isnt such a good idea.
E) People Die. Thats how it works. We're not going to able to ever change that. Some of us are just unlucky enough to have to die horribly.
Favorite quote:
"It may continue to grow in China," Mr. Pachter added, "but not in Europe or the U.S. We don't need the imaginary outlet to feel a sense of accomplishment here. It just doesn't work in the U.S. It just doesn't make any sense."
I don't know what country Mr. Pachter lives in, but its not the one where people watch this much TV a day, or gamble this much, or blah blah blah...
Don't beleive your own hype, Mr. Pachter.
I'm just sayin'.
No linkage? Dizzamn! Where's the love?
/.: if it werent for offtopic, there'd be very little fun anymore.
and yet, I still feel honored!
When are the guys that killed that russian dude going to come after these scumbags?
That's the story i really wanna see.
Traffic-Power. Really. Fuck them.
We were a small company that sold sex toys. Kiddies from eastern europe and southeast asia LOVED to test credit cards against our store.
This was when we were first getting up and running with minimal staff. One day we looked and saw "JESUS CHRIST! Someone Just bought $678 worth of fake cock! Yeah!"
We then realized these folks were just testing to see if the credit card numbers they stole were still active, and cancelled the order.
I wrote all sorts of checking routines and so on to make it harder to submit that kind of shit, but in the end it was just easier to not even let placecs like Hungary and Pakistan in, becuase really, it was more trouble to week out the fakes than the odd valid order a year from those areas is worth.
I do beleive its in Mona Lisa Overdrive. Molly takes that Yak guys daughter around and they go see the Finn's construct. Hes become sort of a street oracle.
Its a really well written scene.
He got his brain dumped into a Memory Conntruct and bolted down in an alley.
They gave him a laser, too.
Much cooler than some damn video screen that narsissistic people who cant deal with the basics of something that happens to us all.
Yeah, go buy your fucking video tombstone, you tool.