Hands down, best episode would either be 1F13-Deep Space Homer or the Treehouse of Horrors with the "shinning".
Kent Brockman's complete punk-out during the space flight was EASILY one of the best TV quotes in history, regardless of genre:
Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
Sorry to hijack your thread due to it's low reply count, but I feel like playing devil's advocate a little. I for one, can completely see why requesting an employees credit history is important. If, for example, I worked for some company designing some brand new microprocessor, I sure as hell wouldn't want Bob Gamling-Problem-Borrows-money-to-pay-off-debts-all -the-time Smith to have access to it. He's a liability. I'd be paranoid as soon as he heard some inside tip about the ponies my chip would be black-marketed with the quickness.
The point is, if you can't handle your own 40k a year, I sure as fuck don't want you touching my 50-mil business.
Anytime someone points out the rampant ingnorant sensationalist quasi-journalism that occurs on this page I find it damn interesting. No, I take that back. I find it damn funny.
Skinner: Superintendent Chalmers, welcome! Chalmers: [dryly] Hello, Seymour. Skinner: So, what's the word down at One School Board Plaza? Chalmers: We're dropping the geography requirement. The children weren't testing well. It's proving to be an embarrassment. Skinner: Very good. Back to the three R's. Chalmers: Two R's, come October.
Not to be a dick, but you don't want to quit. You have to want to. I'm a smoker, and I enjoy it. It's more social than anything else. Hell, in 5 years time I'll just have em whip me up a few new organs so that angles covered. I do it because I get my halo on with a friends for a few hours then we walk outside. It's social, and I get my best conversations in at that time. I'd rather live 50 years how I want than 60 years living how I should.
As for addiction, I used to know a group of guys that were all heroin junkies. Ok guys when they were clean, but when they had to have that fix, they were rough to be around. One of them used to quit cold-turkey for 6 months at a time to clean himself up, and he was so determined to look hard around us, I never once saw him withdrawling..that's some friggin willpower.
I remember playing dust, and one guy had the deagle running through the bottom tunnel. Someone dropped down from the CT side, the deagle guy spun and at least 150 yards away put a single deagle round in the ct's nogging.
The server went apeshit with calls of cheating, and it was obvious as day he had, but damn funny none-the-less.
How much further do you feel cheating can advance? In Counter-Strike, you can get cheats that will auto-aim on someone's head and fire for you. I really don't see what you would want more than that.
Not to get too far off-topic, but cheating in a game like Counter-Strike is only cool for about an hour or so. For one, everyone on their is so paranoid of cheaters that odds are you will get called on it, and immediately your victory will be written off. On top of that, it get's boring fast. Why even play? Just don't load the game, assume you won, and play something else. Games like this really have no purpose in cheating. The REAL good application for this would be to make a program that auto-controls an MMORPG character. Imagine getting it to the point where the script would run your guy into a field, locate a similar leveled mob, fight and kill it, loot the corpse, and go sit back down. Add some code so it could handle unwated mob adds, PKing, etc. You could have your guy level while at work and use your time for raids and other more fun game things. That's something I'd be damn interested in.
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I live in Las Vegas, and about 1 year ago this netgames place opened up. It was run by this hyper-active asian lady that honestly had no idea what she was doing. I knew she was crazy, but really no idea how much until one day when I decided to hit the place up after work. A friend and I stopped at a Taco Bell that was near it, and we saw some other guys that we knew frequented the place eating in there as well. They told us that Ms. crazy asian lady herself had to run home for an hour, and had moronically left 2 teenagers she had known for maybe 2 hours to watch the store. We really had no doubt what we were going to find once we got over there, but it was funny none-the-less. 30 COMPLETELY gutted PC'S and about 10 missing monitors. I still laugh my ass of at her stupidity to this day.
Interesting addition to this story; about 1 month later she somehow had found out my friend's phone number, and having never really even spoken to him more than a few times at the netgames place months ago, tried to pay him $5,000 to marry a chinese friend of her's for her citizenship. She was truly, truly insane.
If owned a company that produced a console, and then in turn owned another company that was making a sequel that was SURE to be a megahit, would I say "Hey, lemme put this out on my console exclusively, I'll clean up!"
Yeah, I would do that. It's called common sense. I didn't become a business man to be a beacon of righteousness unto the world for all to see. Hell, in this instance I can't see how doing this would look the least bit like I was an evil guy. I would have to go out of my way deliberately to fuck myself on this.
Shit, there are a FUCK TON of proprietery games franchises out. How many Final Fantasy's do you see on the gamecube or xbox? No one bitches at Square, do they? Get your priorities straight. Microsoft saw an opportunity to get paid, and they took it. Good for them. Now, does anyone else from the peanut gallery have their thoughts of modern business tactics in regards to ethical and moral tactics?
Actually, PC-Gamer has more than one blurb about Half-Life 2, often including quotes from Valve people. In fact, I recall reading one just the other day(issue was a few months old, but when in the bathroom, you read what you find.)
As an owner of an X-Box, I'm stoked. I think there are 3 games worth owning(Halo(duh), MGS2, and Splinter Cell). I feel I've been screwed thus far with game releases. However, if somehow it can be made so that Half-Life 2 gets released as an X-Box only thing, I would be fucking estatic. A single player Half-Life sequel in my eyes can do no wrong, and I don't care either way if it ever sees a PC release. I also couldn't care less about multiplayer. Chilling at my place at 2am with 2 shotgun rounds left wondering if my shot killed badassmofomonster #27 or just pissed him off interests me INFINATELY more than hearing "l0l u l4m3 h4x0|2! qu17 u51n6 d4 4wp l4m4h!".
I keep pushing myself harder and harder at that game. I figure if I can pass all the Ranger courses my computer will print out some college scholarship paperwork.
Thus far though I can't seem to do anything but make dirt-darts 50 feet from that target on the parachuting school.
I find this entire thing quite like the anthrax slogan "Only important people get anthrax, so you have nothing to worry about."
I laugh myself horse reading all the replies on here from boring middle class school kids that are worried shitless about their privacy. I promise you the government hasn't, doesn't, and won't ever give 2 shits about ANYTHING you do. I forget the exact quote, but I'm reminded of Scully's summation of the "Lone Gunmen" the first time she met them. Something to the effect of "these people believe these stories because they want to feel special, they want to believe the government actually has some interest in what they're doing, when in reality, the government couldn't care less."
A lot of community colleges have arrangements with Cisco to be authorized to teach thier Academy Program. The CCNA Academy alone is 4 semesters, so you can see they're aren't skipping much. And the end of the 4 semesters, you get to take the cert at like 1/3 the cost. Heck, if I remember correctly, they'll even give you a second attempt at the same price.
It was always fun at Defcon to watch. Maybe because they didn't try to make it look like someone was bringing down a Gibson with a GUI virus. This Topgun show sounds pretty damn lame, IMHO.
But Defcon is slipping. This year they did some wardriving stuff and a friend of mine had his antenna snapped off of his truck. Fuckers.
Man, look how angry you got. Swearing, writing almost unintelligble sentences in a rushed and ticked-off manner. I'd say it's pretty obvious you infact DO give a shit. In fact, I think it's readily apparent that I will be the highlight of your day.
And I don't troll. Whatever I post, I agree with. Every French person I know is a snobbish asshole that quickly turns on an extreme defeatists attitude when plagued with any difficult situation.
The term "third world nation" is a direct reference to the GNP of a country. We have the highest GNP on Earth. Please re-think your statement, anonymous boy.
Last time I checked, the French weren't a race, they're a people. And second of all, I wouldn't call the army with the highest casuality rate "The most effective". Maybe if they're suicide bombers or something I MIGHT be able to see your point, but sadly, I cannot.
I honestly feel bad for the french clerk responsible for handing out these "surrender" forms. He HAS to be the busiest man on earth. Pit traders on Wall Street has less stressful jobs than he does.
You're an idiot, Ritalin and Adderall are the SHIT. Like speed with none of the horrible back-aches. As for this fucker, I'd say he sounds horrifyingly like L. Ron.
Heh, you just wish you thought of it first. Another trick we used to do was wait until the race was about to start, then gently yank on the cord when the guy on the mat wasn't looking so that it came ouot of the nes, then tell them they weren't running fast enough for the game to register. People would damn near give themselves a heart attack trying to not lose face. REALLY good times.
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Mr. Moglen,
Your campaign seems to have the momentum of a run-away freight train. Why are you so popular?
Hands down, best episode would either be 1F13-Deep Space Homer or the Treehouse of Horrors with the "shinning".
Kent Brockman's complete punk-out during the space flight was EASILY one of the best TV quotes in history, regardless of genre:
Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
Sorry to hijack your thread due to it's low reply count, but I feel like playing devil's advocate a little. I for one, can completely see why requesting an employees credit history is important. If, for example, I worked for some company designing some brand new microprocessor, I sure as hell wouldn't want Bob Gamling-Problem-Borrows-money-to-pay-off-debts-all -the-time Smith to have access to it. He's a liability. I'd be paranoid as soon as he heard some inside tip about the ponies my chip would be black-marketed with the quickness.
The point is, if you can't handle your own 40k a year, I sure as fuck don't want you touching my 50-mil business.
It's all about retirement grease.
I always liked "The ability to control a movie genre for 20 years is insignifigant next to the power of a good chick flick."
Anytime someone points out the rampant ingnorant sensationalist quasi-journalism that occurs on this page I find it damn interesting. No, I take that back. I find it damn funny.
Skinner: Superintendent Chalmers, welcome!
Chalmers: [dryly] Hello, Seymour.
Skinner: So, what's the word down at One School Board Plaza?
Chalmers: We're dropping the geography requirement. The children weren't testing well. It's proving to be an embarrassment.
Skinner: Very good. Back to the three R's.
Chalmers: Two R's, come October.
Not to be a dick, but you don't want to quit. You have to want to. I'm a smoker, and I enjoy it. It's more social than anything else. Hell, in 5 years time I'll just have em whip me up a few new organs so that angles covered. I do it because I get my halo on with a friends for a few hours then we walk outside. It's social, and I get my best conversations in at that time. I'd rather live 50 years how I want than 60 years living how I should.
As for addiction, I used to know a group of guys that were all heroin junkies. Ok guys when they were clean, but when they had to have that fix, they were rough to be around. One of them used to quit cold-turkey for 6 months at a time to clean himself up, and he was so determined to look hard around us, I never once saw him withdrawling..that's some friggin willpower.
I remember playing dust, and one guy had the deagle running through the bottom tunnel. Someone dropped down from the CT side, the deagle guy spun and at least 150 yards away put a single deagle round in the ct's nogging.
The server went apeshit with calls of cheating, and it was obvious as day he had, but damn funny none-the-less.
How much further do you feel cheating can advance? In Counter-Strike, you can get cheats that will auto-aim on someone's head and fire for you. I really don't see what you would want more than that.
Not to get too far off-topic, but cheating in a game like Counter-Strike is only cool for about an hour or so. For one, everyone on their is so paranoid of cheaters that odds are you will get called on it, and immediately your victory will be written off. On top of that, it get's boring fast. Why even play? Just don't load the game, assume you won, and play something else. Games like this really have no purpose in cheating. The REAL good application for this would be to make a program that auto-controls an MMORPG character. Imagine getting it to the point where the script would run your guy into a field, locate a similar leveled mob, fight and kill it, loot the corpse, and go sit back down. Add some code so it could handle unwated mob adds, PKing, etc. You could have your guy level while at work and use your time for raids and other more fun game things. That's something I'd be damn interested in.
I live in Las Vegas, and about 1 year ago this netgames place opened up. It was run by this hyper-active asian lady that honestly had no idea what she was doing. I knew she was crazy, but really no idea how much until one day when I decided to hit the place up after work. A friend and I stopped at a Taco Bell that was near it, and we saw some other guys that we knew frequented the place eating in there as well. They told us that Ms. crazy asian lady herself had to run home for an hour, and had moronically left 2 teenagers she had known for maybe 2 hours to watch the store. We really had no doubt what we were going to find once we got over there, but it was funny none-the-less. 30 COMPLETELY gutted PC'S and about 10 missing monitors. I still laugh my ass of at her stupidity to this day.
Interesting addition to this story; about 1 month later she somehow had found out my friend's phone number, and having never really even spoken to him more than a few times at the netgames place months ago, tried to pay him $5,000 to marry a chinese friend of her's for her citizenship. She was truly, truly insane.
What your daddy meant to say, between belches of scotch, is "The devil you know is better than the devil you dont."
If owned a company that produced a console, and then in turn owned another company that was making a sequel that was SURE to be a megahit, would I say "Hey, lemme put this out on my console exclusively, I'll clean up!"
Yeah, I would do that. It's called common sense. I didn't become a business man to be a beacon of righteousness unto the world for all to see. Hell, in this instance I can't see how doing this would look the least bit like I was an evil guy. I would have to go out of my way deliberately to fuck myself on this.
Shit, there are a FUCK TON of proprietery games franchises out. How many Final Fantasy's do you see on the gamecube or xbox? No one bitches at Square, do they? Get your priorities straight. Microsoft saw an opportunity to get paid, and they took it. Good for them. Now, does anyone else from the peanut gallery have their thoughts of modern business tactics in regards to ethical and moral tactics?
Actually, PC-Gamer has more than one blurb about Half-Life 2, often including quotes from Valve people. In fact, I recall reading one just the other day(issue was a few months old, but when in the bathroom, you read what you find.)
As an owner of an X-Box, I'm stoked. I think there are 3 games worth owning(Halo(duh), MGS2, and Splinter Cell). I feel I've been screwed thus far with game releases. However, if somehow it can be made so that Half-Life 2 gets released as an X-Box only thing, I would be fucking estatic. A single player Half-Life sequel in my eyes can do no wrong, and I don't care either way if it ever sees a PC release. I also couldn't care less about multiplayer. Chilling at my place at 2am with 2 shotgun rounds left wondering if my shot killed badassmofomonster #27 or just pissed him off interests me INFINATELY more than hearing "l0l u l4m3 h4x0|2! qu17 u51n6 d4 4wp l4m4h!".
Damn, I get chills just thinking about it.
I keep pushing myself harder and harder at that game. I figure if I can pass all the Ranger courses my computer will print out some college scholarship paperwork.
Thus far though I can't seem to do anything but make dirt-darts 50 feet from that target on the parachuting school.
I find this entire thing quite like the anthrax slogan "Only important people get anthrax, so you have nothing to worry about."
I laugh myself horse reading all the replies on here from boring middle class school kids that are worried shitless about their privacy. I promise you the government hasn't, doesn't, and won't ever give 2 shits about ANYTHING you do. I forget the exact quote, but I'm reminded of Scully's summation of the "Lone Gunmen" the first time she met them. Something to the effect of "these people believe these stories because they want to feel special, they want to believe the government actually has some interest in what they're doing, when in reality, the government couldn't care less."
A lot of community colleges have arrangements with Cisco to be authorized to teach thier Academy Program. The CCNA Academy alone is 4 semesters, so you can see they're aren't skipping much. And the end of the 4 semesters, you get to take the cert at like 1/3 the cost. Heck, if I remember correctly, they'll even give you a second attempt at the same price.
It was always fun at Defcon to watch. Maybe because they didn't try to make it look like someone was bringing down a Gibson with a GUI virus. This Topgun show sounds pretty damn lame, IMHO.
But Defcon is slipping. This year they did some wardriving stuff and a friend of mine had his antenna snapped off of his truck. Fuckers.
What's sad is he didn't even HAVE to post a date, just say "there was this time".
Homer: An F turns into a B so easily, you just got greedy.
Man, look how angry you got. Swearing, writing almost unintelligble sentences in a rushed and ticked-off manner. I'd say it's pretty obvious you infact DO give a shit. In fact, I think it's readily apparent that I will be the highlight of your day.
And I don't troll. Whatever I post, I agree with. Every French person I know is a snobbish asshole that quickly turns on an extreme defeatists attitude when plagued with any difficult situation.
The term "third world nation" is a direct reference to the GNP of a country. We have the highest GNP on Earth. Please re-think your statement, anonymous boy.
Last time I checked, the French weren't a race, they're a people. And second of all, I wouldn't call the army with the highest casuality rate "The most effective". Maybe if they're suicide bombers or something I MIGHT be able to see your point, but sadly, I cannot.
Ya cheese-eating surrender monkey.
I honestly feel bad for the french clerk responsible for handing out these "surrender" forms. He HAS to be the busiest man on earth. Pit traders on Wall Street has less stressful jobs than he does.
You're an idiot, Ritalin and Adderall are the SHIT. Like speed with none of the horrible back-aches. As for this fucker, I'd say he sounds horrifyingly like L. Ron.
Heh, you just wish you thought of it first. Another trick we used to do was wait until the race was about to start, then gently yank on the cord when the guy on the mat wasn't looking so that it came ouot of the nes, then tell them they weren't running fast enough for the game to register. People would damn near give themselves a heart attack trying to not lose face. REALLY good times.