I'd like to see a re-make of that scene in Deer Hunter where Jar Jar is playing Russian Roulette for money. The contrast of such a realistic gritty scene paired with an unbelievable jackass of a character would be great.
The important question is, should only law enforcement be allowed to have light sabers? Those things are dangerous! If a parent were to leave one of those around, their kids could think it was fun to play with and kill or injure each other!
They cannot be used in hunting. They are only good for killing so I think only law enforcement should be able to own them.
That's very funny, that C3PO cerial. It's so bad it almost looks like a parody. Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
You are, of course right. Maybe I'm just becoming a bitter old man and are noticing these things more and finding them offensive, whereas before I could more easily ignore them. For whatever reason, even if it was as bad as when I was a kid and the original Star Wars came out, I find the whole thing disgusting and offensive to my elevated tastes.
Exactly. I'm sick of being taken for a sucker by Lucas. That, and seeing Yoda hawking Pepsi and learning that Darth Vader like Kellog's Corn Flakes just about did it for me.
Oh, that and Jar Jar. My god that was horrible. How any self-respecting fan of science fiction can still watch anything made by the man responsible for Jar Jar is beyond me. I like my SF with an edge, not pussified like Lucas does it.
because a fair amount of (ex)-sex offenders are being treated very unfairly, ie being discharged from jobs, being treated unfairly socially, and being harassed by neighbors.
That would be called 'karma', I believe.
How would you feel if you had to go to every door in your neighborhood, announce at nearly any sort of background check, that 10, 20, 30 years ago you made some huge mistake
I wouldn't. I would "Take the Big Trip" courtesy of my friends, Smith and Wesson. There comes a time when checking out is a good call, and being labeled by an already brutal society a 'sex offender' might be one of those times.
So, thank you for your mindless idiotic jab at the President, but some of us here actually voted for him.
No, you didn't. You voted AGAINST Kerry. And Kerry supporters voted AGAINST Bush. It's the old 'Turd Sandwich v. Giant Douche" flim-flam. So sorry you are one of the marks.
No, it's pronounced "fan-BOIS", filthy American. I wave my naughty bits at your auntie. You mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. I fart in your direction.
When you leave a room full of people, the trashcan in the corner is still there,
You can't prove that, and can only say such a thing because it fits your 'common sense'.
This is the way most people view 'reality'. They think that conciousness is a product of matter. Why that should be 'common sense' and not the opposite (namely, that matter is a product of conciousness) is interesting.
I love the bible. It's wack! Here's my favorite part. Deuteronomy 25:11
If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
People read lots of books, studied, did research, and were generally much more intelligent than the current generations.
I know its fashionable to lament the passing of the educated age, but I doubt it. A hundred years ago? Except for the upper classes, I suspect most people were too busy working in the coal mines or harvesting cotton to become lay scholars. And forget about 300 years ago.
Nice. That pretty much sums it up. The Onion TV Guy is always a good analogy and fits well on this subject.
I just find it tiresome how quickly people will tell people that they really shouldn't find pleasure in things that give them pleasure. The world is brutal enough without people trying to rain on other's parades.
There was this goth looking punk the other day at the mall, wearing this shirt that said, "Your favorite band sucks." And of course, I'm thinking, "Aw, man, STFU".
Yeah, I love these guys who come to realize that they like alternative music, then proceed to piss all over other people's likes, cop a superior attitude, and walk around like they friggin' WROTE the music. "Those poor, unenlightened fools have no taste, listening to that banality. Thankfully, my tastes are elevated and I see how weak what they like is."
That's probably because Christianity has mythology as part of it's foundation, which tends to offend the sensibilities of many people of an uncompromising scientific mindset.
In other words, the topic icon should be a business man outfitted in a PENGUIN SUIT?
In a word, YES! I'd rather see him looking like his traditional, elegant self than looking like a suit-wearing, ass-kissing, BMW driving, outsourcing, Blackberry-toting, power-lunching, suspender wearing, Big Bertha swinging, pro-actively meeting, Hamptons vacationing conformist dick.
Who the hell would buy this crap? $180,000 for this junk?
Somebody with $1,000,180,000 just lying about?
I don't know, I'd certainly give the guy five bucks for a valve that was from an Apollo craft. Would make a nice paperweight. Five bucks is just about all the spare cash I have on hand. For other people (namely, those who are not wage slaves like me), well, they can afford to spend more on trinkets and conversation pieces.
Thank goodness Slashdot doesn't have an icon for Liunx in the military. Knowing Taco, it would probably be Tux wearing an adorable little camoflage outfit, in the same vein as the Tux wearing a suit icon.
Adorable.
Taco, about that Tux in a suit icon as a symbol for Linux in the business realm, Tux himself would not be wearing the suit. He's already got a tuxedo, for chrissakes. It would be the suits who were USING Linux. Linux/Tux himself would not be the one changing himself to suit the situation, it would be the suits.
This could serve good use in showing they FUD around open source as the sham that it is.
Well, I'm no fan of Microsoft, but I don't think this is necessarily an example of hypocrisy.
Microsoft is doing this software AS A PUBLIC SERVICE. All their other stuff is done to further their business interests. It could be that simple. They might just think that public service software is a natural choice for OSS, while capitalistic, profit making software should be closed (in their opinion).
Look at this steaming load of an example of what's broken with the moderation system.
The post WAS interesting. It discussed a theory which many people have never heard about. How many posts on slashdot do that? The ones that do, well, they are INTERESTING.
But this dingus, because he does not agree with the theory, thinks it should be modded down. What a douche.
Oh yeah, I forgot to make my point. Many advocates of the abiogenic theory of petroleum origin say that the reason that estimates of reserves at various fields are always being raised is because the fields are being replenished!
Oil, as any physical entity, is limited in quantity.
Well, it may be limited, but the supply might be hugely greater than has been estimated. Practically without fail, they estimate such and such a field has X number of barrels, and they CONSTANTLY move these number upward.
Could it be that oil is NOT a product of biology, but of simple inorganic chemistry? Some people think so, and they are not kooks.
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I'd like to see a re-make of that scene in Deer Hunter where Jar Jar is playing Russian Roulette for money. The contrast of such a realistic gritty scene paired with an unbelievable jackass of a character would be great.
The important question is, should only law enforcement be allowed to have light sabers? Those things are dangerous! If a parent were to leave one of those around, their kids could think it was fun to play with and kill or injure each other!
They cannot be used in hunting. They are only good for killing so I think only law enforcement should be able to own them.
That's very funny, that C3PO cerial. It's so bad it almost looks like a parody. Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
You are, of course right. Maybe I'm just becoming a bitter old man and are noticing these things more and finding them offensive, whereas before I could more easily ignore them. For whatever reason, even if it was as bad as when I was a kid and the original Star Wars came out, I find the whole thing disgusting and offensive to my elevated tastes.
Exactly. I'm sick of being taken for a sucker by Lucas. That, and seeing Yoda hawking Pepsi and learning that Darth Vader like Kellog's Corn Flakes just about did it for me.
Oh, that and Jar Jar. My god that was horrible. How any self-respecting fan of science fiction can still watch anything made by the man responsible for Jar Jar is beyond me. I like my SF with an edge, not pussified like Lucas does it.
because a fair amount of (ex)-sex offenders are being treated very unfairly, ie being discharged from jobs, being treated unfairly socially, and being harassed by neighbors.
That would be called 'karma', I believe.
How would you feel if you had to go to every door in your neighborhood, announce at nearly any sort of background check, that 10, 20, 30 years ago you made some huge mistake
I wouldn't. I would "Take the Big Trip" courtesy of my friends, Smith and Wesson. There comes a time when checking out is a good call, and being labeled by an already brutal society a 'sex offender' might be one of those times.
So, thank you for your mindless idiotic jab at the President, but some of us here actually voted for him.
No, you didn't. You voted AGAINST Kerry. And Kerry supporters voted AGAINST Bush. It's the old 'Turd Sandwich v. Giant Douche" flim-flam. So sorry you are one of the marks.
No, it's pronounced "fan-BOIS", filthy American. I wave my naughty bits at your auntie. You mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. I fart in your direction.
... always makes me feel cheap and sleazy. Like it's something I shouldn't be doing. One of the many reasons I like shopping at Wal Mart.
Very good. Your world view is not as simple as I had though. My apologies.
When you leave a room full of people, the trashcan in the corner is still there,
You can't prove that, and can only say such a thing because it fits your 'common sense'.
This is the way most people view 'reality'. They think that conciousness is a product of matter. Why that should be 'common sense' and not the opposite (namely, that matter is a product of conciousness) is interesting.
I love the bible. It's wack! Here's my favorite part. Deuteronomy 25:11
If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
People read lots of books, studied, did research, and were generally much more intelligent than the current generations.
I know its fashionable to lament the passing of the educated age, but I doubt it. A hundred years ago? Except for the upper classes, I suspect most people were too busy working in the coal mines or harvesting cotton to become lay scholars. And forget about 300 years ago.
Nice. That pretty much sums it up. The Onion TV Guy is always a good analogy and fits well on this subject.
I just find it tiresome how quickly people will tell people that they really shouldn't find pleasure in things that give them pleasure. The world is brutal enough without people trying to rain on other's parades.
There was this goth looking punk the other day at the mall, wearing this shirt that said, "Your favorite band sucks." And of course, I'm thinking, "Aw, man, STFU".
That is a fine station. Thank's for the reference. Their archives should keep me out of trouble.
Yeah, I love these guys who come to realize that they like alternative music, then proceed to piss all over other people's likes, cop a superior attitude, and walk around like they friggin' WROTE the music. "Those poor, unenlightened fools have no taste, listening to that banality. Thankfully, my tastes are elevated and I see how weak what they like is."
That's probably because Christianity has mythology as part of it's foundation, which tends to offend the sensibilities of many people of an uncompromising scientific mindset.
In other words, the topic icon should be a business man outfitted in a PENGUIN SUIT?
In a word, YES! I'd rather see him looking like his traditional, elegant self than looking like a suit-wearing, ass-kissing, BMW driving, outsourcing, Blackberry-toting, power-lunching, suspender wearing, Big Bertha swinging, pro-actively meeting, Hamptons vacationing conformist dick.
Let your freak flag fly, Tux!
Who the hell would buy this crap? $180,000 for this junk?
Somebody with $1,000,180,000 just lying about?
I don't know, I'd certainly give the guy five bucks for a valve that was from an Apollo craft. Would make a nice paperweight. Five bucks is just about all the spare cash I have on hand. For other people (namely, those who are not wage slaves like me), well, they can afford to spend more on trinkets and conversation pieces.
Didn't he wonder if someday NASA might want their stuff back, and when they found out it was gone, who they would look to first?
Sounds like a typical addict. Never thinking about tomorrow, just thinking about his next fix.
Looking at the guy, I'm guessing some kind of sexual addiction requiring the services of high-priced prostitutes, or maybe gambling.
Thank goodness Slashdot doesn't have an icon for Liunx in the military. Knowing Taco, it would probably be Tux wearing an adorable little camoflage outfit, in the same vein as the Tux wearing a suit icon.
Adorable.
Taco, about that Tux in a suit icon as a symbol for Linux in the business realm, Tux himself would not be wearing the suit. He's already got a tuxedo, for chrissakes. It would be the suits who were USING Linux. Linux/Tux himself would not be the one changing himself to suit the situation, it would be the suits.
It's almost as amazing as the foaming-at-the-mouth hysterics people here go into whenever "IT'S FROM MIIIIIICROOOOSOFT!" is invoked.
This could serve good use in showing they FUD around open source as the sham that it is.
Well, I'm no fan of Microsoft, but I don't think this is necessarily an example of hypocrisy.
Microsoft is doing this software AS A PUBLIC SERVICE. All their other stuff is done to further their business interests. It could be that simple. They might just think that public service software is a natural choice for OSS, while capitalistic, profit making software should be closed (in their opinion).
Look at this steaming load of an example of what's broken with the moderation system.
The post WAS interesting. It discussed a theory which many people have never heard about. How many posts on slashdot do that? The ones that do, well, they are INTERESTING.
But this dingus, because he does not agree with the theory, thinks it should be modded down. What a douche.
Oh yeah, I forgot to make my point. Many advocates of the abiogenic theory of petroleum origin say that the reason that estimates of reserves at various fields are always being raised is because the fields are being replenished!
Oil, as any physical entity, is limited in quantity.
Well, it may be limited, but the supply might be hugely greater than has been estimated. Practically without fail, they estimate such and such a field has X number of barrels, and they CONSTANTLY move these number upward.
Could it be that oil is NOT a product of biology, but of simple inorganic chemistry? Some people think so, and they are not kooks.