Was drunk one night, messing around. On a hunch I popped a CD-R containing MP3's into my DVD player (a nice Panasonic). After a couple of seconds, it displayed the directory structure of the disc, and allowed me to select directories and individual tracks.
I'm sure this is not news to most of you, but it was to me (I got my player as a christmas present, as a refurb without the original packaging).
I am under the impression that this is supposed to be some kind of slur or something. Maybe it's just because I'm not a liberal, but I just don't get it... I don't see any wit in it at all. "Dumbya", sure, that's kind of funny. "Commander in Thief". OK, I can see that. But "Shrub"?
Could someone help me out here? Why is this such a popular thing to call Bush? What, is 'Shrub' somehow more pejorative than 'Bush'?
I know that this is enough to make me never again touch a Diebold ATM if I can help it
Relax. Their money machines are rock-solid. After all, they handle things of importance, namely, money, unlike their voting machines, which handle only illusions.
Because then you'd have scenarios like...... on "Win Ben Stein's Money" (another US game show, you limey bastards) if you answer a question with "What is" or "Who was", Ben makes you wear a dunce hat.
I'm not. I really don't give a flying flip WHAT Kerry would have done. All I'm saying is that an airplane flying into the apex and culmination of American Civiliaziton, even if it looked like an accident at the time, is just a TAD bit more important than reading "My Little Pony" to a bunch of snot-noses, even for seven minutes. It shows a tremendous, stupifying lack of common sense, and a general unfitness to be Commander in Chief, and the bum should have been fired just for that. I don't CARE who would be next (be it Kerry, or Cheyney, or Bozo the Frickin' Clown for that matter) all I'm saying is Bush is an embarassment to the military, has no common sense, and, it seems to me from the way he talks and behaves, suffers from alcohol abuse induced brain damage.
But when he harps on the 7 minutes it took Bush to leave from his book-reading session I realized how shameful Moore truly is. Enough armchair quarterbacking
I think Moore should have pounded Bush even MORE than he did for Bush sitting on his ass in front of grade schoolers looking like a jackass. The man is the COMMANDER IN CHIEF of the ARMED FORCES, not a goddamned SCHOOLMARM. He should be impeached just for that! Just for not leaving the room, graciously, like any of his generals would. The man is a disgrace to the armed services and a fool, and he showed it that day. That episode was deriliction of duty, and had any general on the front lines had acted as irresponsibly as that, he would have been court martialed.
Oh, and by the way, your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries. I fart in your general direction. I wave my naughty bits at your auntie.
How would you like to SUCK MY BALLS? Do it, beyatch! NOW!
This is a personal gift to you. Mod me down. I'm pretty much maxed out as far as karma goes, and were you to actually put my plussie in jeopardy, well, we all know how easy karma is to come by. So go ahead, bitch, you know you want to. Mod me down.
I'm going to wonder out loud why people keep pretending to believe that humanity sucks so much and should just wipe itself out already.
Because, what if awaits after death is worse? What if there is an afterlife, a judgemental afterlife.
It is possible that people fear death so much because, instinctively, they have experienced it before (a la 'reincartaion) and really REALLY are not looking forward to it again, intuitivly. Just something to think about.
Never heard of her. Actually, I read alot of Pirsig, e.g.
"The mythos. The mythos is insane." - Robert Pirsig
or
"Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason... is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is... emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty." - Robert Pirsig
I think that's great. The sooner kids realize how f***ed up the American ethos is, and that the American mythos is in fact insane, the sooner they'll get to working on going beyond it. Instead of the little conformists becoming adult conformists, perhaps the brutality of their peers will cause them to begin to question societal norms, and begin to think for themselves.
I was taunted brutally as a kid, and I consider it a blessing. I am a much better man because of it.
Dude, you're spitting into the wind with these bozo's and are wasting your time. They're really very Victorian in their attitudes, posturing and harrumphing about how people should behave like Socrates or Aristotle and make maximal usage out of the resources bequothed to them. I'll tell you what... if I had to live paycheck to paycheck and if the chances of staying off the street depended on the chances my car would start, I'd feel like a drink and a bucket of KFC myself.
Meanwhile, these chuckleheads spouting off self-righteously probably behave, on their time off, like frat boys on a Friday night, but they demand that poor people live like saints. These shit-for-brains have not a whit of wisdom.
Yeah, ever wondered why some faces of the suspects were blurred out, and not others?
I believe they have to blur out faces, unless the party is found guilty, pleads guilty, or signs a waiver. In other words, if you see a face, he's guilty, or signed a waiver.
I can't stand the guy. Check out this steaming load if you havn't had the displeasure of seeing his mug. He stands for, and looks like, everything I am against. It is too bad that steaming load in Google points to William Shatner (understandable). It would be great if steaming load were to point to that guy. I mean, look at him. Breathing through his mouth. What a frat boy. If anyone was worried about what SCO was doing,and how it pertains to Linux, have no fear, because it really is that simple. Darl is a shithead and a frat boy and a simpleton. He only got where he was because he starches his shirts, golfs, knows how to glad hand and back slap, laugh disingenuously, and do all those other things required of executives in America.
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Carmack needs to get over it, and stop pissing and moaning. He's dealing in a highly piratable medium. That's a fact. There's not a whole lot you can do about software piracy. That's another fact. If you know those facts and choose to go into that business, you can't then go about boo-hooing how unfair it is. It's like becoming a fire eater and then bitching and moaning, "Oh, that fire is so HOT! Something has to be done!"
Carmack, if the situation is so goddamned untenable, take your baseball and go the fuck home .
Rolling Stone can byte me. I stopped reading that rag when they put a yellow ribbon on the cover during the Gulf War. All it is is a pop music magazine anymore.
I mean, its bad enough that people speak like that, but to type it?
Why is it bad that people talk like that?
People talk differently depending on their upbringing and where they live. Would you have everyone talk like William F. Buckly? Personally, I think it's great that Philadelphians talk like that, and that Cajuns talk like they do, and that Minnesotans talk the way they do, Canadians, Bostonites, etc. etc.
This fetish for everyone speaking like an English professor is really something to be avoided. Remember, the language is an evolving thing. Spellings, pronounciations, etc, all evolve over time, and these differences add spice to life.
It really is rather bigoted and ignorant to mock the way other people speak. I'd really take thet time to examine this tendency to laugh at other people's ways of speech, because it points to something important.
Hey, man. You used the word 'extreme' as a pejorative. Lots of people do, and I want to know why, so help a brother out and give me a clue.
Would you rather date an EXTREMELY pretty girl, or a MODERATLY pretty girl?
Is it better for a polititian to be EXTREMELY honest, or just MODERATLY honest?
Is it better to be EXTREMELY healthy, or MODERATLY healthy?
See what I'm saying?
Why is EXTREMIST a pejorative? I guess it is used by people who disagree with the subject, and have no hope of finding a middle ground. Personally, I hope I NEVER become 'moderatly' anything, for that indicates mediocrity and a lack of principles to me.
People who can't stand a person who has actual principles and lives a credo will call him 'EXTREME'. People who hurl that 'slur' tend to be wishy-washy, in my observation.
Personally, I advocate extremism, or nothing at all, because any belief worth having is worth having EXTREMELY.
But boxen is the right word. When was the last time you saw a herd of boxes?
Or a herd of boxen, for that matter:)
My Webster's Unabridged has the plural of ox being oxen, but the plural of box being boxes. English grammar; go figure.
I just find 'boxen' annoying. Don't know why, I just do. That's why I love Privoxy... it's just the ticket for the excessivly judgemental, such as myself.
Use Privoxy (privoxy.com). It can use regexps to modify HTML coming to your browser (as well as block ads, pop-ups, and other assorted web smegma).
I've told Privoxy to change 'rediculous' to it's proper spelling. As well as other annoyances, like 'boxen' to 'boxes', 'Micro$oft' and varitions to someting less juvenile, 'u' to 'you', etc. etc.
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Was drunk one night, messing around. On a hunch I popped a CD-R containing MP3's into my DVD player (a nice Panasonic). After a couple of seconds, it displayed the directory structure of the disc, and allowed me to select directories and individual tracks.
I'm sure this is not news to most of you, but it was to me (I got my player as a christmas present, as a refurb without the original packaging).
The Shrub
I am under the impression that this is supposed to be some kind of slur or something. Maybe it's just because I'm not a liberal, but I just don't get it... I don't see any wit in it at all. "Dumbya", sure, that's kind of funny. "Commander in Thief". OK, I can see that. But "Shrub"?
Could someone help me out here? Why is this such a popular thing to call Bush? What, is 'Shrub' somehow more pejorative than 'Bush'?
I know that this is enough to make me never again touch a Diebold ATM if I can help it
Relax. Their money machines are rock-solid. After all, they handle things of importance, namely, money, unlike their voting machines, which handle only illusions.
Copies of Max Headroom, Alf cartoons, Animaniacs, coverage of Gulf War, etc. all will go when the VHS tapes they are on finally decay.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Sounds like a feature to me.
Because then you'd have scenarios like ... ... on "Win Ben Stein's Money" (another US game show, you limey bastards) if you answer a question with "What is" or "Who was", Ben makes you wear a dunce hat.
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem.
- Cmdr. Taco, from the FAQ
Yes, I'm sure Kerry says he would have done
I'm not. I really don't give a flying flip WHAT Kerry would have done. All I'm saying is that an airplane flying into the apex and culmination of American Civiliaziton, even if it looked like an accident at the time, is just a TAD bit more important than reading "My Little Pony" to a bunch of snot-noses, even for seven minutes. It shows a tremendous, stupifying lack of common sense, and a general unfitness to be Commander in Chief, and the bum should have been fired just for that. I don't CARE who would be next (be it Kerry, or Cheyney, or Bozo the Frickin' Clown for that matter) all I'm saying is Bush is an embarassment to the military, has no common sense, and, it seems to me from the way he talks and behaves, suffers from alcohol abuse induced brain damage.
But when he harps on the 7 minutes it took Bush to leave from his book-reading session I realized how shameful Moore truly is. Enough armchair quarterbacking
I think Moore should have pounded Bush even MORE than he did for Bush sitting on his ass in front of grade schoolers looking like a jackass. The man is the COMMANDER IN CHIEF of the ARMED FORCES, not a goddamned SCHOOLMARM. He should be impeached just for that! Just for not leaving the room, graciously, like any of his generals would. The man is a disgrace to the armed services and a fool, and he showed it that day. That episode was deriliction of duty, and had any general on the front lines had acted as irresponsibly as that, he would have been court martialed.
That was a troll. Learn the difference.
Oh, and by the way, your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries. I fart in your general direction. I wave my naughty bits at your auntie.
This is:
How would you like to SUCK MY BALLS? Do it, beyatch! NOW!
This is a personal gift to you. Mod me down. I'm pretty much maxed out as far as karma goes, and were you to actually put my plussie in jeopardy, well, we all know how easy karma is to come by. So go ahead, bitch, you know you want to. Mod me down.
I'm going to wonder out loud why people keep pretending to believe that humanity sucks so much and should just wipe itself out already.
Because, what if awaits after death is worse? What if there is an afterlife, a judgemental afterlife.
It is possible that people fear death so much because, instinctively, they have experienced it before (a la 'reincartaion) and really REALLY are not looking forward to it again, intuitivly. Just something to think about.
Never heard of her. Actually, I read alot of Pirsig, e.g.
"The mythos. The mythos is insane." - Robert Pirsig
or
"Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason... is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is... emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty." - Robert Pirsig
"Ethos" and "Mythos" by definition are blanket statements.
However, that doesn't make me (or you) better than anyone else.
Yes, it does. Some people's thought patterns are more evolved than others, and they are, in fact, better than others.
This idea of 'everyone is equal' is a great way to run a country, but it is a lousy way to pick ones friends and acquaintences.
Hey, Dipstick, I know that. Re-read that sentence. I used those words with precision and intention.
I think that's great. The sooner kids realize how f***ed up the American ethos is, and that the American mythos is in fact insane, the sooner they'll get to working on going beyond it. Instead of the little conformists becoming adult conformists, perhaps the brutality of their peers will cause them to begin to question societal norms, and begin to think for themselves.
I was taunted brutally as a kid, and I consider it a blessing. I am a much better man because of it.
Dude, you're spitting into the wind with these bozo's and are wasting your time. They're really very Victorian in their attitudes, posturing and harrumphing about how people should behave like Socrates or Aristotle and make maximal usage out of the resources bequothed to them. I'll tell you what... if I had to live paycheck to paycheck and if the chances of staying off the street depended on the chances my car would start, I'd feel like a drink and a bucket of KFC myself.
Meanwhile, these chuckleheads spouting off self-righteously probably behave, on their time off, like frat boys on a Friday night, but they demand that poor people live like saints. These shit-for-brains have not a whit of wisdom.
Thanks for listening. Ahhhh... I feel better now.
Yeah, ever wondered why some faces of the suspects were blurred out, and not others?
I believe they have to blur out faces, unless the party is found guilty, pleads guilty, or signs a waiver. In other words, if you see a face, he's guilty, or signed a waiver.
I can't stand the guy. Check out this steaming load if you havn't had the displeasure of seeing his mug. He stands for, and looks like, everything I am against. It is too bad that steaming load in Google points to William Shatner (understandable). It would be great if steaming load were to point to that guy. I mean, look at him. Breathing through his mouth. What a frat boy. If anyone was worried about what SCO was doing,and how it pertains to Linux, have no fear, because it really is that simple. Darl is a shithead and a frat boy and a simpleton. He only got where he was because he starches his shirts, golfs, knows how to glad hand and back slap, laugh disingenuously, and do all those other things required of executives in America.
Carmack needs to get over it, and stop pissing and moaning. He's dealing in a highly piratable medium. That's a fact. There's not a whole lot you can do about software piracy. That's another fact. If you know those facts and choose to go into that business, you can't then go about boo-hooing how unfair it is. It's like becoming a fire eater and then bitching and moaning, "Oh, that fire is so HOT! Something has to be done!"
Carmack, if the situation is so goddamned untenable, take your baseball and go the fuck home .
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone can byte me. I stopped reading that rag when they put a yellow ribbon on the cover during the Gulf War. All it is is a pop music magazine anymore.
I mean, its bad enough that people speak like that, but to type it?
Why is it bad that people talk like that?
People talk differently depending on their upbringing and where they live. Would you have everyone talk like William F. Buckly? Personally, I think it's great that Philadelphians talk like that, and that Cajuns talk like they do, and that Minnesotans talk the way they do, Canadians, Bostonites, etc. etc.
This fetish for everyone speaking like an English professor is really something to be avoided. Remember, the language is an evolving thing. Spellings, pronounciations, etc, all evolve over time, and these differences add spice to life.
It really is rather bigoted and ignorant to mock the way other people speak. I'd really take thet time to examine this tendency to laugh at other people's ways of speech, because it points to something important.
extremist conservative agenda.
Hey, man. You used the word 'extreme' as a pejorative. Lots of people do, and I want to know why, so help a brother out and give me a clue.
Would you rather date an EXTREMELY pretty girl, or a MODERATLY pretty girl?
Is it better for a polititian to be EXTREMELY honest, or just MODERATLY honest?
Is it better to be EXTREMELY healthy, or MODERATLY healthy?
See what I'm saying?
Why is EXTREMIST a pejorative? I guess it is used by people who disagree with the subject, and have no hope of finding a middle ground. Personally, I hope I NEVER become 'moderatly' anything, for that indicates mediocrity and a lack of principles to me.
People who can't stand a person who has actual principles and lives a credo will call him 'EXTREME'. People who hurl that 'slur' tend to be wishy-washy, in my observation.
Personally, I advocate extremism, or nothing at all, because any belief worth having is worth having EXTREMELY.
But boxen is the right word. When was the last time you saw a herd of boxes?
:)
Or a herd of boxen, for that matter
My Webster's Unabridged has the plural of ox being oxen, but the plural of box being boxes. English grammar; go figure.
I just find 'boxen' annoying. Don't know why, I just do. That's why I love Privoxy... it's just the ticket for the excessivly judgemental, such as myself.
Use Privoxy (privoxy.com). It can use regexps to modify HTML coming to your browser (as well as block ads, pop-ups, and other assorted web smegma).
I've told Privoxy to change 'rediculous' to it's proper spelling. As well as other annoyances, like 'boxen' to 'boxes', 'Micro$oft' and varitions to someting less juvenile, 'u' to 'you', etc. etc.
Makes reading Slashdot much less annoying.