Yeah, but you had non-Lynne-Cheyneyified books back then. Without internet, all they're going to come out with is that the Vietnamese torpedoed the Maddox at Tonkin and George Washington had a tragic neurological disease that prevented him from lying.
Yeah, well, considering how well Thoreau's movement to kick Texas out of the country has gone recently, excuse me if I stick with the guys who were at least successful enough to warrant being shot.
Thoreau's civil disobedience is to King's and Ghandi's what running up to the president and kicking him in the nuts is to a petition. Thoreau mostly just quit paying taxes whenever the feds did something to piss him off. It wasn't so much about changing anything as it was getting back at the bastards as best he could. Not that his version's completely without merit, but Thoreau was more of a half-naked survivalist poet than a political leader. A good poet, sure, but not somebody you want advising your anti-DMCA campaign. You'd probably just end up with flaming tree branches jammed through your monitor.
And you're just an idiot. Since you need MANY lira to get a dollar, you know, the DOLLAR is worth MORE. And since you need more than a dollar to get a euro, the euro is worth more. What the fuck do you think they base the worth of currency on? How pretty the color schemes are?
Does anybody know what, exactly, the penalty would be for recieving copyrighted material? I mean, it's not copyright infringement, that's distributing the copies. What's buying the pirated DVD? That's what downloading is. Uploading is distribution, clearly, but what's buying the DVD? Is there a crime there? What's it called?
That's because distributing copies is the crime, not receiving them. I'm sure you could charge downloaders pretty easily, since they're making copies within their own computer and you could make some ridiculous argument that they're distributing to themselves, but in theory, the FBI warning warns you about giving out copies, not that they'll come stomp your face off if you bought a Hong Kong rip down in Chinatown.
This isn't theft, it's copyright infringement. It's copyright infringement to compete with Disney's monopoly on the distribution of The Lion King. That's their copy right, which nobody else has. It's not copyright infringement to be distributed to by someone in violation of that monopoly. That would be something like "reciept of illegaly copied material" or "obstruction of monopoly" of some shit like that, which unless I'm severely behind on things, isn't illegal yet.
He probably wasn't gay. The window people were claiming he might have been sleeping with guys was so short (I think it was something like one trip to California that all of it came from) that even if the rumors were true, he apparently didn't enjoy it very much.
He was however, an asshole in addition to being schizophrenic. He spent way more time as the jerk getting slapped in the bar than the adorable little disoriented man playing chess on the porch. That's what we're talking about when we say "eccentric". We're trying to politely call them fucking assholes.
They have all kinds of stories about Newton where somebody makes a joke, and he takes it completely literally, deconstructs everything, and then calls whoever told it an idiot for wasting his time like that. Not somebody you'd want teaching, or really anything except sitting in a room alone. Apparently, however, he was perfectly capable of faking a good personality when he was talking to important people, so that would probably be enough to do well, so long as he didn't get stuck at a school where they forced him to teach. Not a guy that lends himself well to productive office hours, I'd expect.
Do you sell those penis-bishops? I'd be interested in one to stick over my fireplace. Nothing I have fits there, but now that I think about it, a good phallic icon would probably be just the trick.
Georgy was tragically mauled by Arnold supporters after she tapped one of them in the side of the head with her book when they wouldn't move to the other side of the stage on cue.
She reportedly begged the first paramedics to tell animal control officers to put the half-dozen 13-year old boys to sleep as soon as possible, because "they're such fucking dorks, God."
Spokesmen for the Arnold campaign explained that "Arnoold votahs are intehnsely terrytoryal, and if one of their persanal spahces is compramahsed, they'll attack the intruder like abooncha gohdam pyrahhnas! Hooo! Looka the teeth oon thaone!"
Art Bell discounts the Schwarzenegger campaign's explaination, and suspects the boys may be under the control of Libertarian Party satellites launched from their secret clubhouse deep in the woodlands of New Hampshire.
After the break: Could Matt Drudge look any more like a retarded fisherman in that damn hat of his? Jesus, Matt. They have gay guys now that can help you with that.
It's tough to look past the fact that this guy's actually named "Garth" but he doesn't look that bad. Googling for him got me the web site for whatever "Hammer and Tongs" is.
The best thing I see is they seem to be big on actually making the attempt to not use CG in every single goddamn situation where they could squeeze some in. There might be a small chance that they might actually just make a Guide instead of coming up with some shitty handheld holodeck thing that projects the 7up guy to narrate for you.
Underscore is definately in on it. They're not accepting customers, they're in an "exclusive partnership with MetaCortex" and you use "M-Core Control Panel" to run your account.
However, I am wondering if this is really guerulla marketing or just some guy with way, way, too much time. All these domains were registered by domainsbyproxy.com, not under the name MetaCortex or anything, and AI was really blatant about what was real and what wasn't. They never did anything like linking to the real webmin.com (underscore says it's the admin software for their servers at the "Tier-1 MetaCortex MetaCenter outside of Redland, WA.") or using real sofware logos. "Do not use the Windows logo on or in connection with products, packaging, manuals, promotional/advertising materials, or Web sites for any purpose except pursuant to an express written trademark license from Microsoft." Oops.
If this is Warner Bros, they've really kicked it up a notch above AI and Perfect Dark.
They're all just dream-characters in Trinity's head, but luckily she'll figure that out before they execute her for murdering those cops back at the beginning, and then the judge will stand up, and start clapping, and then the mean chearleader chick will clap too, but then Agent Smith will come out from behind the door, and kill them all, and then he'll kill the cameraman, and it'll turn out that this was a secret documentary found in a cave in the Yucatan, and that Smith was killed thousands of years ago by Mayan warriors that have been prophesized to return when the world needs them most, and then they'll show the last egg Smith laid that they forgot to set fire to shake, and then it'll all dissolve into Matrix code again, and it'll zoom out to some guy who's been writing the whole thing as a fanfic on some website, for this other movie, that's on the TV behind him, but it turns out he's the one in the movie, and they're the real world watching him, but then one of them will point to the audience, and say "Let's watch THIS movie now!!!!" and it'll go DUUM DUM DUUUUUUM!!! and say "THE END?" but then the Mayans will smash through the "THE END?" screen like the Kool Aid man, and it'll make that record player "bzzooop" noise, and then the crappy rave music will start again, and all the Mayans will dance and Janet Reno will be there AND ITLL BE THE BESST ENDING EVA!!!
Ooops, I meant to say ***SPOILERS!!!***!! Just pretend you're surprised when they get to that part.
Wasn't it the West Wing that had that bit about people using bizzare words that no one else ever heard of? "Oh, wait, maybe my mom's the only one who ever says that."
See, this is why I never take anything you people say about the Times seriously. You're bitching about the editorial page, for fuck's sake. Why do you care what the editors want so long as they convey some useful information? And they do. Better than anybody else, anyway. Seriously, if you have an better alternative I'd like to hear it. Then tell me how well they're been covering Barghouti's trial.
I'm not even that much of a fan of the Times. I'd like to see them quit trying to write drama and stick to what they're good at, but I still recognize that they're the best overall news source I have access to at this point, even with the crippling schizophrenia they're apparently been suffering from the last few years.
No, he's exactly right. 25 or so years ago, the FDA decided perscription meds could be advertized on TV, and since then, they haven't cured shit.
The risk of having your treatment supplanted by a new advancement used to be an issue, but think about it. Do you think Viagra's the only impotence treatment they've come out with? You think everybody else just spent 10 years sitting there watching Pfizer rake it in? Obviously not, but Viagra has the brand recognition, so they can't get a shoulder in anywhere. The demand is coming from the patient now, not the doctor. The doctor would replace Viagra with something else pretty quickly, but the patient is ignorant of what any improvements might mean. All he knows is that the guy from that SNL sketch said the little blue ones were best, and he's not about to let some pointy-headed "doctor" tell him otherwise. And I'm not even exaggerating.
The difference between bacteria and virii is crap too. Polio's a virus. When was the last time you heard about somebody with polio? And on the other hand, we've been "so close" to curing leprosy, fucking leprosy, for years now. Don't tell me that's more work to cure than a floppy dick. Malaria? Chagas? River blindness? We can fight stomach acid, cholesterol buildups, and hair loss and we can't come up with something to effectively stop fucking worms from crawling into somebody's eyeballs?
Drug companies go where the money is, and gullible hypochondriacs buy more drugs than doctors, no matter how many free pens you hand out. So, they take the doctors out of the loop and sell straight to the healthiest morons they can find.
Except for when you do have a rare, obscure condition, and every doctor you go to assures you that it's just an allergy, right up until you drop dead with blood pouring out of your ass.
The problem with "could care less" is with the other side being so preemptive.
"So, what do you think about this idea..." "I could care less." "Well fuck you then!"
vs.
"So, what do you think about this idea..." "I could care less." "Ok, well, we could take the..." "Now I couldn't care less." "Aha! Delightful! Our command of the English language is surely impressive, you stupid fucker!"
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but you had non-Lynne-Cheyneyified books back then. Without internet, all they're going to come out with is that the Vietnamese torpedoed the Maddox at Tonkin and George Washington had a tragic neurological disease that prevented him from lying.
Shit, for a second I thought that said titification. Not sure what that would be, but I think I'd enjoy it.
Yeah, well, considering how well Thoreau's movement to kick Texas out of the country has gone recently, excuse me if I stick with the guys who were at least successful enough to warrant being shot.
Thoreau's civil disobedience is to King's and Ghandi's what running up to the president and kicking him in the nuts is to a petition. Thoreau mostly just quit paying taxes whenever the feds did something to piss him off. It wasn't so much about changing anything as it was getting back at the bastards as best he could. Not that his version's completely without merit, but Thoreau was more of a half-naked survivalist poet than a political leader. A good poet, sure, but not somebody you want advising your anti-DMCA campaign. You'd probably just end up with flaming tree branches jammed through your monitor.
And you're just an idiot. Since you need MANY lira to get a dollar, you know, the DOLLAR is worth MORE. And since you need more than a dollar to get a euro, the euro is worth more. What the fuck do you think they base the worth of currency on? How pretty the color schemes are?
Does anybody know what, exactly, the penalty would be for recieving copyrighted material? I mean, it's not copyright infringement, that's distributing the copies. What's buying the pirated DVD? That's what downloading is. Uploading is distribution, clearly, but what's buying the DVD? Is there a crime there? What's it called?
That's because distributing copies is the crime, not receiving them. I'm sure you could charge downloaders pretty easily, since they're making copies within their own computer and you could make some ridiculous argument that they're distributing to themselves, but in theory, the FBI warning warns you about giving out copies, not that they'll come stomp your face off if you bought a Hong Kong rip down in Chinatown.
This isn't theft, it's copyright infringement. It's copyright infringement to compete with Disney's monopoly on the distribution of The Lion King. That's their copy right, which nobody else has. It's not copyright infringement to be distributed to by someone in violation of that monopoly. That would be something like "reciept of illegaly copied material" or "obstruction of monopoly" of some shit like that, which unless I'm severely behind on things, isn't illegal yet.
5 words: Fat suit stuffed with ham.
In Austrian California, instead of movie, you watch 10 hour ad for Planet Hollywood! What a country!
Newton-RAAAAAA!
He probably wasn't gay. The window people were claiming he might have been sleeping with guys was so short (I think it was something like one trip to California that all of it came from) that even if the rumors were true, he apparently didn't enjoy it very much.
He was however, an asshole in addition to being schizophrenic. He spent way more time as the jerk getting slapped in the bar than the adorable little disoriented man playing chess on the porch. That's what we're talking about when we say "eccentric". We're trying to politely call them fucking assholes.
They have all kinds of stories about Newton where somebody makes a joke, and he takes it completely literally, deconstructs everything, and then calls whoever told it an idiot for wasting his time like that. Not somebody you'd want teaching, or really anything except sitting in a room alone. Apparently, however, he was perfectly capable of faking a good personality when he was talking to important people, so that would probably be enough to do well, so long as he didn't get stuck at a school where they forced him to teach. Not a guy that lends himself well to productive office hours, I'd expect.
Do you sell those penis-bishops? I'd be interested in one to stick over my fireplace. Nothing I have fits there, but now that I think about it, a good phallic icon would probably be just the trick.
Georgy was tragically mauled by Arnold supporters after she tapped one of them in the side of the head with her book when they wouldn't move to the other side of the stage on cue.
She reportedly begged the first paramedics to tell animal control officers to put the half-dozen 13-year old boys to sleep as soon as possible, because "they're such fucking dorks, God."
Spokesmen for the Arnold campaign explained that "Arnoold votahs are intehnsely terrytoryal, and if one of their persanal spahces is compramahsed, they'll attack the intruder like abooncha gohdam pyrahhnas! Hooo! Looka the teeth oon thaone!"
Art Bell discounts the Schwarzenegger campaign's explaination, and suspects the boys may be under the control of Libertarian Party satellites launched from their secret clubhouse deep in the woodlands of New Hampshire.
In other news, Yassir Arafat dropped dead. But he's better now.
After the break: Could Matt Drudge look any more like a retarded fisherman in that damn hat of his? Jesus, Matt. They have gay guys now that can help you with that.
4:00PM tomorrow.
And it's only a crime if you get caught.
No.
The best thing I see is they seem to be big on actually making the attempt to not use CG in every single goddamn situation where they could squeeze some in. There might be a small chance that they might actually just make a Guide instead of coming up with some shitty handheld holodeck thing that projects the 7up guy to narrate for you.
Underscore is definately in on it. They're not accepting customers, they're in an "exclusive partnership with MetaCortex" and you use "M-Core Control Panel" to run your account.
However, I am wondering if this is really guerulla marketing or just some guy with way, way, too much time. All these domains were registered by domainsbyproxy.com, not under the name MetaCortex or anything, and AI was really blatant about what was real and what wasn't. They never did anything like linking to the real webmin.com (underscore says it's the admin software for their servers at the "Tier-1 MetaCortex MetaCenter outside of Redland, WA.") or using real sofware logos. "Do not use the Windows logo on or in connection with products, packaging, manuals, promotional/advertising materials, or Web sites for any purpose except pursuant to an express written trademark license from Microsoft." Oops.
If this is Warner Bros, they've really kicked it up a notch above AI and Perfect Dark.
They're all just dream-characters in Trinity's head, but luckily she'll figure that out before they execute her for murdering those cops back at the beginning, and then the judge will stand up, and start clapping, and then the mean chearleader chick will clap too, but then Agent Smith will come out from behind the door, and kill them all, and then he'll kill the cameraman, and it'll turn out that this was a secret documentary found in a cave in the Yucatan, and that Smith was killed thousands of years ago by Mayan warriors that have been prophesized to return when the world needs them most, and then they'll show the last egg Smith laid that they forgot to set fire to shake, and then it'll all dissolve into Matrix code again, and it'll zoom out to some guy who's been writing the whole thing as a fanfic on some website, for this other movie, that's on the TV behind him, but it turns out he's the one in the movie, and they're the real world watching him, but then one of them will point to the audience, and say "Let's watch THIS movie now!!!!" and it'll go DUUM DUM DUUUUUUM!!! and say "THE END?" but then the Mayans will smash through the "THE END?" screen like the Kool Aid man, and it'll make that record player "bzzooop" noise, and then the crappy rave music will start again, and all the Mayans will dance and Janet Reno will be there AND ITLL BE THE BESST ENDING EVA!!!
Ooops, I meant to say ***SPOILERS!!!***!! Just pretend you're surprised when they get to that part.
It's pretentious bastard speak for that thing in MS Office where it makes the menu items you use more often easier to get to.
Hey, Bhudda doesn't appreciate spelling nazis, buddy.
I think it's a lot like a kerfuffle.
Wasn't it the West Wing that had that bit about people using bizzare words that no one else ever heard of? "Oh, wait, maybe my mom's the only one who ever says that."
See, this is why I never take anything you people say about the Times seriously. You're bitching about the editorial page, for fuck's sake. Why do you care what the editors want so long as they convey some useful information? And they do. Better than anybody else, anyway. Seriously, if you have an better alternative I'd like to hear it. Then tell me how well they're been covering Barghouti's trial.
I'm not even that much of a fan of the Times. I'd like to see them quit trying to write drama and stick to what they're good at, but I still recognize that they're the best overall news source I have access to at this point, even with the crippling schizophrenia they're apparently been suffering from the last few years.
No, he's exactly right. 25 or so years ago, the FDA decided perscription meds could be advertized on TV, and since then, they haven't cured shit.
The risk of having your treatment supplanted by a new advancement used to be an issue, but think about it. Do you think Viagra's the only impotence treatment they've come out with? You think everybody else just spent 10 years sitting there watching Pfizer rake it in? Obviously not, but Viagra has the brand recognition, so they can't get a shoulder in anywhere. The demand is coming from the patient now, not the doctor. The doctor would replace Viagra with something else pretty quickly, but the patient is ignorant of what any improvements might mean. All he knows is that the guy from that SNL sketch said the little blue ones were best, and he's not about to let some pointy-headed "doctor" tell him otherwise. And I'm not even exaggerating.
The difference between bacteria and virii is crap too. Polio's a virus. When was the last time you heard about somebody with polio? And on the other hand, we've been "so close" to curing leprosy, fucking leprosy, for years now. Don't tell me that's more work to cure than a floppy dick. Malaria? Chagas? River blindness? We can fight stomach acid, cholesterol buildups, and hair loss and we can't come up with something to effectively stop fucking worms from crawling into somebody's eyeballs?
Drug companies go where the money is, and gullible hypochondriacs buy more drugs than doctors, no matter how many free pens you hand out. So, they take the doctors out of the loop and sell straight to the healthiest morons they can find.
Except for when you do have a rare, obscure condition, and every doctor you go to assures you that it's just an allergy, right up until you drop dead with blood pouring out of your ass.
The problem with "could care less" is with the other side being so preemptive.
"So, what do you think about this idea..."
"I could care less."
"Well fuck you then!"
vs.
"So, what do you think about this idea..."
"I could care less."
"Ok, well, we could take the..."
"Now I couldn't care less."
"Aha! Delightful! Our command of the English language is surely impressive, you stupid fucker!"