Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind. -Jack Handey
Where are all these people who can't program a VCR? I honestly have never met someone who couldn't at least record a single show successfully. I'll accept that my mom might be unusual in that she has a chain of 3 VCR's and about 7 incompatible stereo components from different eras all hooked up to eachother, but friends, family, they might not be able to record on 2 VCR's at once but they can at least handle a few programed shows and maybe a game console or two. Even my grandmother can at least tape some golf every now and then. I know people who just say "I can't get my VCR to stop flashing 12! Tee-hee-hee!" as an exadgurated demonstration of their non-geekiness, but no one who honestly couldn't do it if they tried.
All right. That's my bitch for this month. I'll leave you to your discussion.
I rented the fancy 2 disk Fight Club on DVD. Not only had someone used the second disk as a coaster, but they'd coastered something that burned a melted ring into the disk surface. And I'm not talking about the label side.
Blockbuster's response: "Well... Uhh... Does it play?"
Also, rather than "keep sentence n related to sentence n-1", you might try using "keep each sentance related to the previous one" instead. It might make your writing clearer to those of us who are not as "133+" as you are.
Re:electrocution? I don't think so.
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In the actual book, rather than the () summary, the idea was that Nash would take the bulb out of a bowl-shaped fixture and fill the bowl with water, immersing the contact. Hapless victim #1 comes along and, noticing no light after flipping the switch, tries to change the lightbulb. He sticks his hand in the water and gets zapped.
Very nasty. Fortunately, he never managed to catch anyone.
Good thing MY subculture will never go mainstream.
W00! Shout-out to the human sacrifice subculture! Forever fringe! Yeah!
Re:I resent the underlying sexism of your comment.
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But I will agree that my waist is becoming a problem. However that has nothing to do with my SUV.
I'm not sure about your waist, but it's well known that the human ass, like the goldfish, has a tendency to expand to fill its environment.
And I can't remember who I stole this joke from.
That's a good idea.
I'd pay to see Jedi mowing down endless hordes of Nsync or *NSYNC or *%^NsYnC%@# or whatever they're called.
"Strange this is. Human they appear, but sense them in the Force I can not. As if manufactured, they were, hmmmmmmmmm?
"So we won't sacrifice our PG rating if we kill them?"
*fwizzzzzz* *sizzzzz-fummmmmmmm*
"Master Obi-Wan! There's... too many of them!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Get it off me! Get it off me!"
"Aaaaaah! Can't... bear... to look... but... can't... look away... must... turn... to dark side... to... reassert... masculinity..."
That's right. He isn't really acomplishing anything. But he is very likely having a great deal of fun. The guy just feels the need to disguise that to some extent.
It's fun to screw with people. Try it some time. Go down to the Bose store, and ask that chick if she wants to make out on that leather couch. Or, if you're old enough to make that inapropriate, try screaming "BACK THAT ASS UP!!!" to the next Chevy Suburban you see backing out of a parking space.
Almost anything will work. It's fun. Try it.
If you're lucky, maybe she'll accept (although, considering the forum...) or maybe the SUV will pump the brakes and make the back end bounce.
The people in the video were pretty much just laughing at him. It was fun for everybody. And maybe they got some of his message in with it, but who really gives a fuck?
If you want, you can double-check their handiwork from this page which was taken from the books.
Not to presume anything, but the preparation for this might have been a copy-paste job.
Even if it was, it's still more work than I'd do, and the execution deserves some serious props. It was fucking freezing out there on monday. And the wind up there must have been brutal. Hope they still have all their fingers.
Re:EULAs for console games are printed ON the box
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Funny. I'm exactly the opposite. I can pick up a theory from just an example or two (at least the concept, if not memorizing formulas), but I'll tell you 76 + 23 is 93 half the time. Led to the same result. At least until I got to high school, where the concept was the point. It's like math dislexia or something. Pretty easy to catch most of the time, but I was always too lazy too check tests. Of course, now, I get to have an 89 take care of me, but I still wish I could add.
"What's two plus two?" "Duuuhhhh..."
Feel like a fucking dumbass. The aftermath of getting a calculator watch in second grade I suppose.
"the difference between the old live-action Batman TV show and Batman Beyond"
I hope, sir, that you don't mean to imply that Batman Beyond is "gritty". The "Holy foam rubber Batman!" Batman was way grittier than "Li'l pussy can't fight without his computer-controlled exoskeleton" Batman and his freak raver friends.
Oh, yeah, and Mario Kart 64 is the best game ever made. Anyone who denies the truth deserves the sad, empty, meaningless life their poor choices have dealt them.
Yes, very loosely. Even in other fields. Geologists always use "permifroste" pretty loosely.
Oh, by the way, the same could be said about calling things permanent too.
Well, you see, since the major sponsor of this site has chosen to promote TiVo over it's competitor, it would be poor form for Slashdot to speak ill of the TiVo or its corporate owners, investors, subsidiaries, etc...
It's called "ethical journalism." It's all the rage over at CNN.
Regardless, at the least TiVo was around before ReplayTV. Was it? I know Tivo was arround before Sonicblue's incarnation of ReplayTV, but there was a ye-olde ReplayTV that went out of business and got bought out by Rio, that turned into Sonicblue.
I don't have any facts, but I always think of Replay as the first, and Tivo as the one that crowded out the original. I assume that was based on some facts once, but it might just have been the order I heard of them.
Re:What the fuck do I do in the Winter?
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Actually, the Moon would probably be the one place this thing would be usefull. Nothing pushing off the ground to send you flipping all over, and you'd probably get pretty much the same mobility. Save a lot of wasted time and energy. Only problem would be getting stuck in the dust, but if it can handle snow, it would probably be ok. Anybody in the Chinese space agency want a good idea?
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Keep your heresy to yourself.
The earth is flat.
The moon is cheese.
Pi is 3.
And whales are fish.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
Where are all these people who can't program a VCR? I honestly have never met someone who couldn't at least record a single show successfully. I'll accept that my mom might be unusual in that she has a chain of 3 VCR's and about 7 incompatible stereo components from different eras all hooked up to eachother, but friends, family, they might not be able to record on 2 VCR's at once but they can at least handle a few programed shows and maybe a game console or two. Even my grandmother can at least tape some golf every now and then. I know people who just say "I can't get my VCR to stop flashing 12! Tee-hee-hee!" as an exadgurated demonstration of their non-geekiness, but no one who honestly couldn't do it if they tried.
All right. That's my bitch for this month. I'll leave you to your discussion.
Liberal talk show hosts? What liberal talk show hosts?
I rented the fancy 2 disk Fight Club on DVD. Not only had someone used the second disk as a coaster, but they'd coastered something that burned a melted ring into the disk surface. And I'm not talking about the label side.
Blockbuster's response: "Well... Uhh... Does it play?"
Also, rather than "keep sentence n related to sentence n-1", you might try using "keep each sentance related to the previous one" instead. It might make your writing clearer to those of us who are not as "133+" as you are.
In the actual book, rather than the () summary, the idea was that Nash would take the bulb out of a bowl-shaped fixture and fill the bowl with water, immersing the contact. Hapless victim #1 comes along and, noticing no light after flipping the switch, tries to change the lightbulb. He sticks his hand in the water and gets zapped.
Very nasty. Fortunately, he never managed to catch anyone.
Good thing MY subculture will never go mainstream.
W00! Shout-out to the human sacrifice subculture! Forever fringe! Yeah!
I'm not sure about your waist, but it's well known that the human ass, like the goldfish, has a tendency to expand to fill its environment.
And I can't remember who I stole this joke from.
That's a good idea.
I'd pay to see Jedi mowing down endless hordes of Nsync or *NSYNC or *%^NsYnC%@# or whatever they're called.
"Strange this is. Human they appear, but sense them in the Force I can not. As if manufactured, they were, hmmmmmmmmm?
"So we won't sacrifice our PG rating if we kill them?"
*fwizzzzzz* *sizzzzz-fummmmmmmm*
"Master Obi-Wan! There's... too many of them!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Get it off me! Get it off me!"
"Aaaaaah! Can't... bear... to look... but... can't... look away... must... turn... to dark side... to... reassert... masculinity..."
Stick with the professionals. Your demons, nether beasts, elder gods... they're the ones to go to if you want a quality unholy existance.
I'm changing my name to Charlie Foo.
Coolest made-up name ever.
Woohoo! Linus is one sexy bastard!
Goddamn punk kids! What did I tell you about stealing my motherfucking magic ring!
We'll see how fucking sorry you are when I come after you with my fucking +20 sword of motherfucking DEVASTATION. Punkass kids.
Amen, brother.
That's right. He isn't really acomplishing anything. But he is very likely having a great deal of fun. The guy just feels the need to disguise that to some extent.
It's fun to screw with people. Try it some time. Go down to the Bose store, and ask that chick if she wants to make out on that leather couch. Or, if you're old enough to make that inapropriate, try screaming "BACK THAT ASS UP!!!" to the next Chevy Suburban you see backing out of a parking space.
Almost anything will work. It's fun. Try it.
If you're lucky, maybe she'll accept (although, considering the forum...) or maybe the SUV will pump the brakes and make the back end bounce.
The people in the video were pretty much just laughing at him. It was fun for everybody. And maybe they got some of his message in with it, but who really gives a fuck?
Not to presume anything, but the preparation for this might have been a copy-paste job.
Even if it was, it's still more work than I'd do, and the execution deserves some serious props. It was fucking freezing out there on monday. And the wind up there must have been brutal. Hope they still have all their fingers.
*Sigh.*
Funny. I'm exactly the opposite. I can pick up a theory from just an example or two (at least the concept, if not memorizing formulas), but I'll tell you 76 + 23 is 93 half the time. Led to the same result. At least until I got to high school, where the concept was the point. It's like math dislexia or something. Pretty easy to catch most of the time, but I was always too lazy too check tests. Of course, now, I get to have an 89 take care of me, but I still wish I could add.
"What's two plus two?" "Duuuhhhh..."
Feel like a fucking dumbass. The aftermath of getting a calculator watch in second grade I suppose.
"the difference between the old live-action Batman TV show and Batman Beyond"
I hope, sir, that you don't mean to imply that Batman Beyond is "gritty". The "Holy foam rubber Batman!" Batman was way grittier than "Li'l pussy can't fight without his computer-controlled exoskeleton" Batman and his freak raver friends.
Oh, yeah, and Mario Kart 64 is the best game ever made. Anyone who denies the truth deserves the sad, empty, meaningless life their poor choices have dealt them.
Yes, very loosely. Even in other fields. Geologists always use "permifroste" pretty loosely.
Oh, by the way, the same could be said about calling things permanent too.
Ah, well...
Well, you see, since the major sponsor of this site has chosen to promote TiVo over it's competitor, it would be poor form for Slashdot to speak ill of the TiVo or its corporate owners, investors, subsidiaries, etc...
It's called "ethical journalism." It's all the rage over at CNN.
Regardless, at the least TiVo was around before ReplayTV.
Was it? I know Tivo was arround before Sonicblue's incarnation of ReplayTV, but there was a ye-olde ReplayTV that went out of business and got bought out by Rio, that turned into Sonicblue.
I don't have any facts, but I always think of Replay as the first, and Tivo as the one that crowded out the original. I assume that was based on some facts once, but it might just have been the order I heard of them.
Actually, the Moon would probably be the one place this thing would be usefull. Nothing pushing off the ground to send you flipping all over, and you'd probably get pretty much the same mobility. Save a lot of wasted time and energy. Only problem would be getting stuck in the dust, but if it can handle snow, it would probably be ok. Anybody in the Chinese space agency want a good idea?
Hey, that Mountain Dew commercial has been the best part of the last 6 or 7 movies I've seen.