It's amazing how many parodies get attributed to Al...
Even stuff that's completely different from his style, with a completely different vocalist, if it's a odd parody, it's by 'Weird Al'.
If it's called "Black and White" why are the screenshots in full color? Don't the game developers remember that some of us still have grayscale, greenscale, or amberscale monitors?
Yeah, man, it really sucks when I see a cool game, and then find out I can't play it on my 3270's green screen!:(
mr. hemos: captain malda, i have determined that napster stories are bringing in three to five hundred comments a piece! think of the banner revenues!
captain malda: captain to engineering!
engineer roblimo: engineer roblimo here, sir.
captain malda: mr. roblimo... crank out some more napster stories!
engineer roblimo: but captain... the trained monkeys can't take much more! they're pulling them out of the queue as fast as they can!
captain malda: not fast enough, mr. roblimo!
engineer roblimo: we need more submissions!
captain malda: damnit, roblimo, just make something up!
lieutenant jamie: captain, we're receiving a transmission from an unidentified source.
captain malda: patch it through!
osm(over speaker): i want to open-source natalie portman's firm teen buttocks and pouting teen breasts!
helmsman emmett: captain... look!
an aibo approaches the compound.
lieutenant jamie: captain, the transmission is coming from the aibo!
captain malda: helmsman emmett... moderate it down: -2, flamebait!
helmsman emmett applies the moderation. the aibo pauses but keeps approaching.
osm (over speaker): your feeble moderation points are no match for the power of my modified aibo!
captain malda: engineering, we need more power in the moderation system!
engineer roblimo: but captain... the moderation system is at maximum power!
captain malda: i don't want excuses, roblimo... give me that power!
the aibo begins to move forward, a large antenna rises from the nose.
captain malda: mr. roblimo!
the antenna starts to glow.
captain malda: mr. roblimo!!
the antenna glows brighter.
engineer roblimo: captain! i have jerry-rigged the moderation system! i converted it to a bitchslap system!
captain malda: helmsman, fire!
helmsman emmett presses the fire button. just as an enormous comment begins transmitting through the speaker...
osm (over speaker): star (as in hot young actress) wars. a story of tender love. it is a period....
the transmission is terminated by the bitchslapping. captain malda relaxes.
captain malda: good work mr. roblimo!
mr. hemos: captain, sensors have detected that yeoman portman was beamed off the ship... into the aibo!
captain malda: lieutenant jamie, open a channel.
captain malda: osm! return yeoman portman at once!
yeoman portman (over speaker): blow it out your ass, dork! i want a real man! an open-source man! a man that knows how to caress my firm teen buttocks and suckle my pouting teen breasts! not a boy who has bad dreams and shits a lot!
osm (over speaker, clearly ecstatic): hahahahahahahahahahahaha! i took a bitchslapping for natalie portman! hahahahahahaahahahahahahaha! come natalie, i will take you to quicktrip and woo you with a vegetarian burrito. i will then take you to see the buffalo and touch you.
yeoman portman (over speaker): oh, open-source man! how my innocent teen heart has yearned for the tender touch of your open-source hand!
osm and yeoman portman (over speaker): hooray!
captain malda: cut that off!
the aibo turns and disappears. transmissions continue beaming from the aibo and are broadcast over the speaker.
captain malda: what the hell is the matter with that guy?!
dr. katz: damnit, rob, i'm a teen-angst zealot, not a psychiatrist!
captain malda (clearly infuriated): engineering!! where the hell are those napster stories?!!
Agreed. I'm not a big fan of MS, but Win2k is pretty good for a Windows.
(In fact, I'm installing it on my laptop right now...)
Beats the hell out of both 9X and NT.
I'd never put Windoze on a server (That's what OpenBSD is for), but as a workstation OS, it's not half bad.
Doesn't come close to OSX in coolness, but then again, what does?
The metal band Metallica (now of Napster fame, or infamy) has recently started suing people making just about anything (including purfume) with the name Metallica in it.
I have to wonder just what 'Eau de Metallica' would smell like...
Sweaty metalheads? Piss, puke and beer? Money?
Sorry...rebellion against a high school by kids shouldn't be tolerated. Feel free to disagree, but the kids have no say. Once again, that is why they have parents.
Just like rebellion against a government by citizens should not be tolerated.
You have no say, that is why we have senators, representatives, and all the other breeds of bureaucrat.
They speak for you so you don't have to.
I'm not saying that high school kids *should* rebel, just that by
'programming' them into complacent adults that bend over for whatever authority figure that happens by is not a good thing.
(Unless you happen to be the one in power...)
Our culture has been stagnating for years, partly because of people like you.
But all that is beside the point, anyway-
This kid never rebelled against the school he rebelled against an administrator.
He wasn't disrupting classes, threatening demonstrations, pasting up propaganda or dropping leaflets.
He just put up a web page lampooning a single person.
That person then abused his power by using governmental authority to silence a personal attack,
instead of getting a cease-and-desist order, or filing a civil suit,
like any other citizen not in authority would do. The abuse of power is what's at issue here, not rebellion in schools.
I think they should fire the administrator.
However, in this case there is clear evidence of a student disrespecting the establishment and taking action
Oooh! Disrespecting the/establishment/, we can't have that!
Wouldn't want our future citizens thinking, would we?
After all, a thinking, questioning population is SO much harder to manipulate and control...
But, these kids are in school to learn what the school has to teach them, not to change the rules of the school.
Great...Let's teach our kids to be complacent, unquestioning droids.
After all, they'll just grow up to be taxpayers, and then they'll have representatives to speak for them, if the representatives deem it necessary.
Rebellion is the only thing that drives evolution in a political system, be it a school, or a country.
Progress is not made without rebellion.
In all honesty, larger banners prolly won't bother me, and I don't think I'll filter 'em...I occasionally see a useful product on a banner, and some sites deserve a click-thru.
But pop-ups. God, I can't stand pop-ups.
I refuse to click on any pop-up, even if it is for a product I'm interested in.
I'll type in the advertiser's URL in a new window, simply to avoid giving the pop-up's owner a click-thru.
The day pop-ups become as popular as banners, is the day I start filtering ALL ads out, simply out of spite.
It is sad that they lost some money that could be spent on say another T1 or music program,
T1? Music program?
Not bloody likely.
More like 'New uniforms for the football team' or 'more balls for the baseball team'...
If there is any organization that knows how to efficiently waste money, it's the amerikan public school.
The kid's parents should have given him a talking to for disrespecting the principal and accepted the suspension.
Oh come on.
The vast majority of school administrators are just piss-poor managers that couldn't make it in the real world. Were talkin' total PHB here.
Admins that deserve respect will get it, ones that don't will be despised and reviled.
This kid prolly *is* a jerk, but I doubt the admin he was making fun of was any less of a jerk.
Respect, unlike authority, is something that is earned, not given.
OMS doesn't use DeCSS, never has (well not as long as I've been using it, for more than a year)
Nevertheless, they do NOT have a license from the DVD CCA, so therefore, it's illegal.
You long-haired, communistic slash-thieves might not like to admit it, but you're violating the creator's rights whenever you watch a DVD under linux.
IIRC, it even crashed Netscape under Linux when I tried it.
I don't like Exchange anymore than you do, but Netscape is prolly the worst piece of software on *NIX.
To blame Nutscrape's crashing on Exchange is stupid - HTML shouldn't be/able/ to crash the browser, even if it is nasty MS-HTML.
Oh no. An *outsider* might know what goes on in your little social club.
(Aside from keggers and racism, that is...Thos e are public knowlege.)
Like this shit ever matters, or will matter outside of school anyways.
Ye Ghods. It's not like it's a god-damn matter of national security or even personal saftey.
It's just a silly club.
Yeah, I'm not 'Greek', so I don't know the 'significance' of these bullshit little clubs and their bullshit little treehouses. What I do know tho, is that you're so full of shit that it's dribbling out your ears, dickweed.
I see fraternities and sororities as artificial friends for sluts and drunkards that have no/real/ friends. It's all synthetic and meaningless.
And I'm sorry, but if someone threatened my LIFE because of a triviality, I would know THEN and THERE that it was NOT a group I would choose to associate myself with.
OTOH, sorority girls do make great porn!
Oh, and BTW, you crack-smoking moderator fucks, this is not flamebait. This is a FLAME.
The parent is, therefore, the flamebait.
Feel free to use troll, tho.
Your're sorta-kinda-half right. I guess you could say I want to 'rebel' against the major parties - they're both completely ruled by money.
I'd consider myself a Libertarian - I even have a Harry Browne sticker on my car...
BUT, I still consider Nader because a) he stands up against corporate rule, and b) the Greens may be the only third party with a chance of winning. Granted, neither the Libertarian Party or the Green Party have any hardly any chance, but at least most people have *heard* of Nader.
Richard I don't know why the hell I bother replying to ACs, but hey. ----
Many people don't like the idiots running this country, but no one wants to risk voting for a
candidate they belive in.
I don't see a lesser evil. Bush is a stupid Texas redneck with a penchant for coke and executions (But not abortion. Go fig on that one...),
while Gore is an android that likes gun control and censorship.
Neither of these candidates represents anything *close* to what I believe in, and both are bought by the highest bidder.
(i.e. The major corps that annoy and violate the people so much.)
For me, it *IS* coming down to two candidates: Browne and Nader.
I'm going to vote for a candidate I *believe* in, not what someone else tells me to believe in.
Yes, it's gonna be a losing vote - but at least it wasn't a wasted vote.
Richard (And unlike many of my posts, that was not a troll.) ----
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It's amazing how many parodies get attributed to Al...
Even stuff that's completely different from his style, with a completely different vocalist, if it's a odd parody, it's by 'Weird Al'.
Dumb kids.
RG
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If it's called "Black and White" why are the screenshots in full color? Don't the game developers remember that some of us still have grayscale, greenscale, or amberscale monitors?
:(
Yeah, man, it really sucks when I see a cool game, and then find out I can't play it on my 3270's green screen!
RG
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Otherwise, who takes the blame when kids get killed????
Umm...Just a thought...but...Maybe the *killer*?
RG
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one day in the "geek compound"...
mr. hemos: captain malda, i have determined that napster stories are bringing in three to five hundred comments a piece! think of the banner revenues!
captain malda: captain to engineering!
engineer roblimo: engineer roblimo here, sir.
captain malda: mr. roblimo... crank out some more napster stories!
engineer roblimo: but captain... the trained monkeys can't take much more! they're pulling them out of the queue as fast as they can!
captain malda: not fast enough, mr. roblimo!
engineer roblimo: we need more submissions!
captain malda: damnit, roblimo, just make something up!
lieutenant jamie: captain, we're receiving a transmission from an unidentified source.
captain malda: patch it through!
osm(over speaker): i want to open-source natalie portman's firm teen buttocks and pouting teen breasts!
helmsman emmett: captain... look!
an aibo approaches the compound.
lieutenant jamie: captain, the transmission is coming from the aibo!
captain malda: helmsman emmett... moderate it down: -2, flamebait!
helmsman emmett applies the moderation. the aibo pauses but keeps approaching.
osm (over speaker): your feeble moderation points are no match for the power of my modified aibo!
captain malda: engineering, we need more power in the moderation system!
engineer roblimo: but captain... the moderation system is at maximum power!
captain malda: i don't want excuses, roblimo... give me that power!
the aibo begins to move forward, a large antenna rises from the nose.
captain malda: mr. roblimo!
the antenna starts to glow.
captain malda: mr. roblimo!!
the antenna glows brighter.
engineer roblimo: captain! i have jerry-rigged the moderation system! i converted it to a bitchslap system!
captain malda: helmsman, fire!
helmsman emmett presses the fire button. just as an enormous comment begins transmitting through the speaker...
osm (over speaker): star (as in hot young actress) wars. a story of tender love. it is a period....
the transmission is terminated by the bitchslapping. captain malda relaxes.
captain malda: good work mr. roblimo!
mr. hemos: captain, sensors have detected that yeoman portman was beamed off the ship... into the aibo!
captain malda: lieutenant jamie, open a channel.
captain malda: osm! return yeoman portman at once!
yeoman portman (over speaker): blow it out your ass, dork! i want a real man! an open-source man! a man that knows how to caress my firm teen buttocks and suckle my pouting teen breasts! not a boy who has bad dreams and shits a lot!
osm (over speaker, clearly ecstatic): hahahahahahahahahahahaha! i took a bitchslapping for natalie portman! hahahahahahaahahahahahahaha! come natalie, i will take you to quicktrip and woo you with a vegetarian burrito. i will then take you to see the buffalo and touch you.
yeoman portman (over speaker): oh, open-source man! how my innocent teen heart has yearned for the tender touch of your open-source hand!
osm and yeoman portman (over speaker): hooray!
captain malda: cut that off!
the aibo turns and disappears. transmissions continue beaming from the aibo and are broadcast over the speaker.
captain malda: what the hell is the matter with that guy?!
dr. katz: damnit, rob, i'm a teen-angst zealot, not a psychiatrist!
captain malda (clearly infuriated): engineering!! where the hell are those napster stories?!!
i took a bitchslapping for natalie portman!!
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You will suffer NTFS 5.0 corruption sooner or later. Make sure you have a backup. You have been warned.
Do you have any links to back that statement up?
I've been using 2k on 3 different machines for about a year now, with no signs of corruption...
RG
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Agreed. I'm not a big fan of MS, but Win2k is pretty good for a Windows.
(In fact, I'm installing it on my laptop right now...)
Beats the hell out of both 9X and NT.
I'd never put Windoze on a server (That's what OpenBSD is for), but as a workstation OS, it's not half bad.
Doesn't come close to OSX in coolness, but then again, what does?
RG
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The metal band Metallica (now of Napster fame, or infamy) has recently started suing people making just about anything (including purfume) with the name Metallica in it.
I have to wonder just what 'Eau de Metallica' would smell like...
Sweaty metalheads? Piss, puke and beer? Money?
RG
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Sorry...rebellion against a high school by kids shouldn't be tolerated. Feel free to disagree, but the kids have no say. Once again, that is why they have parents.
Just like rebellion against a government by citizens should not be tolerated.
You have no say, that is why we have senators, representatives, and all the other breeds of bureaucrat.
They speak for you so you don't have to.
I'm not saying that high school kids *should* rebel, just that by
'programming' them into complacent adults that bend over for whatever authority figure that happens by is not a good thing.
(Unless you happen to be the one in power...)
Our culture has been stagnating for years, partly because of people like you.
But all that is beside the point, anyway-
This kid never rebelled against the school he rebelled against an administrator.
He wasn't disrupting classes, threatening demonstrations, pasting up propaganda or dropping leaflets.
He just put up a web page lampooning a single person.
That person then abused his power by using governmental authority to silence a personal attack,
instead of getting a cease-and-desist order, or filing a civil suit,
like any other citizen not in authority would do.
The abuse of power is what's at issue here, not rebellion in schools.
I think they should fire the administrator.
RG
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How could you guys NOT include a link to ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!!! ?
After all, someone set up us the bomb!
Link all 'quickie' for great justice!
RG
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However, in this case there is clear evidence of a student disrespecting the establishment and taking action
/establishment/, we can't have that!
Oooh! Disrespecting the
Wouldn't want our future citizens thinking, would we?
After all, a thinking, questioning population is SO much harder to manipulate and control...
But, these kids are in school to learn what the school has to teach them, not to change the rules of the school.
Great...Let's teach our kids to be complacent, unquestioning droids.
After all, they'll just grow up to be taxpayers, and then they'll have representatives to speak for them, if the representatives deem it necessary.
Rebellion is the only thing that drives evolution in a political system, be it a school, or a country.
Progress is not made without rebellion.
RG
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In all honesty, larger banners prolly won't bother me, and I don't think I'll filter 'em...I occasionally see a useful product on a banner, and some sites deserve a click-thru.
But pop-ups. God, I can't stand pop-ups.
I refuse to click on any pop-up, even if it is for a product I'm interested in.
I'll type in the advertiser's URL in a new window, simply to avoid giving the pop-up's owner a click-thru.
The day pop-ups become as popular as banners, is the day I start filtering ALL ads out, simply out of spite.
RG
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It is sad that they lost some money that could be spent on say another T1 or music program,
T1? Music program?
Not bloody likely.
More like 'New uniforms for the football team' or 'more balls for the baseball team'...
If there is any organization that knows how to efficiently waste money, it's the amerikan public school.
RG
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The kid's parents should have given him a talking to for disrespecting the principal and accepted the suspension.
Oh come on.
The vast majority of school administrators are just piss-poor managers that couldn't make it in the real world. Were talkin' total PHB here.
Admins that deserve respect will get it, ones that don't will be despised and reviled.
This kid prolly *is* a jerk, but I doubt the admin he was making fun of was any less of a jerk.
Respect, unlike authority, is something that is earned, not given.
RG
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Q. Who would WANT to download commie hippie shit like that?
A. NOBODY.
So, therefore, Napster steals from artists who DON'T want their art disseminated FOR FREE by rich college students.
Die, Theftster, Die.
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What happens between me and my gerbil is no business of yours.
God, how I wish that was true.
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What, haven't you ever read the BIBLE story about Jonah and the Whale?
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OMS doesn't use DeCSS, never has (well not as long as I've been using it, for more than a year)
Nevertheless, they do NOT have a license from the DVD CCA, so therefore, it's illegal.
You long-haired, communistic slash-thieves might not like to admit it, but you're violating the creator's rights whenever you watch a DVD under linux.
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According to the LORD lust is a form of adultery.
Computer "sex" is lust, and therefore is adultrey, which goes aginst the LORD thy God.
Another note: Valentine's day is sinful enough without a Katz story on it.
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IIRC, it even crashed Netscape under Linux when I tried it.
/able/ to crash the browser, even if it is nasty MS-HTML.
I don't like Exchange anymore than you do, but Netscape is prolly the worst piece of software on *NIX.
To blame Nutscrape's crashing on Exchange is stupid - HTML shouldn't be
RG
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Someone should warn them of the potential pitfalls.
;)
Excellent choice of words...
--K
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Oh no. An *outsider* might know what goes on in your little social club.
/real/ friends. It's all synthetic and meaningless.
(Aside from keggers and racism, that is...Thos e are public knowlege.)
Like this shit ever matters, or will matter outside of school anyways.
Ye Ghods. It's not like it's a god-damn matter of national security or even personal saftey.
It's just a silly club.
Yeah, I'm not 'Greek', so I don't know the 'significance' of these bullshit little clubs and their bullshit little treehouses. What I do know tho, is that you're so full of shit that it's dribbling out your ears, dickweed.
I see fraternities and sororities as artificial friends for sluts and drunkards that have no
And I'm sorry, but if someone threatened my LIFE because of a triviality, I would know THEN and THERE that it was NOT a group I would choose to associate myself with.
OTOH, sorority girls do make great porn!
Oh, and BTW, you crack-smoking moderator fucks, this is not flamebait. This is a FLAME.
The parent is, therefore, the flamebait.
Feel free to use troll, tho.
Richard
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Your're sorta-kinda-half right. I guess you could say I want to 'rebel' against the major parties - they're both completely ruled by money.
I'd consider myself a Libertarian - I even have a Harry Browne sticker on my car...
BUT, I still consider Nader because a) he stands up against corporate rule, and b) the Greens may be the only third party with a chance of winning. Granted, neither the Libertarian Party or the Green Party have any hardly any chance, but at least most people have *heard* of Nader.
Richard
I don't know why the hell I bother replying to ACs, but hey.
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Who keep these morons in power.
Many people don't like the idiots running this country, but no one wants to risk voting for a
candidate they belive in.
I don't see a lesser evil. Bush is a stupid Texas redneck with a penchant for coke and executions (But not abortion. Go fig on that one...),
while Gore is an android that likes gun control and censorship.
Neither of these candidates represents anything *close* to what I believe in, and both are bought by the highest bidder.
(i.e. The major corps that annoy and violate the people so much.)
For me, it *IS* coming down to two candidates: Browne and Nader.
I'm going to vote for a candidate I *believe* in, not what someone else tells me to believe in.
Yes, it's gonna be a losing vote - but at least it wasn't a wasted vote.
Richard
(And unlike many of my posts, that was not a troll.)
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You're tellin' me.
Ever since I got this Nokia 6185, I just can't sp0rt the m@dd w00d like I used to.
Richard
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It's more likely the volume level, the earpiece shape, or the way you hold it.
Headaches aren't caused by your brain heating up a few 1/10s of a degree (if that).
They're caused by the muscles attached to your skull.
I tend to get a headache after talking on *any* phone,
corded or wireless, for anymore than 15 min or so.
Richard
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