Unless the attention they want is sexual. After all, my Wife uses sex to get my attention from time to time, and she seems quite happy when I'm done.
The point I was trying to make without resorting to using terms associated with classicly unladylike behavior was the fact that the desire to have sex is just spiffy, the ability to enjoy sex is just dandy. This in it self is perfectly normal, nothing to be ashamed of, and healthy. But I would think, or hope that your relationship is based on more than just sex. I don't think of this as being a sexist attitude as I don't find male bimbos a whole bunch of fun either. I'm all for sex but convos that are one level deep "Oh I had a wonderful saturday... I met a woman who allow me to put my penis in her vagina."
The only thing I know about Paris Hilton is the fact that she has breasts and a vagina... and I know this because i've seen them popup from time to time in the form of animated gifs. To be honest, i'm not sure I know what the rest of her looks like. While I'm generally fond of the vagina... and breasts.. the arbitrary vagina poping up randomly isn't very... eroitc. When I meet a woman, even one who I am attracted to... I would tend to walk away if she were to for example say, "Hello, my name is Gwen and this is my vagina. Would you be so kind as to stick it in?" Call me silly but I don't find that to be... romantic.
I'm sure i'll be modded down for misquoting Ms. Cho. (Hi my name is Gwen and i'm here to worsh your vagina)
What's your problem with young women who enjoy sex?
I am the first to say there is nothing wrong with women who enjoy sex. This is happy. Paris Hilton can enjoy as much sex as she wants. However this doesn't mean I want to see Paris Hilton popups everywhere. Paris Hilton popups are not happy. If a persons only redeaming quality is the enjoyment of sex... it doesn't make for a healthy relationship. This is not happy. A person who uses sex to get attention also isn't happy.
Any suggestions for someone who's slowly losing their hearing for speakers?
Be happy that you won't notice the difference between some models, and perfectly happy to get a nice set of midranges.
The DVD home theater seems rather popular among the truck driver crowd, esp onces with huge subs they can turn up all the way. Some older speakers designed for tube amps might sound out of balance on solid state... a tad heavy on the base side of things seem to work very well for truck drivers... KLH 17s come to mind, the walnut ones not the modern black ones.
Didn't I read this same story about Walkman's 20 years ago?
I seem to remember something similar, mostly because of irate parents who seemed to think that listening Mozart on earphones would cause deafness on a bus... rather than a bunch of 7th graders in a diesel powered vehicle. Personaly I thought the ear phones offered some element of protection but this was very subjective to say the least.
I think the concern here are the earbuds, which tend to form a seal in your ear canel much in the same way that head phones form a seal. Those walkmen tests I believe were done on earphones rather than head phones or earbuds. I know of no studies done on earbuds.
I'll make the typical audiophile quip: If you like the sound of Bose you have nothing to worry about, you're already deaf =)
This shouldn't be marked as funny. For people like truck drivers, machine operators, or generally anyone who's around whole bunches of loud noise the first thing to go sub-base to base followed by the high range. And these people, no insult intended, when picking out speakers that sound the best to them pick out things with a strong mid range. These are the people who can't tell the difference between a Bose Wave Radio and a decent Cambridge SoundWorks set, or don't mind if their 5.1 DVD player doesn't filter out that horizontal refresh noise, or worse yet have bad ground loops. The statement "no highs no lows... must be bose" isn't always true except for those things people tend to buy... those ultra low profile solutions that cost an arm and a leg are where this statement tends to ring true.
Blame the enemy, not us. Most Americans do not want to rule the world. Hell, most Americans would really be happy if the rest of the world would just leave us alone and we could get our government to reciprocate to them. But I can say this, as much of an isolationist, live-and-let-live southerner as I am, if my girlfriend and our families were killed in the Northern Virginia area by an Al Qaeda nuclear weapon, I wouldn't care about freedom of speech or conscience in Saudi Arabia. Like many, I'd support anyone who would drive a nuclear bomb right into the middle of those fuckers dancing in the streets celebrating "The Great Satan(tm)" getting nuked.
I'm not going to get sucked into this fear of terrorism bullshit.
I'm willing to believe there might be an application of a nuke. Perhaps they could destroy a biological or chemical agent that presents a clear and present danger to a large population without spreading it cross the planet. Perhaps our space program will advance to the point where we can detect asteroids and comets that would otherwise impact and cause serious damage unless we nuke'em. This is possible.
I can't think of a single application of a nuke that couldn't be deployed without getting congress's approval first. No one in their right mind would give that level of power to any single person. That's nuts. The only reason and I mean the only reason to give a single person that much power is to evoke terror... and this only works if you use.
The threat is real, and it can indeed be better solved through the threat of military force, especially mass destruction by nuclear weapons.
What threat? Where is this threat? True there was Sept 11th but how would a nuke have prevented that catastrophe?
In 2105: "Yessir, your documents are available in GIF format, unfortunately the 1024 by 768 resolution is almost unviewable on today's 1,048,576 by 786,432 document readers."
Well... think of 8mm film. It's grainy, low quality and generally a poor medium. But you can still watch it. The best example of this is the stock suspention bridge footage. Granted this was shot on 16mm, but given the fact that this is the only copy available it's still seen today, and this was shot 65 years ago. It's in black and white, looks very good, and the quality leaves much to be desired, but never the less it's a piece of history archived for all time.
Back when I lived in an African village, 1989-92, we had a kerosene refrigerator. All I had to do was trim the wick occasionally and keep feeding it fossil fuel and it kept things cold/frozen for me. A co-worker of mine in another location converted his to burn butane by putting a bunsen burner in place of the kerosene wick.
Yes, these are not all that unique. I have a fridge for an RV that operates on either 12V or propane. Doesn't require require electrisity to start either, though for safty reasons it's best to switch to 12V while driving.
But propane may not be an ideal choice, nor kerosene due to the fact that both are fossil fuels that require refinement. However dual system of solar and alcohol might be a viable solution even for a village that doesn't have access to running water. I don't know how much heat is required to operate a fridge but it's certainly worth exploring if a huge magnifying glass would do the trick well enough to freeze water during the peek of the day.
Funny, I always get the impression the BB sales staff is pretending they know what they are doing so that I won't take advantage of them.
I have observed that their web prices are different than their store prices, so I do have to go in there with a printout of their website to get their web price. I imagine I "could" change all the prices around and take advantage of them if I really felt the need.
But needless to say the parent should be marked as informative.
I've found that printers typically only last a year, at most (I'm in college, so I use them alot). I've tried most brands (canon, HP, epson, lexmark) and not one of them have lasted over a year.
If I buy another Epson in my lifetime I totally plan to get an extended warranty on it. In fact, i'm seriously considering buying an Epson r200, a printer I have direct experence with clogging and running amuck, leaking, and doing all sorts of crap other than printing with an extended warranty just so I can bug the living hell out of the people who sell these blasted things and perhaps in doing so, perhaps after a few million returns the stores will stop selling crap that they need to be accountable for under the extended warranty. But I hope for too much.
What I don't understand is most printers are under some sort of warranty for at least a year. If they don't last a year you might be lucky and get a referb with free ink, which is no small potatos. Canon i've observed has a decent warranty where the most likely thing to go wrong with them is either a head clog or a head burnout, which in you can send them pictures of your nozzle test they'll send you a replacement head free of charge... so long as you jump through their tests. Not as cool as a referb with free ink, but still standing by their product. HP has had some dogs... but even those can be replaced.
First off, I'm a woman, so that may taint my perspective. I just don't get adults who watch the Cartoon Network. Cartoons are for kids. They are written and drawn to catch the eye of children who respond to bright colors and geometric shapes.
Cartoons are for kids? I've seen some cartoons that would make your nose hair curl. Animation is a medium no more or less respectable than any other form. The key difference with Animation is you require less studio space, you don't have to go on location, you don't have to pay people to sit for hours and and deal with crafty make-up.
Now part of the reason that people like my self started to like Japanese Animation was the fact that many shows actually told the story. StarBlazers is a great example of this, many of us as children woke up at 5ish am before school just to catch the next sequence in a long story. Something like Ulysses 31 a childs adaptation of the Odyssey done up sci-fi style. Given the choice between a story or Hanna Barbera any day. And as far as entertainment for kids is concerned... I'd rather give them something with substance like "The Mysterious Cities of Gold" than Pokémon. South Park described that best... "It's not that it's violent, It's just stupid!".
Not all animation is for children. While I'll freely admit that there is much in the way of odd looking women wereing very little or even more odd sailor uniforms... there is other stuff that are full length movies.
Isn't there something fundamentally wrong with someone who associates a children's cartoon with sexiness?
Talk to a cultrue that has laws against filming nudity below the belt. I'm not a henti fan.
I love geek guys. I love it when they talk about math and science or get wrapped up in talking about technology. I just kind of cringe when I hear them talking about anime.
To each their own.
I don't want to say that such a person is a pedophile, but I don't think we can deny that anime capitalizes on schoolgirl uniforms as a form of sexual enticement.....
I feel like I'm looking at someone a couple years away from being raided by the FBI for soliciting sex with a minor in a chatroom.
Oh good gawd... the funny thing is while this is a total troll I totally see people who don't understand the concept of what a pedophile is and somehow associate liking animation with being a mentaly disturbed wacko. Pedophiles are people who fucked up they are threatened by secondary sexual attributes and only get their hots on for children. And anyone who enjoyes animated women with huge bazongas and a leather strip or worse yet tigerskin (lum) is pretty much not in that class of sicko. If a guy likes boobies.... a pedo he is not. Some people who enjoy Henti might be a little bit off IMHO... but as long as the stuff they enjoy is between concenting adults I could care less.
It's rather a western idea that animation is for children. Anime isn't typicaly for children. I don't understand why, perhaps land cost is at a premium and it's cheaper to hire artists. Perhaps there are special effects that can't really be pulled off in a cost effective way other than the use of animation. Hendi I believe exists because of laws regarding pornography... either that or it's hard to find people to be degraded in such awful aways... couldn't tell ya. Or perhaps people like the artistic style. But there are tons of reasons why someone might choose to go animated rather than live action.
So don't enjoy animation all you want. Don't enjoy anime all you want. But when you see the popularity of television shows like "Friends" "Three's Company" or "Gilligan's Island", not to speak of all the "Survivor" spinoffs ask your self how much respect you'd have for people who watch that crap. While you may not enjoy Anime... Anime at the very least in almost all cases, even Anime geard tward kids at the very minimum has a story. There might even be a sub-plot. It might not be a good story but that is a vast improvement to "Simple Life". Simply put... I have more respect for a person who watches Speed Racer of all things than "Simple Life".
I am a Canon user (last 2 scanners + camera) but if you are running 64-bit windows XP be warned that Canon don't have 64 bit drivers for scanners at the moment, and are unlikely to provide them for some time, maybe not at all.
I haven't looked at their stand alone scanners in sometime... I was really hip on getting an AIO. I'm a geek but i'm a geek that was getting tired of having a rat's nest.
Anyhow I know for a *fact* that the mp780 has xp-64 drivers on the website. the Canoscan 9950f has xp64 drivers on the website.
I don't know for a fact that these drivers they offer will work for their other products... usually like most companies they make one driver that will work with a series of products. 4 weeks ago I would have said that canon was a bunch of bozos who said "we won't support xp-64 because it's for professionals and why would a professional buy a consumer product" but it looks like they have gotten with the program somewhat.
Scanner technology is one of those slow moving ones. I bought my first Microteck sometime circa 1994 or so, spent a good deal on it. The ONLY reason I stopped using it was the fact that they never made win95 drivers for it. I was lucky enough to have some beta drivers, but it was a flacky piece of filth that only I could use.
The only reason I would have otherwise to upgrade would be speed. My first scanner was a tripple pass model and newer models were single pass. Models after that increased in terms of speed.
Anyhow the reasons for scanner failure.
1. White alignment strip
Plastic breaks down and yellows, likely expsure to UV, perhaps some other reason. But regardless sometimes the color can become off and the scanner can no longer zero out when turned on. This can be replaced with some offical true blue solution or a piece of paper glued to where the old one was. I would reccomend something like Hammermill indoor sign paper, basicly easily choppable and sticky.
2. Lightbulb... unfortunatly someone thought it was a spiffy idea to replace the traditional bulbs the likes of which you could replace at any home depot to some stupid solder-in device and these suckers can not be replaced unless you go in with tin-snips.
3. Other mechanical failure - screw it get another
4. Lack of support - shake your fist in anger screw it and get another one
I share this because I consider the alignment strip to be a common issue, easy to resolve. While something new *may* offer improved speed and perhaps even if you are lucky higher optical resolution... due to the fact there is no standard what so ever among scanners you gotta learn new clicks.
I'm quite fussy about my mouse and really don't want a wireless one - but assuming it's a good mouse, I'm quite happy for them to cover it in buttons, lights and give it a bit of intelligence. If you don't like the feature/button you can just turn it off - never anything wrong with
I use a logitech wireless trackball but I would freely admit it's not sutable for FPS games, or any game that requires controled swift motion. That old MS-intelimouse does a better job for me in quake.
But you assume a user has one mouse, that's not always the case. Most of these extra buttons are ideal for users who either have large monitors and surf from the couch, or huge projection TVs and surf from the couch. When i'm in the mood to game, I resort to hooking up either the wired trackball which offers better swift action peformance, or an old ms intelimouse. I imagine there are other options for gamers... i'm not as serious about gaming as others.
I dunno about you, but the mx1000 I have pops up a systray message about my mouse batteries needing recharged. I've had it a few months too. What is exactly new about that?
Oh, you installed the logitech software then. I have no idea if my mx800 offers that feature or not.... I don't install the logitech bloatware. Virtually all the extra keys work out of the box so there is no need. And I understand the blinking light means charge the mouse.
When was the last time you changed the volume of your pc?
5min ago
And when you did, did you think 'I wish I was able to control the volume directly from my mouse'?
The first time I used Winamp... scroll wheel controls volume and 3rd button scroll jumps forward/back. I imagine I could use my keyboard, but that's a tad bulky to carry around.
While I agree this looks like a bloat mouse, I must confess that I would likely buy a "multi-media" mouse/trackball that offers extra buttons such as play, stop, pause forward reverse. It would be annoying for an every day mouse but great couch mouse.
The only interesting feature you will get is that it will tell you the battery is low very often:)
That already exists with the mx-800 and likely the mx-1000. Charging station is the most handy feature considering how much those optical mice suck up the juice. But no two way communication was needed... just a happy little blinking light if the battery is low.
Not only is that the lamest, most pitiful flamewar I've ever seen, but shouldn't legal secretaries, of all people, use good grammar?!
No, they shouldn't! They are legal secretaries. Legaleeze is hard to master because of the absence of pronouns, and through this absence makes for some of these hardest to understand writing on earth. But make no mistake... traditional grammar skills are not required for legal secretaries.
What I can't understand is every time I've corresponded with any one in a legal firm there is always the signature that "This is privliaged information intended for the reciepent only". So why the hell is this information on the net?
You do realize that the American comic industry is larger than just Marvel and DC, right?
I never realized that. That's not entirely true... I just never gave it much thought.
There was a time when comics where impulse buy items at your local mini-mart... perhaps something you could also find on a magazine rack. They were an item that you could buy as a kid with pocket change along with your favorite candy and sugar carbonated drink. And even when these were impulse buy items... unless you went out of your way to hit a specality shop chances are the only options would be Marvel or DC for the most part. While I had heard of the statement superhero x would never meet superhero y because one is marvel and the other is DC, keep in mind that the read would actually have to pay attention to the logo on the front... which you might not notice as retail comics had barcodes in the place where a stand alone logo would be.
These days... the whole comic book scene seems pretty exclusive to specality shops. I don't know of a kid who has ever taken the time to buy a comic book. For example, I know of kids who watch Static Shock. I'm told it was a comic book that was produced by some adult independant comic publisher before being bought by DC.
My point is... if someone knows of DC and marvel i'm somewhat impressed. If they know X hero comes from marvel and y from dc, i'm very impressed. But if someone speaks of Vertigo or Wildstorm... I'd have no idea where one would even buy them.
Hey, you don't mess with Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter.
I would agree... don't rent it, don't look at it, don't touch it. Don't mess with it at all!
I'm all for b-rated movies, but this is clearly sub-b. In someways it's a sci-fi kung-fu musical. But usually with kung-fu even if the story is bad the visual choreography is entertaining even if it ends up being fought in a city with a trampoline behind every bush. But just as some might say white men can't jump... these canadians can't Kung-Fu. Music well to be frank I fast forwarded through the feature. Audio quality was crap... and I mean wind in the boom crap. And worse yet, worse yet... it doesn't make good heckling material.
Oddly enough the only people who enjoyed this film were those who enjoyed Repo Man. Repoman at least had a semi-decent sound track, a odd twisted story, and at least the feeling that even though there are some continuity issues and crew and boom visiable here and there, you get the feeling they actually tried.
Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter is just a joke, so please, if you value your self respect don't mess with it.
the thing is, when I started collecting comics, they were on newsprint paper, and less than $.50 each. you could afford to follow a bunch of different series, and get a couple of new ones each week.
I honestly don't remember what they cost when I was, only that even at 50cents per and a paperback under $5.00 to me a paperback represented more bang for the buck.
I know at some point silly puddy stopped working on comicbooks and newsprint. I assumed that this was due to a switch over to vegitable based dye rather than petrolium based dye.
I think I know what you mean as far as baxter paper is concerned. I spent a little tiny bit of time at a place owened by Mike Myers who bought comics wholesale from the big guys and sold them to chain stores in bags marked 3 for a dollar, 4 for a dollar... pissing off "true collectors". But I noticed that much of the 70s and 80s comics were dotty news print and the more modern ones were a slick treated paper. I would have never noticed the transision period. I may have noticed when prices jumped above and beyond $2.00 each.
One thing I found somewhat annoyed with was the the film "Big" showed a adult/kid character presenting the idea of comics on disc. Given the availablity of standard tools like the myst series used I don't see why this is not a reality. As an adult I found many of the theme games like Spiderman II to be most enjoyable... very much enjoyed playing syberia... so why doesn't marvel or DC take a step forward and use their artists and design some basic games with a decent plot.
generally he was a member of the Avengers (east coast) and like tony stark, (iron man) was one of the wealthy ones that allowed the super team to be able to afford the things like quinjets that he designed.
This would explain why Stark Labs is spoken of often by "true believers". To be honest I wouldn't know Marvel from DC or any of the other guys.
I was never too into comic books. I read a few, I did enjoy them to a degree... but only when I could make it to a real comic shop and buy a sequence and even then I couldn't get more than a few months worth. Each comic book was well 24ish pages long and didn't have much on the way of a story... and i'd be waiting a year for basicly a short story... and rather than wait a year and shell out what was $20ish at the time I could visit walden books and buy a real book for $5ish.
Not to poke fun at comic book fans... i'm all for a good short story or a good series of short stories, but I liked the patience then. I'm all for the idea of collections of these being strung together into large graphic novels and am often more than happy to watch film editions of these classic works of the silver age... not that i'd know when the silver age was.
Who would really be interested in Captain France? A guy that dresses up like a croissant, runs away from German bad guys and blames all his problems on Captain America.
I don't know what's more troubling, the fact that I laughed at your joke or the fact that someone took it upon them selfs to make a "Captain France".
Worse in some cases. Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail were basically the same movie but they forgot to replace the same actors! One comment I've heard was "It wasn't as if the Empire State Building collapsed that they needed to make a new one!"
Could be worse. A mild mannered Microsoft employee working 100hr weeks gets fed up with all the software piracy. His only resolve is to put on an Ant constume to fight commercial piracy and spams moral messages to all the kids in....
"You've Got Mail from Sleepless Antman in Seattle"
Last I checked, none of those services took out print and web advertising listing themselves as a place to get this content, for free, illegally.
I was not aware Kazaa took out print advertsing. I'm aware of sites that claimed you could download Kazaa for a fee and get stuff for free legaly.
Web advertising well... www.t50.com has been around "much" longer and links to sites that are clearly labled as "illegal downloads". Warning... these links are noted for their porn popups.
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Unless the attention they want is sexual. After all, my Wife uses sex to get my attention from time to time, and she seems quite happy when I'm done.
The point I was trying to make without resorting to using terms associated with classicly unladylike behavior was the fact that the desire to have sex is just spiffy, the ability to enjoy sex is just dandy. This in it self is perfectly normal, nothing to be ashamed of, and healthy. But I would think, or hope that your relationship is based on more than just sex. I don't think of this as being a sexist attitude as I don't find male bimbos a whole bunch of fun either. I'm all for sex but convos that are one level deep "Oh I had a wonderful saturday... I met a woman who allow me to put my penis in her vagina."
The only thing I know about Paris Hilton is the fact that she has breasts and a vagina... and I know this because i've seen them popup from time to time in the form of animated gifs. To be honest, i'm not sure I know what the rest of her looks like. While I'm generally fond of the vagina... and breasts.. the arbitrary vagina poping up randomly isn't very... eroitc. When I meet a woman, even one who I am attracted to... I would tend to walk away if she were to for example say, "Hello, my name is Gwen and this is my vagina. Would you be so kind as to stick it in?" Call me silly but I don't find that to be... romantic.
I'm sure i'll be modded down for misquoting Ms. Cho. (Hi my name is Gwen and i'm here to worsh your vagina)
What's your problem with young women who enjoy sex?
I am the first to say there is nothing wrong with women who enjoy sex. This is happy. Paris Hilton can enjoy as much sex as she wants. However this doesn't mean I want to see Paris Hilton popups everywhere. Paris Hilton popups are not happy. If a persons only redeaming quality is the enjoyment of sex... it doesn't make for a healthy relationship. This is not happy. A person who uses sex to get attention also isn't happy.
However I do like base fishing
All your bass are belong to us.
Any suggestions for someone who's slowly losing their hearing for speakers?
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Be happy that you won't notice the difference between some models, and perfectly happy to get a nice set of midranges.
The DVD home theater seems rather popular among the truck driver crowd, esp onces with huge subs they can turn up all the way. Some older speakers designed for tube amps might sound out of balance on solid state... a tad heavy on the base side of things seem to work very well for truck drivers... KLH 17s come to mind, the walnut ones not the modern black ones.
http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-KLH-MODEL-17-FLOORSTA
These guys.
Didn't I read this same story about Walkman's 20 years ago?
I seem to remember something similar, mostly because of irate parents who seemed to think that listening Mozart on earphones would cause deafness on a bus... rather than a bunch of 7th graders in a diesel powered vehicle. Personaly I thought the ear phones offered some element of protection but this was very subjective to say the least.
I think the concern here are the earbuds, which tend to form a seal in your ear canel much in the same way that head phones form a seal. Those walkmen tests I believe were done on earphones rather than head phones or earbuds. I know of no studies done on earbuds.
I'll make the typical audiophile quip: If you like the sound of Bose you have nothing to worry about, you're already deaf =)
This shouldn't be marked as funny. For people like truck drivers, machine operators, or generally anyone who's around whole bunches of loud noise the first thing to go sub-base to base followed by the high range. And these people, no insult intended, when picking out speakers that sound the best to them pick out things with a strong mid range. These are the people who can't tell the difference between a Bose Wave Radio and a decent Cambridge SoundWorks set, or don't mind if their 5.1 DVD player doesn't filter out that horizontal refresh noise, or worse yet have bad ground loops. The statement "no highs no lows... must be bose" isn't always true except for those things people tend to buy... those ultra low profile solutions that cost an arm and a leg are where this statement tends to ring true.
Blame the enemy, not us. Most Americans do not want to rule the world. Hell, most Americans would really be happy if the rest of the world would just leave us alone and we could get our government to reciprocate to them. But I can say this, as much of an isolationist, live-and-let-live southerner as I am, if my girlfriend and our families were killed in the Northern Virginia area by an Al Qaeda nuclear weapon, I wouldn't care about freedom of speech or conscience in Saudi Arabia. Like many, I'd support anyone who would drive a nuclear bomb right into the middle of those fuckers dancing in the streets celebrating "The Great Satan(tm)" getting nuked.
I'm not going to get sucked into this fear of terrorism bullshit.
I'm willing to believe there might be an application of a nuke. Perhaps they could destroy a biological or chemical agent that presents a clear and present danger to a large population without spreading it cross the planet. Perhaps our space program will advance to the point where we can detect asteroids and comets that would otherwise impact and cause serious damage unless we nuke'em. This is possible.
I can't think of a single application of a nuke that couldn't be deployed without getting congress's approval first. No one in their right mind would give that level of power to any single person. That's nuts. The only reason and I mean the only reason to give a single person that much power is to evoke terror... and this only works if you use.
The threat is real, and it can indeed be better solved through the threat of military force, especially mass destruction by nuclear weapons.
What threat? Where is this threat? True there was Sept 11th but how would a nuke have prevented that catastrophe?
In 2105: "Yessir, your documents are available in GIF format, unfortunately the 1024 by 768 resolution is almost unviewable on today's 1,048,576 by 786,432 document readers."
Well... think of 8mm film. It's grainy, low quality and generally a poor medium. But you can still watch it. The best example of this is the stock suspention bridge footage. Granted this was shot on 16mm, but given the fact that this is the only copy available it's still seen today, and this was shot 65 years ago. It's in black and white, looks very good, and the quality leaves much to be desired, but never the less it's a piece of history archived for all time.
Back when I lived in an African village, 1989-92, we had a kerosene refrigerator. All I had to do was trim the wick occasionally and keep feeding it fossil fuel and it kept things cold/frozen for me. A co-worker of mine in another location converted his to burn butane by putting a bunsen burner in place of the kerosene wick.
Yes, these are not all that unique. I have a fridge for an RV that operates on either 12V or propane. Doesn't require require electrisity to start either, though for safty reasons it's best to switch to 12V while driving.
But propane may not be an ideal choice, nor kerosene due to the fact that both are fossil fuels that require refinement. However dual system of solar and alcohol might be a viable solution even for a village that doesn't have access to running water. I don't know how much heat is required to operate a fridge but it's certainly worth exploring if a huge magnifying glass would do the trick well enough to freeze water during the peek of the day.
Funny, I always get the impression the BB sales staff is pretending they know what they are doing so that I won't take advantage of them.
I have observed that their web prices are different than their store prices, so I do have to go in there with a printout of their website to get their web price. I imagine I "could" change all the prices around and take advantage of them if I really felt the need.
But needless to say the parent should be marked as informative.
I've found that printers typically only last a year, at most (I'm in college, so I use them alot). I've tried most brands (canon, HP, epson, lexmark) and not one of them have lasted over a year.
If I buy another Epson in my lifetime I totally plan to get an extended warranty on it. In fact, i'm seriously considering buying an Epson r200, a printer I have direct experence with clogging and running amuck, leaking, and doing all sorts of crap other than printing with an extended warranty just so I can bug the living hell out of the people who sell these blasted things and perhaps in doing so, perhaps after a few million returns the stores will stop selling crap that they need to be accountable for under the extended warranty.
But I hope for too much.
What I don't understand is most printers are under some sort of warranty for at least a year. If they don't last a year you might be lucky and get a referb with free ink, which is no small potatos. Canon i've observed has a decent warranty where the most likely thing to go wrong with them is either a head clog or a head burnout, which in you can send them pictures of your nozzle test they'll send you a replacement head free of charge... so long as you jump through their tests. Not as cool as a referb with free ink, but still standing by their product. HP has had some dogs... but even those can be replaced.
First off, I'm a woman, so that may taint my perspective. I just don't get adults who watch the Cartoon Network. Cartoons are for kids. They are written and drawn to catch the eye of children who respond to bright colors and geometric shapes.
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Cartoons are for kids? I've seen some cartoons that would make your nose hair curl. Animation is a medium no more or less respectable than any other form. The key difference with Animation is you require less studio space, you don't have to go on location, you don't have to pay people to sit for hours and and deal with crafty make-up.
Now part of the reason that people like my self started to like Japanese Animation was the fact that many shows actually told the story. StarBlazers is a great example of this, many of us as children woke up at 5ish am before school just to catch the next sequence in a long story. Something like Ulysses 31 a childs adaptation of the Odyssey done up sci-fi style. Given the choice between a story or Hanna Barbera any day. And as far as entertainment for kids is concerned... I'd rather give them something with substance like "The Mysterious Cities of Gold" than Pokémon. South Park described that best... "It's not that it's violent, It's just stupid!".
Not all animation is for children. While I'll freely admit that there is much in the way of odd looking women wereing very little or even more odd sailor uniforms... there is other stuff that are full length movies.
Isn't there something fundamentally wrong with someone who associates a children's cartoon with sexiness?
Talk to a cultrue that has laws against filming nudity below the belt. I'm not a henti fan.
I love geek guys. I love it when they talk about math and science or get wrapped up in talking about technology. I just kind of cringe when I hear them talking about anime.
To each their own.
I don't want to say that such a person is a pedophile, but I don't think we can deny that anime capitalizes on schoolgirl uniforms as a form of sexual enticement.
I feel like I'm looking at someone a couple years away from being raided by the FBI for soliciting sex with a minor in a chatroom.
Oh good gawd... the funny thing is while this is a total troll I totally see people who don't understand the concept of what a pedophile is and somehow associate liking animation with being a mentaly disturbed wacko. Pedophiles are people who fucked up they are threatened by secondary sexual attributes and only get their hots on for children. And anyone who enjoyes animated women with huge bazongas and a leather strip or worse yet tigerskin (lum) is pretty much not in that class of sicko. If a guy likes boobies.... a pedo he is not. Some people who enjoy Henti might be a little bit off IMHO... but as long as the stuff they enjoy is between concenting adults I could care less.
It's rather a western idea that animation is for children. Anime isn't typicaly for children. I don't understand why, perhaps land cost is at a premium and it's cheaper to hire artists. Perhaps there are special effects that can't really be pulled off in a cost effective way other than the use of animation. Hendi I believe exists because of laws regarding pornography... either that or it's hard to find people to be degraded in such awful aways... couldn't tell ya. Or perhaps people like the artistic style. But there are tons of reasons why someone might choose to go animated rather than live action.
So don't enjoy animation all you want. Don't enjoy anime all you want. But when you see the popularity of television shows like "Friends" "Three's Company" or "Gilligan's Island", not to speak of all the "Survivor" spinoffs ask your self how much respect you'd have for people who watch that crap. While you may not enjoy Anime... Anime at the very least in almost all cases, even Anime geard tward kids at the very minimum has a story. There might even be a sub-plot. It might not be a good story but that is a vast improvement to "Simple Life". Simply put... I have more respect for a person who watches Speed Racer of all things than "Simple Life".
I am a Canon user (last 2 scanners + camera) but if you are running 64-bit windows XP be warned that Canon don't have 64 bit drivers for scanners at the moment, and are unlikely to provide them for some time, maybe not at all.
I haven't looked at their stand alone scanners in sometime... I was really hip on getting an AIO. I'm a geek but i'm a geek that was getting tired of having a rat's nest.
Anyhow I know for a *fact* that the mp780 has xp-64 drivers on the website. the Canoscan 9950f has xp64 drivers on the website.
I don't know for a fact that these drivers they offer will work for their other products... usually like most companies they make one driver that will work with a series of products. 4 weeks ago I would have said that canon was a bunch of bozos who said "we won't support xp-64 because it's for professionals and why would a professional buy a consumer product" but it looks like they have gotten with the program somewhat.
Scanner technology is one of those slow moving ones. I bought my first Microteck sometime circa 1994 or so, spent a good deal on it. The ONLY reason I stopped using it was the fact that they never made win95 drivers for it. I was lucky enough to have some beta drivers, but it was a flacky piece of filth that only I could use.
The only reason I would have otherwise to upgrade would be speed. My first scanner was a tripple pass model and newer models were single pass. Models after that increased in terms of speed.
Anyhow the reasons for scanner failure.
1. White alignment strip
Plastic breaks down and yellows, likely expsure to UV, perhaps some other reason. But regardless sometimes the color can become off and the scanner can no longer zero out when turned on. This can be replaced with some offical true blue solution or a piece of paper glued to where the old one was. I would reccomend something like Hammermill indoor sign paper, basicly easily choppable and sticky.
2. Lightbulb... unfortunatly someone thought it was a spiffy idea to replace the traditional bulbs the likes of which you could replace at any home depot to some stupid solder-in device and these suckers can not be replaced unless you go in with tin-snips.
3. Other mechanical failure - screw it get another
4. Lack of support - shake your fist in anger screw it and get another one
I share this because I consider the alignment strip to be a common issue, easy to resolve. While something new *may* offer improved speed and perhaps even if you are lucky higher optical resolution... due to the fact there is no standard what so ever among scanners you gotta learn new clicks.
I'm quite fussy about my mouse and really don't want a wireless one - but assuming it's a good mouse, I'm quite happy for them to cover it in buttons, lights and give it a bit of intelligence. If you don't like the feature/button you can just turn it off - never anything wrong with
I use a logitech wireless trackball but I would freely admit it's not sutable for FPS games, or any game that requires controled swift motion. That old MS-intelimouse does a better job for me in quake.
But you assume a user has one mouse, that's not always the case. Most of these extra buttons are ideal for users who either have large monitors and surf from the couch, or huge projection TVs and surf from the couch. When i'm in the mood to game, I resort to hooking up either the wired trackball which offers better swift action peformance, or an old ms intelimouse. I imagine there are other options for gamers... i'm not as serious about gaming as others.
I dunno about you, but the mx1000 I have pops up a systray message about my mouse batteries needing recharged. I've had it a few months too. What is exactly new about that?
Oh, you installed the logitech software then. I have no idea if my mx800 offers that feature or not.... I don't install the logitech bloatware. Virtually all the extra keys work out of the box so there is no need. And I understand the blinking light means charge the mouse.
When was the last time you changed the volume of your pc?
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5min ago
And when you did, did you think 'I wish I was able to control the volume directly from my mouse'?
The first time I used Winamp... scroll wheel controls volume and 3rd button scroll jumps forward/back. I imagine I could use my keyboard, but that's a tad bulky to carry around.
While I agree this looks like a bloat mouse, I must confess that I would likely buy a "multi-media" mouse/trackball that offers extra buttons such as play, stop, pause forward reverse. It would be annoying for an every day mouse but great couch mouse.
The only interesting feature you will get is that it will tell you the battery is low very often
That already exists with the mx-800 and likely the mx-1000. Charging station is the most handy feature considering how much those optical mice suck up the juice. But no two way communication was needed... just a happy little blinking light if the battery is low.
Not only is that the lamest, most pitiful flamewar I've ever seen, but shouldn't legal secretaries, of all people, use good grammar?!
No, they shouldn't! They are legal secretaries. Legaleeze is hard to master because of the absence of pronouns, and through this absence makes for some of these hardest to understand writing on earth. But make no mistake... traditional grammar skills are not required for legal secretaries.
What I can't understand is every time I've corresponded with any one in a legal firm there is always the signature that "This is privliaged information intended for the reciepent only". So why the hell is this information on the net?
You do realize that the American comic industry is larger than just Marvel and DC, right?
I never realized that. That's not entirely true... I just never gave it much thought.
There was a time when comics where impulse buy items at your local mini-mart... perhaps something you could also find on a magazine rack. They were an item that you could buy as a kid with pocket change along with your favorite candy and sugar carbonated drink. And even when these were impulse buy items... unless you went out of your way to hit a specality shop chances are the only options would be Marvel or DC for the most part. While I had heard of the statement superhero x would never meet superhero y because one is marvel and the other is DC, keep in mind that the read would actually have to pay attention to the logo on the front... which you might not notice as retail comics had barcodes in the place where a stand alone logo would be.
These days... the whole comic book scene seems pretty exclusive to specality shops. I don't know of a kid who has ever taken the time to buy a comic book. For example, I know of kids who watch Static Shock. I'm told it was a comic book that was produced by some adult independant comic publisher before being bought by DC.
My point is... if someone knows of DC and marvel i'm somewhat impressed. If they know X hero comes from marvel and y from dc, i'm very impressed. But if someone speaks of Vertigo or Wildstorm... I'd have no idea where one would even buy them.
Hey, you don't mess with Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter.
I would agree... don't rent it, don't look at it, don't touch it. Don't mess with it at all!
I'm all for b-rated movies, but this is clearly sub-b. In someways it's a sci-fi kung-fu musical. But usually with kung-fu even if the story is bad the visual choreography is entertaining even if it ends up being fought in a city with a trampoline behind every bush. But just as some might say white men can't jump... these canadians can't Kung-Fu. Music well to be frank I fast forwarded through the feature. Audio quality was crap... and I mean wind in the boom crap. And worse yet, worse yet... it doesn't make good heckling material.
Oddly enough the only people who enjoyed this film were those who enjoyed Repo Man. Repoman at least had a semi-decent sound track, a odd twisted story, and at least the feeling that even though there are some continuity issues and crew and boom visiable here and there, you get the feeling they actually tried.
Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter is just a joke, so please, if you value your self respect don't mess with it.
the thing is, when I started collecting comics, they were on newsprint paper, and less than $.50 each. you could afford to follow a bunch of different series, and get a couple of new ones each week.
I honestly don't remember what they cost when I was, only that even at 50cents per and a paperback under $5.00 to me a paperback represented more bang for the buck.
I know at some point silly puddy stopped working on comicbooks and newsprint. I assumed that this was due to a switch over to vegitable based dye rather than petrolium based dye.
I think I know what you mean as far as baxter paper is concerned. I spent a little tiny bit of time at a place owened by Mike Myers who bought comics wholesale from the big guys and sold them to chain stores in bags marked 3 for a dollar, 4 for a dollar... pissing off "true collectors". But I noticed that much of the 70s and 80s comics were dotty news print and the more modern ones were a slick treated paper. I would have never noticed the transision period. I may have noticed when prices jumped above and beyond $2.00 each.
One thing I found somewhat annoyed with was the the film "Big" showed a adult/kid character presenting the idea of comics on disc. Given the availablity of standard tools like the myst series used I don't see why this is not a reality. As an adult I found many of the theme games like Spiderman II to be most enjoyable... very much enjoyed playing syberia... so why doesn't marvel or DC take a step forward and use their artists and design some basic games with a decent plot.
generally he was a member of the Avengers (east coast) and like tony stark, (iron man) was one of the wealthy ones that allowed the super team to be able to afford the things like quinjets that he designed.
This would explain why Stark Labs is spoken of often by "true believers". To be honest I wouldn't know Marvel from DC or any of the other guys.
I was never too into comic books. I read a few, I did enjoy them to a degree... but only when I could make it to a real comic shop and buy a sequence and even then I couldn't get more than a few months worth. Each comic book was well 24ish pages long and didn't have much on the way of a story... and i'd be waiting a year for basicly a short story... and rather than wait a year and shell out what was $20ish at the time I could visit walden books and buy a real book for $5ish.
Not to poke fun at comic book fans... i'm all for a good short story or a good series of short stories, but I liked the patience then. I'm all for the idea of collections of these being strung together into large graphic novels and am often more than happy to watch film editions of these classic works of the silver age... not that i'd know when the silver age was.
Who would really be interested in Captain France? A guy that dresses up like a croissant, runs away from German bad guys and blames all his problems on Captain America.
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I don't know what's more troubling, the fact that I laughed at your joke or the fact that someone took it upon them selfs to make a "Captain France".
http://www.chambrook.org/captainfrance/index.php?
Worse in some cases. Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail were basically the same movie but they forgot to replace the same actors! One comment I've heard was "It wasn't as if the Empire State Building collapsed that they needed to make a new one!"
Could be worse. A mild mannered Microsoft employee working 100hr weeks gets fed up with all the software piracy. His only resolve is to put on an Ant constume to fight commercial piracy and spams moral messages to all the kids in....
"You've Got Mail from Sleepless Antman in Seattle"
Don't copy that floppy!
Last I checked, none of those services took out print and web advertising listing themselves as a place to get this content, for free, illegally.
I was not aware Kazaa took out print advertsing. I'm aware of sites that claimed you could download Kazaa for a fee and get stuff for free legaly.
Web advertising well... www.t50.com has been around "much" longer and links to sites that are clearly labled as "illegal downloads". Warning... these links are noted for their porn popups.