So you would like to see her bones crushed and her fake breasts intact? Why don't you just get a blowup doll.
I would rather she stay looking exactly how she is and just stop singing. Perhaps we could just rupture her eardrums enough to send her tone deaf, leading to the demise of her 'singing' career.
Probably because your education system has not provided you with a firm understanding of the english language.
Can anybody spell Lindows, or Gentoo
Yep, you can spell just fine, as can most of us. It's more your use of commas, your terrible grammar and your inability to string a collection of words together to form a sensible sentence.
BTW... on a serious note, in terms of simplicity Lindows is an alternative but Gentoo is a geeks (or at least newbie geeks) zone only.
It's all about the Point Management System (PMS). You endure awful movies, perform tasks around the house prior to being nagged to do it and do romantic thingys in order to score points. Points are rewarded depending on the level of commitment/endurance you demonstrated.
For example, sitting through Titanic requires a high level of endurance and will score quite well. But if you are looking to earn enough points for a home network then you are going to have to attempt to sit through a Fried Green Tomatoes, Driving Miss Daisy Double. Even this won't get you close to earning enough points. Dishwashing, vacuuming and taking out the trash are good, but even better if you do it without being told. A romantic date to the movies is good, if dinner is thrown in even better. Dinner at Hooters is not good.
And ofcourse, beware, points can be deducted. You must be on your best behavior. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee that any points will be retained for any period longer than a month.
While I believe that there is other life in the universe I doubt any of it is within our own solar system. As for discovering traces of life on Mars in the near future, I doubt it. We're still struggling to catalogue all our ecosystems here on earth and yet somehow a units of measurement challenged robot is going to stumble across life on Mars.
We were going in the right direction.... down to 4.... then some tool brought it back up to 5. And all this time superpulpsicle still thinks he's insightful.
While he got this detail wrong I hardly think it is an important one. If that whole paragraph were just the first two sentences it would not at all detract from the feel of the article.
Points for picking up on the mistake but don't blow it out or proportion.
I would like to welcome the/. community to my work place then. About the time I started here (3 and a bit years ago) my company have been trying to get more productivity out of a certain co-worker (I user the term worker quite liberally here). It is now at the stage where I check my watch against him. When he arrives at work it must be 10:30am unless it's Tuesday in which case it is 11:30am. When he goes to lunch it is 12:50pm (in order to beat the rush). When he's finished his lunch and starts proclaiming to the office the latest whacky news stories it's about 1:10pm. When he calls up his friend it's 1:30pm. When he finishes his call it's 2:00pm. When he finally asks someone for help calling a method of an object (cause he can only program in Fortran) it's 3:00pm. And you know it is 5:00pm when he makes his grand departure. Drink breaks are taken every hour on the hour.
This guy doesn't even bother faking it anymore! Rumoour has it that he is writing his own science fiction novel (no joke). I'm guessing the title will be 'Timesheets' (bad joke).
At the time I was in the US practically every major news station covered only stories which did not portray the US invasion in a bad light. I felt most of the stories I saw simply stated the facts of the situation. I did not feel that any of it was particularly pro or anti US. What I did find was that some stories covered in overseas media were not covered in the US, or were at most hiding in an obscure column somewhere. I did not mean to compare State run media with US media. Everyone knows media run by dictatorial governments is at best fiction loosely based on events that possibly happened. But what you may not have known is that your own media was and still is not exactly open to presenting stories portraying US troops and the war in general in a bad light.
As for your history has spoken, yes Saddam is out of power, but, you have not found any WMD so you have not disarmed anything yet, there were far more innocent civilian casualties than 9/11 (just perpetuating civilian death) and we now have a nation under foriegn occupation. There is no proof that there are dead terrorists (not all Muslims are terrorists). The US had just as many deals in the past with Saddam as Britian, France, Germany and Russia. The first building in Baghdad the US troops guarded was the Ministry of Oil building letting looters go to town on the museum despite plees from the museum staff. True, no refugee crisis but some running water would really help about now.
Give it a rest, already! I'm tired of this bogus charge. No freedoms have been removed.
Please read the Patriot Act
Getting them to not hate us has never been an objective of the war on terrorism.
Pity that. Terrorism is not a person, group of people or a country that we can just go and bomb. It is an idealogy. And if you would care to listen to the terrorists as to why they hate you then you would see it has nothing to do with your 'way of life' or freedoms but instead your foriegn policies (i.e how you screw the rest of the world for your own gain).
They are dead now more than ever. The ones still alive respect us now more than ever. Syria is turning over terrorists. Palestinians are giving Arafat the boot.
The ones still alive hate you even more. The deads ones are fast being replaced by moderate muslims who are watching world events and are being pushed further to the fundamentalist side. Moderate muslim nations like Morrocco are struggling with an increase in fundamentalism. I hope you don't think Arafat is your problem.
media wildly distort reality
Take a look at your own buddy. I was working in America throughout most of the war but only saw news stories that painted the US in a good light. When I logged onto the news at home (www.smh.com.au) I got to see a few more stories, ones that weren't exactly pro-US.
You also seem to paint all Arabs with the same brush. There are Arabs who do not live under a dictator, or if they do it is a US condoned dictator anyway.
Maybe individualism is not just an American thing. Maybe freedom is a universal thing.
Would you guys get off your high horse. You think you are the only country with freedom. Take a look at Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Britian, Western Europe, even parts of the former Communist Europe have the same freedoms and often times more than you. Stop being so insular.
In case you didn't notice it comes with 128Mb of RAM upgradable to a maximum of 256Mb. With these memory restrictions it's no wonder they don't ship it with XP.
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when i was a child (i was born in 1939) we would take large pieces of lumber and smash frogs on the head. we had no video games back then.
When I was a teen (in 1993) we would get an old 3 wood and launch cane toads down an imaginary fairway (it's okay cause they're a pest).
So your asking computer nerds to pass up a free meal? Let's start with something small like world peace.
Yeah, mod it down cause it is anti-US. Ignore the issue mentioned and it'll just go away.
"From now on today will be known as XBox Independence Day!"
So you would like to see her bones crushed and her fake breasts intact? Why don't you just get a blowup doll.
I would rather she stay looking exactly how she is and just stop singing. Perhaps we could just rupture her eardrums enough to send her tone deaf, leading to the demise of her 'singing' career.
... should probably be banged on for several weeks with at least a dozen guinea pigs
First make sure that this is legal in your state. Richard Gere got into trouble for involving small rodents in his banging sessions.
I do not make any sense why
... on a serious note, in terms of simplicity Lindows is an alternative but Gentoo is a geeks (or at least newbie geeks) zone only.
Probably because your education system has not provided you with a firm understanding of the english language.
Can anybody spell Lindows, or Gentoo
Yep, you can spell just fine, as can most of us. It's more your use of commas, your terrible grammar and your inability to string a collection of words together to form a sensible sentence.
BTW
I made the mistake of reading this entire article. I recommend to all those who entertain the idea skip it.
Damn it! The one time I decided to RTFA and it's a dud. I swear I'll never read an article again!
It's all about the Point Management System (PMS). You endure awful movies, perform tasks around the house prior to being nagged to do it and do romantic thingys in order to score points. Points are rewarded depending on the level of commitment/endurance you demonstrated.
For example, sitting through Titanic requires a high level of endurance and will score quite well. But if you are looking to earn enough points for a home network then you are going to have to attempt to sit through a Fried Green Tomatoes, Driving Miss Daisy Double. Even this won't get you close to earning enough points. Dishwashing, vacuuming and taking out the trash are good, but even better if you do it without being told. A romantic date to the movies is good, if dinner is thrown in even better. Dinner at Hooters is not good.
And ofcourse, beware, points can be deducted. You must be on your best behavior. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee that any points will be retained for any period longer than a month.
Good luck
While I believe that there is other life in the universe I doubt any of it is within our own solar system. As for discovering traces of life on Mars in the near future, I doubt it. We're still struggling to catalogue all our ecosystems here on earth and yet somehow a units of measurement challenged robot is going to stumble across life on Mars.
We were going in the right direction .... down to 4 .... then some tool brought it back up to 5. And all this time superpulpsicle still thinks he's insightful.
Where is -5 Didn't RTFM when you need it!
Note to parent and all those that modded this up:
RTFA!
The analogy makes no sense at all. In fact I'm at a loss as to how any analogy involving Macca's and annoying teenagers would work in this situation.
And you'll now be able to compare the price of Amazon Hacks using Amazon hacks.
While he got this detail wrong I hardly think it is an important one. If that whole paragraph were just the first two sentences it would not at all detract from the feel of the article.
Points for picking up on the mistake but don't blow it out or proportion.
I don't know what arsen is, but if it has got anything to do with the goatse dude then yes .... not very pretty indeed.
The title seems to suggest that it is called "Fast TCP"??
... we're not even reading the title of the stories anymore.
Gee
So will they use EBay to sell their patents?
Two hands and a mouth ... we are ready for the three breasted women!
I would like to welcome the /. community to my work place then. About the time I started here (3 and a bit years ago) my company have been trying to get more productivity out of a certain co-worker (I user the term worker quite liberally here). It is now at the stage where I check my watch against him. When he arrives at work it must be 10:30am unless it's Tuesday in which case it is 11:30am. When he goes to lunch it is 12:50pm (in order to beat the rush). When he's finished his lunch and starts proclaiming to the office the latest whacky news stories it's about 1:10pm. When he calls up his friend it's 1:30pm. When he finishes his call it's 2:00pm. When he finally asks someone for help calling a method of an object (cause he can only program in Fortran) it's 3:00pm. And you know it is 5:00pm when he makes his grand departure. Drink breaks are taken every hour on the hour.
This guy doesn't even bother faking it anymore! Rumoour has it that he is writing his own science fiction novel (no joke). I'm guessing the title will be 'Timesheets' (bad joke).
At the time I was in the US practically every major news station covered only stories which did not portray the US invasion in a bad light. I felt most of the stories I saw simply stated the facts of the situation. I did not feel that any of it was particularly pro or anti US. What I did find was that some stories covered in overseas media were not covered in the US, or were at most hiding in an obscure column somewhere. I did not mean to compare State run media with US media. Everyone knows media run by dictatorial governments is at best fiction loosely based on events that possibly happened. But what you may not have known is that your own media was and still is not exactly open to presenting stories portraying US troops and the war in general in a bad light.
As for your history has spoken, yes Saddam is out of power, but, you have not found any WMD so you have not disarmed anything yet, there were far more innocent civilian casualties than 9/11 (just perpetuating civilian death) and we now have a nation under foriegn occupation. There is no proof that there are dead terrorists (not all Muslims are terrorists). The US had just as many deals in the past with Saddam as Britian, France, Germany and Russia. The first building in Baghdad the US troops guarded was the Ministry of Oil building letting looters go to town on the museum despite plees from the museum staff. True, no refugee crisis but some running water would really help about now.
You're a product of your own media's ignorance.
Now tell me, which one should be illegal?
Both!
Please read the Patriot Act
Getting them to not hate us has never been an objective of the war on terrorism.
Pity that. Terrorism is not a person, group of people or a country that we can just go and bomb. It is an idealogy. And if you would care to listen to the terrorists as to why they hate you then you would see it has nothing to do with your 'way of life' or freedoms but instead your foriegn policies (i.e how you screw the rest of the world for your own gain).
They are dead now more than ever. The ones still alive respect us now more than ever. Syria is turning over terrorists. Palestinians are giving Arafat the boot.
The ones still alive hate you even more. The deads ones are fast being replaced by moderate muslims who are watching world events and are being pushed further to the fundamentalist side. Moderate muslim nations like Morrocco are struggling with an increase in fundamentalism. I hope you don't think Arafat is your problem.
media wildly distort reality
Take a look at your own buddy. I was working in America throughout most of the war but only saw news stories that painted the US in a good light. When I logged onto the news at home (www.smh.com.au) I got to see a few more stories, ones that weren't exactly pro-US.
You also seem to paint all Arabs with the same brush. There are Arabs who do not live under a dictator, or if they do it is a US condoned dictator anyway.
Maybe individualism is not just an American thing. Maybe freedom is a universal thing.
Would you guys get off your high horse. You think you are the only country with freedom. Take a look at Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Britian, Western Europe, even parts of the former Communist Europe have the same freedoms and often times more than you. Stop being so insular.
That's sweet coming from the guy who wrote this
Was he running his website on his PDA as well? Did we crash his train too?
In case you didn't notice it comes with 128Mb of RAM upgradable to a maximum of 256Mb. With these memory restrictions it's no wonder they don't ship it with XP.