I'm only going to tell you morons this one more time!
The second law of thermodynamics is an empirical law. It is based upon observations, with no theory backing it up. It's like watching traffic and saying "of the last 100 cars, 20 of them were blue, ergo, 20% of all cars are blue".
So I don't want you losers trotting out that little bit of 19th century superstition when trying to explain why that "anomolous heat" can't possibly exist, hence these fine upstanding chemists are obivious frauds who lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
If you yoyos weren't so busy burying your heads in the sand, you'd have the time to take an honest look at the data and do your own damn experiments to prove or disprove the matter once and for all. Instead you engage in ad hominem attacks rather than doing real science.
Why do you think President Bush, jr wants a strategic missile defense? You have a much longer warning when your targets are coming from the moon.
He might not come across as the sharpest axe in the shed, but his advisors have already figured this one out. Believe it or not, they're honestly looking out for the country.
Of course the US Moon landings were real!
What other motivation could the RED CHINEESE have to go to the moon other than to eradicate all evidence of the United States great achievement?
You know how those dirty commie bastards are. They take credit for every achievement and invention since the dawn of time.
Why do you assume that they plan on shipping anything back to Earth?
The one advantage of mining raw materials on the Moon, is that they're not at the bottom of an inconvienently large gravity well.
And, manned, well, because what better way of ensuring the future of International Communism than by expanding into Interplanetary- and then Interstellar- Communism?
(Didn't you read the transcript of President Carter's speech to Cuba where he asserted that Cuba will have to adopt Football over "Soccer" if they want to be accepted into the NWO?)
It's piratanical trolls like you that killed Atari the first time!
If you would have opened up your wallet and bought something once in a while, Atari would still be making games today. They invented the video game, and were technological innovaters (and not in the MS sense of the word). Now they're just a brand name that gets whored around for pocket change.
This just proves that you damn Open Source types have your roots firmly placed in the warez arena, and that's the way you like it. God forbid that somebody make something worthwhile, and have the audacity to ask you to pay for it.
My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but
tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward,
and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
-- Kodos gives a speech, "Treehouse of Horror VII"
Two of the best shows Fox still had remaining, which they ham-handedly try to kill by randomly scheduleing them. Better get a TiVo so you don't miss one of the few times Fox slips up and airs one of these. Oops, I forgot, this is where the networks cry poor and claim PVRs create piracy. (Or was that iMacs?)
Quite frankly, as far as Futurama, I hope Groening can slip out of any contractual bonds, tell Fox they've mismanaged his show and to screw off, he's selling it directly to viewers.
Fox seems particularly bad about screwing up a good thing. Remember how good the animated "The Tick" was and how hard it was to find when it was on? Remember how atrocious the live action "The Tick" was once Fox tried to cash in on what the fucked up the first time?
Unfortunately, I seem to be part of the target audience for smart or quirky TV. A lot of shows I like get that sort of shabby treatment. Simply because they don't hit a 68% demographic.
I should be legally allowed to hit people in the head with a hammer. It would be a great benefit to society.
I don't care if I can throw out their unsolicited solicitations. The point of the matter is that they're being overbearing and presumptous of our relationship. They loan me money on a charge account -- I pay them interest on the bill.
All these people intruding into our daily lives in order to sell us something are trampling over common decency. Makes me want to get Judith Martin to open a can of whoopass on them.
If Rudy Guilani (sp?) can target "quality of life" crimes and clean up NYC, why can't we have an effective anti-advertising advocate? (Ok, so in NY, they basically went after bums and miscreants vs "respectible" businesses. The pragmatist in me sees why that's a different situation.)
sigh. I guess a perfect world wouldn't be quite so interesting either.
"Perhaps with the advent of digital people can have 2 cable options:"
3. Same crap. Same ads. Now with MPEG artifacts from CRAPPY COMPRESSION! It's digital, it's better! -- for the cable company that is! That means it allows us to cram 200 pay-per-view channels down the wire!
When I think about shit like this, I truely despair for the fate of mankind. Then I realize that none of these are neccessities.
Ooops, totally failed to address your last point.
Somebody pays for the total cost of programs, it's just a lot of hidden costs spread over the whole of society. And when you get down to it, the money comes out of the pockets of people -- not government, not corporations.
I would gladly accept a pay for what you view option -- I would watch less crap TV and have a more productive life. I've gone without a TV in the past, and I could do without one now -- but that's not a choice my wife would make. So it's in the house, we subscribe to cable -- and end up watching a lot of drek -- and get subjected to ads.
And this new trend of showing ads at the cinema before the main feature irks me too. Once again, the advertizers are double dipping -- I paid to watch the movie, and they use me as a captive audience to try to sell me shit.
Sell! Sell! Sell! Gotta keep the economy going! Oh, and I hate goddamned telemarkers, too! And banks use the fact that you have a credit card with them as a pretense to annoy you with marketing calls -- or putting junk mail in your bills.
Sheeeet, I pay, hmmmm, 12 x ~$50 = $600 a year for programming, AND I STILL GET ADS SHOVED IN MY FACE!!![*]
And PBS does have ads -- they just politely wait until the inter-program gap instead of hacking the programs into 15 minute chunks. Oh, and the twice yearly beg-a-thon that makes them entirely useless for two weeks twice a year.
My point being is that intjecting ads into the programming was acceptable during the days of "free TV" -- ie, put up a pair of rabbit ears and watch Uncle Miltie.
It is not acceptable when I directly pay for programming.
The whole system of television "broadcasting" is FUBAR beyond belief, and needs to be re-evaluated from the ground up, taking new technologies into account. That means VHS, TIVO, banner ads, VCDs, and the interweb.
Whoa, slipped into rant mode there...
(*Yes, I understand that I'm paying the cable company, but damn, I'm paying for programming, I could care less about having a wire to my house. The cable company should share the wealth with the networks and production companies.)
"they rescale the main show to a new aspect ratio for 15-20s while running the banner ad. Makes everyone look short and fat. Freaking annoying" - seems like if they care about their program enough to bitch about people not watching the ads, they should care enough to preserve the aspect ratio. If they steal 10% off the bottom, steal 10% off the side.
Grabbing the desired window isn't hard. Automatically determining which is the target is an exercise left for the reader.
I'm not falling for your disinformation, you NRO patsy!
All discerning people realize that, although it is passed off as a harmless lark, "Where's George" is something much more sinister!
<fnord!>
Starting in 1997, MKULTRA-NG mind-controlled puppets have been indoctrinated to access the "Where's George" site when the recieve a dollar bill with the appropriate command coding on the back. Consciously, they think that they are entering in the Federal Reserve serial number from the bill. But subconsciously, they are entering their MKGUID, which uniquely identifies the MK sleeper agent.
This allows the Illuminati to easily track their agents in the field. If they have new orders for the erstwhile Manchurian candidate, they will be routed to a seperate website with where they will find their updated briefing material.
</fnord!>
Of course, the proceeding was totall bullshit, and actually part of the insidious NWO CONTELINPRO program.
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Why can't nerds tell Halloween from Easter?
Because 31(hex) == 29(oct)!
Why can't nerds tell Christmas from Halloween?
Because 25(hex) == 31(dec)!!!!
[*] or is this the greatest troll of all time?
I'm only going to tell you morons this one more time!
The second law of thermodynamics is an empirical law. It is based upon observations, with no theory backing it up. It's like watching traffic and saying "of the last 100 cars, 20 of them were blue, ergo, 20% of all cars are blue".
So I don't want you losers trotting out that little bit of 19th century superstition when trying to explain why that "anomolous heat" can't possibly exist, hence these fine upstanding chemists are obivious frauds who lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
If you yoyos weren't so busy burying your heads in the sand, you'd have the time to take an honest look at the data and do your own damn experiments to prove or disprove the matter once and for all. Instead you engage in ad hominem attacks rather than doing real science.
Why do you think President Bush, jr wants a strategic missile defense? You have a much longer warning when your targets are coming from the moon.
He might not come across as the sharpest axe in the shed, but his advisors have already figured this one out. Believe it or not, they're honestly looking out for the country.
Of course the US Moon landings were real!
What other motivation could the RED CHINEESE have to go to the moon other than to eradicate all evidence of the United States great achievement?
You know how those dirty commie bastards are. They take credit for every achievement and invention since the dawn of time.
Why do you assume that they plan on shipping anything back to Earth?
The one advantage of mining raw materials on the Moon, is that they're not at the bottom of an inconvienently large gravity well.
And, manned, well, because what better way of ensuring the future of International Communism than by expanding into Interplanetary- and then Interstellar- Communism?
And Steven Spielberg screwed it up even more in the movies. I don't remember Mr Spock being that short on the television series.
We've already seen the future!
(Moderators : check the link and grok the sad pun, then downmod me!)
From that picture, I see an obvious problem already.
"powered by MSN"
Probably runs the "MS Virus Writers SDK" (Outlook), too.
Football? WTF?
Football doesn't start until September!
(Didn't you read the transcript of President Carter's speech to Cuba where he asserted that Cuba will have to adopt Football over "Soccer" if they want to be accepted into the NWO?)
It's piratanical trolls like you that killed Atari the first time!
If you would have opened up your wallet and bought something once in a while, Atari would still be making games today. They invented the video game, and were technological innovaters (and not in the MS sense of the word). Now they're just a brand name that gets whored around for pocket change.
This just proves that you damn Open Source types have your roots firmly placed in the warez arena, and that's the way you like it. God forbid that somebody make something worthwhile, and have the audacity to ask you to pay for it.
My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
-- Kodos gives a speech, "Treehouse of Horror VII"
snpp -- the definitive reference
"Family Guy and Futurama"
Two of the best shows Fox still had remaining, which they ham-handedly try to kill by randomly scheduleing them. Better get a TiVo so you don't miss one of the few times Fox slips up and airs one of these. Oops, I forgot, this is where the networks cry poor and claim PVRs create piracy. (Or was that iMacs?)
Quite frankly, as far as Futurama, I hope Groening can slip out of any contractual bonds, tell Fox they've mismanaged his show and to screw off, he's selling it directly to viewers.
Fox seems particularly bad about screwing up a good thing. Remember how good the animated "The Tick" was and how hard it was to find when it was on? Remember how atrocious the live action "The Tick" was once Fox tried to cash in on what the fucked up the first time?
Unfortunately, I seem to be part of the target audience for smart or quirky TV. A lot of shows I like get that sort of shabby treatment. Simply because they don't hit a 68% demographic.
I should be legally allowed to hit people in the head with a hammer. It would be a great benefit to society.
Yay for deregulation!
See, you dirty commie lunix bastards, the free market does work!
(shit, I didn't mean that to be a troll...)
And then there's Microsoft...
I have a big fat linux geek that I would like to convert.
Do you reccomend NTFS or FAT32?
Do you have a link to MSDN that will tell me how to do the conversion?
thx
PS -- Miss Manners WR0X0R!!
I saw her on David Letterman one time, and she made Dave behave. Without being a humorless fuddy-duddy. She's actually quite witty. [*]
([*]like all expert witnesses, I only cite her when she backs up my current petty vendetta...)
I don't care if I can throw out their unsolicited solicitations. The point of the matter is that they're being overbearing and presumptous of our relationship. They loan me money on a charge account -- I pay them interest on the bill.
All these people intruding into our daily lives in order to sell us something are trampling over common decency. Makes me want to get Judith Martin to open a can of whoopass on them.
If Rudy Guilani (sp?) can target "quality of life" crimes and clean up NYC, why can't we have an effective anti-advertising advocate? (Ok, so in NY, they basically went after bums and miscreants vs "respectible" businesses. The pragmatist in me sees why that's a different situation.)
sigh. I guess a perfect world wouldn't be quite so interesting either.
"Perhaps with the advent of digital people can have 2 cable options:"
3. Same crap. Same ads. Now with MPEG artifacts from CRAPPY COMPRESSION! It's digital, it's better! -- for the cable company that is! That means it allows us to cram 200 pay-per-view channels down the wire!
When I think about shit like this, I truely despair for the fate of mankind. Then I realize that none of these are neccessities.
From the raging success of online advertising,
I would have to say -- YES.
Ooops, totally failed to address your last point. Somebody pays for the total cost of programs, it's just a lot of hidden costs spread over the whole of society. And when you get down to it, the money comes out of the pockets of people -- not government, not corporations.
I would gladly accept a pay for what you view option -- I would watch less crap TV and have a more productive life. I've gone without a TV in the past, and I could do without one now -- but that's not a choice my wife would make. So it's in the house, we subscribe to cable -- and end up watching a lot of drek -- and get subjected to ads.
And this new trend of showing ads at the cinema before the main feature irks me too. Once again, the advertizers are double dipping -- I paid to watch the movie, and they use me as a captive audience to try to sell me shit.
Sell! Sell! Sell! Gotta keep the economy going! Oh, and I hate goddamned telemarkers, too! And banks use the fact that you have a credit card with them as a pretense to annoy you with marketing calls -- or putting junk mail in your bills.
I AM NOT A CONSUMER, I AM A FREE MAN!
$200/yr?
Two hundred dollars a year?!!!!
Sheeeet, I pay, hmmmm, 12 x ~$50 = $600 a year for programming , AND I STILL GET ADS SHOVED IN MY FACE!!![*]
And PBS does have ads -- they just politely wait until the inter-program gap instead of hacking the programs into 15 minute chunks. Oh, and the twice yearly beg-a-thon that makes them entirely useless for two weeks twice a year.
My point being is that intjecting ads into the programming was acceptable during the days of "free TV" -- ie, put up a pair of rabbit ears and watch Uncle Miltie.
It is not acceptable when I directly pay for programming.
The whole system of television "broadcasting" is FUBAR beyond belief, and needs to be re-evaluated from the ground up, taking new technologies into account. That means VHS, TIVO, banner ads, VCDs, and the interweb.
Whoa, slipped into rant mode there...
(*Yes, I understand that I'm paying the cable company, but damn, I'm paying for programming, I could care less about having a wire to my house. The cable company should share the wealth with the networks and production companies.)
- "they rescale the main show to a new aspect ratio for 15-20s while running the banner ad. Makes everyone look short and fat. Freaking annoying" - seems like if they care about their program enough to bitch about people not watching the ads, they should care enough to preserve the aspect ratio. If they steal 10% off the bottom, steal 10% off the side.
- Grabbing the desired window isn't hard. Automatically determining which is the target is an exercise left for the reader.
Both are just a simple matter of software.I'm not falling for your disinformation, you NRO patsy!
All discerning people realize that, although it is passed off as a harmless lark, "Where's George" is something much more sinister!
<fnord!>
Starting in 1997, MKULTRA-NG mind-controlled puppets have been indoctrinated to access the "Where's George" site when the recieve a dollar bill with the appropriate command coding on the back. Consciously, they think that they are entering in the Federal Reserve serial number from the bill. But subconsciously, they are entering their MKGUID, which uniquely identifies the MK sleeper agent.
This allows the Illuminati to easily track their agents in the field. If they have new orders for the erstwhile Manchurian candidate, they will be routed to a seperate website with where they will find their updated briefing material.
</fnord!>
Of course, the proceeding was totall bullshit, and actually part of the insidious NWO CONTELINPRO program.
Alex Chiu, where are you?