We still think violence is an excellent way to solve problems, and are largely inured to it - hence the reason why we're one of the last countries in the world to allow captial punishment for mentally retarded individuals.
That must also be one of the reasons why we have one of the most, if not *the* most, fair judicial systems. Yaknow, "innocent until proven guilty", and all that stuff. And guess what? Like it or not, violence is a great way to solve problems. In the grand scheme of things, might makes right. History is written by the winners, not the losers. That's why the USA is the United States of America, and not the Nomadic Congregation of Wandering Tribes. Hitler was evil, and he is (pretty much) universally perceived as evil. Why? Because he lost. If he conquered the world, he would be some kind of superhero.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are guys out there who have refused to se The Pillow Book because they know they'd have to see Ewan McGregor's big dick.
I don't have a problem with my sexuality at all, or my body for that matter. However, I still don't wanna stare at "Ewan McGregor's big dick". Does that mean that I have penis envy? Nope. It just means that I don't find staring at a penis to be appealing. at all. Here's a thought: maybe we don't see so many dicks because that's not what people want to see! Guys don't want to see dicks, girls don't want to see dicks, either. Here's an example: 1) Guys like titty bars. They like to watch hot chicks dance and GET NAKED. 2) Girls like male strip clubs. They like to watch hot guys dance and grind up close to them. However, they don't like the package bouncing around in their faces. Usually it's not the thing they really go for. Some women even find the package kind of gross.
I wouldn't use the car analogy. A top of the line Honda with leather and what-not will actually last longer and give you fewer problems than the BMW325i. Honda is rated the #2 car manufacturer in the world (behind Toyota), and BMW #4 (IIRC).
And no, I do not own, or ever have owned, a Toyota.
For those of you (like me) who couldn't get a great d/l speed from any of the servers, I would recommend downloading DAP (www.downloadaccelerator.com). DAP can take a list of sites, and open multiple connections to get the file you want. I couldn't get more than 20kB/s on any one site, but with DAP and a list of 6 mirrors, I was able to max out my 1.5MB connection.
Seems to me that there is only one reasonable solution for you to take, assuming that this 15hr/day policy is something your boss is looking to make permanent for the forseeable future:
1) work 15 hour days
2) actively pursue a new job somewhere else
3) once you find & accept your new job, give
your boss your 2 week notice.
If he manages to really piss you off during this time, give him a 15 minute notice of your departure.
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The number of Americans who are stupid has increased to 49 percent, up 10 percent from last year.
As much as I do not like Verisign, I cannot see how Verisign can be held responsible for the transfer. After all, this was a forged transfer. I can see how they could be held responsible for negligence in correcting the matter in a non-expeditious manner....
Anyway, there is a potential for a world of hurt, especially if a DNS server is considered to be a legitimate and unerring source of information linking a domain name with owner information. The liability would be incredible, as would the potential for mega-lawsuits!
That must mean that I didn't agree with their views...
Lemmee check.. yup! I dissed Linux on the XBox with a little something I like to call "sarcasm".
Oh no! I can feel my karma dropping from "excellent" as I type this.... Oh crap! I just realized that, since I am talking about the post which dissess Linux, that this post too must be dissnig Linux, and will also get modded down. Shit! I'm screwed! Ack!
I own a CD player, CD/MP3 player, tape player, and an MP3 player (Archos 6000, ~2 years now).
For working out, especially outdoor running, stick with the good old-fashioned tape player. I haven't found anything that works as well, has the same battery life, and is as cheap. Overall, the tape player *is* the best value.
Having said that, second place goes to the Archos, though I still can't take it for runs outside (it will skip after a while). Also, my Archos tends to incur buffer underrun because I use 320kb/s MP3's.
I have wondered why it is considered permissible, or legal, to present an individual with the terms of an EULA AFTER purchasing the product. It seems logical that the potential purchaser must be presented with all conditions of the acquisition before making the acquisition.
It appears to be analagous to these department stores which post their return policy on the back of the receipt of the product which you purchased. Under these circumstances, I know for certain that the return policy is legally void.
The same logic should follow for shrinkwrapped/electronic EULA: if the purchaser has been presented with the agreement after the purchase, the EULA is void.
Are you serious? When did 'dangerous' become 'illegal'?
When 'dangerous' can imply harm and injury to others, and sometimes yourself. It is illegal, in most states, for a citizen to discharge a firearm in public. It is illegal to drive recklessly.
Is crossing the road illegal? It can be quite dangerous you know!
Yes, it can be quite dangerous. And yes, it is illegal in many areas. It is called jaywalking. Crossing a busy intersection became a very dangerous activity, so some smart people got together and identified and marked areas on the road where people may cross the road with a mitigated risk. These areas are called 'crosswalks' (insert Dr. Evil finger quotes). A pedestrian in one of these 'crosswalks' (finger quotes) has the right of way, and motorists must yield to the pedestrian.
Anyway, getting back to the original post. Yes, it is illegal to run off and launch a craft into sub-orbital space. Why? Because it is dangerous. What if some yahoo decided to launch his garage rocket from his backyard, which is located next to LAX (Los Angeles airport)? He could hit something or kill someone! Not a good idea.
These rocket-heads have to acquire the appropriate permissions and clearances before firing off their garage rockets. At the least, I would assume that they need to get FAA clearance, which would involve providing them with a launch and flight plan. In addition, they would probably have to get clearance from the local authorities for both the launch and landing sites. They would also probably have to pay out of pocket expenses to have fire and ambulance personnel available, yadda yadda yadda
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Yes, but that would have added another 4 hours to the movie...
.......
Shatner: Ol
Tom Bombadil is
a handsome
fellow
His shirt
is bright blue
and
his boots
yellow................
Oh My GOD! There's something out on the WING!!!
Director: CUT! CUT! CUT! Dammit Bill, get with the program. Why don't you take 5 and give your wife a call or something.... oops... sorry.
We still think violence is an excellent way to solve problems, and are largely inured to it - hence the reason why we're one of the last countries in the world to allow captial punishment for mentally retarded individuals.
That must also be one of the reasons why we have one of the most, if not *the* most, fair judicial systems. Yaknow, "innocent until proven guilty", and all that stuff.
And guess what? Like it or not, violence is a great way to solve problems. In the grand scheme of things, might makes right.
History is written by the winners, not the losers. That's why the USA is the United States of America, and not the Nomadic Congregation of Wandering Tribes.
Hitler was evil, and he is (pretty much) universally perceived as evil. Why? Because he lost. If he conquered the world, he would be some kind of superhero.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are guys out there who have refused to se The Pillow Book because they know they'd have to see Ewan McGregor's big dick.
I don't have a problem with my sexuality at all, or my body for that matter.
However, I still don't wanna stare at "Ewan McGregor's big dick". Does that mean that I have penis envy? Nope. It just means that I don't find staring at a penis to be appealing.
at all.
Here's a thought: maybe we don't see so many dicks because that's not what people want to see! Guys don't want to see dicks, girls don't want to see dicks, either. Here's an example:
1) Guys like titty bars. They like to watch hot chicks dance and GET NAKED.
2) Girls like male strip clubs. They like to watch hot guys dance and grind up close to them. However, they don't like the package bouncing around in their faces. Usually it's not the thing they really go for. Some women even find the package kind of gross.
So why didn't you dub it the Vinternet?
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Perhaps this concept of JITE (just in time evolution) could be used to explain this article:
9 99 92844
.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns
Then again, its kind of hard for me to tell since The ORIGINAL ARTICLE is for SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
Slash-DUH
I wouldn't use the car analogy. A top of the line Honda with leather and what-not will actually last longer and give you fewer problems than the BMW325i.
Honda is rated the #2 car manufacturer in the world (behind Toyota), and BMW #4 (IIRC).
And no, I do not own, or ever have owned, a Toyota.
For those of you (like me) who couldn't get a great d/l speed from any of the servers, I would recommend downloading DAP (www.downloadaccelerator.com). DAP can take a list of sites, and open multiple connections to get the file you want. I couldn't get more than 20kB/s on any one site, but with DAP and a list of 6 mirrors, I was able to max out my 1.5MB connection.
What were his royalties for having Pitfall! spoofed on South Park (the molesting priests episode)
?
Seems to me that there is only one reasonable solution for you to take, assuming that this 15hr/day policy is something your boss is looking to make permanent for the forseeable future:
1) work 15 hour days
2) actively pursue a new job somewhere else
3) once you find & accept your new job, give
your boss your 2 week notice.
If he manages to really piss you off during this time, give him a 15 minute notice of your departure.
The number of Americans who are stupid has increased to 49 percent, up 10 percent from last year.
Net-whah?
SCIENCE!!
After exetensive laboratory examination, the meteorite rock was determined to actually be a tooth which had fallen out of her father's mouth.
sue em all
let the court sort em out
I would believe that if the statement was qualified as the highest grossing animation ever, but not film.
I don't even think that Mononoke even was the top grossing film of the year.
IIRC, Titanic came out in the same year, and topped the charts in Japan for largest gross.
As much as I do not like Verisign, I cannot see how Verisign can be held responsible for the transfer. After all, this was a forged transfer.
I can see how they could be held responsible for negligence in correcting the matter in a non-expeditious manner....
Anyway, there is a potential for a world of hurt, especially if a DNS server is considered to be a legitimate and unerring source of information linking a domain name with owner information. The liability would be incredible, as would the potential for mega-lawsuits!
Wow, now that is a cool idea!
Now this is a security measure that I can deal with.
One Tiamat at every terminal!
All terrorists will be engulfed in Hell-flames forged in the belly of the guardian dragon located at the Delta counter at terminal C.
I've been modded down by the ./ police!
That must mean that I didn't agree with their views...
Lemmee check.. yup! I dissed Linux on the XBox with a little something I like to call "sarcasm".
Oh no! I can feel my karma dropping from "excellent" as I type this.... Oh crap! I just realized that, since I am talking about the post which dissess Linux, that this post too must be dissnig Linux, and will also get modded down.
Shit! I'm screwed! Ack!
To this kind of brain-wave invasion:
Professor Chaos!
From getting MAME on the XBox. How cool is that?
1994 video games running poorly on 2002 hardware!
Tune in next week when we hack the Kanazawa NEC supercomputer with Linux! With some luck, we may get to be able to run Doom at 30fps. Woo-hoo!
If you are here, asking these kinds of questions, you will never be able to open a successful business.
Go figure it out on your own.
I own a CD player, CD/MP3 player, tape player, and an MP3 player (Archos 6000, ~2 years now).
For working out, especially outdoor running, stick with the good old-fashioned tape player. I haven't found anything that works as well, has the same battery life, and is as cheap. Overall, the tape player *is* the best value.
Having said that, second place goes to the Archos, though I still can't take it for runs outside (it will skip after a while). Also, my Archos tends to incur buffer underrun because I use 320kb/s MP3's.
I have wondered why it is considered permissible, or legal, to present an individual with the terms of an EULA AFTER purchasing the product. It seems logical that the potential purchaser must be presented with all conditions of the acquisition before making the acquisition.
It appears to be analagous to these department stores which post their return policy on the back of the receipt of the product which you purchased. Under these circumstances, I know for certain that the return policy is legally void.
The same logic should follow for shrinkwrapped/electronic EULA: if the purchaser has been presented with the agreement after the purchase, the EULA is void.
But basically, unless you pass the following test, I suspect that deep down you are looking for an excuse to be cheap:
(snip snip)
If you answer 'yes' to any one of the following questions, you must also be cheap:
- I like to pay extraordinary amounts of money for products of inferior quality.
- I enjoy pissing away thousands of dollars on a piece of jewelry that is kept artificially overvalued.
- I love being at the mercy of international jewel cartels.
- I like getting ripped off.
All of the /. joke posters must be home alone, chugging beers until their world becomes a haze of barley and hops and passes out.
/noclip on with these rockets!"
Why do I say this? Because there are NO Carmack/Quake/Rocketry jokes.
Like:
New Poll:
Name of Carmack's first rocket:
FragFest
Pineapple Express
HAB (High Altitude Bastard)
RJ-101
BFR (Big F*n Rocket)
Doom-ed
CowboyNeal!
Or... "I hope that he leaves
Or... "What's the code to turn godmode on in his rocketship?"
Or... "Will he call the rockets that crash WADs?"
Or... "To Hell with outfitting the ship with a BFG, I'll be happy if he puts in a BFP (Big F*n Parachute)."
Or... "If the ship's AI is the same as the Quake bots, then I think I'll stick to driving"
Or... "Will a little network jack icon appear just before you crash and die?"
Are you serious? When did 'dangerous' become 'illegal'?
When 'dangerous' can imply harm and injury to others, and sometimes yourself. It is illegal, in most states, for a citizen to discharge a firearm in public. It is illegal to drive recklessly.
Is crossing the road illegal? It can be quite dangerous you know!
Yes, it can be quite dangerous. And yes, it is illegal in many areas. It is called jaywalking. Crossing a busy intersection became a very dangerous activity, so some smart people got together and identified and marked areas on the road where people may cross the road with a mitigated risk. These areas are called 'crosswalks' (insert Dr. Evil finger quotes). A pedestrian in one of these 'crosswalks' (finger quotes) has the right of way, and motorists must yield to the pedestrian.
Anyway, getting back to the original post. Yes, it is illegal to run off and launch a craft into sub-orbital space. Why? Because it is dangerous. What if some yahoo decided to launch his garage rocket from his backyard, which is located next to LAX (Los Angeles airport)? He could hit something or kill someone! Not a good idea.
These rocket-heads have to acquire the appropriate permissions and clearances before firing off their garage rockets. At the least, I would assume that they need to get FAA clearance, which would involve providing them with a launch and flight plan. In addition, they would probably have to get clearance from the local authorities for both the launch and landing sites. They would also probably have to pay out of pocket expenses to have fire and ambulance personnel available, yadda yadda yadda
-D