If Gore wins, then your vote for Bush is as wasted as your hypothetical vote for Harry Browne.
If everyone who ever said "I agree with the Libertarians, but they don't have a chance" would just vote for a Libertarian, there'd be one in the White House. --
80 hours times 44 bucks an hour is $3520. That's almost double what I take home in a month. I find it hard to generate much sympathy for that kind of money.
Suppose you tell us where you went to medical school? Suppose you tell us where you did your residency, and your internship? And suppose you cite some research that shows this?
We have all the free energy we could ever want, from literally the biggest fusion reactor that will ever exist in the Sol system.
Yeah, the sun.
All we need is a constellation of satellites, each covered with solar panels and a giant maser. Beam all that power into huge antenna fields. You can even let the cows graze underneath.
The only problem is that all of that extra power eventually turns into heat. --
Oh god. 15 years from now there'll be pissed off high schoolers because their parents saddled them with names like Riley and Taylor that were trendy at the time of their birth. 20 years from now there'll be pissed off high schoolers because their parents gave them noses that were trendy at the time of their birth. --
...that the science fiction authors and the costume designers have a deal. The authors won't try to design movie costumes, and the designers won't try to write science fiction.
I used to work for Diamond Multimedia supporting modems. When the SupraMax (software-based, in other words a "winmodem") came along, we hated them. A lot of our support calls were for people who bought this cheap 56k modem for gaming use and were angry when they got 300-400ms ping times vs. 100 or fewer on their old 28.8k modems. For some applications, even on a P2-350, the drag on the system was noticeable. About the only thing it was good for was e-mail and web browsing.
IMO, a software DSL connection device is a Bad Idea. --
Why is everyone getting so excited about finally being able to buy a DVD of Star Wars ep1, when the MPAA (and its siamese twin the RIAA) are filing lawsuit after lawsuit against geeks to stop us from watching their stuff?
Hmmm?
You want to give them more money so they can buy more lawyers? --
Whenever he mentions the word "geek" take a drink.
Anyone have anything to add? --
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This was a hoax that I helped spawn.
Back in the early days of collectible card games, when everyone was talking about Magic and the first few, non-Magic card games came out, someone posted the Sickness and Health FAQ to rec.games.trading-cards.misc. Thinking this was funny, I thought quickly, did a bit of typing, and wrote up a partial card list. A couple of other people posted cards, comments, and so on, and eventually the original poster created a Sickness and Health web site. (It was even hosted at itis.com. What a name...)
Anyway, the thing slowly grew. Over the next two or three years I, and the other posters, would get occasional e-mails from game distributors asking when the game would be available. Someone even went so far as to print it up in an online and offline catalog, before asking us. I never had the heart to keep stringing them along.
I've had a link to my Open Source Paper Roleplaying Engine Y*. (Not that I've been posting fast and furiously lately...) It's a free (speech and beer) face-to-face, paper-and-pencil roleplaying game. GPL'd and everything.
Since we have the Great American Smokeout and the Great American Gasout, why not the Great American Music-and-Movie Out? I propose a day where nobody sees a movie or listens to music, including on TV, or buys any media containing movies or music.
If you wanted to get really hardcore, you could also boycott companies who buy advertising on TV, radio, and in movie theaters.
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If Gore wins, then your vote for Bush is as wasted as your hypothetical vote for Harry Browne.
If everyone who ever said "I agree with the Libertarians, but they don't have a chance" would just vote for a Libertarian, there'd be one in the White House.
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Could you generate a set of sounds that would move the mouse, as in this story?
I can see writing a trojan horse that would move somebody's mouse around without them even touching it. Possessed computer!
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80 hours times 44 bucks an hour is $3520. That's almost double what I take home in a month. I find it hard to generate much sympathy for that kind of money.
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I'm patenting the process of patenting the patent. I call it a "metapatent". I'm also metapatenting the metapatent, and so on.
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Dr. Cow, is it?
Suppose you tell us where you went to medical school? Suppose you tell us where you did your residency, and your internship? And suppose you cite some research that shows this?
Or suppose you shut the hell up?
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Is a cease and desist order or other lawyerly harassent considered dunning communications (per section (c))?
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Marvel and Paramount have done X-Men/Star Trek crossovers. So, what I'd like to see is....
Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard meets Patrick Stewart as Professor X.
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He did say "bub" at least once. I can't remember exactly when it was, but I think it was when he was fighting Sabretooth the first time.
I thought the lightning-toad line sucked. I would have preferred Wolvie facing Toad.
Wolvie: What's green and red and goes a hundred miles an hour?
Toad: I dunno.
Wolvie: SHING!
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We have all the free energy we could ever want, from literally the biggest fusion reactor that will ever exist in the Sol system.
Yeah, the sun.
All we need is a constellation of satellites, each covered with solar panels and a giant maser. Beam all that power into huge antenna fields. You can even let the cows graze underneath.
The only problem is that all of that extra power eventually turns into heat.
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Oh god. 15 years from now there'll be pissed off high schoolers because their parents saddled them with names like Riley and Taylor that were trendy at the time of their birth. 20 years from now there'll be pissed off high schoolers because their parents gave them noses that were trendy at the time of their birth.
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Spelled Willamette (one I) and pronounced wi-LAM-et.
You are correct in that it's named after the river.
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...that the science fiction authors and the costume designers have a deal. The authors won't try to design movie costumes, and the designers won't try to write science fiction.
Or something.
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I used to work for Diamond Multimedia supporting modems. When the SupraMax (software-based, in other words a "winmodem") came along, we hated them. A lot of our support calls were for people who bought this cheap 56k modem for gaming use and were angry when they got 300-400ms ping times vs. 100 or fewer on their old 28.8k modems. For some applications, even on a P2-350, the drag on the system was noticeable. About the only thing it was good for was e-mail and web browsing.
IMO, a software DSL connection device is a Bad Idea.
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Did you talk to anybody at Be to get it straightened out before you started posting it all over the place?
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Why is everyone getting so excited about finally being able to buy a DVD of Star Wars ep1, when the MPAA (and its siamese twin the RIAA) are filing lawsuit after lawsuit against geeks to stop us from watching their stuff?
Hmmm?
You want to give them more money so they can buy more lawyers?
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Why write "Hello world" in every language?
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The Babbage Engine is dead, all right? Can't you people just give it up? Face it, there's no hope for the Babbage Engine ever coming back.
C'mon. Grow up and get a real computer.
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Whenever Jon says post-anything, take a drink.
Whenever he mentions the word "geek" take a drink.
Anyone have anything to add?
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DHMO was directly responsible for the sinking of the Titanic and the deaths of many of her passengers.
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This was a hoax that I helped spawn.
Back in the early days of collectible card games, when everyone was talking about Magic and the first few, non-Magic card games came out, someone posted the Sickness and Health FAQ to rec.games.trading-cards.misc. Thinking this was funny, I thought quickly, did a bit of typing, and wrote up a partial card list. A couple of other people posted cards, comments, and so on, and eventually the original poster created a Sickness and Health web site. (It was even hosted at itis.com. What a name...)
Anyway, the thing slowly grew. Over the next two or three years I, and the other posters, would get occasional e-mails from game distributors asking when the game would be available. Someone even went so far as to print it up in an online and offline catalog, before asking us. I never had the heart to keep stringing them along.
Anyway, that's my bit of Internet hoaxing.
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I've had a link to my Open Source Paper Roleplaying Engine Y*. (Not that I've been posting fast and furiously lately...) It's a free (speech and beer) face-to-face, paper-and-pencil roleplaying game. GPL'd and everything.
* Y? Because we like you.
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http://www.lastfoot.com has the same service, and they are accepting accounts right now.
They use a vnc based solution.
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Since we have the Great American Smokeout and the Great American Gasout, why not the Great American Music-and-Movie Out? I propose a day where nobody sees a movie or listens to music, including on TV, or buys any media containing movies or music.
If you wanted to get really hardcore, you could also boycott companies who buy advertising on TV, radio, and in movie theaters.
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Since IIRC 1987
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