I can't tell if that last statement is sarcasm or not. If it isn't, you give Americans far too much credit.
I'll admit that I've never read the whole thing in one sitting, though I've read most of it, usually due to trying to find the answer to some question I have regarding the government's powers/checking the constitutionality of a law (I've got a handy pocket constitution I keep in my bag that I picked up in DC a few years ago). But to think that most US citizens would read it.... that makes me chuckle and yet sad at the same time.
I've always found this one to be my favorite wang reference there. Actually, its one of the very few PAs I ever found funny, but i haven't read it in a long time for said reason.
Unless IRC and Instant Messaging is now considered a social activity.
I consider any activity where people are interacting with each other a social activity. Using irc, IM, a phone, they're all pretty much the same thing. Even when a bunch of my friends and I meet up for a game of starcraft, it's very much a social activity, not that much unlike all of us heading to one person's dorm to hang out and play risk or monopoly.
What IM is really useful for, however, is keeping in touch with people long-distance. IM has a relaxed, conversational quality that you can't get from a phone call. With the phone, there is pressure to finish the call quickly, and it is something that you do on special occasions. With IM, you can just say hi, or share a random funny thought, without wasting anyone's time.
While I do agree with you about the phone, I've found that while away at college IM has become a sort of annoyance. It pretty much allows my parrents to keep tabs on me all the time. If I'm still up at 3 am and one of them happens online, "What are you doing up so late!?!" If I'm idle for a day because I spent the night at the girlfriend's place, "Where were you all day??? Did you really sleep in til 4pm?"
I can see it now, hundreds of little metal boxes with spinning saw blades, on their way to DC, followed by another group of metal boxes with hydraulic lifting arms. Word is they may only be able to lift the Pentagon about a foot off it's foundation, though.
Use pain relief without caffine (some pills have caffine in them) when you need to feel normal.
Exactly. Stay away from Excedrine Migrane pills and all the caffiene they contain. I got myself addicted to those because I get migranes, and when I stopped taking it for awhile, I got caffiene headaches daily that felt just as bad as migranes.
I get migranes, and for them I take Excedrin Migrane pills. Usually I take 2, which in total contain 130 mg of caffiene (~3 cans of coke, ~9 Penguin Mints), and this makes the headache go away pretty quickly. For about a month straight during my senior year of high school, I got a migrane at almost the same time each day (give or take 20 minutes) so I would take the Excedrin and the headache would go away in about an hour. I was somewhat suspicious about this, as it happened daily, and I started to wonder if I was addicted to caffiene, so I experemented a bit. Some days I would bring something caffienated with me (like a Code Red Mountain Dew) and drink that before classes started. And wouldn't you know it, I didn't get headaches those days.
When I did get a headache, however, I would have trouble paying attention to the class (paying more attention to the feeling that my brain was getting too large for my skull). So to go without caffiene completely wasn't a very good idea, so I started working myself off of it slowly. I got some caffienated mints, and would just eat a few of those before I knew I'd get a headache, and maybe a few more around the time I'd get a headache if I felt one coming on. And thats pretty much how I dealt with it, but I had to take it pretty slowly to ween myself from the caffiene.
I love sitting in my computer chair at my desk watching dvds or video files on my 17" monitor. It's a lot more comfortable and a lot easier than unwinding 10 feet of RCA cable to run from my computer's video out to the TV, then sitting on the floor watching whatever on the 13" tv that sits atop a minifridge in the corner of my dorm room. Not everyone has a 42" televison, or even a televison that is larger than their monitor.
While I haven't bought anything with a rebate from circuit city, I have recently from best buy, and I rather like their rebates. The rebate form complete with where to send it prints out with the receipt and then the two are stapled together. Write your name and address on the printout, send. Works very nicely.
You're legally allowed to make one backup copy of media you own. It would seem to follow that legally once you stop owning it, you should no longer have any backup copies.
Lois: "Volcano insurance!? That's ridiculous!" Peter: "That's the same thing you said when you talked me out of that Cloud Insurance. Look at them up there, just plotting, picking their moment..."
Cloud1: "So Bill, we attack tomorrow." Cloud2: "Yes. Tomorrow." Cloud1: ".......I mean it this time--" Cloud2: "I do too."
A tax on purchasing soap is totally different than a tax a LAN. You do not purchase a LAN. A tax on a LAN would be more comparable to taxing someone for putting their soap in a soap dish instead of letting it sit around on the side of the tub.
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I can't tell if that last statement is sarcasm or not. If it isn't, you give Americans far too much credit.
I'll admit that I've never read the whole thing in one sitting, though I've read most of it, usually due to trying to find the answer to some question I have regarding the government's powers/checking the constitutionality of a law (I've got a handy pocket constitution I keep in my bag that I picked up in DC a few years ago). But to think that most US citizens would read it.... that makes me chuckle and yet sad at the same time.
Obviously the type of party slshdotters go to and actually associate with others.
Makes me think of every final fantasy game i've played.
/me throws a rock at RevAaron.
Didn't you know that peer to peer file trading is anti-capitalistic?
File traders ARE terrorists!
I've always found this one to be my favorite wang reference there. Actually, its one of the very few PAs I ever found funny, but i haven't read it in a long time for said reason.
Unless IRC and Instant Messaging is now considered a social activity.
I consider any activity where people are interacting with each other a social activity. Using irc, IM, a phone, they're all pretty much the same thing. Even when a bunch of my friends and I meet up for a game of starcraft, it's very much a social activity, not that much unlike all of us heading to one person's dorm to hang out and play risk or monopoly.
While I do agree with you about the phone, I've found that while away at college IM has become a sort of annoyance. It pretty much allows my parrents to keep tabs on me all the time. If I'm still up at 3 am and one of them happens online, "What are you doing up so late!?!" If I'm idle for a day because I spent the night at the girlfriend's place, "Where were you all day??? Did you really sleep in til 4pm?"
I can see it now, hundreds of little metal boxes with spinning saw blades, on their way to DC, followed by another group of metal boxes with hydraulic lifting arms. Word is they may only be able to lift the Pentagon about a foot off it's foundation, though.
Exactly. Stay away from Excedrine Migrane pills and all the caffiene they contain. I got myself addicted to those because I get migranes, and when I stopped taking it for awhile, I got caffiene headaches daily that felt just as bad as migranes.
That's not always a viable solution.
I get migranes, and for them I take Excedrin Migrane pills. Usually I take 2, which in total contain 130 mg of caffiene (~3 cans of coke, ~9 Penguin Mints), and this makes the headache go away pretty quickly. For about a month straight during my senior year of high school, I got a migrane at almost the same time each day (give or take 20 minutes) so I would take the Excedrin and the headache would go away in about an hour. I was somewhat suspicious about this, as it happened daily, and I started to wonder if I was addicted to caffiene, so I experemented a bit. Some days I would bring something caffienated with me (like a Code Red Mountain Dew) and drink that before classes started. And wouldn't you know it, I didn't get headaches those days.
When I did get a headache, however, I would have trouble paying attention to the class (paying more attention to the feeling that my brain was getting too large for my skull). So to go without caffiene completely wasn't a very good idea, so I started working myself off of it slowly. I got some caffienated mints, and would just eat a few of those before I knew I'd get a headache, and maybe a few more around the time I'd get a headache if I felt one coming on. And thats pretty much how I dealt with it, but I had to take it pretty slowly to ween myself from the caffiene.
I love sitting in my computer chair at my desk watching dvds or video files on my 17" monitor. It's a lot more comfortable and a lot easier than unwinding 10 feet of RCA cable to run from my computer's video out to the TV, then sitting on the floor watching whatever on the 13" tv that sits atop a minifridge in the corner of my dorm room. Not everyone has a 42" televison, or even a televison that is larger than their monitor.
Those jokes were as lame as FDR's legs...... .....Too soon?
While I haven't bought anything with a rebate from circuit city, I have recently from best buy, and I rather like their rebates. The rebate form complete with where to send it prints out with the receipt and then the two are stapled together. Write your name and address on the printout, send. Works very nicely.
Oddly, myself and most of the other physics majors I'm friends with don't believe in God, and we're all math majors too.
Lab Assistant: Uh, sir? You do realize 6 of them have a placebo, don't you?
"It's Mr. Ashcroft's job to enforce the law"
Exactly. He is the one enforcing an unconstitutional law. Thus proving parent's point.
I suppose you can consider a nuclear power plant to be "hardware."
You're legally allowed to make one backup copy of media you own. It would seem to follow that legally once you stop owning it, you should no longer have any backup copies.
Lois: "Volcano insurance!? That's ridiculous!"
Peter: "That's the same thing you said when you talked me out of that Cloud Insurance. Look at them up there, just plotting, picking their moment..."
Cloud1: "So Bill, we attack tomorrow."
Cloud2: "Yes. Tomorrow."
Cloud1: ".......I mean it this time--"
Cloud2: "I do too."
Yippie. So they want to use a school as a facility to assemble a new product. Glad that they have the kids' best interest in mind!
Funzo, Funzo, FUNZO! If you don't have Funzo, you're nothing!
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A tax on purchasing soap is totally different than a tax a LAN. You do not purchase a LAN. A tax on a LAN would be more comparable to taxing someone for putting their soap in a soap dish instead of letting it sit around on the side of the tub.
I recall a few months ago seeing Fat Wreck was a member and thinking "WTF!" but it would appear they have indeed left the list.
But you do make a great point. There is plenty of music out there that isn't controled by a cartel.
Wouldn't it be great if it were really 69 Sextillion instead of 70?