Sorry, third post regarding this issue already but I just can't help it. AOL, porn, and spam all in one subject line! Thank god this story had no ties to Napster or I might have had an annuerism.
I registered a domain, using my American Express- but then realized my registar didn't accept that card so I used my Visa.
A week after- I told my webhost which domain to setup for.
Soon after, I realized that I didn't spell the domain properly.
So I registered a domain, with the correct spelling this time.
Concluded, that I am a stupid bastard.
Throwing this guy in prison for 7, 5, or how ever many years it ends up being would be ridiculous. Save that jail space (cause I don't think California has ample amounts of free prison space) for those how actually harm the community (murderers, rapists, people who hold up the grocery line with a credit card that is obviously OVERLIMIT, etc...).
If the judge was smart, he'd make this guy work a supervised tech job for the city- with an "intern's pay."
Not to mention not being able to connect to the internet for 3 days (amount of time may vary depending on your smartness) because you forgot to add the area code to your dial-up properties *doh*.
The IOC has placed a 10 year ban on running, swimming, skiing and all other Olympic related sports.
"We have the rights to the Olympics so any copying of what we own, whether in digital or physical form, is a direct violation." said Dick Pound of IOC.
In other news...
John Johnson of Kentucky is suing the IOC for infringing upon his "head up your ass" copyright.
I (and the 999 audience collective who saw the movie that night) disagree with JonKatz. I hadn't seen such post-movie disgust/disappointment in a theatre since Blair Witch.
In my opinion, here is where the movie failed.
Samuel Jackson's speeches
Serious parts that were comical
Cheesy comic book stereo-types
Deceptive trailer = Misled audience
Don't get me wrong, there were parts of the movie that were interesting but unfortunately it failed. Comic book fans should stick with X-Men (the movie), as it knew when to be serious and when to be funny. Unbreakable, was like Gore trying to become a stand-up comic.
Is it just me or was the first thing you thought of (and now can't get out of your head) Space Channel 5's Ulala? Up, Down, Up, Down, Shoot, Shoot, Shoot...
In my humble opinion, the popularity of games (especially the role-playing ones which seem to be declining the daily hygiene habits of men everywhere) is a combination of their search for entertainment and the ability to escape the world they're living in.
These are things we all look for in life, so who cares if someone finds it in a game.
At first I doubted your suggestion, but as I thought about it now think it's workable- IF the artists are for it. In my opinion, here's what would need to happen on the artist's end.
Setup a website, completely independent from their label's.
Sell their future releases MP3.com style (burnt on demand).
Sell downloadable songs for those who prefer the digital format. Hell, make it a "donation" (with a minimum amount) and they could get the same tax breaks churches get.
Granted, due to the needed exposure, this would only work for artists who have been promoted by the big labels and are sick of getting shafted by their label. When enough make the transition, they could form a "union" and cross promote each other.
I could see Hole or Smashing Pumpkins trying this, after seeing their success with it, the groups who aren't as ballsy would surely follow.
In the spirit of insulting N'Sync, I'd like to say this. "No Strings Attached (their newest CD)" my ass. Their insinuation of being in control of their own musical career is laughable.
Now if they titled it, "Sign Where and Where?" they may have been on to something...
I would like for someone from the RIAA to contact me regarding my account balance. See, a few days ago I pulled up at a stop light with my windows down and the girl next to me had "Bye Bye Bye" (by N'Sync) blaring. The song got stuck in my head and I've been singing it to myself ever since.
I guess I've now played the song in my head atleast 40 times by now and wanted to know how much I owe you.
I've been looking for a way to encrypt my "10 Reasons Why Sex is Better Than Chocolate" and "Bill Gates is giving away $10 to everyone who gets this beta test message" forwards.
"People will think things match, but I can see they don't." What you wouldn't give to see the world through her deep blue-gray eyes, if only for five minutes...
The only person I can see caring about looking through her eyes is Martha Stewart, that way she can have one more way to be anal about wearing the proper colors for the proper season *blah*. Granted, seeing life through the eyes of someone else is interesting- but not for the simple fact that you could tell once and for all if the color accompanying yellow in McDonald's arches is Orange or Red.
"...perhaps the most remarkable human mutant ever identified."
Is it just me or have I been spoiled by X-Men? Whatever, I thought the kid at my elementary school with a sixth finger was cooler than this.
"...genetics dictates that tetrachromats would all be female."
Three words. Horney Heterosexual Scientists.
"Because of a well-known biological phenomenon called X inactivation..."
I was just about to ask if this involved X inactivation, although after they mentioned the green photopigments I wasn't sure.
Just as someone with normal three-color vision surfs rings around a dichromat on the Internet, a tetrachromat, looking at a special computer screen based on four primary colors rather than the standard three, could theoretically dump data into her head faster than the rest of us.
Yeah, well she still can't stand 4 feet from the toilet and pee in it.
(p.s. This was posted in black & white out of consideration for the dichromat audience.)
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PlayStation 2 all sold out, proceed to yo-yo department
Dave Barry (yes, THE Dave Barry) talks about the hype surrounding the Playstation 2.
By - Dave Barry
Editor's Note: This editorial originally appeared on Nov. 26 in the Miami Herald newspaper. Reprinted with permission.
On behalf of parents everywhere, I just want to say: Thanks a lot, Sony!
We're all grateful to Sony because of the swell job it has done of promoting the Sony PlayStation 2, which is the most important advance in entertainment technology since Tickle Me Elmo. This thing is amazing: It can play video games! It can play movies! It can make jerky! It can perform laser eyeball surgery in your family room!
Sony spent millions of dollars hyping the PlayStation 2, thus creating a huge demand. Every child in America MUST get one of these things for Christmas or Chanukah or Kwanzaa or Atheist Children Get Presents Day. Children who DON'T get one will be bitterly disappointed.
To meet the demand it created, Sony set up the PlayStation 2 manufacturing facility, which is located in a one-car garage in suburban Tokyo. There, the PlayStation 2 work force, which consists of 92-year-old Mr. Wokohito Mumuwama and his 89-year-old wife, Blanche, have been making PlayStation 2 units as fast as they can, considering the fact that they must assemble all 123,972 parts by hand, and their candles keep blowing out. Nevertheless the Mumuwamas have been cranking out these babies at the rate of nearly one per month, for a total of 11 so far, of which eight failed quality-control tests because of defects such as spiders, denture adhesive on the microchips, etc.
So the bottom line is that only three functioning PlayStation 2 units have actually been made, and two of these were stolen during shipment. As a result, 37 million parents were competing for the one remaining unit, which was purchased by 24-year-old video-game enthusiast Trevor Beanhonker, who got it, in a heartwarming holiday story, by strapping explosives to his chest.
The rest of us are out of luck. We will have to explain to our children, in our most soothing Mr. Rogers voices, that Santa did not bring them a PlayStation 2 this year, but that this does NOT mean they have been bad! It just means that Santa hates them.
So again I say: Thanks, Sony! Way to plan! Maybe you could use the same kind of marketing expertise to open a chain of restaurants: Each one could have 50 tables, 15 waiters, five chefs, an extensive menu, and one lone packet of saltines.
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If we all focused on one need, all the other needs out there would go untouched.
And get off the "solving world hunger" gripe, it makes you sound like Miss F'ing America.
"The Internet is a computer network.
The Internet is a tool.
We are not citizens of the Internet.
We cannot be citizens of a tool."
Isn't government a tool for running a nation? You can not successfully run anything without some sort of organization and protocols (pardon the pun... and alliteration;-) in place.
While your post was certainly poetic, it was also somewhat naive. But to make-up for calling your post naive, I followed your link and rated you a 10;-)
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Sorry, third post regarding this issue already but I just can't help it. AOL, porn, and spam all in one subject line! Thank god this story had no ties to Napster or I might have had an annuerism.
This was funny- I would mod you up but I'm not special enough :(
Besides, all AOLers have to do is activate their quality "Spam Blocking Feature." Pfftttt.
And lastly, I'm suing AOL for the UNSOLICITED pop-up ads that they spring on me when I go to lau- ehh log into their site.
Unless Microsoft has "White" and "Colored" on the bathroom doors, I don't see how the company itself is to blame.
Hating 2 companies is tiring- once they merge I can consolidate all my bitching against 1 company. Now, if only they would pick up BellSouth...
If the judge was smart, he'd make this guy work a supervised tech job for the city- with an "intern's pay."
Not to mention not being able to connect to the internet for 3 days (amount of time may vary depending on your smartness) because you forgot to add the area code to your dial-up properties *doh*.
This just in...
In other news...In my opinion, here is where the movie failed.
Samuel Jackson's speeches
Serious parts that were comical
Cheesy comic book stereo-types
Deceptive trailer = Misled audience
Don't get me wrong, there were parts of the movie that were interesting but unfortunately it failed. Comic book fans should stick with X-Men (the movie), as it knew when to be serious and when to be funny. Unbreakable, was like Gore trying to become a stand-up comic.
After being /.'d
In my humble opinion, the popularity of games (especially the role-playing ones which seem to be declining the daily hygiene habits of men everywhere) is a combination of their search for entertainment and the ability to escape the world they're living in.
These are things we all look for in life, so who cares if someone finds it in a game.
Setup a website, completely independent from their label's.
Sell their future releases MP3.com style (burnt on demand).
Sell downloadable songs for those who prefer the digital format. Hell, make it a "donation" (with a minimum amount) and they could get the same tax breaks churches get.
Granted, due to the needed exposure, this would only work for artists who have been promoted by the big labels and are sick of getting shafted by their label. When enough make the transition, they could form a "union" and cross promote each other.
I could see Hole or Smashing Pumpkins trying this, after seeing their success with it, the groups who aren't as ballsy would surely follow.
Now if they titled it, "Sign Where and Where?" they may have been on to something...
I guess I've now played the song in my head atleast 40 times by now and wanted to know how much I owe you.
Sincerely,
As a rule of thumb for shopping on the web, I don't buy anything from anybody who's domain name is a collective of generic terms. (ie: GameDVDPlayer.com, SuperVacationGetawayPackages.com, CanineAnalCream.com, etc...)
I've been looking for a way to encrypt my "10 Reasons Why Sex is Better Than Chocolate" and "Bill Gates is giving away $10 to everyone who gets this beta test message" forwards.
The only person I can see caring about looking through her eyes is Martha Stewart, that way she can have one more way to be anal about wearing the proper colors for the proper season *blah*. Granted, seeing life through the eyes of someone else is interesting- but not for the simple fact that you could tell once and for all if the color accompanying yellow in McDonald's arches is Orange or Red.
"...perhaps the most remarkable human mutant ever identified."
Is it just me or have I been spoiled by X-Men? Whatever, I thought the kid at my elementary school with a sixth finger was cooler than this.
"...genetics dictates that tetrachromats would all be female."
Three words. Horney Heterosexual Scientists.
"Because of a well-known biological phenomenon called X inactivation..."
I was just about to ask if this involved X inactivation, although after they mentioned the green photopigments I wasn't sure.
Just as someone with normal three-color vision surfs rings around a dichromat on the Internet, a tetrachromat, looking at a special computer screen based on four primary colors rather than the standard three, could theoretically dump data into her head faster than the rest of us.
Yeah, well she still can't stand 4 feet from the toilet and pee in it.
(p.s. This was posted in black & white out of consideration for the dichromat audience.)
Honest mistake, sorry about that. I guess I now know why I thought his "conclusion" was weak.
This wasn't a troll, it was on-topic humor. Can another moderator change it? I don't like having negative karma :-\
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And get off the "solving world hunger" gripe, it makes you sound like Miss F'ing America.
The Internet is a tool.
We are not citizens of the Internet.
We cannot be citizens of a tool."
Isn't government a tool for running a nation? You can not successfully run anything without some sort of organization and protocols (pardon the pun... and alliteration ;-) in place.
While your post was certainly poetic, it was also somewhat naive. But to make-up for calling your post naive, I followed your link and rated you a 10 ;-)