Now I'm not saying this movie will be a bomb, but the KKK just tried strapping an advance editing screener copy to Al Sharpton's car bumper the other day.
Just to clarify, is this the Major League Baseball team, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art that is now apparently involved in helping police the world?
I certainly don't. I'll be seeing this movie in a couple of weeks, during a noon matinee. My price? $4.00. Cost for a drink? I would say about $.25, since I'm gonna sneak in some lemonade in my jacket. More than likely there will be no more than 5 other people there, at worst.
Only fools and mongoloid morons pay more than $5 TOTAL to see a first run movie nowadays.
I just saw Sin City today, the 1:30pm showing in my town. The ticket price was $4. Even sweeter that the price was that there were only two other people in the showing. All that spaciousness and the lack of people with screaming kids, cell phone talkers, tall people and MST3K-wannabes made drinking my smuggled in Sauza Diablo more enjoyable When people mention $10 ticket prices, I wonder if they are living in Monaco or some place like that.
An ultra small car, but pretty impressive MPG, even for 1997. I wouldn't dare drive this on a highway, but if you live in a city, wouldn't be a bad car to get around inexpensively. If you want a newer and roomier car, a Volkswagon Jetta would be a better choice.
70s hot rodders knew the secret, why do you think they still drove their gas guzzling pony cars despite high gas prices (for the times)? Just jack up the rear end of the car. Since you're always driving downhill, this helps out on fuel consumption! SCHWEET!!!!!!
A 1995 Pontiac Firebird Formula with a 5.7L engine can easily summon 30mpg as well on the highway. This is a 300hp V8 from 10 years ago, and it can muster as much mpg as your econobox, and have power and style galore. I wouldn't be proud touting those numbers if I were you.
If I were looking to get a real fuel economy car, your Protege wouldn't even show up on the radar. Something more like a Civic, or even a Geo Metro would stomp the Protege's wimpy numbers.
* Laptops. Are you kidding? There might have been one, or two people who had a C64 to play Space Taxi, but this was still a pipe dream. If you wanted to use a computer, you had to trudge on down to the computer lab and mess around on the 20 Mac Pluses avalable for use. Oddly, there was only 2 PC based machines to use. Only the teaching computer labs had PCs. The exciting point came when the English department opened up their brand spanking new computer lab with 40 Mac Plus SE/20s, complete with a dot matrix printer ensconced in a plexiglass enclosure (to reduce the printing noise). There were rumors that the English grad students had access to a laser printer, but no one ever was able to verify that for us. A desk attendant was at the ready to scan your floppy disks for any viruses before allowing you on one of the Macs. Those fearful of computers could still check out an electric typewriter.
* Phones. We all got landline phones connections as well included in the dorm cost. This was the year they ripped out the old black wall mounted rotary phones (they were tossed in an unused foyer, and I grabbed me about 5 to take home), and you had to provide your own. About 10% of the residents had a cordless phone.
* Home entertainment. About the same as your era, TVs were not too common; only about a quarter of the students had them. Every dorm had a TV in the common living area. Even though a neighbor would probably have a TV, students would go down to watch Letterman, munch out and whatnot. Stereos were much more common - about two out of three students had them.
* Other electronics. Also like your era, by far the most common devices were small fridges, popcorn makers and coffee makers. The more adventurous would install a microwave oven (banned by the residence rules) in their closet. Since the RA was not allowed to open your locked closet door during a room check, this would "hide" it from him with relative safety. After all those were the sweet innocent times when we didn't go to bed with a dozen of standby lights flashing at us from all directions, and when we were happy in our ignorant bliss.
As covered before, EA has exclusive rights to NASCAR on all consoles up to 2008. This caused Sierra/Papyrus to bow out of making NASCAR sims, and saddened the throngs who grew to love Papyrus' superior offerings. EA just released their demo for NASCAR SimRacing today (this game is supposed to be a separate version from the console releases, and coded specifically to be a hardcore sim). The general overwhelming consensus is that it sucks (I'm downloading it at the moment, will review later), and is nothing more than an 18 month revamp of NASCAR Thunder 2003.
You can read the carnage at these main NASCAR sim enthusiast sites:
Those who look for silver linings can take comfort in Papyrus co-founder Dave Kaemmer teaming up with Boston Red Sox owner John Henry to create a new company called FIRST, in where they bought back the source code for NASCAR Racing 2003 from Vivendi. Hopefully the future game from FIRST will provide a good foundation to create a good NASCAR mod to pick up where NR2003 left off.
Starting with last year, EA grabbed exclusive rights to NASCAR on all consoles up to 2008. Sierra had wanted to expand their NASCAR Racing series to more platforms than just PC, but with them being locked out of the NASCAR console market, they chose to not renew their PC license. This of course led to the shutdown of Papyrus, who's bread and butter was NASCAR simulations.
Despite EA's inability to put out a quality NASCAR sim title on PC since their first effort in 1998, there still is hope for a quality Papyrus styled racing sim platform to build NASCAR mods on. The main co-founder of Papyrus, Dave Kaemmer, has teamed up with Boston Red Sox owner John Henry (a rabid NASCAR Racing player) and created FIRST-Racing.net. This company will put out a game using the source code base from NASCAR Racing 2003, which they bought from Sierra. Hopefully this new game will provide fans of the renown NASCAR Racing series a base to continue racing NASCAR with a platform they have grown accustomed to.
How many times have we heard about parents pushing for easier or non-existent teaching for their precious and sensitive whelps and yet demand that they "graduate" despite not learning a thing?
Ashamed to to say, I've seen this in my own family. A cousin of mine was coddled since he was born (hell he was in preschool an extra year, how fucked up is that?) by his relative caretakers (an aunt) after his mother died while he was a baby. Despite living in poverty, this person was spoiled continuously with toys. As I recall, he didn't stop playing with toys (complete Star Wars and He-Man collections, to name an example) till the 7th grade. Any attempts by the schools (throughout his schooling) to get him to learn or stay disciplined was met by a ferocious attack by his caretakers. Needless to say, he was socially promoted until he dropped out at 16.
He has worked a total of 2 weeks in his life (he is 32 now), in jobs given to him by relatives in an honest attempt to help, despite he not having training for anything. He quit them after complaining he was actually made to work, doing tasks as running sales money to the bank, etc. His caretakers were equally vehement in their condemnation of his kin/employer about their requirement he work for his money. To this day he subsists on $600 a month for diabetes disability, and will likely continue until he dies. For somone who has worked a grand total of 80 hours in his entire life, he has inexplicably owned more vehicles than I have. Last I heard, his aunt was saving up money to get him his latest toy, a truck, since he's never owned one.
Good thing no prototypes till 2015.
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Having these units seized by a terrorist group will be a moot point, since the alien invasion is set to start on 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar.
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...and the pyramids were built spirally, how do you then get rid of the spirals?
Those weren't real dinos? My world is slowly melting...
More like direct-to-piratebay.org
Now I'm not saying this movie will be a bomb, but the KKK just tried strapping an advance editing screener copy to Al Sharpton's car bumper the other day.
....without real details about this magical $16/hour cashier job, and where it's at.
Volume.
About the hard drive cooler that would only cost 10 cents. Unlinked cause I don't have a photographic memory regarding HTML formatting.
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All your LaGrange are belong to U.S.!
Just to clarify, is this the Major League Baseball team, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art that is now apparently involved in helping police the world?
Hell, Oprah gave some away as well.
I certainly don't. I'll be seeing this movie in a couple of weeks, during a noon matinee. My price? $4.00. Cost for a drink? I would say about $.25, since I'm gonna sneak in some lemonade in my jacket. More than likely there will be no more than 5 other people there, at worst.
Only fools and mongoloid morons pay more than $5 TOTAL to see a first run movie nowadays.
George: What is Holland?
Jerry: What do you mean, what is it? It's a country right next to Belgium.
George: No, that's the Netherlands.
Jerry: Holland is the Netherlands.
George: Then who are the Dutch?!?
I just saw Sin City today, the 1:30pm showing in my town. The ticket price was $4. Even sweeter that the price was that there were only two other people in the showing. All that spaciousness and the lack of people with screaming kids, cell phone talkers, tall people and MST3K-wannabes made drinking my smuggled in Sauza Diablo more enjoyable When people mention $10 ticket prices, I wonder if they are living in Monaco or some place like that.
An ultra small car, but pretty impressive MPG, even for 1997. I wouldn't dare drive this on a highway, but if you live in a city, wouldn't be a bad car to get around inexpensively. If you want a newer and roomier car, a Volkswagon Jetta would be a better choice.
My God, four years have gone by, and NASA still doesn't realize that UPN showed the Voyager series finale back in 2001?
It would be insanity for Indians to spend $2000 on a round trip plane ticket from India just to buy a $99 computer at Fry's.
You didn't bother reading who these computers were targeted to, huh?
70s hot rodders knew the secret, why do you think they still drove their gas guzzling pony cars despite high gas prices (for the times)? Just jack up the rear end of the car. Since you're always driving downhill, this helps out on fuel consumption! SCHWEET!!!!!!
A 1995 Pontiac Firebird Formula with a 5.7L engine can easily summon 30mpg as well on the highway. This is a 300hp V8 from 10 years ago, and it can muster as much mpg as your econobox, and have power and style galore. I wouldn't be proud touting those numbers if I were you.
If I were looking to get a real fuel economy car, your Protege wouldn't even show up on the radar. Something more like a Civic, or even a Geo Metro would stomp the Protege's wimpy numbers.
Man I thought that would be one sweet and respectable name for an ISP
* Laptops. Are you kidding? There might have been one, or two people who had a C64 to play Space Taxi, but this was still a pipe dream. If you wanted to use a computer, you had to trudge on down to the computer lab and mess around on the 20 Mac Pluses avalable for use. Oddly, there was only 2 PC based machines to use. Only the teaching computer labs had PCs. The exciting point came when the English department opened up their brand spanking new computer lab with 40 Mac Plus SE/20s, complete with a dot matrix printer ensconced in a plexiglass enclosure (to reduce the printing noise). There were rumors that the English grad students had access to a laser printer, but no one ever was able to verify that for us. A desk attendant was at the ready to scan your floppy disks for any viruses before allowing you on one of the Macs. Those fearful of computers could still check out an electric typewriter.
* Phones. We all got landline phones connections as well included in the dorm cost. This was the year they ripped out the old black wall mounted rotary phones (they were tossed in an unused foyer, and I grabbed me about 5 to take home), and you had to provide your own. About 10% of the residents had a cordless phone.
* Home entertainment. About the same as your era, TVs were not too common; only about a quarter of the students had them. Every dorm had a TV in the common living area. Even though a neighbor would probably have a TV, students would go down to watch Letterman, munch out and whatnot. Stereos were much more common - about two out of three students had them.
* Other electronics. Also like your era, by far the most common devices were small fridges, popcorn makers and coffee makers. The more adventurous would install a microwave oven (banned by the residence rules) in their closet. Since the RA was not allowed to open your locked closet door during a room check, this would "hide" it from him with relative safety. After all those were the sweet innocent times when we didn't go to bed with a dozen of standby lights flashing at us from all directions, and when we were happy in our ignorant bliss.
As covered before, EA has exclusive rights to NASCAR on all consoles up to 2008. This caused Sierra/Papyrus to bow out of making NASCAR sims, and saddened the throngs who grew to love Papyrus' superior offerings. EA just released their demo for NASCAR SimRacing today (this game is supposed to be a separate version from the console releases, and coded specifically to be a hardcore sim). The general overwhelming consensus is that it sucks (I'm downloading it at the moment, will review later), and is nothing more than an 18 month revamp of NASCAR Thunder 2003.
You can read the carnage at these main NASCAR sim enthusiast sites:
Project Wildfire
Blackhole Motorsports
Those who look for silver linings can take comfort in Papyrus co-founder Dave Kaemmer teaming up with Boston Red Sox owner John Henry to create a new company called FIRST, in where they bought back the source code for NASCAR Racing 2003 from Vivendi. Hopefully the future game from FIRST will provide a good foundation to create a good NASCAR mod to pick up where NR2003 left off.
I can't wait to drive my International CXT on this sweet piece of asphalt!
Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!
The Federal Highway comission has ruled the
Canyonero unsafe for highway or city driving.
Canyonero!
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)
She blinds everybody with her super high beams,
She's a squirrel crushing, deer smacking, driving machine!
Canyonero!-oh woah, Canyonero! (Yah!)
Drive Canyonero!
Woah Canyonero!
Woah!
Starting with last year, EA grabbed exclusive rights to NASCAR on all consoles up to 2008. Sierra had wanted to expand their NASCAR Racing series to more platforms than just PC, but with them being locked out of the NASCAR console market, they chose to not renew their PC license. This of course led to the shutdown of Papyrus, who's bread and butter was NASCAR simulations.
Despite EA's inability to put out a quality NASCAR sim title on PC since their first effort in 1998, there still is hope for a quality Papyrus styled racing sim platform to build NASCAR mods on. The main co-founder of Papyrus, Dave Kaemmer, has teamed up with Boston Red Sox owner John Henry (a rabid NASCAR Racing player) and created FIRST-Racing.net. This company will put out a game using the source code base from NASCAR Racing 2003, which they bought from Sierra. Hopefully this new game will provide fans of the renown NASCAR Racing series a base to continue racing NASCAR with a platform they have grown accustomed to.
...and I would like to discuss this further, but I'm late for my shift at McDonalds!
How many times have we heard about parents pushing for easier or non-existent teaching for their precious and sensitive whelps and yet demand that they "graduate" despite not learning a thing?
Ashamed to to say, I've seen this in my own family. A cousin of mine was coddled since he was born (hell he was in preschool an extra year, how fucked up is that?) by his relative caretakers (an aunt) after his mother died while he was a baby. Despite living in poverty, this person was spoiled continuously with toys. As I recall, he didn't stop playing with toys (complete Star Wars and He-Man collections, to name an example) till the 7th grade. Any attempts by the schools (throughout his schooling) to get him to learn or stay disciplined was met by a ferocious attack by his caretakers. Needless to say, he was socially promoted until he dropped out at 16.
He has worked a total of 2 weeks in his life (he is 32 now), in jobs given to him by relatives in an honest attempt to help, despite he not having training for anything. He quit them after complaining he was actually made to work, doing tasks as running sales money to the bank, etc. His caretakers were equally vehement in their condemnation of his kin/employer about their requirement he work for his money. To this day he subsists on $600 a month for diabetes disability, and will likely continue until he dies. For somone who has worked a grand total of 80 hours in his entire life, he has inexplicably owned more vehicles than I have. Last I heard, his aunt was saving up money to get him his latest toy, a truck, since he's never owned one.
Having these units seized by a terrorist group will be a moot point, since the alien invasion is set to start on 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar.