So, wait, you and your potential mates are so insecure and immature that you constantly need to be giving and receiving physical contact and interaction? You haven't grown up enough or don't appreciate the other person enough to just be in their presence from time to time? In the words of Mia Wallace: "That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence."
I don't get relieved for work for another 20 minutes, but I grow weary of this, so I'm about done with the trolling
I hadn't registered yet, but probably will next week (I don't browse slashdot from home, and I'll forget about it until then).
My only complaint is that it doesn't seem to grab movies from a wind enough range of years. I need to look and see if there is more info in the 'about' page, but I suspect some of the things that tend to annoy me are either design choices that are valid, expressing preferences that don't matter in an objective way and/or the source material forces certain choices.
So the crux of the matter is that you are young enough to have a different perspective.
Looking through the thread, it seems that you were not yet in elementary school when I got my first CD. That gives me an extra ten years. So, ten years from now, if you maintain an interest in music, look back on the size of your collection today, and you'll see that it isn't much.
I look at my father, who has been collecting vinyl since somewhere in the mid 60's (I don't count 45's from before that). If 500 albums seems like a lot, I can only imagine that you'd faint at what he's amassed over 50 years.
I'll judge my numbers from 2000, as I haven't bothered to look closely since then. At the time, I had roughly 500 CDs amassed over 15 years which works out to 34 per year, far less than one per week. Average price was probably about $15, so $7500 spent, again, over the course of more than a decade. This ignores the gifts from family and friends.
I'm bored, and wasn't up for another hour of the Leonard Maltin Game (seriously, played for an hour or so each of the past two nights). You made a simple, silly statement, and I chose to pick at it.
And you'd be wrong. When one's musical tastes span 50 years, even of mainstream music, the collection could grow quite large.
Perhaps the difference is that you were busy stealing songs because they have no value to you, while some of us buy music because it IS worth something.
Oh, and to continue the dick size metaphor from the other thread, now you're saying you're glad you have a small pecker because you'd probably just hurt someone if it were any bigger.
So what you're saying is that it looks big to you? That comment carry water with your girlfriend? I always go with "it's not the size of your axe, it's how you swing it" but whatever works for you.
(I had another reply written, but it's still Tuesday where I am. Suffice it to say that 5400 songs ain't much. 500 albums? Puh-leeze.)
Do your friends need reminds about when to breathe? Seriously, you need either smarter friends, or you need to set them up with a different computer.
Insert CD. iTunes opens. Asks if you want to rip this. Click yes. Plug in your iPod. Click the button that says 'yes, sync this ipod with this computer'.
I assume Windows offers similarly easy functionality these days, even without iTunes. C'mon, we aren't talking about the days of looking up command line switches to Lame.
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Haven't you heard about our obesity epidemic in the US? There's plenty of ass for everyone to kiss.
You may not be licensing the 'paragraph method', but I see that you are a big fan of the not-in-the-public-domain 'punctuation mark method'.
And quite frankly, even a few dashes here and there would be preferable to that wall of text posted up above.
Only if the guy routinely samples the water and counts condoms.
Similarly, there is no observable correlation between cycles of the moon and crime.
[citation needed]
Speaking of innovations, there's this wonderful new invention for writers called the paragraph.
So, wait, you and your potential mates are so insecure and immature that you constantly need to be giving and receiving physical contact and interaction? You haven't grown up enough or don't appreciate the other person enough to just be in their presence from time to time? In the words of Mia Wallace: "That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence."
That's why births tend to spike 9 months after a days-long power outage. Not a whole lot else to do to entertain yourself ;)
While it is an entertaining idea, it is false.
This story would be much cooler with a video clip.
I don't get relieved for work for another 20 minutes, but I grow weary of this, so I'm about done with the trolling
I hadn't registered yet, but probably will next week (I don't browse slashdot from home, and I'll forget about it until then).
My only complaint is that it doesn't seem to grab movies from a wind enough range of years. I need to look and see if there is more info in the 'about' page, but I suspect some of the things that tend to annoy me are either design choices that are valid, expressing preferences that don't matter in an objective way and/or the source material forces certain choices.
So the crux of the matter is that you are young enough to have a different perspective.
Looking through the thread, it seems that you were not yet in elementary school when I got my first CD. That gives me an extra ten years. So, ten years from now, if you maintain an interest in music, look back on the size of your collection today, and you'll see that it isn't much.
I look at my father, who has been collecting vinyl since somewhere in the mid 60's (I don't count 45's from before that). If 500 albums seems like a lot, I can only imagine that you'd faint at what he's amassed over 50 years.
No, you just claimed your collection is massive. We are trying to disabuse you of that notion.
When you're old enough to drink, we'll tell you.
I'll judge my numbers from 2000, as I haven't bothered to look closely since then. At the time, I had roughly 500 CDs amassed over 15 years which works out to 34 per year, far less than one per week. Average price was probably about $15, so $7500 spent, again, over the course of more than a decade. This ignores the gifts from family and friends.
It ain't that hard.
I'm bored, and wasn't up for another hour of the Leonard Maltin Game (seriously, played for an hour or so each of the past two nights). You made a simple, silly statement, and I chose to pick at it.
Ripping CDs, a collection I've been building since 1985.
Judging by the lack of replies, I'm guessing /. posters are not well versed in the classics.
Hardly. My taste in music is about as square and mainstream as it gets.
And you'd be wrong. When one's musical tastes span 50 years, even of mainstream music, the collection could grow quite large.
Perhaps the difference is that you were busy stealing songs because they have no value to you, while some of us buy music because it IS worth something.
Oh, and to continue the dick size metaphor from the other thread, now you're saying you're glad you have a small pecker because you'd probably just hurt someone if it were any bigger.
So what you're saying is that it looks big to you? That comment carry water with your girlfriend? I always go with "it's not the size of your axe, it's how you swing it" but whatever works for you.
(I had another reply written, but it's still Tuesday where I am. Suffice it to say that 5400 songs ain't much. 500 albums? Puh-leeze.)
Do your friends need reminds about when to breathe? Seriously, you need either smarter friends, or you need to set them up with a different computer.
Insert CD. iTunes opens. Asks if you want to rip this. Click yes. Plug in your iPod. Click the button that says 'yes, sync this ipod with this computer'.
I assume Windows offers similarly easy functionality these days, even without iTunes. C'mon, we aren't talking about the days of looking up command line switches to Lame.
Your CD collection is barely above trivial if it fits on an iPhone, and certainly not 'massive'.
You were supposed to be logged on under your 'bad analogy guy' id when you wrote that. Seriously, what does that analogy have to do with ANYTHING?
Probably amongst the many who got blacklisted from modpoints.
Sorry we don't have quite so many sheep to practice on.
You are making far too rational and thoughtful a reply to a troll whose reptilian brain is asploding cause someone made him obsolete.