I actually saw "Life of Brian" when it was released, lo! These many years ago.
Saw it with a friend of mine, and by the end of the "Biggus Dickus" scene, we were both laughing so hard, we were having trouble catching our breath. In fact, I didn't see the next few minutes of the film until a few years later when it was on cable TV.
A few years ago, John Cleese did a PSA for the BBC.
It opens in a pub, with Cleese asking:
"What has the BBC ever done for us?"
And diverse BBC performers and documentarians answer.
Monty Python has been so pervasive in modern pop culture to the extent that someone (this someone is assumed to be an individual who lives in the industrialized world and has access to a TV and doesn't watch Fox News 24/7 or the local equivalent thereof.) who has never seen the sketch in question, very likely knows what is implied by "nudge nudge - wink wink".
Ideally, here in Boston/Cambridge one finds it, realizes what it is, glues a VERY strong magnet to it, and then, affixes the GPS unit to one of the Green/Red/Orange Line subway cars or buses when next to it at a stop light/or as a passenger.
Yes, yes it is. When it's NOT a legitimate mistake.
Something that was debunked by the freaking EFF a few days after the first FUD trolling occurred and was mentioned virtually everywhere on the tech sites.
Jeebus! If you're using a Shuffle (A SHUFFLE!!) as an audio source for your home stereo, the utter lameness of that fact fills me with both pity AND revulsion.
You are, essentially, plugging in a device that has LESS selectability than an 8-track tape deck.
Really, such lame trolling is beneath the high standards expected here at Slashdot World Domination Headquarters, and this WILL be reflected in you semi-annual performance evaluation.
And as for your lack of cover sheets on your TPS reports...
EVERYTHING is encrypted until the electrons hit the phosphor or the current hits the transistors in the LCD.
Six months (hell, six weeks!) after China starts churning out the compliant TV sets/monitors, the grey market will have TVs/monitors with some manner of video/audio out ports, either blatantly obvious or as solder pads on the PC inside the display.
The quality of the display will be excellent, as will the quality of the unencrypted A/V output.
China does not care a fat rat's ass about what the MPAA wants. It is, and will always be about the money. Running a third shift once or twice a week and sourcing cabinets without the LG/Samsung/Sony/fill in the blank logo on them will be something very familiar to most Chinese electronic manufacturing firms.
Show of hands, how many here already have a "grey market" DVD player that's both region free, plays NTSC/PAL DVDs, and will also play.avi, DivX, Xvid, mks, etc?
Yeah, I thought so.
And if nothing else, someone will figure out how to fool that encrypted signal into thinking it's displaying on a TV/monitor, while it's actually just sending that signal to an MPEG encoder and thence to a hard drive.
"It wasn't just the forecasts that Santorum and crew wanted to lock down. It was *all* of the weather data that is available for free."
You forgot to mention that Accuweather is based in Pennsylvania and that Accuweather laid a hefty campaign contribution on Santorum.
Shortly thereafter, Accuweather asked Santorum to do their dirty work for them and lock down all the NOAA/NWS info that they were just giving away to the taxpayers for free.
Really, Santorum's pandering towards Accuweather was shameful, even for an ethics-free Republican.
And if you want to know the weather conditions to a finer degree than just looking out your window RIGHT NOW, then how do all their "prestigious awards" and whatnot benefit you? If you've a desire to know the local conditions, will your local station bring them to you via one of their "whirlybirds"?
Your local newsmuffins have a direct feed from the NWS. They'd be stupid if they didn't.
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"When I find myself in times of trouble, PRZ, he comes to me.
Speaking words of wisdom, 'PGP, PGP!'"
You DO know how to use PGP or GPG, and have the appropriate email plugins, right?
RIGHT?
RIGHT ON!
And fuck those fucking socialist public libraries , too!
GOD DAMN that filthy socialist bastard Benjamin Franklin for infecting the U.S. with his "public libraries"!
"yourpost did not add anything meaningful to the discussion."
What? A link to the actual NASA budget for 2009 after the absurd claim of the OP isn't meaningful?
""Chimpy McCokeSpoon" is not insightful."
It is, however, 100% Accurate.
Troll is "ZOMG! Obama is a secret muslim socialist hitler!!!!11!"
Now, THAT'S a troll!
Randroids with mod points: A Great Slashdot Tradition.
I see SOMEONE with an agenda has mod points and an inability to refute.
So czarangelus sez:
"Wank, wank, wank!"
Such ideological purity!
"The scientific triumphalism NASA represents is just modern day bread-and-circuses aimed at the Intelligentsia."
Sorry, I meant to write, "Such ideological masturbation!"
"Where is the government getting the money to waste on the stupid foolishness that is space exploration at a time like this?"
The general revenues of the United States. That's where. And such a minuscule fraction , at that. Barely US$18 billion.
How much American treasure and blood was spent on Chimpy McCokespoon's Excellent "See how big my dick is!" Adventure in Iraq?
Wank all you want, just don't do it where we can see it.
kthnxbai!
If I had points, I would SO mod you up!
evilviper, if I had points, I would SO mod you up!
sqrt(sin(53.128457638) + (e^(3.563462378 * pi))) = 269.744578
Is the answer via my HP-45 or Google Calculator or my slide rule?
I'll give you a hint: I'm 58 years old and I have a drawer full of slide rules.
I actually saw "Life of Brian" when it was released, lo! These many years ago.
Saw it with a friend of mine, and by the end of the "Biggus Dickus" scene, we were both laughing so hard, we were having trouble catching our breath. In fact, I didn't see the next few minutes of the film until a few years later when it was on cable TV.
A few years ago, John Cleese did a PSA for the BBC.
It opens in a pub, with Cleese asking:
"What has the BBC ever done for us?"
And diverse BBC performers and documentarians answer.
Oh, YouTube, is there no John Cleese clip you can't provide?
Monty Python has been so pervasive in modern pop culture to the extent that someone (this someone is assumed to be an individual who lives in the industrialized world and has access to a TV and doesn't watch Fox News 24/7 or the local equivalent thereof.) who has never seen the sketch in question, very likely knows what is implied by "nudge nudge - wink wink".
...3...2...1...
Ideally, here in Boston/Cambridge one finds it, realizes what it is, glues a VERY strong magnet to it, and then, affixes the GPS unit to one of the Green/Red/Orange Line subway cars or buses when next to it at a stop light/or as a passenger.
Hilarity ensues.
"Botnets, spammer's botnets!
What kind of boxes are on botnets?
Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, true!
Gateway, Packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too!
Are boxes, found on botnets.
All running Windows, FOO!"
I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.8, here.
Why, yes. Yes I AM a smug bastard!
Thanks for asking.
Even the closeted, self-loathing "faggots" in the GOP? DO they need to die as well?
How about all the "faggots" in the pulpits of the Church(es)?
The stench of all the Randroid droppings in here is REALLY thick in the air today!
Somebody open a window and break out the Glade!
Right, plugging the itty bitty Shuffle with it's voice feature into your home stereo.
And having your stereo bleating "UNTITLED ALBUM! UNKNOWN ARTIST! UNTITLED SONG!" after every other song.
Seriously, good luck with that.
Alexo, I would SO mod you up for that comment, if I could!
Someone's cranky that they didn't get First Post.
Keep reaching for the stars! You'll get that First Post one day!
Yes, yes it is. When it's NOT a legitimate mistake.
Something that was debunked by the freaking EFF a few days after the first FUD trolling occurred and was mentioned virtually everywhere on the tech sites.
Try again.
EPIC fail!
Jeebus! If you're using a Shuffle (A SHUFFLE!!) as an audio source for your home stereo, the utter lameness of that fact fills me with both pity AND revulsion.
You are, essentially, plugging in a device that has LESS selectability than an 8-track tape deck.
Really, such lame trolling is beneath the high standards expected here at Slashdot World Domination Headquarters, and this WILL be reflected in you semi-annual performance evaluation.
And as for your lack of cover sheets on your TPS reports...
Nice try at trolling. This was debunked shortly after the March 2009 story you're pimping.
Epic Fail!
I know what I want for Xmas!
EVERYTHING is encrypted until the electrons hit the phosphor or the current hits the transistors in the LCD.
Six months (hell, six weeks!) after China starts churning out the compliant TV sets/monitors, the grey market will have TVs/monitors with some manner of video/audio out ports, either blatantly obvious or as solder pads on the PC inside the display.
The quality of the display will be excellent, as will the quality of the unencrypted A/V output.
China does not care a fat rat's ass about what the MPAA wants. It is, and will always be about the money. Running a third shift once or twice a week and sourcing cabinets without the LG/Samsung/Sony/fill in the blank logo on them will be something very familiar to most Chinese electronic manufacturing firms.
Show of hands, how many here already have a "grey market" DVD player that's both region free, plays NTSC/PAL DVDs, and will also play .avi, DivX, Xvid, mks, etc?
Yeah, I thought so.
And if nothing else, someone will figure out how to fool that encrypted signal into thinking it's displaying on a TV/monitor, while it's actually just sending that signal to an MPEG encoder and thence to a hard drive.
One more reason to build a Linux box, I guess.
You know, I'd rather have a homophobic retard bigot like you think I was gay, rather than having a gay person think I was a homophobic retard bigot.
Like you.
"It wasn't just the forecasts that Santorum and crew wanted to lock down. It was *all* of the weather data that is available for free."
You forgot to mention that Accuweather is based in Pennsylvania and that Accuweather laid a hefty campaign contribution on Santorum.
Shortly thereafter, Accuweather asked Santorum to do their dirty work for them and lock down all the NOAA/NWS info that they were just giving away to the taxpayers for free.
Really, Santorum's pandering towards Accuweather was shameful, even for an ethics-free Republican.
And if you want to know the weather conditions to a finer degree than just looking out your window RIGHT NOW, then how do all their "prestigious awards" and whatnot benefit you? If you've a desire to know the local conditions, will your local station bring them to you via one of their "whirlybirds"?
Your local newsmuffins have a direct feed from the NWS. They'd be stupid if they didn't.
And now, via the NWS site, so do you.