And there are some men out there (not all, some) who think that women are their toys, and beat the shit out of them every night.
But you don't see me going on some page-long diatribe trying desperately to prove they exist, and furthermore, explaining their motivations.
Yes folks, news flash - bizarre extremes of humanity exist. Typically in very small numbers. It's when you hop up on your soapbox trying to act personally offended about it that people start to wonder about your motivations.
The point of this sub-thread is seriously lost on me.
Just go look on ebay...there are thousands on thousands of them for sale.
Your "thousands and thousands" amongst sales of nearly 2 MILLION per month... amounts to little more than statistical noise. The vast majority of Wii purchasers are playing their consoles. Someone (well, people collectively) would have to be ebaying HUNDREDS of thousands, every single month, to make any noticeable impact to the market.
a great - or even a good - actor can make a passable pulp script a cult phenomenon. Anthony Stewart Head and Nathan Fillion are great examples of this
Man, I wish I could mod you +1000.
Sorry folks. I love Joss. Seriously love pretty much all the man has ever done. But without his cast, his work isn't 1% as good. Joss writes good. With the right actors he writes GREAT. Every comic I've read based on Whedon work has seemed like a sad attempt to cash in on a hot franchise.
Then again, I'm not into the 250 Star Wars Universe novels released every year, even though I love the movies. So take what I say with a mountain of salt. I'll hand in my Comic Book Guy badge now:)
Empty boxes or actual Wiis? And do you tend to shop early in the morning, by chance?
I lucked out and got mine close to release - and have literally been every week since trying to find more for other people. I hear stories like yours from all sorts of people, yet every single time I actually pick up the Wii box, it's empty and the store clerks give a laugh at me. "yeah, sorry, we sold out this morning again".
Maybe Ottawa is some weird hole in the universe where nothing can ever leave, but if stores there in fact do have them on the shelves all the time - your store managers are cheating somehow. If Best Buy runs out of product in one location, they'll ship it to where it CAN sell. Same for EB. Same for pretty much any large chain.
Out here in Calgary it's been sold out, completely, for 12 months now. Same goes for every other city in North America I've been in (I get to travel a fair bit). Store owners here tell me they could sell dozens more every day than they see just based on how many people are asking. I find it seriously hard to believe that every chain store ships product to locations where it's demanded, except from their Ottawa stores.
HMV, while stocking games, has yet to even put out an empty display box. I think they see maybe 2 units a week per store.
Explain how this is possible when the purpose of a pdf is to keep the original formatting of the document and be able to be printed and still retain that formatting.
Not everything fulfills its intended purpose. See: Vista.;)
I've seen all sorts of one-off issues with PDFs over the years. Just 'cause it's SUPPOSED to work doesn't mean it always DOES. See: Linux;)
As described in Geist's post, the bill would outlaw VCRs.
After sitting through another insulting pre-movie commercial, nothing would surprise me anymore:
Image of a prison security camera monitoring an imate pacing his cell. Commentary (paraphrased): "he camcordered a movie, now the justice system gets to camcorder him for 10 years".
That is now actual law. With rather scary commercials to back this up. People can seriously be put in PRISON for 10 years, for recording a movie. And the rest of us get to be called potential criminals after we've just paid our $15.
And you think we're being alarmist and melodramatic? How extreme do these measures have to get? The fact that this is even being discussed outside the confines of a dystopian sci-fi novel should make you seriously afraid.
Actually, as one who followed the whole thing pretty closely, the GP was definitely correct. The days of everyone and their dog running console/arcade emulators on their PC was years ago. There's been little activity in the area since maybe 2001-2, and anyone doing it now has either just bought a PC, or is a die-hard emulation enthusiast.
Seriously, in recent years emulation has reached the masses by way of officially licensed collections of ROMs for PS2, Gamecube, etc - but in terms of running an emulator on the PC? No average person has done it in years. The craze was most definitely around 1998-2000 or so. It wasn't just some guy running it without sound - that might have been in the 1995-6 timeframe.
There's plenty of reasons why a preview pane is a 'bad idea'. Ever remember a certain OS, with a certain bundled graphics library that would allow someone to infect your computer with a carefully crafted embedded image file?
No, the problem there is not with the preview pane. The problem is with your software executing image content as code.
Gmail does it right imho.. it displays a snippet of the first sentence, more than enough for me to tell if it's worth opening when the subject/sender is questionable.
Well, considering that malware has been emailing itself from your friends' address books for nearly a decade now, the "questionable sender" comment is entirely meaningless. And unless you have an incredibly tiny circle of predictable friends, it's hard to know whether a subject line is sketchy or not.
Beyond "1ncr3453 ur s153", I guess... those don't tend to have malware attached.
Incidentally, one reason gmail DOES rock and could easily have a preview pane - it doesn't display images by default. You have the opportunity to read the body of the email before deciding to load them. One of the coolest email features I've ever seen. Saves a ton of time loading graphics from stupid servers.
It just seemed even more incongruous in the Star Wars universe. But Lucas by no means invented this stupidity.
Incidentally, he first did this in Return of the Jedi (although Star Wars fans seem to have forgotten). He also did it in Howard the Duck... you can stop giggling now.:)
If she's capable of having sex, she's capable of handling the consequences of sex.
And here we find an honest admission of the endgame for the anti-abortion crowd.
A lot of the emotional damage is actually done by abortion advocates telling rape victims that the baby is a horrible inhuman thing that should be killed.
Ummm... HUH?? I don't even know if strawman is quite strong enough here. I suppose it's possible that you've met the one rape counselor out of thousands that has actually said this, but... as an FYI this is most certainly not how the overwhelming majority of "abortion advocates" think, talk, and certainly counsel rape victims.
Oh, and:
An individual human life either has value, or it does not. If it does, then any point after a new set of genetics is formed and has a viable chance to grow into an intelligent being is an arbitrary line.
If this was truly the case, then medical science should be directed towards trying to prevent any and all miscarriages. After all, they're really no different than standing by and watching your child die, while doing nothing about it. It's like child abandonment, only without the legal repercussions.
Those arguments only hold water when used as a criticism of Linux.
Similar vein, have you seen the number of Vista tweaks lately that, in essence, boil down to "find this obscure text file and modify this line"? Virtually every Slashdot article about Vista these days is full of them:
Poster A: This behaviour in Vista doesn't work right. Poster B: Oh, that's easy enough to fix, go into the registry and find this key, and change this value...
It's no longer obscure settings that maybe 3 people on the planet care about. I've watched entire discussion threads go 50 posts deep, many people complaining about this issue, then someone posts a solution, and everyone's grateful.
And I sit there thinking "wow, just like Linux".;)
Anybody who uses the term "box" to refer to a computer is not a good source for real-world usability.
Sorry, but that's just plain stupid. My senior-citizen-age parents call the computer the "box". It's just about the most non-technical term ever invented for computers. They have no idea what a CPU, hard drive, or anything else is. To them, there's the "screen", the "keyboard", the "mouse", and the "box".
If the guy said "boxen", maybe you'd have a point. Maybe "tower". The fact that he runs 7 computers at home puts him a bit beyond Joe Sixpack. The fact that he actually KNOWS WHICH OS IS ON THEM, sure.
But "box"? Half the non-technical people I know call it that.
Apparently,being a citizen of CANADA isn't all that it's cracked up to be for lots of folks.
So don't flatter yourself.
-- Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
Yeah, you guys get our excess rednecks!
In all seriousness, Canada's immigration rate is nearly double that of the US. The rest of the world disagress with your statement. Except maybe Russians - most of them are accustomed to living in a police state already.
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Here's a reason why I detest single-payer healthcare: because people will have LESS reason to live a healthy lifestyle.
Contrary country-wide anecdote: Canada has far fewer obese people than the USA.
There's a lot more going on in people's lifestyle choices than just "who pays my medical bills".
There will be a flame war, but remember one thing:
We (science) didn't start this fire.
"How do the blue lines in hockey work?"
;)
The puck has to go over it before the players. It's one of the simplest rules in hockey.
And there are some men out there (not all, some) who think that women are their toys, and beat the shit out of them every night.
But you don't see me going on some page-long diatribe trying desperately to prove they exist, and furthermore, explaining their motivations.
Yes folks, news flash - bizarre extremes of humanity exist. Typically in very small numbers. It's when you hop up on your soapbox trying to act personally offended about it that people start to wonder about your motivations.
The point of this sub-thread is seriously lost on me.
Just go look on ebay...there are thousands on thousands of them for sale.
... amounts to little more than statistical noise. The vast majority of Wii purchasers are playing their consoles. Someone (well, people collectively) would have to be ebaying HUNDREDS of thousands, every single month, to make any noticeable impact to the market.
Your "thousands and thousands" amongst sales of nearly 2 MILLION per month
Anyone who can build their own computer and install their own operating system, can surely run one simple command.
The rest get a browser pre-installed on their computer.
Hell, how do you think people installed browsers in the first place? Everyone who owned a computer was a genius before IE was bundled?
a great - or even a good - actor can make a passable pulp script a cult phenomenon. Anthony Stewart Head and Nathan Fillion are great examples of this
:)
Man, I wish I could mod you +1000.
Sorry folks. I love Joss. Seriously love pretty much all the man has ever done. But without his cast, his work isn't 1% as good. Joss writes good. With the right actors he writes GREAT. Every comic I've read based on Whedon work has seemed like a sad attempt to cash in on a hot franchise.
Then again, I'm not into the 250 Star Wars Universe novels released every year, even though I love the movies. So take what I say with a mountain of salt. I'll hand in my Comic Book Guy badge now
I know, and it's one of the things that make this country so great.
Empty boxes or actual Wiis? And do you tend to shop early in the morning, by chance?
I lucked out and got mine close to release - and have literally been every week since trying to find more for other people. I hear stories like yours from all sorts of people, yet every single time I actually pick up the Wii box, it's empty and the store clerks give a laugh at me. "yeah, sorry, we sold out this morning again".
Maybe Ottawa is some weird hole in the universe where nothing can ever leave, but if stores there in fact do have them on the shelves all the time - your store managers are cheating somehow. If Best Buy runs out of product in one location, they'll ship it to where it CAN sell. Same for EB. Same for pretty much any large chain.
Out here in Calgary it's been sold out, completely, for 12 months now. Same goes for every other city in North America I've been in (I get to travel a fair bit). Store owners here tell me they could sell dozens more every day than they see just based on how many people are asking. I find it seriously hard to believe that every chain store ships product to locations where it's demanded, except from their Ottawa stores.
HMV, while stocking games, has yet to even put out an empty display box. I think they see maybe 2 units a week per store.
Anyone from one of those 59 countries want to explain to me what exactly the point of a person having multiple cellphones is?
I love my phone to death and wouldn't dream of living without one, so I'm not the usual rabid anti-cellphone nutcase. But multiples??
Explain how this is possible when the purpose of a pdf is to keep the original formatting of the document and be able to be printed and still retain that formatting.
;)
;)
Not everything fulfills its intended purpose. See: Vista.
I've seen all sorts of one-off issues with PDFs over the years. Just 'cause it's SUPPOSED to work doesn't mean it always DOES. See: Linux
As described in Geist's post, the bill would outlaw VCRs.
After sitting through another insulting pre-movie commercial, nothing would surprise me anymore:
Image of a prison security camera monitoring an imate pacing his cell. Commentary (paraphrased): "he camcordered a movie, now the justice system gets to camcorder him for 10 years".
That is now actual law. With rather scary commercials to back this up. People can seriously be put in PRISON for 10 years, for recording a movie. And the rest of us get to be called potential criminals after we've just paid our $15.
And you think we're being alarmist and melodramatic? How extreme do these measures have to get? The fact that this is even being discussed outside the confines of a dystopian sci-fi novel should make you seriously afraid.
Actually, as one who followed the whole thing pretty closely, the GP was definitely correct. The days of everyone and their dog running console/arcade emulators on their PC was years ago. There's been little activity in the area since maybe 2001-2, and anyone doing it now has either just bought a PC, or is a die-hard emulation enthusiast.
Seriously, in recent years emulation has reached the masses by way of officially licensed collections of ROMs for PS2, Gamecube, etc - but in terms of running an emulator on the PC? No average person has done it in years. The craze was most definitely around 1998-2000 or so. It wasn't just some guy running it without sound - that might have been in the 1995-6 timeframe.
There's plenty of reasons why a preview pane is a 'bad idea'. Ever remember a certain OS, with a certain bundled graphics library that would allow someone to infect your computer with a carefully crafted embedded image file?
No, the problem there is not with the preview pane. The problem is with your software executing image content as code.
Gmail does it right imho.. it displays a snippet of the first sentence, more than enough for me to tell if it's worth opening when the subject/sender is questionable.
Well, considering that malware has been emailing itself from your friends' address books for nearly a decade now, the "questionable sender" comment is entirely meaningless. And unless you have an incredibly tiny circle of predictable friends, it's hard to know whether a subject line is sketchy or not.
Beyond "1ncr3453 ur s153", I guess... those don't tend to have malware attached.
Incidentally, one reason gmail DOES rock and could easily have a preview pane - it doesn't display images by default. You have the opportunity to read the body of the email before deciding to load them. One of the coolest email features I've ever seen. Saves a ton of time loading graphics from stupid servers.
That's actually a fairly common movie reference that pops up all over the place where it doesn't belong.
:)
It just seemed even more incongruous in the Star Wars universe. But Lucas by no means invented this stupidity.
Incidentally, he first did this in Return of the Jedi (although Star Wars fans seem to have forgotten). He also did it in Howard the Duck... you can stop giggling now.
If she's capable of having sex, she's capable of handling the consequences of sex.
And here we find an honest admission of the endgame for the anti-abortion crowd.
A lot of the emotional damage is actually done by abortion advocates telling rape victims that the baby is a horrible inhuman thing that should be killed.
Ummm... HUH?? I don't even know if strawman is quite strong enough here. I suppose it's possible that you've met the one rape counselor out of thousands that has actually said this, but... as an FYI this is most certainly not how the overwhelming majority of "abortion advocates" think, talk, and certainly counsel rape victims.
Oh, and:
An individual human life either has value, or it does not. If it does, then any point after a new set of genetics is formed and has a viable chance to grow into an intelligent being is an arbitrary line.
If this was truly the case, then medical science should be directed towards trying to prevent any and all miscarriages. After all, they're really no different than standing by and watching your child die, while doing nothing about it. It's like child abandonment, only without the legal repercussions.
Those arguments only hold water when used as a criticism of Linux.
;)
Similar vein, have you seen the number of Vista tweaks lately that, in essence, boil down to "find this obscure text file and modify this line"? Virtually every Slashdot article about Vista these days is full of them:
Poster A: This behaviour in Vista doesn't work right.
Poster B: Oh, that's easy enough to fix, go into the registry and find this key, and change this value...
It's no longer obscure settings that maybe 3 people on the planet care about. I've watched entire discussion threads go 50 posts deep, many people complaining about this issue, then someone posts a solution, and everyone's grateful.
And I sit there thinking "wow, just like Linux".
Must... resist... goatse.. joke....
Anybody who uses the term "box" to refer to a computer is not a good source for real-world usability.
Sorry, but that's just plain stupid. My senior-citizen-age parents call the computer the "box". It's just about the most non-technical term ever invented for computers. They have no idea what a CPU, hard drive, or anything else is. To them, there's the "screen", the "keyboard", the "mouse", and the "box".
If the guy said "boxen", maybe you'd have a point. Maybe "tower". The fact that he runs 7 computers at home puts him a bit beyond Joe Sixpack. The fact that he actually KNOWS WHICH OS IS ON THEM, sure.
But "box"? Half the non-technical people I know call it that.
3) China likes having more repressive regimes around that make them look not quite so bad.
Where's the (+1, Sad but True) moderation option?
I wouldn't narrow it down so specifically to the US though. Canada's been pretty dang nice as far as oppressive governments go.
Virii means man??
There's a Matrix joke in here somewhere...
Yeah. chkconfig, eh. :)
It's also rather light on content. 3 pages to say "yeah, this runs, and a bunch of other stuff that I won't talk about happens".
This might have been useful in 1999.
Apparently,being a citizen of CANADA isn't all that it's cracked up to be for lots of folks.
So don't flatter yourself.
--
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be the name of a store, not a government agency.
Yeah, you guys get our excess rednecks!
In all seriousness, Canada's immigration rate is nearly double that of the US. The rest of the world disagress with your statement. Except maybe Russians - most of them are accustomed to living in a police state already.
What's awesome is that one of them has "friended" me, and the other has "foe'd" me.