Yeah, I tend to get grilled heading across the border. The US border guards seem to think my plan is to sneak in, and live in the US permanently.
Seriously. Dude. I'm already a citizen of CANADA. Don't flatter yourselves.
(note for the humour-impaired: I actually did consider the move before 9/11 - but today?? It's hard not to laugh at the border when they accuse me of this.)
And with a UID as low as yours, if you're truly worried about hitting zero karma - what the hell do you DO? I maxed my karma out years ago and it's never been an issue for me.
that doesn't explain the signatures and it most definitely doesn't explain why they read "1972" and not "72" like all other military documents from the time. Or, honestly, all other documents from the time. The whole "four digit year" thing only really started when the Y2K panic started.
While I can't speak for the military, this comment is extremely laughable.
Your chequebook may not have had 4 digit years (most just had the 19__ filled in already), but believe me: most documents had 4 digit years. It had nothing to do with Y2K, unless it was computer-generated. Which in 1972 most documents were not. Even then, most computer logic would prepend a default "19" at the beginning.
Yeesh, I can't possibly be the only person old enough to remember TYPEWRITERS...
That's actually pretty close in theme and spirit (and ridiculousness) to the ad I saw. Take away the laugh track and that's what we're now showing Canadians.
Funny, I figured that legislation had no hope in hell of going anywhere.
So there I, after paying my $15 to watch a movie this weekend, and this commercial comes on. Guy in a prison cell. Looks hardcore, like a gang thug or something. The tag line is to the effect of "cameras can watch this dude all day long now... because he DARED bring a camera into a movie theatre".
I just about bust a gut laughing, then realized it was serious: there's a "Operating a recording device in a movie theatre is now illegal in Canada" message at the end.
How fucking pathetic.
Fuck them. I'm officially downloading from here on in. HEY SHITHEADS: I JUST PAID TO SEE YOUR FUCKING MOVIE. PLEASE STOP THREATENING ME WITH A FUCKING PRISON TERM.
Yes, I'm that angry. Even having a minority government didn't stop this horseshit from passing.
They were talking about getting away, and unplugging for a while. Someone suggested nature, and a poster responded "OMG I can't handle nature, because then I can't fix anything at work".
My comment was "um, yeah, that's the point". To that poster. To which you decided that somehow those of us who actually leave cities were making a personal attack on you for having different ideas about relaxing.
Oddly, many people on Slashdot react this way. Lose the geek agsnt and you'll find I've actually been agreeing with you the entire time:)
Who the hell cares if the news is "old"? It's INTERESTING, I haven't read it before, and quite frankly why are you bothering to post if it's such "old" news?
Besides, 5 months is only "old" if you're a teenager. So get off my damn lawn and stop posting pointless comments complaining about something you can easily just NOT CLICK ON IF IT DOES NOT INTERST YOU.
Fuck, Slashdot is full of whiners the past couple of years.
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When I played it, I played the initial tutorial, level 1, then went back to the tutorial section and played through all the other tutorials.
This thread is reminding me why everyone and their dog is buying a Wii, including those like myself who've been doing this for 30 years now.
If we lived in a society where the majority of us lived in nature, and getting to the Internet was an infrequent occurence, sure, that'd make sense.
The GP complained that they can't handle "being away" at all. Don't tell me they're just using a different form of "getting away" - that's ridiculous. Worrying about work 7x24 pretty much means that, by definition, you're not "getting away". You're still at work.
If you NEVER want to, more power to you. But don't put words into people's mouths. Nature is just one way of doing something different. If you don't like your day to day life to ever change, so be it.
Yeah, there's nothing more relaxing than being stuck out in nature... and constantly wondering if things are fine at work or if someone needs your help
I see you entirely miss the point of "getting away". Hint: you're NOT SUPPOSED to worry about those things. In fact, because there's literally nothing you can do about it, there's also no point in worrying.
Oh, and about the bugs - I've hiked in mountainous areas that had far fewer mosquitoes than many major cities. Then again, I'm from Canada. As for bathrooms? With 99% of Slashdotters being male, I figured the standing up by a tree plan would be obvious.
Personally, I only clicked on this story so that I could find some American jackass showing their complete and utter ignorance of current events, and the mods dropped the comment below my threshold.
Now my day is ruined.
Guess I'll make it up with a trip to Vegas - AT PAR:)
Smokers make up 20% of the population why should the rest of us sacrifice to keep them happy? Usually it wasn't everyone in a bar smoking just about 20%-40% ever lit up.
If non-smokers cared that much, why weren't 80% of restaurants already non-smoking, then? And 60-80% of bars?
Considering I can check most large stores' bloody inventory online (and generally accurate to within a day or so), it's a shame that Wal-Mart in Canada doesn't even SHOW YOU WHAT THEY SELL. Their website is entirely useless. Much like their average customer.
a police forensic chemist who told me that they regularly laughed at some of the amphetamine labs they busted - in some cases, 60%-80% of their yield was going down the drain
Goes to show you how ridiculously profitable this stuff is under our current legal system.
That dude thought the Holy Bible has sections too racy for children and young people and so he brought out an edited version.
Just had to point out that this may actually be the first confirmed case of real irony on Slashdot, considering who's usually behind censorship campaigns.
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Yeah, I tend to get grilled heading across the border. The US border guards seem to think my plan is to sneak in, and live in the US permanently.
Seriously. Dude. I'm already a citizen of CANADA. Don't flatter yourselves.
(note for the humour-impaired: I actually did consider the move before 9/11 - but today?? It's hard not to laugh at the border when they accuse me of this.)
Well it wasn't actually very funny.
And with a UID as low as yours, if you're truly worried about hitting zero karma - what the hell do you DO? I maxed my karma out years ago and it's never been an issue for me.
Why not just let us play our legally purchased content?
That radical business method seemed to work just fine in the days of VHS and DVD (region encoding aside).
Yours truly,
Someone who pirates these days, because at least that WORKS out of the box.
that doesn't explain the signatures and it most definitely doesn't explain why they read "1972" and not "72" like all other military documents from the time. Or, honestly, all other documents from the time. The whole "four digit year" thing only really started when the Y2K panic started.
While I can't speak for the military, this comment is extremely laughable.
Your chequebook may not have had 4 digit years (most just had the 19__ filled in already), but believe me: most documents had 4 digit years. It had nothing to do with Y2K, unless it was computer-generated. Which in 1972 most documents were not. Even then, most computer logic would prepend a default "19" at the beginning.
Yeesh, I can't possibly be the only person old enough to remember TYPEWRITERS...
Flapping heads.
Wow.
That's actually pretty close in theme and spirit (and ridiculousness) to the ad I saw. Take away the laugh track and that's what we're now showing Canadians.
Thanks for the link!
Funny, I figured that legislation had no hope in hell of going anywhere.
So there I, after paying my $15 to watch a movie this weekend, and this commercial comes on. Guy in a prison cell. Looks hardcore, like a gang thug or something. The tag line is to the effect of "cameras can watch this dude all day long now... because he DARED bring a camera into a movie theatre".
I just about bust a gut laughing, then realized it was serious: there's a "Operating a recording device in a movie theatre is now illegal in Canada" message at the end.
How fucking pathetic.
Fuck them. I'm officially downloading from here on in. HEY SHITHEADS: I JUST PAID TO SEE YOUR FUCKING MOVIE. PLEASE STOP THREATENING ME WITH A FUCKING PRISON TERM.
Yes, I'm that angry. Even having a minority government didn't stop this horseshit from passing.
They were talking about getting away, and unplugging for a while. Someone suggested nature, and a poster responded "OMG I can't handle nature, because then I can't fix anything at work".
:)
My comment was "um, yeah, that's the point". To that poster. To which you decided that somehow those of us who actually leave cities were making a personal attack on you for having different ideas about relaxing.
Oddly, many people on Slashdot react this way. Lose the geek agsnt and you'll find I've actually been agreeing with you the entire time
You know, the Internet isn't a race.
Who the hell cares if the news is "old"? It's INTERESTING, I haven't read it before, and quite frankly why are you bothering to post if it's such "old" news?
Besides, 5 months is only "old" if you're a teenager. So get off my damn lawn and stop posting pointless comments complaining about something you can easily just NOT CLICK ON IF IT DOES NOT INTERST YOU.
Fuck, Slashdot is full of whiners the past couple of years.
When I played it, I played the initial tutorial, level 1, then went back to the tutorial section and played through all the other tutorials.
This thread is reminding me why everyone and their dog is buying a Wii, including those like myself who've been doing this for 30 years now.
If we lived in a society where the majority of us lived in nature, and getting to the Internet was an infrequent occurence, sure, that'd make sense.
The GP complained that they can't handle "being away" at all. Don't tell me they're just using a different form of "getting away" - that's ridiculous. Worrying about work 7x24 pretty much means that, by definition, you're not "getting away". You're still at work.
If you NEVER want to, more power to you. But don't put words into people's mouths. Nature is just one way of doing something different. If you don't like your day to day life to ever change, so be it.
Yeah, there's nothing more relaxing than being stuck out in nature ... and constantly wondering if things are fine at work or if someone needs your help
I see you entirely miss the point of "getting away". Hint: you're NOT SUPPOSED to worry about those things. In fact, because there's literally nothing you can do about it, there's also no point in worrying.
Oh, and about the bugs - I've hiked in mountainous areas that had far fewer mosquitoes than many major cities. Then again, I'm from Canada. As for bathrooms? With 99% of Slashdotters being male, I figured the standing up by a tree plan would be obvious.
Personally, I only clicked on this story so that I could find some American jackass showing their complete and utter ignorance of current events, and the mods dropped the comment below my threshold.
:)
Now my day is ruined.
Guess I'll make it up with a trip to Vegas - AT PAR
You DID notice the quotation marks in the sentence you quoted, right?
Smokers make up 20% of the population why should the rest of us sacrifice to keep them happy? Usually it wasn't everyone in a bar smoking just about 20%-40% ever lit up.
If non-smokers cared that much, why weren't 80% of restaurants already non-smoking, then? And 60-80% of bars?
This isn't funny, it's entirely accurate.
Considering I can check most large stores' bloody inventory online (and generally accurate to within a day or so), it's a shame that Wal-Mart in Canada doesn't even SHOW YOU WHAT THEY SELL. Their website is entirely useless. Much like their average customer.
a rather old PC*
*Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB DDR
Holy shit, get off my lawn x 1 billion!
Whereas in a lunar eclipse, the Sun stands directly between the Earth and the Moon, blocking your view of the Moon.
Which also means it's going to be very, very, hot on Tuesday morning.
Um...
Is this another post that should be modded Funny, but people are feeling generous with karma?
The earth is going to be direcly between the sun and the moon, in case anyone's still not sure as to how this works.
I think it is ignorant to be offended by what an animal does
Personally, I think it is ignorant to be offended by what a human does, too.
We're already doing a proof of concept for softgrid, because we KNOW some of our mission-critical apps just won't go with Vista, ever.
And management has handed down the edict that we MUST be on Vista soon, so...
Your Internet access is truly unlimited?
You POTENTIALLY are denying a person the use of their wireless. Once that's a possibility, it's not up to you to decide whether or not that's fair.
a police forensic chemist who told me that they regularly laughed at some of the amphetamine labs they busted - in some cases, 60%-80% of their yield was going down the drain
Goes to show you how ridiculously profitable this stuff is under our current legal system.
No wonder people kill each other over it.
Not that I'm a fan of legalizing meth, mind you.
That dude thought the Holy Bible has sections too racy for children and young people and so he brought out an edited version.
Just had to point out that this may actually be the first confirmed case of real irony on Slashdot, considering who's usually behind censorship campaigns.
When Tom Clancy begins to be insightful, you know your country is fucked.
You just compared the female orgasm to God.
You officially win Slashdot.