I mean should the cook at McDonalds be put in Jail because he knows he's poisoning civilians with fatty food and giving them diabetes?
The difference, of course, is that the cook isn't going to your house and trying to make you eat junk food; consumption of junk food is voluntary. If you don't want it, you never have to eat it. If you don't want $%^&ing telemarketing calls, sure you can opt out, but you're still subject to calls due to various loopholes, and scammers will ignore that anyway.
Windows 3.1 came out in 1992; the Amiga, in 1985. 7 years is a long time in the computer industry. And yet, the Amiga was a far better GUI-based OS. That's why it's so important to so many geeks. I'm still sad about the (original) company's tragic end as a PC-contemptible manufacturer.
I don't know whether anyone still uses an Amiga as their day-to-day machine, but it wouldn't surprise me too much. My Amiga 500 (with sidecar 30M HD, 3M of RAM (I think) and 68010 CPU) is deceased, but I wish I could boot it up and play some of the old games...
Utz brand cheese puffs/balls (I forget the exact name) are really good, too. They have a buttery flavor and are as addictive as I imagine heroin or the like to be.
For a couple of months after I canceled my AT&T land line, they mailed me a bill for 11 (or thereabouts) cents. I ignored it.
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I keep going back to Babylon5. It had twists and turns and complexity but it ended up with total resolution. All the arcs landed and it made sense in a "wow" kind of way. Like, you watch the series finale and say "wow".
Agreed.
Conversely, Xfiles never made sense either, kept adding 2 questions for every 1 they answered. Even the stinkin movie didn't really resolve anything.
I was going to mention The X-Files also. I've seen all the episodes and movies, and the 'alien arc' still makes no sense to me.
Did the geeks give xfiles a pass because skulley was so hot?
I'd like to see the old GEnie and Compu$erve discussions archived somewhere. I remember asking a question on one of them, about a science fiction novel whose title I couldn't remember, and getting an answer. Now I can't remember the answer and I'm interested in tracking down the book again...
When I think of parody the first thing that comes to mind is Weird Al, and I can't really recall any of his songs commenting on the original work itself.
"Smells Like Nirvana" and "This Song's Just Six Words Long" are like that, I think. Maybe others.
He pays for internet by the character you insensitive clod!
Another happy Verizon customer?
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There was such a thing. We had Apple ][+ machines at my high school, and we had that manual, but I have no idea whether it came with the machines or was a separate order.
I and a couple of friends spent many, many hours poring over those manuals, and my copy of "Beneath Apple DOS".
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I mean should the cook at McDonalds be put in Jail because he knows he's poisoning civilians with fatty food and giving them diabetes?
The difference, of course, is that the cook isn't going to your house and trying to make you eat junk food; consumption of junk food is voluntary. If you don't want it, you never have to eat it. If you don't want $%^&ing telemarketing calls, sure you can opt out, but you're still subject to calls due to various loopholes, and scammers will ignore that anyway.
Windows 3.1 came out in 1992; the Amiga, in 1985. 7 years is a long time in the computer industry. And yet, the Amiga was a far better GUI-based OS. That's why it's so important to so many geeks. I'm still sad about the (original) company's tragic end as a PC-contemptible manufacturer.
I don't know whether anyone still uses an Amiga as their day-to-day machine, but it wouldn't surprise me too much. My Amiga 500 (with sidecar 30M HD, 3M of RAM (I think) and 68010 CPU) is deceased, but I wish I could boot it up and play some of the old games...
I bid one competent Python programmer in a beach house, 3 months.
Who told you to say that? Who are you really working for?
Utz brand cheese puffs/balls (I forget the exact name) are really good, too. They have a buttery flavor and are as addictive as I imagine heroin or the like to be.
Would that be American or European football fields?
I don't know that. Aaaaggghhh!!!
For a couple of months after I canceled my AT&T land line, they mailed me a bill for 11 (or thereabouts) cents. I ignored it.
I keep going back to Babylon5. It had twists and turns and complexity but it ended up with total resolution. All the arcs landed and it made sense in a "wow" kind of way. Like, you watch the series finale and say "wow".
Agreed.
Conversely, Xfiles never made sense either, kept adding 2 questions for every 1 they answered. Even the stinkin movie didn't really resolve anything.
I was going to mention The X-Files also. I've seen all the episodes and movies, and the 'alien arc' still makes no sense to me.
Did the geeks give xfiles a pass because skulley was so hot?
Speaking only for myself, "yes". :-)
You also can't spell it without "con".
It doesn't *have* to run Ubuntu.
I like to phrase it this way:
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."
Bah, go float a kite.
In case an HCF instruction got executed...
I save time in a bottle - you never want to run out of time.
I thought we'd all be heads in jars?
I'd like to see the old GEnie and Compu$erve discussions archived somewhere. I remember asking a question on one of them, about a science fiction novel whose title I couldn't remember, and getting an answer. Now I can't remember the answer and I'm interested in tracking down the book again...
No, he doesN'T.
When I think of parody the first thing that comes to mind is Weird Al, and I can't really recall any of his songs commenting on the original work itself.
"Smells Like Nirvana" and "This Song's Just Six Words Long" are like that, I think. Maybe others.
The Macolytes could make Macrifices while celebrating the Macraments.
If, instead of a meteorite, you find a very large cylinder, you should run away.
...It doesn't cost you anything to elaborate: ...
He pays for internet by the character you insensitive clod!
Another happy Verizon customer?
There was such a thing. We had Apple ][+ machines at my high school, and we had that manual, but I have no idea whether it came with the machines or was a separate order.
I and a couple of friends spent many, many hours poring over those manuals, and my copy of "Beneath Apple DOS".
Yes, I did miss that line being used in the summary. Sigh.
I find my lack of attention disturbing.
"I have a bad feeling about this" would also have been acceptable.
Fencing a nation is a bitch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence_(criminal)
It certainly is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing
And the river bank is thick with poisoned frog corpses.