Oh Whacking Day, Oh Whacking Day, Our hallowed snake skull-cracking day. We'll break their backs, Gouge out their eyes, Their evil hearts, we'll pulverize. Oh Whacking Day, Oh Whacking Day, May God bestow His grace on thee.
Every time I go to my bank's ATM I withdraw $300. To do this, they make me hit "withdraw money", then hit "from checking", then present me with several pre-selected amount buttons all below $200 which makes me hit "other amount", then I hit 3-0-0-0-0-ENTER, then I hit "confirm with receipt". Message to the bank: how about if you customize my options so that one of the first buttons I have the option of hitting reads "withdraw $300 like you have every time you've been here in the past ten years". I'd really like to hit just one button instead of ten. Doesn't seem like rocket science.
We have this in Australia now. After you enter your PIN, the next question it asks you is "Do you wish to use your favourite transaction?" Hit yes, & the cash is given out, with reciept or not, as the case may be. Too easy.
Please let shows like this just fade away. We already have our ideas of what we loved / hated about these series, we don't need more crap to tarnish our memories & the reputation of those involved. (I'm not going to claim George raped anyones childhood, but my perceptions of past experiences have certainly changed.) I guess if there's a buck to be made, then it will be done. The only way we can stop things like this is to give them as little of our money as possible. Shows like The Simpsons, Star Wars, Star Trek et al, were all great in their time. But they have run their course.
DARK HELMET: (in microphone) Now hear this, ludicrous speed.... COL SANDURZ: Sir, hadn't you better buckle up. DARK HELMET: Aah, buckle this. (into microphone) Ludicrous speed, Go!
The ship takes off. The display lights up: Light Speed, Ridiculous Speed, and then Ludicrous Speed. Helmet is being pulled back.
DARK HELMET: Whoaaa! What have I done? My brains are going into my feet.
INT. EAGLE 5 - SPACE Spaceball 1 passes over them leaving a plaid shadow.
BARF: What the hell was that? LONE STARR: Spaceball 1. BARF: They've gone to plaid.
INT. SPACEBALL 1 SPACE
DARK HELMET: We passed them. Stop this thing. COL SANDURZ: We can't stop. It's too dangerous. We have to slow down first. DARK HELMET: Bullshit. Just stop this thing. I order you. Staahhp! COL SANDURZ pulls on emergency brake which reads, "Emergency Stop, never use." The ship stops and DARK HELMET goes flying into a panel. COL SANDURZ (picks Helmet up): Are you all right, sir? DARK HELMET: Fine. How've you been? COL SANDURZ: Fine, sir. DARK HELMET: Good. COL SANDURZ: It's a good thing you were wearing that helmet. DARK HELMET: Yeah. COL SANDURZ: What should we do now, sir? DARK HELMET: Well, are we stopped? COL SANDURZ: We're stopped, sir. DARK HELMET: Good. Well, why don't we take a five minute break. COL SANDURZ: Very good, sir. DARK HELMET: Smoke if you got 'em. (falls forward)
Announcer: We now return to "Knightboat: the Crime-Solving Boat". Michael: Faster, Knightboat! We gotta catch those starfish poachers. Knightboat: You don't have to yell, Michael, I'm all around you. Michael: Oh, no! They're headed for land.
[the poachers ride onto the beach, jump on motorcycles, and speed away] Michael: We'll never catch them now. Knightboat: Incorrect: look! A canal. Homer: Go, Knightboat, go! Bart: Oh, every week there's a canal. Lisa: Or an inlet. Bart: Or a fjord. Homer: Quiet! I will not hear another word against the boat.
they just need to learn to delete and ignore their email, similar to how they would have walked away from the stranger on the street.
The main identifying feature that people use when someone would come up to them on the street is how they appear. How they come across to the person being targetted, which may be heavily based on first impressions. If this looks legit, (just like an email might look legit) then the target may well think, "well, he looks like the right person", and hand over what is being asked for.
Then again, if they guy is standing there in the fake plastic glasses, big nose and moustache and the person still hands over the info, well, people still need to take responsibility for their actions.
Man 2: They're a colorful bunch. They've been dubbed "the Three Musketeers". Heh heh heh -- Tom: And we laugh legitimately. There's a mathematician, a different _kind_ of mathematician, and a statistician.
Role playing games such as Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights... they allow you to pause the game and take your time while you queue up your next few moves, then sit back and enjoy the show for a little while. Rinse and repeat.
The scenes flash through people throughout Springfield and then the mushroom cloud appears, very small, and sets off the smoke detector in the blimp. The bomb casing breaks apart and rats scatter.
Bob: [reading from the bomb casing] "Best before November 1959." Dammit, Bob. There were plenty of brand new bombs, but you had to go for that retro 50s charm.
[to kids] Well, if it isn't my arch nemesis, Bart Simpson. And his sister Lisa to whom I'm fairly indifferent.
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These have been advertised (here in Oz at least) for a while now. Link shows box/cover art.
Narrowband: less than 2Mbps (POTS, ISDN, etc) Broadband: greater than or = 2Mbps.
Most DSL lines work at under 1Mbps (home users don't need more and it's damned expensive if telcos offer it at all), but in full flight, it can reach around 8Mbps, so it's technically broadband.
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Oh Whacking Day,
Oh Whacking Day,
Our hallowed snake skull-cracking day.
We'll break their backs,
Gouge out their eyes,
Their evil hearts, we'll pulverize.
Oh Whacking Day,
Oh Whacking Day,
May God bestow His grace on thee.
Order of the Stick:
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http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscrip
Wooooo! I'm invisible!!!
Every time I go to my bank's ATM I withdraw $300. To do this, they make me hit "withdraw money", then hit "from checking", then present me with several pre-selected amount buttons all below $200 which makes me hit "other amount", then I hit 3-0-0-0-0-ENTER, then I hit "confirm with receipt". Message to the bank: how about if you customize my options so that one of the first buttons I have the option of hitting reads "withdraw $300 like you have every time you've been here in the past ten years". I'd really like to hit just one button instead of ten. Doesn't seem like rocket science.
We have this in Australia now. After you enter your PIN, the next question it asks you is "Do you wish to use your favourite transaction?" Hit yes, & the cash is given out, with reciept or not, as the case may be. Too easy.
Homer: Mmmm, slanty.
Please let shows like this just fade away. We already have our ideas of what we loved / hated about these series, we don't need more crap to tarnish our memories & the reputation of those involved. (I'm not going to claim George raped anyones childhood, but my perceptions of past experiences have certainly changed.)
I guess if there's a buck to be made, then it will be done. The only way we can stop things like this is to give them as little of our money as possible. Shows like The Simpsons, Star Wars, Star Trek et al, were all great in their time. But they have run their course.
Please let them die an honourable death.
DARK HELMET: (in microphone) Now hear this, ludicrous speed....
COL SANDURZ: Sir, hadn't you better buckle up.
DARK HELMET: Aah, buckle this. (into microphone) Ludicrous speed, Go!
The ship takes off. The display lights up: Light Speed, Ridiculous Speed, and then Ludicrous Speed. Helmet is being pulled back.
DARK HELMET: Whoaaa! What have I done? My brains are going into my feet.
INT. EAGLE 5 - SPACE
Spaceball 1 passes over them leaving a plaid shadow.
BARF: What the hell was that?
LONE STARR: Spaceball 1.
BARF: They've gone to plaid.
INT. SPACEBALL 1
SPACE
DARK HELMET: We passed them. Stop this thing.
COL SANDURZ: We can't stop. It's too dangerous. We have to slow down first.
DARK HELMET: Bullshit. Just stop this thing. I order you. Staahhp!
COL SANDURZ pulls on emergency brake which reads, "Emergency Stop, never use." The ship stops and DARK HELMET goes flying into a panel.
COL SANDURZ (picks Helmet up): Are you all right, sir?
DARK HELMET: Fine. How've you been?
COL SANDURZ: Fine, sir.
DARK HELMET: Good.
COL SANDURZ: It's a good thing you were wearing that helmet.
DARK HELMET: Yeah.
COL SANDURZ: What should we do now, sir?
DARK HELMET: Well, are we stopped?
COL SANDURZ: We're stopped, sir.
DARK HELMET: Good. Well, why don't we take a five minute break.
COL SANDURZ: Very good, sir.
DARK HELMET: Smoke if you got 'em. (falls forward)
Ob. Simpsons:
Announcer: We now return to "Knightboat: the Crime-Solving Boat".
Michael: Faster, Knightboat! We gotta catch those starfish poachers.
Knightboat: You don't have to yell, Michael, I'm all around you.
Michael: Oh, no! They're headed for land.
[the poachers ride onto the beach, jump on motorcycles, and speed away]
Michael: We'll never catch them now.
Knightboat: Incorrect: look! A canal.
Homer: Go, Knightboat, go!
Bart: Oh, every week there's a canal.
Lisa: Or an inlet.
Bart: Or a fjord.
Homer: Quiet! I will not hear another word against the boat.
...I am lazy to lowercase them manually...
Copy and paste it into Word, select the text and press shift+F3.
they just need to learn to delete and ignore their email, similar to how they would have walked away from the stranger on the street.
The main identifying feature that people use when someone would come up to them on the street is how they appear. How they come across to the person being targetted, which may be heavily based on first impressions.
If this looks legit, (just like an email might look legit) then the target may well think, "well, he looks like the right person", and hand over what is being asked for.
Then again, if they guy is standing there in the fake plastic glasses, big nose and moustache and the person still hands over the info, well, people still need to take responsibility for their actions.
Common sense isn't.
What do they do every day?
They go back to their jobs as party animals.
Ob. Simpsons:
Man 2: They're a colorful bunch. They've been dubbed "the Three Musketeers". Heh heh heh --
Tom: And we laugh legitimately. There's a mathematician, a different _kind_ of mathematician, and a statistician.
m_bob.
Role playing games such as Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights... they allow you to pause the game and take your time while you queue up your next few moves, then sit back and enjoy the show for a little while. Rinse and repeat.
M_bob.
Just don't try to use it to abolish television like Sideshow Bob did:
From episode [3F08] Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming:
The scenes flash through people throughout Springfield and then the mushroom cloud appears, very small, and sets off the smoke detector in
the blimp. The bomb casing breaks apart and rats scatter.
Bob: [reading from the bomb casing] "Best before November 1959." Dammit, Bob. There were plenty of brand new bombs, but you had to go for that retro 50s charm.
[to kids] Well, if it isn't my arch nemesis, Bart Simpson. And his sister Lisa to whom I'm fairly indifferent.
These have been advertised (here in Oz at least) for a while now.
Link shows box/cover art.
mb.
A T1 is 1.544Mbps. Not sure where you got your definition of a T1 from, but i'd suggest you check it.
Narrowband: less than 2Mbps (POTS, ISDN, etc)
Broadband: greater than or = 2Mbps.
Most DSL lines work at under 1Mbps (home users don't need more and it's damned expensive if telcos offer it at all), but in full flight, it can reach around 8Mbps, so it's technically broadband.
One man's *near* broadband is another man's 2B+D.