we should condemn Iran and its corrupt leaders and mean followers. those who support democracy and the freedom of speech should NOT be condemned, but shown love and patience and help wherever we can offer it. freedom is their game to win.
since north korea ignores sanctions and doesn't care about their citizens who are suffering from famine and the obsessive control of their despotic leader, we should give them of something that kim jong il will understand -- launch a missile strike on one of his palaces, and tell him if he doesn't halt work on nuclear weapons immediately -- including divulging information on these weapons to Iran and Pakistan -- we'll have no other choice than to take him out of the game permanently.
this guy doesn't deserve a summary judgement, he deserves a frigging trophy. what he did was pretty damned funny, exposing 178 guys who are a little too eager for snatch.
just because there's a law doesn't mean it's a good law. while the prank was foolish and juvenile, I don't believe it was all that harmful. who saw the website where he posted the responses? and like a previous poster said, there's no proof that any of the people who responded were being honest themselves.
I likely wouldn't have waited for lawyers. I would have gone straight to the local newspapers and television stations to bring public shame on the school. But if it were males strip searching my daughter, I first would have gone to jail for beating them to a fucking pulp for touching my daughter.
with the exception that smoking pot has very serious ramifications over the long-term, including loss of productivity and the desire to be productive, as well as paranoia and schizophrenic behavior.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/marijuana.html
having sex with strangers at worst can give you AIDS or Syphallis, but at best can teach you how to be better at having sex (pleasing yourself & pleasing others)
but it makes more sense to be supranational. i'm sure jackwads like preznit bush would back any kind of extra-national force that could impose penalties on individuals who commit crimes over the intertubes. NOT
trickle down didn't work under reagan, and ghw bush called it "voodoo economics". it still has the power to stick a pin in the middle class' heart and deal serious pain.
bullshitters like mccain who have too many houses to remember them all aren't going to be hurt by this. only the little guys who are scraping by, trying to get out of pissing rent money down the toilet -- we're the ones who won't be able to get loans now due to the greed and arrogance of the wealthy pricks who foisted this "disaster" upon our once-great nation.
we all have reason to fear and mistrust the conservative right for 1) deregulating 2) stealing money 3) declaring the system bankrupt and 4) taking even more money on the way out the door.
but what i don't get is how the democrats have been total patsies through this banking "crisis". everyone jumped on the bandwagon, and so quickly. don't they remember that it's president bush who was threatening that we'd better do it, or else? he pulled that same shit with Iraq, so now's the time to make the final grab for cash when he's on his way out the door.
if the democrats had any balls whatsoever, they'd call him on his bluff, propose substantial change, bitch about the greed of the republicans through December 1, then impose a fix once obama is in office. instead they're just a bunch of weak-kneed pussies with no guts to do the right thing -- let wall street crash, teach a lesson to the financial markets, which then will come running to the government BEGGING for regulations.
radio, internet or old-school, should be free to play whatever it wants whenever. we the consumers have the ability to switch the station or turn it off. music providers (musicians, composers, and labels) make money off the successful marketing of their works. so why should they be paid by radio stations to market their work? where the hell would the labels be if radio only played the works of Indie artist who said to Hell with the old way of running radio (kickbacks, pay for play, etc)
seriously folks, Apple has always charged too much for upgraded parts. RAM especially has been a cost center for Apple for the past decade, as they prefer to ship machines that are inadequately equipped.
My feelings exactly. I just started a version 1 campaign with my 8 year old daughter and am planning on bringing in my girlfriend's 10 year old. I already own thousands of dollars in books and maps and dice and modules for v1, why buy v2, v3, v3.5, v4? the main purpose of these new versions is to bring in more cash for WOTC -- it's their problem not mine if I decide to keep gaming on v1.
The main thing to remember is that FRPG's are supposed to be fun. Sure it's an immersive world and you need a certain amount of structure to guarantee that things are fair for the players. But when Anastasia swings her mace at an Orc, will she have more fun if it's a version 4 Orc than a version 1 Orc? Puh-lease.
biden's plan is idiotic. how many times have you downloaded an MP3 that contained a different file than the one you intended? or which was tagged with false or mis-spelled words? the only way to accurately filter content is to put people in charge of the project, which is something that only criminally oppressive societies like China can afford to engage in.
for the record, most of the mp3's i download are of songs i already own on vinyl. so fuck the recording industry. i'm tired of paying taxes on cassettes and cd's for blank media -- tax money which goes to the RIAA -- when i'm using that media specifically to record my own music and videos of my own songs. to hell with those dinosaurs. may they rot in hell.
OJ is proof that DNA evidence doesn't mean you will be given a fair and just trial, and DNA may not be used to convict and incarcerate the guilty. He's a thieving sociopath who killed people, yet even with DNA they did not convict.
fuck the industry. we still pay a surcharge on blank cd media thanks to president george h. w. bush's great plan, even though i mostly put computer data or my own damned songs on cd's. if the industry wants to see better sales, why don't they fix commercial radio which has sucked hard for at least 20 years? or have mtv start showing music videos again for christ's sake. the big labels should stop calling everyone in america a pirate and take responsibility for all the crappy music they've foisted upon us. hooyah!
so many people think they can build a better mousetrap, while overlooking the benefits of using a universal standard (like the decimal system, or the dewey decimel system, or screws that tighten when you turn them right)
ummm, China has 10x or maybe 100x the number of graduate students that we do. which means that they're building the brain trust that is needed to push nanotech forward. meanwhile, our idiot politicians blow hard and long about the chinese threat and oh woe is detroit, but do significantly little to return detroit and america's manufacturing base towards the research and technologies needed to produce nanotech.
historically, men have been hunters and women have been gatherers. men seek to dominate or subjugate the world around them, often through force. women seek to collect objects of beauty and nest themselves in comfort.
hunting and catching an object of sexual desire is not all that different from leveling in WOW or winning races & collecting cars in Gran Turismo.
had to laugh at the "womens brains wired for compulsive shopping" because just look at our examples from popular culture: women and shoes! precious moments figurines! beanie babies!
This clown shipped me a dead GE VCR from the 1980's instead of the Yamaha Motif Synthesizer module I purchased through Ebay on January 12th. I'm not sure of his real name -- he used Chad Landley on the box but his ebay/paypal account says Christopher Irvine. Is that his alias?
His wife didn't seem to recognize that name either, and he was real rude to me on the phone when I asked him why he shipped me a piece of junk non-working vcr on ebay instead of the $300 synthesizer I paid for on January 12th of this year. Funny thing is, he used the USPS shipping & tracking information so now we can prove that he's committing mail fraud.
I'd like to put him away in jail because I'm tired of jerks like him screwing up Ebay, but the police in his hometown say that they aren't interested in taking action. So I guess I have to part with this evidence. I'm hoping bidding can reach over $300 so I can get my money back. And hey, not ONCE have I ever shipped a customer a piece of crap that wasn't the item in the photo, so you know you can bid early, bid often and actually RECEIVE the items you purchase from me.
Last week I contacted my local police department and filed a report, case number 08-0174 with the Lake Villa, IL Police department. I also sent information about this case to the US Postal Inspector, because mail fraud and intrastate trade fraud are federal crimes. Of course I'm pursuing a resolution through ebay/paypal, but they say that since the guy used a tracking number, he must have shipped me the item from this order: Yamaha Motif Rack Like New!!!! No Reserve!!!
Item number: 260202141068
I'm so tired of getting ripped off, I just want Ebay/Paypal to start defending their customers against criminals like Chad/Christopher. Of course, you could just call him to ask if he still has the Motif Rack I paid him for. He had emailed me thru Ebay before the end of the auction and said he had three!
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Non-receipt - Case ID: PP-410-188-491 Status: Being Reviewed By Paypal Transaction ID: 9LB37444H8028383Y Seller Name & Email: Christopher Irvine, irvine1972@live.com Transaction Amount: -$307.77 USD eBay Item#: 260202141068 Transaction Date: Jan. 12, 2008 Package Status: USPS tracking # 03071790000433006481 Ebay User ID: mitalianbelle Name: Christopher S. Irvine / Chad Landley Address: 237 South Main Street City: Richmond State: VA Zip: 24523 Country: United States Phone: (804) 750-2255 Registered Since: Monday, Mar 12, 2001 13:34:28 PST
** after further conversations with others who this guy has ripped off, it's a big question as to why ebay hasn't cancelled this guy's account. over the past month he's gotten 9 negative feedbacks, which is pretty lousy compared to his previous feedback (100% positive). it's possible his account was hacked, or maybe he just built up the good feedback in order to lure people to screw over later on, like me. in any case, i've turned in my report to the US Postal Inspector, and if we can get enough people to contact the Postal Inspector about this guy, perhaps they'll go knocking on his door, and bring along some shiny new handcuffs to give him a free ride in a police car! ** february 1 update -- finally paypal changes the complaint to "item not as described". here's their message to me: A claim has been filed against this transaction. The seller's deadline for responding to this claim is Feb. 10, 2008. The seller has the option to provide a full refund for the amount of the transaction, offer a full refund if the item is returned in its original condition, offer a partial refund in an amount you agree to, provide proof that a refund was already issued to you, or disagree with your claim. If the seller does not respond by the deadline, the claim will be decided in your favor. You may cancel this case at any time by clicking "Cancel" below.
they can use the comic to prevent negative press on craptacular products like microsoft bob, windows me, and the 7 chinese brothers known as vista. after all, it's a FANTASY
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not sure if I mind having a robot eat my dead body. how is that in any way worse than letting the worms get to me first?
as for while i'm living, however, the robot will have to defeat me FIRST in order to eat me.
not sure i'd be pushing for my kids to have an escort... besides they're harder to find with craigslist now lol
whither googledocs?
we should condemn Iran and its corrupt leaders and mean followers. those who support democracy and the freedom of speech should NOT be condemned, but shown love and patience and help wherever we can offer it. freedom is their game to win.
sorry, just had to get that in
BUILD AN APPLE LOCALTALK NETWORK for using old Macs
Or maybe a CORVUS network for your Apple II's
since north korea ignores sanctions and doesn't care about their citizens who are suffering from famine and the obsessive control of their despotic leader, we should give them of something that kim jong il will understand -- launch a missile strike on one of his palaces, and tell him if he doesn't halt work on nuclear weapons immediately -- including divulging information on these weapons to Iran and Pakistan -- we'll have no other choice than to take him out of the game permanently.
um, maybe it's because lawyers are rich assholes.
this guy doesn't deserve a summary judgement, he deserves a frigging trophy. what he did was pretty damned funny, exposing 178 guys who are a little too eager for snatch.
just because there's a law doesn't mean it's a good law. while the prank was foolish and juvenile, I don't believe it was all that harmful. who saw the website where he posted the responses? and like a previous poster said, there's no proof that any of the people who responded were being honest themselves.
lawyers suck.
I likely wouldn't have waited for lawyers. I would have gone straight to the local newspapers and television stations to bring public shame on the school. But if it were males strip searching my daughter, I first would have gone to jail for beating them to a fucking pulp for touching my daughter.
with the exception that smoking pot has very serious ramifications over the long-term, including loss of productivity and the desire to be productive, as well as paranoia and schizophrenic behavior.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/marijuana.html
having sex with strangers at worst can give you AIDS or Syphallis, but at best can teach you how to be better at having sex (pleasing yourself & pleasing others)
but it makes more sense to be supranational. i'm sure jackwads like preznit bush would back any kind of extra-national force that could impose penalties on individuals who commit crimes over the intertubes. NOT
trickle down didn't work under reagan, and ghw bush called it "voodoo economics". it still has the power to stick a pin in the middle class' heart and deal serious pain.
bullshitters like mccain who have too many houses to remember them all aren't going to be hurt by this. only the little guys who are scraping by, trying to get out of pissing rent money down the toilet -- we're the ones who won't be able to get loans now due to the greed and arrogance of the wealthy pricks who foisted this "disaster" upon our once-great nation.
we all have reason to fear and mistrust the conservative right for 1) deregulating 2) stealing money 3) declaring the system bankrupt and 4) taking even more money on the way out the door.
but what i don't get is how the democrats have been total patsies through this banking "crisis". everyone jumped on the bandwagon, and so quickly. don't they remember that it's president bush who was threatening that we'd better do it, or else? he pulled that same shit with Iraq, so now's the time to make the final grab for cash when he's on his way out the door.
if the democrats had any balls whatsoever, they'd call him on his bluff, propose substantial change, bitch about the greed of the republicans through December 1, then impose a fix once obama is in office. instead they're just a bunch of weak-kneed pussies with no guts to do the right thing -- let wall street crash, teach a lesson to the financial markets, which then will come running to the government BEGGING for regulations.
radio, internet or old-school, should be free to play whatever it wants whenever. we the consumers have the ability to switch the station or turn it off. music providers (musicians, composers, and labels) make money off the successful marketing of their works. so why should they be paid by radio stations to market their work? where the hell would the labels be if radio only played the works of Indie artist who said to Hell with the old way of running radio (kickbacks, pay for play, etc)
seriously folks, Apple has always charged too much for upgraded parts. RAM especially has been a cost center for Apple for the past decade, as they prefer to ship machines that are inadequately equipped.
My feelings exactly. I just started a version 1 campaign with my 8 year old daughter and am planning on bringing in my girlfriend's 10 year old. I already own thousands of dollars in books and maps and dice and modules for v1, why buy v2, v3, v3.5, v4? the main purpose of these new versions is to bring in more cash for WOTC -- it's their problem not mine if I decide to keep gaming on v1.
The main thing to remember is that FRPG's are supposed to be fun. Sure it's an immersive world and you need a certain amount of structure to guarantee that things are fair for the players. But when Anastasia swings her mace at an Orc, will she have more fun if it's a version 4 Orc than a version 1 Orc? Puh-lease.
biden's plan is idiotic. how many times have you downloaded an MP3 that contained a different file than the one you intended? or which was tagged with false or mis-spelled words? the only way to accurately filter content is to put people in charge of the project, which is something that only criminally oppressive societies like China can afford to engage in.
for the record, most of the mp3's i download are of songs i already own on vinyl. so fuck the recording industry. i'm tired of paying taxes on cassettes and cd's for blank media -- tax money which goes to the RIAA -- when i'm using that media specifically to record my own music and videos of my own songs. to hell with those dinosaurs. may they rot in hell.
OJ is proof that DNA evidence doesn't mean you will be given a fair and just trial, and DNA may not be used to convict and incarcerate the guilty. He's a thieving sociopath who killed people, yet even with DNA they did not convict.
fuck the industry. we still pay a surcharge on blank cd media thanks to president george h. w. bush's great plan, even though i mostly put computer data or my own damned songs on cd's. if the industry wants to see better sales, why don't they fix commercial radio which has sucked hard for at least 20 years? or have mtv start showing music videos again for christ's sake. the big labels should stop calling everyone in america a pirate and take responsibility for all the crappy music they've foisted upon us. hooyah!
so many people think they can build a better mousetrap, while overlooking the benefits of using a universal standard (like the decimal system, or the dewey decimel system, or screws that tighten when you turn them right)
ummm, China has 10x or maybe 100x the number of graduate students that we do. which means that they're building the brain trust that is needed to push nanotech forward. meanwhile, our idiot politicians blow hard and long about the chinese threat and oh woe is detroit, but do significantly little to return detroit and america's manufacturing base towards the research and technologies needed to produce nanotech.
historically, men have been hunters and women have been gatherers.
men seek to dominate or subjugate the world around them, often through force.
women seek to collect objects of beauty and nest themselves in comfort.
hunting and catching an object of sexual desire is not all that different from leveling in WOW or winning races & collecting cars in Gran Turismo.
had to laugh at the "womens brains wired for compulsive shopping" because just look at our examples from popular culture: women and shoes! precious moments figurines! beanie babies!
This clown shipped me a dead GE VCR from the 1980's instead of the Yamaha Motif Synthesizer module I purchased through Ebay on January 12th. I'm not sure of his real name -- he used Chad Landley on the box but his ebay/paypal account says Christopher Irvine. Is that his alias?
His wife didn't seem to recognize that name either, and he was real rude to me on the phone when I asked him why he shipped me a piece of junk non-working vcr on ebay instead of the $300 synthesizer I paid for on January 12th of this year. Funny thing is, he used the USPS shipping & tracking information so now we can prove that he's committing mail fraud.
I'd like to put him away in jail because I'm tired of jerks like him screwing up Ebay, but the police in his hometown say that they aren't interested in taking action. So I guess I have to part with this evidence. I'm hoping bidding can reach over $300 so I can get my money back. And hey, not ONCE have I ever shipped a customer a piece of crap that wasn't the item in the photo, so you know you can bid early, bid often and actually RECEIVE the items you purchase from me.
Last week I contacted my local police department and filed a report, case number 08-0174 with the Lake Villa, IL Police department.
I also sent information about this case to the US Postal Inspector, because mail fraud and intrastate trade fraud are federal crimes.
Of course I'm pursuing a resolution through ebay/paypal, but they say that since the guy used a tracking number, he must have shipped me the item from this order:
Yamaha Motif Rack Like New!!!! No Reserve!!!
Item number: 260202141068
I'm so tired of getting ripped off, I just want Ebay/Paypal to start defending their customers against criminals like Chad/Christopher.
Of course, you could just call him to ask if he still has the Motif Rack I paid him for. He had emailed me thru Ebay before the end of the auction and said he had three!
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Non-receipt - Case ID: PP-410-188-491
Status:
Being Reviewed By Paypal
Transaction ID: 9LB37444H8028383Y
Seller Name & Email: Christopher Irvine, irvine1972@live.com
Transaction Amount: -$307.77 USD
eBay Item#: 260202141068
Transaction Date: Jan. 12, 2008
Package Status: USPS tracking # 03071790000433006481
Ebay User ID: mitalianbelle
Name: Christopher S. Irvine / Chad Landley
Address: 237 South Main Street
City: Richmond
State: VA
Zip: 24523
Country: United States
Phone: (804) 750-2255
Registered Since: Monday, Mar 12, 2001 13:34:28 PST
** after further conversations with others who this guy has ripped off, it's a big question as to why ebay hasn't cancelled this guy's account. over the past month he's gotten 9 negative feedbacks, which is pretty lousy compared to his previous feedback (100% positive). it's possible his account was hacked, or maybe he just built up the good feedback in order to lure people to screw over later on, like me. in any case, i've turned in my report to the US Postal Inspector, and if we can get enough people to contact the Postal Inspector about this guy, perhaps they'll go knocking on his door, and bring along some shiny new handcuffs to give him a free ride in a police car! ** february 1 update -- finally paypal changes the complaint to "item not as described". here's their message to me: A claim has been filed against this transaction. The seller's deadline for responding to this claim is Feb. 10, 2008. The seller has the option to provide a full refund for the amount of the transaction, offer a full refund if the item is returned in its original condition, offer a partial refund in an amount you agree to, provide proof that a refund was already issued to you, or disagree with your claim. If the seller does not respond by the deadline, the claim will be decided in your favor. You may cancel this case at any time by clicking "Cancel" below.
hmm, kind of like if king of queens was about a microsoft developer living off the ranch in oregon
they can use the comic to prevent negative press on craptacular products like microsoft bob, windows me, and the 7 chinese brothers known as vista. after all, it's a FANTASY