"If I ever meet you, I'm going to smash your face open with my fist."
How very AC of you.
And I'm not any more arrogant than a linux zeolot or mac evangelist or what have you.:P
And if you ever tried what you said two things would happen, it would convince me that you have ZERO ability to argue a point without resorting to violence, and you'd be hospitalized/arrested with various injuries.
Oh believe me, I have nothing against goths, or visigoths or what have you. Its the person that they are that troubles me, not the packaging they choose to show the world.
Worthwhile people will always be identifiable as worthwhile people.
It still creeps me out a little tho to hear someone tell his friend about "this great new song from the Cure called 'A Forest'".
Creepy. Good that they like it, bad that they assume that no one has walked that path before.
"The world would be a much nicer place if some people didn't feel the need to tell everyone they meet what they think of them."
Sure would be. But then you'd never have anyone going out of their way to tell idiots that maybe they should rethink what they're doing.
Seriously, which deserves someone to tell them to knock it off more, the 17 year old with the porcelain fangs, or the (probably talented) computer geek kid who decides he wants to screw around with YOUR network or servers.
Is there an equivalent to what I've been telling the Hot Topic goth kiddies...
"Go home, wash that sh*t off your face, and apologize to your mother"... for the script kiddie set?
Damn kids. The need to be beaten with an old Hayes modem. This doesn't sound all to far off from what some of the old-schoolers used to do and now suddenly it's a culture?
Gollum is CG, Gandolf always seemed to look somewhere between 70 and 652, and Bilbo'a appearance hadn't changed mch between the Hobbit and LoTR (remember Gandolf said he looked like he hadn't aged a day), so I don't think a few years on the actors would matter in the least.
And when you finish with 'F's lets move on to 'G'.
I'll start: G Vs E (aka Good Vs Evil)
oh screw it all, and bring back Brimstone. Why John Glover wasn't tapped to play the first of the fallen in the atrocity know as "Constantine" I'll never understand.
So i'm veering off topic, sue me. I'm just thankful they didn't call CSI something like "Forensic Investigators"
Part of my brain started to hurt when I read that. The mind conjures the (l)user who simply MUST use that software on their knew Windows XP Centrino laptop.
OK, I know these things are a bad idea, so do you. Sadly, the mass media and the general level of understanding among the population in general is not going to change what's happening at the moment.
I fear that the only way any of the security concerns, raised by everyone from your slightly savvy Joe Sixpack to experts in the security field, will ever be addressed properly is to actually have someone go ahead and blatantly compromise some of these things.
I'm not an advocate of election fraud or system cracking but there is probably no other way to get the messege thru the spin and media brainwashing to the general populous.
I fear where all this will head. Anyone have an acounting of where all 32,000 keys are? Would having just one turn up missing be enough to invalidate an entire election? What was so bad about paper ballots anyway?
Complicating matters to simplify a process is counter-productive.
Recently the election board or whoever was in charge of all that had at least one operatiopn recruiting tech people to get these things in shape and deployed. I wouldn't touch it with someone elses ten foot pole. Their whole opration seemed to be on a very last minute frame of mind. They were using timelines that gave only a few days from date of hire (date of job posting actually) to setting up machines in the field. I got no indication that any sort of security checks were being done on these people, and while I'm not a fan of adding more security clearance required jobs, should just any shmoe be able to get one of these jobs without being checked out? Seems fairly untrustworthy to me, and from my perspective, I would not want to be the one who signed off on a machine where something went squirrely.
And whats so difficult about having a printed voter verifiable receipt anyway?
All this (eps1-3) stuff, meaning the ships and tech and other sorts of things just seem far too madern for my taste. I mean all of this is supposed have happened prior to eps 4-6 so why does nearly everything seem to look more advanced? Bogus in my opinion, I would much rather have seen ships and gear that somewhat obviously predate the stuff of Star Wars.
"These chairs absolutely suck. I had one at my last job, and I hated it. I usually sit with my legs folded up indian-style, even in office chairs. Try it in one of those Aerons; you'll find out pretty quickly that it's a bad idea. The hard plastic sides turn your feet upward an 45+ degree angles. Ouch."
I never thought I would see the need to suggest that someone RTFM for a chair.
"I think right now at this time and this place the greatest threat to American liberty comes from al-Qaida and their sympathizers rather than from the men and women of law enforcement and national security who seek to defend America and her people against that threat."
It seems to me that the only person(s) capable of restricting, denying, or otherwise effecting MY liberty are those individuals in authority to whom I am supposed to defer. That would be law enforcement, national security and those who rule them. Al-Quaida and its sympathizers have no control over me, none. I can't recall ever having to obey their rules, or having them tell me what to do. Attitudes like this piss me off to no end. I am not an infant, I can bloody well take care of myself, and I would thank my fellow Americans if they would stop acting like babies, expecting to be coddled by the powers that be and their tools.
Always remember that a jail also protects those within from those on the outside.
This is the same guy who, during a concert, gave a fan what was supposed to be a $45,000 (or some ridiculous figure) necklace to show he didn't care about money or material things. The only problem was the necklace was actually worthless crap.
Can't we get Mars candy to sue him for using Eminem? Everytime I hear him mentioned I suddenly want snackfood.
'So I guess this would explain the state of school systems and education in general.
"OK kids, for next week you need to write a 2 page report on the latest 'Britney' CD."'
It's comedic (barely:P), take a moment out of your dull day and have a chuckle.
'You do know that the RIAA also sells classical music, audiobooks, educational children's songs, discs that teach you how to learn to speak a foreign language, and all sorts of other material than the latest pop music, right?'
Educate yourself. The RIAA was NOT the subject of this lawsuit. That said, yes, the labels involved DO in fact produce some things that could fit an educational purpose. However, in my experience (having worked in 'higher ed' and supporting stuff like ESL and community ed programs), the bulk of what you mention excluding classical music is produced by smaller labels not involved in this suit. And their products are generally more affordable.
'Maybe if your education and purchasing habits were broader and deeper,'
They are, see above. Add gifted & talented music for several years. As for purchasing habits, over 2500 CD's over the years, most from indies and used stores simply for the fact that I can't justify how a CD is $18 while the cassette or vinyl is $9.
'you'd know these things and appreciate that there actually is a wealth of material that the RIAA could donate to schools.'
Ignoring that the RIAA has nothing to do with this, yes they very well could. They could first try by donating an amount not based on the retail cost, just the cost of media production and shipping. Using the retail price is not a donation it's a write-off. Or perhaps as other posters have mentioned, simply donate the proceeds of the sale of so many CDs to the school/programs in question. Most would benefit more from cash in hand than donated media anyway.
As for getting over myself, still working out the details with that whole 'Laws of Physics' thing.
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Hahaha, that actually made me laugh.
:P
"If I ever meet you, I'm going to smash your face open with my fist."
How very AC of you.
And I'm not any more arrogant than a linux zeolot or mac evangelist or what have you.
And if you ever tried what you said two things would happen, it would convince me that you have ZERO ability to argue a point without resorting to violence, and you'd be hospitalized/arrested with various injuries.
Oh believe me, I have nothing against goths, or visigoths or what have you. Its the person that they are that troubles me, not the packaging they choose to show the world.
Worthwhile people will always be identifiable as worthwhile people.
It still creeps me out a little tho to hear someone tell his friend about "this great new song from the Cure called 'A Forest'".
Creepy. Good that they like it, bad that they assume that no one has walked that path before.
Yes, yes I am.
"The world would be a much nicer place if some people didn't feel the need to tell everyone they meet what they think of them."
Sure would be. But then you'd never have anyone going out of their way to tell idiots that maybe they should rethink what they're doing.
Seriously, which deserves someone to tell them to knock it off more, the 17 year old with the porcelain fangs, or the (probably talented) computer geek kid who decides he wants to screw around with YOUR network or servers.
Is there an equivalent to what I've been telling the Hot Topic goth kiddies...
... for the script kiddie set?
"Go home, wash that sh*t off your face, and apologize to your mother"
Damn kids. The need to be beaten with an old Hayes modem. This doesn't sound all to far off from what some of the old-schoolers used to do and now suddenly it's a culture?
God, read a book.
Gollum is CG, Gandolf always seemed to look somewhere between 70 and 652, and Bilbo'a appearance hadn't changed mch between the Hobbit and LoTR (remember Gandolf said he looked like he hadn't aged a day), so I don't think a few years on the actors would matter in the least.
Imagine the sweet livin on the cell block with Bob and Martha!
Wow. The mind boggles.
Prolly never would have happened if Norm were still on board.
Just what I need, only ONE card to lose, sounds like a royal pain IMO.
I would have loved to have seen them try to impound all that equipment. BOA would have destroyed them outright.
Anyone know who SCO banks with?
"The mechanics would then contact the women directly to invite them over."
Cue the pr0n music. Bwow-chicka-bwow!
And when you finish with 'F's lets move on to 'G'.
I'll start: G Vs E (aka Good Vs Evil)
oh screw it all, and bring back Brimstone. Why John Glover wasn't tapped to play the first of the fallen in the atrocity know as "Constantine" I'll never understand.
So i'm veering off topic, sue me. I'm just thankful they didn't call CSI something like "Forensic Investigators"
Part of my brain started to hurt when I read that. The mind conjures the (l)user who simply MUST use that software on their knew Windows XP Centrino laptop.
*groan*
OK, I know these things are a bad idea, so do you. Sadly, the mass media and the general level of understanding among the population in general is not going to change what's happening at the moment.
I fear that the only way any of the security concerns, raised by everyone from your slightly savvy Joe Sixpack to experts in the security field, will ever be addressed properly is to actually have someone go ahead and blatantly compromise some of these things.
I'm not an advocate of election fraud or system cracking but there is probably no other way to get the messege thru the spin and media brainwashing to the general populous.
I fear where all this will head. Anyone have an acounting of where all 32,000 keys are? Would having just one turn up missing be enough to invalidate an entire election? What was so bad about paper ballots anyway?
Complicating matters to simplify a process is counter-productive.
What's REALLY scary is those WP 5.1 cultists who won't go away. Truely frightening.
Recently the election board or whoever was in charge of all that had at least one operatiopn recruiting tech people to get these things in shape and deployed. I wouldn't touch it with someone elses ten foot pole. Their whole opration seemed to be on a very last minute frame of mind. They were using timelines that gave only a few days from date of hire (date of job posting actually) to setting up machines in the field. I got no indication that any sort of security checks were being done on these people, and while I'm not a fan of adding more security clearance required jobs, should just any shmoe be able to get one of these jobs without being checked out? Seems fairly untrustworthy to me, and from my perspective, I would not want to be the one who signed off on a machine where something went squirrely.
And whats so difficult about having a printed voter verifiable receipt anyway?
All this (eps1-3) stuff, meaning the ships and tech and other sorts of things just seem far too madern for my taste. I mean all of this is supposed have happened prior to eps 4-6 so why does nearly everything seem to look more advanced? Bogus in my opinion, I would much rather have seen ships and gear that somewhat obviously predate the stuff of Star Wars.
"If you want more secure software, upgrade."
How far do you think Ford would get if they said something along the lines of:
"If you don't want your Pinto to explode, upgrade."
Hey MS, fix your crap.
"These chairs absolutely suck. I had one at my last job, and I hated it. I usually sit with my legs folded up indian-style, even in office chairs. Try it in one of those Aerons; you'll find out pretty quickly that it's a bad idea. The hard plastic sides turn your feet upward an 45+ degree angles. Ouch."
I never thought I would see the need to suggest that someone RTFM for a chair.
Are you saying you have to calibrate your ass?
"I think right now at this time and this place the greatest threat to American liberty comes from al-Qaida and their sympathizers rather than from the men and women of law enforcement and national security who seek to defend America and her people against that threat."
It seems to me that the only person(s) capable of restricting, denying, or otherwise effecting MY liberty are those individuals in authority to whom I am supposed to defer. That would be law enforcement, national security and those who rule them. Al-Quaida and its sympathizers have no control over me, none. I can't recall ever having to obey their rules, or having them tell me what to do. Attitudes like this piss me off to no end. I am not an infant, I can bloody well take care of myself, and I would thank my fellow Americans if they would stop acting like babies, expecting to be coddled by the powers that be and their tools.
Always remember that a jail also protects those within from those on the outside.
This is the same guy who, during a concert, gave a fan what was supposed to be a $45,000 (or some ridiculous figure) necklace to show he didn't care about money or material things. The only problem was the necklace was actually worthless crap.
Can't we get Mars candy to sue him for using Eminem? Everytime I hear him mentioned I suddenly want snackfood.
Who read that as Defending the Earth From MADMEN with Asteroids?
IANAL but the whole thing seems pretty vague, especially the use of 'developed in' and references to derivative works.
After all, you could argue that CP/M, DOS et cetera are derivative works of UNIX.
'So I guess this would explain the state of school systems and education in general.
:P), take a moment out of your dull day and have a chuckle.
"OK kids, for next week you need to write a 2 page report on the latest 'Britney' CD."'
It's comedic (barely
'You do know that the RIAA also sells classical music, audiobooks, educational children's songs, discs that teach you how to learn to speak a foreign language, and all sorts of other material than the latest pop music, right?'
Educate yourself. The RIAA was NOT the subject of this lawsuit. That said, yes, the labels involved DO in fact produce some things that could fit an educational purpose. However, in my experience (having worked in 'higher ed' and supporting stuff like ESL and community ed programs), the bulk of what you mention excluding classical music is produced by smaller labels not involved in this suit. And their products are generally more affordable.
'Maybe if your education and purchasing habits were broader and deeper,'
They are, see above. Add gifted & talented music for several years. As for purchasing habits, over 2500 CD's over the years, most from indies and used stores simply for the fact that I can't justify how a CD is $18 while the cassette or vinyl is $9.
'you'd know these things and appreciate that there actually is a wealth of material that the RIAA could donate to schools.'
Ignoring that the RIAA has nothing to do with this, yes they very well could. They could first try by donating an amount not based on the retail cost, just the cost of media production and shipping. Using the retail price is not a donation it's a write-off. Or perhaps as other posters have mentioned, simply donate the proceeds of the sale of so many CDs to the school/programs in question. Most would benefit more from cash in hand than donated media anyway.
As for getting over myself, still working out the details with that whole 'Laws of Physics' thing.
Again, comedy, but barely.
Cheers.
How misleading.
You say the prices have been fixed, but the local Sam Goody still has eveything at $14 and up!
*sigh*
Wow. Only 50? I've bought over 2500, I should be cleaning up. Oh, waitaminute, 80% of that was used CD's.
Nevermind.
That said, I still feel ripped off.