I'm with you here. Plus, should the giant junk ball become a threat to the planet somehow, we could simply build another one and launch it into the incoming ball of junk!
I've always considered 1984 to be less geeky and more required reading for the general public. I also cannot think of many geeky (I'm beginning to cringe when I use that word) friends who haven't mentioned Childhood's End at least once.
You know how on that show Cops, you'll occasionally see some redneck guy being stuffed into a police car? Then, in the background, you can hear his bloodied and bruised other half screaming (usually in a southern accent) 'I love him, don't you take him away!'
This runs through my mind each time another friend of mine replaces his dead Windows box with another. I believe Windows users like to be hit.
A bit off topic, but what the hell. You can boot OS X in verbose mode by holding Command -V during startup. There are freeware utilities which can toggle OS X to use verbose mode by default as well. These get the job done well:
Slashdot Mirror
Man, are you going to be outraged when you see what the rest of the Internets are like...
In fairness to the president, there was no way single payer could have made it through the Senate.
Was anyone else prepared for something much worse after reading the words "Oklahoma Schools Required to Teach..."?
I think I just found the guy who creates those insanely wrong political forwards that my darling grandmother likes to send out to the family..
Obamski? I hadn't heard that one yet.. can someone who speaks Internet Republican kindly explain this to the unenlightened among us?
..is that it'll fly there sideways.
My kingdom for a mod point
This is great news! At long last, technology exists that will allow me to find the rest of that series with the rehea...
I mean, find out who is stealing my photographs!
This will go well with my Boots of Escaping!
Yes, stop asking!
Six or seven years ago, if I were able to read today's headlines, maybe I'd think that a Coup d'etat had occurred in the states.
Freedom 9/11 victory 9/11 lurks freedom internets 9/11!
I'm with you here. Plus, should the giant junk ball become a threat to the planet somehow, we could simply build another one and launch it into the incoming ball of junk!
Tell me we're not planning to spread freedom over the Internets.
I've always considered 1984 to be less geeky and more required reading for the general public. I also cannot think of many geeky (I'm beginning to cringe when I use that word) friends who haven't mentioned Childhood's End at least once.
This'll go great with the laptop I just looted!
Just the other day, I was joking with my friends about Kansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania needing more lions...
Uh oh, the grammar nazis will decend upon ye shortly. I heard that phrase misused on CNN the other day, how the hell does that happen.
There is some interesting information on this topic at Telegraph:
Asked in 1965 what might tempt him to sell out, Dylan replied: "Ladies undergarments".
That's haute.
An army of Lucy Lius!
Apple's X11 can also be downloaded from the Mothership
You know how on that show Cops, you'll occasionally see some redneck guy being stuffed into a police car? Then, in the background, you can hear his bloodied and bruised other half screaming (usually in a southern accent) 'I love him, don't you take him away!'
This runs through my mind each time another friend of mine replaces his dead Windows box with another. I believe Windows users like to be hit.
A bit off topic, but what the hell. You can boot OS X in verbose mode by holding Command -V during startup. There are freeware utilities which can toggle OS X to use verbose mode by default as well. These get the job done well:
Verbosity
and
sterMachine
Why do you Hate Freedom?