"Until you learn that a vast majority of the US citizenry is on the same side you will continue to be blasted in "fair elections.""
Things are not looking too good for those of us who think that America is best served with at least two viable parties. The Democrats are diminishing themselves even further under the leadership of Howard Dean. A few weeks ago, he called Republicans and those who support them "evil". Just recently he called them "brain dead". I'm sorry, it is just not a winning strategy to go out of your way and attack and write off HALF of the U.S. population.
Clinton was successful, and helped the Democrats, because he knew it was important to appeal to the middle, including those who nominally sympathized with Republicans and their causes. Clinton won only due to "Clinton Republicans", just like Reagan only won with "Reagan Democrats". Howard Dean is problematic not because he is a "left wing extremist" or any other sort of extremist. He isnit. However, he is problematic because his mean and divisive manner turns off a lot of people. It is no surprise that Rush Limbaugh loved him. While Dean fires up "the base", he tends to turn off way too many outside the base with insulting language.
When you attack half of the people as "evil", you are automatically making sure that 50% will not vote for you. Since you can't get everyone in the 50% you have left, you have ensured that you will lose.
Whatever the big problems with swiss-cheese OS's and borglike office packages, they rightfully rule when it comes to controllers. Their optical mouse is the best I've seen, and after looking a long time for a good keyboard, the one I bought last year was theirs.
"How much good all this tilting and stuff does the hard drive. I'd think it caused some undue wear and tear"
The solution to this is to market a keyboard with the same capabilities. This keyboard could be plugged into the Powerbook, at which point it would disable the Powerbook's internal "shake controller". Then you could rag on the keyboard without worrying about shaking up the Powerbook. It makes it less portable, of course...
A friend built an Atari 2600/400/etc compliant joystick device into a Tupperware container. It had mercury switches in it, and you controlled it just by tilting it. I never used it much.
You have a good point. I think the planet-busting bombs will be headed our way as soon as they decode and view "Veronica's Closet". Either that, or "Darmha and Greg".
There is a way you can talk to aliens AND enrich the bottom line. Just send them space spam:
"I am Gugvunt Blaharn,the only son of late former Grand Dominator, Chief Gugvunt Vader Sr of Vulcan Diamond and Mining corporation.
I must confess my agitation is real, and my words is my bond, in this proposal. My late father diverted these space-credits meant for purchase of ammunition and General Products hulls, for my homeworld, during the peak of disastrous civil war in our planets, now he has deposited the money in the BANK in Tattoine, where I amresiding under political asylum with my mother Mary Many-Tentacles and younger brood sister.
Now the war in my country is over with the help of Romulan soldiers, the present government of Vulcan has revoked the passport of all officers who served under the former regime and now ask star empires to expel such person at the same time freeze their account and confiscate their asset, it is on this note that I am contacting you, all I needed from you is to furnish me with your bank particulars:
1) Account name
2) Account number
3) Number of tentacles
4) Enumerated psychic powers that can be used as weapons
5) Bank address, telephone and fax number, and # of P.O. box on Vogon homeworld.
For you to assist me transfer these credits your private bank account, the said amount is $17.5 Million or equivalent weight in gold-pressed latinum.
I am compensating you with 20 % of the total credits, now all my hope is banked on you and I really wants to invest this money in your planet, were their is stability of government, spontaneous mutations Borg colonization, political and economic welfare.
Honestly I want you to believe that this transaction is real and never a joke. My late father gave me the certificate of deposit issued to him by the BANK on the date of deposit, for you to be clarify because, I do not expose my self to anybody I see, I believe that you are able to keep this transaction secret for me because this money is the hope of my life, it is important."
Remember, if you are communicating with Klingons, loudspeakers that playing recordings of properly-structured sentences is not enough. There must be a device to spray spittle at the same time the sound is output.
"The last time I used iwon.com, it took a week to get all the spyware off my PC. Neither Spybot or Adaware could get it all off, I had to edit the registry and delete files manually. I wouldn't pay.50 for this company"
Next time, save the 50 cents and use Mozilla Firefox. It is free, and has a lot fewer problems with browser-related malware. I should know. I am one of those who'se used it.
"but i was talking about wearing one of those helmet things the parent of your parent was talking about."
Those airplanes are crowded enough, but imagine it with a bunch of people in the seats wearing giant bubble "Great Gazoo" helmets. Then there is the problem of when you go to sleep, and the jerk in the seat next to you tapes over the filter's outside air vent. You peacefully pass away without a struggle.
Your analogy might fit a little if it was anywhere comparable. When was the last time someone insisted on running a gasoline combustion engine at a restaurant in order to "relax"?
Lighting fires just so you can breath the smoke for the fun of it does seem to be an odd recreational activity. As long as the smoke stays with you, I have no problem with it. Go ahead, wear the helmet:)
Flight Attendant: "Sorry, sir. After you posted that message about the iPod on Slashdot, Cowboy Neal notified us to mod you down. You can't sit in first class anymore. Please find a seat in coach. Oh, and if you do it again? You will have to sit on the wing with the other gremlins. Gremlins? That is what we call trolls here. Look outside and you will see a few right now GNAA'ing on the wings."
The problem with smoking "rights" is that the activity denies others rights: smoking is an activity typically forced on those nearby. Now, if you paid $30 to everyone in a 20 foot radius for the violating of forcing them to smoke every time you abuse tobacco by burning it, you might get somewhere. Everyone might win in this situation!
Until then, stop whining about being denied the "right" to force other people to consume deadly airborn carcinogens. If you need tobacco so bad, get some chew.
There are, and have always been, a huge number of people who serve in the military (including during a time of combat in support of the combat effort) who serve "stateside". To continue denying this and lying about their importance does no-one any service. It looks like you are one of the partisan hacks who will lie about large numbers of people in order to "Get" George W. Bush.
"Was there a chance in HELL they were EVER going to serve in Vietnam? No! "
There is a strong likelihood that they would have if the war had gone on for a few years more. In your lie-and-slander effort, you are using 20-20 hindsite: the Vietnam War ended shortly after the period we are discussing.
I am no big fan of his service. As I said earlier, it appears he did serve poorly. However, he did serve and the AWOL claim was entirely false. Looks like we have a few irrational Bush-haters here, and a lack of irrational Clinton haters (at which point I would be defending Clinton against similar false charges).
Also, about Dan Rather's "Let's make up an entirely fake GWB news story" scandal. The chances that the guy had such a remarkable typewriter are so extremely remote, and it is not a very good argument at all. Using this in Rather's defense is like going to the OJ trial and saying "Mark Fuhrman did it all. He had to have travelled 200 mph at some points, but this IS possible, since the government has invented high-speed stealth personal aircraft."
Thanks a lot! It is because of guys like you,buying all that herbal viagra and o+ycont1n in response to emails, that spam is profitable, and I keep getting more and more of it!
That one is so funny, but I was sobered by the fact that John Candy is dead, and cannot play the part. The temptation would be too large for Lucas not to have Dr Tongue be played by Lucas' beloved digital creation with the large tongue.
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Things are not looking too good for those of us who think that America is best served with at least two viable parties. The Democrats are diminishing themselves even further under the leadership of Howard Dean. A few weeks ago, he called Republicans and those who support them "evil". Just recently he called them "brain dead". I'm sorry, it is just not a winning strategy to go out of your way and attack and write off HALF of the U.S. population.
Clinton was successful, and helped the Democrats, because he knew it was important to appeal to the middle, including those who nominally sympathized with Republicans and their causes. Clinton won only due to "Clinton Republicans", just like Reagan only won with "Reagan Democrats". Howard Dean is problematic not because he is a "left wing extremist" or any other sort of extremist. He isnit. However, he is problematic because his mean and divisive manner turns off a lot of people. It is no surprise that Rush Limbaugh loved him. While Dean fires up "the base", he tends to turn off way too many outside the base with insulting language.
When you attack half of the people as "evil", you are automatically making sure that 50% will not vote for you. Since you can't get everyone in the 50% you have left, you have ensured that you will lose.
Whatever the big problems with swiss-cheese OS's and borglike office packages, they rightfully rule when it comes to controllers. Their optical mouse is the best I've seen, and after looking a long time for a good keyboard, the one I bought last year was theirs.
The solution to this is to market a keyboard with the same capabilities. This keyboard could be plugged into the Powerbook, at which point it would disable the Powerbook's internal "shake controller". Then you could rag on the keyboard without worrying about shaking up the Powerbook. It makes it less portable, of course...
A friend built an Atari 2600/400/etc compliant joystick device into a Tupperware container. It had mercury switches in it, and you controlled it just by tilting it. I never used it much.
You have a good point. I think the planet-busting bombs will be headed our way as soon as they decode and view "Veronica's Closet". Either that, or "Darmha and Greg".
"I am Gugvunt Blaharn,the only son of late former Grand Dominator, Chief Gugvunt Vader Sr of Vulcan Diamond and Mining corporation.
I must confess my agitation is real, and my words is my bond, in this proposal. My late father diverted these space-credits meant for purchase of ammunition and General Products hulls, for my homeworld, during the peak of disastrous civil war in our planets, now he has deposited the money in the BANK in Tattoine, where I amresiding under political asylum with my mother Mary Many-Tentacles and younger brood sister.
Now the war in my country is over with the help of Romulan soldiers, the present government of Vulcan has revoked the passport of all officers who served under the former regime and now ask star empires to expel such person at the same time freeze their account and confiscate their asset, it is on this note that I am contacting you, all I needed from you is to furnish me with your bank particulars:
1) Account name
2) Account number
3) Number of tentacles
4) Enumerated psychic powers that can be used as weapons
5) Bank address, telephone and fax number, and # of P.O. box on Vogon homeworld.
For you to assist me transfer these credits your private bank account, the said amount is $17.5 Million or equivalent weight in gold-pressed latinum.
I am compensating you with 20 % of the total credits, now all my hope is banked on you and I really wants to invest this money in your planet, were their is stability of government, spontaneous mutations Borg colonization, political and economic welfare.
Honestly I want you to believe that this transaction is real and never a joke. My late father gave me the certificate of deposit issued to him by the BANK on the date of deposit, for you to be clarify because, I do not expose my self to anybody I see, I believe that you are able to keep this transaction secret for me because this money is the hope of my life, it is important."
Remember, if you are communicating with Klingons, loudspeakers that playing recordings of properly-structured sentences is not enough. There must be a device to spray spittle at the same time the sound is output.
Next time, save the 50 cents and use Mozilla Firefox. It is free, and has a lot fewer problems with browser-related malware. I should know. I am one of those who'se used it.
That seems similar to Slashdot. I asked it, and I got a picture of a butt. (insert tinyurl Goatse link here).
Did you read the fine print? The 2 billion dollars was paid in Flooz and online petfood sales company stock options.
With $2 billion in his pocket, maybe he can afford now to pay his OWN butler.
Those airplanes are crowded enough, but imagine it with a bunch of people in the seats wearing giant bubble "Great Gazoo" helmets. Then there is the problem of when you go to sleep, and the jerk in the seat next to you tapes over the filter's outside air vent. You peacefully pass away without a struggle.
Tell me about it
There is this one AC
Who types every troll
like this. It makes them
all look like Haiku.
Lighting fires just so you can breath the smoke for the fun of it does seem to be an odd recreational activity. As long as the smoke stays with you, I have no problem with it. Go ahead, wear the helmet :)
I remember when it was allowed. Smokers routinely smoked in the non-smoking section, and threw burning trash on the floor of the plane.
Flight Attendant: "Sorry, sir. After you posted that message about the iPod on Slashdot, Cowboy Neal notified us to mod you down. You can't sit in first class anymore. Please find a seat in coach. Oh, and if you do it again? You will have to sit on the wing with the other gremlins. Gremlins? That is what we call trolls here. Look outside and you will see a few right now GNAA'ing on the wings."
Beware, Joe Camel is moderating today. I was modded down for saying something similar.
Eventually, Microsoft will have its own airline with X-boxes built into every seat. Watch out for the blue turbulence of death, however.
1. Pay $30 for email in airplane
2. Login and check email
3. Receive Nigerian offer to give you $15,000
4. Profit!
What/where do you fly that lets you listen to the radio? Always, when I fly, they say no radio ever. Or are you just ignoring the stewardess' demands?
Until then, stop whining about being denied the "right" to force other people to consume deadly airborn carcinogens. If you need tobacco so bad, get some chew.
"Was there a chance in HELL they were EVER going to serve in Vietnam? No! "
There is a strong likelihood that they would have if the war had gone on for a few years more. In your lie-and-slander effort, you are using 20-20 hindsite: the Vietnam War ended shortly after the period we are discussing.
I am no big fan of his service. As I said earlier, it appears he did serve poorly. However, he did serve and the AWOL claim was entirely false. Looks like we have a few irrational Bush-haters here, and a lack of irrational Clinton haters (at which point I would be defending Clinton against similar false charges).
Also, about Dan Rather's "Let's make up an entirely fake GWB news story" scandal. The chances that the guy had such a remarkable typewriter are so extremely remote, and it is not a very good argument at all. Using this in Rather's defense is like going to the OJ trial and saying "Mark Fuhrman did it all. He had to have travelled 200 mph at some points, but this IS possible, since the government has invented high-speed stealth personal aircraft."
Thanks a lot! It is because of guys like you ,buying all that herbal viagra and o+ycont1n in response to emails, that spam is profitable, and I keep getting more and more of it!
That one is so funny, but I was sobered by the fact that John Candy is dead, and cannot play the part. The temptation would be too large for Lucas not to have Dr Tongue be played by Lucas' beloved digital creation with the large tongue.