Much like the trilogy concept you were knocking in your original post I got nothing at this point. I'm just dragging it out and hoping to milk a few mod points out of the relative handful of readers foolish enough to waste their time reading down to this post.
I love your post. In fact I love it so much that I want to write a sequel to it. No, the original author and his sentiments won't be a part of it but I'm going to continue the post anyway because that's what the readers want. I don't think I can do it in the epic fashion it deserves with just one post though so I'm going to have to stretch it into a trilogy (which it probably should have been anyway right?)
I think "Moonlight" is a winner but maybe not exactly the word itself. Some form of that word would do the trick though. I'd go with "Buttlight" if I wasn't sure the folks at Anheiser Busch would get sand in their panties over the similarity to Bud Light. It's somewhere in that whole "Moon" thing.
I think that's just a universal truth. I'm over twenty years out of high school and I could have written some or all of both the preceeding posts. I cam to the same conclusion too. I am still in touch with one person from my graduating class and could locate maybe 5 of them. It's the most trivial four years you'll of your life and the only problem is that at the time it's taking place you can't see it.
I haven't read the article and it's been a long, long time since I was at a university but I just don't get this (and I'm not trying to be a dick either). When I think of students using internet access at their university I imagine them in a dorm room using their computer. The university (in my mind) provides internet access to them either along with the dorm room or for a small additional fee. In that scenario I can't imagine what possible grounds anyone would have to be able to sue the university on. It's a service they're choosing to provide and it just seems like they should be allowed to choose to what degree they're willing ot provide it. I don't see how a university that owns it's buildings and leases them to students paying to live there could be somehow forced to let a private company run cable through them or give a private company access to their wire.
What am I missing here? I'm sure there's some piece of this that I am not picking up.
Yep, I saw it too before the hype machine cranked up and all I knew going into the theater was what I'd heard at lunch in school. I was in the 7th grade and I saw it for the first time through the afro on the guy sitting in front of me (no stadium seating back in the day). It was still the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
That's right, take a day off from the truth because you don't like the sound of it. Christ that's a good plan.
People you and I shouldn't trust carry weapons all the time in our presence but I suspect that only one of us (you) is foolish enough to believe that they're safe because the law says that bad people aren't allowed to do that.
States that allow concealed carry invariably require training courses that help weed out the incompetent and at the same time require background checks which weed out the (known) criminal and mentally ill applicants.
That's meaningful regulation of who is allowed to carry guns on their person. Again, it doesn't have any affect on those who would ignore it. they're always going to ignore it.
Balmer is, in my mind the perfect nutbar to be in charge of Microsoft at this point in time. While their foundation slowly erodes beneath them he sits up on top of the company and makes us laugh while still being easy to hate. He makes a fool out of himself with his stupid antics (chair tossing, monkey dancing, and ridiculous over the top hyperbole) and all the while he maintaines the "condescending asshole aura" that we've come to expect in Microsoft leadership.
Without knowing why it's happening you don't know what to fix or if you even can fix it. Say for instance it's the sun and it's only the sun causing global warming. What in the hell are you going to do about the sun? I'll tell you what you're going to do about the sun. You're going to sit there and put on your sunblock and shut the fuck up. The sun owns our ass like George Takei owns.... somebodies ass. What if it is "Intelligent Warming because God is chilly"? What are we going to do about it?
The part where we try and figure out the cause is the most important part there is. Otherwise we stand a good chance of wasting resources we don't have or screwing something up that isn't broken to begin with.
I'm old enough to remember when just about everyone I know remembered dozens of phone numbers without thinking twice about it. It's just what you did back then. Sure you had a phone book with some numbers written down but if you threw together your friends, family, and work you were probably walking around with one to two dozen numbers in your head.
Sure it's nice that technology can help manage phone numbers. It's also nice to be able to remember them when the technology isn't there to do it for you. Standing at a pay phone and being unable to remember your own wifes cell phone number is kind of pitiful. I saw that happen to a coworker one day. I guess he was having a vague fear of his wife giving up on finding us and leaving us at the renaissance festival that day. I wasn't afraid though. I was just pissed.
How about from the point of view of "using a phone"? Is it bad news from that point of view?
I have to confess that I'm really only concerned with that point of view and don't really care all that much about whether the mobile phone industry is "opened up" in some fashion or another. As long as the service provided is acceptable (it is) at a price I feel is not out of line (it isn't) then that about covers it for me.
From the very beginning all I wanted was a phone. I didn't care what games you could play on it or whether or not it could browse the internet or send text messages. I didn't give a shit if it had a calculator or a for that matter if it even saved numbers. I can remember numbers and I'm loath to give up the responsibility of doing so. I know so many otherwise intelligent people who can't remember more than one or two phone numbers now that they have an almost limitless address book in the palm of their hands. They save every number that comes their way but don't know any of them. I don't want to be one of those guys. For years I've bought a simple plan, used a free phone, and that was fine for me. Now Apple has made this really cool phone and for the first time I'm actually considering paying a butt-load of money to buy something much farther up the phone "food chain".
And I'll be damned if all I really care about is whether or not it works as advertised. I don't give a shit if it runs Linux or can be unlocked to run on any network I might imagine running it on. I don't care. I just want it to work. It's a fucking phone not some flag to rally around or a battlefield to fight for our rights on. It's not a "weapon in some insane power war" either. It's just a phone.
Likely that's true however you do not know if the original poster is one of the people you speak of who don't really "need" a cell phone or not. There are a significant number of people in this world who need a cell phone for reasons other than causing auto accidents and annoying others in their immediate vicinity.
Yeah that's right - all cancer researchers are only out for the good of the human race and even if they have to starve themselves and live in personal poverty it's cool because they're doing something more important than pleasing the shareholders of the drug company they volunteer their time to.
Yeah, cancer researchers will do anything they can to get a drug to the people who need it. They usually give it away at cost to save peoples lives right?
Yeah, cancer researchers only employ people who have a vested interest in finding a cure for cancer before they die because they all have cancer and it's not just a job to even a small handful of them. In fact many of them go out of their way to get cancer just so they can heighten the sense of urgency around the lab.
It's possible that he does but does so without a license. I know that for many years I operated with forged registration and inspection stickers without running into the slightest bit of trouble. I also had a forged insurance card.
I did have a drivers license but it wouldn't have been much of a stretch to have falsified one of those while I was at it. I just didn't bother to.
One very important point about running your day-to-day life that way. You better be the most courteous and careful driver on earth. Make sure you drive something that borders on the invisible (in my case it was an old VW Rabbit) because the cool attention-getting cars are out.
mostly I just find myself wishing I had mod points so I could mod this up. I have rosacea and my dermatologist prescribes an antibiotic for it. There's no cure and I'm told there's not going to be one because nobody is bothering to try and cure it. The response I've gotten from multiple dermatologists is that they can "manage it" which basically means that I get to take a pill every day that makes me sick to my stomach whether I take food with the medicine as recommended or not.
I get to pay a doctor once a year to go into their office and get told "Yep, you still have it. Lets write that prescription for another years worth of puking pills and some topical crap that I get a kickback for recommending".
If Doctors can treat it forever instead of curing it they will. I spend moments with my doctor and he charges my insurance company hundreds of dollars. It's an immense crock of shit.
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I just can't bring myself to be dissappointed in Apple over this. It's not that I don't agree with you because I do. I think I just like seeing this happen to Microsoft for a change. It's nice to see them take their turn in the barrel for a change.
To you and I it's Apple's obvious attempt to make Vista look bad on release (not that Vista needed any help with that) but to the unwashed masses it looks like Microsoft just released a shitty OS that doesn't work with their iPod. I can't not love watching the great FUD machine take a shot in the face.
Actually yeah it is. One was a Mercedes Benz SL560 and the other was a BMW 850i. Both of those cars were far out of my reach when they were new. Today though they fall well within my budget and they're just the kind of car that original owners went out of their way to take care. That was probably because they'd spent ridiculous money buying them new.
My one true "fetish" is expensive cars. I don't make the kind of money to be able to go nuts on them but the cool thing is that if you're willing to wait for them a little bit they're (almost) all affordable after a decade or so. I was at the Houston Auto Show this past weekend with my wife and looking at a new SL500 in the Mercedes display. It's sticker was over $100,000 and my wife commented that the car cost more than our first house. I told her that was true but in 10 years our first house almost doubled in value while this car will be selling on ebay for $40,000 in three or four years. Right now there are 2003 SL500's on ebay selling in the 40's.
Cars are bad investments but they're a lot of fun.
If you want something on ebay and the going rate is $50 (and you know this to be true) but you put a bid of $100 on it then you're a fucking moron (in this purely hypothetical case of course)
This is not an issue at all if you don't fall for it and it's not too terribly difficult to not fall for it. Don't bid more than you're willing to pay. Don't bid far more than it's worth. Use that brain that the flying spaghetti monster gave you and bid on.
ebay is a great place to find automobiles but admittedly you have to be careful and you have to be willing to get up off of your butt and go look at the car. I've bought two cars off of ebay and in both cases it took me a long time to find the vehicle I was looking for. When I did I was entirely comfortable paying that sellers "Buy it Now" price and in both cases I went to look at the car in person.
For basic transportation it's not necessarily the way to go. Chances are most people have at least as good a selection within driving distance of them at various dealerships in their area. If you want something a little out of the ordinary though it's a good place to find it.
The way to stop spam is to clearly define it and then make it illegal. Then you line some spamming assholes up against a wall on prime time television while their wives and children are balling their eyes out and begging for their loved ones life and put a dozen or so bullets in each of them.
Repeat until spam is no more. Sadly Richard Dawson probably wouldn't agree to host it but we can always ask nicely and hope.
Real "iPod Killer" you got there Mr. Ballmer. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the sales start to take off.
Seriously though I just don't understand how something can come to a market like this with a major selling point like this crippled the way it is. This is a perfect example of the difference between Apple's approach to the iPod and the way pretty much everybody else has gone at it. If the recording labels had tried to limit a similar feature in the iPod this way it would have likely been a deal breaker or the feature itself would have been dropped.
Seriously, who can wait that long for the guy to get truly punished? I'm thinking roadside crucifixion fits this one much better.
It's all just a joke of course until you become the victim of one of these assholes. Then you find yourself online advocating that they be nailed to a wooden cross next to I-10. Hate doesn't even come close to how I feel about these people.
If I could ever lay my hands on the guy who stole my identity and spent a couple of weeks writing hot checks across Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia I'd make 100 years in prison look like the sweetest of possible mercies.
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Much like the trilogy concept you were knocking in your original post I got nothing at this point. I'm just dragging it out and hoping to milk a few mod points out of the relative handful of readers foolish enough to waste their time reading down to this post.
I love your post. In fact I love it so much that I want to write a sequel to it. No, the original author and his sentiments won't be a part of it but I'm going to continue the post anyway because that's what the readers want. I don't think I can do it in the epic fashion it deserves with just one post though so I'm going to have to stretch it into a trilogy (which it probably should have been anyway right?)
"Terminator Babies" or, if that fails to grab them "Terminator Acadamy"
I think "Moonlight" is a winner but maybe not exactly the word itself. Some form of that word would do the trick though. I'd go with "Buttlight" if I wasn't sure the folks at Anheiser Busch would get sand in their panties over the similarity to Bud Light. It's somewhere in that whole "Moon" thing.
How about "Ass-light"? Call me.
I think that's just a universal truth. I'm over twenty years out of high school and I could have written some or all of both the preceeding posts. I cam to the same conclusion too. I am still in touch with one person from my graduating class and could locate maybe 5 of them. It's the most trivial four years you'll of your life and the only problem is that at the time it's taking place you can't see it.
I haven't read the article and it's been a long, long time since I was at a university but I just don't get this (and I'm not trying to be a dick either). When I think of students using internet access at their university I imagine them in a dorm room using their computer. The university (in my mind) provides internet access to them either along with the dorm room or for a small additional fee. In that scenario I can't imagine what possible grounds anyone would have to be able to sue the university on. It's a service they're choosing to provide and it just seems like they should be allowed to choose to what degree they're willing ot provide it. I don't see how a university that owns it's buildings and leases them to students paying to live there could be somehow forced to let a private company run cable through them or give a private company access to their wire.
What am I missing here? I'm sure there's some piece of this that I am not picking up.
Yep, I saw it too before the hype machine cranked up and all I knew going into the theater was what I'd heard at lunch in school. I was in the 7th grade and I saw it for the first time through the afro on the guy sitting in front of me (no stadium seating back in the day). It was still the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
That's right, take a day off from the truth because you don't like the sound of it. Christ that's a good plan.
People you and I shouldn't trust carry weapons all the time in our presence but I suspect that only one of us (you) is foolish enough to believe that they're safe because the law says that bad people aren't allowed to do that.
States that allow concealed carry invariably require training courses that help weed out the incompetent and at the same time require background checks which weed out the (known) criminal and mentally ill applicants.
That's meaningful regulation of who is allowed to carry guns on their person. Again, it doesn't have any affect on those who would ignore it. they're always going to ignore it.
"I am willing to be lots of other people..."
Just out of curiosity how many people are you willing to be exactly?
I know it was just a typo but sometimes a really good typo generates an excellent mental picture. This was just such a moment.
Balmer is, in my mind the perfect nutbar to be in charge of Microsoft at this point in time. While their foundation slowly erodes beneath them he sits up on top of the company and makes us laugh while still being easy to hate. He makes a fool out of himself with his stupid antics (chair tossing, monkey dancing, and ridiculous over the top hyperbole) and all the while he maintaines the "condescending asshole aura" that we've come to expect in Microsoft leadership.
Without knowing why it's happening you don't know what to fix or if you even can fix it. Say for instance it's the sun and it's only the sun causing global warming. What in the hell are you going to do about the sun? I'll tell you what you're going to do about the sun. You're going to sit there and put on your sunblock and shut the fuck up. The sun owns our ass like George Takei owns.... somebodies ass. What if it is "Intelligent Warming because God is chilly"? What are we going to do about it?
The part where we try and figure out the cause is the most important part there is. Otherwise we stand a good chance of wasting resources we don't have or screwing something up that isn't broken to begin with.
I'm old enough to remember when just about everyone I know remembered dozens of phone numbers without thinking twice about it. It's just what you did back then. Sure you had a phone book with some numbers written down but if you threw together your friends, family, and work you were probably walking around with one to two dozen numbers in your head.
Sure it's nice that technology can help manage phone numbers. It's also nice to be able to remember them when the technology isn't there to do it for you. Standing at a pay phone and being unable to remember your own wifes cell phone number is kind of pitiful. I saw that happen to a coworker one day. I guess he was having a vague fear of his wife giving up on finding us and leaving us at the renaissance festival that day. I wasn't afraid though. I was just pissed.
How about from the point of view of "using a phone"? Is it bad news from that point of view?
I have to confess that I'm really only concerned with that point of view and don't really care all that much about whether the mobile phone industry is "opened up" in some fashion or another. As long as the service provided is acceptable (it is) at a price I feel is not out of line (it isn't) then that about covers it for me.
From the very beginning all I wanted was a phone. I didn't care what games you could play on it or whether or not it could browse the internet or send text messages. I didn't give a shit if it had a calculator or a for that matter if it even saved numbers. I can remember numbers and I'm loath to give up the responsibility of doing so. I know so many otherwise intelligent people who can't remember more than one or two phone numbers now that they have an almost limitless address book in the palm of their hands. They save every number that comes their way but don't know any of them. I don't want to be one of those guys. For years I've bought a simple plan, used a free phone, and that was fine for me. Now Apple has made this really cool phone and for the first time I'm actually considering paying a butt-load of money to buy something much farther up the phone "food chain".
And I'll be damned if all I really care about is whether or not it works as advertised. I don't give a shit if it runs Linux or can be unlocked to run on any network I might imagine running it on. I don't care. I just want it to work. It's a fucking phone not some flag to rally around or a battlefield to fight for our rights on. It's not a "weapon in some insane power war" either. It's just a phone.
Likely that's true however you do not know if the original poster is one of the people you speak of who don't really "need" a cell phone or not. There are a significant number of people in this world who need a cell phone for reasons other than causing auto accidents and annoying others in their immediate vicinity.
Yeah that's right - all cancer researchers are only out for the good of the human race and even if they have to starve themselves and live in personal poverty it's cool because they're doing something more important than pleasing the shareholders of the drug company they volunteer their time to.
Yeah, cancer researchers will do anything they can to get a drug to the people who need it. They usually give it away at cost to save peoples lives right?
Yeah, cancer researchers only employ people who have a vested interest in finding a cure for cancer before they die because they all have cancer and it's not just a job to even a small handful of them. In fact many of them go out of their way to get cancer just so they can heighten the sense of urgency around the lab.
Shithead.
It's possible that he does but does so without a license. I know that for many years I operated with forged registration and inspection stickers without running into the slightest bit of trouble. I also had a forged insurance card.
I did have a drivers license but it wouldn't have been much of a stretch to have falsified one of those while I was at it. I just didn't bother to.
One very important point about running your day-to-day life that way. You better be the most courteous and careful driver on earth. Make sure you drive something that borders on the invisible (in my case it was an old VW Rabbit) because the cool attention-getting cars are out.
mostly I just find myself wishing I had mod points so I could mod this up. I have rosacea and my dermatologist prescribes an antibiotic for it. There's no cure and I'm told there's not going to be one because nobody is bothering to try and cure it. The response I've gotten from multiple dermatologists is that they can "manage it" which basically means that I get to take a pill every day that makes me sick to my stomach whether I take food with the medicine as recommended or not.
I get to pay a doctor once a year to go into their office and get told "Yep, you still have it. Lets write that prescription for another years worth of puking pills and some topical crap that I get a kickback for recommending".
If Doctors can treat it forever instead of curing it they will. I spend moments with my doctor and he charges my insurance company hundreds of dollars. It's an immense crock of shit.
I just can't bring myself to be dissappointed in Apple over this. It's not that I don't agree with you because I do. I think I just like seeing this happen to Microsoft for a change. It's nice to see them take their turn in the barrel for a change.
To you and I it's Apple's obvious attempt to make Vista look bad on release (not that Vista needed any help with that) but to the unwashed masses it looks like Microsoft just released a shitty OS that doesn't work with their iPod. I can't not love watching the great FUD machine take a shot in the face.
Actually yeah it is. One was a Mercedes Benz SL560 and the other was a BMW 850i. Both of those cars were far out of my reach when they were new. Today though they fall well within my budget and they're just the kind of car that original owners went out of their way to take care. That was probably because they'd spent ridiculous money buying them new.
My one true "fetish" is expensive cars. I don't make the kind of money to be able to go nuts on them but the cool thing is that if you're willing to wait for them a little bit they're (almost) all affordable after a decade or so. I was at the Houston Auto Show this past weekend with my wife and looking at a new SL500 in the Mercedes display. It's sticker was over $100,000 and my wife commented that the car cost more than our first house. I told her that was true but in 10 years our first house almost doubled in value while this car will be selling on ebay for $40,000 in three or four years. Right now there are 2003 SL500's on ebay selling in the 40's.
Cars are bad investments but they're a lot of fun.
If you want something on ebay and the going rate is $50 (and you know this to be true) but you put a bid of $100 on it then you're a fucking moron (in this purely hypothetical case of course)
This is not an issue at all if you don't fall for it and it's not too terribly difficult to not fall for it. Don't bid more than you're willing to pay. Don't bid far more than it's worth. Use that brain that the flying spaghetti monster gave you and bid on.
ebay is a great place to find automobiles but admittedly you have to be careful and you have to be willing to get up off of your butt and go look at the car. I've bought two cars off of ebay and in both cases it took me a long time to find the vehicle I was looking for. When I did I was entirely comfortable paying that sellers "Buy it Now" price and in both cases I went to look at the car in person.
For basic transportation it's not necessarily the way to go. Chances are most people have at least as good a selection within driving distance of them at various dealerships in their area. If you want something a little out of the ordinary though it's a good place to find it.
The way to stop spam is to clearly define it and then make it illegal. Then you line some spamming assholes up against a wall on prime time television while their wives and children are balling their eyes out and begging for their loved ones life and put a dozen or so bullets in each of them.
Repeat until spam is no more. Sadly Richard Dawson probably wouldn't agree to host it but we can always ask nicely and hope.
Real "iPod Killer" you got there Mr. Ballmer. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the sales start to take off.
Seriously though I just don't understand how something can come to a market like this with a major selling point like this crippled the way it is. This is a perfect example of the difference between Apple's approach to the iPod and the way pretty much everybody else has gone at it. If the recording labels had tried to limit a similar feature in the iPod this way it would have likely been a deal breaker or the feature itself would have been dropped.
Seriously, who can wait that long for the guy to get truly punished? I'm thinking roadside crucifixion fits this one much better.
It's all just a joke of course until you become the victim of one of these assholes. Then you find yourself online advocating that they be nailed to a wooden cross next to I-10. Hate doesn't even come close to how I feel about these people.
If I could ever lay my hands on the guy who stole my identity and spent a couple of weeks writing hot checks across Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia I'd make 100 years in prison look like the sweetest of possible mercies.
I was thinking roadside crucifixion fits the bill. I think it's time that good old fashioned punishment like that made a comeback and I can't