It's how you drive your Camaro that matters here. Right now they assume that since you're in your 20's and drive a Camaro you suck as a driver (generally, that's not nearly as bad an assumption as you might think).
Prove them wrong. Get your insurance cheap by driving right. Sounds good to me and it's not something I had a chance to do at 18 when I drove a Firebird.
...then I say hell yeah. Sign me up. Put one in my car. Put two of them in there if you want (and in everyone elses of course) and may the actual safe drivers win. The ones who can't drive within reason can pay more for their insurance or lose their legal ability to operate a motor vehicle. Good for them. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of asshats.
You know, I met Doohan once. That's hardly a big deal considering he was one of the more accessible members of the Star Trek cast and widely held to be the most fan friendly. I left feeling like he really gave a crap that I gave a crap about his television show.
At around that same time I met both Nimoy and Shatner. Niether meeting gave me as much pleasure as talking for a couple of minutes to James Doohan. Nimoy was very remote, barely acknowledged that anyone else was in the room and Shatner was friendly but it seemed very forced.
Good point. If we proceed with the assumption that the skipper and Gilligan are swabbing each others poop decks then the situation works itself out with little conflict. The professor shacks up with the two babes.....unless they're lesbians. This could get pretty complicated.
Now I'm looking for the website that has some good ideas on coconut geiger counter case mods. Then I'm going to cluster the things.
Then I'll post a story about the whole thing on Slashdot but my server (built out of bamboo and coconuts of course) will go up in flames from the Slashdotting (literally).
I'm thinking "Profit!"
Unless of course the RIAA, MPAA, or some other "AA" comes along and sues me.
The fact that (And I know it's rude but it's the truth) both of them are in posession of the only "currency" that would mean anything to the 4 men on the island. It's between their legs.
Think about it. Gilligan, Mr Howell, the professor and skipper are all going to be interested in one thing before long and honestly, they were probably interested in that prior to ever getting shipwrecked. All four of them hadn't fantasised about banging Ginger or Mary Ann from the moment they stepped onto the boat. Once they get shipwrecked and they've been on the island for a couple weeks it's going to be a question of who's getting laid and not much else is going to matter.
Now obviously Howell is an old dude and his wife is there so he's going to be on a short leash. He'll keep up appearances but you know he's thinking he could bag one of these chicks if he could get away from the old ball and chain. Then again this was before Viagra so maybe not. If this took place today though Thurston would be knocking the bottom out of Ginger. I'm sure he'd go for Ginger. He's rich, she's famous. That's just the way it works.
But say Thurston hadn't the benefit of the little blue pill and was out of the mix. Then you've got Gilligan, the professor, and the skipper vying for two women. One of them is going to end up with the professor obviously because he's the only one of the three available guys who's both height-weight proportionate and not a complete idiot. Ginger probably goes for him and has little trouble staking claim to him.
This leaves Mary Ann to choose between the fat old sailor or the retard. Not a very appealing proposition but she doesn't have to make the choice. Niine weeks and a couple dozen screw ups from Gilligan later he goes looking for coconuts one day and mysteriously doesn't return. The skipper was of course fishing on the other side of the island when it happened and knows nothing about it. In truth though he buried his "little buddy" in a shallow grave so he could claim the sole remaining available piece of tail on the island.
On the one hand he suffers from a large number of physical problems but on the other hand he's lived to 84 years of age and had a hell of a ride during a life that many could only dream of. I hope his remaining time is spent with family and in comfort.
Well, I backup some of them. I don't backup all of them because there's no need. For example my wife travels a lot. She's an AKC judge so she's always going to dog shows to judge and when she goes she likes to take a bunch of movies with her. Those are usually copies of the DVD's we have at home. The originals are sitting there in the DVD cabinet in perfect condition.
Now she doesn't abuse the copies or toss them around carelessly so I'm not worried about her scratching them up or anything like that. We do this because it would really suck to lose all those movies if her bag was stolen at the airport or if someone broke into her room at the hotel. If I could make a backup copy of the laptop she takes with her I'd do that too in a heartbeat but I can't so you do what you can.
Another example would be when my stepson wants to borrow a DVD from our collection. Now he's absolute murder on DVD's. I've tried to get him to take care of them but it goes in one ear and out the other. This is in fact not a case of backing up but if he wants a copy of something in our library to watch at his dads house I generally just make him a copy. Am I an evil DVD pirate for doing so? I guess I am but I'm not running around passing their IP out to the rest of the world. I'm just trying to keep my stepson from destroying something I paid for due to his carelessness.
I call that fair use. I'm sure Valenti calls it theft. I don't know that I make "backups" of my DVD's. I make "working copies" that I use in lieu of the originals so as to extend their usable life.
I won't need to worry about people sharing my mind over P2P networks FOOL! The RIAA will have long since solved that problem and will be running the world together with MicroSCO, The Windsors, The Masons, and Colonel Sanders (Who has been in stasis awaiting his return to again lead his corporation through a procedure eerily similar to the one we are speaking about now).
And it's cool. Better than my optical mouse that got bumped down to my other computer? I don't really know. I'm still in that brief "getting used to a different mouse" phase so what I can tell you about it is limited.
The one it replaced was a Logitech basic cordless optical It did it's job well but I've been using my second computer more lately and the mouse on it was a POS so I needed another. In terms of accuracy I'm sure the laser mouse is better (Logitech wouldn't lie about that would they?) but I doubt that it's going to be something that 90% of us would notice.
Getting past the claims of improved accuracy that I can't really address it's a nice mouse. I'd have bought the Bluetooth model but this one was $20 cheaper and I liked the feel of it.
Indeed. I'm from Houston Texas and just got back from ten days in London. I knew going in that I'd probably have to make an effort to speak clearly but that can be tough to do when you don't hear your own accent because that's mostly the only thing you've ever heard.
Additionally I had trouble making out what a number of people I met were saying at various times. None of us were "wrong". Just different.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend...until he becomes my enemy at which time I need find one of his enemies to make friends with. Something like that. I don't know old sayings.
I understand what you're saying completely. Sometimes it's kind of a bitch being a "borderline" isn't it. It's like you've got enough geek in you to enjoy the ride but just enough non-geek to see things how silly it gets.
You're the one geek in your group who's actually paying attention to who's within earshot before you jump into the conversation.
If anything I've got it worse. I'm about 1/3 geek, 1/3 football fan (Try mixing geeks and face painting NFL fans and see what happens Most of them WERE the guys who picked on geeks when they were kids), and the other third is average married guy who's wife doesn't get the geek third or the NFL third.
Screw that. I've upped the expectation level recently thanks to the recent arrival of transparent aluminum I'm holding out for a transporter. Why go through all the trouble of flying there in your "flying car" when you could just beam there in an instant?
I want to leave the house at 8:00 every morning, skip the hour commute I normally face, and arrive at work at 8:00 every morning.
Now is that too much to ask?
- And I know that the transparent aluminum story from a couple of days ago wasn't really about transparent aluminum. Just go with it ok.
See, now language like that is why you aren't a good online citizen. I'm going to report you to abuse@aol if you don't cheer up and quit being such a negative person.
Well, I don't know how old you are or what part of the country you live in but I'm 40 and live in Houston Texas. The public schools I went to made no effort to conceal the fact that whites basically wiped out the vast majority of Native Americans as we spread across the continent.
Now granted they didn't spend an enormous amount of time on that portion of American history. We didn't have a class devoted to the various atrocities committed or anything like that but I can't honestly call it a "fine job of not mentioning the genocide of Native Americans".
Maybe they spend more time covering it up in other parts of the country or don't bother to mention it. I can only speak for where I went to school.
Not to worry about that. The guys running the Star Trek franchise are way, way ahead of you there. They've got your "something to complain about" covered for the next ten years easy.
You know what? A lot of things get done all the time that are unconstitutional. When the constitution and common sense are in conflict as they are here I'm going with common sense.
An interesting scenario. On a typical day (or any day for that matter) do you get a plane carrying 296 gentlemen of middle eastern origin? When was the last time you boarded a plane and happened to be one of only four persons who wasn't from the middle east?
You can easily demonstrate how checking only those of middle eastern origin or appearance is a bad idea by stacking your example in this way but it ignores one simple fact. The overwhelming majority of terrorists in this world happen to be of middle eastern origin. Pretending that checking the bubba in a Dallas Cowboys t-shirt is just as important as checking the "unshaved raghead" (your words not mine) is simply stupid.
You can think too much about this just as easily as you can fail to think enough. Find me an example of a good looking white English chick who's decided to blow herself up for Allah and then we're talking. I'm not saying it's going to be impossible to do. I am saying it's damned unlikely. I'm also not saying it's a case of only checking arab travelers. Certainly you should be looking at everyone who wants on the plane to some degree but where your focus is should be clear whether it hurts someones feelings or not.
Trouble is everything that comes to mind other than McVeigh ends up being of Middle Eastern origin. Hmmm, wonder why that is?
Certainly ignoring everyone who isn't Middle Eastern is probably a bad idea but I think it's safe to say that there's nothing wrong with focusing more on the single group of people voted most likely to blow some shit up for their cause and mostly ignoring the senior citizens who can barely breath on their own.
Taking some poor old guy through a search like that to me brings to mind a quote from an article at Seanbaby,com that goes something like "You don't have to pretend to be that stupid to make me feel safe".
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It's how you drive your Camaro that matters here. Right now they assume that since you're in your 20's and drive a Camaro you suck as a driver (generally, that's not nearly as bad an assumption as you might think).
Prove them wrong. Get your insurance cheap by driving right. Sounds good to me and it's not something I had a chance to do at 18 when I drove a Firebird.
Most noble of you sir.
You know, I met Doohan once. That's hardly a big deal considering he was one of the more accessible members of the Star Trek cast and widely held to be the most fan friendly. I left feeling like he really gave a crap that I gave a crap about his television show.
At around that same time I met both Nimoy and Shatner. Niether meeting gave me as much pleasure as talking for a couple of minutes to James Doohan. Nimoy was very remote, barely acknowledged that anyone else was in the room and Shatner was friendly but it seemed very forced.
Good point. If we proceed with the assumption that the skipper and Gilligan are swabbing each others poop decks then the situation works itself out with little conflict. The professor shacks up with the two babes. ....unless they're lesbians. This could get pretty complicated.
Hell yeah. For some reason that damned MSN Butterfly from the commercial popped into my brain just then. I was thinking
Me: "Ginger or Mary Ann??"
MSN Butterfly: "Ginger AND Mary Ann!"
Me: "What about Mrs Howell"
MSN Butterfly: "How freaky can she get?"
Then I made myself stop thinking cause that's just wrong.
Now I'm looking for the website that has some good ideas on coconut geiger counter case mods. Then I'm going to cluster the things.
Then I'll post a story about the whole thing on Slashdot but my server (built out of bamboo and coconuts of course) will go up in flames from the Slashdotting (literally).
I'm thinking "Profit!"
Unless of course the RIAA, MPAA, or some other "AA" comes along and sues me.
The fact that (And I know it's rude but it's the truth) both of them are in posession of the only "currency" that would mean anything to the 4 men on the island. It's between their legs.
Think about it. Gilligan, Mr Howell, the professor and skipper are all going to be interested in one thing before long and honestly, they were probably interested in that prior to ever getting shipwrecked. All four of them hadn't fantasised about banging Ginger or Mary Ann from the moment they stepped onto the boat. Once they get shipwrecked and they've been on the island for a couple weeks it's going to be a question of who's getting laid and not much else is going to matter.
Now obviously Howell is an old dude and his wife is there so he's going to be on a short leash. He'll keep up appearances but you know he's thinking he could bag one of these chicks if he could get away from the old ball and chain. Then again this was before Viagra so maybe not. If this took place today though Thurston would be knocking the bottom out of Ginger. I'm sure he'd go for Ginger. He's rich, she's famous. That's just the way it works.
But say Thurston hadn't the benefit of the little blue pill and was out of the mix. Then you've got Gilligan, the professor, and the skipper vying for two women. One of them is going to end up with the professor obviously because he's the only one of the three available guys who's both height-weight proportionate and not a complete idiot. Ginger probably goes for him and has little trouble staking claim to him.
This leaves Mary Ann to choose between the fat old sailor or the retard. Not a very appealing proposition but she doesn't have to make the choice. Niine weeks and a couple dozen screw ups from Gilligan later he goes looking for coconuts one day and mysteriously doesn't return. The skipper was of course fishing on the other side of the island when it happened and knows nothing about it. In truth though he buried his "little buddy" in a shallow grave so he could claim the sole remaining available piece of tail on the island.
I'm just going with a "thanks for the memories"
On the one hand he suffers from a large number of physical problems but on the other hand he's lived to 84 years of age and had a hell of a ride during a life that many could only dream of. I hope his remaining time is spent with family and in comfort.
Well, I backup some of them. I don't backup all of them because there's no need. For example my wife travels a lot. She's an AKC judge so she's always going to dog shows to judge and when she goes she likes to take a bunch of movies with her. Those are usually copies of the DVD's we have at home. The originals are sitting there in the DVD cabinet in perfect condition.
Now she doesn't abuse the copies or toss them around carelessly so I'm not worried about her scratching them up or anything like that. We do this because it would really suck to lose all those movies if her bag was stolen at the airport or if someone broke into her room at the hotel. If I could make a backup copy of the laptop she takes with her I'd do that too in a heartbeat but I can't so you do what you can.
Another example would be when my stepson wants to borrow a DVD from our collection. Now he's absolute murder on DVD's. I've tried to get him to take care of them but it goes in one ear and out the other. This is in fact not a case of backing up but if he wants a copy of something in our library to watch at his dads house I generally just make him a copy. Am I an evil DVD pirate for doing so? I guess I am but I'm not running around passing their IP out to the rest of the world. I'm just trying to keep my stepson from destroying something I paid for due to his carelessness.
I call that fair use. I'm sure Valenti calls it theft. I don't know that I make "backups" of my DVD's. I make "working copies" that I use in lieu of the originals so as to extend their usable life.
I won't need to worry about people sharing my mind over P2P networks FOOL! The RIAA will have long since solved that problem and will be running the world together with MicroSCO, The Windsors, The Masons, and Colonel Sanders (Who has been in stasis awaiting his return to again lead his corporation through a procedure eerily similar to the one we are speaking about now).
And it's cool. Better than my optical mouse that got bumped down to my other computer? I don't really know. I'm still in that brief "getting used to a different mouse" phase so what I can tell you about it is limited.
The one it replaced was a Logitech basic cordless optical It did it's job well but I've been using my second computer more lately and the mouse on it was a POS so I needed another. In terms of accuracy I'm sure the laser mouse is better (Logitech wouldn't lie about that would they?) but I doubt that it's going to be something that 90% of us would notice.
Getting past the claims of improved accuracy that I can't really address it's a nice mouse. I'd have bought the Bluetooth model but this one was $20 cheaper and I liked the feel of it.
Indeed. I'm from Houston Texas and just got back from ten days in London. I knew going in that I'd probably have to make an effort to speak clearly but that can be tough to do when you don't hear your own accent because that's mostly the only thing you've ever heard.
Additionally I had trouble making out what a number of people I met were saying at various times. None of us were "wrong". Just different.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend...until he becomes my enemy at which time I need find one of his enemies to make friends with. Something like that. I don't know old sayings.
I understand what you're saying completely. Sometimes it's kind of a bitch being a "borderline" isn't it. It's like you've got enough geek in you to enjoy the ride but just enough non-geek to see things how silly it gets.
You're the one geek in your group who's actually paying attention to who's within earshot before you jump into the conversation.
If anything I've got it worse. I'm about 1/3 geek, 1/3 football fan (Try mixing geeks and face painting NFL fans and see what happens Most of them WERE the guys who picked on geeks when they were kids), and the other third is average married guy who's wife doesn't get the geek third or the NFL third.
Screw that. I've upped the expectation level recently thanks to the recent arrival of transparent aluminum I'm holding out for a transporter. Why go through all the trouble of flying there in your "flying car" when you could just beam there in an instant?
I want to leave the house at 8:00 every morning, skip the hour commute I normally face, and arrive at work at 8:00 every morning.
Now is that too much to ask?
- And I know that the transparent aluminum story from a couple of days ago wasn't really about transparent aluminum. Just go with it ok.
How can I get in touch with you? Your CD-R prices are way lower than I'm used to seeing and with the free spindle offer I just can't pass this up!
Add me to the list!
JudgeFurious@aol.com
I'd mod you up if I had the points. Short, simple answer and the only one that has any chance of really changing anything.
I'm on my second year of refusing to buy any RIAA label's product. If we all do this they go broke. Period.
Stop buying music. Convince others to stop buying music if possible. watch them starve to death. End of evil asshole monopoly.
See, now language like that is why you aren't a good online citizen. I'm going to report you to abuse@aol if you don't cheer up and quit being such a negative person.
I'm sure "Dubyah" has resolving that issue lined up for his second term, time permitting of course.
Well, I don't know how old you are or what part of the country you live in but I'm 40 and live in Houston Texas. The public schools I went to made no effort to conceal the fact that whites basically wiped out the vast majority of Native Americans as we spread across the continent.
Now granted they didn't spend an enormous amount of time on that portion of American history. We didn't have a class devoted to the various atrocities committed or anything like that but I can't honestly call it a "fine job of not mentioning the genocide of Native Americans".
Maybe they spend more time covering it up in other parts of the country or don't bother to mention it. I can only speak for where I went to school.
Not to worry about that. The guys running the Star Trek franchise are way, way ahead of you there. They've got your "something to complain about" covered for the next ten years easy.
You know what? A lot of things get done all the time that are unconstitutional. When the constitution and common sense are in conflict as they are here I'm going with common sense.
An interesting scenario. On a typical day (or any day for that matter) do you get a plane carrying 296 gentlemen of middle eastern origin? When was the last time you boarded a plane and happened to be one of only four persons who wasn't from the middle east?
You can easily demonstrate how checking only those of middle eastern origin or appearance is a bad idea by stacking your example in this way but it ignores one simple fact. The overwhelming majority of terrorists in this world happen to be of middle eastern origin. Pretending that checking the bubba in a Dallas Cowboys t-shirt is just as important as checking the "unshaved raghead" (your words not mine) is simply stupid.
You can think too much about this just as easily as you can fail to think enough. Find me an example of a good looking white English chick who's decided to blow herself up for Allah and then we're talking. I'm not saying it's going to be impossible to do. I am saying it's damned unlikely. I'm also not saying it's a case of only checking arab travelers. Certainly you should be looking at everyone who wants on the plane to some degree but where your focus is should be clear whether it hurts someones feelings or not.
But when you factor in the long history of baggage handler related terrorist incidents you have to acknowledge that.... oh wait.
Nevermind. They don't plant anything in your luggage. They go through it looking for something to take.
Ok, I'm thinking McVeigh....
Trouble is everything that comes to mind other than McVeigh ends up being of Middle Eastern origin. Hmmm, wonder why that is?
Certainly ignoring everyone who isn't Middle Eastern is probably a bad idea but I think it's safe to say that there's nothing wrong with focusing more on the single group of people voted most likely to blow some shit up for their cause and mostly ignoring the senior citizens who can barely breath on their own.
Taking some poor old guy through a search like that to me brings to mind a quote from an article at Seanbaby,com that goes something like "You don't have to pretend to be that stupid to make me feel safe".