I've worked in plenty of hospitals, and seen plenty of people on allergy medication. Some people have such a strong reaction to benadryl that they sleep for days from the effects. Her behavior and appearance is conclusively indicative of nothing. But since you're a stoner, you must be right. I mean look at your proof. She was wearing comfy clothes. Comfy. What could influence an individual to wear comfy clothes but the gentle ministrations of marijuana? Comfy clothes. Thank you. I now know that my grandmother is a stoner. My friend's little sister, also a stoner. Hundreds of people, who I used to think maybe they just liked soft cotton, all stoners. Comfy. clothes. Joggers beware. I'm on to you.
Obviously the federal government. By their decision to allow unregulated access, they have insured that no one could be held liable as an entity, therefore, they are liable.
So basically, pretend to support something that you know will introduce serious vulnerabilities into government infrastructure, then trust crackers and foreign governments to only play fun and playful jokes just to get everyone riled up. Then, when those in charge are called on the carpet for implementing something that you supported, you can get those you really support voted into office. HA HA HA HA HA. That is funny. Too bad you don't have any morals.
Also typical of a slasdot story is redundancy, such as you posting this at 6:40, when at 5:26 an Anonymous Coward posted everything you said with additional detail.
You also don't have to concentrate on the complex chemical reactions that take place in your body, but they still happen. Also, you should breathe now.
Protesting by not purchasing fails when you can't find out about the thing you object to until after the purchase.
For crying out loud... Maybe you weren't suggesting this, but from your post the first thing that came to mind was the idea that they should have disclosed their deal w/ McDonald's before they released it.
I find the idea that all content that may be found protestable (read: all content) should be predeclared so we can decide whether we hate you or love you. (again, I am not accusing you of making this point, thogh if you agree with it, I'd love to hear your rationale)
Who would have though Microsoft would provide such low level functionality in their browser? Mozilla probably won't let you format a hard drive. Just one more shining example of the superiority of closed source.... </sarcasm>
Woo-hoo, a TOY that will get people to avoid even the most basic and simple bit of exercise called WALKING. People, particularly Americans, are pigs and idiots. They hop in their car to drive down the block to get a soda and then drive back home. They eat, eat, eat and sit on their fat, lazy asses and waste money on useless and silly toys. For Mithras' sake, use your frickin' legs and DO something! Exercise you damn lazy, nasty, flabby lardasses. DON'T buy a segway, WALK. Or ride a bike. If you don't like the seat giving you a wedgy, get a reclining bike. These toys should be largely relegated to foot patrol cops and mail delivery personnel. Everyone else can walk and burn a few frickin' calories to at least TRY to offset your billion calorie supersized McD's lardass lunch special. Ya'll make me sick (those itching to have one of these things). Lazy-ass pigs.
This post brought to you by Praedor, your personal fitness dictator, the temple of the invicible Mithras, and our motto, "Because you're stupid!!"
It'a the newest funnest open source craze around. It's Happy Fun Code!!! Caution: Happy Fun Code may suddenly contaminate your open source project. Do not stare directly at Happy Fun Code. Happy Fun Code has been known to change your long distance carrier and may install software on your somputer. Do not taunt Happy Fun Code. Happy Fun Code was written by radioactive Hungarian programmers who fell from the sky in Redmond, WA When not in use, all knowledge of Happy Fun Code must be removed from your mind through the medical miracle of blunt trauma. Happy Fun Code may adhere to your project. Do not attempt to remove Happy Fun Code without legal cousel. Happy Fun Code should not be exposed to a functioning judicial system.
Sone good questions, and they are not easily answered. I for one believe that the soul does exist, in the same way that a program loaded into memory exists. The brain seems to be an organic container for our soul (mind, will, and emotions) handling it'a interface with the body, interrupts, idle cycles, etc. People very often confuse the King James Bible term "soul" for the concept of "spirit". Spirit is really the part that people mean when they talk about a non-quantifiable part of a human being. The part that they believe is associated with a person but not accounted for in the brain. I, for one, believe it exists, but that is a matter of faith not science.
There is a fundamental flaw in all of these breaking and entering, looking thorugh the window, invasion of privacy analogies.
A web site is not a house. It is more similar (thought not entirely analagous) to a business, or possbily a private library (where a book must be requested from library staff who then choose whether or not you can have it.) The only difference pertinent to this discussion is this, the owners of the data have delegated the responsibility of serving or denying the data to a machine. If I ask for a page using standard request methodology and the server/librarian gives it to me, I am not at fault.
Note: I am not saying that if I mask my identity or pick the lock on the book vault that I am innocent. Only if I make a standard request. If that is what Reuters did, and I will never know that for sure, then they did nothing wrong.
Apparently you haven't read the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy (...er quintology...whatever) or if you have, you failed to make the connection before you posted. Either way, we'll be by later on this evening to confiscate your Geek ID. Oh, and please have any Geek-Items* that you may own packaged up for us. We'll leave you with an E-machine, and the First Season of friends on DVD**.
* Geek-Items include but are not limited to: any computer faster than a Pentium II, PDA's, TIVO's, gaming systems, any and all items sold on thinkgeek.com, MP3 players, any taped/DVD episodes of the following programs: X-files, Simpsons, Futurama, Doctor Who, Babylon 5, any Star Trek (or any Star Trek rip off), all anime or porn, any and all spare HD's, monitors, cdrom rom drives, or any and all items that at the discretion of the investigating officer could allow you to pass yourself off to the uninitiated as a geek.
I realize that. However, if one million people did this the USPS would be none too pleased, and may require AOL to either pay for the additional trash, or use a different rate. It will cost the post office time, money, and space, and they will pass that back to AOL.
No, they won't pass it back to AOL. AOL has already paid them for delivery and disposal, they can't recharge them, but they may raise their prices for everyone. The government doesn't stick it to a single vendor because of an increase in disposal costs, they factor that into their budget and they raise their prices to match. Do you really want 40 cent stamps?
You're not getting it. He doesn't need to defend it. He just needs to have it either attacked or not attacked.
Of course if Microsoft feels strongly that they can win the court case, then thay may choose to simply ignore his patent and keep their intentions secret until they are ready to roll out the tanks and whatnot, thereby leaving Lucky Green with the impetus to attack them.
In that scenario, Microsoft has neither announced its intentions by trying to patent piracy prevention, nor by attacking his patent, nor by trying to buy him out.
Will Ferrell found to not actually be porn star. Parfait, not tasty at all, say experts.
Will Ferrell finds himself under serious scrutiny today as the details of his, once praised, "switch ad" came under fire from Microsoft. According to Steve Ballmer, a senior executive for Microsoft, after an exhaustive search of both the internet and several personal collections, he has not been able to discover any porn featuring Mr. Ferrell. Furthermore, accoeding to several leading parfait experts, the parfait eaten during the commercial was, in their own words, "definitely unlikely to be tasty". Microsoft claims that their interest has nothing to do with recent allegations of misrespresentation in a "switch ad" of their own, and they are only interested in, "promoting and projecting truth to the American people at all times. Neither Mr. Ferrell nor Apple were available for comment.
But some civil libertarians are having nightmares about "smart toilets" running amok, e-mailing highly personal information hither and yon. There are also Big Brother nightmares about master computers monitoring millions of bowel movements, checking around the clock to see who is constipated, who is not eating his peas and who is drinking too much.
[insert Conan O'Brian "in the year 2000" theme music] In the Year 2003... Japanese research into advanced toiletry results in a surge of worldwide potty-related advances:
the term "bowel-monitoring" becomes widely acknowledged as the Rosetta Stone of Comedy, allowing for unprecedented breakthroughs in potty humor and unlimited Austin Power sequels.
Maxis releases Sim Toilet and Sim Colon, both surpassing the bestselling "The Sims" in both Japan and the US, prompting other game makers to follow suit with such titles as "Unreal Toilet 3000", "Toilet Raider", and "Toilet Annihilation"
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I've worked in plenty of hospitals, and seen plenty of people on allergy medication. Some people have such a strong reaction to benadryl that they sleep for days from the effects. Her behavior and appearance is conclusively indicative of nothing. But since you're a stoner, you must be right.
I mean look at your proof. She was wearing comfy clothes. Comfy. What could influence an individual to wear comfy clothes but the gentle ministrations of marijuana? Comfy clothes. Thank you. I now know that my grandmother is a stoner. My friend's little sister, also a stoner. Hundreds of people, who I used to think maybe they just liked soft cotton, all stoners. Comfy. clothes. Joggers beware. I'm on to you.
Obviously the federal government. By their decision to allow unregulated access, they have insured that no one could be held liable as an entity, therefore, they are liable.
IWTBAL - I want to be a lawyer
Even further off topic....
I agree. You just left yourdelf too darn open to pass up.
Translation: Apparently I am lacking in the moral department as well.
So basically, pretend to support something that you know will introduce serious vulnerabilities into government infrastructure, then trust crackers and foreign governments to only play fun and playful jokes just to get everyone riled up. Then, when those in charge are called on the carpet for implementing something that you supported, you can get those you really support voted into office. HA HA HA HA HA. That is funny. Too bad you don't have any morals.
Also typical of a slasdot story is redundancy, such as you posting this at 6:40, when at 5:26 an Anonymous Coward posted everything you said with additional detail.
You can't copyright facts - Junior J. Junior III
It is in fact, a fact, that you can copyright a fact.
Copyright Charles Churchill - 11/20/2002
This was of course stolen from some random search on google.
He got pretty lucky then. This is all I get when I do random searches on google.
Your search - SH0qX+q9sQ78KPkA - did not match any documents.
No pages were found containing "sh0qx".
Your search - VF#8=KaYJBJTQ6fijfdC4MF+cpXAQe3nj2jk+0#K - did not match any documents.
No pages were found containing "kayjbjtq6fijfdc4mf".
You also don't have to concentrate on the complex chemical reactions that take place in your body, but they still happen.
Also, you should breathe now.
I just wanted you to know, that i love your sig.
--
You had me from "--".
Protesting by not purchasing fails when you can't find out about the thing you object to until after the purchase.
For crying out loud...
Maybe you weren't suggesting this, but from your post the first thing that came to mind was the idea that they should have disclosed their deal w/ McDonald's before they released it.
I find the idea that all content that may be found protestable (read: all content) should be predeclared so we can decide whether we hate you or love you. (again, I am not accusing you of making this point, thogh if you agree with it, I'd love to hear your rationale)
Who would have though Microsoft would provide such low level functionality in their browser?
Mozilla probably won't let you format a hard drive.
Just one more shining example of the superiority of closed source....
</sarcasm>
Woo-hoo, a TOY that will get people to avoid even the most basic and simple bit of exercise called WALKING. People, particularly Americans, are pigs and idiots. They hop in their car to drive down the block to get a soda and then drive back home. They eat, eat, eat and sit on their fat, lazy asses and waste money on useless and silly toys.
For Mithras' sake, use your frickin' legs and DO something! Exercise you damn lazy, nasty, flabby lardasses. DON'T buy a segway, WALK. Or ride a bike. If you don't like the seat giving you a wedgy, get a reclining bike.
These toys should be largely relegated to foot patrol cops and mail delivery personnel. Everyone else can walk and burn a few frickin' calories to at least TRY to offset your billion calorie supersized McD's lardass lunch special.
Ya'll make me sick (those itching to have one of these things). Lazy-ass pigs.
This post brought to you by Praedor, your personal fitness dictator, the temple of the invicible Mithras, and our motto, "Because you're stupid!!"
It'a the newest funnest open source craze around.
It's Happy Fun Code!!!
Caution: Happy Fun Code may suddenly contaminate your open source project.
Do not stare directly at Happy Fun Code.
Happy Fun Code has been known to change your long distance carrier and may install software on your somputer.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Code.
Happy Fun Code was written by radioactive Hungarian programmers who fell from the sky in Redmond, WA
When not in use, all knowledge of Happy Fun Code must be removed from your mind through the medical miracle of blunt trauma.
Happy Fun Code may adhere to your project. Do not attempt to remove Happy Fun Code without legal cousel.
Happy Fun Code should not be exposed to a functioning judicial system.
Sone good questions, and they are not easily answered. I for one believe that the soul does exist, in the same way that a program loaded into memory exists. The brain seems to be an organic container for our soul (mind, will, and emotions) handling it'a interface with the body, interrupts, idle cycles, etc.
People very often confuse the King James Bible term "soul" for the concept of "spirit". Spirit is really the part that people mean when they talk about a non-quantifiable part of a human being. The part that they believe is associated with a person but not accounted for in the brain. I, for one, believe it exists, but that is a matter of faith not science.
Going east it was on the way, going west its just a needless round trip.
;)
Yeah, but don't forget, going east you lose and hour at each time zone
This link not protected by restrictive text ;)
There is a fundamental flaw in all of these breaking and entering, looking thorugh the window, invasion of privacy analogies.
A web site is not a house. It is more similar (thought not entirely analagous) to a business, or possbily a private library (where a book must be requested from library staff who then choose whether or not you can have it.) The only difference pertinent to this discussion is this, the owners of the data have delegated the responsibility of serving or denying the data to a machine. If I ask for a page using standard request methodology and the server/librarian gives it to me, I am not at fault.
Note: I am not saying that if I mask my identity or pick the lock on the book vault that I am innocent. Only if I make a standard request. If that is what Reuters did, and I will never know that for sure, then they did nothing wrong.
I think it was actually SETEC Astronomy...
Right Mother?
Apparently you haven't read the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" trilogy (...er quintology...whatever) or if you have, you failed to make the connection before you posted. Either way, we'll be by later on this evening to confiscate your Geek ID.
Oh, and please have any Geek-Items* that you may own packaged up for us.
We'll leave you with an E-machine, and the First Season of friends on DVD**.
* Geek-Items include but are not limited to: any computer faster than a Pentium II, PDA's, TIVO's, gaming systems, any and all items sold on thinkgeek.com, MP3 players, any taped/DVD episodes of the following programs: X-files, Simpsons, Futurama, Doctor Who, Babylon 5, any Star Trek (or any Star Trek rip off), all anime or porn, any and all spare HD's, monitors, cdrom rom drives, or any and all items that at the discretion of the investigating officer could allow you to pass yourself off to the uninitiated as a geek.
** Geek-Items shall also include DVD players.
I realize that. However, if one million people did this the USPS would be none too pleased, and may require AOL to either pay for the additional trash, or use a different rate. It will cost the post office time, money, and space, and they will pass that back to AOL.
No, they won't pass it back to AOL. AOL has already paid them for delivery and disposal, they can't recharge them, but they may raise their prices for everyone. The government doesn't stick it to a single vendor because of an increase in disposal costs, they factor that into their budget and they raise their prices to match. Do you really want 40 cent stamps?
You're not getting it. He doesn't need to defend it. He just needs to have it either attacked or not attacked.
Of course if Microsoft feels strongly that they can win the court case, then thay may choose to simply ignore his patent and keep their intentions secret until they are ready to roll out the tanks and whatnot, thereby leaving Lucky Green with the impetus to attack them.
In that scenario, Microsoft has neither announced its intentions by trying to patent piracy prevention, nor by attacking his patent, nor by trying to buy him out.
Will Ferrell found to not actually be porn star. Parfait, not tasty at all, say experts.
Will Ferrell finds himself under serious scrutiny today as the details of his, once praised, "switch ad" came under fire from Microsoft. According to Steve Ballmer, a senior executive for Microsoft, after an exhaustive search of both the internet and several personal collections, he has not been able to discover any porn featuring Mr. Ferrell. Furthermore, accoeding to several leading parfait experts, the parfait eaten during the commercial was, in their own words, "definitely unlikely to be tasty". Microsoft claims that their interest has nothing to do with recent allegations of misrespresentation in a "switch ad" of their own, and they are only interested in, "promoting and projecting truth to the American people at all times. Neither Mr. Ferrell nor Apple were available for comment.
on an added note. Richard Stallman has asked that it be called the "GNU/Lord of the Rings:The Felloship of the Ring - Extended Edition"
So he's dug himself in with a windowless, underground bunker
;)
Windowless?!?!
Even he won't use it when his life depends on it
But some civil libertarians are having nightmares about "smart toilets" running amok, e-mailing highly personal information hither and yon. There are also Big Brother nightmares about master computers monitoring millions of bowel movements, checking around the clock to see who is constipated, who is not eating his peas and who is drinking too much.
[insert Conan O'Brian "in the year 2000" theme music]
In the Year 2003...
Japanese research into advanced toiletry results in a surge of worldwide potty-related advances:
the term "bowel-monitoring" becomes widely acknowledged as the Rosetta Stone of Comedy, allowing for unprecedented breakthroughs in potty humor and unlimited Austin Power sequels.
Maxis releases Sim Toilet and Sim Colon, both surpassing the bestselling "The Sims" in both Japan and the US, prompting other game makers to follow suit with such titles as "Unreal Toilet 3000", "Toilet Raider", and "Toilet Annihilation"