You should have started running. I knew a group of kids who--back in the day--used to mess with the cops by going into a 7-11 to buy a slurpy, and then as they left would take off running.
Inevitably there'd be a police helicopter in the neighborhood in a few minutes.
The Pontiac Fiero was a fun car to drive. Low to the ground, and if you got one with a V6, it had quite a bit of get-up-and-go.
There's something exhilarating about taking an offramp at 70 miles per hour...
Yeah, but how long is it going to take before some douche bag starts whining about how it doesn't "feel like a 'real' Mac application?"
Probably in 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . .
I think that the main problem is--and correct me if I'm wrong--that Steve Ballmer is a great big douche bag, and that Yahoo can sense that if Ballmer sticks his nasty, greasy fingers into the Yahoo pie he'll turn it into shit just like they turned Hotmail into shit.
I've already started moving my homepage rss feeds from my.yahoo.com to google in anticipation of the inevitable Microsoft fucking it up.
I get my email from sbc^H^H^HAT&T/Yahoo DSL. It's always worked great. POP3, no problem. Don't have my laptop? Web mail works nicely (if a bit much on the ads).
I can forsee a day that my.yahoo.com will stop working right or looking right unless I'm looking at it with Internet Explorer.
Do they realize how long it took me to get my wife used to Firefox?!
LEDs are not much more energy efficient today than CFLs.
But how much mercury leeches into the ground from a LED thrown into the landfill after it "burns out" (i.e. stops working for whatever reason) or how much mercury gets into the immediate environment when they break? If you can come up with soft white LEDs than aren't too much more expensive than CFLs then I, at least, will buy them.
Really, you can do all the efficiency comparisons in the world, all I give a crap about is if they're cheaper to put in my lamps and fixtures than incandescents. If they're about the same as florescent, 99% of people are going to shrug and buy that which isn't going to give their children brain damage when they break.
That's an interesting point. I bought a Toshiba loss-leader with 512k. Disk thrashing, sloooooow, etc. When I uninstalled the 60 day trial version of MS Office things were actually, you know, tolerable....
Then my torrent finished and I installed kubuntu...
Of course not. C'mon, if you walk in to Best Buy, and run the sales person gauntlet, you don't know by now that Vista is useless with less that 1gig ram, and you STILL buy the Toshiba loss leader they have nailed to the floor, you're pretty much getting what you deserve.
You can do what I did: buy a 1G ram chip, wipe the disk drive and put Ubuntu onto it, and find yourself an XP install to run in a VM if you need it.
I hear you, brother. Imagine my surprise and dismay when the government told me I couldn't rent my back yard as a dump for PCBs!
Fricken Big Brother sticking his nose into my business again.
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Hell, teachers today have little authority on anything that happens on school grounds. My wife teaches elementary music, and even at that age it's a little less than Lord of the Flies because the teachers can do little about behavior and the kids know it.
What is there to do when the kids keep upping the ante and there's no recourse on the school ground? Hit 'em were it hurts. Maybe if parents have to pay for a lawyer for mommy's little bastard's behavior, some parents will start, you know, parenting...
Oh, don't be a baby, it isn't that difficult. You either A) change the address in the forums, services, etc. the first time you go there after the switch, or B) re-sign up with the new address.
Note my login, and guess which one *I* chose.
No more difficult than getting a new phone number.
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So ... why didn't people start carrying their lunches in briefcases?
Inevitably there'd be a police helicopter in the neighborhood in a few minutes.
Seriously.
Sorry, come back when you can come up with a car analogy.
C'mon. I can just imagine some of these peoples' to do lists:
I wonder how semen is produced in the workplace.
Ick.
The Pontiac Fiero was a fun car to drive. Low to the ground, and if you got one with a V6, it had quite a bit of get-up-and-go. There's something exhilarating about taking an offramp at 70 miles per hour...
He's a witch! A witch I tells you!!
Hippy.
Yeah, but how long is it going to take before some douche bag starts whining about how it doesn't "feel like a 'real' Mac application?" Probably in 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . .
The car analogy's already been done for me.
What's most ridiculous is that there are people out there who'll pay it... P.T. Barnum was right.
Awesome, reminds me of a video I once saw.
Jesus Christ I love porn.
I think that the main problem is--and correct me if I'm wrong--that Steve Ballmer is a great big douche bag, and that Yahoo can sense that if Ballmer sticks his nasty, greasy fingers into the Yahoo pie he'll turn it into shit just like they turned Hotmail into shit.
I've already started moving my homepage rss feeds from my.yahoo.com to google in anticipation of the inevitable Microsoft fucking it up.
I get my email from sbc^H^H^HAT&T/Yahoo DSL. It's always worked great. POP3, no problem. Don't have my laptop? Web mail works nicely (if a bit much on the ads).
I can forsee a day that my.yahoo.com will stop working right or looking right unless I'm looking at it with Internet Explorer.
Do they realize how long it took me to get my wife used to Firefox?!
Drunken ramble over.
Just sayin'...
But how much mercury leeches into the ground from a LED thrown into the landfill after it "burns out" (i.e. stops working for whatever reason) or how much mercury gets into the immediate environment when they break? If you can come up with soft white LEDs than aren't too much more expensive than CFLs then I, at least, will buy them.
Really, you can do all the efficiency comparisons in the world, all I give a crap about is if they're cheaper to put in my lamps and fixtures than incandescents. If they're about the same as florescent, 99% of people are going to shrug and buy that which isn't going to give their children brain damage when they break.
It depends. That time I met the girl who liked to be pooped on ... well, that was a deal breaker for me.
That's okay, I just figured you were from Beijing, China.
Well I use it about 50% of the time.
That's an interesting point. I bought a Toshiba loss-leader with 512k. Disk thrashing, sloooooow, etc. When I uninstalled the 60 day trial version of MS Office things were actually, you know, tolerable....
Then my torrent finished and I installed kubuntu...
Of course not. C'mon, if you walk in to Best Buy, and run the sales person gauntlet, you don't know by now that Vista is useless with less that 1gig ram, and you STILL buy the Toshiba loss leader they have nailed to the floor, you're pretty much getting what you deserve.
You can do what I did: buy a 1G ram chip, wipe the disk drive and put Ubuntu onto it, and find yourself an XP install to run in a VM if you need it.
Problem solved.
No sympathy.
I hear you, brother. Imagine my surprise and dismay when the government told me I couldn't rent my back yard as a dump for PCBs!
Fricken Big Brother sticking his nose into my business again.
Hell, teachers today have little authority on anything that happens on school grounds. My wife teaches elementary music, and even at that age it's a little less than Lord of the Flies because the teachers can do little about behavior and the kids know it.
What is there to do when the kids keep upping the ante and there's no recourse on the school ground? Hit 'em were it hurts. Maybe if parents have to pay for a lawyer for mommy's little bastard's behavior, some parents will start, you know, parenting...
Or he needs to use a different font.
Huh. All these years I thought it was pronounced DOOSH-bag.
Oh, don't be a baby, it isn't that difficult. You either A) change the address in the forums, services, etc. the first time you go there after the switch, or B) re-sign up with the new address.
Note my login, and guess which one *I* chose.
No more difficult than getting a new phone number.
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Douchebags as far as teh eye can see.