I've often been made fun of for my casual use of a backward smile. If you assume that ":)" is the norm, which often translates to a smile image on forums, instant messages, and email, then my use of "(:" is backwards. I've even been told to "get your backward butt to smiley school, fool" by a friend on IRC many, many years ago. Is there a definitive direction for smiles? Not that it'll change my mind. There's the standard way of doing it (from left to right, just like, *gasp* the way you write normal words, ya know, the direction in which your eyes go on the line), and the attention-whorish way of doing it "different". Free country, you can open your parenthesis at the end of your sentences if you absolutely must, but stop pretending like you aren't doing it wrong on purpose.
Not that you'll change your mind, but your lame attempt at downplaying the norm while enumerating the many mediums that have this norm hard-coded kinda feels dickish. Thought you should know;-|
It's easy to fake a smile. It's more difficult to fake happiness or amusement shown through the eyes. Some cultures recognise this. Do any culture recognize how easy it is to fake a smily?
a Democrat wrote it, and all the Democrats in both houses of Congress voted for it. As did all the Republicans; I'll neither whitewash nor spin this. How much fun is it to get to choose between fascists with a donkey logo or fascists with an elephant logo? Is it as fun, or less fun than a barrel of monkeys?
unlike in your naive "we could start our own political party" fantasy, in the real world plurality voting causes third parties to siphon votes away from the major party that more closely expresses their views. All my layers of governments are now minority governments. The place has never been run as well: no party has enough power to abuse, they copnstantly have to compromise. Bye bye pork!
Also, when a one-idea party starts to get a significant percentage of the vote, their ideas suddenly start being introduced by elected members of a major party, because they realize that a lot of their voters want it bad enough that they'll vote for someone else until they get what they want.
But I don't blame you for blindly defending your two-party farce, you probably voted for Kodos.
Japanese animes also show a character who's under stress having a huge cross attached right from his forehead, or suddenly disappearing eyeballs and long black dashes coming out of the characters face. Anyone seen that on an actual real human, or it just me. The "forehead cross" is a stylized throbbing vein. I have seen the non-stylized veins pop up on non-stylized humans in real life. Not sure what the other thing you describe is supposed to be, but it's probably a stylized version of something too.
It's a fact? You have a photo of him? Maybe a copy of his birth certificate? How did that get modded insightfull? By his logic mankind did not exist before the 19th century, when photos were invented. That's a "-1 cretin" mod if I ever saw one.
They worship Bill Gates as their prophet. When your company is part of the Microsoft Developers Network, you get to have the Microsoft project management bible, which tells you how to run your agrarian bronze-age village... er, I mean your Inoformation Technology business.
But they brough the infamous inluenza with them to spain, which spread and killed about 20 to 30 million people.
Closer to 50 million, worldwide. I hadn't heard that the source was the USA, though. Last time I read up on the subject, the source was still unknown. Can you point me at your reference indicating that the pandemic started in the USA, please?
Yikes, I think that was from a documentary on PBS a few years back... when they were first digging up victims from the permafrost up in norway or some such nordic climes. The 20-30 number was the conservative estimate... From what I remember, the virus started in Asia (as usual), spread to the US, from the US to Spain with the troops, and then the world.
Ah! Googled "spanish flu origin", first result. They say between 40 and 100 million on there. Lots of details on the spread of the virus. Have fun reading about countless deaths, and in the future, google stuff.
I'm a complete idiot when it comes to car repair, but [...]
Then the solenoid went on my Honda Accord, and I found out you can't buy a solenoid any more. You have to buy the whole "alternator assembly" which includes alternator, solenoid, voltage regulator, and God knows what else -- to the tune of $400. I came THIS CLOSE to ripping the goddamn "alternator assembly" apart and fixing the solenoid myself, except I actually have to work for a living. So frustrating. I'm pretty sure a complete car-repair idiot wouldn't even know how to spell solenoid, let alone tell what it is, that it's broke, where it is, and how to fix it themselves.
Seriously, do you ever see someone driving past in a new Hummer and say to yourself, "Wow, I really admire whoever's driving that beast. I'd like to be his friend!". No, but I was looking at the hotties when he went past, and they looked at him with hungry eyes.
They don't care about the size of the car, of course, they care about the size of the bank account that can afford a brand new, expensive car.
Color me naive, but I fail to understand how this move could pressure anyone. I don't think anyone will be storming the Parlement demanding that Harper meet with Bush to discuss the ban on preview movies. The media cartels have been pressuring the governments of the world to adopt the same insane copyright laws they managed to buy for themselves in the U.S.
This is a propaganda campaign designed to spread their FUD so that the public will support the changes to the law.
Instead of wrinting multi-paragraph rants, just be honest and say simply "I support jingoism". It's more concise, and it expresses your views much more clearly.
You dont pay tax on cuban cigars. Cuban cigars are smuggled in, no cuban items are allowed for sale in the US. Right. What country is mentioned in the title of this article? Starts with a C...
No trailers? We need this 'punishment' where I live. Make children under the age of 18 unable to see movies after 9pm and I'll be at the theater a lot more often. Is the word "trailer" used in this article? Or are they talking about previews: Advanced screenings.
Also, children over the age of 18 are still ok, right? So long as they stay off your lawn, of course.
So perhaps the headline should read "Movie piracy delays Canadian Release by up to a week". That's actually "Canadian releases delayed to pressure government into allowing media cartels to rewrite copyright laws"
Do these desktop application have the microsoft useless celebrity gossip as the main page when you load them? Is it possible to stay logged in and bookmark the inbox? That sounds like a horrible security risk, so, this being Microsoft, I assume that you can, yes;)
a rectangular patch that illuminates under UV light that completely covers the coloured image [...] I have encountered several of these coins and by no means have they suffered from what you describe. They've survived multiple trips through washer and dryer without any visible signs of wear whatsoever, much less spending time in your jeans or wallet throughout the day. Interesting. The pink cancer ones didn't seem to rub as easily, I assumed they perfected the method since, but from what you tell me, I guess my local businesses got a bad batch from the mint. Thanks for the info, I'll see if I can put the next one I find under a UV light.
the new interface, which was designed to look like Microsoft's Outlook e-mail and calendaring desktop application Do these desktop application have the microsoft useless celebrity gossip as the main page when you load them?
I'd LOVE it if I could be taken to my gorram emails when I log in, rather than to their fluff pseudo journalism hackfest until I find and click the 'inbox' button. Gawds, it's annoying enough to be taken there when you log out, but when you log in? Urge to kill... rising.
trying to find a reference to this in any type of local news media and I can't. Nothing so far. Maybe I'm missing it, but it seems like something of this magnitude would garner some attention. The media corporations aren't bringing negative attention to their bought-for legislation? Inconceivable!
P.S. Do you remember much media frenzy about the deregulation that allowed for media ownership concentration?
Girvin also issued a final student/teacher evaluation of Snyder and granted "superior" or "competent" ratings in all areas except "professionalism." He gave Snyder and "unsatisfactory" rating, according to the lawsuit.
Translation: "She was a very good teacher, but she did not RESPECT MAH AUTHORITAY!!! Therefore, she needs to have her life ruined by the small powers I am able to abuse."
The Defence Security Service disavowed its warning about spy coins after an international furor, but until now it has never disclosed the details behind the embarrassing episode. The U.S. said it never substantiated the contractors' claims and performed an internal review to determine how the false information was included in a 29-page published report about espionage concerns.
This is amazingly easy to verify... this is another embarrassing episode. It is very clear: How else are you going to get 29 pages of concern? Double-spaced 16 point fonts only get you so far! Padding the concerns with ominous-sounding bullshit is the only way to get the budget you want. It also works when selling a bogus war to your public, btw.
Of course, the association of poppies with WW1 isn't really a part of American (US) culture. We cleverly avoided that part of that bit of unpleasantness. The US eventually got dragged off the fence and into WW1. 120,000 men killed, 200,000 wounded. But they brough the infamous inluenza with them to spain, which spread and killed about 20 to 30 million people.
C'mon, they were late in the game, but they were noticed!
What I want to know is why it didn't occur to anyone to 1) call Canada and ask them or 2) call a coin collector and ask them or 3) use google, rather than running around like headless chickens. Paranoia makes you suspicious of much more than just novelty commemorative coins, even Canada, coin collectors and the intertubes could all be in on it!
Welcome to the new world order, Bush (Sr., Jr.) and Clinton style.
This has nothing to do with Clinton or either of the Bushes. The USA has been trying to assert it's laws over other countries for a very, very long time. Take any number of attempts by the USA to tell Canadian companies that they can't have business dealings with Cuba I specifically remember Clinton replying to Gore that he was reponsible for that, when challenged in a presidential debate on his record when it comes to forcing the will of the United States onto the rest of the world.
I remember because I had to shut off the TV in disgust, at that point.
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Code of ethics?
Is there a definitive direction for smiles? Not that it'll change my mind. There's the standard way of doing it (from left to right, just like, *gasp* the way you write normal words, ya know, the direction in which your eyes go on the line), and the attention-whorish way of doing it "different". Free country, you can open your parenthesis at the end of your sentences if you absolutely must, but stop pretending like you aren't doing it wrong on purpose.
Not that you'll change your mind, but your lame attempt at downplaying the norm while enumerating the many mediums that have this norm hard-coded kinda feels dickish. Thought you should know
Is it as fun, or less fun than a barrel of monkeys?
The place has never been run as well: no party has enough power to abuse, they copnstantly have to compromise. Bye bye pork!
Also, when a one-idea party starts to get a significant percentage of the vote, their ideas suddenly start being introduced by elected members of a major party, because they realize that a lot of their voters want it bad enough that they'll vote for someone else until they get what they want.
But I don't blame you for blindly defending your two-party farce, you probably voted for Kodos.
I have seen the non-stylized veins pop up on non-stylized humans in real life. Not sure what the other thing you describe is supposed to be, but it's probably a stylized version of something too.
By his logic mankind did not exist before the 19th century, when photos were invented. That's a "-1 cretin" mod if I ever saw one.
They're faithfull are called "businessmen".
They worship Bill Gates as their prophet.
When your company is part of the Microsoft Developers Network, you get to have the Microsoft project management bible, which tells you how to run your agrarian bronze-age village... er, I mean your Inoformation Technology business.
Easy: Make one page for experts, and one page for novices.
Make a disambiguation page, link both articles to each other with a "see also", and everyone's happy.
Closer to 50 million, worldwide. I hadn't heard that the source was the USA, though. Last time I read up on the subject, the source was still unknown. Can you point me at your reference indicating that the pandemic started in the USA, please?
Yikes, I think that was from a documentary on PBS a few years back... when they were first digging up victims from the permafrost up in norway or some such nordic climes.The 20-30 number was the conservative estimate... From what I remember, the virus started in Asia (as usual), spread to the US, from the US to Spain with the troops, and then the world.
Ah! Googled "spanish flu origin", first result. They say between 40 and 100 million on there. Lots of details on the spread of the virus.
Have fun reading about countless deaths, and in the future, google stuff.
Then the solenoid went on my Honda Accord, and I found out you can't buy a solenoid any more. You have to buy the whole "alternator assembly" which includes alternator, solenoid, voltage regulator, and God knows what else -- to the tune of $400. I came THIS CLOSE to ripping the goddamn "alternator assembly" apart and fixing the solenoid myself, except I actually have to work for a living. So frustrating. I'm pretty sure a complete car-repair idiot wouldn't even know how to spell solenoid, let alone tell what it is, that it's broke, where it is, and how to fix it themselves.
They don't care about the size of the car, of course, they care about the size of the bank account that can afford a brand new, expensive car.
This is a propaganda campaign designed to spread their FUD so that the public will support the changes to the law.
Instead of wrinting multi-paragraph rants, just be honest and say simply "I support jingoism".
It's more concise, and it expresses your views much more clearly.
You dont pay tax on cuban cigars. Cuban cigars are smuggled in, no cuban items are allowed for sale in the US. Right. What country is mentioned in the title of this article? Starts with a C... No trailers? We need this 'punishment' where I live. Make children under the age of 18 unable to see movies after 9pm and I'll be at the theater a lot more often. Is the word "trailer" used in this article? Or are they talking about previews: Advanced screenings.
Also, children over the age of 18 are still ok, right? So long as they stay off your lawn, of course.
"Canadian releases delayed to pressure government into allowing media cartels to rewrite copyright laws"
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I have encountered several of these coins and by no means have they suffered from what you describe. They've survived multiple trips through washer and dryer without any visible signs of wear whatsoever, much less spending time in your jeans or wallet throughout the day. Interesting. The pink cancer ones didn't seem to rub as easily, I assumed they perfected the method since, but from what you tell me, I guess my local businesses got a bad batch from the mint.
Thanks for the info, I'll see if I can put the next one I find under a UV light.
I'd LOVE it if I could be taken to my gorram emails when I log in, rather than to their fluff pseudo journalism hackfest until I find and click the 'inbox' button.
Gawds, it's annoying enough to be taken there when you log out, but when you log in? Urge to kill... rising.
Inconceivable!
P.S. Do you remember much media frenzy about the deregulation that allowed for media ownership concentration?
This is amazingly easy to verify... this is another embarrassing episode. It is very clear: How else are you going to get 29 pages of concern?
Double-spaced 16 point fonts only get you so far!
Padding the concerns with ominous-sounding bullshit is the only way to get the budget you want. It also works when selling a bogus war to your public, btw.
C'mon, they were late in the game, but they were noticed!
This has nothing to do with Clinton or either of the Bushes. The USA has been trying to assert it's laws over other countries for a very, very long time. Take any number of attempts by the USA to tell Canadian companies that they can't have business dealings with Cuba I specifically remember Clinton replying to Gore that he was reponsible for that, when challenged in a presidential debate on his record when it comes to forcing the will of the United States onto the rest of the world.
I remember because I had to shut off the TV in disgust, at that point.