If you drive a motorcycle on the sidewalk, then you're a threat to pedestrians
Simple logic for a simple mind.
Yes, I was a big honking threat to all the non existant, invisible hypothetical pedestrians that MIGHT have been there! And of course I never look ahead of my vehicule, so I would have NO WAY AT ALL of knowing if I am about to ram into something or someone. In fact I always wear duct tape over my eyes before I put the key in the ignition. because, as we all know, there are ALLWAYS pedestrians on the Magical Sidewalk Of Safety and never ever a single pedestrian in the street. I know that when I walk to the edge of the sidewalk I am magically teleported to the other side of the street. I also expect a magical force to shield me from all harm so long as I have at least one foot touching the magical sidewalk...that is why it is safe to drive in the street and not on sidewalks: because there are never ever any pedestrians in the street EVER and the sidewalks are allways jammed full of babies and old people.
and another argument for the people who think motorcyclists are all arrogant dumbasses who think they own the road.
Who are these people? I've never met one...are they also invisible people?
I've had a license for nearly 10 years, and I've been driving motorcycles ever since I was 8. I know what I'm doing, and that case what I was doing what getting out of reach of the maniac trying to ram me with a car. but of course since you are an arrogant dumbass who hates motorcycles because you don't have one, you would not understand how getting on the sidewalk can be a safer move than staying next to the hormone crazed looser in controll of a 4 wheeled weapon.
Ya know, if a road raged guy in a big car ever acts in a threatning manner to YOU, please oh PLEASE stay next to him, in fact place your body in between his front bumper and a brick wall and flip him off, he'll get jail time and you'll be dead. Everybody wins.
when you are driving a motorcycle...you should be in line in traffic like a car.
yeah...I should be one more vehicle in the traffic jam, adding to the problem, instead of getting out of there and helping solve the problem. So you failed logic class huh?
Should I turn off the engine and walk my bike in the traffic? I could have, I could have sat down in between 5 foot walks too.
Oh yeah, and I should stay right next to the angry 20yr old in his dad's car who is actually going literally out of his way with his muti-ton car to cut me off, many times over, and who is threatning me with physical violence? that would be SO smart! Oh yeah!
youre the asshole, youre the one whose brains should be splattered.
Say that to my face will ya You have just threatened my life, wich is a crime in most civilised societies. Am I to treat you as a regular human being or as the troll that you are?
people in cars shouldnt need to worry about dumbass cyclists pulling by them in a nonexistant special bike lane.
You mean by going out of their way to cut them off? No, they should not.
You know what just happened to me? I was passing by cars stuck in traffic on my motorcycle, and this one idiot blocked me, 3 times in a row, very deliberatly. I kick his back door and tell him to get out of the way, he asks me what my problem is. I tell him he's in my way, that's my problem, get out of the way. He then kept the high-school bully speech on track and asked me if I want to fight. I tell him no, I want to keep driving, to look ahead and behind and to notice that he's in everyone's way. He keeps asking me if I want to fight.
Long story short I showed him that he cannot stop me from passing him while he's stuck in traffic by taking my bike to the sidewalk and driving off, leaving him stuck in traffic while I move around freely.
This was offtopic, but at least you get urges that you controll, that bully in his dad's car didn't. I'm happy I don't carry a gun, 'cause his brains would be splatered all over the inside of his daddy's car and I would be telling this story to my cellmates instead of posting it here.
kill your television. if you haven't figgured out that programming is just the coating to get you to swallow the ads... well, you're not paying attention then!
No, I'm not paying attention to the ads.
Or, I pay attention to the entertaining ads, and not to the the brand using the ad.
No, I got to Nemesis and got fed up. Running zombies...pfft!
and even if you HAVE played the original RE, you haven't played the REmake for the cube.
I played around with it at my friend's place...
It contains areas that were never in the original
Big whupp
as well as vastly superior graphics and voice acting.
I liked the cheezy acting! It was a freaking B movie you could play in, the bad acting and dialogue went along with the bad story (all zombie movies have a bad story, it is inevitable when the whole point of a movie is to have zombies innit). When RE2 came out, I bought it, and liked it, but never liked the upgraded acting and the trendy 3D computer graphics. I liked the cheeze in the original, I like the bad special effects and the whole cheaply made B-grade feel of it all.
It's like a whole different game. Sorta.
I liked the original better. Sorta (better in-game graphics are cool, but I liked the small-fries operation better than the big budget incarnation).
Another beef though is that they went through the whole trouble of making new levels and fancy graphics, but kept the akward controlls. Jeez, evolve allready.
I don't have a cube, I have a friend who has a cube and who showed me this butt ugly game and claimed it was fun. He also explained that to save a game requires one entire complete memorycard, for 1 game.
You can understand why I nodded politely while not comprehending what the big deal was.
I'm now addicted to Dark Cloud 2 on PS2, in wich you can also fish and plant trees and stuff, but it looks good and it doesn't eat up your entire memory card. Then again, I have to send notes to my friends using messenging programs or email instead of doing it in-game...maybe I'm just not hip to it.
Zelda, Metroid, Smash Brothers, Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Resident Evil, Mario Sunshine...there are tons of fun games for the Cube. They look great, they sound great, and they are fun as hell.
Residet Evil may look great, but I played the hell out of that game when it came out 7 YEARS AGO. Mario Sunshine looks and plays just like the N64 mario, I'm not impressed, but I conceide that it may be fun to play. Animal Crossing looks horrible, I've heard its fun, but I can't understand why. Zelda looks stupid, mebbe its fun. Pikmin rocks. Smash Brothers...I know nothing of smash brothers. Metroid rocks.
Seriously, the only games that look good on the Cube are game I was allready tired of playing years ago, rereleased with updated graphics. Rather lame.
Of course, looking good is secondary to being fun to play (someone should tatoo this on every game company's VPs' foreheads), but the Cube games are either ugly but fun, or pretty but old.
Then again, Monkey Ball is the funnest thing in the world...
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It will also be doubleplusgood to be able to identify thought criminals with technology like this.
The bleeding-hearts freedom of thought advocates can spend a while in room 101 of the ministry of love as they always do.
well, I clicked on one, and my left hand automatically hit command-w and closed the window before the ad even loaded (broadband no less).
Nice to see that my surfing reflexes are still sharp...if a new window opens and resizes itself to take over the entire screen, its gone before I ever got to see the "content".
Yes, IGN started doing this exactly before I stopped going to their site.
Ok, I actually endured the damn things for about a week or 2, until they sent a flash atrocity to noisily get on top of the paragraph I was reading. THEN I stopped going to their site.
I then proceeded to try another gaming site who sent a "between" ad for a stupid dirt bike game WITH DIRT BIKE SOUNDS while I was listening to music quite loudly on my comp. Lemme tell you that I'm never ever going back to that site.
Any site that decides to annoy the hell out of me with their ads looses my eyeballs.
It's a lazy shortcut that relies on a certain perception of what a Nazi is that ends up watering down the whole concept. I don't think the Holocaust should be watered down.
The characters depicted in the comic strip are clearly not the best role models in the world. Now let them make their lil' jokes in peace and stop being the thought police officer in charge of nazi-related humour and merriment.
They are not "watering down" anything, they are insulting a power greater than themselves by equating it to a former, well recognised, great power of evil. You, of course, have a right not to like it, and I have a right to think you're a wang-less loser for reading so much into this silly comic strip.
I used to have some compassion for telemarketers; I'd listen to their shpeil for a couple seconds and politely decline. These days, I have no compassion, and either tell them to piss off or just hang up on them.
Me too, I'm now affraid that my hanging-up reflex is getting a bit too sharp, I might miss a real call one of these days.
But I rarely go to the trouble of being meaner than simply hanging up. Although this one guy got the bulk of my rage when he called as I was reading about my fave TV show being cancelled. I totally blew up at him, and didn't get any more telemarketing calls for about 2 months! (They were calling every other day back then)
I think it should be legal to dismember owners of telemarketing companies (and spammers). I should contact my elected official on that...
I don't know who's more clueless, the poster or the moderators.
My guess is that its you...
I swear the quickest way to spot a conspiracy theorist moron on slashdot is to look for a post saying essentially that 'no it wasn't unfeasible schemes due to the laws of physics, it was the power companies and the MAN who kept him down!!' or some such.
Yawn. The guy was experimenting with his own money and no one would fund his research. Not because he was a crackpot (you don't get a unit named after you when you're nothing more than a crackpot), but because there was no more money to be made with his plan than with the existing system.
So, in your "special" world view, there are no rich people protecting the status quo I gather? There is no such thing as big companies using monopolistic anti-trust tactics to protect their mind-boggingly large incomes? You must be right; Only a "moron" can believe that people would be willing to refrain from financing research that would undermine their revenue...
You would have to generate unbelieveably intense EM fields at the transmission station just to light a light bulb a mile away!
That was the plan.
By the way your other non-sequitor comment about the "Tunduska" (sic. Tunguska) event belies your ignorance as well, everyone knows by now that it almost certainly was either a comet or asteroid.
Bwahahaha, ah man, what a funny troll! : )
Yeah, everyone knows it was "almost certainly" a comet...or maybe an asteroid. What an incredible certainty! Truely you are the one and only holder of the One And Only Truth! I especially like how you assume that I've never heard of the asteroid/comet hypothesis.
Of course, the fact that it was maybe a joke never crossed your little mind...you were too busy concentrating on your task of propagating the "everyone knows" gospel.
Tesla was pushing "broadcast power". It was doomed to failure because of the problems inherent in charging the atmosphere.
Nope, it was doomed to failure because of the unwillingness of the power companies to allow a technology to exist that would deliver electricity without going through a little meter that makes them money.
Some say that the tunduska incident had something to do with it...but I say pish-tosh to that! Pish tosh indeed!
Well, Green Lantern's flaw is the colour yellow, wich means fear in cowboy slang...so ok, I kinda see what you mean.
Of course, his real weakness is that his superhero weakness is the stupid colour yellow...man were they out of ideas that week! The damn colour yellow...
In the trailer, Banner claims that he likes becoming the Hulk
Nope, he doesn't like becoming the hulk, he's fighting it. He likes it once he's gone past the point of no return, when the hulk totally supresses his own thoughts and replaces them with pure animal rage. And he doesn't like the fact that he likes it.
Why try to find a cure for his Hulk-ness when he likes the destruction he causes?
Because, if you pay attention you'll see that he doesn't like the destruction. Dunno what you were watching, but it wasn't that trailer.
Hollywood has never gotten a comic book movie right since Superman
lol! Yeah, right, because flying around the earth to go back in time was "getting it right"! Wheee, same thing for the comic-relief Luthor huh?
Batman was getting it right (the first one). Spiderman was giving the horny teens what they wanted, wich commercially is getting it right but not in spirit. XMen got it right. Daredevil...hell, I like that better than Spiderman (at least the wet t-shirt moment wasn't so damned forced and pointless).
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If you drive a motorcycle on the sidewalk, then you're a threat to pedestrians
Simple logic for a simple mind.
Yes, I was a big honking threat to all the non existant, invisible hypothetical pedestrians that MIGHT have been there! And of course I never look ahead of my vehicule, so I would have NO WAY AT ALL of knowing if I am about to ram into something or someone. In fact I always wear duct tape over my eyes before I put the key in the ignition. because, as we all know, there are ALLWAYS pedestrians on the Magical Sidewalk Of Safety and never ever a single pedestrian in the street. I know that when I walk to the edge of the sidewalk I am magically teleported to the other side of the street. I also expect a magical force to shield me from all harm so long as I have at least one foot touching the magical sidewalk...that is why it is safe to drive in the street and not on sidewalks: because there are never ever any pedestrians in the street EVER and the sidewalks are allways jammed full of babies and old people.
and another argument for the people who think motorcyclists are all arrogant dumbasses who think they own the road.
Who are these people? I've never met one...are they also invisible people?
I've had a license for nearly 10 years, and I've been driving motorcycles ever since I was 8. I know what I'm doing, and that case what I was doing what getting out of reach of the maniac trying to ram me with a car. but of course since you are an arrogant dumbass who hates motorcycles because you don't have one, you would not understand how getting on the sidewalk can be a safer move than staying next to the hormone crazed looser in controll of a 4 wheeled weapon.
Ya know, if a road raged guy in a big car ever acts in a threatning manner to YOU, please oh PLEASE stay next to him, in fact place your body in between his front bumper and a brick wall and flip him off, he'll get jail time and you'll be dead. Everybody wins.
There's this car...that runs on water! It runs on water man!
umm youre an idiot..
No, I'm really smart.
when you are driving a motorcycle...you should be in line in traffic like a car.
yeah...I should be one more vehicle in the traffic jam, adding to the problem, instead of getting out of there and helping solve the problem. So you failed logic class huh?
Should I turn off the engine and walk my bike in the traffic? I could have, I could have sat down in between 5 foot walks too.
Oh yeah, and I should stay right next to the angry 20yr old in his dad's car who is actually going literally out of his way with his muti-ton car to cut me off, many times over, and who is threatning me with physical violence? that would be SO smart! Oh yeah!
youre the asshole, youre the one whose brains should be splattered.
Say that to my face will ya
You have just threatened my life, wich is a crime in most civilised societies. Am I to treat you as a regular human being or as the troll that you are?
people in cars shouldnt need to worry about dumbass cyclists pulling by them in a nonexistant special bike lane.
You mean by going out of their way to cut them off? No, they should not.
and yes, i ride as well
Go back to your moped...
You know what just happened to me? I was passing by cars stuck in traffic on my motorcycle, and this one idiot blocked me, 3 times in a row, very deliberatly.
I kick his back door and tell him to get out of the way, he asks me what my problem is. I tell him he's in my way, that's my problem, get out of the way. He then kept the high-school bully speech on track and asked me if I want to fight. I tell him no, I want to keep driving, to look ahead and behind and to notice that he's in everyone's way. He keeps asking me if I want to fight.
Long story short I showed him that he cannot stop me from passing him while he's stuck in traffic by taking my bike to the sidewalk and driving off, leaving him stuck in traffic while I move around freely.
This was offtopic, but at least you get urges that you controll, that bully in his dad's car didn't.
I'm happy I don't carry a gun, 'cause his brains would be splatered all over the inside of his daddy's car and I would be telling this story to my cellmates instead of posting it here.
Ever played Devil May Cry? : )
kill your television. if you haven't figgured out that programming is just the coating to get you to swallow the ads... well, you're not paying attention then!
No, I'm not paying attention to the ads.
Or, I pay attention to the entertaining ads, and not to the the brand using the ad.
Its my system.
You haven't played Resident Evil 0
/rant about old face-lifted games
No, I got to Nemesis and got fed up.
Running zombies...pfft!
and even if you HAVE played the original RE, you haven't played the REmake for the cube.
I played around with it at my friend's place...
It contains areas that were never in the original
Big whupp
as well as vastly superior graphics and voice acting.
I liked the cheezy acting! It was a freaking B movie you could play in, the bad acting and dialogue went along with the bad story (all zombie movies have a bad story, it is inevitable when the whole point of a movie is to have zombies innit). When RE2 came out, I bought it, and liked it, but never liked the upgraded acting and the trendy 3D computer graphics. I liked the cheeze in the original, I like the bad special effects and the whole cheaply made B-grade feel of it all.
It's like a whole different game. Sorta.
I liked the original better. Sorta (better in-game graphics are cool, but I liked the small-fries operation better than the big budget incarnation).
Another beef though is that they went through the whole trouble of making new levels and fancy graphics, but kept the akward controlls. Jeez, evolve allready.
I don't have a cube, I have a friend who has a cube and who showed me this butt ugly game and claimed it was fun. He also explained that to save a game requires one entire complete memorycard, for 1 game.
You can understand why I nodded politely while not comprehending what the big deal was.
I'm now addicted to Dark Cloud 2 on PS2, in wich you can also fish and plant trees and stuff, but it looks good and it doesn't eat up your entire memory card. Then again, I have to send notes to my friends using messenging programs or email instead of doing it in-game...maybe I'm just not hip to it.
Zelda, Metroid, Smash Brothers, Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Resident Evil, Mario Sunshine...there are tons of fun games for the Cube. They look great, they sound great, and they are fun as hell.
Residet Evil may look great, but I played the hell out of that game when it came out 7 YEARS AGO.
Mario Sunshine looks and plays just like the N64 mario, I'm not impressed, but I conceide that it may be fun to play.
Animal Crossing looks horrible, I've heard its fun, but I can't understand why.
Zelda looks stupid, mebbe its fun.
Pikmin rocks.
Smash Brothers...I know nothing of smash brothers.
Metroid rocks.
Seriously, the only games that look good on the Cube are game I was allready tired of playing years ago, rereleased with updated graphics. Rather lame.
Of course, looking good is secondary to being fun to play (someone should tatoo this on every game company's VPs' foreheads), but the Cube games are either ugly but fun, or pretty but old.
Then again, Monkey Ball is the funnest thing in the world...
It will also be doubleplusgood to be able to identify thought criminals with technology like this.
The bleeding-hearts freedom of thought advocates can spend a while in room 101 of the ministry of love as they always do.
I grok. waiting is.
I saw my first Zim a few weeks ago...I've since d/l the entire first season, and can find no more zim.
I know they did more (not a lot more, but more), and I must see it all!
Alas, the owners of the copyright don't want my money : (
Apparently my zip code is too long for their banner thingy...
well, I clicked on one, and my left hand automatically hit command-w and closed the window before the ad even loaded (broadband no less).
Nice to see that my surfing reflexes are still sharp...if a new window opens and resizes itself to take over the entire screen, its gone before I ever got to see the "content".
Yes, IGN started doing this exactly before I stopped going to their site.
Ok, I actually endured the damn things for about a week or 2, until they sent a flash atrocity to noisily get on top of the paragraph I was reading. THEN I stopped going to their site.
I then proceeded to try another gaming site who sent a "between" ad for a stupid dirt bike game WITH DIRT BIKE SOUNDS while I was listening to music quite loudly on my comp. Lemme tell you that I'm never ever going back to that site.
Any site that decides to annoy the hell out of me with their ads looses my eyeballs.
I appreciate that you think I'm wanger-less
That's "wang".
You're thinking of weiner.
It's a lazy shortcut that relies on a certain perception of what a Nazi is that ends up watering down the whole concept. I don't think the Holocaust should be watered down.
The characters depicted in the comic strip are clearly not the best role models in the world. Now let them make their lil' jokes in peace and stop being the thought police officer in charge of nazi-related humour and merriment.
They are not "watering down" anything, they are insulting a power greater than themselves by equating it to a former, well recognised, great power of evil. You, of course, have a right not to like it, and I have a right to think you're a wang-less loser for reading so much into this silly comic strip.
Watering down the holocaust...jeebus!
I used to have some compassion for telemarketers; I'd listen to their shpeil for a couple seconds and politely decline. These days, I have no compassion, and either tell them to piss off or just hang up on them.
Me too, I'm now affraid that my hanging-up reflex is getting a bit too sharp, I might miss a real call one of these days.
But I rarely go to the trouble of being meaner than simply hanging up. Although this one guy got the bulk of my rage when he called as I was reading about my fave TV show being cancelled. I totally blew up at him, and didn't get any more telemarketing calls for about 2 months! (They were calling every other day back then)
I think it should be legal to dismember owners of telemarketing companies (and spammers). I should contact my elected official on that...
I guess living in Ukraine for a couple years I favor Ukraine.
The Ukraine is WEAK!
-Kramer
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I don't know who's more clueless, the poster or the moderators.
My guess is that its you...
I swear the quickest way to spot a conspiracy theorist moron on slashdot is to look for a post saying essentially that 'no it wasn't unfeasible schemes due to the laws of physics, it was the power companies and the MAN who kept him down!!' or some such.
Yawn.
The guy was experimenting with his own money and no one would fund his research. Not because he was a crackpot (you don't get a unit named after you when you're nothing more than a crackpot), but because there was no more money to be made with his plan than with the existing system.
So, in your "special" world view, there are no rich people protecting the status quo I gather? There is no such thing as big companies using monopolistic anti-trust tactics to protect their mind-boggingly large incomes? You must be right; Only a "moron" can believe that people would be willing to refrain from financing research that would undermine their revenue...
You would have to generate unbelieveably intense EM fields at the transmission station just to light a light bulb a mile away!
That was the plan.
By the way your other non-sequitor comment about the "Tunduska" (sic. Tunguska) event belies your ignorance as well, everyone knows by now that it almost certainly was either a comet or asteroid.
Bwahahaha, ah man, what a funny troll! : )
Yeah, everyone knows it was "almost certainly" a comet...or maybe an asteroid. What an incredible certainty! Truely you are the one and only holder of the One And Only Truth!
I especially like how you assume that I've never heard of the asteroid/comet hypothesis.
Of course, the fact that it was maybe a joke never crossed your little mind...you were too busy concentrating on your task of propagating the "everyone knows" gospel.
Tesla was pushing "broadcast power". It was doomed to failure because of the problems inherent in charging the atmosphere.
Nope, it was doomed to failure because of the unwillingness of the power companies to allow a technology to exist that would deliver electricity without going through a little meter that makes them money.
Some say that the tunduska incident had something to do with it...but I say pish-tosh to that! Pish tosh indeed!
There aren't going to be any explosives at all on these missions (if approved). They use the PENETRATION technology
And what do you think makes the technology penetrate exactly?
That's right: explosives.
Green Lantern (and Dare Devil) = Fear.
Well, Green Lantern's flaw is the colour yellow, wich means fear in cowboy slang...so ok, I kinda see what you mean.
Of course, his real weakness is that his superhero weakness is the stupid colour yellow...man were they out of ideas that week! The damn colour yellow...
And maybe we'll get a "Panzy the Panther" mascott!
In the trailer, Banner claims that he likes becoming the Hulk
Nope, he doesn't like becoming the hulk, he's fighting it. He likes it once he's gone past the point of no return, when the hulk totally supresses his own thoughts and replaces them with pure animal rage. And he doesn't like the fact that he likes it.
Why try to find a cure for his Hulk-ness when he likes the destruction he causes?
Because, if you pay attention you'll see that he doesn't like the destruction. Dunno what you were watching, but it wasn't that trailer.
Hollywood has never gotten a comic book movie right since Superman
lol!
Yeah, right, because flying around the earth to go back in time was "getting it right"! Wheee, same thing for the comic-relief Luthor huh?
Batman was getting it right (the first one).
Spiderman was giving the horny teens what they wanted, wich commercially is getting it right but not in spirit.
XMen got it right.
Daredevil...hell, I like that better than Spiderman (at least the wet t-shirt moment wasn't so damned forced and pointless).