kind of on the same subject, but i read that for the Sopranos, the cast reshot some scenes in each episode for when it's syndicated and shipped off to network tv. they changed the words they used, cut the nudity, and toned down the violence, but it's all the original actors. thought that was kinda cool, and i'd almost be willing to watch it just to see how different they made it..
interesting point i think. so if i leave my car unlocked and someone steals it and eggs someone else's house, am i liable for the damage done because i didn't lock my car? what about if i leave the keys in the car and the engine running?
what if they steal the car specifically to run into a person?
i'm all for turning off open relays, but i dunno..
i think though that most online sellers would recognize that if they start having too many problems because of the encrypted "CD's", they'd start letting consumers know from their website that they may not be compatible with all CD players. otherwise, they'd be the ones to lose money, not the record companies.
sorry, i meant that if the gov't would make something like that web based, it would be easy to file online. luckily, i'm in a state that doesn't have income taxes, so the fed taxes are the only ones i worry about..
i just got married and found myself not filing with the 1040ez this year for the first time. my wife printed out the.pdf files for 1040 and we did it pretty quickly. we don't take anything but the standard deductions though. the turbo-tax program wasn't that bad, if they had something like that web based, it would be pretty easy to file online.
from alt.tom-clancy i know that they've pretty much completely rewritten the story line for SOAF. the terrorists are european instead of middle eastern, and i think they've set it earlier in the timeline so jack ryan can be younger...i think it sucks.
i went to rent a uhaul last week and they had a sign up saying they now require thumbprints from anyone renting a truck. guess i looked decent enough though, they didn't ask me for mine, although they now say that if you don't buy their insurance you have to give them $1000 deposit and they have to call your insurance company to make sure they'll cover you in an accident with their truck.
not necesarrily. different people in different fields know different things. i may not know what the different certs are for auto mechanics, but the auto mechanics would be hard pressed to list any computer-field certs too.
my sister saw harry potter and with it a trailer for LOTR. she came home and asked if i had the books, and i cheerfully lent her my copies to read. she devoured fellowship in a week or so and i think she's planning on TTT when her finals are done this week.
Whoops! Did I just call your girlfriend a "tree-hugging-commie-liberal-pussy"?;-) Sorry about that.
as long as you don't call my wife that, it's ok:> (and yes, i realize i said girlfriend earlier, and my wife will probably ask me tonight which one she is.)
actually, now that i think about it, last time i was there, the majority of people who looked like they actually cared what they were eating and weren't in it just to be fashionable looked like they walked there i think or took the bus...that would explain the majority of cars being gas-guzzlers..
Though the tree-hugging-commie-liberal-pussies do tend to drive more sensible cars
i don't know, anytime my girlfriend drags me to the "natural foods" store there's always a large amount of suv's and other gas guzzlers in the parking lot. *shrug* maybe it's just the yuppiefied version of a real store.
+ Without cheat codes, I would !NEVER! have finished Doom2. I'm not even sure it's possible to finish it without cheating...
my dad got so obsessed with doom/doom2...
he was so good with it that when i played deathmatch with him we had a standing rule against him using rocket launchers..
when he got bored with the game (and when he finished it), he went back and won the game by only using the pistol. (his trick was to enlarge the screen enough not to see his health, that way he never new how close he was to dying and always looked for health. i think he may have also played just with his fists, though i don't know how far he got doing that.
eventually it got to the point where he was forced to use the slowed computer and he'd STILL kick my butt...
no, don't like crowds. don't like not getting an excellent seat. don't like kids in the front row talking about the cool part coming up next when i haven't seen the movie yet. don't like having everyone standing up in front of me to leave when the best part (the credits) are scrolling by.
don't most movies have matinee prices still? the ones i go to do. anything before 5pm is $2-3 off the regular price. granted, it's still $4-5, but it's better than the usual.
best time to see movies is:
late on a weeknight, everyone else has to work the next morning, so they're in bed when the 9/10pm show starts.
early on saturday in a suburban megaplex, all the soccer moms are out with their kids at the games, so no one's there. some theaters don't open till 11am or so, but the theaters are usually empty till the 3-4pm showing
early on sunday in a suburban megaplex, all the families are at church till noon or so, and then there's the obligatory church lunch, so they won't be able to go to the movies till 3-4pm anyway.
i've got a bunch of hotmail addresses i keep to use when i sign up for stuff. some of them haven't been given out yet though, and they still get 10-30 emails a day, all of which are spam.
yeah, i was upset when i found out that car companies earn points each year for whatever gas mileage their vehicles get, and they can use those points for a year when they produce cars whose mileage sucks..i mean what's the point of having standards about a cars mileage when they can just ignore it half the time anyway?
personally, i've always had a problem using my laptops in anything but indoor lighting. even leaving my office window shade open at the wrong angle will produce an unreadable screen. as much as i love the idea of sitting outside on a nice summer day and surfing the net, i'd much rather sit outside on a nice summer day enjoying a good book or just talking with my wife. like most people have said, vacations are for relaxing. if you can't break away for more than a day of not having to check email, you shouldn't be taking a vacation (imho).
there was a 20/20 (or primetime live, i forget which) show where they looked at the people who bought/sold these diplomas. the guy who sold them was rolling in money, i forget why people bought them though. i guess depending on the price, it might be a good novelty gift for someone.
if you're in a nice enough neighborhood, get to know your neighbors. that's what my parents did, they knew a lot of the people in the surrounding houses. we all talked to each other, and so we all knew when someone was out on vacation, or who of us worked nights instead of days. that way we knew that if there were lights on or a strange car in someones driveway, we knew something might not be right, and we'd watch a little more, looking to see what was going on.
or, start a neighborhood watch, volunteer to go cruising around your neighborhood looking for suspicious activity. the families in my sisters neighborhood all know each other too, and when her husband left the garage door open one night, a neighbor knocked on their door at 1am to make sure everything was ok.
even in the apartments i live in, which isn't in the nicest neighborhood, i make it a point to talk to my downstairs neighbor occasionally. sure, it's not perfect, but just the other day they told me that a couple of kids had been trying to break into my car (good luck, everyone in the complex knows that it takes at least 15 minutes to start on a good day). he scared them off and then came to my apartment to tell me. i'd do the same thing.
burgler #1: hmm, we need some fast cash, which house should we rob?
burgler #2: well, we could rob the house down the street from us, in the high-crime, high police patrol area, even though we know the people in the house probably have nothing worth carting away..
burgler #1: or we could go to the nice neighborhood where the husband/wife both work two jobs probably and aren't home during the day, and because they both work, they'll have all sorts of goodies.
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kind of on the same subject, but i read that for the Sopranos, the cast reshot some scenes in each episode for when it's syndicated and shipped off to network tv. they changed the words they used, cut the nudity, and toned down the violence, but it's all the original actors. thought that was kinda cool, and i'd almost be willing to watch it just to see how different they made it..
interesting point i think. so if i leave my car unlocked and someone steals it and eggs someone else's house, am i liable for the damage done because i didn't lock my car? what about if i leave the keys in the car and the engine running?
what if they steal the car specifically to run into a person?
i'm all for turning off open relays, but i dunno..
i think though that most online sellers would recognize that if they start having too many problems because of the encrypted "CD's", they'd start letting consumers know from their website that they may not be compatible with all CD players. otherwise, they'd be the ones to lose money, not the record companies.
sorry, i meant that if the gov't would make something like that web based, it would be easy to file online. luckily, i'm in a state that doesn't have income taxes, so the fed taxes are the only ones i worry about..
i just got married and found myself not filing with the 1040ez this year for the first time. my wife printed out the .pdf files for 1040 and we did it pretty quickly. we don't take anything but the standard deductions though. the turbo-tax program wasn't that bad, if they had something like that web based, it would be pretty easy to file online.
from alt.tom-clancy i know that they've pretty much completely rewritten the story line for SOAF. the terrorists are european instead of middle eastern, and i think they've set it earlier in the timeline so jack ryan can be younger...i think it sucks.
i went to rent a uhaul last week and they had a sign up saying they now require thumbprints from anyone renting a truck. guess i looked decent enough though, they didn't ask me for mine, although they now say that if you don't buy their insurance you have to give them $1000 deposit and they have to call your insurance company to make sure they'll cover you in an accident with their truck.
yeah, all the laptops i have now have dead batteries. the batteries just look at me and laugh when i try and use them instead of a power supply..
not necesarrily. different people in different fields know different things. i may not know what the different certs are for auto mechanics, but the auto mechanics would be hard pressed to list any computer-field certs too.
my sister saw harry potter and with it a trailer for LOTR. she came home and asked if i had the books, and i cheerfully lent her my copies to read. she devoured fellowship in a week or so and i think she's planning on TTT when her finals are done this week.
Whoops! Did I just call your girlfriend a "tree-hugging-commie-liberal-pussy"? ;-) Sorry about that.
:> (and yes, i realize i said girlfriend earlier, and my wife will probably ask me tonight which one she is.)
as long as you don't call my wife that, it's ok
actually, now that i think about it, last time i was there, the majority of people who looked like they actually cared what they were eating and weren't in it just to be fashionable looked like they walked there i think or took the bus...that would explain the majority of cars being gas-guzzlers..
Though the tree-hugging-commie-liberal-pussies do tend to drive more sensible cars
i don't know, anytime my girlfriend drags me to the "natural foods" store there's always a large amount of suv's and other gas guzzlers in the parking lot. *shrug* maybe it's just the yuppiefied version of a real store.
my dad got so obsessed with doom/doom2...
he was so good with it that when i played deathmatch with him we had a standing rule against him using rocket launchers..
when he got bored with the game (and when he finished it), he went back and won the game by only using the pistol. (his trick was to enlarge the screen enough not to see his health, that way he never new how close he was to dying and always looked for health. i think he may have also played just with his fists, though i don't know how far he got doing that.
eventually it got to the point where he was forced to use the slowed computer and he'd STILL kick my butt...
no, don't like crowds. don't like not getting an excellent seat. don't like kids in the front row talking about the cool part coming up next when i haven't seen the movie yet. don't like having everyone standing up in front of me to leave when the best part (the credits) are scrolling by.
:>
The opening scene has was of the female leads masturbating with a vibrator watching She's All That on scrambled cable.
i dunno, when i was thirteen i know that's what would have interested me in a movie..
best time to see movies is:
late on a weeknight, everyone else has to work the next morning, so they're in bed when the 9/10pm show starts.
early on saturday in a suburban megaplex, all the soccer moms are out with their kids at the games, so no one's there. some theaters don't open till 11am or so, but the theaters are usually empty till the 3-4pm showing
early on sunday in a suburban megaplex, all the families are at church till noon or so, and then there's the obligatory church lunch, so they won't be able to go to the movies till 3-4pm anyway.
i've got a bunch of hotmail addresses i keep to use when i sign up for stuff. some of them haven't been given out yet though, and they still get 10-30 emails a day, all of which are spam.
unless the key to the safe deposit box is on his regular keychain and he loses that...
:>
yeah, i was upset when i found out that car companies earn points each year for whatever gas mileage their vehicles get, and they can use those points for a year when they produce cars whose mileage sucks..i mean what's the point of having standards about a cars mileage when they can just ignore it half the time anyway?
personally, i've always had a problem using my laptops in anything but indoor lighting. even leaving my office window shade open at the wrong angle will produce an unreadable screen. as much as i love the idea of sitting outside on a nice summer day and surfing the net, i'd much rather sit outside on a nice summer day enjoying a good book or just talking with my wife. like most people have said, vacations are for relaxing. if you can't break away for more than a day of not having to check email, you shouldn't be taking a vacation (imho).
don't you mean his cone of silence?
(how many other people think he resembles maxwell smart a little?)
there was a 20/20 (or primetime live, i forget which) show where they looked at the people who bought/sold these diplomas. the guy who sold them was rolling in money, i forget why people bought them though. i guess depending on the price, it might be a good novelty gift for someone.
if you're in a nice enough neighborhood, get to know your neighbors. that's what my parents did, they knew a lot of the people in the surrounding houses. we all talked to each other, and so we all knew when someone was out on vacation, or who of us worked nights instead of days. that way we knew that if there were lights on or a strange car in someones driveway, we knew something might not be right, and we'd watch a little more, looking to see what was going on.
or, start a neighborhood watch, volunteer to go cruising around your neighborhood looking for suspicious activity. the families in my sisters neighborhood all know each other too, and when her husband left the garage door open one night, a neighbor knocked on their door at 1am to make sure everything was ok.
even in the apartments i live in, which isn't in the nicest neighborhood, i make it a point to talk to my downstairs neighbor occasionally. sure, it's not perfect, but just the other day they told me that a couple of kids had been trying to break into my car (good luck, everyone in the complex knows that it takes at least 15 minutes to start on a good day). he scared them off and then came to my apartment to tell me. i'd do the same thing.
burgler #1: hmm, we need some fast cash, which house should we rob?
burgler #2: well, we could rob the house down the street from us, in the high-crime, high police patrol area, even though we know the people in the house probably have nothing worth carting away..
burgler #1: or we could go to the nice neighborhood where the husband/wife both work two jobs probably and aren't home during the day, and because they both work, they'll have all sorts of goodies.
burgler #2: maybe we'll get an X-Box...
or if you have a dos/windows boot disk with fdisk:
/mbr
/mbr (doh!)
fdisk
reboot with the linux install disk, and you should be set. i had the same problem till i remembered it wasn't format