In a press conference Wednesday, Radio Shack introduced the ZipZap line of miniature RC cars. Each is based upon real-life roadster, and can be tricked out with body kits and other accessories. Customers also have the option of upgrading and tweaking the gear ratios to give their car an extra boost.
So you can fit out your Porsche 911 RC with a spoiler, super charger, nitros, chrome alloy mag wheels, cool purple fog downlights, tinted windows, a "SPEEED DEEEMON" windscreen decal, and tiny little "extra large" beverage holders and it will still be defeated by a carpet with only a moderate shag-pile rating.
Rumour/IMDB-Trivia has it that Leelee Sobieski collects locks of hair from major stars appearing with her in films.
So if anybody wanted to buy themselves a prime bevy of Hollywood DNA to make gene maps from (for whatever nefarious cloney-type purposes) she'd be the person to see.:)
...if it affords them enough money to purchase keyboards with and keys.
I mean, for we who are so fortunate as to be blessed with the choice between lower and uppercase letters to sit back and point the finger......Well it's just hypocritical to think we would not be driven to such means in the same circumstances.
For shame people, for shame.
CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE TO MIKE ABA: I WILL BE FORWARDING YOU MY ACCOUNT DETAILS POST HASTE. YOUR DAYS OF FORCED SERVITUDE TO THE UPPERCASE WILL SOON END MY DEAR FRIEND. HOW IS YOUR FINE FAMILY DOING? PLEASE IGNORE THE NEGATIVE VOICES OF THESE SLASHDOTTERS. THEY ARE NOT GOOD CHURCH GOING FOLK LIKE US. BLESSED BE, MIKE. NATHDOT
Does as scoring a perfect mission in flight sim stealth bomber automatically qualify you for the USAF? More to point, a high DDR score does not mean you are ready for the dance floor of your local club.
If it were anywhere near a close approximation to life it would at the very least tell you just what the fuck to do with your arms!
These new weapons just keep sounding scarier and scarier.
I'm not saying let's eliminate war altogether in favor of peace (that's just not realistic) but what about doing something like this:
Have a global convention (we'll see if Geneva is booked) where we 're-initalize warfare'. Something like "So do we all agree that from now on we'll only use bow-and-arrows?. Is that okay with everyone?"
I think we all know what made the original SimCity so great:
*The ability to get more money by holding down SHIFT and typing F-U-N-D-S.
If Maxis simply returns to its roots by including this in SimCity 4 they'll have a sure-fire hit on their hands!
:)
PS. You have to remember not to do it to many times in a row though... otherwise you cause a 'Natural Disaster'... Ooooh WATCH OUT!!! It's a GIANT LIZARD!!!
Make NETWORK SERVICE part of .NET strategy!
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INT. IVORY TOWER - NIGHT
ADVERTISING GUY (V.O.)
When you're sitting alone in your ivory tower
and you suddenly desire to jack up the price to
the subscription-based online service for the
the console you manufacture what do you do?
Montage of disappointed faces of XBOX users as their subscription price jumps up on their television screens
ADVERTISING GUY (V.O. Cont.)
Now with Microsoft's new ".NET" business
solution you can jack up those prices with the
push of a button.
So I was wrong to laugh my ass off when hollywood spy types glued false "finger prints" to their digits... I have the good grace to admit that!
But what about retinal scanners?
If Arnie is locked out of a secret military compound trying saving the "presidents"/"a friend's"/"his own" "daughter"/"wife"/"pet cockerspaniel" and he comes up against a retinal scanner...
Well then he's still gonna have to handle that the good ol' fashion way...
By ripping out the "Drug Lord's"/"Mafia Boss's"/"Buddy gone bad's" eye ball!
It's comforting to know that some things will never change.
So the anonymous coward "goatse" posts should this be modded: +5 informative, considering they're objectionable links for cingular customers to follow?
Let's see - if the history of the internet serves as an apt model - 120TB drives probably won't meet consumer demands for long.
First harddrives will start to fill up with fully-imersive holo-pr0n, followed quickly, due to adaptive marketing trends by fully-imersive unsolicitted holo-spam.
There... that solves that ol' capacity problem quite nicely then.
* Every comic book drawn by a man that has a female character(s)
If you've ever read Jim Balent's 'Catwoman'... I mean come on... How the fuck am I meant to believe she shimmies up buildings with the slightest of ease. I have trouble believing she walks upright without a back brace.
*to sing along to a famous/popular song, and in the process test your voice amongst a jury of your peers (most likely trashed of their nuts and laughing their asses off)
Introducing this technology to karaoke has no point.
<TELEPHONE CORRESPONDANCE> SHADY GOVERNMENT OPERATIVE: So how much will this 1024 decryption system cost? PIMPLY TEEN HACKER: $1B US dollars to be deposited into my secure off-shore bank account and safe passage to the Maldives. SHADY GOVERNMENT OPERATIVE: Excellent. The money is being transferred as we speak. Begin work. </TELEPHONE CORRESPONDANCE>
<PIMPLY TEEN HACKER INTERNAL MONOLOGUE> Sweet! I've just charged the US government 1 billion dollars for a beowulf cluster of dreamcasts running home-brew linux. </PIMPLY TEEN HACKER INTERNAL MONOLOGUE>
<SHADY GOVERNMENT OPERATIVE INTERNAL MONOLOGUE> Sweet! We will retrieve the 1 billion dollars once we crack the secure off-shore bank account's 1024 bit encryption system </SHADY GOVERNMENT OPERATIVE INTERNAL MONOLOGUE>
Traditionally 'Alan Smithee' is the moniker taken on by a movie director when he is so ashamed of his work that he will not be associated with it by name.
So it's a little worrying to see who they reference (via graphic) as the iPod project manager on the story link.
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In a press conference Wednesday, Radio Shack introduced the ZipZap line of miniature RC cars. Each is based upon real-life roadster, and can be tricked out with body kits and other accessories. Customers also have the option of upgrading and tweaking the gear ratios to give their car an extra boost.
:)
So you can fit out your Porsche 911 RC with a spoiler, super charger, nitros, chrome alloy mag wheels, cool purple fog downlights, tinted windows, a "SPEEED DEEEMON" windscreen decal, and tiny little "extra large" beverage holders and it will still be defeated by a carpet with only a moderate shag-pile rating.
Pffft!
Rumour/IMDB-Trivia has it that Leelee Sobieski collects locks of hair from major stars appearing with her in films.
:)
So if anybody wanted to buy themselves a prime bevy of Hollywood DNA to make gene maps from (for whatever nefarious cloney-type purposes) she'd be the person to see.
PS. A clone army of Leelees would be nice too
...if it affords them enough money to purchase keyboards with and keys.
...Well it's just hypocritical to think we would not be driven to such means in the same circumstances.
I mean, for we who are so fortunate as to be blessed with the choice between lower and uppercase letters to sit back and point the finger...
For shame people, for shame.
CONFIDENTIAL MESSAGE TO MIKE ABA:
I WILL BE FORWARDING YOU MY ACCOUNT DETAILS POST HASTE. YOUR DAYS OF FORCED SERVITUDE TO THE UPPERCASE WILL SOON END MY DEAR FRIEND. HOW IS YOUR FINE FAMILY DOING? PLEASE IGNORE THE NEGATIVE VOICES OF THESE SLASHDOTTERS. THEY ARE NOT GOOD CHURCH GOING FOLK LIKE US. BLESSED BE, MIKE. NATHDOT
The following links are a necessity when a lego story is posted on /.
:)
brick testament
lego pr0n
I just tried typing "China" at google.com and I got 24,300,000 results.
:)
Whoever said that china disappearred from google was a complete fucking liar.
Seriously!
Have you watched one of these people -- "these people" being a general veiled term of derision for all DDR enthusiasts -- going at it.
My immediate thoughts go straight back my first aid training, specifically: What to do if someone is having a seizure.
I have no doubts that the Dance Dance Revolutionist thinks they are "the bomb" as you kids say, but come on, they soooo are not!
Just a thought worth remembering:
DDR is just a dance SIMULATOR
Does as scoring a perfect mission in flight sim stealth bomber automatically qualify you for the USAF?
More to point, a high DDR score does not mean you are ready for the dance floor of your local club.
If it were anywhere near a close approximation to life it would at the very least tell you just what the fuck to do with your arms!
My proposal:
Mic feces and recorded it in a studio. (Make sure the acoustics of the room are just right and EQ out any reflected sound).
Every time somebody claims that music playing on the radio sounds like shit, sue the band's asses off!
"That sounds very similar to my piece 'Fecal Matter in D Minor'! I am insensed! I'll settle for $3,000,000 out of court. Ta"
:)
...you got yourself one fucking ugly view of cardboard cut-outs!!! Way to go.
:)
As far back as Accolade Grand Prix on a CGA monitor, I have been subconciously angling with the screen to take corners with the car.
Now if you too suffer this affliction, then you'll know playing a game like this on a bus to work could be fucking disastrous:
The bus driver turns a corner, you angle to take an imaginary corner with the "car" and... BOOM... both you and your laptop are in the aisle.
:)
These new weapons just keep sounding scarier and scarier.
I'm not saying let's eliminate war altogether in favor of peace (that's just not realistic) but what about doing something like this:
Have a global convention (we'll see if Geneva is booked) where we 're-initalize warfare'. Something like "So do we all agree that from now on we'll only use bow-and-arrows?. Is that okay with everyone?"
I'm sure that'd work.
:)
I think we all know what made the original SimCity so great:
*The ability to get more money by holding down SHIFT and typing F-U-N-D-S.
If Maxis simply returns to its roots by including this in SimCity 4 they'll have a sure-fire hit on their hands!
:)
PS. You have to remember not to do it to many times in a row though... otherwise you cause a 'Natural Disaster'... Ooooh WATCH OUT!!! It's a GIANT LIZARD!!!
INT. IVORY TOWER - NIGHT
.NET Changing the way you do business
ADVERTISING GUY (V.O.)
When you're sitting alone in your ivory tower
and you suddenly desire to jack up the price to
the subscription-based online service for the
the console you manufacture what do you do?
Montage of disappointed faces of XBOX users as their subscription price
jumps up on their television screens
ADVERTISING GUY (V.O. Cont.)
Now with Microsoft's new ".NET" business
solution you can jack up those prices with the
push of a button.
:)
So I was wrong to laugh my ass off when hollywood spy types glued false "finger prints" to their digits... I have the good grace to admit that!
But what about retinal scanners?
If Arnie is locked out of a secret military compound trying saving the "presidents"/"a friend's"/"his own" "daughter"/"wife"/"pet cockerspaniel" and he comes up against a retinal scanner...
Well then he's still gonna have to handle that the good ol' fashion way...
By ripping out the "Drug Lord's"/"Mafia Boss's"/"Buddy gone bad's" eye ball!
It's comforting to know that some things will never change.
:)
So the anonymous coward "goatse" posts should this be modded: +5 informative, considering they're objectionable links for cingular customers to follow?
The mind reels!
Here's a link to the bionic retina implants in action.
Charmed Announces Crusoe-based Linux Wearable???
I liked the episode last season better, where the three sisters fought the Gnu Debian C# compiler.
:)
He muses on how to fill up a 120 TB hard drive
Let's see - if the history of the internet serves as an apt model - 120TB drives probably won't meet consumer demands for long.
First harddrives will start to fill up with fully-imersive holo-pr0n, followed quickly, due to adaptive marketing trends by fully-imersive unsolicitted holo-spam.
There... that solves that ol' capacity problem quite nicely then.
:)
The comic listing for silicon should be:
* Every comic book drawn by a man that has a female character(s)
If you've ever read Jim Balent's 'Catwoman'... I mean come on... How the fuck am I meant to believe she shimmies up buildings with the slightest of ease. I have trouble believing she walks upright without a back brace.
I'm gonna edit the Memento DVD so that it plays in correct chronological order and my idiot roommate can work out just what the fuck is going on!
ROOMMATE
(perplexed)
My head hurts! What just happened then??? Who's John G? What the?! Who the?!
ME
Here you go somewhere else and watch THIS version! Away with you!
:)
The article mentioned something about homebrew SW:Ep 1 DVD edits and it got me to thinking:
*If I could use this technology I'd be able to edit out Jake Lloyd from Star Wars. What Glee!
*Oohh! Jar Jar has to go... I shoulda thought of him first.
*Ooohh! And ALL of the freaking gungans!
*And so on...
until it became apparent that my new "movie" was nothing more than Natalie Portman footage and light saber duels.
Alas, who was the cinematic Atlas that put DVD fire in our lowly mortal hands?!
:)
PS. I'm still not totally convinced that my home edit would be worse than SW: Ep 1.
What is the point of karaoke?
Having never done it myself I would guess thusly:
*to sing along to a famous/popular song, and in the process test your voice amongst a jury of your peers (most likely trashed of their nuts and laughing their asses off)
Introducing this technology to karaoke has no point.
You may as well mime along to the original CD
I can picture the scenario now:
<TELEPHONE CORRESPONDANCE>
SHADY GOVERNMENT OPERATIVE: So how much will this 1024 decryption system cost?
PIMPLY TEEN HACKER: $1B US dollars to be deposited into my secure off-shore bank account and safe passage to the Maldives.
SHADY GOVERNMENT OPERATIVE: Excellent. The money is being transferred as we speak. Begin work.
</TELEPHONE CORRESPONDANCE>
<PIMPLY TEEN HACKER INTERNAL MONOLOGUE>
Sweet! I've just charged the US government 1 billion dollars for a beowulf cluster of dreamcasts running home-brew linux.
</PIMPLY TEEN HACKER INTERNAL MONOLOGUE>
<SHADY GOVERNMENT OPERATIVE INTERNAL MONOLOGUE>
Sweet! We will retrieve the 1 billion dollars once we crack the secure off-shore bank account's 1024 bit encryption system
</SHADY GOVERNMENT OPERATIVE INTERNAL MONOLOGUE>
:)
Traditionally 'Alan Smithee' is the moniker taken on by a movie director when he is so ashamed of his work that he will not be associated with it by name.
So it's a little worrying to see who they reference (via graphic) as the iPod project manager on the story link.
:)
Does it do American to standard English road sign translation? You know... something for the tourists:
<STOP>: "Prepare for car-jacking"
<DRIVE-THRU>: "Drive By"
<WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES>: "Welcome to HELL!"
:)