I wasn't counting on anything from Big Brother except maybe a "Okay, since the witnesses are telling us who did it, we'll do something". Not the "Har har, you done got funny lookin' hair" while the paramedics were working on me. Couldn't they have at least cited them for littering when they were bouncing beer bottles off me?
I'm 4 foot 8 inches tall. I think I would've been happier being another foot taller. Thanks for asking.
Not answering is going to help even less than my Deliverance wise-crack.
I don't have much respect for law enforcement until they prove themselves otherwise.
Cops in Louisiana pulling me over because I was "running people off the road". It was California plates, so they figured we'd have "drugs & guns". That was their quote. They freaked out because a girl in the car had a black bra.
I got gay bashed in Reno once walking to my girlfriends hotel room (bleached blonde hair made me "a fag" to some gang of jerks who called themselves The Bad Boys Club). While the paramedics were working on my eye, the cops stood around making fun of me. The paramedics told the cops to knock it off. Witnesses pointed out who jumped me, and told the cops his name. The cops said, "File a report if you want, nothings going to happen". That was good times. I got surgery over that one.
Yes, I have very little respect for cops. Outside of the Deliverance comment (I was just 20 when that happened 13 years ago), I'm not a smart-ass to cops.
Yeah, I was just kidding. Luckily I haven't been asked for a screening. I'm sure I'd say no though.
I've been pulled over by cops and have been asked if they can look through the car for drugs. Even though I never have drugs, I say no. Which means they call for back-up and search anyway with drug sniffing dogs. By saying "no" that means they have probable cause, they think. At least in Louisiana and Illinois. Sure, "no" doesn't mean probable cause, but try telling that to cops.
Oh yeah, in Louisiana, never tell a cop you're nervous because you've seen Deliverance. They didn't seem too happy with that answer.
The main paragraphs since no one on slashdot reads the articles are:
Ten cameras to be installed along the Hume Freeway soon will measure the average speed of cars over the entire 300-kilometre journey between Melbourne's northern fringe and Wodonga.
Drivers whose overall progress is faster than the speed limit allows will be fined. Drivers will also be caught if they are speeding as they pass a camera.
The company said yesterday the cameras combined digital imaging and optical character recognition to read vehicle number plates. The cameras would be networked and synchronised.
It's probably done in the 80 million pound advance against future profits. I'm sure the labels will hold him liable if they don't make that much money off him. That's what they do.
Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end holding a fountain pen and a contract waiting to be signed. Nobody can see what's printed on the contract. It's too far away, and besides, the shit stench is making everybody's eyes water. The lackey shouts to everybody that the first one to swim the trench gets to sign the contract. Everybody dives in the trench and they struggle furiously to get to the other end. Two people arrive simultaneously and begin wrestling furiously, clawing each other and dunking each other under the shit. Eventually, one of them capitulates, and there's only one contestant left. He reaches for the pen, but the Lackey says "Actually, I think you need a little more development. Swim again, please. Backstroke". And he does of course.
Nah, I live in California and here lots of the tv sets are in the front. Nothing like sitting behind some SUV at a light with some guy watching pr0n though. Ah, that's the high life!
It's illegal but nothing happens here. I ride a motorcycle and I don't know how many times I've almost been hit by someone on the cell phone, shaving, putting on make-up or watching tv. They don't die, so they'll reproduce but when (probably not if) I get hit, it'll do a number on me.
Prove yourself competent? Oh yeah, that's why Americans are such great drivers. In fact, I'm on my PDA on the freeway eating Burger King. I just finished shaving, so I figured I'd flip through slashdot while I drove. Oh, there goes the cell phone. Now I'll have to turn down the volume on Star Wars which is showing on the dashboard of my SUV.
Bud: Credit is a sacred trust, it's what our free society is founded on. Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia? I said, do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia? Otto: They don't pay bills in Russia, it's all free.
Bud: All free? Free my ass! What are you, a fuckin' commie? Huh? Otto: No, I ain't no commie.
Bud: Well, you better not be. I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either!
Your site, your content, your visitors. If someone pays you to run ads based on your content then those are the ads viewers should see. Your advertising clients are paying for your product.
How long before someone builds spyware that rearranges the content to put ads where there weren't any ads before?
Of course, I thought Disney would've lost for the non-ending patent rights.
Have we ever slashdotted the Washington Post or Yahoo?
Help, we're not making money during this recession. We better start suing our customers. I can't wait for the recession to become a depression. Then maybe the RIAA can pay politicians to change the laws to put people into jail.
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I wasn't counting on anything from Big Brother except maybe a "Okay, since the witnesses are telling us who did it, we'll do something". Not the "Har har, you done got funny lookin' hair" while the paramedics were working on me. Couldn't they have at least cited them for littering when they were bouncing beer bottles off me?
I'm 4 foot 8 inches tall. I think I would've been happier being another foot taller. Thanks for asking.
Not answering is going to help even less than my Deliverance wise-crack.
I don't have much respect for law enforcement until they prove themselves otherwise.
Cops in Louisiana pulling me over because I was "running people off the road". It was California plates, so they figured we'd have "drugs & guns". That was their quote. They freaked out because a girl in the car had a black bra.
I got gay bashed in Reno once walking to my girlfriends hotel room (bleached blonde hair made me "a fag" to some gang of jerks who called themselves The Bad Boys Club). While the paramedics were working on my eye, the cops stood around making fun of me. The paramedics told the cops to knock it off. Witnesses pointed out who jumped me, and told the cops his name. The cops said, "File a report if you want, nothings going to happen". That was good times. I got surgery over that one.
Yes, I have very little respect for cops. Outside of the Deliverance comment (I was just 20 when that happened 13 years ago), I'm not a smart-ass to cops.
Yeah, I was just kidding. Luckily I haven't been asked for a screening. I'm sure I'd say no though.
I've been pulled over by cops and have been asked if they can look through the car for drugs. Even though I never have drugs, I say no. Which means they call for back-up and search anyway with drug sniffing dogs. By saying "no" that means they have probable cause, they think. At least in Louisiana and Illinois. Sure, "no" doesn't mean probable cause, but try telling that to cops.
Oh yeah, in Louisiana, never tell a cop you're nervous because you've seen Deliverance. They didn't seem too happy with that answer.
No, he's still living at his parent's house. But hey, when you're 16....
Nothing like says slashdot geek like, "I'd go for PrettyKitty. Maybe it's a chick and has accidentaly left some home made porn on her shared folders."
I had to point that out rather than mod you up as funny. But it was close. Very close.
They're already starting to track vehicle identity in Australia to give out speeding tickets.
Camera network set to catch Hume speedsters
The main paragraphs since no one on slashdot reads the articles are:
Ten cameras to be installed along the Hume Freeway soon will measure the average speed of cars over the entire 300-kilometre journey between Melbourne's northern fringe and Wodonga.
Drivers whose overall progress is faster than the speed limit allows will be fined. Drivers will also be caught if they are speeding as they pass a camera.
The company said yesterday the cameras combined digital imaging and optical character recognition to read vehicle number plates. The cameras would be networked and synchronised.
It's probably done in the 80 million pound advance against future profits. I'm sure the labels will hold him liable if they don't make that much money off him. That's what they do.
You should read Steve Albini's article The Problem With Music.
Here's the 1st paragraph:
Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry lackey at the other end holding a fountain pen and a contract waiting to be signed. Nobody can see what's printed on the contract. It's too far away, and besides, the shit stench is making everybody's eyes water. The lackey shouts to everybody that the first one to swim the trench gets to sign the contract. Everybody dives in the trench and they struggle furiously to get to the other end. Two people arrive simultaneously and begin wrestling furiously, clawing each other and dunking each other under the shit. Eventually, one of them capitulates, and there's only one contestant left. He reaches for the pen, but the Lackey says "Actually, I think you need a little more development. Swim again, please. Backstroke". And he does of course.
Nah, I live in California and here lots of the tv sets are in the front. Nothing like sitting behind some SUV at a light with some guy watching pr0n though. Ah, that's the high life!
It's illegal but nothing happens here. I ride a motorcycle and I don't know how many times I've almost been hit by someone on the cell phone, shaving, putting on make-up or watching tv. They don't die, so they'll reproduce but when (probably not if) I get hit, it'll do a number on me.
Prove yourself competent? Oh yeah, that's why Americans are such great drivers. In fact, I'm on my PDA on the freeway eating Burger King. I just finished shaving, so I figured I'd flip through slashdot while I drove. Oh, there goes the cell phone. Now I'll have to turn down the volume on Star Wars which is showing on the dashboard of my SUV.
Ah, the beauty of Repo Man comes in again.
Bud: Credit is a sacred trust, it's what our free society is founded on. Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia? I said, do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia?
Otto: They don't pay bills in Russia, it's all free.
Bud: All free? Free my ass! What are you, a fuckin' commie? Huh?
Otto: No, I ain't no commie.
Bud: Well, you better not be. I don't want no commies in my car. No Christians either!
If the Aztecs were as greedy, mean and nasty as any European one, wouldn't they still be around?
Dang, I get modded down to -1 for my Repo Man quote.
Your site, your content, your visitors. If someone pays you to run ads based on your content then those are the ads viewers should see. Your advertising clients are paying for your product.
How long before someone builds spyware that rearranges the content to put ads where there weren't any ads before?
Of course, I thought Disney would've lost for the non-ending patent rights.
So basically you're saying 28 Days Later is Alf on the big screen?
He was.
And John Wayne was a fag. He was, too, you boys. I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door in a dress.
A treaty eh? Well, duh. Of course treaties with Native Americans doesn't count.
Sorry mom, I'll leave the trolls alone.
Yeah, I know. I just wanted to use the word "einsteining".
As a "physics genius", why do you have a yahoo account and why are you reading slashdot? Shouldn't you be out Einsteining something?
Hey, I read Dilbert too.
Rent went crazy. My 6 room apartment at Bush & Pine, a nice sunny area, was $1,200 a month in 1996. In 1998 that'd get you a studio.
We no longer say Kevin Mitnick damaged Sun, Nikia, Motorola, etc on Slashdot. It was Microsoft, SCO, and the RIAA.
Please keep that in mind.
Have we ever slashdotted the Washington Post or Yahoo?
Help, we're not making money during this recession. We better start suing our customers. I can't wait for the recession to become a depression. Then maybe the RIAA can pay politicians to change the laws to put people into jail.
Ack, what a horrible vapours pun.
I had to look up Banned from Argo. I've never heard of it. Know where I can get an mp3?
Where does the Atari 2600 rank? First or second?