I like that since it's/. you have to put down "It's all just a joke, folks, relax".
Otherwise you'd have at least 2 comments calling you a dumb-ass. 1 comment correcting you on "its" vs "it's". 3 comments, saying you were joking. The 2 that called you a dumb-ass would have to defend themselves. And there'd be 20 comments over the whole thing before it fizzled out.
I don't pay much attention to the eBay news. It should be in the SafeHarbor (Rules & Safety), instead of eBay geeks talking about it on their chatrooms.
I've received about half a dozen of these. I get anything sent to my domain name, so they're usually addressed to names that are on the web site, but are never used for anything.
I tried to figure out how to report it to eBay but couldn't find out how. It took me a while to find the "report it to spam@ebay.com". Yeah, like they pay attention to that. I don't think eBay cares at all.
I checked out one of them, and it was geocities. I sent geocities an email and the site was removed.
I've been an eBay member for a long time, and I remember when you just owed them 85 cents, Pierre Omidyar (the owner) would say "Nah, don't worry about it. You're a good customer. Wait until it gets higher to pay". I think he lives on a yacht now and doesn't care about eBay at all, as long as he's still making millions of it.
That's not true about small local stores not being good enough to compete with Walmart. If I'm out shopping, I try to buy what I want in one store. I'll think, "Hmmm... the fishing store on Franklin has a better selection of lures, but I'm already here so I'll buy what they offer". Eventually, the store on Franklin goes under. Most people do that, and then instead of a good local bait shop with helpful and knowledgeable employees, I'll be forced to go to Walmart.
Walmart is involved in a class action lawsuit (in something like 40 states). They don't pay overtime, and they don't want unions forming to demand "benefits" like that.
By considering 28 hours a full-time job, means you're not paid the same as a 40-hour a week job. By having you work 28 hours, they don't have to provide you with benefits.
They also don't pay a living wage. There's a big difference between minimum wage and a living wage. It's not a bunch of high school kids working for spending money, it's people with families making $7.50 an hour. And how are you going to pay $400 for health care when you make $7.50 an hour?
Chrysler (not Dodge, Plymouth) started putting them in in 1956. The first ones were 16 2/3 rpm. Later they moved to 45 rpm. They were invented by the same guy who invented 33 1/3 rpm records.
Chryslers had a very smooth ride, even over rough roads, and the records wouldn't skip. When they put them in Dodge/Plymouth they'd skip, so they had to rework them for a shakier car.
I've always wanted one. And since I listen to punk rock, vinyl is always available.
Geez, I really like Pabst, and Schaefers though. It's way better to me than a Bud/Coors/Miller. I'd rather have one of those ass beers than a Guinness in the middle of summer.
have you ever opened the door to a situation that could be best resolved by killing someone? Do you have any reason to expect that such a situation may come knocking?
I'm sure he's not like that guy in Louisia that shot and killed the Japanese kid (dressed like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever) mistaking the address of a Halloween party.
I've lived in crappy areas of Chicago, Oakland and San Francisco and never was burglarized or robbed. But now I live in midtown Sacramento, not a dangerous area, and I've broken into 4 times in the last 2 years and had my head knocked open in a mugging. If I was home when someone kicked down the door, I'd meet them with a gun. Not intending to shoot them, unless they were holding a weapon or if they walked towards me when I was pointing a gun at them.
I really plan on living my life without ever shooting someone, but you never know.
If you ever get a chance, ride around in a 50s or 60s Chrysler (not Dodge or Plymouth). They are incredibly smooth. Skipping was not a problem even over rough roads.
Here's a neat article from the inventor (also the guy who invented 33 1/3 rpm).
The $1,000 car is a Crosley. I have a friend with a collection of them. They are incredibly cheaply made.
The rear fenders match the front fenders to keep the cost down. I can lift the engine myself and I'm not strong. The engines they used after WW2 were made out of sheet metal.
Cheap funny cars. Mechanical brakes for years before they switched to hydraulics. They were the first production car made with disk brakes though, and it was 4 wheel disk brakes.
It would compare to a Yugo, if they were still selling those.
A typical slant six can get 20 miles per gallon, in a car that I would guess weighs more than a modern car. And the Plymouth Feather Duster gets 24 city, 36 highway. But that's with a stick shift. An automatic was 22 city and 31 highway. So you can hold a candle to sedans today.
My 64 Dart GT had a hotrodded 318 which would beat modern Mustang Cobras at lights. Mileage on that would be 15-18, so about the same as most SUVs, I guess.
Owned or owner of 60, 64, 64 Darts; 61 Valiant, 67 Barracuda.
Contrasted with actors like Patrick Stewart, by all accounts a 24/7 class act, or Avery Brooks, who wants no part of the Trek typecasting and so doesn't do the interviews, book signings, and the like.
What are they doing now? Oh yeah, Patrick Stewart is in a Star Trek movie. And Avery Brooks was in DS9, no one cares about that show. Are any DS9 actors racking in the big dough with conventions for that one? I like it, but it's no Star Trek or ST:TNG.
What else is Shatner going to do? He was lucky to get TJ Hooker. Have you seen "Kingdom of the Spiders"? Sure it's no "Night of the Lepus", but what ST character could get another role?
He wasn't getting offered anything. His entire life after Star Trek has been Cap'n Kirk based. He might as well make money for it.
Thank god, no one on/. misssspells anything. Ask Cmdr Taco. Wil is spelled Will 90% of the time (and as a bass player in a Star Trek punk rock band, I know the statistics on these things). Sheesh.
I'm not in a union, and I know that unions are corrupt, but they still do more good than bad. Sort of like democrats or leeches until they both start sucking. Well, I suppose that's democrats in theory.
Unions are living off what they accomplished in the 30s, and when they've screwed up enough, they'll die, then the cycle will continue. Getting screwed over by bosses, until unions start up again.
It's not an "assault rifle". That's a made-up name like "Saturday Night Specials". It's just a rifle with military characteristics.
The article says AK-47, but I bet it ain't. US Media always calls military styled rifles AK-47s. An AK-47 can fire semi-automatic , burst or full-auto, so it's pretty much a machine gun. Which is heavily regulated. I'm in California and the gub'mint here won't let you own a machine gun (even though they aren't used in crimes), but many articles here refer to military rifles as AK-47s.
I'm not calling you on the media making a big deal about some weed. Most drug laws are dumb, and most gun laws are dumb.
I'm just being an annoying/.er that's anal about somethings. At least I'm not saying "beowulf cluster of weed" or 1. weed. 2? 3. profit.
I liked your SKS comments, but you forgot how California declared them legal, and sent out letters to people with them, saying they were legal, and THEN declared them illegal and filed federal charges against those with an SKS. That caught them some crap, so they reversed that decision.
Guns should never ever be sold with meters so only the registered owner can shoot them. If someone is shot, someone else should be able to use their gun for defense. I'd think that'd be a lot more likely than someone grabbing a cop's gun and shooting the cop. And I love shooting other people's guns at firing ranges, too.
There's nothing "original". Everything is a mix of something else already done. There's just different degrees on where they've got their influences.
Would a bunch of/.ers rather see Justice League Marvel type animation or Powerpuff Girls animation? Wait, is/. even a consideration for what they're aiming at? No, I don't think so. I don't think their intended range is for a bunch of window$ using (while hollering about how great linux is) bunch of geeks.
Man, it's just a cartoon. And based on Genndy Tartakovsky's previous work, I think it'll be good. No John K back in his prime, but still entertaining.
It'll be better than the Christmas special even if they characters are yams with toothpicks poked in them for arms & legs.
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I like that since it's /. you have to put down "It's all just a joke, folks, relax".
Otherwise you'd have at least 2 comments calling you a dumb-ass. 1 comment correcting you on "its" vs "it's". 3 comments, saying you were joking. The 2 that called you a dumb-ass would have to defend themselves. And there'd be 20 comments over the whole thing before it fizzled out.
I don't pay much attention to the eBay news. It should be in the SafeHarbor (Rules & Safety), instead of eBay geeks talking about it on their chatrooms.
I've received about half a dozen of these. I get anything sent to my domain name, so they're usually addressed to names that are on the web site, but are never used for anything.
I tried to figure out how to report it to eBay but couldn't find out how. It took me a while to find the "report it to spam@ebay.com". Yeah, like they pay attention to that. I don't think eBay cares at all.
I checked out one of them, and it was geocities. I sent geocities an email and the site was removed.
I've been an eBay member for a long time, and I remember when you just owed them 85 cents, Pierre Omidyar (the owner) would say "Nah, don't worry about it. You're a good customer. Wait until it gets higher to pay". I think he lives on a yacht now and doesn't care about eBay at all, as long as he's still making millions of it.
That's not true about small local stores not being good enough to compete with Walmart. If I'm out shopping, I try to buy what I want in one store. I'll think, "Hmmm... the fishing store on Franklin has a better selection of lures, but I'm already here so I'll buy what they offer". Eventually, the store on Franklin goes under. Most people do that, and then instead of a good local bait shop with helpful and knowledgeable employees, I'll be forced to go to Walmart.
Walmart is involved in a class action lawsuit (in something like 40 states). They don't pay overtime, and they don't want unions forming to demand "benefits" like that.
By considering 28 hours a full-time job, means you're not paid the same as a 40-hour a week job. By having you work 28 hours, they don't have to provide you with benefits.
They also don't pay a living wage. There's a big difference between minimum wage and a living wage. It's not a bunch of high school kids working for spending money, it's people with families making $7.50 an hour. And how are you going to pay $400 for health care when you make $7.50 an hour?
This will cut down The Wizard of Oz into a 30 second movie. Dorothy and Toto get sucked in, and their pulverized powder filters out the bottom.
Auntie Emm be damned.
There has been in dash record players before.
Chrysler (not Dodge, Plymouth) started putting them in in 1956. The first ones were 16 2/3 rpm. Later they moved to 45 rpm. They were invented by the same guy who invented 33 1/3 rpm records.
Chryslers had a very smooth ride, even over rough roads, and the records wouldn't skip. When they put them in Dodge/Plymouth they'd skip, so they had to rework them for a shakier car.
I've always wanted one. And since I listen to punk rock, vinyl is always available.
Geez, I really like Pabst, and Schaefers though. It's way better to me than a Bud/Coors/Miller. I'd rather have one of those ass beers than a Guinness in the middle of summer.
Mark me zero for off-topic. Thank you.
Nope, the Mad Max Interceptor is alive and well. Some were wrecked, but the main car is living in a museum in England.
So we'll never have linux fighting window$ to the death?
Computer vs. Computer. The winner is Computer!
have you ever opened the door to a situation that could be best resolved by killing someone? Do you have any reason to expect that such a situation may come knocking?
I'm sure he's not like that guy in Louisia that shot and killed the Japanese kid (dressed like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever) mistaking the address of a Halloween party.
I've lived in crappy areas of Chicago, Oakland and San Francisco and never was burglarized or robbed. But now I live in midtown Sacramento, not a dangerous area, and I've broken into 4 times in the last 2 years and had my head knocked open in a mugging. If I was home when someone kicked down the door, I'd meet them with a gun. Not intending to shoot them, unless they were holding a weapon or if they walked towards me when I was pointing a gun at them.
I really plan on living my life without ever shooting someone, but you never know.
If you ever get a chance, ride around in a 50s or 60s Chrysler (not Dodge or Plymouth). They are incredibly smooth. Skipping was not a problem even over rough roads.
Here's a neat article from the inventor (also the guy who invented 33 1/3 rpm).
The $1,000 car is a Crosley. I have a friend with a collection of them. They are incredibly cheaply made.
The rear fenders match the front fenders to keep the cost down. I can lift the engine myself and I'm not strong. The engines they used after WW2 were made out of sheet metal.
Cheap funny cars. Mechanical brakes for years before they switched to hydraulics. They were the first production car made with disk brakes though, and it was 4 wheel disk brakes.
It would compare to a Yugo, if they were still selling those.
A typical slant six can get 20 miles per gallon, in a car that I would guess weighs more than a modern car. And the Plymouth Feather Duster gets 24 city, 36 highway. But that's with a stick shift. An automatic was 22 city and 31 highway. So you can hold a candle to sedans today.
My 64 Dart GT had a hotrodded 318 which would beat modern Mustang Cobras at lights. Mileage on that would be 15-18, so about the same as most SUVs, I guess.
Owned or owner of 60, 64, 64 Darts; 61 Valiant, 67 Barracuda.
Contrasted with actors like Patrick Stewart, by all accounts a 24/7 class act, or Avery Brooks, who wants no part of the Trek typecasting and so doesn't do the interviews, book signings, and the like.
What are they doing now? Oh yeah, Patrick Stewart is in a Star Trek movie. And Avery Brooks was in DS9, no one cares about that show. Are any DS9 actors racking in the big dough with conventions for that one? I like it, but it's no Star Trek or ST:TNG.
What else is Shatner going to do? He was lucky to get TJ Hooker. Have you seen "Kingdom of the Spiders"? Sure it's no "Night of the Lepus", but what ST character could get another role?
He wasn't getting offered anything. His entire life after Star Trek has been Cap'n Kirk based. He might as well make money for it.
Thank god, no one on
I'd say misspelling words doesn't mean anything.
So you're saying the PC manufacturers won't raise the price to pay for that?
You forgot to mention that Harley was shipping bikes from the factory with an oil pan to catch the leaking oil.
And in current news, that Buell has recalled every Buell ever made. Well at least in 1999. I'm not sure of the last few years, but still....
I'm not in a union, and I know that unions are corrupt, but they still do more good than bad. Sort of like democrats or leeches until they both start sucking. Well, I suppose that's democrats in theory.
Unions are living off what they accomplished in the 30s, and when they've screwed up enough, they'll die, then the cycle will continue. Getting screwed over by bosses, until unions start up again.
Employees need a boss, but bosses need employees.
The hell it does. A business can exist with just the "boss"; the entrepreneur.
Are you trolling? Some small businesses can exist with just a boss, but once a boss doesn't want to work 120 hour weeks, it needs an employee.
Take your local comic book store. It's small, but it still needs employees. And I'd like to see Micro$soft run by just Bill Gates.
Did anybody go to anti-leech 2 weeks ago? I hadn't heard of if, but now I've gone to it a few times because of
Here's a link which disables anti-leech.
It's not an "assault rifle". That's a made-up name like "Saturday Night Specials". It's just a rifle with military characteristics.
The article says AK-47, but I bet it ain't. US Media always calls military styled rifles AK-47s. An AK-47 can fire semi-automatic , burst or full-auto, so it's pretty much a machine gun. Which is heavily regulated. I'm in California and the gub'mint here won't let you own a machine gun (even though they aren't used in crimes), but many articles here refer to military rifles as AK-47s.
I'm not calling you on the media making a big deal about some weed. Most drug laws are dumb, and most gun laws are dumb.
I'm just being an annoying
1. weed.
2?
3. profit.
I liked your SKS comments, but you forgot how California declared them legal, and sent out letters to people with them, saying they were legal, and THEN declared them illegal and filed federal charges against those with an SKS. That caught them some crap, so they reversed that decision.
Guns should never ever be sold with meters so only the registered owner can shoot them. If someone is shot, someone else should be able to use their gun for defense. I'd think that'd be a lot more likely than someone grabbing a cop's gun and shooting the cop. And I love shooting other people's guns at firing ranges, too.
There's nothing "original". Everything is a mix of something else already done. There's just different degrees on where they've got their influences.
/.ers rather see Justice League Marvel type animation or Powerpuff Girls animation? Wait, is /. even a consideration for what they're aiming at? No, I don't think so. I don't think their intended range is for a bunch of window$ using (while hollering about how great linux is) bunch of geeks.
Would a bunch of
Man, it's just a cartoon. And based on Genndy Tartakovsky's previous work, I think it'll be good. No John K back in his prime, but still entertaining.
It'll be better than the Christmas special even if they characters are yams with toothpicks poked in them for arms & legs.
A skeleton walks into a bar and says "Give me a drink, and a mop".
And to comment what zillions are thinking, billboards don't cost me money. Spam does. But I like the idea of paying money everytime I see a billboard.