If proven effective in the real world then it is still a cure, saying otherwise is like saying "Why bother trying to cure the disease, everyone is going to die someday".
But some of us are waiting for The Coming Apocalypse. If this bird flu doesn't take off, it's going to effect my income from patenting my new "Soylent" (TM) brand of foods.
I think the guy from Trekkies 2 who built his condo to look like the bridge of ST:TNG hasn't been able to sell.
I think if this guy sells it, it'll be like the Simpsons' house. The lady who won that said her first step was repainting it because she figured the neighbors would hate it. Then she was selling it.
Don't forget that in Chico, the Sacto Bee reports, "One member of the fraternity eventually pleaded guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter and misdemeanor hazing, two pleaded guilty to being accessories to manslaughter and hazing, and a fourth pleaded guilty to hazing."
If only this was a KSFO promotion. That would give Spocko a brain hemorrhage.
Art can't be created as easily as potatoes are grown (IANAPF - I Am Not A Potato Farmer). I like the idea of life or 30 years.
The songs you sing when you're 20 are goofy when you're 30. Imagine being the Ramones and singing "Now I wanna sniff some glue" when you're in your 50s.
You know what it made me think? It made me think "Why the hell did the idiots at slamdance ever think this junk was worth considering for a competition?"
Look how worked up you are about it. It's more than you thinking "why was this worth consideration"?
Art isn't easily defined. Just because you don't agree with something doesn't make any difference.
I've been in plenty of bands and I never think of them as "art" even if other people do. It's just something fun. A lot of people think of bands I'm in as "shitty art". I think of the Star Trek punk rock band as an on-stage drinking contest with a sarcastic take on 1980s punk rock show violence.
I've also got a tattoo of art drawn by a 4-year-old, so my point obviously isn't valid.
Just because you don't like the game, it doesn't mean that it hasn't made people think. "Monkey-dick" is just your perception but the game made you think. So it was a valid tool for societal exploration.
The "Freshman humanities 101" reference makes you sound like you're a condescending jerk, but the "monkey-dick" comment was pretty funny.
I've got an original copy of Custers Revenge. I just thought, "Man, what a screwed up game". But now I know I'll end up thinking about it during a meeting, and kicking around the idea of it as art in comparison with Super Columbine.
I'm not particularly religious either. What can you say about an education that ends up 20 years later with a crack about God (which got me modded -1 Troll), so that must make me an expert about something.
The Jesuit school was pretty good. I got to learn that we can't wear blue Levis at school, because they represent "the working class". Other than a few crazy ideas like that, not bad.
But remember that you're talking to a burned out IT guy who's riding an old motorcycle around the world in a very half-assed way.
Get into a good school and Cs get degrees. A friend of mine was nearly thrown out of MIT but no one asks about that. They just see the MIT degree.
Huh? I don't believe in any of the gods, but if I did, hell, Capt'n Kirk killed God (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier) AND Apollo (Who Mourns for Adonais?).
You're mistaken. 2 years of Lutheran school, 4 years of Jesuit school, and a degree in Anthropology, with an interest in religion, has taught me that Allah = God. Christian God = Jewish God = Islamic God.
Just different takes on how it would like to be worshipped.
Besides, my other post was a straight line. How could you pass up on the whore trifecta?
I was on the phone using up my minutes, for 75 minutes the first call, and a couple supervisors. GoDaddy said it was on google's side and they couldn't talk to anyone there. Any idea on how to cancel a registration with google? If I can do that, I can re-register it.
It'll just point to my friend's blogspot which is owned by google. Once google decides to turn evil, we're all screwed.
Google Pay is way nicer than Pay Pal, only eBay recognizes that, and won't let you use Google Pay on eBay. They're not charging a fee until Jan 2008.
Just don't try to use Google to register a domain name. They haven't worked out the details with GoDaddy and the domain I bought as an Xmas present for a friend of mine is in limbo. GoDaddy says it's a Google problem and there's no way me or any of the supervisors at GoDaddy can get in touch with anyone at Google. Argh.
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In my days in IT, I felt like I completed nothing. Even when I completed something, it's nothing permanent. Code will always be upgraded. I took on a 2nd job, worked for 18 months, 7 days a week, paid off my debts, my student loans, saved up and quit both jobs.
I'm riding a POS old motorcycle round the world. It's great. I ran out of money and picked up a job as a GM at a landmark art house movie theatre that has a long history of bad management, and was physically falling apart (and we're using Win98!). I'm making huge improvements that will last a long time. When I leave for Round 2, the theatre is in much better shape, and I've hired staff that can take over and be good managers.
Way less money, but I feel better about the job. I'm never going to do computer only work ever again.
Yeah, I had professors who would be mistaken about things, and cops, when they're not in uniform, have been open with me about knowing knowing much about laws.
Maybe this professor was mistaken, but it was a Criminal Justice intro class at the local Cal State. The prof made a point about pointing out that California was the only state that required citizens to have a state ID or drivers license on them.
In the California Republic, you must have ID on you whenever you leave your house. I *think* we're the only state in the union with that one.
I haven't perused all the replies yet, but the security guy that tazered him got kicked out of the police for being an abusive dickweed. When he assaulted frat boys, that was probably fine, but we all know how the police feel when you shoot a homeless man.
No wait, I'm sure it was fine for shooting the homeless, but a frat boy might have connections with lawyers...
I've been a member on these sites for a long time. I haven't stayed with anyone because of them because I haven't asked, but I put people up all the time. The only weird guy was some programmer which turned to "web programmer" when I asked. A few years of me programming isn't going to let some guy fool with me "I'm a programmer". When I asked he'd taken a class on html.
I also spent the 1990s in punk rock bands and it's the same thing. We play in your town and stay at your place, you play in our town and stay at our place.
No big deal. 99% of people are decent people, but there's some nutcases. I could get hit by a bus tomorrow. If I wanted to be safe, I'd stay at home and spend my money steel plating the walls to keep meteors from bashing my head in.
Have you ever been downwind when pepper spray is used in the open? I watched it get used on a nekkid guy high on PCP a half block away, and it hangs around for quite some time. My eyes watered up even though it didn't phase the guy and it took more than 1-2 minutes to recover.
Air dissipates but the damage is done.
I think pepper spray in a plane would be a BAD thing. Flights have been turned around and landed for dumb things, what makes you think some paranoid American isn't going to pepper spray a guy in a beard or someone speaking without an American accent?
Mutating plants that are on a path of self-destruction ain't no concern no how.
So far down our party line, there's been many dead Homo ancesters: Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo rhodesiensis, Homo cepranensis, Homo georgicus, Homo sapiens idaltu, and finally us, Homo sapiens sapiens. Some of 'em died off pretty recently.
How about a Talking Head reference since you're not a fan of Phillip K Dick: "Were on a road to nowhere, Maybe you wonder where you are, I dont care. Here is where time is on our side".
I think some people put up an anti-mankind mindset to make themselves feel like they're hip and intellectual
Getting my anthropology degree and studying anthropology statistics, it was always obvious to most students and professors, that "homo sapiens" is a lost cause. And how can you be hip in an statistics class? That's 93.783% impossible.
We evolved really quickly and we're running at a fast rate. As Tyrell says in Blade Runner, "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly".
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If proven effective in the real world then it is still a cure, saying otherwise is like saying "Why bother trying to cure the disease, everyone is going to die someday".
But some of us are waiting for The Coming Apocalypse. If this bird flu doesn't take off, it's going to effect my income from patenting my new "Soylent" (TM) brand of foods.
Canada is the 51st State.
I think the guy from Trekkies 2 who built his condo to look like the bridge of ST:TNG hasn't been able to sell.
I think if this guy sells it, it'll be like the Simpsons' house. The lady who won that said her first step was repainting it because she figured the neighbors would hate it. Then she was selling it.
Don't forget that in Chico, the Sacto Bee reports, "One member of the fraternity eventually pleaded guilty to felony involuntary manslaughter and misdemeanor hazing, two pleaded guilty to being accessories to manslaughter and hazing, and a fourth pleaded guilty to hazing."
If only this was a KSFO promotion. That would give Spocko a brain hemorrhage.
As proof, Little Creatures Pale Ale. The best beer I've had.
Art can't be created as easily as potatoes are grown (IANAPF - I Am Not A Potato Farmer). I like the idea of life or 30 years.
The songs you sing when you're 20 are goofy when you're 30. Imagine being the Ramones and singing "Now I wanna sniff some glue" when you're in your 50s.
You know what it made me think? It made me think "Why the hell did the idiots at slamdance ever think this junk was worth considering for a competition?"
Look how worked up you are about it. It's more than you thinking "why was this worth consideration"?
Art isn't easily defined. Just because you don't agree with something doesn't make any difference.
I've been in plenty of bands and I never think of them as "art" even if other people do. It's just something fun. A lot of people think of bands I'm in as "shitty art". I think of the Star Trek punk rock band as an on-stage drinking contest with a sarcastic take on 1980s punk rock show violence.
I've also got a tattoo of art drawn by a 4-year-old, so my point obviously isn't valid.
Just because you don't like the game, it doesn't mean that it hasn't made people think. "Monkey-dick" is just your perception but the game made you think. So it was a valid tool for societal exploration.
Is Pollock Jackson less of an artist than Hieronymus Bosch or than Botticelli?
The "Freshman humanities 101" reference makes you sound like you're a condescending jerk, but the "monkey-dick" comment was pretty funny.
I've got an original copy of Custers Revenge. I just thought, "Man, what a screwed up game". But now I know I'll end up thinking about it during a meeting, and kicking around the idea of it as art in comparison with Super Columbine.
Apollo was a god, and Kirk basically rabbit punched him to death. Why couldn't Kirk do that with the current favorite god (ie, God)?
No one can survive an Angry Kirk!
From "T is For Tiberius (Damn it Bones, I'm Serious)"
I slew the god Apollo
I spared the reptile Gorn
Romulans and Klingons hate me
I'm the object of their scorn
T is for Tiberious
Damnit Bones, I'm serious
T is for Tiberious
That's James Tiberious Kirk
I'm not particularly religious either. What can you say about an education that ends up 20 years later with a crack about God (which got me modded -1 Troll), so that must make me an expert about something.
The Jesuit school was pretty good. I got to learn that we can't wear blue Levis at school, because they represent "the working class". Other than a few crazy ideas like that, not bad.
But remember that you're talking to a burned out IT guy who's riding an old motorcycle around the world in a very half-assed way.
Get into a good school and Cs get degrees. A friend of mine was nearly thrown out of MIT but no one asks about that. They just see the MIT degree.
Huh? I don't believe in any of the gods, but if I did, hell, Capt'n Kirk killed God (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier) AND Apollo (Who Mourns for Adonais?).
You're mistaken. 2 years of Lutheran school, 4 years of Jesuit school, and a degree in Anthropology, with an interest in religion, has taught me that Allah = God. Christian God = Jewish God = Islamic God.
Just different takes on how it would like to be worshipped.
Besides, my other post was a straight line. How could you pass up on the whore trifecta?
I enjoyed the part about making callers say, ""Say Allah is a Whore!". Same god, just a different name.
The whore trifecta: Jesus is a whore. God is a whore. The Holy Ghost is a whore.
I think it sounds better with "step for man" instead of "step for a man". Still, neither sounds as good as, "One small Shemp for man".
I was on the phone using up my minutes, for 75 minutes the first call, and a couple supervisors. GoDaddy said it was on google's side and they couldn't talk to anyone there. Any idea on how to cancel a registration with google? If I can do that, I can re-register it.
It'll just point to my friend's blogspot which is owned by google. Once google decides to turn evil, we're all screwed.
Google Pay is way nicer than Pay Pal, only eBay recognizes that, and won't let you use Google Pay on eBay. They're not charging a fee until Jan 2008.
Just don't try to use Google to register a domain name. They haven't worked out the details with GoDaddy and the domain I bought as an Xmas present for a friend of mine is in limbo. GoDaddy says it's a Google problem and there's no way me or any of the supervisors at GoDaddy can get in touch with anyone at Google. Argh.
In my days in IT, I felt like I completed nothing. Even when I completed something, it's nothing permanent. Code will always be upgraded. I took on a 2nd job, worked for 18 months, 7 days a week, paid off my debts, my student loans, saved up and quit both jobs.
I'm riding a POS old motorcycle round the world. It's great. I ran out of money and picked up a job as a GM at a landmark art house movie theatre that has a long history of bad management, and was physically falling apart (and we're using Win98!). I'm making huge improvements that will last a long time. When I leave for Round 2, the theatre is in much better shape, and I've hired staff that can take over and be good managers.
Way less money, but I feel better about the job. I'm never going to do computer only work ever again.
Yeah, I had professors who would be mistaken about things, and cops, when they're not in uniform, have been open with me about knowing knowing much about laws.
Maybe this professor was mistaken, but it was a Criminal Justice intro class at the local Cal State. The prof made a point about pointing out that California was the only state that required citizens to have a state ID or drivers license on them.
You should ask a cop. Or, for a better answer, a criminal justice professor.
At least that's how I heard of it.
In the California Republic, you must have ID on you whenever you leave your house. I *think* we're the only state in the union with that one.
I haven't perused all the replies yet, but the security guy that tazered him got kicked out of the police for being an abusive dickweed. When he assaulted frat boys, that was probably fine, but we all know how the police feel when you shoot a homeless man.
No wait, I'm sure it was fine for shooting the homeless, but a frat boy might have connections with lawyers...
I've been a member on these sites for a long time. I haven't stayed with anyone because of them because I haven't asked, but I put people up all the time. The only weird guy was some programmer which turned to "web programmer" when I asked. A few years of me programming isn't going to let some guy fool with me "I'm a programmer". When I asked he'd taken a class on html.
I also spent the 1990s in punk rock bands and it's the same thing. We play in your town and stay at your place, you play in our town and stay at our place.
No big deal. 99% of people are decent people, but there's some nutcases. I could get hit by a bus tomorrow. If I wanted to be safe, I'd stay at home and spend my money steel plating the walls to keep meteors from bashing my head in.
Have you ever been downwind when pepper spray is used in the open? I watched it get used on a nekkid guy high on PCP a half block away, and it hangs around for quite some time. My eyes watered up even though it didn't phase the guy and it took more than 1-2 minutes to recover.
Air dissipates but the damage is done.
I think pepper spray in a plane would be a BAD thing. Flights have been turned around and landed for dumb things, what makes you think some paranoid American isn't going to pepper spray a guy in a beard or someone speaking without an American accent?
Mutating plants that are on a path of self-destruction ain't no concern no how.
So far down our party line, there's been many dead Homo ancesters: Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, Homo floresiensis, Homo antecessor, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo rhodesiensis, Homo cepranensis, Homo georgicus, Homo sapiens idaltu, and finally us, Homo sapiens sapiens. Some of 'em died off pretty recently.
How about a Talking Head reference since you're not a fan of Phillip K Dick: "Were on a road to nowhere, Maybe you wonder where you are, I dont care. Here is where time is on our side".
I think some people put up an anti-mankind mindset to make themselves feel like they're hip and intellectual
Getting my anthropology degree and studying anthropology statistics, it was always obvious to most students and professors, that "homo sapiens" is a lost cause. And how can you be hip in an statistics class? That's 93.783% impossible.
We evolved really quickly and we're running at a fast rate. As Tyrell says in Blade Runner, "The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly".
No worries.