Why would any website require a password to UNsubscribe from their precious emails? That seems like the website is putting way too much importance on mass emails.
I see a much lesser problem of people being unintentionally(or someone else intentionally) unsubscribed to announcement lists than the OSDN situation.
Of course I got Quicktime news for many moons after I said several times to unsubscribe.
You could have a Time Traveler supply booth running there:
- Legit costumes for whatever era. WW2 uniform, peasant outfit, etc - Monetary exchange: buy/sell money from different eras, at varying rates. You will always need money(depending on the time) - Fake IDs. Going back 20 years? get an ID 20 years prior to your birthday - Fake license plates. Travelling in an old car back to an earlier time? Get "legit" license plates that are either from the same car, or just some convincing out-of-state plates.
WARNING: Management is not responsible to disruptions in history.
The sales possibilities are endless.
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The last batmobile we saw had tons of neon lights, fins, and looked 100% impractical. This new batmobile is a bleepin SUV mixed with a Formula 1 racecar.
Yes, it's a good upgrade. Will give credit to the 1989 Batmobile which actually had machine guns.
It's not even the old Batmobile. It's the tumbler, the precursor to any Bruce-designed rides. This was a prototype vehicle developed at Wayne Enterprises R&D for military purposes, and the project got scrapped.
Ahh that does justify my theory of Batman's fancy gadgets and gizmos. He's a millionaire, he has R&D resources. He just has projects made, the military rejects them(or doesn't know about them), he says "okay I'll take that prototype there" and boom, he's equipped.
Looking at the previews, this looks a lot less campy(ie none) than the previous Batman movies, and I'm all for it. While the dark, towering Gotham city was nicely done by Tim Burton, this looks to be better. Nice to see a backstory too. I don't want any consistency with the previous movies.
Yes, the benefits of open sourcing of our game library will sure help us at the unemployment office! Definitely the warm feeling in our hearts will outweigh the need for a job, etc.
I didn't want my real name showing on as a subhost, so I changed it to 'firewall'. That worked for a while until the nice IT person told me to change it from the confusion ensuing.
It's been a while since i used AIM(I use trillian instead), but do new windows pop up *and* give focus ?
Always hated that. You're typing in the first half of a sentence to person A, and right at that moment Person B messages you, and you accidentally end up tying the rest of the sentence to person B. '
Of course if you're shit-talking about person B, you end up with egg on your fae.
I wonder why the Iomega Micro Mini drives were not included in the review.
Because due to the Click of Death, we don't talk about Iomega anymore. Nor do we send them Christmas cards. We do invite Belkin and others though for drinks.
I used to play Alpiner on the TI-99/4A. It was a mountain climbing game.
There were 5 mountains of increasing difficulty. I never got past mountain 3. One day i was playing at a friends house, and felt a bit on the relaxed/bored side. As I was playing through the game with little excitement, I realized I was on mountain #5!(everest).
I got far enough in the game to see the snowman go by, on skis.
That was the only time that a feeling relaxation let me Zen my way further in a video game. Never could do that again.
I admit, I was stumped with the whole setting up the printer in CUPs. I had a friend who works in Linux daily set it up. We had to set up a few test printers, and then try to navigate to the IP address of it(on 2K for internet printing).
After all was said and done, any printout I made printed about 90% of the page, and then it was garbage city. And as a general rule with messed-up printings, all garbage that prints out a form feed every few lines or so. So it's not one page of garbage characters, it's a stack of them.
Eventually I just gave up, and will be just using a Win98 box with sharing for all print jobs.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate, and just as taxing of resources to have the report in a Shockwave object that bounces around on your screen with embedded video and a 2-pixel wide "close" button?
I mean that is what 10 years of online adverising has mutated to.
Ignoring expicit ads on web pages will drive the adoption of ads embedded in the content, which you will be impossible to block.
Then I'll just find some other website.
Seriously, ignored banner ads or not, they'll move up to the next step just as you described. Apparently marketing people think that every time we want to visit a webiste, we also want to compulsively shop.
I don't know about you, but when I mistype a URL I am also simultaenously looking for a great deal on home loans, viagra, etc.
Google provides a plot idea for a science fiction story writer. Main character does a google search for his/her name, and it shows a news article saying they died in a car crash, in the fuuuuture. Yes, the supernatural search engine can now predict, index, and categorize death.
If Amazon wants to compete like mad in the dvd mail-order rental, start with pr0n. Get a huge library, make some partnerships with adult title companies(for bulk discounts, exclusive deals, whatever), and add that to the regular movie library. Also, don't charge exorbant prices. Treat it like a regular movie, but maybe add a dollar to the rental cost, just cuz you can.
Well-known retailer + pr0n + no shame of walking out of the adult section with it = 3. profit!
The best thing to do is stay away from 'services' like LiveJournal.
But there's no sure-fire prevention of its 'services' staying away from you. It's not the matter of you getting into trouble for posting something LJ doesn't like. It's the issue of a livejournal user posting false/libelous/private information about YOU, and you having no say in the matter.
IIRC, if someone posts something libelous about you, but only uses your first name(and not full name), you're SOL.
I remember the Livejournal meetups. The very last one i went to was a pure f'in sausagefest. Only one female showed up. The rest consisted of a bunch of guys who didn't look like they could get a date either(okay, one was married).
This was after me and somebody waited around 2 hours looking for others. After everyone gathered, I realized the oddity that the meetup mainly consisted of mails, from a userbase that was 60% female. Got up and left after 15 minutes and never came back.
I saw pictures for subsequent lj meetups, and they looked like weight watchers meetings, sorry to say.
Meetup.com has got to have the worst interface for a website I've seen. It seems to involve several links just to get to your area code's page of events. I signed up for about 10-13 meetups, and just about all of them were cancelled due to lack of interest.
As a pinball enthusiast since '91, I agree with you. Bally and Williams have been king.
Case in point. I once played "Hook"(based off the movie). It was indeed a non-bally/williams machine. Got so bored with it I left the machine after 15 mins with 4 credits on it.
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Try hovering over a link in fark. It seems the text to display it is so complex, it overhwelms Firefox.
What would you rather have your Windows box devote most of its resources doing?
1. spyware/malware/adaware
2. Excessive amount of utilities from various vendors to prevent spyware/malware/adaware.
Oh that's how it works! The anti-spyware TSRs take up so much memory there's no room left for teh evil sofwtare to get a foot in!
Countdown to Lik-Sang selling products revolving around this in 3....2.....1....
Why would any website require a password to UNsubscribe from their precious emails? That seems like the website is putting way too much importance on mass emails.
I see a much lesser problem of people being unintentionally(or someone else intentionally) unsubscribed to announcement lists than the OSDN situation.
Of course I got Quicktime news for many moons after I said several times to unsubscribe.
You could have a Time Traveler supply booth running there:
- Legit costumes for whatever era. WW2 uniform, peasant outfit, etc
- Monetary exchange: buy/sell money from different eras, at varying rates. You will always need money(depending on the time)
- Fake IDs. Going back 20 years? get an ID 20 years prior to your birthday
- Fake license plates. Travelling in an old car back to an earlier time? Get "legit" license plates that are either from the same car, or just some convincing out-of-state plates.
WARNING: Management is not responsible to disruptions in history.
The sales possibilities are endless.
You forgot one..
History Channel = Hitler channel
Didn't Tesla try something involving free electricity through the air?
The last batmobile we saw had tons of neon lights, fins, and looked 100% impractical. This new batmobile is a bleepin SUV mixed with a Formula 1 racecar.
Yes, it's a good upgrade. Will give credit to the 1989 Batmobile which actually had machine guns.
It's not even the old Batmobile. It's the tumbler, the precursor to any Bruce-designed rides. This was a prototype vehicle developed at Wayne Enterprises R&D for military purposes, and the project got scrapped.
Ahh that does justify my theory of Batman's fancy gadgets and gizmos. He's a millionaire, he has R&D resources. He just has projects made, the military rejects them(or doesn't know about them), he says "okay I'll take that prototype there" and boom, he's equipped.
Looking at the previews, this looks a lot less campy(ie none) than the previous Batman movies, and I'm all for it. While the dark, towering Gotham city was nicely done by Tim Burton, this looks to be better. Nice to see a backstory too. I don't want any consistency with the previous movies.
Dear newrisejohn,
Yes, the benefits of open sourcing of our game library will sure help us at the unemployment office! Definitely the warm feeling in our hearts will outweigh the need for a job, etc.
Sincerely,
Elixir
QANTAS wants to fly the plane on the Sydney-Los Angeles route,
I really hope the in-flight movie doesn't consist of the 1st season of Lost. That just wouldn't fare well at all.
I didn't want my real name showing on as a subhost, so I changed it to 'firewall'. That worked for a while until the nice IT person told me to change it from the confusion ensuing.
It's been a while since i used AIM(I use trillian instead), but do new windows pop up *and* give focus ?
Always hated that. You're typing in the first half of a sentence to person A, and right at that moment Person B messages you, and you accidentally end up tying the rest of the sentence to person B. '
Of course if you're shit-talking about person B, you end up with egg on your fae.
I wonder why the Iomega Micro Mini drives were not included in the review.
Because due to the Click of Death, we don't talk about Iomega anymore. Nor do we send them Christmas cards. We do invite Belkin and others though for drinks.
I used to play Alpiner on the TI-99/4A. It was a mountain climbing game.
There were 5 mountains of increasing difficulty. I never got past mountain 3. One day i was playing at a friends house, and felt a bit on the relaxed/bored side. As I was playing through the game with little excitement, I realized I was on mountain #5!(everest).
I got far enough in the game to see the snowman go by, on skis.
That was the only time that a feeling relaxation let me Zen my way further in a video game. Never could do that again.
I admit, I was stumped with the whole setting up the printer in CUPs. I had a friend who works in Linux daily set it up. We had to set up a few test printers, and then try to navigate to the IP address of it(on 2K for internet printing).
After all was said and done, any printout I made printed about 90% of the page, and then it was garbage city. And as a general rule with messed-up printings, all garbage that prints out a form feed every few lines or so. So it's not one page of garbage characters, it's a stack of them.
Eventually I just gave up, and will be just using a Win98 box with sharing for all print jobs.
has an interesting 24 page PDF available c
Wouldn't it be more appropriate, and just as taxing of resources to have the report in a Shockwave object that bounces around on your screen with embedded video and a 2-pixel wide "close" button?
I mean that is what 10 years of online adverising has mutated to.
Ignoring expicit ads on web pages will drive the adoption of ads embedded in the content, which you will be impossible to block.
Then I'll just find some other website.
Seriously, ignored banner ads or not, they'll move up to the next step just as you described. Apparently marketing people think that every time we want to visit a webiste, we also want to compulsively shop.
I don't know about you, but when I mistype a URL I am also simultaenously looking for a great deal on home loans, viagra, etc.
Let's just go back to the gopher days.
Google provides a plot idea for a science fiction story writer. Main character does a google search for his/her name, and it shows a news article saying they died in a car crash, in the fuuuuture. Yes, the supernatural search engine can now predict, index, and categorize death.
If Amazon wants to compete like mad in the dvd mail-order rental, start with pr0n. Get a huge library, make some partnerships with adult title companies(for bulk discounts, exclusive deals, whatever), and add that to the regular movie library. Also, don't charge exorbant prices. Treat it like a regular movie, but maybe add a dollar to the rental cost, just cuz you can.
Well-known retailer + pr0n + no shame of walking out of the adult section with it = 3. profit!
I remember hearing several years ago that Tom Berenger was tapped as being the main "marine" for a Doom movie. This was long before Doom 3.
The best thing to do is stay away from 'services' like LiveJournal.
But there's no sure-fire prevention of its 'services' staying away from you. It's not the matter of you getting into trouble for posting something LJ doesn't like. It's the issue of a livejournal user posting false/libelous/private information about YOU, and you having no say in the matter.
IIRC, if someone posts something libelous about you, but only uses your first name(and not full name), you're SOL.
I remember the Livejournal meetups. The very last one i went to was a pure f'in sausagefest. Only one female showed up. The rest consisted of a bunch of guys who didn't look like they could get a date either(okay, one was married).
This was after me and somebody waited around 2 hours looking for others. After everyone gathered, I realized the oddity that the meetup mainly consisted of mails, from a userbase that was 60% female. Got up and left after 15 minutes and never came back.
I saw pictures for subsequent lj meetups, and they looked like weight watchers meetings, sorry to say.
Meetup.com has got to have the worst interface for a website I've seen. It seems to involve several links just to get to your area code's page of events. I signed up for about 10-13 meetups, and just about all of them were cancelled due to lack of interest.
Countdown to fuckedcompany in 3...2..1...
As a pinball enthusiast since '91, I agree with you. Bally and Williams have been king.
Case in point. I once played "Hook"(based off the movie). It was indeed a non-bally/williams machine. Got so bored with it I left the machine after 15 mins with 4 credits on it.
Pinball 2000 was a dud though.
Conan BETTER be having a Triumph segment like he did with Ep 1 for ep 3. That was comedy gold. This will be the last time Triumph can do it.