Or notice the S.EXploitation link, telling us to not read/watch sexploitation, because it is based on greed. This from a the winner of a sexploitation pageant. And on a website with a drawing of 6 sexy young women. But sexploitation is bad, remember.
Our backyard was bigger than her land. She paid millions for a couple hundred feet. And now everyone knows. No wonder she's pissed. Besides, the beach looks crummy, full of rocks and such. Not the picturesque smooth sand I would expect from a person of her supposed caliber.
I saw that too, and wondered about it. I think that "invaded her privacy by publishing accurate information about her " is referring to her name, address, former Miss Vermont, etc. The story of their affair would then still fall under the "emphatically denies " umbrella.
Even then, though, his story could be a parady or such, which is protected. Jerry Falwell tried to sue Hustler magazine a while ago and lost. They ran a parody interview where Mr. Falwell admitted his first sexual encounter was with his mother. The judge ruled that it was obviously not a 'real' article, it was a parody, and that is protected. Same rule may apply here.
No, moron. Clinton committed perjury in a sworn deposition given to a court of law. Anyone can lie, but perjury is a crime. and despite some people saying it didn't matter, he lied about the the very subject he was being asked about, so of course it mattered to the case at hand. I don't care if he lied to me, I didn't believe him anyway. But if I can be arrested and convicted for perjury, so can the president, and he should have been. The impeachment was the least that should have happened.
And the funny thing is, he should have just kept his mouth shut, and let his lawyer call the whole thing a political witch hunt, which it was. But he thought he was smarter than that. He's just another example of a stupid rutting pig with a title, thinking he can fool most people and bully the rest. In comparison, at least Bush never denied whether he had ever done drugs, he just said it's not the press's business whether he did or not. Rather than be caught in a lie, he refused to say yes or no. Maybe he learned that from watching the whole Clinton fiasco. Good for him.
But do the Leftists use their right blinkers, or would that imply they are moving to the right? Actually, I like people that use both sets of blinkers correctly, and I try to do so as well.
"lots of hands on experience in your parents' garage before you discovered girls."
Sorry, I was reading Playboy when I was four. Also Hustler, Penthouse, Chic, Oui, Marie, and a few lesser-known mags. And by the age of six, I was playing doctor with the neighborgirl. I certainly never thought of using a soldering iron then though, those things can burn you.
I would add a few. People confuse G and 6, B and 8, K and X, and that's just with uppercase. You know some idiot would insist on using lowercase and the 'l' would be confused with a '1'. (Hell on some typewriters, there isn't any '1' key, just use the 'l' for both.)
Not to mention, what about places that have multiple address within one square meter of ground space. Apartment complexes have dozens of people living within the same square meter of ground space. There's also Post Office Boxes, and Mailboxes ETC (now UPS Store) with dozens of boxes in the same situation.
Besides, if this is based on latitude and longitude, how does it handle the fact that the Meridians of Longitude converge as they approach the poles? That same 10 digit code should not represent a square meter at the equater as at 80 degrees North or South.
You forgot the Altitude aspect. In New York and LA there could be 20 people in your apartment building with the same name, each living in one of the 50 apartments above or below yours. How would the mailman know which Mr. Bill to give a letter to, if there's no Altitude specification?
By the way, how accurate would N47.52 W121.90 be? How many square feet/meters? What about S1.00 W70.00?
"Godwin's Law: prov. [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. " [http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/g/godwinsla w.html]
Slashdot's Second Law: prov. [Slashdot][/.] "As a Slashdot discussion grows longer, the probablility of a comparison involving hot coffee or MacDonald's approaches one."
Unfortunately, you are both right. So many established businesses now think they have to make a profit right now that they do all sorts of stupid/crazy/illegal stunts to show they are making that profit. Every quarter's earnings statement seems to be the most important thing in the history of the company, because they have to keep the stockholders happy with big profits. This was part of the Enron debacle, and has revealed the lengths a company will go to to show a profit. (Even while the officers are robbing it blind.)
It does seem like some of the Fortune 500 companies are going to go down in the next decade, because they think the short term is more important than the long term.
You had me agreeing right up until you showed you have no understanding of the US Constititution. Owning a firearm is one of the few rights specifically spelled out. You know, that whole Second Amendment you probably hear your friends bitch about. No mention of automobiles though. Actually, even bicycles could be banned, since there is no protection for them either, unless you glue a printer in the back and claim the "free press rights".
Is that safer mile-for-mile, mile-driven-for-mile-driven, or just you have fewer accidents per year than we do? Please cite a source for your statement.
First, for the "easy" part, people who can no longer type because of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome would find it much easier. And since either health insurance or worker's comp will probably cover the cost, the $700 price doesn't matter. And of course the price will come down over time.
Second, my daughter is now 6, and has been typing on her own since she was was 3. Of course she got her first computer when she was 2, that seems to surprise non-geeks when I mention it. If one of these OrbiTouch boards was given to her, with the keychart by the monitor, I think she would learn it within 2 months. And since most of her games are mostly mouse movements and clicks, it won't slow her down there at all. As you say, the QWERTY layout is not an 'intuitive' key placement either, but we all managed to learn it.
OK, I can see this mounted on the surfboard, but where is the computer? Actually that would be cool, have a laptop computer's motherboard and other internal mounted inside a surfboard, screen mounted flush on the surface towards the front, and use two special footpads to type. Truly surf the net.
Well, at least someone saw my comment before it was modded down. I guess some people can't handle reading literary criticisms. Anyway, thanks for the reply. We read plenty of Shakespeare in high school, and all in all it wasn't bad. The worst part was just that we _had_ to read it, and then take quizes about it. I have always read for enjoyment, so being forced to read, and analyze every aspect of the story, takes away the fun of reading. Maybe I'll read one of his plays now, since I can read it for fun. I read Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet already, what else would you suggest for a fun read?
Here is a matching test I found somewhere last week. Just match the men listed here to the women listed below. Then start reading the books that the couples are featured in.
Charlie Allnut Rodolphe Boulanger Rhett Butler Angel Clare Mr. Darcy Cyrano deBergerac Arthur Dimmesdale Ethan Frome Jay Gatsby Heathcliff Frederick Henry Henry Higgins Robin Hood Ivanhoe Sir Lancelot Oliver Mellors Paolo Pip Quasimodo Don Quixote Edward Rochester Tom Sawyer Tristan Count Alexey Vronsky Yuri Zhivago
Catherine Barkeley Elizabeth Bennett Emma Bovary Daisy Fay Buchanan Connie Chatterly Eliza Doolittle Dulcinea Tess Durbeyfield Catherine Earnshaw Esmeralda Estella Jane Eyre Lara Foedorovna Francesca Guinevere Iseult Anna Karenina Maid Marian Scarlet O'Hara Hester Prynne Rose Sayer Roxanne Rowena Mattie Silver Becky Thatcher
The list was supposed to be two columns, but that didn't work here. Oh well, that's life. If anyone knows the source of this test, please post it. I do want to give proper credit where it is due.
A much better writer of that period is Bret Harte. I read a collection of his short stories a while ago. Very good writing, more of a western, cowboy type writer. I would put him in the same category as Jack London, if you have read London's short stories.
I don't know where his great literary reputation came from. Every book and short story of his I have read has been boring and tedious. I would rather read Shakespeare than Twain. I would rather read what a million monkeys wrote than read another Twain story. As for that Connecticut Yankee story, I read the first 200 pages and stopped, that's all we needed to do a book report when I was in ninth grade. I had to force myself to just get that far, and I love reading. Now almost two decades later, I still won't touch it. I don't even like the movies that are styled after it, that's how much I hated it. Dickens and the Bronte sisters wrote more interesting and entertaining novels.
Now excuse me while I gargle with salt water to wash the bitter taste out of my mouth from just typing this out.
Slashdot Mirror
Or notice the S.EXploitation link, telling us to not read/watch sexploitation, because it is based on greed. This from a the winner of a sexploitation pageant. And on a website with a drawing of 6 sexy young women. But sexploitation is bad, remember.
To paraphrase the three anonymous cowards who replied:
WAAAAHHHH!!!!!! We wuz robbed. WAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Our backyard was bigger than her land. She paid millions for a couple hundred feet. And now everyone knows. No wonder she's pissed. Besides, the beach looks crummy, full of rocks and such. Not the picturesque smooth sand I would expect from a person of her supposed caliber.
I saw that too, and wondered about it. I think that "invaded her privacy by publishing accurate information about her " is referring to her name, address, former Miss Vermont, etc. The story of their affair would then still fall under the "emphatically denies " umbrella.
Even then, though, his story could be a parady or such, which is protected. Jerry Falwell tried to sue Hustler magazine a while ago and lost. They ran a parody interview where Mr. Falwell admitted his first sexual encounter was with his mother. The judge ruled that it was obviously not a 'real' article, it was a parody, and that is protected. Same rule may apply here.
No, moron. Clinton committed perjury in a sworn deposition given to a court of law. Anyone can lie, but perjury is a crime. and despite some people saying it didn't matter, he lied about the the very subject he was being asked about, so of course it mattered to the case at hand. I don't care if he lied to me, I didn't believe him anyway. But if I can be arrested and convicted for perjury, so can the president, and he should have been. The impeachment was the least that should have happened.
And the funny thing is, he should have just kept his mouth shut, and let his lawyer call the whole thing a political witch hunt, which it was. But he thought he was smarter than that. He's just another example of a stupid rutting pig with a title, thinking he can fool most people and bully the rest. In comparison, at least Bush never denied whether he had ever done drugs, he just said it's not the press's business whether he did or not. Rather than be caught in a lie, he refused to say yes or no. Maybe he learned that from watching the whole Clinton fiasco. Good for him.
But do the Leftists use their right blinkers, or would that imply they are moving to the right? Actually, I like people that use both sets of blinkers correctly, and I try to do so as well.
"lots of hands on experience in your parents' garage before you discovered girls."
Sorry, I was reading Playboy when I was four. Also Hustler, Penthouse, Chic, Oui, Marie, and a few lesser-known mags. And by the age of six, I was playing doctor with the neighborgirl. I certainly never thought of using a soldering iron then though, those things can burn you.
I would add a few. People confuse G and 6, B and 8, K and X, and that's just with uppercase. You know some idiot would insist on using lowercase and the 'l' would be confused with a '1'. (Hell on some typewriters, there isn't any '1' key, just use the 'l' for both.)
I want to know what 4 confusable letters you would restrict.
Not to mention, what about places that have multiple address within one square meter of ground space. Apartment complexes have dozens of people living within the same square meter of ground space. There's also Post Office Boxes, and Mailboxes ETC (now UPS Store) with dozens of boxes in the same situation.
Besides, if this is based on latitude and longitude, how does it handle the fact that the Meridians of Longitude converge as they approach the poles? That same 10 digit code should not represent a square meter at the equater as at 80 degrees North or South.
You forgot the Altitude aspect. In New York and LA there could be 20 people in your apartment building with the same name, each living in one of the 50 apartments above or below yours. How would the mailman know which Mr. Bill to give a letter to, if there's no Altitude specification?
By the way, how accurate would N47.52 W121.90 be? How many square feet/meters? What about S1.00 W70.00?
"Godwin's Law: prov. [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. " [http://www.science.uva.nl/~mes/jargon/g/godwinsla w.html]
Slashdot's Second Law: prov. [Slashdot][/.] "As a Slashdot discussion grows longer, the probablility of a comparison involving hot coffee or MacDonald's approaches one."
No. It's as annoying as hearing someone talk about their "NIC card".
Unfortunately, you are both right. So many established businesses now think they have to make a profit right now that they do all sorts of stupid/crazy/illegal stunts to show they are making that profit. Every quarter's earnings statement seems to be the most important thing in the history of the company, because they have to keep the stockholders happy with big profits. This was part of the Enron debacle, and has revealed the lengths a company will go to to show a profit. (Even while the officers are robbing it blind.)
It does seem like some of the Fortune 500 companies are going to go down in the next decade, because they think the short term is more important than the long term.
You had me agreeing right up until you showed you have no understanding of the US Constititution. Owning a firearm is one of the few rights specifically spelled out. You know, that whole Second Amendment you probably hear your friends bitch about. No mention of automobiles though. Actually, even bicycles could be banned, since there is no protection for them either, unless you glue a printer in the back and claim the "free press rights".
Is that safer mile-for-mile, mile-driven-for-mile-driven, or just you have fewer accidents per year than we do? Please cite a source for your statement.
Yeah, that's what my neo-nazi friends all say.
From inside their jail cells.
First, for the "easy" part, people who can no longer type because of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome would find it much easier. And since either health insurance or worker's comp will probably cover the cost, the $700 price doesn't matter. And of course the price will come down over time.
Second, my daughter is now 6, and has been typing on her own since she was was 3. Of course she got her first computer when she was 2, that seems to surprise non-geeks when I mention it. If one of these OrbiTouch boards was given to her, with the keychart by the monitor, I think she would learn it within 2 months. And since most of her games are mostly mouse movements and clicks, it won't slow her down there at all. As you say, the QWERTY layout is not an 'intuitive' key placement either, but we all managed to learn it.
OK, I can see this mounted on the surfboard, but where is the computer? Actually that would be cool, have a laptop computer's motherboard and other internal mounted inside a surfboard, screen mounted flush on the surface towards the front, and use two special footpads to type. Truly surf the net.
Well, at least someone saw my comment before it was modded down. I guess some people can't handle reading literary criticisms. Anyway, thanks for the reply. We read plenty of Shakespeare in high school, and all in all it wasn't bad. The worst part was just that we _had_ to read it, and then take quizes about it. I have always read for enjoyment, so being forced to read, and analyze every aspect of the story, takes away the fun of reading. Maybe I'll read one of his plays now, since I can read it for fun. I read Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet already, what else would you suggest for a fun read?
Here is a matching test I found somewhere last week. Just match the men listed here to the women listed below. Then start reading the books that the couples are featured in.
Charlie Allnut
Rodolphe Boulanger
Rhett Butler
Angel Clare
Mr. Darcy
Cyrano deBergerac
Arthur Dimmesdale
Ethan Frome
Jay Gatsby
Heathcliff
Frederick Henry
Henry Higgins
Robin Hood
Ivanhoe
Sir Lancelot
Oliver Mellors
Paolo
Pip
Quasimodo
Don Quixote
Edward Rochester
Tom Sawyer
Tristan
Count Alexey Vronsky
Yuri Zhivago
Catherine Barkeley
Elizabeth Bennett
Emma Bovary
Daisy Fay Buchanan
Connie Chatterly
Eliza Doolittle
Dulcinea
Tess Durbeyfield
Catherine Earnshaw
Esmeralda
Estella
Jane Eyre
Lara Foedorovna
Francesca
Guinevere
Iseult
Anna Karenina
Maid Marian
Scarlet O'Hara
Hester Prynne
Rose Sayer
Roxanne
Rowena
Mattie Silver
Becky Thatcher
The list was supposed to be two columns, but that didn't work here. Oh well, that's life. If anyone knows the source of this test, please post it. I do want to give proper credit where it is due.
I vented above about Twain, hate his work.
A much better writer of that period is Bret Harte. I read a collection of his short stories a while ago. Very good writing, more of a western, cowboy type writer. I would put him in the same category as Jack London, if you have read London's short stories.
I don't know where his great literary reputation came from. Every book and short story of his I have read has been boring and tedious. I would rather read Shakespeare than Twain. I would rather read what a million monkeys wrote than read another Twain story. As for that Connecticut Yankee story, I read the first 200 pages and stopped, that's all we needed to do a book report when I was in ninth grade. I had to force myself to just get that far, and I love reading. Now almost two decades later, I still won't touch it. I don't even like the movies that are styled after it, that's how much I hated it. Dickens and the Bronte sisters wrote more interesting and entertaining novels.
Now excuse me while I gargle with salt water to wash the bitter taste out of my mouth from just typing this out.
And for the horny geeks out there, the original novel mentions nipples. It was actually pornographic for it's time.
98.6???
What is that in Celcius?