Abraham Lincoln, president. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. President Lincoln will be that man. Better than he was before. Better...stronger...faster. *Doo doo dee dahhhhh*
The only catch is that all of his implants are steam powered.
I'm surprised you got called a troll because you pretty much hit the nail on the head. Getting pissed at them just feeds them just like a little kid discovering that grossing out adults gives them some power. The best way to fight them is to ignore them. Nothing discourages them more than boredom. Once they get into a game for a while and start building bonds with other players they start becoming pissed at the online idiots also.
I play FPS MMOs so I encourage people to constantly type messages. Anyone standing around not moving and chatting instead is a much easier target.
I find the people who spam-chat the worst. If it was mildly funny the first time, it isn't funny the 100th time. Then there are the people who freak out over it and by doing so only ecourage the spammers to keep doing it.
You have the president of the US on one side of the scale and Oswald and an old rifle on the other side. In people's minds there needs to be some sort of emotional balance established, as if something big and important can only be affected by something big and important.
HARTMAN: Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was? No response HARTMAN: None of you dumbasses knows? COWBOY raises his hand. HARTMAN: Private Cowboy? COWBOY: Sir, he was that guy who shot all those people from that tower in Austin, Texas, sir! HARTMAN: That's affirmative. Charles Whitman killed twenty people from a twenty-eight-storey observation tower at the University of Texas from distances up to four hundred yards. HARTMAN looks around. HARTMAN: Anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald was? Almost everybody raises his hand. HARTMAN: Private Snowball? SNOWBALL: Sir, he shot Kennedy, sir! HARTMAN: That's right, and do you know how far away he was? SNOWBALL: Sir, it was pretty far! From that book suppository building, sir! The recruits laugh at "suppository. " HARTMAN: All right, knock it off! Two hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot! Do any of you people know where these individuals learned to shoot? JOKER raises his hand. HARTMAN: Private Joker? JOKER: Sir, in the Marines, sir! HARTMAN: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!
Sorry, no agenda here beyond the fact that no country came out of WWII clean (I'm not Russian at all by the way). Stalin was a genocidal maniac who treated the Baltics no better than the rest of the USSR. I just object to this claim of being completely innocent. Of course everyone said they were just following orders. Even the German soldiers said they had no choice. I truly doubt that the atrocities, such as Lithuanian death camp guards (i.e. Majdanek), were done without any choice. Obviously the Nazis and Soviets were the driving force behind the worst events but they needed some willing participants to do so.
I REALLY doubt that ancient people would philosophize themselves to death. Hunter-gatherers actually have more leisure time than modern people. They had plenty of time to ponder things (a few naturally occurring hallucinogenic plants help too).
No need to get hysterical. I'm just differentiating between the average soldier and Stalin and the later occupation. Would you have preferred the Nazis to stay there?
so don't try to make it look that they were in the side of the Nazis willingly, cause it simply isn't true by any perspective.
The all-volunteerEstnische SS-Legion was created in 1942. The unit, ultimately called 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian), finished its way in May 1945 in Czechoslovakia. The division's soldiers carried stripes with the Estonian national colors and images of three lions[1].
Russia didn't make any sacrifice during WW II
Millions of Russian (and other post-USSR countries) veterans would disagree.
They should leave the momument where it is or at least build a resonable memorial and instead push for Russia to admit the crimes committed during the occupation and maybe a memorial to that.
I wish they would loan that helicopter to my state for a while. Almost every time I see a car drifting in its lane or a person merging without looking the driver has a cellphone jammed to their ear.
in honour of the Russian soldiers that died occupying Estonia
Nice try, it was put there for the soldiers that died freeing the country of the Nazis. What happened during the occupation is a different matter but don't try to rewrite history.
Since you are using the "If the US..." metaphor then how about if US war cemetaries in France and Belgium were dug up and moved and the monuments carted off? I think we'd be pretty upset.
I agree that Russia should face up to what they did after the war but to dismiss their sacrifices during WWII and to make the Baltic states look like innocent lambs is disgraceful. Don't lump one with the other.
Agreed but I'd go further. Reduce emails to plain text and attached files. No HTML. If you need to send images then post them to a web site and send the url or put them in a zip file.
I'm tired of the way men are portrayed in TV and movies now. Virtually every family sitcom has the father as a bumbling idiot and the woman is always the level headed take charge person. Ads on TV frequently do this too with the guy needing to be set straight by the smarter, more mature woman. In movies it is pretty common to see the guy as unable to make a decision and the woman is the hero. You even see it in kid's cartoons now. I wonder if the writers do this to appeal to woman in the audience and men just passively accept it. It is a little jab but after seeing this image countless times I'm sure it has some affect on people's perceptions.
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Abraham Lincoln, president. A man barely alive.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. President Lincoln will be that man. Better than he was before. Better...stronger...faster.
*Doo doo dee dahhhhh*
The only catch is that all of his implants are steam powered.
I remember an early SNL episode that had Kirk Douglas in a skit called "What if Spartacus Had a Piper Cub?"
I'm surprised you got called a troll because you pretty much hit the nail on the head. Getting pissed at them just feeds them just like a little kid discovering that grossing out adults gives them some power. The best way to fight them is to ignore them. Nothing discourages them more than boredom. Once they get into a game for a while and start building bonds with other players they start becoming pissed at the online idiots also.
They just see the hot Tauren as pieces of meat anyway.
I play FPS MMOs so I encourage people to constantly type messages. Anyone standing around not moving and chatting instead is a much easier target.
I find the people who spam-chat the worst. If it was mildly funny the first time, it isn't funny the 100th time. Then there are the people who freak out over it and by doing so only ecourage the spammers to keep doing it.
Punishment for translating? Looks like things haven't changed in Europe much.
That is just because the people who worked at Bletchley Park were the kind of people who never got invited to cocktail parties.
As Opus said in old Bloom County comic strip...
Milo(?): "Why does Elvis' ghost still wander the earth?"
Opus: "He's mad that he died on the potty."
Can I demand $150,000 from the RIAA for each song they made me listen to in the 80's that sucked?
The Vikings are busy raiding Irish monestaries until they get a cease and desist letter.
But most people aren't battle trained and mass murderers usually take their sweet time doing it (gotta satisfy those fantasies).
You have the president of the US on one side of the scale and Oswald and an old rifle on the other side. In people's minds there needs to be some sort of emotional balance established, as if something big and important can only be affected by something big and important.
HARTMAN: Do any of you people know who Charles Whitman was?
No response
HARTMAN: None of you dumbasses knows?
COWBOY raises his hand.
HARTMAN: Private Cowboy?
COWBOY: Sir, he was that guy who shot all those people from that tower in Austin, Texas, sir!
HARTMAN: That's affirmative. Charles Whitman killed twenty people from a twenty-eight-storey observation tower at the University of Texas from distances up to four hundred yards.
HARTMAN looks around.
HARTMAN: Anybody know who Lee Harvey Oswald was?
Almost everybody raises his hand.
HARTMAN: Private Snowball?
SNOWBALL: Sir, he shot Kennedy, sir!
HARTMAN: That's right, and do you know how far away he was?
SNOWBALL: Sir, it was pretty far! From that book suppository building, sir!
The recruits laugh at "suppository. "
HARTMAN: All right, knock it off! Two hundred and fifty feet! He was two hundred and fifty feet away and shooting at a moving target. Oswald got off three rounds with an old Italian bolt action rifle in only six seconds and scored two hits, including a head shot! Do any of you people know where these individuals learned to shoot?
JOKER raises his hand.
HARTMAN: Private Joker?
JOKER: Sir, in the Marines, sir!
HARTMAN: In the Marines! Outstanding! Those individuals showed what one motivated marine and his rifle can do! And before you ladies leave my island, you will be able to do the same thing!
Since you consider Wikipedia Soviet apologist propoganda:
Monument to Estonian SS Veterans put up and removed
Simon Wiesenthal war crimes campaign in Baltics
Report on the Holocaust in the Baltics
I'm done. Take care
Didn't scientists say just before the discovery of quantum mechanics that nature had been pretty much figured out and the rest was just details?
I wish I could RTFA. Does his list include solving the Slashdotting Effect?
I REALLY doubt that ancient people would philosophize themselves to death. Hunter-gatherers actually have more leisure time than modern people. They had plenty of time to ponder things (a few naturally occurring hallucinogenic plants help too).
The all-volunteer Estnische SS-Legion was created in 1942. The unit, ultimately called 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian), finished its way in May 1945 in Czechoslovakia. The division's soldiers carried stripes with the Estonian national colors and images of three lions[1].
Russia didn't make any sacrifice during WW IIMillions of Russian (and other post-USSR countries) veterans would disagree.
They should leave the momument where it is or at least build a resonable memorial and instead push for Russia to admit the crimes committed during the occupation and maybe a memorial to that.
I wish they would loan that helicopter to my state for a while. Almost every time I see a car drifting in its lane or a person merging without looking the driver has a cellphone jammed to their ear.
Nice try, it was put there for the soldiers that died freeing the country of the Nazis. What happened during the occupation is a different matter but don't try to rewrite history.
Since you are using the "If the US..." metaphor then how about if US war cemetaries in France and Belgium were dug up and moved and the monuments carted off? I think we'd be pretty upset.
Funny that you should mention Israel in your comment. Seeing as the Baltic states collaborated with the Nazis in exterminating Jews.
I agree that Russia should face up to what they did after the war but to dismiss their sacrifices during WWII and to make the Baltic states look like innocent lambs is disgraceful. Don't lump one with the other.
At least the spammers are doing free captcha R&D.
Agreed but I'd go further. Reduce emails to plain text and attached files. No HTML. If you need to send images then post them to a web site and send the url or put them in a zip file.
We're safe as long as they don't retrieve any samples.
I'm tired of the way men are portrayed in TV and movies now. Virtually every family sitcom has the father as a bumbling idiot and the woman is always the level headed take charge person. Ads on TV frequently do this too with the guy needing to be set straight by the smarter, more mature woman. In movies it is pretty common to see the guy as unable to make a decision and the woman is the hero. You even see it in kid's cartoons now. I wonder if the writers do this to appeal to woman in the audience and men just passively accept it. It is a little jab but after seeing this image countless times I'm sure it has some affect on people's perceptions.
My awful joke made after working out: "Lance Armstrong with ball cancer was in better shape than I am healthy."
These articles piss me off!!! Arrrrgh!
*turning green, clothes splitting, resembling Lou Farrigno...*