No, it's a relatively flat journey, I don't go over any hills or anything, and the weather's usually too wet for any snow. And I can afford shoes so I don't have to go barefoot.
But surely, if the segway was safe enough to go along the pavements with other people, then it would have to be going the same speed as walking people. And if it's going the same speed as walking people, then WHY THE HELL DON'T YOU JUST WALK????!??!??
Unless of course, you're some INCREDIBLY lazy person who can't even walk without getting tired. Bloody hell, no wonder people are so fat these days if they need a $3000 dollar contraption to do all their walking for them!
Personally, I walk 6 miles each way to college and back every day. In the rain. And the cold. And the wind. And the dark. Wearing only a t-shirt. And no hat. And the only thing keeping me going is a portion of sausage and chips picked up from the chippy half way there.
Am I the only one who thinks comments like 'This algorithm is the coolest, and just shows why I'm DA BOMB! WOOOHOOOO!' would make the code actually interesting and exciting to read? This sort of thing should be encouraged.
I'm sick of reading code that sounds as if it was written by a librarian.
Well, I for one do NOT like my weather cold and grey. Living in the North of England, I'm lucky to see three days of sun a year. And even then it's freezing cold to make up for it. Having it cold, cloudy and rainy every single fucking day is just downright depressing. Some days I just stay in bed because I just don't want to face another day of such misery. I look out of the window and see it absolutely pissing it down with rain, and think "Fuck it, I'm not going outside in that." Then I just go back to sleep. On New Year's Day, I could barely see 50 yards it was so foggy. What a fucking joke.
If we do find out how to change the weather, it would be an absolute god-send. Imagine, waking up to a warm, sunny day! It'd be like being on holiday every day! No more miserable fucking rain and cloud and wind. I could actually ENJOY leaving the house. It's amazing how much a little sun can cheer you up, so imagine having it sunny every day. It's no coincidence that places with the grimmest, darkest weather have the highest suicide rates. Changing the weather could make millions upon millions of people happier, which can only be a good thing.
Although if you're worried about it affecting the climate, then we could compensate for it by making it permanently cold, cloudy and wet in all the sunny places. Let THEM see what it's like to live in constantly miserable weather. Then they might change their oh-so-fucking-optimistic outlook on life.
Living to 120? That's not living, that's surviving. Surviving miserably. 'Living' involves having an ENJOYABLE life. I.e. doing pleasing things, such as drinking, eating delicious food, doing dangerous things.
If I had to be constantly sober, hungry and unsatisfied from eating nuts and grass, drinking mineral water and playing crap sports for the sole sake of living to some miserable age, I'd just kill myself right now.
What's the point in living to 130 if you're living a hard, miserable empty existence?
"Smile a lot. Be happy. Happy people live longer. They like being alive!"
Except, as you fail to note, being happy depends on being in circumstances which would actually make you happy. You can't change your circumstances, short of winning the lottery and moving to a place where it isn't constantly dark and raining. When your average day consists of 1 hour waiting for a bus in the rain and dark, 1 hour sitting on a clammy, cramped, loud sweaty bus, 12 hours doing difficult, dull and stressful work, 1 hour trying to cook up something edible from the gone-off scraps of food in the cupboard, then the rest of the day lying exhausted on your bed, it's hard to consider yourself 'happy'.
"Sleep well!"
You try sleeping well on a tiny, uncomfortable bed with half the springs broke, the sheets smelling terrible, in a freezing cold room, lit up by over-bright sodium lights outside, and the constant noise of violent louts outside keeping you awake, whilst worrying about unpaid bills and contemplating whether just to end it all or not.
"So don't eat junk food either."
Are you going to cough up the expense of all that luxury healthy food for everyone? No, I didn't think so, so don't complain when I can only afford pasties and chips and pies and burgers. Not all of can afford to go to a fancy restaurant or eat expensive salad sandwiches every lunchtime, or to have prawns and lobster for tea, or to drink healthy mineral water. All I can afford is pudding and cheaps, and the tap water tastes so awful the only option is to drink supermarket brand coke.
Exercise. It keeps your mind clean and your body healthy.
Yeah, everyone wants to go for a run or something in the grim dark of the morning, in the rain and cold and wind, around dodgy places full of thugs and drug dealers, whilst your tired, exhausted body cries out for precious sleep. That sounds like a lovely thing to do. Or maybe you're one of those rich ponces who can afford extortionate gym fees, and a car to get there, and you think that applies to everyone else as well.
Don't drink.
Great, the one, single remaining piece of pleasure I get out of life, gone. Maybe I could spend the time instead fixing the broken water heater or banging my head against the wall.
You know, people like you really piss me off. You have a great, happy life, where everything goes right for you, probably living in some great, happy paradise where everyone is happy and nothing ever goes wrong, and then you can't understand that anyone else could possibly be under worse circumstances than you, or why other people might not feel the same way about abandoning their pleasures and leading an even longer, more miserable life.
Can someone please explain to me how I would be better off by making my life even more miserable and extending the misery by 200%, because I can't see it.
I had a similar experience. I was addicted to a MUD for over a year. I must have spent over 12 hours a day playing it. Fortuanately I had an ISP that didn't charge by the minute, so it didn't cost me anything. This meant I was playing practically whenever I had free time. Eventually, my ISP kicked me off for using it too much, and so I could no longer afford the phone bills to play. I still played though.
But I wasn't enjoying playing it. It was a misery. Everyone one the game hated me, and I hated all of them. I was frequently being banned, but I always found a way back. Eventually I realised how boring it was. My time there consisted entirely of running about, killing a few things, getting killed and starting again. I'd been playing many times longer than many of the other players, yet I was probably the worst player on the game. I got worse and worse at it, each one of my new characters reaching a lower level before I got bored and gave up. When I did die, I'd lose so much (in the way of xp and equipment etc), I'd go insane, smashing up furniture and walls in real life. There's still a foot-wide hole in the wall where I smashed it in using a metal pole
In the end I just got bored and stopped playing. My life has improved since then, but not by much. I still have no friends, I've put on several stone in weight, and time I used to spend playing the game I now spend watching the telly.
I'm probably worse off now than I was playing the game, which suggests that vidoe game addiction isn't as bad as people make it out to be.
Three reviews given, not one of them seemed to be from an unbiased perspective. When I read the first two, I began to think the writers were masturbating as they typed. And the third one, being from 'theonering.net', didn't seem a reliable source of an impartial view either.
Isn't it possible to find a review from someone who isn't an obsessive zealot? I'm interested in finding out how good the film is, and I'm not going to get that from someone who has decided he's going to enjoy the film before he's even seen it.
Secondly, what is the point in having spoilers in a review? The whole point in a review is that you can find out how good the film is, so you can decide whether to see it or not. By giving away what happens in the film, you sort of take away the fun in watching it in the first place. Most reviewers seem to get by reviewing films without giving away every single thing that happens, why can't these reviewers?
Looks like I'll just have to see what the Filthy Critic says, although if he does review it it probably won't be up till February, and then he'll spend 90% of the review talking about his personal problems.
So tell us, why would anyone want to visit your site? What's so special about it that means someone would give away their entire browsing history to the world, saturating their bandwidth and ruining their connection, just to see it?
Face it, all the big important sites aren't going to suddenly start turning away potential customers and ad-viewers just because they're not sharing some sites they don't want to see anyway. And no-one's going to set up a site-sharing node just so they can see your particular site. They'll just go elsewhere.
And when P2P starts to open up the web for everyone, there are going to be a lot of people who are going to be pretty sorry that they were so narrow-minded that they made it easy for colleges, cable companies, and phone companies to restrict bandwidth for P2P networks just to save a few dollars.
Who? Who's going to be sorry? The RIAA? How are they going to be sorry that they prevented people from pirating their work? And why shouldn't they restrict bandwidth for it? Why should a few idiots be able to monopolise the whole network, preventing people from getting serious work done, just so they can rip off some mp3s?
They're.jpegs, which means they have a loss of image quality, which blurs the fonts, making them look nicer than they would actually in reality.
Show me some.pngs, and then you can say the fonts look nice. And then show what happens when you use something other than the default GUI, i.e. if you fire up some GTK or QT or Xforms, or some of the other myriad of toolkits, each rendering fonts in their own special way.
And by the way, the fonts in those screenshots are rendered badly. They are uneven and blurred. Even Windows 98 managed to get nice looking fonts, so why does Linux have so many problems with it?
1) Soda's horrible. Beer is far superior, but you can't get diet beer. Fortuanetly, beer is a healthy beverage with few fats or carbohydrates.
2) Swimming? Ack. I'm not letting anyone see my fat, stretch-mark covered body. I'd sooner die.
3) No thanks, food is my life. I could never cut down on it. Food is the reason I live. It is delicious.
4) On the other hand, doing your own cooking means you can put lots more oil and salt in to make it even more delicious, so it is less healthy. Plus it costs more, and you need to spend years learning how to cook.
5) Well, if you're some millionaire who can afford a gym, you may as well just pay for liposuction.
Well, good for you. You're such a better person because you were born with or brought up to be self disciplined. That makes you so much better than people who through no fault of their own don't have the mental strength to torture themselves every day.
You say it's pushing up your insurance premiums? Well, tough. I don't exist to make your life cheaper. I'm not torturing myself just so you can have more money.
Do you have the same attitude towards cancer victims? After all, you're paying for their diseases and lack of a cure for those diseases. Do they also deserve to die?
Working up to it? It was a bloody half a mile run. I'm not working up to that, that's the least amount of exercise possible. Anything shorter and I wouldn't have gone anywhere!
It's all well and good saying 'Get out and run', but that doesn't solve anything. If people had the self discipline to exercise, they'd exercise. If they don't, then telling them to isn't going to make them.
I am content to be a 'fat fuck', and I don't use excuses. I just don't have the self discipline to force myself to pay loads of money on some shorts and trainers, then put myself through miles of misery and pain and sweat and blisters every week for the sake of losing an ounce of weight, only to put it on again straight away when I have chippy for tea.
Face it, exercise is miserable. It is painful. It is hard, horrible work. And unless you're running miles every week, you're not going to see any benefit from it. I tried going for a run a few months ago. After about half a mile, I just collapsed. My legs were aching and wobbling, my chest was in great pain, my lungs were almost self-destructing trying to bring in precious air. I'm not putting myself through that! I'm not a masochist.
As for dying without 10-20 years. Good. Anything to bring an early end to my miserable existence.
One of the things I noticed in the screenshots of Konqueror was the way it handled downloads. Like most other browsers, the download comes up in a little dialogue box of its own.
However, the way I prefer is how Opera does it. I.e. it has a seperate tab for the downloads, and in that sub-window there is a list of all the downloads, showing progress and speed for each one.
When you're downloading multiple files, this is a godsend, as you can manage and monitor them all in one place, without little dialogue boxes everywhere.
I'd like to see Konqueror and perhaps Mozilla adopt such a system.
It's not how it's prepared. Even the smell of raw coffee beans makes me sick. It's disgusting, such a vile flavour, and no preparation will change that, unless the preparation involves throwing the beans away and replacing them with tea leaves.
As for your instruction '1', why do you need cool water if you're bringing it to the boil anyway?
12oz? That's over half a pint! My cups of tea are about half that!
At 12oz, they'd be cold by the time you'd finished them, unless you downed them, which would burn your throat.
Mind you, I don't know why people drink coffee anyway. It's bitter and rancid. Tea is far sweeter and creamier. Unfortuanetly it doesn't contain enough caffeine.
A good idea would be to switch the caffeine percentages of tea and coffee. Then tea would have more caffeine, and you wouldn't have to sacrifice staying awake for the sake of having a delicious drink.
Surely there are some scientists here who could do that for me?
Erm, it said my score was 0 when I first posted it, now when I reply to it the score is 1, evne though no moderations have been made. Is this is a bug or something?
Satirewire is just not funny. The jokes are obvious and forced, and about subjects which are tired and no longer funny. Sometimes there's something amusing, but the rest is just unoriginal and unfunny.
TheOnion, on the other hand, is consistently great.
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No, it's a relatively flat journey, I don't go over any hills or anything, and the weather's usually too wet for any snow. And I can afford shoes so I don't have to go barefoot.
But surely, if the segway was safe enough to go along the pavements with other people, then it would have to be going the same speed as walking people. And if it's going the same speed as walking people, then WHY THE HELL DON'T YOU JUST WALK????!??!??
Unless of course, you're some INCREDIBLY lazy person who can't even walk without getting tired. Bloody hell, no wonder people are so fat these days if they need a $3000 dollar contraption to do all their walking for them!
Personally, I walk 6 miles each way to college and back every day. In the rain. And the cold. And the wind. And the dark. Wearing only a t-shirt. And no hat. And the only thing keeping me going is a portion of sausage and chips picked up from the chippy half way there.
People are far too soft and lazy these days.
Am I the only one who thinks comments like 'This algorithm is the coolest, and just shows why I'm DA BOMB! WOOOHOOOO!' would make the code actually interesting and exciting to read? This sort of thing should be encouraged.
I'm sick of reading code that sounds as if it was written by a librarian.
Well, I for one do NOT like my weather cold and grey. Living in the North of England, I'm lucky to see three days of sun a year. And even then it's freezing cold to make up for it. Having it cold, cloudy and rainy every single fucking day is just downright depressing. Some days I just stay in bed because I just don't want to face another day of such misery. I look out of the window and see it absolutely pissing it down with rain, and think "Fuck it, I'm not going outside in that." Then I just go back to sleep. On New Year's Day, I could barely see 50 yards it was so foggy. What a fucking joke.
If we do find out how to change the weather, it would be an absolute god-send. Imagine, waking up to a warm, sunny day! It'd be like being on holiday every day! No more miserable fucking rain and cloud and wind. I could actually ENJOY leaving the house. It's amazing how much a little sun can cheer you up, so imagine having it sunny every day. It's no coincidence that places with the grimmest, darkest weather have the highest suicide rates. Changing the weather could make millions upon millions of people happier, which can only be a good thing.
Although if you're worried about it affecting the climate, then we could compensate for it by making it permanently cold, cloudy and wet in all the sunny places. Let THEM see what it's like to live in constantly miserable weather. Then they might change their oh-so-fucking-optimistic outlook on life.
Living to 120? That's not living, that's surviving. Surviving miserably. 'Living' involves having an ENJOYABLE life. I.e. doing pleasing things, such as drinking, eating delicious food, doing dangerous things.
If I had to be constantly sober, hungry and unsatisfied from eating nuts and grass, drinking mineral water and playing crap sports for the sole sake of living to some miserable age, I'd just kill myself right now.
What's the point in living to 130 if you're living a hard, miserable empty existence?
"Smile a lot. Be happy. Happy people live longer. They like being alive!"
Except, as you fail to note, being happy depends on being in circumstances which would actually make you happy. You can't change your circumstances, short of winning the lottery and moving to a place where it isn't constantly dark and raining. When your average day consists of 1 hour waiting for a bus in the rain and dark, 1 hour sitting on a clammy, cramped, loud sweaty bus, 12 hours doing difficult, dull and stressful work, 1 hour trying to cook up something edible from the gone-off scraps of food in the cupboard, then the rest of the day lying exhausted on your bed, it's hard to consider yourself 'happy'.
"Sleep well!"
You try sleeping well on a tiny, uncomfortable bed with half the springs broke, the sheets smelling terrible, in a freezing cold room, lit up by over-bright sodium lights outside, and the constant noise of violent louts outside keeping you awake, whilst worrying about unpaid bills and contemplating whether just to end it all or not.
"So don't eat junk food either."
Are you going to cough up the expense of all that luxury healthy food for everyone? No, I didn't think so, so don't complain when I can only afford pasties and chips and pies and burgers. Not all of can afford to go to a fancy restaurant or eat expensive salad sandwiches every lunchtime, or to have prawns and lobster for tea, or to drink healthy mineral water. All I can afford is pudding and cheaps, and the tap water tastes so awful the only option is to drink supermarket brand coke.
Exercise. It keeps your mind clean and your body healthy.
Yeah, everyone wants to go for a run or something in the grim dark of the morning, in the rain and cold and wind, around dodgy places full of thugs and drug dealers, whilst your tired, exhausted body cries out for precious sleep. That sounds like a lovely thing to do. Or maybe you're one of those rich ponces who can afford extortionate gym fees, and a car to get there, and you think that applies to everyone else as well.
Don't drink.
Great, the one, single remaining piece of pleasure I get out of life, gone. Maybe I could spend the time instead fixing the broken water heater or banging my head against the wall.
You know, people like you really piss me off. You have a great, happy life, where everything goes right for you, probably living in some great, happy paradise where everyone is happy and nothing ever goes wrong, and then you can't understand that anyone else could possibly be under worse circumstances than you, or why other people might not feel the same way about abandoning their pleasures and leading an even longer, more miserable life.
Can someone please explain to me how I would be better off by making my life even more miserable and extending the misery by 200%, because I can't see it.
I had a similar experience. I was addicted to a MUD for over a year. I must have spent over 12 hours a day playing it. Fortuanately I had an ISP that didn't charge by the minute, so it didn't cost me anything. This meant I was playing practically whenever I had free time. Eventually, my ISP kicked me off for using it too much, and so I could no longer afford the phone bills to play. I still played though.
But I wasn't enjoying playing it. It was a misery. Everyone one the game hated me, and I hated all of them. I was frequently being banned, but I always found a way back. Eventually I realised how boring it was. My time there consisted entirely of running about, killing a few things, getting killed and starting again. I'd been playing many times longer than many of the other players, yet I was probably the worst player on the game. I got worse and worse at it, each one of my new characters reaching a lower level before I got bored and gave up. When I did die, I'd lose so much (in the way of xp and equipment etc), I'd go insane, smashing up furniture and walls in real life. There's still a foot-wide hole in the wall where I smashed it in using a metal pole
In the end I just got bored and stopped playing. My life has improved since then, but not by much. I still have no friends, I've put on several stone in weight, and time I used to spend playing the game I now spend watching the telly.
I'm probably worse off now than I was playing the game, which suggests that vidoe game addiction isn't as bad as people make it out to be.
Three reviews given, not one of them seemed to be from an unbiased perspective. When I read the first two, I began to think the writers were masturbating as they typed. And the third one, being from 'theonering.net', didn't seem a reliable source of an impartial view either.
Isn't it possible to find a review from someone who isn't an obsessive zealot? I'm interested in finding out how good the film is, and I'm not going to get that from someone who has decided he's going to enjoy the film before he's even seen it.
Secondly, what is the point in having spoilers in a review? The whole point in a review is that you can find out how good the film is, so you can decide whether to see it or not. By giving away what happens in the film, you sort of take away the fun in watching it in the first place. Most reviewers seem to get by reviewing films without giving away every single thing that happens, why can't these reviewers?
Looks like I'll just have to see what the Filthy Critic says, although if he does review it it probably won't be up till February, and then he'll spend 90% of the review talking about his personal problems.
Yes, because then I can go back and change the error, rather than having to type the whole thing in again!
So tell us, why would anyone want to visit your site? What's so special about it that means someone would give away their entire browsing history to the world, saturating their bandwidth and ruining their connection, just to see it?
Face it, all the big important sites aren't going to suddenly start turning away potential customers and ad-viewers just because they're not sharing some sites they don't want to see anyway. And no-one's going to set up a site-sharing node just so they can see your particular site. They'll just go elsewhere.
And when P2P starts to open up the web for everyone, there are going to be a lot of people who are going to be pretty sorry that they were so narrow-minded that they made it easy for colleges, cable companies, and phone companies to restrict bandwidth for P2P networks just to save a few dollars.
Who? Who's going to be sorry? The RIAA? How are they going to be sorry that they prevented people from pirating their work? And why shouldn't they restrict bandwidth for it? Why should a few idiots be able to monopolise the whole network, preventing people from getting serious work done, just so they can rip off some mp3s?
But those screenshots are meaningless.
.jpegs, which means they have a loss of image quality, which blurs the fonts, making them look nicer than they would actually in reality.
.pngs, and then you can say the fonts look nice. And then show what happens when you use something other than the default GUI, i.e. if you fire up some GTK or QT or Xforms, or some of the other myriad of toolkits, each rendering fonts in their own special way.
They're
Show me some
And by the way, the fonts in those screenshots are rendered badly. They are uneven and blurred. Even Windows 98 managed to get nice looking fonts, so why does Linux have so many problems with it?
Yeah, I used to play on a MUD. And on that MUD, whenever you buy an account, the account is fucking nuked, and that's how it should be.
This whole thing makes a fucking mockery of all the time and effort people have put into the game.
1) Soda's horrible. Beer is far superior, but you can't get diet beer. Fortuanetly, beer is a healthy beverage with few fats or carbohydrates.
2) Swimming? Ack. I'm not letting anyone see my fat, stretch-mark covered body. I'd sooner die.
3) No thanks, food is my life. I could never cut down on it. Food is the reason I live. It is delicious.
4) On the other hand, doing your own cooking means you can put lots more oil and salt in to make it even more delicious, so it is less healthy. Plus it costs more, and you need to spend years learning how to cook.
5) Well, if you're some millionaire who can afford a gym, you may as well just pay for liposuction.
6) Oh god, I'd rather die than dance.
Well, good for you. You're such a better person because you were born with or brought up to be self disciplined. That makes you so much better than people who through no fault of their own don't have the mental strength to torture themselves every day.
You say it's pushing up your insurance premiums? Well, tough. I don't exist to make your life cheaper. I'm not torturing myself just so you can have more money.
Do you have the same attitude towards cancer victims? After all, you're paying for their diseases and lack of a cure for those diseases. Do they also deserve to die?
Working up to it? It was a bloody half a mile run. I'm not working up to that, that's the least amount of exercise possible. Anything shorter and I wouldn't have gone anywhere!
It's all well and good saying 'Get out and run', but that doesn't solve anything. If people had the self discipline to exercise, they'd exercise. If they don't, then telling them to isn't going to make them.
I am content to be a 'fat fuck', and I don't use excuses. I just don't have the self discipline to force myself to pay loads of money on some shorts and trainers, then put myself through miles of misery and pain and sweat and blisters every week for the sake of losing an ounce of weight, only to put it on again straight away when I have chippy for tea.
Face it, exercise is miserable. It is painful. It is hard, horrible work. And unless you're running miles every week, you're not going to see any benefit from it. I tried going for a run a few months ago. After about half a mile, I just collapsed. My legs were aching and wobbling, my chest was in great pain, my lungs were almost self-destructing trying to bring in precious air. I'm not putting myself through that! I'm not a masochist.
As for dying without 10-20 years. Good. Anything to bring an early end to my miserable existence.
If the beeb can make it pay with no ads, why can't the other satelite channels?
They can, the day the government forces all TV viewers to pay over £100/year to those channels even if they don't watch them.
One of the things I noticed in the screenshots of Konqueror was the way it handled downloads. Like most other browsers, the download comes up in a little dialogue box of its own.
However, the way I prefer is how Opera does it. I.e. it has a seperate tab for the downloads, and in that sub-window there is a list of all the downloads, showing progress and speed for each one.
When you're downloading multiple files, this is a godsend, as you can manage and monitor them all in one place, without little dialogue boxes everywhere.
I'd like to see Konqueror and perhaps Mozilla adopt such a system.
But unfortuanetly with real life, there are some legal snags that crop up when you go round shooting people.
It's not how it's prepared. Even the smell of raw coffee beans makes me sick. It's disgusting, such a vile flavour, and no preparation will change that, unless the preparation involves throwing the beans away and replacing them with tea leaves.
As for your instruction '1', why do you need cool water if you're bringing it to the boil anyway?
12oz? That's over half a pint! My cups of tea are about half that!
At 12oz, they'd be cold by the time you'd finished them, unless you downed them, which would burn your throat.
Mind you, I don't know why people drink coffee anyway. It's bitter and rancid. Tea is far sweeter and creamier. Unfortuanetly it doesn't contain enough caffeine.
A good idea would be to switch the caffeine percentages of tea and coffee. Then tea would have more caffeine, and you wouldn't have to sacrifice staying awake for the sake of having a delicious drink.
Surely there are some scientists here who could do that for me?
Erm, it said my score was 0 when I first posted it, now when I reply to it the score is 1, evne though no moderations have been made. Is this is a bug or something?
Yes!
A large pair of pliars: £50.
An electric cattle prod: £200.
A blow-torch: £300.
Some nipple-sized pastry cutters: £5.
Torturing someone to death for rehashing another one of those tired Mastercard jokes: priceless.
Satirewire is just not funny. The jokes are obvious and forced, and about subjects which are tired and no longer funny. Sometimes there's something amusing, but the rest is just unoriginal and unfunny.
TheOnion, on the other hand, is consistently great.
Fencing isn't sword fighting, it's prodding each other with needles. How dull.
They should use proper longswords and stop wearing those crap costumes.