It's amazing how many people can't handle having their noses tweaked. Suck it up and move on, and be glad they only do this to you once a year...
If there's childishness in the Linux 'community', it's all of the whiners acting like Rob and Illiad were torturing small children instead of playing a prank.
Heh, well.. I guess they are, after a fashion..
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You're right, but the font is not the giveaway: Arial is the default font for most browsers. So if you don't specify anything else, and just slap a page together, Arial is what you'll see..
Then they would have clamped down on Tripping The Rift and T.R.O.O.P.S. a long time ago, and certainly before going after a cartoon website and a parody news site.
[sarcasm] Yeah, I guess it's too much to assume that Illiad could coordinate with the guy who runs Segfault and whatever other sites are down.. we've given them too much credit for being clever. [/sarcasm]
If it were 100 sites, yeah, I could see your point, but 3? Hell, that's two emails and 2 response emails minimum to set this up. No sweat. And as for the set-up time.. go check out any of the AFD archive sites, you'll find -very- elaborate and well-planned stunts there..
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Brings a whole new meaning to the term 'backdoor', eh?
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And the USG, if they really thought you were a terrorist, would most likely either send you a Special Delivery Tomahawk, or use a more brute-force method of system entry.. 5.56mm packets running at 600fps all the way down your backbone and into your low-level processes..
Yeah, nearly forgot about the dye.. I remember vaguely having to have a scan of some kind done when I was a kid, they shot my arm up with a horse-sized syringe full of some really painful stuff.. they claimed the only reason it was painful was because the dumb bitch nurse missed the vein and squirted the crap basically everywhere in my arm but where it was supposed to go. They also told me I broke the nurse's nose. In two places. And then they wanted me to let them try again.. bastards.
I'd have given anything to have this kind of technology available back then..
I thought McCoy's little spinny scanner was a salt shaker, but I could be wrong..
Whatever this biomed stuff turns out to be, it's gotta be better than taking a needle or sucking down a pint of barium for a CT scan or MRI or whatever they make you take that nasty stuff for.
Sigh. Ok, the humor is in the misquoting.. Think of all the AOL-stereotypes and WebTV kids, not to mention the people who are getting the PIII for it's 'enhanced Internet capability'.. do they or do they not remind you of a 'million monkeys' clacking away happily on their keyboards?
There's plenty of monkeys out there.. just waiting for their chance at their very own version of 'Much Ado About Nothing'.
If anything, having the boxes on both sides of the page would force the text in the middle to be not as wide as only having boxes down the one side of the page, given a window of the same dimensions.. and the text on my monitor would still be at the same level of comfort for me to read, since I would make the window wider to accomodate the left-hand boxes. (Oh wow, surprise, yeah that's right, I have already figured out the best window size for me.. 1280x1024 is my desktop resolution, did I say anything about it being the browser size?) Having it all on the screen is better than having to scroll.
Any chance of letting us put some boxes on the left side of the page? Then people who like to have all of that crap, er useful info, showing won't have a page 8 miles long.
This is a good thing anyway, I mean, no one employed by the US Government really -needs- to have a Furby at their workplace. They waste enough of our cash as it is, without that kind of nonsense keeping them distracted.
The bookstore I'm helping to switch to a new computer (dual boot now, hopefully pure Linux soon) uses hoary old HOS programs called Books In Print and Flashback, for ordering books from distributors. BIP is probably already 2 years old, and the last time Flashback was seriously updated was 1995. Neither of these programs have a snowball's chance of being ported to anything else besides Win9x. Yes, I'm hoping Wine gets robust enough to run these two progs (BIP almost works now).. otherwise it means that two people who have zero time to do anything but run a bookstore now will also have to learn a new database program (and phone in orders manually instead), or be stuck with an Albatross called Windows.
That analogy doesnt work mainly because you can put a dolphin in a pickup truck and haul it somewhere else, or put it on a boat and dump it out offshore, or just bury it somewhere. They're smaller, you see. Smaller than a multi-ton whale the size of a school bus.
But if you did put a stick of dynamite in a dead dolphin, chances are good you wouldn't have to worry about your car getting crushed by the debris, so no, it wouldn't be funny for that reason. Cute has nothing to do with it.
And don't confuse blowing up live animals with blowing up dead ones. The whale was dead. It was a hunk of inanimate meat. Not alive. Perhaps we should have a therapy session with its next of kin? Would that be respectful? Would we then be compassionate? Why are you so hyped up about a freakin already-dead whale? If you want to spend your compassion on something worthwhile, go to a VA hospital, and see if you can get a description of a mortar shell or land mine scoring a direct hit on a human being. Then make friends with the guys that saw it happen. That would be worthwhile. Flapping around about a dead whale isn't.
Since when did a dead, bloated, half-rotten whale corpse earn anything resembling respect? You can respect it if you want to, but the rest of humanity will certainly avoid it at all costs.
Machine-gunning a box full of live squirrels, now, -that's- disrespect. Blowing up a dead whale corpse is just idiotic.
Now, here's the point again, since you obviously missed it the first time around: the funny part is the property damage the so-called 'experts' caused by their stupidity. That and 3 tons of whale meat flung into the air.. =)
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It's amazing how many people can't handle having their noses tweaked. Suck it up and move on, and be glad they only do this to you once a year...
If there's childishness in the Linux 'community', it's all of the whiners acting like Rob and Illiad were torturing small children instead of playing a prank.
Heh, well.. I guess they are, after a fashion..
You're right, but the font is not the giveaway: Arial is the default font for most browsers. So if you don't specify anything else, and just slap a page together, Arial is what you'll see..
Then they would have clamped down on Tripping The Rift and T.R.O.O.P.S. a long time ago, and certainly before going after a cartoon website and a parody news site.
Or 'Microsoft Twit'
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Yeah, I guess it's too much to assume that Illiad could coordinate with the guy who runs Segfault and whatever other sites are down.. we've given them too much credit for being clever.
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If it were 100 sites, yeah, I could see your point, but 3? Hell, that's two emails and 2 response emails minimum to set this up. No sweat. And as for the set-up time.. go check out any of the AFD archive sites, you'll find -very- elaborate and well-planned stunts there..
The really good ones pretty much -have- to be started in advance in order to be believable..
Isn't this a bit coincidental? With a certain prank-playing day?
It's gonna be like this all day.. be prepared. =)
That's all we need, not only the celphone-talkers not paying attention to where they're going, but the cops as well..
I can see it now: Officer Dies in High Speed Crash, Distracted by TinySex
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Brings a whole new meaning to the term 'backdoor', eh?
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And the USG, if they really thought you were a terrorist, would most likely either send you a Special Delivery Tomahawk, or use a more brute-force method of system entry.. 5.56mm packets running at 600fps all the way down your backbone and into your low-level processes..
Sorry. =)
Yeah, nearly forgot about the dye.. I remember vaguely having to have a scan of some kind done when I was a kid, they shot my arm up with a horse-sized syringe full of some really painful stuff.. they claimed the only reason it was painful was because the dumb bitch nurse missed the vein and squirted the crap basically everywhere in my arm but where it was supposed to go. They also told me I broke the nurse's nose. In two places. And then they wanted me to let them try again.. bastards.
I'd have given anything to have this kind of technology available back then..
I thought McCoy's little spinny scanner was a salt shaker, but I could be wrong..
Whatever this biomed stuff turns out to be, it's gotta be better than taking a needle or sucking down a pint of barium for a CT scan or MRI or whatever they make you take that nasty stuff for.
Sigh. Ok, the humor is in the misquoting.. Think of all the AOL-stereotypes and WebTV kids, not to mention the people who are getting the PIII for it's 'enhanced Internet capability'.. do they or do they not remind you of a 'million monkeys' clacking away happily on their keyboards?
There's plenty of monkeys out there.. just waiting for their chance at their very own version of 'Much Ado About Nothing'.
Uhh, yeah ok, Dad. Will do. =P
If anything, having the boxes on both sides of the page would force the text in the middle to be not as wide as only having boxes down the one side of the page, given a window of the same dimensions.. and the text on my monitor would still be at the same level of comfort for me to read, since I would make the window wider to accomodate the left-hand boxes. (Oh wow, surprise, yeah that's right, I have already figured out the best window size for me.. 1280x1024 is my desktop resolution, did I say anything about it being the browser size?) Having it all on the screen is better than having to scroll.
Any chance of letting us put some boxes on the left side of the page? Then people who like to have all of that crap, er useful info, showing won't have a page 8 miles long.
Pewlett Hackard? Nah, sounds more like a law firm.
Kinda got the Stevie Ray Vaughn look goin there, Rob..
Or is that the My Ass Is Stuck to This Metal Wall scowl? =)
Too funny! =)
This is a good thing anyway, I mean, no one employed by the US Government really -needs- to have a Furby at their workplace. They waste enough of our cash as it is, without that kind of nonsense keeping them distracted.
The bookstore I'm helping to switch to a new computer (dual boot now, hopefully pure Linux soon) uses hoary old HOS programs called Books In Print and Flashback, for ordering books from distributors. BIP is probably already 2 years old, and the last time Flashback was seriously updated was 1995. Neither of these programs have a snowball's chance of being ported to anything else besides Win9x. Yes, I'm hoping Wine gets robust enough to run these two progs (BIP almost works now).. otherwise it means that two people who have zero time to do anything but run a bookstore now will also have to learn a new database program (and phone in orders manually instead), or be stuck with an Albatross called Windows.
That analogy doesnt work mainly because you can put a dolphin in a pickup truck and haul it somewhere else, or put it on a boat and dump it out offshore, or just bury it somewhere. They're smaller, you see. Smaller than a multi-ton whale the size of a school bus.
But if you did put a stick of dynamite in a dead dolphin, chances are good you wouldn't have to worry about your car getting crushed by the debris, so no, it wouldn't be funny for that reason. Cute has nothing to do with it.
And don't confuse blowing up live animals with blowing up dead ones. The whale was dead. It was a hunk of inanimate meat. Not alive. Perhaps we should have a therapy session with its next of kin? Would that be respectful? Would we then be compassionate? Why are you so hyped up about a freakin already-dead whale? If you want to spend your compassion on something worthwhile, go to a VA hospital, and see if you can get a description of a mortar shell or land mine scoring a direct hit on a human being. Then make friends with the guys that saw it happen. That would be worthwhile. Flapping around about a dead whale isn't.
it's still disrespectful to animals.
Since when did a dead, bloated, half-rotten whale corpse earn anything resembling respect? You can respect it if you want to, but the rest of humanity will certainly avoid it at all costs.
Machine-gunning a box full of live squirrels, now, -that's- disrespect. Blowing up a dead whale corpse is just idiotic.
Now, here's the point again, since you obviously missed it the first time around: the funny part is the property damage the so-called 'experts' caused by their stupidity. That and 3 tons of whale meat flung into the air.. =)