now if only I played RPGs, I could carry the books on my Palm, yay!
Heh. I used to run my dungeons in a FileMaker Pro database on a borrowed PowerBook Duo. I built the worlds on my Quadra 700 and transferred it to the Duo via floppy disk (the owner had a dock). The most fun was coming up with sound effects to deal with game events: chimes for treasure, screams for player deaths, howls for monster deaths and a soundbite of Letterman saying "You babies!" for player complaints.
I really wish slashdot had a mod option of "fucking idiot". I once suggested "clueless" as a substitute for either "flamebait" or "troll" (which overlap, IMHO) but that was rejected.
It's under Bush adminstration that the FCC just levied record fines for Janet Jackson flashing a nipple on the television. It's been the Bush administration's FCC that has gone after Howard Stern for the sake of "the children." It was the Reagan Administration's Meese Commission that pressured 7/11 convenience stores to stop carrying adult magazines. The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which required filtering software in public libraries was introduced by Rep. Bob Franks, a Republican from New Jersey.
Sigh. You're suffering from the same delusion that the Kerry campaign is operating under, namely, that nuanced rational argument backed up by facts will sway the electorate.
As Churchill pointed out, democracy is the worst form of government devised by man. Except for all the others.
Hasn't anyone at SETI read The Forge of God? We need to just STFU and listen, not broadcast where we are so the Destroyers can find us! (In a nutshell: a highly paranoid alien race listens for broadcasts from nascent technological civilizations and eradicates them before they can become a threat.)
Seriously, we have no idea of the mindset and capabilities of alien civilizations. The novel's viewpoint is arguable, but caution dictates that we determine the intentions of outsiders before we announce our presence (cf. American Indians vs. Europeans).
I can tell you Citibank does take this sort of thing seriously, and they are interested to know where the sites are being hosted.
Then why does mail to fraud@citibank bounce? If they actually cared (and had half a brain) they'd enable fraud, abuse, spam, scam, etc. and actually pay attention to people who try to report these things.
Perhaps you could mention this to them, since you seem to have a relationship...
What I really want, however, is a "turn off flash" quick menu item, same for animated gifs
Get PithHelmet, a great little ad blocker for Safari. Supresses most Flash crap, and you can limit animated gifs to a single run. The web is a much calmer place with PithHelmet installed.
maybe we should try to figure out what he's saying and take him up on that?
Good luck with that. I'm still not sure if he's serious or not. Either way, it's vastly entertaining. He seems to have become a lot more cranky since I last checked in, about a year ago.
I meant to say saturated fatty acids that can raise your cholesterol levels...
Ah, right, although this appears to occur only with coffee brewed by methods which leave lots of particulates in the final beverage, e.g., French press or Swedish steep. I suppose Turkish coffee would qualify as well, since it's basically a coffee-dust suspension.
I dislike the moral high ground on things like this....In order for you to live, other things must die. Period. It is impossible for you to live without causing the death of animals and plants.
True, but one can reduce the number of animals killed and the resources wasted raising them. The issue isn't "the moral high ground", it's efficient use of limited resources.
I find it very disturbing how little value people give to life. It is sad that people make fun of things like this. I am not an animal rights advocate but still animals are not simply on earth so we can use them up.
Thanks for expressing a compassionate viewpoint. Now prepare yourself for the onslaught of PETA-hating vegetarian-bashing omnivores who make up the majority of Slashdot posters on subjects like this...
I haven't read enough of his stuff to know if he's really solidly apple, but there are often links from Apple's hot news site to articles about how walt has enjoyed iPods and iMacs.
I'll repeat my offer for tinfoil beanie discounts that I mentioned in a previous post. Just email me at wankerbait@ridiculousparanoids.com and I'll set you up with case pricing.
Mossberg likes Apple products? He must be a shill! Burn the witch!
anyone who is fortunate to write for the WSJ wields a stupdi amount of power over a lot of folks with stock portfolios
Sigh. Did you bother to RTFA? Mossberg wasn't "fortunate", he bloody well earned his spot on the WSJ, and he has done nothing to tarnish his reputation, ever. Listen, I have a good deal on tinfoil beanies for you. Email me at wankerbait@ridiculousparanoids.com and I'll set you up with a system guaranteed to repel the onslaught of devious WSJ writers.
the app now also features a cool track melding feature
That's been available for a while, actually. I wish it could be done after import, because sometimes I forget (or don't realize) that some tracks are seamless on the CD, and have to rerip it to get the seamless iTunes file.
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Unrounded D4s....One of my most painful memories is stepping on one of those buggers.
I guess you missed your Dex throw against the Caltrop of Mighty Hopping.
"Play hard, play tough. Nike lead lined athletic wear."
Heh. If Nike could come up with a substance that blocks magnetic fields, they could retire from the clothing industry. But playing along with your premise, the ads would probably be pitched at the Entitled Rich:
Sign up now for Dr. Mengele's Sure Protection Of Reliable Traits and assure the survival of your gene line! Qualified applicants only. Vee vill determine who iss qvalified."
I consider myself an honest person, e.g., I'll bring errors in a restaurant check to the server's attention even if they're in my favor. However, if my state wants to tax me for internet purchases, they'll have to come up with a way to do it that doesn't require me to keep track of every single purchase. If you're going to collect money from me against my will, then don't expect me to volunteer, for $ORGANIZING_PRINCIPLEs sake.
The fact that I actually do keep track of every single purchase is beside the point. Most people don't, so this ends up being a tax on the conscientious. Shouldn't governments reward conscientious people??
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"Smart clothes," feh. Wake me up when they've developed mimetic polycarbon.
China inspected a grand-total of 1.8 million bars, and ordered about 18,000 of those bars to "to stop operation for rectification"
That's Chinese for "bend over and spread 'em."
ya know not everyone who disagrees with you is an idiot, yer french hating republican.
You talking to me or the original poster? I'm neither French-hating nor Republican.
now if only I played RPGs, I could carry the books on my Palm, yay!
Heh. I used to run my dungeons in a FileMaker Pro database on a borrowed PowerBook Duo. I built the worlds on my Quadra 700 and transferred it to the Duo via floppy disk (the owner had a dock). The most fun was coming up with sound effects to deal with game events: chimes for treasure, screams for player deaths, howls for monster deaths and a soundbite of Letterman saying "You babies!" for player complaints.
excuse me for not reading the loong article.
I really wish slashdot had a mod option of "fucking idiot". I once suggested "clueless" as a substitute for either "flamebait" or "troll" (which overlap, IMHO) but that was rejected.
It's under Bush adminstration that the FCC just levied record fines for Janet Jackson flashing a nipple on the television. It's been the Bush administration's FCC that has gone after Howard Stern for the sake of "the children." It was the Reagan Administration's Meese Commission that pressured 7/11 convenience stores to stop carrying adult magazines. The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which required filtering software in public libraries was introduced by Rep. Bob Franks, a Republican from New Jersey.
Sigh. You're suffering from the same delusion that the Kerry campaign is operating under, namely, that nuanced rational argument backed up by facts will sway the electorate.
As Churchill pointed out, democracy is the worst form of government devised by man. Except for all the others.
We've seen what can happen with the diebold machines
Yeah, but have you seen this? Don't even need a Gameboy to hack the election...
Hasn't anyone at SETI read The Forge of God? We need to just STFU and listen, not broadcast where we are so the Destroyers can find us! (In a nutshell: a highly paranoid alien race listens for broadcasts from nascent technological civilizations and eradicates them before they can become a threat.)
Seriously, we have no idea of the mindset and capabilities of alien civilizations. The novel's viewpoint is arguable, but caution dictates that we determine the intentions of outsiders before we announce our presence (cf. American Indians vs. Europeans).
Uh did you miss where he said that he was getting lock problems? That means he's outgrown it and it is "broke."
He said "data lock-in", meaning "proprietary", not "lock" as in "data contention".
I can tell you Citibank does take this sort of thing seriously, and they are interested to know where the sites are being hosted.
Then why does mail to fraud@citibank bounce? If they actually cared (and had half a brain) they'd enable fraud, abuse, spam, scam, etc. and actually pay attention to people who try to report these things.
Perhaps you could mention this to them, since you seem to have a relationship...
PKD is so respected that no one in the film industry would even dare making a subpar movie.
Actually, that's not so far from the truth: Wired 11.12: The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick
What I really want, however, is a "turn off flash" quick menu item, same for animated gifs
Get PithHelmet, a great little ad blocker for Safari. Supresses most Flash crap, and you can limit animated gifs to a single run. The web is a much calmer place with PithHelmet installed.
maybe we should try to figure out what he's saying and take him up on that?
Good luck with that. I'm still not sure if he's serious or not. Either way, it's vastly entertaining. He seems to have become a lot more cranky since I last checked in, about a year ago.
I meant to say saturated fatty acids that can raise your cholesterol levels...
Ah, right, although this appears to occur only with coffee brewed by methods which leave lots of particulates in the final beverage, e.g., French press or Swedish steep. I suppose Turkish coffee would qualify as well, since it's basically a coffee-dust suspension.
This results in far more efficient extraction of fatty fractions (containing caffeine but also cholesterol)
Um, coffee beans don't contain cholesterol. No plant products do.
I dislike the moral high ground on things like this....In order for you to live, other things must die. Period. It is impossible for you to live without causing the death of animals and plants.
True, but one can reduce the number of animals killed and the resources wasted raising them. The issue isn't "the moral high ground", it's efficient use of limited resources.
I find it very disturbing how little value people give to life. It is sad that people make fun of things like this. I am not an animal rights advocate but still animals are not simply on earth so we can use them up.
Thanks for expressing a compassionate viewpoint. Now prepare yourself for the onslaught of PETA-hating vegetarian-bashing omnivores who make up the majority of Slashdot posters on subjects like this...
I haven't read enough of his stuff to know if he's really solidly apple, but there are often links from Apple's hot news site to articles about how walt has enjoyed iPods and iMacs.
I'll repeat my offer for tinfoil beanie discounts that I mentioned in a previous post. Just email me at wankerbait@ridiculousparanoids.com and I'll set you up with case pricing.
Mossberg likes Apple products? He must be a shill! Burn the witch!
anyone who is fortunate to write for the WSJ wields a stupdi amount of power over a lot of folks with stock portfolios
Sigh. Did you bother to RTFA? Mossberg wasn't "fortunate", he bloody well earned his spot on the WSJ, and he has done nothing to tarnish his reputation, ever. Listen, I have a good deal on tinfoil beanies for you. Email me at wankerbait@ridiculousparanoids.com and I'll set you up with a system guaranteed to repel the onslaught of devious WSJ writers.
the app now also features a cool track melding feature
That's been available for a while, actually. I wish it could be done after import, because sometimes I forget (or don't realize) that some tracks are seamless on the CD, and have to rerip it to get the seamless iTunes file.
Unrounded D4s....One of my most painful memories is stepping on one of those buggers.
I guess you missed your Dex throw against the Caltrop of Mighty Hopping.
"Play hard, play tough. Nike lead lined athletic wear."
Heh. If Nike could come up with a substance that blocks magnetic fields, they could retire from the clothing industry. But playing along with your premise, the ads would probably be pitched at the Entitled Rich:
I always seem to forget about it until I do my taxes.
Yeah, my memory is similarly faulty. Funny how that works.
I consider myself an honest person, e.g., I'll bring errors in a restaurant check to the server's attention even if they're in my favor. However, if my state wants to tax me for internet purchases, they'll have to come up with a way to do it that doesn't require me to keep track of every single purchase. If you're going to collect money from me against my will, then don't expect me to volunteer, for $ORGANIZING_PRINCIPLEs sake.
The fact that I actually do keep track of every single purchase is beside the point. Most people don't, so this ends up being a tax on the conscientious. Shouldn't governments reward conscientious people??
"No matter how idiotproof you make a device, an ingenious idiot in the field will discover a workaround."