But, instead of providing a way to contact the ACTUAL driver, it should be a 1-900 pay-per-call phone service:
(VOICEOVER:)
Cut off in traffic? Behind a slow driver in the fast lane? Is some dimwit blocking you from changing lanes to get to your exit? Road rage is a felony, so don't take it out on them, TAKE IT OUT ON US!
At 1-900-HEY-AHOLE, we have representatives on call around the clock trained to take your verbal abuse! For just $3.99/minute, you can cuss, swear and threaten a real live asshole at any time of the day or night!
Remember that number again is 1-900-HEY-AHOLE,
because $3.99/minute is a LOT cheaper than what a defense attorney will charge you just to use the restroom!
How about instead of getting a traditional large screen TV, I buy one of those ever-less-expensive LCD computer projectors (which has full A/V in/out ports)? Are any of you using a setup like this at home instead of a normal large screen TV? Whaddayathinkofit?
We use one (a Viewsonic LCD projector) at our church to watch movies with our youth group, and the picture quality is pretty amazing. We can make that thing 12 feet diagonal and it's like being in the theater. Combine one of those with this gadget, and HDTV is still way overpriced, but now it's overpriced and HUGE!
Arrrrgggh! See, this is what happens when I/. before coffee.
I also found a misstatement in the last couple of lines where I used the word "illegal" instead of "NOT WRONG". BIG diffence - most of them are quite aware that file copying is very likely most probably illegal, but they also think the law is bogus and are willing to continue filesharing copyrighted music regardless. (That was the point of my anecdote, if you recall.)
/. needs to add a caffeine detection module to the lameness filter -- Someone mod me down before I post again.
BTW, on the subject of the smoker's myopia to which you refer, I'm not active at all with P2P. I have tried Kazaa and others in the past, but I just don't listen to enough music to bother. We still have a couple of decent radio stations in our area (numbers swindling) and I mostly listen to talk/sports anyway. Most of the stuff I downloaded was me trying to identify background songs and music from (~~shudder~~) commercials I've heard on TV and radio. I have a small collection of MP3s, but most are ripped from my own meager CD collection.
"What these kids don't realize is that every time they pull up music and movies and make a copy, they are committing a felony under the United States code," Carter said in an interview. "If you were to prosecute someone and give them three years, I think this would act as a deterrent."
Mmmmm, OK, except that it ain't just kids. A long while back, one of my BOSSed wandered into my office and asked me a question:
Boss: So, what do you use for downloading music?
Me: Legal or illegal?
Boss: Well, it's ALL illegal.
(He's also an XM subscriber.)
It was at that moment that I realized the RIAA is right: They are doomed. People (almost all people) simply do not consider downloading music to be breaking the law, not when they can hear music for free on the radio and Empty-V. As far as they are concerned, this is just radio without DJs, kickbacks and corporate-administered playlists.
Hmmm, what I want to know is who asked you to do this?
The PTA?
A teacher or administrator at your school?
Some of your classmates?
This sounds sneaky and underhanded; and DOUBLY so if they approached your cash-strapped administrator with a make money fast scheme along the lines of collecting soup can labels.
C'mon, this is a guy who believe utility is more important than beauty. Surely this 500 pound beast of a wife of his is desperate enough regardless of what ring he gets.
Trust me, man. *NO* woman is desperate enough to think that a secret decoder wedding ring is OK. She might be desperate enough to lie about it, but SHE WILL NOT THINK THIS IS COOL.;)
My solution was to coin the word "triple-you". (Get it? 'www' = THREE double-u's or ONE triple-u! You can even write it like this: "\/\/\/"!)
I HATE 'dub-dub-dub' because it has caught on with several particularly moronic radio sportstalk hosts in my area who spamvertise URLs for pay-for-babe sites on their shows.
BLECCH!
Now, I like babes too, but all of these fartknockers should be forced to kneel down thank God that Tim Berners-Lee and the other lowly CERN physicists needed a better way to distribute particle collider data in a clear and orderly (annotated!) fashion, paving the way for their skank-scrawny-silicon-bimbo-of-the-month obsession.
I have this stupid fantasy that one day, I'll actually take over the world and a working knowledge of Quantum Mechanics will be a requirement for citizenship.
MU-HU-HU-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Although at this point, bluntly, I'd be happy if they could just do algebra without complaining.
Yeah, I remember the movie Total Recall with R'Nold...a movie essentially about a colony on Mars. The scariest scene in the movie is when they show Quayle on the screen as President. I just about peed my pants!;)
You know what bothered me about TR? What did the martians breathe **WHILE** they building the air oxygen machine?
Yeah, I know, Arnold movie - check your brain at the door. I love his movies, though. (Guilty Pleasure) My least-favorite-consequence -of-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics is that I'll never be able to watch Commando for the first time again. (sigh)
I really do wish you luck, but did you run this past her?
Are you **ABSOLUTELY** **CERTAIN** she's OK with the idea of jewelry that "does stuff"?
Don't get me wrong - I'd love the idea of having a ring that could double as a compass or has a laser or maybe has a web server in it. But I'm not a chick for a reason. My wife would have killed me if I got her a ring that did anything except sit there and depreciate - that's why I let her pick it out. If nothing else, tell her that its super-power is that it also cuts glass.
Seriously, man -- stop the bleeding before it starts. THIS COULD BE A TEST! Chicks *love* doing kind of thing to us.
I don't think they should do it. Any donation that sacrifices choice is best left on the table, regardless of where it comes from. The educational system should be based on preparing the students to think more betterer, not advancing OS holy wars.
Having said that, they're nuts if they *aren't* teaching Linux because it's real software, it's free and the students have access to the source code. What other reason do you need? I mean, you have to worry about plagiarism in OS design classes, but that's been not going to go away by only teaching Microsoft, either.
Now, having said that, it bothers me that Universities teach Microsoft software at all. I mean, it isn't that freaking hard, people: you have help files, MSTechNet and Google -- what the hell else do you need?! You will spend the rest of your lives getting lost in Microsoft's support center, so why not use the university time you've got to take something that's going to change you as a person, and **WON'T** be obsolete in three years - something like math or philosophy, or literature?
Hey, it's early and I've only had three cups of joe so I'm probably talking out of my hinder, but what are the odds that the marketing of these disposable phones was proposed by law enforcement as a ruse to bait terrorists and criminals into using a very easily monitored private network for all of their communications?
Check me if I'm wrong on this, but I believe the Atari 400/800 are a couple of years older than the C64, which would make *it* the oldest system to run a web browser. I had one (an 800) with 32 whopping-mo-fo-kilobytes of RAM in, like, 1981.
Who cares about all the irrelevant patent-expired-15-years-ago intellectual property? If IBM bought SCO, they could issue a memo cancelling the lawsuit. Let's not beat around the bush here, what SCO is perpetrating here is extortion by lawsuit, and nothing more.
And this is almost symbiotic and worthwhile. If you *really* like a product, I don't see why it would be anything but worthwhile to everybody accept compensation for endorsing it.
And life just gets more and more like TV: Now, I have to consider whether my family/friends/coworkers are "gettin' paid" before I take them up on that recommendation to see "Master Of Disguise II".
Thanks, but no thanks. I like to think that my wife's-best-friend's movie recommendations suck because she has bad taste.
The Kodak EasyShare LS633 zoom digital camera is designed for photographers who want to capture and share photos while enjoying the benefits of advanced technology.
Criminy, who writes this crap -- Kodak's marketing division? If I was going to waste my education by rearranging cliches on paper instead of doing actual writing, I'd at least have the respect for my audience to use a cliche dictionary to hunt down some really good ones. This sucks! It is actually **so** **painful** to read, I can't stop reading it. I might have to print it out and put it on my refridgerator at home. I'll be saying this to my wife and friends and greeting people in church with it while it haunts my down-home midwestern Ohio sensibilities like a crummy Britney Aguilera J'Sync song.
You know, I can live with the evil, but I can't stand the stupidity.
Under a 1997 law called the No Electronic Theft Act (NET Act), it is a federal crime to willfully share copies of copyrighted products such as software, movies or music with anyone if the value of the work exceeds $1,000 or if the person hopes to receive files in return. Violations are punishable by one year in prison, or if the value tops $2,500, "not more than five years" in prison.
I hope they mean 'value' as in 'sticker price' and not 'value' as in 'worth money' because Mozilla alone has saved me **AT** **LEAST** $1000 in therapy and counseling over pop-up ads, spyware and stupid-ass animations so its overall value is probably much higher than $0.
What about other OSS like Enterprise RedHat? Can't you install that on a bunch of boxen for the after you pay the $1500 price tag?
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*** lightbulb appears over head ****
Hey.... wait.... YOU'RE ON TO SOMETHING!
But, instead of providing a way to contact the ACTUAL driver, it should be a 1-900 pay-per-call phone service:
How about instead of getting a traditional large screen TV, I buy one of those ever-less-expensive LCD computer projectors (which has full A/V in/out ports)? Are any of you using a setup like this at home instead of a normal large screen TV? Whaddayathinkofit?
We use one (a Viewsonic LCD projector) at our church to watch movies with our youth group, and the picture quality is pretty amazing. We can make that thing 12 feet diagonal and it's like being in the theater. Combine one of those with this gadget, and HDTV is still way overpriced, but now it's overpriced and HUGE!
Arrrrgggh! See, this is what happens when I
I also found a misstatement in the last couple of lines where I used the word "illegal" instead of "NOT WRONG". BIG diffence - most of them are quite aware that file copying is very likely most probably illegal, but they also think the law is bogus and are willing to continue filesharing copyrighted music regardless. (That was the point of my anecdote, if you recall.)
BTW, on the subject of the smoker's myopia to which you refer, I'm not active at all with P2P. I have tried Kazaa and others in the past, but I just don't listen to enough music to bother. We still have a couple of decent radio stations in our area (numbers swindling) and I mostly listen to talk/sports anyway. Most of the stuff I downloaded was me trying to identify background songs and music from (~~shudder~~) commercials I've heard on TV and radio. I have a small collection of MP3s, but most are ripped from my own meager CD collection.
"What these kids don't realize is that every time they pull up music and movies and make a copy, they are committing a felony under the United States code," Carter said in an interview. "If you were to prosecute someone and give them three years, I think this would act as a deterrent."
Mmmmm, OK, except that it ain't just kids. A long while back, one of my BOSSed wandered into my office and asked me a question:
(He's also an XM subscriber.)
It was at that moment that I realized the RIAA is right: They are doomed. People (almost all people) simply do not consider downloading music to be breaking the law, not when they can hear music for free on the radio and Empty-V. As far as they are concerned, this is just radio without DJs, kickbacks and corporate-administered playlists.
Hmmm, what I want to know is who asked you to do this?
The PTA?
A teacher or administrator at your school?
Some of your classmates?
This sounds sneaky and underhanded; and DOUBLY so if they approached your cash-strapped administrator with a make money fast scheme along the lines of collecting soup can labels.
Wouldn't three double-u's be one sextuple-u?
Only for pr0n sites!
C'mon, this is a guy who believe utility is more important than beauty. Surely this 500 pound beast of a wife of his is desperate enough regardless of what ring he gets.
Trust me, man. *NO* woman is desperate enough to think that a secret decoder wedding ring is OK. She might be desperate enough to lie about it, but SHE WILL NOT THINK THIS IS COOL.
My solution was to coin the word "triple-you". (Get it? 'www' = THREE double-u's or ONE triple-u! You can even write it like this: "\/\/\/"!)
I HATE 'dub-dub-dub' because it has caught on with several particularly moronic radio sportstalk hosts in my area who spamvertise URLs for pay-for-babe sites on their shows.
BLECCH!
Now, I like babes too, but all of these fartknockers should be forced to kneel down thank God that Tim Berners-Lee and the other lowly CERN physicists needed a better way to distribute particle collider data in a clear and orderly (annotated!) fashion, paving the way for their skank-scrawny-silicon-bimbo-of-the-month obsession.
I have this stupid fantasy that one day, I'll actually take over the world and a working knowledge of Quantum Mechanics will be a requirement for citizenship.
MU-HU-HU-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
Although at this point, bluntly, I'd be happy if they could just do algebra without complaining.
Yeah, I remember the movie Total Recall with R'Nold...a movie essentially about a colony on Mars. The scariest scene in the movie is when they show Quayle on the screen as President. I just about peed my pants!
You know what bothered me about TR? What did the martians breathe **WHILE** they building the air oxygen machine?
Yeah, I know, Arnold movie - check your brain at the door. I love his movies, though. (Guilty Pleasure) My least-favorite-consequence -of-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics is that I'll never be able to watch Commando for the first time again. (sigh)
I really do wish you luck, but did you run this past her?
Are you **ABSOLUTELY** **CERTAIN** she's OK with the idea of jewelry that "does stuff"?
Don't get me wrong - I'd love the idea of having a ring that could double as a compass or has a laser or maybe has a web server in it. But I'm not a chick for a reason. My wife would have killed me if I got her a ring that did anything except sit there and depreciate - that's why I let her pick it out. If nothing else, tell her that its super-power is that it also cuts glass.
Seriously, man -- stop the bleeding before it starts. THIS COULD BE A TEST! Chicks *love* doing kind of thing to us.
I don't think they should do it. Any donation that sacrifices choice is best left on the table, regardless of where it comes from. The educational system should be based on preparing the students to think more betterer, not advancing OS holy wars.
Having said that, they're nuts if they *aren't* teaching Linux because it's real software, it's free and the students have access to the source code. What other reason do you need? I mean, you have to worry about plagiarism in OS design classes, but that's been not going to go away by only teaching Microsoft, either.
Now, having said that, it bothers me that Universities teach Microsoft software at all. I mean, it isn't that freaking hard, people: you have help files, MSTechNet and Google -- what the hell else do you need?! You will spend the rest of your lives getting lost in Microsoft's support center, so why not use the university time you've got to take something that's going to change you as a person, and **WON'T** be obsolete in three years - something like math or philosophy, or literature?
Hey, it's early and I've only had three cups of joe so I'm probably talking out of my hinder, but what are the odds that the marketing of these disposable phones was proposed by law enforcement as a ruse to bait terrorists and criminals into using a very easily monitored private network for all of their communications?
Ok, blowhole deobstructed, commence down-modding.
(sips coffee)
Ohhhhhhhh, maaannnnnnnnnn...... MOOOOON LANNNNNNNDER!
With the randomly generated "FOR I=1 TO 300: DRAWLINE (I,200,I,200 - RAND(50))
Holy crap, I completely forgot about that one -- you'd think I'd remember it if I spent that much time playing it, eh?
I also remember a game that drew a random maze and then put you in it (first-person) to find your way out, but I don't remember what it was called.
OOPS! RTFA!
Drat, It looks like the Atari version is "under development". C64 still wins (temporarily)!
Check me if I'm wrong on this, but I believe the Atari 400/800 are a couple of years older than the C64, which would make *it* the oldest system to run a web browser. I had one (an 800) with 32 whopping-mo-fo-kilobytes of RAM in, like, 1981.
Yeah, that's right, I was a badass.
Who cares about all the irrelevant patent-expired-15-years-ago intellectual property? If IBM bought SCO, they could issue a memo cancelling the lawsuit. Let's not beat around the bush here, what SCO is perpetrating here is extortion by lawsuit, and nothing more.
AHHHHCHOOOOOO!!!!
(sniff)
Aw, man. We really should get a sneeze guard for this thing. Someone get me some kleenex WITHOUT lotion, 'kay?
Why am I telling you this?
I don't know about you, but I was karma whoring.
(It *worked*, too, though I was shooting for 'funny', not 'informative'.)
And this is almost symbiotic and worthwhile. If you *really* like a product, I don't see why it would be anything but worthwhile to everybody accept compensation for endorsing it.
And life just gets more and more like TV: Now, I have to consider whether my family/friends/coworkers are "gettin' paid" before I take them up on that recommendation to see "Master Of Disguise II".
Thanks, but no thanks. I like to think that my wife's-best-friend's movie recommendations suck because she has bad taste.
The Kodak EasyShare LS633 zoom digital camera is designed for photographers who want to capture and share photos while enjoying the benefits of advanced technology.
Criminy, who writes this crap -- Kodak's marketing division? If I was going to waste my education by rearranging cliches on paper instead of doing actual writing, I'd at least have the respect for my audience to use a cliche dictionary to hunt down some really good ones. This sucks! It is actually **so** **painful** to read, I can't stop reading it. I might have to print it out and put it on my refridgerator at home. I'll be saying this to my wife and friends and greeting people in church with it while it haunts my down-home midwestern Ohio sensibilities like a crummy Britney Aguilera J'Sync song.
You know, I can live with the evil, but I can't stand the stupidity.
Construction Worker Joe: Yeah, whatever. Hey, check out that girl's hyperbolic curves!
Mmmmmmmm..... manifolds....... (drool), (drool)
Under a 1997 law called the No Electronic Theft Act (NET Act), it is a federal crime to willfully share copies of copyrighted products such as software, movies or music with anyone if the value of the work exceeds $1,000 or if the person hopes to receive files in return. Violations are punishable by one year in prison, or if the value tops $2,500, "not more than five years" in prison.
I hope they mean 'value' as in 'sticker price' and not 'value' as in 'worth money' because Mozilla alone has saved me **AT** **LEAST** $1000 in therapy and counseling over pop-up ads, spyware and stupid-ass animations so its overall value is probably much higher than $0.
What about other OSS like Enterprise RedHat? Can't you install that on a bunch of boxen for the after you pay the $1500 price tag?
Now **THAT'S** funny!
I wish I had mod points. (*wink*)
DID YOU COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!
How do you spell 'synchronicity' again?