If they do make a "definitive" version I hope they start with Heretics. I know if they start (YET AGAIN) at the beginning, then they'll never get around to covering Heretics or Chapterhouse, which are my two favorite books in the series.
Do you think non-Christians also need to capitalize pronouns in reference to God (the Christian one)? I always see them refer to 'Him' rather than simply 'him'. It's not just us atheists who may be breaking syntax rules to make a point, k?
Agreed. I actually really like Robin Williams a lot... but only when he's acting in dramatic roles. He was great in One Hour Photo, for example. He really is able to make me feel depressed or sad quite well.
Whenever he tries to be funny, I really think he's trying too hard, and I actually feel sorry for him....!
Come to think of it... he's really good at making me feel depressed or sad no matter what he's trying to do.
I don't think you pay attention to the overall market. The stock may be half what it was 3 years ago... but it's also half of what it was just in October of 2007 (less than a year ago).
But then again, take a look at Google's stock... Yahoo's stock... Amazon's stock... really ANY tech stock.
Glancing at a stock chart for a minute is meaningless if you don't understand what's been going on with the economy. All things considered, eBay's stock price isn't that bad compared to the rest of the market.
Obama: I know what it's like to be at the bottom. I grew up in a family so poor we used to have to live in a paper bag. Every morning, we used to have to get up before we went to bed, lick road clean, and every night our parents would beat us, bury us, and dance on our graves. But my opponent John McCain was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, listen to his real world experience:
So here it is... obligatory:
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: You're right there, Obadiah.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: A cup o' cold tea.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Without milk or sugar.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Or tea.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In a cracked cup, an' all.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, 'e was right.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, 'e was.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Cardboard box?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Aye.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: And you try and tell the young people of today that..... they won't believe you.
Seriosuly... I haven't been into video games much since the Nintendo64, but when I do feel like playing some games, it's almost ALWAYS my Sega CD I take out and hook up to play. I also have an Atari 7800, NES, Master System, and SNES to choose from here.
I will agree that the 32X was completely dumb. I have one, and a few carts for it... but none of the games are amazing, and the improvement over Genesis graphics doesn't seem like it's that much.
But I love some of those Sega CD games still.
Sonic CD is great, and I love all the extra characters in the CD version of Eternal Champions. Even the FMV games were fun in their own way, like Night Trap and Double Switch. And then there's Panic! which is such a unique game, it's pretty singular. I'll even do the Sherlock Holmes game once in awhile.
I don't know. Back when it came out I don't think the Sega CD had such a bad reputation... a CD add-on seemed like the obvious thing to do at the time... we know the Playstation began its life as a SNES add-on... and there were already the CD games for TurboGrafx-16.
But when the 32X came out, that's when people sort of realized it was going too far and had entered into the realm of the ridiculous (if I hook up the Genesis+CD+32X, that is three HUGE power supplies I need to plug in somewhere, and there's that little video cable in back running from the Genesis to the 32X, and the metal plates you have to screw on and attach so it will hook onto the CD unit, etc... it's quite an operation).
Theoretically they should be able to afford a factory in America and still be profitable, if their business model is at all sound. So theoretically they should be able to pay the foreign factory workers the same wages (or even just slightly less only) than their American counterparts. However, business works upon the principle of "if we could pay you less, we would..." so they look at the local economy of China and pay a competitive wage "for China". Imagine where China's economy (or that of any other country where labor is cheaply outsourced) would be today if company's actually paid as much as 85% of American wages to all those factory workers... which, as I said... they theoretically could. Although maybe that would mean the CEO makes ONLY $1 million a year instead of $20 million. (How does one survive on a measly $1 mil a year anyway?!?)
American corporations really could do a LOT to eliminate world poverty if they were willing to do the right thing.
Visa, at least, and probably the other cards by now, have a system where you can generate a single use credit card number pre authorized for specific merchant and dollar amount. So you can use that numbe in an online transaction and the merchant gets a number that's only valid for that single use single dollar amount. If it gets stolen, no big deal. If the merchant tries to double bill it, no dice. etc etc. And I trust Visa a lot more than Paypal.
PayPal also offers this feature via the PayPal Plug-in. You don't have to use the browser plug-in to generate the temporary (Mastercard) credit card number, either. You can go to the PayPal Plug-in page once you log in and click to generate a new temporary card number.
Maybe it was just me, but growing up I always understood "a couple" and "a few" to mean the same thing. A fuzzily defined quantity, more than 1, but less than "a lot".
Then I moved and met people who understand "a couple" to mean exactly two, always.
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If they do make a "definitive" version I hope they start with Heretics. I know if they start (YET AGAIN) at the beginning, then they'll never get around to covering Heretics or Chapterhouse, which are my two favorite books in the series.
You know H and O don't stay inseparably linked for all eternity once they join up as H2O, right?
It's a dynamic, complex chemistry-filled world.
Off topic... but I grew up in Eden Prairie but moved away years ago during high school.
I always referred to portable toilets as a "Biff" since that's the ubiquitous name on all of them in the area.
Is that where "biffed it" probably comes from? If so, that expression itself is probably also very Twin Cities specific.
Do you think non-Christians also need to capitalize pronouns in reference to God (the Christian one)? I always see them refer to 'Him' rather than simply 'him'. It's not just us atheists who may be breaking syntax rules to make a point, k?
Agreed. I actually really like Robin Williams a lot... but only when he's acting in dramatic roles. He was great in One Hour Photo, for example. He really is able to make me feel depressed or sad quite well.
Whenever he tries to be funny, I really think he's trying too hard, and I actually feel sorry for him. ...!
Come to think of it... he's really good at making me feel depressed or sad no matter what he's trying to do.
Aaaaaaahhhh.... my copy of this CD does not have this song. :-(
But it still has some crazy televangelist stuff. (Which always seems to go well with music... like "Welcome to Paradise" by Front242.)
I have some songs by And One which include some Muslim prayer I think ("Metalhammer" and "Techno Man").
Congratulations, you're a statistical outlier!
Hello friend,
But have you TRIED rotten herring ice cream?
I have this information pamphlet I'd like to share with you...
I think you didn't realize the parent post was about K-Y lube and not about some delicious fruity jam.
What?? You mean of the 10 discs they ever sold (not including the one they sold you), they NEVER had someone return a disc before!?
I don't think you pay attention to the overall market. The stock may be half what it was 3 years ago... but it's also half of what it was just in October of 2007 (less than a year ago).
But then again, take a look at Google's stock... Yahoo's stock... Amazon's stock... really ANY tech stock.
Glancing at a stock chart for a minute is meaningless if you don't understand what's been going on with the economy. All things considered, eBay's stock price isn't that bad compared to the rest of the market.
Hotbot always had those radioactive colors... and every search just yielded porn.
I think I was a fan of Webcrawler or Metacrawler... the one with the cute little spider.
So here it is... obligatory:
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: You're right there, Obadiah.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: A cup o' cold tea.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Without milk or sugar.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Or tea.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In a cracked cup, an' all.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Because we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, "Money doesn't buy you happiness, son".
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, 'e was right.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, 'e was.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: I was happier then and I had nothin'. We used to live in this tiny old house with great big holes in the roof.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t' corridor!
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House? Huh.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Well, when I say 'house' it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it was a house to us.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: We were evicted from our 'ole in the ground; we 'ad to go and live in a lake.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: You were lucky to have a lake! There were a hundred and fifty of us living in t' shoebox in t' middle o' road.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Cardboard box?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Aye.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
ALL: They won't!
Spin around in circles? These needs to be tested.
I don't know why Enormoushop.com is taking so long... I gave them all the info they requested!
Seriosuly... I haven't been into video games much since the Nintendo64, but when I do feel like playing some games, it's almost ALWAYS my Sega CD I take out and hook up to play. I also have an Atari 7800, NES, Master System, and SNES to choose from here.
I will agree that the 32X was completely dumb. I have one, and a few carts for it... but none of the games are amazing, and the improvement over Genesis graphics doesn't seem like it's that much.
But I love some of those Sega CD games still.
Sonic CD is great, and I love all the extra characters in the CD version of Eternal Champions. Even the FMV games were fun in their own way, like Night Trap and Double Switch. And then there's Panic! which is such a unique game, it's pretty singular. I'll even do the Sherlock Holmes game once in awhile.
I don't know. Back when it came out I don't think the Sega CD had such a bad reputation... a CD add-on seemed like the obvious thing to do at the time... we know the Playstation began its life as a SNES add-on... and there were already the CD games for TurboGrafx-16.
But when the 32X came out, that's when people sort of realized it was going too far and had entered into the realm of the ridiculous (if I hook up the Genesis+CD+32X, that is three HUGE power supplies I need to plug in somewhere, and there's that little video cable in back running from the Genesis to the 32X, and the metal plates you have to screw on and attach so it will hook onto the CD unit, etc... it's quite an operation).
Yeah investing is really easy when you're omniscient.
Theoretically they should be able to afford a factory in America and still be profitable, if their business model is at all sound. So theoretically they should be able to pay the foreign factory workers the same wages (or even just slightly less only) than their American counterparts. However, business works upon the principle of "if we could pay you less, we would..." so they look at the local economy of China and pay a competitive wage "for China". Imagine where China's economy (or that of any other country where labor is cheaply outsourced) would be today if company's actually paid as much as 85% of American wages to all those factory workers... which, as I said... they theoretically could. Although maybe that would mean the CEO makes ONLY $1 million a year instead of $20 million. (How does one survive on a measly $1 mil a year anyway?!?)
American corporations really could do a LOT to eliminate world poverty if they were willing to do the right thing.
PayPal also offers this feature via the PayPal Plug-in. You don't have to use the browser plug-in to generate the temporary (Mastercard) credit card number, either. You can go to the PayPal Plug-in page once you log in and click to generate a new temporary card number.
Haha, I had memorized all the commercials from my taped copy of The Goonies.
Actually, it doesn't feel quite right when I watch the DVD and don't have the cool commercial breaks.
Hahahaha.... "came"... lol.
Wow I heard that song a lot of times before but never noticed until now it's about getting sick.
Maybe it was just me, but growing up I always understood "a couple" and "a few" to mean the same thing. A fuzzily defined quantity, more than 1, but less than "a lot".
Then I moved and met people who understand "a couple" to mean exactly two, always.
I'm still adjusting in my head.
Ummm.... wow. Just, wow.
*applause*
That was a fantastic crash and burn.
You sunk to the lowest point of conversation in that post long before you tried to invoke Godwin's Law.
Fruit flies like a banana because it's delicious and nutritious. You never figured that out?
As to why time flies like an arrow... I don't know.