So are people going to stop making fun of people who can see auras? Because at times I've been able to "see" magnetic fields. Admittedly, it was more often when I lived away from electricity for long periods of time, or at least had limited access to it.
I guess it's news that it's been verified by a scientific study, but other than that, there have been millions of people who know this already.
what did he do to cause a stingray to kill him? TFA says it was a freak accident. but was it really? what were the stingray's intentions?
Steve Irwin was just TOO CLOSE to a secret, I'm sure. I'm not sure what that secret IS, because they killed him with a sting-ray wearing a laser. Very, very, very clever, since everyone is always expecting the whole shark-with-a-laser thing.
It's a shame that Mr. Irwin never had a chance to do anything with that whole Snakes on a Plane thing. Because that would've been funny. He really lived through so many life-threatening situations that I think he came out fairly well.
[/funny] He was a really neat fellow, from what I could tell. I wish the best to hist wife and children, and may his soul find its way to reptile heaven.
Except for people like MLK. Malcolm X was pretty out there, but began to get a lot more calm and collected as time went on, due to his real-world experience. I agree with your arguments wholeheartedly on the basis that it's the arguments of the moderates that tempers the arguments of the radicals, thereby making them more effective. Generally, fact-fudging doesn't work as well unless you have a PR department, and so radical screamy revolutionary types tend to get more effective and on-message as time goes on.
I would say that it's generally the tempered will of radicals that gets things done, not the PCP-fueled passion of the middle-of-the-roaders. So to speak.;-)
Well, *I* know that when somebody opposes XYZ's position on the grounds that XYZ are full of "blatant lies" and that "truthful information" is just a click away, over here, just take the red pill kthxbye, THEN I become suspicious of both parties' position and motives.
What if XYZ's position is full of blatant lies and truthful information IS just a click away? Pretending that the veracity of a message is determined by its cool, calm exterior is as idiotic as believing something just because it's on/. Sometimes, when one is right, yet doesn't have corporate backing, one feels the need to stress one's message so that people read/hear what one is saying.
For some reason the Democrats think that not being aggressive keeps the constituency happy, despite the last two presidential elections, where a dispassionate wet towel lost it all by virtue of not growing a f-king spine. Or, at least, it was close enough to steal both times. And the dispassionate wet towel took the beating without nearly enough moral indignation, because the wet towel thought the exact same thing you do.
Better to be a spineless wet towel than allow passion into my voice, thereby potentiating the emotional sway of some people based solely upon that passion.
I mean, come on. You rejecting an idea based on the fervency of some jerkoff script kiddie somewhere in Albequerque is as bad as you believing it because of the same fervency. No disrespect to jerkoff script kiddies in Albequerque, of course.:-)
1. Read someone else's post. 2. Make patent joke that involves an underpants-gnomesesque step-by-step enumeration 3. Point out how this post is infinitely recursive. 4. Profit!
A freind did say to me, ohh you have a Apple Pc. And i sayd it was a Machintosh, he did not understand that.
This may be sarcasm or a translation from another language with a different structure, but since PC is Personal Computer, it IS an Apple PC. And Windows XP boxes are IBM-compatible PCs. Can't even call them x86 PCs anymore. So sad.
to be fair, minidiscs were great for a period of time, filling a gap that existed between the crappy walkman/tape-based recorder and the digital hd/flash memory mp3 players/recorders we have nowadays.
But yes, everything else Sony does is crap. As a computer repair man, I've run into some sony VAIO laptops that are some of the best, most userfriendly laptops I've seen (surviving water damage), and some that are unsupported under OSes they report to be supported under (XP early on, for example). Others have just be piles of rubbish, as far as I'm concerned.
So it's hit or miss. And they'll install a virus on your computer. And if it will help make them money, give you syphillis. But lay off the minidiscs, man.
One thing that worries me is at what point are you rich enough for somone to cut your finger off? What I don't like is that it's kind of like assimilating your financial standing with your physical body.
That seems wrong on plenty of levels, the simplest of which is that when someone mugs you, conventional wisdom says that unless you're far more prepared than they are, you give them everything you have. When 'everything you have' begins to include your right index finger, then mugging is way easier in a crowded subway with a pair of garden clippers.
Yeeeow. I'd rather be poor. I'd rather use cash. I'd rather have a placeholder for value that a)is not protected by the government thereby predicating their automatic involvement (I don't like them all that much, and the more they stay out of my business, the better. If a friend steals something from me, I'll resolve it within my community), and b)someone can steal reasonably easy without hurting me. Money's just money. And as long as this doesn't become the dominant way to purchase things, making other systems obsolete, I'd be OK with it, because I ain't f-ing using it.
"Hey honey? Take my finger to the 7-11 and get me a pack of cigarrettes, would you?
so here's the response of Slashdot to my orignal post:
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Here's my original post:
PLEASE GET RID OF CAPS LOCK KEY! I HAVE NO USE FOR IT WHATSOEVER! I AM NOT SO LAME THAT I CAN'T HOLD BOTH THE SHIFT KEY AND WHATEVER OTHER KEY I WISH WERE CAPITALIZED!1!11!!!
The full quote, from our great leader, is: "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
To much applause, mind you. It makes more sense now that so people give right up and go into the porn industry.
Everything we eat contains food and nonfood elements. That's why we shit and piss.
You're right. That doesn't mean it's any good for you.
You might not be happy about it, but you could live on cottonseed oil and a Flintstone's multivitamin
You actually couldn't. Your body needs carbs to metabolize fat. Thus the atkins diet. I'm not sure what kind of sweetener is in Flintstone's multivitamins, but it probably wouldn't sustain the fat metabolic function. Also, the nutritional problem in the US is due to the fact that we have an unnatural view of nutrition, broken down into carbs, protein, and fats, only really dealing with major vitamins and minerals as a means to avoid deficiencies. There's not very much consciousness about trace elements that get lost during processing, and there's a slowly growing conciousness of the harm of chemical additives. Then still, there's no conciousness of the difference between assimilating calcium from green vegetables || dairy || supplements.
Speaking of breaking down the weakest argument in a fairly sound post, how'd I do?
I think it's funny--in a sad, sadistic sort of way--that the government spends so much money on controlling its people. It spends billions of dollars per year maintaining a nuclear arsenal 150,000 times bigger than the Hiroshima bombs. That's pretty fucking stupid if you ask me.
How many millions of dollars are they spending on expanding their control over humans? How much money is being spent every day to power these gestapo deus ex machinae? How did we survive in the 50s without Big Brother sniffing our anuses whenever we made a phone call?
If you took all the money spent on martial efforts and jailing marijuana smokers and spent it on education of the piddly 350 million inhabitants in this country, we'd be much much better off. Here are some other ideas:
1. Invest money in developing and switching to alternate fuel sources. Why not switch government vehicles as a start? It's not like federal employees have a freaking choice about what they drive anyway. Fuck, pick ethanol or vegetable oil. Both work.
2. Invest money in developing permaculture practices and regulation that allows us to get better food that hasn't been poisoned. I lived in Mexico for 10 years, and a hell of a lot of poor people eat better than people here, because they make their own food. Guys, did you know that the cottonseed oil that fast food places fry everything in is not techinically food? That's why we don't eat shirts.
3. Actually send people to actually really truly help other countries rather than just force regime change and build oil pipelines.
The economy is going to eat a big one soon, everybody, and when it does, these rich assholes will still be floating on little man-made islands with their servant wenches while we deal with the fallout--quite possibly literal fallout. Grow a garden, walk outside, meet your neighbors, encourage one another to grow and be competent and healthy. It's important.
That's what a cop will tell you if you run a stop sign, or turn onto a road right after the posted speed limit then speed. You shouldn't go onto someone's property without expecting them to protect themselves. I don't see the you're-being-recorded stickers at most banks I go into, but I figure SOMEONE's watching out for their investment.
Yep. Virtue is not measured by how heavily you honey the urine you feed your fellow human beings, it's measured by how little you piss in their cup to begin with.
First, let me say that I get that a free ad-supported OS is the user's choice, and that's wonderful and all. However, what came to mind is browsing MySpace on an ad-supported browser on an ad-supported OS.
Don't hold me accountable for your sins, however. I can attest to the fact that whiteout will plug up pinholes in a pot, AND withstand heat and water for months on end, discovered while traveling when I was 9.
I used to swear by NAV and Systemworks because they pretty much were idiotproof, friendly apps that did most of what was asked of them, but they started getting bloaty as all hell.
Starting with NIS 2005, I've had customers with laptops that WILL NOT access the internet, and when you uninstall NIS, the PC won't boot. I've had NAV do exactly the same. NOD32 or Kaspersky are full-on the sheezy. TrendMicro and Panda seem quite fine by me, and McAfee, though I never thought I'd say this, is better than NAV.
Hell, avast! is better than NAV and it's a pile-o-crap.
I bought a freaking Sansa e250 (not to be confused with the non-freaking model) using my Best Buy gift cards, and it works under linux in MSC mode! w00t! w00t, w00t!
Nathan Curry's firt mp3 player guys, this is big. Bastard/. mods rejected the story, though. Also, Rockbox devel is beginning on the e200 series, which means someday I'll be all in Linux and 1337 again.
It plays some video you can hardly see, but at 15fps max and ~200 x ~145 resolution, I can store massive quantities of pr0n. You know, if I ever have any trouble getting any, BECAUSE MY MP3 PLAYER'S SO F*&$#ING COOL IT'LL GET ME LAID AT THE DROP OF A HAT!!!1111!!!111111./1/.111
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So are people going to stop making fun of people who can see auras? Because at times I've been able to "see" magnetic fields. Admittedly, it was more often when I lived away from electricity for long periods of time, or at least had limited access to it.
I guess it's news that it's been verified by a scientific study, but other than that, there have been millions of people who know this already.
p16INK4a
I mean, not only did it take me a minute to parse, it, I have no idea what Oiginkaa is.
You won't be able to get your damn microphone to work at all! There! Safe! :-)
(I use Linux, btw.)
Ouch. I thought the state you want would be for the cancer to be in remission.
The upside is Uncle Cancer is the life of the party. He's a little weak at times, but everyone understands he has person.
If I die an early death, I hope it's due to a meteorite hitting me while sitting at my computer.
;-)
I'm praying for you.
what did he do to cause a stingray to kill him? TFA says it was a freak accident. but was it really? what were the stingray's intentions?
Steve Irwin was just TOO CLOSE to a secret, I'm sure. I'm not sure what that secret IS, because they killed him with a sting-ray wearing a laser. Very, very, very clever, since everyone is always expecting the whole shark-with-a-laser thing.
It's a shame that Mr. Irwin never had a chance to do anything with that whole Snakes on a Plane thing. Because that would've been funny. He really lived through so many life-threatening situations that I think he came out fairly well.
[/funny]
He was a really neat fellow, from what I could tell. I wish the best to hist wife and children, and may his soul find its way to reptile heaven.
Except for people like MLK. Malcolm X was pretty out there, but began to get a lot more calm and collected as time went on, due to his real-world experience. I agree with your arguments wholeheartedly on the basis that it's the arguments of the moderates that tempers the arguments of the radicals, thereby making them more effective. Generally, fact-fudging doesn't work as well unless you have a PR department, and so radical screamy revolutionary types tend to get more effective and on-message as time goes on.
;-)
I would say that it's generally the tempered will of radicals that gets things done, not the PCP-fueled passion of the middle-of-the-roaders. So to speak.
PS: I looooooooove arguing.
Well, *I* know that when somebody opposes XYZ's position on the grounds that XYZ are full of "blatant lies" and that "truthful information" is just a click away, over here, just take the red pill kthxbye, THEN I become suspicious of both parties' position and motives.
/. Sometimes, when one is right, yet doesn't have corporate backing, one feels the need to stress one's message so that people read/hear what one is saying.
:-)
What if XYZ's position is full of blatant lies and truthful information IS just a click away? Pretending that the veracity of a message is determined by its cool, calm exterior is as idiotic as believing something just because it's on
For some reason the Democrats think that not being aggressive keeps the constituency happy, despite the last two presidential elections, where a dispassionate wet towel lost it all by virtue of not growing a f-king spine. Or, at least, it was close enough to steal both times. And the dispassionate wet towel took the beating without nearly enough moral indignation, because the wet towel thought the exact same thing you do.
Better to be a spineless wet towel than allow passion into my voice, thereby potentiating the emotional sway of some people based solely upon that passion.
I mean, come on. You rejecting an idea based on the fervency of some jerkoff script kiddie somewhere in Albequerque is as bad as you believing it because of the same fervency. No disrespect to jerkoff script kiddies in Albequerque, of course.
It's supposed to be:
1. Read someone else's post.
2. Make patent joke that involves an underpants-gnomesesque step-by-step enumeration
3. Point out how this post is infinitely recursive.
4. Profit!
A freind did say to me, ohh you have a Apple Pc. And i sayd it was a Machintosh, he did not understand that.
This may be sarcasm or a translation from another language with a different structure, but since PC is Personal Computer, it IS an Apple PC. And Windows XP boxes are IBM-compatible PCs. Can't even call them x86 PCs anymore. So sad.
-Nathan
For those of you who might have trouble learning new things:
My Very Educated Mother Just Showed... Uhhhhh, Nevermind.
Isn't it great!?!!111
to be fair, minidiscs were great for a period of time, filling a gap that existed between the crappy walkman/tape-based recorder and the digital hd/flash memory mp3 players/recorders we have nowadays.
But yes, everything else Sony does is crap. As a computer repair man, I've run into some sony VAIO laptops that are some of the best, most userfriendly laptops I've seen (surviving water damage), and some that are unsupported under OSes they report to be supported under (XP early on, for example). Others have just be piles of rubbish, as far as I'm concerned.
So it's hit or miss. And they'll install a virus on your computer. And if it will help make them money, give you syphillis. But lay off the minidiscs, man.
One thing that worries me is at what point are you rich enough for somone to cut your finger off? What I don't like is that it's kind of like assimilating your financial standing with your physical body.
That seems wrong on plenty of levels, the simplest of which is that when someone mugs you, conventional wisdom says that unless you're far more prepared than they are, you give them everything you have. When 'everything you have' begins to include your right index finger, then mugging is way easier in a crowded subway with a pair of garden clippers.
Yeeeow. I'd rather be poor. I'd rather use cash. I'd rather have a placeholder for value that a)is not protected by the government thereby predicating their automatic involvement (I don't like them all that much, and the more they stay out of my business, the better. If a friend steals something from me, I'll resolve it within my community), and b)someone can steal reasonably easy without hurting me. Money's just money. And as long as this doesn't become the dominant way to purchase things, making other systems obsolete, I'd be OK with it, because I ain't f-ing using it.
"Hey honey? Take my finger to the 7-11 and get me a pack of cigarrettes, would you?
so here's the response of Slashdot to my orignal post:
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Here's my original post:
PLEASE GET RID OF CAPS LOCK KEY! I HAVE NO USE FOR IT WHATSOEVER! I AM NOT SO LAME THAT I CAN'T HOLD BOTH THE SHIFT KEY AND WHATEVER OTHER KEY I WISH WERE CAPITALIZED!1!11!!!
Hmmm....
The full quote, from our great leader, is:
"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
To much applause, mind you. It makes more sense now that so people give right up and go into the porn industry.
Only insofar as Al Gore invented the universe. :-)
Everything we eat contains food and nonfood elements. That's why we shit and piss.
You're right. That doesn't mean it's any good for you.
You might not be happy about it, but you could live on cottonseed oil and a Flintstone's multivitamin
You actually couldn't. Your body needs carbs to metabolize fat. Thus the atkins diet. I'm not sure what kind of sweetener is in Flintstone's multivitamins, but it probably wouldn't sustain the fat metabolic function. Also, the nutritional problem in the US is due to the fact that we have an unnatural view of nutrition, broken down into carbs, protein, and fats, only really dealing with major vitamins and minerals as a means to avoid deficiencies. There's not very much consciousness about trace elements that get lost during processing, and there's a slowly growing conciousness of the harm of chemical additives. Then still, there's no conciousness of the difference between assimilating calcium from green vegetables || dairy || supplements.
Speaking of breaking down the weakest argument in a fairly sound post, how'd I do?
I think it's funny--in a sad, sadistic sort of way--that the government spends so much money on controlling its people. It spends billions of dollars per year maintaining a nuclear arsenal 150,000 times bigger than the Hiroshima bombs. That's pretty fucking stupid if you ask me.
How many millions of dollars are they spending on expanding their control over humans? How much money is being spent every day to power these gestapo deus ex machinae? How did we survive in the 50s without Big Brother sniffing our anuses whenever we made a phone call?
If you took all the money spent on martial efforts and jailing marijuana smokers and spent it on education of the piddly 350 million inhabitants in this country, we'd be much much better off. Here are some other ideas:
1. Invest money in developing and switching to alternate fuel sources. Why not switch government vehicles as a start? It's not like federal employees have a freaking choice about what they drive anyway. Fuck, pick ethanol or vegetable oil. Both work.
2. Invest money in developing permaculture practices and regulation that allows us to get better food that hasn't been poisoned. I lived in Mexico for 10 years, and a hell of a lot of poor people eat better than people here, because they make their own food. Guys, did you know that the cottonseed oil that fast food places fry everything in is not techinically food? That's why we don't eat shirts.
3. Actually send people to actually really truly help other countries rather than just force regime change and build oil pipelines.
The economy is going to eat a big one soon, everybody, and when it does, these rich assholes will still be floating on little man-made islands with their servant wenches while we deal with the fallout--quite possibly literal fallout. Grow a garden, walk outside, meet your neighbors, encourage one another to grow and be competent and healthy. It's important.
That's what a cop will tell you if you run a stop sign, or turn onto a road right after the posted speed limit then speed. You shouldn't go onto someone's property without expecting them to protect themselves. I don't see the you're-being-recorded stickers at most banks I go into, but I figure SOMEONE's watching out for their investment.
seems like you mean rebutted.
I categorically refute everything you have to say.
Giving a little back does not make up for that.
Yep. Virtue is not measured by how heavily you honey the urine you feed your fellow human beings, it's measured by how little you piss in their cup to begin with.
First, let me say that I get that a free ad-supported OS is the user's choice, and that's wonderful and all. However, what came to mind is browsing MySpace on an ad-supported browser on an ad-supported OS.
*shudder*
Don't hold me accountable for your sins, however. I can attest to the fact that whiteout will plug up pinholes in a pot, AND withstand heat and water for months on end, discovered while traveling when I was 9.
I used to swear by NAV and Systemworks because they pretty much were idiotproof, friendly apps that did most of what was asked of them, but they started getting bloaty as all hell.
Starting with NIS 2005, I've had customers with laptops that WILL NOT access the internet, and when you uninstall NIS, the PC won't boot. I've had NAV do exactly the same. NOD32 or Kaspersky are full-on the sheezy. TrendMicro and Panda seem quite fine by me, and McAfee, though I never thought I'd say this, is better than NAV.
Hell, avast! is better than NAV and it's a pile-o-crap.
I bought a freaking Sansa e250 (not to be confused with the non-freaking model) using my Best Buy gift cards, and it works under linux in MSC mode! w00t! w00t, w00t!
/. mods rejected the story, though. Also, Rockbox devel is beginning on the e200 series, which means someday I'll be all in Linux and 1337 again.
Nathan Curry's firt mp3 player guys, this is big. Bastard
It plays some video you can hardly see, but at 15fps max and ~200 x ~145 resolution, I can store massive quantities of pr0n. You know, if I ever have any trouble getting any, BECAUSE MY MP3 PLAYER'S SO F*&$#ING COOL IT'LL GET ME LAID AT THE DROP OF A HAT!!!1111!!!111111./1/.111
Now all I need is an appropriately cool hat....