Bobby (played by Danny Devito) in Hoffa: It's a place where all the old, retired truckers can sit around and fart, drink beer, and lie about all the waitresses they fucked.
> My wife and I caught TMR [warnerbros.com] > double-featured with X2 [x-men-the-movie.com] > out there and I was in geek heaven.
And when you turned to your wife, a woman, and said, "Wanna get in the back seat?" and she said, "You've gotta be kidding!", your esthetically pure geek heaven experience was complete.
Actually, by supply and demand, we do need more doctors and nurses.
Hillary tried to do exactly the opposite -- restrict the number of "specialists" (a completely communist concept that has no business in a free society) under the bass-ackwards belief that that was the way to lower costs. This was an attempt to bribe current doctors into accepting a completely socialized (i.e. government-run-you-have-no-choice-but-jail-even-if -it-sucks) medical system (also having no business in a free society. If they, and a hundred million of their closest, foolish friends want such a system, set it up -- for yourselves. Don't tell me I have to join or you'll put me in jail. Don't tell the doctor down the street they have to serve you at your prices or you'll put them in jail. Don't tell the hospital they have to serve you at your prices or you'll put them in jail.)
Anyway, sorry for rehashing why the Democrats lost control of Congress in '94. It just irritates me that this kind of stuff is still suggested by politicians in what is supposed to be a free society. (Imagine if social security, at the moment of your retirement, seized all your bank accounts, and only "permitted" you to live off what they gave you. Now imagine not food, but your very life depended on what they gave you.)
> Trucks will pull into bays, where flexible > tubes ending in vents for hot or cold air, and > touch sensitive screens for Internet access can > be pulled inside the truck's cab.
Pieces of ass may be ordered and will be lowered into the cab thru the window on the new, patented Cherry Putter(tm) seating platform, based humorously on the vehicles used by telephone pole repair men, known in the vernacular as "cherry pickers".
The concept of "sustainable" quoted by environmentalists bears little resemblence on the actual state of things. It's loaded with zero-sum games and feeds on mistaken, discredited beliefs like we're just gonna suddenly run out of oil or energy or room to put trash.
The educated, economically powerful nation has the wherewithall to solve problems as they arise, preserving a higher quality of life both before and after than a silly, command-and-control economy ruled by the scientifically illiterate power hungry being patted on the back by the economically illiterate scientists in their chicken little form.
In a free, advanced, educated society, the more people, the more scientists and engineers. The more scientists and engineers (especially driven by greedy businessmen looking to solve problems for the masses to enrich themselves), the more people working to solve the problems, and the better human lives are.
The non-intuitive result is that this development greatly outstrips the problems of the environment to begin with. More importantly, it outstrips the quality of life a more command-and-control economy would have.
For you nerds out there, in two parallel worlds, one with Kyoto, and one without, the one without would be ahead every step of the way in terms of quality of actual human lives.
Since not everybody has babies, if the average couple has two kids, the population is actually decreasing. There needs to be an average of something like 2.1.
Now a lot of European countries have averages from 1.2 to 1.8. Do the math. It's only a few generations before the population is halved = 60 to 100 years or so.
George Will savaged Europe during the runup to the war, pointing out these things, and why was France even important anymore, with dwindling population, with India (largest democracy) not on the permanent council, nor the largest Muslim country, 4x the size of France, etc. etc. etc. As far as population growth went, Europe was backing itself out of the market for world influence.
Yes. That you thought it worth so little (or were under agreement to sell it for so little) doesn't affect what it's worth in an economic sense.
Consider the poor sap who sees their old table they sold at a garage sale for $10.00 last week on Antiques Roadshow for $100,000. Could he sue his own appraiser who told him it was worthless only two weeks ago? Sure can.
No amount of apologism will cover the fact that the words "so in a sense, I invented the Internet" passed his lips on video.
Since we're correcting political faux pas, know that Dan Quayle's "potatoe" episode was a setup, with him being given a potato flash card that was deliberately misspelled "potatoe" (this is on the video tape, too.) Now put a dozen cameras on you on a frequently misspelled word, and hand you an "authorative" card, take a guess what 99.9% of people who complain about him would have done in his place.
"Rushes"? Hehe, sounds like fun! After playing the game through about six times in single player (Twice thru with the same necro, three and a half with the same barb, a few others once) I can see how this would be more what people would do.
It would make a site to see. I wonder what the Quake Done Quick guys are up to?
> Although it's not as well known, Atari also > made a video game called "I, > Robot"....Unfortunately, the game wasn't > accepted very well, and people couldn't figure > it out I guess. So, out of the 1,000 machines > they made, only 500 even sold. The rest were > sitting in a warehouse. In order to get rid of > them, Atari sent them to Japan... but none of > the machines ever got there, as the crew of the > ship were given orders to push the machines > overboard on the way!
Sounds like the beginnings of a plot for a Star Trek episode!
"Then, in the 24th century, a borg head searching for parts stumbled across these machines, and..."
> Worldwide cuneriform literacy down 99.999999999%!
While this is a funny comment, in reality, scientists have demonstrated that physically forming letters when writing, at least during early years, is crucial to understanding writing skills.
Kids who only learned keyboarding did suffer in their abilities.
Most of these mods are to posts that were made within minutes of the original one at 2:23 PM, which was prolly not even visible yet because of the anti-firstpost! lag built into the system now.
If only these self-righteous bastards were a little brighter and could realize this.
If anyone gets to metamod any of these, slam those asses back to the stone age!
Can I get my money back for my ColecoVision ADAM computer?
That thing is the all-time king of vaporware. The list of promised titles was, quite literally, dozens in length (early 1980's, keep in mind.) Virtually none saw the light of day. Tunnels and Trolls, anyone?
> If we can't write bug-free code, I certainly > don't imagine legislators can produce bug-free > legislation.
The Law? I'll tell you what The Law is.
Imagine if you had to run under Windows XP AND Windows 2000 AND Windows Millenium AND Windows 98 AND Windows 95 AND Windows NT 4.0 AND 3.5 AND Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and Dos all at the same time.
On an old TI 4-function LCD calculator.
Powered by an old person with a hand crank.
That is the law. 65,000 laws and counting, with a full-time legislature passing laws around the clock, and virtually none expiring or being repealed.
Oh, and I forgot to mention: Imagine the "Microsoft Tax" x 1,000.
With customer support that makes MS look like a Nevada brothel.
> In 1980 I had a 1.023 MHz Apple ][+ and I could > type ~70 WPM. Intel is pushing 3+ GHz chips and > I can still only type ~70 WPM...if you're lucky. With all the scripting going on inside applications these days, if you could do 120 then, you might not be able to do 120 now.
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> Dont assume based on stereotypes.
Bobby (played by Danny Devito) in Hoffa: It's a place where all the old, retired truckers can sit around and fart, drink beer, and lie about all the waitresses they fucked.
Hoffa: Don't hurt yourself!
> My wife and I caught TMR [warnerbros.com]
> double-featured with X2 [x-men-the-movie.com]
> out there and I was in geek heaven.
And when you turned to your wife, a woman, and said, "Wanna get in the back seat?" and she said, "You've gotta be kidding!", your esthetically pure geek heaven experience was complete.
> yeah, but when you meet CmdrTaco at the truck
> stop, and he gives you a rimjob, it makes it
> all worthwhile.
This is much more valuable, too, than it seems at first glance, due to the truckers' penchant for hemorrhoids.
Actually, by supply and demand, we do need more doctors and nurses.
f -it-sucks) medical system (also having no business in a free society. If they, and a hundred million of their closest, foolish friends want such a system, set it up -- for yourselves. Don't tell me I have to join or you'll put me in jail. Don't tell the doctor down the street they have to serve you at your prices or you'll put them in jail. Don't tell the hospital they have to serve you at your prices or you'll put them in jail.)
Hillary tried to do exactly the opposite -- restrict the number of "specialists" (a completely communist concept that has no business in a free society) under the bass-ackwards belief that that was the way to lower costs. This was an attempt to bribe current doctors into accepting a completely socialized (i.e. government-run-you-have-no-choice-but-jail-even-i
Anyway, sorry for rehashing why the Democrats lost control of Congress in '94. It just irritates me that this kind of stuff is still suggested by politicians in what is supposed to be a free society. (Imagine if social security, at the moment of your retirement, seized all your bank accounts, and only "permitted" you to live off what they gave you. Now imagine not food, but your very life depended on what they gave you.)
> Trucks will pull into bays, where flexible
> tubes ending in vents for hot or cold air, and
> touch sensitive screens for Internet access can
> be pulled inside the truck's cab.
Pieces of ass may be ordered and will be lowered into the cab thru the window on the new, patented Cherry Putter(tm) seating platform, based humorously on the vehicles used by telephone pole repair men, known in the vernacular as "cherry pickers".
The concept of "sustainable" quoted by environmentalists bears little resemblence on the actual state of things. It's loaded with zero-sum games and feeds on mistaken, discredited beliefs like we're just gonna suddenly run out of oil or energy or room to put trash.
The educated, economically powerful nation has the wherewithall to solve problems as they arise, preserving a higher quality of life both before and after than a silly, command-and-control economy ruled by the scientifically illiterate power hungry being patted on the back by the economically illiterate scientists in their chicken little form.
And here's a true heretic who, gasp, suggests growth in developed countries is actually a good thing.
In a free, advanced, educated society, the more people, the more scientists and engineers. The more scientists and engineers (especially driven by greedy businessmen looking to solve problems for the masses to enrich themselves), the more people working to solve the problems, and the better human lives are.
The non-intuitive result is that this development greatly outstrips the problems of the environment to begin with. More importantly, it outstrips the quality of life a more command-and-control economy would have.
For you nerds out there, in two parallel worlds, one with Kyoto, and one without, the one without would be ahead every step of the way in terms of quality of actual human lives.
Most of Europe has a negative population growth.
Since not everybody has babies, if the average couple has two kids, the population is actually decreasing. There needs to be an average of something like 2.1.
Now a lot of European countries have averages from 1.2 to 1.8. Do the math. It's only a few generations before the population is halved = 60 to 100 years or so.
George Will savaged Europe during the runup to the war, pointing out these things, and why was France even important anymore, with dwindling population, with India (largest democracy) not on the permanent council, nor the largest Muslim country, 4x the size of France, etc. etc. etc. As far as population growth went, Europe was backing itself out of the market for world influence.
Did you know doctors recommend dihydrogen monoxide to prevent pharangeal adhesion of analgesics?
Yes. That you thought it worth so little (or were under agreement to sell it for so little) doesn't affect what it's worth in an economic sense.
Consider the poor sap who sees their old table they sold at a garage sale for $10.00 last week on Antiques Roadshow for $100,000. Could he sue his own appraiser who told him it was worthless only two weeks ago? Sure can.
No amount of apologism will cover the fact that the words "so in a sense, I invented the Internet" passed his lips on video.
Since we're correcting political faux pas, know that Dan Quayle's "potatoe" episode was a setup, with him being given a potato flash card that was deliberately misspelled "potatoe" (this is on the video tape, too.) Now put a dozen cameras on you on a frequently misspelled word, and hand you an "authorative" card, take a guess what 99.9% of people who complain about him would have done in his place.
"Rushes"? Hehe, sounds like fun! After playing the game through about six times in single player (Twice thru with the same necro, three and a half with the same barb, a few others once) I can see how this would be more what people would do.
It would make a site to see. I wonder what the Quake Done Quick guys are up to?
> Although it's not as well known, Atari also
> made a video game called "I,
> Robot"....Unfortunately, the game wasn't
> accepted very well, and people couldn't figure
> it out I guess. So, out of the 1,000 machines
> they made, only 500 even sold. The rest were
> sitting in a warehouse. In order to get rid of
> them, Atari sent them to Japan... but none of
> the machines ever got there, as the crew of the
> ship were given orders to push the machines
> overboard on the way!
Sounds like the beginnings of a plot for a Star Trek episode!
"Then, in the 24th century, a borg head searching for parts stumbled across these machines, and..."
"Finally, a way to keep all the girls away!"
> Worldwide cuneriform literacy down 99.999999999%!
While this is a funny comment, in reality, scientists have demonstrated that physically forming letters when writing, at least during early years, is crucial to understanding writing skills.
Kids who only learned keyboarding did suffer in their abilities.
So yes, this is a bad thing folks.
Most of these mods are to posts that were made within minutes of the original one at 2:23 PM, which was prolly not even visible yet because of the anti-firstpost! lag built into the system now.
If only these self-righteous bastards were a little brighter and could realize this.
If anyone gets to metamod any of these, slam those asses back to the stone age!
If only every politician who promised temporary tax increases or temporary regulations could be thrown into jail for vaporpromises.
> Consumers didn't get hurt one bit by Daikatana
Am I gonna get the 10 minutes of my life back I spend playing the demo and fighting frogs?
John Romero was right, "Content is King". He proved it by giving up some of the lamest content anyone ever saw.
Can I get my money back for my ColecoVision ADAM computer?
That thing is the all-time king of vaporware. The list of promised titles was, quite literally, dozens in length (early 1980's, keep in mind.) Virtually none saw the light of day. Tunnels and Trolls, anyone?
The only reason I vote Republican is because they generally are for lesser taxes and smaller government and less regulation.
Thanks, George!
That's true.
And President Clinton admitted no wrongdoing and settled for $700,000 with a woman who said he wagged his dick at her.
> If we can't write bug-free code, I certainly
> don't imagine legislators can produce bug-free
> legislation.
The Law? I'll tell you what The Law is.
Imagine if you had to run under Windows XP AND Windows 2000 AND Windows Millenium AND Windows 98 AND Windows 95 AND Windows NT 4.0 AND 3.5 AND Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and Dos all at the same time.
On an old TI 4-function LCD calculator.
Powered by an old person with a hand crank.
That is the law. 65,000 laws and counting, with a full-time legislature passing laws around the clock, and virtually none expiring or being repealed.
Oh, and I forgot to mention: Imagine the "Microsoft Tax" x 1,000.
With customer support that makes MS look like a Nevada brothel.
> In 1980 I had a 1.023 MHz Apple ][+ and I could ...if you're lucky. With all the scripting going on inside applications these days, if you could do 120 then, you might not be able to do 120 now.
> type ~70 WPM. Intel is pushing 3+ GHz chips and
> I can still only type ~70 WPM
This is all fine and good, but what I want to know is is the Alienware 3.0 GHz with 800 MHz FSB and Radeon 9800 Pro for $2,100 a good deal?
Of course, it's $2800 with the 22" CRT (is that a good CRT?) and the blue mouse and blue keyboard.
> It's as though the Holy Bible had a concise and well written parody.
It does.