I believe I am well educated with some extensive study in Eschatology.
Then you can save me some googling, and/or trying to remember under which pile of "extremely important stuff that I'm going to organize any day now" my old copy of the KJV is.
I know Revelation says you've got to have the mark in order to conduct commerce, but is there anyting in there about it causing those marked to be condemned to Hell in the afterlife? If it says that Salvation can be undone by a government inflicted tattoo (or whatever), doesn't that put it in conflict with the rest of the New Testament? And if not, but these people believe it anyway, isn't their Christian education pretty faulty and incomplete?
...Once the customers download all their TV, then.. um.. what service does the cable company provide?...
Uh, cable internet? Or are those customers downloading all their TV via a station wagon loaded with 9-track tapes speeding down the highway, or however that old saying about bandwidth goes?
You say "Democrat presidents" instead of "Democratic presidents" and you have the nerve to complain about someone else not capitalizing "Republican"? Whose political bias is blatantly obvious?
Except, the law in NC that states that one must pay sales tax on items bought by mail has probably been around since before the internet.
Well, I, a lifelong NC resident, remember this whole "buyers are on the 'honor system' to pay use taxes" routine from about 20 years ago when it was all about out-of-state mail-order catalog purchases, so, depending on exactly how you define "the internet", you're probably right.
This is like a state with a $3/hr minimum wage when the Fed minimum is $5/hr, the $5/hr wins.
Only in instances where the Federal govenment has some sort of jurisdiction. I worked for a printing company. Some of what they did was for the nearby Marine Corps base. I got the Federal Minimum Wage of $1.60 per hour. If the printing copmpany didn't pay Federal minimum, the base wouldn't have been legally allowed to give them any business. A previous employee who had been drafted returned after his 2 years in the Army were over. He got his old job back, as required by law, and I got let go. Went to work for an auto body shop. Got the state minimum wage of $1.35 per hour because they didn't deal directly with the Federal government. Later went to work for a junkyard (scrap metal). They bought stuff from the base all the time. I got Federal minimum wage of $1.60 because they did business with the base.
Before you laugh too hard at that $1.60 per hour, remember that it would buy 4 gallons of gasoline, or lunch at a local place (so that it actually tasted good), or 2 paperback books, or 16 Mountain Dews (back when *they* were good), or 16 local calls on a payphone, or 5 or 6 copies of Mad magazine, or get at least one person into the movies, sometimes 2.
Remember back in the '60s when if you drove south the highway suddenly got *worse* when you crossed into South Carolina? When we were known as "The Good Roads State"?
Although I don't think you can totally blame our current plight on government corruption.
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Name one of those alternatives where I can get what I get from PBS.
Now for the seriousness - replacing names with numbers is just one of the many tools governments across the world use to dehumanize their populations.
Yeah, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with trying to avoid any confusion caused by by different people having the same name.
I believe I am well educated with some extensive study in Eschatology.
Then you can save me some googling, and/or trying to remember under which pile of "extremely important stuff that I'm going to organize any day now" my old copy of the KJV is.
I know Revelation says you've got to have the mark in order to conduct commerce, but is there anyting in there about it causing those marked to be condemned to Hell in the afterlife? If it says that Salvation can be undone by a government inflicted tattoo (or whatever), doesn't that put it in conflict with the rest of the New Testament? And if not, but these people believe it anyway, isn't their Christian education pretty faulty and incomplete?
I'd never heard that one before, but I remember the ad tag line on which your punch line is based, and send a little gusto your way.
Porn Industry Ready To Drop Flash
[insert stupid flash pun]
I thought they'd been dropping and flashing for years.
Weird since I remember finding my dad's porn on Beta and watching them
So your dad was the star of "Hogan's Heroes"?
Hey, I'm open for suggestions.
You could change it to "where ARE the drugs and orgies" so as to get subject-verb agreement.
Unless you were deliberately going for a "semi-illiterate" tone as part of the humor.
...Once the customers download all their TV, then .. um .. what service does the cable company provide? ...
Uh, cable internet? Or are those customers downloading all their TV via a station wagon loaded with 9-track tapes speeding down the highway, or however that old saying about bandwidth goes?
Or, if not prove, at least believe.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
And not only that, in the headline they tried to blame an entire nation.
"You know, just how DID New Coke come about?"
You don't expect to ever hear the real story behind that, do you?
So Venus de Milo wouldn't count.
Well, not with her fingers. Toes, maybe.
Yeah, but Palin's the one who looks happy about it. Crazy doesn't scare me nearly as much as "crazy, and glad of it".
But there is a difference between customer security and internal security.
Let me guess. Banks care a lot more about the latter than the former?
So, like me, you want the stackable blue and black case?
I'm trying to figure out how to stuff a 4 port KVM into one of those boxes.
Anybody know the cheapest thing available with that case style? (Wish Linksys sold blank boxes)
Anyone remember the story from a few years ago of the guy who hacked his 54 to install a PC100-type DIMM? I've never been able to find it again.
Two "suggestions" (i.e., no guarantees whatsoever).
Replace all the electrolytic capacitors, starting with the biggest.
Look for the two open solder pads near the power connector where you can get +12V DC and install a fan internally.
But then I'm white, so who knows.
People who aren't?
I spent a number of years in Boston as an Australian.
Have you ever spent any time anywhere as some nationality other than Australian?
You say "Democrat presidents" instead of "Democratic presidents" and you have the nerve to complain about someone else not capitalizing "Republican"? Whose political bias is blatantly obvious?
Except, the law in NC that states that one must pay sales tax on items bought by mail has probably been around since before the internet.
Well, I, a lifelong NC resident, remember this whole "buyers are on the 'honor system' to pay use taxes" routine from about 20 years ago when it was all about out-of-state mail-order catalog purchases, so, depending on exactly how you define "the internet", you're probably right.
My wife runs a small business that involves breeding animals.
It could be worse. What if they considered each individual sperm a separate transaction?
This is like a state with a $3/hr minimum wage when the Fed minimum is $5/hr, the $5/hr wins.
Only in instances where the Federal govenment has some sort of jurisdiction. I worked for a printing company. Some of what they did was for the nearby Marine Corps base. I got the Federal Minimum Wage of $1.60 per hour. If the printing copmpany didn't pay Federal minimum, the base wouldn't have been legally allowed to give them any business. A previous employee who had been drafted returned after his 2 years in the Army were over. He got his old job back, as required by law, and I got let go. Went to work for an auto body shop. Got the state minimum wage of $1.35 per hour because they didn't deal directly with the Federal government. Later went to work for a junkyard (scrap metal). They bought stuff from the base all the time. I got Federal minimum wage of $1.60 because they did business with the base.
Before you laugh too hard at that $1.60 per hour, remember that it would buy 4 gallons of gasoline, or lunch at a local place (so that it actually tasted good), or 2 paperback books, or 16 Mountain Dews (back when *they* were good), or 16 local calls on a payphone, or 5 or 6 copies of Mad magazine, or get at least one person into the movies, sometimes 2.
Remember back in the '60s when if you drove south the highway suddenly got *worse* when you crossed into South Carolina? When we were known as "The Good Roads State"?
Although I don't think you can totally blame our current plight on government corruption.
Well, fruits and vegetables generally result from some bug having helped the plant have sex in the first place.