"Ok, I understand why 14yr old kids think yellow text on a full-color background is a good idea. But bands, DJs, politicians... Is having a page psysically hurt your eyes really a requirement for having a MySpace page?"
Yes, actually, it is, but it's one of those unstated rules that only the cool kids know about.
Many thanks, but I'm thinking that perhaps you've confused Hugh Grant with Hugh Laurie, who's currently starring as Doctor Gregory House (and who was an excellent Bertie Wooster several years back), hence my original post's subject line's oh-so-subtle pun.
Your use of English is far better than would be my use of any language other than English. Allow me to salute the considerable effort you must have expended in order to achieve your admirable proficiency in English by endevoring to increase it slightly:
In two places I noticed that you used then when the word that was called for was than.
Although in the second instance you may have intended to use the word when.
I thought this area of bandwidth was supposed to be reserved for emergency services
So did I, until I noticed that the new digital television channels are using the same VHF and UHF frequencies that analog television does now.
I'm guessing that the non-revenue generating character of emergency services radio has a lot to do with this. There's no money with which to buy congresscritters.
Surviving members of 'Captain America's Red, White, and Blues Band' will re-unite for the first time since the late '60s to play at the funeral, with Nick Fury taking Cap's place on lead shield.
I had somebody tell me that they could fit an entire HD movie, compressed losslessly, on a CD-R.
Yeah, well, see, what they do is they take all the bits and shave down the sides and make them hexagonal instead of square so that they can pack them together a lot tighter.
A micron here, a micron there, after a while, you're talking real gigabytes. (with apologies to the late Sen. Dirksen)
I'm not sure this specific question merits being a Slashdot topic, but I do think the audience is the right one.
Which is why I think it does merit being a Slashdot topic. Where and how else is he going to get his question in front of said audience? An audience which is nonetheless free to ignore this particular topic and read something else off the main page.
If you google for "Innovation SSI 2001" (as opposed to googling for Innovation SSI 2001) you only get two pages of results and if you subtract the links to the OP's web page and to this article it's only one page and all in Czech or Romanian or something like that, so I don't think you can call the OP lazy for asking here.
It's not like he cluttered up the main page trying to sell something or with a question for which an answer could be found in a thousand other places.
"Define "Cheap", my current cable bill is $12/month. It's basic, and only includes local programming (NBC, ABC, FOX, WB and CW)..."
I thought that the WB and UPN had been merged into CW this past fall. I know that both disappeared from our cable lineup (with no price reduction and no addition of the new CW affliate). Perhaps you meant the local station which was previously a WB affliate?
The reason I googled for the incident in question in the first place is because your description sounded like something that would have been a big enough stink long enough that I should hae heard about it somewhere. I don't remember exactly what search terms I used but I no longer get the original Sun-Times article. Instead it comes wrapped up in a page from something calling itself FindArticles.com. Since it seems to be a moving target I decided to plagiarize and just paste it in here instead of providing a link. Here 'tis.
Shooter dead, 3 hurt at Rockford Wal-Mart Chicago Sun-Times, May 23, 2001
ROCKFORD A suspected shoplifter at a Wal-Mart store pulled a gun Tuesday and shot three employees before she was killed by police, authorities said.
Laura Gassaway, 33, of Rockford, died at a hospital from gunshot wounds, said Rockford Police Sgt. Joe Westmoreland. He said his department previously had arrested Gassaway on misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct charges.
"She has had some run-in with the police, but there's been nothing else this violent," Westmoreland said.
Gassaway was pregnant at the time of the shooting, Police Chief Jeff Nielsen said at a press conference. But Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia said she could not confirm that until an autopsy, scheduled for today or Thursday.
The incident began when store employees refused to sell Gassaway bullets because she did not have a state firearm owner's identification card, Nielsen said.
Gassaway then began shoplifting other items-worth about $20 or less-and was stopped by store security, Westmoreland said. Security officers called police and took the suspect to their office, where she pulled a handgun from inside her pants and opened fire, he said.
"When police heard the shots, they went back to the security room and found her shooting the three employees. That's when they shot her," Westmoreland said.
Two officers fired 21 shots at Gassaway because she would not drop her weapon, Nielsen said at a news conference.
Gassaway was taken to Rockford Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, said Mary Reinke, a hospital spokeswoman.
Two of the wounded employees were Wal-Mart security guards, and the other was an assistant manager, said Tom Williams, a spokesman for Wal-Mart at its headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.
Williams said the incident took place in an area with no customers.
"We're just very pleased that apparently none of our three employees who were hurt had life-threatening injuries, and that no customers were hurt," he said.
Copyright The Chicago Sun-Times, Inc. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved.
Unless shoplifters at the Rockford Wal-Mart get shot on a regular basis, the woman you mentioned was, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, shot by actual police officers after she shot and wounded two security guards and an assistant manager and refused police orders to drop her weapon.
When I first saw this headline, I thought it was a contemporary update of the classic radio show I Was a Communist for the FBI . 78 epsiodes (and also a movie) of cold war paranoia
So I personally will not RTFA until it has been adapted into a radio drama with hilariously over the top voice acting.
How about if they do it as a TV miniseries revival of "I Led Three Lives"?:-)
Re:Problem (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26, @07:03PM (#17778474) "Somewhat offtopic, but the introduction of extremely cheap high fructose corn syrup did much more damage to the sugar market. Cane sugar just couldn't compete in terms of price, which is why you don't have real sugar in soda anymore."
Even more off-topic: US sugar embargoes on Cuba and the subsidization of corn by the feds is the reason HFCS is more expensive than cane sugar in the states.
I think what the AC meant is that corn is cheaper than sugar for the reasons cited.
And that's why Mountain Dew no longer tastes like it used to.
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I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
BTW - Orville Deadenbacher looks even worse in hi-def...
In fairness to Orville, it's unlikely that he was filmed or recorded with hi-def equipment back then, so you're likely seeing plain ol' TV "blowed up" to fit the high-def screen.
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Yes, actually, it is, but it's one of those unstated rules that only the cool kids know about.
Many thanks, but I'm thinking that perhaps you've confused Hugh Grant with Hugh Laurie, who's currently starring as Doctor Gregory House (and who was an excellent Bertie Wooster several years back), hence my original post's subject line's oh-so-subtle pun.
Must have been some episode that never made it to my neck of the woods. Can you provide any more details?
Speaking of "House", Hugh Laurie would probably make the best Doctor Who since Tom Baker.
Then why are french fries served underdone almost everywhere?
Kinda makes you wish they'd passed on YouTube and bought an actual broadcast/cable television network or three, don't it?
In two places I noticed that you used then when the word that was called for was than.
Although in the second instance you may have intended to use the word when.
So did I, until I noticed that the new digital television channels are using the same VHF and UHF frequencies that analog television does now.
I'm guessing that the non-revenue generating character of emergency services radio has a lot to do with this. There's no money with which to buy congresscritters.
But seriously, am I the only one who thought at first that someone had misspelled "growth"?
Surviving members of 'Captain America's Red, White, and Blues Band' will re-unite for the first time since the late '60s to play at the funeral, with Nick Fury taking Cap's place on lead shield.
Yeah, well, see, what they do is they take all the bits and shave down the sides and make them hexagonal instead of square so that they can pack them together a lot tighter.
A micron here, a micron there, after a while, you're talking real gigabytes. (with apologies to the late Sen. Dirksen)
Remember, they will never forgive you for being right.
Shouldn't you be looking backward to it?
Which is why I think it does merit being a Slashdot topic. Where and how else is he going to get his question in front of said audience? An audience which is nonetheless free to ignore this particular topic and read something else off the main page.
If you google for "Innovation SSI 2001" (as opposed to googling for Innovation SSI 2001) you only get two pages of results and if you subtract the links to the OP's web page and to this article it's only one page and all in Czech or Romanian or something like that, so I don't think you can call the OP lazy for asking here.
It's not like he cluttered up the main page trying to sell something or with a question for which an answer could be found in a thousand other places.
If you ever find a link to the story about the first woman, I'd appreciate an email at coastalnet.com(just add user name).
I thought that the WB and UPN had been merged into CW this past fall. I know that both disappeared from our cable lineup (with no price reduction and no addition of the new CW affliate). Perhaps you meant the local station which was previously a WB affliate?
Chicago Sun-Times, May 23, 2001
ROCKFORD A suspected shoplifter at a Wal-Mart store pulled a gun Tuesday and shot three employees before she was killed by police, authorities said.
Laura Gassaway, 33, of Rockford, died at a hospital from gunshot wounds, said Rockford Police Sgt. Joe Westmoreland. He said his department previously had arrested Gassaway on misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct charges.
"She has had some run-in with the police, but there's been nothing else this violent," Westmoreland said.
Gassaway was pregnant at the time of the shooting, Police Chief Jeff Nielsen said at a press conference. But Winnebago County Coroner Sue Fiduccia said she could not confirm that until an autopsy, scheduled for today or Thursday.
The incident began when store employees refused to sell Gassaway bullets because she did not have a state firearm owner's identification card, Nielsen said.
Gassaway then began shoplifting other items-worth about $20 or less-and was stopped by store security, Westmoreland said. Security officers called police and took the suspect to their office, where she pulled a handgun from inside her pants and opened fire, he said.
"When police heard the shots, they went back to the security room and found her shooting the three employees. That's when they shot her," Westmoreland said.
Two officers fired 21 shots at Gassaway because she would not drop her weapon, Nielsen said at a news conference.
Gassaway was taken to Rockford Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, said Mary Reinke, a hospital spokeswoman.
Two of the wounded employees were Wal-Mart security guards, and the other was an assistant manager, said Tom Williams, a spokesman for Wal-Mart at its headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.
Williams said the incident took place in an area with no customers.
"We're just very pleased that apparently none of our three employees who were hurt had life-threatening injuries, and that no customers were hurt," he said.
Copyright The Chicago Sun-Times, Inc.
Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved.
Unless shoplifters at the Rockford Wal-Mart get shot on a regular basis, the woman you mentioned was, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, shot by actual police officers after she shot and wounded two security guards and an assistant manager and refused police orders to drop her weapon.
Several turtles, actually. As the old lady said, "It's turtles all the way down."
That's what makes this so special, it was around over 24 million years waiting for a planet to come into being directly underneath it.
Best not to drill it, though. You know what they say about letting sleeping frogs lie. :-)
You're just saying that because you never heard any of the spots I used to cut. :-)
I thought the royal fireworks didn't happen until the honeymoon. :-)
So I personally will not RTFA until it has been adapted into a radio drama with hilariously over the top voice acting.
How about if they do it as a TV miniseries revival of "I Led Three Lives"? :-)
In fairness to Orville, it's unlikely that he was filmed or recorded with hi-def equipment back then, so you're likely seeing plain ol' TV "blowed up" to fit the high-def screen.