They've had gays on star trek before. I remember quite a bit of that on voyager and no one made any kind of deal about it. Some in DS9 too, wasn't Garak gay? I remember him propositioning Worf in one episode...
I guess, i just remember what a pain in the ass it was to strip my latitude when i painted it, and then again to resolder the power jack when it came loose. All the random little screws and plugs...
When my kids hear a "bad" word, I explain to them why they shouldn't use that word.
Just outa curiosity, not trying to bust your balls, what do you tell you kids? How do you explain to kids that certain words are bad? If you think about it, its realy one of those "because" things. How do you explain the concept of taboo to children?
Not activly ussually, but they can tell where you placed/recieved a call from, even without a GPS enabled cell. And if you needed to be found or whatever and your phone was turned on, they could probably track you, but they dont keep records of that. Linky. Scary. Dont feel like digging up true life examples, but they frequently do this on Law & Order, which is a pretty accurate show, from a technical, legal and procedural standpoint.
May be an urban legend, but here goes... Going over the elements in soph. chemistry, our teacher had stories for a lot of em. Of course for copper he starts talking about pennies. He told us back in the 80s or some time, some Libertarian group protested by paying their taxes entirly in pennies. As the story goes, the IRS talked the treasury dept into making pennies not legal tender anymore. So you cant pay your taxes in pennies, if you try to pay for something in pennies you can be refused (for reasons other than being a jerk:D) and thats why those souvineer penny squishing machines are legal, since its illegal to destroy currency. Anyone know if this is true or not?
Desktops are easy enough to be talked through a simple hardware deal(new card, ram upgrade, etc), but laptops are a whole other ball of wax. I dont even like taking apart my laptop, and i've built numerous desktops. Joe User can probably screw in and install a new hard drive in his dell, but he shouldn't be poking around in his laptop.
There really is a Platium Collectors Boxed set of the EEs. Of which i haveboth. And no theres no other jokes to be had since i havn't bought any of the theatrical releases not do i plan i buying the trilogy set.
Hope theres an intermission, or else a free catheter with every ticket. They should do what they did when it was originally released. They showed FotR EE, TTT EE and RotK back to back the day before RotK opened. That sold out around the country in a matter of hours. I'd be even more willing to sit through all 3 EEs in the theatre. With that said i'm still waiting on the RotK EE Platinum Collectors Boxed Set to go with my other two...
Perhaps, distribute a company-wide email, linking to a download for Firefox...
Better yet, send a company wide e-mail with a link to firefox titled "Cool Screensaver", that should get people who use IE in the first place to click it...
Although spam is different from war and peace, I see the same issue here. If one rogue nation chooses to defy UN law, there's not too much they can do...
Although they could always send in a "Peacekeeping" force against the spammers...
In person. Hell, i was in a bank one day while my friend was just cashing some checks, i was just standing over by another (uniocupied) counter and happened to be wearing a suit for whatever reason and had 3 people coming up and asking me if i needed help with safe deposit or personal banking. It was quite strange.
Not arguing for the franchise, but they do have a one up on everyone else. Consistency. If your driving cross country and need to stop for food, do you stop at some dirty little diner that could have godawful food, or do you stop at McDonalds, where you know it'll be relativly clean and you know exactly what you're getting when you order(not arguing the quality, just consistency). A chicken mcnugget is a chicken mcnugget in seattle in houston in fairfax... I like starbucks cafe vanilla frapuchinos, i could go to some random coffee shop and get an iced vanilla cappuchino, but will it be anywhere near what i'm used to expecting from starbucks? I'm speaking for the traveling populace of the US however. Personally I prefer the local restraunts to micky Ds and prefer the local coffee shops to starbucks, although i do enjoy a frappuchino.
I could look past the qantity of tritium, and all the other stuff, there was only one thing that buged me... Ok, lets drop a fusion reaction (essentially a miniature sun) into the river and there wont be a massive explosion of steam...
Urban legends. About the only thing coke is good for besides drinking is cleaning chrome. Some places do clean their floors with seltzer water from a tap in the back of the soda fountain, but no syrup, that'd get everything all sticky. Link. Also try to find episode 5 of Discovery Channels Mythbusters. Probably avalible on p2p, or check the listings.
Reminds me of a friend of mine who was playing touch football in somebody's yard and was accidentaly impailed on the antler of a wrought-iron deer lawn statue. Missed his vitals, so we can laugh about it as he only ended up with a few stiches and a good scar story. I dont think anyone bought him a football for it though. But in either case its refreshing to see that they're saying, yeah, he's a dumb little kid, dumb little kids do dumb things and sometimes hurt themselves, lets not blame someone with deep pockets who we can sue.
Marcus Theatres around here have a policy that no one under 6 is allowed into an R rated movie. Period. Not that kids slighltly, or even more than slightly above that age should be seing R movies either, but its a start. I went and saw The Green Mile when i was in 6th grade, or whenever it was out, but thats certanly a different R rating than Kill Bill or something.
Has a video version of shoutcast avalible. Last time i checked what was avalible (which was only like a week after it was released) it was mostly simpsons and porn, i doubt much has changed, but i bet the porn selection is better.
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They've had gays on star trek before. I remember quite a bit of that on voyager and no one made any kind of deal about it. Some in DS9 too, wasn't Garak gay? I remember him propositioning Worf in one episode...
I guess, i just remember what a pain in the ass it was to strip my latitude when i painted it, and then again to resolder the power jack when it came loose. All the random little screws and plugs...
Not activly ussually, but they can tell where you placed/recieved a call from, even without a GPS enabled cell. And if you needed to be found or whatever and your phone was turned on, they could probably track you, but they dont keep records of that. Linky. Scary. Dont feel like digging up true life examples, but they frequently do this on Law & Order, which is a pretty accurate show, from a technical, legal and procedural standpoint.
May be an urban legend, but here goes... Going over the elements in soph. chemistry, our teacher had stories for a lot of em. Of course for copper he starts talking about pennies. He told us back in the 80s or some time, some Libertarian group protested by paying their taxes entirly in pennies. As the story goes, the IRS talked the treasury dept into making pennies not legal tender anymore. So you cant pay your taxes in pennies, if you try to pay for something in pennies you can be refused (for reasons other than being a jerk :D) and thats why those souvineer penny squishing machines are legal, since its illegal to destroy currency. Anyone know if this is true or not?
Desktops are easy enough to be talked through a simple hardware deal(new card, ram upgrade, etc), but laptops are a whole other ball of wax. I dont even like taking apart my laptop, and i've built numerous desktops. Joe User can probably screw in and install a new hard drive in his dell, but he shouldn't be poking around in his laptop.
There really is a Platium Collectors Boxed set of the EEs. Of which i have both. And no theres no other jokes to be had since i havn't bought any of the theatrical releases not do i plan i buying the trilogy set.
Hope theres an intermission, or else a free catheter with every ticket. They should do what they did when it was originally released. They showed FotR EE, TTT EE and RotK back to back the day before RotK opened. That sold out around the country in a matter of hours. I'd be even more willing to sit through all 3 EEs in the theatre. With that said i'm still waiting on the RotK EE Platinum Collectors Boxed Set to go with my other two...
No, it'll be more like the Last Starfighter. The winner gets sent to phobos courtesy of Armadillo Aerospace with only a pistol at first...
Wow, this is like the never ending bottle of mt dew...
In person. Hell, i was in a bank one day while my friend was just cashing some checks, i was just standing over by another (uniocupied) counter and happened to be wearing a suit for whatever reason and had 3 people coming up and asking me if i needed help with safe deposit or personal banking. It was quite strange.
Printer, free after 2 $30 rebates. Ink cartridges $30 each for B&W and MCY. USB cable not included with printer, $25.
Not arguing for the franchise, but they do have a one up on everyone else. Consistency. If your driving cross country and need to stop for food, do you stop at some dirty little diner that could have godawful food, or do you stop at McDonalds, where you know it'll be relativly clean and you know exactly what you're getting when you order(not arguing the quality, just consistency). A chicken mcnugget is a chicken mcnugget in seattle in houston in fairfax... I like starbucks cafe vanilla frapuchinos, i could go to some random coffee shop and get an iced vanilla cappuchino, but will it be anywhere near what i'm used to expecting from starbucks? I'm speaking for the traveling populace of the US however. Personally I prefer the local restraunts to micky Ds and prefer the local coffee shops to starbucks, although i do enjoy a frappuchino.
cyno01@hotmail.com (cant really get much more spam than i do...)
I could look past the qantity of tritium, and all the other stuff, there was only one thing that buged me... Ok, lets drop a fusion reaction (essentially a miniature sun) into the river and there wont be a massive explosion of steam...
Urban legends. About the only thing coke is good for besides drinking is cleaning chrome. Some places do clean their floors with seltzer water from a tap in the back of the soda fountain, but no syrup, that'd get everything all sticky. Link. Also try to find episode 5 of Discovery Channels Mythbusters. Probably avalible on p2p, or check the listings.
Reminds me of a friend of mine who was playing touch football in somebody's yard and was accidentaly impailed on the antler of a wrought-iron deer lawn statue. Missed his vitals, so we can laugh about it as he only ended up with a few stiches and a good scar story. I dont think anyone bought him a football for it though. But in either case its refreshing to see that they're saying, yeah, he's a dumb little kid, dumb little kids do dumb things and sometimes hurt themselves, lets not blame someone with deep pockets who we can sue.
Marcus Theatres around here have a policy that no one under 6 is allowed into an R rated movie. Period. Not that kids slighltly, or even more than slightly above that age should be seing R movies either, but its a start. I went and saw The Green Mile when i was in 6th grade, or whenever it was out, but thats certanly a different R rating than Kill Bill or something.
Has a video version of shoutcast avalible. Last time i checked what was avalible (which was only like a week after it was released) it was mostly simpsons and porn, i doubt much has changed, but i bet the porn selection is better.
Reminds me of the piece in the onion by the CEO of Gillette or whatever. "Fuck This Shit, We're Going Straight to Five Blades!"
Even better, when it ships from wherever in northern illinois and you get it next day. (i'm in WI too)
But now i'm hungry damnit!