I have to sit through that uncomfortable kiss between Luke and Leia knowing that they are indeed brother and sister.
At this precise moment during the '97 special edition release of Star Wars, in a packed house (the Uptown Theater in Washington DC, 840 seats), some guy down in front yelled,
INNNN-CEST!!!!
The whole place cracked up. I wish I could say it was me, but alas, it wasn't.
I've had to fight with Mandriva installs since 9.1 to get my touchpad (barely) working. My machine worked more cleanlu two versions back, than it does now.
*Fight*, I tell you. Not to mention the broken Kat and gam_server problems (act like malware on Windows, eating up scads memory and CPU time), badly incomplete documentation installed (for many K-applications) problems with Kiosk installs (crap like Mindawn, a paid music subscription service I'll never use with dependencies on the other stuff in the bundle), the harddrive jerking about for any operation, etc. These are all problems I (and others) have had with 2006.
Next time I switch or upgrade, I'm going to Kubuntu.
The second mistake was that WGA Notifications was also "phoning home" information to Microsoft on a regular basis. That's right: Not only was the software secretly installed on your PC, but it then regularly contacted Microsoft servers and provided them with data about the instances of pirated and nonpirated software out there. Customers and security experts reacted with alarm, as well they should: Microsoft had literally shipped spyware to its customers. Microsoft, meanwhile, reacted as they often do when something like this happens: They made as if nothing serious had happened and acted shocked that anyone could think otherwise. So much for the Glasnost of the consent decree.
What kind of pillow-biting bottom is this fool? Knowing that Microsoft has this uncaring attitude towards its customers, why on earth does he continue to be such a fanboi? I can't believe anyone would apologize for this company.
If since the letter,
ade a deal go sour,
on pacts of golden seal,
post marked.
Ain't it funny how it gets there,
and they say it never does,
I'll replace you with machines,
I can't face you.
so I wrote a letter,
to the messenger of my dreams,
I see him at a party,
endlessly.
Ain't it funny how it gets there,
and they say it never does,
I'll replace you with machines
I can't face you.
It sounds like most of Japan's culture is rather maladapted to life as it currently is. The language is stuck in feudal warlord times, what with the various levels of what we call politeness, and everyone has to, out of the group-harmony thing, choke back every bit of anger they've got,while they're forced to live at Internet-speed.
Where do they hide the anger? How do they get rid of it? Do they get rid of it? If they want to rely on robots instead of each other, they're failing themselves as a society. And as for Marie, the Filipina - the Japanese are notoriously racist, no that's no surprise. She's different from them, and in a land of supreme conformity, she'd freak them out too much merely by existing.
Let's face it, there's always been an anti-intellectual streak
in the US, and now, these Bible-thumping ignoramuses are strengthening it.
These are the people who want to bring back Old Testament style theocracy, and think that it jibes with the Constitution. Check out
the Christian Reconstructionist article on Wikipedia. Ultramontanes of the highest order.
Although I live in DC, I don't worry about Islamist terrorists as much as these folks taking over. Islamist terrorists could cause nasty infrastructural and personal damage, but these people, given a chance, will do everything they can to ensure nothing that conflicts with their interpretation of the Bible gets taught, women have no reproductive rights, gay people are executed for something they can't help being, etc., etc. They'll warp the laws to a viewpoint no one's held in 2,000 years - there's been progress since then, but they don't want it.
If they had their way, the only science that would go on would be to prove absurd things, like Moses really parted the Red Sea, instead of say, forensic ethnobotany to show how people ate.
God, I Hate Flash.
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I'd just like to read the info, not have to figure out over-designed interfaces:(
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I have to sit through that uncomfortable kiss between Luke and Leia knowing that they are indeed brother and sister.
At this precise moment during the '97 special edition release of Star Wars, in a packed house (the Uptown Theater in Washington DC, 840 seats), some guy down in front yelled,
INNNN-CEST!!!!
The whole place cracked up. I wish I could say it was me, but alas, it wasn't.
I'm not so sure private enterprise is the panacea you seem to believe it to be.
ms-prnp-is-the-digital-equivalent-of-bare-backing- on-meth.com
I've had to fight with Mandriva installs since 9.1 to get my touchpad (barely) working. My machine worked more cleanlu two versions back, than it does now. *Fight*, I tell you. Not to mention the broken Kat and gam_server problems (act like malware on Windows, eating up scads memory and CPU time), badly incomplete documentation installed (for many K-applications) problems with Kiosk installs (crap like Mindawn, a paid music subscription service I'll never use with dependencies on the other stuff in the bundle), the harddrive jerking about for any operation, etc. These are all problems I (and others) have had with 2006. Next time I switch or upgrade, I'm going to Kubuntu.
So, are they gonna do a "Prosthetics Hacks" book? I see a lot of interesting Perl scripts coming our way ;-)
Someone really needs to cue the bionic action sound effects from that show onto these ants jumping around, it'd be so perfect...
What kind of pillow-biting bottom is this fool? Knowing that Microsoft has this uncaring attitude towards its customers, why on earth does he continue to be such a fanboi? I can't believe anyone would apologize for this company.
...have been thought up, created and gone through two or three versions in this timeframe?
I'm 36, and I'd still think that, if it happened :(
http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/ldavg1. shtml
...they throw the seats in with the dishes!!!!!! http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/toilet.htm
As well you should. I doubt I could do it, and it's amazingly funny and creative. Rock on!
Dear Javamoose,
I mean it in the best possible way, in admiration of your creativity and technical acumen...
but ...
YOU ... FUCKING ... NERD!!
Over the top and outta sight, she's outta here, baby :D
It sounds like most of Japan's culture is rather maladapted to life as it currently is. The language is stuck in feudal warlord times, what with the various levels of what we call politeness, and everyone has to, out of the group-harmony thing, choke back every bit of anger they've got,while they're forced to live at Internet-speed.
Where do they hide the anger? How do they get rid of it? Do they get rid of it? If they want to rely on robots instead of each other, they're failing themselves as a society. And as for Marie, the Filipina - the Japanese are notoriously racist, no that's no surprise. She's different from them, and in a land of supreme conformity, she'd freak them out too much merely by existing.Indeed, no one should be surprised: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Stu dy
You know something like this will happen again.
..Starvation I've seen in a while. WTF would pay $5100 for this thing ?!?
Dude was Douglas Adams before Douglas Adams was, in the same sort of way Gahan Wilson was Gary Larson before Gary was.
Let's face it, there's always been an anti-intellectual streak in the US, and now, these Bible-thumping ignoramuses are strengthening it.
These are the people who want to bring back Old Testament style theocracy, and think that it jibes with the Constitution. Check out the Christian Reconstructionist article on Wikipedia. Ultramontanes of the highest order.
Although I live in DC, I don't worry about Islamist terrorists as much as these folks taking over. Islamist terrorists could cause nasty infrastructural and personal damage, but these people, given a chance, will do everything they can to ensure nothing that conflicts with their interpretation of the Bible gets taught, women have no reproductive rights, gay people are executed for something they can't help being, etc., etc. They'll warp the laws to a viewpoint no one's held in 2,000 years - there's been progress since then, but they don't want it.
If they had their way, the only science that would go on would be to prove absurd things, like Moses really parted the Red Sea, instead of say, forensic ethnobotany to show how people ate.
I'd just like to read the info, not have to figure out over-designed interfaces :(
Odd...
Try opening a Word 2003 document in Word 97, or Word 6, dude.
You may be incurably stupid, but I'll try anyway...
Umbilical stem cells != embryonic stem cells. Note the key word "umbilical". That means from the umbilical cord.
A few seconds' research provides http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilical_Cord
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_blood
Précis: They're stem cells harvested from cord blood, which comes from the umbilical cord, which comes from newly-born babies ... not aborted fetuses.
>> Ogasawara Whale-Watching Association. A little squid is *all* they got on film? What about Godzilla? Ebriah? Booooorrrrinnngggg!
It's here. They elected it.
I think we can see where all thi research is leading...