Actually Matt Groening is from Portland, Oregon. He's stated quite a few times (most recently on the DVD comentary) that Portland is the inspiration for Springfield and that the name was chosen as a generic.
Agreed. Even in Seattle, home of the supergreen eco-Nazis, people still refuses to carpool. Traffic might actually be better off with these; at least they aren't Hummers with a driver and no passenger.
When you're a disaffected 16-year-old in a shitty high school in Everett, Washington (home of Patrick Duffy and Kenny Loggins) with no driver's license, job, or girlfriend, 30 IS dead.;)
And, by the way, you can never watch too much Logan's Run. Jenny Agutter is a very good thing.
In my will, I actually provided for this. The provisions are that any and all hard drives have to be destroyed. All the rest of the equipment can go to the pockets of my family and friends, or to charity. I don't really care which.
It actually never occurred to me to provide for my websites. I suppose that I'll have to add a codisil that provides the passwords for them. I figure that if I'm famous enough at the time of my death that people care, they'll get taken care of. Otherwise, nobody will care anyway.
The funny thing is that I'm only 23 and I have a will. Like I always said: Rich or dead by thirty. Rich ain't lookin' too hot.
If you're in a tournament or something where the entire goal of the game is to win at all costs, that's one thing. Cheese away. But when you're having a friendly game with somebody, it's just no fun to be repeatedly pinned to the wall and destroyed. Eventually, that person's just not going to want to play anymore. Just a thought. And I just realized that "pinned to the wall" could be taken any of a few ways.
I'm not saying that undesirable traffic shouldn't be dropped. I'm saying that they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. They're dropping ALL the traffic, not just the traffic they don't want.
AHBL is a governing group due to the fact that their decisions are governing traffic on a significant segment of the network. And I agree that it's your right to drop whatever traffic you'd like. But again. The network depends on traffic getting passed through. So there you go.
The ideaa of this is somewhat sound, but still. The internet is dependant on free exchange of information (sound familiar?). If governing groups decide to start blocking entire countries based on one type of traffic that they don't like, what happens when they decide to block for another that they don't like? If this was, for example (and lets all play along for the sake of argument), a ban on HTTP traffic from Spain, I think we'd all be singing a different tune. It's the same thing though; There's a large amount of marginally-legal and illegal traffic via HTTP, but is that any reason to shut of access to the legit traffic? I don't think so.
I agree that spam is a major major problem. But I don't think that cutting off access to the population of an entire country is really a good solution.
...as I'll hazard a guess and say that the vast majority of internet users do nothing but check email, look at web sites and chat on IMs. Heck, if that's all I did, I'd be happy with dialup too. But I also like to download large... uh... stuff... like videos? Oh! And music!
I actually just recently got DSL because after looking at the numbers, I was spending more for a seperate phone line with dial up ($23 + $15, respectively) than just putting DSL on my primary line ($30). That and it just became available in my neighborhood.
...I don't entirely disagree with what he's saying. The biggest gripe I have about LEDs of any color is their overuse. The one I hate most is on my JVC DVD player. When it's on, there's a green LED. When it's off, that green LED... changes to red? Why in the world do I need an indicator that tells me "alert! This device is now off!" It's rather distracting when I'm trying to watch TV and I've got this glaring red eye below. Other devices with LEDs don't bother me that much; I'm not generally staring in their direction. But LEDs on devices which, by their design or fuction, implicitly stay in your field of vision--or just on the periphary--ought to be toned down a skosh.
Every day, dozens of stuntmen in Hollywood are shot, knifed, burnt and blown up, with surprisingly few deaths. What makes you think this particular footage is real??
I don't know which footage you're talking about. If it's the suicide footage, I think it's real because of its provenance (the police department) and the fact that there are interviews with the family of the fellow in the tape. If you're talking about the Faces of Death footage, I said that a lot of that footage was not real.
For instance the Romans would move water hundreds of miles without the use of any pumps. Only gravity would be used. There is once site in Spain where the Romans used water to tear down a mountain to mine it. Something we would use explosives and heavy machines to do.
Actually, there is a modern (meaning 1800s) equivelent of this, called hydraulic mining. Put simply, you spray a hillside with a powerful jet of water, exposing the material you're mining. It's been outlawed, as it was incredibly destructive.
About like the rest of Windows CE -- not all that well. Ahh, but I kid. I had a Windows CE device that served me well for many years. There were problems, but right up until somebody dropped their book bag on it, it was a trooper. I absolutely loved the audio memo function. Used it constantly when I was out at bars, DEF CON, etc. Made for some good times.
I'm sure somebody else already pointed this out, but be nice to me. I'm "tired." Orson Welles directed the "Mercury Theatre" radio adaptation of War of the Worlds but he had nothing to do with the 1953 film version. Byron Haskin was the director of that.
HP isn't responsible for what people print with their printers. Whether it's an english paper, a photo of my dog, kiddie porn, or currency. HP is responsible for making devices that function as advertised and as desired. What use is a printer that won't print what I want? Admittedly, I don't often need to print currency. But what if I was, for example, working on an image that happened to use green and had crosshatching or a lot of lines? It's the government's responsibility to make an un-counterfitable bank note. It's not HP's job to control what we print.
This 'hamburger' contains no ham, these 'French' fries are from Idaho, and this Dr. Pepper was not prescribed and tastes nothing like pepper!
I know you're joking but still. I have to correct. The "french" in "french fries" refers to the process of "frenching"--that is, the method by which they are cut. They would be more accurately described as "frenched fries." I know. Off my soapbox now.;)
If you're on a Windows or (no joke) OS/2 box, try mTelnet [ozone.eesc.com]. It's got (near as I can tell) perfect ANSI support, and it's got genuine old-sk00l flava in the interface. It's an excellent BBS client.
I for one am stoked. I think I may be the only person that likes Transformed Man on it's own merits (although I do like the camp factor as well). I searched long and hard for one of the original LPs. I also have the Leonard Nimoy records. Now those are truly terrible. Nimoy makes Shatner sound like Andrea Bocelli.
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Actually Matt Groening is from Portland, Oregon. He's stated quite a few times (most recently on the DVD comentary) that Portland is the inspiration for Springfield and that the name was chosen as a generic.
Agreed. Even in Seattle, home of the supergreen eco-Nazis, people still refuses to carpool. Traffic might actually be better off with these; at least they aren't Hummers with a driver and no passenger.
5. Door stop (Those old Barracuda server drives especially)
...to anyone who bought CDs in the '80s. I've got one particular first-generation Billy Idol CD that is totally rotted out.
When you're a disaffected 16-year-old in a shitty high school in Everett, Washington (home of Patrick Duffy and Kenny Loggins) with no driver's license, job, or girlfriend, 30 IS dead. ;)
And, by the way, you can never watch too much Logan's Run. Jenny Agutter is a very good thing.
In my will, I actually provided for this. The provisions are that any and all hard drives have to be destroyed. All the rest of the equipment can go to the pockets of my family and friends, or to charity. I don't really care which.
It actually never occurred to me to provide for my websites. I suppose that I'll have to add a codisil that provides the passwords for them. I figure that if I'm famous enough at the time of my death that people care, they'll get taken care of. Otherwise, nobody will care anyway.
The funny thing is that I'm only 23 and I have a will. Like I always said: Rich or dead by thirty. Rich ain't lookin' too hot.
If you're in a tournament or something where the entire goal of the game is to win at all costs, that's one thing. Cheese away. But when you're having a friendly game with somebody, it's just no fun to be repeatedly pinned to the wall and destroyed. Eventually, that person's just not going to want to play anymore. Just a thought. And I just realized that "pinned to the wall" could be taken any of a few ways.
I'm not saying that undesirable traffic shouldn't be dropped. I'm saying that they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. They're dropping ALL the traffic, not just the traffic they don't want.
AHBL is a governing group due to the fact that their decisions are governing traffic on a significant segment of the network. And I agree that it's your right to drop whatever traffic you'd like. But again. The network depends on traffic getting passed through. So there you go.
The ideaa of this is somewhat sound, but still. The internet is dependant on free exchange of information (sound familiar?). If governing groups decide to start blocking entire countries based on one type of traffic that they don't like, what happens when they decide to block for another that they don't like? If this was, for example (and lets all play along for the sake of argument), a ban on HTTP traffic from Spain, I think we'd all be singing a different tune. It's the same thing though; There's a large amount of marginally-legal and illegal traffic via HTTP, but is that any reason to shut of access to the legit traffic? I don't think so. I agree that spam is a major major problem. But I don't think that cutting off access to the population of an entire country is really a good solution.
I named my router Charlton and my test server Heston. Then... I'm more than a little bent.
...as I'll hazard a guess and say that the vast majority of internet users do nothing but check email, look at web sites and chat on IMs. Heck, if that's all I did, I'd be happy with dialup too. But I also like to download large... uh... stuff... like videos? Oh! And music! I actually just recently got DSL because after looking at the numbers, I was spending more for a seperate phone line with dial up ($23 + $15, respectively) than just putting DSL on my primary line ($30). That and it just became available in my neighborhood.
...I don't entirely disagree with what he's saying. The biggest gripe I have about LEDs of any color is their overuse. The one I hate most is on my JVC DVD player. When it's on, there's a green LED. When it's off, that green LED... changes to red? Why in the world do I need an indicator that tells me "alert! This device is now off!" It's rather distracting when I'm trying to watch TV and I've got this glaring red eye below. Other devices with LEDs don't bother me that much; I'm not generally staring in their direction. But LEDs on devices which, by their design or fuction, implicitly stay in your field of vision--or just on the periphary--ought to be toned down a skosh.
The difference is that a great portion of the Faces stuff is fake.
About like the rest of Windows CE -- not all that well. Ahh, but I kid. I had a Windows CE device that served me well for many years. There were problems, but right up until somebody dropped their book bag on it, it was a trooper. I absolutely loved the audio memo function. Used it constantly when I was out at bars, DEF CON, etc. Made for some good times.
I think it's far more probable that it's Dick Cheney's gall stones headed for an undisclosed location.
I'm sure somebody else already pointed this out, but be nice to me. I'm "tired." Orson Welles directed the "Mercury Theatre" radio adaptation of War of the Worlds but he had nothing to do with the 1953 film version. Byron Haskin was the director of that.
Like ethics and corporate responsiblity.
HP isn't responsible for what people print with their printers. Whether it's an english paper, a photo of my dog, kiddie porn, or currency. HP is responsible for making devices that function as advertised and as desired. What use is a printer that won't print what I want? Admittedly, I don't often need to print currency. But what if I was, for example, working on an image that happened to use green and had crosshatching or a lot of lines? It's the government's responsibility to make an un-counterfitable bank note. It's not HP's job to control what we print.
If you're on a Windows or (no joke) OS/2 box, try mTelnet [ozone.eesc.com]. It's got (near as I can tell) perfect ANSI support, and it's got genuine old-sk00l flava in the interface. It's an excellent BBS client.
I for one am stoked. I think I may be the only person that likes Transformed Man on it's own merits (although I do like the camp factor as well). I searched long and hard for one of the original LPs. I also have the Leonard Nimoy records. Now those are truly terrible. Nimoy makes Shatner sound like Andrea Bocelli.