In geostationary orbit, a LED ZEPPELIN will be holding up this STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN. They will probably outsource much of the work to KASHMIR. I hope the isn't a COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN that makes the whole thing come crashing down OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.
A practical reason to be against kids with laptops in schools is that they are expensive, and kids are careless. They are going to be dropped and broken time and time again. No network administrator can prevent that.
A reason that no film will ever live up to the hype again: It costs too damn much to go to a movie. 8 to 10 buck just for one ticket, double that if you are bringing a date. Multiply by at least 2 if you are buying drinks and snacks. 2 tix, 2 popcorns and 2 pops could be 40 bucks! I'll wait for the DVD.
Recording Industrialists Against Artists will try anything to make sure no one hears so much as a note of music without paying them. Music has existed since the dawn of time, not just since the invention of the phonograph. RIAA, you are obsolete and your products are too. No one needs you any more. Don't Buy CDs.
Ken Lay isn't dead. He's in Aruba or Tahiti having a Mai Tai and a laugh! That is why the body, which really isn't his, is being cremated. It leaves behind no evidence.
It is a given that we will not change, and that will wipe a lot of us out in the next 100 years, but not all of humanity. We are not on the brink of extinction. There may not be 6 billion people on earth in 2106, but there will be people.
If a cure for cancer actually existed, it would have to be something tangible like a pill or a liquid that can be injected. The idea of a cure for cancer by itself is not something you can hold in your hand, sell, or lock up as your property so no one else can work on one.
I am saying that things that physically exist should have more value than purely intangible things. The quest to protect "intellectual property" has taken absurdity to such heights that maybe the word, "absurdity" is no longer adequate to describe it.
The markets? They did a bang-up job choosing which quadraphonic record format would win, which AM stereo would win, DAT or DCC. SACD or DVD Audio. Unless one side is clearly the Beta, the markets can never make up their minds. They will buy neither to avoid getting stuck with what may be the next Beta. Drives that do DVD-R and DVD+R were the thing that kept DVD burners from being DOA, not the markets. Drives that do both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray won't be allowed unless current licensing agreements change.
If they weren't stupid, they would have a serious virus scanner like Virucide from Computer Labs Inc. installed. This fire is clearly the Monkeypoo virus at work!
VIRUS WARNING:
Attention: Computer Labs Inc., makers of Virucide antivirus software have identified a highly dangerous new Trojan worm, MONKEYPOO. It will usually appear in an e-mail with the subject, "Congratulations.You have won!" it will then prompt you to click a link to collect your cash prize. It can also freely spread across networks.
Monkeypoo will read your address book, and mail a copy of itself to every address it finds, and it will look like you sent it. It will then invoke the secret self-destruct command held over from the original IBM PC's
8086 command set. This short line of code will cause the processor, ram, hard drive and any floppy drives to spin out of control and overheat until key components melt together, and will most likely cause a fire.
James Winklee, a former IBM programmer had this to say. "We developed the self-destruct code so government agencies such as the FBI and CIA could quickly and completely destroy compromised computer systems before an enemy could get their hands on classified information. When we saw how violently a PC executing the command burst into flames, we decided not to publish its existence. It has been kept a secret successfully until now. If you get infected with the Monkeypoo Trojan worm, you may notice your computer going completely haywire. Physically unplug it from power as fast as you can, and send it in for repair. Only a professional can remove this one."
While Computer Labs Inc and other antivirus software makers are working on a solution, they haven't got one a home user could successfully run yet. "This is the worst kind of malicious code I have ever seen." said Marcus Polan of Computer labs Inc. Use extreme caution.
It is important that as many computer users as possible receive this warning, so send it out to as many people as you can. The entire Internet and every PC connected to it is at risk.
WTF? Will everyone applying for a job have to give a DNA sample, or forget about the job? I'm not a religious nut, but this immediately sprang to mind:
From Skeptic's Annotated Bible.
Rev. 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Will an DNA fingerprint be "the mark" without which no one may buy or sell?
Did you watch anything with fast motion in it? Every picture on a plasma screen I have seen breaks up into a bunch of block if there is motion. You will hate that if you watch sports or action movies.
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Where can I buy one of these Orange computers?
I would like to see a disc format that could handle the raw data. No compression and decompression scheme will ever look as good as that would.
In geostationary orbit, a LED ZEPPELIN will be holding up this STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN. They will probably outsource much of the work to KASHMIR. I hope the isn't a COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN that makes the whole thing come crashing down OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY.
A practical reason to be against kids with laptops in schools is that they are expensive, and kids are careless. They are going to be dropped and broken time and time again. No network administrator can prevent that.
A reason that no film will ever live up to the hype again: It costs too damn much to go to a movie. 8 to 10 buck just for one ticket, double that if you are bringing a date. Multiply by at least 2 if you are buying drinks and snacks. 2 tix, 2 popcorns and 2 pops could be 40 bucks! I'll wait for the DVD.
Recording Industrialists Against Artists will try anything to make sure no one hears so much as a note of music without paying them. Music has existed since the dawn of time, not just since the invention of the phonograph. RIAA, you are obsolete and your products are too. No one needs you any more. Don't Buy CDs.
Ken Lay isn't dead. He's in Aruba or Tahiti having a Mai Tai and a laugh! That is why the body, which really isn't his, is being cremated. It leaves behind no evidence.
It is a given that we will not change, and that will wipe a lot of us out in the next 100 years, but not all of humanity. We are not on the brink of extinction. There may not be 6 billion people on earth in 2106, but there will be people.
You can never be sure something is true until it is officially denied.
Also, all that juice could turn burrowing animals into killer mutuants that could destroy us all!
Picking their noses and scratching their asses is all I've ever seen Dork Patrol or whatever the hell they are called do.
If a cure for cancer actually existed, it would have to be something tangible like a pill or a liquid that can be injected. The idea of a cure for cancer by itself is not something you can hold in your hand, sell, or lock up as your property so no one else can work on one.
I am saying that things that physically exist should have more value than purely intangible things. The quest to protect "intellectual property" has taken absurdity to such heights that maybe the word, "absurdity" is no longer adequate to describe it.
Har, ye bilgerat! Rape, robbery and murder on the high seas be worth the risk because of the booty!
It's Bizaroworld when vapor has more value than tangible things. If fonts have value, I'll buy a pound of them. No, wait! I'll buy a bushel.
The markets? They did a bang-up job choosing which quadraphonic record format would win, which AM stereo would win, DAT or DCC. SACD or DVD Audio. Unless one side is clearly the Beta, the markets can never make up their minds. They will buy neither to avoid getting stuck with what may be the next Beta. Drives that do DVD-R and DVD+R were the thing that kept DVD burners from being DOA, not the markets. Drives that do both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray won't be allowed unless current licensing agreements change.
VIRUS WARNING:
Attention: Computer Labs Inc., makers of Virucide antivirus software have identified a highly dangerous new Trojan worm, MONKEYPOO. It will usually appear in an e-mail with the subject, "Congratulations.You have won!" it will then prompt you to click a link to collect your cash prize. It can also freely spread across networks.
Monkeypoo will read your address book, and mail a copy of itself to every address it finds, and it will look like you sent it. It will then invoke the secret self-destruct command held over from the original IBM PC's 8086 command set. This short line of code will cause the processor, ram, hard drive and any floppy drives to spin out of control and overheat until key components melt together, and will most likely cause a fire.
James Winklee, a former IBM programmer had this to say. "We developed the self-destruct code so government agencies such as the FBI and CIA could quickly and completely destroy compromised computer systems before an enemy could get their hands on classified information. When we saw how violently a PC executing the command burst into flames, we decided not to publish its existence. It has been kept a secret successfully until now. If you get infected with the Monkeypoo Trojan worm, you may notice your computer going completely haywire. Physically unplug it from power as fast as you can, and send it in for repair. Only a professional can remove this one."
While Computer Labs Inc and other antivirus software makers are working on a solution, they haven't got one a home user could successfully run yet. "This is the worst kind of malicious code I have ever seen." said Marcus Polan of Computer labs Inc. Use extreme caution.
It is important that as many computer users as possible receive this warning, so send it out to as many people as you can. The entire Internet and every PC connected to it is at risk.
Of course it is secure. Hackers can't break into vaporware.
I thought Alienware had died and gone to dell.
WTF? Will everyone applying for a job have to give a DNA sample, or forget about the job? I'm not a religious nut, but this immediately sprang to mind:
From Skeptic's Annotated Bible.
Rev. 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Will an DNA fingerprint be "the mark" without which no one may buy or sell?
Is the space elevator an impossible dream? Well, duh! You are more likely to be able to beam up.
If the pirates are making lousy copies, maybe you should buy them from ninjas instead.
Did you watch anything with fast motion in it? Every picture on a plasma screen I have seen breaks up into a bunch of block if there is motion. You will hate that if you watch sports or action movies.
Did some baboon actually call them for technical support after soldering in a mod chip and watching it go boom?
We like the moon!