Re:Wharrabout...NBCi.com QuickClick...a FLOP!!
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I remember you could download a script from NBCi.com that actually tried to turn EVERY WORD ON YOUR SCREEN INTO A HYPERLINK...the most worthless piece of free software I have ever seen on the web.
With the Live 8 concerts spotlighting poverty in Africa, I think they forgot about China's poverty. I read recently China has 26 million rural peasants living in poverty...they see the cities getting richer while they are going nowhere, and they are getting angrier by the year, and maybe slowly realizing that communism is the biggest flop ever foisted on humanity...even getting Taiwan back into the fold, let alone a decent space program, would not probably make these people feel any better about their plight.
The internet is showing the Chinese people how the rest of the free world lives, and the ChiCom government will not be able to stop their people with censorship much longer.
We might not see a totally free China in our lifetime, but sadly we will probably see Taiwan taken back and another Tianenmen Square-style massacre in our lifetime (provided we actually find out about it if it happens).
The 2008 Olympics will be in Tianenmen Square...and I will not watch.
Which Jane Fonda "workout" tapes do you speak of? Her aerobic exercise tapes, or tapes of her "exercises" in anti-Americanism by sitting on an NVA anti-aircraft gun?
If I read correctly, and I think I read it on this site, the Kessel Run was a smuggling race.
Somewhere along the route, you had to stop somewhere and deal with a "middleman" of some sort. Han reportedly figured out a way to bypass this middleman, therefore being able to boast that he finished the race in twelve parsecs.
If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is not for you.
Chalupa
If I read correctly, and I think I read it on this site, the Kessel Run was a smuggling race. Somewhere along the route, you had to stop somewhere and deal with a "middleman" of some sort. Han reportedly figured out a way to bypass this middleman, therefore being able to boast that he finished the race in twelve parsecs.
If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is not for you.
In case you forgot or weren't paying attention, we captured Khalid Sheikh Muhammed...he was the guy who MASTERMINDED September 11, not Bin Laden.
Bin Laden PAID for 9/11, and granted it would be nice to get him, but I (and some members of the Special Forces that were there) think he died December 2001 in the Tora Bora mountains.
Let's rock with the ones that we DO capture.
...if countries were exercise equipment, France would be a trampoline.
...so I guess there will be no more subtle references to Mormonism? Trying to find those little gems in the plot lines was the most fun part of sitting through the original BSG.
...if countries were Olympic sports, Canada would be the rhythmic gymnastics.
I was really digging how you were reminding me of some of the characters of one of my favorite strips from days past, and then you said this piece of stinky flamebait:
The diversity of characters in the strip was also unprecendented, from African-Americans (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rosalinda) who, unlike black characters in other strips, namely Peanuts, were actually of their own ethnicity
What's more astonishing is that you started with this:
I found that the strength of Bloom County was its in the way each member of its cast provided their own unique intimacy to the strip
Damn, it's almost like you never even read Peanuts.
Although Franklin was not a major player in the later years, it is interesting to note that even though he was introduced in 1968 (a torrential year to be black in America, I would imagine) his appearance was not considered to be politically motivated.
Franklin was a solid individual in that strip, not succumbing to personal foibles like every other character around him. He was written to be as theologically smart as Linus, and (quirk of all quirks), he actually LIKED playing hockey. Franklin was a smart, strong black kid that had his s**t together.
Franklin DID bring his own unique intimacy to Peanuts by just being himself, and not making light of his ethnicity ad nauseum.
On that note, I think that the strips Boondocks and newcomer La Cucaracha are well-drawn and contain edgy humor, but their strips' commentaries as a whole underscores a larger point:
Strip writers Aaron MacGruder and Lalo Alcaraz are bitter leftists who think that blacks and hispanics have no chance at advancement in America, even though they themselves are probably earning more money than myself.
I would imagine that Franklin, on the other hand, would have done just fine just by being himself, regardless of his ethnicity.
And where's the bigass table for playing D&D and boardgames?
Screw the D&D...you need a huge table for SUBBUTEO TABLE SOCCER!!! PLEASE tell me there are some slashdotters that played it back in the day, or even today!
"...but remember, in my class, I am the JUDGE, JURY, and JAILER!!"-Mr. Buzzcut from Beavis and Butthead
I bought an educational copy of Flash 5 on Ebay, and the seller said it can be used for commercial purposes, since it was a private re-sale. However, the EULA states that the software cannot be sold (resold), besides the fact that it can only be used for educational purposes only. Am I off the hook, or am I still bound by the EULA even though I am not the original purchaser? And can I turn around and re-sell it or not?! JESUS...
The last thing I want is a friggin' armed marshal at my door:(
Gibson just put out (or is in the process of manufacturing) guitars with ethernet connections to laptop computers. So, someday you will be able to "hack" a Gibson. Line 6 has guitars like this as well.
Chalupa
When I was a guitar major in college and had a rigorous night job, I had heard of this practice regimen put together by a well-known jazz guitarist named Howard Roberts (Hal Leonard Publications). He called it the "Superchops" program. You practiced an hour a day, six days a week for twenty weeks. It basically went something like this:
1.) Clear your work area of all things not pertaining to the lesson.
2.) Make a ten-minute recording of what you were going to play over.
3.) Stop. Make quick mental notes of what you are about to do.
4.) Play over the recording.
5.) Break. Two minutes. Put the guitar down, stand up and stretch, etc.
6.) Repeat #4 and #5 two more times. That's about it. The
POINT is that an hour every day of something is much more beneficial than cramming a bunch of hours into one day, and provided you are not SUPER tired from what you were doing that day, your current physical condition shouldn't be a problem-exercise is good, of course:)
Try setting up a daily work regimen of whatever you are doing that has REALISTIC goals for daily achievement. It worked for me.
NOW ABOUT ADD/ADHD...and NO this is NOT FLAMEBAIT!
My question is (and this is REALLY going to piss off some people), does ADD/ADHD REALLY EXIST? Is it an officially recognized disorder by the CDC or some other government body, or well-respected independent body? Or is this a massive bullshit campaign?
It is going to take a lot of convincing to prove to me that we are not just making excuses about why our kids can't concentrate in school, yet they can come home and concentrate on kicking my ass on Half-Life.
Find me the links that show me that ADD/ADHD actually and truthfully exists. Better still, post decent links that outline BOTH sides of the debate.
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. - Reverend Lovejoy
Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner show (or hour?)
FAT FRIGGIN' ALBERT
Let's not forget the Sid and Marty Croft "LSD" 'toons:
Land of the Lost: How could this one NOT have been created without some form of substance usage?
ELECTRA WOMAN AND DYNA GIRL (My mother could never figure out why I wanted to sit inside at 11 AM and watch them...could it be because Judy Strangis was such a little hottie?!)
Sigmund and the Seamonsters
Far Out Space Nuts
Lidsville
THE BUGALOOS
Hanna Barbera 'toons:
The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Banana Splits (was this show run on saturday mornings?)
Banana Splits "special" shows:
Gulliver's Travels
Danger Island
Three Musketeers
It's a damn shame that most of this stuff will never be released on DVD or something else...add other shows to this list if you can think of any.
I have been a very happy Techskills student here in Dallas. All of the mentors are excellent,and you get to CHOOSE the textbooks that YOU THINK are best for you. I can't thank them enough for letting me do that. Great snack bar, too:)
I realized I wanted to be a webmaster, and I first tried the community college approach. I quickly realized the scheduling, time, and money situation wasn't for me, plus I thought the degree wasn't centralized enough (English 101 again?! Director 8 instead of Flash?!)
I am a few weeks away from taking the CIW Site Designer exam. However, from looking at the biggest job search sites, I have realized that employers don't just want webmasters, they want full-blown programmers (there but for the grace of God go I). Not only that, It seems to me that repair/network/sys admins are in more demand these days. People ask me all the time to fix their comps, and they just give me blank stares when I tell them I am just a coder.
In walks the job market and all of its quirks..NET floods the market, employers want it...therefore that's where I am headed for my next cert (if you hate.NET, save it, I've read it all here before:P ).
HOWEVER, I am going to make sure I have a strong grasp of Javascript, Java and Visual Basic. I will learn these on my own for FREE, and then do a.NET cert. I have also been told that anything UNIX or Linux is good to have, so I am considering the Linux server admin cert...right now anything MS or Cisco is just too damned expensive:/.
The most important thing I can tell you is to KNOW what employers REALLY want before you dive in, and you will save a lot of money and time, whether you are attending a college or a cert school.
Chalupa fishbowl1968@hotmail.com
P.S. I have a buddy that has survived the IT layoffs. His biggest cert is the A+. Quit baggin' on the A+...I would imagine it is a good cert to have.
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With all due respect to the "name" players that are involved with the internet today, didn't the internet pretty much invent itself on its own, and all of us kind of watched it take place? I remember playing with something that seemed like the internet as far back as 1985.
How do you slow down the Borg? Give them an AOL disc.
How do STOP the Borg? Give them a copy of Windows XP upgrade.
Chalupa
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I remember you could download a script from NBCi.com that actually tried to turn EVERY WORD ON YOUR SCREEN INTO A HYPERLINK...the most worthless piece of free software I have ever seen on the web.
Chalupa
With the Live 8 concerts spotlighting poverty in Africa, I think they forgot about China's poverty.
I read recently China has 26 million rural peasants living in poverty...they see the cities getting richer while they are going nowhere, and they are getting angrier by the year, and maybe slowly realizing that communism is the biggest flop ever foisted on humanity...even getting Taiwan back into the fold, let alone a decent space program, would not probably make these people feel any better about their plight.
The internet is showing the Chinese people how the rest of the free world lives, and the ChiCom government will not be able to stop their people with censorship much longer.
We might not see a totally free China in our lifetime, but sadly we will probably see Taiwan taken back and another Tianenmen Square-style massacre in our lifetime (provided we actually find out about it if it happens).
The 2008 Olympics will be in Tianenmen Square...and I will not watch.
Chalupa
Which Jane Fonda "workout" tapes do you speak of? Her aerobic exercise tapes, or tapes of her "exercises" in anti-Americanism by sitting on an NVA anti-aircraft gun?
Chalupa
If I read correctly, and I think I read it on this site, the Kessel Run was a smuggling race.
Somewhere along the route, you had to stop somewhere and deal with a "middleman" of some sort. Han reportedly figured out a way to bypass this middleman, therefore being able to boast that he finished the race in twelve parsecs.
If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is not for you.
Chalupa
If I read correctly, and I think I read it on this site, the Kessel Run was a smuggling race.
Somewhere along the route, you had to stop somewhere and deal with a "middleman" of some sort. Han reportedly figured out a way to bypass this middleman, therefore being able to boast that he finished the race in twelve parsecs.
If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is not for you.
Chalupa
...that great, dangerous standby:
LAWN DARTS
Chalupa
Speaking of graphics cards, I have an Nvidia GEForce FX 5600.
Will this card be worth a shit to run this game?
Chalupa
There was a game called Space Warp for the TRS-80 model I, II and III's in the early '80's.
Dude, that game ruled.
If it's out there, let me know where I could possibly get it.
Chalupa
Either a minoch is chewing on the wires...
...or Jim Nabors and Bob Denver are banging on the door to be let in.
...in space, no one can hear you poop.
Chalupa
In case you forgot or weren't paying attention, we captured Khalid Sheikh Muhammed...he was the guy who MASTERMINDED September 11, not Bin Laden.
...if countries were exercise equipment, France would be a trampoline.
Bin Laden PAID for 9/11, and granted it would be nice to get him, but I (and some members of the Special Forces that were there) think he died December 2001 in the Tora Bora mountains.
Let's rock with the ones that we DO capture.
Chalupa
...Canada would be rhythmic gymnastics.
Chalupa
...so I guess there will be no more subtle references to Mormonism?
...if countries were Olympic sports, Canada would be the rhythmic gymnastics.
Trying to find those little gems in the plot lines was the most fun part of sitting through the original BSG.
Chalupa
I was really digging how you were reminding me of some of the characters of one of my favorite strips from days past, and then you said this piece of stinky flamebait:
The diversity of characters in the strip was also unprecendented, from African-Americans (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rosalinda) who, unlike black characters in other strips, namely Peanuts, were actually of their own ethnicity
What's more astonishing is that you started with this:
I found that the strength of Bloom County was its in the way each member of its cast provided their own unique intimacy to the strip
Damn, it's almost like you never even read Peanuts.
Although Franklin was not a major player in the later years, it is interesting to note that even though he was introduced in 1968 (a torrential year to be black in America, I would imagine) his appearance was not considered to be politically motivated.
Franklin was a solid individual in that strip, not succumbing to personal foibles like every other character around him. He was written to be as theologically smart as Linus, and (quirk of all quirks), he actually LIKED playing hockey. Franklin was a smart, strong black kid that had his s**t together.
Franklin DID bring his own unique intimacy to Peanuts by just being himself, and not making light of his ethnicity ad nauseum.
On that note, I think that the strips Boondocks and newcomer La Cucaracha are well-drawn and contain edgy humor, but their strips' commentaries as a whole underscores a larger point:
Strip writers Aaron MacGruder and Lalo Alcaraz are bitter leftists who think that blacks and hispanics have no chance at advancement in America, even though they themselves are probably earning more money than myself.
I would imagine that Franklin, on the other hand, would have done just fine just by being himself, regardless of his ethnicity.
Work is the crabgrass in the lawn of life.-Schulz
Chalupa
And where's the bigass table for playing D&D and boardgames?
Screw the D&D...you need a huge table for SUBBUTEO TABLE SOCCER!!! PLEASE tell me there are some slashdotters that played it back in the day, or even today!
"...but remember, in my class, I am the JUDGE, JURY, and JAILER!!"-Mr. Buzzcut from Beavis and Butthead
Chalupa
I bought an educational copy of Flash 5 on Ebay, and the seller said it can be used for commercial purposes, since it was a private re-sale. However, the EULA states that the software cannot be sold (resold), besides the fact that it can only be used for educational purposes only. Am I off the hook, or am I still bound by the EULA even though I am not the original purchaser? And can I turn around and re-sell it or not?! JESUS... :(
The last thing I want is a friggin' armed marshal at my door
Damn all your sigs.
Chalupa
Gibson just put out (or is in the process of manufacturing) guitars with ethernet connections to laptop computers. So, someday you will be able to "hack" a Gibson. Line 6 has guitars like this as well.
Chalupa
When I was a guitar major in college and had a rigorous night job, I had heard of this practice regimen put together by a well-known jazz guitarist named Howard Roberts (Hal Leonard Publications). He called it the "Superchops" program. You practiced an hour a day, six days a week for twenty weeks. It basically went something like this:
:)
1.) Clear your work area of all things not pertaining to the lesson.
2.) Make a ten-minute recording of what you were going to play over.
3.) Stop. Make quick mental notes of what you are about to do.
4.) Play over the recording.
5.) Break. Two minutes. Put the guitar down, stand up and stretch, etc.
6.) Repeat #4 and #5 two more times. That's about it. The POINT is that an hour every day of something is much more beneficial than cramming a bunch of hours into one day, and provided you are not SUPER tired from what you were doing that day, your current physical condition shouldn't be a problem-exercise is good, of course
Try setting up a daily work regimen of whatever you are doing that has REALISTIC goals for daily achievement. It worked for me.
NOW ABOUT ADD/ADHD...and NO this is NOT FLAMEBAIT!
Ritalin is a class two drug with side effects similar to cocaine. Frankly, no kid anywhere should be ingesting it, and neither should you.
My question is (and this is REALLY going to piss off some people), does ADD/ADHD REALLY EXIST? Is it an officially recognized disorder by the CDC or some other government body, or well-respected independent body? Or is this a massive bullshit campaign?
It is going to take a lot of convincing to prove to me that we are not just making excuses about why our kids can't concentrate in school, yet they can come home and concentrate on kicking my ass on Half-Life. Find me the links that show me that ADD/ADHD actually and truthfully exists. Better still, post decent links that outline BOTH sides of the debate.
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral. - Reverend Lovejoy
Chalupa
Saturday morning or otherwise...
Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner show (or hour?)
FAT FRIGGIN' ALBERT
Let's not forget the Sid and Marty Croft "LSD" 'toons:
Land of the Lost: How could this one NOT have been created without some form of substance usage?
ELECTRA WOMAN AND DYNA GIRL (My mother could never figure out why I wanted to sit inside at 11 AM and watch them...could it be because Judy Strangis was such a little hottie?!)
Sigmund and the Seamonsters
Far Out Space Nuts
Lidsville
THE BUGALOOS
Hanna Barbera 'toons:
The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Banana Splits (was this show run on saturday mornings?)
Banana Splits "special" shows:
Gulliver's Travels
Danger Island
Three Musketeers
It's a damn shame that most of this stuff will never be released on DVD or something else...add other shows to this list if you can think of any.
I wouldn't whiz on you if you were on fire.
Chalupa
Will NASA come to this same conclusion for the White House when Hillary Clinton is elected president?
Heh.
Chalupa
I have been a very happy Techskills student here in Dallas. All of the mentors are excellent,and you get to CHOOSE the textbooks that YOU THINK are best for you. I can't thank them enough for letting me do that. Great snack bar, too :)
.NET floods the market, employers want it...therefore that's where I am headed for my next cert (if you hate .NET, save it, I've read it all here before :P ).
.NET cert. I have also been told that anything UNIX or Linux is good to have, so I am considering the Linux server admin cert...right now anything MS or Cisco is just too damned expensive :/.
I realized I wanted to be a webmaster, and I first tried the community college approach. I quickly realized the scheduling, time, and money
situation wasn't for me, plus I thought the degree wasn't centralized enough (English 101 again?! Director 8 instead of Flash?!)
I am a few weeks away from taking the CIW Site Designer exam. However, from looking at the biggest job search sites, I have realized that employers don't just want webmasters, they want full-blown programmers (there but for the grace of God go I). Not only that, It seems to me that repair/network/sys admins are in more demand these days. People ask me all the time to fix their comps, and they just give me blank stares when I tell them I am just a coder.
In walks the job market and all of its quirks.
HOWEVER, I am going to make sure I have a strong grasp of Javascript, Java and Visual Basic. I will learn these on my own for FREE, and then do a
The most important thing I can tell you is to KNOW what employers REALLY want before you dive in, and you will save a lot of money and time, whether you are attending a college or a cert school.
Chalupa
fishbowl1968@hotmail.com
P.S. I have a buddy that has survived the IT layoffs. His biggest cert is the A+. Quit baggin' on the A+...I would imagine it is a good cert to have.
With all due respect to the "name" players that are involved with the internet today, didn't the internet pretty much invent itself on its own, and all of us kind of watched it take place? I remember playing with something that seemed like the internet as far back as 1985. How do you slow down the Borg? Give them an AOL disc. How do STOP the Borg? Give them a copy of Windows XP upgrade. Chalupa