Regular broadcast TV really isnt much better than 320x240. Run a 320x240 video through your TV out and watch it on normal TV and it'll look almost as good as broadcast.
It just looks like major ass on a monitor.
Major Ass is a new HBO reality series about gays in the military, btw.
Well a check isn't legal tender, and under no circumstances does anyone have to accept one. You can accept only bank-issued checks if you want, only checks with funny cartoon cats, whatever.
You can accept them from some people, but not others, that's why my picture is taped to the cash register at K-Mart.
Like I said, a check is really just a promise to pay, but not actual payment. It's basically an IOU. Plenty of businesses won't accept them.
I know a guy who sent in a check for a traffic ticket and wrote in "legal extortion" in the memo part. The court not only didn't accept it, they turned around and charged him with some silly trumped up contempt of court charge.
Chumba Womba, Gobaldie Goo Life isnt fair its sad but its true Chumba Womba, Gobaldie Gee When your poor legs are stiff as a tree
What do you do when your stuck in a chair? Finding it hard to go up and down stairs? What do you think of the one you call god? Isn't his absence slightly odd?
Maybe he's forgotten you.
Chumba Womba, Gobaldie Gorse Count yourself lucky your not a horse They would turn you into dog food Or to Chumba Womba Gobaldie Glue
From "http://tribute4tasha.50megs.com/ewok_song.html" Ewok Version
Yub nub eee chop yub nub ah toe meet toe pee-chee keene g'noop dock fling oh ah Yah wah eee chop yah wah ah toe meet toe pee-chee keene g'noop dock fling oh ah Coatee chah tu yub nub coatee chah tu yahwah coatee chah tu glowah allay loo ta nuv Glowah eee chop glowah ya glowah pee chu nee foam ah toot dee awe goon daa Coatee cha tu goo (Yub nub!) coatee cha tu doo (Yahwah!) coatee cha tu too (Ya chaa!) allay loo ta nuv allay loo ta nuv allay loo ta nuv Glowah eee chop glowah ya glowah pee chu nee foam ah toot dee awe goon daa Allay loo ta nuv English Version
Freedom we got freedom and now that we can be free come on and celebrate Power we got power and now that we can be free it's time to celebrate Celebrate the freedom celebrate the power celebrate the glory celebrate the love Power we got power and now that we can be free it's time to celebrate Celebrate the light (freedom!) celebrate the night (power!) celebrate the fight (glory!) celebrate the love celebrate the love celebrate the love Glory we found glory the power showed us the light and now we all live free Celebrate the love
Nah, Mitsubishis are gutless shitboxes, but they run forever. I haven't had an engine problem in the go-kart mirage I've been driving, and I'm not exactly gung-ho as far as maintainance as concerned.
I'm the guy who drives 5000 miles with the "check engine" light on. I consider such vehicles pretty much disposable.
They don't know who they're scamming. This guy assumed the guy buying the laptops was a scammer sending him a rubber cheque.
If in the off chance it were to turn out the guy actually was legit then the counter-scammer could wind up in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison for fraud over 1000 bucks.
Hey, it's entirely possible that there really are legitimate Nigerian businessmen, or LAGOS or liberia or wherever. He's royally fucked if that cheque actually clears, and if I was the orignal scammer I'd make sure it did.
No need to get all rhetorical or theoretical. Two wrongs don't make a right, it's that simple.
A cheque written on anything is legal, you don't have to use the slips of paper the bank sends you.
I could write "pay to the order of (whoever) 1200.00" on a kleenex, and it's still a cheque. All it needs is my account number and signature/stamp.
Banks would (and of course, should) give you a hard time cashing it, they'd probably call my bank, and my bank would call me, but in the end, after much bitching, it's a legal cheque.
All a cheque is is a written permission from whoever writes it for the bank to transfer the funds.
He's threatening a type of online business that's well known to have deep ties to organized crime. Online Casino's are what Vegas was before the mob was driven out.
Either his nuts are made of steel, or his head is. Either way, his chances of turning up dead far exceed his chances of making 7000 pounds.
Which makes me wonder. Maybe it's a reverse Joe Job. Send an extortion threat to the mafia and sign it CmdrTaco, hmmmmm...
Of course they do. The only phishing email I've ever recieved was "from" some online gambling site.
Citibank or Bank of America, etc, phishes are more popular because chances are much higher that the recipient has a bank account at one of the worlds largest banks, than they have a gambling account on an online casino.
That and people who run online Casinos are waist-deep in spamming schemes too.
Whoever sent that extortion email was a complete idiot. He's literally threatening the mafia. Maybe he really just wants to wake up with a severed horse head in his bed.
To make personal computing available and affordable to the masses? That was basically their original "mission statement", and was noble enough at a time when computing was basically the domain of the rich.
Would I have ever owned a C64 for under $1000 bucks (at launch) if not in part for it's built-in BASIC interpreter by Micro Soft of Palo Alto?
Step 1) Buy up every content provider online Step 2) Profit
There's only two steps! No ????? about it.
When google searches only go to their geobasing solution, are they not essentially screwing MapQuest et al over a similar way that shipping IE with windows screws Netscape over?
Then maybe the sun would shine and the birds would sing, or would we all start hating Google and feeling sorry for MS?
The latter. Look at how the slashdot crowd sees IBM as the "good guys" these days. They have the longest history of evil-doing in the computing world. I remember quite clearly the geek community cheering MS for sticking it to IBM, and crushing OS/2 before it could even leave the gate.
Now that IBM seeks to exploit, err "embrace" linux, we act like they're being run by Care Bears or something.
For the record, I am leery of IBMs involvement in Open Source, and I see their goals as ultimately "owning" linux, insomuch as they can control where and how it's used. Whether they can pull that off or not is anyones guess.
Google's a corporation, corporations are neither good nor bad IMO, they're all alike, all about profit.
Google seems to be seeking to own every service the internet provides. That's what worries me. What happens when mapquest and competing search engines dry up? Google could easily impose on every netizen a "google tax".
Just because it's free now, doesn't mean they wouldn't exploit such a rich source of revenue, especially with no competition to undercut them.
It's not tinfoil hat time at all. It always worries me when a single entity gets so much control over a globally shared resource like the internet.
I know that, like Apple, they're a darling of the slashdot crowd. But unlike Apple, they are rapidly approaching a sort of online monopoly that we haven't seen before.
I don't care what they claim in their corporate mission statements. "Do no evil" my ass, I'm not stupid enough to take anything a bunch of suits say without a grain of salt. MSFT was an underdog with noble goals once upon a time.
Google's growth worries me, the way they seek to be the worlds largest advertising company worries me.
Right after Howard goes off the air, Powell agrees that there are probably morning zoo shows in any given market that are worse.
I think Stern's real point is valid. If there are limits, they need to be clearly defined and uniformly applied. If it's OK for Oprah talk about tossed salads and rainbow parties, then it should be the same for Howard or anyone else. If Bono can say the F word, then so should anyone else.
Hell, I've heard plenty of nasty stuff on dial-in Teeny Loveline shows.
The fact is, the FCC arbitrarily decides case by case. Powell ducks answering on the Oprah thing by saying it's "still under review at the commission". She won't be fined. She's too popular.
His comment that they won't let him come to court is valid too. You cant renew a license or buy another station with unpaid fines. So to start a legal fight regarding a fine would essentially mean shutting down Viacom.
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Three more days till Hallowe'en!
Hallowe'en, Hallowe'en!
Three more days till Hallowe'en!
SILVER SHAMROCK!
Regular broadcast TV really isnt much better than 320x240. Run a 320x240 video through your TV out and watch it on normal TV and it'll look almost as good as broadcast.
It just looks like major ass on a monitor.
Major Ass is a new HBO reality series about gays in the military, btw.
Then I take it all back. Yay Sun!
Do those Apple machines run Solaris or Windows Server?
Well a check isn't legal tender, and under no circumstances does anyone have to accept one. You can accept only bank-issued checks if you want, only checks with funny cartoon cats, whatever.
You can accept them from some people, but not others, that's why my picture is taped to the cash register at K-Mart.
Like I said, a check is really just a promise to pay, but not actual payment. It's basically an IOU. Plenty of businesses won't accept them.
I know a guy who sent in a check for a traffic ticket and wrote in "legal extortion" in the memo part. The court not only didn't accept it, they turned around and charged him with some silly trumped up contempt of court charge.
Except for the custom firmware or whatever Sun jammed in to prevent you from doing just that.
Chumba Womba, Gobaldie Goo
Life isnt fair its sad but its true
Chumba Womba, Gobaldie Gee
When your poor legs are stiff as a tree
What do you do when your stuck in a chair?
Finding it hard to go up and down stairs?
What do you think of the one you call god?
Isn't his absence slightly odd?
Maybe he's forgotten you.
Chumba Womba, Gobaldie Gorse
Count yourself lucky your not a horse
They would turn you into dog food
Or to Chumba Womba
Gobaldie
Glue
Gobaldie Goo
A Jedi knows not anger, nor hate, nor love.
Especially the last one! Sounds like they were going for the authentic experience.
Frankly, I wouldn't much care for sitting around on Degobah listening to Yoda's mangled english fortune cookie horseshit.
From "http://tribute4tasha.50megs.com/ewok_song.html"
Ewok Version
Yub nub
eee chop yub nub
ah toe meet toe pee-chee keene
g'noop dock fling oh ah
Yah wah
eee chop yah wah
ah toe meet toe pee-chee keene
g'noop dock fling oh ah
Coatee chah tu yub nub
coatee chah tu yahwah
coatee chah tu glowah
allay loo ta nuv
Glowah
eee chop glowah
ya glowah pee chu nee foam
ah toot dee awe goon daa
Coatee cha tu goo (Yub nub!)
coatee cha tu doo (Yahwah!)
coatee cha tu too (Ya chaa!)
allay loo ta nuv
allay loo ta nuv
allay loo ta nuv
Glowah
eee chop glowah
ya glowah pee chu nee foam
ah toot dee awe goon daa
Allay loo ta nuv
English Version
Freedom
we got freedom
and now that we can be free
come on and celebrate
Power
we got power
and now that we can be free
it's time to celebrate
Celebrate the freedom
celebrate the power
celebrate the glory
celebrate the love
Power
we got power
and now that we can be free
it's time to celebrate
Celebrate the light (freedom!)
celebrate the night (power!)
celebrate the fight (glory!)
celebrate the love
celebrate the love
celebrate the love
Glory
we found glory
the power showed us the light
and now we all live free
Celebrate the love
Does the game not suck now?
Nah, Mitsubishis are gutless shitboxes, but they run forever. I haven't had an engine problem in the go-kart mirage I've been driving, and I'm not exactly gung-ho as far as maintainance as concerned.
I'm the guy who drives 5000 miles with the "check engine" light on. I consider such vehicles pretty much disposable.
They don't know who they're scamming. This guy assumed the guy buying the laptops was a scammer sending him a rubber cheque.
If in the off chance it were to turn out the guy actually was legit then the counter-scammer could wind up in a pound-me-in-the-ass prison for fraud over 1000 bucks.
Hey, it's entirely possible that there really are legitimate Nigerian businessmen, or LAGOS or liberia or wherever. He's royally fucked if that cheque actually clears, and if I was the orignal scammer I'd make sure it did.
No need to get all rhetorical or theoretical. Two wrongs don't make a right, it's that simple.
Yes
Online retailers will generally want you to fax or scan and email your ID to ship to any location other than your billing address.
If you send them a photoshopped ID, it's still forged, and it's still fraud, and you still go to a pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
A cheque written on anything is legal, you don't have to use the slips of paper the bank sends you.
I could write "pay to the order of (whoever) 1200.00" on a kleenex, and it's still a cheque. All it needs is my account number and signature/stamp.
Banks would (and of course, should) give you a hard time cashing it, they'd probably call my bank, and my bank would call me, but in the end, after much bitching, it's a legal cheque.
All a cheque is is a written permission from whoever writes it for the bank to transfer the funds.
The dude is pretty much threatening the mafia for 7000 bucks. I'd say his chances of winding up killed execution-style are higher than average.
Oh, and anyone who doesn't think organized crime is balls deep in online gambling is a complete dope.
He's threatening a type of online business that's well known to have deep ties to organized crime. Online Casino's are what Vegas was before the mob was driven out.
Either his nuts are made of steel, or his head is. Either way, his chances of turning up dead far exceed his chances of making 7000 pounds.
Which makes me wonder. Maybe it's a reverse Joe Job. Send an extortion threat to the mafia and sign it CmdrTaco, hmmmmm...
Alright then, I'll write it off as a reference to one of the biggest piles of crap that ever plopped out of America's asshole (Hollywood, CA).
It's still seems more like a stupid way to insert a "Bush is teh suck" comment into a completely unrelated story to me.
Of course they do. The only phishing email I've ever recieved was "from" some online gambling site.
Citibank or Bank of America, etc, phishes are more popular because chances are much higher that the recipient has a bank account at one of the worlds largest banks, than they have a gambling account on an online casino.
That and people who run online Casinos are waist-deep in spamming schemes too.
Whoever sent that extortion email was a complete idiot. He's literally threatening the mafia. Maybe he really just wants to wake up with a severed horse head in his bed.
When has the FBI extorted anyone under the threat of spamming kiddy porn in their name?
WTF was that little comment supposed to mean? Anything deeper than "I hate the gummint"? Explain please.
In the absence of an explanation, then you, timothy, are now officially a bigger asshat moron than michael (albeit, not by much).
To make personal computing available and affordable to the masses? That was basically their original "mission statement", and was noble enough at a time when computing was basically the domain of the rich.
Would I have ever owned a C64 for under $1000 bucks (at launch) if not in part for it's built-in BASIC interpreter by Micro Soft of Palo Alto?
Their plan seem obvious to me.
Step 1) Buy up every content provider online
Step 2) Profit
There's only two steps! No ????? about it.
When google searches only go to their geobasing solution, are they not essentially screwing MapQuest et al over a similar way that shipping IE with windows screws Netscape over?
Then maybe the sun would shine and the birds would sing, or would we all start hating Google and feeling sorry for MS?
The latter. Look at how the slashdot crowd sees IBM as the "good guys" these days. They have the longest history of evil-doing in the computing world. I remember quite clearly the geek community cheering MS for sticking it to IBM, and crushing OS/2 before it could even leave the gate.
Now that IBM seeks to exploit, err "embrace" linux, we act like they're being run by Care Bears or something.
For the record, I am leery of IBMs involvement in Open Source, and I see their goals as ultimately "owning" linux, insomuch as they can control where and how it's used. Whether they can pull that off or not is anyones guess.
Google's a corporation, corporations are neither good nor bad IMO, they're all alike, all about profit.
Google seems to be seeking to own every service the internet provides. That's what worries me. What happens when mapquest and competing search engines dry up? Google could easily impose on every netizen a "google tax".
Just because it's free now, doesn't mean they wouldn't exploit such a rich source of revenue, especially with no competition to undercut them.
It's not tinfoil hat time at all. It always worries me when a single entity gets so much control over a globally shared resource like the internet.
I know that, like Apple, they're a darling of the slashdot crowd. But unlike Apple, they are rapidly approaching a sort of online monopoly that we haven't seen before.
I don't care what they claim in their corporate mission statements. "Do no evil" my ass, I'm not stupid enough to take anything a bunch of suits say without a grain of salt. MSFT was an underdog with noble goals once upon a time.
Google's growth worries me, the way they seek to be the worlds largest advertising company worries me.
Right after Howard goes off the air, Powell agrees that there are probably morning zoo shows in any given market that are worse.
I think Stern's real point is valid. If there are limits, they need to be clearly defined and uniformly applied. If it's OK for Oprah talk about tossed salads and rainbow parties, then it should be the same for Howard or anyone else. If Bono can say the F word, then so should anyone else.
Hell, I've heard plenty of nasty stuff on dial-in Teeny Loveline shows.
The fact is, the FCC arbitrarily decides case by case. Powell ducks answering on the Oprah thing by saying it's "still under review at the commission". She won't be fined. She's too popular.
His comment that they won't let him come to court is valid too. You cant renew a license or buy another station with unpaid fines. So to start a legal fight regarding a fine would essentially mean shutting down Viacom.