He invented both. Why do you think Global Warming is everywhere? It spreads via the World Wide Weather Web. He invented them both so he'd have a movie to make if his presidential aspirations didn't pan out, and so he'd have a marketing tool to sell the movie. Ingenious really. If only he'd invented the voting machine capable of counting votes made by non-whites, it would be a more wonderful world.
Those are classic examples of what's wrong with eBay. I saw those things dozens of times in my years on the support forums. It's insanely frustrating how eBay treats loyal sellers. Sellers are their only income [other than PayPal etc] so it's not surprising they are in the toilet when they lost their customers [since eBay customers are not eBay's customers, they are the seller's].
I don't think this is a bad thing. Well missing developers would be, but I think the more meetings Microsoft has to Mozilla, the more likely it is that Windows Vista will suck less. An exchange of ideas doesn't have to make the "good" ones more evil.
I think it's the bust that happened in the Sports Card industry. Everyone who wanted the cards eventually got them, and then there was no one to sell the existing cards to. The same has happened on eBay. Unless it's a very unique, or new product, everyone who wants one, has already got theirs.
I used to list on average about 50 items a year, and buy 3. Now in the past year I've listed about 4 auctions and bought 3. Customer service from eBay is a big factor too. I've tried listing items that are legit and they'll cancel the auction because someone files a bogus report. They also did little to combat real fraud making it harder for buyers to trust the site. Want a plasma TV? - I hope you didn't try on eBay because that was a shark pit.
eBay has priced themselves out of the market. They raised listing fees so much hobby sellers couldn't participate, and neither could small retailers with moderate margins. Now only the extreme retailers are left on eBay and it's like any other online site with things for sale - slummy.
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How you managed to get a +4 funny for your rangent is anyone's guess. Unlike some people, I find humour, not rage in strange sounding substituted words for swears. I almost died laughing when I heard Mellonfarmer for the first times on a TNT broadcast of Die Hard or something like that.
So don't be such a poopy pants, and laugh at oddities instead of getting your guts all knotted up. Nobody likes a rageaholic any more than they do a Ned Flanders.:-)
Back on topic, it's America's culture of open hositility and rudeness to strangers online that is one of the reasons why the President has such an easy time convincing people to go to war. Now that thousands of American servicement and women are dead from his actions, I guess the next recruiting trick will be to offer a free iPod to anyone who signs up for the military? There's something worth getting worked up over.
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I think Improvised Explosive Dells are a more serious concern for both the military and the general public.
It's a sad comment on the condition of humanity when we see youths describing how they turned up their MP3 player while "killing the enemy" in Iraq. There's a horrible scene in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" when a solider starts singing "The roof is on fire... we don't need no water let the [mellonfarmer] burn, burn [mellonfarmer].. burn!" to describe his work from the past days. But as he or a comrade said, it's important to get fired up and "get in the mood". It's not the iPod's fault how it's used, but the military might want to reconsider its missions if it needs to lure people in with the "comfort" of their music players to get the job done at all.
We have to give machines a gut. Maybe a beer belly. Something that tells them to do the opposite of what they've reasoned is the right guess. The trick is then tuning how often they should do the opposite.
I'm just glad we didn't build a giant XRay machine to examine space objects, when there's a free source in the center of the solar system happy to provide the rays. 'Cause I'd hate to see the XRay bill otherwise.
I've had The Beatles on my iPod for months now. I got the CD from the local library, and minutes later had the tunes on the white music player. Why do the Beatles not want to make money from that process?
Believe it. Now you know why TVs and monitors are so heavy I guess. I don't want to imagine how much lead has made it back into our drinking water because of crushed TVs and rain runoff. I think legislators don't care to think about it as well. Maybe they should be though before we all have lead poisoning.
What is wrong with you buddy? The people scream and go splat with eyes and guts going everywhere. If that isn't a realistic enough depiction of it, I don't know what is. You want to smell the guts before you'll admit it's a depiction of real gore? Where's the blood in Roadrunner?
Well, the CRT is crushed in compacting of the garbage, then water can enter and wash away lead which leaches into the soil. Leaded solder is still used too. However, the EU is apparently demanding their devices use lead-free solder very soon, so the rest of the world may benefit from their legislation when tech manufacturers switch over.
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Ewaste is poisoning our water. Each TV has a lot of lead, and my provinces' IT equipment collection program set to start in 2007 won't take TVs until 2008 at the earliest. It's good that some places are capitalizing now on all of our misfortune. eWastecanada.ca is a local business mining for gold.
I wonder where the wave of car violence was in the mid 1990s when everyone was playing Carmageddon and Carmageddon II Carpocalypse Now where the aim of the game was to crash into other cars, including police, and run over pedestrians in creative ways? I see my CD label shows the game was set as M for Mature by the ESRB. So maybe no children ever played it because parent didn't buy M games for kids back then?;-)
New Air Canada seats have a TV and USB port in the back. They haven't "implemented" use of the USB ports yet, but I suspect they will be for keyboards with trackballs, for Internet/email access.
I think this opens the door for impeaching any Congressmen involved in "approving" this illegal act. Bush admitted that select Congressmen were aware of his program to spy on American phones, and so there is publicly known evidence that he and they were aware and intentionally spying and breaking the Constitution.
You actually have to read several, but also from different owners. Because if you read the Saskatoon Star Pheonix, and the Regina Leader Post, you'll still have the same stories and same owner even though they are in different cities. Then if you read the National Post, or Ottawa Citizen, you still won't get a different perspective, even though it's from the other side of the country.
A little privacy is fine, as long as it doesn't come from inside a Mustang you bought them for their 16th birthday. And you're not really sure if they are partying at Joe's or Bob's tonight. And you buy their gasoline. And you didn't see them before they drove away Friday night. And you're guessing they are being private until Sunday night.
Why do you think the new planes have a USB port next to the LCD in the seat back? They are going to sell keyboards midflight so you can be monitored as you surf their web.
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He invented both. Why do you think Global Warming is everywhere? It spreads via the World Wide Weather Web. He invented them both so he'd have a movie to make if his presidential aspirations didn't pan out, and so he'd have a marketing tool to sell the movie. Ingenious really. If only he'd invented the voting machine capable of counting votes made by non-whites, it would be a more wonderful world.
Bill O'Reilly is always up to crazy stuff. Next he'll want to patent racy phone calls that generate a lawsuit.
What? Oh, you don't mean that O'Reilly? Yeah, we'll they are crazy too. Al Gore invented the word website.
Those are classic examples of what's wrong with eBay. I saw those things dozens of times in my years on the support forums. It's insanely frustrating how eBay treats loyal sellers. Sellers are their only income [other than PayPal etc] so it's not surprising they are in the toilet when they lost their customers [since eBay customers are not eBay's customers, they are the seller's].
I don't think this is a bad thing. Well missing developers would be, but I think the more meetings Microsoft has to Mozilla, the more likely it is that Windows Vista will suck less. An exchange of ideas doesn't have to make the "good" ones more evil.
I think it's the bust that happened in the Sports Card industry. Everyone who wanted the cards eventually got them, and then there was no one to sell the existing cards to. The same has happened on eBay. Unless it's a very unique, or new product, everyone who wants one, has already got theirs.
I used to list on average about 50 items a year, and buy 3. Now in the past year I've listed about 4 auctions and bought 3. Customer service from eBay is a big factor too. I've tried listing items that are legit and they'll cancel the auction because someone files a bogus report. They also did little to combat real fraud making it harder for buyers to trust the site. Want a plasma TV? - I hope you didn't try on eBay because that was a shark pit.
eBay has priced themselves out of the market. They raised listing fees so much hobby sellers couldn't participate, and neither could small retailers with moderate margins. Now only the extreme retailers are left on eBay and it's like any other online site with things for sale - slummy.
How you managed to get a +4 funny for your rangent is anyone's guess. Unlike some people, I find humour, not rage in strange sounding substituted words for swears. I almost died laughing when I heard Mellonfarmer for the first times on a TNT broadcast of Die Hard or something like that.
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So don't be such a poopy pants, and laugh at oddities instead of getting your guts all knotted up. Nobody likes a rageaholic any more than they do a Ned Flanders.
Back on topic, it's America's culture of open hositility and rudeness to strangers online that is one of the reasons why the President has such an easy time convincing people to go to war. Now that thousands of American servicement and women are dead from his actions, I guess the next recruiting trick will be to offer a free iPod to anyone who signs up for the military? There's something worth getting worked up over.
I think Improvised Explosive Dells are a more serious concern for both the military and the general public.
It's a sad comment on the condition of humanity when we see youths describing how they turned up their MP3 player while "killing the enemy" in Iraq. There's a horrible scene in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" when a solider starts singing "The roof is on fire... we don't need no water let the [mellonfarmer] burn, burn [mellonfarmer].. burn!" to describe his work from the past days. But as he or a comrade said, it's important to get fired up and "get in the mood". It's not the iPod's fault how it's used, but the military might want to reconsider its missions if it needs to lure people in with the "comfort" of their music players to get the job done at all.
We have to give machines a gut. Maybe a beer belly. Something that tells them to do the opposite of what they've reasoned is the right guess. The trick is then tuning how often they should do the opposite.
I'm just glad we didn't build a giant XRay machine to examine space objects, when there's a free source in the center of the solar system happy to provide the rays. 'Cause I'd hate to see the XRay bill otherwise.
I can't figure out why the Russians visit John Lenin's body too. What did he ever do for them?
Yes I am kidding about that.
Even so, the process I described could work with any MP3 player or online service. Why don't they support an Apple competitor then like eMusic?
I've had The Beatles on my iPod for months now. I got the CD from the local library, and minutes later had the tunes on the white music player. Why do the Beatles not want to make money from that process?
Believe it. Now you know why TVs and monitors are so heavy I guess. I don't want to imagine how much lead has made it back into our drinking water because of crushed TVs and rain runoff. I think legislators don't care to think about it as well. Maybe they should be though before we all have lead poisoning.
What is wrong with you buddy? The people scream and go splat with eyes and guts going everywhere. If that isn't a realistic enough depiction of it, I don't know what is. You want to smell the guts before you'll admit it's a depiction of real gore? Where's the blood in Roadrunner?
Well, the CRT is crushed in compacting of the garbage, then water can enter and wash away lead which leaches into the soil. Leaded solder is still used too. However, the EU is apparently demanding their devices use lead-free solder very soon, so the rest of the world may benefit from their legislation when tech manufacturers switch over.
Ewaste is poisoning our water. Each TV has a lot of lead, and my provinces' IT equipment collection program set to start in 2007 won't take TVs until 2008 at the earliest. It's good that some places are capitalizing now on all of our misfortune.
eWastecanada.ca is a local business mining for gold.
Funny, that's what my girlfriend suggested it be called too.
MANET
Hmm that doesn't sound sexist in any way. Why not call it the WOMANET?
I wonder where the wave of car violence was in the mid 1990s when everyone was playing Carmageddon and Carmageddon II Carpocalypse Now where the aim of the game was to crash into other cars, including police, and run over pedestrians in creative ways? I see my CD label shows the game was set as M for Mature by the ESRB. So maybe no children ever played it because parent didn't buy M games for kids back then? ;-)
New Air Canada seats have a TV and USB port in the back. They haven't "implemented" use of the USB ports yet, but I suspect they will be for keyboards with trackballs, for Internet/email access.
I think this opens the door for impeaching any Congressmen involved in "approving" this illegal act. Bush admitted that select Congressmen were aware of his program to spy on American phones, and so there is publicly known evidence that he and they were aware and intentionally spying and breaking the Constitution.
The last huge storm I saw was in July 2004. The lights were south beyond the 90 degree point overhead, and there was a vortex even.
Solar minimum wasn't too long ago.
You actually have to read several, but also from different owners. Because if you read the Saskatoon Star Pheonix, and the Regina Leader Post, you'll still have the same stories and same owner even though they are in different cities. Then if you read the National Post, or Ottawa Citizen, you still won't get a different perspective, even though it's from the other side of the country.
A little privacy is fine, as long as it doesn't come from inside a Mustang you bought them for their 16th birthday. And you're not really sure if they are partying at Joe's or Bob's tonight. And you buy their gasoline. And you didn't see them before they drove away Friday night. And you're guessing they are being private until Sunday night.
Why do you think the new planes have a USB port next to the LCD in the seat back? They are going to sell keyboards midflight so you can be monitored as you surf their web.