Why oh why can't we get more stories like this one where we know llamas will turn up indigenously extraterestrial.
Llamas are way cooler than ninjas: they can breath hydrogen and piss fire. Ninjas suck llama cock.
If I had a ninja I'd chop it up and feed it to a dog, make stir-fry from the dog and serve it to the gook family next door, then I'd set my llama on "feeding rampage" and let it loose in their house. I'd be a regular neighborhood superhero.
After all that, I'd grow bonsai in the llama guano and sell the bonsai in plastic explosive pots to what's left of the ninja clan. Once they return to their secret ninja lair, I'd set off the bonsai pot bombs and go follow the sound of the explosion to their secret lair and take pictures of the red smears and post them on my new website at ninja.smeardot.llama.
Millions of loser geeks world wide would then procede to kill themselves once they realize how lame ninjas really are and how they have lived their lives in such a haze of stupidity by ignoring the greatness of the llamas, who will not allow the loser geeks to worship them.
And that's why I don't want a ninja, because if I had one more people would die than all the Arab babies George W. Bush kills to make his cocaine hangover cure for him and Hitler's brain which is kept alive in a drawer in the Oval Office.
Whoo! Windows SuX0rs. Linux r001z j00! I want my +5 Insightful, too!
The new 7 series is well thought out and practical. The secondary controll interface takes a little getting used to... but so what? So does your new Clarion head unit.
The 7 is ugly, though. But, hey, it's still prettier than that Volvo thing.
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress?
This one never made sense to me. I mean, think about it this way: If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of conscription? Or the opposite of propulsion? The "opposites" are real words (well, compulsion), but aren't really opposites.
Yeah, I know, blah, blah, blah, skewed look at common perceptions = funny, blah, blah, blah. But it's still doesn't make sense.
and the review is obnoxious and tedious to read. Other articles on the site seem at least equally lacking in quality. They read little better than press releases. The "Plain English Guide to [Installing Your Home Theater]" is particularly noxious. Although informative to a degree, the associated comments are sexist, judgmental, and often poorly thought out.
I think the author has it backwards. He says if the new chip fails then blah. However, the more coherent argument is that if blah happens, then Intel's new chip has failed.
But, the author doesn't seem to realize that there's more than just out and out success or failure on the spectrum. It's more likely that there will be incremental change. Intel sells X units to A, B, and C, AMD sells Y to D, E, and F, and IBM, SUN, and co. sell to whomever. And things kinda ballance out.
All this new technology that's supposed to change everything dramatically, changes things to the degree that it's touted to. My money is still on evolution rather than revolution.
How about "CannedHamHitMan"? It rhymes at least...
No it doesn't.
But that's besides the point. This is the allmighty Slashdot. We hate spam, but we also hate screwy company mergers. I'm confused. I don't know what to think. Somebody please do my thinking for me.
For my dollar I'd go with a notebook computer instead. The portable DVD players are kind of expensive for their lack of functionality. Small screens and short batery life don't paint a favorable picture for me. Not to mention that when you run out of DVD's you can always play solitare on your notebook.
Dictionaries are notorious for their ability to lag behind the times. The common usage dictates proper grammar, not what a bunch of fuddy-duddies have decided they are willing to include in their sacred scripture.
That said, I still cringe when I hear people use "begs the question" when they mean "raises the question".
how people find this Onion-style hyperbole funny. It's low-brow humor marketed as high-brow humor, and as a result it's audience either puffs it's chest in an "I get it, I'm so smart" kind of way when there's nothing to get, or they believe that the stories are true and act accordingly. It's also rather formulaic and as a result doesn't take much creativity to produce a "news release"; just stamina to keep churning them out.
Oh well, nevermind. I'm curious to see what's going to be announced. Hope it's something spiffy, like a new color scheme. Or a phone or a new PDA. Or a two button mouse with a scroll wheel. You know, something that will "change the industry forever". But then again, I'm still waiting for the time travel function I was promised in OS8.
Thank you for your address, Mr. Goodspeed. We will be adding you to our "hot pre-teen doggy porn" mailing list and will be sending you the sample video in a large, conspicuously wrapped box.
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Thanks. The "we are having major server problems right now, we are looking into it" message from the review site was cute but not very helpful.
If I had been given mod points for this story, this comment wouldn't be off topic. Why? Because it wouln't exist.
So, yeah, mod me down, baby. Do it hard. Spank me, spank me. I've been a naughty boy. Mmmm, yeah. Harder. Harder! That's it! Yeah!
Hey, do you remember reading about how rural areas in the US finally got electricity?
Well, the big power companies said it wasn't profitable enough to run lines to rural areas. They said that the farmers and people in the rural communites wouldn't be able to afford to pay their bills, etc.
Some people worked up the numbers and said it was, infact, not only profitable but socially and economically beneficial for rural areas to have electricity (electric appliances and equipment would lighten the work load of the people and allow one person work more land). But still the electricity companies refused, they said the risk was too great and the inital cost too high.
So the government set up a trial area, electrified a corner of the rural US. It worked, the business was profitable, and the big energy companies wanted in on the deal.
Now, the above is a gross oversimplification of what happened, and cell phones aren't electricity. And adding coverage is just bolstering a communications infrastructure that already exists. But, I'd suspect that cell coverage would end up being profitable if enstated -- if you give people a choice of two services, and one is cheaper and more effective, they take that one. If the enstatment of that service takes a government mandate, well, that's part of what the government is there for: to help keep businesses honest, and moving. Better than "legistlating profits", I'd say.
As for the taxes, wouldn't you be willing to pay a little extra now to help ensure you pay a lot less later?
As for the privacy issue... I don't have an answer except to say that if we can make records of all the calls, why not allow public access to those records. Including, perhaps especially, those of government personell?
Around the local college campus we have "blue light phones".
They're not really "phones": no reciever, button pad, etc. They're intercoms on posts topped with blue lights (hence the name). Push a button and campus police dispatch picks up. Sure, there's a potential for abuse, but it doesn't seem to happen enough to outweigh the potential benefits.
Not too many payphones on campus these days, though. I suspect that they won't die out entirely, but rather simply become much rarer.
How this would to apply to areas with substantial crime and vandalism rates, I don't know.
But.. but.. but.. telcoms equipment is sacred! Disposal must be accompanied by the appropriate rituals!/me prays to Tesla's ghost to carry the electrons and route the lost calls to their proper parties.
Just because a cat has four legs doesn't mean that all four-legged animals are cats.
The environmental hazard assoicated with payphone removal is that which results from the disposal of the payphones. The prolific use of cell phones are what's causing the revenue drought for the payphone companies. Decreased revenue equalls decreased reason to keep the phones in service. Thus some of the payphones are taken out of service.
To reiterate: People will not be obliged to use cell phones instead of the now non-existent payphones. They already are using the cell phones. That's why the companies are digging up the payphones.
For some, the pay phone has become untouchably déclassé.
A woman at the Old Ebbitt Grill was asking strangers if she could borrow their cell phones one recent evening. She systematically worked her way through half the people seated at the bar, none of whom had cell phones to lend. Finally, she reached Hayden, who was sipping a beer. He suggested she use the pay phone he maintained in the restaurant. She haughtily replied: "I wouldn't be caught dead using a pay phone."
Somehow, I don't see the cost as being the primary issue. If you need to make a call, $0.50 isn't that big of a deal. Hell, it's about half a candy-bar around here.
It sounds like it's becoming a social stigmata to use the urine soaked payphones. As in: "I don't want to look like I'm not good enough/rich enough to have a cell phone."
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I can't do it. I don't have a TV and they require one. And all I have is scotch and vodka, no microbrews.
And I so wanted to do this. I had the certified cheque and everything.
Why oh why can't we get more stories like this one where we know llamas will turn up indigenously extraterestrial.
Llamas are way cooler than ninjas: they can breath hydrogen and piss fire. Ninjas suck llama cock.
If I had a ninja I'd chop it up and feed it to a dog, make stir-fry from the dog and serve it to the gook family next door, then I'd set my llama on "feeding rampage" and let it loose in their house. I'd be a regular neighborhood superhero.
After all that, I'd grow bonsai in the llama guano and sell the bonsai in plastic explosive pots to what's left of the ninja clan. Once they return to their secret ninja lair, I'd set off the bonsai pot bombs and go follow the sound of the explosion to their secret lair and take pictures of the red smears and post them on my new website at ninja.smeardot.llama.
Millions of loser geeks world wide would then procede to kill themselves once they realize how lame ninjas really are and how they have lived their lives in such a haze of stupidity by ignoring the greatness of the llamas, who will not allow the loser geeks to worship them.
And that's why I don't want a ninja, because if I had one more people would die than all the Arab babies George W. Bush kills to make his cocaine hangover cure for him and Hitler's brain which is kept alive in a drawer in the Oval Office.
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Windows SuX0rs. Linux r001z j00!
I want my +5 Insightful, too!
The new 7 series is well thought out and practical. The secondary controll interface takes a little getting used to... but so what? So does your new Clarion head unit.
The 7 is ugly, though. But, hey, it's still prettier than that Volvo thing.
Ahem: they're claimingt to be able to get a oil/water emulsion without a surfactant.
This one never made sense to me. I mean, think about it this way: If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of conscription? Or the opposite of propulsion? The "opposites" are real words (well, compulsion), but aren't really opposites.
Yeah, I know, blah, blah, blah, skewed look at common perceptions = funny, blah, blah, blah. But it's still doesn't make sense.
I'm pretty sure that he was referring to people dropping things when they don't intend to kill people.
Besides, the USAF does a pretty good job of hitting appropriate targets accurately and precisely.
and the review is obnoxious and tedious to read. Other articles on the site seem at least equally lacking in quality. They read little better than press releases. The "Plain English Guide to [Installing Your Home Theater]" is particularly noxious. Although informative to a degree, the associated comments are sexist, judgmental, and often poorly thought out.
I think the author has it backwards. He says if the new chip fails then blah. However, the more coherent argument is that if blah happens, then Intel's new chip has failed.
But, the author doesn't seem to realize that there's more than just out and out success or failure on the spectrum. It's more likely that there will be incremental change. Intel sells X units to A, B, and C, AMD sells Y to D, E, and F, and IBM, SUN, and co. sell to whomever. And things kinda ballance out.
All this new technology that's supposed to change everything dramatically, changes things to the degree that it's touted to. My money is still on evolution rather than revolution.
I remember buiding that kit! I played "Challenger" with it. ;)
And here I was thinking I could poison with impunity now... Guess I'll just have to use the bitter tasting, but fast acting kind.
Unfortunately most of those states don't fall within the borders of the US. I.e. they are irrelevant to this discussion of taxation in the US.
You'd have much better luck bringing people to your side of the argument if you stuck to the topic at hand.
I'm getting my "vouchers redeemable for any manufacturer's computer-related products and software" made out for an Origin 3000.
No one involved in venom research or medical treatment of snake bites uses the term 'anti-venom'.
;)
Except, of course, the patients. Of which there tend to be more than researchers/physicians.
And my response is no less pedantic than yours. Neener, neener, neener.
No it doesn't.
But that's besides the point. This is the allmighty Slashdot. We hate spam, but we also hate screwy company mergers. I'm confused. I don't know what to think. Somebody please do my thinking for me.
Portable DVD Store has a section about stuff to know when looking at portable DVD players.
Also, be sure to check Google for more sites.
For my dollar I'd go with a notebook computer instead. The portable DVD players are kind of expensive for their lack of functionality. Small screens and short batery life don't paint a favorable picture for me. Not to mention that when you run out of DVD's you can always play solitare on your notebook.
Dictionaries are notorious for their ability to lag behind the times. The common usage dictates proper grammar, not what a bunch of fuddy-duddies have decided they are willing to include in their sacred scripture.
That said, I still cringe when I hear people use "begs the question" when they mean "raises the question".
how people find this Onion-style hyperbole funny. It's low-brow humor marketed as high-brow humor, and as a result it's audience either puffs it's chest in an "I get it, I'm so smart" kind of way when there's nothing to get, or they believe that the stories are true and act accordingly. It's also rather formulaic and as a result doesn't take much creativity to produce a "news release"; just stamina to keep churning them out.
Oh well, nevermind. I'm curious to see what's going to be announced. Hope it's something spiffy, like a new color scheme. Or a phone or a new PDA. Or a two button mouse with a scroll wheel. You know, something that will "change the industry forever". But then again, I'm still waiting for the time travel function I was promised in OS8.
Thank you for your address, Mr. Goodspeed. We will be adding you to our "hot pre-teen doggy porn" mailing list and will be sending you the sample video in a large, conspicuously wrapped box.
Thanks. The "we are having major server problems right now, we are looking into it" message from the review site was cute but not very helpful.
If I had been given mod points for this story, this comment wouldn't be off topic. Why? Because it wouln't exist.
So, yeah, mod me down, baby. Do it hard. Spank me, spank me. I've been a naughty boy. Mmmm, yeah. Harder. Harder! That's it! Yeah!
Hey, do you remember reading about how rural areas in the US finally got electricity?
Well, the big power companies said it wasn't profitable enough to run lines to rural areas. They said that the farmers and people in the rural communites wouldn't be able to afford to pay their bills, etc.
Some people worked up the numbers and said it was, infact, not only profitable but socially and economically beneficial for rural areas to have electricity (electric appliances and equipment would lighten the work load of the people and allow one person work more land). But still the electricity companies refused, they said the risk was too great and the inital cost too high.
So the government set up a trial area, electrified a corner of the rural US. It worked, the business was profitable, and the big energy companies wanted in on the deal.
Now, the above is a gross oversimplification of what happened, and cell phones aren't electricity. And adding coverage is just bolstering a communications infrastructure that already exists. But, I'd suspect that cell coverage would end up being profitable if enstated -- if you give people a choice of two services, and one is cheaper and more effective, they take that one. If the enstatment of that service takes a government mandate, well, that's part of what the government is there for: to help keep businesses honest, and moving. Better than "legistlating profits", I'd say.
As for the taxes, wouldn't you be willing to pay a little extra now to help ensure you pay a lot less later?
As for the privacy issue... I don't have an answer except to say that if we can make records of all the calls, why not allow public access to those records. Including, perhaps especially, those of government personell?
Around the local college campus we have "blue light phones".
They're not really "phones": no reciever, button pad, etc. They're intercoms on posts topped with blue lights (hence the name). Push a button and campus police dispatch picks up. Sure, there's a potential for abuse, but it doesn't seem to happen enough to outweigh the potential benefits.
Not too many payphones on campus these days, though. I suspect that they won't die out entirely, but rather simply become much rarer.
How this would to apply to areas with substantial crime and vandalism rates, I don't know.
We won't. In any case, Alethes, what's so bad about not being anonymous if nobody is anonymous.
But.. but.. but.. telcoms equipment is sacred! Disposal must be accompanied by the appropriate rituals! /me prays to Tesla's ghost to carry the electrons and route the lost calls to their proper parties.
Just because a cat has four legs doesn't mean that all four-legged animals are cats.
The environmental hazard assoicated with payphone removal is that which results from the disposal of the payphones. The prolific use of cell phones are what's causing the revenue drought for the payphone companies. Decreased revenue equalls decreased reason to keep the phones in service. Thus some of the payphones are taken out of service.
To reiterate: People will not be obliged to use cell phones instead of the now non-existent payphones. They already are using the cell phones. That's why the companies are digging up the payphones.
Somehow, I don't see the cost as being the primary issue. If you need to make a call, $0.50 isn't that big of a deal. Hell, it's about half a candy-bar around here.
It sounds like it's becoming a social stigmata to use the urine soaked payphones. As in: "I don't want to look like I'm not good enough/rich enough to have a cell phone."