There is so much wrong with this, I don't even know where to start...
-You're providing a free service, then complaining when people use it? -You want to limit it to customers, but you take no technical measures to limit it to customers? -Why in the blazing flames of Hades are you wasting the time of 911 over someone using your WiFi? Seriously, aren't there laws against abusing 911 services with REALLY STUPID PROBLEMS? -"Theft of services"? The article alluded to the fact that he'd previously been requested to leave by deputies, so I could see "trespass" if he was still in their parking lot... but how can you "theft" a free service? -Was he caught browsing child porn? Was he wanking when the deputies came up to the car? No? Then why harp about how he's a "registered sex offender". Oh no, be afraid, run away, the evil sex offenders are using your WiFi! Obviously he must have been up to no good, because he's a Registered Sex Offender. It couldn't be that he can't afford high-speed because he doesn't have a job because he has to tell everyone he's a Registered Sex Offender. Couldn't be that at all. -"He was creepy". Yeah, that's a good reason to call 911. Oh, wait, he's a Registered Sex Offender... you must have been scared, poor Shop Employee. I hope you get counselling and a book deal for your brush with a Registered Sex Offender. -"No way to tell if someone is using your WiFi, says computer expert"... I didn't realize the reporters 9 year old son now counted as a computer expert. Seriously, does no-one, anywhere, bother to double-check facts anymore?
I'd love to watch this get kicked out of court... but he was Creepy, and he's a Registered Sex Offender, and it was somehow computer related... so an out-of-touch, luddite judge is going to conclude he was Hacking, and sentence him to 10 years in pound-me-in-the-ass prison, where he'll make lots of new friends when they announce "Here is prisoner 65851579, we just want to let you know he's a Registered Sex Offender".
There are 2 possible extremes of this case. Option 1) He went streaking, or got drunk and groped his equally drunk date and she had second thoughts, or shagged his 17yo girlfriend when he was 18, or something equally as relatively innocent... and now, he's poor, discovers some free WiFi next to his house instead of his poor-ass dialup, and like most of us, gets hooked on the speed and forgets to not be 'creepy'. Option 2) He's a dangerous, kiddy poking asshole, who just last year shagged some preschooler whilst dressed like Barney. He drives all the way across the city to sit all day in this parking lot, wanking off to his vast underground network of kiddie porn. He likes to spend hours staring at the employees in the coffee bar too. He's a threat to everyone around him, dangerous, obviously "on the sly", and must have been doing something illegal.
Now, after reading the article, which would you be more likely to pick? Yay for balanced reporting.
PS: I thought the reference to "LEVEL ONE" Sex Offender sounded ominous... I mean, he's a Level 1, that's gotta mean something, right? Yeah, Google says Level 1 means you've the LOWEST chance to re-offend, and it looks like it's usually applied to girlfriend pokers, streakers, drunk-chick-touchers, etc... not to preschool-shagging Barney-wearing freaks. Sure was nice of them to mention what "Level 1" meant in the article, eh?
You appear to have forgotten the history of our current beloved leader.
Of course he has. He's a double-plus Good Citizen! Bringing up any past history would just be trying to tear down your President in a Time of War. What's wrong with you? Don't you know how that would affect the morale of the troops? Do you want us to lose the War on Something? Come on, jbrader, are you supporting our troops, or are you with the terrorists?
What's sad is that several years ago, I could expect a few Funny mods for this... now all I'll get is some people sadly shaking their heads, and a few "Hey, don't quote Fox News without permission!" comments.
but you can trust the fact that your M-16 will work as advertised.
I'm sorry, you misspelled "will jam up the first time someone sneezes in the general direction of the barrel, and won't work until it has a complete teardown and clean."
There's a reason the US Army drills over and over again on how to quickly take apart, clean, and reassemble your weapon... and it's not because of a sterling reliability record.
In other news though, your general concept is right... just replace "but you can trust the fact that your M-16 will work as advertised." with "but you can trust that Skippy the Cleaning Kit will always be there to save you from your TinkerGun."
Because so many homosexuals engage in pre-marital sex.
Well, sheesh, just start letting them get married, and then homosexuality won't be immoral anymore...
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It's not so much your brain, but rather the fact that it has so much blood going to it, and your skull is such a poor insulator. No, we couldn't just pop your head off and shove it in your chest... but with slight modifications a brain could be put in a chest cavity and perform better.
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Bah at these useful applications! I want a tail, like the rest of my primate cousins! =D
You have one already. It's just vestigial. Some lucky buggers are born with a few inches down there... unfortunately, you just happened to get stuck with a stubby (aka tailbone).
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The sense of touch in my feet does not appear to be having a problem with distance. Maybe I just don't notice the latency, but I definately have sensory receptors all over the body that work just fine.
The sense of touch in your feet also updates a helluva lot less frequently than your sense of sight.
It's one thing to have a bit of latency on a low-bandwidth sense like touch... it's another thing alltogether to have high latency on a high-bandwidth application like sight... especially when reflexes determine how long a creature survives.
Oooooh, wow... AMD invents multi-processor system. News at 11.
Seriously, it doesn't seem like that much superscience... - You have an array of workhorse processors. - You have a Command and Control chip - The C&C chip takes incoming jobs, breaks down those jobs into little bits, sends them to the processors, and sends the completed task back to the OS.
Hmmm... this sounds like... multiprocessor systems? distributed computing? SETI@HOME?
Of course, the idea of putting it in one chip instead of several is obviously patentable, so we can all count on getting screwed any time now.
Is anyone really surprised? The NeoCons have been pushing unmanned for years.... here's how it works:
With the Korean and (especially) Vietnam wars, the primary protests weren't "We shouldn't be here", it was "lots of people are dying". This proved an important point to the neocons... Joe Public doesn't care about overseas wars, Joe Public cares about overseas wars//that affect him//. If he is forced to go, if his kids get drafted, if his brother dies... then he protests, makes noise, and brings attention onto your motives for being there in the first place. If it doesn't affect him, he sits and home and watches gleefully on the news. Unfortunately, they didn't see a way around this... but then, in the 80's, videogames got popular. Technology advanced so that longer range wireless control was possible... Then, in the First Gulf War, millions of americans sat at home, watched the pretty explosions on TV, cheered at gun camera footage from Apaches, went "oooOOOOOoo" at the nosecam footage from guided bombs... and not many soldiers died, and they cheered and everything was double-plus good.
And then it clicked for someone. If we make war like a video game, the public doesn't care. If we show them pretty pictures, they think it's cool. And if we don't put our people in danger, they don't protest and question our motives.
So, we come to Now... unmanned attack vehicles. They tried it out in the middle east, they used them to assassinate "suspected terrorists"... in countries they didn't have a right to be in, killing people without any trial or due process... and Joe Public didn't complain. They went "ooOOOoo, kewl!"
The next step? Get the public a little used to these things being around... then they understand that there's no people in them, even the dumbest will clue in that these are remote control... and HomeLand Security (tm) is the perfect guise to get the public used to these things.
And next? War by Remote Control. Fewer troops put in danger, unmanned aircraft, unmanned tanks... kill your enemies from the safety of your Carrier Group. A whole generation of kids, raised to play games, kill things on the screen, and not think about it, will do the exact same thing... playing video games with R/C vehicles, killing what's on the screen, not thinking about it. And with no/low body counts... Joe Public won't complain.
And there you have it, folks. The perfect ability to wage war, on whoever you want, whenever you want, with none but a small 'crackpot' minority making any noise. Iran pissing you off? Syria needs a kick? Time to permanently solve the Israel/Palestine problem? Decided you want to control some African country with lots of diamonds? Send in your R/C fleet, the kids will happily play video games, Joe Public will watch on TV and cheer, mothers and wives won't complain because no-one (on our side) has been killed, and you can do what you want.
I'm sorry folks, a heavy body count is the only thing left to make the public care about foreign policy. It's sad but true. When the troops stop dying, the public will stop caring, the miliary will do what it's told to, and those in charge can attack and kill whoever they want, and the only ones to complain will be world media that ya'll don't listen to anyway.
And that's why R/C/anything/ in the military is bad.
Come on you fuckers, don't you dare drop legacy support! If I can't continue to run my SiS onboard, dual-screened with a Matrox card from 1988, on my Asrock mobo with a Cyrix processor, my funky-ass coax-only network card, and my sound card made by some freaky reman company out of taiwan that only made 4 cards in total before the entire factory burst into flame.... well, that would just prove how much Windoze suxxxxors!!11/sarcasm
Seriously, legacy support is one of those things I remind everyone about when they complain how much windows sucks and how complex the code is. Yeah, it kinda sucks, it makes things a bit slower and less stable... but would YOU like to try and code something so that 100,000 different parts, made by random manufacturers who may be out of business, and probably didn't follow spec, have at least a chance of working properly together? I'm not a fanboi, but I/am/ impressed that I can take most hardware, plug it into a random box, run a 2k or XP install, and at least get it to the point where it starts up and tells me what it's missing. In most cases, the most it complains about is that I'm using a 10-year old video card, and it's gonna give me "ugly mode" until I get that fixed up.
I applaud their efforts to try and rewrite, just as I applaud their efforts to try and keep legacy support going... but with the move to 64 bit, PCI-E becoming standard... perhaps it's time to put the hammer down, and say "No, we're sorry, Vista supports hardware made after 2003, and that's it. I'm sorry son, but your Rage 3D card and your Voodoo2 add-on are just gonna have to be upgraded."
2) I've walked the fields of Lockerbie the morning after finding and marking bodies
don't talk to me about terrorism mate... I've been living with it on a daily basis and been a victim of it... What I can't stand though is being lied to by our leaders and dragged into an illegal conflict on false pretences. It blows our entire moral case OUT OF THE WATER... the Ends DO NOT justify the Means, ever, period.
Guantanamo and "Extraordinary Rendition" are an abhorrence and they really, really don't do our public image any good at
In other news, the guy who made replacement gas tanks for Pintos that wouldn't explode is upset that later vehicles don't have this defect, and is expecting a serious drop in profitability.
Orwell is spinning in his grave. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. We are always at war. We live in constant fear of terror attacks.
The dystopian future I studied in high school is coming true. He erred only by two decades.
Actually, a bit more than that. The book was first titled "1948", but the British government expressed their extreme displeasure at his harsh commentary on current society... so he retitled it "1984" to appease them. Really, he could have called it "2121: A Fascist Odyssey" and it still would have been relevant, because the themes he puts forward will always exist... it's just a question of to what degree.
Some quick cameos I noticed: As Bart skates through town, the first lady he passes appears to be frumpy enough to be the ministers wife... notice Moe standing in the doorway, with Barney nearby. And although his back is turned, I'm sure that's Lenny near them as well, judging by the clothes. Then it appears to be Creepy Suave Guy from one of the early years (with the bowling ball, the guy Marge almost scored with), Bleeding Gums Murphy, and Chief Wiggum, though he's skinny enough that I believe this is a homage to the infamous, never-aired "Triple Amputation" episode.
And as others have mentioned, it appears they couldn't think of a more suitable way to get Maggie into the picture in the last scene, so they cut her in behind Marge running, and also included Bart, which leads to a rather odd sense once you notice it... he's there, then he's over/there/.
And finally, in the camera swing to Lisa in the orchestra, I noticed Millhouse playing the trumpet, a rather dense-looking young lad who must have been Ralph (or if he isn't, will be some day), and those two annoying twins... as well as the music teacher being spot on.
And I think, in the back row just over Lisas' shoulder, is Token.
Yeah, I'm low on the pole in a 3000 user environment, and we're capped at 40mb/account before you start getting nastygrams, and 50 before you're MIA. Clean-DeletedItems-On-Exit is forced on by our login script, and no-one gets extra space, period. Of course, because of this, we've been forced to set up.PST files for most users, stored on a network share... so instead of a nice big Exchange box to manage and back up, we have hundreds of PST files in constant use, corrupting, chewing up bandwidth, and ending up costing more server space than increased Exchange boxes would. Of course, when you don't have to write the rules, it's easy to complain, but I'm sure there's a logical reason they've capped it so small. I'm sure as soon as they solve that pesky Y2K problem and update their flannel wardrobe, they'll give us something a bit more in tune with todays disk capacities.
I remember when this tax first came out, I went into London Drugs to buy some CDRs, walked up to them with the counter, and the guy said "Are you using these for music or data?"... I said "What's the diff?"... and he said "Well, if you're using them for music, we have to charge this new levy, otherwise we don't. Apart from that it's the same. So, I know you're not using them for music, but I have to ask all the same, I have to give you the opportunity to say 'no'... which you, of course, will, because you look neither obscenely wealthy nor notably stupid."
I don't think they quite understood the letter of the law, but their interpretation of the spirit of it, and their interestingly linguistic way around it, was quite entertaining.
My first skim over the article was sadly misleading. I thought they'd developed a mug that you could drop from 2 stories up, full of coffee, and have it land and still have the coffee in it, no leaks.
Then I find out this is just a college-kid version of "The Egg Drop". Sigh.
Hey, I have a mug that I can drop from a few stories up, too. It's a plastic Timmies cup, still in the box with the protective styrofoam. Wow, I'm an engineering student now!
Craaaap, I say. I can build budget boxes for $500 CDN.
Admittedly, I haven't RTFA, but I really don't care to. Just seeing that price tag is enough to make me believe it's another piece of overpowered crap. If you just want net browsing and occasional burning, then a Sempron 2xxx + is more than enough for you, and anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to screw ya.
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There is so much wrong with this, I don't even know where to start...
-You're providing a free service, then complaining when people use it?
-You want to limit it to customers, but you take no technical measures to limit it to customers?
-Why in the blazing flames of Hades are you wasting the time of 911 over someone using your WiFi? Seriously, aren't there laws against abusing 911 services with REALLY STUPID PROBLEMS?
-"Theft of services"? The article alluded to the fact that he'd previously been requested to leave by deputies, so I could see "trespass" if he was still in their parking lot... but how can you "theft" a free service?
-Was he caught browsing child porn? Was he wanking when the deputies came up to the car? No? Then why harp about how he's a "registered sex offender". Oh no, be afraid, run away, the evil sex offenders are using your WiFi! Obviously he must have been up to no good, because he's a Registered Sex Offender. It couldn't be that he can't afford high-speed because he doesn't have a job because he has to tell everyone he's a Registered Sex Offender. Couldn't be that at all.
-"He was creepy". Yeah, that's a good reason to call 911. Oh, wait, he's a Registered Sex Offender... you must have been scared, poor Shop Employee. I hope you get counselling and a book deal for your brush with a Registered Sex Offender.
-"No way to tell if someone is using your WiFi, says computer expert"... I didn't realize the reporters 9 year old son now counted as a computer expert. Seriously, does no-one, anywhere, bother to double-check facts anymore?
I'd love to watch this get kicked out of court... but he was Creepy, and he's a Registered Sex Offender, and it was somehow computer related... so an out-of-touch, luddite judge is going to conclude he was Hacking, and sentence him to 10 years in pound-me-in-the-ass prison, where he'll make lots of new friends when they announce "Here is prisoner 65851579, we just want to let you know he's a Registered Sex Offender".
There are 2 possible extremes of this case.
Option 1) He went streaking, or got drunk and groped his equally drunk date and she had second thoughts, or shagged his 17yo girlfriend when he was 18, or something equally as relatively innocent... and now, he's poor, discovers some free WiFi next to his house instead of his poor-ass dialup, and like most of us, gets hooked on the speed and forgets to not be 'creepy'.
Option 2) He's a dangerous, kiddy poking asshole, who just last year shagged some preschooler whilst dressed like Barney. He drives all the way across the city to sit all day in this parking lot, wanking off to his vast underground network of kiddie porn. He likes to spend hours staring at the employees in the coffee bar too. He's a threat to everyone around him, dangerous, obviously "on the sly", and must have been doing something illegal.
Now, after reading the article, which would you be more likely to pick? Yay for balanced reporting.
PS: I thought the reference to "LEVEL ONE" Sex Offender sounded ominous... I mean, he's a Level 1, that's gotta mean something, right?
Yeah, Google says Level 1 means you've the LOWEST chance to re-offend, and it looks like it's usually applied to girlfriend pokers, streakers, drunk-chick-touchers, etc... not to preschool-shagging Barney-wearing freaks. Sure was nice of them to mention what "Level 1" meant in the article, eh?
yea, an invisible tank is great until you get out and forget where it's parked.
It's disguised to look like two homeless people fighting over a wheel of cheese...
You appear to have forgotten the history of our current beloved leader.
Of course he has. He's a double-plus Good Citizen! Bringing up any past history would just be trying to tear down your President in a Time of War. What's wrong with you? Don't you know how that would affect the morale of the troops? Do you want us to lose the War on Something? Come on, jbrader, are you supporting our troops, or are you with the terrorists?
What's sad is that several years ago, I could expect a few Funny mods for this... now all I'll get is some people sadly shaking their heads, and a few "Hey, don't quote Fox News without permission!" comments.
but you can trust the fact that your M-16 will work as advertised.
I'm sorry, you misspelled "will jam up the first time someone sneezes in the general direction of the barrel, and won't work until it has a complete teardown and clean."
There's a reason the US Army drills over and over again on how to quickly take apart, clean, and reassemble your weapon... and it's not because of a sterling reliability record.
In other news though, your general concept is right... just replace "but you can trust the fact that your M-16 will work as advertised." with "but you can trust that Skippy the Cleaning Kit will always be there to save you from your TinkerGun."
Unbeknownst to engineers at the time, but beknownst to us...
How in the world is homosexuality immoral?
Because so many homosexuals engage in pre-marital sex.
Well, sheesh, just start letting them get married, and then homosexuality won't be immoral anymore...
It's not so much your brain, but rather the fact that it has so much blood going to it, and your skull is such a poor insulator. No, we couldn't just pop your head off and shove it in your chest... but with slight modifications a brain could be put in a chest cavity and perform better.
Bah at these useful applications! I want a tail, like the rest of my primate cousins! =D
You have one already. It's just vestigial. Some lucky buggers are born with a few inches down there... unfortunately, you just happened to get stuck with a stubby (aka tailbone).
The sense of touch in my feet does not appear to be having a problem with distance. Maybe I just don't notice the latency, but I definately have sensory receptors all over the body that work just fine.
The sense of touch in your feet also updates a helluva lot less frequently than your sense of sight.
It's one thing to have a bit of latency on a low-bandwidth sense like touch... it's another thing alltogether to have high latency on a high-bandwidth application like sight... especially when reflexes determine how long a creature survives.
Oooooh, wow... AMD invents multi-processor system. News at 11.
Seriously, it doesn't seem like that much superscience...
- You have an array of workhorse processors.
- You have a Command and Control chip
- The C&C chip takes incoming jobs, breaks down those jobs into little bits, sends them to the processors, and sends the completed task back to the OS.
Hmmm... this sounds like... multiprocessor systems? distributed computing? SETI@HOME?
Of course, the idea of putting it in one chip instead of several is obviously patentable, so we can all count on getting screwed any time now.
Is anyone really surprised? The NeoCons have been pushing unmanned for years.... here's how it works:
//that affect him//. If he is forced to go, if his kids get drafted, if his brother dies... then he protests, makes noise, and brings attention onto your motives for being there in the first place. If it doesn't affect him, he sits and home and watches gleefully on the news.
... unmanned attack vehicles. They tried it out in the middle east, they used them to assassinate "suspected terrorists"... in countries they didn't have a right to be in, killing people without any trial or due process... and Joe Public didn't complain. They went "ooOOOoo, kewl!"
/anything/ in the military is bad.
With the Korean and (especially) Vietnam wars, the primary protests weren't "We shouldn't be here", it was "lots of people are dying". This proved an important point to the neocons... Joe Public doesn't care about overseas wars, Joe Public cares about overseas wars
Unfortunately, they didn't see a way around this... but then, in the 80's, videogames got popular. Technology advanced so that longer range wireless control was possible...
Then, in the First Gulf War, millions of americans sat at home, watched the pretty explosions on TV, cheered at gun camera footage from Apaches, went "oooOOOOOoo" at the nosecam footage from guided bombs... and not many soldiers died, and they cheered and everything was double-plus good.
And then it clicked for someone. If we make war like a video game, the public doesn't care. If we show them pretty pictures, they think it's cool. And if we don't put our people in danger, they don't protest and question our motives.
So, we come to Now
The next step? Get the public a little used to these things being around... then they understand that there's no people in them, even the dumbest will clue in that these are remote control... and HomeLand Security (tm) is the perfect guise to get the public used to these things.
And next? War by Remote Control. Fewer troops put in danger, unmanned aircraft, unmanned tanks... kill your enemies from the safety of your Carrier Group. A whole generation of kids, raised to play games, kill things on the screen, and not think about it, will do the exact same thing... playing video games with R/C vehicles, killing what's on the screen, not thinking about it.
And with no/low body counts... Joe Public won't complain.
And there you have it, folks. The perfect ability to wage war, on whoever you want, whenever you want, with none but a small 'crackpot' minority making any noise. Iran pissing you off? Syria needs a kick? Time to permanently solve the Israel/Palestine problem? Decided you want to control some African country with lots of diamonds? Send in your R/C fleet, the kids will happily play video games, Joe Public will watch on TV and cheer, mothers and wives won't complain because no-one (on our side) has been killed, and you can do what you want.
I'm sorry folks, a heavy body count is the only thing left to make the public care about foreign policy. It's sad but true. When the troops stop dying, the public will stop caring, the miliary will do what it's told to, and those in charge can attack and kill whoever they want, and the only ones to complain will be world media that ya'll don't listen to anyway.
And that's why R/C
Come on you fuckers, don't you dare drop legacy support! If I can't continue to run my SiS onboard, dual-screened with a Matrox card from 1988, on my Asrock mobo with a Cyrix processor, my funky-ass coax-only network card, and my sound card made by some freaky reman company out of taiwan that only made 4 cards in total before the entire factory burst into flame.... well, that would just prove how much Windoze suxxxxors!!11 /sarcasm
/am/ impressed that I can take most hardware, plug it into a random box, run a 2k or XP install, and at least get it to the point where it starts up and tells me what it's missing. In most cases, the most it complains about is that I'm using a 10-year old video card, and it's gonna give me "ugly mode" until I get that fixed up.
Seriously, legacy support is one of those things I remind everyone about when they complain how much windows sucks and how complex the code is. Yeah, it kinda sucks, it makes things a bit slower and less stable... but would YOU like to try and code something so that 100,000 different parts, made by random manufacturers who may be out of business, and probably didn't follow spec, have at least a chance of working properly together? I'm not a fanboi, but I
I applaud their efforts to try and rewrite, just as I applaud their efforts to try and keep legacy support going... but with the move to 64 bit, PCI-E becoming standard... perhaps it's time to put the hammer down, and say "No, we're sorry, Vista supports hardware made after 2003, and that's it. I'm sorry son, but your Rage 3D card and your Voodoo2 add-on are just gonna have to be upgraded."
1) I've been blown up and shot at by the IRA
2) I've walked the fields of Lockerbie the morning after finding and marking bodies
don't talk to me about terrorism mate... I've been living with it on a daily basis and been a victim of it... What I can't stand though is being lied to by our leaders and dragged into an illegal conflict on false pretences. It blows our entire moral case OUT OF THE WATER... the Ends DO NOT justify the Means, ever, period.
Guantanamo and "Extraordinary Rendition" are an abhorrence and they really, really don't do our public image any good at
Mods, please rank this as "+1 - Amen, brother"
In other news, the guy who made replacement gas tanks for Pintos that wouldn't explode is upset that later vehicles don't have this defect, and is expecting a serious drop in profitability.
Bah humbug, I think we should go back to the NASA system.
So how many Volkswagons away can I be from my compy?
Hello, this is Tom Tucker. This just in: companies dislike it when their competitor is given a legal monopoly. More at eleven.
Also, can a common everyday food kill you instantly? We'll tell you after sports.
PS: Knicks suck, Yankees suck, Verisign sucks.
Orwell, eat your heart out!
Orwell is spinning in his grave. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. We are always at war. We live in constant fear of terror attacks.
The dystopian future I studied in high school is coming true. He erred only by two decades.
Actually, a bit more than that. The book was first titled "1948", but the British government expressed their extreme displeasure at his harsh commentary on current society... so he retitled it "1984" to appease them. Really, he could have called it "2121: A Fascist Odyssey" and it still would have been relevant, because the themes he puts forward will always exist... it's just a question of to what degree.
Some quick cameos I noticed:
/there/.
As Bart skates through town, the first lady he passes appears to be frumpy enough to be the ministers wife... notice Moe standing in the doorway, with Barney nearby. And although his back is turned, I'm sure that's Lenny near them as well, judging by the clothes. Then it appears to be Creepy Suave Guy from one of the early years (with the bowling ball, the guy Marge almost scored with), Bleeding Gums Murphy, and Chief Wiggum, though he's skinny enough that I believe this is a homage to the infamous, never-aired "Triple Amputation" episode.
And as others have mentioned, it appears they couldn't think of a more suitable way to get Maggie into the picture in the last scene, so they cut her in behind Marge running, and also included Bart, which leads to a rather odd sense once you notice it... he's there, then he's over
And finally, in the camera swing to Lisa in the orchestra, I noticed Millhouse playing the trumpet, a rather dense-looking young lad who must have been Ralph (or if he isn't, will be some day), and those two annoying twins... as well as the music teacher being spot on.
And I think, in the back row just over Lisas' shoulder, is Token.
Yeah, I'm low on the pole in a 3000 user environment, and we're capped at 40mb/account before you start getting nastygrams, and 50 before you're MIA. Clean-DeletedItems-On-Exit is forced on by our login script, and no-one gets extra space, period. .PST files for most users, stored on a network share... so instead of a nice big Exchange box to manage and back up, we have hundreds of PST files in constant use, corrupting, chewing up bandwidth, and ending up costing more server space than increased Exchange boxes would.
Of course, because of this, we've been forced to set up
Of course, when you don't have to write the rules, it's easy to complain, but I'm sure there's a logical reason they've capped it so small. I'm sure as soon as they solve that pesky Y2K problem and update their flannel wardrobe, they'll give us something a bit more in tune with todays disk capacities.
I'm going to make up my own number. 90 percent of LDS people don't know what their church's stand on evolution is.
I'd go even further and say that 90% of Mormons think they know the position of the church on evolution and they are wrong.
I'll go even further, and say that 180% of Mormons are bad at math.
I remember when this tax first came out, I went into London Drugs to buy some CDRs, walked up to them with the counter, and the guy said "Are you using these for music or data?"... I said "What's the diff?"... and he said "Well, if you're using them for music, we have to charge this new levy, otherwise we don't. Apart from that it's the same. So, I know you're not using them for music, but I have to ask all the same, I have to give you the opportunity to say 'no'... which you, of course, will, because you look neither obscenely wealthy nor notably stupid."
I don't think they quite understood the letter of the law, but their interpretation of the spirit of it, and their interestingly linguistic way around it, was quite entertaining.
My first skim over the article was sadly misleading. I thought they'd developed a mug that you could drop from 2 stories up, full of coffee, and have it land and still have the coffee in it, no leaks.
/thought/ I felt my IQ drop a few points...
Then I find out this is just a college-kid version of "The Egg Drop". Sigh.
Hey, I have a mug that I can drop from a few stories up, too. It's a plastic Timmies cup, still in the box with the protective styrofoam. Wow, I'm an engineering student now!
Hmm, I
Craaaap, I say. I can build budget boxes for $500 CDN.
Admittedly, I haven't RTFA, but I really don't care to. Just seeing that price tag is enough to make me believe it's another piece of overpowered crap. If you just want net browsing and occasional burning, then a Sempron 2xxx + is more than enough for you, and anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to screw ya.
I choose a slightly different interpretation of all this:
If God didn't want us to make animal-human hybrids, we wouldn't be able to.
Come on mods, this guy gets extra points for referring to the famous Steve "Reality Distortion Field".
I wish they'd known this years ago, tinfoil hats would have looked a lot less silly than longsleeve white dress shirts with denim shorts.