I've had openning night tickets for LOTR for a couple weeks now. Last time I was at the theater I said, "Hey Mike, can you score me a few tickets for LOTR?" He said, "Not a problem."
Works for me. Got two phones, my cell and land line. When some dumb fuck wants my phone number I just give them the land line. Land line has a phone with no ringer. Fuck it. If you don't have my cell number I don't want to talk to you.
Got plenty of room on that baby. Lets take a clue from Nascar and deck the space shuttle, tanks, and even rocket bosters out. Shoot, slap some sponsor patches on the astronauts too.
But I have to draw the line at billboards in space. I don't want to step out on a night as see Pizza Hut blasted across the moon or be looking at the perfect night and see a Coke add float by.
Yeah. I have to admit FS starts off slow for the first season. But as soon as they pry John out to of that butt ugly orange jump suit and slap a peace keeper uniform on him it gets great.
This is no worse than reading a article in a magazine and having to flip past a page with a ad in it to get to the next part. I like this type of advertizing better than popups. Site has got to make $$$ to stay open.
This, from a Canadian newspaper, it's worth sharing. Widespread but Only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial Broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television Commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
America: The Good Neighbor.
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.
None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its Remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, war mongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10?
If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines Except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even Consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the Store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not Pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down Through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of Other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned Tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing With their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Stand proud, America! Wear it proudly!!
This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that The rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything, and never even get a thank you for the things we do.
I would hope that each of you would send this to as many people as you Can and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends Until this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single American that has read this,
I would say yeah it could be used in court because it's trash and if I remember correctly once it hits the curb it's public domain. That is why you see so many people going through celbs. trash.
What I find suprising is they paid people to approach janators for the trash. Why didn't they just wait till it hit the dumpster and go diving?
This is the funniest thing I've seen on slashdot in a while. Put Microsoft in charge of my personal data. Tell me where do I have to take the dumb ass pill to swollow this one.
My dog will sing opera before I fall for this one.
Gladiator was a good movie. X-Men will likely be a good movie, and it'll be out next month Gladiator was a good movie, probally the best movie I've seen all year. I've only seen previews for X-men though and I'm still skeptical. X-men is going to be one of those movies that if done right is going to kick ass. Otherwise it will suck so bad, it will make battlefield earth look like Citizen Cane. (Yeah, I stole it.)
As for mission to mars, I think that should be a movie like Highlander II or Star Trek V. It never happened.
I had a nightmare the night I saw mission to mars. I dreamed that I went back to see it and had to pay full price. Woke up in a cold sweat...
I doubt it. That would just make it worst in my option. If MS did decited to move it's operations offshore the US divisition would still be subject so US laws. Besides the verdict is already been handed down. I don't know where MS has all it's assets but I imagine that a good hunk of them are in US banks. Uncle Sam in the past hasn't thought twice about freezing assets before.
I think moving those assets overseas would also be incrimnating. Flight to avoid justice or something like that and I think that brings real prison time. Bill Gates would go from being worth $80 billion to being about worth two packs of cigs. from a big dude named Bubba.
This is just about the silliest thing I've read in a long time. Sealand ins't a country nor will it ever be. It's a concrete tower sitting in the middle of the ocean. It's not foregin soil, its property. This Lord Roy or whatever he calls himself may claim it but that don't make it so.
As for that court ruling it amounts to ziltch in international affairs. It just simply states that the court in question has no juristicion in this matter. Its the exact same thing as a court in Alabama saying it has no juristiction over a gambling boat on the high seas. That is all.
As long as you play nice and obey the laws you'll just be looked on as a bunch of nuts. But once you do something that Britain doesn't like you'll be shutdown and that is pretty much it.
This means that you're up against the same sort of problems as you have when you try to set up a satellite dish. Ever tried to set up a DirecTV system? It's not as easy as it looks!
Maybe not for some people but after skiming the directions I had mine up and running in 15 mins and I've never installed one before. Hell, the longest part of the operations was the phone call to active the dish.
Not really. The surpreme court only has the power to intervine after a law has been passed. Plus the SC has the power to make law through a process called judicial review. Par for Par though I think the SC has the best record for sanity than any other branch but what I pictured and what the SC does is two different things.
For one thing no member of the surpreme court can walk into a session of congress and point out the fact they are a bunch of idiots. Imagine the effect if the President was on national tv spouting off some assine ideal only to have someone in a white robe stand up and tell him his ideal is stupid and then walk out of the room.
After the reality check congress or the prez. is free to carry on like nothing happened.
I got an ideal for a fourth branch. We'll call it "the people that point out stupid shit."
A group of people, about 30 or 40 that can travel around the country. They could be like supream court justices they way they are appointed. Job for life, can't be impreached or detained by law in the line of duty. They could be recommeded by the president and ratified by both branches of congress, or something like that.
Now this branch can't make any laws, can't judge any laws, or even enforce existing laws. Nether can they directly affect any of the other branches of government or business except in the performance of thier duty.
Let's see. I see them in a white robe, just the oppisote of judges robes and they would carry a symbole of office like a scale or the sign of reason. (Whatever that is.)
Now then. The members of this branch will have the power to read any government law or business contract. They will have the power when carrying out the duty of thier office to attent any trial, any government meeting, or any business meeting no matter what the meeting is about. Nothing can bar them from attending.
At this meeting they may exercise this power once and only once. They may by rasing the symbol of office above thier head and banging it on something hard. The floor, a table, a hollow head, command the attention of everyone at the meeting or every one with in ear shot. Everything must be silenced and the people being addressed must listen to the holder of the symbol of office. Thus the holder of office may in a commading voice say, "You know, this is really fucking stupid and you senator are a idiot."
And with the pronoucement of these words the meeting, trial, or whatever returns to normal. Being labeled stupid and moronic in no way effects the outcome of the meeting or trial. It's just been labeled. The meeting members are free to carry on like the event never took place. The whole process won't take longer than a minute and can only be done once per meeting.
Yes I know, it's a stupid ideal, but I wonder how much stupid stuff could have been avoided if someone could stand up and with out fear call it stupid and label the people doing it idiots.
Slashdot Mirror
Jesus man, I've seen that. Almost shit all over myself
I've had openning night tickets for LOTR for a couple weeks now. Last time I was at the theater I said, "Hey Mike, can you score me a few tickets for LOTR?" He said, "Not a problem."
that has to be the uglyest thing I've ever seen.
first post? sorry couldn't help it
Works for me. Got two phones, my cell and land line. When some dumb fuck wants my phone number I just give them the land line. Land line has a phone with no ringer. Fuck it. If you don't have my cell number I don't want to talk to you.
Got plenty of room on that baby. Lets take a clue from Nascar and deck the space shuttle, tanks, and even rocket bosters out. Shoot, slap some sponsor patches on the astronauts too.
But I have to draw the line at billboards in space. I don't want to step out on a night as see Pizza Hut blasted across the moon or be looking at the perfect night and see a Coke add float by.
Yeah. I have to admit FS starts off slow for the first season. But as soon as they pry John out to of that butt ugly orange jump suit and slap a peace keeper uniform on him it gets great.
This is no worse than reading a article in a magazine and having to flip past a page with a ad in it to get to the next part. I like this type of advertizing better than popups. Site has got to make $$$ to stay open.
You won't bother with a point-by-point bebuttal because you can't.
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
This, from a Canadian newspaper, it's worth sharing. Widespread but Only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial Broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television Commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
America: The Good Neighbor.
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.
None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its Remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, war mongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10?
If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines Except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even Consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the Store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not Pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down Through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of Other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned Tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing With their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Stand proud, America! Wear it proudly!!
This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that The rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything, and never even get a thank you for the things we do.
I would hope that each of you would send this to as many people as you Can and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends Until this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single American that has read this,
I SURE HOPE THAT A LOT MORE READ IT SOON.
us:Hi them:a/s/l ? us: /ignore them
Well we can stop looking then because I talked to them last night.
Whatever happened to a good old 6' 2-hander made of thousand-fold carbon steel?
A half ounce of lead propelled down a 6' barrel by an explosive mixture of saltpeter, sulpher, and charcole took care of that.
Now if that was a good thing or a bad thing I'm not sure of.
I think I might be speaking for more than one or two slashdotters here, I might be wrong, but I for one have no desire to see Cowboy Neal naked.
I would say yeah it could be used in court because it's trash and if I remember correctly once it hits the curb it's public domain. That is why you see so many people going through celbs. trash.
What I find suprising is they paid people to approach janators for the trash. Why didn't they just wait till it hit the dumpster and go diving?
So what your saying is you would dilute your beer with more beer. what type of beer are we talking about here?
I would rather have my butt shaved by a blind man with a bolo knife!
This is the funniest thing I've seen on slashdot in a while. Put Microsoft in charge of my personal data. Tell me where do I have to take the dumb ass pill to swollow this one.
My dog will sing opera before I fall for this one.
Jeff
Gladiator was a good movie. X-Men will likely be a good movie, and it'll be out next month Gladiator was a good movie, probally the best movie I've seen all year. I've only seen previews for X-men though and I'm still skeptical. X-men is going to be one of those movies that if done right is going to kick ass. Otherwise it will suck so bad, it will make battlefield earth look like Citizen Cane. (Yeah, I stole it.)
As for mission to mars, I think that should be a movie like Highlander II or Star Trek V. It never happened.
I had a nightmare the night I saw mission to mars. I dreamed that I went back to see it and had to pay full price. Woke up in a cold sweat...
So, in 25 years I'll be a shadowrunning, deck, magic-using elf, carring a machine gun?
Jon, what you been smoking and where can we get some of it?
I doubt it. That would just make it worst in my option. If MS did decited to move it's operations offshore the US divisition would still be subject so US laws. Besides the verdict is already been handed down. I don't know where MS has all it's assets but I imagine that a good hunk of them are in US banks. Uncle Sam in the past hasn't thought twice about freezing assets before.
I think moving those assets overseas would also be incrimnating. Flight to avoid justice or something like that and I think that brings real prison time. Bill Gates would go from being worth $80 billion to being about worth two packs of cigs. from a big dude named Bubba.
This is just about the silliest thing I've read in a long time. Sealand ins't a country nor will it ever be. It's a concrete tower sitting in the middle of the ocean. It's not foregin soil, its property. This Lord Roy or whatever he calls himself may claim it but that don't make it so.
As for that court ruling it amounts to ziltch in international affairs. It just simply states that the court in question has no juristicion in this matter. Its the exact same thing as a court in Alabama saying it has no juristiction over a gambling boat on the high seas. That is all.
As long as you play nice and obey the laws you'll just be looked on as a bunch of nuts. But once you do something that Britain doesn't like you'll be shutdown and that is pretty much it.
This means that you're up against the same sort of problems as you have when you try to set up a satellite dish. Ever tried to set up a DirecTV system? It's not as easy as it looks!
Maybe not for some people but after skiming the directions I had mine up and running in 15 mins and I've never installed one before. Hell, the longest part of the operations was the phone call to active the dish.
Not really. The surpreme court only has the power to intervine after a law has been passed. Plus the SC has the power to make law through a process called judicial review. Par for Par though I think the SC has the best record for sanity than any other branch but what I pictured and what the SC does is two different things.
For one thing no member of the surpreme court can walk into a session of congress and point out the fact they are a bunch of idiots. Imagine the effect if the President was on national tv spouting off some assine ideal only to have someone in a white robe stand up and tell him his ideal is stupid and then walk out of the room.
After the reality check congress or the prez. is free to carry on like nothing happened.
I got an ideal for a fourth branch. We'll call it "the people that point out stupid shit."
A group of people, about 30 or 40 that can travel around the country. They could be like supream court justices they way they are appointed. Job for life, can't be impreached or detained by law in the line of duty. They could be recommeded by the president and ratified by both branches of congress, or something like that.
Now this branch can't make any laws, can't judge any laws, or even enforce existing laws. Nether can they directly affect any of the other branches of government or business except in the performance of thier duty.
Let's see. I see them in a white robe, just the oppisote of judges robes and they would carry a symbole of office like a scale or the sign of reason. (Whatever that is.)
Now then. The members of this branch will have the power to read any government law or business contract. They will have the power when carrying out the duty of thier office to attent any trial, any government meeting, or any business meeting no matter what the meeting is about. Nothing can bar them from attending.
At this meeting they may exercise this power once and only once. They may by rasing the symbol of office above thier head and banging it on something hard. The floor, a table, a hollow head, command the attention of everyone at the meeting or every one with in ear shot. Everything must be silenced and the people being addressed must listen to the holder of the symbol of office. Thus the holder of office may in a commading voice say, "You know, this is really fucking stupid and you senator are a idiot."
And with the pronoucement of these words the meeting, trial, or whatever returns to normal. Being labeled stupid and moronic in no way effects the outcome of the meeting or trial. It's just been labeled. The meeting members are free to carry on like the event never took place. The whole process won't take longer than a minute and can only be done once per meeting.
Yes I know, it's a stupid ideal, but I wonder how much stupid stuff could have been avoided if someone could stand up and with out fear call it stupid and label the people doing it idiots.
Screw you. I find your objection, to be objectional. I just hope that when I go some will have something witty to say about me.