I drive stick. I remember once my friend go int o the car with me once to take a maybe 1 mile trip to get some food (but through city so it wasnt easy driving). The second I opened the door someone called me. I answered, and hung up about two seconds after we got out of the car at our destination. My freind gave me this look of pure envy and said "Wow, you drive really well"
So some of us can drive stick and talk on the cell phone in city traffic;)
If a parking lot is empty... why does it matter if you drive in the lanes? Ive probably hit 35-40 in huge empty parking lots. I certainly dont consider 25 to be 'flying' by any stretch of the imagination. And I dont use the lanes if the lot is empty. I go over spaces.
You are thinking it could be 1.9 instead, but it couldnt be, becuase then it would be rounded up and it would be a 'kind of small value of 2' instead of an 'exetremely large value of 1'.
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Heres the way I look at it:
It mostly only has value if I buy the whole series, it is dumb to just own 'season 1' or just 'season 3'. So if a show runs a long time, you're going to need to buy a bunch of seasons. That means, in order to watch a six season program in my own home off DVD, I need to spend 300$. That just seems LUDICROUS. It isnt about length or quality or anything like that. Once things start costing 300$+ for me I want them to be interactive and I want them to last a long time. Things of this nature (for me) would be: guitars, computers, camera, TVs, or like an ipod or something.
Personally, I own Firefly, Family Guy, and Futurama. But only becuase they didnt last long enough for me to have to buy a million seasons of them. The thought of rerealeasing something to make an extra buck and then charging SO much just seems a little underhanded to me and I wont support it.
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I always felt 50 bucks for a season was ludicrous. Selling DVDs of TV shows is like an icing on the cake to me and paying like 300 dollars to own a six season show is INSANE. They should be less becuase they were already on friggin TV for free with thier ad/cable revenue. I love Stagate, but unless (when it is finally over), I can get the whole entirety of the series for 100-150 bucks, I wont. Also, other than the simpsons, I cant see myself shelling out that much for any other series.
Im sure you meant R2-D2. When I read that I thought of Arty Ziff for some reason.
Oh, and btw, your signature should read "People are like a bowl of cereal... so few marshmallows in so much cereal" It's not the intellegent people that are like the cereal. You could also say "Intellegent people are like the marshmallows in Lucky charms" or something.
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You listed: Freedom, justice, love, progess, right, wrong, good and evil as lies. They aren't lies, they are ideological concepts. Entirely different from the Santa myth. Science isn't a lie, its a best guess. It always has been. Thats what seperates scientists from 'the rest' to put it crudely. Scientists accept that they do not know everything. Personally, I don't really accept anything as fact and I am happy knowing that I don't know.
Existance is fine for some people, but I'd like to do better than just existance.
Sacraficing rational thought for basic indulgences is dispicable.
Oh yes, and that brandy does sound nice. Despite what you people who have responded to me on slashdot think, I love a good time just as much as the next guy;)
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It saddens me to think that you find it impossible to have fun without lying to yourself and loved ones.
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I completely disagree with your post.
Especially this whole "Santa is as real as george washington is" arguement. It's odd since I've heard the EXACT same comparison to George Washington before. Now, of course Washington has his own mythologies but he was a real person! Santa was based on a person (I think, I might be wrong) but the myth has long forgotten whoever it was based on. It is a LIE.
Then people wonder why thier children dont trust them!!! My parents never used anything like that when I was a child. Admittedly I was Jewish, but the did have mythological people who did things for me (tooth fairy and Mr. Pumpkin head), but they let me know it was for fun and they werent real. I never had to find out that my parents had been decieving me for years and wonder what else they hadn't been telling me about. My parents have always told me the uncensored truth about everything. Lying to children is dispicable.
Have fun not thinking and enjoying life without thought of the consequences.
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So it would be more humane to ignore an accident and drive by it like nothing happened? People have been seriously injured and even possibly killed and the most you can say about it is that you are annoyed it adds five minutes to your commute? Inhumane indeed.
When someone commits a crime in society they are sent to jail. That is, in a sense, banning them from society (as far as we can without actually killing them). They are doing the same thing with the internet.
Society is good becuase people have made it so. People who commit crimes are decidely people who, instead of bettering our society, are actively hurting it, so we remove them from it. Hackers and such who create malicious viruses and such are hurting the internet that all us regular people all work to make better. Thus, we ban them.
They can not enjoy all the benfits of the internet becuase they took advantage of them. It is like that fable about the chicken who makes bread, and no one helps her, and then when she is done everyone wants to eat it.
All that being said, I still think is unenforceable and a little silly, but I really dont mind having them lose all the privaleges of being able to use the internet becuase they took advantage of it and were malicious. In short: fuck 'em.
Thats such a pessimistic way of looking at it. You never know until you ask; some secretaries boxes might be much more readily available then you would first think.
yes yes yes yes! but what did the OTHER person says!!! Thats what KILLS me!!!! I must know.... *sniffle sniffle* *whine* assholes and their cell phones =/
Obligatory Team America:
We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes. Assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck a asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate. And it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves. Because pussies are a inch and half away from assholes. I don't know much about this crazy crazy world, but I do know this. If you don't let us fuck this asshole we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit.
What are you talking about? Sprint is teh rocks!!! I used it all the time and loved it. It felt like I had a land line with me all the time where-ever I went. My dad switched to cingular to save money (it was almost a THIRD the price) and I HATED my cell phone. It never ever got reception anywhere. It has to be the worst cell phone service I have ever had. Now I just recently got my own sprint phone again and I am so happy! I can make calls again! ee!
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I drive stick. I remember once my friend go int o the car with me once to take a maybe 1 mile trip to get some food (but through city so it wasnt easy driving). The second I opened the door someone called me. I answered, and hung up about two seconds after we got out of the car at our destination. My freind gave me this look of pure envy and said "Wow, you drive really well"
;)
So some of us can drive stick and talk on the cell phone in city traffic
and they can afford that.
If a parking lot is empty... why does it matter if you drive in the lanes? Ive probably hit 35-40 in huge empty parking lots. I certainly dont consider 25 to be 'flying' by any stretch of the imagination. And I dont use the lanes if the lot is empty. I go over spaces.
The robot face reminds me an AWFUL LOT of the leader of the Ring Wraiths in the Return of the King...
Sorry for the OT... but that must be the funniest sig I have ever seen.
No, 1.4 + 1.4 = 2.8
You are thinking it could be 1.9 instead, but it couldnt be, becuase then it would be rounded up and it would be a 'kind of small value of 2' instead of an 'exetremely large value of 1'.
Heres the way I look at it:
It mostly only has value if I buy the whole series, it is dumb to just own 'season 1' or just 'season 3'. So if a show runs a long time, you're going to need to buy a bunch of seasons. That means, in order to watch a six season program in my own home off DVD, I need to spend 300$. That just seems LUDICROUS. It isnt about length or quality or anything like that. Once things start costing 300$+ for me I want them to be interactive and I want them to last a long time. Things of this nature (for me) would be: guitars, computers, camera, TVs, or like an ipod or something.
Personally, I own Firefly, Family Guy, and Futurama. But only becuase they didnt last long enough for me to have to buy a million seasons of them. The thought of rerealeasing something to make an extra buck and then charging SO much just seems a little underhanded to me and I wont support it.
I always felt 50 bucks for a season was ludicrous. Selling DVDs of TV shows is like an icing on the cake to me and paying like 300 dollars to own a six season show is INSANE. They should be less becuase they were already on friggin TV for free with thier ad/cable revenue. I love Stagate, but unless (when it is finally over), I can get the whole entirety of the series for 100-150 bucks, I wont. Also, other than the simpsons, I cant see myself shelling out that much for any other series.
How about the D2 part of the name itself if R2 refers to the droid type... seems like you'd run out of designations fairly quickly.
Im sure you meant R2-D2. When I read that I thought of Arty Ziff for some reason.
Oh, and btw, your signature should read "People are like a bowl of cereal... so few marshmallows in so much cereal" It's not the intellegent people that are like the cereal. You could also say "Intellegent people are like the marshmallows in Lucky charms" or something.
5) ??? 6) Jail
You listed: Freedom, justice, love, progess, right, wrong, good and evil as lies. They aren't lies, they are ideological concepts. Entirely different from the Santa myth. Science isn't a lie, its a best guess. It always has been. Thats what seperates scientists from 'the rest' to put it crudely. Scientists accept that they do not know everything. Personally, I don't really accept anything as fact and I am happy knowing that I don't know.
;)
Existance is fine for some people, but I'd like to do better than just existance.
Sacraficing rational thought for basic indulgences is dispicable.
Oh yes, and that brandy does sound nice. Despite what you people who have responded to me on slashdot think, I love a good time just as much as the next guy
It saddens me to think that you find it impossible to have fun without lying to yourself and loved ones.
I completely disagree with your post.
Especially this whole "Santa is as real as george washington is" arguement. It's odd since I've heard the EXACT same comparison to George Washington before. Now, of course Washington has his own mythologies but he was a real person! Santa was based on a person (I think, I might be wrong) but the myth has long forgotten whoever it was based on. It is a LIE.
Then people wonder why thier children dont trust them!!! My parents never used anything like that when I was a child. Admittedly I was Jewish, but the did have mythological people who did things for me (tooth fairy and Mr. Pumpkin head), but they let me know it was for fun and they werent real. I never had to find out that my parents had been decieving me for years and wonder what else they hadn't been telling me about. My parents have always told me the uncensored truth about everything. Lying to children is dispicable.
Have fun not thinking and enjoying life without thought of the consequences.
I dont think Im in the same pond.
So it would be more humane to ignore an accident and drive by it like nothing happened? People have been seriously injured and even possibly killed and the most you can say about it is that you are annoyed it adds five minutes to your commute? Inhumane indeed.
Not to support the rubber neckers or nothin'.
If you dont mind me asking... what were you in for?
When someone commits a crime in society they are sent to jail. That is, in a sense, banning them from society (as far as we can without actually killing them). They are doing the same thing with the internet.
Society is good becuase people have made it so. People who commit crimes are decidely people who, instead of bettering our society, are actively hurting it, so we remove them from it. Hackers and such who create malicious viruses and such are hurting the internet that all us regular people all work to make better. Thus, we ban them.
They can not enjoy all the benfits of the internet becuase they took advantage of them. It is like that fable about the chicken who makes bread, and no one helps her, and then when she is done everyone wants to eat it.
All that being said, I still think is unenforceable and a little silly, but I really dont mind having them lose all the privaleges of being able to use the internet becuase they took advantage of it and were malicious. In short: fuck 'em.
Thats such a pessimistic way of looking at it. You never know until you ask; some secretaries boxes might be much more readily available then you would first think.
;)
yes yes yes yes! but what did the OTHER person says!!! Thats what KILLS me!!!! I must know.... *sniffle sniffle* *whine* assholes and their cell phones =/
Obligatory Team America: We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes. Assholes that just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way. But the only thing that can fuck a asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is they fuck too much or fuck when it isn't appropriate. And it takes a pussy to show them that. But sometimes pussies can be so full of shit that they become assholes themselves. Because pussies are a inch and half away from assholes. I don't know much about this crazy crazy world, but I do know this. If you don't let us fuck this asshole we're going to have our dicks and pussies all covered in shit.
Yeah... and Jacob must have a REALLY nice mommy and daddy to buy him a car that goes 220 MPH... like, 400k nice.
What are you talking about? Sprint is teh rocks!!! I used it all the time and loved it. It felt like I had a land line with me all the time where-ever I went. My dad switched to cingular to save money (it was almost a THIRD the price) and I HATED my cell phone. It never ever got reception anywhere. It has to be the worst cell phone service I have ever had. Now I just recently got my own sprint phone again and I am so happy! I can make calls again! ee!
I disagree, I think they are rather pretty.
Besides that, however, I will trade breathable air for a pretty hill anyday.