"The FCC thoroughly investigated Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction because when it happened, the skies darkened, thunderous roars of a hundred thousand demons echoed across the countryside, a rain of blood flooded the land, and the most unspeakable horrors imaginable swept the United States into the most ridiculous debacle of overreaction in recorded history."
Yeah, that was one ugly saggy tit that's for sure!!!
Man, for some reason I'd expected Janet to have kept her 'rack' in much better condition!!
"Earlier there was the option to stay in and be bored or go out and face the elements. This day you go out on the net and there is no need for a garden, football or playing in the mud."
Hmm...did they outlaw "kill the man with the ball" for today's kids, due to it causing self-esteem issues, or is the liability insurance too much these days in our litigious society?
"it's always "protect the children" I spent all of my childhood past the age of 8 online and did I get abducted? did I become a horrible person? no did I become much more resourceful and patient in understanding computers? yes did I learn? yes enough ideas without statistics I say"
You think YOU had a dangerous childhood??
Hell, I grew up with no cell phones, my parents both worked, yet I came home to a house alone (when very young I walked 2 blocks to and from school), I played in the neighborhood with neighborhood kids, roamed all over (again without tracking and cell phones), I ran around in the woods with BB and pellet guns, we 'stole' wood from local houses being built to build makeshift skateboard ramps (and sometimes forts in the woods). Goodness, when we went to a mall, my parents would set up a meeting time and place, and we'd go our separate ways for 2-3 hours at a time, yes, I wondered around unsupervised?!?!? Yep, I dove off diving boards in swimming pools! I got dropped off to hang at the arcades for hours at a time. I had a pretty wide area to cover at any given time by walking, bicycling, skateboarding....while never wearing a helment.
Yep, it is amazing myself and my friends made it past puberty!! By today's scared standards of treating children, we should have all been killed by and accident, if not abducted, raped and killed first...and of course, our parents would have been arrested for child neglect.
Amazing we all made it to even see the dawn of the internet and video games with good graphics...
"O rly? Well, I'd rather watch the original with subtitles than even the most competent dub. That goes for animation, TV shows, movies, and games: the original voice acting must absolutely NOT be changed in localization, be it English, Japanese, Russian, Swahili, Elvish, Klingon, Pig Latin, or Swedish Chef!"
Hell, I'm an American, and I'd give almost anything if "I" could get some of our content dubbed in Swedish Chef!!!
Hell, that might even make watching Keith Olbermann (MSNBC) entertaining...or at least watchable...
"Then cable TV started creating original programming instead of merely reruns, which obviously costs a lot of money. Although some channels like FOX News or CNN still charge 20 cents per home, other channels like Sci-Fi, Disney and TNT have risen to about one dollar per home, with the highest-price channel ESPN charging $3.00!"
I wonder, whatever happened to that initiative (with the FCC?) to allow people to buy their cable channels ala-carte?
I'd certainly do just fine without ESPN...or at least I'd only get it during college football season to see a few games, but, otherwise the rest of the year, I just burn energy surfing past those channels.
"(Though the TV is on maybe five times a month in one hour blocks, so that may be going away soon. Hulu is too convenient for me to bother with the TV.)"
Interesting, in my house, there is at least ONE tv on at all times I am there, usually one in each room if I'm moving about the house that day. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning, is turn on the tv, I set the last one to turn off in my bedroom when I get ready to go to sleep....it is kind of my nightlight.
That being said...I've seen hulu stuff, and it is ok, but, you have a severe lack of choice from what I can see, and the quality isn't that great. I mean if "I" have a choice between the streamed version of something at who knows what resolution, and something coming in on HDTV....I gotta say I'd go with the HD content.
I also usually have a computer on and accessible in any given room of the house too...so, it isn't like I'm doing intarweb stuff too during the days at home.
"Yes, and that is exactly why the system works. People, even fairly rational and intelligent people, are convinced that A) there is a way to get into the upper echelon of society, and B) that is the only way to be happy and/or comfortable. "
Oh, I'm not really that interested in the UPPER echelon of society...I don't need to be a multi-billionaire. Those are the type of people that keep working at it AFTER they've made it...that's not me.
And frankly, I find that as over the years, the more money I make, and more comfortable I can live (house, food, entertainment, travel, chicks) the happier I am.
What are the ways you're saying I can be happy and comfortable without money? I'd honestly be interested in what you suggest? Please don't mentione family/kids, that's not something I've ever really been interested in.
"The dirty little secret is Goldman Sach's keeps all the prosperity and opportunity for themselves and their rich friends, and the rest of us will never see it unless we manage to join their exclusive little club. "
Anyone know a good way to get in and join the GS club??
Frankly, I'd just rather be rich....I'm willing to do just about whatever it takes to get there...
Life is short, I'd rather live comfortably the rest of my years, rather than be poor, scraping for a living an idealistic...
I hope the local Sunday paper doesn't go out of business.
No matter how much money I make...I love a bargain, and I enjoy clipping coupons for the grocery stores. Between that and shopping for what's on sale at the various stores, I eat like a king for cheap, and I never get bored eating the same old shit all the time. I see the sale ads, and the coupons, and decide what to cook for that week based on that.
Of course it helps to be able to cook from scratch, which seems to be a skill that seems to be disappearing these days. Lord knows how many girls I've had to teach how to cook a meal...but, that's another topic entirely.
"Well, the $109,000 car costs Colorado residents a mere $65,000 with their substantial tax break for hybrid and electric vehicles. [gas2.org] That's downright affordable! Makes me wonder how much the rebate is for a Prius, both there and in my home state..."
No shit!!
At that price, it is about the price of a Vette, with better performance I think...
Damn, I have a friend living in CO, if I had some spare cash laying around, I'd be on a plane to hop out there, and buy one in his name, and 'sell' it to me....
" You claim the insight's sweet spot is 50mph. Have you tried 30 mph? That's where most cars get the best mileage (and how the Tesla went so far)."
Yeah, but, how realistic is that? I mean, the only time I'm going as slow as 30mph is my driveway. If you try going that fast on a city street here, you'll get your ass run over.
"Actually, I wouldn't be so sure. Urban driving means low speeds, which means lower air drag. Also, stop and go gives regenerative braking a chance to do its job. I wouldn't be surprised if an electric car would go further in city driving than on the highway..."
I dunno..I probably keep near an avg. of 55mph on most city streets here...
"Agreed. Link to the official site - http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/safety/distracted-driving/index.shtml [gov.on.ca]. Hand-held communication devices are banned. You can use hands-free. You can use items attached to the dash. You can buy a 10-dollar mount for your iPod and that's acceptable. If the GPS is attached, that's also OK. And unless someone has managed to get coffee or a chocolate bar re-classified as a "communication" device, those aren't even touched by the new law."
Ok..most of the posts so far made it sound like the law required you to keep both hands on the steering wheel. I've never had any thing but manual transmission cars all my life (2 seat sports cars)...so I'm not really used to keeping both hands on the wheel. Even when I drive other peoples' cars, that may be automatic, I only use one hand due to habit.
So, they'd not try to pull you over if you don't have both hands on the wheel..eh?
"Personal opinion? Even nowadays most modern men will hump anything with a viable opening."
Hey, it is easy to believe, I mean you see this practice today...there are plenty of men out there that can look at another guy's sweaty, hairy asshole and go "I am in LOOOOOVE, and gotta have me some of that..."
Yep, many man will fuck most anything that doesn't move faster than them......
"The airlines are trying to protect their profits..."
From what I can tell...it isn't like the airlines are making money hand over fist. They seem to be running razor thin margins with fuel costs and all. I saw a tv show about the airlines, and they showed on one flight from say, NYC to L.A., all things considered, they only had like a $360 or so profit. If one less person had booked, it would have lost money on that flight.
"But you just named things that don't affect the flight itself. Nor do they affect the reporter/congressmen/businessman's work if they are not allowed to have toothpaste in their carryon. Comparing the backlash of not being able to clip your fingernails to that of not being able to use a laptop is silly."
Maybe people will go back to just having sex in the bathrooms?
I hear over the years, the mile high club has really declined in membership...
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, that was one ugly saggy tit that's for sure!!!
Man, for some reason I'd expected Janet to have kept her 'rack' in much better condition!!
Hmm...did they outlaw "kill the man with the ball" for today's kids, due to it causing self-esteem issues, or is the liability insurance too much these days in our litigious society?
You think YOU had a dangerous childhood??
Hell, I grew up with no cell phones, my parents both worked, yet I came home to a house alone (when very young I walked 2 blocks to and from school), I played in the neighborhood with neighborhood kids, roamed all over (again without tracking and cell phones), I ran around in the woods with BB and pellet guns, we 'stole' wood from local houses being built to build makeshift skateboard ramps (and sometimes forts in the woods). Goodness, when we went to a mall, my parents would set up a meeting time and place, and we'd go our separate ways for 2-3 hours at a time, yes, I wondered around unsupervised?!?!? Yep, I dove off diving boards in swimming pools! I got dropped off to hang at the arcades for hours at a time. I had a pretty wide area to cover at any given time by walking, bicycling, skateboarding....while never wearing a helment.
Yep, it is amazing myself and my friends made it past puberty!! By today's scared standards of treating children, we should have all been killed by and accident, if not abducted, raped and killed first...and of course, our parents would have been arrested for child neglect.
Amazing we all made it to even see the dawn of the internet and video games with good graphics...
Hell, I'm an American, and I'd give almost anything if "I" could get some of our content dubbed in Swedish Chef!!!
Hell, that might even make watching Keith Olbermann (MSNBC) entertaining...or at least watchable...
I wonder, whatever happened to that initiative (with the FCC?) to allow people to buy their cable channels ala-carte?
I'd certainly do just fine without ESPN...or at least I'd only get it during college football season to see a few games, but, otherwise the rest of the year, I just burn energy surfing past those channels.
Interesting, in my house, there is at least ONE tv on at all times I am there, usually one in each room if I'm moving about the house that day. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning, is turn on the tv, I set the last one to turn off in my bedroom when I get ready to go to sleep....it is kind of my nightlight.
That being said...I've seen hulu stuff, and it is ok, but, you have a severe lack of choice from what I can see, and the quality isn't that great. I mean if "I" have a choice between the streamed version of something at who knows what resolution, and something coming in on HDTV....I gotta say I'd go with the HD content.
I also usually have a computer on and accessible in any given room of the house too...so, it isn't like I'm doing intarweb stuff too during the days at home.
Interesting, I didn't know we had a Witopia gateway down here in Louisiana...?
Yep, and it is exacerbated by the adjacent gene that makes them yammer incessantly on a cell phone while driving the kids around in a huge SUV.
Oh, I'm not really that interested in the UPPER echelon of society...I don't need to be a multi-billionaire. Those are the type of people that keep working at it AFTER they've made it...that's not me.
And frankly, I find that as over the years, the more money I make, and more comfortable I can live (house, food, entertainment, travel, chicks) the happier I am.
What are the ways you're saying I can be happy and comfortable without money? I'd honestly be interested in what you suggest? Please don't mentione family/kids, that's not something I've ever really been interested in.
Anyone know a good way to get in and join the GS club??
Frankly, I'd just rather be rich....I'm willing to do just about whatever it takes to get there...
Life is short, I'd rather live comfortably the rest of my years, rather than be poor, scraping for a living an idealistic...
I hope the local Sunday paper doesn't go out of business.
No matter how much money I make...I love a bargain, and I enjoy clipping coupons for the grocery stores. Between that and shopping for what's on sale at the various stores, I eat like a king for cheap, and I never get bored eating the same old shit all the time. I see the sale ads, and the coupons, and decide what to cook for that week based on that.
Of course it helps to be able to cook from scratch, which seems to be a skill that seems to be disappearing these days. Lord knows how many girls I've had to teach how to cook a meal...but, that's another topic entirely.
Doesn't everyone leave all their computers on at home all the time anyway? Off the top of my head, I count 6 at home that I know are on...
(I've still got to get the Sunfire and big Compaq Proliant server up and running again.)
I wonder how much you'd have to make to claim the whole thing?
On the other hand, if you can afford a Tesla or high end Vette....
No shit!!
At that price, it is about the price of a Vette, with better performance I think...
Damn, I have a friend living in CO, if I had some spare cash laying around, I'd be on a plane to hop out there, and buy one in his name, and 'sell' it to me....
Who cares?
Have you seen the performance numbers on the Tesla, and how cool it looks?
Yeah, but, how realistic is that? I mean, the only time I'm going as slow as 30mph is my driveway. If you try going that fast on a city street here, you'll get your ass run over.
I dunno..I probably keep near an avg. of 55mph on most city streets here...
Ok..most of the posts so far made it sound like the law required you to keep both hands on the steering wheel. I've never had any thing but manual transmission cars all my life (2 seat sports cars)...so I'm not really used to keeping both hands on the wheel. Even when I drive other peoples' cars, that may be automatic, I only use one hand due to habit.
So, they'd not try to pull you over if you don't have both hands on the wheel..eh?
Hey, it is easy to believe, I mean you see this practice today...there are plenty of men out there that can look at another guy's sweaty, hairy asshole and go "I am in LOOOOOVE, and gotta have me some of that..."
Yep, many man will fuck most anything that doesn't move faster than them......
And I swear...I've known people that I know are proof that not only did they have sex with them..but, that they procreated, and exist today..hahaha.
I don't use them if at all possible...
Kinda like eating steak with one on your tongue, just no sensation or enjoyment of the act at all...
From what I can tell...it isn't like the airlines are making money hand over fist. They seem to be running razor thin margins with fuel costs and all. I saw a tv show about the airlines, and they showed on one flight from say, NYC to L.A., all things considered, they only had like a $360 or so profit. If one less person had booked, it would have lost money on that flight.
Maybe people will go back to just having sex in the bathrooms?
I hear over the years, the mile high club has really declined in membership...
I guess I'm missing the quote...why do we keep yelling YEAH?
I guess I don't see the use in going to all this trouble just to save a mere $70 a YEAR???