Since the parent post was modded "interesting" instead of "funny," here's the snopes.com page...
Note that that page never says that Jack's never served kangaroo burgers -- only that they never served wormburgers. Besides, those 'rooburgers were some of the tastiest fast-food burgers I've ever had.
much would it cost to ship roadkill kangaroos from australia?
My first job was at Jack in the Box. That summer they were bought out by an Aussie parent company. Later on it was determined that their burgers did indeed have 'roo meat in them.
Sprint is the worst of the lot. Poor coverage, poor roaming, billing issues, bad customer service.
I've been a SPCS customer for several years. I signed up with them over others because at the time they had coverage in the places I travel to. Since then I've never had a problem with coverage - never once. Thus, I've never had a need to roam. I've also never had a billing issue, probably because I don't roam and I don't use my phone for anything other than making or receiving calls (not a Vision plan, so no data usage). And the few times I've needed to deal with CS have been painless as well. While I do hear lots of stories like yours (ever check out alt.cellular.sprintpcs?) my own experience has been good.
Of course, usually it *is* almost impossible to dispute a cam ticket, because nearly always you've been caught red-handed and there's nothing you can do about it.
Except there's no way to prove that I was the one driving the car. My wife may have been doing the driving that day, or I may have loaned the car to a friend.
Lotus Agenda, another reportedly supercool application that you can only read about today.
I wonder how many other revolutionary applications Lotus developed and later buried?
You're correct -- Agenda was beyond cool. It remains my favorite piece of software ever. Damn, that thing ran my life for about three years. Then Lotus bought Organizer from Threadz and killed off development of an Agenda for Windows.
As to your other question, let's see...Agenda was best-of-breed, as was was Magellan. I always liked LotusWorks better than MS Works on a DOS platform. Improv absolutely killed on the NExT, but was slow as shit on Windows. Oh, let's not forget Notes, which, when I saw it for the first time in '91, caused me to say "Well, that's the future right there."
Ami Pro, while a terrific program, wasn't developed by Lotus. They bought it from Samna around the time that 1-2-3 r2.4 and r3.5 came out. Then they bundled it with those products (and a runtime version of Windows). I was convinced that Ami Pro was the coolest word processor I'd ever seen. I think I still am.
Please tell me you didn't get your history from watching "Gangs of New York" (just checking)
Nossirreebob! Got it from reading books like Gotham, Low Life, and the like. Gangs of New York (Herbert Asbury's book) was mainly a fictionalized account of things. Gangs of New York (the movie) was an even more fictionalized account of things. (I mean, Cameron Diaz wasn't in the book, fer cryin' out loud.)
It only surprises you because you assume most things now run by the government were invented by it.
First fire companies.... Yup, insurance companies protecting its assets
Here in NYC, the first fire companies were actually created by neighborhood gangs back in the early- to mid-1800s. The rival gangs would sometimes fight over who got to a fire first and who should have the honor of putting it out -- to the point where occasionally the building would burn down while the rival gangs were fighting.
would you pay $5000 for a segway? probably not, would you take one if someone was giving it away for free...sure!
Bad analogy. If the musicians were "giving their music away for free" you'd have a valid point here. But they're not -- they're selling it, or at least trying to.
If Dean Kamen decides to give away Segways, I'm sure there will still be documents to be signed establishing the legality of the transaction, transferring title etc. and covering you in case anybody wonders where the heck you got that funny-looking thing. If Band X decides to give its music away, there will probably still be some sort of fine print someplace establishing the legality of that transaction too, this being such a litigious society.
Can it be a regular joe wanting food delivered to the front door?
Not in my neighborhood it can't. FreshDirect only goes to yuppie neighborhoods where you can already get good produce and meat (like the Upper East Side), not to the less-sexy neighborhoods in NYC where you can't.
The day they show up in Upper Manhattan is the day that I'll, uh, start using them, I guess.
"People who go in and feel fruit have no idea what they're doing, but it's still so important for them," said eMarketer analyst David Berkowitz. "Online shopping changes that dramatically."
Boy, it's good to see that the Son of Sam was able to get an analyst position from inside the pen.
"I am quite disappointed to see that New York State decided to apply legacy telephone regulation to Internet based communications..." [Industry advocate Jeff Pulver] wrote.
Why am I not surprised that an "industry advocate" would be disappointed?
one cannot dismiss Jesus' statement of being "the Way".
Really? You might want to qualify this somehow, as it's just as easy to say "one cannot dismiss Frodo's statement that 'The Ring is MINE!'" since they're both attibuted to fictional characters.
Since the dawn of time, ctrl+C has been copy in each and every app. ctrl+x has been cut. ctrl+v has been paste.
I don't recall those commands in Windows prior to 3.1; however, [ctrl]+[ins] has always been a "copy" command, [shift]+[del] has always been "cut", and [shift]+[ins] has always been "paste". (Oh, and [alt]+[backspace] has always been "undo" too.)
This is totally wrong. I travel in Europe frequently and I am (almost) never asked my nationality/passport in hotels. There are a few exceptions though, but it is not the rule.
I was just in Italy on my honeymoon last month. In every hotel my wife and I had to surrender our (US) passports upon registration. In a couple of places we didn't get them back until the next day. And this isn't the first time that's happened, either -- it was standard practice the last time I was in Italy 14 years ago.
Hey, now! Don't be hatin' on the Viet coffee! I think Viet coffee is some of the best in the world. 'Course, you have to make it in one of those individual drippers you buy in Ben Thanh Market in HCMC. Otherwise the experience just ain't the same. (Oh, and leave out the condensed milk while you're at it.)
Do you have a good wifi sniffer on your tungsten? Can you encrypt partitions with aes128?
No, but then again I don't need to.
freedom is the most important factor to me
Good. Then you got the right tool if you got a Zaurus. Simplicity is the most important factor to me, so I got the right tool when I bought PalmOS. That's why there are different tools.
Common GUI-based office and graphics applications allow users to be super productive and do things that are practically impossible in the CLI world. Show me a CLI app that sorts/sells music like iTunes
iTunes make you super-productive? No, really -- I'm not trolling here, but genuinely curious as to why you chose iTunes as something to illustrate "super-productive."
No, really - Dansko clogs. Chefs wear 'em, so do nurses. They're the most comfortable shoes I have. And if you do wind up having to take them off at the airport, they're easy-off, easy-on.
But that's biased against people who are illiterate, non-english reading, or idiots.
I can't speak for the illiterate or the idiots, but only citizens can vote, and to become a citizen you have to have been in the US at least 5 years, right? 5 years is enough time to learn enough English to be able to read "press this button" and understand it. (At least it should be. It was enough time for my grandparents and my father.)
Native-born citizens get 18 years to learn enough English to understand that. But then we get back to your illiterates and your idiots...
Also, I just plain haven't had good luck with Sony products:
My NX60 stopped working one day for no reason (didn't drop or crush it), my stereo shocks me when i touch the case (so that's gone), my brother's PS2 died for no reason, my coworker's sony laptop's keys [letters on the keyboard] have all rubbed off
Your experience is completely different than mine. I've had a Vaio PCG505F since it came out (going on 5 years now) and haven't had a lick of trouble with it. Despite the small screen and slooooooooow processor (P233 -- fast enough then, deadly now) it just works. And my Clie N610c is still great two years into its life.
I guess that's why they created the phrase "your mileage may vary."
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Of course, YMMV (and evidently yours does).
As to your other question, let's see...Agenda was best-of-breed, as was was Magellan. I always liked LotusWorks better than MS Works on a DOS platform. Improv absolutely killed on the NExT, but was slow as shit on Windows. Oh, let's not forget Notes, which, when I saw it for the first time in '91, caused me to say "Well, that's the future right there."
Ami Pro, while a terrific program, wasn't developed by Lotus. They bought it from Samna around the time that 1-2-3 r2.4 and r3.5 came out. Then they bundled it with those products (and a runtime version of Windows). I was convinced that Ami Pro was the coolest word processor I'd ever seen. I think I still am.
If Dean Kamen decides to give away Segways, I'm sure there will still be documents to be signed establishing the legality of the transaction, transferring title etc. and covering you in case anybody wonders where the heck you got that funny-looking thing. If Band X decides to give its music away, there will probably still be some sort of fine print someplace establishing the legality of that transaction too, this being such a litigious society.
The day they show up in Upper Manhattan is the day that I'll, uh, start using them, I guess.
...why would I want to watch less TV? I enjoy watching TV.
I'm just saying.
No, really - Dansko clogs. Chefs wear 'em, so do nurses. They're the most comfortable shoes I have. And if you do wind up having to take them off at the airport, they're easy-off, easy-on.
I just wish I could wear them to the office.
Native-born citizens get 18 years to learn enough English to understand that. But then we get back to your illiterates and your idiots...
I guess that's why they created the phrase "your mileage may vary."