that's why i always tell the nurse or the doctor to stick the needle in without warning, so that the surprise will lessen the pain of the needle going in.
works all the time, except when they warn me out of habit, because they can't help it.
What bugs me more is how the game companies are putting long advertisements/splash screens at the start
with the Nvidia "The Way it's meant to be played" splash in Unreal Tournament, when people started posting links to an ATi mod splashscreen for ATi card owners, Atari/Epic forbade such links on its boards and said it was illegal to make such a mod.
if i was any good at creating Unreal mods, I'd make a map/vehicle/character with ATi logo(s) plastered on it, just to spite em.
I think he made an educated guess, based on the fact that Linus is a guy, with a computer, who has access to the internet, and presumably also downloads pr0n.
the hot summer days were pretty harsh, and talk about electricity peak demand due to air conditioners was constant.
so I wondered, why cant the government enact a law that forces every house owner to put solar panels on his roof to help power his/her air conditioner(s)?
it might not be efficient for other applications, but the hottest days are when there are no clouds in the sky, so the solar panels would work best when they are most needed.
granted this has nothing to do with Lake Ontario's cold water, but that solution was thought up due to the strain on the electrical grid... and this is what my idea was all about.
not to mention all the foreign critters that were brought in by the ships in their ballast...
i remember reading somewhere that lampreys, which after being introduced in the Great Lakes, basically destroyed some types of fisheries... but since there's a market for lampreys in some Asian countries and local Asian markets, some people are trying to develop the lamprey fishery in the Great Lakes...
"Faster Stronger Better" "Flesh Is A Design Flaw" "Not Unacceptable" "Rogue Process Terminated" "Your Programming Is Inferior" "Rerouting Critical Systems"
it certainly contrasts with the linked Fox article, in which the tutu event is a mere footnote, or afterthought that could not possibly have affected the subsequent performances.
Olympic organizers boost security after Canadian fan leaps into pool Last Updated Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:16:11 EDT CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Olympics organizers have increased security at all sports venues after an unidentified Canadian spectator plunged into a swimming pool during a diving competition.
The man, bare-chested and sporting a blue tutu, scampered onto the pool deck and climbed to an adjoining diving board during the men's synchronized three-metre springboard event on Monday.
He jumped into the pool after about a minute atop his perch and was immediately apprehended by security officials at the Olympic Aquatic Centre.
The man, who was not identified by police, was arrested and questioned by a prosecutor.
Although the spectator appeared to have harmless intentions, Olympic officials took the breach seriously.
Organizers have spent an unprecedented amount on Olympic security and the incident exposed a hole in the supposed impenetrable safety ring at venues.
"We are going to put security guys around the field of play," Marton Simitsek, an Athens 2004 executive, told the Associated Press on Tuesday.
Olympic organizers said the man was trying to send a love message to his wife by getting on TV.
However, the message painted on his chest appeared to be the website address for an online gaming website.
The fan disruption turned the competition on its head.
The top-ranked Chinese duo Kenan Wang and Bo Peng appeared headed toward certain victory before the intrusion. However, after the incident, one of the Chinese divers landed on his back on his final dive and the team received zeros across the board.
Russian Dmitry Sautin then knocked himself on the board and American brothers Justin and Tony Dumais worked themselves out of a medal position with a missed landing.
Unheralded Greeks Nikolaos Siranidis and Thomas Bimis won the gold. It was the host country's first gold of the Games.
I admit I don't know much about aircraft crash investigation, but it seems highly improbable to me that any number of aircraft crash victims would still be in their seats after, well, a major crash...
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that's why i always tell the nurse or the doctor to stick the needle in without warning, so that the surprise will lessen the pain of the needle going in.
works all the time, except when they warn me out of habit, because they can't help it.
on my belly I have tattoos of an arrow pointing up with the text "The Man" and an arrow pointing down with the text "The Legend".
at least it's not a Con Ed manhole cover.
If I was working at MS, I'd pull a prank and name those countries New East Texas and Halliburtonland.
makes me wonder if the "Made in Turkey" [the country] tshirt label translated as "Made with turkey" [the bird] is also an urban legend...
What bugs me more is how the game companies are putting long advertisements/splash screens at the start
with the Nvidia "The Way it's meant to be played" splash in Unreal Tournament, when people started posting links to an ATi mod splashscreen for ATi card owners, Atari/Epic forbade such links on its boards and said it was illegal to make such a mod.
if i was any good at creating Unreal mods, I'd make a map/vehicle/character with ATi logo(s) plastered on it, just to spite em.
but what is that weight in fraction of a volkswagen?
I think he made an educated guess, based on the fact that Linus is a guy, with a computer, who has access to the internet, and presumably also downloads pr0n.
you're right;
and I predict that those black hatters are going to come cry in a YRO slashdot submission when they get on the CIA shitlist for it, too.
the hot summer days were pretty harsh, and talk about electricity peak demand due to air conditioners was constant.
so I wondered, why cant the government enact a law that forces every house owner to put solar panels on his roof to help power his/her air conditioner(s)?
it might not be efficient for other applications, but the hottest days are when there are no clouds in the sky, so the solar panels would work best when they are most needed.
granted this has nothing to do with Lake Ontario's cold water, but that solution was thought up due to the strain on the electrical grid... and this is what my idea was all about.
not to mention all the foreign critters that were brought in by the ships in their ballast...
i remember reading somewhere that lampreys, which after being introduced in the Great Lakes, basically destroyed some types of fisheries... but since there's a market for lampreys in some Asian countries and local Asian markets, some people are trying to develop the lamprey fishery in the Great Lakes...
it shall taunt its opponents as follows:
:P
"Faster Stronger Better"
"Flesh Is A Design Flaw"
"Not Unacceptable"
"Rogue Process Terminated"
"Your Programming Is Inferior"
"Rerouting Critical Systems"
hey, I like to play UT
me? no... but the article i copypasted does.
it certainly contrasts with the linked Fox article, in which the tutu event is a mere footnote, or afterthought that could not possibly have affected the subsequent performances.
it's ok, damage will be minimized once all the linked pages have been slashdotted out of existence.
the next sport to be included in the Olympics, if China has its way, is Wushu... is that considered the bottom of the barrel?
too bad you got downmodded troll... I found your analogy pretty funny!
except for two small details:
fries are usually cut lengthwise; and
fries are not a French, but a Belgian invention.
is that the guy in a blue tutu jumped in the pool BEFORE the medal-favourites flopped...
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I bolded the interesting paragraphs.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/olympics/national/2004/
Olympic organizers boost security after Canadian fan leaps into pool
Last Updated Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:16:11 EDT
CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Olympics organizers have increased security at all sports venues after an unidentified Canadian spectator plunged into a swimming pool during a diving competition.
The man, bare-chested and sporting a blue tutu, scampered onto the pool deck and climbed to an adjoining diving board during the men's synchronized three-metre springboard event on Monday.
He jumped into the pool after about a minute atop his perch and was immediately apprehended by security officials at the Olympic Aquatic Centre.
The man, who was not identified by police, was arrested and questioned by a prosecutor.
Although the spectator appeared to have harmless intentions, Olympic officials took the breach seriously.
Organizers have spent an unprecedented amount on Olympic security and the incident exposed a hole in the supposed impenetrable safety ring at venues.
"We are going to put security guys around the field of play," Marton Simitsek, an Athens 2004 executive, told the Associated Press on Tuesday.
Olympic organizers said the man was trying to send a love message to his wife by getting on TV.
However, the message painted on his chest appeared to be the website address for an online gaming website.
The fan disruption turned the competition on its head.
The top-ranked Chinese duo Kenan Wang and Bo Peng appeared headed toward certain victory before the intrusion. However, after the incident, one of the Chinese divers landed on his back on his final dive and the team received zeros across the board.
Russian Dmitry Sautin then knocked himself on the board and American brothers Justin and Tony Dumais worked themselves out of a medal position with a missed landing.
Unheralded Greeks Nikolaos Siranidis and Thomas Bimis won the gold. It was the host country's first gold of the Games.
with files from The Associated Press
yea, but the Department of Homeland Security looks like it's going to exist for much longer than the Committee of Public Safety did.
What I want to know is, can these new-fangled airport security systems detect ceramic knives and guns?
don't you remember that much poo-poo'ed terahertz system that was basically described by the media as a voyeur-enabling machine?
i still have the image of the not-so-sexy x-ray-spec photo of that woman burned in my retinas.
I admit I don't know much about aircraft crash investigation, but it seems highly improbable to me that any number of aircraft crash victims would still be in their seats after, well, a major crash...
I think that's what dental records are for.
Losing freedoms seems to be a one way street
Remember 1789?
(hint: it happened in France and involved guillotines)
for one thing, feces arent rock hard, so it's not difficult to mold it in a right-angle shape.
not that I have ever done such a thing.
same here, until my TV's speakers died.
since then I upgraded my computer to something decent, and I can use it as a DVD player and as a PVR...
my only minor annoyance is when I watch TV, I have to reposition my computer's speakers and subwoofer (from gaming setup to TV set-top)
now if only I could play console games on my PC...
A lot of people live without a sense of purpose, and only have a sense of disillusionment.
Just for the sake of philosophical argument, I ask, what's the point of it all?
In my experience this leads to the LONGEST days imaginable.
looking on the bright side, at least it will give you the impression that you live a longer life, as opposed to life in the fast lane...