Except that my father is often exceptionally busy while he is at work, but still keeps his telephone on in case of any emergencies. What to do when I want to call him and leave a message for him to call me back when he's done with work? Texting won't fly at all.
This would be perfect for those times when I need to talk to him, but can't pinpoint a good time for him in advance, so I can leave a message and he can hit me up at his convenience.
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I'd have to utterly disagree. Christian Bale has been far better in other movies. In fact, I thought his character in American Psycho showed far more depth (even if the story itself was pretty boring).
Ledger, however, definitely was the best in the show. I left it feeling like he was the main character, and Bale the supporting actor.
Don't get me wrong, Bale (and Caine) were great. I can't knock their work at all. But Ledger's Joker was light years ahead of anything I think I have ever seen.
And for the record, I don't even like Ledger. Or, rather, I didn't, until I saw this.
No, I bought the game. If you had me sign a contract before I paid money for the game, then I signed the EULA. I can't sell you a hamster and, as soon as you get it home and put it in its cage, demand that you do *anything* else.
Copyright law states that you can't copy the disc or distribute it, but it does not tell you that you can't modify it. I realize the 9th circuit just bought into that, but I wouldn't be surprised of an appeal. And even if there is no appeal, I'd happily argue the case again in court.
You can't make me agree to a contract after the fact, and forcing me to spend money on gas (and that's no trivial matter anymore), and waste my time (which also costs me money) because I disagree with the contract you've given me after the sale occurred. The onus is on you to have me agree before the purchase is completed; once you do that, you're absolutely correct.
Maybe that's what game vendors need to do; provide an industry standard kiosk with the EULA present before the purchase transaction can be completed; that way if I find the terms too cumbersome, I just don't purchase it and don't waste the money or gas on the event.
I was 24 at the time. They didn't ask many questions other than "are you really, really sure?"
Since I was sure since I was pretty much 19, and waited 5 years before I did anything just to triple-dipple check, they had no problems doing it.
They said it was unusual, but I have a particular loathing for infants and a disdain for the way children ruin carefully planned lives that I would've just kept bouncing from urologist to urologist before they gave it to me.
If you want, you could take a trip to PA to have it done at the same dude who did mine, Dr. Fiorica in Johnstown, PA.
True enough, within reason. I mean, I got into a lot of bad things when I was younger, and I didn't realize it. It had to be the height of difficult for my dad not to say anything at the time - or, if he did, say it so subtly and just hope I'd pick it up.
But usually I didn't, and usually I had to deal with the consequences.
It wasn't until I was getting into some really, really bad hijinx that he had to put a stop to it. It wasn't until that moment that I realized it wasn't that he just didn't pay attention, it's just that he was so discrete about it and about what he said (ie: keeping his mitts off), that he only had to step in and save me from Certain Doom one time. Every other time, he just let me do it, even if I got burnt.
Then again, I never did it again after I made that mistake once.
All in all, I'd have to say he did a good job of parenting. In fact, I'm glad I'm not having kids; I know I couldn't do nearly as good a job as he did, and I'm positive I wouldn't be interested in putting in the effort.
Sorry dude, that last one wasn't a troll. That was someone responding to an original troll - you. You throw out a red herring: "if you don't give a shit about recovering your child, you don't love them" - that's awfully close to "if you're not for the war, you're for terrorism", and it's utter, utter bullshit.
You can want to keep your family safe, but recognize there are some lines you just do not cross. I mean, after all, if you really loved your children, you'd keep them locked in your house all day long. That way nothing bad could happen to them.
But then again, they could get into the cleansers and possibly die from bleach. No, best to lock them in a cage.
But, you know, kids being kids, they could be playing in their cage, fall, and break their neck.
Best to strap them down to a table and not let them move.
After all, only someone who doesn't give a shit about their children being safe wouldn't do this.
See how quickly it spirals out of control? And see how utterly ridiculous it gets, incredibly quickly?
Again, don't assume the last person was trolling. Your initial comment was a troll of epic proportions, solely because it was discrete and hidden, yet it was still a troll.
That sets you up as having trolled twice; well done!
I've only got one trolling incident under my belt for the day, so far:(
I've completely ignored everything you said (actually, I didn't read it), and now I'm going to go on a tangent about monkeys.
Actually, I'm not, but I didn't bring my point up so you could continue talking about something I'm not even talking about. You mentioned something, in passing, I asked for clarification, and you ignored it to continue on your soap box. There's an easy way to do that: respond to your own fucking comment.
So if I make a copy of a book to then cut out giant sections, replace them with pictures, poems, etc, etc (in effect, creating a derivative work), how is that not protected by copyright law?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily saying Glider does this, but the way you stated your point, you completely ignored the former instance of (imo) fair use
Sorry, I'm a Blizzard fan, but I still think they're monster cocks over it. I have no problem letting each person do what they wish as long as they aren't negatively affecting me, and guess what? I've never had a single script-kiddie or bot directly bother me in any way. In fact, I'd have to say the whining cunts like you who bitch about it are far more annoying than any script-kiddie could ever be to me.
I'm trying to figure out what the smog over Pittsburgh and Cleveland must've been like back during the industrial revolution, to not qualify as pea soup.
Because they screwed me over on multiple contracts, the customer service was awful, and the service drops calls on a daily, if not hourly basis around here.
Smaller networks really aren't in the area, unfortunately:(
No, I've done my research. I ended up with an ungimped phone, but what I'd really rather have is the Nokia N810 ( http://www.nokiausa.com/link?cid=PLAIN_TEXT_607318 ), but I've got to do some research on what networks I could possibly use it on, then determine whether I can countenance giving said network my money. AT&T has been on my "avoid at all costs including matters concerning life or death or dismemberment" list for a while. It's up there with cannibals, actually. Verizon is rushing closer and closer to that list every day, however. Which leaves me... sprint.
Joy.
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In the end, it all comes down to personal preference. If they are good phones to you, then who am I to try to take that away? It's hard to find a phone you like. Of all the phones offered by Sprint, Verizon, or AT&T, I grudgingly accept but one: my Samsung SCH-i760. After that, the only redeeming quality other phones have is that you may be able to whip them at someone's head if they're causing problems.
It's a very sad state of affairs in the handset business for me:(
Or maybe I want to use my own god damned mp3s as ringtones, or install my own video games?
There have been entirely too many of these phones who have supported all of this, but the telcoms HAVE locked down so that you had to purchase it through them.
So no, magical banana phones need not apply. I'd rather just get the phone I paid for as the phone developer created, not that the telecomms got their fucking mitts on, raped, ravaged, and destroyed all semblance of reasonability.
That's funny, because I've gone from drinking every day to excess for a few years to not drinking at all, overnight, without having a single problem with it. I think it fair to say that while I exhibited alcoholic behavior, I was not, in fact, an alcoholic.
Why would that be, unless there was some biological difference between me and the other guy who just can't stop, no matter what, even though it's tearing his perfect family and world apart?
To say imply it's just a matter of will is an extreme oversimplification.
Better put is this: your genes determine obesity, but your will can overcome that.
It doesn't matter that you are a fatass because it's genetic. The fact remains you are a fat ass. You are going to fucking die if you do not take steps to remedy this.
I, while not an alcoholic, am a fatass. It sucks, but it is true. However, with extensive effort, the sort normally seen associated with going to work day in and day out, I can be "large". That's at best.
How? Because I worked out, on average, 3 hours a day, every day, for a year. I ate right. I made living healthy my entire life, and I went from 275 to about 230. I had clearly defined muscles on most parts of my body, though my core was sadly underdeveloped (having had a pair of back surgeries, it's hard targeting your core without putting your lower back at risk - you can do it, it just takes a lot more effort and time). I had stamina, I had healthy blood pressure, healthy lipid counts, etc.
Then I got pneumonia. Then I blew out another disk in my back 2 weeks into exercising again (a bad spill playing hockey, actually). Then my girlfriend left me (an emotional tumble). Then, after the last surgery, I broke my hand on someone's face when they were breaking into my house. A bad streak of luck, to be sure. But all these things contributed to a: not working out daily and b: not eating well (food had always been a comfort to me, but i had worked past using it as a pick-me-up/distraction until everything hit like a perfect storm).
After that, I was right back to where I started with little motivation to start again.
But that's slowly changing. One of my biggest issues now is finding enough time in the day for work, 3 hours of exercising, preparing my meals for the next day in advance, AND spending time with my fiancee.
Essentially, to work the hours I work, to work out as much as I need to to lose weight, and to spend as much time as it takes to eat healthy, I almost have to sacrifice my fiancee. At best, I can keep her, but cannot do anything else in my life that I consider fun.
You see, some people seem to think that losing weight, for us fatasses, is just as easy as eating reasonable amounts and putting in half an hour or an hour of cardio a day. Maybe that works for some people, but I can assure you that it does not work with my body.
Back to the crux of the matter: I have no problem being held to my own weight. I know, for a fact, I will never have a body like brad pitt. I'm fine with that. If I made working out my job, I would be built more like Vin Diesel or The Rock (whatever his name is). But that's if I worked out every day and used steroids to do it.
So that's what it comes down to: am I willing to do nothing but work out every single day just to get to a 33" waist? Plz. I'd rather say "fuck you" to my government, quit my job, and live on welfare. There comes a point where, if you pile on when I'm doing all that I can do, stacking the deck against me, I'm just going to do nothing at all just to spite you.
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I can't say a thing about Nokia phones, but Motorola phones? Talk about utter trash. Q. Razr. Shudder.
Well, then, you're quite lucky. My phone right now is the only one I can even stand, but even I wouldn't say it does everything I want it to do already.
I'm glad you're happy with your phone, and since you feel so special, I'll even give you a cookie. Now shut up while the rest of us hold out hope we won't get shitty phone after shitty phone from shitty telcoms who only want to make a quick buck or... 1000 off of us.
And is this worth 38 years? When he murders or rapes someone, then we can discuss 38 years. Changing a few grades, throwing some scholarships into doubt? Hell, even identity theft is punished less harshly than 38 years.
All the same, the 38 years thing is an inflammatory point. A few years of punishment, sure. At least more than a fine, but less than what would effectively be life imprisonment. Let's face it; this kid is a douche, but not so much a douche that I'm willing to spend potentially hundreds of thousands or millions of tax payer's dollars on keeping him locked up. That, I feel, would be an even more egregious crime on society.
Punishment fits the crime. You can't put someone in jail for 89 years for spitting on the sidewalk, no matter what laws you write. They'll be struck down as cruel and unusual punishment due to the fact that said punishment grossly outweighs the severity of the crime.
5 years, tops. 38? Absolutely ludicrous, especially when those convicted of murder can get off with less than that. I think we can both degree there is a shocking degree of difference between ending someone's life and installing a keylogger on an administrative computer and "haxing" them.
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Or better yet, "Well, I misdialed, and rather irritate someone I didn't know by attempting to speak to them, I just hung up.
Kind of weird how the positions have been switched, isn't it?"
Except that my father is often exceptionally busy while he is at work, but still keeps his telephone on in case of any emergencies. What to do when I want to call him and leave a message for him to call me back when he's done with work? Texting won't fly at all.
This would be perfect for those times when I need to talk to him, but can't pinpoint a good time for him in advance, so I can leave a message and he can hit me up at his convenience.
I'd have to utterly disagree. Christian Bale has been far better in other movies. In fact, I thought his character in American Psycho showed far more depth (even if the story itself was pretty boring).
Ledger, however, definitely was the best in the show. I left it feeling like he was the main character, and Bale the supporting actor.
Don't get me wrong, Bale (and Caine) were great. I can't knock their work at all. But Ledger's Joker was light years ahead of anything I think I have ever seen.
And for the record, I don't even like Ledger. Or, rather, I didn't, until I saw this.
No, I bought the game. If you had me sign a contract before I paid money for the game, then I signed the EULA. I can't sell you a hamster and, as soon as you get it home and put it in its cage, demand that you do *anything* else.
Copyright law states that you can't copy the disc or distribute it, but it does not tell you that you can't modify it. I realize the 9th circuit just bought into that, but I wouldn't be surprised of an appeal. And even if there is no appeal, I'd happily argue the case again in court.
You can't make me agree to a contract after the fact, and forcing me to spend money on gas (and that's no trivial matter anymore), and waste my time (which also costs me money) because I disagree with the contract you've given me after the sale occurred. The onus is on you to have me agree before the purchase is completed; once you do that, you're absolutely correct.
Maybe that's what game vendors need to do; provide an industry standard kiosk with the EULA present before the purchase transaction can be completed; that way if I find the terms too cumbersome, I just don't purchase it and don't waste the money or gas on the event.
I was 24 at the time. They didn't ask many questions other than "are you really, really sure?"
Since I was sure since I was pretty much 19, and waited 5 years before I did anything just to triple-dipple check, they had no problems doing it.
They said it was unusual, but I have a particular loathing for infants and a disdain for the way children ruin carefully planned lives that I would've just kept bouncing from urologist to urologist before they gave it to me.
If you want, you could take a trip to PA to have it done at the same dude who did mine, Dr. Fiorica in Johnstown, PA.
True enough, within reason. I mean, I got into a lot of bad things when I was younger, and I didn't realize it. It had to be the height of difficult for my dad not to say anything at the time - or, if he did, say it so subtly and just hope I'd pick it up.
But usually I didn't, and usually I had to deal with the consequences.
It wasn't until I was getting into some really, really bad hijinx that he had to put a stop to it. It wasn't until that moment that I realized it wasn't that he just didn't pay attention, it's just that he was so discrete about it and about what he said (ie: keeping his mitts off), that he only had to step in and save me from Certain Doom one time. Every other time, he just let me do it, even if I got burnt.
Then again, I never did it again after I made that mistake once.
All in all, I'd have to say he did a good job of parenting. In fact, I'm glad I'm not having kids; I know I couldn't do nearly as good a job as he did, and I'm positive I wouldn't be interested in putting in the effort.
Hurray for vasectomies!
Sorry dude, that last one wasn't a troll. That was someone responding to an original troll - you. You throw out a red herring: "if you don't give a shit about recovering your child, you don't love them" - that's awfully close to "if you're not for the war, you're for terrorism", and it's utter, utter bullshit.
You can want to keep your family safe, but recognize there are some lines you just do not cross. I mean, after all, if you really loved your children, you'd keep them locked in your house all day long. That way nothing bad could happen to them.
But then again, they could get into the cleansers and possibly die from bleach. No, best to lock them in a cage.
But, you know, kids being kids, they could be playing in their cage, fall, and break their neck.
Best to strap them down to a table and not let them move.
After all, only someone who doesn't give a shit about their children being safe wouldn't do this.
See how quickly it spirals out of control? And see how utterly ridiculous it gets, incredibly quickly?
Again, don't assume the last person was trolling. Your initial comment was a troll of epic proportions, solely because it was discrete and hidden, yet it was still a troll.
That sets you up as having trolled twice; well done!
I've only got one trolling incident under my belt for the day, so far :(
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I've completely ignored everything you said (actually, I didn't read it), and now I'm going to go on a tangent about monkeys.
Actually, I'm not, but I didn't bring my point up so you could continue talking about something I'm not even talking about. You mentioned something, in passing, I asked for clarification, and you ignored it to continue on your soap box. There's an easy way to do that: respond to your own fucking comment.
Douche.
So if I make a copy of a book to then cut out giant sections, replace them with pictures, poems, etc, etc (in effect, creating a derivative work), how is that not protected by copyright law?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily saying Glider does this, but the way you stated your point, you completely ignored the former instance of (imo) fair use
Sorry, I'm a Blizzard fan, but I still think they're monster cocks over it. I have no problem letting each person do what they wish as long as they aren't negatively affecting me, and guess what? I've never had a single script-kiddie or bot directly bother me in any way. In fact, I'd have to say the whining cunts like you who bitch about it are far more annoying than any script-kiddie could ever be to me.
Don't assume that if you ride a bike, you're fit.
Seriously, I'm anything but "fit", but I do use my bike for as much as I can. Yeah, I've lost a few pounds, but I'm still well over 250 pounds.
Exactly, things that fall outside the scope of "providing for the general welfare" are pretty much right out.
Stop reading snippets of sentences and take the whole damn thing or don't take any of it at all.
I'm trying to figure out what the smog over Pittsburgh and Cleveland must've been like back during the industrial revolution, to not qualify as pea soup.
Pea souffle, perhaps.
Then I would counter that the bleach has done its work admirably.
Because they screwed me over on multiple contracts, the customer service was awful, and the service drops calls on a daily, if not hourly basis around here.
Smaller networks really aren't in the area, unfortunately :(
No, I've done my research. I ended up with an ungimped phone, but what I'd really rather have is the Nokia N810 ( http://www.nokiausa.com/link?cid=PLAIN_TEXT_607318 ), but I've got to do some research on what networks I could possibly use it on, then determine whether I can countenance giving said network my money. AT&T has been on my "avoid at all costs including matters concerning life or death or dismemberment" list for a while. It's up there with cannibals, actually. Verizon is rushing closer and closer to that list every day, however. Which leaves me... sprint.
Joy.
In the end, it all comes down to personal preference. If they are good phones to you, then who am I to try to take that away? It's hard to find a phone you like. Of all the phones offered by Sprint, Verizon, or AT&T, I grudgingly accept but one: my Samsung SCH-i760. After that, the only redeeming quality other phones have is that you may be able to whip them at someone's head if they're causing problems.
It's a very sad state of affairs in the handset business for me :(
Or maybe I want to use my own god damned mp3s as ringtones, or install my own video games?
There have been entirely too many of these phones who have supported all of this, but the telcoms HAVE locked down so that you had to purchase it through them.
So no, magical banana phones need not apply. I'd rather just get the phone I paid for as the phone developer created, not that the telecomms got their fucking mitts on, raped, ravaged, and destroyed all semblance of reasonability.
That's funny, because I've gone from drinking every day to excess for a few years to not drinking at all, overnight, without having a single problem with it. I think it fair to say that while I exhibited alcoholic behavior, I was not, in fact, an alcoholic.
Why would that be, unless there was some biological difference between me and the other guy who just can't stop, no matter what, even though it's tearing his perfect family and world apart?
To say imply it's just a matter of will is an extreme oversimplification.
Better put is this: your genes determine obesity, but your will can overcome that.
It doesn't matter that you are a fatass because it's genetic. The fact remains you are a fat ass. You are going to fucking die if you do not take steps to remedy this.
I, while not an alcoholic, am a fatass. It sucks, but it is true. However, with extensive effort, the sort normally seen associated with going to work day in and day out, I can be "large". That's at best.
How? Because I worked out, on average, 3 hours a day, every day, for a year. I ate right. I made living healthy my entire life, and I went from 275 to about 230. I had clearly defined muscles on most parts of my body, though my core was sadly underdeveloped (having had a pair of back surgeries, it's hard targeting your core without putting your lower back at risk - you can do it, it just takes a lot more effort and time). I had stamina, I had healthy blood pressure, healthy lipid counts, etc.
Then I got pneumonia. Then I blew out another disk in my back 2 weeks into exercising again (a bad spill playing hockey, actually). Then my girlfriend left me (an emotional tumble). Then, after the last surgery, I broke my hand on someone's face when they were breaking into my house. A bad streak of luck, to be sure. But all these things contributed to a: not working out daily and b: not eating well (food had always been a comfort to me, but i had worked past using it as a pick-me-up/distraction until everything hit like a perfect storm).
After that, I was right back to where I started with little motivation to start again.
But that's slowly changing. One of my biggest issues now is finding enough time in the day for work, 3 hours of exercising, preparing my meals for the next day in advance, AND spending time with my fiancee.
Essentially, to work the hours I work, to work out as much as I need to to lose weight, and to spend as much time as it takes to eat healthy, I almost have to sacrifice my fiancee. At best, I can keep her, but cannot do anything else in my life that I consider fun.
You see, some people seem to think that losing weight, for us fatasses, is just as easy as eating reasonable amounts and putting in half an hour or an hour of cardio a day. Maybe that works for some people, but I can assure you that it does not work with my body.
Back to the crux of the matter: I have no problem being held to my own weight. I know, for a fact, I will never have a body like brad pitt. I'm fine with that. If I made working out my job, I would be built more like Vin Diesel or The Rock (whatever his name is). But that's if I worked out every day and used steroids to do it.
So that's what it comes down to: am I willing to do nothing but work out every single day just to get to a 33" waist? Plz. I'd rather say "fuck you" to my government, quit my job, and live on welfare. There comes a point where, if you pile on when I'm doing all that I can do, stacking the deck against me, I'm just going to do nothing at all just to spite you.
I can't say a thing about Nokia phones, but Motorola phones? Talk about utter trash. Q. Razr. Shudder.
Those phones are an abomination upon mankind.
Well, then, you're quite lucky. My phone right now is the only one I can even stand, but even I wouldn't say it does everything I want it to do already.
I'm glad you're happy with your phone, and since you feel so special, I'll even give you a cookie. Now shut up while the rest of us hold out hope we won't get shitty phone after shitty phone from shitty telcoms who only want to make a quick buck or ... 1000 off of us.
Conversely, some murderers get off with under ten years.
Are you really saying that changing your grades is even remotely within the same ballpark as killing someone?
Time to come back to reality, pal.
And is this worth 38 years? When he murders or rapes someone, then we can discuss 38 years. Changing a few grades, throwing some scholarships into doubt? Hell, even identity theft is punished less harshly than 38 years.
All the same, the 38 years thing is an inflammatory point. A few years of punishment, sure. At least more than a fine, but less than what would effectively be life imprisonment. Let's face it; this kid is a douche, but not so much a douche that I'm willing to spend potentially hundreds of thousands or millions of tax payer's dollars on keeping him locked up. That, I feel, would be an even more egregious crime on society.
Punishment fits the crime. You can't put someone in jail for 89 years for spitting on the sidewalk, no matter what laws you write. They'll be struck down as cruel and unusual punishment due to the fact that said punishment grossly outweighs the severity of the crime.
5 years, tops. 38? Absolutely ludicrous, especially when those convicted of murder can get off with less than that. I think we can both degree there is a shocking degree of difference between ending someone's life and installing a keylogger on an administrative computer and "haxing" them.