I like your point. However, we need different Republicans. If the current Republicans had their way, traveling to Canada for an abortion would be an act of terrorism. And they'll match or beat Democrats at spending with their wars.
Today, it's Nazi paraphernalia... tomorrow, well, who gets to decide? Whoever is in charge? Because frankly that's a bit scary - though maybe just to me as an American because extremists often have a lot of pull in our politics (though thankfully not so much this election cycle).
I think that points to a trait that is strongly American - distrust of government, no matter who's in power. From what I've heard, other nations don't suffer from this as much. It's possibly one of the reasons why our politics go so horribly wrong - because the voter base as a whole is schizophrenic.:)
Not that I disagree with your distrust in authority, but I think other countries may have a little less of that paranoia.
I was wondering if he got some of that spam that hijacks peoples' email addresses. That's the only way his message would make half-sense: if he got spam for viagra or porn forged from a slashdot.org address.
I'll continue on doing what works for me. Maybe you should buy two items from every vendor that sells me one faulty one, just to even out this grave injustice.
I think they should work on batteries first. The day they figure out how to safely power personal electronics via the bloodstream is the day we solve obesity.
Not only that, but there are barely any bleeding-edge PC games that are worth playing.
I have a fairly awesome rig that I could use for gaming, but nothing really makes me want to go to the hassle of booting to Windows. Most fun (older) games run fine under Wine and/or VMWare.
Please acquire "The Sims 2" and leave the rest of us alone who don't want to be annoyed as fuck when we find out we have to replay 9/10th of the game for not saving Billy from the Mafia in Act 1.
The only reason I play games anymore is for the storyline. Eventually, every game starts looking like the Real World and all quests look like Work. The only difference is that games HAVE A GOAL YOU CAN ATTAIN and work just drags on forever, sucking the life out of you until you die.
The new big political satire show (which probably has yet to be created) will make fun of the Democrats.
We're probably just going to have a political comedy drought. America will never see left-wing demagogues with as much power as Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, etc, so there will be no parodying of them. It's just the nature of things.
A lot of it has to do with the mindset of conservatives vs the mindset of liberals. Conservatives are good at direct criticism and articulating their views with quaint phrases. Liberals are not - whenever they try explaining why they believe in something, it goes horribly wrong. They're better at criticism through humor and the arts.
I have a feeling that The Daily Show will survive through a Democratic presidency, but the Colbert Report will not.
If you work at a tech place, bring it to work and send out an email saying there's free computer junk in the mail room.
I've seen people do this.
One of three things will happen: 1. People will find stuff that's useful to them 2. People will pick up stuff anyway cause they like free things 3. Someone else will clean up the mess in the mail room
The way Google works, as far as I have heard, is that patients choose to import their data into it from various medical institutions, so that the patient can keep their data in a centralized place.
Yes, if someone did that without the patient's consent, that would be grounds to sue.
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I like your point. However, we need different Republicans. If the current Republicans had their way, traveling to Canada for an abortion would be an act of terrorism. And they'll match or beat Democrats at spending with their wars.
Today, it's Nazi paraphernalia... tomorrow, well, who gets to decide? Whoever is in charge? Because frankly that's a bit scary - though maybe just to me as an American because extremists often have a lot of pull in our politics (though thankfully not so much this election cycle).
I think that points to a trait that is strongly American - distrust of government, no matter who's in power. From what I've heard, other nations don't suffer from this as much. It's possibly one of the reasons why our politics go so horribly wrong - because the voter base as a whole is schizophrenic. :)
Not that I disagree with your distrust in authority, but I think other countries may have a little less of that paranoia.
Or maybe you can't remember the other times! ;)
Your post reminds me of this video where a guy dresses as a DJ:
http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Get-Into-Any-Club-14234755
I was wondering if he got some of that spam that hijacks peoples' email addresses. That's the only way his message would make half-sense: if he got spam for viagra or porn forged from a slashdot.org address.
And what, pray tell, does 'dot' mean in hockey language? :)
Fortunately, when oxytocin is available through a prescription, problems like this can be treated.
I keep misreading that word as "OxyContin", and it's so much more entertaining that way. And in the case of your post, accurate as well.
Well, shit, I give up!
I'll continue on doing what works for me. Maybe you should buy two items from every vendor that sells me one faulty one, just to even out this grave injustice.
So if I buy a product that sucks, I'm supposed to say, "Well gee, this could have happened to any company. I will give them a second chance."
Companies aren't all that compassionate, why should consumers be?
I have a zero tolerance policy.
Anyway, a lot of other people had the same problem with that board.
I was a big Abit fan until I had to return a faulty motherboard to NewEgg. Purchasing items online leaves no tolerance for that sort of thing.
Ever since then, I've only bought Asus boards, and I've been completely satisfied.
I think they should work on batteries first. The day they figure out how to safely power personal electronics via the bloodstream is the day we solve obesity.
Not only that, but there are barely any bleeding-edge PC games that are worth playing.
I have a fairly awesome rig that I could use for gaming, but nothing really makes me want to go to the hassle of booting to Windows. Most fun (older) games run fine under Wine and/or VMWare.
Please acquire "The Sims 2" and leave the rest of us alone who don't want to be annoyed as fuck when we find out we have to replay 9/10th of the game for not saving Billy from the Mafia in Act 1.
The only reason I play games anymore is for the storyline. Eventually, every game starts looking like the Real World and all quests look like Work. The only difference is that games HAVE A GOAL YOU CAN ATTAIN and work just drags on forever, sucking the life out of you until you die.
The new big political satire show (which probably has yet to be created) will make fun of the Democrats.
We're probably just going to have a political comedy drought. America will never see left-wing demagogues with as much power as Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, etc, so there will be no parodying of them. It's just the nature of things.
A lot of it has to do with the mindset of conservatives vs the mindset of liberals. Conservatives are good at direct criticism and articulating their views with quaint phrases. Liberals are not - whenever they try explaining why they believe in something, it goes horribly wrong. They're better at criticism through humor and the arts.
I have a feeling that The Daily Show will survive through a Democratic presidency, but the Colbert Report will not.
That's all I really saw this as: a PR stunt. Free publicity.
They make their own pr0n at Abu Ghraib.
Umm, McDonald's doesn't serve grass-fed beef, so by definition a large percentage of beef isn't grass-fed.
What?!?!? McDonald's serves beef? This is news to me.
If you work at a tech place, bring it to work and send out an email saying there's free computer junk in the mail room.
I've seen people do this.
One of three things will happen:
1. People will find stuff that's useful to them
2. People will pick up stuff anyway cause they like free things
3. Someone else will clean up the mess in the mail room
The way Google works, as far as I have heard, is that patients choose to import their data into it from various medical institutions, so that the patient can keep their data in a centralized place.
Yes, if someone did that without the patient's consent, that would be grounds to sue.
Wait, isn't that what the federal government does?
How is this that different from stimulants or steroids?
I skimmed the article but didn't notice anything on the method of action. It just said, "Hey look at what our magical pill can do."
I could probably take ephedrine and exercise and get the same effects.
So would some expert like to chime in?
Does it raise heart rate? Blood pressure?
Does it alter mood? "Roid rage" and all that?
If they don't want people to automate their games, maybe they should make their games less repetitive... instead of suing and banning people.
Surely, the development costs would be comparable to lawyer costs.
It'll happen when he ports his Art of Theft game to Facebook and makes money off of it!
I manually edited the save files because it was too hard for me. :(
It's been awhile since I've read about Google, but don't they partially solve this by making people share offices?
Well you see, the problem is for people who use Linux primarily. I don't want my Linux system to run sluggish in a VM, you insensitive clod!
VMWare is great until you want to do something hardware intensive in Windows, like audio/video editing or games.