...but flawed? Not at all! Clear, concise, definite and thorough.
You are correct to realize that recognizing one who declares himself to be our enemy is not "fear" but is our reasonable duty to ourselves, to each other, and to our future (our children.)
That was good, but I preferred the scene from season 8's "The Springfield Files" where agent Scully is giving Homer a polygraph test, explains how it works and then asks him "do you understand?" He replies "Yes", and the polygraph explodes.
Anybody remember SARS? No? Yeah, once upon a time it's all travelers to-and-from Asia talked about, but it's a little passe' now... anyway, in the Shanghai International Airport they had (this was in '02; I have no idea what they're doing now, if anything, to "detect" passengers who have/may have SARS) what appeared to be an infrared camera pointed at the line they herded passengers through (everyone had to have their "SARS test", and their "checked; OK" card, to proceed) -- I presume (couldn't get an actual answer out of anyone, and didn't really want to press my luck 7,000 miles from home in a country where I speak about 1/1000th of the language carrying a 10-month-old and what felt like a metric ton of luggage...) the idea was that if someone were trying to travel with a high fever it'd set off an alarm and further measures would be taken. Of course it immediately occurred to me that a belly full of Tylenol or Motrin might help "patient zero" on his/her travels...
Actually, that's not too far-fetched. I was just thinking yesterday about the possibility that, assuming an adequately determined operative, we might see surgically-implanted explosive devices eventually become a reality (and given that terrorists to-date have shown they're willing to spend months if not years in training just to blow themselves up, it's not inconceivable that they'd be willing to spend a few weeks walking around with a lump in their abdominal cavity -- a lump that goes BOOM upon a good swift blow to the stomach.)
Maybe we should start reviewing old episodes of Mission: Impossible and the like...
Didn't he used to work for a certain rental-car company? He was let go after they interviewed him on the local news one night and put his name and his company's name on the screen together...
...Your statement almost screams, "I do not understand networks or the internet."...
In a word: tubes (I thought everyone knew that by now...)
...This is unreasonable and puts blame on providers because of the actions of their users.
Hey, any plumber worth his pay ought to be able to keep someone else's crap from flowing into one of his customers' tubes, and if he can't he deserves to be punished.
Perhaps the AOL search logs might give us some insight (now that they're "in the wild"); OTTOMH I can't think of any single group more likely to fall for spam in general than people who have fallen for AOL...
If you read this guy's entire list, among the methods he's obviously considered for his better-half's demise are:
decapitation
car crash (severed brake line? Kinda cliche', but still...)
poop (laxative overdose, maybe?)
and perhaps most heinous of all:
steak and cheese!!!
What kind of monster is this?!?! Of course, if this guy's identity is determined, I think we should get his picture out to all the Hardees restaurants ASAP; that burger does look "killer"...
Hmm, nice. Of course, you'll need a computer the size of a planet (say, Earth) and a couple of billion years of "CPU time" (and I have a sneaking suspicion the answer you'll get for all your trouble is "42".)
blah blah blah...too much MTV and lously public schooling has mentally circumcised 95% of americans.
Thanks for the pointers there, comrade (from your suspicious lack of certain articles -- such as "a", "an", and "the" -- I couldn't help but imagine a Russian or "Slavic" accent) but I wonder if you've actually put your mental foreskin to any use lately?
They're worried about someone using Google Earth to look right smack down on any nude beach in the world. They can relax; anyone who tried it would get massive headaches from the eyestrain because the resolution just isn't there. Not that I tried to do that or anything...
[Her] I have an imporatant question for you: who do you plan to vote for in tomorrow's Republican primary? [Me] Y'know, that is a really good question. I honestly haven't decided who I'm going to vote for, but I've got it narrowed-down to either Bob Corker or David Davis. [Her] Uh... uh, ok. Well, thanks very much!
I figure they added me to their "nut list", and it'll be quite a while before I hear from them again -- you see, David Davis and Bob Corker (both Republicans, and both seeking nominations here in Tennessee's Republican primary) weren't running against each other; they were each running for completely separate offices! I figure both candidates will have access to the results from the polling (probably being funded by the Tennessee GOP) and they'll (well, their campaign people) think "well, at least this guy got the names right... I guess we need to do a better job at position, platform, and recognition." Which is exactly what we want from candidates, no?
I did the same thing a few years ago after being pestered over the course of seven or eight days to sign up for some unwanted and unneeded long-distance service; I told the guy "I don't know why you keep calling me about long-distance service because I don't even HAVE a phone!" Never heard from that particular company again; guess I made their "nut list" too.
I mean, have they assembled a team of 10-year-old boys as "consultants"? Maybe next they'll recommend a really big magnifying glass (especially for use against the ant-shaped nanites) or maybe a really really (REALLY) big satellite shaped like a shoe...
Either way, somebody hasn't been keeping up with their classic sci-fi studies!
It doesn't help his case at all that he's got the same name as that guy on Stargate Atlantis; I bet everyone he tells the rock is just a rock walks away thinking "Well of COURSE that's what HE'D say!"
He's not particularly believable as a human, but as a Vulcan......especially for during that period on the Genesis Planet where Spock's body was just an empty shell and his spirit was body-pooling around the galaxy in McCoy's body...Perfect!
Frankly, wikipedia has a lot of information that you just can't get anwhere else
Yes but so does my crazy uncle Henry, and any value contained in knowing up front that you can bet your life on half of what he says is more than negated by not knowing which half.
Bah, that's not sending out information before you've received it -- that's sending out information over and over after you received it just once. I guess a Slashdot-style cloaking device, instead of making it impossible to see you, would just project so many copies of you that it'd be difficult to tell which one was the real you... which would, come to think of it, be pretty cool...
Slashdot Mirror
...but flawed? Not at all!
Clear, concise, definite and thorough.
You are correct to realize that recognizing one who declares himself to be our enemy is not "fear" but is our reasonable duty to ourselves, to each other, and to our future (our children.)
Seems like I heard something like that somewhere...
No, but they'll not do it if we pay them one...MILLION...dollars...
That was good, but I preferred the scene from season 8's "The Springfield Files" where agent Scully is giving Homer a polygraph test, explains how it works and then asks him "do you understand?" He replies "Yes", and the polygraph explodes.
Anybody remember SARS? No? Yeah, once upon a time it's all travelers to-and-from Asia talked about, but it's a little passe' now... anyway, in the Shanghai International Airport they had (this was in '02; I have no idea what they're doing now, if anything, to "detect" passengers who have/may have SARS) what appeared to be an infrared camera pointed at the line they herded passengers through ( everyone had to have their "SARS test", and their "checked; OK" card, to proceed) -- I presume (couldn't get an actual answer out of anyone, and didn't really want to press my luck 7,000 miles from home in a country where I speak about 1/1000th of the language carrying a 10-month-old and what felt like a metric ton of luggage...) the idea was that if someone were trying to travel with a high fever it'd set off an alarm and further measures would be taken. Of course it immediately occurred to me that a belly full of Tylenol or Motrin might help "patient zero" on his/her travels...
and the #1 alternative to "I googled it":
Actually, that's not too far-fetched. I was just thinking yesterday about the possibility that, assuming an adequately determined operative, we might see surgically-implanted explosive devices eventually become a reality (and given that terrorists to-date have shown they're willing to spend months if not years in training just to blow themselves up, it's not inconceivable that they'd be willing to spend a few weeks walking around with a lump in their abdominal cavity -- a lump that goes BOOM upon a good swift blow to the stomach.)
Maybe we should start reviewing old episodes of Mission: Impossible and the like...
Didn't he used to work for a certain rental-car company? He was let go after they interviewed him on the local news one night and put his name and his company's name on the screen together...
In a word: tubes (I thought everyone knew that by now...)
Hey, any plumber worth his pay ought to be able to keep someone else's crap from flowing into one of his customers' tubes, and if he can't he deserves to be punished.
Perhaps the AOL search logs might give us some insight (now that they're "in the wild"); OTTOMH I can't think of any single group more likely to fall for spam in general than people who have fallen for AOL...
- decapitation
- car crash (severed brake line? Kinda cliche', but still...)
- poop (laxative overdose, maybe?)
and perhaps most heinous of all:- steak and cheese !!!
What kind of monster is this?!?! Of course, if this guy's identity is determined, I think we should get his picture out to all the Hardees restaurants ASAP; that burger does look "killer"...Hmm, nice. Of course, you'll need a computer the size of a planet (say, Earth) and a couple of billion years of "CPU time" (and I have a sneaking suspicion the answer you'll get for all your trouble is "42".)
Thanks for the pointers there, comrade (from your suspicious lack of certain articles -- such as "a", "an", and "the" -- I couldn't help but imagine a Russian or "Slavic" accent) but I wonder if you've actually put your mental foreskin to any use lately?
They're worried about someone using Google Earth to look right smack down on any nude beach in the world. They can relax; anyone who tried it would get massive headaches from the eyestrain because the resolution just isn't there. Not that I tried to do that or anything...
Granted, Humans were pretty self-destructive, but not quite as much so as Lemmings.
The conversation went almost exactly like this:
." Which is exactly what we want from candidates, no?
[Her] I have an imporatant question for you: who do you plan to vote for in tomorrow's Republican primary?
[Me] Y'know, that is a really good question. I honestly haven't decided who I'm going to vote for, but I've got it narrowed-down to either Bob Corker or David Davis.
[Her] Uh... uh, ok. Well, thanks very much!
I figure they added me to their "nut list", and it'll be quite a while before I hear from them again -- you see, David Davis and Bob Corker (both Republicans, and both seeking nominations here in Tennessee's Republican primary) weren't running against each other; they were each running for completely separate offices! I figure both candidates will have access to the results from the polling (probably being funded by the Tennessee GOP) and they'll (well, their campaign people) think "well, at least this guy got the names right... I guess we need to do a better job at position, platform, and recognition
I did the same thing a few years ago after being pestered over the course of seven or eight days to sign up for some unwanted and unneeded long-distance service; I told the guy "I don't know why you keep calling me about long-distance service because I don't even HAVE a phone!" Never heard from that particular company again; guess I made their "nut list" too.
I mean, have they assembled a team of 10-year-old boys as "consultants"? Maybe next they'll recommend a really big magnifying glass (especially for use against the ant-shaped nanites) or maybe a really really (REALLY) big satellite shaped like a shoe...
Either way, somebody hasn't been keeping up with their classic sci-fi studies!
It doesn't help his case at all that he's got the same name as that guy on Stargate Atlantis; I bet everyone he tells the rock is just a rock walks away thinking "Well of COURSE that's what HE'D say!"
Really? Then why doesn't it say "+5 Funny" on my shirt?
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Matt Damon doesn't have enough 'nads to play lance armstrong.
He's not particularly believable as a human, but as a Vulcan... ...especially for during that period on the Genesis Planet where Spock's body was just an empty shell and his spirit was body-pooling around the galaxy in McCoy's body...Perfect!
Bah, that's not sending out information before you've received it -- that's sending out information over and over after you received it just once. I guess a Slashdot-style cloaking device, instead of making it impossible to see you, would just project so many copies of you that it'd be difficult to tell which one was the real you... which would, come to think of it, be pretty cool...