Eating hamburgers, particularly a Double-Double animal style
Taco eating
Applying makeup
Tooth brushing
Shaving
Newspaper reading
I-pad browsing
Dogs and cats in driver's lap
Smoking
All of which are at least as distracting and all of which I see regularly on my commute. I left blow jobs off the list, because they are arguably already illegal in public.
Much of the recent Security Theatre, for example, the requirement to notify the government 72 hours in advance when you travel domestically in the USA now being phased in as a result of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which was, of course, passed by a Republican Congress.
You can still buy a ticket less than 72 hours before the flight and fly anywhere. From the link you provide in you post:
"Will passengers still be able to book a ticket within 72 hours of a flight?
Yes. TSA’s Secure Flight program can conduct watch list matching for passengers up until the time of the flight. Passengers will be prompted to provide Secure Flight information when booking travel. For reservations booked on short notice, or within 72 hours of the scheduled flight departure time, airlines must submit the required passenger information as soon as the reservation is made."
The passenger has no duty to notify anyone, anytime. It's all on the airlines.
I'd reply to this, but I can't find the One Fucking Pixel on the screen that will open the reply window. Oooo, I must have passed over it. No fucking idea where, but the window opened. Now to complete the "Preview" and the "Submit" pixels hunts. Exciting, edge-of-seat gameplay this.
Drive to Canada, and fly from there? I don't know much about Canadian airports since I live in Europe, but I presume it's got slightly more brains than US ones?
Hard to find an airport worse than Montreal, but Vancouver is nice.
It loads fine, if slowly, for me. I am sure the is some excellent reason to want to load very large image files where the magnified target consists of seven pixels, but I can't imagine what it is. The closer-up images are spectacular however.
My Blackberry Bold 9700 offers this service. It is called OFF. You activate this service by pressing the red key on the front panel. Alternatively, you can also activate this service by doing a battery pull hard reboot and setting the phone and battery down side by side. The OFF function will remain activated until you reinsert the battery in the morning or after your nap. I believe that most mobile phones come with this feature, although the location and color of the button may vary by manufacturer and model.
Many lizards reproduce photogenically. A quick Google or wiki search will show any interested party many examples. Snakes are not primitive reptiles as the story says, but boas are relatively primitive snakes. The story here is that this individual appears to be a switch hitter, reproducing both sexually and asexually.
Many lizards reproduce photogenically as a quick Google or wiki search will show any interested party. Less common in snakes, it is true. Boidae are hardly primitive reptiles, but they are relatively primitive snakes. The news here is that this particular individual appears to be a switch hitter, reproducing both sexually and asexually.
By "German graffiti" I assume you mean, "German praises to Our Dear Leader by the Western pig-dogs who were so amazed when they visited the best trolley factory in the world that they were moved to paint their awe upon the trolley cars as a never-ending testimony."
"Der liebe Führer hat Geschlecht mit kranken Barnyardtieren."
They've done the same thing before, for example their trolley system was allegedly "built in North Korea" despite the fact that it was several decades old and covered in German graffiti.
[Shrug]Most of the graffiti I saw on and around the trains in Italy were in English. Probably more L33t to spray in a foreign language. Either that or a bunch of Man U supporters had been by.
Thank God. I thought for sure that George W. Bush had become a/. editor. The extra "i" does leave open the possibility that Dan Quayle is working as a copy editor.
GP poster was making a clever reference to the the song Montana by Frank Zappa. The song is about a man who moves to Montana to grow a crop of dental floss.
If you are over 14, not knowing this has reduced your Geek Cred rating one level.
>Thus the only way they could get you is if you said you knew the password, but refused to give it up, and it was ruled that wasn't protected under the 5th.
Not quite the same thing, but Terry Childs found out that this isn't really a winning strategy. IIRC, Childs got four years.
My grandmother gave me a chemistry kit from the 50's. It had a huge bottle of Potassium Cholorate, a big bottle of Ammonia Nitrate, among other dangerous chemicals. Those were the days...
Sigh... Having grown up with those kinds of chemistry sets, I can tell you that every boy understood clearly that Dangerous==Fun. The idea was to learn enough chemistry to make things go boom, or preferably BOOM! Potassium chlorate mixed with finely powdered aluminum created a suitably exothermic reaction. By the time I was in high school, I had made guncotton and an impressive quantity of thermite. My friends and I generated hydrogen chemically and launched fairly large hydrogen balloons fused to detonate at altitude. (Impressive at night.) Every kid I knew from about age 11 on seemed to have an endless supply of carbide, which fueled countless creative, and largely percussive, projects. All of us made it to adulthood with 20 digits and 2 eyes, although there were some times I was missing eyebrows.
If I was growing up today, I would certainly have been arrested as a terrorist by age 14.
>And while we're at it, has anyone EVER gotten a solution when Windows "checks online for a solution" to a crash?
While I usually get the sort of non-response you describe, the remaining 20% of the time Windows Online tells me that it is the fault of a specific program that I have never, ever had on any of my computers and wouldn't load on a dare. It has happened often enough that I have thoroughly searched for hidden instances or subsets of this program in other programs to no avail. Naturally, my several dozen responses to Windows Online's request that I tell it if its response was helpful have all gone unanswered. The first three dozen or so were actually polite.
IIRC "No apparent reason" usually means "an application aborted the shutdown". It's a legitimate feature but apps can of course do it silently (AFAIK it's designed to happen if the user had unsaved work and they click "Cancel" in response to a Save/Don't Save/Cancel dialog.
I think it usually means that you forgot to close Outlook first and count to 100 before attempting to shutdown Windows.
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All of which are at least as distracting and all of which I see regularly on my commute. I left blow jobs off the list, because they are arguably already illegal in public.
Realistically, none of it is going to happen.
Much of the recent Security Theatre, for example, the requirement to notify the government 72 hours in advance when you travel domestically in the USA now being phased in as a result of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which was, of course, passed by a Republican Congress.
You can still buy a ticket less than 72 hours before the flight and fly anywhere. From the link you provide in you post:
"Will passengers still be able to book a ticket within 72 hours of a flight? Yes. TSA’s Secure Flight program can conduct watch list matching for passengers up until the time of the flight. Passengers will be prompted to provide Secure Flight information when booking travel. For reservations booked on short notice, or within 72 hours of the scheduled flight departure time, airlines must submit the required passenger information as soon as the reservation is made."
The passenger has no duty to notify anyone, anytime. It's all on the airlines.
I'd reply to this, but I can't find the One Fucking Pixel on the screen that will open the reply window. Oooo, I must have passed over it. No fucking idea where, but the window opened. Now to complete the "Preview" and the "Submit" pixels hunts. Exciting, edge-of-seat gameplay this.
Drive to Canada, and fly from there? I don't know much about Canadian airports since I live in Europe, but I presume it's got slightly more brains than US ones?
Hard to find an airport worse than Montreal, but Vancouver is nice.
It loads fine, if slowly, for me. I am sure the is some excellent reason to want to load very large image files where the magnified target consists of seven pixels, but I can't imagine what it is. The closer-up images are spectacular however.
My Blackberry Bold 9700 offers this service. It is called OFF. You activate this service by pressing the red key on the front panel. Alternatively, you can also activate this service by doing a battery pull hard reboot and setting the phone and battery down side by side. The OFF function will remain activated until you reinsert the battery in the morning or after your nap. I believe that most mobile phones come with this feature, although the location and color of the button may vary by manufacturer and model.
Many lizards reproduce photogenically. A quick Google or wiki search will show any interested party many examples. Snakes are not primitive reptiles as the story says, but boas are relatively primitive snakes. The story here is that this individual appears to be a switch hitter, reproducing both sexually and asexually.
Many lizards reproduce photogenically as a quick Google or wiki search will show any interested party. Less common in snakes, it is true. Boidae are hardly primitive reptiles, but they are relatively primitive snakes. The news here is that this particular individual appears to be a switch hitter, reproducing both sexually and asexually.
I gave up VAX/VMS for Solaris you insensitive clod.
Actually, no, I don't. The East Germans have been gone far too long. It was an attempt at humor.
By "German graffiti" I assume you mean, "German praises to Our Dear Leader by the Western pig-dogs who were so amazed when they visited the best trolley factory in the world that they were moved to paint their awe upon the trolley cars as a never-ending testimony."
"Der liebe Führer hat Geschlecht mit kranken Barnyardtieren."
They've done the same thing before, for example their trolley system was allegedly "built in North Korea" despite the fact that it was several decades old and covered in German graffiti.
[Shrug]Most of the graffiti I saw on and around the trains in Italy were in English. Probably more L33t to spray in a foreign language. Either that or a bunch of Man U supporters had been by.
Thank God. I thought for sure that George W. Bush had become a /. editor. The extra "i" does leave open the possibility that Dan Quayle is working as a copy editor.
GP poster was making a clever reference to the the song Montana by Frank Zappa. The song is about a man who moves to Montana to grow a crop of dental floss.
If you are over 14, not knowing this has reduced your Geek Cred rating one level.
No, not really. Everything associated with Sharron Angle is somewhere between Odd and Just Plain Fucking Nuts.
>Thus the only way they could get you is if you said you knew the password, but refused to give it up, and it was ruled that wasn't protected under the 5th.
Not quite the same thing, but Terry Childs found out that this isn't really a winning strategy. IIRC, Childs got four years.
...so because of its gravity, ...Most of the fat bitches at Wal-Mart would weigh about half as much as my car
They already do here. No need for space travel; or have you not been to Wal-Mart lately?
We already have plenty of shores to explore in the solar system. They're just not as sexy as another earth type place. ;-)
You only say that because you haven't seen the beach babes along Titan's shores. Granted the "water" is a bit chilly, but you can't have everything.
My grandmother gave me a chemistry kit from the 50's. It had a huge bottle of Potassium Cholorate, a big bottle of Ammonia Nitrate, among other dangerous chemicals. Those were the days...
Sigh... Having grown up with those kinds of chemistry sets, I can tell you that every boy understood clearly that Dangerous==Fun. The idea was to learn enough chemistry to make things go boom, or preferably BOOM! Potassium chlorate mixed with finely powdered aluminum created a suitably exothermic reaction. By the time I was in high school, I had made guncotton and an impressive quantity of thermite. My friends and I generated hydrogen chemically and launched fairly large hydrogen balloons fused to detonate at altitude. (Impressive at night.) Every kid I knew from about age 11 on seemed to have an endless supply of carbide, which fueled countless creative, and largely percussive, projects. All of us made it to adulthood with 20 digits and 2 eyes, although there were some times I was missing eyebrows.
If I was growing up today, I would certainly have been arrested as a terrorist by age 14.
You may have missed all the rumors about the next gen iPad being a 7 inch model. Apparently there is demand for that form size.
I was hoping for a Farnsworth joke :(
No Farnsworth joke, but here's the obligatory Futurama reference.
Maybe he should have.
May I please have your spot in Finland, since you're no longer using it?
>And while we're at it, has anyone EVER gotten a solution when Windows "checks online for a solution" to a crash?
While I usually get the sort of non-response you describe, the remaining 20% of the time Windows Online tells me that it is the fault of a specific program that I have never, ever had on any of my computers and wouldn't load on a dare. It has happened often enough that I have thoroughly searched for hidden instances or subsets of this program in other programs to no avail. Naturally, my several dozen responses to Windows Online's request that I tell it if its response was helpful have all gone unanswered. The first three dozen or so were actually polite.
IIRC "No apparent reason" usually means "an application aborted the shutdown". It's a legitimate feature but apps can of course do it silently (AFAIK it's designed to happen if the user had unsaved work and they click "Cancel" in response to a Save/Don't Save/Cancel dialog.
I think it usually means that you forgot to close Outlook first and count to 100 before attempting to shutdown Windows.