Yeah. Go ahead and defend yourself, then when you lose bitch about procedural errors and lack of proper representation...see where that gets you. Prosecutors refer to defendants who represent themselves as "target practice".
You're crazy if you think they don't track the number of tickets sold, especially with the modern computerized box office. They track everything, whether Entertainment Tonight reports it or not. The local theaters have to know exactly how many people watched each film and at what times, because they shift films from the high seating capacity theaters to the smaller screens down the hall based on projected sales.
Also, as anyone who has worked in a theater can tell you, they lose money big time on ticket prices but recoup the difference (plus some) at the concession stand. If they drop the concession prices, tickets would skyrocket. So let the sheep pay $4.50 for their sugar-water, and either be grateful for the::shudder:: cheaper tickets or just wait for the DVD.
For those theaters who offer them, afternoon matinees are usually discounted. Good alternative for families because you skip the evening crowds, and the kids aren't all cranky from staying up late and pissing off the other patrons.
Down here, everybody who went to the 11-hr marathon got a plastic display doohickey containing one cell from each movie. Cool.
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Bingo. I always used nothing but 3C905 NIC cards in my home network, and set my family up on the same. I even kept a half-dozen or so on the shelf that I picked up surplus for $5 each, just in case. That said, most of my new mobo's are coming with 100Mbps or even Gig-e on the board, so the venerable 3C905's are just extra now.
The Linky routers are working fine, one of these days I may swap in an OSS-based solution like Smoothwal but for now they chug right along.
Hmm is "how's" the correct form to use there? Better check my "Hicked on Phonics" book.
IIRC from Texas History class, we are the only state in the union whose constitution allows for legal secession. It also provides for breaking the state up into five smaller states...although why we would do so I have no idea.
"No man's life, libery, or property are safe when the Texas legislature is in session".
Not sure if you're a confused yankee or just trolling, but I'll bite...it's a slow day.
Texas was not annexed from Mexico, we was a soverign republic from 1836-1845 before ALLOWING the US to annex us in exchange for better highways for our trucks and an expanded market for sellin' that sweet nectar known as Bluebell ice cream. In Texas History class we got learnt as to how the great general Sam Houston used the Battle of the Alamo (REMEMBER!!) as a dee-version to tie up the Mexican army, so's he could build up his own army for the Battle of San Jacinto...at which time we opened such a Texas-sized can o'whoopass on the Mexicans that to this day they still mow our lawns as part of the cease fire. At first the US didn't want nuthin' to do with us, but after 9 years of Texas showin up the yankees they finally got wise and came a'beggin for us to join 'em. Now, in school they tell how's we tricked the US into annexing us, but my grandpappy telled me the truth about how some durn fool lost Texas to the US in a rigged poker game, and didn't even shoot the cheatin' bastard.
Nowadays, we hear nothin but yankees makin fun of us for drivin trucks, or always having a gun within arm's reach (let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire RACK), or about how's the grocery store by my house sells horse bridles and salt licks in the pet aisle right next to the Puppy Chow. But oh here comes a war, somebody call the Texans to come pull our bacon outta the fire! How you whiny hippies beat England without no Texans to fight for you, I will never know.;-)
What? Topic? Oh yeah. Virus writers. We had one of them down here back in the summer of ought'02. Some good ol' boy hitched him up to his truck and drug him around the corral a few times. No problems since.
The goalie on my ice hockey team (yes we have ice in Texas) ran a sporting goods store, and mentioned one day that he needed some work done on his store systems. I configured his DSL router, ran a few cat-5 cables, set up a shared print server, and scheduled a job to backup the day's receipts from the front registers. I got discounted hockey gear and a kickass jersey out of the deal, not too shabby. Hockey gear is expensive...my skates alone retailed for $400.
You'd be surprised how theraputic it is to check someone into the boards after a long day of handling support tickets. Too bad more of my customers don't play hockey...
Respectfully, I think you may be missing the point of SciFi. Granted, good Science Fiction should be as accurate and technically feasible as possible, however as I see it the main purpose is to illustrate a danger or stupid idea in such a way that anyone can learn from the mistake without having it actually occur. You can spend hours picking over why they shouldn't have had metal paths, etc but at least you're thinking about the repercussions of time travel...which was in fact the purpose of the story. With a bit of luck and a few butterflies, maybe 200yrs from now some Senator will stop and think before accepting money in exchange for his vote in favor of time travel safaris.:)
There's an old story about a manufacturing plant's senior engineer, who retired after 30-whatever years as their primary fix-it guy. Six months later, he gets a call from the plant...they've got a multi-million dollar machine that's broken with a deadline coming up fast, and nobody can find the problem. He agrees to come in an look at it, and spends all day walking through the system with their engineers. At the end of the day he takes a diagram of the system, marks it with a piece of chalk, and says "the problem is here". They replace the faulty component, everything works perfectly, and the plant delivers the machine to the customer on time.
The next day, he recieves a check for one day's work at his old salary. He replies with a bill for $50,000. The finance guys demand an itemized bill. He replies with:
$1 - one chalk mark $49,999 - knowing where to put it
The company paid the bill, and the engineer retired in peace.
When I was an intern, my boss asked why my Dell servers never had problems but everyone else's did.
"Well, it's simple. We've got 6 identical PowerEdge servers here. The first time one of them started having hardware problems I got a table, and lined up five of them up on one side where they can see. Then I disassembled the sixth one in front of them, taking it right down to the mobo and then put it all back together again. The other five never gave me a minute's trouble since then."
IIRC, someone originally registered peta.org and put up a homepage for People Eating Tasty Animals. PETA spent several months/years/whatever in court before they got control of the domain.
Demosthenian Hierarchy of Exclusion described: "...Demosthenes' History of Wutan in Trondheim... The Nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is the otherlander, or utlanning, the stranger that we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city or country. The second is the framling... This is the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another world. The third is the raman, the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another species. The fourth is the true alien, the varelse, which includes all the animals, for with them no conversation is possible. They live, but we cannot guess what purposes or causes make them act. They might be intelligent, they might be self-aware, but we cannot know it. "
Transubstantiation is when an angel cuts off his wings {prior to | during | upon completion of} a mass slaughter of the congregation in a vain attempt to outwit the Almighty and get back into Heaven without having to wait for the release Duke Nukem Forever.
I'm only a few years out of college, and I well remember having to sell back reasonably important textbooks (Algorithms & Data Structures, Intro to Calculus, etc) just so I could afford gas to drive home over vacation. After getting an internship in my upper-division years, I found myself buying back these same textbooks for reference. I'm told this was common practice for students who later went into corporate accounting;-)
It would have been nice to just purchase one or more CDs containing my textbooks for the semester in HTML format. The next year's issue might be updated, but at least I'd have had a permanent (barring CD rot of course) copy for later reference. It'd also solve the problem of students having different versions of the same textbook...there always seemed to be confusion in the first week or two of class between the new/old release, the professor having an updated "teacher's edition", or some students who pooled their cash and bought a single copy to share.
A final point...it'd sure help with these BOXES of books I got stored in my attic now.
Interesting. My ex-girlfriend the rabid born-again Christian said essentially the same thing: "I don't see how if you've read the Bible, you don't come to the same conclusion".
Well it's simple dear [ya psycho hosebeast], I thought about it and came to my own conclusions, rather than letting somebody else make up my mind for me.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to consider an idea without accepting it" - Aristotle
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Yeah. Go ahead and defend yourself, then when you lose bitch about procedural errors and lack of proper representation...see where that gets you. Prosecutors refer to defendants who represent themselves as "target practice".
He who defends himself has a fool for a client.
You're crazy if you think they don't track the number of tickets sold, especially with the modern computerized box office. They track everything, whether Entertainment Tonight reports it or not. The local theaters have to know exactly how many people watched each film and at what times, because they shift films from the high seating capacity theaters to the smaller screens down the hall based on projected sales.
::shudder:: cheaper tickets or just wait for the DVD.
Also, as anyone who has worked in a theater can tell you, they lose money big time on ticket prices but recoup the difference (plus some) at the concession stand. If they drop the concession prices, tickets would skyrocket. So let the sheep pay $4.50 for their sugar-water, and either be grateful for the
For those theaters who offer them, afternoon matinees are usually discounted. Good alternative for families because you skip the evening crowds, and the kids aren't all cranky from staying up late and pissing off the other patrons.
(and endless compromises)
Down here, everybody who went to the 11-hr marathon got a plastic display doohickey containing one cell from each movie. Cool.
Bingo. I always used nothing but 3C905 NIC cards in my home network, and set my family up on the same. I even kept a half-dozen or so on the shelf that I picked up surplus for $5 each, just in case. That said, most of my new mobo's are coming with 100Mbps or even Gig-e on the board, so the venerable 3C905's are just extra now.
The Linky routers are working fine, one of these days I may swap in an OSS-based solution like Smoothwal but for now they chug right along.
Hmm is "how's" the correct form to use there? Better check my "Hicked on Phonics" book.
IIRC from Texas History class, we are the only state in the union whose constitution allows for legal secession. It also provides for breaking the state up into five smaller states...although why we would do so I have no idea.
"No man's life, libery, or property are safe when the Texas legislature is in session".
Not sure if you're a confused yankee or just trolling, but I'll bite...it's a slow day.
;-)
Texas was not annexed from Mexico, we was a soverign republic from 1836-1845 before ALLOWING the US to annex us in exchange for better highways for our trucks and an expanded market for sellin' that sweet nectar known as Bluebell ice cream. In Texas History class we got learnt as to how the great general Sam Houston used the Battle of the Alamo (REMEMBER!!) as a dee-version to tie up the Mexican army, so's he could build up his own army for the Battle of San Jacinto...at which time we opened such a Texas-sized can o'whoopass on the Mexicans that to this day they still mow our lawns as part of the cease fire. At first the US didn't want nuthin' to do with us, but after 9 years of Texas showin up the yankees they finally got wise and came a'beggin for us to join 'em. Now, in school they tell how's we tricked the US into annexing us, but my grandpappy telled me the truth about how some durn fool lost Texas to the US in a rigged poker game, and didn't even shoot the cheatin' bastard.
Nowadays, we hear nothin but yankees makin fun of us for drivin trucks, or always having a gun within arm's reach (let alone many guns that would necessitate an entire RACK), or about how's the grocery store by my house sells horse bridles and salt licks in the pet aisle right next to the Puppy Chow. But oh here comes a war, somebody call the Texans to come pull our bacon outta the fire! How you whiny hippies beat England without no Texans to fight for you, I will never know.
What? Topic? Oh yeah. Virus writers. We had one of them down here back in the summer of ought'02. Some good ol' boy hitched him up to his truck and drug him around the corral a few times. No problems since.
The truth is here! All the rest is lies!
Do we get a triple karma score [scrabble] for our 1000th post?
The goalie on my ice hockey team (yes we have ice in Texas) ran a sporting goods store, and mentioned one day that he needed some work done on his store systems. I configured his DSL router, ran a few cat-5 cables, set up a shared print server, and scheduled a job to backup the day's receipts from the front registers. I got discounted hockey gear and a kickass jersey out of the deal, not too shabby. Hockey gear is expensive...my skates alone retailed for $400.
You'd be surprised how theraputic it is to check someone into the boards after a long day of handling support tickets. Too bad more of my customers don't play hockey...
Respectfully, I think you may be missing the point of SciFi. Granted, good Science Fiction should be as accurate and technically feasible as possible, however as I see it the main purpose is to illustrate a danger or stupid idea in such a way that anyone can learn from the mistake without having it actually occur. You can spend hours picking over why they shouldn't have had metal paths, etc but at least you're thinking about the repercussions of time travel...which was in fact the purpose of the story. With a bit of luck and a few butterflies, maybe 200yrs from now some Senator will stop and think before accepting money in exchange for his vote in favor of time travel safaris. :)
They have totally bought into nuclear power and they still can't come up with a good pop song or a decent car.
.500 on the paradise scale. Somehow I don't think pop songs are a viable measure of a society's success...
Ok, so they're batting
There's an old story about a manufacturing plant's senior engineer, who retired after 30-whatever years as their primary fix-it guy. Six months later, he gets a call from the plant...they've got a multi-million dollar machine that's broken with a deadline coming up fast, and nobody can find the problem. He agrees to come in an look at it, and spends all day walking through the system with their engineers. At the end of the day he takes a diagram of the system, marks it with a piece of chalk, and says "the problem is here". They replace the faulty component, everything works perfectly, and the plant delivers the machine to the customer on time.
The next day, he recieves a check for one day's work at his old salary. He replies with a bill for $50,000. The finance guys demand an itemized bill. He replies with:
$1 - one chalk mark
$49,999 - knowing where to put it
The company paid the bill, and the engineer retired in peace.
When I was an intern, my boss asked why my Dell servers never had problems but everyone else's did.
"Well, it's simple. We've got 6 identical PowerEdge servers here. The first time one of them started having hardware problems I got a table, and lined up five of them up on one side where they can see. Then I disassembled the sixth one in front of them, taking it right down to the mobo and then put it all back together again. The other five never gave me a minute's trouble since then."
My boss thought I was a bit weird however...
IIRC, someone originally registered peta.org and put up a homepage for People Eating Tasty Animals. PETA spent several months/years/whatever in court before they got control of the domain.
Even if it's not true, it's still funny.
Paypal Deals Blow to Freenet
Ok I know Freenet is relatively secured and all, but is it wise to taunt the Drug Enforcement Agency like this?
oh wait. got it. nevermind.
If the past decade or so of web experience is any teacher, the first thing Jane would do is ask for your credit card number.
That's "GNU/Flog" you insensitive clod!
Outstanding. Now all I need is a DeLorean and a flux capacitor...wonder if that one on eBay ever sold?
Demosthenian Hierarchy of Exclusion described: "...Demosthenes' History of Wutan in Trondheim... The Nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. The first is the otherlander, or utlanning, the stranger that we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city or country. The second is the framling... This is the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another world. The third is the raman, the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another species. The fourth is the true alien, the varelse, which includes all the animals, for with them no conversation is possible. They live, but we cannot guess what purposes or causes make them act. They might be intelligent, they might be self-aware, but we cannot know it. "
"If there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they can't be very important gods" - Arthur C. Clarke
Transubstantiation is when an angel cuts off his wings {prior to | during | upon completion of} a mass slaughter of the congregation in a vain attempt to outwit the Almighty and get back into Heaven without having to wait for the release Duke Nukem Forever.
You forgot...
[ ] Cowboyneal replaced your logic subroutines with a very small shell script
I'm only a few years out of college, and I well remember having to sell back reasonably important textbooks (Algorithms & Data Structures, Intro to Calculus, etc) just so I could afford gas to drive home over vacation. After getting an internship in my upper-division years, I found myself buying back these same textbooks for reference. I'm told this was common practice for students who later went into corporate accounting ;-)
It would have been nice to just purchase one or more CDs containing my textbooks for the semester in HTML format. The next year's issue might be updated, but at least I'd have had a permanent (barring CD rot of course) copy for later reference. It'd also solve the problem of students having different versions of the same textbook...there always seemed to be confusion in the first week or two of class between the new/old release, the professor having an updated "teacher's edition", or some students who pooled their cash and bought a single copy to share.
A final point...it'd sure help with these BOXES of books I got stored in my attic now.
IBM announced today that it will subpoena a Linux end-user by the end of the month. Ok maybe next month. Well, soon anyway...
Hold your breath until you get the letter, ok?
Interesting. My ex-girlfriend the rabid born-again Christian said essentially the same thing: "I don't see how if you've read the Bible, you don't come to the same conclusion".
Well it's simple dear [ya psycho hosebeast], I thought about it and came to my own conclusions, rather than letting somebody else make up my mind for me.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to consider an idea without accepting it" - Aristotle
They ran out of pigeons?