The moment I hear that while I'm on hold, I start saying things like "Oh, then why don't you get your damn CEO down here to take my call." I say things knowing that someone can listen to it even if I'm on hold. I also sing along with the really bad Muzak in the background, though I can't remember the words, so I just use these lyrics:
"La la la laaaa, company can't answer phone,
Sha la la la laaaa, answer the phone, (The phooooooone! La la la!)
Pick up pick up pick up the phone (The phoooooone! La la la!)
Customer service is ignoring my call;
Someone better listen while I'm callin on the phone! (The phoooooooone! La la la!)
I could probably release that on BMI or Sony, along with my hit rap, "Take my s**t (Offa tha list)"
George Broussard is also slated to receive his OBE, but only when Duke Nukem Forever is released. I believe Her Majesty said she'll present the award to him "when it's ready."
PS: A lot of people have said that Her Majesty enjoyed playing Populous. That is patently false. Elizabeth II is particularly enamored of the Syndicate series of games, and she hopes this award will convince Molyneux to make a sequel to it. So get crackin', Peter Molyneux, OBE!
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so the detail won't be under the icons. Sure, this could be done by anyone, but I pride myself on my uselessness(es?).
I knew I recognized that cute geeky face from somewhere!
I think the C-One is going to be a pretty fun hacker's box once everything gets wrapped up and can be sold, but it still won't have a true, original version of Bob Yannes' analogue/digital sound chip, the MOS6581 SID.
Not like that'll keep me from buying one of the first C-One boards that ship!
I'm walking by my local bank, and on my way in, I hear this: "Hey! Over here! I've solved my debt problem, and now I'm living debt free!" And I look, and see an ad for a free* "debt-reduction" service.
Of course, the benefits of Strongmad-enabled library terminals and Marzipan-embedded mop technology would outweigh any irritation that the tinkling 888 Online Casino ads may foist upon us.
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Nope, just two semesters of freshman chemistry; then you get two semesters of organic chemistry, and two full years of "A History of Russia: Depressing, Frozen Tundra Where Health Goes to Die."
In a college town in Virginia, I saw an iPod walking around. He had a huge iPod screen (with lovely blue backlight) with a nice big tinfoil Apple logo on his back. And music was playing from inside his costume, probably from a boom box or something.
That was one of the coolest costumes I've ever seen.
300'? I take it you're a professional diver then;) I haven't been within 150' of that since I started diving!
Presumably, if it's sealed and solid-state, you'd be able to take it however deep you wanted. The only problem would be finding an player that would both go that deep, and also contain the roughly seven gajillion hours of music needed for decompression from that depth.
Apple could use this opportunity to develop a product for a new niche, and call it the iBathysphere. I can just imagine the tens of people who'd buy that!
Maybe it has something to do with advertising dollars. Over in Europe, there are fewer broadcast outlets, and therefore you have to buy fewer ad slots to get the word out. Back in the US, you'd need to buy tremendous quantities of ads (or some really expensive national ads like the Superbowl or Macy's Thanksgiving Parade) to reach a comparable number of people.
I can just see someone like Pat Sajak saying "And today's show is brought to you by Sinclair, makers of... uh... what? A Spectrum? What's that? We're having some technical difficulties."
Personally, I keep things right around 294 or 295. Anything more than that and the pressure in the room in proportion to the increase in volume of air. After all:
30582 Liters of air at 294K = 30790 Liters of air at 296K, and at 300K the volume is 31206 Liters.
Wow, I can practically feel my ears popping because of Ideal Gas Laws! At least, I think that's my ears popping...
No, because as we all know, the Freemasons control Porn. Ever since the Freemasons hired Leon Trotsky to assasinate President Taft and replace him with a body double, we've had to deal with this Zionist/Illuminatist/Templar plot to infiltrate the minds of this great Republic with pornographic material. Porn, as we all know by now, is set to cause our minds to vibrate at a specific frequency, one that resonates with Nikola Tesla's mind-control rays that have been hidden inside the ironically-named "American Standard" urinals and toilets. It makes it so that everytime you go to the bathroom, you think about the Templars, and the Templars worship Baphomet, whose avatar on this plane takes the form of women seen in pornography. Thus, while in the bathroom, you have an urgent need to get online and look at those smutty web-sites. Once you're online, Tesla's rays kick into overdrive, and you begin seeing visions of Harry Truman instructing you on how to murder Communist babies.
Naturally, the only defense of this, short of assailing the fortresses of the OTO and Zionist forces hidden in the city of Agharti within the hollow Earth, is to purchase my new book, "Zionist Mind-Control Chemtrails and the Illuminati: The TRUTH about Flouride and Free Energy."
But Your Honor, it said right in the EULA that we could install whatever we wanted! See, right in this paragraph:
"9.1 during the daprozesses in order to mount the office of the senses of Kazaa, ' it has joined of the software of Eselsgots the software of the store clerks third participant they authorizations, or of other preparations between such store clerks ' the N ("the third software of the participation"), without the software of the limitation of these modules has been controlled ' therefore ' entire that deep one ", behind he carries out it in the section I pray that the software of the third participant could here be vorbehaltliche different from the authorizations or of others 9,4 preparations that one that Scheisse must com.cuidado read the asses of the ' N '. ' in uniz he '', N of the asses that this Software-Io the third applications of participanté, accepted these authorizations of the software of the third participant, or other asses ' ' in the N include/understand of ' of the preparation ' N the confirmation that of Scheisse ' in the N ' he reads. * Here Sharman when it sells, wiederzuverkaufen, or, with this software of the third participant not to approve of, ' the N Sharman for contraddice the maximum the width, than he he applicable authorization for a law, every Verantwortlichkeitsfo possible ' or obligation to ago give back to the software that examinación in the third party the place here of the part ", every possible question, to criticize they or requirement to ago give back to the software that examinación in the third party the place of the part for having that to send back in order to install the store clerk here here, for knowing, those sayin of the I '?"
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"One of the finest actors in the country, he was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1928.
Mr. Rain has performed lead roles across the country but is probably best known for his four-decade association with the Stratford Festival where he has performed in a wide variety of productions from Michael Langham 's celebrated Henry V in 1956 to the more recent leads in the premiere of Elliott Hayes ' Homeward Bound (1991), Albert Millaire 's production of Michel Tremblay 's Bonjour, là, bonjour (1992) and as Shylock in the 95-96 production of The Merchant of Venice. In 1998 he played the lead in A Man For All Seasons, and received almost unanimously positive reviews.
He has also performed at the Shaw Festival notably in Arms and the Man and Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles and Heartbreak House (1999).
He has also played at the Tarragon Theatre , Manitoba Theatre Centre and was head of English acting section at the National Theatre School (1974-77).
Mr. Rain brings a modernity of accent and spirit to his performances that always illuminates the texts in which he plays.
He is probably best known for his performance as the voice of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001, A Space Oddessy. He also performed in the sequel, 2010."
The guy spends years building up his reputation as one of Canada's premiere Shakespearean actors, and the only thing people remember him for is the voice of a crazy AI. Not that that's a bad thing, considering how 'beloved' that AI is.
We know that Valve must be in the wrong here. After all, Vivendi has a long history of keeping the developer's/creative's best interests in mind. Anyone remember Vivendi's excellent (and forward-thinking) handling of mp3.com? (VU sold the domain, but not the music itself, to CNet, presumably for One Hundred Billion Dollars, as well as some sexual favors and two FREE Igia nail clippers.)
I mean, who wanted all those free MP3s anyway? Most of them were made by artists who would never sell albums anyway! VU was actually being polite, by helping those musicians who never would have 'made it' to get a real job, like making the Fajita Sandwich Wrap Melts that Vivendi executives get at Wendys.
First MoveOn showed the power of internet organizations in shaping public policy. Now, SCO (and its legal Dream Team) is having its ass handed to it by a site written by someone who is not a lawyer.
Its good to see that our increasingly corporate-dominated government has a steadily increasing number of shreds of Democratic Republic making their way to the top of the political gumbo.
I support a true patriot in '04: The Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson! Who else will eliminate the Whiskey Tax, and show our national resolve by fighting the Barbary Pirates?
Ach! Where's my ads? Where's my bloated UI? Where's the thing asking me to install AOL for Broadband every 10 minutes? I want answers!
You know, every time I open a the installer for GPL'ed software, I feel really good about not having to click through the whole license agreement. There's nothing in there about "Stallman can take your personal info and sell it to other OSS Developers" or "We reserve the right to change this license at any time and include Byzantine obfuscations allowing us the rights to your firstborn male child."
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"La la la laaaa, company can't answer phone,
Sha la la la laaaa, answer the phone,
(The phooooooone! La la la!)
Pick up pick up pick up the phone
(The phoooooone! La la la!)
Customer service is ignoring my call;
Someone better listen while I'm callin on the phone!
(The phoooooooone! La la la!)
I could probably release that on BMI or Sony, along with my hit rap, "Take my s**t (Offa tha list)"
PS: A lot of people have said that Her Majesty enjoyed playing Populous. That is patently false. Elizabeth II is particularly enamored of the Syndicate series of games, and she hopes this award will convince Molyneux to make a sequel to it. So get crackin', Peter Molyneux, OBE!
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1280 by 1024, Grayscale. All the detail is on the right side of the screen, with the picture horizontally flipped. Mac users may want to get this file:p .jpeg
http://picserver.org/view_image.php/87BDBMSS2981/
so the detail won't be under the icons. Sure, this could be done by anyone, but I pride myself on my uselessness(es?).
"Russian ICBM Accidentally Fails to Destroy Space Station: Next Attempt Will Carry Live Warhead Instead of Food."
I think the C-One is going to be a pretty fun hacker's box once everything gets wrapped up and can be sold, but it still won't have a true, original version of Bob Yannes' analogue/digital sound chip, the MOS6581 SID.
Not like that'll keep me from buying one of the first C-One boards that ship!
Of course, the benefits of Strongmad-enabled library terminals and Marzipan-embedded mop technology would outweigh any irritation that the tinkling 888 Online Casino ads may foist upon us.
*Free after prorated rebates. Void in countries other than Moldova. Certain restructions may apply.
It's like Akira meets Fallout meets "Cafe Flesh."
Nope, just two semesters of freshman chemistry; then you get two semesters of organic chemistry, and two full years of "A History of Russia: Depressing, Frozen Tundra Where Health Goes to Die."
"Yes, Mr. Prosecutor."
"Then why were you driving to the docks that night?"
"Uh..."
"And why, when you know there are better alternatives, did you fuel up using REGULAR?!"
[Gasps from the jury]
"I rest my case!"
Still, it's nice to see our robotic overlords will be able to enjoy a bit of sport in between crushing humanoid uprisings.
That was one of the coolest costumes I've ever seen.
Presumably, if it's sealed and solid-state, you'd be able to take it however deep you wanted. The only problem would be finding an player that would both go that deep, and also contain the roughly seven gajillion hours of music needed for decompression from that depth.
Apple could use this opportunity to develop a product for a new niche, and call it the iBathysphere. I can just imagine the tens of people who'd buy that!
We'll know when we've hit that mark when every output to the console is accompanied by either "pathetic hacker" or "insect."
Maybe it has something to do with advertising dollars. Over in Europe, there are fewer broadcast outlets, and therefore you have to buy fewer ad slots to get the word out. Back in the US, you'd need to buy tremendous quantities of ads (or some really expensive national ads like the Superbowl or Macy's Thanksgiving Parade) to reach a comparable number of people.
I can just see someone like Pat Sajak saying "And today's show is brought to you by Sinclair, makers of... uh... what? A Spectrum? What's that? We're having some technical difficulties."
"Li'l Kim Fined by FCC For Wearing Clothing Made Out of Nearly Transparent Monomolecular Graphene Cloth"
Personally, I keep things right around 294 or 295. Anything more than that and the pressure in the room in proportion to the increase in volume of air. After all:
30582 Liters of air at 294K = 30790 Liters of air at 296K, and at 300K the volume is 31206 Liters.
Wow, I can practically feel my ears popping because of Ideal Gas Laws! At least, I think that's my ears popping...
Unless, of course, it featured the phrase "When a dancing Twi'lek becomes the right Twi'lek..." That would be totally sweet.
No, because as we all know, the Freemasons control Porn. Ever since the Freemasons hired Leon Trotsky to assasinate President Taft and replace him with a body double, we've had to deal with this Zionist/Illuminatist/Templar plot to infiltrate the minds of this great Republic with pornographic material. Porn, as we all know by now, is set to cause our minds to vibrate at a specific frequency, one that resonates with Nikola Tesla's mind-control rays that have been hidden inside the ironically-named "American Standard" urinals and toilets. It makes it so that everytime you go to the bathroom, you think about the Templars, and the Templars worship Baphomet, whose avatar on this plane takes the form of women seen in pornography. Thus, while in the bathroom, you have an urgent need to get online and look at those smutty web-sites. Once you're online, Tesla's rays kick into overdrive, and you begin seeing visions of Harry Truman instructing you on how to murder Communist babies.
Naturally, the only defense of this, short of assailing the fortresses of the OTO and Zionist forces hidden in the city of Agharti within the hollow Earth, is to purchase my new book, "Zionist Mind-Control Chemtrails and the Illuminati: The TRUTH about Flouride and Free Energy."
But Your Honor, it said right in the EULA that we could install whatever we wanted! See, right in this paragraph:
"9.1 during the daprozesses in order to mount the office of the senses of Kazaa, ' it has joined of the software of Eselsgots the software of the store clerks third participant they authorizations, or of other preparations between such store clerks ' the N ("the third software of the participation"), without the software of the limitation of these modules has been controlled ' therefore ' entire that deep one ", behind he carries out it in the section I pray that the software of the third participant could here be vorbehaltliche different from the authorizations or of others 9,4 preparations that one that Scheisse must com.cuidado read the asses of the ' N '. ' in uniz he '', N of the asses that this Software-Io the third applications of participanté, accepted these authorizations of the software of the third participant, or other asses ' ' in the N include/understand of ' of the preparation ' N the confirmation that of Scheisse ' in the N ' he reads. * Here Sharman when it sells, wiederzuverkaufen, or, with this software of the third participant not to approve of, ' the N Sharman for contraddice the maximum the width, than he he applicable authorization for a law, every Verantwortlichkeitsfo possible ' or obligation to ago give back to the software that examinación in the third party the place here of the part ", every possible question, to criticize they or requirement to ago give back to the software that examinación in the third party the place of the part for having that to send back in order to install the store clerk here here, for knowing, those sayin of the I '?"
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Douglas Rain's the guy who did the voice for HAL. Is that him in the thick-rimmed glasses in the top pictures?
From the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, http://www.canadiantheatre.com/
"One of the finest actors in the country, he was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1928.
Mr. Rain has performed lead roles across the country but is probably best known for his four-decade association with the Stratford Festival where he has performed in a wide variety of productions from Michael Langham 's celebrated Henry V in 1956 to the more recent leads in the premiere of Elliott Hayes ' Homeward Bound (1991), Albert Millaire 's production of Michel Tremblay 's Bonjour, là, bonjour (1992) and as Shylock in the 95-96 production of The Merchant of Venice. In 1998 he played the lead in A Man For All Seasons, and received almost unanimously positive reviews.
He has also performed at the Shaw Festival notably in Arms and the Man and Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles and Heartbreak House (1999).
He has also played at the Tarragon Theatre , Manitoba Theatre Centre and was head of English acting section at the National Theatre School (1974-77).
Mr. Rain brings a modernity of accent and spirit to his performances that always illuminates the texts in which he plays.
He is probably best known for his performance as the voice of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001, A Space Oddessy. He also performed in the sequel, 2010."
The guy spends years building up his reputation as one of Canada's premiere Shakespearean actors, and the only thing people remember him for is the voice of a crazy AI. Not that that's a bad thing, considering how 'beloved' that AI is.
We know that Valve must be in the wrong here. After all, Vivendi has a long history of keeping the developer's/creative's best interests in mind. Anyone remember Vivendi's excellent (and forward-thinking) handling of mp3.com? (VU sold the domain, but not the music itself, to CNet, presumably for One Hundred Billion Dollars, as well as some sexual favors and two FREE Igia nail clippers.)
I mean, who wanted all those free MP3s anyway? Most of them were made by artists who would never sell albums anyway! VU was actually being polite, by helping those musicians who never would have 'made it' to get a real job, like making the Fajita Sandwich Wrap Melts that Vivendi executives get at Wendys.
Whoa... you mean we don't ever have to go into space again? Sucks to be Mars!
First MoveOn showed the power of internet organizations in shaping public policy. Now, SCO (and its legal Dream Team) is having its ass handed to it by a site written by someone who is not a lawyer.
Its good to see that our increasingly corporate-dominated government has a steadily increasing number of shreds of Democratic Republic making their way to the top of the political gumbo.
I support a true patriot in '04: The Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson! Who else will eliminate the Whiskey Tax, and show our national resolve by fighting the Barbary Pirates?
Ach! Where's my ads? Where's my bloated UI? Where's the thing asking me to install AOL for Broadband every 10 minutes? I want answers!
You know, every time I open a the installer for GPL'ed software, I feel really good about not having to click through the whole license agreement. There's nothing in there about "Stallman can take your personal info and sell it to other OSS Developers" or "We reserve the right to change this license at any time and include Byzantine obfuscations allowing us the rights to your firstborn male child."