So essentially what you're saying is we have some sort of totally awesome death ray here.. why don't they include important things like this in the summary!
many many many ancient societies practiced birth control.. some proactive, some reactive, some on hillside overnight. they all did quite well for themselves. the whole anti-birth-control stance is really just part of a larger hangup over sex. sex is EVIL, don't you know? Why, if we didn't need to have sex to reproduce, nobody should EVER have sex. And if sex for any reason outside of the continuation of humanity is immoral and bad.. well then birth control is the devil!
It's not about the sanctity of life. It's about sex being bad, and only (just barely!) acceptable as a means to.. well, be fruitful and multiply. That is the ONLY reason anyone should EVER be having sex.
earplugs are indispensable. and pretty damned cheap.
but for me, just skip the sleeping pill.. they don't mix too well with all the beer i guzzle down in airports. yeah it's expensive, but flying drunk is AWESOME.
It should be around to all airports, but as of august 16, many still were not allowing lighters. I got through fine, but at my layover many people asked to borrow my lighter. Thank god for smoking areas in airports, you get to gab about how bizarre TSA is and bitch about airports without smoking lounges.
We had Verizon for YEARS. I laughed at my friends back in the day who had Comcast -- every night around prime-time, we'd be playing some FPS or another and whoops, there they go lagging out again. Sure, when they were up they had a better connection than me, but mine was STABLE.
Hmm. Then it started going out on me. Then our DSL modem fried. Got a new one. That lasted not even a quarter the time the first one did.. but they still wouldn't replace it. So after bitching for a few months, we switched to Comcast, which seems to have solved their late evening crashing. All because Verizon's tech help was too stupid to realize that although our modem was working fine maybe 66% of the time, that meant it WASN'T working right and they continually refused to replace it. Dang. Dropped their phone, too, have that through comcast.. because it was just cheaper. Heck, don't use the landline much anyway.
Boy, it'd be great if the cable and phone companies didn't have all these mini-monopolies. I'd like to actually be able to choose between providers.
Yuh huh, tell that to my father, who's gone through (and is going through) some pretty awful treatments for multiple myeloma, and has been joking about it the whole time. Chemo's a great diet program.. and losing your hair from it isn't half bad, saves you the bother of shaving.
Then there's a list of things he's said joking about his.. using his words.. tiny peepee, thanks to all the steroids he's been on. I try not to really remember those things, but if you can joke about horrific treatments AND a tiny penis, I'm pretty sure you can joke about anything.
So you're going to bust in to the house, and sneak around trying to find the homeowner? What? Without knocking on the door and yelling "FIRE!" first?
If you're that dumb maybe you deserve to be shot. There's no reason to jump right away to busting-down-the-door. Nobody could even be home. You don't know. Step 1 is to call 911 and report the fire, and let the trained professionals go in. If the fire is small enough they're not in immediate danger, there's no reason for you to go INSIDE. If it IS that severe, going inside will probably kill you anyway.
Fortunately, the condition known as "fightin' drunk" not only makes you FEEL warmer, but also often leads to strenuous activity, such as.. fightin'. With feelings of fatigue numbed, it's entirely possible to ACTUALLY warm yourself, and keep your core temperature up, by drinking!
I should sell a book on surviving the cold winter months in 3 easy steps. Drink! Fight! Fuck! It's what humans have done for..... however long we've been making alcohol!
am sick and fucking tired about hearing ANYTHING involving Linden or Second Life.
That POS 'game' needs to die, and it's quite obvious the only reason it gets as much press as it does is -- oh em gee! -- a number of journalists like it, and it's far enough away from a hack 'n slash that they can get away with writing about it as some sort of LAWLSOME NEXTGEN WEB2.0 FUTURISTIC SPIFFINESS when it's really just a steaming pile of crap.
Did you even watch the fucking video. To restrain him would have caused him some serious bodily harm. He fought the whole damn time, at one point did get onto his stomach and they were getting cuffs on, and then he flipped over and started fighting again. It was all a setup.
If you want to talk about testosterone-fueled anything, how about his ego screaming that hey, he's special, hey, the rules of the forum don't apply to him, and hey, who cares if he ruins it for everyone else, HE'S got something to say. What a joke. It's very, very doubtful that he was even going to be arrested, had he left in the first place. You can't cause a disturbance like that and not expect to be asked to leave.
Are you talking about that memo that Rather had supposedly from Bush's stint in the nat. guard that was clearly written in MSWord with all default settings. Absolutely not what was in use in the pre-PC days of typewriters and word processors that were machines, not programs.
Not proven fake? He, or someone he knows, wrote that shit at home, printed it, and photocopied it a bunch to make it look old.
And as for Don'tTaseMeBro guy, he knew exactly what he was doing. Just watch that shit again. He WANTED to provoke it that far -- he only got tased because he began to fight back. It's also important to note that the whole debacle was NOT a free speech issue. It was a disruption. He IS free to voice his concerned, ANY such concerns, but he was in fact INFRINGING ON THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS TO DO SO. That's the key to it all -- you are essentially free to do or say whatever you want until your freedoms begin to encroach upon the freedoms of others. Kerry's speech was not HIS forum, nor was he supposed to rant. Rules were, ask a question, Kerry would answer it. He ranted. You don't follow the format, you must leave. You fight with security officers.. well, things happen. The tasing might have been excessive, but it was NOT a violation of his free speech to have him removed.
When mod chips are outlawed, only outlaws will have mod chips?
More seriously, I doubt that the mod chip market is lucrative enough to entice sellers to risk serious legal troubles to sell the things, so let's hope this is just a token arrest. It does sound like it was more for the actual piracy of the games than the mod chips, thouh.
I would just like to point out that there are times I absolutely loathe being a tall, relatively fit young man.
And by far the flirtatious comments such as you ended with are the worst. I don't expect a kiss or a date or a nice romp between the sheets out of something dumb like carrying a big box... but for the love of god, don't PUT ideas like that in my head! THAT is why women are infuriating. >_ Well... no, that's not why, but it's a part of it.
I'm sure they also consider the times people suck in bandwidth. If I'm peggin 120 gigs a month, and so is someone else.. but mine's almost entirely from midnight till 7am and the other guy's grabbin their crap from 3pm til 10pm...
Really it seems like it would come down to who is impacting their other customers the hardest. Which, actually, considering the nature of the beast, makes more sense than a hard-set limit.
There's a similar wall in Seattle -- I don't think it's quite so large or thick or old, though. And I don't think there's any traditions to it, just.. gum. The biggest difference is that I've only seen that one, yep.
I don't really see too much similar between WoW and DAOC honestly.
Ok, there's PvP in both.. that's about it.
WoW is really more the heir to EQ. You like raiding! Ok! RAID! RAIDRAIDRAIDRAIDRAID
I don't think that was actually the original intentions for the game, either.. I recall hearing about all kinds of high intentions for PvP in that game, and none of it ever came to pass.
Then again, a lot of people left Blizz. And they stuck an EQ jerk as a dev. And the raiding treadmill is the simplist way to hook addi... subscribers. It's much harder to make a compelling PvP-centric game that keeps people coming back.
You're spot-on about the right place part, though.
When WoW came out you basically had two choices. EQ or DAOC. Well EQ was quite dated at the time -- QUITE dated -- and DAOC wasn't that old, but still very old. DAOC also had released a less than popular expansion and drastically changed the Frontiers (which was the RvR end-game and really what 99% of the players cared about).. so there was disastisfaction in spades. People left for GW, people left for WoW, people left for both. I regret not having stuck with GW, it's really a great game if you can get a good team around you.. but my great team all was playing WoW.
We're all now putzing around waiting for Warhammer. Go go Mythic. I don't like EA, but I do love Mythic.
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you really deserve to be modded up for that.
good catch.
So essentially what you're saying is we have some sort of totally awesome death ray here.. why don't they include important things like this in the summary!
many many many ancient societies practiced birth control.. some proactive, some reactive, some on hillside overnight. they all did quite well for themselves.
the whole anti-birth-control stance is really just part of a larger hangup over sex. sex is EVIL, don't you know? Why, if we didn't need to have sex to reproduce, nobody should EVER have sex. And if sex for any reason outside of the continuation of humanity is immoral and bad.. well then birth control is the devil!
It's not about the sanctity of life. It's about sex being bad, and only (just barely!) acceptable as a means to.. well, be fruitful and multiply. That is the ONLY reason anyone should EVER be having sex.
mod parent up
earplugs are indispensable. and pretty damned cheap.
but for me, just skip the sleeping pill.. they don't mix too well with all the beer i guzzle down in airports. yeah it's expensive, but flying drunk is AWESOME.
It should be around to all airports, but as of august 16, many still were not allowing lighters. I got through fine, but at my layover many people asked to borrow my lighter. Thank god for smoking areas in airports, you get to gab about how bizarre TSA is and bitch about airports without smoking lounges.
Obviously, you do not fly very often.
Yet I can cancel my phone service with one company and choose a different carrier willy-nilly. The difference between the two being.. hmm.. yeah.
You must live near me.
We had Verizon for YEARS. I laughed at my friends back in the day who had Comcast -- every night around prime-time, we'd be playing some FPS or another and whoops, there they go lagging out again. Sure, when they were up they had a better connection than me, but mine was STABLE.
Hmm. Then it started going out on me. Then our DSL modem fried. Got a new one. That lasted not even a quarter the time the first one did.. but they still wouldn't replace it. So after bitching for a few months, we switched to Comcast, which seems to have solved their late evening crashing. All because Verizon's tech help was too stupid to realize that although our modem was working fine maybe 66% of the time, that meant it WASN'T working right and they continually refused to replace it. Dang. Dropped their phone, too, have that through comcast.. because it was just cheaper. Heck, don't use the landline much anyway.
Boy, it'd be great if the cable and phone companies didn't have all these mini-monopolies. I'd like to actually be able to choose between providers.
Yuh huh, tell that to my father, who's gone through (and is going through) some pretty awful treatments for multiple myeloma, and has been joking about it the whole time. Chemo's a great diet program.. and losing your hair from it isn't half bad, saves you the bother of shaving.
Then there's a list of things he's said joking about his.. using his words.. tiny peepee, thanks to all the steroids he's been on. I try not to really remember those things, but if you can joke about horrific treatments AND a tiny penis, I'm pretty sure you can joke about anything.
You didn't get the memo?
MS models their releases after Star Trek movies. This pattern is to be expected.
So you're going to bust in to the house, and sneak around trying to find the homeowner? What? Without knocking on the door and yelling "FIRE!" first? If you're that dumb maybe you deserve to be shot. There's no reason to jump right away to busting-down-the-door. Nobody could even be home. You don't know. Step 1 is to call 911 and report the fire, and let the trained professionals go in. If the fire is small enough they're not in immediate danger, there's no reason for you to go INSIDE. If it IS that severe, going inside will probably kill you anyway.
Fortunately, the condition known as "fightin' drunk" not only makes you FEEL warmer, but also often leads to strenuous activity, such as.. fightin'. With feelings of fatigue numbed, it's entirely possible to ACTUALLY warm yourself, and keep your core temperature up, by drinking!
I should sell a book on surviving the cold winter months in 3 easy steps. Drink! Fight! Fuck! It's what humans have done for..... however long we've been making alcohol!
am sick and fucking tired about hearing ANYTHING involving Linden or Second Life.
That POS 'game' needs to die, and it's quite obvious the only reason it gets as much press as it does is -- oh em gee! -- a number of journalists like it, and it's far enough away from a hack 'n slash that they can get away with writing about it as some sort of LAWLSOME NEXTGEN WEB2.0 FUTURISTIC SPIFFINESS when it's really just a steaming pile of crap.
Did you even watch the fucking video. To restrain him would have caused him some serious bodily harm. He fought the whole damn time, at one point did get onto his stomach and they were getting cuffs on, and then he flipped over and started fighting again. It was all a setup.
If you want to talk about testosterone-fueled anything, how about his ego screaming that hey, he's special, hey, the rules of the forum don't apply to him, and hey, who cares if he ruins it for everyone else, HE'S got something to say. What a joke. It's very, very doubtful that he was even going to be arrested, had he left in the first place. You can't cause a disturbance like that and not expect to be asked to leave.
Are you talking about that memo that Rather had supposedly from Bush's stint in the nat. guard that was clearly written in MSWord with all default settings. Absolutely not what was in use in the pre-PC days of typewriters and word processors that were machines, not programs.
Not proven fake? He, or someone he knows, wrote that shit at home, printed it, and photocopied it a bunch to make it look old.
And as for Don'tTaseMeBro guy, he knew exactly what he was doing. Just watch that shit again. He WANTED to provoke it that far -- he only got tased because he began to fight back. It's also important to note that the whole debacle was NOT a free speech issue. It was a disruption. He IS free to voice his concerned, ANY such concerns, but he was in fact INFRINGING ON THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS TO DO SO. That's the key to it all -- you are essentially free to do or say whatever you want until your freedoms begin to encroach upon the freedoms of others. Kerry's speech was not HIS forum, nor was he supposed to rant. Rules were, ask a question, Kerry would answer it. He ranted. You don't follow the format, you must leave. You fight with security officers.. well, things happen. The tasing might have been excessive, but it was NOT a violation of his free speech to have him removed.
All that aside, though.. the memo WAS a fake. Here's a quick google search-located gif to prove it.. massive lulz strike you for over 9000 damage.
http://badexample.mu.nu/archives/cbs-word-overlay.gif
a spot-on analogy involving jedis? you sir win two internets.
When mod chips are outlawed, only outlaws will have mod chips?
More seriously, I doubt that the mod chip market is lucrative enough to entice sellers to risk serious legal troubles to sell the things, so let's hope this is just a token arrest. It does sound like it was more for the actual piracy of the games than the mod chips, thouh.
I would just like to point out that there are times I absolutely loathe being a tall, relatively fit young man.
And by far the flirtatious comments such as you ended with are the worst. I don't expect a kiss or a date or a nice romp between the sheets out of something dumb like carrying a big box... but for the love of god, don't PUT ideas like that in my head! THAT is why women are infuriating. >_ Well... no, that's not why, but it's a part of it.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one. YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH SPOCK, BIATCH
You've a point there.
I'm sure they also consider the times people suck in bandwidth. If I'm peggin 120 gigs a month, and so is someone else.. but mine's almost entirely from midnight till 7am and the other guy's grabbin their crap from 3pm til 10pm...
Really it seems like it would come down to who is impacting their other customers the hardest. Which, actually, considering the nature of the beast, makes more sense than a hard-set limit.
Street cleaners HAVE a very useful job
There's a similar wall in Seattle -- I don't think it's quite so large or thick or old, though. And I don't think there's any traditions to it, just.. gum. The biggest difference is that I've only seen that one, yep.
attention poster!
You require more classic Simpsons intake.
Because people who are good at video games generally don't have money.
I don't really see too much similar between WoW and DAOC honestly.
Ok, there's PvP in both.. that's about it.
WoW is really more the heir to EQ. You like raiding! Ok! RAID! RAIDRAIDRAIDRAIDRAID
I don't think that was actually the original intentions for the game, either.. I recall hearing about all kinds of high intentions for PvP in that game, and none of it ever came to pass.
Then again, a lot of people left Blizz. And they stuck an EQ jerk as a dev. And the raiding treadmill is the simplist way to hook addi... subscribers. It's much harder to make a compelling PvP-centric game that keeps people coming back.
You're spot-on about the right place part, though.
When WoW came out you basically had two choices. EQ or DAOC. Well EQ was quite dated at the time -- QUITE dated -- and DAOC wasn't that old, but still very old. DAOC also had released a less than popular expansion and drastically changed the Frontiers (which was the RvR end-game and really what 99% of the players cared about).. so there was disastisfaction in spades. People left for GW, people left for WoW, people left for both. I regret not having stuck with GW, it's really a great game if you can get a good team around you.. but my great team all was playing WoW.
We're all now putzing around waiting for Warhammer. Go go Mythic. I don't like EA, but I do love Mythic.