Does this make any sense to anybody? What sort of trends are they going to be searching for, how often people use the number 34 in their spreadsheets?? This is ridiculous.
I didn't assume that you lived in the UK (I do), but I did assume that you are British.
And my whole point was that Britian are not much of a power at all, Political or otherwise. If you did live here, it would be easy to form that opinion.
Perhaps you can give some examples of the great British political influence currently (as opposed to the huge affect they have had in the past)
Perhaps it is some huge injoke, and you need to read the 5200 or so previous jokes to get it. If you did, you would explode (literally) in laughter - but looking around the office, I haven't seen anyone explode yet.
Living in the UK, I see the arrogance all the time, all the while charging other countries with being arrogant. Britain once ruled over a quarter of the world, but after WW1 and WW2 significantly lost control over the world, as well as most of her economic power. During the wars, she had to sell most of her investments over seas, to defeat Germany.
It is over, the US is a superpower, and only China has any similar strength.
Somebody should explain to the guy who linkes that websites can contain millions of pages, and is not uncommon to provide a link to not only the website, but the actual page. That way people can actually get the information you are trying to provide.
Or perhaps he thinks we should read everything this women has ever written, to get a background and foreground on the story. Thanks.
Are you telling me gridiron fans don't get excited when one of their players is tackled just before reaching the tryline? Or that a baseball fan isn't excited when a player hits the ball that just falls short of going into the crowd?
The difference is that the entire game doesn't consist of this, whereas is Soccer it does - the exception being an actual goal.
hy not? It's the greatest and most nerve-wracking spectacle in sport. Nothing comes close.
Sure, I will admit it is nerve racking - but it is a stupid way to decide a game. What does all the skill of the previous 90 minute game have to do with penalties - nothing. Might as well flip a coin. It is more a test of who can't screw up kicking a goal. Is this a fair measure of a football player? It is like having a written driving exam as the only measure of someone getting a drivers license, skipping the practical part - brillant.
I will watch the world cup, but there are plenty of things to hate about soccer.
Foremost is diving, players who act up every chance they get - ie, when another player approaches them. This is just too much for Americans (with American football), Australians (with Aussie Rules) and Rugby watcher, who are used to seeing real injuries.
Also, the fact that is it such a defensive game these days, with hardly any goals being scored makes it poor to watch. Watching people get excited over an almost goal makes me laugh everytime.
And penalties is no way in the world to decide a game - what a joke.
Like in the UK, where every single news cast has a 5 minute story about Wayne Rooney, a player who injured his foot. It is really amazing to see, every broadcast on every channel saying the same thing 'We won't know for sure, until next week'. They fact thay they have nothing new to report won't stop them. Sure I can understand an update on when SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED, but this is ridiculous.
An innocent 16 year old doesn't get involved with the sort of people who make death threats.
Interesting. How do you know someone you hang around with is going to make death threats? How do you screen the people that you hang around with? What sort of question do you ask them? Maybe you test them, by getting a stranger to put them in such a position, and see if they make death threats? It seems to me there is no reasonable way to measure your friends ability to make death threats, unless they are the type of person who is constantly making such threats.
I agree with the rest of your statement, but the word ignorant comes to mind.
I agree 100%. I really loved Half life 1, and HL2 was the only game I was looking forward to playing. (I concentrated less on games after HL1) I still have not played it.
They have had their fun, why don't they release the single played version sans steam now - come on guys, there are at least 2 people out there.
No, i really disagree with your first point. Movies don't have to hold your hand to the backing story. Some of the best movies are the ones that throw you in there, not knowing exactly what is happening, or why. As long as you have a good story, and explain some bits alter, this works well (One of the reasons Lost is so popular)
I am like you as well. That is why whenever I buy a game, I play it non-stop for weeks and weeks, well past the point of enjoying it - just so that I get my moneys worth. Try to get it down to a few pence per hour.
If you are playing ordinary DVDs on your xbox, then these new formats aren't aimed at you (or me). They are for the rabid consumers, who will buy something because it is new, and drag the rest of us up kicking and screaming because they don't sell DVDs anymore.
No, see you missed the point - he has already started boycotting, and taken it one step further, denying that they even ever existed.
Just like when you sleep with a girl that you live with during a druken party, but she doesn't want it to go anywhere when you wake up next to each other the next day. She says 'we will never speak of this night again' and you say 'who the fuck are you, get out my bed!'
Once advertising became popular, crappy news websites found that they didn't actually have any room to show pictures - which in a lot of science stories like this one, makes it almost useless. What a joke. This story just screams pictures.
There are tons of great replacements for notepad... but being realistic, it is only a notepad, who cares if you have the greatest one. Most people don't spend that much time using it. And I only use it to hold text for a short time. I even have notepad open at the moment, with a variety of different copies that I need. It is the ultimate clipboard for text.
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If you really believe that, then why don't they just have a game of penalties - that would be really exciting...
Does this make any sense to anybody? What sort of trends are they going to be searching for, how often people use the number 34 in their spreadsheets?? This is ridiculous.
And what about me, who isn't a Music fan. Can I still copy my own tracks? The correct title would be
"UK Citizens Allowed To Copy Own Tracks".
I didn't assume that you lived in the UK (I do), but I did assume that you are British.
And my whole point was that Britian are not much of a power at all, Political or otherwise. If you did live here, it would be easy to form that opinion.
Perhaps you can give some examples of the great British political influence currently (as opposed to the huge affect they have had in the past)
Perhaps it is some huge injoke, and you need to read the 5200 or so previous jokes to get it. If you did, you would explode (literally) in laughter - but looking around the office, I haven't seen anyone explode yet.
Get over yourself.
Living in the UK, I see the arrogance all the time, all the while charging other countries with being arrogant. Britain once ruled over a quarter of the world, but after WW1 and WW2 significantly lost control over the world, as well as most of her economic power. During the wars, she had to sell most of her investments over seas, to defeat Germany.
It is over, the US is a superpower, and only China has any similar strength.
Cool, now I can go back through the archive, and see if he ever wrote a funny one... ha, just kidding.
Very strange little comic, never heard of it before, even though I have been on the web as long as it has. (to be fair, i am not that funny either)
Somebody should explain to the guy who linkes that websites can contain millions of pages, and is not uncommon to provide a link to not only the website, but the actual page. That way people can actually get the information you are trying to provide.
Or perhaps he thinks we should read everything this women has ever written, to get a background and foreground on the story. Thanks.
Are you telling me gridiron fans don't get excited when one of their players is tackled just before reaching the tryline? Or that a baseball fan isn't excited when a player hits the ball that just falls short of going into the crowd?
The difference is that the entire game doesn't consist of this, whereas is Soccer it does - the exception being an actual goal.
hy not? It's the greatest and most nerve-wracking spectacle in sport. Nothing comes close.
Sure, I will admit it is nerve racking - but it is a stupid way to decide a game. What does all the skill of the previous 90 minute game have to do with penalties - nothing. Might as well flip a coin. It is more a test of who can't screw up kicking a goal. Is this a fair measure of a football player? It is like having a written driving exam as the only measure of someone getting a drivers license, skipping the practical part - brillant.
I will watch the world cup, but there are plenty of things to hate about soccer.
Foremost is diving, players who act up every chance they get - ie, when another player approaches them. This is just too much for Americans (with American football), Australians (with Aussie Rules) and Rugby watcher, who are used to seeing real injuries.
Also, the fact that is it such a defensive game these days, with hardly any goals being scored makes it poor to watch. Watching people get excited over an almost goal makes me laugh everytime.
And penalties is no way in the world to decide a game - what a joke.
Like in the UK, where every single news cast has a 5 minute story about Wayne Rooney, a player who injured his foot. It is really amazing to see, every broadcast on every channel saying the same thing 'We won't know for sure, until next week'. They fact thay they have nothing new to report won't stop them. Sure I can understand an update on when SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED, but this is ridiculous.
Wow, one fucking independent. You Americans must be very proud.
An innocent 16 year old doesn't get involved with the sort of people who make death threats.
Interesting. How do you know someone you hang around with is going to make death threats? How do you screen the people that you hang around with? What sort of question do you ask them? Maybe you test them, by getting a stranger to put them in such a position, and see if they make death threats? It seems to me there is no reasonable way to measure your friends ability to make death threats, unless they are the type of person who is constantly making such threats.
I agree with the rest of your statement, but the word ignorant comes to mind.
What about a 747 full of cds??
Too early...come on, its been almost 5 years.
Oh Microwave. Now your usb harddrive will save your data and cook your eggs all at once :)
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And your testes if you are a man
Yeah, and what if I don't speak English, you insensitive clod!
That makes at least 2 of us.
I agree 100%. I really loved Half life 1, and HL2 was the only game I was looking forward to playing. (I concentrated less on games after HL1) I still have not played it.
They have had their fun, why don't they release the single played version sans steam now - come on guys, there are at least 2 people out there.
No, i really disagree with your first point. Movies don't have to hold your hand to the backing story. Some of the best movies are the ones that throw you in there, not knowing exactly what is happening, or why. As long as you have a good story, and explain some bits alter, this works well (One of the reasons Lost is so popular)
I am like you as well. That is why whenever I buy a game, I play it non-stop for weeks and weeks, well past the point of enjoying it - just so that I get my moneys worth. Try to get it down to a few pence per hour.
If you are playing ordinary DVDs on your xbox, then these new formats aren't aimed at you (or me). They are for the rabid consumers, who will buy something because it is new, and drag the rest of us up kicking and screaming because they don't sell DVDs anymore.
No, see you missed the point - he has already started boycotting, and taken it one step further, denying that they even ever existed.
Just like when you sleep with a girl that you live with during a druken party, but she doesn't want it to go anywhere when you wake up next to each other the next day. She says 'we will never speak of this night again' and you say 'who the fuck are you, get out my bed!'
Once advertising became popular, crappy news websites found that they didn't actually have any room to show pictures - which in a lot of science stories like this one, makes it almost useless. What a joke. This story just screams pictures.
There are tons of great replacements for notepad... but being realistic, it is only a notepad, who cares if you have the greatest one. Most people don't spend that much time using it. And I only use it to hold text for a short time. I even have notepad open at the moment, with a variety of different copies that I need. It is the ultimate clipboard for text.
How has Flickr made you a better photograper?? I thought it just hosted your pictures?
And the new format sucks. (In lite mode, anyway)