Thank you for your suggestion. at&t(R) is committed(tm) to rebuilding the nation's largest 4G network this year with your input. To pay for the buildout* you will notice a 10% 2012 Nation's Largest 4G Network Improvements Fee along with a 200% SMS price increase. Thank you again for choosing at&t(R), with the nation's largest 4G network.
*Buildout subject to cancellation without notice. Just kidding about that last part, we cancelled it while you were reading that sentence. The fee stands to pay for the costs of typing the prior two and commissioning a forthcoming Gartner study to validate their market impact.
Jackson's prior graduate studies were never too much for him to jam into his schedule. Furthermore, his fellow grads were kind enough to leave him alone, so he could learn enough to heal the world and still have time to rock Robin (Billie Jean was not his lover) and make her want to scream.
Damn...now that I think about that, I want a Dungeon Pony. It sounds like they'd look the same as regular ponies, except that they'd have pitch-black hair, wear collars that menace with spikes of the bones of trolls they trampled to death (and jackets made of the skin of their own dead cousins), and just walk around with a serious face like the hardboiled badasses they are.
My Ruthless Pony: Friendship is a Bad Mother Fucker.
As I've said before about that Comcast-NBC thing, "PR guys love to reveal without revealing and lie without lying." I think this FBI stuff, like that thing three years before, is obviously another "inaccurate" but true report.
I also think I'm even more glad that I don't own an iPhone.
A view-source shows Slashdot transmits the link as data:texthtmlbase64[rest of data], instead of, say, data:text/html;base64;[rest of data], and that change probably breaks the link if the browser didn't already. I'm quite disturbed that/. allowed the [rest of data] anyway (and gave you the legendary Long Comment Modifier for it!), though.
Indeed, nothing (visible) happens on link click here (probably due to that change) in the latest Nightly or IE9, but make sure your blogs disallow data URIs (or gives them a mighty security check) in public comment sections and such.
When I saw this on Slashdot's front page, my heart sank like "oh god no". Then I saw the comments under TFA about how the site managed to have it as "Neil Young" in the headline...a more dubious feat, but disturbingly typical for the proofreaders at NBCNews.com for some reason. (I read 'em daily so I've seen their fumbles too often...slow down a bit guys!)
Anyway, RIP Neil Armstrong. I hope we can step on the moon again soon.
That's why I prefer witches over guns.* It's hard for them to steal your weapon when your weapon has its own arcane shield and great brea^Wstaves and spells to deal heavy damage.
There was also some minor bad news yesterday; one of the wind speed sensors on the REMS weather instruments was permanently damaged during landing. Emily Lakdawalla explains,"The reason there were two is that it helped triangulate wind speed and also improve accuracy of wind speed measurements when one of the booms is aimed windward or leeward. So the quality of the wind speed data will be harmed, but there will still be wind speed data."
Minor indeed; that any part of that rover is still functional after that landing (and the US's perverse budget) is a testament to the general badassery of the engineers, programmers, and builders behind that thing.
Besides these petitions are only for letting them know what people are on about, to get a public opinion. They don't set policy.
It probably helps set their campaign ad policy though. Then We the People(tm) can see the ads ("...and I approve this message.") and say "See, this is why I like him. other_guy won't do this, but Obama said he will, just as I wanted!" He won't "do this", but he will say he will, guided by the petition figures, so he'll get the votes he needs and get another four years to continue not doing what We want him to do.
It won't effect Hope and Change(tm), but it sure Creates Jobs(tm) for a few nerds and makes for a nice tax-funded focus group!
Too bad they're getting cozy with Facebook. Otherwise I wouldn't have queued my account for deletion that day (I was still logged in after I clicked ok to that, so I have a feeling something got blocked or it just didn't quite go through, but that might just be the 90-day wait time).
I'm also concerned they'll bring in the Google+ elements of Google, perhaps even to look more attractive to FB (unless, of course, FB would rather have them strictly use FB's systems and UI for that).
It would sure make negative ads more interesting. "How can he say he's creating manufacturing jobs if he can't even write a factory method!? This man is wrong for our country! You deserve a better President."
Seriously? contacts at Google and Twitter?
1) very few people have that kind of contacts.
2) didn't those two companies just violate their own security standards by helping this guy kill accounts he couldn't prove were his??
I agree; never heard of this guy and he has who-you-know power at those two places...I smell fish and not of the pleasant filet kind.
I want to be mad about this--I don't like losing any of my rights--but...
indeed, CALs ultimately have little impact on customers (yay a coupon) or corporations (yay another small regulatory tax expense that we overcharge our little consumers to pay for in the first place);
I clicked "I agree" because I kinda thought they already had terms like that the last one or two times they altered the deal (unless I was thinking of other games I've played); and
do I reeeeeeeeeeally want to lose my catalog of games that runs from a Half-Life 2 ATI card preorder...offer...thing to a Torchlight 2 preorder...offer...thing for not indemnifying and holding them harmless or whathaveyou as they see fit? I'm a tad invested in that system now.
So, meh. I'll wait until the courts grow a backbone. Any victory I gain from a boycott or a protest would be minimal if not pyrrhic.
God, these titles like "senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing" fry my nerves. Does he answer to the very senior executive vice president of universal sales and PR? *sigh*
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I feel the pain of switching to a whole new Web system, but dear god "beat the horse" is an awful turn of phrase.
One martini please, neither shaken nor stirred.
That, or maybe "Fox 5" if in the New York metro area.
Thank you for your suggestion. at&t(R) is committed(tm) to rebuilding the nation's largest 4G network this year with your input. To pay for the buildout* you will notice a 10% 2012 Nation's Largest 4G Network Improvements Fee along with a 200% SMS price increase. Thank you again for choosing at&t(R), with the nation's largest 4G network.
*Buildout subject to cancellation without notice. Just kidding about that last part, we cancelled it while you were reading that sentence. The fee stands to pay for the costs of typing the prior two and commissioning a forthcoming Gartner study to validate their market impact.
Jackson's prior graduate studies were never too much for him to jam into his schedule. Furthermore, his fellow grads were kind enough to leave him alone, so he could learn enough to heal the world and still have time to rock Robin (Billie Jean was not his lover) and make her want to scream.
Yup, I read it whenever the mood strikes but the NYT and its obliviousness is...legendary.
What do you mean you can't Dungeon a Pony?
Damn...now that I think about that, I want a Dungeon Pony. It sounds like they'd look the same as regular ponies, except that they'd have pitch-black hair, wear collars that menace with spikes of the bones of trolls they trampled to death (and jackets made of the skin of their own dead cousins), and just walk around with a serious face like the hardboiled badasses they are.
My Ruthless Pony: Friendship is a Bad Mother Fucker.
Would you like that figure in retail USD or government contractor USD?
As I've said before about that Comcast-NBC thing, "PR guys love to reveal without revealing and lie without lying." I think this FBI stuff, like that thing three years before, is obviously another "inaccurate" but true report.
I also think I'm even more glad that I don't own an iPhone.
A view-source shows Slashdot transmits the link as data:texthtmlbase64[rest of data], instead of, say, data:text/html;base64;[rest of data], and that change probably breaks the link if the browser didn't already. I'm quite disturbed that /. allowed the [rest of data] anyway (and gave you the legendary Long Comment Modifier for it!), though.
Indeed, nothing (visible) happens on link click here (probably due to that change) in the latest Nightly or IE9, but make sure your blogs disallow data URIs (or gives them a mighty security check) in public comment sections and such.
Oh that would be fun to watch.
When I saw this on Slashdot's front page, my heart sank like "oh god no". Then I saw the comments under TFA about how the site managed to have it as "Neil Young" in the headline...a more dubious feat, but disturbingly typical for the proofreaders at NBCNews.com for some reason. (I read 'em daily so I've seen their fumbles too often...slow down a bit guys!)
Anyway, RIP Neil Armstrong. I hope we can step on the moon again soon.
Glory to the Idiotic Republic of Iran!
...really, why would anyone want less women in college!? That's like having less chocolate chips* in cookies! Stupid bastards in charge...
*or raisins in oatmeal cookies, if you wanna be like that. Harrumph.
That's why I prefer witches over guns.* It's hard for them to steal your weapon when your weapon has its own arcane shield and great brea^Wstaves and spells to deal heavy damage.
*Witches with guns do complicate the risk calculation a bit.
Minor indeed; that any part of that rover is still functional after that landing (and the US's perverse budget) is a testament to the general badassery of the engineers, programmers, and builders behind that thing.
But then I'd pay $40 for a "$60" game instead of $120! Why would I want that to happen!?
Ah, but does that use a laser they bought off of eBay?
No? Then *yawn*.
I mean, just imagine what the British team can do with a laser they bought off of craigslist or backpage.
The first?
I agree. They should've used ice cream instead of peanut butter and jelly, before Google could've caught on to that idea.
It probably helps set their campaign ad policy though. Then We the People(tm) can see the ads ("...and I approve this message.") and say "See, this is why I like him. other_guy won't do this, but Obama said he will, just as I wanted!" He won't "do this", but he will say he will, guided by the petition figures, so he'll get the votes he needs and get another four years to continue not doing what We want him to do.
It won't effect Hope and Change(tm), but it sure Creates Jobs(tm) for a few nerds and makes for a nice tax-funded focus group!
Too bad they're getting cozy with Facebook. Otherwise I wouldn't have queued my account for deletion that day (I was still logged in after I clicked ok to that, so I have a feeling something got blocked or it just didn't quite go through, but that might just be the 90-day wait time).
I'm also concerned they'll bring in the Google+ elements of Google, perhaps even to look more attractive to FB (unless, of course, FB would rather have them strictly use FB's systems and UI for that).
It would sure make negative ads more interesting. "How can he say he's creating manufacturing jobs if he can't even write a factory method!? This man is wrong for our country! You deserve a better President."
I agree; never heard of this guy and he has who-you-know power at those two places...I smell fish and not of the pleasant filet kind.
I dunno, some of those online-game ads seem to have an effect on me there...
I want to be mad about this--I don't like losing any of my rights--but...
So, meh. I'll wait until the courts grow a backbone. Any victory I gain from a boycott or a protest would be minimal if not pyrrhic.
God, these titles like "senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing" fry my nerves. Does he answer to the very senior executive vice president of universal sales and PR? *sigh*
Anyway, well done, Apple.