I... "have a friend" who downloads(primarily as a leech) from IRC channels. Any of the uploading "my friend" does over IRC is to actual people he chats to. Not to the random unwashed members of the mob in #mp3passion.
Go poke around google for information on androgen insensitivity syndrome for some information on people who have an XY genotype, but are thought of as women by most people, including themselves.
To quote the wikipedia article:
Complete AIS People with CAIS are girls or women with internal testes, 46,XY karyotypes, and normal female bodies except for shallow vaginas and lack of ovaries, uterus, menses or fertility. Gender identity is female.
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Adult women with CAIS tend to be taller than average, primarily because of their later timing of puberty. Breast development is said to be average to above average. Lack of responsiveness to androgen prevents some usual female adult hair development, including pubic, axillary, upper lip. In contrast, head hair remains fuller than average, without recession of scalp or thinning with age. Shallowness of the vagina varies and may or may not lead to mechanical difficulties during coitus. Although the testes develop fairly unexceptionally before puberty if not removed, the testes in adults with CAIS become increasingly distinctive, with unusual spermatogenic cells and no spermatogenesis.
By clinical reports and information from support groups, women with CAIS are at least as likely as other women to have a female gender identity and to be attracted sexually to men.
Indeed! Silly business bozos and even worse, the physics freaks terming things "flavours" when there's nothing even remotely tasty about quantum mechanics!
Indeed! I download all my porn in the lowest video quality possible to avoid ANY chance of seeing a stray hair!:P
Sure, it sometimes means that I can barely make out which end of the amorphous blob on the screen has a head, and which end has feet, but I definitely don't see any human-like imperfections on their bodies either:D
If you need more, just give yourself another gmail invite?
Have two accounts for storage then...
I've got a pair of gmail accounts, one for more business stuff, and one for family, friends, and fun. I don't see why you couldn't have storagemule1@gmail.com and storagemule2@gmail.com if space is an issue for 'the rest of it'
Why buy something else in addition when you can have it incorporated from the start by the manufacturer?
Haven't checked into this, so correct me if I'm wrong, but external sounds like it's going to take up a fair bit more space, weight(you're still carrying around the rechargeable battery, right?) and make it uglier.
Thought the advantage of mp3 players is how small and attractive looking they are?
That was definitely one of my considerations when I went shopping for a music player too. Got me an iRiver, and I'm quite pleased with the large number of hours of play I can get out of a single AA battery. I may be killing the environment slowly, but it's a damned sight easier to throw a couple AAs in a pocket of my backpack and know that I have enough hours of music now to last me a couple weeks.
Plus alot of it's other widgets(radio, recording stuff, shiny clip thing for my belt loops/whathaveyou) are also nice. iPods are cool sure, but I'm more than happy with my iRiver. Hurray for boxing day sales!
Just was home visiting my elementary-school aged, Canadian neice. As part of a fab friends survey I took for her I had to pick my favourite class(art, maths, science, english, etc...).
She was rather surprised when I picked the sciences as my favourite. I tried to explain how cool it was back in highschool for me, and how I've had a great deal of fun at university in several science courses. I asked her what THEY were doing in science then that was so horrible she couldn't see me enjoying it. Apparently they're studying dirt.
No offense meant for any pedologists out there, but I can sort of understand her lack of enthusiasm for the course. I tried to give her hope that things will improve later, fingers crosses anyway:P
I wouldn't be all that upset if biology/health classes did a good job teaching about sexuality and drugs(alcohol being one of the more important ones to teach about).
Based on the COMPLETELY scientific(*cough*) sample of Americans I talk to on IRC, that's not being done in a very effective way. Or these people never took the bio/health classes.
After all, most people really like sex, and millions of Americans really like beer and cigarettes and, and, and... Nothing wrong with teaching them about the effects of those substances, and the mechanisms by which they have their impact.
Quick! All/.ers hurry and load up on stocks in biotech companies, especially people who make PCR machines and whatnot. If everyone down in the states has to start having their DNA analyzed to get a job, it'll mean loads more revenue for these companies. I'm thinking some people(me!:O) are going to get rich on this:P
Indeed, while not being able to see will hinder my plans slightly, it doesn't stop 'em all. Cloak, walk to where I'm going(can follow a path perhaps, or just an upside down periscope penetrating the cloak at my feet so I can see from that angle?
Besides, the ability to just suddenly appear someplace would be pretty amusing for the first few times at least. I might not be able to see anything but I could scare the willies out of a few people who annoy me... And I'm looking at you Mrs Mean Cashier at the local grocery store X(
*snickers at the thought of sneaking up on them and just yelling BOO!
I'm Canadian, and I'll vouch that 'math' is more common here(south eastern Ontario anyway). But I have seen people using 'maths' as well.
Don't remember anyone getting confused over what was being talked about, so I guess we're capable of switching back and forth with relative ease.
Well, I expect some of they naysayers will download it yeah. Wasn't there talk earlier in the thread about slashdotting them? Running up a big bill from whoever is hosting this for them?
The game is a decent size(23 megs), so downloading it serves the purposes of at least some of the naysayers, even/especially if they just delete it as soon as it finishes downloading.
Some of the other naysayers might want to avoid it entirely, to not inflate his download counter(like people are always talking about happening with each new version of Firefox, etc...)
Of course you can use fusion(if it worked really well), to power a hell of alot of cars. Just use electric cars and power 'em up off the fusion-powered grid...?
If there's any source of free/cheap/environmentally non-damaging power source out there, it'd be damned useful for all sorts of stuff oil gets used for nowadays. Heck, it'd even make recycling cheaper and hence more attractive, so you'd need less oil to make all those plastic things in McDonald's toys.
Having said that, do I think that the Illuminati are coercing the US government to sit on zero point energy tech? Not really no... He's a wackjob.
I certainly expect/hope they've been changed to something slightly better than that now that it's getting press...
Hopefully more accurate to say "had blank administrator passwords."
Now, I'm not as techy as most/.ers, but why would you have stuff that's as secret as free energy and aliens and whatnot on a machine that's connected to the internet? Wouldn't it make more sense to keep that sort of information on a network that has no physical connection to the net? Something where you have to actually physically gain access to a computer on the network to see the information?
And to be honest, I don't really hate Wii that much, just a little bit:P Will it stop me from buying the console though? I doubt it. I imagine it'll be the lack of funds in my bank account driving me to find my entertainment elsewhere.
wtf? Firstly, you're assuming it's just the opposite gender people who'll be curious?:P
Secondly, wtf? Having a really small penis is usually considered a bad thing by most people... If you hear that a girl has a vagina that can easily accomodate a 2 L bottle of Pepsi, while her butt is taking a 2 L bottle of Coca Cola(a bad thing) are YOU going to be trying to have sex with her?
Personally, I think I'd be more interested in checking out the guy with an above-average sized penis(though nothing absurdly large), or the girl with the pleasantly snug vagina...
Oh well, different strokes for different folks eh? I just don't tend to really hear much in the way of slang like that for people with disabilities up here.
What, if you have a theif down one dark alley that's going to take all your money, and a theif down the one OTHER dark alley in front of you that's going to take all your money, and your actions choose which gets it, you don't care?
I'd rather choose the theif who's trying to get enough money to help put his son/daughter through college as a nursing student than the guy who's desperate for more beer.:P
I'm short on money in either situation, but at least I know that my money got spent on something halfways decent =\
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I ... "have a friend" who downloads(primarily as a leech) from IRC channels.
Any of the uploading "my friend" does over IRC is to actual people he chats to. Not to the random unwashed members of the mob in #mp3passion.
Go poke around google for information on androgen insensitivity syndrome for some information on people who have an XY genotype, but are thought of as women by most people, including themselves.
To quote the wikipedia article:
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Laser? Not quite=\ Obligatory Loserz reference: here
Indeed! Silly business bozos and even worse, the physics freaks terming things "flavours" when there's nothing even remotely tasty about quantum mechanics!
Indeed! I download all my porn in the lowest video quality possible to avoid ANY chance of seeing a stray hair! :P
:D
Sure, it sometimes means that I can barely make out which end of the amorphous blob on the screen has a head, and which end has feet, but I definitely don't see any human-like imperfections on their bodies either
I just middle click on my "home" button. *shrugs*
Loads a new tab for me just fine with only one click. Or did you mean a single keyboard button?
For that, I suggest "e" =D
If you need more, just give yourself another gmail invite?
Have two accounts for storage then...
I've got a pair of gmail accounts, one for more business stuff, and one for family, friends, and fun. I don't see why you couldn't have storagemule1@gmail.com and storagemule2@gmail.com if space is an issue for 'the rest of it'
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it." - Linus B. Torvalds
:P
I suppose the same principle applies to newsgroups and eMule, etc...
How much physical space/heat would those 7 drives produce as compared to a single 750 gig drive?
Why buy something else in addition when you can have it incorporated from the start by the manufacturer?
Haven't checked into this, so correct me if I'm wrong, but external sounds like it's going to take up a fair bit more space, weight(you're still carrying around the rechargeable battery, right?) and make it uglier.
Thought the advantage of mp3 players is how small and attractive looking they are?
That was definitely one of my considerations when I went shopping for a music player too. Got me an iRiver, and I'm quite pleased with the large number of hours of play I can get out of a single AA battery. I may be killing the environment slowly, but it's a damned sight easier to throw a couple AAs in a pocket of my backpack and know that I have enough hours of music now to last me a couple weeks.
Plus alot of it's other widgets(radio, recording stuff, shiny clip thing for my belt loops/whathaveyou) are also nice. iPods are cool sure, but I'm more than happy with my iRiver. Hurray for boxing day sales!
Just was home visiting my elementary-school aged, Canadian neice. As part of a fab friends survey I took for her I had to pick my favourite class(art, maths, science, english, etc...). She was rather surprised when I picked the sciences as my favourite. I tried to explain how cool it was back in highschool for me, and how I've had a great deal of fun at university in several science courses. I asked her what THEY were doing in science then that was so horrible she couldn't see me enjoying it. Apparently they're studying dirt. No offense meant for any pedologists out there, but I can sort of understand her lack of enthusiasm for the course. I tried to give her hope that things will improve later, fingers crosses anyway :P
I wouldn't be all that upset if biology/health classes did a good job teaching about sexuality and drugs(alcohol being one of the more important ones to teach about). Based on the COMPLETELY scientific(*cough*) sample of Americans I talk to on IRC, that's not being done in a very effective way. Or these people never took the bio/health classes. After all, most people really like sex, and millions of Americans really like beer and cigarettes and, and, and... Nothing wrong with teaching them about the effects of those substances, and the mechanisms by which they have their impact.
Quick! All /.ers hurry and load up on stocks in biotech companies, especially people who make PCR machines and whatnot. If everyone down in the states has to start having their DNA analyzed to get a job, it'll mean loads more revenue for these companies. I'm thinking some people(me! :O) are going to get rich on this :P
Indeed, while not being able to see will hinder my plans slightly, it doesn't stop 'em all. Cloak, walk to where I'm going(can follow a path perhaps, or just an upside down periscope penetrating the cloak at my feet so I can see from that angle?
Besides, the ability to just suddenly appear someplace would be pretty amusing for the first few times at least. I might not be able to see anything but I could scare the willies out of a few people who annoy me... And I'm looking at you Mrs Mean Cashier at the local grocery store X(
*snickers at the thought of sneaking up on them and just yelling BOO!
I'm Canadian, and I'll vouch that 'math' is more common here(south eastern Ontario anyway). But I have seen people using 'maths' as well. Don't remember anyone getting confused over what was being talked about, so I guess we're capable of switching back and forth with relative ease.
... From one side? :P
So, as long as you're facing me, I'll never see you right? But if I just, y'know, walk around you a little bit I'll see all the cameras on your back?
Well, I expect some of they naysayers will download it yeah. Wasn't there talk earlier in the thread about slashdotting them? Running up a big bill from whoever is hosting this for them?
The game is a decent size(23 megs), so downloading it serves the purposes of at least some of the naysayers, even/especially if they just delete it as soon as it finishes downloading.
Some of the other naysayers might want to avoid it entirely, to not inflate his download counter(like people are always talking about happening with each new version of Firefox, etc...)
Of course you can use fusion(if it worked really well), to power a hell of alot of cars. Just use electric cars and power 'em up off the fusion-powered grid...?
If there's any source of free/cheap/environmentally non-damaging power source out there, it'd be damned useful for all sorts of stuff oil gets used for nowadays. Heck, it'd even make recycling cheaper and hence more attractive, so you'd need less oil to make all those plastic things in McDonald's toys.
Having said that, do I think that the Illuminati are coercing the US government to sit on zero point energy tech? Not really no... He's a wackjob.
"have blank administrator passwords."
/.ers, but why would you have stuff that's as secret as free energy and aliens and whatnot on a machine that's connected to the internet? Wouldn't it make more sense to keep that sort of information on a network that has no physical connection to the net? Something where you have to actually physically gain access to a computer on the network to see the information?
I certainly expect/hope they've been changed to something slightly better than that now that it's getting press...
Hopefully more accurate to say "had blank administrator passwords."
Now, I'm not as techy as most
And let's not just limit ourselves to PA for webcomics that ridicule the name... Wii is not for Mii!
http://www.sorethumbsonline.com/d/20060501.html
I don't hate 'cute' :(
:P Will it stop me from buying the console though? I doubt it. I imagine it'll be the lack of funds in my bank account driving me to find my entertainment elsewhere.
http://www.cute-kittens.com/coppermine/
http://kittenwar.com/kittens/winners/
And to be honest, I don't really hate Wii that much, just a little bit
wtf? Firstly, you're assuming it's just the opposite gender people who'll be curious? :P
Secondly, wtf? Having a really small penis is usually considered a bad thing by most people... If you hear that a girl has a vagina that can easily accomodate a 2 L bottle of Pepsi, while her butt is taking a 2 L bottle of Coca Cola(a bad thing) are YOU going to be trying to have sex with her?
Personally, I think I'd be more interested in checking out the guy with an above-average sized penis(though nothing absurdly large), or the girl with the pleasantly snug vagina...
You think of people with disabilities when you think of the GIMP? I tend to think more of a sex slave... :P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimp_(sadomasochism)
Oh well, different strokes for different folks eh? I just don't tend to really hear much in the way of slang like that for people with disabilities up here.
What, if you have a theif down one dark alley that's going to take all your money, and a theif down the one OTHER dark alley in front of you that's going to take all your money, and your actions choose which gets it, you don't care?
:P
I'd rather choose the theif who's trying to get enough money to help put his son/daughter through college as a nursing student than the guy who's desperate for more beer.
I'm short on money in either situation, but at least I know that my money got spent on something halfways decent =\