Us anglophones are inflicted with the same blight, but it's called The Source: By Circuit City", which in my books is one of the most retarded and awkward names in the history of crappy stores.
I gave the chain one last chance when I went in for a headphone adapter. I found it, and the price said $4. I double checked, as I always do, by looking at the barcode on the packaging (xxx067, for example), and then on the price sticker on the shelf (xxx067, match).
I get it to the counter and it rings up at $16.99. When I point to the zombie that that isn't the price on the shelf, he grunts "sometimez item at wrong shelf". When I pointed out that the barcodes matched, he gurgled something like "that's a different barcode".
That was right after another employee told a customer that he can't tell her when the product she wanted would be in stock, because every week they get "like, this blank box, and we open it and there's stuff inside but we never know what"-- all said while never taking his eyes off his video game being played on the demo computers
So yeah, I won't shed one bloody tear for the chain. I had my moment of nostalgia for Radio Shack when they were bought out, and now I've moved on.
I ask this only because I so rarely see something so offensive here: Doesn't/. have an abuse reporting mechanism? I would never advocate removing posts that were controversial, but this is not such a post. This is unrelated to the topic at hand, obviously intended to be inflammatory and really has no place here.
You must be new here. Try browsing at a higher mod level. There's keyboard shortcuts to do that. ALT+Fn, where n is the level you want to browse at (use 10 and 11 for 0 and -1, UI flaw). I suggest browsing at "4". Go ahead and give it a try.
Date, accounting for leapyears (gratuitously stolen from several other authors and stitched together like I was Dr. Frankenstein), in some format that will either make Americans happy or non-Americans happy. I can't remember.
And who's doing the accusing? the ISP or the music industry? Cos if I was the music industry I'd just accuse everyone in the UK three times and hey presto the UK is offline.
Careful, though. If you say their name three times whilst looking in a mirror, they'll pop out and sue you.
There are summaries? It's more fun to read the title and then skip to the comments to try to figure out what the hell the original article is about in the first place.
The keychain remote is quite handy. Though what I'd love to have is a device that shuts off those damned annoying yapping advertisements they're putting in gas pumps. It's basically a PC hooked up to a 15" monitor, and speakers turned up bloody loud shouting about car insurance and diet pills. And to make matters worse (though maybe it was coincidence) a couple of the stations turned down the pressure on the pumps, so it took over 5 minutes to half-fill the tank of a Honda Civic. 5 minutes of non stop commercials.
I have made it a point to avoid any chain that utilizes these devices, and to let the parent company know. I doubt my $20 a week means anything to them, since they're probably getting way more than that from the product whores who pay for those ads.
However, on the days when the machines fail-- well, those are the sweetest BSOD you'll ever see.
I remember hearing "bullshit" in money all the time. I also heard "those paranoid little fuckers" in The Headstone's "Cubically Contained". Now I only hear it sometimes. The censorship is bizarrely randomized.
The three that currently have me baffled are:
Tool "The Pot": They don't censor "Fucking hypocrite". But the do for some reason censor "Foot in mouth and head up ass, so whatcha talking bout?" I mean, maybe, just maybe, "ass, so" can be heard as "asshole". But the official lyrics disagree. And what about the whole fucking thing?
Green Day, "American Idiot": They bleep the "fag" in "Well maybe I'm the faggot America. I'm not a part of a redneck agenda". Maybe someone would go "omg I was called a fag!"-- overlooking the ironic use of the word. It's especially bizaire because of:
Green Day, "Holiday": Where they don't bleep the line where the Representative from California gleefully states "Kill all the fags that don't agree". Though the did see fit to bleep the first two words of the speech, "Zieg Heil to the President Gasman".
So in conclusion, it's okay to swear, unless you just sound like you're swearing, in which case its bad. And it's sometimes okay to call people fags, but if you do, then you can't call them Hitler too.
If there was ever a time to say it, now is the time: What the fuck?
I'm sure it's the "music" station being their usually bizarre douchy selves. They probably bleeped it out because such information might be bad for the children. Kind of like how they blur our Al flipping the bird in Amish Paradise-- or, hell, even how they bleep out the word "Cocaine" in the "Jesus of Suburbia" video. Because goodness forbid a nice, young child hears an awful, horrible word. Not on a family friendly station!
Are they sure that the bird made the 11.2km flight-- and not a 0.1 km flight to the nearest airport, and into the intake port of a plan making a 11.2km flight?
Use adblockplus rather than adblock. Adblock is obsolete, and does not work with current Firefox versions.
That is incorrect. I have Ad Block (not plus) running on Firefox 3.0.3. It's always run on new Firefox builds. There was a hiccup when FF2 came out, but that was fixed when I altered the "compatible browsers" line in the install (and the devs did the same shortly after).
Just whitelist the lot of them and be done with it, unless we're talking hundreds of them, which is a bit strange. It's really quite easy.
Even if it is hundreds, it's still a trivial matter. When the browser hits the site the first time, just right click the S and say "Allow this site". Done once and forever. It's all about the training. It's no more difficult (and far more effective) than hitting the This Is Spam button to train a junk mail filter.
The official watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)
I dunno. Given that they're working with ONLINE communications and media-- and given the quality of their product-- shouldn't they be the Australian Communications and Media E-authority(ACME)?
We can't go back, and we can't stay where we are, so we only go forward.
That's my point. We can't go back (for certain values of "we") because we're used to communication, easy food, longevity, leisure, etc, etc. Take them away and we suffer, but we can still boink like bunnies. The next generation can cope with it because they won't be used to all those things. (And because a good number of the people who just can't live without all that stuff will, well, literally not have lived without it, and thus wouldn't pass their knowledge (or lack of it) onto the next gen)
Awesome! Maybe they can challenge Dexter Holland of The Offspring to a dogfight:
cashflow has been very good to The Offspring. This has allowed singer Dexter Holland to engage in his favourite hobbies. First, there?s stamp collecting (specifically those from the Isle of Man in the U.K.). If you?re a philatelist, you know how expensive that can be. I said 'philatelist'. Look it up. Then there's Dexter's passion for airplanes and flying. Here's a quote: "Some people are into golf, some people are into shooting deer. I'm into flying". Dexter first got his pilot's license back in 1996. Over the years, his certifications became more and more sophisticated. He owns a Citation 2, which is a twin-engine jet that can fly as high as 43,000 feet for 2,000 miles at a time. They run for about $2.5 million - used. Dexter calls it 'Anarchy Airlines'. The tail fin is painted with a logo and everything. Inside, the interior is decked-out in leopard prints. Oh, and there's more. Dexter also flies an Aero Vodochody L-39, a Russian fighter jet.
Take it away unexpectedly, and they're worse off than when it didn't exist.
Note that I don't say this as if it were a good thing -- I think it's a horrible thing. But that doesn't make it any less true.
True, they'll be worse off-- but only for a generation or two.
A good chunk of people will struggle by. Once they squeeze out a round of kids who weren't born with technology all around them, they won't be acclimated to it. Instead, they'll acclimate to the only living conditions they've ever known. Within a few generations, there won't be anyone left alive who "expects" technology.
The reliance on technology is interesting, but not irreversible.
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Us anglophones are inflicted with the same blight, but it's called The Source: By Circuit City", which in my books is one of the most retarded and awkward names in the history of crappy stores.
I gave the chain one last chance when I went in for a headphone adapter. I found it, and the price said $4. I double checked, as I always do, by looking at the barcode on the packaging (xxx067, for example), and then on the price sticker on the shelf (xxx067, match).
I get it to the counter and it rings up at $16.99. When I point to the zombie that that isn't the price on the shelf, he grunts "sometimez item at wrong shelf". When I pointed out that the barcodes matched, he gurgled something like "that's a different barcode".
That was right after another employee told a customer that he can't tell her when the product she wanted would be in stock, because every week they get "like, this blank box, and we open it and there's stuff inside but we never know what"-- all said while never taking his eyes off his video game being played on the demo computers
So yeah, I won't shed one bloody tear for the chain. I had my moment of nostalgia for Radio Shack when they were bought out, and now I've moved on.
You must be new here. Try browsing at a higher mod level. There's keyboard shortcuts to do that. ALT+Fn, where n is the level you want to browse at (use 10 and 11 for 0 and -1, UI flaw). I suggest browsing at "4". Go ahead and give it a try.
ere's a couple more that will turn a string (from, say, a querystring) into another datatype.
(And yes, you could use something like Int32.TryParse, but then you'd have to know in advance it was an integer.)
Signed integer
^(?:(-)|(\+{0,1}))(?:\d{1,9}|[0-1]\d{9}|20\d{8}|21[0-3]\d{7}|214[0-6]\d{6}|2147[0-3]\d{5}|21474[0-7]\d{4}|214748[0-2]\d{3}|2147483[0-5]\d{2}|21474836[0-3]\d{1}|214748364(?(1)([0-8])|([0-7])))$
Date, accounting for leapyears (gratuitously stolen from several other authors and stitched together like I was Dr. Frankenstein), in some format that will either make Americans happy or non-Americans happy. I can't remember.
^(?((?:(?:1[6-9]|[2-9]\d)(?:[02468][48]|[2468][048]|[13579][26]))|(?:(?:16|[2468][048]|[3579][26])00))(\d{4}-(?:(0[469]|11)-(0[1-9]|[1-2][0-9]|30)|(0[13578]|12)-(0[1-9]|[1-2][0-9]|31)|02-(0[1-9]|[12][0-9])))|(\d{4}-(?:(0[469]|11)-(0[1-9]|[1-2][0-9]|30)|(0[13578]|12)-(0[1-9]|[1-2][0-9]|31)|02-(0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8]))))(?: (?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):(?:[0-5]\d):(?:[0-5]\d)){0,1}$
Float (I think it was posted earlier, but duplication of code is never a bad thing, right? right?
^([+-]?((([0-9]+(\.)?)|([0-9]*\.[0-9]+))([eE]([+-]?\d{1,2}|[+-]?1[0-1]\d|[+]?12[0-7]|-12[0-6]))?))$
GUID, with or without the squigglies
^(\{)?[0-9a-fA-F]{8}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}(?(1)(\}))$
And most "useful", string and bool (adjust for your desired length of String or value of True):
^.{1,4000}$
^(True|False)$
What, you don't like micicles?
Careful, though. If you say their name three times whilst looking in a mirror, they'll pop out and sue you.
You're not new here, are you?
The keychain remote is quite handy. Though what I'd love to have is a device that shuts off those damned annoying yapping advertisements they're putting in gas pumps. It's basically a PC hooked up to a 15" monitor, and speakers turned up bloody loud shouting about car insurance and diet pills. And to make matters worse (though maybe it was coincidence) a couple of the stations turned down the pressure on the pumps, so it took over 5 minutes to half-fill the tank of a Honda Civic. 5 minutes of non stop commercials.
I have made it a point to avoid any chain that utilizes these devices, and to let the parent company know. I doubt my $20 a week means anything to them, since they're probably getting way more than that from the product whores who pay for those ads.
However, on the days when the machines fail-- well, those are the sweetest BSOD you'll ever see.
Creep Crawler says:
on Tuesday November 04, 12:47AM
Go to bed man! Or at least have a cup of coffee handy in the morning...
I was watching a news report about this topic at the pub the other day. Well, I tried to watch it, but the fritzy TV kept turning off.
For the record, the name was C-Note
I may be wrong, but I believe that is one of the goals of LittleBigPlanet.
And yes, it would be cool. Because I want a game where I drop a meteor on a populated planet just to see what would happen.
I'd suggest Chase the Dragon, but damn, on a stationary bike? You're never going to catch that dragon.
In Canada, brother Eh.
I guess all of Stinkfist will have to be bleeped...
I remember hearing "bullshit" in money all the time. I also heard "those paranoid little fuckers" in The Headstone's "Cubically Contained". Now I only hear it sometimes. The censorship is bizarrely randomized.
The three that currently have me baffled are:
Tool "The Pot": They don't censor "Fucking hypocrite". But the do for some reason censor "Foot in mouth and head up ass, so whatcha talking bout?" I mean, maybe, just maybe, "ass, so" can be heard as "asshole". But the official lyrics disagree. And what about the whole fucking thing?
Green Day, "American Idiot": They bleep the "fag" in "Well maybe I'm the faggot America. I'm not a part of a redneck agenda". Maybe someone would go "omg I was called a fag!"-- overlooking the ironic use of the word. It's especially bizaire because of:
Green Day, "Holiday": Where they don't bleep the line where the Representative from California gleefully states "Kill all the fags that don't agree". Though the did see fit to bleep the first two words of the speech, "Zieg Heil to the President Gasman".
So in conclusion, it's okay to swear, unless you just sound like you're swearing, in which case its bad. And it's sometimes okay to call people fags, but if you do, then you can't call them Hitler too.
If there was ever a time to say it, now is the time: What the fuck?
Since none of us will ever agree on which version of Earth we want, how about we just go the Slider's method? Fork the Earth, and to each their own!
I'm sure it's the "music" station being their usually bizarre douchy selves. They probably bleeped it out because such information might be bad for the children. Kind of like how they blur our Al flipping the bird in Amish Paradise-- or, hell, even how they bleep out the word "Cocaine" in the "Jesus of Suburbia" video. Because goodness forbid a nice, young child hears an awful, horrible word. Not on a family friendly station!
That having search functionality will make people not want to use a protocol?
Are they sure that the bird made the 11.2km flight-- and not a 0.1 km flight to the nearest airport, and into the intake port of a plan making a 11.2km flight?
That is incorrect. I have Ad Block (not plus) running on Firefox 3.0.3. It's always run on new Firefox builds. There was a hiccup when FF2 came out, but that was fixed when I altered the "compatible browsers" line in the install (and the devs did the same shortly after).
Even if it is hundreds, it's still a trivial matter. When the browser hits the site the first time, just right click the S and say "Allow this site". Done once and forever. It's all about the training. It's no more difficult (and far more effective) than hitting the This Is Spam button to train a junk mail filter.
I dunno. Given that they're working with ONLINE communications and media-- and given the quality of their product-- shouldn't they be the Australian Communications and Media E-authority(ACME)?
That's my point. We can't go back (for certain values of "we") because we're used to communication, easy food, longevity, leisure, etc, etc. Take them away and we suffer, but we can still boink like bunnies. The next generation can cope with it because they won't be used to all those things. (And because a good number of the people who just can't live without all that stuff will, well, literally not have lived without it, and thus wouldn't pass their knowledge (or lack of it) onto the next gen)
Awesome! Maybe they can challenge Dexter Holland of The Offspring to a dogfight:
- Alan Cross, Ongoing History of New Music, "100 weird things about new rock - part 9"
True, they'll be worse off-- but only for a generation or two.
A good chunk of people will struggle by. Once they squeeze out a round of kids who weren't born with technology all around them, they won't be acclimated to it. Instead, they'll acclimate to the only living conditions they've ever known. Within a few generations, there won't be anyone left alive who "expects" technology.
The reliance on technology is interesting, but not irreversible.