Yeah, hard to believe that at the dawn of the 21st Century, there are still idiots like this out there. Human ignorance and/or willful stupidity is in infinite supply, it seems.
It all depends on who's manning the NLRB and which Administration is in power in Washington, D.C., doesn't it? Under the "right" people (pun intended), the Feds pretty much look the other way in the face of all kinds of shenanigans.
As a result the big telecomm companies get to do exactly what they want and have the government throw barriers in the way of any new upstart competitors that would challenge their oligopoly pricing. If we Americans actually owned our own elections, we wouldn't exist for Big Business' sake: it would be the other way around.
I always thought of the omnipresent spaceship rumble as being what the people _inside_ the ship would be hearing (even though we as the audience are viewing the ship from the outside). Now of course that doesn't explain the whooshes and explosion sounds.
Hear hear. I loved Descent. Of course, I could go back and actually try to finish Descent 3 first. I got stuck on that mission where you had to make it through the subway tunnels without getting killed by the trains.
The cancellation of the Mac version of Half-Life was what finally pushed me over to "The Dark Side" in June 1999. That and the fact that with Windows 98SE, finally there was a version of Windows that _began_ to be useable without jumping through too many hoops.
I can understand that there probably have to be some ads on webpages to help pay for bandwidth, etc.. I don't mind banner ads at the top and maybe a discreet ad or two in the margins, but what I cannot abide are the ones that flash, the ones that appear while you're on your way to a link you just clicked on, and even worse, the popups and anything that insists on blocking my view of what I'm trying to read or look at. That shit is just obnoxious, and it needs to go. I very much doubt that free internet content will go away as a result.
It was an incredible show about 10 years ago, and by the time it ended no one cared (probably 'cause they started making it up week to week as they went along).
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I found _Bender's Big Score_ pretty great, actually, and the second one amusing, but then the last two kinda meh.
Yeah, hard to believe that at the dawn of the 21st Century, there are still idiots like this out there. Human ignorance and/or willful stupidity is in infinite supply, it seems.
This is so going to go down in flames. I give it 6 months.
I see what you did there. (Well done, BTW--people need to learn to spell.)
It all depends on who's manning the NLRB and which Administration is in power in Washington, D.C., doesn't it? Under the "right" people (pun intended), the Feds pretty much look the other way in the face of all kinds of shenanigans.
As a result the big telecomm companies get to do exactly what they want and have the government throw barriers in the way of any new upstart competitors that would challenge their oligopoly pricing. If we Americans actually owned our own elections, we wouldn't exist for Big Business' sake: it would be the other way around.
Oh, Jesus Chr... oops!
It's showing up all screwy compared to other /. stories.
I always thought of the omnipresent spaceship rumble as being what the people _inside_ the ship would be hearing (even though we as the audience are viewing the ship from the outside). Now of course that doesn't explain the whooshes and explosion sounds.
Good luck tilting at those windmills, Chief.
Hear hear. I loved Descent. Of course, I could go back and actually try to finish Descent 3 first. I got stuck on that mission where you had to make it through the subway tunnels without getting killed by the trains.
The cancellation of the Mac version of Half-Life was what finally pushed me over to "The Dark Side" in June 1999. That and the fact that with Windows 98SE, finally there was a version of Windows that _began_ to be useable without jumping through too many hoops.
Myths I and II, Interstate '76, The Operative: No One Lives Forever and finally, an old-school choice: Super Mario World.
I can understand that there probably have to be some ads on webpages to help pay for bandwidth, etc.. I don't mind banner ads at the top and maybe a discreet ad or two in the margins, but what I cannot abide are the ones that flash, the ones that appear while you're on your way to a link you just clicked on, and even worse, the popups and anything that insists on blocking my view of what I'm trying to read or look at. That shit is just obnoxious, and it needs to go. I very much doubt that free internet content will go away as a result.
the console will actually be available, but just that we'll get the specs, some pics, and a release date, right?
It was an incredible show about 10 years ago, and by the time it ended no one cared (probably 'cause they started making it up week to week as they went along).