I imagine they will so here's a non-violent method to get your point across. Some pain will need to be endured... Have 'Windows' tattooed on one butt cheek and 'sucks' on the other; all you need do then is moon the guy and he'll get the message.
...a significant faction in the judiciary here considers it their duty to kick politicans in the groin as hard as possible...
Heh, this conjured-up a wonderful mental picture: a judge in full court regalia saying "How's about this, Tony?" then kicking him square in the crotch.
Any passing deity fancy making it a reality?
Yeah, really. In other news, the Cheese Manufacturers' Alliance have released a report stating that eating cheese is good for you. The first thing that kids should be taught in secondary school is 'follow the money'.
Some sort of bizarre phobia about bacteria passing between pairs of legs? I bet it was North or West Wales; we think they're a little odd over/up there too.;)
Note to MS: Link thought thievery to paedophilia and the chattering classes will do the police-work for you, most likely resulting in a baying mob of imbeciles burning down someone's house.
British National Licence? Would that require the user to shave his head and chant "send the buggers back" as a mantra before using the software? Count me *well* out of that one.
And, conversely, you must be a midget if you prefer the bizarrely-shrunken 'S' controller. Does the 's' stand for 'shrimp'? Perhaps a designation of 'P' (for pygmy) might have been more suitable. Your surname isn't 'Thighbiter' by any chance?
Ditto. If the new controller is 'S'-sized I hope there's a larger after-market pad available, and preferably from MS. That original Xbox pad was damn-near unbreakable and the perfect size for my larger-than-average hands. Various accounts suggest these new pads are wireless and rechargable, not to mention PC-compatible (if you're using Longhorn, of course). Nice ideas, but we'll have to wait until the public unveiling to discover if any of this is true or just wishful thinking.
Heh, while the massed ranks of Star Wars geeks shout "Die! Die!" in Ancient Hutt-ese? BTW, try playing 'Lego Star Wars'; it contains Jar-Jar but as he doesn't actually speak he isn't anywhere near so irritating.
IBM have announced a series of layoffs, with most UK workers fearing it'll be them given the bullet. Perhaps they should barrack SCO for making IBM waste all that cash on this pointless lawsuit?
You saved me a search; after reading the headline I immediately thought of QBIC but the last time I remember even reading about it was in college, and that was some time ago.
This is why I don't like Christians: no bloody sense of humour. Not that any other religious adherents are notably more able to have a laugh. There's probably a thesis in there somewhere but I really can't be fagged.
I feel your pain, brother... We in the UK have our General Election this week and, barring an act of $DEITY, Tony Bloody Blair will be re-elected and will continue to turn us into a remote state of the USA. He has already appointed a religious zealot (besides himself, of course) to the Cabinet, a move which should have shocked more people than it actually did. I'm just waiting for the banning of contraceptive advice and the advocation of abstinence. All you British citizens reading, remember to vote!
(paraphrasing one of the other replies) He's the creator of a number of televisual turds; the most popular were turds with fangs, the subject of this story is a turd in a cowboy hat. In spaaaaaaaaace. (ObBlindinglyObviousStatement: I am not a fan)
If you knew anything about Mandelson's political history you might think this incident deserves a little investigation. Any search for him at the BBC's news site should turn up some useful information.
Dude, you do realise that out of that "multi-million dollar record contract" you'd receive next to buggerall? And always remember the expression "he who pays the piper calls the tune". Me? I (along with occasional contributors) *am* a small-time garage band. I play because I have to, not because I want anyone else to hear it. The response to my warbling and playing is more good than bad but I've never really wanted to make money from it. If I did that it would become a job and, ultimately, this would mean relinquishing control. If it floats your boat, feel free to hunt that record-contract down but don't assume every other musician/author/artist wants the same as you.
I'm sure the EU would be just as open to suggestions on its trade policy from the WTO as they are from MS... Ultimately the WTO are toothless against entities the size of the EU and the USA. A trade war would be stupid, but it's enlightened self-interest that stops such an occurence not the WTO.
That was either a) a finely-honed piece of satire or b) you are insane and should be locked away in solitary confinement before you have the chance to infect others. This news leads me to suspect we have a new candidate to sweep the board at the next Golden Raspberry Awards. At a slight tangent to this, every time I have the misfortune to see 'Angel' I sit in open-mouthed wonder at the sheer awfulness of Dick van Spike's accent. I await his interpretation of Bert the Chimney Sweep in the inevitable remake of 'Mary Poppins' in the same way a pack of ravening wolves await a straggler from a passing deer-herd.
This tells us that there are only approximately 2.6 people per square km, and thus, unless these are really enormous people, Australia is most definitely not full.
Erm, they are. The average Australian is approximately 50m tall, maybe larger since I last looked. Why do you think we keep them in the Commonwealth? I'll tell you: if anyone dares to pick a fight we'd send a couple of Aussies around to stamp their country into dust. Environmentally-friendly, and it gives our antipodean friends chance to see the world, albeit from a long way up.
The inhabitants of New Zealand are, in fact, originally from Australia but were forced into permanent migration by their far larger brethren. Poor devils were nearly driven to extinction, and it was by sheer carelessness alone; the larger Australians simply didn't worry about anything so small being crushed underfoot.
Ask any Aussie about the veracity of these facts and they'll be happy to oblige.
There are already laws in place to stop the offences you just mentioned (ABH or GBH and theft). Did he report the incident? It sounds like he didn't, so I have no sympathy. The CA are forever wittering on about democracy but they appear not to know what the word means; here's a clue: it has nothing to do with a minority of people being allowed to continue to practice a hobby which the majority consider barbaric. In that sense, democracy is despotic and, in a fair and just democracy, those who ignored this new law would be tried and punished. But this country is neither fair nor just, so they'll be ignored and the barbarians will continue as before. The majority of people despise both the Conservative Party and the Thatcherite elements of the current government (Blair, Clarke, etc), so the next 'popularity contest' is still up in the air, really. Personally, I distrust Blair and his cronies, cannot fathom the point of the Tories, and have varying degrees of dislike for the other contenders. All I know is that whoever we vote for, the government gets in (origins of that quote are unknown to me, I'm afraid).
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My first thought on this? The bug-fixes/service packs for Longhorn will be *huge* and MS are looking for ways to cut their bandwidth costs. :)
Heh, wouldn't 'vaginormous' be more accurate?
I imagine they will so here's a non-violent method to get your point across. Some pain will need to be endured...
Have 'Windows' tattooed on one butt cheek and 'sucks' on the other; all you need do then is moon the guy and he'll get the message.
Heh, this conjured-up a wonderful mental picture: a judge in full court regalia saying "How's about this, Tony?" then kicking him square in the crotch.
Any passing deity fancy making it a reality?
Yeah, really. In other news, the Cheese Manufacturers' Alliance have released a report stating that eating cheese is good for you.
The first thing that kids should be taught in secondary school is 'follow the money'.
Some sort of bizarre phobia about bacteria passing between pairs of legs? ;)
I bet it was North or West Wales; we think they're a little odd over/up there too.
Note to MS:
Link thought thievery to paedophilia and the chattering classes will do the police-work for you, most likely resulting in a baying mob of imbeciles burning down someone's house.
British National Licence? Would that require the user to shave his head and chant "send the buggers back" as a mantra before using the software?
Count me *well* out of that one.
ISTR reading it was five PPCs. If this is true it may well need to be housed in an aluminium case. :)
Is it related to this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/rsod/
And, conversely, you must be a midget if you prefer the bizarrely-shrunken 'S' controller. Does the 's' stand for 'shrimp'? Perhaps a designation of 'P' (for pygmy) might have been more suitable.
Your surname isn't 'Thighbiter' by any chance?
Ditto. If the new controller is 'S'-sized I hope there's a larger after-market pad available, and preferably from MS. That original Xbox pad was damn-near unbreakable and the perfect size for my larger-than-average hands.
Various accounts suggest these new pads are wireless and rechargable, not to mention PC-compatible (if you're using Longhorn, of course). Nice ideas, but we'll have to wait until the public unveiling to discover if any of this is true or just wishful thinking.
Heh, while the massed ranks of Star Wars geeks shout "Die! Die!" in Ancient Hutt-ese?
BTW, try playing 'Lego Star Wars'; it contains Jar-Jar but as he doesn't actually speak he isn't anywhere near so irritating.
IBM have announced a series of layoffs, with most UK workers fearing it'll be them given the bullet. Perhaps they should barrack SCO for making IBM waste all that cash on this pointless lawsuit?
You saved me a search; after reading the headline I immediately thought of QBIC but the last time I remember even reading about it was in college, and that was some time ago.
This is why I don't like Christians: no bloody sense of humour. Not that any other religious adherents are notably more able to have a laugh.
There's probably a thesis in there somewhere but I really can't be fagged.
I feel your pain, brother...
We in the UK have our General Election this week and, barring an act of $DEITY, Tony Bloody Blair will be re-elected and will continue to turn us into a remote state of the USA. He has already appointed a religious zealot (besides himself, of course) to the Cabinet, a move which should have shocked more people than it actually did. I'm just waiting for the banning of contraceptive advice and the advocation of abstinence.
All you British citizens reading, remember to vote!
(paraphrasing one of the other replies)
He's the creator of a number of televisual turds; the most popular were turds with fangs, the subject of this story is a turd in a cowboy hat. In spaaaaaaaaace.
(ObBlindinglyObviousStatement: I am not a fan)
If you knew anything about Mandelson's political history you might think this incident deserves a little investigation. Any search for him at the BBC's news site should turn up some useful information.
Dude, you do realise that out of that "multi-million dollar record contract" you'd receive next to buggerall? And always remember the expression "he who pays the piper calls the tune".
Me? I (along with occasional contributors) *am* a small-time garage band. I play because I have to, not because I want anyone else to hear it. The response to my warbling and playing is more good than bad but I've never really wanted to make money from it. If I did that it would become a job and, ultimately, this would mean relinquishing control. If it floats your boat, feel free to hunt that record-contract down but don't assume every other musician/author/artist wants the same as you.
I'm sure the EU would be just as open to suggestions on its trade policy from the WTO as they are from MS...
Ultimately the WTO are toothless against entities the size of the EU and the USA. A trade war would be stupid, but it's enlightened self-interest that stops such an occurence not the WTO.
That was either a) a finely-honed piece of satire or b) you are insane and should be locked away in solitary confinement before you have the chance to infect others.
This news leads me to suspect we have a new candidate to sweep the board at the next Golden Raspberry Awards.
At a slight tangent to this, every time I have the misfortune to see 'Angel' I sit in open-mouthed wonder at the sheer awfulness of Dick van Spike's accent. I await his interpretation of Bert the Chimney Sweep in the inevitable remake of 'Mary Poppins' in the same way a pack of ravening wolves await a straggler from a passing deer-herd.
This tells us that there are only approximately 2.6 people per square km, and thus, unless these are really enormous people, Australia is most definitely not full.
Erm, they are. The average Australian is approximately 50m tall, maybe larger since I last looked. Why do you think we keep them in the Commonwealth? I'll tell you: if anyone dares to pick a fight we'd send a couple of Aussies around to stamp their country into dust. Environmentally-friendly, and it gives our antipodean friends chance to see the world, albeit from a long way up.
The inhabitants of New Zealand are, in fact, originally from Australia but were forced into permanent migration by their far larger brethren. Poor devils were nearly driven to extinction, and it was by sheer carelessness alone; the larger Australians simply didn't worry about anything so small being crushed underfoot.
Ask any Aussie about the veracity of these facts and they'll be happy to oblige.
Anyone who watched that junk should be decapitated with a steel-rimmed cowboy hat (think: Oddjob as a space cowboy).
There are already laws in place to stop the offences you just mentioned (ABH or GBH and theft). Did he report the incident? It sounds like he didn't, so I have no sympathy.
The CA are forever wittering on about democracy but they appear not to know what the word means; here's a clue: it has nothing to do with a minority of people being allowed to continue to practice a hobby which the majority consider barbaric. In that sense, democracy is despotic and, in a fair and just democracy, those who ignored this new law would be tried and punished. But this country is neither fair nor just, so they'll be ignored and the barbarians will continue as before.
The majority of people despise both the Conservative Party and the Thatcherite elements of the current government (Blair, Clarke, etc), so the next 'popularity contest' is still up in the air, really. Personally, I distrust Blair and his cronies, cannot fathom the point of the Tories, and have varying degrees of dislike for the other contenders. All I know is that whoever we vote for, the government gets in (origins of that quote are unknown to me, I'm afraid).