Many a kid in the 70-80's was introduced to a world of nightmares and a desire to bleach their eyes by discovering their folks' "hidden" shoebox of memories...
Maybe they were the lucky ones! With Goatse, Tubgirl, 2 Girls 1 Cup, and everything else, we need eye bleach just being ON the internet!
Seriously! The Czars PREDATE SOVIET RUSSIA! That's why they did the whole Bolshevik Revolution! So we can't even counteract this new rise in Czars with the whole "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" meme that's become so popular around here! What's a Slashdotter to do?!?!
Could we have a poobah or a caliph or sultan or something, please God, anything else for a change, plz?
Sounds good to me! How about he appoints an "Internet Guru" to the Cabinet! The position should be filled by a 15-year-old kid, or Wesley Crusher Wil Wheaton. =)
I'm waiting for the Toilet Paper Czar, who will coordinate government efforts to regulate both the orientation of the roll in the holder as well as the direction of wipe.
Government already has this job. It's officially called, "Director of the Internal Revenue Service.";-)
So, the new site is basically Tigerdirect underneath with the usual Circuit City logo on the main page? I bet when you order, the stuff comes out of the same warehouse as Tigerdirect. So, why not just order from Tigerdirect? These guys did the exact same thing with compusa.com. If they were going to do something new and different with the brand, then I'd say go for it, but this is hardly creative at all. They've basically just put Circuit City on an eternal life support machine,...
Thanks to this invention, geeks of the future will need a flux capacitor just to view their porn collections! Suddenly, Doc Brown's odd pronunciation of, "1.1 Gigawatts", makes a lot more sense!
Plus, do you really think Sarah Palin would've been a better Veep than Biden? She probably would've tried to convince us to move the VP secret hideout to Wasilla, Alaska, because, you know, she can see Russia from there.
Why is it that whenever a company tries to market its product towards a particular minority subgroup in the population, it's always a fail of epic proportions. Anyone remember when Slashdot tried to appeal more to women?;-)
I'm still not sure why cooking is always lumped in with the stereotypical female thing. There's a lot of guys that are good cooks, and some of the best professional chefs you see on the food network are men. There are surveys out there that show that cooking is not just a female-dominated thing. Women are more likely to cook, "for the family", so it's more of their chore. Men are more likely to cook as a hobby, so they get into some of the more gourmet stuff. So I'd say this "stereotype" is "busted",...
In order for that to work, we would also have to redesign most major metropolitan areas in the US, except for maybe New York, Boston, and a handful of other cities. Most US cities, and especially suburbs, are not designed for walking/cycling traffic. They're designed for cars. I'm all about encouraging people to walk more, but there's also a significant safety issue in encouraging people to walk down your average suburban highway with no sidewalks and a parking lot in front of every building,... I guess that's what you get when you give too much power to the oil and auto companies,...
Make sure you compare apples to apples here. I think a lot of Panera customers order the "You Pick Two" deals, so instead of a full sandwich, you only get half a sandwich, a soup, and your choice of bread or fruit/vegetables. The half sandwiches are on par, and in some cases slightly less calories, than the McDonald's offerings. Plus, most of their soups (even something like Broccoli Cheddar or Cream of Chicken, blow the living crap out of McD French Fries. Well, except on the sodium -- you're right about the sodium.;-)
Non-Disclaimer: I don't work for Panera Bread, or McDonald's. I work on an urban University campus that has both McDs and Panera. I've eaten at the Panera, not at the McDs. Students seem to love the Panera, but it's still not overflowing to the point of not being able to find a seat (then again, the campus itself offers free wi-fi, too, so that kind of defeats the purpose of businesses offering it). I have yet to set foot in the McDs on campus -- can't stand the smell of the joint. Last two times I ate McDs, I threw up. I'll gladly pay a few bucks more for food if I don't regurgitate it afterwards, thankyouverymuch!
No, I don't work for them at all. But I do notice that their business seems pretty regular, and they don't seem to have a problem with people occupying seats for too long, making it difficult for others to find a seat.
Perhaps McDonald's real issue is that the cheap-ass prices of their food are drawing in everybody and everybody, whereas Panera is a bit more expensive, so doesn't draw in the lower-class crowds, so there's more room for more people.
Go to Panera Bread. They have free wi-fi there, too. The food is quite a bit better, and healthier, than all that fried and preprocessed crap that McDonald's dishes out,...
It looked cool, but for all the years they put into the development, and redevelopment, and reredevelopment, I have to admit I was expecting more. I think it would be cool if they made the Duke Nukem series a big open source project -- let the community develop it. Either that, or give the intellectual property rights to a University with a good gaming development/design program, and let them use it to teach the various aspects of game design.
Or just wait another year when Jupiter explodes into a new Sun. After all, we already know that the Great Red Spot is shrinking. Just don't send any space probes to Europa, and we should be ok,...;-)
That's ridiculous. TLDs have nothing to do with whether or no spam is being sent.
No, they don't. But the vast majority of people registering domains in the.biz or.info TLDs are spammers. I have yet to find anything either legitimate, or of value, in either of those TLDs.
Like ICANN has done such a wonderful job in its stewardship of domain names to begin with! Let's start off with such useful TLDs like.museum,.aero,.biz (a spammer's haven), and.info (another spammer's haven)! Does anybody even use these anymore? And they never really could figure out what to do with.xxx, either. And let's not forget that their proposal to let people buy TLDs is motivated primarily by greed.
Still, I'm not sure that more international oversight would solve this. We'll probably just see more useless TLDs added to an already overcrowded conglomerate of crap, and.xxx will still go nowhere (unless, maybe, if we put the Dutch in charge, because they seem to have made Amsterdam work out;-). Nevertheless, I can understand why other nations may want to have a say in things. After all, while the U.S. may have "invented the internet", the most popular "application", the World Wide Web, was invented by a British scientist at CERN, in Europe. I'm not so sure that our original version of the internet would have taken off quite as well with out Sir Berners-Lee's invention?
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Maybe they were the lucky ones! With Goatse, Tubgirl, 2 Girls 1 Cup, and everything else, we need eye bleach just being ON the internet!
Wow! This is impressive! Technology has progressed to the point of being able to store my porn for longer than 35,000 years!
Seriously! The Czars PREDATE SOVIET RUSSIA! That's why they did the whole Bolshevik Revolution! So we can't even counteract this new rise in Czars with the whole "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" meme that's become so popular around here! What's a Slashdotter to do?!?!
Sounds good to me! How about he appoints an "Internet Guru" to the Cabinet! The position should be filled by a 15-year-old kid, or Wesley Crusher Wil Wheaton. =)
Government already has this job. It's officially called, "Director of the Internal Revenue Service." ;-)
So, the new site is basically Tigerdirect underneath with the usual Circuit City logo on the main page? I bet when you order, the stuff comes out of the same warehouse as Tigerdirect. So, why not just order from Tigerdirect? These guys did the exact same thing with compusa.com. If they were going to do something new and different with the brand, then I'd say go for it, but this is hardly creative at all. They've basically just put Circuit City on an eternal life support machine,...
The reason being that Arnold is a tad occupied with being the Governor of California at the moment,...
As long as it's not Wil Wheaton or they guy who played Jar Jar Binks, we're cool! ;-)
I'd play more video games myself, but I've been waiting like 15 years for Duke Nukem Forever to come out! Now, what am I going to do?!?!
Are you on crack?!?! That's a horrible idea!
Thanks to this invention, geeks of the future will need a flux capacitor just to view their porn collections! Suddenly, Doc Brown's odd pronunciation of, "1.1 Gigawatts", makes a lot more sense!
No, let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
Plus, do you really think Sarah Palin would've been a better Veep than Biden? She probably would've tried to convince us to move the VP secret hideout to Wasilla, Alaska, because, you know, she can see Russia from there.
Is that really this guy's name? Wow! The Christian Right is going to love this!!!! I smell a flame war brewing! ;-)
Why is it that whenever a company tries to market its product towards a particular minority subgroup in the population, it's always a fail of epic proportions. Anyone remember when Slashdot tried to appeal more to women? ;-)
I'm still not sure why cooking is always lumped in with the stereotypical female thing. There's a lot of guys that are good cooks, and some of the best professional chefs you see on the food network are men. There are surveys out there that show that cooking is not just a female-dominated thing. Women are more likely to cook, "for the family", so it's more of their chore. Men are more likely to cook as a hobby, so they get into some of the more gourmet stuff. So I'd say this "stereotype" is "busted",...
We're already practically there. Our own President can't even go out and get a damn hamburger without causing a controversy. Good grief!
In order for that to work, we would also have to redesign most major metropolitan areas in the US, except for maybe New York, Boston, and a handful of other cities. Most US cities, and especially suburbs, are not designed for walking/cycling traffic. They're designed for cars. I'm all about encouraging people to walk more, but there's also a significant safety issue in encouraging people to walk down your average suburban highway with no sidewalks and a parking lot in front of every building,... I guess that's what you get when you give too much power to the oil and auto companies,...
Non-Disclaimer: I don't work for Panera Bread, or McDonald's. I work on an urban University campus that has both McDs and Panera. I've eaten at the Panera, not at the McDs. Students seem to love the Panera, but it's still not overflowing to the point of not being able to find a seat (then again, the campus itself offers free wi-fi, too, so that kind of defeats the purpose of businesses offering it). I have yet to set foot in the McDs on campus -- can't stand the smell of the joint. Last two times I ate McDs, I threw up. I'll gladly pay a few bucks more for food if I don't regurgitate it afterwards, thankyouverymuch!
Perhaps McDonald's real issue is that the cheap-ass prices of their food are drawing in everybody and everybody, whereas Panera is a bit more expensive, so doesn't draw in the lower-class crowds, so there's more room for more people.
Go to Panera Bread. They have free wi-fi there, too. The food is quite a bit better, and healthier, than all that fried and preprocessed crap that McDonald's dishes out,...
It looked cool, but for all the years they put into the development, and redevelopment, and reredevelopment, I have to admit I was expecting more. I think it would be cool if they made the Duke Nukem series a big open source project -- let the community develop it. Either that, or give the intellectual property rights to a University with a good gaming development/design program, and let them use it to teach the various aspects of game design.
Or just wait another year when Jupiter explodes into a new Sun. After all, we already know that the Great Red Spot is shrinking. Just don't send any space probes to Europa, and we should be ok,... ;-)
No, they don't. But the vast majority of people registering domains in the .biz or .info TLDs are spammers. I have yet to find anything either legitimate, or of value, in either of those TLDs.
Still, I'm not sure that more international oversight would solve this. We'll probably just see more useless TLDs added to an already overcrowded conglomerate of crap, and .xxx will still go nowhere (unless, maybe, if we put the Dutch in charge, because they seem to have made Amsterdam work out ;-). Nevertheless, I can understand why other nations may want to have a say in things. After all, while the U.S. may have "invented the internet", the most popular "application", the World Wide Web, was invented by a British scientist at CERN, in Europe. I'm not so sure that our original version of the internet would have taken off quite as well with out Sir Berners-Lee's invention?