You can choose the military, reserves, fire department, police, border patroll, forrest service, help the IRS, help the homeless, help at hospitals, etc. (the full list can be decided later).
Hmm. I don't find Netflix to be more hassle than Blockbuster, but then again I have a mailbox less than 100 feet from my front door.:) But agreed on the selection. I have seen many anime series thanks to Netflix.
You know what drove me from Blockbuster? Their insistence on announcing a customers movie selections to the whole store. "OK, so you rented blah blah blah..." as loud as they could. That just really bothered me even when I was renting mundane stuff. That and they'd have 9000 copies of "Adam Sandler Acts Like A Total Fuckhead, And Women Still Spead Their Legs For Him" and one copy [MAYBE] of that obscure independent film I'd been looking for.
what's going to happen to the treasured art of driving a car with a manual transmission? When I head up a curvy mountain road, I get to do a lot more than just gas - brake - gas - brake. It's a challenge to do well, and feels like a kind of artistic expression at times.
I'm sorry, but at this point I must make fun of you, and put dirt in your hair.
The US has strange attitudes about sex and violence.
Can we please stop with the broad brushing?
While there are some dumbasses making complaints, the fact is that the GTA series has been a HUGE seller in the USA. So, I guess there's quite a few folks who don't have a problem, but the media points the cameras at the squeaky wheels.
Same thing with pr0n in general. Everyone is all "Oh! Those 'Mericans! So prudish!" Meanwhile, the porn industry is, like, a 250 million billion dollar a year business here. Howard Stern rules the radio waves. The Sopranos is critically acclaimed and popular. Prudes? Us? Huh?
Don't paint the whole country the same shade as a handful of fanatics and idiot politcos. That's all I'm askin'.
Now, perhaps if this was the My Little Pony game and there was an easy hack to allow my little pony to join a donkey show in Tijuana and violate the PowerPuff girls in graphic detail with animations of horse-jism and blood squirting out of Buttercup as she's bent over the back of a chair and held down by the Mario Brothers and introduced to the animal kingdom then I could see some cause for concern.
I would buy that game.
Yee is the guy who said government buildingd should use fung shui.
Leland Yee is the guy who said government buildings should be built and laid out based on the "principles" of fung shui. This guy is as stupid as they come, folks.
But then the Cal state legislature is a pack of the filthiest, most useless dogshit motherfuckers you will ever see, on both sides of the statehouse. I'm not just ranting here. If you live here, you know what I mean. These asshats are subhuman. Their IQ is about 80, and I mean that in a collective sense.
And we can't get rid of them because they gerrymandered the state so tightly we just get more extremists from both parties, so term limits are useless. And the Kool-Aid drinkers on both sides just vote Party lines, so it's a never ending parade of dumbass. And people pick on Arnold for not fixing this unholy mess overnight...
California, and I say this in complete and total seriousness, needs an armed insurrection.
You want this political boner for Victorian-era censorship to go flaccid? Vote with your eyes open! Note that Lee is a Democrat, and there's a lot of Democrats like this. Stop with the "Oh, well, a vote for the Democrats is a vote for free speech" bullshit. THINK!
I miss the days (snes/genesis) where only 1st party titles were exclusive (mario vs sonic) and with pretty much all other titles it was may the best console win.
Yes, but I can buy all three next gen systems for less than putting together a gaming PC.
I got tiny black text on a fire engine red background, and then the next article had blue text (in an certified "wacky" font) on a lemon yellow background. I gave up. And that was when my eyes didn't suck as badly as they do now. In fact, I think my eyes suck now *because* of that quick exposure to Wired.
Hey, guys, there's a reason most people don't print their text in wildy, wacky colors, and it has nothing to do with coolness, style, culture or any of those dumbass things.
Until the Direct Connect (as Nextel calls it) system overloads and breaks down. It's already flakey during peak hours. More pie in the sky ignoring the limitations of a resource.
This *is* a problem, though. This was the first case, as you said, of a transfer of the property between two *private* parties. This is *very* new, and the decision decidedly went the wrong way. It absolutlely WILL be abused as early and as often as possible.
"For some reason his right arm is showing more wear than the left," said Dr. Todd Kuiken. "Especially around the fingers and palm. We're not sure what's up with that."
Quite how the whole Iraq fiasco saved anyone from anything, other than saving many thousands of people from the torture of having to breathe, I have no idea.
And that's exactly the problem. You and a frighteningly large segment of the populace don't know shit. You are ignorant beyond human comprehension, and settle your minds down into safe little ideological viewpoints, all the while believing you are the superior thinkers. It's sad and pathetic, and it will eventually undo all that our forebearers have built.
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There's no native populations that need to be cleared out.
Man, there'd be a LOT of forest rangers. :-)
Side 1: You guys are complete idiots, and would not have a clue if a clue factory dropped on your house, and spilled clues all over you.
Side 2: Fuck you, dumbass. You're just another Bush-licking neocon who marches to the orders of KKKArl Rove.
Side 1: Oh, blow me, liberal fuck. I'm not even conservative. You suck!
Side 2: No, *you* suck, fucking red stater!
Side 3: You both suck! Anarchy forever. Ban RFID and RIAA and WMF and UCLA and BVDs.
All sides in unison: NAZI!
Quiet Desperation: (posts stupid joke response)
Ribbons, I kid you not! :)
Publishers used to have to request letter quality instead of dot matrix in their submission guidelines. It was the dark ages, man.
You know what drove me from Blockbuster? Their insistence on announcing a customers movie selections to the whole store. "OK, so you rented blah blah blah..." as loud as they could. That just really bothered me even when I was renting mundane stuff. That and they'd have 9000 copies of "Adam Sandler Acts Like A Total Fuckhead, And Women Still Spead Their Legs For Him" and one copy [MAYBE] of that obscure independent film I'd been looking for.
Uh, that's one of the *fundamental* purposes of modern representative democracy, which .au still has last I checked.
That other 10% pays their taxes, too, and as others have said, there's a multitude of readily available crossplatform methods. There's no excuse here.
I'm sorry, but at this point I must make fun of you, and put dirt in your hair.
Wow. The Amish read Wired? Huh.
Can we please stop with the broad brushing?
While there are some dumbasses making complaints, the fact is that the GTA series has been a HUGE seller in the USA. So, I guess there's quite a few folks who don't have a problem, but the media points the cameras at the squeaky wheels.
Same thing with pr0n in general. Everyone is all "Oh! Those 'Mericans! So prudish!" Meanwhile, the porn industry is, like, a 250 million billion dollar a year business here. Howard Stern rules the radio waves. The Sopranos is critically acclaimed and popular. Prudes? Us? Huh?
Don't paint the whole country the same shade as a handful of fanatics and idiot politcos. That's all I'm askin'.
I would buy that game.
Yee is the guy who said government buildingd should use fung shui.
But then the Cal state legislature is a pack of the filthiest, most useless dogshit motherfuckers you will ever see, on both sides of the statehouse. I'm not just ranting here. If you live here, you know what I mean. These asshats are subhuman. Their IQ is about 80, and I mean that in a collective sense.
And we can't get rid of them because they gerrymandered the state so tightly we just get more extremists from both parties, so term limits are useless. And the Kool-Aid drinkers on both sides just vote Party lines, so it's a never ending parade of dumbass. And people pick on Arnold for not fixing this unholy mess overnight...
California, and I say this in complete and total seriousness, needs an armed insurrection.
You want this political boner for Victorian-era censorship to go flaccid? Vote with your eyes open! Note that Lee is a Democrat, and there's a lot of Democrats like this. Stop with the "Oh, well, a vote for the Democrats is a vote for free speech" bullshit. THINK!
Published in Astounding Science Fiction
In 1946. Yeah, that's Forty-Six.
But, well, Gibson's talking about "the digital" though. (rolls eyes)
Well, we'll just have to rename the game Freedom.
Yes, but I can buy all three next gen systems for less than putting together a gaming PC.
Can't they just turn down the knob on the Sun?
Well, then it means hot babes in orbit? In form fitting spacesuits? Sign me up.
...which then plunges the Earth into a sudden ice age.
Hey, guys, there's a reason most people don't print their text in wildy, wacky colors, and it has nothing to do with coolness, style, culture or any of those dumbass things.
Until the Direct Connect (as Nextel calls it) system overloads and breaks down. It's already flakey during peak hours. More pie in the sky ignoring the limitations of a resource.
Apple was so enamored with absolute pure, minimalist design that some designers may argue that ergonomics were compromised.
That's nice. And those designers would be wrong.
What's sad is I took the low humor road, and got +4 Funny. :)
This *is* a problem, though. This was the first case, as you said, of a transfer of the property between two *private* parties. This is *very* new, and the decision decidedly went the wrong way. It absolutlely WILL be abused as early and as often as possible.
Ignore my post up there. I was in a pissy mood.
"For some reason his right arm is showing more wear than the left," said Dr. Todd Kuiken. "Especially around the fingers and palm. We're not sure what's up with that."
And that's exactly the problem. You and a frighteningly large segment of the populace don't know shit. You are ignorant beyond human comprehension, and settle your minds down into safe little ideological viewpoints, all the while believing you are the superior thinkers. It's sad and pathetic, and it will eventually undo all that our forebearers have built.