I would just like to say that I love Comrade Stalin. My earlier comments about our beloved leader were the result of my head being filled with Capitalist propaganda. I can assure you that I am reading this statement of my own volition and that there is not a gun pointed at my head at all. I have decided not to return to my family, lest I fall prey to the Capitalist pigs again. Please do not ask about me any further.
Hey, Deadliest Catch was a great show in its first season. But then Alaska changed the fishing rules and went to a quota system instead of a "grab what you can until we sound the horn" system. From the second season onward it got pretty boring. I don't even know why they still do the "crab count" thing. After the first season, it's meaningless.
Maybe they could get the poor bastards who took over The Man Show after Adam Corolla and Jimmy Kimmel got the boot. They're the Coy and Vance of cable television.
I knew I was making those student loan payments for SOMETHING.
And, given my experience working with the typical American, it would be impossible to dumb down anything enough for most of them to understand anyway. When I was in college, I took educated friends and co-workers for granted. When I came out into the "real world" it was a bit of culture shock to realize that the vast majority of real people not only don't have college degrees, but also read at about a "See Dick run" level.
I scrolled through these comments without finding a single "Real Genius" reference of question about using the mirror for making popcorn. For shame, slashdotters, for shame!
It won't be so much the government cracking down against *dissident* websites in the U.S., it will be the government and major broadband ISP's cracking down on websites based on file-sharing and "Intellectual Property" violations (at the behest of the MPAA/RIAA and their ilk). It's only a matter of time before typing in piratebay.org into your browser leads you to a page that says "This page is blocked for copyright violations" or something similar. The courts have already directly taken down sites like Torrentspy and Lokitorrent in the U.S.
People will learn to get around blocks with proxies, true, but how long before ISP's start blocking major proxy sites too? If my workplace can use Websense to block virtually any proxy list (and it's REALLY good at it too, BTW), there is nothing to stop my ISP from doing it too. And, like most people, I only have a couple of choices of broadband ISP's in my area (AT&T and Time Warner), so it's not like I could just take my business elsewhere.
I'm just glad that another for-profit company has finally entered the mix. Sure, it will hurt and maybe even kill Mozilla, but that's a small price to pay to hurt MS with some real competition for once.
My father and grandfather were career military and despised the Red Cross. And I can't say I'm too thrilled with them myself. When my grandfather was in Korea, they showed up with donuts and coffee for the soldiers--or rather they showed up SELLING donuts and coffee to soldiers (no money, no coffee G.I.!). They were also supposed to provide "family services" to G.I.'s and their families when I was a kid (they were supposed to do things like help contact G.I.'s in the field when there was a family emergency). But, in the experience of my father and other soldiers, they refused to do anything of the sort (if you called them, they would just give you the runaround). "We help the soldiers" looked great on their fundraising posters, but in practice they either did nothing or charged for what they did do (my grandfather called them a "vending contractor without a contract").
Combine that with the fact that they deliberately obscure the fact they they charge hospitals at the full market rate for their donated blood (most people think their donated blood is just given free to hospitals, that's why they donate to the Red Cross rather than directly) and you can see why I'm VERY wary of recommending that people give to the Red Cross for anything. I personally think they're little more than a government-sanctioned charity scam.
What kind of "evidence" would you expect to find in such a case? Perhaps a letter from her detailing her plans to retaliate? A public admission from her of her guilt? A diary entry in which she outlines her plans to fire the poor asshole who told her "no" when she asked him to carry out a personal vendetta?
She hates her brother in law who is a state trooper. Members of her family start putting pressure on the commissioner to fire him. He refuses. He's fired shortly thereafter. He comes out and tells his story.
Unless she was stupid enough to write down "I'm guilty" on a piece of paper or directly threaten the commissioner on a recorded phone call, that's about all you could reasonably expect to find if she's guilty. It's not like Sherlock Holmes is going to come in, dust for prints, and prove her true motives. But, at the same time, it would be pretty fucking naive to think it's all just a coincidence.
In a divorce, both sides always accuse the other of being thugs. The difference here is that one side had a governor on it who tried to use her political power to retaliate over a personal family matter then fired the man who refused to play along with her personal vendetta. That's wrong no matter how you slice it.
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If it will help them stop a bomb with a big red countdown display and color-coded wiring, then I'm willing to give up *my* privacy for it!
Well how else are they supposed to protect our parrots from terrorists planning their untimely demise?
I would just like to say that I love Comrade Stalin. My earlier comments about our beloved leader were the result of my head being filled with Capitalist propaganda. I can assure you that I am reading this statement of my own volition and that there is not a gun pointed at my head at all. I have decided not to return to my family, lest I fall prey to the Capitalist pigs again. Please do not ask about me any further.
Hey, Deadliest Catch was a great show in its first season. But then Alaska changed the fishing rules and went to a quota system instead of a "grab what you can until we sound the horn" system. From the second season onward it got pretty boring. I don't even know why they still do the "crab count" thing. After the first season, it's meaningless.
Maybe they could get the poor bastards who took over The Man Show after Adam Corolla and Jimmy Kimmel got the boot. They're the Coy and Vance of cable television.
A boring show with no production budget. Sounds like a winner.
The day I apologize to Huey Lewis is the day I recognize Missouri as a state!
I knew I was making those student loan payments for SOMETHING.
And, given my experience working with the typical American, it would be impossible to dumb down anything enough for most of them to understand anyway. When I was in college, I took educated friends and co-workers for granted. When I came out into the "real world" it was a bit of culture shock to realize that the vast majority of real people not only don't have college degrees, but also read at about a "See Dick run" level.
Budweiser it is!
Can't rip it, can't archive it, can't move it to my HDD without the dongle. And if the flash drive gets damaged, who you gonna call?
I scrolled through these comments without finding a single "Real Genius" reference of question about using the mirror for making popcorn. For shame, slashdotters, for shame!
It won't be so much the government cracking down against *dissident* websites in the U.S., it will be the government and major broadband ISP's cracking down on websites based on file-sharing and "Intellectual Property" violations (at the behest of the MPAA/RIAA and their ilk). It's only a matter of time before typing in piratebay.org into your browser leads you to a page that says "This page is blocked for copyright violations" or something similar. The courts have already directly taken down sites like Torrentspy and Lokitorrent in the U.S.
People will learn to get around blocks with proxies, true, but how long before ISP's start blocking major proxy sites too? If my workplace can use Websense to block virtually any proxy list (and it's REALLY good at it too, BTW), there is nothing to stop my ISP from doing it too. And, like most people, I only have a couple of choices of broadband ISP's in my area (AT&T and Time Warner), so it's not like I could just take my business elsewhere.
You should have seen the original "OMG, ponies!" version.
Well it's hard to say since, like 99.99999999% of Americans, I have no fucking idea what he looks like.
I'm just glad that another for-profit company has finally entered the mix. Sure, it will hurt and maybe even kill Mozilla, but that's a small price to pay to hurt MS with some real competition for once.
This isn't court of law, genius. It's a presidential race.
And remember kids, abstinence-only education works. Just ask the Republican Vice Presidential candidate!
Anyone who thinks that a pill is going to make Mr. Wang any bigger probably shouldn't be allowed to have money in the first place.
I shit in a sock too. But I don't play MMO's.
Yes, because consoles are so much bigger and more expensive than PC's.
Ever here of voice chat? And Xbox Live does that WAY better than any PC MMO too.
My father and grandfather were career military and despised the Red Cross. And I can't say I'm too thrilled with them myself. When my grandfather was in Korea, they showed up with donuts and coffee for the soldiers--or rather they showed up SELLING donuts and coffee to soldiers (no money, no coffee G.I.!). They were also supposed to provide "family services" to G.I.'s and their families when I was a kid (they were supposed to do things like help contact G.I.'s in the field when there was a family emergency). But, in the experience of my father and other soldiers, they refused to do anything of the sort (if you called them, they would just give you the runaround). "We help the soldiers" looked great on their fundraising posters, but in practice they either did nothing or charged for what they did do (my grandfather called them a "vending contractor without a contract").
Combine that with the fact that they deliberately obscure the fact they they charge hospitals at the full market rate for their donated blood (most people think their donated blood is just given free to hospitals, that's why they donate to the Red Cross rather than directly) and you can see why I'm VERY wary of recommending that people give to the Red Cross for anything. I personally think they're little more than a government-sanctioned charity scam.
What kind of "evidence" would you expect to find in such a case? Perhaps a letter from her detailing her plans to retaliate? A public admission from her of her guilt? A diary entry in which she outlines her plans to fire the poor asshole who told her "no" when she asked him to carry out a personal vendetta?
She hates her brother in law who is a state trooper. Members of her family start putting pressure on the commissioner to fire him. He refuses. He's fired shortly thereafter. He comes out and tells his story.
Unless she was stupid enough to write down "I'm guilty" on a piece of paper or directly threaten the commissioner on a recorded phone call, that's about all you could reasonably expect to find if she's guilty. It's not like Sherlock Holmes is going to come in, dust for prints, and prove her true motives. But, at the same time, it would be pretty fucking naive to think it's all just a coincidence.
In a divorce, both sides always accuse the other of being thugs. The difference here is that one side had a governor on it who tried to use her political power to retaliate over a personal family matter then fired the man who refused to play along with her personal vendetta. That's wrong no matter how you slice it.
We already have evidence of progressing Alzheimer's. The poor old bastard can't even remember how many houses he has.