Where does this paranoia come from? Seriously, has any man ever been accused of sexual harassment, EVER, for saying "Hi," and offering a smile? Even in a workplace? This sounds like you're making up excuses for why you're afraid to talk to someone.
Although my original post here was an obvious exaggeration, it was done to illustrate how we do seem to have to walk on eggshells nowadays, to where you have to take extra care in what you say and how you say it. How do you get started without being instantly mistrusted? Wouldn't she instantly be put off by some total stranger suddenly striking up some idle chatter about whatever? Would she not be on the defensive right from the get go, wondering who this loser is trying to chat her up? Heck, if some girl were to take an interest in me, I would find myself wondering what her angle was, because I know she could do better.
Perhaps I simply overthink things a little too much. I really don't know any more. I am always polite and friendly, and treat most everyone respectfully. I tend to not engage in idle pointless chatter, rarely ever talk about myself (really, no one needs subjected to that amount of boredom either due to the banal subject matter or my annoying voice), but do honestly listen and pay attention to what others are saying, and am fairly quiet most of the time unless I have something that I think may be significant to say, and even then, after I mull it over, chances are I will decide it is not important enough to bring up, and end up holding my peace.
Okay, I know this post seems rather disjointed and all over the map, but I felt a need to try to further clarify my earlier post, and fully expressing my thoughts and feelings on most any personal matter is difficult for me.
I found that "hey baby" works reasonably well. Unoriginal, yes, but generally effective.
Nowadays, like most anything else you might open with (possibly even a sincere hello if it is accompanied by even a polite friendly smile), there are good odds that your line may be construed as sexual harassment.
Muwahahahahaha I can control life with this magical photo of you, and this wedding photo of you kissing your spouse will destroy your life! Careful, I might even say your name three times because we all know there's magic in names!
Dear Rasperin,
You are cordially invited to speak my name thrice any time you wish.
Well, mine was inspired by a quip in an old indy comic back in the late 80s or early 90s called Space Ark. The bit there was:
"How can we get close enough to the sun without burning up?"
"Simple. We go at night."
As for the Yahoo Answers post, I found it hilarious... hilarious that so many people actually thought the OP was being serious instead of seeing it for the silliness that it is.
I wouldn't be surprised if they sued me for all the TV I didn't watch back when I did have cable TV, since that also meant I didn't see their ads. And then they could sue again because I cancelled my cable TV subscription so I am still not seeing their ads.
According to the Passfault demo (that's the link in the summary above) it would take 18384672610116790 centuries to crack "This chicken tastes like shit!"
I just tacked on a couple zeros to see what that is in years, and found it mind numbing (nearly 2 quintillion?) So, according to this graph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Bang_to_Heat_Death would the universe be in the degenerate era or the black hole era by the time the password was cracked? My brain has a hard time processing numbers in the 1E1xx format.
Reminds me of the Carl's Junior vending machine in Idiocracy...
"WARNING! Carl's Jr. Frowns Upon Vandalism"
"Your kids are starving. Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr."
What needs to be done in response is for people who put out Creative Commons and other free (as in freedom) works to put together a couple PSA pieces to put on any DVDs of their works that they release. Of course, these would be freely skippable.
These PSAs would encourage the viewers to embrace CC and PD and to voluntarily support those who do so, perhaps also giving a nod to EFF and other digital freedoms oriented organizations.
A used game usually only even saves you $5. And for what?
So the profit can go to the sleazy retailer instead of the developers who wrote the game? Count me out.
That depends on where you buy your used games. The majority of my PS2, XBox, and GBA collection, as well as some Wii titles came from Goodwill and Pawn X Change, and on average, I paid anywhere from $2 to $5 per title, depending on who was doing the pricing that day, and I have enough to last me years now, on top of the PS1, N64, Gamecube, Genesis, Super NES, Atari 7800, TI-99/4a, Vectrex, MAME ROMs, and many older PC games. I've even picked up a couple 360 games dirt cheap at those places for when I do finally get around to getting a used 360.
Damn, scooped again. I was going to propose calling it Scarlet's Law:
Comparison of any activity that you don't of approve of to supporting terrorism or kiddie porn ends the discussion and results in a permanent loss of any credibility in any future discussions."
That said, I believe that doing any end runs around First Sale and other fair use rights should be treated as a violation of copyright and other applicable imaginary property laws. And as such, these shenanigans should subject the perpetrators to the same penalties that those who violate copyright and other imaginary property rights in the more traditional sense have to undergo.
They came back with a letter that they don't care and their previous offer of licensing it for 2% of revenue was off the table but we can license it for 4% plus a few thousand bucks to pay for their lawyer's time reading our letter, or for $sixfigures we can explain it to the judge and hope the judge and/or jury understands what a server is.
Sounds like this should be changed from a civil case to criminal, with charges of extortion and racketeering. The patent trolls and their lawyers in this case need to do some hard federal prison time for this.
You want me to police my customers for you? Fuck you! You want me to hand over subscriber data without a court order? Fuck you! You want me to block websites based on your sayso? Fuck you! You want me to shut off paying customers because you don't like what they're downloading? Fuck you!
As an American I'd love to hear where the hell in the States you are buying a gallon milk for a buck ninety-nine because it sure as shit ain't that cheap anywhere around here.
Kitsap County, Washington: Around $2.75 or so at Target, Trader Joe's, and one convenience store that gets supplied by a big grocery store with the same owner. $2.50 at another convenience store, and around $2.15 at my local commissary.
Now that he has managed to use physics to get out of a ticket for allegedly running a stop sign, he can use an even simpler argument to get out of a speeding ticket, if he is traveling east to west.
Let's say he is going from Spokane, Washington to Seattle. Speed limit is 70 mph, and the cop determines he was doing 85.
All he would have to do is remind the officer that at Seattle's latitude, the Earth rotates west to east at a speed of 707 miles per hour. And since he was moving in the opposite direction of the Earth's rotation, then he was actually traveling at negative 622 miles per hour.
Of course, he wouldn't want to get busted speeding in the other direction after pulling this off, unless he is prepared to pay a super hefty fine for speeding at 782 miles per hour in a 70 mile per hour zone.
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Where does this paranoia come from? Seriously, has any man ever been accused of sexual harassment, EVER, for saying "Hi," and offering a smile? Even in a workplace? This sounds like you're making up excuses for why you're afraid to talk to someone.
Although my original post here was an obvious exaggeration, it was done to illustrate how we do seem to have to walk on eggshells nowadays, to where you have to take extra care in what you say and how you say it. How do you get started without being instantly mistrusted? Wouldn't she instantly be put off by some total stranger suddenly striking up some idle chatter about whatever? Would she not be on the defensive right from the get go, wondering who this loser is trying to chat her up? Heck, if some girl were to take an interest in me, I would find myself wondering what her angle was, because I know she could do better.
Perhaps I simply overthink things a little too much. I really don't know any more. I am always polite and friendly, and treat most everyone respectfully. I tend to not engage in idle pointless chatter, rarely ever talk about myself (really, no one needs subjected to that amount of boredom either due to the banal subject matter or my annoying voice), but do honestly listen and pay attention to what others are saying, and am fairly quiet most of the time unless I have something that I think may be significant to say, and even then, after I mull it over, chances are I will decide it is not important enough to bring up, and end up holding my peace.
Okay, I know this post seems rather disjointed and all over the map, but I felt a need to try to further clarify my earlier post, and fully expressing my thoughts and feelings on most any personal matter is difficult for me.
A little advice from one generation to another:
I found that "hey baby" works reasonably well. Unoriginal, yes, but generally effective.
Nowadays, like most anything else you might open with (possibly even a sincere hello if it is accompanied by even a polite friendly smile), there are good odds that your line may be construed as sexual harassment.
Muwahahahahaha I can control life with this magical photo of you, and this wedding photo of you kissing your spouse will destroy your life! Careful, I might even say your name three times because we all know there's magic in names!
Dear Rasperin,
You are cordially invited to speak my name thrice any time you wish.
Yours truly,
Hastur.
Just grab one of 'm, measure its head and viola (sic).
Just don't forget that afterward, there is always room for cello.
Or during Winter.. You know this was a yahoo question. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120430182228AAIk7uw
Well, mine was inspired by a quip in an old indy comic back in the late 80s or early 90s called Space Ark. The bit there was:
"How can we get close enough to the sun without burning up?"
"Simple. We go at night."
As for the Yahoo Answers post, I found it hilarious... hilarious that so many people actually thought the OP was being serious instead of seeing it for the silliness that it is.
If doing it during an eclipse, it may be worthwhile to measure the sun's corona. Even better though would be to measure its Alaskan Amber.
I think to get the most accurate measurement, we need to send a manned mission to the sun and do it the old fashioned way, with a tape measure.
Of course, to keep from burning up, they will have to go at night.
I wouldn't be surprised if they sued me for all the TV I didn't watch back when I did have cable TV, since that also meant I didn't see their ads. And then they could sue again because I cancelled my cable TV subscription so I am still not seeing their ads.
Ah well, if they try, I say...
Bring it on!
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/Scarletdown/COH/Bringit.jpg
Funny.
According to the Passfault demo (that's the link in the summary above) it would take 18384672610116790 centuries to crack "This chicken tastes like shit!"
I just tacked on a couple zeros to see what that is in years, and found it mind numbing (nearly 2 quintillion?) So, according to this graph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_timeline_from_Big_Bang_to_Heat_Death would the universe be in the degenerate era or the black hole era by the time the password was cracked? My brain has a hard time processing numbers in the 1E1xx format.
At least it had Reversi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL4hyATkQ74
Reminds me of the Carl's Junior vending machine in Idiocracy...
"WARNING! Carl's Jr. Frowns Upon Vandalism"
"Your kids are starving. Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr."
"Carl's Jr... Fuck You, I'm Eating."
What needs to be done in response is for people who put out Creative Commons and other free (as in freedom) works to put together a couple PSA pieces to put on any DVDs of their works that they release. Of course, these would be freely skippable.
These PSAs would encourage the viewers to embrace CC and PD and to voluntarily support those who do so, perhaps also giving a nod to EFF and other digital freedoms oriented organizations.
Not true. You'd end up with -1 hunters.. while irrational, is still a valid answer. I'm not sure what the Monkey's response would be however.
That's easy. The monkey's response would be, "17, because bananas can't moonwalk."
Are those Arachnids acting up again? Guess we better invade Klendathu once more before they can lob a bigger rock our way.
Greetings and Salutations;
Well, as a 57 year old, I have been told by a number of folks that Walmart is always looking for greeters.
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
A used game usually only even saves you $5. And for what?
So the profit can go to the sleazy retailer instead of the developers who wrote the game? Count me out.
That depends on where you buy your used games. The majority of my PS2, XBox, and GBA collection, as well as some Wii titles came from Goodwill and Pawn X Change, and on average, I paid anywhere from $2 to $5 per title, depending on who was doing the pricing that day, and I have enough to last me years now, on top of the PS1, N64, Gamecube, Genesis, Super NES, Atari 7800, TI-99/4a, Vectrex, MAME ROMs, and many older PC games. I've even picked up a couple 360 games dirt cheap at those places for when I do finally get around to getting a used 360.
It is. Right now. I'm calling it Desdinova's Law.
Damn, scooped again. I was going to propose calling it Scarlet's Law:
Comparison of any activity that you don't of approve of to supporting terrorism or kiddie porn ends the discussion and results in a permanent loss of any credibility in any future discussions."
I am me, and I approve of this rant. ;)
That said, I believe that doing any end runs around First Sale and other fair use rights should be treated as a violation of copyright and other applicable imaginary property laws. And as such, these shenanigans should subject the perpetrators to the same penalties that those who violate copyright and other imaginary property rights in the more traditional sense have to undergo.
Dear Richard Browne,
Go fuck yourself.
Message Ends.
Yes, that is another option. At times, it does seem like the only magic bullet for this trend may be the thing called real bullets.
They came back with a letter that they don't care and their previous offer of licensing it for 2% of revenue was off the table but we can license it for 4% plus a few thousand bucks to pay for their lawyer's time reading our letter, or for $sixfigures we can explain it to the judge and hope the judge and/or jury understands what a server is.
Sounds like this should be changed from a civil case to criminal, with charges of extortion and racketeering. The patent trolls and their lawyers in this case need to do some hard federal prison time for this.
Nothing "impossible" about this "riddle":
You want me to police my customers for you? Fuck you!
You want me to hand over subscriber data without a court order? Fuck you!
You want me to block websites based on your sayso? Fuck you!
You want me to shut off paying customers because you don't like what they're downloading? Fuck you!
Fixed that for you.
As an American I'd love to hear where the hell in the States you are buying a gallon milk for a buck ninety-nine because it sure as shit ain't that cheap anywhere around here.
Kitsap County, Washington: Around $2.75 or so at Target, Trader Joe's, and one convenience store that gets supplied by a big grocery store with the same owner. $2.50 at another convenience store, and around $2.15 at my local commissary.
Now that he has managed to use physics to get out of a ticket for allegedly running a stop sign, he can use an even simpler argument to get out of a speeding ticket, if he is traveling east to west.
Let's say he is going from Spokane, Washington to Seattle. Speed limit is 70 mph, and the cop determines he was doing 85.
All he would have to do is remind the officer that at Seattle's latitude, the Earth rotates west to east at a speed of 707 miles per hour. And since he was moving in the opposite direction of the Earth's rotation, then he was actually traveling at negative 622 miles per hour.
Of course, he wouldn't want to get busted speeding in the other direction after pulling this off, unless he is prepared to pay a super hefty fine for speeding at 782 miles per hour in a 70 mile per hour zone.
I was aware of you being sarcastic. I may or may not have been myself. Only Lynx knows for sure, and that is a secret she may or may not reveal. ;)