Why do you need to pinpoint it on a map? It is simply not necessary for anything.
Only because it's been a running joke, and that in actuality it couldn't be in any real state. All references to it in the show were vague, contradictory, or hidden from view (maps, satellite images, mail, driver's licenses, etc.).
In one episode Lisa mentioned that there were enough clues to figure it out, but because there are so many contradictory clues, she meant that it wasn't a real city. This is just the final word (hopefully), that it is actually based on Springfield Oregon, just a highly fictionalized version of it and all the surrounding geography (continent-wide).
Springfield is obviously in the state that Riverdale also exists in.
They actually went back home to get MORE warships when they found out what happened to Firefly.
We should be getting the first wave of warships any day now from any system 22 light years away, if they tuned into Galactica 1980.
What the fuck, Earthlings? You had the perfect opportunity for Adama and his people to forge an alliance with your people, start manufacturing warships, and spearhead a liberating force to reclaim the 12 Colonies. And what do you do instead? You give us aliens vs earthlings baseball, flying motorcycles, and Wolf Man Jack. You people are soooooo fucked.
The CDs were useful too for a while, when they were being sent in perfectly good DVD cases.
But back when they sent the CDs in cardboard sleeves, I always wanted to retrieve them out of the trash, and put them back in the original recipients' mail boxes with an ominous note that said, "We know you threw this away. We don't like it when you do that."
Not being EFL, I don't ge the joke. All I know is that "Poot" in Dutch means "leg" (as in of a chair, table or animal) or "fag" as in a derogatory term for homosexuals.
They damn well better lower the prices on new games. Or my new gaming platform just may be an iPad buying games off the the app store.
Meh. I'm just going to stick with what I currently have (Original XB, PS2, Wii, and many of the even older consoles, plus an older machine with MAME set up to output to the TV). I have way too many games for all these systems to catch up on to even bother with getting any new consoles. Still, if I can score a used one cheap, I would get a 360 at some point within the next year or two when the whim strikes (or if Rumble Roses for the 360 turns up cheap at Pawn-X-Change, Gamestop, or Goodwill).
Satan is in congress? I KNEW IT!!! That explains everything!
But, is she/he in the House or in the Senate? If the former, then we the people have a potentially useful tool at our disposal to weild against the other pseudo-people (aka the corporations).
Witches???? Where???? The obvious solution is to throw all the servers in a lake and see if they float.
No need to go to that extreme. Just use a very large scale with the accused on one seat and a duck on the other. If they weigh the same, then she is a witch.
If you don't have a large scale or a duck handy, then as an alternative, you can try building a bridge out of her to see if she is made of wood, since that would mean she weighs the same as a duck, and is therefore a witch.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I am so damned sick of world + dog patenting... welll, everything.
It's just ridiculous.
I KNOW there are patents out there for (software) things that are nontrivial.. things that are actually not obvious to any reasonably skilled practitioner of the software arts, but I'm sick to death of these "a method of derpa derp ta derpa derp involving a database to store derpaderp present derp a derp ta derpaderp"
I wish like hell we could just invalidate every software and business method patent and say "you did something special, FINE, copyright your code, but patents are going back to being about physical stuff"/rant
sorry, just annoyed like the rest of you.
I am me, and I approve of this rant (because it is already modded up to the max, so I can't give it a +1 anything).
Lately, my biggest use of the 'tube is for making demonstration videos to embed in listings for various items that go up for sale on the 'bay, like this one that recently sold...
My wife is a musician and we are quite ok without locking the internet down.
Cool. Since you're so pro-sharing... post a link to the mp3s once she releases her music. I'll make sure everyone gets access to it and when she makes $0.0 we'll see how she likes "sharing".
Recording artists from major labels now put their songs on youtube for free and still sell copies.
Wow.. so someone got robbed and he _STILL_ has some money left in his wallet ! What the fuck? See ! He still has money ! Wow ! Isn't that a miracle ! Stealing is good !
Producers of the fun little web comic known as Order of the Stick have the entire series available for free on their web site, effectively giving it away to anyone who wants to download the individual pages to their computers. But despite this, they still managed to raise $1,000,000 from fans who liked their work enough to support them so they can self publish a collected volume of their series.
Please don't hate on the UK because some of our politicians are assclowns.
I was going to say the same with regards to the United States and our politicians here, but then I looked at our federal and state governments and realized everyone's an assclown.
Now now. That's a bit of an overexaggeration. Not everyone is an assclown.
Some are asshats; some are assmuppets; some are assnuggets, and some are assmonkeys.
Actually, IIRC, Woz's Integer BASIC and mini-assembler (along with his Sweet 16 (the 6502 Dream Machine) and the Apple Floating-Point Routines) disappeared as early as the Apple ][+. . That's why I used to call the ][+ the "][ minus"...
At least they did bring back the Mini Assembler on the Apple IIGS (and I think the IIC Plus as well).
CALL -151 to get to the Machine Language Monitor from Applesoft BASIC ! to get to the Mini Assembler from there.
I even had a letter that I sent in to Nibble magazine published explaining how you could even write up your assembly language code in a word processor, save it as a plain ASCII text file, and load it into the Mini Assembler with some fairly simple command that I can't remember.
They're idiots. In a national context the term is American for people that have citizenship in the US. Despite what bigots from other parts of the super continent might think, there's rarely if ever a legitimate reason for using American in a different context.
Considering Mexicans are citizens of Los Estados Unidos de Mexico (aka United States of Mexico), and Canadians are citizens of a place called Canada (formerly the Dominion of Canada, it stands to reason that citizens of the United States of America would be referred to as Americans.
Memorization trick: [S]lander is something that's [s]aid
Or just watch Spiderman once and Jameson's (Or is it White? I know one is Chief of the Daily Bugle, and the other The Daily Planet.) quote will be stuck in your head forever...
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They have millions of gods, for Vishnu's sake...
Fixed that for you. :)
May Allah/God/Buddha bless you son.
And likewise, may Eagle's mighty wings carry you on your journey to new heights of peace and wisdom (or something like that). :)
Also, Krusty the Clown was based loosely on Portland TV clown, Rusty Nails:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Nails
Why do you need to pinpoint it on a map? It is simply not necessary for anything.
Only because it's been a running joke, and that in actuality it couldn't be in any real state. All references to it in the show were vague, contradictory, or hidden from view (maps, satellite images, mail, driver's licenses, etc.).
In one episode Lisa mentioned that there were enough clues to figure it out, but because there are so many contradictory clues, she meant that it wasn't a real city. This is just the final word (hopefully), that it is actually based on Springfield Oregon, just a highly fictionalized version of it and all the surrounding geography (continent-wide).
Springfield is obviously in the state that Riverdale also exists in.
They actually went back home to get MORE warships when they found out what happened to Firefly.
We should be getting the first wave of warships any day now from any system 22 light years away, if they tuned into Galactica 1980.
What the fuck, Earthlings? You had the perfect opportunity for Adama and his people to forge an alliance with your people, start manufacturing warships, and spearhead a liberating force to reclaim the 12 Colonies. And what do you do instead? You give us aliens vs earthlings baseball, flying motorcycles, and Wolf Man Jack. You people are soooooo fucked.
I am guessing the reason they won't buy again is because they finally got tired of sniffing their own flatulence...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9jhGiIAFM
The floppies weren't useless.
The CDs were useful too for a while, when they were being sent in perfectly good DVD cases.
But back when they sent the CDs in cardboard sleeves, I always wanted to retrieve them out of the trash, and put them back in the original recipients' mail boxes with an ominous note that said, "We know you threw this away. We don't like it when you do that."
I must say, if any authorities tried to identify me by my FB avatar pic, they would be trying to book a trip to Tatooine:
Oo-Tee-Dee!!!
Not being EFL, I don't ge the joke. All I know is that "Poot" in Dutch means "leg" (as in of a chair, table or animal) or "fag" as in a derogatory term for homosexuals.
It's yet another synonym for fart.
They damn well better lower the prices on new games. Or my new gaming platform just may be an iPad buying games off the the app store.
Meh. I'm just going to stick with what I currently have (Original XB, PS2, Wii, and many of the even older consoles, plus an older machine with MAME set up to output to the TV). I have way too many games for all these systems to catch up on to even bother with getting any new consoles. Still, if I can score a used one cheap, I would get a 360 at some point within the next year or two when the whim strikes (or if Rumble Roses for the 360 turns up cheap at Pawn-X-Change, Gamestop, or Goodwill).
I don't get it.
Perhaps you will have an easier time getting this one?
If three astronauts are flying in a canoe over the Gobi Desert, and they crash, howmany pancakes does it take to shingle a doghouse?
Fifteen, because bananas can't moonwalk.
Satan is in congress? I KNEW IT!!! That explains everything!
But, is she/he in the House or in the Senate? If the former, then we the people have a potentially useful tool at our disposal to weild against the other pseudo-people (aka the corporations).
Witches???? Where???? The obvious solution is to throw all the servers in a lake and see if they float.
No need to go to that extreme. Just use a very large scale with the accused on one seat and a duck on the other. If they weigh the same, then she is a witch.
If you don't have a large scale or a duck handy, then as an alternative, you can try building a bridge out of her to see if she is made of wood, since that would mean she weighs the same as a duck, and is therefore a witch.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I am so damned sick of world + dog patenting... welll, everything.
It's just ridiculous.
I KNOW there are patents out there for (software) things that are nontrivial .. things that are actually not obvious to any reasonably skilled practitioner of the software arts, but I'm sick to death of these "a method of derpa derp ta derpa derp involving a database to store derpaderp present derp a derp ta derpaderp"
I wish like hell we could just invalidate every software and business method patent and say "you did something special, FINE, copyright your code, but patents are going back to being about physical stuff" /rant
sorry, just annoyed like the rest of you.
I am me, and I approve of this rant (because it is already modded up to the max, so I can't give it a +1 anything).
Youtube only exists for pirating music videos ..
Not always.
Lately, my biggest use of the 'tube is for making demonstration videos to embed in listings for various items that go up for sale on the 'bay, like this one that recently sold...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13wKuFDyX0s
Or this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8SrpQhwZxY
My wife is a musician and we are quite ok without locking the internet down.
Cool. Since you're so pro-sharing... post a link to the mp3s once she releases her music. I'll make sure everyone gets access to it and when she makes $0.0 we'll see how she likes "sharing".
Recording artists from major labels now put their songs on youtube for free and still sell copies.
Wow.. so someone got robbed and he _STILL_ has some money left in his wallet ! What the fuck? See ! He still has money ! Wow ! Isn't that a miracle ! Stealing is good !
You people are so full of shit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/22/author-raises-1m-self-publish-webcomic
Producers of the fun little web comic known as Order of the Stick have the entire series available for free on their web site, effectively giving it away to anyone who wants to download the individual pages to their computers. But despite this, they still managed to raise $1,000,000 from fans who liked their work enough to support them so they can self publish a collected volume of their series.
I was going to say the same with regards to the United States and our politicians here, but then I looked at our federal and state governments and realized everyone's an assclown.
Now now. That's a bit of an overexaggeration. Not everyone is an assclown.
Some are asshats; some are assmuppets; some are assnuggets, and some are assmonkeys.
Actually, IIRC, Woz's Integer BASIC and mini-assembler (along with his Sweet 16 (the 6502 Dream Machine) and the Apple Floating-Point Routines) disappeared as early as the Apple ][+. . That's why I used to call the ][+ the "][ minus"...
At least they did bring back the Mini Assembler on the Apple IIGS (and I think the IIC Plus as well).
CALL -151 to get to the Machine Language Monitor from Applesoft BASIC
! to get to the Mini Assembler from there.
I even had a letter that I sent in to Nibble magazine published explaining how you could even write up your assembly language code in a word processor, save it as a plain ASCII text file, and load it into the Mini Assembler with some fairly simple command that I can't remember.
And Belgian librarians and the kids they read to all vehemently and with much venom curse... "Belgium!"
Well, Belgium!
Just remember, kids...
Pie R Round
Cobbler R Square(ish...usually)
To be fair these President's supported abolishing the Fed
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
James Garfield
William McKinley
John Kennedy
They all have something else in common as well.
Only 4 were actually successfully assassinated. Jackson survived the attempt on his life.
OMG!!! Ponies!!!
They're idiots. In a national context the term is American for people that have citizenship in the US. Despite what bigots from other parts of the super continent might think, there's rarely if ever a legitimate reason for using American in a different context.
Considering Mexicans are citizens of Los Estados Unidos de Mexico (aka United States of Mexico), and Canadians are citizens of a place called Canada (formerly the Dominion of Canada, it stands to reason that citizens of the United States of America would be referred to as Americans.
Memorization trick: [S]lander is something that's [s]aid
Or just watch Spiderman once and Jameson's (Or is it White? I know one is Chief of the Daily Bugle, and the other The Daily Planet.) quote will be stuck in your head forever...
"Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel."