Naphtalene--or better known as the primary ingredient in MOTHBALLS
At last. We know the secret coordinates of Mothra. (S)he lies in the constellation Perseus. This may lead us to discover the origins of Godzilla.
Mothra? Godzilla? Don't be silly, now. All we really know is that Rebellion will have to do without Mon Mothma's leadership in that area of the galaxy.
That's already become everyone's new favorite election year buzzword here in the US, so why wouldn't the BBC pick up on it, too? I need to hire one or two more sub-entry level underlings next week, so I need to vet some candidates, too. It's this year's "flip-flop."
I'm Uvajed Ekil, and I feel compelled for no good reason to point out that I approved this message, even though it consisted solely of me stating what I think.
I'll happily stick to America, where I can legally defend myself with the pistol in my pocket.
And unfortunately, you might need to, since every criminal on every American street knows where to get a gun on the black market, with no background check or paper trail. If we didn't have so many handguns, we might not need so many handguns. (Hunting weapons and military rifles are a different story, and I won't go there - handguns are the real danger.)
This will work great, until every kid in the UK finds that he can replace the "uk" in "uk.youtube.com" with "www" and see awesome, inspirational stuff like:
Actually, if a company does this on its own because they are concerned about it, that's called "being responsible." If a government requires it via an official censorship policy, then I have a problem with it. Ideally it should work this way, with corporate entities being sensitive to the needs of of the communities they do business in, so governments don't feel the need to intervene and implement sweeping, draconian limitations on everyone. You can still film yourself practicing your nunchuck skills or slashing the air with a knife, and share the video with other morons, you just can't use Youtube to do it in the UK now, I guess. This is all fine, as we don't have any guaranteed right to post on Youtube, and this decision will make many people happy, until they realize that the internet is global and local laws do not apply to the creation or dissemination of content in other countries.
'I would like to see other internet service providers follow suit to reinforce our message that violence will not be tolerated either on the internet or in the real world,' she said."
She followed up, "But all that gun, knife, and fighting shit is still fine in America, cause they're fine with that ol' gun and violence problem they already got."
"Trademark" and "right to a particular.com domain name" are not necessarily synonymous, especially when the domain in question existed before any trademark that results in a claim against it.
There is not only one Nissan in the world, any more than there is only one Smith or London. Nor is there only one use for the name of a city coupled with a four-digit number. This isn't like me sniping cocacola.com or fordmotorcompany.com before Coke or Ford could pounce on my cash cow. Sorry Chicago, try chicago2016willbethewindiestolympicseverstaged.com, or something.
Perhaps some would say it is logical for the 2016 Chicago Olympic commission to have rights to chicago2016.com, but that is not enough. That was not a registered trademark when someone else registered the domain name, so too bad. This is like the case of Nissan Motor Co./Nissan USA, the automaker, not being able to steal nissan.com from someone who beat them to it. Nisan still hasn't been able to get nissan.com, and the owner has continued to use it as a site to promote hiss own business, which should absolutely be his right. Screw off, Chicago 2016 folks - somebody beat ya to it - pay the price to get it, or tough luck, go for 2024 and register chicagowillstillbewindyanddirtyfortheolympicsin2024.com instead, since I doubt anyone has registered that yet.
I saw on Youtube, CNN and Digg that the Sheboygan Police are either for or against Barack Obama and John McCain and Sarah Palin, individually and not as an organization, of course.
The cities sysadmin should be fired. Check the referrer, then redirect to the main page when "needed". A couple minutes set up time and *poof* no more "deep linking" from other sites.
Have you seen the site in question? If you had, you'd obviously know that the admin and "designer" must have compromising pictures of the mayor and a goat, or else we would not be having this discussion.
...or stop a judge from laughing, scolding the people for filing a ridiculous claim, and tossing out the case in the first ten seconds of the first hearing.
I would read TFAs more before wondering about them, but it is all too often that I spend ten minutes trying to load them to no avail. So sometimes I don't even try. They should really be mirrored here automatically upon posting, or something to prevent the poor folks that put out interesting content from being shut down or suddenly exceeding their bandwidth cap by tenfold. Just a thought, and I apologize for offending you by misinterpreting a mediocre summary and the other comments than came well before mine. Please forgive me, oh master of TFA, as I thought this was/.
Does one have "rights" on a website not owned by a government entity? Even in the U.K.? Is there a TOS to support this, or some statement to the contrary? Yes, this sucks and is unprofessional, at best, but I have a hard time believing that you have any right to anything on a website unless you are specifically granted such rights by some particular means. Need more information, without reading TFA, of course.
There's no excuse! If all manufacturers could agree on the USB standard then why can't they make a charger standard?
Yes there is: they don't give a shit about being compatible with the connectors of other, completely unrelated devices, and neither do 99% of consumers.
I charge my phone at night, on my nightstand. My PDA is my phone, and doesn't play well with Linux (nor do I need it to) so it doesn't need to connect to my computers. I rarely charge my camera, and remove the memory card to transfer pics. If I had to plug them into my laptop or desktop to charge them, I'd be pissed. My laptop would still need its own power connector anyway. This thread is picking nits and wasting space.
Thanks, Apple. I was not under the impression that internet = WWW, but now I know I was wrong. Apple would never mislead me with their marketing claims, would they?
Your company doesn't seem too interested in you continuing to contribute for your final weeks in the same manner you have in the past. So, I say, F 'em. Just move forward and remember the good times, and let their problems be their problems. If they really don't trust you to finish the projects you were working on, don't sweat it - let them do what they want.
Meanwhile, I suggest slacking-off to whatever degree you can get away with. Why not? If management doesn't want to you to do your thing anymore, spend your time reminiscing and joking with the co-workers you count as friends. Stare at your desk a lot, take plenty of coffee breaks (excessive use of coffee helps the time pass, too, at least for me), and seriously consider sleeping in a little and leaving early. I am not saying you should try to hurt or cheat the company, since you've stuck with them long enough to indicate that you are valuable and like the company, but your time there is effectively done, even if they expect you to show up for a few more weeks. Seriously, it sucks that you can't finish strong or how you'd like to, but you have to acknowledge that your work there is done. Relax and give yourself a pat on the back - you'll be glad you did when the stress of having to do something new and adjust to new characters begins to set in.
Will coat a flatscreen with it and mount it on an Escalade.
I nearly found myself asking "why?" out loud, but then I realized asking why when the title was "Pimp my Ride" would just be futile. This might just be the ultimate anti-bling.
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Mothra? Godzilla? Don't be silly, now. All we really know is that Rebellion will have to do without Mon Mothma's leadership in that area of the galaxy.
I'm Uvajed Ekil, and I feel compelled for no good reason to point out that I approved this message, even though it consisted solely of me stating what I think.
And unfortunately, you might need to, since every criminal on every American street knows where to get a gun on the black market, with no background check or paper trail. If we didn't have so many handguns, we might not need so many handguns. (Hunting weapons and military rifles are a different story, and I won't go there - handguns are the real danger.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEoiu2Coxrc or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IHQqW8zOSk
Actually, if a company does this on its own because they are concerned about it, that's called "being responsible." If a government requires it via an official censorship policy, then I have a problem with it. Ideally it should work this way, with corporate entities being sensitive to the needs of of the communities they do business in, so governments don't feel the need to intervene and implement sweeping, draconian limitations on everyone. You can still film yourself practicing your nunchuck skills or slashing the air with a knife, and share the video with other morons, you just can't use Youtube to do it in the UK now, I guess. This is all fine, as we don't have any guaranteed right to post on Youtube, and this decision will make many people happy, until they realize that the internet is global and local laws do not apply to the creation or dissemination of content in other countries.
In Soviet Russia, Youtube moderate Slashdot!
She followed up, "But all that gun, knife, and fighting shit is still fine in America, cause they're fine with that ol' gun and violence problem they already got."
What wisdom.
"Trademark" and "right to a particular .com domain name" are not necessarily synonymous, especially when the domain in question existed before any trademark that results in a claim against it.
There is not only one Nissan in the world, any more than there is only one Smith or London. Nor is there only one use for the name of a city coupled with a four-digit number. This isn't like me sniping cocacola.com or fordmotorcompany.com before Coke or Ford could pounce on my cash cow. Sorry Chicago, try chicago2016willbethewindiestolympicseverstaged.com, or something.
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Perhaps some would say it is logical for the 2016 Chicago Olympic commission to have rights to chicago2016.com, but that is not enough. That was not a registered trademark when someone else registered the domain name, so too bad. This is like the case of Nissan Motor Co./Nissan USA, the automaker, not being able to steal nissan.com from someone who beat them to it. Nisan still hasn't been able to get nissan.com, and the owner has continued to use it as a site to promote hiss own business, which should absolutely be his right. Screw off, Chicago 2016 folks - somebody beat ya to it - pay the price to get it, or tough luck, go for 2024 and register chicagowillstillbewindyanddirtyfortheolympicsin2024.com instead, since I doubt anyone has registered that yet.
...but XP will still run faster and with fewer BSODs.
I saw on Youtube, CNN and Digg that the Sheboygan Police are either for or against Barack Obama and John McCain and Sarah Palin, individually and not as an organization, of course.
Have you seen the site in question? If you had, you'd obviously know that the admin and "designer" must have compromising pictures of the mayor and a goat, or else we would not be having this discussion.
...or stop a judge from laughing, scolding the people for filing a ridiculous claim, and tossing out the case in the first ten seconds of the first hearing.
It makes me laugh when I see people smiling in mugshots. If if you didn't do it (right...), are you happy about being arrested and booked?
Hmm, can we tag replies, i.e. "slashdotted" for this one? hehe.
I would read TFAs more before wondering about them, but it is all too often that I spend ten minutes trying to load them to no avail. So sometimes I don't even try. They should really be mirrored here automatically upon posting, or something to prevent the poor folks that put out interesting content from being shut down or suddenly exceeding their bandwidth cap by tenfold. Just a thought, and I apologize for offending you by misinterpreting a mediocre summary and the other comments than came well before mine. Please forgive me, oh master of TFA, as I thought this was /.
I'm happy to find out that I can apparently play Continuum and use gopher on the iphone I just ordered.
Does one have "rights" on a website not owned by a government entity? Even in the U.K.? Is there a TOS to support this, or some statement to the contrary? Yes, this sucks and is unprofessional, at best, but I have a hard time believing that you have any right to anything on a website unless you are specifically granted such rights by some particular means. Need more information, without reading TFA, of course.
Yes there is: they don't give a shit about being compatible with the connectors of other, completely unrelated devices, and neither do 99% of consumers.
I charge my phone at night, on my nightstand. My PDA is my phone, and doesn't play well with Linux (nor do I need it to) so it doesn't need to connect to my computers. I rarely charge my camera, and remove the memory card to transfer pics. If I had to plug them into my laptop or desktop to charge them, I'd be pissed. My laptop would still need its own power connector anyway. This thread is picking nits and wasting space.
Thanks, Apple. I was not under the impression that internet = WWW, but now I know I was wrong. Apple would never mislead me with their marketing claims, would they?
Meanwhile, I suggest slacking-off to whatever degree you can get away with. Why not? If management doesn't want to you to do your thing anymore, spend your time reminiscing and joking with the co-workers you count as friends. Stare at your desk a lot, take plenty of coffee breaks (excessive use of coffee helps the time pass, too, at least for me), and seriously consider sleeping in a little and leaving early. I am not saying you should try to hurt or cheat the company, since you've stuck with them long enough to indicate that you are valuable and like the company, but your time there is effectively done, even if they expect you to show up for a few more weeks. Seriously, it sucks that you can't finish strong or how you'd like to, but you have to acknowledge that your work there is done. Relax and give yourself a pat on the back - you'll be glad you did when the stress of having to do something new and adjust to new characters begins to set in.
Ah, yeah, I would but, you know, I've got to go lift weights.
What?
Then I have to wash my hair. Sorry, maybe next time, you know?
I nearly found myself asking "why?" out loud, but then I realized asking why when the title was "Pimp my Ride" would just be futile. This might just be the ultimate anti-bling.