is a 12" vinyl record..on one side, backed by a laserdisc with an SACD embedded into its centre. When I buy one, it will come with a complimentary sample of the new "minidisc within a betamax" unit. Sweet.
537,000 illegalmarkets and distributors? I know there are a lot of people in China, but damn, can that possibly be right? If they bust everyone, the US could lose its coveted "most behind bars" status.
Naw, dog. I'm from the ghetto, that stretch of slum land from Go to Jail. A grand will buy you crack, a lap dance, a few forty ounce bottles of malt liquor, and your own chain of Flag Inns.
Schmuck5000: Modding is not an unfair advantage. There is just as much chance that there will be a modder on the other team. I am there to even things out.
Exactly. This is why I carry $1000 in Monopoly money in my underpants at all times.
We live in a corporatist society. When a company can lobby governemt, donate to political parties, and so on, it's natural that we should react to their behavior as we would an individual who'd done wrong.
We don't admonish people's hands when they steal, we do so to the whole person (and we address our comments to the head, or boardroom in this case).
I agree that the specificly guilty parties should wear this, but corporations cannot have it both ways; either they're an entity, responible for all their actions, or they're a bunch of people in the same building, and they can start asking favours of their congressman individually.
I don't see google doing this to be spiteful. If these papers are suing for reproducing their content, google is covering its arse by not repeating that offense by returning search results with an extract of the page. If google removed results unilaterally, of any site, for any reason, there would go their credibility.
Uh, hang on - who would be invading if you weren't "defending" us? Indonesia? You're a fucking joker, YOU should be thanking Australia for throwing its teenaged boys into bullets every time your misguided administrations decide to pick a fight. America's "support" consists of using our uranium, forcing trade agreements down our throats, parking their spy stations on our land, and asking for our help in various conflicts. Gee, thanks. Why I'm letting your stupendously ignorant bullshit bother me enough to respond, I really don't know. This will be the last time.
Australia -- another country lucky enough to live under an American supplied defense shield.
Yes, thanks America, for keeping us safe. By safe, I mean that we have troops in Iraq & Afghanistan, fighting YOUR war,our citizens get blown up in Bali for helping YOU out in wars, and Al Queda would like to blow us up, for being on YOUR side.
Offtopic, sure, but the parent comment was too fucking idiotic for me not to reply.
Yep, all in all, whoever wrote this really lacks any understanding of the scientific process. I'm sure the astronomers who made the find would've been a little bit more careful about their claims than the article suggests.
Whoever wrote up the Reuters summary that CNN are running must've been filling in for the science reporter.
I was well impressed by this guy confirming the Big Bang, and its precise timing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the exact origin of the universe and its date were still debated issues. We've changed the age of the universe enough times that you'd want to be wary about putting two decimal places in your statement.
Disclaimer: I'm not a creationist or one of the "evolution's a theory, not a fact" crowd, I just like my science to come appropriately qualified.
Personally, I start to lose count after a squillion frames a second, I'm sure my eyeballs are only getting 800x600 resolution these days, and I'm just totally over the idea of paying $500+ for a machine, and $50+ for games, when they're extremely high-res, high-speed, and SHIT.
The Wii gives me hope that there's something out there for people who like gameplay, not graphics, and have better things to spend the big bucks on than a friggin' procrastinaion console.
Nice one, Nintendo.
Wow, on top of the astonishing tuition fees poor USians already pay? I have audio & transcripts available online for every subject I take at university, which is great, as I can actually listen to the lectures instead of madly scribbling down what I can. Teachers who use PowerPoint for their lectures generally make the ppt files available to students by request, if they missed a lecture and wanted to listen to the lecture, while watching the presentation.
$2.50 is $2.50 too much, and as for the poor, put-upon professor, dude, you're already getting paid to do whatever you can for your students' educations. My partner, who teaches at university, burns CDs for her students, hires dvds for them to watch, edits together practice tapes and cds (she's a language teacher) and all for $50k a year.
Boo-fucking-hoo, professor. Step up and help your students out, and kiss the dollar goodbye if you're any kind of teacher.
I once had a friend on IRC ask me to read a piece of erotic fiction she'd read and provide feedback. No problem, she links me to the story, which is at an erotic literature website, which requires me to register. Little did I know that a list of their users was online, and it only took a week until my name in Google yielded its first ever result, linking me to shitty home-made wank stories.
The point is, you get burned, you learn your lesson. I just feel sorry for these poor saps who didn't learn their lesson in a lower-impact fashion.
Regarding the guy who did this: There's clever, and there's easy. Guess which your joke is, cocksmoker?
I was an irresponsible youth with a drug habit once upon a time. During that time, I managed to ruin my credit rating pretty thoroughly, and it remained tarnished during the period when I'd got my shit together, and was working in the IT industry as a credit controller. I was extremely good at my job, which was enforcing business to business credit terms, despite having shockingly bad personal credit.
Professional ingetrity and the ability to manage your personal affairs aren't necessarily related. I don't rate this as a valuable selection tool.
I just opened both Ajax desktop things in the summary, and Firefox not only took over all my RAM, it actually connected to Best Buy and used my Visa number to order another two sticks of Corsair.
Scroll Lock, then use arrows. As a lefty, I tried seeking software solutions, but just like meatspace, learning to work around things is easier than stocking up on left-handed crap. I use my mousewheel, and I dare say I hit home, end, pageup, pagedown more often than most right-handers.
As for the left-handed mouse having the buttons switched, WTF is that about? I haven't found a game where my middle finger can't cope with the clicks yet, is that the supposed benefit of the switch?
Basically, the submitter is an irrational idiot pandering to the anarchist conspiracy theorists in an attempt to start a flamewar.
Wow, is this an extension of an eye for an eye? Now we're up to 'a kneejerk asstard for a kneejerk asstard'.
The submitter has as much right to make stupid links between some malware and the **AA as you have linking his silly analysis to anarchism.
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I'll field this one. We Australians are, (forgive me my generalizations) uncouth, loud, boisterous, subtle-as-a-brick-in-the-face folks, and we drink a lot of beer & act like tools (Steve Irwin could do this sober).
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· Score: 4, Interesting
The first time I saw Steve Irwin, I cringed horribly (I'm Australian), but he got to me. I can honestly say I've never seen a happier person, with so much energy & such a good, innocent heart.
I was mocking him a few years ago, mercilessly. Now, I'm feeling kind of weepy. RIP Steve, and my heart goes out to the Irwin family & friends. Thanks on behalf of the animals:)
The current Lenovo ThinkPad ads in Melbourne have either a man saying something about how he wants to change the world, not back up his data all day, or a female, staring vacuously into camera with a smile that could start drooling any second, saying "I don't care how it works, as long as it works".
If my pee-pee was a woo-woo, I'd be hunting down their marketing department with a sledgehammer in each fist. How fucking patronising.
ok, enough people are taking my post seriously for me to accept that my humour failed. Please, stop taking the ipod melting/malwared mp3 thing seriously.
Sure, I realise MySpace isn't trying to screw me with malware, but ttheir whole site has awful security issues, and I'd trust any file from there as far as I could comfortably spit a cathedral.
Slashdot Mirror
is a 12" vinyl record..on one side, backed by a laserdisc with an SACD embedded into its centre. When I buy one, it will come with a complimentary sample of the new "minidisc within a betamax" unit. Sweet.
537,000 illegalmarkets and distributors? I know there are a lot of people in China, but damn, can that possibly be right? If they bust everyone, the US could lose its coveted "most behind bars" status.
Naw, dog. I'm from the ghetto, that stretch of slum land from Go to Jail. A grand will buy you crack, a lap dance, a few forty ounce bottles of malt liquor, and your own chain of Flag Inns.
Exactly. This is why I carry $1000 in Monopoly money in my underpants at all times.
We don't admonish people's hands when they steal, we do so to the whole person (and we address our comments to the head, or boardroom in this case).
I agree that the specificly guilty parties should wear this, but corporations cannot have it both ways; either they're an entity, responible for all their actions, or they're a bunch of people in the same building, and they can start asking favours of their congressman individually.
I don't see google doing this to be spiteful. If these papers are suing for reproducing their content, google is covering its arse by not repeating that offense by returning search results with an extract of the page. If google removed results unilaterally, of any site, for any reason, there would go their credibility.
Nice one, post a google.com link to disprove comments about google.be. Let me break it down for you. .com != .be
Uh, hang on - who would be invading if you weren't "defending" us? Indonesia? You're a fucking joker, YOU should be thanking Australia for throwing its teenaged boys into bullets every time your misguided administrations decide to pick a fight. America's "support" consists of using our uranium, forcing trade agreements down our throats, parking their spy stations on our land, and asking for our help in various conflicts. Gee, thanks. Why I'm letting your stupendously ignorant bullshit bother me enough to respond, I really don't know. This will be the last time.
Yes, thanks America, for keeping us safe. By safe, I mean that we have troops in Iraq & Afghanistan, fighting YOUR war,our citizens get blown up in Bali for helping YOU out in wars, and Al Queda would like to blow us up, for being on YOUR side.
Offtopic, sure, but the parent comment was too fucking idiotic for me not to reply.
Yep, all in all, whoever wrote this really lacks any understanding of the scientific process. I'm sure the astronomers who made the find would've been a little bit more careful about their claims than the article suggests.
I was well impressed by this guy confirming the Big Bang, and its precise timing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the exact origin of the universe and its date were still debated issues. We've changed the age of the universe enough times that you'd want to be wary about putting two decimal places in your statement.
Disclaimer: I'm not a creationist or one of the "evolution's a theory, not a fact" crowd, I just like my science to come appropriately qualified.
Personally, I start to lose count after a squillion frames a second, I'm sure my eyeballs are only getting 800x600 resolution these days, and I'm just totally over the idea of paying $500+ for a machine, and $50+ for games, when they're extremely high-res, high-speed, and SHIT. The Wii gives me hope that there's something out there for people who like gameplay, not graphics, and have better things to spend the big bucks on than a friggin' procrastinaion console. Nice one, Nintendo.
$2.50 is $2.50 too much, and as for the poor, put-upon professor, dude, you're already getting paid to do whatever you can for your students' educations. My partner, who teaches at university, burns CDs for her students, hires dvds for them to watch, edits together practice tapes and cds (she's a language teacher) and all for $50k a year.
Boo-fucking-hoo, professor. Step up and help your students out, and kiss the dollar goodbye if you're any kind of teacher.
If The Measures isn't the best Orwellian name possible for a set of repressive rules, I don't know what is.
I once had a friend on IRC ask me to read a piece of erotic fiction she'd read and provide feedback. No problem, she links me to the story, which is at an erotic literature website, which requires me to register. Little did I know that a list of their users was online, and it only took a week until my name in Google yielded its first ever result, linking me to shitty home-made wank stories. The point is, you get burned, you learn your lesson. I just feel sorry for these poor saps who didn't learn their lesson in a lower-impact fashion. Regarding the guy who did this: There's clever, and there's easy. Guess which your joke is, cocksmoker?
I was an irresponsible youth with a drug habit once upon a time. During that time, I managed to ruin my credit rating pretty thoroughly, and it remained tarnished during the period when I'd got my shit together, and was working in the IT industry as a credit controller. I was extremely good at my job, which was enforcing business to business credit terms, despite having shockingly bad personal credit. Professional ingetrity and the ability to manage your personal affairs aren't necessarily related. I don't rate this as a valuable selection tool.
I just opened both Ajax desktop things in the summary, and Firefox not only took over all my RAM, it actually connected to Best Buy and used my Visa number to order another two sticks of Corsair.
Scroll Lock, then use arrows. As a lefty, I tried seeking software solutions, but just like meatspace, learning to work around things is easier than stocking up on left-handed crap. I use my mousewheel, and I dare say I hit home, end, pageup, pagedown more often than most right-handers. As for the left-handed mouse having the buttons switched, WTF is that about? I haven't found a game where my middle finger can't cope with the clicks yet, is that the supposed benefit of the switch?
Wow, you're a mathematician at Cambridge and you still call yourself a girl, as opposed to a woman? Child prodigy, or just selling yourself short?
I'll field this one. We Australians are, (forgive me my generalizations) uncouth, loud, boisterous, subtle-as-a-brick-in-the-face folks, and we drink a lot of beer & act like tools (Steve Irwin could do this sober).
The first time I saw Steve Irwin, I cringed horribly (I'm Australian), but he got to me. I can honestly say I've never seen a happier person, with so much energy & such a good, innocent heart. I was mocking him a few years ago, mercilessly. Now, I'm feeling kind of weepy. RIP Steve, and my heart goes out to the Irwin family & friends. Thanks on behalf of the animals :)
The current Lenovo ThinkPad ads in Melbourne have either a man saying something about how he wants to change the world, not back up his data all day, or a female, staring vacuously into camera with a smile that could start drooling any second, saying "I don't care how it works, as long as it works". If my pee-pee was a woo-woo, I'd be hunting down their marketing department with a sledgehammer in each fist. How fucking patronising.
ok, enough people are taking my post seriously for me to accept that my humour failed. Please, stop taking the ipod melting/malwared mp3 thing seriously.
Sure, I realise MySpace isn't trying to screw me with malware, but ttheir whole site has awful security issues, and I'd trust any file from there as far as I could comfortably spit a cathedral.