Now I can finally follow Trinity around staring at her ass without getting the crap kicked out of me by her bodyguards every couple of days. Or play an agent and tap the hell out of the woman in red, since, you know, it wouldn't be weird having sex with a program or anything, since I'd be playing as a computer program myself. Of course I'd be a human playing a program having sex with a progr... god, I need to get laid.
Something like this would be pretty good for surveillance. Have indoor models that wander around inside a large complex after hours to check for fire, intruders, or structural issues like leaking pipes. Or stick some outside with infrared cameras and motion detectors to keep an eye on parking structures, open grounds and whatnot. Make convenient escorts for late night workers heading to their cars. A few antennas spread around and a wireless link to a security center that would allow security to instantly look at anything that the bots are looking at would make for much safer surroundings at a much lower cost than human watch standers with their tendancies to doze off or get caught up in Brittany Spears videos in the break room.
Whiny bitch. Many of us have done our time; let the civilians have their fun. If you signed up for glory and respect, you picked the wrong job; go get your MBA. Like our division chief liked to say: "We're here to protect the citizens of the US, even if they don't want us to. Just nod and smile when they try to fit their heads in their asses." And spare the sacrifice speech; if my wife had decided not to go into grad school, I'd be back in boot camp right now, because I sure miss the quality of life I had when I was in right about now. It must be a real motherfucker for your bros to serve with someone with such a thin skin, especially if your unit has even a small fraction of the shit-talkers that every one of my commands had. Enjoy your time in and be happy that there is still a civilian world to return to where you can make jokes about the military without disappearing in the middle of the night.
Sorry to wander off topic so violently, but I'd rather that US civilians realize that most of their military isn't wound so tight while having access to the most powerful weapons on the planet.:)
This is an outrage! FBI agents using personal information collected by the agency on citizens to promote their own interests? Obviously we just need to change the administration of the FBI; after all, this would have never happened under the first and greatest FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover!
Er... wait a minute...
Seriously, I've just come to expect that the FBI is going to be corrupt and incompetant until the day that it is disbanded and replaced by another institution, which will probably just follow suit anyhow. The place just begs for it; national authority, minimal oversight, intentional segregation from other government offices, a long history of this sort of abuse with little public repercussion, etc.
Where in the hell else do you think our extremists, fascists, and power-hungry psychos are going to try to get into? It sucks that there are actually some good people that work in the FBI since they have to get caught up in this crap as well, but at least there are good parts to it. But I'll be damned if I'm ever going to trust the FBI in general, given, oh, decades of an example to go by. The USA PATRIOT act did us a favor by potentially saving us a fortune in investigations by making legal what the FBI was going to do on their own anyhow.
I don't give a damn who pulls this sort of thing anymore, as long as I get to see it in my lifetime. I'm sick of waiting for cool things to become profitable before actually being done. I can't believe that the ISS is still being built, although it has had some very close shaves in the US Congress over the past few years, all because of fucking money. What's so difficult about kicking the secretary's personal assistant's secretary's page off of the government payroll, stopping the spending on idiotic pork projects and $6,000 curtains (thanks Asscroft), and just using the tax money to do things that our decendents will look back at and say, "Bitchin'?"
Shit, they find out that it makes you grow a tail and I'll buy a case. The possibilities are endless: career in the WWF, increased typing speed, REALLY interesting sex. And craploads more waking hours to enjoy them all. Sign me up!
Yeah, I have to admit, I am a total bitch to their frozen cappucinos. If they perfect Provigil, I'll still have to chug them babies down on a regular basis.
What in the hell is this silly insistance that sleep is necessary? It is one of the greatest plagues that mankind has to deal with, as it effectively takes away a good 20-30% away from the average persons life, or 5-10% from your average sysadmins. Fuck colon cancer, tobacco, or Alzeimer's; they usually only end up nabbing the crappiest part of life anyhow. Sleep is probably the second worst condition that humans face, next to aging.
If these scientists may have developed the beginnings to a true cure for sleeping, I say give them shitloads of funding to knock out the side effects and make it safe for longterm use. Then hand them the Nobel Prize and free hookers for life, because they will have done an extraordinary service for all humanity in giving us many more years to enjoy life, and good ones at that rather than simply more years to worry about busting hips and shitting in a big diaper, as well as allowing humanity to achieve more in less time. After all, imagine what else Einstein might have discovered if he didn't have to waste so much time sleeping (OK, maybe a bad analogy, since he would have been out scoring some booty with that extra time, but you get the picture).
It probably had something to do with line 4, which happened to read on both copies of the source code:
// don't forget; gotta get some more Cool Ranch Doritos on the way home
Or maybe I'm the only person who would stick reminders to myself in my code since I could never leave the house to go turn it in before checking it over one more time.:)
Yes, but unfortunately because they are also a serious environmental hazard, they are now under the control of the government as well, and will be removed and relocated to an approved HazMat disposal point. I recommend stockpiling lots of painkillers soon.
Yeah, but you guys can actually order the Ali G videos since they are only released as PAL cassettes and Region 2 DVDs, so quitcher bitchin';) Sacha, if you're reading this, make those bastards release Region 1 DVDs!
I don't have too many problems with Battle.net, although there have been a few pains in the ass. However, this legitimate user does get irritated at having to dig up a damned CD just to play a video game for a few minutes. I have so many CDs that most of the time, unless I'm planning to play for a long while, which the opportunity to do doesn't arise that often, I just don't bother. But the goddamn software pirates are quite happily playing away using cracked copies. Yes, I know there are CD cracks, but I don't trust them. A couple months ago, I decided to stop supporting companies that screw with their actual legal customers; I'm still looking for a new game to buy. Christ, I'm beginning to think the pirates are the smart ones...
From one married bloke to a soon-to-be, you are in for one hell of a ride, but it will be worth every minute. Just remember the two words that will become your best friends:
Every time I read kooky sounding things like this, I want to shake my head and sigh, but then I think that is probably what a crapload of people were doing when Goddard was sitting around playing with frames and fuel and just feel that weird, "Damn, they could actually be on to something," feeling. I'm just waiting for some religious scholar to do something similar so I can be the first man to fly into the sun and have bragging rights in the afterlife for most badass exit.
We've gone from horse and buggy to spacecraft over the past 150 years; who gives a shit? Unless, of course, we're only five years from the point where the chain reaction occurs, in which case you bring the burgers, I'll get the dogs 'cause we are in for one hell of a barbeque, somewhere in the neighborhood of 900 degrees F, IIRC.:)
That's my whole concern. I'm not overly concerned with the FBI finding something incriminating on my computer, but if they get their suspicions up at all, there goes your stuff for a very long time. The Steve Jackson Games case a few years back being a very famous example.
One that hit close to home for me was when my wife's cousin got picked up for strongarm robbery. Turns out the witness who picked him out was sitting in the back of a squad car in a parking lot at night and IDed him while he was driving past. Turns out she was looking for a guy with brown hair, brown eyes and a moustache. The next day at county, she walked in to give her statement, took one look and said, "Oh, that's not him; I'm sorry." Moral to the story: He had $160 in his wallet at the time, which is a small fortune in student money as many of you know. Confiscated upon arrest but not returned to him until about seven months later.
I've spent years putting my computers together since I don't make a whole lot of money, and if I happen to write the wrong thing in something like a diary entry or database on my own computer and the FBI picks it up, then I risk losing everything for a long time. This is where I spend the majority of my time expressing my thoughts and is more of an extension to my home than my living room, so these assholes would be less invasive by sticking microphones all over my house. Besides, I can't help but laugh at the idea of FBI oversight, when they are a continuation of the Hoover administration that spent almost five decades targeting every single person in the country that Hoover didn't personally like. Not to mention the current hardon that the FBI has for locking people away and terrorizing them on the flimsiest of pretenses.
FOX has tried to kill it a couple of times, but they always get a barrage of letters from fans so huge that they drop it back in to the rotation, although always in another shitty time slot. I don't care, as long as they just keep making them.:)
I love Futurama and have been jonesing most severely for the premiere, but I do have to agree that Family Guy is by far the best animated show out. I'm a nut for satire, though, and that's where Family Guy really shines. Well, that, and the completely irrelevant but hysterical tangents that they aren't afraid to shoot to.
Best line ever was from Petey the Pistol in the National Gun Association commercial while being held by the kid: "If you squeeze me, I make make bad people go away.":)
I hope he's getting a beefy stipend from the Al Queda network, because Ashcroft is definitely one of the finest psyops terrorists that I have ever seen at work. To achieve such a high position within the target population itself to base his terrorist activities out of... I bet he just brings a tear to the eyes of Al Queda's former CIA handlers, seeing the culmination of all of their hard work in Afghanistan 20 years ago.
Oh wait, he was born in the US, so I guess he can't be a terrorist, eh?
I'd actually like to know why that is, come to think about it. It seems very strange that a singular interest group like us (geeks) would be the primary fanbase for an unrelated actor (Bruce). Obviously we make up most of his fanbase or else he'd have a shitload more fans and be getting bigger roles and better project support. I mean, there is nothing about his characters or him personally that should appeal widely to the geek community other than that they are usually funny, but then why not a dozen other actors in that case? Maybe its just me; weird psyghological effects like this just amuse the hell out of me.;)
Nah, something a little more like the little bit of liberty that US citizens who had some of that scary Japanese blood in them had to give up when they got marched into cages during the same period. Well, maybe something more like the people subject to the McCarthy investigations a few years later. But then again, it might be more like how blacks were treated prior to the Civil Rights Acts, and even in many cases afterward. No, no, I'm actually getting a vibe that he meant Native Americans throughout the entire history of the US. But then, having the FBI as the center of attention with this particular piece of legislation, it might be every person who was secretly manipulated by J Edgar Hoover, the former head of the FBI, for his own personal crusades.
Guess you'll just have to get clarification from him, because I'm just guessing off of the top of my head.
So someone's life has to be fucked with before we fix the faulty law? If that law is really still on the books in Lexington, the local legislators should have the respect for their constituents to remove it rather than wait until a cop who is pissed at the world because his old lady isn't giving him any nookie decides to screw with someone and ruin their day by using the idiotic law.
That's the biggest gripe I have with our criminal justice system; those laws sure seem to be easy enough to toss on to the people, but getting rid of them usually means that someone, or several someones, get fucked in the process. Unless a "sunset" date is included in the bill (as, thankfully, there was in the bill in the topic), there is no process of review to determine the continued relevance and effectiveness of a law, unless a whole lot of people pitch a bitch. Quite the uneven process, leading to plenty of laws being tossed at the citizens to abide by, and not a whole hell of a lot being modified or removed after analyzing their effectiveness/cost versus what was assumed when the law was first created.
Because the government runs on kickbacks. If they don't get their pound of flesh, legislation doesn't get passed. You think those mongoloids in suits actually give a shit about the issue itself? They're just a bigger version of the mafia, and the Don requires his tithe for you to do business on his turf.
We're a funny lot here in the Corporate Republic Of America(TM). You see, if it isn't in a sitcom, day time talk show, teeny bopper song lyrics or doesn't have the logo from a Fortune 500 company on it, then it only exists as a general idea rather than an established fact. So you see, since the DMCA was not signed into effect on television and does not contain any logos, it is possible for both Clinton AND Bush to have signed it. Of course, if this ambiguity threatens to cost a corporation any sum of money, an immediate ruling will take place to determine who did, in fact, sign the DMCA into law. It would probably end up being Bush anyhow, since it appears that Clinton has never actually done anything that he has, well, done, to hear him tell about it later.
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Now I can finally follow Trinity around staring at her ass without getting the crap kicked out of me by her bodyguards every couple of days. Or play an agent and tap the hell out of the woman in red, since, you know, it wouldn't be weird having sex with a program or anything, since I'd be playing as a computer program myself. Of course I'd be a human playing a program having sex with a progr... god, I need to get laid.
Something like this would be pretty good for surveillance. Have indoor models that wander around inside a large complex after hours to check for fire, intruders, or structural issues like leaking pipes. Or stick some outside with infrared cameras and motion detectors to keep an eye on parking structures, open grounds and whatnot. Make convenient escorts for late night workers heading to their cars. A few antennas spread around and a wireless link to a security center that would allow security to instantly look at anything that the bots are looking at would make for much safer surroundings at a much lower cost than human watch standers with their tendancies to doze off or get caught up in Brittany Spears videos in the break room.
Whiny bitch. Many of us have done our time; let the civilians have their fun. If you signed up for glory and respect, you picked the wrong job; go get your MBA. Like our division chief liked to say: "We're here to protect the citizens of the US, even if they don't want us to. Just nod and smile when they try to fit their heads in their asses." And spare the sacrifice speech; if my wife had decided not to go into grad school, I'd be back in boot camp right now, because I sure miss the quality of life I had when I was in right about now. It must be a real motherfucker for your bros to serve with someone with such a thin skin, especially if your unit has even a small fraction of the shit-talkers that every one of my commands had. Enjoy your time in and be happy that there is still a civilian world to return to where you can make jokes about the military without disappearing in the middle of the night.
:)
Sorry to wander off topic so violently, but I'd rather that US civilians realize that most of their military isn't wound so tight while having access to the most powerful weapons on the planet.
This is an outrage! FBI agents using personal information collected by the agency on citizens to promote their own interests? Obviously we just need to change the administration of the FBI; after all, this would have never happened under the first and greatest FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover!
Er... wait a minute...
Seriously, I've just come to expect that the FBI is going to be corrupt and incompetant until the day that it is disbanded and replaced by another institution, which will probably just follow suit anyhow. The place just begs for it; national authority, minimal oversight, intentional segregation from other government offices, a long history of this sort of abuse with little public repercussion, etc.
Where in the hell else do you think our extremists, fascists, and power-hungry psychos are going to try to get into? It sucks that there are actually some good people that work in the FBI since they have to get caught up in this crap as well, but at least there are good parts to it. But I'll be damned if I'm ever going to trust the FBI in general, given, oh, decades of an example to go by. The USA PATRIOT act did us a favor by potentially saving us a fortune in investigations by making legal what the FBI was going to do on their own anyhow.
I don't give a damn who pulls this sort of thing anymore, as long as I get to see it in my lifetime. I'm sick of waiting for cool things to become profitable before actually being done. I can't believe that the ISS is still being built, although it has had some very close shaves in the US Congress over the past few years, all because of fucking money. What's so difficult about kicking the secretary's personal assistant's secretary's page off of the government payroll, stopping the spending on idiotic pork projects and $6,000 curtains (thanks Asscroft), and just using the tax money to do things that our decendents will look back at and say, "Bitchin'?"
As long as we end up inventing the pill to cause us all to become photosynthetic as well after we become sleepless. :) That was a pretty good book.
Shit, they find out that it makes you grow a tail and I'll buy a case. The possibilities are endless: career in the WWF, increased typing speed, REALLY interesting sex. And craploads more waking hours to enjoy them all. Sign me up!
Yeah, I have to admit, I am a total bitch to their frozen cappucinos. If they perfect Provigil, I'll still have to chug them babies down on a regular basis.
What in the hell is this silly insistance that sleep is necessary? It is one of the greatest plagues that mankind has to deal with, as it effectively takes away a good 20-30% away from the average persons life, or 5-10% from your average sysadmins. Fuck colon cancer, tobacco, or Alzeimer's; they usually only end up nabbing the crappiest part of life anyhow. Sleep is probably the second worst condition that humans face, next to aging.
If these scientists may have developed the beginnings to a true cure for sleeping, I say give them shitloads of funding to knock out the side effects and make it safe for longterm use. Then hand them the Nobel Prize and free hookers for life, because they will have done an extraordinary service for all humanity in giving us many more years to enjoy life, and good ones at that rather than simply more years to worry about busting hips and shitting in a big diaper, as well as allowing humanity to achieve more in less time. After all, imagine what else Einstein might have discovered if he didn't have to waste so much time sleeping (OK, maybe a bad analogy, since he would have been out scoring some booty with that extra time, but you get the picture).
It probably had something to do with line 4, which happened to read on both copies of the source code:
:)
// don't forget; gotta get some more Cool Ranch Doritos on the way home
Or maybe I'm the only person who would stick reminders to myself in my code since I could never leave the house to go turn it in before checking it over one more time.
Yes, but unfortunately because they are also a serious environmental hazard, they are now under the control of the government as well, and will be removed and relocated to an approved HazMat disposal point. I recommend stockpiling lots of painkillers soon.
Yeah, but you guys can actually order the Ali G videos since they are only released as PAL cassettes and Region 2 DVDs, so quitcher bitchin' ;) Sacha, if you're reading this, make those bastards release Region 1 DVDs!
I don't have too many problems with Battle.net, although there have been a few pains in the ass. However, this legitimate user does get irritated at having to dig up a damned CD just to play a video game for a few minutes. I have so many CDs that most of the time, unless I'm planning to play for a long while, which the opportunity to do doesn't arise that often, I just don't bother. But the goddamn software pirates are quite happily playing away using cracked copies. Yes, I know there are CD cracks, but I don't trust them. A couple months ago, I decided to stop supporting companies that screw with their actual legal customers; I'm still looking for a new game to buy. Christ, I'm beginning to think the pirates are the smart ones...
From one married bloke to a soon-to-be, you are in for one hell of a ride, but it will be worth every minute. Just remember the two words that will become your best friends:
Yes Dear
:)
Every time I read kooky sounding things like this, I want to shake my head and sigh, but then I think that is probably what a crapload of people were doing when Goddard was sitting around playing with frames and fuel and just feel that weird, "Damn, they could actually be on to something," feeling. I'm just waiting for some religious scholar to do something similar so I can be the first man to fly into the sun and have bragging rights in the afterlife for most badass exit.
We've gone from horse and buggy to spacecraft over the past 150 years; who gives a shit? Unless, of course, we're only five years from the point where the chain reaction occurs, in which case you bring the burgers, I'll get the dogs 'cause we are in for one hell of a barbeque, somewhere in the neighborhood of 900 degrees F, IIRC. :)
That's my whole concern. I'm not overly concerned with the FBI finding something incriminating on my computer, but if they get their suspicions up at all, there goes your stuff for a very long time. The Steve Jackson Games case a few years back being a very famous example.
One that hit close to home for me was when my wife's cousin got picked up for strongarm robbery. Turns out the witness who picked him out was sitting in the back of a squad car in a parking lot at night and IDed him while he was driving past. Turns out she was looking for a guy with brown hair, brown eyes and a moustache. The next day at county, she walked in to give her statement, took one look and said, "Oh, that's not him; I'm sorry." Moral to the story: He had $160 in his wallet at the time, which is a small fortune in student money as many of you know. Confiscated upon arrest but not returned to him until about seven months later.
I've spent years putting my computers together since I don't make a whole lot of money, and if I happen to write the wrong thing in something like a diary entry or database on my own computer and the FBI picks it up, then I risk losing everything for a long time. This is where I spend the majority of my time expressing my thoughts and is more of an extension to my home than my living room, so these assholes would be less invasive by sticking microphones all over my house. Besides, I can't help but laugh at the idea of FBI oversight, when they are a continuation of the Hoover administration that spent almost five decades targeting every single person in the country that Hoover didn't personally like. Not to mention the current hardon that the FBI has for locking people away and terrorizing them on the flimsiest of pretenses.
FOX has tried to kill it a couple of times, but they always get a barrage of letters from fans so huge that they drop it back in to the rotation, although always in another shitty time slot. I don't care, as long as they just keep making them. :)
I love Futurama and have been jonesing most severely for the premiere, but I do have to agree that Family Guy is by far the best animated show out. I'm a nut for satire, though, and that's where Family Guy really shines. Well, that, and the completely irrelevant but hysterical tangents that they aren't afraid to shoot to.
:)
Best line ever was from Petey the Pistol in the National Gun Association commercial while being held by the kid: "If you squeeze me, I make make bad people go away."
I hope he's getting a beefy stipend from the Al Queda network, because Ashcroft is definitely one of the finest psyops terrorists that I have ever seen at work. To achieve such a high position within the target population itself to base his terrorist activities out of... I bet he just brings a tear to the eyes of Al Queda's former CIA handlers, seeing the culmination of all of their hard work in Afghanistan 20 years ago.
Oh wait, he was born in the US, so I guess he can't be a terrorist, eh?
I'd actually like to know why that is, come to think about it. It seems very strange that a singular interest group like us (geeks) would be the primary fanbase for an unrelated actor (Bruce). Obviously we make up most of his fanbase or else he'd have a shitload more fans and be getting bigger roles and better project support. I mean, there is nothing about his characters or him personally that should appeal widely to the geek community other than that they are usually funny, but then why not a dozen other actors in that case? Maybe its just me; weird psyghological effects like this just amuse the hell out of me. ;)
Nah, something a little more like the little bit of liberty that US citizens who had some of that scary Japanese blood in them had to give up when they got marched into cages during the same period. Well, maybe something more like the people subject to the McCarthy investigations a few years later. But then again, it might be more like how blacks were treated prior to the Civil Rights Acts, and even in many cases afterward. No, no, I'm actually getting a vibe that he meant Native Americans throughout the entire history of the US. But then, having the FBI as the center of attention with this particular piece of legislation, it might be every person who was secretly manipulated by J Edgar Hoover, the former head of the FBI, for his own personal crusades.
Guess you'll just have to get clarification from him, because I'm just guessing off of the top of my head.
So someone's life has to be fucked with before we fix the faulty law? If that law is really still on the books in Lexington, the local legislators should have the respect for their constituents to remove it rather than wait until a cop who is pissed at the world because his old lady isn't giving him any nookie decides to screw with someone and ruin their day by using the idiotic law.
That's the biggest gripe I have with our criminal justice system; those laws sure seem to be easy enough to toss on to the people, but getting rid of them usually means that someone, or several someones, get fucked in the process. Unless a "sunset" date is included in the bill (as, thankfully, there was in the bill in the topic), there is no process of review to determine the continued relevance and effectiveness of a law, unless a whole lot of people pitch a bitch. Quite the uneven process, leading to plenty of laws being tossed at the citizens to abide by, and not a whole hell of a lot being modified or removed after analyzing their effectiveness/cost versus what was assumed when the law was first created.
Because the government runs on kickbacks. If they don't get their pound of flesh, legislation doesn't get passed. You think those mongoloids in suits actually give a shit about the issue itself? They're just a bigger version of the mafia, and the Don requires his tithe for you to do business on his turf.
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We're a funny lot here in the Corporate Republic Of America(TM). You see, if it isn't in a sitcom, day time talk show, teeny bopper song lyrics or doesn't have the logo from a Fortune 500 company on it, then it only exists as a general idea rather than an established fact. So you see, since the DMCA was not signed into effect on television and does not contain any logos, it is possible for both Clinton AND Bush to have signed it. Of course, if this ambiguity threatens to cost a corporation any sum of money, an immediate ruling will take place to determine who did, in fact, sign the DMCA into law. It would probably end up being Bush anyhow, since it appears that Clinton has never actually done anything that he has, well, done, to hear him tell about it later.
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