Nice putting words in my mouth. First, it's not about the oil running out, it's about the oil becoming CO2 and heating the planet. And neither I nor anybody else said CFLs will SAVE the planet, but they help slow down the fucking it up.
...with the occasional landslide. A bit like the glaciers melting.
Global warming is killing the RIAA? Yay global warming!
if there was a "deadhorse" mod option I'd be modded into oblivion
Naw, this is slashdot. +5, dead horse
But what about those people who don't have the net?
The only one I know not on the internet is my 76 year old dad, and he hasn't been a music fan since they stopped playing Willie Nelson on the radio. You might as well ask "what about those people who don't have radios".
I, too, remember the time when the M in MTV was for MUSIC
It's not M for music, it's one of those text message/license plate thingies; MT is an abbreviation for "empty" like sk* is an abbreviation for skate. It's "empty-v" as in "no vision". I remember the time when empty-V came on the scene and started confusing rap with rock and tried to fuck up rock and roll forever.
Fortunately it was unsucessful as the empty-V decade (1980s) saw some great rock and roll, little of which got air play on empty-V.
I disagree. I think the newspapers' godoffal web sites with all the blinkey flashey advertising and javascript asking you if you want to debug it and the same story endlessly linked over and over on its index page is what is killing newspapers.
People are starting to realise that newspapers are published, edited, and written by utter morons.
You, who didn't get the "hot" reference, remind me of an old joke. A guy is walking down the sidewalk and a frog speaks to him. "Help! I'm really a beautiful princess who's been put under a spell by an evil witch! If you kiss me I'll become the beautiful princess and I'll marry you!"
The fellow says "wow", picks up the frog and puts it in his pocket.
"Hey!" says the frog, "didn't you hear me? I'm a beautiful princess under a spell!"
"I heard you."
"Then why don't you kiss me?"
"I'm gay," he says, "I don't care about girls, but a talking frog is uber-kewl!"
The developers aren't the only ones you've made cry today. How do I get that horrible picture out of my tortured barin? You fiend! Did you learn that awful technique in your CIA "special rendition" class?
"Or maybe infinite temperature wraps around to negative temperature and absolute hot is the same as absolute cold."
As to the wraparound thing, I often wondered in various drug-induced fits of "special" consiousness (before Reagan fucked everything up for us former stoners) about space and time.
If spacetime is curved, couldn't it curve around to meet itself? If so, could what is expanding the speed of cosmic expansion be the incredible gravity well of the promordial proto-universe that exploded in the "big bang" to become the present day universe?
If that were so, everything is wrapping around to the beginning, so whether or not expansion stops and eventually contracts, the "big crunch" that happened before the big bang hasn't happened yet, because 13+ billion years in the past is actually n years in the future.
I also wonder if monkeys will fly out of the parent poster's butt, or if they indeed already have.
Oh yeah, speaking of buttmonkeys, today's journal is a Paxil Diary Christmas Story titled The Angel's Mother - Chris at Christmas. Not that it's on topic or anything, but since it seems the insane are all posting today...
I would have never thought there was a speed limit for the universe before I read Einstein's special theory of relativity.
Which should not be confused with Einstien's "special" theory of relativity, which states that no matter who you are, all your relatives seem like retards.
-mcgrew
(Einstien would never be confused with Einstein, would he? Except maybe by one of your relatives...)
Are they using CFL Christmas lights? Oh sorry, don't want to offend the liberals, "holiday lights?"
Oh yeah, these are geeks. The CFL Christma... sorry, "holiday tree" lights are the wrong color temperature and they give the whiney geeks headaches. And you can't dim 'em. Can't have that, planet be damned.
Peace on earth goodwill to men, I wonder how much electricity these displays take? Vain, selfich rich kids. Lets just do away with Christmas altogether.
Sorry, I'm having a really bad day today. I'm trying for funny but shit... troll? flamebait? Offtopic? You're the mod, go ahead, make my day.
Any day now they're going to bring back "colored" as an acceptable term for black people and I'll be completely lost.
First the word "nigger" was offensive, and rightly so. "Nigger" means "slave" to a black person, and a slave was just another farm animal.
So polite folks used "colored". The some comedian talked about the white woman with the red neck and blue hair calling him "colored" so it was changed to "black" Then "black was offensive so...
Some people beg to be insulted and it doesn't matter what you say.
Even more amusing (to me) is homosexuals. A "fag" is something a British person sucks on (a cigarette), a "fruit" is something you eat, "queer" means "out of the ordinary". Purely descriptive, and I suspect all those terms were originally coined by homosexuals themselves.
Now they want to be called "gay" despite the fact that 50% of "gay" people have attempted suicide. Now "gay" is being used by teenagers as a synonym for "stupid".
A rose by any other name... personally I think the way to fight racism and homophobia is to be considerate of others' feelings and grow a sense of humor, whatever your race or sexual orientation.
When you decide to do something that fucks up MY planet you're making selfish decisions on your own behalf for ME. Who gave you the right to fuck with MY life?
If you want to shoot up dope or suck cock that's none of my nor should it be government's business. If you want to fusk uo the planet that IS my business.
The mercury emmitted by Springfield's coal fired plant will put more mercury in the environment powering the excess energy used by the incandescant than is contained in a CFL.
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I don't care how many stories I submit that don't get posted, I'd hate like hell being called "Roland Piquepaille".
-mcgrew
If I preform Hamlet on stage, my performance is copyrighted the moment I do it.
In the US a performance must be "fixed in a tangible medium." It isn't copyrighted unless you film it, record it, or write it down.
"Nice beaver!"
"Thanks, I just had it stuffed"
It's sad that I have to put a damned smiley on a post for people to NOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.
Seriously!
Yeah, "happy politically correct holidays."
A woman (wo'man, womb man) is a man with a womb. "Mankind" includes women. 'Tis the season to be pedantic.
Nice putting words in my mouth. First, it's not about the oil running out, it's about the oil becoming CO2 and heating the planet. And neither I nor anybody else said CFLs will SAVE the planet, but they help slow down the fucking it up.
...with the occasional landslide. A bit like the glaciers melting.
Global warming is killing the RIAA? Yay global warming!
if there was a "deadhorse" mod option I'd be modded into oblivion
Naw, this is slashdot. +5, dead horse
But what about those people who don't have the net?
The only one I know not on the internet is my 76 year old dad, and he hasn't been a music fan since they stopped playing Willie Nelson on the radio. You might as well ask "what about those people who don't have radios".
I, too, remember the time when the M in MTV was for MUSIC
It's not M for music, it's one of those text message/license plate thingies; MT is an abbreviation for "empty" like sk* is an abbreviation for skate. It's "empty-v" as in "no vision". I remember the time when empty-V came on the scene and started confusing rap with rock and tried to fuck up rock and roll forever.
Fortunately it was unsucessful as the empty-V decade (1980s) saw some great rock and roll, little of which got air play on empty-V.
I disagree. I think the newspapers' godoffal web sites with all the blinkey flashey advertising and javascript asking you if you want to debug it and the same story endlessly linked over and over on its index page is what is killing newspapers.
People are starting to realise that newspapers are published, edited, and written by utter morons.
"I don't know, professor, the thermometer melted!"
You haven't met Amy.
You, who didn't get the "hot" reference, remind me of an old joke. A guy is walking down the sidewalk and a frog speaks to him. "Help! I'm really a beautiful princess who's been put under a spell by an evil witch! If you kiss me I'll become the beautiful princess and I'll marry you!"
The fellow says "wow", picks up the frog and puts it in his pocket.
"Hey!" says the frog, "didn't you hear me? I'm a beautiful princess under a spell!"
"I heard you."
"Then why don't you kiss me?"
"I'm gay," he says, "I don't care about girls, but a talking frog is uber-kewl!"
Margaret Thatcher. Covered in whipped cream
The developers aren't the only ones you've made cry today. How do I get that horrible picture out of my tortured barin? You fiend! Did you learn that awful technique in your CIA "special rendition" class?
Although now you've ruled out any possibility of a threesome.
He has but I haven't. I have high hopes for tonight!
PS- I'm going to get one of those "I'm with stupid" t-shirts, only the arrow is going to point down.
"Or maybe infinite temperature wraps around to negative temperature and absolute hot is the same as absolute cold."
As to the wraparound thing, I often wondered in various drug-induced fits of "special" consiousness (before Reagan fucked everything up for us former stoners) about space and time.
If spacetime is curved, couldn't it curve around to meet itself? If so, could what is expanding the speed of cosmic expansion be the incredible gravity well of the promordial proto-universe that exploded in the "big bang" to become the present day universe?
If that were so, everything is wrapping around to the beginning, so whether or not expansion stops and eventually contracts, the "big crunch" that happened before the big bang hasn't happened yet, because 13+ billion years in the past is actually n years in the future.
I also wonder if monkeys will fly out of the parent poster's butt, or if they indeed already have.
Oh yeah, speaking of buttmonkeys, today's journal is a Paxil Diary Christmas Story titled The Angel's Mother - Chris at Christmas. Not that it's on topic or anything, but since it seems the insane are all posting today...
I would have never thought there was a speed limit for the universe before I read Einstein's special theory of relativity.
Which should not be confused with Einstien's "special" theory of relativity, which states that no matter who you are, all your relatives seem like retards.
-mcgrew
(Einstien would never be confused with Einstein, would he? Except maybe by one of your relatives...)
Still, it's a nice enough place
You're lucky, Springfield is a madhouse full of assholes. Ever see "Cool World?" That's Springfield.
I played with the mercury from broken thermometers when I was a kid, I don't think the microsopic ampunts in your CFL are anything to worry about.
Are they using CFL Christmas lights? Oh sorry, don't want to offend the liberals, "holiday lights?"
Oh yeah, these are geeks. The CFL Christma... sorry, "holiday tree" lights are the wrong color temperature and they give the whiney geeks headaches. And you can't dim 'em. Can't have that, planet be damned.
Peace on earth goodwill to men, I wonder how much electricity these displays take? Vain, selfich rich kids. Lets just do away with Christmas altogether.
Sorry, I'm having a really bad day today. I'm trying for funny but shit... troll? flamebait? Offtopic? You're the mod, go ahead, make my day.
-Dirty Hairy
Any day now they're going to bring back "colored" as an acceptable term for black people and I'll be completely lost.
First the word "nigger" was offensive, and rightly so. "Nigger" means "slave" to a black person, and a slave was just another farm animal.
So polite folks used "colored". The some comedian talked about the white woman with the red neck and blue hair calling him "colored" so it was changed to "black" Then "black was offensive so...
Some people beg to be insulted and it doesn't matter what you say.
Even more amusing (to me) is homosexuals. A "fag" is something a British person sucks on (a cigarette), a "fruit" is something you eat, "queer" means "out of the ordinary". Purely descriptive, and I suspect all those terms were originally coined by homosexuals themselves.
Now they want to be called "gay" despite the fact that 50% of "gay" people have attempted suicide. Now "gay" is being used by teenagers as a synonym for "stupid".
A rose by any other name... personally I think the way to fight racism and homophobia is to be considerate of others' feelings and grow a sense of humor, whatever your race or sexual orientation.
Oh well, Canada is closer anyway. I hear hookers are legal there... are they?
What's a fuckless nerd who wants to be a law abiding citizen to do? Damn it, hookers provide a valuable service to society!
I know several people who make all their money performing as well.
My porch lights are CFLs. I live in Springfield and it gets DAMNED COLD here. So what the hell are you gabbering on about?
Why is everyone so enamored of dimmer switches? The only one I have is in a drawer, because I put a cieling fan up where that light was.
For god's sake you kids sure do whine a lot.
When you decide to do something that fucks up MY planet you're making selfish decisions on your own behalf for ME. Who gave you the right to fuck with MY life?
If you want to shoot up dope or suck cock that's none of my nor should it be government's business. If you want to fusk uo the planet that IS my business.
The mercury emmitted by Springfield's coal fired plant will put more mercury in the environment powering the excess energy used by the incandescant than is contained in a CFL.