in Justin Mason's view, some pretty annoying times of day for many parts of the world
Sure, I can see lining up at my daughter's GameStop store at midnight, considering that whatever game they want may be sold out quickly.
But a download? Who cares what time of day it's available? If it's available at 1:00 AM your time, then just start the download when you wake up, or when you get home from work.
They're not going to run out of Firefoxes, you know. Relax.
That makes perfect sense, actually, since the two (Christianity and a safe for the owner, unsafe for others, expensive vehicle) are mutually exclusive. A hypocrite would logically be the most dangerous driver.
It pisses me off when I see somebody with a fish driving like an asshole. If they can't drive like a Christian they shouldn't have the damned fish on their car.
Doesn't work, and often has the opposite effect. Just yesterday there was some woman who zoomed past me racing to the red light, which was green by the time I stopped behind her. The car next to her was through the intersection and down the road before I honked.
She took off incredibly slowly and crept along about ten mph. When traffic in the left lane cleared I went to pass and the bitch floored it.
Your theory is faulty. Assholes are assholes no matter what. The only thing that keeps them from being assholes on foot is the fear of getting their faces smashed.
Your bumper sticker would only work on men with small genitals. And it would be counterproductive in regards to women, who don't WANT their genitals to be large and in fact take pride in having a tight one.
And it's been my observation that the most agressive drivers on the road are women in SUVs. Men in SUVs are the second most agressive.
The most obnoxious, despite vehicle size, are those driving the most expensive vehicles. Do you have a thousand dollar bike? If so, you are in the Hummer/Escalade camp when it comes to driving like an asshole.
BTW and OT (regarding your sig), without cowshit the cow would starve; grass needs fertilizer and there's none better than cowshit. You're going to have to come up with a better argument.
I do appreciate your so nicely illustrating the shrill, tantrum-like thought process that drives so much of the politics on the left
And I appreciate your so nicely illustrating the propensity of both your sides to equate everyone with beliefs different than yours as being the same as all others in their camp. The fact is that a lot of people on both sides want to kill anyone with differring opinions, and other people on both sides would rather have reasonable discourse.
Don't judge all liberals (or all conservatives) by the actions of one emotional misfit.
Me, I haven't decided whether to vote Green or Libertarian. I'm not voting for the Corporate stooge McCain, and I'm not voting for the corporate stooge Obama (and since the Libertarian is really a Republican I'll probably vote Green).
Look, dude, even though Bush may well be the worst President this country has ever seen and is clearly the worst President in my lifetime (and I ain't young), wanting to key someone's car because of their political beliefs is pathological.
Get help if you can before you get yourelf in trouble.
I've seen a bumper sticker that says "as a matter of fact, I do own the road".
I've noticed that the more expensive a vehicle is, the more dangerous, irresponsible, agressive, and discourteous the driver. I wish someone would do a study to see if this were accurate or just my perception.
Why do assholes in hummers and escalades think they deserve part of my lane and more than one parking spot?
I have two kids. Linda has thirteen (not counting the dead one). Linda's not very smart, but she's beating me 13 to 2. Clearly, it follows that nature selects for stupidity.
whenever I see the Jesus fish on the back of a car, I do want to run it off the road on general principle
You know, It's very, very rare that a religious person (Chrustian, Jew, Hindu, whatever) tries to shove his beliefs down my throat. For instance, I don't believe I've ever had a Catholic berate me for using birth control, never had a Jew or Muslim tell me I was going to hell for eating a ham sandwich, never had a Bhuddist curse me for swatting a fly, in fact seldom do I ever hear religious people talk of religion at all.
What is it about you fanatical athiests, anyway? Kindly STFU, asshole. I'm not interested in your religious beliefs.
I swear at cyclists too - not because I don't want to share the road with them, but because they're so God damned stupid. They run stop signs, run red lights, don't even LOOK before doing so. They ride on the wrong side of the street and generally act like utter assholes.
It's the cyclists who act as if they own the road, not the drivers. Oddly, it's only bicycles that act like this, motorcycle drivers are probably the most polite people out there.
Natural selection is scientifically valid, but what he refers to isn't natural selection. Most cancers occur after pubery, and if netural selection was a cure for hemophilia then hemophilia would have been gone generations ago.
Natural selection kills babies, kittens, and puppies. Once you have reproduced you've won the Darwin game.
That's somnething for those of you who are childless who crow about "Darwin at work" when someone dies doing something stupid.
The Saturday before last I traveled to the St Louis area. I'd discovered a year or so ago that doing 50 mph rather than the limit of 65 gave me an extra five miles per gallon, and gasoline was a record prices.
It was a thoroughly pleasant drive; nobody got in my way. People just went around me on the left as I cruised down the road without using my feet. I was tailgated at times by people waiting for the line of cars to go around me, but that wasn't that bad.
However, there was one moron who must have been doing ninety who zoomed up to a couple of feet from my bumper and sat there for at least ten miles, even though there was no other traffic!
I was tempted to brake hard. My car has fouur very large disks and stops in half the distance of any other car I've owned. I could have lied that an animal ran in front of the car and collected a lot of money.
Why is it that some people think they have the right and the duty to police how you drive, despite the fact that they are not law enforcement personnel and you are breaking no laws? Fifty is legal; the minimum is 45. I've been doing 65 (the upper limit) and had people pass me then slow down to 60 riding next to someone else doing 60.
Why do people behave like that? Do these people have such horrible lives that they have to ruin everyone else's day?
Oh yeah, for the "wank wank" anonymous coward who tailgates so many of my slashdot posts: I journaled about the trip. HAND.
I'm going to get a bumper sticker that says "get the fuck out of my way, asshole!"
Seriously, though, I have no bumper stickers, seat covers, personalized anything on my car. However, I'm prone to curse at idiots in traffic (they can't hear me, of course) especially when they threaten my life.
Tami always bitches about my "road rage" even though it has no effect except to let me let off steam. Is this road rage, or do you have to do something like zoom around someone and cut them off, flip them the bird, or otherwise let them know that they have annoyed you for it to be road rage?
I think Tami doesn't know the difference between rage and annoyance.
The Summary said "In 2001 RealNetworks sued and blocked Streambox from distributing the Ripper, a program that let users rip and save RealAudio and RealVideo streams..."
From the summary it looks like they did in fact stop Streambox, and now are doing what they stopped Streambox from doing.
But that doesn't mean the federal government has to steal my money and give it to abortion clinics.
Agreed there too - in fact more than agreed; I have friends with no health care whatever, whose only recourse is the emergency room.
If what the critics of big chemical companies say is true, we might see some action as soon as we get an administration that's less likely to fellate big business
Since either Obama or (more likely) McCain will win, there's not much chance of that happening. Still, I'll probably vote Green if they're on the ballot in Illinois.
Locking doesn't cut it for me, even with the keys locked it answered a call this morning I dodn't want it to. I haven't had a slider but I've had flip phones since the old Motorola analog Star Tech and never had a problem with any of them breaking. The only two I had to send back were a POS LG (and its replacement was equally buggy) and a Razr that I dropped in the toilet.
As for QWERTY phones, I just don't get it.
me either, altough I'm sure there's a certain "cool" factor at play there, especially when you open up your little pocket computer and surf CNN.
And the speed with which some of my (female) friends can SMS using the shorthand method is simply amazing.
SEE?! I'm not the only one here with female friends!
As to the actual topic, this isn't the phone for me. As I'm neither female nor gay I don't carry a purse. That means I have to keep my phone in my pocket, which means that I need the keys covered. It has to be a flip or a slider.
The one I have now isn't, and it's a pain in the ass. It once dialed 911 (who promptly returned its call, to my extreme embarrassment), because it takes a few seconds for the keys to lock.
This morning it answered a call I dodn't want to take.
Attention Nokia and other phone manufacturers: some of us are neither female nor gay. We need key covers!
If you are so impressed by "cool" and the lack of "cool" that if someone over a certain age uses something then it can't be useful to you, you are pathetically uncool.
The "real" (ahem, sorry) story was glossed over in the summary and ignored completely in the body. That's Real's filing suit against a company for making software that will rip their streams, then coming out with a player that will rip others' streams. The hypocracy is sickening, but then again just about everything any money-worshiping corporation does is sickening.
If a big multinational corporation doesn't have to obey the law, why should you? I've said "when my congresscritters start writing respectable laws I'll respect the law" before, but I'm going to have to add "as long as corporations won't obey the law I'll be damned if I will either". Especially since those same foreign corporations have access to "my" legislators and I don't.
Someone is bount to reply that Real is an American company, but as long as a single foreigner can buy a share of its stock, it's no more an American company than Sony or BP and should neither be able to "contribute" to my legislators or have any access to them at all.
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No, posessing the joint is a crime. There are people in prison for it.
in Justin Mason's view, some pretty annoying times of day for many parts of the world
Sure, I can see lining up at my daughter's GameStop store at midnight, considering that whatever game they want may be sold out quickly.
But a download? Who cares what time of day it's available? If it's available at 1:00 AM your time, then just start the download when you wake up, or when you get home from work.
They're not going to run out of Firefoxes, you know. Relax.
That makes perfect sense, actually, since the two (Christianity and a safe for the owner, unsafe for others, expensive vehicle) are mutually exclusive. A hypocrite would logically be the most dangerous driver.
It pisses me off when I see somebody with a fish driving like an asshole. If they can't drive like a Christian they shouldn't have the damned fish on their car.
IHBT
Doesn't work, and often has the opposite effect. Just yesterday there was some woman who zoomed past me racing to the red light, which was green by the time I stopped behind her. The car next to her was through the intersection and down the road before I honked.
She took off incredibly slowly and crept along about ten mph. When traffic in the left lane cleared I went to pass and the bitch floored it.
Your theory is faulty. Assholes are assholes no matter what. The only thing that keeps them from being assholes on foot is the fear of getting their faces smashed.
Your bumper sticker would only work on men with small genitals. And it would be counterproductive in regards to women, who don't WANT their genitals to be large and in fact take pride in having a tight one.
And it's been my observation that the most agressive drivers on the road are women in SUVs. Men in SUVs are the second most agressive.
The most obnoxious, despite vehicle size, are those driving the most expensive vehicles. Do you have a thousand dollar bike? If so, you are in the Hummer/Escalade camp when it comes to driving like an asshole.
BTW and OT (regarding your sig), without cowshit the cow would starve; grass needs fertilizer and there's none better than cowshit. You're going to have to come up with a better argument.
I do appreciate your so nicely illustrating the shrill, tantrum-like thought process that drives so much of the politics on the left
And I appreciate your so nicely illustrating the propensity of both your sides to equate everyone with beliefs different than yours as being the same as all others in their camp. The fact is that a lot of people on both sides want to kill anyone with differring opinions, and other people on both sides would rather have reasonable discourse.
Don't judge all liberals (or all conservatives) by the actions of one emotional misfit.
Me, I haven't decided whether to vote Green or Libertarian. I'm not voting for the Corporate stooge McCain, and I'm not voting for the corporate stooge Obama (and since the Libertarian is really a Republican I'll probably vote Green).
Look, dude, even though Bush may well be the worst President this country has ever seen and is clearly the worst President in my lifetime (and I ain't young), wanting to key someone's car because of their political beliefs is pathological.
Get help if you can before you get yourelf in trouble.
I've seen a bumper sticker that says "as a matter of fact, I do own the road".
I've noticed that the more expensive a vehicle is, the more dangerous, irresponsible, agressive, and discourteous the driver. I wish someone would do a study to see if this were accurate or just my perception.
Why do assholes in hummers and escalades think they deserve part of my lane and more than one parking spot?
I don't have any kids
Then you're losing the Natural Selection game.
I have two kids. Linda has thirteen (not counting the dead one). Linda's not very smart, but she's beating me 13 to 2. Clearly, it follows that nature selects for stupidity.
whenever I see the Jesus fish on the back of a car, I do want to run it off the road on general principle
You know, It's very, very rare that a religious person (Chrustian, Jew, Hindu, whatever) tries to shove his beliefs down my throat. For instance, I don't believe I've ever had a Catholic berate me for using birth control, never had a Jew or Muslim tell me I was going to hell for eating a ham sandwich, never had a Bhuddist curse me for swatting a fly, in fact seldom do I ever hear religious people talk of religion at all.
What is it about you fanatical athiests, anyway? Kindly STFU, asshole. I'm not interested in your religious beliefs.
HAND.
I swear at cyclists too - not because I don't want to share the road with them, but because they're so God damned stupid. They run stop signs, run red lights, don't even LOOK before doing so. They ride on the wrong side of the street and generally act like utter assholes.
It's the cyclists who act as if they own the road, not the drivers. Oddly, it's only bicycles that act like this, motorcycle drivers are probably the most polite people out there.
Natural selection is scientifically valid, but what he refers to isn't natural selection. Most cancers occur after pubery, and if netural selection was a cure for hemophilia then hemophilia would have been gone generations ago.
Natural selection kills babies, kittens, and puppies. Once you have reproduced you've won the Darwin game.
That's somnething for those of you who are childless who crow about "Darwin at work" when someone dies doing something stupid.
Mod the parent up!
The Saturday before last I traveled to the St Louis area. I'd discovered a year or so ago that doing 50 mph rather than the limit of 65 gave me an extra five miles per gallon, and gasoline was a record prices.
It was a thoroughly pleasant drive; nobody got in my way. People just went around me on the left as I cruised down the road without using my feet. I was tailgated at times by people waiting for the line of cars to go around me, but that wasn't that bad.
However, there was one moron who must have been doing ninety who zoomed up to a couple of feet from my bumper and sat there for at least ten miles, even though there was no other traffic!
I was tempted to brake hard. My car has fouur very large disks and stops in half the distance of any other car I've owned. I could have lied that an animal ran in front of the car and collected a lot of money.
Why is it that some people think they have the right and the duty to police how you drive, despite the fact that they are not law enforcement personnel and you are breaking no laws? Fifty is legal; the minimum is 45. I've been doing 65 (the upper limit) and had people pass me then slow down to 60 riding next to someone else doing 60.
Why do people behave like that? Do these people have such horrible lives that they have to ruin everyone else's day?
Oh yeah, for the "wank wank" anonymous coward who tailgates so many of my slashdot posts: I journaled about the trip. HAND.
I'm going to get a bumper sticker that says "get the fuck out of my way, asshole!"
Seriously, though, I have no bumper stickers, seat covers, personalized anything on my car. However, I'm prone to curse at idiots in traffic (they can't hear me, of course) especially when they threaten my life.
Tami always bitches about my "road rage" even though it has no effect except to let me let off steam. Is this road rage, or do you have to do something like zoom around someone and cut them off, flip them the bird, or otherwise let them know that they have annoyed you for it to be road rage?
I think Tami doesn't know the difference between rage and annoyance.
Is this another bone-headed IT mistake?
It must be Monday. I really suck at Mondays.
The Summary said "In 2001 RealNetworks sued and blocked Streambox from distributing the Ripper, a program that let users rip and save RealAudio and RealVideo streams..."
From the summary it looks like they did in fact stop Streambox, and now are doing what they stopped Streambox from doing.
Not that I actually RTFA or anything.
But that doesn't mean the federal government has to steal my money and give it to abortion clinics.
Agreed there too - in fact more than agreed; I have friends with no health care whatever, whose only recourse is the emergency room.
If what the critics of big chemical companies say is true, we might see some action as soon as we get an administration that's less likely to fellate big business
Since either Obama or (more likely) McCain will win, there's not much chance of that happening. Still, I'll probably vote Green if they're on the ballot in Illinois.
Locking doesn't cut it for me, even with the keys locked it answered a call this morning I dodn't want it to. I haven't had a slider but I've had flip phones since the old Motorola analog Star Tech and never had a problem with any of them breaking. The only two I had to send back were a POS LG (and its replacement was equally buggy) and a Razr that I dropped in the toilet.
As for QWERTY phones, I just don't get it.
me either, altough I'm sure there's a certain "cool" factor at play there, especially when you open up your little pocket computer and surf CNN.
Has anybody seen Trillian?
Clearly these planets are only the tip of the iceberg."
Like tips of icebergs? Then they're NOT like earth but more like Neptune?? Wait didn't the summary say they were really really hot?
Huh?
And the speed with which some of my (female) friends can SMS using the shorthand method is simply amazing.
SEE?! I'm not the only one here with female friends!
As to the actual topic, this isn't the phone for me. As I'm neither female nor gay I don't carry a purse. That means I have to keep my phone in my pocket, which means that I need the keys covered. It has to be a flip or a slider.
The one I have now isn't, and it's a pain in the ass. It once dialed 911 (who promptly returned its call, to my extreme embarrassment), because it takes a few seconds for the keys to lock.
This morning it answered a call I dodn't want to take.
Attention Nokia and other phone manufacturers: some of us are neither female nor gay. We need key covers!
If you are so impressed by "cool" and the lack of "cool" that if someone over a certain age uses something then it can't be useful to you, you are pathetically uncool.
Cool people don't care about cool.
Here you go. Sorry it took so long.
The "real" (ahem, sorry) story was glossed over in the summary and ignored completely in the body. That's Real's filing suit against a company for making software that will rip their streams, then coming out with a player that will rip others' streams. The hypocracy is sickening, but then again just about everything any money-worshiping corporation does is sickening.
If a big multinational corporation doesn't have to obey the law, why should you? I've said "when my congresscritters start writing respectable laws I'll respect the law" before, but I'm going to have to add "as long as corporations won't obey the law I'll be damned if I will either". Especially since those same foreign corporations have access to "my" legislators and I don't.
Someone is bount to reply that Real is an American company, but as long as a single foreigner can buy a share of its stock, it's no more an American company than Sony or BP and should neither be able to "contribute" to my legislators or have any access to them at all.
Actually, "don't trust anyone over thirty" was only good advice if followed with "and don't trust anyone under 31, either."
There are honest people and dishonest people of all ages. Trust, like respect, must be earned.