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Ding! Fries are done! - This will infect your BRAIN! You will find yourself singing it often, and wonder WHY OH WHY!!?!? [By: EagleEye / 2004-12-30]
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ROFLMAO!!!!! Damn that's catchy. - redevil34
Interesting observation: 99 out of 100 non-food service cashiers say they would never be caught dead wearing paper hats & saying "Want fries with that?" -MadJack
We have a dude that sings dumb songs paritys on the raido here, sounds just like this dud. -THETECHFROMHELL
What I find funny is at BK they don't wear paper hats, and they don't sell apple pies... The apple pie thing is mcdonalds! -EagleEye
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I had a feeling this was a hoax - I had a feeling that this was a hoax. I only hope someday I can have a hoax great enough to fool all of the major news medias into thinking it's real and having them run stories on it. [By: JH / 2004-12-28]
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So some guy is mad because he was charged by google for legitimate clicks on his ads that were placed on this guy's site? I don't get it... who cares if the guy was hoaxing everyone... the guy still got his ad exposure! -EagleEye
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Xmas Badgers - Xmas badger! [By: CommanderData / 2004-12-24]
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Yes, very amusing CD. Merry Christmas (and custard) -Gerund
AAAAHHHHHH -Armakuni
You wait 'til playtime CD - I'll get you for that! -Gromit
Oh merry indeed.. Now I got that bouncing flock of furries on the mind again.. yay :) -shayera
I now have this tune stuck in my head together with all the other Christmas mucic!! Thank you very much! -ch41nbr8kr
Feliz Navidad .. Feliz Navidad ... I want wish you a merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart -Dangermouse
"If we built this large wooden Santa badger..." THWWAPP!! Joyeux Noel, mes amies! -MadJack
i hate you now -neuman1812
Well.....I had to piss someone off today! I was under quota.. -CommanderData
Hmm, Badgers in Shooting Gallery, in Starfish suits. -satanstech
Wow. I llike that. Heh..hehe...hahahahaa! -ThreeBucks
Oh, btw, CD:
Re the iPod below, does the holiday edition come with an Elderberry port? (LOL!) -MadJack
"HALLELUJAH! Christ, it's a Christ... oh, it's a Christ!!!" Thank you CD! -Veinor
dammit! OK, what's next?! SantaPhone! -leonine
Ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, ring, The Santa Phone! <Guess what tune is now stuck in your head?> -lineswine
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New Game for you to try - Enjoy [By: RTFM / 2004-12-22]
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Game play was quite realistic. It was a MOOOOOOOOOOving experience. -Dangermouse
I kept trying but the gap was too wide for me to fillet - I kept making mis-steaks. (TAXI! Pond Life, and quick!!) -Gromit
I kept trying but the gap was too wide for me to fillet - I kept making mis-steaks. (TAXI! Pond Life, and quick!!) -Gromit
Bugger! Hawk's server wasn't playing nice when I posted - sorry. -Gromit
That game was an udder delight! -hkypipe
1355, 5 tractors - 6 seems awfully hard to maintain speed!
-Grue
I keep jumping too far- love the way it explodes into jackets and other beef products -Shaede
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Slingshot Santa - Some Christmas-y fun to entertain you. I don't recall if this has ever been posted before. If it has, I apologize. Sound warning. Yodelling warning. Highly addictive. ;) [By: mousie / 2004-12-21]
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Woo-Hoo!!! I got 194 meters! Cool game. Thanks Mousie!! :) -rokitt
198.8 meters!! This IS an addictive game!:) -rokitt
200.4 meters!! YEE-HAW!! <looks around and sees everyone staring at him..."What??..Ok...I'll get back to work now.> :) -rokitt
222.8...nyah, nyah. -Owie
277.8...Go Rokitt! Go Rokitt! Oh Yeah!<starts doing the Happy Dance> ;p -rokitt
327.4 After about 310, you see Rudolph standing there looking at Santa. ;) -mousie
332.1...Yup...Rudolph looks a little annoyed...heh heh:) -rokitt
343.10...I was hoping Rudolph would react if you reached him, like poop on you or some such. Guess not. -Owie
And at 350.4 meters, you land right in front of Rudolph...and there's another cliff just a little further ahead. -rokitt
350.4 as well. Can't seem to beat it. -h3x0n1c
blocked...bummer... -BlondeGeek
im lost....I cant seem to figure out how to play -neuman1812
never mind -neuman1812
334.3 - Can't seem to improve on that, but can repeat it easily enough. -virtualchoirboy
350.4. Huh. That was fun for awhile. -Owie
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Fingerprinting - I do apologize if this is old news, but has anyone considered the ramifications of this? [By: mousie / 2004-12-20]
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They don't recommend it for corporate situations, which is a relief. What if an employee left & the machine was inaccessable? But think of the fun when a user calls in not able to log in! "I want a new fiiinnnngger!" -Tekkie
"The finger you are using has performed an illegal operation and will be amputated." *chop* I have a fingerprint reader at home (not Microsoft). It's too geeky not to at least have a little fun with. It doesn't seem to like Firefox, but it works pretty well with XP file encrypting, Winzip passwords, etc. It's more fun than anything, but it works pretty well for one-touch logging onto the system. -teivrann
There was an article on /. about a year back where some researcher had found that a fingerprint reader could be fooled by a fake fingerprint that was made with a handy gelatinous substance... a gummy bear. While I agree that they are fun to play with, IMHO they are no more secure than passwords... but harder to forget. -chazz
Anyone else think the hand pictured at the top of the page looks a little white (wonder if it's severed). -Armakuni
I was thinking of the broader ramifications. Like if that should become a popular practice. -mousie
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Popups from Work - Hehehe... Trying to work on a system today at work, I got these gems. These were the best of the bunch. Enjoy! [By: exzyle2k / 2004-12-19]
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Too funny! Is the 2nd one a bunch of a$$holes tied together with twine? -Tekkie
You really gotta stop surfing those sites at work... :) Unique popups, I grant you that. Were they links and if so to where? -=-=- Tekkie, that reminds me of the Carlin Cheer from the end of the "George Carlin On Campus" video: "Ratshit! Batshit! Dirty old tw@t! 69 assholes tied in a knot! Dirty old lizard shit, F*CK!!"
-Mushroom
I take it that I will want to wait to see this until I get to the safety of my humble abode? -gr4p34p3
nah, I'd say it's safe for work - depending on how strict your work is of course! -Shaede
Lol @ Mushroom... -hkypipe
I've never seen anything like that before - thats funny stuff.
-jard
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Festive Fault - Thought you might all like to take a look at this, so your ready when Mr SF starts neeping. Has anyone had this one yet? [By: Armakuni / 2004-12-15]
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Starfish:"Ooh, looky at the pretty, flashing, twinkley thingies....HEY!!WHERE'S MY PORN????" -rokitt
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Foamy!! NSFW - Foamy talks about pr0n and spam :) [By: rockytech / 2004-12-15]
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Dang, you beat me to it. I love the new Foamy mohawk. "She owns vibrating underwear"!!! Nice...however, he doesn't specify if it has a remote control. -redevil34
hate to nitpick, but the squirrel with the mohawk is another character, not Foamy (mabey they gave him the week off, lol). Anyway...very funny stuff as always -leonine
I just listened to that. That voice is TOTALLY foamy. "LINE UP TO VOTE PEOPLE. It doesnt matter who you vote for, just vote or die." (Burrkiss is still irritated 1 1/2 months after the election) -burrkiss
the same guy does most of the voices. That character's name is Begley, he has appeared WITH Foamy in other episodes (ex: "1st meeting of the card cult" in the archives). -leonine
On the last episode, didn't Foamy said he had enough and was packing it in. -RTFM
I wondered about the mohawk. Foamy said he was going away when Germaine was doing the Jiggly Butt thing. :-P And I don't know that Foamy would naively ask, "Please explain" in regard to her problem with porno spam. Anyhow, I saw it a couple days ago and figured someone would have posted it by now. :-P
-Mushroom
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http://www.speegle.co.uk/ - cool tool for blind users (blusers?) [By: billybien / 2004-12-13]
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Seems like a great idea to me, but we really need an expert opinion. Blindtech! Where's that Blindtech? <sigh> He's never around when you need him... <g> -Gromit
I think i heard some LART explosions coming from Pheonix so i guess he will be with us shortly. -Armakuni
hmmmmmm, its laim. jfw does good with google. google is your friend not that crappy engin. hmmm, i guess there's blind bastard Lusers out there that will appreciate it, but not the blind tech. google baby! -blindtech
F.Y.I blindtech, the speegle logo is made out to look the same as the google logo. (same font and colour). Quite why they have done that is beyond me, given the target audience! -modeski
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Vaguely Familiar - Does this remind anyone else of DD's Proffessor Firewire? [By: Armakuni / 2004-12-10]
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Oh, yeah! DD could sub for Simon, no problem! -Tekkie
Actually i was meaning the trail of destruction described in the first half, but your right DD could easily be Simon :) -Armakuni
Yes, our own Digital Dogcow is a living legend. We are lucky to have such interesting and long-standing members like DD, Coyote, RiffRaff, CD, Mushroom, Obie, etc.!! :) -snowcrash
Flattery will get you everywhere m'dear! -CommanderData
<Adds Snowcrash to his "good little girls" Christmas list> <BFEG> -RiffRaff
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Thou shalt not sit on Santa's Knee - This is...sad. And stupid. Mostly, it's just stupid. [By: mousie / 2004-12-09]
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Furthermore: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2557741.stm
Just.......gaaahhhhh!!!! >:{ -mousie
"I don't know if we are going over the top, but it is national advice. **It is a real problem for us.** ..... Then deal with it, dont fuck up a kids Xmas? Oh, yes, I forgot, humans like to change the world into the way we view it. Asshats. This is why I dont like meeting new people. Most are like the fucktard in this story. -burrkiss
Oh, more bubble-wrapping of the world to make it safe for 'TEH BAYYBEESS!!1!'. Stop the planet please, I wanna get off. -CommanderData
FFS, why don't they just stick santa behind bullet proof glass and let the kids talk to him via telephone, while they're at it the might as well shackle him to the chair too. This is just getting way out of hand. -Armakuni
Noticed the end of the BBC article where it mentions the school banning cameras at the nativity play?... I just wanna know when the government is gonna ban nappy(diaper) advers "in case they fall into the wrong hands" *shudder* -Dj
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Corporate Email Grammar - This is one of my own personal pet peeves. As far as I'm concerned, imperfect grammar is OK in a setting like TSC. Professional correspondence, however, should be professional. Remember writing business letters in high school english? These messed up emails are causining me to be havening problems readining them. [By: VIPERsssss / 2004-12-08]
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This article is very accurate. I can see sometimes the one line e-mail with a quick question but if there is more detail it needs to be written well. -Starfury
I've seen speech like this in classes on a uni campus - and the english department was being cut back -srteach
"'Many of these guys [CEOs] write in inflated language that desperately needs a laxative,' Peterson said." Bwahahahaha! -ThirdOfFive
I've got one person in particular at work who likes to put his entire message, including his signature, in the subject line: [subject]I need Access and Adobe reinstalled (s/f)[/subject][body][/body] -TheBrain
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Dumb Users - Sorry to knock off the LOTD. If it was here before I am sorry to. [By: rockytech / 2004-12-06]
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Perfect a starfish article, written by an idiot, researched by asking idiots, Brace for more spyware calls ppl :( -Armakuni
Yeah, they're talking to college students - present membership excepted - we all know the intelligence level of the people they're interviewing. I guess if they don't mind the place knowing their credit card number then they get whatever they deserve as a result. -redevil34
What absolute idiots!!!! Sorry, that's just so much crap. Spyware's bad, regardless of it's 'usefulness', you just... guh. People are stupid. -Mahal
"passwords, credit card numbers and bank account numbers, information that is supposed to be viewable only by the sender and the intended recipient -- is accessible to Marketscore, since the company has developed a method that allows it to view encrypted information."...Duh I dont see any problem with that. Fair is fair. Fucking dipshits. I want to get off this world. -burrkiss
Of course anyone with half a brain would know there are free programs that replace those with spyware. E.G. Roboform replaces Gator. But the person who wrote the article does not have half a brain. -Gerund
I'm absolutely aghast that some people are *accepting* spyware as necessary for free software. Ahem, open source anyone!?!? Extraordinary. This is why governments find it so easy to erode civil rights. I'm off to find some pro-spyware noobs and beat them up with my old shareware directory (hard copy - remember those!?) :D -modeski
I can't wait for interstellar colonization. As Heinlein observed (in "Time Enough for Love") if the most intelligent 1% leave the planet Earth, the reduction in the homeworlds average intelligence is barely reduced while the offworld intelligence level is immensly high. After a couple of migrations like this, the resulting populations will have an average intelligence at least twice as high as on the homeworld. At that time, the Earth will keep going on its merry way populated by starfish, and WE will be leading the human race into a beautiful future. Yeah, I know, I'm a dreamer. -Captain Trips
These will be the same people to be the first to complain when their information gets spread out over the web and their 'identities' get stolen! -ecoli
The part in the story where people would install Gator on their work PCs but not on their home ones implies that the IT departments aren't clamping down on users that do stupid things to make their jobs even harder. If I find anything on a PC here that doesn't belong I remove it. If I find the same user/PC with the same stuff again...I remove it again and then report them to their manager. -Starfury
Y'know Starfury, I do the same thing. Remove the software, point to the part of the company handbook that says it's grounds for termination, then report it to management. Then management does...nothing. Policy's got to be enforced with real concequences or the cow-irkers go back to chewing their cud. -Cybersaurus
Our IT Department complained about users installing contraband software on work PC's. Then a new Exec. Sr. VP (supposedly born again...etc) brought in to fix things demanded that we provide him with a list of the users and the software that they installed. He backed off real quick though when he was the first one on the list when we found screen captures of a webcam for an escort service he was dealing with (while his wife was in Atlanta). (No offense intended to those of you who may be "born again" and are sincere about it.) -normntaz
"Why can't the college let me do what I want to do with my computer? The school computer security guys are being way more annoying than the spyware was."
what a stupid idiot, RIAA would crush PSU like a bug. -Stealthfan
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Oh my God - Now this is a large heatsink. You would need to use a barn as a case. LOL Might just get one :) [By: Armakuni / 2004-12-03]
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Holy crap, it looks like an airplane engine! I wonder if you left the side off the case, would it achieve flight? -Tekkie
"Look ma, a flying motherboard!" -ShiftedBeef
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IBM may exit PC business - Big blue is leaving the pc buisness. One of the few original pc companies still outting out quality prouducts is getting out of the market. This leaves us with hell brand and the borgafied hp-compaq. [By: Servo / 2004-12-03]
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Of course, you could always build your own! -Bobsentme
I just had a funny thought. What if Microsoft bought IBM? The irony would be that IBM's former supplier of MS-DOS for it's first computer would be buying out its former customer... -LinuXtreme
Does that make sense? Doesn't to me. I can't see IBM selling the business and allowing an unrelated thrid party to use the IBM name (a joint venture might be another matter). And, the main reason people buy IBM is because of the name and IBM's (deserved) reputation for support. Without Big Blue behind them, why should anyone buy the boxes ?. Especially if they try to retain IBM's higher pricing. Pay IBM prices for some Made in China unknown company product. I don't think so. -jedidiahstott
That's a shame. It's too bad I probably won't get a chance to buy another Thinkpad actually made by IBM. My two laptops were both Thinkpads, and the last one survived a six foot fall with only a loosened PC card slot assembly and slight breakage of the plastic fan exhaust grille. I was able to open the unit up and reseat the PC card assembly to get it working again, too. And they didn't come with all the useless crap you see from most other manufacturers. And then you have corporate contracts. Who's going to buy IBM boxes in bulk if they get sold to a Chinese company? -NightSteel
IBM exiting the PC business? I guess they think that they're not really going to catch on. -Fuji
This http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/04/business/worldbusiness/04asia.html shows the direction of (soon to be ex) IBM's quality. It appears that big blue will soon be big black-and-blue -srteach
"I just had a funny thought. What if Microsoft bought IBM? The irony would be that IBM's former supplier of MS-DOS for it's first computer would be buying out its former customer... -LinuXtreme" You mean like IBM making the processors for their former competitor Apple? '84 you're a clone, '04, Big Blue ownz u!1!!!1 :: I've never had an issue w/my IBM PCs (exclude HDD); if IBM does drop PCs I'm gonna have no one's to reccomend but my own... oh yeah & other TSC members -objekt404
IMHO, IBM is selling it's PC divisions that are M$ liscense dependent. They _may_ continue to make computers, but sell them with a linux based OS. This is a current hot topic on groklaw... -maciarc
Last time I checked, there was no way that MS could purchase IBM because IBM was several orders of magnitude larger. Sure MS is big in software, but IBM has single divisions that are approximately the same size as MS. Admittedly, this was 3 years ago. -Shazzai
I doubt MS would be interested in a PC Hardware devision, the profit margins aren't all it's cracked up to be from what I hear. Now if ever (doubt they would) spin off Notes/Domino I can see MS being very interested as in the enterprise it is far superior to Outlook/Exchange. -fearmyroot
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The first electronic watch! - I always wanted a vintage watch, and I just received a 1971-vintage Accutron as a combination birthday/Christmas gift. Uses a tuning fork to keep time. It doesn't tick, it hummmmmmmmmmmmms.....:-) [By: vacuumtubes / 2004-12-02]
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Thanks for the link! I was walking with my father one night in 1968, and kicked what looked like a bottlecap into a puddle. When I chased it down, it turned out to be a Bulova Accutron (214H), which turned out to be nearly new (date coded "M7" - 1967). I have my late father's watch in front of me right now, and now know far more about it than I used to! -Grue
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Didn't AOL try this already? - AOL is selling their own Optimized PC. Check out the ad at TigerDirect--the writeup is a series of clickable images, like those Suntrust & eBay scam emails. Click anywhere in the ad & it spawns a new AOL signup page. [By: Tekkie / 2004-12-01]
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LOL processor is a celery, a vegetable for a vegetable :) -Armakuni
If "Smart people are switching to AOL", I must be the dumbest shmuck in the world. Honey, get my hip boots... it's gettin' deep -srteach
Eeeeewwe! I suddenly feel dirty just looking at that link. Nothing good will ever come of this so called "bargain pc". -rokitt
AOL Office .... Good Lord ... someone stop the Earth, I want off -Dangermouse
So I guess there is a market for polished turds after all..... -vacuumtubes
Surf up to 5 times faster than you could in 1977! -billybien
Yeah, they did something like this before. Shortly afterward, a lot of the PCs went up for sale at really low prices (machines were bare entry models). Look for another sale in 6 months! -ecoli
If you notice the Priority Code at the bottom. In red and white lettering mentions "AOLHAK". Makes you wonder... -BayAreaTech
On a side note, I've seen AOL CDs just about everywhere I go, Target, Sears, Post Office...everywhere. Even in my mail sometimes. -Starfury
Now all AOHell custgomers are getting "free" virus scanning as well... -rockytech
CompUSA has some of these by the entrance, too. -TechnoVampire
I'm surprised they haven't tried coming up with there own OS yet. Ugh. -steveO77
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RotK Extended Edition! - Includes a 6 minute trailer showing a bunch of new scenes! (hops impatiently waiting for the release to complete his collection of the Extended Editions of the movies) [By: SwedishChef / 2004-11-30]
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w00t!!!!!!! Posted a linky on the message board before I saw this. I squeeled out loud when I watched that yesterday!!!!!!! -mousie
Giddy and drooling- I know what I want for christmas! -Alathea
finaly!!! woot! -Harm
Ho hum. Bored of the Rings -Gerund
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Mousie? - Hey Mousie is this you? No no no wait get away from me with that ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... [By: rockytech / 2004-11-30]
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"Queen Mousie", "Your Incisorship" - Crown of Slaves by David Webber -satanstech
Mousie nesting? Surely you ain't expecting....<OK, does anyone know if the LART shelter is 'gnaw-proof'?> -lineswine
<furiously flicking through Lart shelter owners manual> Doesn't say so, but it is CD and TW proof. -Armakuni
Probably gnaw proof, but if memory serves me there's a mousie entrance so watch your back <grin> -PID1
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People sell weird stuff - Okay, who on earth sells this stuff on ebay? [By: CommanderData / 2004-11-29]
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Shut up CD. I'm making 1,000 so far. *grin* -burrkiss
66.135.193.70/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2288274647 to those who are behind a proxy. Worked for me anyways. It's a Nutra Grain piece that looks like E.T. that is going for $768.17 US currently. 24 bids so far as well. -ShiftedBeef
Isn't the better question who one earth is buying this stuff?? - Imagine the person who wins going "Hey, look, I paid a grand for a piece of cereal!!!" -redevil34
/rollseyes sheesh!! of course, that's not so unusual... Check out "Wierd Stuff", under "Everything Else" in the Ebay listings. It's good for a laugh!! :D -mousie
lol YES!!! This is the second lamest thing I've seen ;) The first is when someone tried to sell a date to a wedding. -FunkMunky
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Speach Generator - This program is amazing. It spoke out the sentences I entered quite well. Try your own. Try this one 'I we Todd did' [By: burrkiss / 2004-11-27]
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Of all the words I tried, it only had trouble with one, and not an obvious one. It spelled it out for me instead...which was almost funnier. Much better than any voice sim I've ever heard. -chefque
I put in "blindtech would love this"... it never stumbled on his name. Punctuation has no effect on the voice. -srteach
Not bad - 'The polisher polished the Polish person' -Wonko The Sane
Even worked on gollum and smeagal -CommanderData
They're very human sounding. Like all the almost human voices, though, they eat and drink memory. I think the BOFH said it best, though he wasn't talking about these voices. "Not so much resource hungry as resource addicted". Don't try buying them unless you have a gig of RAM. If you do, though, they work nicely, particularly if you don't want to increase the speed to 300 WPM or more (they get choppy) or use them for long reading jobs. -BTcall
It doesn't do HAL very well. Rather like those kids in my old lit. classes who didn't know how to use inflection and intonation in thier reading. -Zentar
Interestingly enough, Crystal & Mike are my daughter & her husband's names. It can't say my name correctly, even phonetically spelled & it defaults to Mike after the first go. Fun, though! -Tekkie
How much memory are we talking? My system's a POS... -snowcrash
Snowcrash, I'd say don't touch them if you have less than 512, and they were slow on my laptop, which had 512. A gig is good for reasonable speed. They're available for purchase at
http://www.nextuptech.com
Of course, your processor has to be quite modern. I believe minimum is set at 400 (required, not recommended). I'd say at least 1.2 for reasonable responsiveness. Note that I'm using them with a screen reader, which means I value speed over almost everything else. -BTcall
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Job Opening - Anyone want an Administrators Job, i think one will be available very soon. [By: Armakuni / 2004-11-26]
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Are you kidding? It's a government job held by a union worker. There's no chance. Hell even if a couple of people had died there'd only be an inquiry and blame spread around to 500 different with the final result of "Our processes are under review". -scooby111
whoops! its like when you meant net send to the tech next to you but you actually used ntdomain\* -boxcar
Oh Dear ! :> -RTFM
Heh...no more government jobs. The first one was evil. -TechieSidhe
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The magic 8 ball REVEALED! - Finally! We can now see how the Magic 8 Ball really works. Is it really magic? Does it know all the answers? Did these 2 guys have nothing better to do?:) [By: rokitt / 2004-11-24]
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LOL! Anyone got a dremel? I feel a disassembly moment coming on... -CommanderData
one of my life's dreams has just come true. *sob* such elegant simplicity, yet with the power to utterly mystify the fragile human mind -modeski
Dremel? Who needs one'a them? I can just get really angry and SMASH it with my superhuman hissy fit! :) -snowcrash
/me hands cd a dremel, a bottle of good scotch, and stands back with bfeg:) -timelady
*sighs* If only I could do that to a Lusers skull... -lineswine
I could've told you that it was an icosahedron, but not the other stuff. -Veinor
I had the cylinder for a while because I kept a busted one. Still worked, but it seems over time the ink decreases. I imagine the dice would make a good projectile... ;) -Zentar
From the dissection page, I'd guess the ink is some alcohol or other, possibly methyl, ethyl, or isopropyl. In any event, those do have a tendency to evaporate... -chazz
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The Llama Song - Here's a llama, there's a llama, and another little llama. Fuzzy llama, funny llama, llama, llama, duck!! (Warning, do not watch with food or drink in mouth. Better than "Badger Badger". Highly addictive.) [By: mousie / 2004-11-23]
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Eeeaaaaarrrrrrggghhhh! (sorry blindtech). That is REALLY freaking annoying. And addictive too. I know at least half a dozen people that I think I will set their home page to this.... <BFEG> -virtualchoirboy
Still like Badger's better, but it's nice and annoying too... -BlondeGeek
eeeesh....it's too early in the morning for that kind of activity..... -vacuumtubes
Try this one for really annoying - http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/kittycat.php -CommanderData
My fav was the race car driver llama -THETECHFROMHELL
Damn you CD :), now I have that stuck in my head. -Taterlain
My alltime favorite is still http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/index.shtml -Belgarath
By the time 'Dead Skunk' was over, you could smell it.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=1826 -maciarc
holy crap that's annoying! *Forwarding URL to co-worker that used the badger link as a wallpaper* -leonine
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waste of jobs - Intel to invest $40 million in India
CEO helps lay foundation of new Bangalore building that will accommodate 1,200 workers [By: Servo / 2004-11-19]
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Reminds me of a /. post: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/18/2127225&from=rss -snowcrash
More like a waste of money. But hey, they do it all the time. Every time I visited a Dull customer to replace a part, I asked them " So, how long were you on the phone with India - avg 2.5 - 3.5 hours. Number 1 complaint? Could'nt understand a WORD they said. I told them to let Dull know, that is the only way it will be changed. I also explained the economics behind it. -beatmewithstick
Hey, beatme, I had that gig for a while too. Same complaints. One customer met me at the door wanting to know if I could just take the computer away. Of course, I couldn't... -hkypipe
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Tech Toy - I just brought one of these. There is something very very cool about a USB christmas tree... [By: CommanderData / 2004-11-18]
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What will they think of next?? LOL -THETECHFROMHELL
Right up my alley -- I'm really digging LED ornaments and light strings, this would go well as case decor (presuming the cord is two feet long, tall case). -Mushroom
Must get mind out of gutter. Read "toy", "just bought one of these" and by CD, so clicked on the link straight away without reading further. Wouldn't mind a USB tree though...... I'll just be hiding in the deepest darkest part of a LART shelter before CD reads this. -PID1
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Yet another "What are you" link - What Fark personality are you? [By: CTYankee / 2004-11-17]
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Whoopee! It's official - I'm an (uber) squirrel! -Gromit
Domo Kun : Everything is fantastic! You enjoy life and life it to its fullest. thereis nothing on earth that you appreciate more than your friends. -jard
YES!!!!! I am the Mustard Man. Do you know the Mustard Man. Yes I know the Mustard Man -Dangermouse
I'm Admiral Ackbar. Damn skippy, you know your business and I'll lead you to it with Valor. -MaskedMarauder
squirrel -Motient
I am NOT a F*cking kitty! -scooby111
Domo Kun -DedSysOp
Admiral Ackbar - Except for that 1/4 squid part, not to far off. -redevil34
I am Admiral Ackbar. Its a Trap!! -rockytech
Admiral Ackbar. I have to look at the site now, I've seen it a few times before, but never actually been there. -Vermiis
Yet another ballsy squirrell... -MadJack
Star Wars Villain: Darth Rockem Sockem.
Dirtbag Catholic Priest name: Father Mel Ishsus. Megalomaniac World Conqueror name: Jack the Ballpeen Hammer. Did I miss any? <EG> -MadJack
I'm a squirrel packing some MAJOR balls. -burrkiss
I'm the guy from Memento, I give careful attention to every detail before acting. Once I've made my mind up there's no use arguing with me -K1W1
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ICANN New Transfer Policy - This is quoted from godaddy.com. WTF is up with this? "We are sending customers an email regarding a new ICANN-enforced domain name transfer policy, effective 11-12-04. It dictates that IF WE RECEIVE A TRANSFER REQUEST (and your domain names are not locked) we must honor the transfer, even if you do not confirm it." [By: Vermiis / 2004-11-17]
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http://www.icann.org/transfers/ -Vermiis
WTF, just WTF, Hmm wonder if microsoft.com domain is locked?? <eg> -Armakuni
Innnnnnnnnteresting. Sending that to our group - wonder who this notice was sent to internally; we deal with this all the time. -namor
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Which Halo 2 character are you? - Find your Inner Haloness [By: TechnoVampire / 2004-11-16]
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Master Chief -TechnoVampire
Cortana. But I think the thing's biased; I had to answer "I'm the chick" a few times. Lemme retry for the hell of it... -snowcrash
Yeah, when I answered "normally" but without female references I was Master Chief. Hmm. -snowcrash
I keep getting Master Chief, lol -Vermiis
Hmmmm... It tells me that I am Elite. Never played Halo, so I don't know anything about it. -Belgarath
Master chief? OK i played the game but i'm pretty sure thats not the bomb riding, dual wielding, alien blasting Bad a$$. or am i wrong ? -Harm
Guilty Spark. who the hell is Guilty Spark? -blazingriver
Master Chief w00t! -GefahrMaus
Master Chief - heh. -hkypipe
Cortana -CommanderData
Elite...Born killer -MightyMouse
Guilty Spark. I've been guilty before, lots actually, just never convicted. I've started fires, hence the Spark thing. I've never been convicted of arson, hence the laughing im doing right now. -burrkiss
343 Guilty Spark for me -Darth
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Another rant (OT/NSFW) - For some reason, this made me think of some of CD's past remarks about dieters and dieting... especially on the Atkins diet... heheheheh [By: teivrann / 2004-11-14]
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Couldn't agree more with this, if i do go to maccy d's then i know it's not gonna be healthy. Love the two thumbs, one finger quote BBBWWWWAAAAAHHHHHAAAAA -Armakuni
LOL! I fucking hate dieters who can't shut up. -CommanderData
"so can the pesticides in your salad", says it all really :> -RTFM
My wife has learned to change the channel quick when a commerical comes on with "LOW CARBS" anywhere. Oooooooo I'm sooooo stupid that I think that the "LOW CARB" Fruit O2 is a good idea and I should buy and drink it, since it has "LOW CARBS" in the title. AUGHHHH FUCK Its FUCKing water with a splash of fruit. IT EVEN SAYS THATS WHAT IT IS IN THE BLOODY COMMERICAL!!!. Fucking jackasses If a beverage has NO CALORIES then there cant be any CARBS can there?!?!? Fuck this world. Love Tim "I have sand up my shorts" Burrkiss. -burrkiss
I don't get the "low carb" crap. You are still going to have a heart attack eating bacon every day. Fucking stupid people. -rockytech
I was at the store and saw "low carb bread"... It's BREAD.... it will have carbs... makes as much sense as light twinkies.... -KalAshlar
those diets are simply for people who are too lazy to exercise. I take Apple Cider Vinegar pills KNOWING I will not loose weight if I don't exercise. Only to help my body break down fat more efficiently. -Bunglehawk069
That was freakin hilarious. Of course, Foamy is usually one damned funny.. whatever he is. LoL -firebird2k2
Oh man, go to the archives and check out his other rants! I am killing myself laughing! -CommanderData
sand up your shorts, Burkiss? that there is some rough shit. -srteach
Bullshit advertising and lazy people is all it is. Viva la foamy!! -srteach
I'm always making snide remarks about diet foods. You can't swing a dead hamster by the tail in the supermarket without hitting something with the word-fragment "carb" in the name. Bread is not your enemy, it's the mound of shit you put on it and the number of sammiches you make out of it that you should be minding. I avoid low fat, low calorie, low carbohydrate foods -- unless that's how they normally appear in nature, no 'special formula' moneygrubbing involved. I *highly* suspect that in 20 years, millions of people will have colon cancer because they weren't getting enough fiber in their diets. How come? Cuz they avoided grains out of paranoia about carbs! How's that for poetic?? -Mushroom
HAHAHAHA...I have to tell my partner about this one...he is a personal trainer, he takes the piss out of his profession more than I do. He is going love this, he learned a long time ago not to tell me what to eat..... but he also knows how much dietitions can bullshit... :) -melsie
OMFG That is too funny. -THETECHFROMHELL
I heard something on the radio a few moments ago about low-carb potatos. WTF are people thinking? -TechieSidhe
"sammiches" - BWAAHAAHAAHAAAHAAHAAHAAA!!! -hkypipe
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Floundering - OK so reading between the lines Firefox has got them worried and this is the best layer of crap they could come up with. [By: Armakuni / 2004-11-12]
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You know what? Microsoft could make IE identical to Firefox, and I'd still use Firefox just for the simple reason that it's not made by M$. In reality, I have not had half... No, I take that back... I have not had *any* of the problems I had in IE, with FF. They can BS all they want and say there's no difference. "Vamos, who admitted he has never used Firefox, said there is a lot of hype surrounding the open-source movement and that if Microsoft's customers wanted new features, they would have told the company about it." Yeah, obviously he never has used Firefox, or he'd know whar he was talking about. -Vermiis
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BOFH Time Again - Hmm Bumping my own link. Anyway I had to post this, this is the BOFH at his finest. Anyone else see where it's going before your reach the end? [By: Armakuni / 2004-11-12]
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As soon as I saw the words ""No, I'm just here for the IT Systems audit." I just KNEW it was going to end badly...but not for the BOFH! -lineswine
Hahaha! I love it... this is way too funny :) -teivrann
Bloody, F'ing BRILLIANT -MaskedMarauder
Best BOFH EVER -CommanderData
BWAHAAHAAA!!! I'm speechless... -hkypipe
Thats perfect. -jard
lovin it. -rhiannon
cliff's notes version? -EggShen
Everyone just ignore anything he posts, he might go away if nobody reads or comments on his scribblings. -Armakuni
who's scribblings? you shouldnt mock the BOFH you know. -rhiannon
Perhaps not, but the expenses story a few years back was a cracker. -Armakuni
BOFH and PFY... What do they mean? I know it's been explained, and I've forgotten, but then again I can't remember if I took a shite in my briefcase this morning. -exzyle2k
exyle2k -- BOFH is the Bastard Operator From Hell, and PFY stands for Pimply-Faced Youth -- or Pepsi-Fetching Youth, as it has been named on this site -- otherwise known as Apprentice. -chazz
ahh... I thought PFY was always Pathetic Fucking Yank, which would lead it to being used in Britian... Thanks for the update. -exzyle2k
Eggshen, the condensed version would take as long to explain as the full version - best just to read it -teivrann
Egg: thanks for the pointless whiteboard comment, if you made sense i wouldn't have a problem with your odd coments, but they don't. -Armakuni
<previous comment withdrawn, for now> -Armakuni
There are some things, like Shakespear or BOFH, that just can NOT be put into a "cliff notes" version and retain any of the original meaning. Eggshen -- try to take the time. I know it is more than two lines, and it uses words of more than two syllables, but make the effort. If you want to fit in around here, you have to make the effort and not let other's do your work for you. -Captain Trips
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OT--for the "nuts and bolts" techs - I'm gonna bet not many of you have seen one of these. In fact, this is the first time I've seen one in action. Here's a record changer that'll play ANY record, BOTH sides....as Scotty said in 'Space Seed', "I'd love to tear this baby apart..." :-) [By: vacuumtubes / 2004-11-11]
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I've seen one of those once, but it was broken. It's quite ingenious isn't it </geek mode> -Armakuni
Um...where's the CD rom drive on that thing that those black CD's go into? </Youngster mode> -Bobsentme
Seriously bizarre. You notice that it has to change the direction of the disk when it flips it over? A seriously scary bit of gear, that. -chazz
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tech alert:adobe entering linuxworld! - Adobe Systems, maker of major desktop software products such as
Photoshop and Acrobat Reader, has begun a quiet effort to become more
involved with desktop Linux. Adobe is now a member of Open Source
Development Labs, and it's actively looking to promote Linux on the
desktop, as well as create its own open source development projects.
[By: blindtech / 2004-11-10]
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hmm what does Adobe make again? -EggShen
They make bricks. Like the one in your head. -Owie
...and the pallet load hanging above your head. Anyone got a knife?? -Armakuni
eggshen... "Better to say nothing and have the world think you may be a fool, then open your mouth and remove all doubt" (paraphrased quote, author unknown) good advice for you -srteach
Photoshop and the like. -Taterlain
Damn, that's what I get from not looking at the name first :( -Taterlain
how do you work photoshop if you are in a crappy linux box that has only a command line interface? -EggShen
A better question for you would be how to work in Photoshop when you have no limbs and are trapped inside a shell. Or has someone scrambled you yet? I think a few people here would definately like to beat an egg... -Timmay
eggy, please notice the words Linux DESKTOP. -garwain
obviously, this EggTroll has never heard of XWindows, Gnome, or KDE. -chazz
Chazz - I bet scrambled-EggShen has trouble finding the Start button in M$ Windows nevermind knowing what any of those are. -redevil34
Is adobe begining to fear the Gimp? -DedSysOp
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Star Wars Episode III trailer released - Star Wars released the trailer for Episode III today. Hopefully, it'll show up on the internet soon! :) [By: rokitt / 2004-11-05]
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Monday, in Quicktime format -technaround
Who needs to wait for monday?
http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=starwars3
-Darth
<grovels to Darth> You da man, that looks extremely fekin cool -Armakuni
Aha, maybe this is why my connection is running at 0.0000041kbps tonight. -Jay911
yeah that looked really cool. Lucas might have redeemed himself -areatech
Hmm I guess I get to play the bad guy here. Overall, I wasnt too impressed with the teaser itself. Too much old footage from the first trilogy. However, I do think that the movie is going to be much better than the I & II and will redeem the franchise. -firebird2k2
Lucas may have redeemed himself... it does look farkin cool!!! -RandalGraves
Waiting till May is going to suck!!!! http://tinyurl.com/53r2l -redevil34
Saw it Friday night in the theatre. It's showing in front of "The Incredibles" in my area. :D -mousie
holy crap!!! The franchise will rise. (but I do agree, too much old footage) -srteach
Star Wars: Return of the Paycheck :p -MaskedMarauder
Greedo shooting first. Episode I. Episode II. DVD release of original trilogy with even more fiddling. Telling disheartened old fans to suck it. And suddenly, Episode III is going break the pattern, and be uber-great? -Owie
Owie: Greedo shots at the same time in the tweaked, tweaked version. Better, but still not as cool as Solo shooting first. -Armakuni
Just a thought, but if the DVD's are the films he originally wanted to make, where are the scenes from Toshe power station where we first meet Biggs Darklighter? Or other such scenes that got removed by Fox to make it shorter? Or the scene in the Death Star where Han tells Chewie if "the kids" aren't at the ship when they get there they'll just go? (not that I'm a geek or anything..) But, ep 3 looks good. And the DVD's aren't too bad.. -NightRain
I've actually seen the Tosche Station (Anchorhead) scenes -- it was at the 20th anniversary program at San Diego Comic Con, they brought the scenes of Luke seeing the battle, racing to the power station, and his scenes interacting with Biggs Darklighter. It was a one-time, special for ComicCon, never to be seen again sort of thing. Of course, this was also from the same people that said "the Star Wars movies will NEVER be shown on commercial television, don't even expect it to happen." (A New Hope torn apart for commercials is a tragic sight, one I've seen too many times to believe all the LucasFilm Ltd. hype.) But, I look at it like an author coming out with the second, third, et.al., editions of a novel, in which he changes things he decides he didn't like in the original. Hey, it's his toys, he can modify them as he likes. But I still say "Han shot first!" -Captain Trips
Yeah, I'm bitter. I was 7 years old for the original release, and it warped my brain patterns, condemning me to a life of dorkness. The new, "improved" versions induce serious cognitive dissonance. And just wait--as soon as somebody scrounges up decent copies of the originals, converts them, and puts them up online, Lucas will scream like hell, even though he's proud of abandoning them. Feh. -Owie
They should put some of those Jar Jar binks creatures in all the new versions of starwars! -EggShen
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AdAware & SpySweeper Rated Best - Surprisingly (to me anyway), SpyBot S&D didn't rate so well. CNN also has another article running along with this one that essentially calls spyware the biggest threat to the Internet today. Funny; I've always thought the biggest threat are the morons who buy a $2000 computer and put it online fresh out of the box with absolutely no clue about what they're doing. Maybe that's just me. [By: RiffRaff / 2004-11-02]
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You buy a $2,000 computer and fark it up? *bfeg* -burrkiss
Here here, Riff. Spyware is only a threat to starfish who have no clue as to what they are doing, bit like driving a ferrari with your foot on the floor not knowing how to steer. If you have the right software running (i.e nothing with an MS logo on it), and watch where you click and stick your floppy (bad joke) then spyware isn't a problem. Problem is starfish do exist and there are millions of 'em. LOCK AND LOAD!!! -Armakuni
I don't trust the guy. I use PestPatrol4, and it always manages to kill all the pests it finds, provided you first uninstall anything suspicious from Add/Remove programs, then reboot and re-scan and reboot until all the pests are gone. I once had to reboot and rescan 6 times before it was able to completely eradicate some nasty crapulence on a freind's machine, but it got it all out. -MaxarRe
Even after running AdAware I've had to manually go and delete folders on some of the f*cked up machines I've fixed, and pull stuff out of the registry. Once I even had to nuke/pave a PC because it was so messed up. -Starfury
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Trouble - Sends a chill down the spine, We only have to deal with 10% and that's too much most of the time, AMD want to get that up to 50% by flogging this starfish PC. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH [By: Armakuni / 2004-10-30]
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Fucking thing looks like a hub.... -CommanderData
Don't know whether to plug in a keyboard/mouse or put in some shotgun shells -Bunglehawk069
I want one! I want one! Gimme, gimme, gimme. <pulls out high voltage electrodes, gene splicer, portable neutron pack> I wanna see what this baby can do! -ecoli
I have to admit AMD seem to be approaching this the right way, unlike the previous failed 'internet applicance' escapades (i-opener anyone?) by selling it via telco's they eliminate the hacker element and people turning them in to interesting gadgets that don't earn any revenue. -fearmyroot
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AOL's selling PC's Now?! - (Begin Sarcasm)For only $299.99 and a year's subscription to AOL, you can now own one of these bad boys! (End sarcasm) [By: ClueBat / 2004-10-30]
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17" CRT? Yikes! I guess Systemax had a load of them to off-load. Although it does seem to be quite a reasonable system in most repects. Won't do super-duper graphics but fine for most stuff. Not that'd I get one obviously. -fearmyroot
That is a great deal I think. Check out the stats. http://tinyurl.com/7yy7q Comes with a monitor and a printer. 40 gb drive and 256 memory - I still wouldn't take one but I'm sure this is going to be a big seller. -jard
Gotta admit, thats a good deal. Only drawback is getting it up the pooper with a year of AOL, -burrkiss
Optimized for AOL??? What does that mean? It has a big, rugid, reset button on it? -Armakuni
imagine the great quality of tech support! -LiQUidICicle
"Our technicians resolve over 80% of our customer’s problems within 10 minutes of the first call" I started laughing when I read this! More like they'll bunt you to someone else within 10 minutes. -LiQUidICicle
if not satisfied then return the system witin thrity days of the purchase date - I bet if you go further into actually purchasing the thing it will note somewhere in the tiniest writing possible in some obscure place that it will take 6-8 weeks to ship it. -frprinterwiz
Read the specs. I can buy a far nicer machine barebones from dabs for about the same. Monitors are cheap, so its not 'hundreds of dollars' more. Celery 2ghz, yuk. -trs998
I can see it now: Tech: "What kind of computer do you have?" AOLer: "It's the AOL PC" Tech: "The whatnow?" AOLer: "The A O L P C" Tech: "What version of Windows?" AOLer: "It doesn't run Windows. It's the AOL PC" Tech: "I'm sorry, if it doesn't run Windows I can't help you. Tank you for calling AOL. Have a nice day" *click* -OgdenTechGuy
My wife came home with one of these. She at least had the smarts to refuse to get AOHell, but she paid a little more for it. Works better than the e-machine she came home with last time. -maciarc
Let's hear it for cheep crap you don't need at highly inflated prices! -vacuumtubes
As someone who's paycheck is signed by Systemax, I can say the following: 1) Yes, there is an overstock of the 17" CRTs; any customized PC gets one free with it. 2) Yes, it does beat an e-machines, because for the same price we sell a refurbed machine. Granted, it's a slower processor, but this is a new machine. 3) AOL can thankfully be uninstalled. Maybe not completely, but to the point where it's no longer a part of day-to-day operations. -exzyle2k
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It's that time again - The latest episode, great laff [By: Armakuni / 2004-10-29]
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Ahh! That brightened my day nicely! -MaxarRe
I don't know the author, but LOVE the writing style. (and the dreams) -srteach
That is hilarious! I love it... -teivrann
Considering my hobby is playing with 50 year old hollow-state equipment that regularly pumps out 400+ volts, I can appreciate that story! -vacuumtubes
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Monkey! - Friday silliness from weebl and bob [By: CommanderData / 2004-10-29]
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Oh great. Another stupid ass song like the badger song that sticks in your head. Thanks so much CD :)
-jard
CD evil! Gah! *tries to scratch song out of head* -teivrann
AHHHHH Monkey, monkey, monkey. <surpressing gag reflex> Beer will dull the torment. -Armakuni
Mon-Mon-Mon-Mon-keh! rofl, that was great -Darth
*evil grin* I have the badger badger tone as my ringtone on my Nokia 6100. Cruel, but funny;)))) Monkeh is cute, but not as head space invading:) -timelady
CD, what compells you to lart the entire site like the? what did we ever do to you? We show you love and respect, and you bring us THIS?!?!?! I feel so betraied. </guilt trip><BFEG> -wolfprince
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Mac users are special - Instructions on how to move your new iMac G5. Now if it was only possible to get people to actually read them. [By: Jebus / 2004-10-28]
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The bind moggles... I think it may be time to join Wonko outside the asylum -Shaede
Actually very sound advice. The iMac G5's hinge isn't strong enough to bear the full weight of the iMac stand if the stand is (ab)used as a carry handle, they've already had returns from fuckwits who have done precisely this. A little more info into 'WHY' to pick the thing up by its sides would have been useful, but thats Apple for ya. -Digital Dogcow
D'oh that should read "...bear the full weight ON the iMac stand if the stand is (ab)used as a carry handle...." -Digital Dogcow
<the sound of a thousand quids worth of gear plunging to the floor> Bugger, didn't do step two <sob> -Armakuni
You know where the exit rollers are on a smaller laser printer? We have a customer where we had to add a label "not a handle". -LaserGuru
Actually I never trust handles on anything over £100. -Armakuni
Uh, Armakuni... how do you get into your car? -Dj
My door swings outward not upward, I don't have to lift the whole body shell up. ;) -Armakuni
I would think a little common sense would go a long way in this one. Oh ya that's right, we are talking about starfish here, nevermind. -THETECHFROMHELL
We are talking about the G5 with the big farking handle-like things on the top and the bottom, right? maybe common sense should farking tell Apple to make big farking things that look like handles strong enough to actually be used as such. Or am I asking too much? I wouldn't put a big red button on a computer and expect people not to push it. -scooby111
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Crazy Brits - Crazy Brits, enough said. [By: burrkiss / 2004-10-27]
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Erm, whats crazy about that. Saw something like that happen last week in York. Didn't do windmill though just went through a shop window. -Armakuni
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Somebody we know? - There's a Dogcow on the loose... [By: maciarc / 2004-10-25]
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O_o -Wiser
The bloodshot eyes, the 'Someone's gonna pay for this!' expression - yup, that's our DD.... -Gromit
Yes, I remember maciarc. He was a fine smartass. We will miss him greatly....what? DD hasn't seen this yet? Oh, sorry, I'll work something better up for the eulogy then. -wolfprince
Pffffft! that thing is clearly a FAKE!, it's got udders for farks sake!, when have you ever seen a cannibovine before with farkin udders??. The thing isnt even bitmapped!. THIS is what a Dogcow looks like http://www.moof.biz/clarus.gif THAT thing looks like what you'd get if eMachine's started producing cheap assed dogcow knock-offs!!!!. -Digital Dogcow
It MUST be a Gateway knockoff (maybe an e-machine!) -ecoli
This must be what our own Dogcow looks like! http://freespace.virgin.net/mark.anderson14/b3ta/dogcow.jpg -ecoli
Yea... I was gonna comment on the udders, too. Our dogcow is (at least partially) male. The thought of Dogcow with a milking aparatus hangin' off his gut is.......disturbing. ;) -mousie
The thought of Dogcow with udders is even too extreme for my sick little Southern England mind to handle (even though those Northern Brits are worse...;-)) -CommanderData
Of course he must have udders - after all, he's not DogBull is he? <bfeg> -LadySharky
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Just for you DD - Not safe for work, but the best of Full Metal Jacket. [By: CommanderData / 2004-10-23]
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"You are nothing but unorganized pieces of amphibian sh!t" -Bunglehawk069
"You are nothing but unorganized grabasstic pieces of amphibian sh!t" Sorry forgot the one part :D -Bunglehawk069
Heh!. Gunny Hartman rocks!, he's kinda like a more relaxed, laid back Uni I.T. Coordinator. <eg> -Digital Dogcow
We had lots of fun with this a few years back. Ahhhh the memories. -rockytech
rofl...frikin' awesome. I like the Joe Peschi soundboard too. -leonine
Texas? Only steers and quears come from texas and you dont look much like a steer to me so that kinds narows it down... i love that movie -Servo
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Wedding Invite - I'm a bit slow posting this. Had to clean to coke off the monitor first. Surely its a windup? [By: PID1 / 2004-10-21]
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OMFG!! I love it. ;) -mousie
Heheh, this actually made it into my local paper this morning. It appears the seller is in Aberdeen. Trust a Scot to flog the invite... :) -ElPolloDiablo
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A new low - ...and I thought politicians couldn't sink any lower. Guess they showed me. [By: Armakuni / 2004-10-21]
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So if I vote, where do I go to get what's coming to me? -normntaz
If you withhold sex from me for 4 years because I didn't vote, do you really expect me to stick around and wait it out? No. I'll find another non-voting person with like-minded sinfull intent and spend my november day bumping uglies. -Digitalutah
Now that's the dumbest political idea I've heard yet. Why would anyone link sex and politics, apart from the 'getting screwed' part? -teivrann
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"ghosts of outsourcing past" - Think someone might be getting the hit? "The common theme in these experiences was that the business thought that Sparks's IT group was neither flexible enough, nor cost-efficient enough nor productive enough to compete with the outsourcer—impressions that were often revealed to be wrong after the fact." [By: redevil34 / 2004-10-19]
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I don't wish to put a downer on this but, the main reason they outsource isn't because they are any better than the 'inshore' people. I make £30k before tax, they can employe 30 Indians (or whomevers) for the same amount. I'm in a team with 3 others, you figure out how much it looks like you'd be saving by punting this off to Bangalore. -fearmyroot
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OMFG - Someone finally did it... somebody go sooooo fed up they couldn't take it anymore and they made a commerical that the SF's can relate to. You guys are going to love me for posting this one... it's cool, I love you guys too. As a friend ;) [By: thisid / 2004-10-17]
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"I want to hack into government computers and go to federal prison" LMAO! -Snakeeye
I was LOL on that one too snake -THETECHFROMHELL
That's absolutely PERFECT!! bwahaahaahaa!!! -hkypipe
LMAO! That's Frelling GREAT! I'm forwarding it to people as soon as I get to work. -Bobsentme
I don't get it... :( Also... uh... do they REALLY think people are going to write down/remember that long-ass URL? -EagleEye
lol................ -Bunglehawk069
Would that be "pound me in the ass" federal prison? </Office Space> -lineswine
I just love this link:
http://gprime.net/video.php/dui -Sgerbitz
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Rest in Peace, Superman - This time there will be no comic book resurrection. Rest in peace, Mr. Reeves. [By: mousie / 2004-10-11]
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I was looking forward to the day he walked again. Godspeed, Mr. Reeves. On a related note, readers out there ought to pick up a copy of the novelization of 'The Death and Life of Superman'. It's good reading. -NightSteel
funny how he looks like Lex Luthar -billybien
I got nothing but respect for him, he was more of a superman outside the films than he was when he made them. Farewell Mr Reeve, the world just won't be as good without you. -Armakuni
check www.pvponline.com under the daily comic is a cool little trbute pic. -GefahrMaus
Courage should be redefined by how this man brought awareness of this injury to the public eye, and how he himself lived with and was overcoming it. -spectreoflife
Mr. Reeves was a good man. Superman, was dull as a character. (I'm a Tick fan) -MaskedMarauder
no offense guys, but his name is Reeve, no S. -lasciate
That's true; the Superman actor with the last name Reeves is GEORGE Reeves from the early TV show, like in the 50's or '60's. -OgdenTechGuy
yep, George Reeves was Superman on TV back in the mid 50s, but he committed suicide back in 1959, so he hasn't been around for awhile. -lasciate
There are rumours (aren't there always rumours) that George Reeves may have been killed by a jealouse husband. And as for Chris, may his cape ever wave. -Chipsterian
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Laptops powered by a spinach sandwich? - Ug gug gug gug whateversk will they thinks of next Olive ? [By: Digital Dogcow / 2004-10-08]
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So the blue screen of death will turn green? -RiffRaff
He he imagine what you could do with that. Like giving a starfish a spinach sandwich and watching them get a belt from it <BFEG> -Armakuni
So it's kind of like a potato clock? Hmm. -snowcrash
Check this out. Anyone for Rural Sourcing??? http://computerworld.com/managementtopics/outsourcing/story/0,10801,96381,00.html -Hellion
Late breaking news. A Starfish was beaten unconscious today by her spinach powered PC. Witnesses state that the victim had just complained about her mouse for the tenth time that day when a muscular arm holding what appeared to be a two-by-four reached out of the monitor and assaulted the starfish. More at eleven. -PID1
LOL@P1D1 Dammit!! I just about sprayed mountain dew all over the monitor! <note to self: don't drink while reading posts> -rokitt
Lemme guess ... It was a military contractor SF and the Tech was this scrawnly one-eyed sailor who got roughed up a bit. So he downed the spinach sandwich, this funny music starts playing and well ... just look at the results. -Necros
EEEEWWWWWW, I hate spinach! -WickedClown
mmmm... Spinach quiche, spinach torellini, spinich stromboli... -LaserGuru
Talk about a "power plant"...! -boonognog
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Darth Vader robs pizza guy - ..and further down the page another story about a woman who sold rocks to rioters to pay her cable bill ("I'll have 2 points, 2 flats and a packet of gravel" --Life of Brian) [By: leonine / 2004-10-07]
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"Taylor told police she collected about $70 selling rocks, but quit when she got hit by one herself." DUH!! Thats just when you resell and make more profit. -burrkiss
And in what other country can you f@ck up a job and then get paid again to fix it. Disclaimer: Only applies to jobs paid for by the government. -redevil34
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The Spaminator - From "Royal Canadian Air Farce", aired November 7, 2003. It's shows like this and "This Hour has 22 Minutes" that make me truly proud to be Canadian. ;) [By: mousie / 2004-10-07]
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US House Passes Anti-Spyware Bill, 415-0 - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill that would make spyware illegal—and provide stiff sanctions for anyone found breaking that law. Not sure how much good it'll do, but it's a start. [By: TechnoVampire / 2004-10-07]
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I have said it before... "silly American laws, can't hurt me." altho i highly with it were present in the great white north. -RandalGraves
A quick squint at the linked article and well, I fail to see what actual difference this will make. A lot of 'spyware' is installed by the consumer and on the originating webpage (or host program) there it is in the small print exactly what this thing will and will not do. True in days of yore this wasn't always the case but it is now. All this bill actually does is give spyware vendors a legal sheild, "Yes your honour, it is made quite clear on this webpage, that you can get to by following this precise path of links, that if you install our software it will do this." -fearmyroot
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Fines For Spyware Creators? - I guess congressmen finding a bunch of spyware on their own systems instilled some motivation for this. In other news, Texas Representative Ron Paul is an asshat. [By: RiffRaff / 2004-10-06]
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Humph.. Only fines, why not hard labour or the death penalty. Especially for the purple f'in monkey. -Armakuni
what they need to do is have ad-aware and spy-bot S&D post results to a server that will let the gov't track the previlance of each one. -areatech
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Anti-matter weapons?!? - Anti-matter weapons and propulsion? And it's not StarTrek, it's the USAF! Cool! [By: JH / 2004-10-05]
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The last line about sums it up "I think," he said, "we need to get off this planet, because I'm afraid we're going to destroy it." -jard
I've been convinced for years that when you turn a lightswitch off, an intense burst of anti-light is emitted by the switch, which collides with the light and causes it to disappear. Otherwise, you would need to turn the switch off, and open all the windows and doors in the room and wait probably a good half-hour for it to dissipate. Well... not really, but it's an interesting theory. -soccerdude
Here's the link to the pdf that is mentioned in the article that was presented on this topic. http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/fellows_mtg/mar04_mtg/pdf/Edwards_Kenneth.pdf
-JH
This kind of technology in the hands of GW, or someone like him? Thats it were screwed! -RandalGraves
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Every Starfish should read this - I'm not sure if this has been posted before - a co-worker emailed this to me & I thought it was sooo good, I thought I'd share... [By: lineswine / 2004-10-03]
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Took me a bit to remember it was emailed to me not long ago - glad you posted this, 'cuz I'm going to save it now! -teivrann
While it is worth another read. This was posted by DoctorTech already. Title = A rant and rave -jard
Yeah I posted this, though, not on the link of the day thing. The guy who wrote that is a good friend of mine. -DoctorTech
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Opus hits the big leagues! - I wonder how THIS will pan out. - updated URL points to different story source, thanks to chazz.... [By: Grue / 2004-10-02]
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That's too cool! Dad loves Opus- first thing I had to do when I saw the link was email dad! (too late to call... darn.) -Eloewien
I recall the Opus screensaver of long ago being generated by raytracing, so it had a 3D effect. And I love the Lamasil fungus creature, as creepy as it is when he yanks up a toenail... -Mushroom
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über-squirrels made obsolete. - Just when you thought you'd heard everything!. [By: Digital Dogcow / 2004-10-01]
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Cool. Gotta get me one of these! "Go forth and do my bidding, little one!" >:) -snowcrash
You can imagine the cry - 'Gerroff or I'll unleash the hamster!' 'No, no, anything but that..' (THUD) -Gromit
>:D mwuhahahahaha. And rodents shall rule the World!!!! -mousie
"Whether al-Qaeda or the black ops arm of the CIA are taking an interest in the mammalian Nikita is not noted." BWAHAHAHA! Anyone wanna donate money to buy this thing and release it on the customers? -Bobsentme
I can just see it now... Start launching hamsters out of morters... Muahahaha! -Vermiis
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Buhwa ha ha ha ha - Tellin it like it is! UK Style. [By: Digital Dogcow / 2004-09-27]
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classic -imawreque
ahhhhhhhhhhhh the truth @ last. -burrkiss
I love it... haha! -teivrann
Absolutely hilarious. :) -steveO77
well they wanted the truth. -jas75249
I don't know how many times I dreamt of changing the recording on our IVR. . . I don't know if I would ever have the balls.
-jard
The truth *IS* out there -RTFM
Awesome... "Hi you've reach the department of f--- all. We won't help you.. ever.." *CLICK* -spectreoflife
Looks like Riff's TV traffic report guy found another job! -Tekkie
LMFAO, I finally read that. I want to change some of our messages now, LOL -Vermiis
I got to do that once. Alright, it was only when I was on the training course for our PBX, but it was still almost as funny. -smellystudent
Having dealt with NTLs abysmal phone service I don't think it's rude - but very very true. -CommanderData
I wish we could hear the recording. That would be great to hear. -NightSteel
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Fluffy the cubist dog - sorry to bump the last link, but this is just too funny. [By: wolfprince / 2004-09-26]
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*kicks modem* no ADSL until march 2005, dammit. -trs998
OMG, I haven't seen that for years. I first saw this as part of an animation week on TV (BBC 2 I think) a long time back, same night they featured all of John Lassiter's early pixar work (Luxor Jnr, Tin Toy etc) http://www.pixar.com/shorts/index.html I'm stoked somebody found this. Kudos WP. Now if somebody can track down the CGI Don Quixote that was featured the same night, that would be the icing on the cake. -Digital Dogcow
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How about a 60 pound computer? - Heres the computer case everyone five years from now will have, and people like CD and DD will have to haul them around, at least their quiet [By: drachen / 2004-09-24]
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I just relized that the link doesn't mention the weight of the computer, but in the september/october 2004 issue of PC Upgrade they list that as a downside to the noise free coolling system. -drachen
Not to mention the sort of battery that would be required to power them... an automotive wet cell, perhaps? Or three? -teivrann
according to the article I read it only takes a 480 watt powersupply since it has no fans. -drachen
5 years?, probably not even half that time. A powermac G5 tower weighs in at 44.4 lbs right now!. at least the fuckers have a carry handle, even if it is one that cuts into your hand like a fucking breadknife. eMac's currently weigh in at 50 pounds and are a far bigger PIA to carry due to the case design, and near frictionless plastic the things are cased in. -Digital Dogcow
i wanttttttt..... -Selenia
Ahh and I just bought two SATA hard drives... mmm RAID. -Jerbear
After last week's fun I ain't carrying any more computers. -CommanderData
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Oh for fucks sake! - Not content with already giving us maginally less leg room that the average veal calf, forcing us to endure the dregs of humanity for hours on end, feeding us pre-packed synthetic styrofoam shite and then putting 30,000 miles between us and our luggage, then?. How to build a better hell!. [By: Digital Dogcow / 2004-09-23]
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Wonder if a cellular jammer would hamper a planes systems...NTMN the fact that airlines LIKE charging people for making phone calls on their systems. HOLY CRAP! just think of the roaming charges! *faints* -GargoyleTS
How about creating an area just for those people who *must* make a call *right now*? Starboard engine air intake should do it... -smellystudent
*mutters in discontent* hell at 10,000 feet
-Bunglehawk069
"Can you hear me now? - WHY NOT!? I WANNA NEW PHONE!" -teivrann
Stick all the Cellphone users up the back like they used to do with the smokers ;o) -PsiDOC
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The Verge... - Apparently a certain outsourcing company has a "fan" site. It's a good read... Sorry to post a link to another Message Board Hawk... [By: Zentar / 2004-09-23]
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For You Weather Buffs... - Recent satellite image showing four hurricanes/tropical storms at once; TS Ivan, TS Lisa, Hurricane Jeanne, and Hurricane Karl. For anyone keeping score, there's another weather disturbance coming off the west coast of Africa that may or may not develop into yet another one. [By: RiffRaff / 2004-09-23]
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Man, I feel for everyone that's been hit by all of this. It was freaky how Jeanne did that U-turn and strengthened again. You really gotta wonder who pissed off Mother Nature. -Hellion
It almost reminds me of that movie, day after tomorrow. Hopefully it doesn't end like it. -LiQUidICicle
Just think, next year it will be just as bad if not worse. -rockytech
Well having 50 states was nice gues we'll agve to take a star off the flag if this keeps up. Poor Floridians! -Servo
I feel that I speak for all of us in Florida when I say this is pretty much how we feel..... <a href=http://troitek.netfirms.com/IVAN.jpg>Hurricane Ivan</a> -CCNAnMCSE
Sorry, here's the updated link.... http://troitek.netfirms.com/Ivan.htm -CCNAnMCSE
Day After Tomorrow RULED. Speaking of which, time to check my download on the movie, hehehe -Bunglehawk069
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For the love of Yoda! - Why, George, why? We all loved the films the way they were? Why change them and mess up our fond memories? Why not leave the farking things alone! Needless to say, I have no interest in buying any Star Wars films on DVD until the release the original, undoctored versions. Hopefully, my VHS copies will last that long! [By: SwedishChef / 2004-09-20]
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His sandbox after all. Also, from what I heard, the original prints are so bad, they may not be able to use them. -Year9595
Below that article is a link to another one explaining why he did it (found at http://tinyurl.com/4qttk ). Basically he says that the modified versions are how he wanted it originally, but couldn't make it. -Jebus
"Q: Why not release both the originals and special editions on DVD?
LUCAS: The special edition, that's the one I wanted out there. The other movie, it's on VHS, if anybody wants it. ... " - heh, that says it all :P -Mephiston
Well, he's done the same thing to THX-1138 http://www.thx1138movie.com/ -LaserGuru
The originals being bad excuse is bull. I have a friend with the movies on 12" LASER DISC. I'm sure he can pull something decent off of them. Film doesn't go bad that way. -Chronotis
I also don't buy the "this is the movie I wanted to make but didn't" story. However, I look at it more like a novel, with both first and second revisions having been released. Authors do it, why not directors? Look at The Hobbit -- the first edition had Gollum GIVING the ring to Bilbo, and following through on his promise to lead him out of the caverns. The revision has the story we all now know -- where Bilbo FOUND the ring. Tolkein washed it away with "well, the first time round Bilbo lied." Well, Lucas is only doing the same thing with his stories -- changing it to how he feels better tells the story he wants it to be now. And, as Year9595 said, it's his sandbox, so he can play whatever game he wants. Me, I'm looking forward to what he has done to it this time. -Captain Trips
I don't know why people make such a big deal about this. I mean, it's his "vision" why can't he retro-edit? Then again, at least Peter Jackson offers fans both the Extended and Theatrical. -Zentar
Chronotis - Mind you, I am repeating what I heard on National Public Radio USA last week. The original negative had so many copies made of it, there is about 50 partials of dirt per frame. Compared to 15 for other popular films of the same time frame. So, they started with latter versions of the negatives for this DVD. -Year9595
<Shrug> Sounds like most of the changes were minor to make it flow better with the prequels. As for the Hobbit - Tolkien revised it to make it work better with the more sinister aspect of the LotR. -Hellion
I don't want to see his silly revisions. Boba Fett does NOT have a Kiwi accent. The Emperor did NOT talk to Vader about Skywalker being his son in ESB. Hayden should NOT be superimposed into the final shot of Jedi. Greedo did NOT shoot first. I encourage eveyone who loves the originals to go to eBay and buy the Definitive Collection Laserdiscs and an old LD player. Lucas has no intention of releasing the original, unmolested versions onto DVD, so the Definitive LD collection is the best we are going to get. -MaxarRe
... then again, these changes are a little like "doublethink" aren't they? ;) -Zentar
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FUNNIEST F'ING THING TO HIT THE NET!!!! - Flash animation with "Foamy" (for those of you who know who he is) talking to Tech Support in India. LAUGHED MY A$$ off!!!! [By: TheSingingTech / 2004-09-17]
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Your lord and master- Foamy. i near pissed myself when i saw the tech support one up. -Harm
reminds me of when i had to call compaq for support -p3bk4c
Ahh, yes, Foamy does indeed rule. Been a fan for a long time : D -Cooki3
Funny, but doesnt touch the one about the coffee sizes. -Digital Dogcow
I want the cream and the cheese and the cheesy cream...and a cup o' coffee... -T23M
You know you waaaaant to.... blow your head off... so your head can go boom...boomboomboomboom... -DracoSuave
oh yeah, and http://www.illwillpress.com is a better link, no newgrounds spyware, and it's hosted by the creator -DracoSuave
I started to post this the other day, but I didn't know how it would be greeted. I'm glad somebody had the courage to post it though, it had me ROTF. -thisid
I am particularly fond of the closing line.. "Keeeeeeeep the jobs in the US... so I can understand who the fuck I'm talking to." -Nonamys
"Tank you for calling Smell.." wonder who he was talking about... NOT! <ROFLMAO!> Too freakin' right... -MadJack
Freaking Hilarious! -compaq42
I needed that today. That made for a happy monday morning after the floods!:) -Servo
Quit whining about your slave wages and FOCUS! -MaskedMarauder
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stupid people videos - If you are wondering where the customers come up with the crap the talk on the phone then you are really going to wonder why they are doning this stuff. [By: jas75249 / 2004-09-15]
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this is work safe..gets me through the day. -jas75249
darn typos...why must they keep haunting me!!!!! -jas75249
*bookmarked* nice site..... -leonine
It's like "Tryouts for the Darwin Awards"... Starfish Olympics! -teivrann
never gets old..LOL -imawreque
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punishment for bank fraud - now why dont we do this here. [By: Servo / 2004-09-14]
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The link urled out. -LaserGuru
tryed it here it did work -Servo
Oh god that's taking things too far! Execution for stealing money! WTF - execution for killing someone maybe but . . .its only money! -BritishBunny
Not only that but they bill your family 15 cents for the cost of the bullit. -atomicbill
BB, we're not that bad, but we're close. Think about it, you usually see longer jail time for people who steal millions than those who kill. Unless one of the theives happends to be friends with a head of state, then they seem to walk away with a wrist slap -NightRain
Hmm. Why does "Enron" come to mind... Or, 'round these parts, "Westar"? -Owie
Maybe it's apathy or maybe it's misanthropy but I don't have a problem with this. -DedSysOp
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Needs a little modification.... - Specifically, have it raise the volume to maximum and change what it says to: "Hey guys! I'm a moron who just clicked on an unknown attachment in my e-mail! You can blame me for the network going down in 3...2...1...NOW!" Think that would get the point across? (That, of course, is a rhetorical question!) [By: SwedishChef / 2004-09-13]
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yea i'm with swedish on the actual content of the speech, i don't think i'd be able to stop laughing if i heard a customer's computer do that. -rhiannon
This is why we know viruses (or is it virii?) are not written by techs. If a tech wrote them, they'd most likely have some type of IQ test, and then only execute the rest of the code if the score was too low. -JH
Of course, maybe the fact that you have to clink on an dopen an attachment from a person you don't know before you get the virus usually is an type of IQ test. -JH
How about this - "Hey everyone, I'm a dumbass!" -redevil34
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http://infobeat.com/index.cfm?action=art - I think Bill "Lucifer" Gates is getting worried... [By: HappyCrappy / 2004-09-11]
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Geez what a "Crappy(tm)" link. Has popups out the wazoo! Guess I should have turned google bar on eh? <smirk>
But 'ol Bills software still stinks and they can afford to lower the prices a lot! -DoctorTech
I'm "HAPPY" with all the "CRAP" that Bill is going to feel when people start jumping ship like a uber squirrel is on their ass. -burrkiss
No popups for me, Doc Tech... *hugs firefox* -Darth
(Firefox rules) Isn't this similar to what MS tells Wall St. every year? It's always doom and gloom predictions so that the analysts keep their performance estimates low and then MS comes in and beats them. Personally, I think Wall St. is at the heart of half the problems with our (USA and possibly the world's) economy. If public companies weren't so driven to perform because of the need to appease the stockholders, they wouldn't have to cut corners, outsource, eliminate services, etc. Case in point is EagleEye's rant in the break room: "Gotta keep our food costs down". To that, I say "bovine excretia". If you don't keep the customers happy, the only ones left will be the ones that have no other choice.</rant> -virtualchoirboy
"The loss of future trade secret protection could make it easier for third parties to compete with our products by copying functionality" ..... In other news an earth tremor measuring 9.3 on the ricter (sp?) scale was detected in the Cupertino region late last night baffling geological survey teams who could detect no trace of movement along the San Andreas fault. a spokesperson for Apple computer inc told media representatives the company would issue a statement regarding this sometime later in the month after Steve Jobs had stopped laughing his ass off. -Digital Dogcow
Yeah I know "Firefox" rules but at work we have IE on our systems. Even though I usually use Firefox or Netscape here at work the other night I was using IE when I got all the popups. My fault for trusting Bill <rimshot> -DoctorTech
VCB, Wall St and other such things aren't to blame, really. What happened in the past was you'd see how a company did over a year or two, now everyone's all over a company to do well *every* quarter. And to look good per quarter they have to really screw things up. Short term gain, not long term plan. -NightRain
NightRain: I think, in a way, you are agreeing with me. However, in order to keep this away from rants, I posted it in the Break Room. -virtualchoirboy
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My Compatriots Win Awards! - Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker are honoured in Britain! Where's my award? :p [By: SwedishChef / 2004-09-06]
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hehe - saw this in the paper this morning. Nobody asked me who my fave TV scientist is/was, but I would definitely have voted for bunsen. Guees you have to wait for a fave TV chef poll... -Shaede
that's so awesome!!! :D -mousie
BORK BORK BORK! -EvilOtto
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Ailen life? - Very cool! Wanna make a bet they are just trying to call for tech support :) [By: rockytech / 2004-09-04]
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"What intelligent life? I told you this stupid thing wouldn't work. I WANNA NEW RADIO TELESCOPE!" </hadtobedone> -teivrann
"I hope they find intelligent life on other planets 'cos there's bugger-all down here on earth!" </Eric Idle> -Gromit
"I predict the future of this earthly human race, is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space...Well, there goes the neighborhood" </Leonard Nimoy> -TheSingingTech
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Snowcrash is famous - You have been immortalised! [By: CommanderData / 2004-09-01]
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Ahhhh! Cd beat me to it. (mumbles: just because you brits are ** hours ahead of me) -MightyMouse
Awesome... :D -CelticSkyhawk
Ahhhh! Cd beat me to it. (mumbles: just because you brits are ** hours ahead of me) -MightyMouse
ok, now I'm lost what's a snowcrash? other than this guys nickname?
-drachen
drach: She ain't a guy. :) -Mushroom
I'm not a guy. I don't think I am, anyway. But I'm still waiting for the day when it doesn't matter what gender anyone is, and they can be taken on their merits alone. -snowcrash
BTW...I (out of habit generally refer to everyone, male or female, as guy, as in "hey guys guess what this starfish just did" unless I specificly know otherwise, in this case I guess I did not. -drachen
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Happy Birthday - Sorry to bump Snowcrash's immortalization, but I just wanted to take this moment to wish the Internet a very happy birthday!! We love ya, man!! Without you, we'd never know each other! =D [By: mousie / 2004-09-01]
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And lets not forget Al Gore. After all he invented it. ==> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,18655,00.html -RedSwingline
Well actually its the internet's Grandpappy the (D)ARPANET whose birthday it is today, The internet has its bithday on 1 January (born 1983 on the Internet was born on the day D)ARPANET switched to the TCP/IP protocol), but its the thought that counts. -Digital Dogcow
Yes, I can tell you're so broken up about bumping my soapbox entry. I mean, you're just crying into your cake and punch there. ;) -snowcrash
RedSwingline (Cool name by the way), Gore didn't say that: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.htm -nwqefio
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Ooooooh Momma! - Presenting the new G-FARKIN-FIVE !!!!! iMac. (you may begin hating it....now.) [By: Digital Dogcow / 2004-08-31]
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O.o I repeat what I said to many of my high school dates: "That's IT?!" -Dragones
Dragones, anyone who'se ever seen the guts of Apples G5 base units will tell you they've got a heat sink inside the size of a Bentley engine block, & enough fans to build your own hover craft. From an engineering standpoint, with a G5 proc on board, either Steve Jobs has re-written the laws of thermodynamics or thats one ASTOUNDING bit of kit. I cant wait to open one of these puppy's up!. W00T! -Digital Dogcow
whats next for Jobs? When the G^ comes out will it be all in the air? This has to be the smallest computer i have ever seen. My desk would not know what to do with itself with that much free space. -Servo
"either Steve Jobs has re-written the laws of thermodynamics or thats one ASTOUNDING bit of kit." I concur. O.o -Dragones
I think I'm in love. That things even cuter than my ipod. DD any chance if you get your hoofs on one and start having a poke that you could take some piccies for us? As you say that thing is one amazing bit of kit! -fearmyroot
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YAY! "Clerks" is gonna have a sequel! - There is going to be a sequel to the hit movie CLERKS! I can't wait to see it when it comes out! =) [By: rokitt / 2004-08-31]
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*sigh* Guess I know what movie the boyfiend will be dragging me to. Don't get me wrong; I like Kevin Smith's humour, but I find that it translates better for me on the smaller screen. I'd rather see "Hero" right now. -snowcrash
as long as afleck isnt in it. -rhiannon
Hero is good.. :) Worth seeing. Clerks 2.. haven't seen Clerks yet. -Warrick
Clerks is required viewing. For everyone, everywhere. Snoochie Boochies! -modeski
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MS-DOS 7.1 Download - MS-DOS 7.10 is an standalone and independent OS, which has a lot of features. It fully supports large hard disks, large memory, FAT32 drives, Long File Names (LFN), etc. It has lots of enhancements over older versions of DOS, such as MS-DOS 6.x. And at the same time, it offers excellent upward/downward compatibility. With it, you can run both Windows 3.x GUI and Windows 9x (95-98SE, a.k.a. Win4.x) GUI on top of MS-DOS 7.10. There are floppy disk and CD-Rom Install disk images here. [By: TechnoVampire / 2004-08-30]
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I've used this, and it rocks!!! -hkypipe
I've used it as well, and I am highly impressed. Also of use is the DOS 7.10 "Super Boot Disk" which allows you to boot and access both FAT *and* NTFS systems from a DOS prompt. Also a fun "Mini-Windows" boot disk that boots to a Win 3.11 GUI from a single floppy. This is a must-have for old-school techs. -RiffRaff
Aahh! My idea of heaven. Downloading now... -Gromit
I know several techs at work who are gonna drool so badly over this.. -CommanderData
Please Tell me There is NTFS Support PleasEEEE!!!!!
-wazntme
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Oh Good Gawd !!!!!!! - Like we geeks don't have a bad enough name already!. [By: Digital Dogcow / 2004-08-30]
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If that's the only kinda sex some people can get... BTW, can I be one of those "half of Playboy readers make $75,000 a year"? Please? -Mushroom
Lart co-ordinates for Playboy offices input, awaiting launch command... -Darth
Like this is any different from the "we know where to get free pr0n" comments/posts??? Unfortunately, I have a feeling most of my guy "tech" friends will have two copies of this...their "work" copy and their "home" copy. *shakes head, rolls eyes* And people wonder why women go anorexic and get breast implants...*wanders off humming feminist folk songs* -snowcrash
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Could... not... resists - Read this article and replace 'mouse' with 'penis'. Rhiannon- it's shiny! [By: LaserGuru / 2004-08-28]
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*blinks* why was i the target of that comment? did i miss a joke? that is funny though. -rhiannon
Errr.... I thought there was something about shiny in your profile. Musta been some other TechBabe. -LaserGuru
"increased speed and accuracy" I DONT want to be faster, and I think I have mastered Part A SLot B, so my accuracy is FINE. <walks away in a huff> -burrkiss
Well there's a valuable insight into the inner workings of L.G.'s mind!!!. LG! step away from the vaseline and come out with your hands up...your hands...NO!...I said your HANDS!!!..... -Digital Dogcow
Is that a new mouse in your pocket LG, or are you just pleased to see me? <g> -Gromit
"I want a new PENIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!" Heh. -Jerbear
It's all in your feelthy little mind. I'll stick to replacing the word F_CK for the word KILL in all the popular statements (ala Carlin). -Mushroom
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pleasure of punishment - This is why we live for the LART! [By: LaserGuru / 2004-08-26]
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"tit for tat"? who is tat, and how do I get some? -srteach
They had to have a study to prove that? I could have told them that if they'd just asked. That's the one reason most of us still work in tech support. -JH
I love giving pain to those who love giving pain. But I dont hurt myself. Does that mean I'm a sadist or a hypicrate? -burrkiss
...but wouldn't you get pleasure by denying yourself pain burkiss? -leonine
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Theft of Signal? - This should generate some interesting discussions. [By: Dewby / 2004-08-24]
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I think it's BS. A library that gives free signal is paid for by taxpayers. It's not theft of service. Either the author is full of it , or the cop was being a dick.
-billybien
</nods at billy>If that's true... -Veinor
Cop was probably being a dick.. or he wasn't paying enough attention to the SS agent...
-Warrick
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Bad Traffic Report - In followup to RiffRaff's earlier posting about the Traffic report in Indiana with the nice words written, here is a video link. I don't know if this has been posted, but I haven't seen it. [By: Bunglehawk069 / 2004-08-24]
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Riff posted the clip the next day: http://tinyurl.com/5ymuu #15, but it didn't show the very last bit where the anchorman looks stunned. -Tekkie
I can't ever seem to download anything from ebaumsworld.com. Could someone email this to me at ogdentechguy@gmail.com ? -OgdenTechGuy
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Team America - Marianimination, the South Park way. [By: LaserGuru / 2004-08-22]
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I saw the trailer for this... there's gonna be some seriously pissed off Muppets.. and leaders of state... -Warrick
What's the difference? -LaserGuru
Bwahahaha! I HAVE to see it! -valkyrja
I have been waiting for these guys to do another movie for a long time. I am very psyched! -chefque
Saw the trailer during Alien vs. Predator (neat movie)...not interested in seeing it until it hits video, 'cause marionettes are frightening creatures! -snowcrash
I was gonna say "A hand up yer butt" to LG's comment, but I guess that really doesn't qualify as a difference... -obie099
must... see... this.... movie!!! -Harm
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This won't end well - I just know it, this isn't going to end well...I do NOT want to work for this company. Ever. You couldn't pay me enough. [By: Dragones / 2004-08-21]
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run while you still can. -samurai
Why not Dragones? CAD has a built in anti-starfish feature... -Warrick
See, I'd work for that company. But not on their helpdesk. -Bobsentme
I think this is a great idea . . . . but like dragones, you couldn't pay me enought to be tech support for these guys. Just imagine the calls that this could generate. "Hi, tech support, I just designed and ordered this part and . . . . . " -jard
"what do you mean you CAN't make it? i made the design!if i can make it ins CAD then you HAVE to be able to make it!i want a new... -Harm
I think this is a good idea. Alot of people who build one-off products (cars bikes planes) will have a use for this. TH avrage starfish will hopefully not. -rockytech
I'd work there, Dragones. SF: This part didn't work ME: did you design it? SF: yes ME: was it made to the design? SF: yes ME: Then the design is the problem. Buh BYE *dialtone* -srteach
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Gone in 20 mins - My inernet connection is too slow </Starfish> [By: PID1 / 2004-08-20]
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Gee... it takes that long? I've seen them hosed in 5 min -srteach
Gee... it takes that long? I've seen them hosed in 5 min -srteach
damnit!! -srteach
heh, and I was planning on posting this one.. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5313402.html -Spyder19
I just saw that one last night and had to laugh... when Blaster was first circulating, a computer would have been lucky to last 5 seconds. -teivrann
I agree with srtech, 20 minutes sounds a lot longer than I've experienced. Looking at my network traffic bouncing off the firewall+nat machine the sucker would be blastered in less than 30 seconds.... and wasn't that sucker supposed to shut down ages ago? -fearmyroot
For me who did the support directly for MicroShaft before leaving people would plug them in and take 2minutes before the computer would shutdown -Motient
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Wanna chat but not type (or spend money) - ""What is Skype?
Hello. We’re Skype and we’ve got something we want to share with you.
We’ve got a simple bit of software we want to give you. It’ll let you make free phone calls to your friends all over the world. And we don’t want any money for it. It’s free.
You could think of us as the big, free Internet telephony company. We prefer to think of ourselves as a big group hug, even a present. Yes… that’s it… we’re a present… but without the ribbon."" [By: obie099 / 2004-08-16]
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Oddly enough my username is obie099, should anyone want to try this out... -obie099
Forgive my suspicion and cynicism, but this software was developed by the same people that developed that infamous piece of spyware-infested bloatware, Kazaa. Is it trustworthy, oh ye trusting one? -Magenta
so far, not a glitch, and nothing found that shouldn't be there. -obie099
I'll admit, that is really weird. A buddy of mine really started getting into it, but as far as I know, you don't get something that is advertized this much for nothing. Something is amiss... -ShiftedBeef
"makers of Kazaa"... probably means that they haven't linked it to spyware/advertising/virii network in version 1. What are they going to implement in version 2 or 3? They want to geta BIG user base, then turn on the money vacuum (for them), same as they did with Kazaa.... They make BIG money onthe back end. -srteach
i was skeptical about skype at first too. honestly its not a bad little program and so far all my spyware/adware scans come up clean. its been a big help keeping in contact with dreadpirate being across the pond. stringlessmarionette should anyone wanna try it. just identify yourself in a message first :) -marionette
of course, it could be something like ICQ - get lots of users hooked on it, and then sell it to AOL for lots of Moola, and let them add the bloatware -madonnac
What a bunch of pessimists! It works now. Use it now. It stop working. Srop using it. Sheesh. -obie099
AFAIK they're going to geta decent userbase, and start offering paid-for calls to landlines. skype-to-skypre's supposed to stay free. -trs998
trs989 - they already are offering computer to landline calls. works pretty well and less lag than on the computer to computer calls. -marionette
Guys, so far it's decent. AVG and Ad-aware are coming up clean, and it's a fun program. Plus, it's easy to use. If you want to chat real-time, it's great. If you're like me, and you're kinda shy and don't always know what to say...there's always IM. -snowcrash
Co-worker just sent this link around. Said the quality is amazing. -namor
Apparently, you can also work for skype... Where do they get the money? Off the free software? Hmm... I cant help but be very scared of this prog. -ShiftedBeef
hmmm I would have to assume that this prog works the same as programs like Roger Wilko and M$ Gamevoice. These progs have been around for years. Why not just use them if you are worried about this particular program? -HandsomeDoc
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Ford, Whats this fish doing in my ear? - Further to lumirgaidin's post of yesterday about the HHGTG movie: Self interview by Karey Kirkpatrick on the official blog site for the movie. There's no point in acting all surprised about it. All the
planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in
your local planning department on Alpha Centauri for fifty of
your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge any
formal complaint and it's far too late to start making a fuss
about it now. [By: Digital Dogcow / 2004-08-15]
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I am going to see that movie the day it comes out. -Veinor
I'd like to rent the theatre for that night. -lumirgaidin
"Forty two! Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" </Loonquawl> Sorry I think I just gave away the ending. -RedSwingline
HA. If noone here has read HHGTTG, they deserve death. Or at least a very heavy LART'ing -lumirgaidin
Having not seen the tv show or listened to the radio show im not sure what to expect. I read the book and I love it. -rockytech
Great interview! I think with people like Robbie Stamp, executive producer ("Trust us. We know where our towels are.") working on the movie it should be ok. We can only hope! -BritishBunny
Anyone who likes HHGTTG would probably like red dwarf too. -samurai
Blech. HHGTG and Monty Python suck. Only good things outta England is DD/CD, and the McLearn F1. -burrkiss
<offers LARTfish to any UK members> -LaserGuru
*wanders off, muttering something about burkiss not mentioning my name when talking about good things coming from the UK* -flapjackboy
While I am inclined to condem burrkiss to the helpdesk-of-hell-with-un-lartable-starfish,
for the crime of dissing H2G2 and MP (and leving me off the UK list), I remind myself that I know someone who *dosn't like* starwars. Not the new ones; the Original trilogy. So I feel that since I was able to let that one live, I must afford burrkiss the same privelige. I can still think his taste sux, thou can't I? -Dj
<Sneaks in adds Burrkiss to Postal Techs list, sneaks out><sneaks back in, highlights name, runs and hides><BFEG></UK_LART> -PID1
Hmmm dissin' Adams AND Python all in the same post?. Burrkiss fails a saving thow. - 25 credability HP. -Digital Dogcow
Bet he doesn't like Red Dwarf either.. -CommanderData
Everybody finished picking on burkiss? Here, buddy, have a hug! <hides LARTfish behind back> -LaserGuru
<creeps up behind LG, ties grenade to LARTfish, creeps away chuckling evilly..> -Gromit
I got only one thing to say.....ni ni ni -Armakuni
Oh Burrkiss - I am so looking forward to meeting you at the Omaha BBQ! <adds to BBQ To-do list: prepare UK_LARTS on behalf of Self, flapjackboy, DJ, Gromit, Armakuni> -BritishBunny
Wow, just WOW. I wasn't expecting a doublebarrel blast point blank. Just remember that I love you all even though your taste in comedy is HIGHLY questionable. And I'm sure Red Dwarf stinks too. <runs like a fiend and hides like a dung beetle> -burrkiss
IMHO, that should be "runs like a fiend, looks like a dung beetle" - you heathen! {bfeg} -Grue
:) -snowcrash
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DD has a smoke - This is how I imagine DD having a cig after dealing with a dumbass end user... [By: CommanderData / 2004-08-14]
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just watch the eyebrows,DD -srteach
I remember that guy. He was trying to get into the Guiness book of world records. Unfortuantely, they stopped accepting Harmful entries a few days before, and he was screwed. Nice pic though. -Bobsentme
someone really likes lung cancer. (no offence to smokers i'm a reformed *sorta* smoker myself, but that guy is nutz) -rhiannon
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Bunny LART - With apologies to the Velveteen people among us. [By: LaserGuru / 2004-08-13]
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Bunny Jihad! Burn down our home will you! -Rabbitt
Do you blame our cousin? “The Rules of Cricket as Explained to a foreign visitor: You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in, goes out, and when he's out, he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When both sides have been in and out including the not-outs, that's the end of the game.” -BritishBunny
see thats what you get for makin rabbits mad, let this be a lesson to all of us. -rhiannon
"And don't miss next, Godzilla vs. the Velveteen Rabbit." </MST3K> -teivrann
Similarly, the rules of baseball as explained to a foreign visitor: "A strike is a ball that is not struck, a ball is also a ball that is not struck but a ball that is a ball can become a strike if it is struck but not fairly..." -Fuji
"it's got huuuuuggggeeee sharp.....it can leap about......LOOK AT THE BONES!!!" (/holy grail) -leonine
They were athletes, right? (sorta) They had liquids available, I'm sure. (pitcher of water "just in case" one of them wanted to be sober?) So why did the bunny die?? Now I'm sad, so cricket players must pay! *runs off with megaLART, screaming "You will be avenged, my bunny friends!"* -snowcrash
I'm with snowcrash on this one. Why did the bunny have to die? *walks away to make a race of radioactive super bunnies.* -samurai
BB... Your explaination sounds suspiciously like a "euphemistic" description of sex... JUST from the replies, not the link -srteach
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teen pleads guilty for blaster - One more virus creator out of circulation i say we get him and make him call all our still pissed custoemrs and say sorry before we flog him publically. [By: Servo / 2004-08-12]
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Got the bastard! I'm all in favour of public flogging - just set the stupid turd up for it by suspending him within lash-reach of vengeful TSC'ers. Upside down. By his scrotum. -Gromit
Lets skin him alive coat him in honey and strap him down on an ant hill. -samurai
Electric cattle prod to the genitals. -ecoli
1000 minute razor blade cuts, then dip him alternately in vinegar and lemon juice. :D -SwedishChef
give him a job... as a model.... on the goatse website -srteach
"We're going to make him eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then make him eat his shit which is made up of our shit which we made him eat!" </Jay and Silent Bob> -TheSingingTech
a good ole public hangin will be a good idea as well -jjtech4
How about he has to go to every infected computer, 48,000 odd, and fix each one, at his own expense, and then the oral sex! Sorry, flogging. -robbor
Give him aids then lock him up in solitary with no medical treatment for life. -atomicbill
Actually. I say employe him, if only to repay the debt he's racked up in slagged machines. But I think if he is the original writer of Blaster he'd be good on any programming team. -fearmyroot
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XP Lite - What is there to say really.... [By: redevil34 / 2004-08-11]
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Linux trying to get into the market anywhere in the world, this is an outrage. We are not a monopoly </bill gates> -rhiannon
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Cooking With The SwedishChef - Sorry to bump the link, but I just HAD to do it... [By: hkypipe / 2004-08-08]
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No chopping up starfish? I'm disappointed. *sulks* -teivrann
Glad you did! Love it (and remember it... does that make me an old fart?) -srteach
DAMN, talk about a shameless plug!!!! <bfeg> Thanks man, this is great! -wolfprince
sorryhkypipe, don't know why I was thinking OUR chef put up this link. Lart me at will. and thanks again, i've never seen a couple of those (frogs legs, hot dogs. wedding cake) -wolfprince
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Wireless Windows CE - Computer Stupidities is not nearly as much fun as TSC, but this story is an exception. My favorite part is when the starfish believes that all versions of Windows are upwards and downwards compatible because they all have SOlitaire. [By: concept14 / 2004-08-08]
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After some converstaions I've had with people, this is not at all far fetched. -redevil34
The writer of the story is lucky the VP grasped the concept... -hkypipe
HAD this conversation with a manager today... -CommanderData
The image at the end makes me giggle, just thinking of it... -namor
MY STAPLER IS WIRELESS!!! -Veinor
If your stapler is indeed wireless, of what are your staples made? -Grue
But no wires are coming out of it!!!! -Veinor
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Some people take away all the fun. - Spoil sports [By: RedSwingline / 2004-08-06]
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First upskirting, now this. Next thing you know, teabagging strangers on park benches at lunch will be out... -Mushroom
Just one more reason to head to Amsterdam! <bfeg> -DragonMageWTF
More proof, not that it was needed, that men are pigs..... ewww. -Zentar
Admit it, Queen Z., you're envious that strangers toes get licked and yours don't. Girl you know it's true. ROTFL j/k! Men are not pigs -- those are toes, not truffles. :) -Mushroom
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Singapore holds hacking contest - "The prize for the best hacker will be a DVD burner and free computer classes." Free computer classes for someone who has proven that they don't need them... yeah... right... [By: LadySharky / 2004-08-04]
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We are talking Singapore here. Those aren't lessons, those are "re-education." -Mushroom
Its probably a sham, they get the best hacker, then kill him/her. -burrkiss
"Hackers can be jailed for up to three years or fined up to S$10,000 ($8241.00) under the city-state's Computer Misuse Act." Ooooo, sign me up for the contest! -Tekkie
My highschool did something like this: They brought in a speaker about the evils of being a gangster, and then he started asking how many kids were bangers. A few dumb ones raised their hands, while the principle/others were taking notes fevereshly.
-Bobsentme
"Teams will also have to defend their organization's networks against hacking from other teams." Easy: turn the server off. Voila, I win. -ThirdOfFive
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Okay it's AOL bashing - THe language ain't safe for work BTW. And I'm sorry for knocking the other link off. [By: CommanderData / 2004-08-02]
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Awww.. I'll have to read from home (sighs) -Warrick
that's hilarious, but I think anyone who says they use AOL aren't any smarter than the (bad)techs who work there. Unless you use AOL out of desperation like me when your highspeed gets pooched. -LiQUidICicle
Ok guys. Forget the AOL bashing. Click on the TV Ads on the left and go to #6 Kylie/Agent Provocateur. Gawd help me if I could have at the end! -Rabbitt
And as a possible hint to starfish - http://www.kontraband.com/show/show.asp?ID=702 -madonnac
Okay, I clicked on #6... Excuse me now, please, I must go wake up Magenta... <*pant* *pant* *pant* *pant*> -RiffRaff
Great site. The aol one sums things up nicely. #3, the mastercard spoof is "priceless". #6..uhm, excuse me... -HexCalamity
I saw that AOL thing years ago (why would v6 be required if it originally played fine under v3?)... Still funny. Monkeyfuckers. -Mushroom
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Seattle With Riffraff $ Magenta - They're posted, finally. The photos of the infamous 7 in Saettle. [By: obie099 / 2004-07-29]
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Cool, Thanks obie! Looks like fun. You gonna tell us what they were crackin' up about? -BritishBunny
Me, punting a pigeon. :) -Mushroom
Better'n pickin' yer nose! -obie099
I can view it all just fine in IE but Mozilla just resizes the Hammering Man pic and changes captions. :) Wierd. -snowcrash
Glad I jumped on the bosses machine at work, mine's giving me problems at home, thanks for the pics! -wolfprince
It's amazing how much Riff reminds me of George Costanza! -billybien
Someone made that comment to him at the get-together, with me adding "but with the difference that Riffy gets laid." And Obie, just because no one picked up your camera while I had a finger up my nose like happened to you... :) -Mushroom
It worked fine with Mozilla for me, it resizes the current image before it loads the new one. It's doing something screwy with the img size tag. -Jerbear
Must just be my luck. Or browser settings. *whaps boxen* WORK, or I'll give you away to starfish! -snowcrash
You like the "view" button, Snow? -obie099
I'm givin' y'all the finger. -Mushroom
Snowcrash and Magenta are gorgeous! And holy moley is THAT how big US pizzas are??? -CommanderData
WOW snowcrash is hot! -samurai
obie wasn't picking his nose, he was re-enacting Monty Python's "Now for something completely differant, a man with a tape recorder up his nose" -wolfprince
That was a MEDIUM sized pizza, CD.... -obie099
WTF? It's bigger than an English LARGE pizza! -CommanderData
Everything is bigger in the US. -LaserGuru
Bigger pizza, bigger army, bigger ego. All to compensate for a really tiny .... -samurai
samurai - you really think THAT is smaller, considering how many places it's getting used nowadays? -Grue
CD I don't think you Britons are exactly "world renowned" for your cullinary masterpieces. I cite haggis as an example. :-) Oh... and yeah Snowcrash is teh hawt. -Jerbear
Uh, Haggis is Scottish, not English... -obie099
Now, spotted dick, clotted cream or that nasty black shite in a jar.... -obie099
That'd be Marmite Obie :) And it's loverly! -fearmyroot
I've tried it, fear. It's nasty. -obie099
hehe. I think it's one of those love/hate things. You either like it or it makes you violently ill :) -fearmyroot
Hmmm....Marmite </Lineswine> -lineswine
Obie - I take you don't like Vegemite either? (Aussie equivalent, similar, but not identical to Marmite - you can get both in UK) -lineswine
Great pix! Thanks, Obie. Does anyone else think Mushroom looks like David Duchovny? -sassicatz
Riff. One word. Sunblock. -ecoli
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military fun - grrr misspelled first url [By: tech2of2 / 2004-07-28]
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Funny stuff, but probably best marked as NSFW just as a precaution. :) -SwedishChef
wow windows media player is so exciting when you have no speakers on the computer *work totally kills the sound on comps with tv cards so we dont have the volume up* -rhiannon
Alright, who broke the link??? -DragonMageWTF
also, for dial-up users, its 12Mb in size. -madonnac
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remember when america was free? - Here's some scary stuff(if you believe it, if you don't then don't worry) [By: drachen / 2004-07-27]
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OMG, Americans be terrorists! Next thing, they'll tell us that black people can be racist! (not that I'm saying they are...) </rolleyes> -Veinor
what a bunch of loonies, americans in concetration camps? been done world war2...Amercians can be terroists? and just what was the unibomber misunderstood? fucking sad one bunch of right wing loonies scared of of being labeled terrorists <you did see one of their book refs yeah this one "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion"> scared of being labeled what they actually are? -Waylander
Panic mongers. Blowing things out of proportion, and putting the worst possible spin on things. I take everything freaks like that say with a grain of salt. -wolfprince
"BLOCKED. Category: Hate_Speech, Politics/Religion " Maybe I'm happier. (And quoting from 'Protocols of Zion' instantly equates BAAAAP wrong answer!) -Mushroom
Professional pessimism crossed with professional paranoia, dressed up to scare as many gullible people as possible into agreement. -Grue
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How much you want to bet he was fired? - Idiot decides that waiting for actual maintenance staff to do their job isn't necessary, causes entire call centre a day of work. [By: Dragones / 2004-07-26]
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Sounds like something I might have done. Only questions are WHAT did he use and HOW MUCH? It sounds like he didnt use WD40. -burrkiss
A little WD-40 or similar did that? I find it hard to believe. I've used various spray lubricants in my garage snd I'm stil O@#$% dfsdo2@#$asaw-= -LaserGuru
"Fire officials want to remind the public it's best to leave any routine maintenance requiring the use of chemicals in the workplace to a trained maintenance staff." How much IQ does it take to spray WD-40 on a joint? Oh well, they got the day off.... :) -Mushroom
HOW much did he spray?? -CommanderData
"I didn't use that much... only one can on each..." </sf> -Torinir
Reading that i was thinking "maybe Burkiss was in the area & dropped one" Oh, look who was the first to post a comment :O -RTFM
hmmm ... i'm gussing they use the same maintenece company we do. ( notes the over flowing trash bins, the empty paper towel and TP dispencers) what the hell did he USE though, were did they buy it, how much and is it flamable? -Harm
You thinking of some corporate arson Harm? It would be useful here but only in one half of this building as the vent ducting only exists for one half of it, heh -Cooki3
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Script kiddie website - Direct your l33t friends to this... [By: CommanderData / 2004-07-23]
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A computer consultant who can't even spell correctly? The id10t needs spelling lessons -srteach
Not only direct them there, but convince them that's what IT specialists do in their spare time. That oughta terrify 'em... -teivrann
That was painful. It's got to be a joke. Is anybody really that stupid? -scooby111
Have a look at this: http://www.somethingawful.com/download.php?file=movies/sa/desktop-commander.wmv -RTFM
Obviously not a native speaker of the English language... What is a haxor anyway? It sounds like someone who has been smoking too long. -SAFGeek
JeffK's stuff is parody, of course. He's been around quite a while - I remember sitting around with fellow geeks laughing at JeffK stuff back in 2001. :) -devzero
I've always prefered Cliff Yablonksi -- JeffK is a little too 1337 for me. :) -Mushroom
this might be a joke, but I know 12 yr olds that think like that. They install a program like "super mem-turbo special pro" and think they're a haxor. lol. -LiQUidICicle
it's not easy to spell that badly consistently like that, it's pretty cool in a really lame sort of way -frprinterwiz
Ouch, that site broke my brain.... -paranoidepiphan
OMG LOL PWNED! -Jerbear
gaw! you don't even want to know how horrible that site sounded with all that 1337 shit on it dah!!! -blindtech
Oh yeah - don't look at that site blindtech! -CommanderData
I keep waiting for blind tech to post a comment here that says, "Oh sure, NOW ya tell me CD!" -wolfprince
lol, JeffK is a comedy god : D. Goto www.starkingdoms.com, signup to the forums and ask about JeffK there, you'll get a very good response : b -Cooki3
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One Way To Tell Time - Some industrious person had waaaaaaaaayyyyyy too much time on their hands. [By: RiffRaff / 2004-07-21]
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Saw this one a while back - still one of my favorite clocks. But wait, they're in Yugoslovia - why is the clock correct? How do they know I'm in the midwest? There's SPYS IN MY COMPUTER!!!!! -Dewby
*starts passing out rolls of tinfoil* -Jerbear
That's hypnotic. -Dragones
That is just too damned cool. -wolfprince
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Mooo! - Just think of it- our very own DD hosting TSC for us! [By: LaserGuru / 2004-07-21]
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Note to self - Future job duties, milk the file servers. -PID1
Cows and computers? tsc is based in wi(right?). I'm not sure I couldn't see madison as the new tech capital of the world. :) -nm
Oooooh now thats just silly!. Everybody knows the only practical application for nano-tech is to shrink people down very very small, put them in a teeny tiny little submarine and inject them into the bodies of comatose scientists to fire lasers at the damaged area in their brains. -Digital Dogcow
Has DD been reading fantastic voyage?? -samurai
Has DD been reading fantastic voyage?? -samurai
'i'm a cow, look at me, i'm interfaced with the PC, mooooOOOO i'm a COW' -Harm
Holy PC's for India? -LaserGuru
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Take a deep breath Rif' - Fax.com prove they have more neck than an ostrich ranch. [By: Digital Dogcow / 2004-07-20]
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Then again, perhaps they'll get egg on their face. -robbor
Man, that takes a lot of balls. "You sued me, so I'm going to sue you back for a bullshit madeup reason" -burrkiss
it's great to see fax.com get egg on their face. I commend Riff for his part in this in his state. -srteach
Riff's name in print yet again: following the story and reading several links down, I found this one: http://tinyurl.com/689ho (about half way down). -virtualchoirboy
I have a recording of my conversation with Fax.com VP Charles Martin in which he threatens to sue me if I interfere with their operation in Indianapolis. Maybe I should post that for everyone to hear... -RiffRaff
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The Acts of Gord - The book of the Apocalypse. The Acts of Gord have been updated. [By: mousie / 2004-07-19]
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An update? Wow, I think I'm going to have a heart attack! At least it'll give me enough time in recovery to read it... -garwain
Gord is a God!! I also like his comic he made too.. -rockytech
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This Land - a little something for both sides. Enjoy (& see if you get the point) [By: Digital Dogcow / 2004-07-18]
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I dont get it, it was cute and funny JUST LIKE ME IN MY OLD AGE!!!! -burrkiss
Point? It was funny as hell. Server seems to be getting slammed though. -LaserGuru
a friend sent me to that site before, i couldnt get thru, this time i got thru no probs, too funny though. -rhiannon
Now that'1 comedy! <wipes away tear> Kinda accurately sums up the race, huh? -scooby111
I hate to bring a downer to such a funny post, but the point is that "By the people, for the people" has over the years turned in to a crock of bull. Just my two cents, I suspect I have change coming. -Jerbear
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"Sons of Martha" - Just saw this on Jerry Pournelle's site. Brethren and sistern, I believe *THIS* is the answer to the existence of starfish! And where can I sign up to be a "son of Mary"? [By: CTYankee / 2004-07-18]
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AD's in Ohio speak out - KUDOS! I'm not a homosexual, but I feel that people who are should get the same benifits I recieve if I marry! If anyone feels different, then you have that right. Don't start a flame war, get my email from my whiteboard, and direct your responses to me. Yet, Before you start, I want to tell you. I served 10 years in the military, I have multiple medals, and one of my units MOST respected officers was obviously gay. Although we didn't ask-or-tell. That's beside the point... A vote for Bush is a vote for the TOP .1 percent of the country. Think about it, but vote! [By: Hellion / 2004-07-17]
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I personally think you are giving him to much credit with .1 He seems to be only for the Bill Gatess' of America and of course the ultra extreme concervatives -Servo
Gotta love Bush, eh? Priorities all screwed up, people pissed, yet he STILL has the power he does. -Warrick
MY name is Rhiannon, and i aprove this message: god i'm tired of hearing that, i just love watching a bush commercial that was supposed to make me not like Kerry that actually pointed out more reasons im on the democratic side of the fence. -rhiannon
Personally: I'm all for Bush. I feel that if it wasn't for him and some other republican leaders we would still be "talking" and not getting problems ( think welfare crisis, war on terror, ect) solved. Now I understand that these are some of the same reasons that people are voting democrat. Of course, this is all IMHO -jard
Im a registered republican but Im not voting Bush this year. I regret that I voted for him last time. I havent decided that I will vote for Kerry yet. But a vote for anyone else will be a vote for Bush -mikeatnight
"Don't start a flame war"!? WTF do you think you just did? You post an all-encompassing, general political statement and you don't want to start a flame war?? I don't mind off topic posts, but this just takes the cake. OK, my turn: A vote for Kerry, is a vote for higher taxes, bigger government, higher spending, and socialized medicine. Unlike your statement, mine is verifyable. Oh and of course you'd like responses to your PUBLIC statement to be made in PRIVATE. Wouldn't want an open debate, would we? -scooby111
Almost wish I were american, just so I'd care... well, I do, actually - Bush is responsible for more environmental waste and hazards than many other administrations I can think of. Don't think that's important? -namor
I so wish these would stop...as if there are not enough of us on here to cover just about any possible political view. That aside this is an issue that needs to be addressed nationaly - Why, you ask? Simple, imagine getting married in one state then moving to another and having your marriage not be allowed/recognized - now imagine what issues arise from having your marriage/status as each other's spouse go poof...how much does that affect your lives? I don't really care one way or the other how this goes but it needs to be the same rule from the entire country, not differing rules in each state. Considering how health care/medical insurance/coverage is now, imagine throwing the additional factor of "What happens if the state you're in now doesn't recognize your marriage?" -redevil34
Equal rights are equal rights. Not special rights. Speaking as one of the very few gay people on this site, and definately one of the only very "out" ones, I have no idea why any self respecting gay individual would want to join that fucking hetero-only club known as marriage. Why? So you'll feel more "normal". Good luck. As long as marriages can be performed perfectly legally BY THE FUCKING STATE, they should have no say on the gender of the people involved. Fine, if you church has an issue with it. Why start thinking rationally now? As far as Bush or Kerry, can we just try the next fours years without a president. I don't give a flip who is in the white house as long as they aren't a lying, thieving, two faced, hidden agenda bastard. And, btw, what the hell is wrong with socialized medicine? Seems to work fine in England. -obie099
Wow, did I say that out loud? -obie099
And Canada. The only reason I can think of why gays would want marriage is for the bennies: tax breaks, insurance, and all those other perks that single or committed-not-married people don't get. Get rid of the spiffs that wedded couples of any flavor get and that will take most of the flavor out of the concept of marriage for gays (and more than a few straights, it's like marrying someone for citizenship purposes). -Mushroom
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Yea Ha! Let the fun begin. - This should be interesting... [By: Hellion / 2004-07-15]
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It's called Trillian. <roll of eyes> -Mushroom
Trillian rocks! it's even got Mirc on it too ;) -Zentar
Is anyone really surprised that Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon years late and claiming they're the industry leader? -Jay911
...and doing so with an inferior product to what already exists? Not a bit. -Mushroom
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Lies, damned lies & MPAA figures - OTX & MPAA caught massaging the data! (again!). D'oh! [By: Digital Dogcow / 2004-07-13]
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And not just in movies ... Does anyway have a number on how many of the CDs released last year were not 'new' songs, but rather collections of old ones with one or two new ones thrown in for good measure? -Calydor
I'm just wondering if downloading pron films counted among the results. And oh boy is that a bad manipulation of figures... -CommanderData
Bloody typical. I love that the RIAA like to bemoan a decline in CD sales, whereas they fail to mention that fewer CDs are being *released* than ever before. -modeski
As well as fewer CDs worth paying for. -Mushroom
Don't you just love statistical manipulation? -Warrick
statistics dont lie but liars use statistics. -rhiannon
Stacking the numbers is a classic activity. Too bad the real numbers wouldn't come out. -Torinir
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What's wrong with this picture? - Simple game that we've all played before (well, with the exception of blindtech). This is a picture of a typical kitchen, but there's something wrong with it. Very hilarious.
There is some sound associated, but other than that, it's completely work safe. [By: ThirdOfFive / 2004-07-13]
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the laptop on the kitchen table? -Servo
Oh, and don't read the comments before you visit the link, because someone might spoil it for you. -ThirdOfFive
never mind i just relaized what was realy wrong and it was not tthe obviouse mac laptop -Servo
lol my cubemate saw it while i had looked away to take a call, it came up when i looked back when she said something about it and it surprised me lol. -rhiannon
What's wrong is that I had forgotten that I had seen this a couple of years ago. WAAAAHHHH!!!! -Captain Trips
That kinda thing always creeps me out. (Long story, tell y'all when I get really drunk next BBQ...) -snowcrash
O.K. So I don't have the Flash player. I download it, install it, IT STILL DOESN'T BLOODY WELL WORK! Not in any browser! If it's just a static picture, what's wrong with GIF or JPG? I'll say what I've said before, FLASH IS A F**KING WASTE OF F**KING SPACE!!!!!!! -robbor
robbor, give it a minute and really study it. It takes a few minutes to figure out what is messed up in the picture... -DragonMageWTF
robbor, there's a very good reason it's flash and not a gif. You'll understand when you finally figure out what's wrong. -ThirdOfFive
Hmm, it seems it wouldn't work because I has Active-X controls turned off. -robbor
I still think Flash is a fu**ing pain in the neck! I can see the picture in IE, but only if I re-enable Active-X. (Bad!) It won't show in Netscape, and it still asks me to download the plug-in for Firefox! Even though the installation is supposed to cover all the above browsers! Ugh! Forget it! -robbor
Robbor! It's OK! Take a deep breath, and go to your happy place. -ThirdOfFive
Happy place . . . happy place . . . goddamnit, who stole my fu**ing happy place? -robbor
<Points at Riff> He did it! -ThirdOfFive
thers no curtains- however ther are empty curtain rods... oh the face.. ohhh im scared.. -Harm
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Don't let starfish read - PC myths bust - including apparently shutting down windows.... [By: CommanderData / 2004-07-11]
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"We've advised using antistatic wrist straps, but some technicians say they're unnecessary. "I've never worn a strap, our shop's floor is carpeted, and I've never shocked out a machine," says Jake Strouckel, a computer repair tech." scariest quote from a poorly researched, piece of <explative deleted> -DedSysOp
Hmmm sounds like a starfish tech to me. It seems that they never killed a component with static before.. -rockytech
Hmm, anti-static carpet, corret humidity, you might get away with it. Butthen there is that one day you wear the silk panties with the Nylon Garter Belt and "Poof" -satanstech
well in fourteen years I've never shocked a component but I always ground myself before sitting down to work on a machine and again if I leave and come back. Still for the starfish I always recomend a wrist strap. -samurai
Where the hell is this shit coming from? I now know why starf are always argueing with me over shit. It's because this is where they get their "info" -jard
"Maybe Microsoft's warning holds some water, but we wouldn't worry about straining the system or harming Windows" only gave it a quick read but this cracked me up, how many times have you seen something crap out by not turning the machine off right? comming to you soon the SF that thought turning off the machine in the middle of a defrag would do no harm... -Waylander
My roomie's a G-IV pilot - his phone stays on. I know this cause he was amazed, it rang one day, about 45,000 ft. above ALASKA. -valkyrja
Static: Yes, I've killed components, and that's without carpetted floors but with static. USB: I've learned not to yank the CF card out of my Dazzle, the write-behind on my machine can be delayed a good deal and then an error msg comes up saying the action I'd thought was complete long before wasn't. Email reading: The article mentions that the PATRIOT Act allows the reading of mail of suspicious persons but doesn't mention that the Act is quite nebulous about who/what contrues a terrorist so it has been used against people who aren't plotting crimes against the State. DOS: Well, shit, if you're only selling it in India and Singapore, no kidding that it isn't moving more than a million units a year? Add it up, MSFT dickheads. -Mushroom
I could argue that defraging, even on todays large monster drives can be VERY useful! If the author does want to believe it, then I'd suggest he take a 100GB drive, load up up with MP3's (or some other shit) then spend a few days deleting on here, and there, then adding a few more. Get some good fragmentation built up, and see if the system slows down. For better results, change to a FAT filesystem first! -garwain
Are they farking claiming that one surge suppressor is as good as the next?!? I'd personally NEVER trust a $10 radioscrap pos compared to a APC surge protector, because I've seen too many devices zapped while on a $10 powerbar w/ surge suppressor. -garwain
Holy crap, haiku error messages! I want one... -mulder416
hmmm ok so a 5 bux wall smart surge protector- with n garentee - will protect better then the apc with a X thousand dollers garentee backing it up. lets test this. ill need an SF, their computers / server sysetm, and a fork. -Harm
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Customer always right? - What happened to the customer is always right? [By: jard / 2004-07-09]
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While working at Dell we "fired" a few customers. Their 2000 dollar system just isn't worth the phone time with them. Sometimes I think we should do away with our toll free numbers and see how many will call so much.
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Came across this recently on Snopes: http://snopes.com/business/consumer/bethune.asp Seems to me, if more managers were like these CEOs the stress levels of not just techs, but anyone who works in a customer service related position (and many times that does include tech support) would see their stress level go down by at least 50%. -BayouTech
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When starfish counterfeit money - Apparently it cost about $40 to make each $20 bill... [By: Snakeeye / 2004-07-09]
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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bushbill1.html -LaserGuru
That 200 dollar bill looks kinda legit. Not a bad job
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Anybody stupid enough to accept that bill deserves to be taken for a ride! -robbor
Years ago there was a country where the nickel and the twentyspot coin were very similar but the nickel was larger and the twentyspot was gold. Someone figured out that if they filed down the nickel and painted it a little, they could pass it off as the twenty. When the authorities caught up with him, they determined he'd committed no crime -- because everything he'd bought with his nickel cost less than a nickel, it was the counter people who were giving him 19.95 in change..... -Mushroom
Mushroom, that was in the American Southwest. I think Nevada. -srteach
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Dilbert - I wonder if Scott Adams reads TSC? That beard looks suspiciously like a starfish... [By: LadySharky / 2004-07-08]
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i must have been realy tired yesturday i didnt even catch on that was a starfish untill now. -Servo
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Another crackpot law - So Kazaa would be illegal in the US. Thing is, this bill would not stop other countries producing P2P software. [By: CommanderData / 2004-07-07]
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Your link appears to have expired like a starfish brain. -LaserGuru
Oh flippin heck! It's on slashdot -CommanderData
But... a starfish's brain has never existed, so how can it expire? -Veinor
But... a starfish's brain has never existed, so how can it expire? -Veinor
Aack... double post. -Veinor
"because the bill targets only those companies that "intentionally induce" customers to violate copyrights"<br> they say this doesn't trumb the supreme court decision on the sony betamax. However, if this is enacted I see someone sueing sony and verbatuim amoung others who make video cassets becasue there making the video taps therfor they're "intentionally inducecustomers to violate copyrights". -Goofy
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Engrish.com - Cute website, but probably a little offensive. My workplace just blocked it recently :'( [By: Zentar / 2004-07-07]
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Oh, they have some new stuff! I suppose they blocked it because it's some kind of Crap? -Tekkie
They probably filed it under 'hate' despite the fact it ain't. FatChicksInPartyHats.com is blocked here. But anyway, Engrish is the <i>gomi</i> - I've been reading it for years. -Mushroom
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Thank you for calling. - Thanks to Grue for putting my tagline into a soundclip. :D I owe you one. [By: mousie / 2004-07-05]
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You're welcome, of course - but nothing shows on that page except for the "crack smiley". -Grue
nice! (my star is STILL comming soon, un-expected expenses and a recent out-of-state trip postponed it till this comming weekend) -wolfprince
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Great NW BBQ Revisited - Be kind.... [By: obie099 / 2004-07-05]
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and sign the damned guest book. Took me a farkin hour to get that in there. I know I'm slow, but at least I ain't stopped. AND, no, I didn't have to call tech support once, dammit! -obie099
Great photos, handsome people, crushed starfish! Looks like a great time! -Tekkie
sweet stuff!! :D -mousie
Now all you have to do is add a link so we can READ the Guestbook.... :) -Mushroom
Yea, easy for you to say. I had to learn how to create the damned web page as I was doing it. It is my first one ever after all....Consider yourself lucky you can see the photos! -obie099
I couldn't help but notice you omitted the same picture of yourself that I did ;) -DarthLuke
Okay, just for Mushroom,(and anyone else interested...) I've figured it out and added the view link. -obie099
You didn't omit any of the goofy ones of me, so I don't consider myself lucky. :-D -Mushroom
Now my head hurts. -obie099
Yaaay, guestbook! (Reconsider the text color on the beige sections...) Thanks! -Mushroom
Try again, Mush. Damn your quick! -obie099
Better. (And as the Bionic Woman said to Steve Austin: "Faster isn't always better.") -Mushroom
Um, Darth, you promised you wouldn't tell! -obie099
There, by god, all colors fixed and from I can see, visible. Now, where in the hell is my tank of advil? -obie099
*nod* to what mush said...Content updated. Too bad if you missed it! -obie099
One "posterity link" posted. -Mushroom
On the guest book... might remember that not all of us live in the US of A, have states (or even provinces), or zip codes. Apart from that, though, good going! -chazz
One last update for the day. I added scoobs pics. -obie099
and thats why the "country" box is there, Chazz. Best I could do with the tools I had at the time...*Grins* -obie099
One guest comment done - good photos! -CommanderData
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Be afraid... be very afraid - Not *exactly* tech related, but really amusing [By: elcapitane / 2004-07-03]
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Is it just me, or does that remind anyone else of the episode of the Simpsons where Homer thought Bart was gay? -teivrann
It isn't you... -Veinor
What the? Who the? Okay April fools day was 3 months ago, so that can't be it... did a bunch of high power officials do alot of Ex or drop some tabs this weekend or something? What the h311 is going on??? -Jerbear
Really American Idol? (now, Gen. Powell, could you do "She Bangs"?) -Mushroom
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He's brain dead Jim - From the Scamorama archives. Captain Kirk takes on the Lads from Lagos. - farkin funniest 419 baiting ever!. [By: Digital Dogcow / 2004-07-02]
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Has anyone ever tried this? I am curious to know the dangers involved. I get alot of these crap messages and have seriously considered responding to some of them. -mousie
i would love to know what would happen if someone played along again. -Servo
I've just gotten a "winning lottery" email. I'll keep you posted. ;) -mousie
Now that is a good 419 bait -CommanderData
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Magnetic Bender people/animals - You need this for your cube, there's bound to be some metal somewhere in your living space... I have a bunch in mine on the shelf I keep my Magic 8-Ball on (only question asked: do I give a flying f*ck?). [By: Mushroom / 2004-06-29]
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Mushy, for some reason, that link gave my pop-up stopper a hernia. O.o -Dragones
the place were i work sells thoes.. currently have joe and Brenda as part of my uniform -neuman1812
dang... now i gotta get me a duck bender... thanks mushroom -duckhead
Hey, I have some of those! -Veinor
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I'm glad I use Mozilla - Big security hole in IE. Now there's a surprise [By: CommanderData / 2004-06-28]
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Firefox Rules! :D -Grue
I just switched
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Loaded Firefox on Friday, and it is GREAT!!! -duckhead
I've been using Firefox for several months, it's great. Just started using MyIE2 for web based call tracking systems at work as it won't work on Firefox. It uses IE core development but has a lot of features and fewer security holes that IE seems to fall short on. -CelticSkyhawk
I use FireFox everywhere I can. It's brilliant, much improvement over IE. Woo! -Mahal
Oh boy... tell me this isn't a new one on top of the one I posted a few days ago! *starts chanting* "IlovemyFirefox IlovemyFirefox IlovemyFirefox IlovemyFirefox IlovemyFirefox IlovemyFirefox IlovemyFirefox " -teivrann
Firefox is my friend I have been using for a week and after I log everything that was bad in my hostfile I have been in heaven -Motient
Been working on converting peoples to the Fox. This little article just closed a few deals -AceOfShades
Firefox here too. U/g to 0.9 last week - seems great so far. -lineswine
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To all Initech Employees - Did everyone get the memo from Bill Lumbergh? If not, I'll send it to you again.... [By: lineswine / 2004-06-26]
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love it... just love it -srteach
does TPS stand for Toilet Paper Suprise? -srteach
Now, if someone could generate a memo... ROTFL, awesome, it's goin' EVERYWHERE. -Mushroom
MMMMMmmm...yeah...Whaaaaat's haaaaapenin' -billybien
Hey Mushie, whhhats' happenin'?
I've sent you another copy of that memo....does anyone else need a copy? -lineswine
I'll take a copy of that, should be interesting. -Grue
Damn - that IS exactly a TPS Cover Sheet - how'd he get it? -satanstech
Yeah... we're going to need you to go ahead and come in on Saturday... -Jerbear
Thanks for the memo! But I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there.... -Mushroom
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Kill the pop-ups - A very funny game. [By: mousie / 2004-06-24]
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I'm not clicking on that! -DarthLuke
Hmmm. Definite time waster. -MrsTechnoVamp
DL, it's a flash game. Sort of a simulator. Some of the "pop-ups" are really funny... It's SFW... mostly.. -mousie
Ok, I'll click it later, from home. Just didn't want one of those 10,00 popups haha I crashed your browser type things. We use we based tools at work and I'd be in deep doodoo if they all died on me! -DarthLuke
crap, thats WEB based tools! -DarthLuke
/uses flash blocker built into avant browser. /wins teh game!!!!!!!111one!!!11two!! -CarbonTetra
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Outsourcing rejection - A call screener tells what it's like to reject middle managers seeking jobs. Best line: "like the Swiss, United States citizens should be required to do a year of national service before starting their careers. But instead of the Army, it should be a year in the customer service industry. I'd think we'd have a lot fewer jerks in the world if everyone had to pull a tour of duty at a counter or behind a help desk." [By: concept14 / 2004-06-20]
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Nice link...good reminder for those still applying for jobs! -Bobsentme
I really love that article!!! -mousie
As do I.. I have to say it's quite funny. -Warrick
here here! Some of the easiest calls are people who at some point acknowledge 'yeah, that's fine, I'm a CSR too so I know the crap you are going through'. It's like a brotherhood/sisterhood really, when you've worked with the public. -Zentar
New outsourcing: http://prattle.antipope.org/archives/001439.html -LaserGuru
"I went to the supervisor's desk and explained that I'd just spent 20 minutes talking to a convicted child rapist.They said I could take a 15-minute break." disturbing -DedSysOp
Very true, too. Any sort of customer service job is pretty much exercise for the polite filters. Then we know how and when we can and cannot turn them off... and who deserves it when we do turn them off. -teivrann
On a side note, I highly recommend going to Ali's "True Porn Clerk Series" link at the end of the article. Not remotely techie, but QUITE entertaining. (Mostly SFW.. no images, but lots of discussion of porn video store customers) -Nonamys
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Not an ad for iPod. - Never touch someone's iPod. Never, EVER, erase their songs. [By: Bobsentme / 2004-06-19]
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Ouch.... since I can't access it from work can you summarize please? -Warrick
Woman Beat her boyfriend to death with her iPod, after he accused her of illegally downloading music and deleted her 2,000 mp3's. Cops think she hit him between 40-80 times, and he died slowly. -Bobsentme
Please tell me you are kidding... -Warrick
I particularly like the "related news" link on that page: "Great deals on the new iPod Mini! Prices starting at $250!" Presumably, the Mini is smaller and so less likely to be used as a bludgeon? -chazz
just another public service reminder please accuse other people from downloading off Kazaa if you want to live -Motient
Chazz, that Related News link is indeed interesting. Under $250 is cheaper than a lot of guns & the iPod is apparently at least as lethal. Ooo, what will our friend Sen. Hatch make of this? Illegal downloads can result in death?! -Tekkie
sad thing is I could almost sympathize with her. I have a 40 gigs music collection and if someone purposely deleted them I think that would be grounds for a temporary insanity defense. -frprinterwiz
Any relation to Marshal Mathers? -billybien
I think we should release this lady on the RIAA as a warning to leave illegal downloaders alone -Motient
jeezus! and i'm moving to tennessee in one week! -goblin69
Hmmm - it happened in Tennessee...were they all banjo tunes? Maybe this was a direct result of the "Stop Incest, ban country music" bumper sticker. -lineswine
YOUR ALL HELD HOSTAGE, I'VE GOT AN I-POD AND I'M NOT AFFRAID TO USE IT... -Wonko The Sane
I didn't realize those things were so well-made that they could survive more than 1-2 blows. And here I've been afraid of my Rio Sport S35 just hitting the bus floor from waist height... -Mushroom
I hope I'm n ot the only who thinks this is a goof. www.liquidgeneration.com is a site known for playing Internet pranks. -ScarletPimp
Scarlet- we talk about the stupidity of users and you doubt that someone would do this in anger??? -srteach
I'm frankly amazed. It's only music! You can always recover it, regardless of how annoying it is to have to. Crumbs. What would she have done if her PC crapped out? Shot the tech? -Mahal
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Bearly possible... - Server crash? [By: LaserGuru / 2004-06-18]
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Saw it on the news last night. Harnett County, NC having bear sightings. I feel so sorry for the tech who has to clean up that mess. -ab1normalh
"The two officers shot the door behind the bear." Warning shots, or just bad shots? I feel sorry for the bear. -Bobsentme
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Isn't this what we've said all along? - Yep, just for once some has come to the same conclusion as many thousands of experienced techs. [By: lineswine / 2004-06-18]
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Scroll down to where it says "Your MBA is no good here" -lineswine
As if we needed to deal with more than starfish: "The truth—as we all so bitterly know—is that the IT world is filled with certified, credentialed and accredited idiots." -DragonMageWTF
It's so true. I like the quote mentioned in the previous post. My other favorite was: "We have a Business Development Manager from a top b-school (Wharton). Executives love that, everyone else thinks the person is useless." -Hellion
It's so true. I like the quote mentioned in the previous post. My other favorite was: "We have a Business Development Manager from a top b-school (Wharton). Executives love that, everyone else thinks the person is useless." -Hellion
"Actions speak louder than certifications" says it all. -BritishBunny
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Canadian Spammer Prosecuted by Yahoo - Article speaks for itself really, good one on Yahoo. I like thier new layout. [By: Zentar / 2004-06-15]
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Good. It remains to be seen how much regret is actually felt by the spammer but it sounds geniune -CommanderData
the dangers of the internet?? ^.- -mousie
in other words, he is now required to send spam about the dangers of the internet... I wonder how many advertiements hell include? -srteach
should have been he'll include (but still fits) -srteach
W00h00! -Warrick
W00h00! -Warrick
Nice one Yahoo, however someone else will fill his shoes. So long as companies will pay for this kind of advertising there will always be someone to accommodate them. I say go after the companies themselves. -PsiDOC
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article on film on outsourcing - Interesting (and light) read, but deals with only American jobs. [By: snowcrash / 2004-06-11]
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I've had this idea, but with my own spin, I want to show/examine how bringing US jobs into Canada devalues the pay rate (such as my job) and creates hostility towards the company's place of origin. I'm interested in his film if he doesn't copy too much from Roger and Me... -Zentar
Dey dook ar jaabs! /had to -Jerbear
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Cut Cable Affects Canadian Provinces - Call you imagine all the starfish who called up on their cell phones to complain?! Wonder if anyone was in the call center? [By: Zentar / 2004-06-09]
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The real starfish here were the ones doing the actual cutting. We lost access to 911 services for a time, lost long distance services, and lost ATM service all over. -Newfie
Holy cow.. that's insane. -Warrick
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Exit Mundi - Want more stuff to worry about? Ever wondered how the world will end? Check this out for all your world ending worry needs! [By: TechOgre / 2004-06-03]
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Oh, thank you _SO_ much for this.<\SARCASM OFF> Now I need a stiff drink, and it is only the middle of the day. ALL of my personal paranoias on a single and well designed website. Good thing I'm not on a faith crisis at the moment or I'd be arranging a nuclear LARTing of your ass. :-) -HunterSThompson
I didn't see any references to Rise of the Starfish. Or to Golgafinchans. -LaserGuru
Or a giant mutant stargoat. - I do recognize some of the names from various oddball conspiracy theories, though - Sitchin, for one. Yup - paranoia <g> -teivrann
Cool site :) -Hellion
That's just great. I think I'll pass on the red pill, and take the blue one instead. I'd rather be a Duracell. ;) -Zentar
After studying Virology for 3 years I began to have nightmares pretty much identical in scope to the 'Diseases' bit of that site. Too much knowledge is sometimes a bad thing. It's why I went into I.T - to stop the nightmares. -CommanderData
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I gues public edumacation ain't all bad - Hey Riff@Magenta, I guess there is some hope for the next generation of hoosiers :) [By: Hellion / 2004-06-03]
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Ummm, That should be Riff "&" Magenta. Guess you can tell where I went to school :) -Hellion
more proof Canada is taking over. The common usage of the word "hoosier" . "Oh yeah 'dem hoosiers eh?" -Zentar
Uh, Zentar..Indiana is the "Hoosier State" (also note Indiana University has the Hoosier as it's mascot...though I'm not sure what a Hoosier IS); the Canadian word you are thinking of is "Hoser" -Darth
Eh? -Darth
Well, there had to be some upside to English spelling being such a nightmare: I find spelling bees tremendous fun. Then again, one wonders sometimes if some parents do push their kids rather than encourage them. -HunterSThompson
Darth, No one really knows what a Hoosier is. Heck, I'm one and don't even know what it means! You can ask 10 different people and get 10 different answers. Here's some info on it: http://www.indiana.edu/~alumni/fun/hoosier.html -Jenzkind
Hoosier Daddy, Hooooo-Sier Daddy -RedSwingline
ROFLMAO @ RedSwingline!! -Tekkie
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gues who patended double clicking - what a waste of a patent [By: Servo / 2004-06-02]
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If anybody got it it should have been xerox... -Waylander
Oh man. -Zentar
I wonder if MS has bought the rights to this guy: http://tinyurl.com/s7u7 -Tekkie
Nice link tekki, Looks like it was not the xerox lab after all... -Waylander
And it wasn't Al Gore either. - Just wait until they call it 'double-Bobbing'. -teivrann
The same source that I got APRAnet from cited the xerox lab for GUI and Mouse...but thanks anyway... -Waylander
I wonder. Does Apple (or Xerox) have patent on the single-click? Because if so, M$ has been violating that, and even more on the "double-click" issue, as it means "two single-clicking in a short time period"... -Dr Jerkyl
Tekkie -- I'd like to thank that guy for the carpal tunnel and repetative motion disorder I now have... grrr... -Zentar
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Never screw over a tech... - And yet another PHB finds out the HARD way why you don't mess with people who are infinitely smarter than you...MUAHAAAHAAHAAHAA!!!! [By: hkypipe / 2004-06-01]
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Oh sweet, Definately get the seal of approval from CD - excellent boss LARTing there. -CommanderData
Awesome, Just farkin awesome! -Hellion
Go on, go on, go on you know you want to...Well done to the techs that nailed the fucker... -Waylander
Oo, a pornLART!! Very well done! -Tekkie
Oh my! - I think I need to go do some "routine maintenance" on some of my lusers :-) -BritishBunny
Moral of the story, do not be a hypocritcal jackass AND piss off the techies. Choose one or the other. -Darth
Now that is a brilliant piece of work. *adds this definition of 'routine maintenance' to the lexicon* -teivrann
I'll bet HP loses the contract. -satanstech
I found the headline the most humorous... but then I would ;) -Zentar
Thats awsome. What comes around goes around.
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Things a college tech can't do - 111 Things I'm not allowed to do or say at work anymore (yeah, I was bored last night and made a list) [By: mccallister / 2004-05-31]
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*dies laughing* that is awesome!!! but you need to fix it up a bit. all the quotation marks are messed up. :P -mousie
Must be something to do with copying/pasting from the Mac version of word. My Mac browsers call up the text just fine. -mccallister
Looks like a rip off of the military list that was posted to me... -Waylander
No, I wrote these myself. -mccallister
That's just awesome, you must have been really bored. The quotes and everything work just fine on my PC using IE -ugabuga
The quotes were messed up in my NS, so I tried IE, same thing. Did a cut&paste into Word, find&replace & died laughing! -Tekkie
Odd. In Mozilla, the ' doesn't not appear properly. In IE, it does. Yet, when I view the source in IE, it shows the same funny O symbol as Mozilla. Still, funny stuff, even if the page was created with Word. :-) -SwedishChef
Hmmmm.... http://www.avalanchetankers.us/archives/000058.html -LaserGuru
That was the inspiration for my list -mccallister
That was the inspiration for my list -mccallister
excellent !! -CSurfer
LG yep that was the one -Waylander
Just thought of 1 from my days at the local college IT admin: It's not a good idea to use the mailserver to send out emails under the Dean's account to the female profs re: their creamy thighs. -Tekkie
Not that you'd do such a thing, right Tekkie? -teivrann
Tekkies' creamy thighs? Hold that thought... -lineswine
They let me get away with number 60 here.... -CommanderData
Long ago, when I brang in a book of Native American myths to work, one supervisor said I shouldn't be reading on the floor. I told him I'd put my book away the second he told the guy reading the bible right behind me, sometimes out loud, the same damn thing. The supervisor shook his head, said "touche" and I was allowed to read unmolested from then on. -Dragones
(laughs) This.. is really really funny.. -Warrick
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Talk about paddling with only one oar... - Be glad you don't have this nutjob calling you for support... [By: Hellion / 2004-05-28]
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"I'm an expert witness of invisible personnel's crimes" What a fruit-cake
-jard
I read the link and didnt think anything of it, then I clicked on it and read some of the article. I then read the link again and spewed soda all over mo monitor.. WHAT OARS!!! -haplo1024
Somewhere along the way something went very wrong in this person's life. Whoa. -steveO77
He put his address in there! Now the invisible ant-size levitating personnel can visit him and do the world a favor. -BritishBunny
Paddling? No, he's using that one oar to build a toothpick house on his little dingie while desperately trying to drink all the water in front of his boat with a stick. <sigh> Why does it not surprise me that it's an AOL user? -scooby111
LOl - I noticed the AOL addy also :) -Hellion
Just tell him to ask the invisible guy sitting in his kitchen to help with his computer - you know he's there, because the guy called five minutes earlier, about installing new software. -Grue
Holy HELL, but this guy's off his feed...he doesn't need a tinfoil hat, he needs a full freaking body wrap!!! -hkypipe
I wouldn't mind paddling an 'ore! -LaserGuru
"through electric system (interdimensional travel) to enter Americans' homes." now how handy would this be to visit lusers homes <snigger>...christ what a fuckwit... -Waylander
At first I thought this was a joke, but there is several years worth of material here. He's connecting The Philadelphia Experiment, Chiang Kai-Shek, invisibility and acupuncture. He has subliminal messages, thought control, Bush's choking incident, stem cell research, rental car GPS, brain generated microwaves, HAARP, Andrea Yates, the DC sniper, John Ritter, Regan's Alzheimers disease, JonBenet Ramsey, Littleton, JFK Jr, and the MLK assasination. This guy is a loon. And I thought the folks who collect Happy Meal toys were wacked. -LaserGuru
Whoa. Someone's about as stable as a washing machine on marbles. - Which he's evidently lost, for that matter. -teivrann
The scary part is people beleive in this stuff... -rockytech
This... is to say the least, messed. -Warrick
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Coming to a power line near you? - electrical internet [By: Servo / 2004-05-26]
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i can see this now starfish: my internet doesnt work tech: is your electricty working? starfish: no but i want my internet! -Servo
Bah there has been trials on this for about 2 years in scotland... -Waylander
I work for a power company that is also an ISP and we have a wireless internet service. You'd think this is perfcet for us. Nope. It runs at about 8Mbt over the powerlines and can't go through transformers or subsations. The company that we talked to gets around that by having a wireless antenna that "injects the signal into the powerline, a repeater at every transformer that acts as an wireless AP and also extracts it then injects the signal back, and an extractor at the end point. The distance limit is about 1/4 mile before you need a repeater. <sigh> The cost is $5000 per device. Nope, no thank you. It'd be cheaper to run ethernet to all the houses. -scooby111
"Come to the wired as soon as you can..." -maidtina
They've been trialing this in my town for about a year , its way cheaper than any alternatives, gets you 1Mbs up and down , the only problem seems to be that it interferes with shortwave radio -Westgate
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True stories about the truely stupid - and/or www.stellaawards.com ...just when you thought people couldn't get any more stupid... I paid for my subscription 6 months ago and haven't been disappointed. [By: csatguru / 2004-05-25]
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Do bear in mind that the soi-disant Stella awards in fact have no basis in reality. Look at http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.htm for further information about them (snopes.com, safe for work) -chazz
TSA does agree with Snopes that those cases are boogus: http://www.stellaawards.com/bogus.html -LaserGuru
For the record, the REAL Stella awards (stellaawards.com) are legitamate cases based on facts. I have subscibed to his newsletter for over a year and at least a couple cases were followed in the news just before he profiled them. Unfortunately, many "reporters" have taken Randy's idea and added the title to urban legends, ruining the full value of the "award". -virtualchoirboy
I'm not sure if I meant to type bogus or boogers. -LaserGuru
http://www.darwinawards.com/ -drachen
I've belonged to both "This is True" and the "Stella Awards" for awhile now, and yes there are a lot of bogus stuff out there that use their names. They're funny but sometimes I honestly don't know whether to laugh, cry or just be outraged. -Hellion
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Someone's Blog - Mental note: stop doing grocery shopping at Shoppers Drug Mart at 11pm when leaving work and desperately need pain killers, Tide, Milk and Chocolate... LOL. This is well written and a good rant! [By: Zentar / 2004-05-21]
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Chronicles of George - Funny site, remenicent of Acts of Gord in it's detail and humor. Referred to me by someone who saw me reading TSC. [By: Zentar / 2004-05-21]
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I havening seen this before, but it is still funny readening it again. -Darth
I think everyone has havening seen it before but it should be read a minimum of once every 6 months -CommanderData
I agree. This is like a training manual of Don'ts. -teivrann
George is a real gem -THETECHFROMHELL
nice * Z -burrkiss
Wow, I think I work with George's sister... -LadySharky
I used to work with a female-version of George. Not only could she not spell (half the time, you couldn't even guess at what she was trying to convey in her notes)...she admitted to me after being hired that she had lied about having a high school diploma in order to get the job, and she was consistantly rude to customers. One time she came back bragging about how she had "LART'ed" a customer. He wanted to speak to a manager because...well, she sucks at customer service, and she tells him "Why? There's nothing my boss is going to do about it" and refused to tell the customer how to get ahold of our boss. -csatguru
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Stargate Atlantis - For those of us who are Stargate fans. [By: LaserGuru / 2004-05-20]
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COnfused now - Is there a series of SG-1 I haven't seen yet? Most recent series shown in the UK ended with O'neil being frozen to stop him dying after he contracted 'Ancient-itis' again... that was in an Atlantian outpost, not atlantis itself... has there been another series after that? -Shaede
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Jr High School Math Proficiency Exam - City Of East Los Angeles
Jr High School Math Proficiency Exam [By: jard / 2004-05-19]
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they have a math exam in LA? How come I'm still explaining bills like this: "If your bill was $76.09 and you paid $0.00 and your new bill is 76.10; what is the total for your new bill? b) will a 4.75 late fee BONUS: With 3 adult PPV's priced at 9.99 each." -Zentar
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Resignation letter LART - If only I could get away with this! (Sorry if it's been posted here before.) [By: snowcrash / 2004-05-19]
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I don't see why you can't. Just wait until you've already accepted another position :D -Hellion
I liked mousie's better. She has style. -LaserGuru
Aside from UL status, this one's great. My old boss once asked me to help him spell "resignation" because he *forgot* what came after F-U-C-!! -Tekkie
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The Spoony Experiment! - Someones finally done it. A few people I talk to online have successfully created a fan Mystery Science Theater! The first Experiment that was uploaded last night was "Dungeons and Dragons". Sadly this mean that yes, you will need to rent the DVD to enjoy the sillyness contained within, but its well worth it. [By: MrThou / 2004-05-18]
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Cool Game - Similar to the penquin game that was going around. [By: phsspok / 2004-05-18]
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I like it! 964.3 on the first try. -PsychoKittyB
986.2 :) -Bunglehawk069
964.3 is my best so far... -Harm
I have problems getting the cub to bounce. He seems to stay where he lands. -jard
jard, you are shooting too soon and getting too much arc. Think of it as skipping a rock on the water. -PsychoKittyB
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The fall of the 'itiot' - All computer users in the company should know how to use their equipment. [By: concept14 / 2004-05-17]
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I second the motion! Folks should know how to operate the tools they use to do their jobs. And if you want to be scared/pissed/amused, check out the link to another of his columns: http://tinyurl.com/3eqa8 -Tekkie
I think his idea is somewhat utopian. I'd like it if people took a course outlining 'how a computer thinks' so they understand the method behind the madness. That would solve ALOT of problems. Most of the people I talk to every day are just oblivious to the concept that the only understanding a computer has is yes, and no. That would solve ALOT of problems right off the top. Thoughts? -Jerbear
Don't Anthropomorphize Computers, they Don't Like It. -satanstech
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Aol blocking Viruii, scorns broadband - Yeah, thats like trusting the police to keep the burglers out of your house with the door wide open. Me, I have a door, dog and a gun. [By: burrkiss / 2004-05-16]
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Door, four dogs (the "smallest" is 50 lbs), but no gun. The dogs spread out at night. One upstairs with the kids, one in my room and two loose. -PsychoKittyB
Door, attack cat and several weaponry, all melee, some pointy, many heavy and blunt. My fiancee doesn't let me have guns. Ah well. -CarbonTetra
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Broadband leaps ahead of AOL - we need a topic change this seems much more appropriate for this site. [By: Servo / 2004-05-13]
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paying for AOL and highspeed internet too. ^!#^&!#@ morons. -burrkiss
"Yeah, I just got this error message. 'WESAWYOUCOMING.EXE has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.' What does that mean?" -teivrann
OMG N00BZ AOL = TEH 0WNZOR!!!!!!! I LUV AOL COS EVEN THO I HV BREADBAND I CN USE KEYWRDZ WTH AOL +IT$ RLY C00L KTHXBYE -modeski
</aoluser> -modeski
2.8 million that have broadband but pay for AOL contact... Man that's a mighty big pile of STUPID! -Hellion
That'a an odd URL! news.com.com! I'd like a URL of something.com.net.biz.org.au! That'd confuse people! -robbor
That's the Mt. Everest of STOOPID! -hkypipe
Best quote of the whole thing "But you can't throw away the power that AOL has." OMFGLMAOWTFBBQ!!!!!1111oneoneoneeleven -Jerbear
BUT I LIKE THE PARENTAL CONTROLS...:P DUH ever heard of CONTENT advisor on Windows?? -Mufftuff
Or say... parenting? :-) -Jerbear
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To continue from the Soapbox... - Sorry to continue with something so tragic, but I felt I had to post this OP/ED piece from the New York Post. It pretty much sums up my feelings about this poor man's brutal murder. [By: Hellion / 2004-05-12]
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Hellion - I feel the same. I would seriously question the humanity of anyone who still thinks people like that can/should be dealt with by "negotiating" with them. -redevil34
In civil matters, behave reasonably toward others even as you prepare for them to behave unreasonably toard you. In war, prepare to withstand whatever your enemy may bring against you and return it a hundred-fold, for defeat may mean eradication. If survival lies only in victoy, philosphy may be welcome afterward. (loosely translated) -Hsu Xien, 960 A.D. -Skylark
To continue from the soapbox... Americans and their buddies where supposed to go to Iraq and "save" the people there from dictatory, Saddam's brutality and save the world from his deadly weapons. Almost one year later, no weapons where found, thousands innocents (from both sides) have lost their lives and the so-called liberators, put in prison innocents and torture them because they MIGHT have something to say, some information to reveal. We are not talking about just taking pictures of their genitalia. Read some articles on the web about the other pictures that the US gov doesnt allow to be shown in the states. See the pictures from rapings, men and women, by soldiers! See the videos of soldiers shooting the prisoners in the prison and laughing. Search around to see what they hide from you. Some of the soldiers there became what they were supposed to be fighting against. And i am not saying that the killing of that young guy was justified. Those who did it must pay. But not all people in Iraq. Just like not any soldier in Iraq is a rapist or a sadist,all the people in Iraq arent murders and dont support this brutality. Retaliation only brings more killings. And they have been enough already. -AmdInside
<devils advocate> How is this mans death any worse than that of a civilian during the bombing by US forces? Is an Iraqi womans' life somehow of less import than that of another civilian who had actually travelled from his safe home country to be there? I'm sure all the people who become termed as "collateral damage" weren't involved in the conflict. As for Daniel Perle, sending someone with his religious convictions to Pakistan was sheer folly. </devils advocate> -lineswine
<devils advocate to the devils advocate> The killing of innocents in a time of war happens. It's not encouraged or even sought after, but it does happen, unfortunate as it is. There will be collateral damage when that much destruction is being weilded. This is why War should be a last resort, but sometimes it's the only language that some people understand.</devils advocate> I don't think that everything that has been done by the US Forces / US Leadership was correct, but I still support them. As for the "questionable acts" of our military, well until there is hard evidence, then it's still speculation. Our military is pretty big on the rights of an individual, but then there are always those people who cross the line, and if they did, they'll be prosecuted for it. As for our enemy... we're talking w/ them in a language they can understand. -duckhead
OK, here my 2 cents worth. I personally feel that this should never have been a war of liberation. It really wasn't so don't call it that. The reason we are having so many problems with resistance, IMHO, is that the war was not horrible enough. You didn't see large scale resistance by the Japanese or the Germans after world war 2 for one good reason. The war was just as horrible for them as it was for us. War is not surgical at its best and it shouldn't be. Whena the war is over everyone should have had their fill of death to last them some time. Why do you think the Germans and Japanese are so hesistant to join us in this. It is because they still have plebty of people alive who remember us fire bombing tokyo, dropping a-bombs and the total destruction of dresden and berlin. War should be a terrible thing, so that people do not want to fight again. World war one for all its death was fought outside of most major cities. It is a terrible and callous thing to say but it has to be said, if you are going to war you must fight a total war and you must totally defeat your enemy for there to be any peace afterword. -ewspy87
My two cents: It is stupid to get into a debate about who started what. On both sides, you can go back as far as the stone ages, or as a far back as either side needs to justify their actions. If a man drowns in a river, at what point was the water too deep? Where it went from snow run off to stream to bigger stream, until it joined with the river? To the snow that fell on the glacier whose run-off feeds the streams? To the ocean? You can go back as far as you want, the man still drowned, and finding the accountability is a moot point. There are grisly murders, for inane reasons, every year done right here at home. There are even gorier tales then this. And I can give you an example of the murder of a couple of teen girls that probably no one outside of the immediate area I live in is even aware of that had details a LOT worse then what happened to that poor gentlemen. Murder, whether you call it "war" or whether you call it "payback" or whatever the hell you want to call it, is still murder. Torture is still torture, for that matter. In the end, why it was done is not important. The fact that it was done is not important. It IS done, and you can't take it back, but perhaps you can prevent it by NOT trying to find the next jump in the blame game. Cliche, but still very true. One other thought: Would this be getting as much attention if he had been murdered in the US by a neighbor? -Dragones
If anyone wants the link to the beheading. http://www.consumptionjunction.com/content/detail.asp?ID=34947&type=1&page=1&fav=0 but I would recommend not eating before or planning to after....yeah what our soldiers did was this bad.pffft -burrkiss
Well, if you read the article he was killed by the terrorist group that performed the 9/11 attacks. There was no reason for his death other than HATRED. It had nothing to do with the war in Iraq. There was no military advantage, it wasn't a handful of misguided fools, it wasn't collateral damage from war, or some psychopath. It was a group formed to committ these kinds of acts. These people are a cancer. There is no reasoning or possibility of diplomacy with them. The only answer is extermination. -Hellion
One other thought: Would this be getting as much attention if he had been murdered in the US by a neighbor? well.. that depends if the murder showed the muurder on t.v. Personally i think the media needs to back down and let the poor family grieve in peace. As for th U.S. even being in iraq, i think we are there with good intentions but the militarry needs to scale down. I have no problems with helping Iraq to rebuild after all we caused some of the damage. Thats all i will say on this mater. -Servo
burrkiss' link is DEFINATELY not worksafe. Multiple Pron popups and links. -Hellion
Will people quit it with the "Sea of Glass" and nuke Iraq stuff please? Ok; fine Iraq wasn't following the UN resolutions after the 1st gulf war but other than that I don't see that they've actually done anything against America... quit it with the Sept 11th excuse for the invaison; they were from Saudi; to hell with it. Can we just keep anything flame worthy buried somewhere else other than the front page? -fearmyroot
AmdInside - OK, I'm calling you on the carpet. You say that "no weapons where found". No, no weapons have yet been found, but we HAVE found many methods from which those weapons could be manufactured very quickly. Not enough? Fine. How about the mass graves of people that the regime murdered. You say, "thousands innocents (from both sides) have lost their lives". Not true. perhaps hundreds of innocent Iraqis and dozens of american innocents. There has never been a war so clean and surgical as this one. I daresay that hundreds of lives lost in the right cause is a high price to pay, but is acceptable. In the end the whole region will be better and the future Iraqi children will have a chance to breathe free. Possibly hundreds of millions of future people will have a chance for freedom. I consider that worth it. I'd be happy and proud to put my life in danger for those odds and so would most of our military. You say, "put in prison innocents and torture them because they MIGHT have something to say, some information to reveal". You'd better back that up. The US has only jailed armed combatants as far as I know. You say, "Read some articles on the web about the other pictures that the US gov doesnt allow to be shown in the states See the pictures from rapings, men and women, by soldiers!" Got a link? I do. Try: http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=27679 Guess what. Those pictures were produced in europe and are staged porn. You say, "See the videos of soldiers shooting the prisoners in the prison and laughing." Got a link? I didn't think so. You say, "Some of the soldiers there became what they were supposed to be fighting against." Yep. Guess what. Take a human, put him in a horrible place surrounded by death, shoot at him every day, have the world and your own government condemn you actions when you didn't get to choose them, and see what happens. Frankly, I'm surprised this hasn't been more of a problem. By and large, the american men and women over there are decent, honorable people just trying to do their jobs and come home again. You say, "Retaliation only brings more killings." Bullshit. Retaliate against the brutal animals that did this and you eliminate their evil pox from the face of the earth. You probably believe that war never solved anything. Sure it did. Look at Germany, Japan, North Korea. The world going to war against those fascist a$$hats sure made solved some problems for Europe, South Korea, and the US. In short, Fark off. -scooby111
Hey, look, everyone! Cute kittens and puppies and fluffy little baby ducks! -KickahaOta
Okay, someone has to do it.... I WANT A NEW MOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSEEEE!!!!!!!! -virtualchoirboy
Do me a favor Scooby, Dont ever call ANY war 'clean and surgical'. http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles2003/pics/iraqvic4.jpg -Digital Dogcow
And who was is that originally trained and equipped Al-Queda ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/1670089.stm -RTFM
I found the article very nationalistic, with little reguard for the history between the US and the Middle East. We've been pissing in their pond since 1948 and since 1967 we've been steadily supplying the Israelis with weapons. The loss of life in 9-11 was tragic, as was the murder of Nick Berg. I cried off and on for three days after 9-11 because the pain and the suffering of the people looking desperately for loved onces, likely dead. I'm sickened by what happened to Nick Berg, but this is nothing compared to the wars that have been going on in the Middle East for the past 37 years, with the US backing Israel up. It seems to me the "terrorists" of the Mid East might feel a bit like we already declared war on them a long time ago. I think that it is a necessity of any country to have a strong military backing, because unfortunatly, sometimes war is necessary. I support the troops, who are brave enough to defend this country. I just can't support these politians who have little knowledge in geography or history, but are ready to jump into battle at the first opportunity. Like Vietnam, we never should have stuck our noses in there in the first place. -csatguru
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Very funny video. - One of the funniest videos that I've seen in a long while. Has sound, direct link. I think one or two curse words. [By: scooby111 / 2004-05-10]
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Love the end...throw the bucket of water on the shirt on the ground, never mind the uberSF that just got blasted. -redevil34
"get the water..." and after throwing it on the shirt "no,no.... ON HIM!!!" -virtualchoirboy
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Burger King & The Subservient Chicken - The title says it all. {BFEG} [By: RiffRaff / 2004-05-10]
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Did he just give me the bird? -burrkiss
Yup... he is pretty funny. One of the guys here told him to break the TV... and he walked over there and shook his finger at the camera. Then they told him to turn off the lights and leave the room and he did.... -Brf
"Hey, don't flip me off, Craig!" </South Park> -teivrann
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Dave Barry explains outsourcing. - If you know Dave Barry, this needs no introduction. [By: scooby111 / 2004-05-08]
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That was a good one! llflrgprt blfghrt? -Dr Jerkyl
sorry but me comment was xfered to asvakbvapdiufaf jbafjhq qfkbqiefqef qojebfoqjgf qehfq ihwfqwifhq blehhh -kennz
Good link, interesting read. But why do I get this feeling that if they could do the McDonalds bit they would. -fearmyroot
Comments by Kruphnehdahpheweundikaniswalyniaphorganopop. I mean... Carl. -virtualchoirboy
LOL "the only industry left would be "reality television". Surely that needs tech support?. -RTFM
"Um, yes, My survivor fell in the fire, and needs a reboot. Do I call you?" Hey, it could happen! -Bobsentme
Ever since you people took over I had to watch reruns of the Anna Nicole Smith show... -rockytech
Hilarious. avlidjekl dkfjasdlfk. Booger. -soccerdude
Are we going to have to start outsourcing our comments? -garwain
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Check out the new emails - Another good way to waste your time and life away.
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I want credit for my twenty two minutes! -LaserGuru
"Say something normal... like Douglas." "Meh!" The cheat rules. -Jerbear
"... and then there was the time I drank a glass of soy sauce and I thought I could fly Bubs' concession stand..." Absolute classic. -soccerdude
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Maybe there's a market for angry calls - "Thank you for calling the RANT LINE. At the tone, please begin neeping." *beep* :) [By: rokitt / 2004-05-05]
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LOL - His regular job is a computer repairman. -Hellion
Of course they are trying to stop him. Big difference between $120/hr and $300-400/hr <g> -Dr Jerkyl
Hmm - So can't the Call Center do this? "Sir/Madam, since all you want to do is Scream Profanities, will you allow me to transfer you to our Profanity Line? Only $5 per minute." - With a little bit of luck, they'll say yes without listening. - I wuz in training to be a BOZO once (Dunk the Clown) - The object was to insult the customers to the point they were mad enough to try to dunk me w/o having them come "Come Over the Wall" -satanstech
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Nanoparticles - Nanotechnology to fight cancer! This is such a creative idea. [By: teivrann / 2004-05-04]
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That is so cool. I wish they'd had it perfected before my mom died. -Tekkie
I agree. In fact I've read in a science journal that they are trying do deliver medication directly to where it's needed instead of affecting the whole body, by just using nanotechnics. -Dr Jerkyl
Being invaded by robots... This sounds like about 4 or 5 different books that I've read. -ClueBat
I, for one, welcome our microscopic cancer-killing overlords. -scooby111
You have been assimilated -Spyder19
Seven of Nine ! - ;) -Wonko The Sane
We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. -ThirdOfFive
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Geeky link! - A nice view of the old 'powers of ten' scenario. [By: CommanderData / 2004-05-01]
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Really cool, CD! -Tekkie
That's sweet, CD... -hkypipe
That was cool beyond words. Magenta is showing it to her kids at school as well as forwarding it to her school's science teacher. Great link, CD! -RiffRaff
I feel smarter just having seen that. Coolest link evar. -Jerbear
Have seen this one before, but it's still damned cool. :) Thanks, CD! -snowcrash
Wow, that's uh, really geektastic. -paranoidepiphan
Kewl, aint that the bit of florida that the Zindi is going to wipe out in the not too distant future? -RTFM
Great Link.. -Chazdonna
Very cool. -soccerdude
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Ok, let's try this one - Sorry I posted a link that had already been posted! As much as I'd like to, I sometimes can't get to this site everyday. Anwyay, I hope this one hasn't been posted yet. (If it has, I humbly submit myself for any LARTS.) Gotta love the guy's honesty! [By: Jenzkind / 2004-04-30]
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This link is so last week. This link is more fun: http://www.ryano.net/iraq -Gecko
Jen, this one was posted too. I'm going to approve ½ hour overtime a day for you to catch up on Tech Comedy. ;) -jard
Gecko, that was done also. Jenz, ya trying to steal my link? Just kidding. when I first posted that it was at less than $300.00 -Hellion
LOL - I just read it again and it's pretty funny that he got on the Today show because of this. -Hellion
Yes, sad commentary on our times. Someone should mail katie couric some anthrax. she's so saccharin. I know the link I gave was posted already. I'm the one that posted it. -Gecko
Update: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001915316_brodeur29m.html#top -scooby111
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I feel a little dirty - He will even stand on his hands (kinda) it will load a little slow if everyone hits i
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