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| 2002/12/16-17 [Uncategorized/Profanity, Recreation/Media] UID:26822 Activity:very high |
12/15 New trek movie. Steaming pile of crap. Discuss.
\_ Nemesis = Remake of TWOK w/ crappy bits of Blade thrown in for
bad measure. Its obvious that Stewart and Spiner have Shatnerits
and that Star Trek is being treated as a "franchise" with cookie
\_ Good point. I never considered reheating shit. However,
cutter stories to keep the dollars flowing into Paramounts coffers
(the bond series suffers from this problem as well). The combination
\_ wow, I just want to say that the above is one of the more clever
and entertaining threads in a while.
\_ Totally. I'm genuinely surprised that the motd propriety
censor hasn't nuked this thread yet.
of humor and seriousness present in the original stories is missing
from the current Star Trek offerings. Some TNG and DS9 eps. came
close, but the TNG movies have been a disappointment (First Contact
being a dim bright spot)
\_ Stewart got $12 mil / Spiner $6 mil.
\_ Shatneritis has nothing to do with pay and everything
to do with professional immaturity
\_ Your eyes were playing tricks on you. First Contact was not a
"dim bright spot." It sucked. The movie franchise has been
heading downhill since TWOK.
\_ IV was good.
\_ VI wasn't that bad either.
\_ I disagree. It is not steaming. Steaming would imply that
it is still warm, and therefore, new shit. It is not new shit.
\_ It could have been reheated shit.
\_ Good point. I never considered reheating shit. Moreover,
if anyone is gonna serve shit warmed over to the public,
it's Hollywood.
\_ Does microwaved shit count as 'reheated'? Also,
using 'reheated' may put too much of a positive spin
on it, as refried beans are also 'reheated', and they're
pretty good. -John
\_ all shit that comes from a warm-blooded animal was
at over 90 F at some point, which is above typical
eath ambient temperature, and which hence should be
called hot. any shit which is heated later is
re-heated, regardless of what the heat source is.
\_ You need a vacation.
\_ A fan's movie in some ways, a freak-of-the-week movie in others,
suffered most from being part of the same franchise that brought
us the excrebale Voyager. I felt less bad on watching this than
I did watching Reign of Fire, but worse than watching The Bourne
Identity. But hey, who cares? LOTR's the only show worth
waiting for now. --erikred
\_ So you're saying you liked it and it was better than Cats, right?
\_ Yes, and I'm going to see it again and again and again. -John
\_ But, it seems, you didn't laugh or cry?
\_ It didn't make me angry like the last few star wars movies,
so I guess it's ok. - danh
\_ Same feelings here. Not stellar by any means, but more than
satisfactory enough for me. |
| 2002/12/16-17 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:26823 Activity:insanely high |
12/15 Gore: say what you will about him, at least he has made a smart
decision this time.
\_ Yeah, well, since he already won the election once, why should
he have to do it again?
\_#1: It is considered polite to append to the end of the motd.
#2: Name one recount he won.
\_ Yeah, he was pretty damn funny last night as Trent Lott.
\_ Except he was just reading someone else's lines.
\_ I heard that most actors and actresses read other ppl's
lines, too.
\_ Yeah it'd look really stupid to go again and get crushed or worse
not even get the nomination. Then history would say it was just as
well in 2000 and the country got what it wanted afterall.
\_ Damn, I like hm too... better than Lieberman. Last thing we want
is a Jewish president... it will only make things worse in the
middle east.
\_ Only a Jewish president could go to Palestine.
\_ Leiberman will never be president, the unwashed masses of this
nation will elect a african american before they elect a jew.
\_ Gore just lacks charisma. He doesn't have the right personality
to win people over. Too bad issues like being "stiff" or not
"looking" like a president are what most people seem to focus
on above all else.
\_ Leadership is all about personality and charisma, and yes,
to a degree, integrity. He lacks on all of these. And...
he lost the election. Deal with it. Majority doesn't
\_ Oh, fuck you.
matter. If it did, Bush would have campaigned in CA.
\_ Execpt he loses on those too. He's a inveterate liar
and too much of Clinton made its way into his character.
He's a big governement socialist, definitely a 'winner'
He's a big government socialist, definitely a 'winner'
on the issues eh?
\_ how does the "clinton == big government" myth live on?
\_ the fact that you said the words "big government" in
a discussion discredits anything you have to say.
nevermind the misspelling.
\_ Nothing meaningful to say so you talk out of
your ass. The size of the federal government
is primarily the result of socialist / democrat
policies the past 90 years. All of your liberal
heroes are statists.
\_ Which president grew the overall size of
government most out of all of them in the
last 40 years? Reagan! Who shrank it the
most? Clinton. The real statists are all
Republicans.
\_ Except Reagan submitted a balanced
budget every year. Guess who controlled
Congress. Reagan made a bargain - tax
cuts and defense increases for democrat
deficits. We are still enjoying the
dividends. Clinton shrank the government?
Now you are making things up? Democrats have
controlled Congress for virtually the
entire century.
http://www.cato.org/fiscal/2002/factsfigs.html
Guess who enacted SS? Who started the
War on Poverty and allowed SS into general
expenditures? Who then levied taxes on SS?
You're full of shit or ignoring the facts.
\_ Now you are just making things up. Who
controlled congress in 1984? Now look up
up the number of federal government
employees at the start of Clinton's term
and the at the end. Tell me what the
difference is. Now tell me what the
difference will be after 2 years of
Republican controlled government. I
am eagerly awaiting your reply.
\_ Ok so they downsized the military by
several hundred thousand and rehired
hundred thousand more federal employees.
I guess in your world this is 'shrinking'
government. So you, despite the claim
of every Democrat on the face of
the earth, that libs are for smaller govt?
Gore / Clinton in favor of nationalize/
socialized medical service and youre
telling me this equals smaller govt?
You're a fucking joke.
http://csua.org/u/6e6
http://www.ncpa.org/pd/govern/pd081899g.html
\_ No, I think both "sides" are in favor
of larger governments. The Dems want
more handouts and the Repubs want more
cops. I think they both suck.
PS Reducing the size of the military
counts as "reducing government" to
any sane person. Also, look at your
own Cato institute graphs, they show
a (slight) decrease in federal
expenditures as a percentage of GDP
over the 8 years Clinton was in office.
There are a lot of bad things that
you can lay on Clinton's door, but
increasing the size of the government is
not one of them.
\_ Contract with America. |
| 2002/12/16 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:26824 Activity:very high |
12/15 Green Wealth, Animal Rights Riches
"The 12 biggest environmental pressure groups in
the United States enjoy combined annual revenues of $1.95 billion..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/807013/posts
\_ Are you Icelandic or retarded?
\_your libertarian mouthpiece numbers look like they
were pulled out of nowhere. this topis is lame and
boring anyway. Damn those all powerful environmentalists,
trying to save the world! what a bunch of fucks!
\_ Yes, damn them! This planet belongs to us, not our children,
and we can use it as we please.
\_ Yup. and stop blame Chinese being a pollutor. You guys
has done 100 years of polluting, now it's our turn.
Chinese Industrialist |
| 2002/12/16-17 [Uncategorized] UID:26825 Activity:high |
12/15 What is the best way for a Cantonese speaker to learn to speak
Mandarin?
\_ The best way is still the stupiest way. Go to Beijing
and stay there for 3-4 month. You will be suprised how
fast you pick up the language. For Northerners like us,
it is the Cantonese which is more complicated (8 tones vs. 4)
\_ buy a good pen to write on your hand with. as far as i can
tell this is the most widley used method.
\_ Go to a massage parlor.
\_ start speaking mandarin, and don't look back.
\_ Don't try putting a mandarin accent on Cantonese words. It sounds
terrible.
\_ Dude it all sounds the same. I think it's all a plot to
confuse the white people. And get rid of that idiotic
scribble while you're at it, will you? Thanks. -John
\_ "I am not afraid of Heaven. I am not afraid of Hell. But I
tremble in fear when a Cantonese tries to speak Mandarin."
tremble with fear when a Cantonese tries to speak Mandarin."
\_ I learned when I had to watch the Mandarin TV shows with subtitiles
on Ch66 with a Taiwanese dormmate in my first year of college
because I had no TV. After a year I could speak slowly with a
strong Cantonese accent. After 12 more years I can now speak
fluently with a little accent. --- yuen |
| 2002/12/16-17 [Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:26826 Activity:moderate |
12/15 If before a Motd entry is seen by anyone, it is deleted by someone
using a laptop in the forest, did it really ever exist?
\_ There is a perfect image of every motd entry in the mind of God.
\_ Even those that are aborted! Save the unborn motd entries!
\_ That depends on whether or not there was a tree falling. |
| 2002/12/16-17 [Recreation/Shopping] UID:26827 Activity:low |
12/15 http://froogle.google.com \_ doesn't this suck? it should focus more on price-searching features. \_ recognize that vendor quality/reputation is a factor in purchasing decisions. --aaron |
| 2002/12/16-17 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:26828 Activity:high |
12/15 is there a rule of thumb that relates the processor speed/type
to the number of interrupts it can handle per second without
significantly affecting its performance? specifically, I'm
wondering if about 1000/s (i.e. 1 kHz) is too much for a P II.
\_ what is too much?
\_ 1000 interrupts/second...is that too much?
\_ what is your definition of too much? the cpu keels
over and dies? latency or throughput drops to a
certain level? what level? but like the next poster
said, depends on your isr, your driver, etc.
\_ I want it free enough so that another program can
be in the foreground and active. BTW, it's Win2k.
And I don't want to just measure it and see b/c
I want to know whether I should embark on writing
the ISR in the first place.
\_ what is your foreground program doing? what
does active mean anyway? see, this is a silly
discussion, and you have to go and do performance
measurements. tanstaafl.
\_ That also depends on how efficient the OS is in handling interrupts.
\_ measure it and see? |
| 2002/12/16-17 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:26829 Activity:nil |
12/16 Can somebody id the song in the beetle convertible commercial?
I really like that song. Thanks.
\_ http://www.vw.com/commercials/index.html
like, duh, you're stupid and stuff. and you're welcome.
\_ Thank you young man. -old fart
\_ So hot in. So hot in here!
\_ Mr. Blue Sky by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). Excellent
song. A nicely done snippet of a commercial. I am sooo old... |