I'd find more details in my "making of Jurassic Park" book I got as a child.
I read that book in high school. The butchered movie version came out while I was in college. I officially feel old now.
....unless you're a criminal trying to change your identity...
Or a fake blonde going the extra mile to fake being natural.
When I was a Linux dad with young kids getting access to the net, I spent some time worrying about this. When I grew up, you might score a copy of Penthouse, but today, you might find "Two Girls One Cup," or back then it was probably goatse. Nothing I ever encountered in Penthouse could compare to goatse. What would stuff like that even do to the mind of a child? Not to mention all the pedophile stalkers and lions and tigers and bears. I felt I had to try to protect them.
In the end, I found some stuff some guys said I could use to create a net nanny thing. It involved reading several PhD dissertations, a lot of programming, and at least three rubber chickens. It was all way over my head, and I never got anywhere with it. The kids ended up having totally unrestricted, unfettered, free reign of the whole big ocean of sleaze and pedophile stalkers and everything, pretty much from kindergarten on.
They turned out fine, and eventually thanked me for not trying to net nanny them. As my now 21 year old son said once, "Dad, I never wanted to watch donkeys fucking midgets anyway, and you never had anything to worry about."
Both of them have switched to Windows, incidentally.
An overwhelming majority of the American public doesn't give two shits about anything more complicated than who's going to win the next Super Bowl and what to order at McDonald's for dinner tonight.
Get real.
Though, it would be even nicer to get hazard pay for it.
Funny you mention that. I drive a gasoline tanker, and get hazard pay to sit on my ass all day.
Basically what I'm thinking. I'm really getting bored with the latest ZOMFG WIMMINZ ARE UNDERREPRESENTATED equalist hivemind groupthink crowd.
If a car has no drain plug for a fluid service that has to be performed several times a year, or can't handle a simple battery replacement without squawking, then the manufacturer is doing something wrong. Either their engineering is terrible or they're assholes.
A good English friend of mine once told me all about how common it is to find cars there which have no user serviceable parts at all. The hood doesn't open, you can't check, let alone change the oil. I have no idea how long these cars last, but I know they couldn't last forever without some kind of service. Brakes have to be relined periodically, for starters, at a bare minimum.
We gots them too. If'n you call them town car folks 'round here that feller picks you up in a four-door dualie with "POWERED BY CUMMINS" wrote across the back winder. If you pay extra, that feller takes a hose to wash off most of the cow shit before he picks you up.
If you're only going to speak a paltry three languages, English, Spanish, and French make a good trio.
Thinking about this reminds me of the day a German-born guy from Québec, three Africans from three different countries, and I all came together one day to find common ground in our mutually mangled French. That basically proves the point underlying the graphic and the article right there.
So I got this beak installed, and now I'm having trouble playing the trumpet. What's the solution?
No, they couldn't find the entire wealth of their employees in their couch cushions. It is impossible to find a negative amount of money. Their employees total wealth is a very large debt which most of them will never be able to pay off.
What's even more irritating is that the richest and largest company in the world staffs itself through subsidies that come out of your pocket and mine. Most of the people working there are barely scraping by, and when the hours get cut after Christmas, they go file for welfare and unemployment benefits to supplement their meager income. People can afford to work there because we make up for their pathetic salary through taxes. This seriously pisses me off.
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.
