Journal Journal: Merry Christmas! 1
From all of me to all of you: A very Merry Christmas
Journal Journal: Fuck this shit 11
I know the complaint's as old as the hills, and I know there are actual, serious, thought out reasons why this is so, but 2 minutes between posts starts getting really fucking annoying once you've got 3 comments queued up.
Which has the effect of rendering shiny karma and a sub almost pointless. Which leads me to troll, worsening the s/n ratio.
Which has the effect of rendering shiny karma and a sub almost pointless. Which leads me to troll, worsening the s/n ratio.
Journal Journal: 7 ... Commandments All Video Games Should Obey
The 7 Commandments All Video Games Should Obey.
From
#4, Thou shalt make killing fun: 'Gordon, the whole world has been taken over by a race of malevolent aliens. All of humanity is depending on you. Here's a goddamned crowbar.'
Comment Interesting (Score 1) 1
Whether you read it or not.
I am, of course, revising my opinion of your appreciation of V.
Google Was 3 Hours Away From DOJ Antitrust Charges 221
turnkeylinux writes "Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. called off their joint advertising agreement just three hours before the Department of Justice planned to file antitrust charges to block the pact, according to the lawyer who would have been lead counsel for the government. 'We were going to file the complaint at a certain time during the day,' says Litvack, who rejoins Hogan & Hartson today. 'We told them we were going to file the complaint at that time of day. Three hours before, they told us they were abandoning the agreement.'"
Prescription Handguns For the Elderly and Disabled
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Repton writes "Thanks to the Second Amendment, even the elderly have the right to keep and bear arms. The problem is that many of the guns out there are a bit unwieldy for an older person to handle. However, the inventors of the Palm Pistol are planning to change all that with a weapon that is ideal for both the elderly and the physically disabled. In a statement submitted to Medgadget, the manufacturer, Constitution Arms, has revealed the following: 'We thought you might be interested to learn that the FDA has completed its "Device/Not a Device" determination and concluded the handgun will be listed as a Class I Medical Device.' Physicians will be able to prescribe the Palm Pistol for qualified patients who may seek reimbursement through Medicare or private health insurance companies."
Comment Addendum (Score 1) 29
I came across a quotation from D.H. Lawrence:
'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.'
And it struck me that the overwhelming burden for (some) suicidal people isn't, perhaps, life itself, but the knowledge of our dying.
Comment Alternative (Score 1) 5
Since Grinch doesn't really figure in my Xmas, I prefer The First Noel . (Which is a song I love; unlike quite a lot of Xmas songs around, it actually works musically, without lyrics.)
Also, I do, in general, prefer my Xmas music a great deal cheesier than you prefer yours.
Comment How Will They Know? (Score 1) 8
Since it appears (according to all those interviews with self-professed Democratic voters) that many Obama voters actually thought that Pres-Elect Obama endorsed quite a of McCain's positions (e.g., on abortion, on Iraq), how will they know that the Pres-Elect has flipflopped? As long as Pres-Elect doesn't admit it clearly and precisely (and he won't; he's excellent at waffling), I doubt they'll be told by MSM
Comment I Agree (Score 1) 29
I agree that you have a point. But, of the people I know/know of who have seriously considered suicide or knew who have, it appears to me that the greatest burden they carried was life itself. Should they then never have been born in the first place? (I admit that my 'sample' is by no means large enough for statistical analysis/certainty.)
Journal Journal: Failed! 1
Have you seen FAIL blog ('Fail, Owned and Pwn moments in pictures and videos')? These are my current favourite fails: Ad Location Fail; Elephant Fail; Bookstore Sorting Fail; Dear Abby Fail; and
Comment Re:Crap List (Score 1) 10
You're absolutely right in that there are quite a few metal (term used broadly) singers that should have been on that list, as well as 'alternative' one (the nod to BjÃrk I see as whole perfunctory/mandatory), country ones, etc. There are even pop strumpets with good voices. Better than Patti LaBelle at any rate.
Again, I think it's a problem with the voter base: the overall list is ludicrously weighted in favour of R&B - if I can use that term really, really broadly - and I believe that's because it's seen to confer more 'cred' to the list voter than any other musical genre and therefore a 'safe' choice; I mean, it was hardly a secret ballot
Journal Journal: I Submit The C-Cell Battery Is Optimum For Lobbing 1
At Downs and Chemo kids.
Comment Comment (Score 1) 6
[X] "I had to. CowboyNeal ate all the toilet paper, and I didn't have anything smaller than a $20".
But it's weird, the way they've 'upgraded'/'fixed' it!
Comment I Disagree (Score 1) 29
The desire to say "why me?" is a human constant
Actually, when everything has gone to hell in a handbasket and I'm already there and looking back on it all, I have to say, I have to say, that it was either absolutely and totally my own fault - iow, more or less inevitable given my own actions - or, if we posit a creator/intervener, that it made perfect sense to let me experience the whatever, put that burden on my shoulders.
They say God doesn't burden you with more than you can bear; you dead yet? I'm not.
