Brighthouse had some failure a couple weeks back and cable tv service was out for 8 to 20 hours depending on where you lived. Happened right when two big sports games were on tv so a lot of people were pissed. Brighthouse is doing pro-rated refunds for that time period. They also sent a coupon for a free pay per view movie and a letter of apology. A coupon for a free pay per view event, wrestling, boxing, whatever, would have been much nicer as I've already seen all of the pay per movies that I want to see right now. I thought it was a nice gesture though.

Yea yea, blah blah. Make your own god damn films if you feel so strongly! No seriously. Make some films so we have something better to watch then the current batch of horse shit. You can't. Neither can I. Nor can anyone else. That is why we get the same shit recycled over and over. That's not always a bad thing. For example, I thought Rob Zombie did a good job with Halloween. To me he proved himself with his first couple of films and then he took on the remaking of a masterpiece. As far as slasher films go, you've gotta give props to the original Halloween. It paved the way for Jason and Freddie and everyone else. That's not to say it's one of the greatest films of all time, but in the horror genre, I think you've gotta put it in the top 10 or 20.

That said, if you could find the funding to make a really great non-recycled-horse-shit movie, how many people would ever get the chance to see it? There are a lot of great indie films but they don't get shown on every screen everywhere like the shit Hollywood churns out month after month and until society wises up and says fuck this, I want quality or I'm not going to spend my money anymore, nothing will change.

Then again, I like a lot of what Hollywood has been putting out lately. Vantage Point, Strangers, and Alphabet Murders are three movies I watched last night that I thought were decent.

Thank you for clearing that up. I'll admit, I was one of the confused.

New rule: confusing shit is not to be posted until mid-afternoon so that we may have a chance to get enough caffeine into our weary bodies that we just might notice the slight difference in the name. Or, if that's too much to ask, pertinent info such as this could be included in the fucking summary.

It's amazing the company survived after producing these turds. The funny thing is that other computers at the time also had their share of problems. My brother-in-law bought a scanner for his Windows machine and couldn't get it to work at all. I bought a scanner for my Performa after he'd fiddled with hsi for 2 or three weeks with no success and mine was working in a half hour. Of course the whole machine would lock up occasionally, or do really odd things, but when it was working, it worked better than his.

The world is a much different place these days. Now owning a Mac is "cool" and I wouldn't be surprised to see companies like Dell making clones if Mac clones were to make a comeback. Jobs isn't going to let that happen if there is anything he can do to stop it however. I don't recall him EVER having anything nice to say about cloning and I know that due to some of the clones being better than what Apple was shipping, at least on paper, it was causing Apple to lose money and didn't do much to expand the user base which had been the whole point. When you are looking at a catalog and see one computer offers xyz for $$$ and another offers something that looks like it has xyz and abc for only $$, you might just buy that one. I don't disagree that the clones may have been inferior, but first time buyers often have no idea what quality to expect and if their only experience is the clone, they'll have a bad opinion of Apple in general.

That said, I had an Apple Performa 6360 and I don't know if a clone company could have made anything worse that that piece of crap. The OS which was 7.5.3 was crap. The hardware had issues. An Apple guy had to come to my house and replace all of the innards because there was a defect that caused it to crash often. Service was prompt however and he arrived the very next day after I was on the phone with Apple for a couple hours. Thankfully Apple got things turned around and make really great computers these days.

I think the point everyone seems to be forgetting is Google's promise that when their plans for taking over the world are complete, their employees deaths will be quick and painless while the rest of us will be made to suffer for quite some time.

Don't forget we'll also need a way to launch it. And how do we decide who gets to fly first? It holds what, 7 people at a time? 500,000 co-owners... knowing my luck I'd be in the one of the last groups... I'd die of old age before I ever got a turn. And lets not even consider how much it would cost to launch it... nor the logistics of the whole thing. Sure, having a shuttle would be damn cool, but getting to fly the shuttle you just paid mega bucks for would be freakin amazing!!!

I just did a Google search to compare a 6 gauge to a 12 gauge and I couldn't find any info on a 6 gauge. Did you mean a 16 gauge? From what I found, for commonly available guns anyway, 10 gauge is the largest. Considering that the lower the number, the larger the bore, a 6 gauge would pack quite a punch. You mentioned recoil rocketing them to safety, that would be the one to do it me thinks. It would probably dislocate a shoulder or break some ribs when fired, but yea, it might get the wheel chair movin' a bit. lol

Seeing as how the sky really isn't blue, but just appears that way (remember science class when you were a kid?), this seems oh so fitting.