The Back Room

wolfbinary wrote: What did you think of flying Oprah? Didn't watch it. First go round: Started to *read* the page, got bored before I'd finished the first sentence, closed the page. Second go round (just now): Decided to skip the text; started the video, an ad came up; I closed the page.

My mistake I was thinking of Intel 4004 and your jokes you post and got mixed up. Relax. Just watch the video and see Oprah as wonder woman.

You do realize you're playing stupid?

Oakman wrote: Once upon a time unions served a purpose My father, who passed away in '82, worked for USS Steel for 33 years before he retired. He was a stauch union member (and straight ticket Democrat voter) for 30 of those years. He was thoroughly disgusted with the Steel Workers Union after 30 years because the union protected malcontents, milingerers and general deadasses and finally took a promotion to a management level that took him out of the union. I saw him man the picket lines for 180 days in the 1950s, his leaving the union was no small thing. Mike - typical white guy. The USA does have universal healthcare, but you have to pay for it. D'oh. Thomas Mann - "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." The NYT - my leftist brochure. Calling an illegal alien an “undocumented immigrant” is like calling a drug dealer an “unlicensed pharmacist”. God doesn't believe in atheists, therefore they don't exist.

Synaptrik wrote: Most likely someone was able to log in with multiple accounts that have different IP addresses and then just voted abuse/spam to get them removed. That's what I thought at first - as did Chris, I believe. But a remove vote carries an automatic 1 vote with it. Some of the messages that were removed (you could still track what they were voted in the player profile) had only two or three votes and all of them were strongly positive. If I understand the mechanism correctly, as designed, it is impossible for a message to be removed with a score of 2 or more. Even if I am wrong, the remove votes should have been tallied in the votes the message garnered, and the score on a message that (as one did) received one 4 and three 5's should have been considerably lower before being automatically removed. There was a bug somewhere, I am fairly sure. At first I thought Ilion was doing it, but realised that he was not technologically savvy enough. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

fat_boy wrote: Of course, here in the evilised world lead isnt so important... Sooner or later the Boche are coming across the Rhine again - if only because they are running from the Poles. . .who will be running from the Russians. . .who will be running from the Chinese. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Ilíon wrote: My family has no use for euphemism. Is that what they called you? "Where's your boy, Troy?" "Oh, we sent our little euphemism down to the sewers to hide. . ." Ilíon wrote: AND, going by your picture, she certainly could have whopped your scrawny ass. So now you hide behind your dead mother's skirts? There's something very "Psycho" about that. And they say that Anthony Perkins had almost as wide a stance in the men's room as you do, too. . . You're on record, asswipe, as saying that your mother and father were pussies who let everyone kick them around. "Due to the way they *misunderstood* Christianity when they first became Christians, my parents instructed us to not fight back. And I was a dutiful son."[^] Very few people have been able to whip my ass, Troy, but don't assume that just because it's the Hailey thing to do, that I would run from a fight. My mother taught me to stand up for myself - not hide in the stinking sewer with shit floating in piss that was up to your knees, like yours did you. But how could you be such a dickhead as to teach your younger brother to be a gutless coward? It seems to me that for his sake, you could have swung at least one punch. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

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Josh Gray wrote: this is such fun still chortling Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Brady Kelly wrote: That's easier to say on New York, far from the Mexican border. Lots of illegals in New York City. They do the jobs white folks and black folks won't do - like vote for Bloomberg. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Synaptrik wrote: It kinda appears to me that you might be subject to a reversal of Pascal's Wager. Does it now.

Computafreak wrote: However, I've been attempting to stop these habits as of late. Good, and I'll welcome it. Computafreak wrote: Of course, since you seem to respond with vitriol no matter what I post, my attempts at mannners are pointless. Thanks for teaching me that؟ Pulleesse!

Mike Gaskey wrote: now that was obscure :-D

True enough. The Patriot Act is pretty friggin' low on my governmental Oh-Sh!t-o-meter. But academically, it's a good reminder to always, when contemplating a new weapon, consider how it could be used on yourself in 4 years. ;) Visit BoneSoft.com for code generation tools (XML & XSD -> C#, VB, etc...) and some free developer tools as well.

Ilíon wrote: That pithy comeback was being formulated even as I read your amusing witicism. But it took you two and a half hours to type it? Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

All those innocent children! Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

John Carson wrote: My school had a rifle range behind the sports field. I knew there had to be a reason why Aussies were such warriors back in the day. I think I'd started to believe you all became pacifists. Thanks for setting me straight. Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Oakman wrote: John, I am afraid you aren't following this case closely enough. Pelosi's "defense" is that she was told that the CIA was planning on committing waterboarding. I was responding to your exact words which referred to a past crime: "knowing a crime has been committed and not reporting it is equivalent to having committed the crime". This is false. The possibility of future crime was incorporated in my reply, which you have ignored. Since you raise the issue of Pelosi's comments...from what I have heard, Pelosi hasn't said "she was told the CIA was planning on committing waterboarding". Pelosi has said that they told her they had received legal advice saying certain things would be permissible should they decide to do them, not that they had decided to do them. Oakman wrote: Which she certainly took - again by her own testimony. Quotes please. Oakman wrote: Equally true of all the conservatives she wishes to hang out to dry. I doubt that. The legal position of someone who commits an offence is not the same as the legal position of someone who merely knows about it. For a person who commits an offence, the general rule is that "ignorance of the law is no excuse", though reliance on legal advice may offer some sort of defence or mitigation in limited circumstances. For someone who merely knows about it --- well they don't know about it in any meaningful sense if they are ignorant of the relevant law. It would be an impossible burden to place on bystanders to insist that they assume responsibility for notifying the authorities of an offence, even when they don't know it is an offence and have a good reason for not thinking it is. Since the crime of "failure to report" is so rarely prosecuted, I doubt that I can find case law to support this contention, but I have no doubt that any court would find as I have stated. The fact is that Pelosi is almost irrelevant to this whole drama. The Republicans have been desperately trying to make the case that a bystander is equivalent to a principal, but it just isn't so. John Carson modified on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:35 AM