"Famous Monsters of Finland", of course, there's Lordi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordi

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To hell with the cheese. That child frightens me...

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If I have to watch "Maria" and her school friend reunite in the friends new vinyard in Italy I'll scream.

Oh, you get to see it twice as many times, cause the voiceover is is both French and English, so they can spank you with schmaltz in both official languages.

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Yeah, whatever happed to running for fitnes, rather than data collection?

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And Lufthansa had this for a while, and I loved it.

But please, allow me to kill with my bare hands the first loudmouth git who makes a call on his mobile from the airplane seat next to me on a transatlantic flight.

I'd do it as a public service.

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Send in Gordon Ramsay!

Sounds like it's time for the CueCat!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat

Looks interesting.

The place I'm staying at next week is on a street noted either as Purple (Mixed. Some comfortable others poor) or Pink (Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings).

Hard to tell with the fading of the colours...

;-)

The Taliban would be so pleased.

Hi Jeff,

I'm glad she has a sense of humour about it.

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Next to one of Helen Frankenthaler's pieces, eh?

I'm so bad, so I have to ask - how did you tell them apart, and which did you like best?

;-)

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Serves them right for driving in Manhattan!

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Interesting -

"The Holy Bible" clocks in at just north of 900 - this is the KJV
"The Bible" clocks in just south of 1050 - this is the NIV

The reasons for the distinctions between the two can be found (as well as explanations re 'make' etc.) on his website.

http://virgil.gr/42

Also, keep in mind that the first thing on his FAQ page is the answer to why he did this... "I aspire to be the #1 hit on Google for the query ' virgil '. I am currently #5 or #3, depending on how you count it. I seek Google linkage-love to ascend to #1."

So don't don't get too bent out of shape re his methodology...

You probably need to be wearing a "Q ray" bracelet at the same time for the effects to be fully experienced.

http://www.qray.ca/Default.aspx

"The Q-Ray Bracelet is designed to optimize your own bio-energy to promote better performance and an overall sense of health and well-being."

uh huh.

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YAR42 - yes, it should be 'fewer', not 'less'.

Very, very sad.

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#3 JOEPOSTS,

The two references are for different versions of the design. The one with the "fire through portholes" is the wheeled one, not the one pictured in the BB excerpt.

Not that I'd want to be in either of them if guns were being discharged within them. Not just the noise, but could you imagine accidentally pulling the muzzle back inside the 'shield' just before firing?

Shudder.

I suppose the first one just allows you to scare or fall on the rioters... or maybe blind them with the intense spotlight on the top.

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Lady Bugs, Lady Birds, Lady Beetles, all the same, just regional language usage.

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And honestly, if you keep glancing up at the line, away from the road, you will smash into some little kid as he runs into the road to get a ball or something.

I have a GPS in the car, and find it invaluable while on business trips in unfamiliar cities, but as noted before, it's just a tool, and too many people just don't seem to get it.

Common sense and the car/gps thing does not work - witness the guy who drove his (rental) car into the path of a train in New York early this year.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/080103/K01039AU.html

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So, how does one "restart a cranky DRM engine" using MSCONFIG?

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Face it, anyone buying this will be hunted down and sued by the morons at the RIAA.

Sharing music?! Off to Gitmo for you!

RugerRedhawk, The issue is that the security guard feels it's OK to act in this manner, and obviously felt that he would be backed up by management (security company and/or the mall).

Note that the couple has not been 'barred for life' (anymore, now that they complained), but the mall manager still insists that taking photos is a security risk.

Fracking Rubbish.

And as Corey noted, these quasi-public areas take a lot from the areas in which they are situated - and they give very little back.

The elevators that go sideways are sulking in the basement.

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1. Flog through various media.
2. Remove from wall.
3. Sell to pious fool on eBay.
4. Retire.

No... It can't be from the Mahabharata, and it can't be a hoax. The Bible says that there were giants...

"Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days..."

And as the bumper sticker says "The Bible says it, I beileve it, and that settles it!"

Can I take my tounge out of my cheek now? It hurts.

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I'm so looking forward to listening to the podcast of this tonight...

That's not the way it works.

I think most Canadians are pretty sick and tired of their politicians, and would just like them to go away.

No one wants another election, and the current slef styles "New Government" is in a minority position, but realises that no one wants another election, so they are pushing crap legislation through as though they were the majority.

In Canada, a government can declare any vote in Parlement a 'confidence vote'. If a goverment loses a vote of confidence, it typically calls an election. The idea being that if the government does not have the 'confidence of the members of the House of Commons' then they are not in a position to govern the country.

But because they declare just about every little thing they do as a 'motion of confidence' the opposition parties run and hide.

No one wants to be seen as responsible for forcing another election.

A consumer rights bill would assume that any one of the opposition parties had a spine - and so far, all evidence is to the contrary.

And so we stumble on, following the Bushies into 2002...

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I think the key thing here is that if you went to your local ComputerMart and picked it up off the shelf, there's no way you're gonna know that this restriction exists.

Quoted from the side of the box (2TB version);

"A simple and secure way to share data, pictures, music at home, in the office, and anywhere in the world - even when your computer is off".

There is no indication that you have to sign up for some sort of subscription service (you do) or that there are any rectrictions on the product (there are).

That's why this sucks.

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According to the WD site one of the benefits of the drive is that you can:

"Listen to the music on your My Book World Edition drive while you’re on vacation."

and it can hold:
Up to 571,000 digital photos
Up to 500,000 songs (MP3)
Up to 50,000 songs (uncompressed CD quality)
Up to 100 hours of Digital Video (DV)
Up to 800 hours of DVD quality video
Up to 200 hours of HD video

See for yourself at http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=340

Do you have to load the "WD Anywhere Access" to connect the drive to a network?

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The X, Y and Blanking inputs are often on the back of the scope. Don't know why, but that's where they are on my Telequipment scopes...

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re the Empire State Building thing...

It's a good thing that there are no photos of the Emipre State Building in any photo, art, architecture, planning, tourist books or websites isn't it?

Stupid gits.

That's pretty much right.

If we have to answer a "skill testing question" it becomes a test of skill, rather than a form of gambling.

Only the government or a government sanctioned agency (Casino, etc.) can run gambling dens...

Starbucks, your local Lions or Kiwanas club, church, Kellogs, etc., must officially disguise all lotteries etc with a skill testing question.

Weird, eh?

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A couple of points...

This could work, but what is cute for one person would be gag inducing cloying to another. It goes beyond cultural differences to personal differences. That's what I see as being readly hard to quantify.

Also, yes it is intuitive, but you'd be surprised how counter intuitive some engineering types can be. Le me quote from Cory's 'Eastern Standard Tribe' where his character, Art is describing what a UI designer does...

"It's all about being an advocate for the user. I observe what users do and how they do it, figure out what they're trying to do, and then boss the engineers around, getting them to remove the barriers they've erected because engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff".

Spot on.

Hummf.

That was brlliant. It would be funnier if it didn't seem almost likely.

The give away line was "he told reporters"...

The PM doesn't talk to reporters. ;-)

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Congrats to the restaurant for comping the meal.

It's nice to see management stepping up and doing the right thing.

Hope you were able to go back and support them some other time.

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Yep, 'the bean' (officially known as Cloud Gate) is there, but the last time I was there (May 2007) the guards were not shooing people away.

Instead they were buffing it up after people pressed their noses to it.

Kept it nice and shiny for the photographers. It seemed very civilised to me.

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I assumed that it was broken cause the Gods of Grammar noticed that "Favorite" isn't a verb...