Dr. Tom

Guys, if you want to direct your venom to someone for getting Johnson reinstated, make it me. I'm the one who got a PM from him (while he was still in the authorization queue) and decided to take the appeal to Dames. Once his "hacking" had been shown to be false, there was no point in keeping him banned, regardless of who may not like him. Cooler heads prevailed, it would appear.

Never mind that police often use more reliable means than radar to determine your speed. A radar detector is useless against VASCAR or laser technology, nor is it effective against aircraft which are monitoring speeds.

Dames, those rules are for shit. To me, TSM is just as much fun as it's always been, but implementing ridiculously restrictive rules like that would make it a lot less fun. Never mind that they would be much harder to enforce than our current rules set (which is still fine and relevant, IMO). I think our setup and our enforcement are both pretty dashed good, and I don't see one thing about either that needs to be changed. I know you said you weren't going to implement them, but I still wanted to point out how shitty they'd be for TSM.

I'm actually surprised this suit took this long to appear.

Personally, I think "Enterprise: Jolene's Breasts" would be a much better title.

Christ, where did all the Stephen King love come from? The interesting this is, King was quite good for a while. I think his work entered a very serious decline around 1991-1992. He churned out three books (Misery, The Dark Half, Needful Things) that were all very good, and everything else since then has been pretty awful. It's obvious he chose quantity over quality a long time ago, which is a real shame. I think he could have been an influential writer had he wanted to, but he decided to saturate the market and go for the almighty dollar. C'est la vie. There is no question that Lovecraft and Poe are both better horror writers than King. King did write a tremendous book recently, though it's nonfiction: On Writing is a wonderful and thought-provoking treatise on the craft and those who undertake it. It's by far the best thing he's put out in more than a decade, and I have no doubts that sad trend will continue.

Why do people always call themselves out in threads like this?

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I must find Eddie Izzard's DVD. Now that he's found more mainstream success, it should be easier to get than Dress to Kill and Glorious were on VHS a couple years ago.

Word's grammar checker is a joke. Sure, it'll catch some of the more common fuckups, but I've seen many, many cases where it saw a lot of things which simply weren't there. The only worse one I've ever seen was in the late-1990s versions of WordPerfect. I always disable the Grammar-as-you-go "feature" and always ignore Word's grammar suggestions.

This thread wasn't even relevant on Friday night. Eagan, stating with absolute certainty that religion is a sham an God/Jesus never existed makes you just as close-minded as some of the people you did a profoundly poor job of attacking. I don't see any reason to keep this little playground open for business.

You're not, but the posting privileges on your account have been turned off for now. If this really is a situation where someone else is posting on your account, then you need to be a little more fucking responsible. If it's not, then I'm sure we'll find out soon enough. I could just whack this account outright for spamming people in PMs, but I slept late today, so I'm in an unusually nice mood.

Indeed that is the case. A command usually has the implied subject of "you," as in, "Get me a beer." It's understood that the "you" subject is there and is being told to do something. A sentence that starts with "Why don't you... " is a suggestion, and as such, should be ended with a question mark.

It's not in any dictionary I own, and I own several, published in different decades. Take it from the guy with an English degree, Johnson: "dipshit" is not a word that you'll find in any credible dictionary. It's a word in the sense that it's recognizible and pronounceable as a series of letters, but it's a crude colloquialism, and thus not a word in any other sense.

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PK, I wouldn't bother playing Gannon again until Jerry Porter is healthy. He has no reliable deep threat right now, and since Rice and Brown can't break away like they used to, the Raiders' passing game is limited. This presumes, of course, that your #2 is solid (and it is, being Maddox), or that the Raiders don't play against anyone who's downright awful against the pass while Maddox goes against a tough passing D. And as for the original question, I'd ride out Hasselbeck until he cools off. That offense is on fire right now, and there's no reason not to go with the hot hand.

I doubt Saddam paid him off, really. It's one of those things that's possible, but not very probably. The "pieces of silver" remark was a glib jab at Blix's incompetence and the fact that Saddam was very pleased at his appointment. I've advocated leaving the UN for some time now. Doubt we will, though.

Neither, but I am in the Northeastern part of Maryland, in Harford County.

I'm in NE Maryland, not far off the bay, so we're expected to get buffeted by winds and rain. I also work just off the Bush River, so we're going to get it here, too. I heard the worst of it is supposed to come tonight into tomorrow morning, so I should be home watching it. School was cancelled tonight, so if the storm looks nice, I might light up a stogie, sit in the garage, and take it all in.

You can't. Technology can't be restrained by bullying and legislation. If the RIAA would offer such a service, they would have to do it with the knowledge those files could easily be shared across P2P networks. Then again, Metallica, who's been as anti-P2P as any band, included a free password to the Metallica Vault with the St. Anger CD. The most interesting part is that the banner that greeted you after you logged in said, "Download. Burn. Share. Kick Ass. (emphasis added) It's the right thing to do for consumers who have been squeezed by artificially high CD prices for years, though. To its credit, the RIAA is now offering amnesty to those who admit to downloading and sharing music, wipe their shared directories and drives, and promise not to do it again. How enforceable that is is very debatable, but it does appear that the RIAA is learning that subpoenas are not going to get them out of the PR chasm they've dug for themselves.

The UN found it to be quite likely only a year ago. Then they got soft and decided an infinite series of "last chances" to disarm was the way to go, and sent in Blix -- who I maintain could not find his car keys if he dropped them in the middle of a spotlight factory -- to "search" for WMD. Saddam was very pleased at Blix's appointment. That should tell you all you need to know.

Come on now... that treadmill was CRUCIAL in Crisis...

Eh, I'm on the side of the JOLT folks, their silly theatrics aside. I'm sure there are plenty of ways to get more money for these programs without enacting something like a "coffee tax."

So you're saying that the backlash is because people are stupid and submissive enough to let the media control not only what they know and think about a situation, but also the way they feel about it? Fascinating. And probably more accurate than you intended.

Darryl, claims like that are only disputed by those who refuse to believe them.