Jobber of the Week

Like anti-virus programs, anti-spyware programs will develop some kind of active scan mode that detects something like this trying to come in and stop it. Meanwhile, us Mac people will just keep on browsing with immunity.

They don't accept that as equal? Eh. Is that right. Well, if they hold onto their "There's not gonna be a draft" claim, then I'm in the cool and clear.

Good thing Rush knows what's really going on. I guess Bill Clinton was flying the plane or something. WTF. I can't believe people listen to this guy.

Yeah, I had heard about this. Basically, some student journalist feigned being a drop-out student at the local recruitment office, and was told just about everything he wanted to hear in regards to signing up. No diploma? No problem!

Whoa. I don't know where this new attitude came from, but it's a lot more honest and I like it. Another trend is that so much broadcasting media is owned by the same media tycoons. Viacom, Time-Warner, NBC/Universal, and my perennial favorite Disney all apply here. If you think that doesn't have any effect on the news then you're nuts. The sad thing is that it doesn't take the form of a journalism bias so much as it does fluff stories appearing out of nowhere. I bet when The Sopranos ends late this year, that HBO parent company Time-Warner runs a big story about the series in their Time Magazine over more interesting news.

No. No. No. Gay gimmicks do not draw on national television. It may work in OVW, where the audience is a fair mix of marks and guys who followed the business long enough to know that every gay angle is a flamboyant twit. But Mr. & Mrs. America with basic cable find pro wrestling gay gimmicks to be a turn-off. It doesn't matter if they're out, closeted, queen-like, straight-acting (although there's a dimension that never gets explored), etc. When you come up with a one-dimensional character that revolves around alternate lifestyles, regular people don't care to cheer or boo someone just based on that. The only people who will play along are southern yokels or people who follow the business well enough to know it's all being done in good fun. Call it Jobber's Law.

Give Opera a try. Yeah, it's not free, but that can be dealt with. A lot of people who really value speed but want tabs and cool stuff like it. I tried the Mac version and it was okay, but I'm satisfied with Firefox. Cheesy thread title here. No software is "perfect," but the good news is that Firefox has many thousands of contributing programmers while Microsoft has to prod the IE development team awake with a stick to make a collective security patch once a month.

That would never happen. First of all, seperation of church and state. Second of all there are too many donors, backers, and interests who would organize a campaign to have the seperation arguement tossed into the ACLU's face. That's because every few months the ACLU makes seperation an issue in some case that becomes easy red meat.

I didn't realize the DNC was in danger of supporting gay marriage. Seemed to me they've avoided it mostly, thus far. I think this is just another one of those "Vote For Us!" shoutouts to the mainstream that Kerry keeps trying to make lately, as though anyone remembers him at this point beyond "The guy who couldn't beat a candidate who was beating himself."

Yeah, it was okay in the footer. This is pushing it a little.

The name really doesn't have much to do with anything, I think, other than "Xenon woulda been cooler." But obviously somebody realized that they've built up something with the name Xbox, so they might as well continue down that train of thought. You can't say that Sony didn't realize the same brand-name value behind the word PlayStation when making PS2. It sounded stupid in 1997, but just saying the word these days immediately evokes images of Final Fantasy, Madden, etc. Actually, the Blood Wake ads were friggin' hysterical, IMO. Unfortunately, it wound up being a really bad game. I think Xbox.com may have those ads. But you had this Hawaiian music to in-game video of glistening water and islands as this sultry voice says "Waves, sand..... And a machine gun" or "Among blue water and white sand, pink skies indicate.. Oh, it's some guy on fire." I thought that was just moving excess software stock? I like the first one better myself, although I use the smaller one much of the time now since so many games have their controls mapped out with it in mind. The Cube controller is way too small for me. Dual Shock I can understand, since it's more or less the evolution of the SNES control pad. I do have kinda big hands but not massive or anything. I can see why this is the way it is though, they'd be Godzilla-sized by Japanese standards. Good lord, I hope you don't ever make fun out of anyone for console elitism/snobbery before looking in the mirror first. I get your type. Now go back to rambling about how Katamari Damacy is the best game in 10 years and how Nintendo is the only manufacturer who gets it right while the rest of us have the gall to enjoy our systems, even if they appeal to the mainstream.

By the way, you guys going on about ripping off Apple seem to think that nobody has created a grey console before or something. Has Dreamcast been forgotten already?

Dude. You just hit nearly every 14 year old GameFAQs poster troll about the Xbox ever in one post (size joke, "just a PC" comment, all you had left to do was make a blue screen joke.)

Orson Scott Card wrote one good book. However, he's not only a Mormon, but he's generally a moron as well.

Well guys, I think that it's time.... *** THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN INTERRUPTED FOR THE FOLLOWING PAID ANNOUNCEMENT*** "I'm Dr. Tyler, and I approve of this message." Make Dr. Tyler a SUPERMOD~! in 2005, and he will rock the fucking house down. How great would he be? He'd have Lindsay Lohan as his seceretary, answering PMs so that Dr. Tyler may spend his time on important activities like playing Tetris. He'd have Jet Li as his secret bodyguard that comes out of hiding and starts kicking ass all over the goddamn forum. He'd have Van Halen at the inauguration party, and it wouldn't be the shitty Sammy Hagar version, either. He would institute a universal health care plan so that everyone could enjoy modern medical care, provided they are not an alcoholic or a pothead or a druggie or a smoker. Not only would would surgeries be free, but women 25 and under will be given an as yet undetermined sum to get breast implants. The weekly SUPERMOD~! radio address to the nation would be delivered in the format of a 'shock jock' call-in show. And lastly, Hooters would be the official catering company of an upcoming annual TSM-meet. Vote Tyler, for SUPERMOD~! ***WE NOW RETURN YOU TO YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED POST*** So anyway, guys, I really think the mods ought to give it a try. It will solve almost all our problems and keep everybody happy.

Uhm.... What is he a Doctor in, anyway? (first person to say Thuganomics gets a bitch-slap)

I'm not yelling. I'm posting in all caps to get it into your skull. I don't know how much it costs, but with several dozen people accessing a PHP database constantly, it can't be cheap.

Even if Current Events has less posts, will it matter that much? Most the posts we're going to miss out on were shit posts like "cult of death" posts and "Yeah, if I was a dirty Socialist I'd smell like you, too" snipes.

Kotzenjunge And that pretty much proves it right there.

Okay, how did Tyler just get a name change right now? I've been a member of this board for over three years and I've never found out the secret to this. Do I have to know a shady character or learn the handshake?

That's it, this post makes me crack. THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRACY. THIS IS NOT EVEN A REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLIC. THIS IS AN INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD. IT IS NOT SERIOUS BUSINESS IN THE SLIGHTEST. THE PEOPLE WHO RUN IT FOR YOU TO CHAT ON ARE PAYING BILLS WITH REAL MONEY FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE AND THE EQUIVELANT TRADE OF THAT BILL IS THAT THEY CAN RUN THE PLACE AS MUCH AS A DICTATORSHIP AS THEY PLEASE. Then you can start paying the bills for the bandwith and server this place runs on. Until then, shut the fuck up, it's not your board. It's the decisions of the admin and the people he puts in charge. Except in the case of Michael Moore's Love Slave, who really does rule us all from his Fortress of Pain.

Tyler 4 Evil Emperor '05.

Don't forget the people who are so far left that I start laughing at them. INXS, C-Bacon, etc.

I don't see how that's a bannable offence. He had strong opinions and presented them and defended them. Again- isn't TSM about that? What's the point of even trying to have a debate when someone will not only refuse to speak on the level with you, but constantly insults you and calls you inferior for no reason other than not agreeing with him on something like national spending or tort reform? That's MOST trolls. That's not Mike, who put himself all over the goddamn place. Like I said before, you knew it was trolling when the replies came down to just a sentence or two a post. Even if he didn't, CE will be a much better place without him. I think it's pretty much obvious when people are NOT going to CE because they don't want to run into Mike that perhaps he's being detrimental to the forum. I'll say it again: People like Mike are the reason why this board needs an ignore function. It's kind of unfortunate that we are not allowed to screen out indvidual peoples' posts, but instead have to resort to them irritating the fuck out of everyone until they become a banned asshat, but that's the way it's gotta be, I guess. Flaming people for holding idiotic opinions ("Hey, that Hitler guy wasn't so bad") is one thing. Flaming people because they disagree with you on health care is something else entirely. Seriously, kkktookmybabyaway calls people hippies and racists and anti-Americans and all sorts of labels because he's doing it in jest. Mike took it seriously, and it always boggled my mind.