Jobber of the Week

I got up to Misappropriation and put it aside for the shooters. I may go back in a few weeks (out of town next week) but I basically couldn't put up with the helicopter chase. It sent me out over the no-fly zone by accident and I got shot down.

Because of it's hooks into Windows, it's engine being used by a bunch of different applications (most notably Outlook/Express) so if the engine is at risk a lot more programs than the browser are at risk. ActiveX, which was a Java competitor gone wrong gone into something a lot of people turn off. While Windows Update is nice, it stopped being worth it once other pages learned how to use the same technology for evil instead of good. True, but Opera is basically a pay product, Safari doesn't exist for Windows (and while Apple's WebCore library is similar in theory to IE's synergy with other apps, OSX is by nature a hell of a lot more secure than Windows), and OmniWeb suffers from both of the above. So there go the great browsers.

But then where would you get the attention and flames that you crave for?

We are enforcing your CONSITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT to commercials. Smile, citizen!

One of those afterthought parties that people vote for just to show how angry they are at the LibDems really needs to step up and start saying things that resonate with the majority voter, because otherwise they're missing out on the frustration and not capitalizing on it. On the other hand, the British cannot afford to hand things over to the Tories again. Not after the last time it happened.

Wow. HHH is so godly that his hand casts an orangle glow in that one picture, that casts down on some audience member. Also, CUT IT OUT WITH THE DOOM3/HALO2 LIGHTING ALREADY. Not only does supershiny skin go from cool to gross when you apply it to half-naked man wrestlers, but it's not very realistic and makes the characters look like they're covered head to toe in semen.

So their plan is to get youth in the most trendy and culture-concious moments of their lives to publically admit to watching pro wrestling? HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

I should mention that Nielsen and the other ratings companies don't even have any ratings system for HD channels. This is why the networks are almost fighting HD, because HD viewers don't add to their rating. And with no rating system to gauge how many people bought your ad, nobody wants to buy ad time on an HD channel. The Olympics on NBC's HD had only one advertiser for the entire Games, which was Sony who realized that the damn thing would be played in every electronics store in the country. So for over a week NBC-HD just played the same one Sony ad over and over. NBC, of course, ran games only 24+ hours old on the HD channel, because they wanted HD owners to be watching the regular NBC to count for their big rating.

Okay then. The only OEM machine I had was way way back in the day when 200mhz machines were new. The thing actually had an OEM-specific motherboard so you could only install Windows from the emergency disk.

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The Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox (it's gone through several name changes as just about everything is copyrighted by someone else these days) project has been about stripping all the waste and garbage out of the Netscape/Mozilla engine to make it render pages as fast as possible. You are either ignorant or haven't tried it. There's a difference between Mozilla the browser suite (with all the Netscape components like email client, newsgroup reader, etc) and Firefox, which is a browser-only program trimmed down to just what's needed.

I mean, the rest of the world has never done anything good oor useful, right? All that elitism is clearly in the rest of the world, and has nothing to do with you.

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Bwahaha. According to Newsweek, Soros spent $25 million. (Source, cites Newsweek article) On the other hand... By compiling a computerized record of nearly all his contributions over the last four decades, The Washington Post found that Scaife and his family's charitable entities have given at least $340 million to conservative causes and institutions – about $620 million in current dollars, adjusted for inflation. The total of Scaife's giving – to conservatives as well as many other beneficiaries – exceeds $600 million, or $1.4 billion in current dollars, much more than any previous estimate. --WashPost, May 99

Yeah, but you're a Jarrett mark who thinks he was over during his Chyna feud. I have yet to see anything from TNA that disproves the idea that younger guys are there to job to the old fossils. When something actually happens to break the trend, I'll stand corrected.

I believe that, with some bigger funds (not TNA current funds, but like TNA pre-Panda funds where they were just scraping it together to have music and some small pyro) and the current gig TNA has now, ROH could be a lot more successful than what TNA's getting. The casual wrestling fans come for the spotmonkey matches. Over time they learn to appreciate the 60 minute classics. In this way you avoid going head to head with WWE because they half-ass both the smaller guys and the more grueling marathon matches.

Except that Mick Foley would not make jokes about RF, at least in public. So you see, it's okay to take a joke as long as you put a new spin on it.

I guess RF has gone beyond giving people unwatchable videos. Now, in this innovative release, he's just giving out empty boxes. I mean, really, there is no such thing as the best of Snitsky.

Wait a minute, where's the flood of Republicans bitching about how entertainers need to keep their political opinions shut to themselves and stick to their day jobs? I'm still waiting... Anyway, the most common defense for this guy is "yeah, well the enemy has done some really shitty things, so we must kill all of them as quickly as they can." The utter retardedness of Americans today.

Well, running an indy isn't exactly cheap for the people who run them, especially if you're going to buy into the usual suspects who are more about name recognition than quality wrestling. The problem to me is that TNA hasn't really proven why they're better from the average indy aside from having a high-profile filming location at Universal Studios. They've proven in a lot of ways how they're worse. It feels like Retirement Home 2.0. Like someone realized that with WCW out of business, there was a lack of a place for the old egos to reside where they could squash young kids and end promising careers, and so TNA was created so that the poor Kevin Nashs and Jeff Jaretts of the world knew there was a place where they could still go over. TNA: Because You Never Really Needed To Step Aside For A New Generation, Anyway! If ROH had that location and timeslot, they could probably put on a better show and not lose hideous sums of money.

Watching Regal trying to be a one-man savior by pulling Goldberg into the "higher than one star" category changed my opinion of Regal. I used to think the gimmick was overly cliche and his physique was way too flabby for TV wrestling

Oh please, people are still getting over by accident and making good out of it. Look at Snitsky, for cryin out loud. Sure, being a hoss helps, but he'd just be Heidenreich II if he hadn't have played it well.

Man, when Paul E is bashing your financial missteps... Wow.