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(Sung to the chorus tune in between stanzas of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius) Join the Party! Goose step in time! Join the Party! Goose step in time! Obey the orders or you'll die! Join the Party! Goose step in time! Who would have thought, 10 years ago, when I made that up, that the one person who laughed at it would become my girlfriend...

Are you kidding? I'd pull a Kung Pow: Enter The Fist! I'd use salt, lemon juice, and mercury on the wound! I would then legally change my name to Mark K. Desaad.

Might actually be fun if it was a real life version of the Tifa bitch slap fight you get to play in for Final Fantasy VII!

Yeah, a real piece of work. Wants to access the Internet in ADDITION to setting itself up as a SERVER. It's just designed as a master interface for a music subscription service. And, yes, you have to get the update separate, so, bye byte lifetime of free updates. I'll be sticking with the old software.

Decided to try Yahoo's version of their jukebox since Windows need a restore anyway. There is something very interesting in the license terms of use. We always expected it, but, at least, they're open about it: "Yahoo! Music Jukebox will collect certain information about your usage of the Music Jukebox, and will transmit such information back to Yahoo!" Not unless I block the fucker in the firewall! (I wish they'd make firewalls where you can grant an application permission to receive, but, not send. None that I am aware of have this. If they do, inform me.) Doublespeak details here: http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/music/details.html

Yes, there is. And as for Mitch, well, he's Mitch! He's just liked by everyone around here. Even I, when bored in American History class one day, drew him from a take off on a poster of him in the room as Jack Nicholson's Joker because of Mitch's famous grin. He was born in Alabama but raised in Louisville, so, he's really an Alabamian. But, like how Johnny Depp was born here in town but he isn't called a Kentuck because he was here so little a time. Around here, if you ain't talking about Mitch, you're talking about the nigh god incarnate Wendell Ford. And, seeing as how he's the Majority Whip, (Christ! I first typoed Whipe! ) seeing him anywhere makes sense.

Dude! What's with the gratuitous slap at the country which protects yours? Oh, boy... here it goes! We're all off to meet about this over in the Beta forum as we type.

Now, the guilty verdict is no surprise. But, it leads to an interesting question... Now that he's been sentenced to hang, will the US televise it? It would sure make for one fuck of a morale booster... but, dare anyone admit they'd take glee from watching another man die live on national television? Around where I live, the last legal public hanging in the US took place, sometime in like 1930's, I think. So, around here, it would probably bring back da good, ol' days o' lynchings. You know what Saddam should do if he was smart? Sell his own hanging on pay per view.

Well, Hell, once you ever install it, it doesn't go away. Uninstall it and you'll find a device driver still stuck in there, chipping away at system resources.

And, it's USB powered!

Ah, Nuts & Bolts! There's a blast from the past! I still have my Nuts & Bolts Platinum disc, somewhere. Bought, when was it? 1998? 2000? Next, I'll be reliving memories of QEMM, RamDoubler, and that infamous SoftRAM that tricked you into thinking it was working.

We aim to please! And, as the plaques over the urinals say: "Would you aim, too, please?" (Nipped from Benny Hill. )

If memory serves me correctly, Arnold Schwarzenegger is going to be running for re-election as the governor of California. I would like to offer a few suggestions for slogans for him to employ in these final hours before voting day: Vote for me if you want to live! Terminator 4 MORE YEARS! Are you Sarah Connor? Are you registered to vote? You're NOT?! Hasta la vista, baby! I'll be back... but ONLY if you vote for me! Are you a legal immigrant? The Governator could use your vote! Are you an illegal immigrant? No habla Engles? No problem-o! I am now, like everyone else in my party is at election times, entirely, 100% for building a wall between the U.S., and remember that's the US!, and Mexico. Are you an illegal immigrant? GET OUT!

Heard these lyrics on the Dr. Demento Show and, of course, thought of this thread immediately afterwards. http://spaff.com/poesy/madmax.html Mad Max got pulled over by a Hebrew Speeding down the coast on Thursday night You can say that Mel's an alcoholic But I think he was blitzed on Vegemite!

This could very well be one of those "Only in X, folks!" type of situation. But, what's a good way to prevent a patient from overdosing on medication? Use rocket fuel! http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/15833635.htm Pill bottle could deter drug abuse Dispenser would incinerate contents if dosage exceeded Basically, the idea is you put the pills next to a mickey of rocket fuel so that if a person tries to forcibly take more than the dose out of the bottle, it will IGNITE the pills and destroy them! Am I the only one who sees a problem here? What about contamination with the medicine? Or if the system goes off due to a false positive?

Oh, please, please, PLEASE! If you're going to put me out of my misery, don't make it look like a suicide! Please behind evidence so people will know that their predictions, prophecies, and opinions of me did not come to pass! That I did not take my life by me own hand! It seems slightly more dignified that way than to make it look like I went out in this fashion

I wanted to see that when it came out. I figured coming from the same screen writer who penned the Dawn Of The Dead remake, it should be good for a few jolts.

Well, it's only named after what I do in real life.

My schedule is just now activating. Every 4 weeks, for a few days, 2 drives a day get defragged.

Yes, I will agree that Opera does have a way to at least report bugs. But, I've seen many that are still present years later after reporting. Calm down there, dragon dear. Put your TARDIS back in your time vortex. If it counts as canon, there was a female Cyber Controller or something to that effect in Big Finish Production's Reel Time. Plus, the two female to Cyberman conversions from 2006 episodes themselves. I would like to see it HINT HINT! just because I'd love to have complete collections of all things Dalek and Cybermen. Speaking of Torchwood and Cybermen, am I the only one who thinks the marching sound Cybermen make sounds suspiciously and strangely like the phrase "Torchwood?" Anyone remember Captain Power And The Soliders Of The Future? Had the writers had their way and the show producers had had theirs and the 2nd season was made, the character of Morganna II was probably going to have the first cybersex scene in TV history. BTW, I can't help but notice the bit of psychoanalyzing of me going on above there. I'd be interested in it, why, specifically? Just BECAUSE the cyber being in female? You're implying a sort of Sorayama fetish? Granted, I'd love to be able to rid my brain of this house of pain we call the body, but, here's always been the problem of men writing stories about female robots. They always sexualize them in some way... which goes entirely counterintuative to the very concept of robots. For instance, let's start with WHY? Why adopt any kind of sexual connotation to start with? In a war between humans and robots, look at it logically. Two humans get together and through a messy, complicated, and possibly fatal process, it takes 18 years for these 2 to create an effective fighting soldier. Imagine how many of its own kind 2 machines could build in just 18 DAYS. So, no, in the end, such attributes used in such stories are just unfulfilled adolescent fantasies being made real.

Speaking of MusicMatch; Was doing my monthly update checks and saw that Yahoo! has bought up MusicMatch. It's now called, get a load of this, folks, the highly creative Yahoo! Music Jukebox. What does anyone want to bet that my 10 years of free updates and tech support since I bought a license around 1997 suddenly goes out the window?

Interesting. As I was typing the above reply, an Australian related answer showed up on Jeopardy! About the kookaburra.

Wow... vegemite made it into a contestant's answer on Jeopardy! yesterday! She was wrong, but, it definitely triggered a memory for me of this thread.

Do I detect a hint of guilt here?

Wow, I got some replies. Seems others were aware of it. Even Opera somewhat acknowledged it. But, the entry only says the problem was for 8585 as a generic error; it's been a problem ever since Version 9.0 was released. http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic...#comment1807234