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Reminder to US viewers! New Doctor Who episodes start this Friday! With a mini-marathon of episodes: Dalek, The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, Boom Town, Bad Wolf, and The Parting Of The Ways. Then, shortly thereafter, The Christmas Invasion and New Earth. The Christmas Invasion is listed as 90 minutes, so, my guess is "The Christmas Invasion" is BOTH The Christmas Invasion and Attack Of The Graske. So, US viewers pay attention to that schedule that the premiere is actually 2 and a HALF hours long, and not just 2. You'll thank me for it later.

Looks like we lost some posts. Anyway, FINALLY got to see the Cyberman action figure, no thanks to SOMEONE in particular. They were being offered in the latest Previews catalog here in the US. Even offering the Cyberman telephone alarm thingy.

Be sure to use CONTROL singing code! "Curds and whey" means KAOS agent; cigarette means imposter and "whistlestop" means get away!

Here's an interesting update on this: http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2006-09-27/ Dogs Can Sniff Out Pirated DVDs -- But There's a Hitch "Efforts by the Motion Picture Association of America to use dogs trained to smell the chemicals used to produce DVDs to nab movie bootleggers at airports have run into a hitch, the Washington Post suggested today (Wednesday). The newspaper said that two Labradors, Lucky and Flo, who were trained in Ireland by a man who also trains dogs to sniff out bombs, made an appearance in Washington Tuesday to demonstrate their talent (after already discovering a cache of bootleg DVDs at Stansted Airport near London). One "potential embarrassment," the Post observed: pirated DVDs smell just like legal ones."

Is it possible to use an optical drive's own laser to destroy it?

We may have to add this to the FAQ.

Oh, don't worry. Maybe, someday, if I'm lucky, I'll swallow that last handful of pills as per my daily retinue and my system can't take the shock anymore. Liver failure or something like that. Some sweet day... 40 YEARS FROM NOW!

I'll give it a shot, sometime in the far distant future after we are all dust when I'll have the TIME to do it. Thanks!

Well, if you examine my post carefully, it was to determine a way to figure this out.

Well, my list of Extension is easy, because, I've tested it under the best condition. Here it is: " " None. My guess is that some remnant of something is still in there from the past. Because, my tests last month on a system with Firefox installed basic had the script problem occur far fewer times.

Eh, just make some napalm derivitive instead with gasoline and styrofoam. And, no, I won't be saying what missing steps are needed because they require a bathtub and a double boiler to... ah, damn it!

Who said I don't understand? I understand better than any of you that the CONTROL Honeymooners' kit must contain knock-out drops, throwing knife, and brass knuckles.

Well, I can tell you ONE thing I'm not high on, as someone won't even acknowledge it... but, it ain't photos of the Cybermen action figure! Let's see. Just to give people a laugh. I currently daily take 1 Atenolol for hypertension, 1 Celebrex for inflammation in the back, 2 Neurontin for neuropathy, and 4 Ultram for pain. The answer you're probably looking for is the Celebrex. That supposedly makes its victims hyper.

Well, what's primarily wrong is using Rapidshare. Sorry, couldn't resist digging into them a little. They get on my nerves. Links that are dead within a day, flagging nearly everything as someone complained about them, so, in effect, they get deleted nearly instantly, etc.

My favorite was the portable Cone Of Silence, connecting the Chief's and Smart's heads together by a single short tube! "The Cone Of Silence, Max? But that thing doesn't work. It NEVER worked!"

At last, I am given my due. Props unto me. As for being the One, I am the One that is, I am the One that was, and I am the One that will be. I am the Alpha and the Omega. And, as evidenced by my work here, I am also a Beta. Alpha and Omega be! Changed from glory into gory! :& Oh, what faith to trust me more!

Well, that's a bit different... as Santa deined to show up. God wouldn't. If he shows his face, then, he proves he exists, and, without faith he is nothing.

Okay, also fucking fed up with Microsoft's idiotic Search thing in XP. It goes about on its merry way, then, randomly, encounters something it doesn't like, says to itself, "I don't like this, so, I'm just going to sit here and do nothing. But, I won't tell the user I've stopped so it appears I'm still going." In essence, the search stops randomly but keeps on going, so, it never finishes. So, I thought I'd ask for any recommendations for external installable applications that can do the same thing as Windows Search in the Start Menu does. Something FREE; I've ALREADY paid for XP. Basically, I just need something that can find files by a given name/extension, allows wildcards, will search within files for text, search sub-folders, and search hidden/system files. Yes, I DO have to list all these things because there will always be some app that idiotically does ALMOST all of these, yet, leaves out a key idiocy, like searching for system/hidden files. Thanks!

Okay, finally got goddamned sick and tired of it. So, figured if anyone knew, knowing full well I'll most likely get nothing. Is there a way to "diagnose" WHICH fucking scripts are the culprits whenever Firefox opens that window that says "Warning: Unresponsive Script" and basically all you can do is say keep going, which just reopens the window, or Cancel the script. If I could actually FIND out which script it was, I could, maybe, do something about it. I know some Extensions are notoriously poorly written in this aspect, such as Session Manager, and other session based Extensions. So, figuring out WHAT the script in question is would be VERY helpful. Yet, I've no idea where to look to see what it would be. Any ideas?

Hear ye! Hear ye! The prosecution calls G. Hovah to the stand! I had a bizarre but intriguing thought. What does one do if they call god to the stand in a court of a law? In the US, a person accused of something has the right to face his accusers, i.e. to see who it is who is laying charges against them. This got me to thinking about how some people have god persecutory complexes, so, it made me think of the concept of calling god himself to the stand in a court of law. To call G. Hovah to take the stand. Naturally, god isn't going to do it. So, could that be a way to "legally prove" that god does not exist? Now, this rather facetious line of thinking, though, leads to an actual legal issue, IMO. If someone pressed it, the court MUST make a decision regarding the existence or not of god. Obviously, a person cannot call a witness that does not EXIST to take the stand. A person CAN, of course, call someone to take the stand, but, that called person does not have to show up and take it. So, what would the court do if someone DID call god to take the stand to examine a witness against him? If the court rules in contempt for the person who called god, they'd have to explain IF the decision was made because god does not exist and you cannot call a non-existent person. Then, you have a precedence of a court establishing god does not exist. But, does it then allow the person to call god to the stand, knowing full well that god won't? The court then can't stop someone from calling god to the stand, because that would also be establishing that god does not exist. The court must allow god to not attend of his own accord, which means, in essence, that the court has made it precedence that god does exist! So, what's a court to do? I should call G. Hovah to the stand in court someday and see what happens. If only Darrow had done this! "I call GOD himself to the stand! Let's see if HE doesn't want us teaching evolution?"

You know? It's Orwellian language like this that makes me glad I might, some day, escape this world of increasing fingers tightening around my throat. Squeezing every drop of blood from a stone. http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7941.cfm Universal seek MySpace, YouTube royalties The chief of Universal Music Group, the world's largest record label, has hinted that the company may sue viral video sharing site YouTube for copyright infringement. "We believe these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars," said UMG boss Doug Morris, speaking at a conference this week. "How we deal with these companies will be revealed shortly." First, MAY sue? You KNOW they will because they're seeing easy money. Second, BELIEVE anything all you want, doesn't make it so. "We believe they are infringing on our copyrights, even though, IF they somehow were, it is because of how the users are using the service." And, belief is not enough to make a fact. But, when they believe they owe them tens of millions of dollars, they REALLY want it to be a fact. Third, we KNOW how they will deal with it. Suing dead users, YouTube executives who never existed, random people in the center of the US who never had a computer, 90 year old women, etc. After all, WHY would they sue YouTube for tens of millions when they sue tens of thousands of people signed up to the service for ten thousand bucks a pop to make the lawsuits go away? SHEESH!

In other words, it ain't gonna matter because Microsoft crippled Windows Explorer to only display 32 characters, regardless. I've made many complaints about this before during my ceaseless dedication to testing Label functions.

HA! I'm not the ONLY one who fools around with the label fields! And all the other beta testers LAUGHED at my dedication to Labels.

Wow... get a load of this http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7940.cfm "DVDs will soon be embedded with radio transmitter chips which will allow the major movie studios to remotely track individual discs as they travel from factories to retail shelves and to consumers' homes. The studios hope the technology, which can be used for Blu-Ray and HD DVD discs as well as normal DVDs, will prevent unlawful copying and pirating of their films." So, all you do is simply not buy any new hardware for your PC or DVD players or any home entertainment electronics that support this idiotic idea. Or, if worse comes to worst, get some cheap electronics at Radio Shack, build a tiny radio transmitter of your own, and simply interfere the radio wave energies being used and cross cancel them out with other garbage. In the end, this will just raise the price of DVD's and drive customers away when they realize that they're uselessly paying for a so called rights protection technology which is actually a rights dictation scheme. Which, of course, won't actually stop any real pirates; they can just use the above mentioned methods. Last but not least, these guys are all fuckers, anyway. They can never do any of this right, so, they'll end up with DVD's that fry some technology on down the road in some way because of interfering radio frequencies. The irony of which ALL household electronics have those little tags that say they can only be sold as long as they comply with some things. One of these is that they will NOT emit frequencies that cause interference with other household electronics. So, the first time one of these RIDF DVD's fries something, class action lawsuits will flood down the pike.

Unicron plays football with the Death Star.