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Court upholds absurd XML ruling against Microsoft. Must modify MS Word or stop selling it. -- (link) - Mop (229 lbs) Dec 22, 11:05 3
- ssshhh, no one tell him that I posted this two posts down. (My subject was misleading :) ) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 11:06 2
  - Now, see. If you'd tagged it, I would have known. -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Dec 22, 11:07 1
    - #mopisdum -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 11:08
continuing HK's Disney Poll: would you show your kids Song Of The South? -- nm - zork Dec 22, 11:04 7
- sure. - znufrii Dec 22, 11:07
- Never seen it. Has it even been released on DVD? -- nm - con_carne Dec 22, 11:06 2
  - Search YouTube and be utterly mortified. -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Dec 22, 11:07
  - never will be. not sure that it was even on vhs. -- nm - zork Dec 22, 11:07
- I don't think *I've* ever seen it, although I know I had a Breir Rabbit book when I was a toddler that I remember. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 11:05 2
  - couple of years ago I finally found a torrent of it - zork Dec 22, 11:06 1
    - Nah. Thanks, tho. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 11:07
Here's another example of tort law in action ... -- (link) - Beryllium Dec 22, 11:02 4
- technically, I think that's IP law, not tort law -- nm - Roger More Dec 22, 11:08
- *grumble* -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Dec 22, 11:06 2
  - P.S. I'm going to patent a method for posting messages on the internet in a threated, nested fashion. -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Dec 22, 11:06 1
    - I would advise against that. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 11:07
Whoa. I had to do a double-take at that banner ad on ST. Bery? -- (link) - JaxSean Dec 22, 10:58 6
- I'm getting a Hot Tub Time Machine one that says: " Come In Our Tub" -- nm - David Dec 22, 11:07
- Heh... Oriental Exotic Gameplay -- nm - Dano Ho Ho Dec 22, 11:02
- Uh... go ahead and play? -- nm - Let it Spawn, let it Spawn, let it Spawn! Dec 22, 11:01
- I can only block banners by the domain name it links to. If you find anything objectionable, send an email to slackertalk at gmail with the domain -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 11:00 2
  - *shrug* I'm ok with it, since I use Ad-Block at work. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 11:02
  - (Heh, and the purpose of that method of blocking, from Google's perspective, is to avoid "linking to competitors" ... d'oh) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 11:01
Poll: Do your kids, or if you had kids would you make them, watch the old Disney movies? Say, pre-Toy Story. -- nm - Hotkiss Dec 22, 10:58 16
- I think Kim already has the first four years of screenings planned for when we have a child. -- nm - David Dec 22, 11:10
- make? no. I'd allow them if they wanted. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 11:05 1
  - I might put The Muppet Show under the "make" category. :-) -- nm - con_carne Dec 22, 11:07
- I'd have to rewatch almost all of them. It's been such a long time. The ones form the 90s are OK, I think. -- nm - con_carne Dec 22, 11:04
- Yes, but selectively. Abby gets scared easily so was have to skip various scene. Some she won't watch at all (Snow White) -- nm - prayformojo Dec 22, 11:03
- Yes, absolutely. -- nm - Facto Dec 22, 11:02
- for me, the Robin Hood one is the probably where I'd break the old/new Disney list -- nm - zork Dec 22, 11:02 1
  - hm. interesting. I'd draw it at Fox and the Hound. -- nm - TFox Dec 22, 11:04
- Yes. In a Clockwork Orange type setup. -- nm - Dano Ho Ho Dec 22, 11:00
- Certainly -- nm - adventy97 Dec 22, 10:59
- I don't think you have to "make" kids watch a Disney movie. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 22, 10:59
- (this is so not "old" but) I will definitely show them once he shows an interest, yes. I will likely not "make" him, though I doubt he'd fight it. -- nm - TFox Dec 22, 10:59
- no kids, but 12 next gen kids; and, yes, they've seen them/I encourage that. (and muppet show/movies.) -- nm - b. Dec 22, 10:59
- yes -- nm - znufrii Dec 22, 10:59
- stop trying to get everyone down with your new millennium definitions of old/new Disney -- nm - Roger More Dec 22, 10:59
- Hells yes. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 10:58
I just want to say that my wife's stocking is filled with the best stuff. I'm thinking a 10 year old kid would love it. -- nm - CQ Dec 22, 10:58 5
- What did you get her, lego? -- nm - Loyola Dec 22, 10:59 4
  - That... is actually a cool idea. I might do that. Get a little kit, open it, sprinkle in the pieces and instructions.. -- nm - TFox Dec 22, 11:01 2
    - hide the pieces like an easter egg hunt. put the instructions in the stocking so they can see what pieces are missing. -- nm - zork Dec 22, 11:06
    - years ago i got little kits from the 'studio' sets and gave them to my old bosses. - Elf Andie Dec 22, 11:03
  - laugh all you want, I tried for Lego, but they local toy stores didn't have any of the smaller items. -- nm - CQ Dec 22, 11:01
Next question, as Comcast does not seem to offer high speed internet at the location I entered and thgey are the only service provider (No Uverse, no - TWuG Dec 22, 10:56 13
- I think the main reason I'm still with Comcast is because of the high-speed internet. Otherwise I'd go to satelite, which I don't think has their own - JaxSean Dec 22, 11:00 1
  - they partner with phone companies to provide dsl. -- nm - decline Dec 22, 11:03
- DSL? -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:57 10
  - Through? Who provides DSL? Phone company? - TWuG Dec 22, 10:59 9
    - We had BellSouth DSL at first. It sucked compared to the cable modem once we got it. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 11:01
    - I have Verizon. Works awesome. If I had cable I'd be sharing with the whole damn buildlng. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 11:00
    - DSL is a dedicated line (no sharing - that's cable's problem). Further from the hub is a problem though. And it is slow. -- nm - decline Dec 22, 11:00 6
      - mine is fast. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 11:01 5
        
        apartments/condos are probably at or near hubs -- nm - zork Dec 22, 11:03
        
        not really. The fastest DSL is 3mbps (Verizon is 1.5mbps). This is much slower than cable -- nm - decline Dec 22, 11:02 3
        
        in a huge buiolding like this, cable sucks. Verizon is perfectly adequate for me. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 11:03 2
        
        So it's adequate, not fast. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 11:04 1
        
        cable in this building: Neither adequate nor fast. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 11:06
I'm sure ST will be thrilled to know that my heart stopped doing that trembling thing after I stopped popping a dozen caffeine pills/day. -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Dec 22, 10:50 7
- Guys, I'm bleeding way less now that I stopped stabbing myself in the face all the time! -- nm - Mop si Dec 22, 10:54 1
  - That's next. -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Dec 22, 10:58
- yay! -- nm - adventy97 Dec 22, 10:54
- well...that's good. -- nm - znufrii Dec 22, 10:52
- yeah, um.....yeah -- nm - CQ Dec 22, 10:52
- *bomb noise* -- nm - TFox's brain Dec 22, 10:51
- *shocker* -- nm - oblique Dec 22, 10:50
new topic - has anyone watched Titanic lately? do they call Molly Brown "Molly" or "Maggie"? - Elf Andie Dec 22, 10:48 5
- Molly. I watched it about a week and a half ago. -- nm - Callisto Dec 22, 11:04
- as I recall, they used Molly -- nm - zork Dec 22, 10:49
- I'm almost positive they call her Molly -- nm - Will Hunting Dec 22, 10:49 2
  - i thought so too. (James! you got a detail wrong!) -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 22, 10:50 1
    - He got a few wrong....the lake Leo talks about wasn't even named until like 1921 or something. - Will Hunting Dec 22, 10:52
Thinking about buying a prelit artificial tree for next year....anyone here have any experience with these? -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 22, 10:47 18
- my brother has one and loves it. -- nm - decline Dec 22, 11:04
- You're stuck with either white or coloured lights (racist!). Not sure if any of them use LED lights yet. If want to - zork Dec 22, 10:53 12
  - and don't get the fibre optic ones. they look ugly, have already gone out of style, and probably have more problems with the wiring failing. -- nm - zork Dec 22, 10:57
  - I'm pretty sure I saw one at Target with LED's, but I could be wrong. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 10:56
  - This is sounding more and more like a good idea. I was figuring on getting two years out of it.... hell, if they last longer than that, BONUS! -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 22, 10:55 5
    - you'd better get more than 2 years out of it, that's a large item to throw in the trash in two years! -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 22, 10:59 4
      - But you throw a real tree in the trash every year. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 22, 11:01 3
        
        no, i don't. they have 'tree pick up' and it goes where our green bin waste goes. - Elf Andie Dec 22, 11:04 1
        
        (green bin waste is organic and gets treated and used for ground cover, etc.) -- nm - Elf Andie Dec 22, 11:05
        
        we recycle in this town, -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 11:02
  - er, what is there besides white or colored? -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:54 3
    - All one color? I've seen trees with all red lights; not my style, but people do it. -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 22, 10:57
    - integrated! -- nm - zork Dec 22, 10:55 1
      - real answer: some years we want just white lights on the tree and others we want coloured ones. best compromise if getting pre-wired is to get white.. - zork Dec 22, 11:00
- I have had one for 5 years...This will be the last year - amoxy Dec 22, 10:52
- We have had one for 4 years now that we got at Target (shocker) for like $60. Just this year about 1/2 of the lights went out. - JaxSean Dec 22, 10:52
- I own one, this is year two using it, I love it for our small little place. -- nm - TFox Dec 22, 10:50
- *shrug* They look nice. That's all I know. -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Dec 22, 10:49
re Comcast: Lousy service, lousy signal, obscene pricing. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:47 18
- I know I am in the minority here, but I've had nothing but great experiences with Comcast - decline Dec 22, 10:58 3
  - the Comcast triple play package in this area is $115 per month, introductory rate. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 11:00 2
    - which is cheaper than what I pay for Directv and verizon dsl -- nm - decline Dec 22, 11:01 1
      - After the intro it probably goes to $250. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 11:06
- The first two I do not have a problem with, but yeah the pricing sucks -- nm - amoxy Dec 22, 10:52
- doh! lir: The reason we quit them was we were on an introductary offer, paid through bill pay, after the intro period ran out our bill quadrupled. - Stephen Dec 22, 10:49 5
  - I would love to quit them, but they are my only option. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:50 4
    - Apple now in serious talks with Disney (ABC) and CBS to stream all content to a new AppleTV delivery system. - Mop (229 lbs) Dec 22, 10:52 3
      - although I heard that Fox and many of the cable broadcasters have turned the idea down. -- nm - decline Dec 22, 11:09
      - where would I get the internet? :) -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:53 1
        
        DSL. -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Dec 22, 10:59
- For internet or TV? -- nm - psilotum Dec 22, 10:48 4
  - yeah, the service sucked too, especially the internet (very slow) -- nm - Stephen Dec 22, 10:50
  - Yes. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:48 2
    - Weird. I wonder if it has to do with the area/building you're in. We've had them for 12+ years (cable tv) and have never had any issues. - JaxSean Dec 22, 10:54 1
      - the signal has been horrendous since the digital switch. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:56
- Yup. -- nm - Tourists to India Dec 22, 10:48 1
  - You tell 'em, tourists! -- nm - Mop (229 lbs) Dec 22, 10:48
Yes, I can acknowledge that it's overused, when fucktards sue McDonalds for spilling coffee. - Beryllium Dec 22, 10:47 36
- The 'punitive' part needs to be rethought... - Dr.Vermin Dec 22, 10:53 2
  - again, what do you propose? stocks? -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:54 1
    - Maybe the court could force the defendant to have a conversation with you for an hour. - Dr.Vermin Dec 22, 10:56
- Pawn Stars spoiler from last night - peglegpete Dec 22, 10:51
- Hot Coffee Documentary -- (link) - Dano Ho Ho Dec 22, 10:51
- It's a matter of trying to get rid of those "spilled coffee" outliers, which *are* egregious. The GOP plan seems to want to do that by - TWuG Dec 22, 10:49 2
  - well, the spilled coffee one isn't actually an outlier. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:50 1
    - Exactly. The more you know about the case, the more reasonable the judgement is. -- nm - Dano Ho Ho Dec 22, 10:56
- [insert more to the McDonald's case than you think, find another example macro] -- nm - Reagen Dec 22, 10:49 2
  - Quiet, you. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 10:49 1
    - (OK, fine, wendy's chili finger hoax) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 10:50
- In Vermin's world, if you defend yourself in any way, you're playing the victim. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:48 24
  - Entirely wrong. - Dr.Vermin Dec 22, 10:50 22
    - That's based on how you present yourself here. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:51 4
      - Your poorly-formed opinion is noted. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 22, 10:55 3
        
        Again, Guy-level logic here. -- nm - Reagen Dec 22, 11:02 2
        
        me or Vermin? -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 11:04 1
        
        Vermin. "I won't tell you how I arrived at my position, but I will judge you based on your interpretation of it." -- nm - Reagen Dec 22, 11:06
    - You didn't provide an example of how you *would* defend yourself in the example. What *do* you do when a company or a representative of a company - Beryllium Dec 22, 10:51 16
      - Sue, but offer to settle for firing the doctor instead of demanding a big cash payout. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 22, 10:54 14
        
        "Punitive" means the healthcare organization has to take a hit. Firing the doctor means just that doctor takes the hit - con_carne Dec 22, 10:57 9
        
        Uh... the doctor is the one responsible. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 22, 10:58 8
        
        the hospital administration ]doesn't have any responsibility for allowing him to practice in that state? -- nm - znufrii Dec 22, 11:01 5
        
        not that I know of. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 11:06
        
        Eh. Where does it end? - Dr.Vermin Dec 22, 11:04 3
        
        it doesn't. -- nm - znufrii Dec 22, 11:09
        
        It ends when your child is brought back to life. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 11:05 1
        
        Now THAT'S lawyerin'! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 22, 11:07
        
        Whew. Dodged that one! Where's the next doctor that'll work for cheap? -- nm - Hospital Dec 22, 11:00 1
        
        and thank goodness we don't have to review our practices! -- nm - Hospital 2 Dec 22, 11:02
        
        then the doctor moves to another state, doesn't tell them about the incident and gets a job at another hospital. - znufrii Dec 22, 10:56 1
        
        yep, my brother recently had to fire one of those who landed at his hospital and killed someone. -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:57
        
        and if you need money to care for your permanently disabled family member? -- nm - Loosi Lou Who Dec 22, 10:55
        
        and if they don't agree? -- nm - Reagen Dec 22, 10:55
      - (And, presume that I'm also including pets as family members here) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 10:51
  - He's going to have an interesting time as a parent. Especially with a daughter. - Beryllium Dec 22, 10:49
LIR: Jax. I'm curious. If you tallied up how many non-broadcast shows you watch, how many would that be? - oblique Dec 22, 10:45 1
- Lately, probably not a lot. Our Season Pass has been decimated in the last two years or so. - JaxSean Dec 22, 10:49
"Smugness is not a good quality." -- nm - con_carne Dec 22, 10:44
*Sues Vermin for ST malpractice; just for the money* -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 22, 10:44
You think Facebook is too sharey? You think Twitter is too vain? Enter Blippy -- (link) - oblique Dec 22, 10:44 8
- cafeteria, cafteria, cafeteria, gorcery store, cafeteria, liquor store, cafeteria, target, bar, bar, rinse, spin, repeat. -- nm - znufrii Dec 22, 10:53
- porn, porn, porn, lotion, porn, porn, kleenex, porn,... -- nm - Dano Ho Ho Dec 22, 10:49
- That is... like, it sounds quasi-interesting to watch what my friends might spend, but no way in shit would I ever do it. -- nm - TFox Dec 22, 10:47
- Wow, that's...dumb. The only benefit I see from that is from the corporate side, having employees set up cards to buy items to show they're "Blippy" - JaxSean Dec 22, 10:47
- *splurt* -- nm - Homeland Security Dec 22, 10:46 2
  - My days of taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle. - con_carne Dec 22, 10:47 1
    - wait....you've been taking Vermin seriously? - znufrii Dec 22, 10:50
- Enter ST -- nm - CrankYanker Dec 22, 10:45

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