| Post 1 | New | Posted November 16th, 2004 |
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| Icey the pirate. arrr 
| Icey's second rant: recommended by 7 out of 10 priests. Smoking I hate people that smoke. I refuse to have a conversation with someone who thinks it's perfectly fine to breathe smoke all over you by smoking two feet away. I really don't understand why a third of all people smoke. It's like someone came along and said "Hey, do you want to die quicker, get cancer, stink of cigarettes and have yellow fingers? Yes? Excellent! And now you have to pay me for this service!" Then there are all these people who smoke whilst they?re driving. How dangerous is that?! Speeding along the motorway at 70MPH+ with one hand on the wheel, one cigarette in their right hand and probably a mobile phone in their other hand! How can you do all that at once and still be in complete control of the vehicle? *sigh* I don't know. Maybe it's natures way of making them have accidents to kill them all off. Another thing that annoys me, at work, is that people who smoke are allowed extra breaks to go and continue their disgusting habit. While the healthy and sensible people have to continue working. But they have to smoke outside in the cold and rain :) Equality People are always going on about equal rights for women. I demand the opposite; I want equal rights for men! We are clearly treated far worse than women. For example, 90% of the time it's the mother who gets custody of the children in a divorce. It's the man who has to open the car door for the woman like she's some blubbering seal incapable of opening a door for herself. It's the man who has to drink sensibly so he doesn't get in trouble with his wife. We can't even beat our own children without being told off. A while back there was some female teacher that seduced one of her students and got caught. I think she got a tap on the wrist... If it were the other way round with a man, he'd have been off to prison straight away! If I'm on the bus and some kid sticks his tongue out at me, I'll do the same back, but someone will prolly call me a paedophile/pervert or whatever the PC word is today. And if it were a woman it would be perfectly fine off course. And why have I never seen a male primary school teacher? Women have all these useful benefits over men as well. For example, they can have handbags to carry all there stuff. We have a little wallet! Try carrying your make-up around in that, lads. NTL I never liked NTL, but now I really dislike them. I've been with them for six years on their terrible dial-up service. Several weeks ago they sent me an e-mail informing me that my estate had finally got broadband. So I signed up straight away, they cut off my dial-up connection and I waited for the broadband modem to arrive (and it did, late). Then I waited for them to activate my connection (which they didn't). Eventually I got bored of waiting and phoned them to be told that actually, we can't get broadband because there's no copper in the phone lines. Thanks for that! And then I had to make loads of calls, which seem to get redirected around to half a dozen people, who then are closed and you have to call in the morning. It's complete luck whether you get the biggest ejit ever or someone who sounds like they are clever and pretends to do everything and then you find out they didn't do anything at all. So after all that hassle, expensive phone calls and over three weeks without a connection I'm finally back with original dial-up connection. Security is obviously a major concern at NTL. When I rang up they asked for my secret answer. I said something along the lines of "Ah?" And they said, "Mr <name>, it's a colour beginning with P", "Purple?", "That's correct!". Great, I know my account and credit card details are really secure. Films I've been watching loads more films, so I figured I would update my list of favourites: The Ice Storm, Momento, The Hole, Terminator 2, The Last Supper, Freeway and Sleepy Hollow. I also watched a couple of noteworthy films lately: Arlington Road, 8MM and Bridgett Jones's Diary. Software Prices Somehow, my dad found a copy of a PC World magazine and gave it to me earlier. So I was flicking through it in amazement at the ridiculous prices off stuff. There's spyware killing software from people I've never heard of for over ?40... Yet you can get respected applications like Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D for free. And everyone has heard of them. So what's the point? And then I got into Microsoft's bit... Oh my life. A copy of Windows XP Professional is ?260. Office 2003 Professional is ?450, and it only has four applications! How can Word, Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint be worth ?112.50 each? Powerpoint: I use it for over 7 hours a day, but I doubt 90% of users ever have any need for it. Word: Useful, but there are free word processors available, like AbiWord and OpenOffice's version. Which are more smaller, free, easily obtainable and aren't restricted to just Windows. Excel: Useful, but you can get free versions which have all the features, such as the one in OpenOffice. Outlook: Hmmm, is there really any point? It's just a fancy e-mail client. I doubt half the features are going to be any use since they won?t work with other people's e-mail accounts. It's only really useful for ISP's accounts, since most places don't offer POP accounts. Although GMail is planning to, apparently. As always, there are free versions available, like Eudora and so on. I suppose the reason they can charge such a large amount is that businesses buy the software and they don't want to use anything else and aren't as bothered about costs as individual users. I like the way they sell things in the magazine: "Online thieves know over 2,500 ways to break into your online bank account. While viruses can turn your PC to scrap in a matter of minutes." Ah great stuff, let's sell our software by scaring the hell out of our users by lying to them! Seriously, what kind of application can reduce a computer to scrap?! And 2,500 ways? I don't even use an online bank, and even if I did, how would they know which one and where do they get 2,500 from anyway?! Flash Flash is excellent when it's used correctly for it's intended purpose. Yet I see more and more sites that use it inappropriately or for the whole site without an alternative version. I really dislike having to wait ages to download some flash movie that could easily have been made in HTML and offers no benefits at all. Some reasons why I dislike Flash: - Long download times. - Limited audience. - It's used inappropriately. - Decreases accessibility. - Can't copy and paste text. - Creates unfamiliar conventions. - Links in Flash files can't be opened in new windows/tabs. - Harder to print. People insist on putting flash presentation on the first page off the site, so you have to skip through it every time or wait until it's loaded and then skip through it. And if you don't have Flash enabled... tough. Or they put it on the main page so it takes longer to load. Search Engines 95% of the visitors referred to my site are from search engines. And 95% of those are from Google. It doesn't take long to add some meta tags into a html document so search engine crawlers can understand it. So every page on my site has unique keywords related to that page, most of them are auto-generated. My ISP and Tesco ISP use a horrible dialler application called Rydial by Rytec Consultants. It's the worst application ever created, so I wrote this onto my site with a long list of bugs and suggestions. The Rytec Consultants site uses no keywords, so search engines just seem to ignore it and list others like mine. So when someone searches for 'Rydial' or 'Rydial Application' my site is the first or second site listed. Which isn't so great for Rytec, because I'm rambling on about how terrible their software is :) And there whole navigation system is written in Flash. Firefox Wooohooo, Firefox 1.0 is here! But that's not the point of this section. The point is: They wont let me use Firefox at work! I e-mailed tech support and was told that it's 'company policy' that everyone uses Internet Explorer 6. So I rambled on about security/standards/stability and was given a firm no. We're all forced to use IE, like sheeple. So I left it a few weeks and sent another e-mail. It went to a different person who seemed a bit more clued up. He said that he knew it was a 'quality product', but I can't use it. So I rambled on at him for a while and somehow he found out I'd already requested the same thing before and got all annoyed at me. So I'll give it a few weeks and try again. Virus Names Kind of a weird subject, but since no one else seems to care about this I'll throw it in. Virus names differ between all the virus companies. So the same virus in one place could be called S7.Win32.Trojan, then someone else calls it SubSeven.Backdoor.W32 and then someone else calls it w32/Backdoor-G and so on and on. There's no universal names for viruses so it can be very confusing to work with multiple scanners and find utils suited to removing one virus when each virus can have 10+ names. An independent company needs to set up a virus database, which stores names of all viruses in existence, and then the scanners could all be using the same names. They could potentially make money from the virus companies, because it improves their business. While I'm here, all those "This mail is certified virus free" messages are the stupidest thing ever! Just because an e-mail has that message doesn't make it genuine. The virus could have written that in. Larwd, people think because something is written down that it must be true. Game Adverts Adverts for consoles and games are rubbish. Complete and utter rubbish. First example: The PS2 adverts which are being shown at the moment. They show a whole bunch of people in a dessert running around like ejits being chased by people with puppets. Great. In the thirty seconds I spent watching that nonsense I could have actually learnt about the hardware, why I should buy it, seen some games being played and so on. Instead I get to see that irrelevant useless advert. Second example: That football game thing: An advert that's 75% slow, boring drawn pictures being slided across the screen and then 5 seconds of speeded up game footage at the end. Thanks, I'm really going to buy that when you have so little pride in your own game that you don't even show it properly. Ah, but it's not all bad. I think the value of a game advert is based on the amount of footage of the game they show. Not about ejits running around, people in toilets, people with spinning cubes, people on couches, etc, etc, but actually showing the game and letting people see for themselves. Which, off course, is exactly what all the Grand Theft Auto adverts are like. They know they've got a top-quality game and aren't afraid to have the whole advert showing the game. That makes me want to buy them a whole lot more because I can see what's expected, I can see all the great features and I'm not completely in the dark about what they're selling. The last time I saw the San Andreas advert was during the 'Worlds Wildest Police Chases' :! Spyware I spent over four hours on the weekend and over two hours yesterday removing a ridiculous amount of spyware from my mom's friend's computer. I've never had much of a problem with spyware because I know how to remove it. But after witnessing what it does when not handled properly I'm completely convinced this needs to be made illegal. Last I heard some kind of law was being passed to officially make it illegal, that was a while ago, so maybe it is officially illegal to distribute this stuff now. First of all, the computer was insanely slow. And this isn't an old computer; it's running Windows XP and is only about a year old. Yet, it took ages to do the simplest things and trying to do anything major just froze the computer. System applications like msconfig/regedit/task manager and so on would open and then the spyware would kill them immediately. There were loads of stupid toolbars all over explorer and Internet Explorer that had been installed by the spyware. The IE homepage kept getting reset to some warez site which would download more spyware whenever you visited it. Norton Antivirus refused to load. No sites other than the warez one would load in IE. When IE was opened it would silently open 13 (yes I counted) instances of itself in the background for no apparent reason. The spyware had set itself to start from four different locations and it was saving start-up data every few seconds so you wouldn't have time to remove everything and then shut it down. It was a nightmare. Eventually, through using safe mode and downloading Spybot S&D and Adaware I managed to gain some control over the situation. Spybot S&D detected 13 different spyware application and a whole bunch of other junk. Adaware detected over 200 files, 87 registry entries and a bunch of other junk like tracking cookies. I'm sure I've heard some of the spyware names at a tourettes convention. Although most of the spyware had names like 'Microsoft Config', 'Windows', 'Check32', 'Win 32 NVidia Driver' and 'MSDev'. Their computer has loads of random applications running to change the volume, tell you the colour of your socks and all that nonsense. So working out legitimate applications from spyware was very tricky. When I ran windows normally I made the mistake of clicking on Internet Explorer while the computer was connected and instantly it froze and downloaded more spyware without me doing anything at all. Just from visiting some random warez site. The spyware was replicating itself all over the place and setting all the programs to start up. After some more scans I removed all the rubbish. Immunized the computer, updated Norton virus definitions, installed Tea Timer and the IE protector applications with Spybot S&D. Then I ran Norton, which picked up 5 viruses and removed them. It was getting late so I came back the next day to continue sorting everything out. I scanned with the three applications again and made sure everything was back to normal. Downloaded several things from the Windows Update site and pointed them in the direction of the service packs. I increased the security of Internet Explorer (ha-ha!). I showed them how to use Spybot, Adaware and Norton. Then I installed Firefox. While I'm here I'll just show my respect towards Spybot S&D. It's a great application, has loads of useful tools and detected more spyware applications than Adaware. And it has a personal feel, rather than the commercial feel of Adaware. Naturally, my mom's friend and her husband are now half-scared off using the web through fear off getting all this spyware again. I tried to convince them they could browse safely but I doubt they'll use the web half as much as they used to. Conclusion That's enough for my second rant. As always, feel free to post comments, disagreeing is encouraged! ------------------  |
| Post 2 | New | Posted November 16th, 2004 |
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| RunYaSneakers does this thing work? 
| Let's all make a petition to end women's sufferage. :D Stupid women would be like, "Oh, how sweet, sure I'll sign!". Fuck their equality. ------------------  |
| Post 3 | New | Posted November 16th, 2004 |
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| Will Shovel Headed Kill Machine 
| icey wrote: Then there are all these people who smoke whilst they?re driving. How dangerous is that?! Speeding along the motorway at 70MPH+ with one hand on the wheel, one cigarette in their right hand and probably a mobile phone in their other hand! How can you do all that at once and still be in complete control of the vehicle? *sigh* I don't know. Maybe it's natures way of making them have accidents to kill them all off. Yeah, no mobiles while driving, but its OK to smoke? WTF? icey wrote: People are always going on about equal rights for women. I demand the opposite; I want equal rights for men! We are clearly treated far worse than women. For example, 90% of the time it's the mother who gets custody of the children in a divorce. It's the man who has to open the car door for the woman like she's some blubbering seal incapable of opening a door for herself. It's the man who has to drink sensibly so he doesn't get in trouble with his wife. We can't even beat our own children without being told off. Im not Sexist, I agree to. Who nearly always wina court case where a man and a woman are involved? Exactaly, the Woman, or else the judge is 'sexist'. And the bag things though, there are soem bags they carry you couldn't fit a fucking pencil in now. WHY? And wear a backpack Icey, they are so usefull its unbeleivable. Don't want to buy cinema expensive coke? Put some in a bag and take it in, your not alowed to carry your own stuff in, but in a bag its OK. And as for Spyware, hell, jsut connecting seems to download a load of the fucknig stuff, and my homepage is only google. Then I visit a site it searched up, and more ppears! Gagh! Virus names seem to differ alot, I had one mean bastard once that reset my PC when AVG detected it, so I had to manually find and delete it by memorising its location before my machine reset. I did it too, and then after much Net Trawling I found that only AVG gave it this name, other companies called it such-and-such, and that I had beeen looking for AVG's name which didn't help me. Grr. Get an industry standard on these things, huh? Edit: And RYS, I don't mind equality, but GIVETHEM FUCKING EQUALITY! Treat them like we treat our male mates, see them then, what they do. Some would be OK with it, I know one girl that is like a good mate, and she's alright with it, but most of them would want their special women's rights we don't get. Make them do all the things a man has to do, like "No, fix your own fucknig car". And "Period? Thats no bloody excuse for anything, you want equality, you work the same amount of time as a man". They want equality, they get it. They want to be equal, but they take it to being almost superior. A good example I feel is the Ian Huntley/Maxine Carr thing. She gets what, a couple of months? Any Idiot can tell she was in and involved with that! She was as much in it as him! Yet shes a woman, oh, women don't murder and stuff. Fuckers. ------------------ -My site got deleted-   |
| Post 4 | New | Posted November 16th, 2004 |
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| Lobster Martin hi
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| Delfi Programmer 
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| Post 6 | New | Posted November 16th, 2004 |
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| Will Shovel Headed Kill Machine
| All this dialing talk has reminded me I need to get a cheap basic laptop of some sort to hijack the open phone ports in our local cinema, meheheh. And a bitch about technology, maily of the musical kind. My parents bought me a top of the range sony walkman (w00t) and the fucxknig lens needs cleaning every 3 discs or so or it doesn't read anymore and jogs about, after the gaurantee died of course. Its crap. And my fucknig radio system thing, I can open the disc tray adn it now carries on playing regardless. Although this did lead to groovy pencil lines on my CD's from boredom. And my CDRW / DVD combi driver failed after 6 months or so. It now hates DVD's but still ikes CD's. Shitty thing. WHY does modern technology have such a short arse-life span? On Icey's points, yes, he is right. I don't mind people smoking, jsut don't breath it on me. ------------------ -My site got deleted- |
| Post 7 | New | Posted November 16th, 2004 |
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| Icey the pirate. arrr
| Will: I was talking to a mate over lunch about the handbags thing. He suggested I get a briefcase because they're "a handbag for men" ;) The thing is, I have just enough stuff to need a (hand)bag, but not too little that a wallet is fine. So I usually carry a bag around, but it's practically empty so it just seems a bit senseless. I'm glad someone has had first hand experience of the conflicting virus names problem. I was kind of thinking hypothetically, but having a real case assures me that it's something that really does happen. I suppose it would be just too difficult to set up some kind of database with all the virus's contained within it. As new virus's are discovered the global database would need to be updated before anyone could use it in definitions, which isn't ideal when people want to remove it from their systems. It just seems like a difficult problem without a solution. I just noticed this in an e-mail ntl sent me ages ago: The "W32.Blaster.Worm" is also known as W32/Lovsan.worm, WORM_MSBLAST.A, Win32.Posa.Worm. The Welchia worm is also know as ... W32/Nachi.Worm. W32/MSBLAST.D or Lovsan.D :! thresh: Aye, thank ye. When I wrote that list I sent an e-mail to Rytec and I got this back within a few hours: E-Mail wrote: Hi Icey Thank you for your e-mail and your comments on your web site. I have had a quick look and will be spending sometime looking at each of the items in turn. Are you happy for me to share your comments with ntl and may I also come back to you if I have any questions in attempting to recreate the issues raised? Cheers O. <name removed> Technical Consultant Rytec Consultants Ltd. I agreed to his requests, but I didn't hear anything back from them. I didn't see any updates to the dialler application apear either. That was July 15th. When NTL first started using the Rydial application they sent all their customers a message saying that we had to use it because the phone numbers were changing. I just use the normal windows dialling utils now. Delfi: No opinions eh Delfi? Surely you must feel something... Agreed though, I'm kinding getting annoyed with not being able to open new tabs. So I'll probably change it back the way it was, since it must be annoying other people as well. I removed the javascript that placed code tags in the correct place because the new smilie window was causing problems. But since I haven't seen anyone use the yellow smilies I'll prolly remove it. I'll write it for Firefox and then see how much work needs to be done to make it work in Internet Explorer/etc. I'm planning to write a new function in that automatically generates urls with page numbers. At the moment there's code all over the place that is basically doing the same thing. Would be better to have it in one place so I can edit it globally then. You can always post suggestions in the 'forum updates' topic or e-mail them to me. You don't need to wait for me to post a topic ;) Will: I've been lucky with hardware I suppose. I don't think I've ever had anything mess up on me. Well, apart from mice, I've got loads of those that don't work. And I spilt a drink over my alarm clock once :! Half-Life 2 must be out by now, so I'll need to upgrade my system. Maybe I'll have a few problems... ------------------ |
| Post 8 | New | Posted November 17th, 2004 |
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| Needles Drinks Fucking Tea!
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| Post 9 | New | Posted November 17th, 2004 |
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| Alfadog beats eating it 
| Geez Icey, that's more like two rants. Let me just address the points I feel strongly about: icey wrote: Smoking Bloody oath, people sure are stupid. I have to add to the "annoying things smokers do" list with FLICKING the butts out of their window. Fuck it pisses me off. We often go through "extreme fire danger" periods, and yet, you still see these faggots flick their firey nicotene pieces onto the road/grass next to the road. Additionally, when you throw out something that is on fire, the person behind you has to run over it. Fire and cars do not mix terribly well... Who knows what could happen if it just happened to bounce up into your engine bay. Idiots! Quote: Equality Yes yes yes. I hate it too, they want equality in all the areas that are GOOD, but in those areas where men are clearly worse off... well we'll just ignore those. Oftentimes things like this turn full-circle. I believe we are now in a period where the discrimination is against men. Just yesterday, a female was talking about how she never gets service at Bunnings (hardware store)! "The older men there are sooo sexist, it's a terrible world we live in, oh lordy have sympathy for me I am being treated wrongly blablaba"... seconds later, she was going on about how good it was that she can get off from speeding fines by giving a puppy dog look, and having workmen do ANY job as long as you give "the look". Come on! You can't have it all your way. I'd much rather be able to get off speeding fines than be told where the glue aisle was in a hardware store... Course, our views cannot be taken seriously since we are just chauvinistic males. Half hte trouble is we cannot express these opinions in the general public since females will pretty much bite your head off for being "sexist". So kudos to you Icey, you have big kahunas! Quote: Software Prices It is all a bit ridiculous isn't it. Basically, it comes down to the old quote, "No one got fired for buying IBM." Microsoft is the STANDARD for the large majority of corporations world-wide. If you buy something else and it screws up, it's your head on the block. If you buy MS and something screws up.. well.. couldn't have made a better choice! It would probably be cheaper if individuals didn't pirate it, but they only pirate it cos it's so expensive... and yeah. Viscious cycle. Oh and have you ever tried AbiWord? It's absolute bollocks. Quote: Flash I don't like flash, full stop. Good for cartoons, videos and the like, but intros always seem tacky to me and just uneccessary. Flash navigation? Uh! Give me strength! Quote: Firefox If you used firefox, and something went terribly wrong, the person who was in charge of allowing you to use it would be dead meat. If the same thing went wrong with IE, well... "no one got fired for buying IBM". Sorry to repeat it, but it's ultimately the same reason! Quote: Game Adverts Like Azz said in a recent post, consoles are more socially acceptable. As such, stupid people who do not care about specs are going to be the main audience. Pay close attention to all ads next time you watch. Rarely do they show the actual product... it's all about selling the "lifestyle". This is Marketing 101 ! That said, I am very curious as to the effectiveness of these ads. Most seem to be good attention grabbers, but I dunno about inspiring desire or action to buy... I really doubt the PS2 ads sell a lot of units. It just looks to me like they put an ad on telly just cos that's what big companies do... ------------------  |
| Post 10 | New | Posted November 17th, 2004 |
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| Kyle Jones Not a Mod! Sexy bod! 
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| Gokhan Would you like to know more? 
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| Post 12 | New | Posted November 17th, 2004 |
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| Alfadog beats eating it
| Kyle Jones wrote: Just live and let live, for Christ's sake. I don't give a toss whether they kill themselves - it's their own life! But don't you breathe that shit onto me. This is basic life philosophy... do as you want as long as it doesn't intrude upon others' wishes. Or something like that. ------------------ |
| Post 13 | New | Posted November 17th, 2004. Updated November 17th, 2004 |
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| Maindrian Anti-Hero Deluxe 
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| Richard Zurawski Local Legend :. 
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| Post 15 | New | Posted November 17th, 2004 |
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| Will Shovel Headed Kill Machine
| I would like to add to this rant: STEAM. As in you need yo reghister to play Half Life 2. Yes, I have it, and I also have my Inet on USB. But I need a USB DVD drive ATM, as my internal is in the process of having been ordered and shipped. Now, my PC can only (for osme reason) do either Inet or USB drive. And steam trys to register my disc. GHARG!!! And you have been lucky hardware wise. ------------------ -My site got deleted- |
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| Azz the barbarian. grrr 
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| Post 17 | New | Posted November 18th, 2004. Updated November 18th, 2004 |
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| Post 19 | New | Posted November 19th, 2004 |
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| Icey the pirate. arrr
| Needles wrote: Good rant... Thank ye, you should have a cup of tea while you read them :T Alfa wrote: Geez Icey, that's more like two rants. Let me just address the points I feel strongly about: Ironically, I say about four things a day, yet I ramble on for ages when I'm using a computer :! Alfa wrote: you still see these faggots flick their firey nicotene pieces I didn't even think about the fire risk. Apparently 25% (source) of all fires are caused by careless smokers. More and more places are removing smoking areas and just not allowing them at all. Especially places like restaurants/cafes. Usually whenever I get back from a restuarant and people have been smoking my mom asks me if I've "Been smoking?" because it stays around for ages even when obtained passively. Alfa wrote: So kudos to you Icey, you have big kahunas! I don't have anything interesting to respond about this quote, I just want everyone to see it ;) I do agree though, whenever women want something from me they all put on this 'irresistable/sexy' voice to get what they want. Never in a million years would they think once about looking at me twice but if they want something they prepeared to go that extra mile. And the creepy thing is... even my sister does that! Alfa wrote: "No one got fired for buying IBM." Oh god yes. As long as it's written by Microsoft it's deemed to be perfect and the only choice. It's like my operating systems teacher that had never used any other operating system than Windows. At work we have an IT department section of the intranet. And that has a whole section devoted to fixing problems in Internet Explorer. "If IE wont open new windows and all new windows are blank... blah blah". It's ridicolous, there are better alternatives out there. And you can usually find a better alternative that's available for free. But I suppose we are the adults of the future so maybe it's our job to change that :) Alfa wrote: it's all about selling the "lifestyle". This is Marketing 101 ! Aye. The PS2 advert was repetitive the first time I saw it, but now I've seen it loads of times and I'm sick of it. Usually I record programmes on ITV/CH4/Five and then watch them later whilst fast forwarding through the adverts. I think the thing that annoys me most is that it's a lost oppurtunity for PlayStation. Most adverts, like food/cars and whatnot can't actually make you taste/drive their products. But with games they can actually shows you what it's going to look like and let you hear what it's going to be like. I think my favourite advert at the moment is the Guinness one with the prisoner guy and the horse. Amazing how they can create all that atmosphere in just twenty seconds of scenes. There are loads of neat bits like the end scene with the sky and the fields that subtley looks like a glass with Guinness in it. Alfa wrote: Oh and have you ever tried AbiWord? It's absolute bollocks. It's mainly my sister that wants to use it. I had MS Office on my computer which she used, but then I reinstalled everything last weekend and I don't have the Office CD. So I was downloading AbiWord for her, but then luckily her boyfriend (who is eerily similar to me) said he had a MS Office CD that I could borrow. So I cancelled the AbiWord download and installed that instead. I'm not completely anti-Microsoft. If Microsoft make the best application in a certain category I'll use it. I wont just not use it because it's "cool" or whatever. For example, I think Windows Media Player has the best library feature of any music application I've tried, so I use that. Kyle Jones wrote: All the whining over smokers makes me laugh just a little. It's just smoke. Plenty of things are going to kill you, and you still do them, so why be mad about smokers? Just live and let live, for Christ's sake. Undeniably there are plenty of things that can kill me. But smoking is actively seeking out and taking part in something that can (will?) kill you. It's fine to say that I'll get run over by a bus or fall out of a window. But I don't go walking in the road carelessly trying to get run over or lean precariously out of an open window. I signed a contract a while ago that said if we died on the premises the owner couldn't be held responsible. The guy giving out the contracts said (definitely not in a humourous way) "You know, like if I throw you out of a window!" and then gave us a really evil look. We stayed well away from him in future. Oh, actually Gokhan said what I said. Ignore me! Maindrian wrote: coughed in an extremely fake way, given me a dirty look and moved on Agreed, that is stupid and completely pointless. Especially since you had the manners to smoke away from people. Maindrian wrote: "Look at this man! He has cancer! Ooooh, look at the tubes in his face! That could happen to you that could! QUIT NOW!!!" And then at the end: "This man died two weeks after making this film, he didn't get to see his baby being born" I recon they go round hospitals working out who's going to die next and then offer to pay them in three weeks time. Maindrian wrote: I don't have an excuse for smoking, I just find it quite satisfying. This is the thing though, I can't see a single good thing about smoking. How can it be satisfying? Surely all the negative effects would take away the feeling of satisfaction? Perhaps something similar but more healthy would be a good idea, like chewing gum. Maindrian wrote: BTW. I have cut down, with an eye to giving up. As nice as it is, it is a bad habit, and it will probably come back to haunt me later in life. I'm quitting for me though. Not some liberal bummer-boy. Ouch! That's good about you cutting down though. I'm sure your message was a bit more aggresive when I read it the first time... Did you edit it or something? I don't mind if you want to insult my opinions, I welcome it. Usually I form opinions too quickly so having someone tell me reasons against it helps me form the most appropriate opinion for my way-of-life. Richard wrote: If you don't like talking to a person who's smoking at the time It's not always that simple. I think smokers get into a habit or thinking it's normal so they just smoke around others anyway. It's kind of peer pressure, if a smoker asks if it's ok to smoke a few people will say yes and then anyone who doesn't is automatically going to be seen as an outsider/ignored. It's not practical to come back in two minutes. Firstly, if I'm in a restaurant with a bunch of people and someone starts smoking, why should it be me that has to leave? I'm not disrupting the atmosphere, yet it's me that has to make the sacrifices. Secondly, most people smoke for longer that two minutes. Richard wrote: ...from every self important prick... This is my rant you know :P Richard wrote: Ever tried to quit smoking? Its a fucking terrible experience I appreciate that it's difficult to quit. But that doesn't mean that smokers can't be more considerate to normal people around them. I also know that most smokers are considerate, it's just a few that aren't. Richard wrote: Dial up ISP's are shocking though, my internet started fucking up and not connecting. Aye, one of my mates back in college has the worst connection ever. It would disconnect all the time. He would connect and then have to rush around doing things because it would disconnect so quick. A lot of the time it would connect and then wait five seconds and disconnect. So he spoke to his ISP and they kept saying it was his wires/modem. So he switched to another ISP and it all worked perfectly fine. btw. It was NTL that he was using originally. Never have guessed would ya? :] Richard wrote: I gave up and got ADSL Lucky dev. Richard wrote: As for flash, this is just typical whining of someone whos stuck on dial up for whatever reason and wants to make a big stink about it. The rest of the world is advancing technologically and you are not, get over it. Azz wrote: As someone who spends most of his time developing in flash I'd like to say, it rocks. It does. get over it. I'm in agreement that Flash is an excellent application and it's perfectly suited to it's purpose. I just dislike misuse of it. I regularly wait (and wait) to download flash files from b3ta and other places. I'm totally in agreement that technology should advance. That's why I tell people about Firefox :) Will wrote: I would like to add to this rant: STEAM. As in you need yo reghister to play Half Life 2. Yes, I have it, and I also have my Inet on USB. But I need a USB DVD drive ATM, as my internal is in the process of having been ordered and shipped. Now, my PC can only (for osme reason) do either Inet or USB drive. And steam trys to register my disc. GHARG!!! Register online to play? Hmm, but what about people who buy it without an internet connection. That seems kind of unfair, or perhaps you just mean for multiplayer? Will wrote: And you have been lucky hardware wise. I've had a bad time with floppy disks as well. Which is because I have about forty of the things, but my dad thinks you can only put one file on one disk. So he get's 38 and I get 2. So that's 38 disks with 10/20kb files on them :] Azz wrote: However flash menus that look like HTML and behave like HTML fuck me right off. Why not just use a java applet The vast amount of flash menus I've seen could have been done in CSS. Which would have been much better for downloading and usability. No need for java/flash for links. Here's an example of the kind of misuse that I don't like. I haven't got round to downloading the flash stuff, so I can't even navigate that site. DaDa123 wrote: Feel better now that you have let all your emotions and feeling come out? Like a pig rolling in some new found mud after being in the desert for weeks. DaDa123 wrote: There are just some dumb ass stupid people out there who would spend money on a program that are able to be obtained for free: Spybot S&D Aye, and Spybot is always being updated with new definitions. The util I saw was by McAfee. Strangely, searching for the product on the McAfee site returns no results. Josephine wrote: sorta... she got a "tap on the wrist" at first, but then got 7+ years after she had contact with the kid again. Thanks for the link to the article. Was very interesting: Article wrote: Initially, the judge imposed upon Letourneau a seven and a half year prison sentence, but reduced the term to six months. ... One month after her sentence for child rape was suspended, Mary Kay was released from jail. :! :] (note: quote is out of context) What's your view on the equality issue, Josephine? 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| Will Shovel Headed Kill Machine
| Yeah, It would be good to hear from a Womans view here, so this isn't a TOO testosterone fueled topic. :) Women have evolved to manipulate men to do things for them over the years, damn it, manipulative fuckers. ;). They know our weaknesses, and they all call us cruel if we don't and seem flustered to make us feel bad. I grew imune to their moves in High School though, I was the cruel boy. Odd, some of them seemed to like that too. :)). So I ended up associating with the wierd chicks. Pwnd. As for smoking, my dad used to, he got the gum and quit, but now he just costs us because he chews gum all the time. Na, only kidding, its good he quit, now he just chews a bit of mint gum when he wants a ciggy. Smoking isn't terrible when you do it, it is when your NOT doing it. Thats how they make money. Cigars are disgusting. I only smoke pure pot now anyways. Tobbaco = Bad. Aah, yes, for HL2 you actually NEED steam to play. Did I say about me having a USB DVD/RW drive, and therefore needing to get a new internal DVD rom jsut to register the fucker as my Inet is on USB. Grr. Explain how flopies work to your dad. And anyway, floppys always break after a few months of heavy use. And they are unreliable compared to CD's, but at the time, I loved floppies. I mean, you used to get software on them. Hehe. It used to be loads of floppies for a game or a CD, now its loads of CD's, or a DVD. How things progress everyone used to rave about the hugeness of CD's. I remember our old school had an PC with a CDROM dual speed, it was an Uber-Machine at the time. :)) Flah only sites that LOOK just like HTML are pointless and I avoid them. I also avoid Gamespy like the plauge for it is evil and leaves a hell of alot of crap on your PC. I only have an acount so I may use that spawn of satan know as fileplanet as I often have no choice but to download from there. Gagh, fuckers. ------------------ -My site got deleted- |