Nutty, go mug a few kids this afternoon. That should help your mood a bit.
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Natter 40: The Nice One
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Oct 31, 2005 7:08:09 am PST #232 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Vortex - Oct 31, 2005 7:09:51 am PST #233 of 10006
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I'm with sara on the scavenger hunt thing. If people want to play games, go nuts, but leave me out of it. Hell, she should have been asked before being included in an activity that involved people taking things from her.
I would probably remove everything from the surface of my desk. If I were feeling generous, I might leave a box of tissues, and allow people to take one tissue.
Calli - Oct 31, 2005 7:14:12 am PST #234 of 10006
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
[looks at desk] Hmm. Removing everything from the surface of my desk would require a multi-day head start. If there was a scavenger hunt thing going on here, I'd probably just settle for scowling at anyone who came within three yards of my desk.
Kind of like every other day.
Gudanov - Oct 31, 2005 7:18:02 am PST #235 of 10006
Coding and Sleeping
Say, if one were to have fixed a PowerMac G3/266 that one got for free what Operating System would be a good match. Say Mac OS 9 or perhaps a slightly older version of OS X like 10.1 or 10.2? I don't think OS X 10.3 or 10.4 support that old a Mac.
Gudanov - Oct 31, 2005 7:21:56 am PST #236 of 10006
Coding and Sleeping
He's been on the bench for a long time; he's no jurisprudential cipher.
How does he shift the court if passes the Senate? Certainly he sounds plenty qualified.
sarameg - Oct 31, 2005 7:23:05 am PST #237 of 10006
I ended up saying no twice (I also hid said item, because I'm humorless like that.) Luckily, to coworkers who were reasonable about it. People stopped coming in our office.
It was annoying the officemate too, as he was trying to make calls to contractors at the time.
It really would have been nice if they'd just ASKED. Or even better, had it at the sanctioned halloween party later this afternoon in the lobby.
Steph L. - Oct 31, 2005 7:26:50 am PST #238 of 10006
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Say, if one were to have fixed a PowerMac G3/266 that one got for free what Operating System would be a good match. Say Mac OS 9 or perhaps a slightly older version of OS X like 10.1 or 10.2? I don't think OS X 10.3 or 10.4 support that old a Mac.
Gud, go ask in the Buffistatechnology thread, BUT I think you could run 10.2 on it, depending on how much memory it has.
tommyrot - Oct 31, 2005 7:28:01 am PST #239 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
P.M. Marc - Oct 31, 2005 7:31:06 am PST #240 of 10006
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Archie goes goth
That was pretty adorable, actually. Thanks for the link!
(I feel like Proxy!Jilli as she whirls around L.A. without the Net.)
bon bon - Oct 31, 2005 7:33:52 am PST #241 of 10006
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
How does he shift the court if passes the Senate?
Rightward; there's not much that can be done about having a Republican president and Senate. OTOH SOC was not as liberal as people give her credit for. These things are delicate: Kennedy enjoys being the swing vote and feels intellectually inferior. He may end up switching from a Roberts/Scalia/Alito/Thomas majority. But that's just my hypothesizing.
The thing you will be hearing most about-- because, apparently, Roe was the most important thing that happened in legal history ever-- is that he dissented when Casey was before his court. IIRC he said the state had a legitimate interest in spousal notification (*not* consent).
ETA: I just saw another opinion where he struck down New Jersey's partial birth abortion ban because it was mandated by the Supreme Court. In looking at it a little bit, it appears to be moderate and principled.