That damned VR6 thing is quite addictive.
Early: So is it still her room when it's empty? Does the room, the thing, have purpose? Or do we -- what's the word? Simon: I really can't help you. Early: The plan is to take your sister. Get the reward, which is substantial. 'Imbue.' That's the word.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
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 § - Jul 06, 2006 5:20:25 am PDT #5598 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gudanov - Jul 06, 2006 5:22:07 am PDT #5599 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Has anyone posted this?
Ted Stevens on why he opposes net neutrality:
There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.
But this service isn't going to go through the interent and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.
Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially [...]
The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time. [?]
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
It's funny except for him being in charge of the committee in charge of any legislation concerning the Internet.
Tom Scola - Jul 06, 2006 5:24:38 am PDT #5600 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I'm down by you, Tom.
Huh. We should do lunch some time.
Of course, I've been saying that to bon bon for years.
Jesse - Jul 06, 2006 5:26:28 am PDT #5601 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Of course, I don't know actually how "by you" I am -- I'm all the way East on Wall.
Jesse - Jul 06, 2006 5:33:16 am PDT #5602 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey, I get out at 1 (theoretically) every Friday in the summer, so let's do a Friday lunch for sure!!
Jessica - Jul 06, 2006 5:33:25 am PDT #5603 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've seen the "series of tubes" quote a bunch of places. The line that really gets me is:
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
I want my staff to send me internets. This one I'm using now is so five minutes ago.
Gudanov - Jul 06, 2006 5:37:27 am PDT #5604 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
You really have to get a new internet every day to keep up.
bon bon - Jul 06, 2006 5:38:50 am PDT #5605 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Of course, I've been saying that to bon bon for years.
I do not recall this!
Also,
I just listened to an enormous backload of natter
What's this now?
Gudanov - Jul 06, 2006 5:41:23 am PDT #5606 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
What's this now?
I used Opera's reading feature. It's not exactly great, but it lets me listen while working on something since I don't have time to read it. I had to write a python script to reformat the threadsuck to make it easier to listen to though.
bon bon - Jul 06, 2006 5:43:14 am PDT #5607 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Tom and Jesse: I am wide open this week, AFAIK.