Durandal wrote:If you can't get a fucking web address right, you have no place in a computer science department anywhere.
Except possibly here at Napier...anyway...I'd say a week or thereabouts if it's anywhere even near a close run thing.
In the event of an 'act of sanity', then it'll all be over tommorow like waking from a nightmare...but otherwise...
"Prodesse Non Nocere." "It's all about popularity really, if your invisible friend that tells you to invade places is called Napoleon, you're a loony, if he's called Jesus then you're the president." "I'd drive more people insane, but I'd have to double back and pick them up first..." "All it takes for bullshit to thrive is for rational men to do nothing." - Kevin Farrell, B.A. Journalism. BOTM - EBC - Horseman - G&C - Vampire
Durandal wrote:
You can't use styled text in thread titles, so he's using slashes to represent italicized text. We actually had a huge debate on ASVS about this years ago. Lord Edam was adamant that underscores represented italicized text and asterisks represented bold text.
And those aren't backslashes; they're forward slashes. Backslashes are the things that Windows uses for its paths (c:\, for example). The backslash is also commonly used as an escape character in a number of Unix shells.
Also, morons tend to use the backslash in place of forward slashes everywhere. So if a moron posts a URL, he'll post something like "http:\\bbs.stardestroyer.net". Naturally, the link won't fucking work, but that doesn't stop the moron who can't seem to understand that Windows' idiosyncrasies aren't universal. We've had dumb-asses in the fucking computer science department get this shit wrong, and it's just totally unbelievable. If you can't get a fucking web address right, you have no place in a computer science department anywhere.
"On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics." -Richard Feynman
"Stop! No one can survive these deadly rays!"
"These deadly rays will be your death!"
- Thor and Akton, Starcrash
"Before man reaches the moon your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to England, to India or to Australia by guided missiles.... We stand on the threshold of rocket mail."
- Arthur Summerfield, US Postmaster General 1953 - 1961
Durandal wrote:That rant had been holed up inside for a while.
Obviously. Glad I was around to make a nice target for you. Venting = t3h g00d
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"On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics." -Richard Feynman
Chronological Incontinence: Time warps around the poster. The thread topic winks out of existence and reappears in 1d10 posts.
Out of Context Theatre, this week starring Darth Nostril.
-'If you really want to fuck with these idiots tell them that there is a vaccine for chemtrails.'
Col. Crackpot wrote:actually, this time it could stretch out indefinately with Justice Reinquist missing his Supreme Courtly duties due to chemotherapy.
If Rehnquist resigns due to health reasons, Bush could make a recess appointment that would not be subject to Senate approval and practically give himself the election.
Damien Sorresso
"Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
- The Onion
Yay! Someone voted for immediately! Someone has faith! ...it's just not me.
Chronological Incontinence: Time warps around the poster. The thread topic winks out of existence and reappears in 1d10 posts.
Out of Context Theatre, this week starring Darth Nostril.
-'If you really want to fuck with these idiots tell them that there is a vaccine for chemtrails.'
Faith in an immidiate conclusive result would be nice, but requiers some selective ignorance in my opinion. The precedent of litigating an election from 2000 will probably be a political reality from now on in any remotely close election. The hope is that most of this litigation will be meaningless and dismissed without too much undue delay.
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Post 999: Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:19 am
We'll probably know the results in all but 2-3 swing states in a day or two, and the impendsing lawsuits in the others will probably be settled in a month at the most, depending on how many cases of voter dienfranchisment, missing ballots, and crap like that are going around.
