“Now that Ted Stevens looks to have lost his re-election, is it safe for me to ask what was wrong with the 'series of tubes' metaphor? Is it because he didn't say 'pipes'?”
In context it makes sense. But his "GET OFF MY LAWN N00B!!1!" delivery of the phrase makes it easy to take out of context and ridicule. - John Craft
"Ten movies streaming across that, 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." - Jim Norris
Mitch Hedberg said it best - “I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".'” - Nick
What's even worse is when you buy a doughnut or cookie or similar, and they try and give you a bag to put it in. I'm not entirely feeble, I can carry one item, thank you. - James
The bag isn't for carrying ease. It's to hide the shame. :-) - Kevin Fox
maybe we could make it "green" to not give out receipts. that way stores could reduce their carbon footprint by not giving out receipts - Jonathan Jesse
What if they found a way to print receipts on bacon? Okay, okay. Prosciutto? - Kevin Fox
Haha. Costas give me TWO recipts for my coffee. I can only surmise that one is for the coffee, and the other is for the extra shot. So one is under "C" and the other goes under "E". Enron prevention, FTW - Roberto Bonini
For those who prefer, i'd like to see digital receipt cards, perhaps integrated into smart payment cards, we can then verify against our online statements, and also upload to whatever budgeting, business expense, and income tax software we use. - John Lam
I was going to say that I need receipts, but John Lam's idea is better. - Spidra Webster
I like when I get a receipt for lottery tickets. If need be, you can be damn certain that I can prove I bought a lottery ticket, because I'll have. . . . the WINNING TICKET! - Dave Roth
Why does Google disallow other search engines to crawl these images (via their robots.txt directive, which says Disallow: /hosted/images/ and Disallow: /hosted/life/)? - Philipp Lenssen
“Idea: Experienced players should offer guided tours of Call of Duty levels, introducing newer players to common tactics, killzones, and advanced strategies. I could totally see players paypal-ing $5 for an hour session in a private game room with 10 other students, while a drill sergeant runs folks...”
Anyone know if this kind of thing already exists? With 90,000 players on Call of Duty at any given time, this seems like a worthwhile market for building a team of instructors. - Kevin Fox
I gotta get back into that game -- it was awesome - Shey
wow that's so nerdy. it could help though. i used to get frustrated as hell always getting shot down on cod 4 all the time when i first began - Cee Bee
But if there was this, there wouldn't be any more n00bs for the experienced players to pwn. - Wizetux
