mattm

This may not be as bad as it looks. I saw an advertisement for an upcoming movie by that name. Link

They should mention that it's a movie. It looks like the new york times is saying thank you for smoking. Thanks for pointing that out though.

[color:purple]I think I'm going to move to the states and patent the idea of breathing (as well as the action and anything associated with it like smoking or smelling, etc). See how much I can rake in.

This is very disturbing, I had no idea that one could own things like this (and the fact that one can is absolutely absurd)

For example, the human genome exists in every one of us, and is therefore our shared heritage and an undoubted fact of nature. Nevertheless 20 percent of the genome is now privately owned. The gene for diabetes is owned, and its owner has something to say about any research you do, and what it will cost you. The entire genome of the hepatitis C virus is owned by a biotech company. Royalty costs now influence the direction of research in basic diseases, and often even the testing for diseases. Such barriers to medical testing and research are not in the public interest. Do you want to be told by your doctor, "Oh, nobody studies your disease any more because the owner of the gene/enzyme/correlation has made it too expensive to do research?"

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Such a situation is idiotic, of course.

I agree

I wanted to end this essay by telling a story about how current rulings hurt us, but the patent for "ending an essay with an anecdote" is owned. So I thought to end with a quotation from a famous person, but that strategy is patented, too. I then decided to end abruptly, but "abrupt ending for dramatic effect" is also patented. Finally, I decided to pay the "end with summary" patent fee, since it was the least expensive.

wow. I think i've ended every essay I've written with one of those things and I think a lot of students do. Does this mean that essays will no longer be a part of school curriculum down there?

Soon nobody in the states will be able to have any ideas without owing money which means.

I never actually realized just how greedy us humans are (then again, I doubt it's as bad in any other country but I have NO idea so don't hold me on that one).

Did you see the sponsor for this article:

does my name have to end with an 'm' in order to get in on this lovefestm?

[color:purple]Of course it does, don't be silly. Your night will have to include at least one Something though (preferably two Somethings prefixed with a Mr).

It is kinda funny though with the m's. I use mattm for everything 'cause it's my name.

Is anyone else on here going to the show tonight?

You've never even heard the first I Mother Earth record? Good show but I only caught the last half hour (showed up late today). Thanks for the last tune.

Brad, you are a life saver. I was going to go to the bayou tomorrow night for MSS (yeah, terrible memory and organizational skills)

From Mark Wilson when I emailed about tickets going on sale:

Hello,

You will be able to get tickets the first week of march. They are going to be 65 dollars advance price. The outlets will be listed on the site or you can send your payment to me personally and i will mail you tickets.

[Address Omitted]

I don't see ticket outlets on the site yet though and it's past the first week of march. I really want a ticket

no, you have to put the music on manually

I don't get it, where's the leperchaun? I guess it's picture shy as well as bright light shy.

I don't even see what folks are assuming is a leperchaun.

Well, if your iPod is capable of acting as a USB key (there's a setting in iTunes to tell the iPod it's allowed to be a hard drive), you can then copy and paste all the mp3's onto the new hard drive. That's how I did it but all the file names were mangled (look like giberish.mp3). That's easy to fix with a program like ID3Tagit which you can tell to rename all the mp3's based on the ID3 tags.

Bouche would probably be the best to answer this one though.

I love this:

1/2 watt amp

How much do you guys sell it for? I was going to make my own but it would look really crappy compared to that little guy (not to mention about 3 times the size since I have no board cutter and don't actually know what I'm doing).

Also, if I have an old pedal that's been way too well used, can you guys fix it? I'm 90% percent sure the problem is with caps that have just lost their capacity to hold charge or something on those lines (there's extra noise coming out of the pedal and an electric buddy of mine said that's probably the reason). How much do you charge for such work (roughly)?

McMaster Ride Board

The Cannon Ride board (my friend zoe is on the top of this list looking for rides guelph - t.o. and back)

Western (U) Ride Board

For U of Waterloo's baord you'd have to call them (888-4567 x3867 or 888-4434) and the u of guelph board is now the cannon one posted above. Just start calling people or try to post your name on them and something will come up.

Thailand is my favorite place on earth.

My biggest suggestion is to learn the numbers first. If you don't know your numbers you'll get ripped off (ie, go to a store and they'll tell you a price and if you just stand there looking dumb they'll show you the price on a calculator but it will be higher than the price they just said).

soon - zero

nueng - one

song - 2

sam - 3

see - 4

har - 5

hok - 6

jed - 7

bad - 8

gao - 9

sib - 10

sib-et - 11

sib-song - 12

sib-sam - 13

sib-see - 14

...

yee-sib - 20

yee-sib-et - 21

yee-sib-song - 22

...

sam-sib - 30

see-sib - 40

...

nueng-roi - 100

song-roi - 200

and so forth and so one. Once you have those and you get to know the prices of things it gets really cheap and you can bargain. One guy tried to sell me a hammock for 1800 baht but I ended up buying it off him for 160 baht (tourist area, they start real high). You don't actually have to do this since our money is worth way more but it's kinda fun and saves you money for the important things like alcohol.

On that line, if you go to any of the islands, try out a bucket. You can pick the drink you get in it but a mixed drink is quite costly. The generic bucket is 1 mickey of rye, one can of pop and one can of redbull in a kids beach pail with a straw. You'll see them all over.

also check this out:

other post

It's about south east asia but there's thailand talk in it.

Have fun and do everything you wouldn't normally do here. The key thing to remember is that it's so far away no one here will know what you get up to unless you tell them so it's a free for all.

No doubt! We caught MacHomer, the one-man rendering of MacBeth in Simpsons voices, in Toronto few years back - check it out: MacHomer .

I just listened to the first little audio clip from that and man that guy can do the simpsons.

damn

Is the moose talking to the green thing?

I personally don't own any animal clothing except a shirt that has a fish saying "Think Shrimp" but I know my mom and dad both have a wolf howling at the moon shirt

Thanks, I needed that for a good monday morning laugh.

I can't wait. I've been wanting Futurama to come back on for ages. They've been talking about the dvd's (movies like family guy to make the comeback) for a while but I wanted more tv episodes.

AAAHHHHHHHH, the planet's kerploding!

This is the only show I watch on tv (I boycotted tv when reality tv went past survivor, that's just me though).

Plead guilty with an explanation and say that you will be a student soon and can't afford to pay the ticket. It's worked for me three times now and was only true once. I got one ticket down from $125 to $30, 6 months to pay and no points.

the boy has got balls.

That's almost all he ended up with.

That has to hurt.

So far St. Paddy's day here in Ottawa is pretty boring for me.

For god's sake, it's 2:34pm (2:35 now) and I still haven't had even ONE beer or drink or alcohol of any kind. 2 more hours to go but man I am BORED here at work.

When I was over in south east asia everyone drank bottled water of some sort.

The tourists bought it from the stores (the pepsi, etc kind) and the locals/expats got it from the water guy that would drive around or the little phone booth looking contraptions that filtered the water so you could refill.

I know I sure as hell wasn't going to use tap water to drink. I also wasn't going to pay a store tonnes (relatively nothing actually in comparison to what it is here but too much for the average price range of things there) for their water when I could get clean water elsewhere.

This is one of the reasons I don't completely approve of capitalism. It's constantly taking from the poor and giving to the rich (robin hood would be devistated)

It's neat because it will take any javascript but it runs on the client side so things like customizing colors doesn't involve any overhead on the server.

hmmmmmm, according to this (hijacked from tim hortons site)...

southern ontario gets way more cups than anywhere else. Then again, I have a feeling TO is in that section so there may be lots more cups but there are also lots more people.

Myself, I was disapointed that eastern ontario (ottawa) doesn't get too many cups This is part of a poster that is at the tim hortons at my work (we have one in the caf)

I'd say the worst chance of winning would be in BC