bhodi
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« Last Edit: December 28, 2006, 08:33:20 PM by bhodi »
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Strazos
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They just use Linksys hardware with Vonage stickers slapped on?
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Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
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bhodi
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Linksys, Dlink, Motorola, Cisco, Vtech, etc. -- Someone made a "VoIP chip" and all of the products carry it. I personally think the Vphone is the coolest. It's the only one that I'd consider using personally, as I have no landline - I use my cell phone for all voice communication.
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Sky
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I know a few people like that (cell phones as main communication). I hang up on them after telling them to call me from a landline. I don't want to try and decipher their verbal morse code.
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bhodi
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Crappy service, crappy phone? Most people can't tell for me. Honestly, I don't use it very much either. I use upwards of 20-30 minutes a month.
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Strazos
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My house does not have a landline. What's the point if people are hardly at home anyway?
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Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
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Sky
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I'm a luddite. I don't want people calling me when I'm not at home. At home, I screen calls with the answering machines. Get off my lawn.
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Miasma
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I personally think the Vphone is the coolest. It's the only one that I'd consider using personally, as I have no landline - I use my cell phone for all voice communication. You know that's not an actual phone right? It's a USB key that "turns your computer into a phone". You need an entire computer attached to it, plus the internet connection, plus a headset.
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I personally think the Vphone is the coolest. It's the only one that I'd consider using personally, as I have no landline - I use my cell phone for all voice communication. You know that's not an actual phone right? It's a USB key that "turns your computer into a phone". You need an entire computer attached to it, plus the internet connection, plus a headset. Yup. Although it does have some cool features, primarily being that if you have a vonage ip phone you can set the Vphone to the same number while you're travelling so anyone calling your home phone gets either the Vphone or voicemail. Kind of cool. But I've heard mixed reviews on Vonage's service. That said I have an ip phone from a local provider and I'm happy with it. With my home ip phone and my cell I've managed to completely divorce myself from the local monopoly telco who sucks major ass.
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Speaking of marketing, we're out of milk.
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Trippy
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stray
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Strazos
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On one hand, yeah, it's a very stupid commercial.
But on the other hand, the reality is that we have a rapidly aging population. Catering to that older demographic is a pretty smart bet. Stuff like franchises in the nursing home and funerary fields are starting to take off now. Yeah, it's pretty slimy, but the money is there to be made.
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Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
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stray
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But that guy....Ugh....The only thing worse than a dork is a dork who think he's hip.
"Boom, boom, boom!!"
Fucking retarded.
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bhodi
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As Straz points out, the majority of the population is hitting the 50+ side of things. They still think they're hip and with-it and control the media. You're going to see a shit ton more of this stuff over the next 10-15 years. Those of us born between the baby-boomers and the Gen-Ys are just fucked.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Strazos
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Hey, most shit places me in Gen Y. I still feel screwed as well.
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Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
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WindupAtheist
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stray
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SurfD
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great live action spoof, especially if you have ever seen any of the City Hunter anime serieses.
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Darwinism is the Gateway Science.
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HaemishM
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That commercial is a boom boom boom in the diaper of my mind.
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Yoru
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the y master, king of bourbon
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Strazos
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They opened with a shot of Doom. Way to be relevant, idiots.
Also, he cherrypicks so badly. Oooo, Manhunt, GTA, Bully.
And lol....crime rates didn't go down, people are just hiding it more.
What. A. Load. Of. Shit.
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Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
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geldonyetich
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The Anne Coulter of MMO punditry
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Ironwood
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Nope, I'm not gonna click that link. As a mod, you should BAN yourself.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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SurfD
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Darwinism is the Gateway Science.
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This video made me cringe... A 300hp+ car with a racing clutch is too strong to be held in place just by a parking brake. That probably what happened.
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Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.
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Strazos
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The car Should have just stalled.
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Fear the Backstab! "Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion "Hell is other people." -Sartre
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bhodi
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Engels
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inflicts shingles.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Trippy
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bhodi
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It's a soda fountain. People have way too much time on their hands.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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Now that's constructive use of marijuana.
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