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The Kenneth Starr report (which was not a tabloid, but rather an investigation with mountains of evidence) linked Bill Clinton to 11 serperate murders in Arkansas while he was govenor.

I realize their important. I also realize that I'm a mediocre programmer.

this is also not true. most companies won't provide a bad reference out of fear of a lawsuit, but there is no law saying you can't provide a bad reference. basically, it just isn't worth the money of a slander lawsuit vs. "no comment" or "no, we would not rehire this person." the latter is cheaper, even if they don't slander... taks That depends in what state you live in. In California, I know that you are only allowed to ask if a person worked at a company, how long they worked there and if they are eligible for rehire.

I too, often think in fragments. In Spanish, the subject can often be implied. In English, if you leave the subject out, you have a fragment. Fragment good. Sentences bad.

Crappiest. Crappy + est = crappiest. I've heard of Hungary, but don't really know anything about it.

The planet must be the Borg homeworld, or Cybertron.

Especially the line that says: * Try not to confuse the reader. They might trample plungers and skite your daisyboom.

Well, there are plenty of books and comics on Boba Fett that paid for licensing, and feature a Lucas approved logo, but they completely contradict cannon, or rather the movies contradict them. Paying for a Lucas logo does not make one official, or cannon.

Are you implying that The Passion of the Christ was a sith movie?

Well, the characters and story were popular enough to spawn a sequel of sorts in the upcoming Final Fantasy movie.

Its Emportent 2 Speek English Reel Good-Like! * Don't use no double negatives. * Don't never use no triple negatives. * No sentence fragments. * Corollary: Complete sentences: Important. * Stamp out and eliminate redundancy. * Avoid cliches like the plague. * All generalizations are bad. * Corollary: All statements must be specific. * Never listen to advice. * Take care that your verb and subject is in agreement. * A preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with. * Down with categorical imperatives. * Avoid those run-on sentences that just go on, and on, and on, they never stop, they just keep rambling, and you really wish the person would just shut up, but no, they just keep going, they're worse than the Energizer Bunny, they babble incessantly, and these sentences, they just never stop, they go on forever...if you get my drift... * Never contradict yourself always. * You should never use the second person. * When dangling, watch your participles. * Never go off on tangents, which are lines that intersect a curve at only one point and were discovered by Euclid, who lived in the sixth century, which was an era dominated by the Goths, who lived in what we now know as Poland... * As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "I hate quotations." * Excessive use of exclamation points can be disastrous!!!!! * Remember to end each sentence with a period * Don't use commas, which aren't necessary. * Don't use question marks inappropriately? * Don't be terse. * Don't obfuscate your theses with extraneous verbiage. * Never use that totally cool, radically groovy out-of-date slang. * Avoid tumbling off the cliff of triteness into the black abyss of overused metaphors. * Keep your ear to the grindstone, your nose to the ground, take the bull by the horns of a dilemma, and stop mixing your metaphors. * Avoid those abysmally horrible, outrageously repellent exaggerations. * Avoid any awful anachronistic aggravating antediluvian alliterations. * Generally speaking, generalizations apply to most people, most of the time. * Surely you wouldn't want to be sarcastic, right? * Don't patronize your readers, not that you would understand what it means to patronize. * It is well to do good when matching verbs with adverbs and nouns with adjectives. * Absolutely never use absolute statements. * Don't leave prepositions following. * It is certainly a faus pax to use foreign terms that people might not comprenda. * I don't care what you say! You shouldn't be argumentative! * Even when leaving Asia, your language shouldn't be disorienting. * Try not to confuse the reader. They might trample plungers and skite your daisyboom. * Don't abbreviate. Abrv are bad. * ALL CAPS = BADNESS = COMING ACROSS LIKE AN IMMATURE POOPYHEAD COROLLARY: EXAGGERATION = GALACTIC BADNESS LVL 10 BILLION!!!! * in summary and conclusion (to wrap things up) ummm...U, like don't express urself well unless U do that thing where U organize your thoughts, and then U utilize the steps that I totally like mentioned above in a coherent, smart (intelligent???) manner with that gramer stuff sooooo.... talk good or people don't respect your smarts!

THE BEST RESIGNATION LETTER EVER Actual letter of resignation from an employee at Zantex Computers, USA, to her boss, who apparently resigned very soon afterwards! Dear Mr. Baker, As a graduate of an institution of higher education, I have a few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of my coworkers and me during the commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time. Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every little nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" for the hundredth time. You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is. Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will. You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault in others. You have a sharp dressed useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle. Since this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation, however I have a few parting thoughts. 1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal for you to give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer not to comment." I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own. 2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I am going to publish your "favorites list", which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually viewed favorably by the administration. 3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your Mother's birthday," you neglected to mention that you were going to take pictures of yourself in the mirror nude. Then you forgot to erase them like the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never seen such odd acts with a sauce bottle, but I assure you that those have been copied and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please; I hate having to correct your mistakes.) Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody, and all of your little twisted repugnant obsessions will be open to the public. Never f*** with your systems administrator. Why? Because they know what you do with all that free time! Wishing you a grand and glorious day, Cecelia

And in fairness, the more Anti-American government cartoon in response.

Good moddable engines allow you to drop in new textures, models and animations. Half Life and Morrowind are two great examples of this. That's why people can make mods that look so good for both. As far as combat goes, Half Life is so moddable, that you can completely change combat and gameplay. A Bushido mod was in the works years ago (never saw if it was finished) that took away all the guns and replaced them with katanas. Morrowind's combat hasn't been modded that much yet, but creature AI and stats have been changed in various mods. So those two factors can be affected in mods.

I hope the lightsaber makes a satisfying sound when slicing through said bunnies.

Your avatar reminds me of a Stanley Kubrik character.

I'd rather have a toasted bagel, perhaps Asiago Cheese or Tomato Basil with some cream cheese.

On the subject of NC-Soft MMO's coming out. Lineage 2 is pure PvP if you like that. Tabula Rasa looks incredible. All the grind and BS is taken out. They focused on all the "fun" stuff.

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I was horribly disappointed with Episode 1. Episode 2 was pretty decent. Either way, I know I'm throwing money down to see Episode 3, and I imagine millions and millions of other people will too. Despite all the negative BS you hear, Episode 1 and 2 both made lots of money. Episode 3 won't be any different.

Am I the only person who sat through Attack of the Clones and saw Padme and Anakin dodging factory equipment thinking "Lucas is trying to make this movie Playstation-friendly"? I'm shocked we haven't seen that in a game yet.

Asimov's Foundation series and Card's Worthing Saga both feature a villian who isn't evil for evil sake. And they don't hate the protagonist. They merely believe it is their fate to tear things down just as it the protagonist's fate to build things up.

Why hack and slash endlessly when napalm will do the trick?

It frankly disappointed me that HK was such a fully realized party member and T3 was a piece of bantha-poodoo. He had no personality, story or dialogue. I might as well have had a toaster in my party. Except a toaster can toast bagels. T3 just took up space.

I know people who have free-roaming ferrets with dogs or cats. It depends when they are introduced to each other. I have one ferret that refuses to use litter boxes, so they don't get free roam of the house.