Lawliet's Life and Stuff

Friday, February 29, 2008

Snakes on a plane. Well, sort of.

No I'm not talking about the movie. I'm talking about the two incredibly rude 18 year old girls who got on Southwest Airlines on Valentines day and decided to act stuck up and just plain stupid. As usual, picture attached.

Here is what they said:
“I think they were just discriminating against [us] because we were young, decent-looking girls. I mean, nobody else on the plane looked like us — except us.”

What? Nisreen Swedberg and Sarah Williams apparently think they are "too hot" and thus are being discriminated against. News for you girls, you are nothing more than vile snakes. Looks mean squat when you are acting like a spoiled brat. The passengers reported that the teens began abusing a passenger verbally in-flight, created problems for the flight attendants because they were not immediately served water, and, get this, banged on the door of the airplane bathroom because they wanted to use it.

Ladies, you are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. Grow up.

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From Digg: I've Got Measles! Thanks Mom!

First of all, read this from the description:
There are new measles outbreaks right now in California and New York. Why? Parents failed to immunize their kids. Please digg so more parents will read that the link to autism has been debunked. Measles is highly contagious and can cause brain swelling, pneumonia, and even death. Read the full story.
Alright, first of all I would like to say that ignoring basic immunization is just plain stupid. It is irresponsible parenting. Yes it is possible that you're little Jimmy may get some kind of allergy or rash or some minor discomfort from the shot. That is FAR better than him having a serious illness with profound health effects later on in life. It bothers me to no end that someone could even try to justify avoiding the medicines which have helped save us from outbreaks sucks as smallpox and the like.

I would also like to make another point. Religious communities, take note of what it says in the article. Believing in your imaginary all-powerful friend in the sky does not make you immune to disease. In fact, you are responsible for keeping it going with that kind of attitude. Take some responsibility and protect your kids, yourself, and your community by getting the readily available immunizations. They are FREE. It is intolerable that some would use religion as an excuse to destroy their kid's health.

No one is going to magically protect you from sickness. Grow up.

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Digg CAPTCHA Retaliates!

You know those letters/numbers that certain sites ask you to enter to verify that you are human and to prevent bots? Well, apparantly the Digg CAPTCHA didn't approve of what this Digg user wanted to submit.


If you can't quite make out what it says, "WTF fU" is what the CAPTCHA decided to express to the Digg user. Should we wait idly by as the CAPTCHA becomes self aware and stars killing people? Everyone knows thats the next step after back talk.

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Game Give Away Of The Day: Space Interceptor


Here we have a 2004 game which plays like a good old arcade game. Despite what you may think of 2004, the graphics are not terrible. The gameplay is nothing to write home about but decent enough to keep you immersed for a good few hours. It is a pretty big game however, scoring 391MB for download.

The requirements are very minimalistic for today's computers:
Minimum Windows System Requirements: Pentium III 700 MHz or 100% compatible; 256 MB RAM; ATI Radeon 7500 (GeForce 2) class gfx card with 32 MB RAM; Sound card; DirectX 9 (included). Recommended: Pentium IV or Athlon XP 1600 MHz or 100% compatible; 256 MB RAM; ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (GeForce 5600 FX) class gfx card with 64 MB RAM with DirectX9.0 compliant video drivers

Get the game here.

Information on the game below:

Sink your senses into this immersive, relentless space combat game. Blast down alien fighters, rescue desperate comrades and get your entire fleet out alive using a thundering barrage of missiles, photon torpedoes, plasma bombs and lasers.

Core Gameplay:

  • You are the hero as you blaze through enemy fleets around massive spaceships, tumbling asteroid fields and snaking planet-side canyons;
  • Simultaneously fire ship-to-ship missiles, ship-to-ground missiles, photon torpedoes and plasma bombs to create compelling non-stop action;
  • Fantastic explosions create columns of light and energy racing into the dark depths of space;
  • Easy to play/impossible to resist as soon as you pop it in;
  • Teeth rattling missions including escort, strike and rescue operations;
  • Astoundingly realistic environments with countless special effects and 3D sound.

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Give Away Of The Day: WinWatermark


Today's release seems like a complete waste of a good GAOTD day. It is an image editing software with all the features of every other software available on the market. Meaning its about as unique as a grain of sand at a beach. Approval rating: 58%. I'm not sure what you would want to use it for, and its only real useful feature as far as I can see is the Batch Convert mode.

Get it here.

Information below:

WinWatermark is a professional all in one image editing software. It helps you add text and image watermark to any pictures to protect them from unauthorized distribution. WinWatermark is not only watermarking tool, but rather useful and simple photos processor. You can personalize your photos using attractive frames, crop image size to meet you need, resize images with high quality, rotate and rename your pictures, and convert your images to other image formats.

Features:

  1. High speed and high image quality (including powerful Image Processing Engine, which based on MMX- SSE & 3DNow! Technology)
  2. Support almost popular image file formats (including Image Decode/Encode Engine, which can read and write many image formats)
  3. Easy to use software (create your artwork in visual mode, what you see is what you get)
  4. Batch convert mode.

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I'm back again! Blame Savage!

Well it seems I've been slacking off again and not posting enough. Partly I am going to place the blame on Savage by S2Games. They released the game for free when they opened the Savage 2 pre-orders and I've been addicted ever since. The game is simply phenomenal, combining First Person, Third Person, and Real Time Strategy interfaces all in one game. You can choose to fight as a unit, or be the Commander and order units (other players) around.
Doesn't that look amazing? As I said it is free to download, so try it out yourselves!

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