Friday Five, Talk Soup Style...
Oct. 11th, 2002 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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loveandlight (what a great handle...):
As a peace activist standing firmly in the nonviolence camp, I can think of no one living who demonstrates the dedication to economic and justice, peace and nonviolence as much as Jimmy Carter.
He is a gentle, but determined man. He has looked for peaceful solutions to every world conflict before, during and after his presidency. And he has often been successful in creating a climate for peace where only a climate for war was present. Israel and Egypt, for instance.
Carter isn't flashy or controversial so he gets little media attention, but he is a great and honorable man and well respected throughout the peace activist communities. Remember, he has been nominated over and over and over again. Former prize winners each are allowed to mominate one candidate. Jimmy Carter was nominated by many different peace organizations over the years.
I'm sorry he didn't win earlier, but I am pleased that this award is honoring his lifetime stand for peace. He is one Christian who seems to get the central message of his religion: unconditional and boundless love.
We have not had an American president as honorable as he since he left the White House. By a long, long shot.
Amen, brother. Miss that one, and you've missed the whole boat.
Frombigbigtruck:
I've been humiliated very publicly by a complete stranger who had nothing to gain or lose by doing so. At this point, his motivation no longer matters. I will accept an apology from him after one of his teeth is stuck between my knuckles.
Unfortunately, the incident occurred off LJ - over at a used-to-be-nice-place, http://www.animemusicvideos.org. Namely, their forums. As much as this still angers me - it does point up to me that my policy regarding "celebrities" still stands.
1. You don't treat public figures any differently from anyone else.
2. You don't make slaves out of them by using them for your own ends without consulting them, compensating them and respecting them.
3. Being known as a fanatic is NOT good. Being called a fan is tantamount to an insult, with good cause.
I think EK got a good dose of the celebrity "treatment," without actually being a celebrity in truth. And this is SO not Phade's fault - he's tried to keep as much of a hands-off policy in the forums, it behooves me to mention it. He truly believes this group can moderate itself. Unfortunately, it is peppered with low-lifes whose only mission is to see what they can break before someone stops them. The blame belongs to them...and those who think it's cool/cute to be an asshole.
Fromhooverdam:
A lovely link to learn Korean.
Fromcoolwhipcarnage:
A guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey. He orders a drink and while he's drinking, the monkey starts jumping all over the place. The monkey grabs some olives off the bar and eats them, then grabs some sliced limes and eats them, then jumps up on the pool table, grabs the cue ball, sticks it in his mouth and swallows it whole. The bartender screams at the guy, "Did you see what your monkey just did?" The guy says, "No, what?" "He just ate the cue ball off my pool table - whole!" says the bartender.
"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replies the patron. "He eats everything in sight, the little twerp. I'll pay for the cue ball and stuff." He finishes his drink, pays his bill, and leaves.
Two weeks later he's in the bar again, and he has his monkey with him. He orders a drink and the monkey starts running around the bar again. While the man is drinking, the monkey finds a maraschino cherry on the bar. He grabs it, sticks it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it. The bartender is disgusted. "Did you see what your monkey did now?" "Now what?" asks the patron. "Well, he stuck a maraschino cherry up his butt, then pulled it out and ate it!" says the barkeeper.
"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replies the patron. "He still eats everything in sight, but ever since he ate that damn cue ball he measures everything first!"
From2stars4arms:
Dr. Seuss Explains Why Computers Sometimes Crash
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol, that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse; then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'cuz sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk, and the macro code instructions cause unnecessary risk, then you'll have to flash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM. Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!
That one goes to the boss.
Enjoy your weekend guys!
loveandlight (what a great handle...):As a peace activist standing firmly in the nonviolence camp, I can think of no one living who demonstrates the dedication to economic and justice, peace and nonviolence as much as Jimmy Carter.
He is a gentle, but determined man. He has looked for peaceful solutions to every world conflict before, during and after his presidency. And he has often been successful in creating a climate for peace where only a climate for war was present. Israel and Egypt, for instance.
Carter isn't flashy or controversial so he gets little media attention, but he is a great and honorable man and well respected throughout the peace activist communities. Remember, he has been nominated over and over and over again. Former prize winners each are allowed to mominate one candidate. Jimmy Carter was nominated by many different peace organizations over the years.
I'm sorry he didn't win earlier, but I am pleased that this award is honoring his lifetime stand for peace. He is one Christian who seems to get the central message of his religion: unconditional and boundless love.
We have not had an American president as honorable as he since he left the White House. By a long, long shot.
Amen, brother. Miss that one, and you've missed the whole boat.
From
bigbigtruck:I've been humiliated very publicly by a complete stranger who had nothing to gain or lose by doing so. At this point, his motivation no longer matters. I will accept an apology from him after one of his teeth is stuck between my knuckles.
Unfortunately, the incident occurred off LJ - over at a used-to-be-nice-place, http://www.animemusicvideos.org. Namely, their forums. As much as this still angers me - it does point up to me that my policy regarding "celebrities" still stands.
1. You don't treat public figures any differently from anyone else.
2. You don't make slaves out of them by using them for your own ends without consulting them, compensating them and respecting them.
3. Being known as a fanatic is NOT good. Being called a fan is tantamount to an insult, with good cause.
I think EK got a good dose of the celebrity "treatment," without actually being a celebrity in truth. And this is SO not Phade's fault - he's tried to keep as much of a hands-off policy in the forums, it behooves me to mention it. He truly believes this group can moderate itself. Unfortunately, it is peppered with low-lifes whose only mission is to see what they can break before someone stops them. The blame belongs to them...and those who think it's cool/cute to be an asshole.
From
hooverdam:A lovely link to learn Korean.
From
coolwhipcarnage:A guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey. He orders a drink and while he's drinking, the monkey starts jumping all over the place. The monkey grabs some olives off the bar and eats them, then grabs some sliced limes and eats them, then jumps up on the pool table, grabs the cue ball, sticks it in his mouth and swallows it whole. The bartender screams at the guy, "Did you see what your monkey just did?" The guy says, "No, what?" "He just ate the cue ball off my pool table - whole!" says the bartender.
"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replies the patron. "He eats everything in sight, the little twerp. I'll pay for the cue ball and stuff." He finishes his drink, pays his bill, and leaves.
Two weeks later he's in the bar again, and he has his monkey with him. He orders a drink and the monkey starts running around the bar again. While the man is drinking, the monkey finds a maraschino cherry on the bar. He grabs it, sticks it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it. The bartender is disgusted. "Did you see what your monkey did now?" "Now what?" asks the patron. "Well, he stuck a maraschino cherry up his butt, then pulled it out and ate it!" says the barkeeper.
"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replies the patron. "He still eats everything in sight, but ever since he ate that damn cue ball he measures everything first!"
From
2stars4arms:Dr. Seuss Explains Why Computers Sometimes Crash
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol, that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse; then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'cuz sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk, and the macro code instructions cause unnecessary risk, then you'll have to flash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM. Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!
That one goes to the boss.
Enjoy your weekend guys!
