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Hehehe Well, I'm sure Azat will soon jump in and tell us how it was done in the old days with the rubber bands and the rocks but I personally started with a C64: 1MHz 8-bit processor and 64K of total memory Getting the XT was like a dream come true after that (we borrowed it for a couple of months from a friend) ... but then had a MAC for a while ... YES! A MAC! My first real graphical user interface.

Cowboys and Muslims I thought this was pretty hillarious. Sorry if it offends ... but if it does, lighten up ... it's just a joke -------------- Three strangers strike up a conversation in the passenger lounge in ***eman Montana, awaiting their flights. One is an American Indian passing through from Lame Deer, another, a Cowboy on his way to Billings for a stock show. The third passenger is a Fundamentalist Arab student, newly arrived at Montana State University from the Middle East. Their discussion drifts to their diverse cultures. Soon the two Westerners learn that the Arab is a devout, radical Muslim. The conversation falls into an uneasy lull. The cowboy leans back in his chair, crosses his boots on a magazine table, tips his big sweat-stained hat forward over his face. The wind outside blows tumbleweeds, and the old windsock flaps; but no plane comes. Finally, the American Indian clears his throat and softly he speaks, "Once, my people were many, now we are few." The Muslim student raises an eyebrow and leans forward "Once my people were few," he sneers, "and now we are many. Why do you suppose that is?" The Montana cowboy shifts his toothpick to one side of his mouth and from the darkness beneath his Stetson says in a drawl, "That's 'cause we ain't Played Cowboys and Muslims yet."

The general masses of people are idiots ... complete morons. I see a lot of value in religion to keep these imbeciles that inhabit our earth in check by providing them a strict, well-defined set of rules to follow. Unfortunately, religion has had it's downsides but I don't think we would have had the world we have now if it wasn't for organized religion. Let's not forget for example that eventhough the Catholics have caused many deaths and lots of destruction, they were the leading force behind the amazing progress in Europe. Yes, regligion has led to many horrible things ... but my entire body cringes at the thought of what would have happened if there were no strict "rules" to lead the dumb masses that have and continue to inhabit the earth. [ March 15, 2003, 04:27 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by Stormy:... America admits suspects died in interrogations ... Very interesting... I wonder how the Taliban would treat American captured prisoners. Now two of those bastards die and all of a sudden all these sissy-poos are all outraged at this "shocking" behavior!!! Well, too bad ... open your eyes and realize we ain't going to put these a-holes in 5-star hotels, serve them champagne, and wipe their behinds with scented t.p.

quote:Originally posted by Azat:... a new project I am working on as of last Monday. I am doing a 1 month project converting a VB 6 app to a .NET app we few others and in the process I am learning .NET.... NERD

It can be a very embarrasing situation when the endowed chair of one of the most prestegious academic institutions in the world tries to tell you about his collection of "rail books" and you tell him that you too have always been interested in trains. As if that wasn't enough, when he was telling me about his theories on "repetition-based incentives" (it has to do with networking and queueing theory but that's not important), and I thought he had actually meant "reputation-based incentives" and asked him about it ... well, he immediately corrected me and said no ... "repetition-based incentives". ... anyway ... long story short, I found out later that he was in fact saying "reputation-based incentives" so I basically had no idea what he was talking about till about 30 minutes after the conversation. And yes, he is chinese and very old. [ March 13, 2003, 05:48 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by nairi:[QB]What's up with this sentence? The quick brown fox jumped over a lazy spotted dog. What's up? The fox. Armenian equavalent? Trick question. There are no quick foxes nor spotted dogs ... although there are plenty of lazy dogs in Armenia. No, this is NOT some sort of "intelligent" political comment or analogy. If I really had to translate? in an "equivalent" sense? Arag serjaguin aghvese tsadkets tsuyl desnvats shan vrits. As far as Mashtots and the alphabet, I still maintain this was the original version: aaa be ge de yez, eh @ teki, je ii le xe tse ke heri, Q!$#^#@^@@@ p, ke, OFFFFFF gluxhes tsvats. Ok, my modem connection sucks so I'll stop there.

Well, just to clarify, the ones that I saw looked more like they were cruising around trying to pick up chicks in a "pimp" mobile but I guess seeing that they were (devoutly) jewish, maybe I should have been "reminded" on how horrible the state of political affairs is in the world. Maybe instead of looking at them and having this big fat grin on my face, I should have looked at them and had tears of sorrow, realizing that the institution they represent is officially not recognizing genocide and is thus my enemy. Saddly enough, I am not that deep and just the mere visual image of those two guys in the cadilac just made my day

You canadians sure are strange people.

Ahahahaahah ... she sounds hillarious. That really great ... more power to her. I just hope some stupid "fundamentalist" won't take it upon himself to carry out the word of Allah on this lady.

Sorry to hear that Azat I saw the strangest and probably one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my life. I was driving down Sepulveda on my way to UCLA around 2pm ... and this is what I see ... now I really wish I had a digital cam with me but I didn't ... there's really no good way to do justice to what I saw, with words ... There was this huge 2-door PINK old cadilac, in pretty bad shape, convertible with the top down, cruising along ... with 2 RABBI types sitting in it!!!! Those old cadilacs are huge (kina like a big boat) ... It was freaking hillarious. So the older rabbi is sitting in the back on the passenger side, with his round black hat, the big black beard, and the curls, with his arms extended over the back seat. The front passenger seat was folded forward so he had extended his legs really enjoying the ride. The driver was much younger and had a yarmulke. Damn I wish I had my camera. Sights like this, you only see once in a lifetime maybe.

http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/misc/sip_mud.jpg I just want to see you guys with your big lists and hondas try this once Oh and before Accel brings up his "fast" mazadas and wrxs, guess who's pulling who HERE. You still want to talk about your big lists ... go ahead.

Interestingly enough, I was thinking the other day, as I was driving home, what an odd title "Schindler's List" is for a serious movie. I don't think I can take that movie seriously after what we have said here (I haven't seen it yet). Anyway, I got very curious about this "three date protocol" ... yes THOTH, please ... DO enlighten us about this amazing custom which I apparently know knowthing about. Sounds interesting.

The only thing that puzzles me, is why wait till March to tell us these amazing insights about pedurs (the other thread) and turchuns. Wouldn't the month of "Pedr-var" have been more appropriate? Next question I have is why do people get so amuzed when I tell them I am a "barksa-hav"? Isn't it a rather tasteless joke? Which brings up this other point (considering all this gobble gobble talk): I have heard Armenians use the phrase "anham" to describe "tasteless" or actually, more accurately, "unfunny" jokes and behavior. Conceptually, clearly the same root ... but I wonder how that came to be!

quote:Originally posted by Azat:... I just can't wait to get my baby back. I am sick of driving this stupid Dodge Neon, it sucks. Small hint (not that I have ever done it myself ) ... take out the air filter, and it'll sound and drive like a crazy sports car.

Tatev jan, kartses vor mer Azate lav "jiguli" yev "zaparoji" masnaget a ... drantsits batsi, Volvo neri masin el LAAAAV gidi (I assume those jugulis are similar to our Volvos here? ... oops, sorry, I thought we were still roasting you azat jan ). By the way, "Inspector Sip" .... hmmmm ... that sounds pretty cool. I like it (actually, some of the guys I know do call me Inspector Gadget because of all the high tech stuff I carry with me everywhere I go)

But you can't go wrong with that router/gateway idea. A setup like that can block all unwanted incoming packets to your computer ... before they GET to your computer By the way, if you keep up with the periodic security patches in "Windows Update", your PC will be fairly safe. Unless you are running some sort of server on it, just by setting up things correctly in windows you can be in good shape. This means not having trivial admin passwords, not sharing any disks, and not running any servers (ftp), etc.

Thanks to you, I just wasted 15 minutes of my life.

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http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/roflmao.gif Ok I am seriously laughing out loud over here! A "van"??? I highly doubt someone like this guy would be driving a "bright brown van"!!! No wonder he is acting this way ... you crushed his ego and left him bleeding internally Ok, it sounds like he is driving some sort of SUV. Based on the color, I am going to guess it is some sort of Ford ... maybe a Ford Expedition or a Navigator. Anyway, that part is not too important. What is important, is that for an American male bachelor living in LA, the car is more than just a car. It's an image ... it's an extension of the person. If you ignore the car, you have ignored the person. If you can find out what kind of car he has, I can tell you a few questions to ask him that will REALLY make him cheer up

Oh and FYI, there are ALWAYS at least one or two moderators keeping a close eye on things around here [ March 04, 2003, 11:02 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by Tatev Hayrapetian:... right now we are the only ones in here so let’s chat some more there is no Garik Not sure if you know about the "private message" feature we have here but it can be very useful. Simply click on next to someone's name (above their post) to send them a private message if you want. This is especially useful for personal conversations and things that are not related to topics being discussed in public. Let me know if you have any questions.

Dear Tatev .... ammmmmmmmenits karevor bane moratsar ases ... WHAT KIND OF CAR WAS IT??? Welcome to hyeforum!

NICE! By the way, sorry bro but geocities won't let you link images directly. You have to copy-paste the link to a new browser window ... this is THE LINK to your image. By the way, I saw a 2-door G500 Mercedes today at UCLA. A nice looking blond was driving it but traffic was such that I couldn't get close to check it out. I have NEVER seen one of those around here before, even though you see all sorts of strange and exotic cars around west-LA.

this is just too funny not to post ... so here it is Beer Ad (sorry it's ~700K and in windows media format).