Why do I "kill" threads

[thomsbrain]

must...be...last...poster...

 

[xuanman]

it's hammer timer

 

[ultimatebob]

Yeah, tell me about it! Almost every time I post, I never seem to get a reply, and the thread dies. Perhaps it's my breath?

 

[DaFinn]

STOP HERE!

 

[wfbberzerker]

this thread is going to be revived for ever and ever. ultimately, i think the anandtech moderator is going to be the thread killer

 

[prodigy]

Originally posted by: DaFinn
STOP HERE!

 

[wfbberzerker]

too late! nyahar!

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: dparker
I do that as well. I bet this will be the last post in this thread...

You're wrong.

I bet my post here will be the last post in this thread...

 

[simms]

wrong! I think the last post will be when the mods lock it down

 

[xuanman]

i feel like chicken tonight

 

[Gnurb]

butter thread?

 

[flot]

How strange, I always thought I was a thread killer...

 

[SSP]

Originally posted by: klah
[random stolen blog entry]
I watched some of the Victoria's Secret Fashion show the other night on CBS. I didn't even need an excuse because my wife wanted to watch it!

Apparently Concerned Women For America and NOW (in a rare case of solidarity) feel the show was a 'soft-core porn infomercial.' Now, I saw most of it, and while there certainly was quite a bit of jiggling going on with all the skimpy lingerie being modeled, saying it's 'soft-core porn' is ridiculous. There was no sex, nor was there any simulation of sex. They also said it was 'degrading' to women. Maybe somebody can help me here, but I don't see how parading around in some underwear is degrading.

Peter Paul Rubens most famous paintings are of nude women. When it's on canvas and painted 400 years ago, it's art. When women in lingerie show up on television, it's 'soft-core porn.'

I would agree that the show probably should have been shown at 10pm. It was provocative, and the close up shots of butts and boobs certainly was not meant to invoke discussions about the material, but rather to keep the young male audience from changing the channel.

However, what we have here is no different from what we saw almost 10 years ago when 'NYPD Blue' was going to debut on ABC. The show hadn't even premiered yet, and people were picketing as well as signing petitions to have it removed from the air. Why? Because they were going to show some ass shots, and the language was going to kicked up a bit. 'Asshole' and 'prick' at the time were still no-no's on the air. This season, they pushed it a little further as there seems to have been at least one utterance of 'bullshit' on every show (at least the ones I have seen anyway).

The bottom line in all of this is that the remote control is right there in front of you. If you do not like what you see on television, then change the frigging channel! How hard is that?
[/random stolen blog entry]

Well usually, it?s the ugly chicks that would never look nearly as good in those underwear, feel that they should complain. It?s like we put a gun to those models and made them run around in skimpy revealing underwear.

 

[johneetrash]

and then he said "DIE THREAD!"

 

[prodigy]

DALLAS (AP) -- Anyone who doubts whether the Dallas Mavericks are the NBA's best team might think differently after seeing how they won their 13th straight.



Predrag Drobnjak, left, and Gary Payton put the squeeze on the Mavs' Steve Nash.
Trailing by 16 late in the third quarter, their zone defense failing and their offensive touch missing, the Mavericks put everything together in a thrilling fourth quarter to pull out a 115-105 victory over the Seattle SuperSonics on Saturday night.


Led by their usual starring trio of Dirk Nowitzki, Michael Finley and Steve Nash, Dallas used an 18-1 run to catapult into the lead. Seattle went back ahead once, but the Mavericks answered on their next possession to continue the best roll in franchise history.


"To find a way to win games like this is a sign of a champion,'' said Finley, who had 29 points and 11 rebounds. "We found a way tonight.''


Dallas' hot streak is the fourth-best in league history. The only three teams that have done better all made it to the NBA Finals.


The Mavericks will try matching the 14-0 start by Boston in 1957-58 when it plays at Detroit on Wednesday. They could be going for the record of 15-0 -- which was set by Washington in 1948-49 and tied by Houston in 1993-94 -- on Thursday at Indiana.


"People who say it doesn't mean anything are all wrong,'' Seattle's Brent Barry said. "This gives you the kind of confidence that can carry you through the rest of the season.''


The Mavericks played poorly at the start, and the Sonics took advantage. They led by 16 in the first quarter, and were still up that many late in the third, silencing a crowd of 20,011 that had been so raucous earlier this week for games against the Lakers and Houston.


Then came the turnaround.


Dallas went from trailing 81-65 with 2:43 left in the third to leading 89-86 with 8:10 to go. Seattle's only point in that stretch came on a technical foul free throw following the ejection of Mavericks coach Don Nelson for arguing after a foul call.


Rashard Lewis put Seattle back ahead with 4:10 left, but Nash hit a go-ahead 3-pointer. He followed with a long jumper, then Finley hit a 3-pointer to make it 104-97. The closest the Sonics would get after that was six.


"You have to be aggressive,'' said Seattle coach Nate McMillan, whose team has lost three straight since winning four in a row. "We did that for three quarters and then we got back on our heels.''


Dallas shot only 37 percent the first three quarters, then nailed 62 percent in the final period and outscored Seattle 39-20. It was the highest-scoring quarter of the season for the league's highest-scoring team.


The backbone of the Mavs' hot start has been their zone defense. The Sonics shredded it early with great passing and precision shooting, both inside and out, but when it mattered most the Sonics went 7:23 without a field goal, missing 12 straight shots.


"The first three quarters, they made their shots and in the fourth they didn't. We started tightening up defensively. It was a good combination,'' said Nash, who had 27 points and eight assists. "Games like this make us better.''


Nowitzki missed his first eight shots and was doing so poorly that during halftime, teammate Avery Johnson suggested getting to the free throw line to compensate for his erratic jumper.


Instead, Nowitzki found his stroke about the time Dallas began its big rally. He hit a 3-pointer just before it started, then had six straight points during the run, including the basket that put the Mavs ahead for the first time since 4-2.


"We have games where it's ugly, but we come up with big plays when we need them the most,'' Nowitzki said.


Gary Payton led Seattle with 20 points and 10 assists. Desmond Mason scored 19 and Lewis, who was wooed by Dallas in the offseason, had 14 points and six rebounds.


Seattle scored 34 in the first quarter, the most the Mavs have allowed in any period. The Sonics had 30 in the third period, then collapsed when Dallas switched from a 2-3 zone to a 1-3-1, while mixing in some man-to-man.


"If you don't shoot well and don't make the right decisions, that zone definitely slows you up,'' guard Kenny Anderson said. "You can't settle for jumpers. You're not going to win just shooting jump shots.''

 

[klah]

Sale Sites Get Shushed
By Leslie Walker
Sunday, November 24, 2002; Page H07
Sale prices from Wal-Mart and Target may not seem like big secrets, especially since they're plastered all over newspapers, but big retailers nonetheless cried foul last week after their post-Thanksgiving sale prices leaked onto the Internet.

"This is proprietary information that could have a serious adverse impact on Staples' business," said Staples Vice President Paul Capelli. "It can telegraph to your competitors your plans for future business."

Staples was among six retailers that sent notices to FatWallet.com, a bargain-hunter site, demanding it remove posts by visitors on a community message area revealing specials to be advertised for this week's "Black Friday" sales. Since it's the kickoff of the holiday shopping season, the day after Thanksgiving is a highly competitive time for retailers. Other complaining merchants included Target, Jo-Ann Stores, Wal-Mart, OfficeMax and Best Buy.

FatWallet (www.fatwallet.com) removed the sales data, even though its president, Tim Storm, said he believed the information violated no copyrights. "It's very expensive to be right," Storm said.

"We feel that prices are public facts" and therefore shouldn't be subject to copyright, added Dan Baxter, who runs DealCatcher (www.dealcatcher.com), another site asked to remove sales data. Like Storm, Baxter said he had little choice but to comply.

OfficeMax and other merchants were irked; although they routinely publish sale circulars on their Web sites several days before delivering them to shoppers, last week's leaks occurred more than a week in advance.

People posting the information were identified only by their screen names, and several merchants said they are pressing FatWallet, DealCatcher and other sites to cough up the leaksters' contact info so they can take "appropriate action" against them.

Lest you think nobody cares about advance peeks at Barbie and Lego discounts, check out the Yahoo discussion group that formed Wednesday. By Friday more than 6,000 people had joined the "Black Friday Ads" group (groups.yahoo.com/group/BlackFriday), where people were publishing long lists of sale prices said to be offered in stores Thanksgiving weekend.


AOL Blocks Teen Shopping

America Online has temporarily banned most people under age 18 from shopping on its service. The company took the measure after receiving complaints that material inappropriate for youngsters was turning up in the search results of its shopping area.


AOL's shopping section normally bans alcohol, tobacco and pornographic products, but some offensive material managed to squeak through. While it figures out how to block that material completely, AOL decided to lock out anybody whose screen name has been set to an under-18 category by AOL's parental-control software.


AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham didn't say if access would be restored during the holiday shopping season. "This is a priority to us and we hope to fix it in the very near future," he said.



Deal of the Week

EBay announced a free-shipping special on high-tech gizmos to tout its new electronics area, which offers about 700,000 used, new and reconditioned items. The free shipping deal is a first for eBay, allowing people to search for all merchants who have agreed to waive shipping fees during the holiday season.

 

[prodigy]

kill1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kl)
v. killed, kill·ing, kills
v. tr.

To put to death.
To deprive of life: The Black Death was a disease that killed millions.
To put an end to; extinguish: The rain killed our plans for a picnic.

To destroy a vitally essential quality in: Too much garlic killed the taste of the meat.
To cause to cease operating; turn off: killed the motor.
To tire out completely; exhaust: ?The trip to work, and the boredom and nervousness of jobs, kills men? (Jimmy Breslin).
To pass (time) in aimless activity: killed a few hours before the flight by sightseeing.
To consume entirely; finish off: kill a bottle of brandy.
Sports. To prevent a hockey team on a power play from scoring during (a penalty).
To cause extreme pain or discomfort to: My shoes are killing me.
To mark for deletion; rule out: killed the story.
To thwart passage of; veto: kill a congressional bill.
Informal. To overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration: The outstanding finale killed the audience.
Sports.
To hit (a ball) with great force.
To hit (a ball) with such force as to make a return impossible, especially in a racquet game.

v. intr.
To cause death or extinction; be fatal.
To commit murder.
Informal. To make such a strong impression as to overcome: dress to kill.

n.
The act of killing.

An animal killed, especially in hunting.
A person killed or to be killed: ?Infantrymen... had seen too many kills suddenly get up and run away or shoot at them as they approached? (Nelson DeMille).
An enemy aircraft, vessel, or missile that has been attacked and destroyed.
Sports. A kill shot.