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No, it means that Linux is into bestiality or possibly necrophilia.

No, that's BSD.

Scientists know that there are many parameters and constants, including the earth's magnetic field, which have to be exactly right in order to have life as we know it upon the earth. The probability that all of these came into place by any means other than thinking it is absurdly low.

I think that's not really true. In fact, we have no reasonable way to assign it a probability at all (high or low). If you're willing to take the time, I suggest reading this. I do agree with you that Science can not speak on the existence of God; the scientific method is constructed only to look for naturalistic explanations (which is what makes it practically useful), so it's not equipped to answer the question.

I've got it running on a dead badger.

You only have to go to a third-world company where oil is extracted to see how these companies act with the lack of government regulations to control them (or a government that can stand up to the companies).

Hell, you don't have to find a third world oil company for an example of this. Unocal, Union Oil Company of California, has been accused of using the military to force Burmese to relocate and work in Burma. In Nigeria Shell Oil "supplied the Nigerian military government with weapons. These weapons were used to put down, with deadly force, opposition to Shell drilling on Ogoni land." Ken Saro-Wiwa, who opposed Shell drilling, was hanged by the military because of his opposition. Some groups in other nations have used the Alien Tort Claim Act of 1789, ATCA, to sue US businesses in US courts for their support of such things. And as president Bush tried to gut the ATCA.

The free market, with the companies always seeking lowest costs and better numbers this quarter, actually encourages these behaviors.

That is not a free market. A free market is one in which there is a voluntary exchange.

And like it or not, Somalia is exactly what we get with the "libertarian paradise". They might claim that they don't actually mean lack of government, but what good is a government that doesn't enforce laws and regulations?

If you're poisoned by some company you can sue them, you don't need byzantine regulations. Actually do you know who the biggest polluter in the US is? The United States Government. It's the biggest polluter and it gets away with it.

Falcon

I once saw a black man complain about being called "African-American"; he was a citizen of the UK whose family had immigrated from Jamaica or Haiti or something. He has no objection to being called "black", but considers himself neither African nor American, and finds that label offensive.

The most wide-spread version of this story that I'm familiar with relates to Kriss Akabusi in 1991.

After all, if roleplay was all we wanted, with no "physical" consequences, why bother with a game? We can do that on IRC, or on a tabletop, for that matter.

I think this is a red herring - people want to roleplay in these settings; the very presence of RP servers is indicative of such, because their appearance is often preceded by a significant community outcry for RP-only servers.

You haven't talked much about the rewards for RP in the game you've described. What does it mean for a specialization (talent trees are similar but not identical in WoW, btw) to be "player-run"? What are the limitations on the custom areas, how large are they, and how much of interest occurs within them? Are they little more than guild houses, or are they areas requiring significant exploration and adventuring? Is there loot involved in each path? How different is it, and what are the mechanisms that ensure it is available through normal and specialized play? What other kinds of play focus on the specializations?

There's also the question of how representative this game is of the "interesting" MMOGs - the estimate of player count puts it at 3000, with a normal active load of 700 at a time, which falls below the size of a single server for most games, and that's not beginning to consider whether the systems for the game generate similar server-side processing loads to more mainstream games.

There are lore and unlock rewards in several other big MMOs, and some of them are tied to class (the death knight area in WoW is a natural example). This doesn't qualify in terms of the usual definition of "reward" in those games, however. Rewards typically refer specifically to cash and items given specifically for a behaviour. What you've described, although it sounds somewhat interesting on its own, does not really fit into that definition.

I think it was when they began cleaning with bleach and chased it with ammonia that did the trouble started.

For the uninitiated: http://everything2.com/title/Mixing%2520bleach%2520and%2520ammonia%2520does%2520not%2520make%2520a%2520super%2520cleaner

"Exactly why should you not mix ammonia and bleach?

In a nutshell, the combination produces corrosive substances in your airways that cause your lungs to fill with fluid. You drown.

Household bleach is usually about 5% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl).When mixed with ammonia (NH3), mono- and di-chloramines are formed: NH2Cl and NH2Cl2. These cause respiratory tract irritation, tearing, and nausea.

Worse, these compounds decompose in water to form ammonia gas (nasty in itself) and hypochlorous acid. This last in the presence of water forms hydrochloric acid and nascent (monoatomic) oxygen, which are highly reactive and can lead to pulmonary edema and pneumonia.

There are several ways household ammonia and bleach can react. All of them are dangerous.

Reaction type 1: Ammonia directly reacts with bleach to form hydrazine (N2H4, which, in addition to being extremely poisonous, can burn even in the absence of air! It explodes on contact with rust!

2NH3 + NaOCl -----> N2H4 + NaCl + H2O

Reaction type 2: Bleach hydrolyzes into sodium hydroxide and hypochlorous acid, which in turn decompose into chlorine gas and nascent oxygen (both poisonous). The chlorine gas in turn reacts with the ammonia to form chloramines, also very poisonous.

NaOCl -----> NaOH + HOCl
HOCl ---> HCl + O (monatomic oxygen)
NaOCl + 2HCl -----> Cl2 + NaCl + H2O
2NH3 + Cl2 -------> 2NH2Cl (chloramine)
4NH3 + 2Cl2 ------> 2NHCl2 (dichloramine)
6NH3 + 3Cl2 ------> NCl3 (trichloramine or nitrogen trichloride)"

but in the days of Donkey Kong, were non-superficial storylines even possible? With such repetitive gameplay, could good storyline exist?

In the early days of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Jumping Jack had a narrative delivered in a non trivial way. You would unfold a poem, line by line after completing each level. This is how it was delivered through gameplay, and this is the whole poem. (I'd never seen it complete before today! Thanks for making me remember).

Is a limmerick a non-superficial story? The only thing I know, it did get you wanting to know which was the next line...

Drunk and pissed off enough to think you didn't see my accidentally anonymous post. Therefore I'm reposting now. CBA putting the formatting in so if you have serious trouble viewing it then check out the AC post for a properly formatted response. _______________________________________ Ok, let's start from your assertion: ""But to the extent that there are any rules for such things, "disk", in the context of computing, is spelled with a "k"."" This is, at this moment, untrue. I pulled these links from a (very) quick google search on "disc vs disk" so bear in mind they're not neccessarily 100% trustworthy, however I hope to make up for their possible sketchiness in volume. Here goes. This one's pretty straightforward - disk=magnetic, disc=optical. Both used in computing. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2300 [apple.com] This one almost supports your assertion, but if you take into account that compact discs are pretty standard in the computer world these days, then maybe not. http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammartips/grammar-tip-disc-disk.asp [future-perfect.co.uk] Another one making the magnetic/optical distinction, but with no reference to the supposed computing/audio distinciton. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/disc.html [wsu.edu] Whether or not the history of this one is accurate, I can't say, but all in all I came away from reading it without the belief that in computing, it is always "disk". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc [wikipedia.org] Finally (because I'm at work and can only slack off for so long) there is a short discussion on the matter here, which, while it is between regular joes, not industry experts, is interesting in that it points out (as do one or two of the other links I've posted) that the English usage was previously disk and was changed over time to the latin rooted disc. Again, this has little to do with disk=computing disc=something else, which was your original assertion. http://everything2.com/title/disc%2520vs.%2520disk [everything2.com] Hope that helps explain where I was coming from. Back to work now...

Ok, let's start from your assertion:
""But to the extent that there are any rules for such things, "disk", in the context of computing, is spelled with a "k".""
This is, at this moment, untrue.

I pulled these links from a (very) quick google search on "disc vs disk" so bear in mind they're not neccessarily 100% trustworthy, however I hope to make up for their possible sketchiness in volume.
Here goes.

This one's pretty straightforward - disk=magnetic, disc=optical. Both used in computing.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2300

This one almost supports your assertion, but if you take into account that compact discs are pretty standard in the computer world these days, then maybe not.
http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammartips/grammar-tip-disc-disk.asp

Another one making the magnetic/optical distinction, but with no reference to the supposed computing/audio distinciton.
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/disc.html

Whether or not the history of this one is accurate, I can't say, but all in all I came away from reading it without the belief that in computing, it is always "disk".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_of_disc

Finally (because I'm at work and can only slack off for so long) there is a short discussion on the matter here, which, while it is between regular joes, not industry experts, is interesting in that it points out (as do one or two of the other links I've posted) that the English usage was previously disk and was changed over time to the latin rooted disc. Again, this has little to do with disk=computing disc=something else, which was your original assertion.
http://everything2.com/title/disc%2520vs.%2520disk

Hope that helps explain where I was coming from.

Back to work now...

Nothing like playing through 20 hours of a game just to discover you forgot to pick up the stick on the beach within the first 5 minutes of the game, and then having to restart the whole thing.

It wasn't a stick, it was a pie.

...I thought I was over it. Guess not.

Gr.

Put me on the first ship that isn't coming back.

That would be the Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship B.

What are you talking about? The suicide rate in Japan is higher than the US. They just don't use as many guns to do it.

That it required pedagogical

Careful, using bad words like that get you fired

Would Everything2.com count?

A counter-example is the Beatles Let It Be...Naked release, which was produced and engineered by a younger staff on Pro-Tools. It sounds different and is often criticized by the generation familiar with the vintage releases.

At least one person has argued that Let It Be Naked isn't the album as it was "originally intended", but is historical revisionism led by Paul McCartney, and that many of the songs were never intended to be quite *that* stripped down in the first place. That might explain it as well.

As I said, 70%: http://everything2.com/title/The%2520%2522Moon%2522%253A%2520A%2520Ridiculous%2520Liberal%2520Myth

Folks, we can't let this happen.

And why the hell not?

Whether or not we refurbish these Trident missiles, whether or not we have a missile as fast as the Russkies' Moskit, we still have an order of magnitude more rockets, bombs, ships, planes, tanks, and other forms of military-industrial complex hardware than is needed to keep other countries from invading the U.S.

We could halve our military budget, and still be outspending the entire European Union. Our military spending is more than ten times that of the number two nation, China.

(BTW, you do realize that the site you link to re: the Moskit is 100% pure nutjob, right? In actual fact, the Moskit is dangerous but no superweapon.)

Screw the Trident missiles. Put those resources into building some solar cells or ground-source heat pumps or mass transit projects. Or training some doctors. Or fixing some sewer lines before they collapse.

Not 'everything'.... "Everything".

When you buy a PS3 game you can only legally play it on a PS3. When you buy an XBox 360 game I can only play it on an XBox 360.

That's false. You can play PS3 games on any hardware you want. Your analogy is good but if anything it proves the point that it IS legal to install OS X on non-Mac hardware. http://everything2.com/e2node/Emulation%2520legality

Dumping a computer program from a Game Pak and emulating it on a different type of computer is not an infringement of the copyright in the program under 17 USC 117, as long as the cartridge owner does not distribute the dump to any third party. (This means you, TheBooBooKitty. Owners of coin-op boards must dump their own ROMs to play them in MAME.) Therefore, emulators and game copiers have a substantial non-infringing use, and any attempt by Nintendo to remove them from the market through legal action is frivolous barratry.

No it's not. Sorry.

I guess Urclitoris would be something like this.

I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility

You eat horse cock

Do you make it the same way as Tiger Penis Soup?

You might find the e2 node about getting your FBI records useful, as was posted above.

well you might also find your FBI record interesting as well.

Dude, didn't you RTFM? It clearly states "Avoid missing ball for high score."

Really now, you aren't even trying.

http://everything2.com/?node_id=1099073

If I was a genetic engineer, I would take the gene that is responsible for the high THC content of the cannabis plant and splice it into common, ordinary household grass. Then I would buy up lots of cheap land and start a turf farm. Wouldn't this dope-lawn reek of skunk? NO. THC oil is odourless, the lawn would be indistinguishable from ordinary lawn, that is, until you started smoking it. This brings a new meaning to the term lawn bowls.

After a few months, I will have acres and acres of verdant knee high foliage, and it will be time for the harvest. I will bring in a lawn-mower with a catcher and do some mowing.

Once I had made all the money I could possibly hope to spend from my little grass farm, I would release the seeds into the wild. The effects would be like releasing ice-nine in Cat's Cradle. From that day forth the world would be a different place, any lawn anywhere could be a skunk-lawn and NOBODY would know.

Use a modern NES emulator, like Nestopia. Nesticle is old as hell

Old as hell doesn't mean it sucks.

But in this case, it does suck. It takes a mere four lines of 6502 asm code for an NES program to detect whether it's running on Nesticle or a more accurate emulator:

nestc_detect:
lda $2002
bpl nestc_detect
lda $2002
bmi nesticle

And it sucks because it's old; the NES behavior that this code depends on wasn't discovered until Nesticle was no longer maintained. If you're going to be playing homebrew games such as Tetramino or anything on pdroms.de, I'd recommend using Nestopia or one of the FCE Ultra forks.

Next you'll be wishing people used a modern OS like Vista. Windows XP is old as hell, right?

No, it's more like recommending Windows XP over MS-DOS.

Is it sufficient to have a handgun?

Or should one rather keep assault rifles in the home?

The US Constitution protects your right to bear arms, but state laws limit exactly what arms you are allowed to bear. Are those laws reasonable? If so, why do they differ?

Let's imagine that you are only interested in defending yourself against an *average* attacker (burglar? car hijacker?) and not, say, a gang of heavily armed bank robbers, aeroplane hijackers, immigration control, or Marvin Heemeyer's bulldozer.

In that case, if the *average* attacker did not have a gun, and you had a reasonably good hospital nearby, your chance of survival would probably be better.

Wow, thanks! Google's translation wasn't too bad, I think I understood what you were saying.

Another Slashdotter pointed out that the closest social psychology term for what I described was callled the "door-in-the-face" technique. The main difference between that and what I described is that the in door-in-the-face technique, the second request is usually a much smaller favor than the first. In the case of the U.S. laws I described, there is practically no real difference between the first and second bills so I'm not sure it's quite the same thing, but even if not, it's pretty close.

http://everything2.com/e2node/Door-in-face%2520technique

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

That reminds me of when an American interviewer was interviewing a black British guy - she called him African-American, he corrected her, but she couldn't stop doing it.

That was Kriss Akabusi, a gold medal winning athlete. I'm afraid the best link I can find is at everything2. Here you go.

Don 't start with that crap here. No one is questioning Wiki-snide-ia's "right" to restrict "original research".

Obviously there is a demand for a wikipedia-like place to post original research, speculation, and hearsay (with a loud disclaimer, of course). If such a site existed, then the battle over citations will mellow out.

Everything2

http://www.everything2.com/

I wish that a band in europe or asia would do some cover songs for FoF and make them sound decent and sell the packs. I'd pay $5.00 via paypal to a guy doing "shock the monkey" but with a very thick asian accent.

But would you pay someone to do Shock the Monkey and Win $20?

I'd never heard of "total brothel development". Is it related to this?

Or perhaps you literally translated from the French, who use "bordel" to mean "Hmm, this situation is somewhat less than optimal, isn't it?"

There are examples of biological optics:

A small node on one example

I don't know about that. This was the show that introduced America to the "Venus Butterfly"

My Swedish vibrator still doesn't have Linux drivers

Note: Human operator not included.

My Swedish vibrator still doesn't have Linux drivers

Ah, so you're going to be an asshole. Have you done any research on this at all? The similarities between VMS and NT have been discussed extensively and are commonly known:

Those similarities could fill a book. In fact, you can read sections of VAX/VMS
Internals and Data Structures (Digital Press) as an accurate description of NT
internals simply by translating VMS terms to NT terms. Table 1 lists a few VMS
terms and their NT translations. Although I won't go into detail, I will discuss
some of the major similarities and differences between Windows NT 3.1 and VMS
5.0, the last version of VMS Dave Cutler and his team might have influenced.
This discussion assumes you have some familiarity with OS concepts (for
background information about NT's architecture, see "Windows NT Architecture,
Part 1" March 1998 and "Windows NT Architecture, Part 2" April 1998)."

"TABLE 1: VMS and NT Terminology Translations
VMS Term NT Translation
Interrupt Priority Level (IPL) Interrupt Request Level (IRQL)
Asynchronous System Trap (AST) Asynchronous Procedure Call (APC)
Fork Procedure Deferred Procedure Call (DPC)
I/O Request Packet (IRP) I/O Request Packet (IRP)
Bug Check Bug Check
System Service System Service
sys.exe ntoskrnl.exe
Paged Pool Paged Pool
Nonpaged Pool Nonpaged Pool
Look aside List Look aside List
Section Section"

"TABLE 2: Significant VMS and NT Similarities
VMS NT
Process scheduler implements 32 priority levels split into halves Process
scheduler implements 32 priority levels split into halves
Process scheduler never lowers a process' priority below the priority level the
application programmed Process scheduler never lowers a process' priority below
the priority level the application programmed
Uses boosting to handle CPU hogging Uses boosting to handle CPU hogging
Supports SMP Supports SMP
Digital introduces kernel threads in VMS 7.0 NT 3.1 uses kernel threads
Relies heavily on memory-mapped files Relies heavily on memory-mapped files
Uses demand-paged virtual memory for physical memory management Uses
demand-paged virtual memory for physical memory management
Uses working sets with a clock-based replacement algorithm Uses working
sets
with a clock-based replacement algorithm
Balance Set Manager uses swapping to handle the system's memory demands Balance
Set Manager doesn't use swapping
Supports a layered-driver model throughout the device driver stacks
Supports a
layered-driver model throughout the device driver stacks
Implements asynchronous packet-based I/O commands Implements asynchronous
packet-based I/O commands
Represents resources as objects managed by an Object Manager Represents
resources as objects managed by an Object Manager
Security subsystem based on objects with access control lists (ACLs) Security
subsystem based on objects with ACLs
MONITOR Performance Monitor
BACKUP NT Backup

You also purposely didn't respond to the court settlement. Why not? Why would Microsoft settle with DEC? You don't have an answer, so you left it out of your cut-and-paste and tried to pretend it didn't happen.

Well, your UID is lower than mine, but I was here when Sig11 and l335 j03 were still active, and I had no idea who twitter and/or his supposed sock puppets were till I started seeing FOAF (I have it at +5) posts complaining about it. I still don't really understand what's going on, and frankly I don't care.

In any event, Sig11 was a famous karma whore back when karma was numbered and uncapped. More here.
l33t j03 was basically a pro-windows troll, and he had a crappy ASCII-art IE logo in his sig. An interesting persona to be sure. You could probably swing a pretty good karma racket by doing something similar, then responding (as a different user) with pro-linux posts. I've had my karma on all my accounts capped at 'Excellent' for years, though.

On RISC OS to reset many of the BIOS settings (the ones normal fiddling is likely to screw up) you held down R as you switched the machine on, to fully reset the BIOS (to the point that you had to tell the machine it had a floppy disk drive again) you held down Delete. It started up to the GUI, ready to use, in about 10 seconds. Wikipedia says the record is 2 seconds.

A 1999 RISC OS machine would go from power-on to a running web browser in 16 seconds.

Likewise, my phone manages to start up in less than 10 seconds, with another 5 or so if I try and immediately load the web browser.

Benjamin Franklin is known to have drank opium tinctures recreationally.

opiates are a very popular drug amongst creatives--especially writers. so there must be some sort of connection there.

contrary to common misconception, not all opiate users are dirtly homeless junkies. many doctors are closet morphine junkies. there are the type who like to get so high they puke or pass out (or both). and then there are those who use just enough to feel calm, relaxed, but not enough to become inebriated. personally, i've never enjoyed being visibly intoxicated or so high that i'm nauseous.

i think being physically and psychologically relaxed helps one be creative. your mind isn't cluttered with stressful thoughts, so your creativity just flows out of you more easily. it also puts you in a more introspective/ruminative mood. if caffeine is programming fluid, then opiates are writing supplements.

opiates have always made me feel like expressing myself artistically. it puts you in a slightly manic stage similar to small amounts of stimulants (coke/caffeine/meth/ritalin/adderall), but it doesn't have the negative effects, such as peripheral stimulation (hypertension, hyperthermia, vasoconstriction, anxiety, jitteriness), instead it has a very calming effect and doesn't cause any kind of crash afterwards.

Double-T is the name of a diner, hon.

I think y'all meant double L...

everything2 is the only site I've found so far that combines the link-filled nature of Wikipedia articles with an amateur (and sometimes very good) literary and artistic community. I can get lost in both sites for hours at a time, but e2 indulgences usually produce a little more meaning.

And hey, Slashdot links to it, too. :)

And all they have to do is to send Frank out there with a replacement AE-35 unit.

Last I checked Crypto-communist was not an insult, Bush-bot/facisists-in-sheep's-clothing certainly is.

But if the "false outrage" logical fallacy shoe fits, you may wear it if you like.

Besides, you are hiding behind an AC, which makes whatever you are a crypto-whatever.

To wit:

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=994604

A cryptocommunist is a person who hides their identity as a communist or keeps it secret, for whatever reason.

Reasons to be a cryptocommunist include hiding from persecution, avoiding the social stigma that occasionally comes with being a communist, or that your communistic plans will only work if no one suspects what you are trying to do.

The word crypto means secret or hidden; Cryptography is the study, and practice, of hiding secrets.

I meant as you were couching your extreme left wing nature in words that were completely made up and meaningless for 90% of the population.

Being a bit of a devils' advocate here;

1. The band is doing cover tunes and so don't "deserve" the money, they need to pay the people who wrote the music who do deserve it.

Why? The people who wrote the music aren't there slogging through 4 sets to 1:30-2:30AM, 3-4 nights a week in a smoke-filled bar sweating their butts off, and didn't invest in the instruments and equipment needed to play it.

In fact, one possible reason why the bars pay the bands so little is because they have to pay the collections societies so much.

Bars pay a flat rate that really isn't that much comparatively-speaking. Bars also pay bands roughly the same or less now as when I started out about 30 years ago.

2. The band is doing their own music and will get paid once by the bar owner and a second time by the collection society.

Now, somehow, I think it might not all work out this way and be cool but whose "fault" is that exactly?

Bars, to my knowledge, pay the same flat rate whether the band plays covers or original material. A band/musician has to register copyrights on their material and license it through ASCAP/BMI/SESAC, jumping through all their hoops to do so. Despite how much these organizations collect, because of the way they count plays (Hollywood accounting?) you might, as a small original artist, get a check for $20 at the end of a year. Maybe.

Here's a link that describes better than I could what happens and how:

http://everything2.com/e2node/ASCAP%252C%2520BMI%2520and%2520SESAC

Cheers!

Strat