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I am a big fan of Elon Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX. That said, this is the most half-assed project I've seen them do, and that includes the Monty-Python-esque brick tower constructed for Boring company for which they advertised a position for someone to be at the top and yell abuse in an outrageous french accent. I assume this person was in the Tesla lay-offs.

Its construction was like that of a film set, and like a film set it got blown over in the first high wind. Inside there is a triangular truss structure like that on one of those overhead signs that spans a wide highway. This is the only structural component. Hung off of that is crinkly thin stainless steel skin attached to a structure made out of rebar. I kid you not. So, the skin has the approximate wind profile that it should (oops!) and most importantly, it looks cool!

Well, not as cool as a real space rocket.

Now, I know the job of this other than looking cool is to allow them to test the landing guidance software with the approximately right sized object, and these things tend to blow up and crash so it's OK to make it to be disposable. But they have now learned that you need a hurricane-proof building if you are going to do this on the extreme south coast of Texas right on the water! Or at least guy wires.

I'm sure they'll have another one in less than two months. It'll be interesting seeing it "hop".

Growing up we had part of a Slinky. But I straightened it.

You must have come from a wealthy family. All we had was a rock and a stick, and I had to wait until my older sister got dysentery and died before I could play with them.

Okay, time for this. /thread

PHAH. The FCC doesn't have jurisdiction at 500 TeraHertz.

Or maybe they're hoping there's intelligent life somewhere up in space because there's bugger all down here on earth.

OK, so maybe college students will be offended by his comedy. So what? Is he afraid of being viciously attacked, of someone taking a shot at him or something?

He is well prepared to deal with vicious attackers armed with fresh fruit. Hopefully nobody comes after him with a pointed stick.

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Meanwhile, since our story was posted, donations have also poured into Werner Koch's website donation page to the tune of nearly $50,000 so far.

Enough to make Monty Python's merchant banker puke a little. Won't somebody think of the threat to impoverish those poor bankers?

'All wood burns,' states Sir Bedevere. 'Therefore,' he concludes, 'all that burns is wood.' This is, of course, pure bullshit. Universal affirmatives can only be partially converted: all of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan. 'Oh yes,' one would think. However, my wife does not understand this necessary limitation of the conversion of a proposition; consequently, she does not understand me, for how can a woman expect to appreciate a professor of logic, if the simplest cloth-eared syllogism causes her to flounder?

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Note for the humor impaired: The explanation was what we doctors call "the joke". It was inspired by a sequence in "The Meaning of Life". (Search for "what we doctors call" in http://www.montypython.net/meaningmm2.php.)

Left as an exercise for the student: was the above also a joke?

Hey! You do realise that you're talking about the mountain with the biggest tits in the world, don't you?

Show a little respect, please.

...you'd probably come back with some weird shtick about diction.

No I wouldn't

Sneer if you like, but you need the non-creative idiots every bit as much as they need you.

Eventually, AI will outpace the output and quality of even the most creative person. What then?

May I present to you the TV Tropes Story Generator?

It can certainly output the quantity of shows needed to fill the TV schedule. As far as quality, everything it emits has already been proven in the marketplace. With the right amount of recursion, it could carry a show from season to episode to act to scene, even offering some of the heroic quips and villainous monologues.

It's been rumored that TV Tropes was actually no more than this tool leaked from the BBC Programme Planning department.

You must mean sadists. True masochists aren't really into collective punishments. They're more like Ben from Monty Python's Life of Brian, and get upset if somebody gets punished more than they do.

<mutter>Lucky Bastard.</mutter>

Does this remind anybody else of this Monty Python Sketch: http://www.montypython.net/scripts/tunnel.php

Yes, that ambiguity also led to reasonably silly Marriage Registry Office sketch by Monty Python.

The Judean People's Front?

No, the People's Front of Judea. Judean People's Front...wankers.

for those that don't get this joke, watch Monty Python or see this script. You really should see the clip itself though...it's PRICELESS.

Sites that link to controversial Chinese sites. don't necessarily promote these idealogies; they are merely acknowledging their controversial nature. It reminds me a little of the Monty Python sketch about the world's funniest joke , and anyone who heard or viewed the joke would die of laughter. The premise of censorship is that offensive content contaminates the hearts and minds of people. But you can only have censorship if someone can judge content without himself being contaminated. This contradicts the premise of censorship, which alleges that these contaminating powers exist inherently in the offensive material. On the other hand, if a censor can censor without being contaminated, that implies that offensive content does not automatically contaminate the mind or heart of a person. In that case, you would be admitting that censorship is unnecessary. That is the contradiction of censorship.

Test China's Firewall

There were a few times when Linus made it very clear what he wanted changed and ESR simply didn't fix it, it was as if he didn't even hear it; look at the threads in the kernel archive. I don't know what ESR's motivation was but he made it look a little corrupt.

I think I may have found the answer in the following excerpt from his World Domination guest editorial on Linux Journal:

Of course, articles like this are part of that game. We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger--especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

I can't help wondering whether, in this case, Linus and Jeff are "the bosses"; indeed, stuff like pretty pictures and theorem provers and various other kitchen sinks associated with CML2 qualify (amply) as those "snazzy special effects" of which he is so fond.

Now, love him or hate him, Eric is not going anywhere, even after getting booed off a very important stage. And in light of his, um, staying power and in consideration of the CML2 affair, it should be of some comfort to his detractors that at least Eric the Rich Guy hasn't lost his hackitude and keeps producing worthwhile stuff. When Eric first threatened to quit politics, I looked forward to the return of Eric the Hacker and the retirement of Eric the Politician ; alas, half an Eric must, ipso facto, half not be, and I'll take a whole Eric over half an Eric any day, thank you very much.

The best part is "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

"I am looking for the tobacconist."

"I need some matches."

"How much do I own you?"

The entire dictionary can be found here.

"I am looking for the tobacconist."

"I need some matches."

"How much do I own you?"

The entire dictionary can be found here.

"I am looking for the tobacconist."

"I need some matches."

"How much do I own you?"

The entire dictionary can be found here.

"I am looking for the tobacconist."

"I need some matches."

"How much do I own you?"

The entire dictionary can be found here.

Well, it does bring a more literal meaning to the word, "ping", doesn't it?

cool! nice comment dude.

Echoes of Monty Python's "4 Yorkshiremen sketch"

People, If you haven't heard this before, check it out, it's VERY funny.

Yes, thousands of kilts as the aliens (who look like giant blancmanges) plan to turn everyone on earth into a Scotsman and win doubles at Wimbledon.

Of course this was all documented earlier by Monty Python

The question is: Are there large blancmanges from the Andromeda galaxy turning Englishmen into Scotsment? Monty Python's Science Fiction Sketch.

I've been told by a reliable source that in large doses Scotch Whisky enhances your ability to see UFO's. This probably explains why some people can see them and other's can't.

Charles: Yes. So these blancmanges, blancmange-shaped creatures come from the planet Skyron in the Galaxy of Andromeda. They order 48,000,000 kilts from a Scottish menswear shop ... turn the population of England into Scotsmen (well known as the worst tennis-playing nation on Earth) thus leaving England empty during Wimbledon fortnight! Empty during Wimbledon fortnight ... what's more the papers are full of reports of blancmanges appearing on tennis courts up and down the country - practising. This can only mean one thing!

Voice Over and caption on sceeen: 'THEY MEAN TO WIN WIMBLEDON'

Charles: They mean to win Wimbledon!

Being a Norwegian company, would they be under the same mandate to hand over all 'suspect' search queries for abuse by the US's new CIAFBINSASSSASD (known in PRSpeak as the Information Awareness Office)?

I would hope not, but perhaps there might be a profit angle involved.

More seriously, do you have any knowlege that this "mandate" exists? Is it public law? Executive order? Secret executive order? A directive from "high levels"? Or is this more of an "intelligent concern" of yours? There's nothing wrong with that - everyone with half a brain should be concerned about these possibilities.

Just replace "CD" with "Crunchy Frog" and --

Inspector: Nevertheless, I advise you in future to replace the words 'Compact Disks' with the legend, 'Technically Flawed Compact Disks that could impinge on consumers' rights to copy music for their own use' if you wish to avoid prosecution!

• Did I say you have a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? I am no longer infected.
• Drop your panties Sir William, I cannot wait until lunchtime.
• My nipples explode with delight!

To quote Monty Python:
I quote on example. The Hungarian phrase meaning "Can you direct me to the station?" is translated by the English phrase, "Please fondle my bum."

Scene 2 ("Bring out your dead!")

and

Scene 15 ("Message for you, sir")

It's funny. Laugh.

Scene 2 ("Bring out your dead!")

and

Scene 15 ("Message for you, sir")

It's funny. Laugh.

http://www.montypython.net/scripts/phrasebk.php

Safer food!

Ahh, leave it to Monty Python to predict this 30 years ago!

http://www.montypython.net/scripts/cycling.php

Let's hope none of the volunteers accidentally
use Mr. Alexander Yalt's
Hungarian-English dictionary.

"I will not buy this tobacconist, it is scratched."

>;K

If you think Godford Park was actually about the murder, then you've kinda missed the point.

True enough, but I had the opposite reaction. The point was not only clearly made, but it was beaten to death with a pointed stick. Not only that, but the class system is pretty much a non-issue for an American film by an American director.

I think Monty Python did the equivalent of Gosford Park in one five-minute sketch, the Upper-Class Twit of the Year Contest. It has the "carriage envy", the sex with the debutante, the insensitivity, and much better very of the shooting party.

OHNO! That's terrible! How come no one ever told me before?!? God forbid that a cat ever be bewildered!!!

This sounds like a job for Confuse-A-Cat!

Tis but a scratch

Oh wait, that's someone else being unfunny.

Army Protection Racket



The entire sketch is at http://www.montypython.net/scripts/armyprot.php

Did anyone else instantly think of this when they read the item?

What? You don't think fruit is dangerous? ;-)

... you're sure to love this adaptation in which Scott battles a giant electric penguin with glowing eyes and tentacles and... oh, sorry, wrong film. Those who were responsible for this mistake have been sacked.

python

But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

..."Raymond Luxury Yacht"...

Anyway, I guess my point is that I'm not too worried about critical secrets being found on a compromised Mac, but that a phalanx of grandmas will have their iMacs on their cable modems end up being used as DDoS hosts.

This comment brought up a lovely visual picture of Monty Python's Hell's Grannies going 1337.

h3LL's 9rANNI35 pwN j00!!!
Regards,

Considering that you named the language after the comedy troupe, what's your favourite Monty Python sketch? Personally, my favourite is the lecture on sheep aircraft, but I suppose that's a discussion for another time ;).

Alex Bischoff
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Reminds me more of the Monty Python sketch "Elephantoplasty"...