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Yes but what exactly does it plan to incite ?

Whoever modded this insightful is a moron. It's a perfectly good verb.

...the "We've written ourselves into a corner - use the 'get out of jail free' time travel card".

That would be deus ex machina.

Basicly, my feel of the enterprise was that they were planning to "get to" the forming of the federation, but didn't want to play that card just yet, and they didn't know what the "rest" would be about.. so what do we need? some story arc to go off on before that. Is there another story arc but the federation thing? Writers, meet corner. Play the time travel card.

It's perfectly reasonable to have one or two plot arcs prior to federation. People don't tend to say "Hey. We're all generally wary of each other and have competing interests. Let's team up!" without some catalyzing moment. One season of Earth basically bumbling around the galaxy, more often causing more problems for itself and the more established races. Then the catalyzing moment, like the Romulan Wars. The RW was an important backstory event that predates the formation of the Federation. Also, binding together for the common defense is as popular reason for the formation of alliances.

I would have liked to have seen the RW since I like big space battles. The Dominion War was when DS9 really came into its own. (I don't buy that B5 crap that DS9 had a war because B5 had a war. It was obvious DS9 was going to have a war as soon as the Federation and the Bajorans started colonizing the Gamma Quadrant.) But now, we will never see the RW.

> > In case anyone's wondering what a baryon is...
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon

> In case anyone's wondering what slashdot is...
> http://www.slashdot.org/

In case anyone's wondering why the hell am I wasting my time so pointlessly.... I have no life.

> > In case anyone's wondering what a baryon is...
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon

> In case anyone's wondering what slashdot is...
> http://www.slashdot.org/

In case anyone's wondering why the hell am I wasting my time so pointlessly.... I have no life.

> > In case anyone's wondering what a baryon is...
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon

> In case anyone's wondering what slashdot is...
> http://www.slashdot.org/

In case anyone's wondering why the hell am I wasting my time so pointlessly.... I have no life.

> > In case anyone's wondering what a baryon is...
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon

> In case anyone's wondering what slashdot is...
> http://www.slashdot.org/

In case anyone's wondering why the hell am I wasting my time so pointlessly.... I have no life.

There seem to be a few more definitions of "Career" that you haven't considered. Like this one: "a profession or occupation".

Did Firefox find Jesus or something? Perhaps you meant "ungodly."

Apparently you don't understand what inalienable rights are.

From: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=inalienab le&r=67
"That cannot be transferred to another or others: inalienable rights."

The bill of rights didn't 'grant' any rights to us. Those rights are 'inalienable'. The bill of rights only served to declare recognition of those rights.

Exercising your rights might well provoke another party to exercise theirs; hence, getting fired for smoking. You'll notice that the fired employees were never denied their right to smoke. Actually, they are probably sitting at home exercising their right to smoke more so now then they had before.

For the rest of us, I direct you to a dictionary ->
Science Fiction noun:

A literary or cinematic genre in which fantasy, typically based on speculative scientific discoveries or developments, environmental changes, space travel, or life on other planets, forms part of the plot or background.

Your myoptic view of America is funny.

Your myoptic spelling of myopic is funny.

Before you respond I think you better brush up a bit on world politics first. I'll be debate you after you educate yourself.

Before you respond I think you better brush up a bit on spelling first. I'll be debate you after you educate yourself.

Your myoptic view of America is funny.

Your myoptic spelling of myopic is funny.

Before you respond I think you better brush up a bit on world politics first. I'll be debate you after you educate yourself.

Before you respond I think you better brush up a bit on spelling first. I'll be debate you after you educate yourself.

I think that you are confusing hypocrisy with moral relativism. Moral relativism means that you don't believe in an absolute standard for morality, i.e. God, Allah, the Bible, the Q'uran. It is also possible that you could believe that it is moral to, '...kill X amount of innocent people because Y amount of oppressed people will (hopefully) be liberated.'

But I get your point anyway.

"learnt".

Oops ... before I get flamed, here's my reference to Google being in the dictionary ...

Backronym.

No, that's not his schvantz, that's his bow son.

His bos'n?

Only...in the Navy!

seriously, what is up lately that the people submitting articles can't even bother to write their own summary? i can't even think of how many articles on slashdot in the last two weeks have been just a copy/paste of the first paragraph of the page they were linking to.

If the submitter (or the editors, if the submitter didn't) would only properly attribute his summary as a quote of the article, there wouldn't be any problem with doing this. However, once again, Slashdot gets it wrong, attributing the first paragraph of the article to someone named "codermarc" when it was really written by Larry Greenemeier. One of these days this is going to bite Slashdot in the ass when they get dragged into court for copyright infringement.

Fair use allows you to quote selected portions of a work, so long as you properly attribute the passages to their proper author. Slashdot doesn't. It's easy to blame this on the submitter, since he's the one submitting the first paragraph as a "summary", but it's the editors' problem as soon as they post the story. (btw, "editor, n, 1. One who edits, especially as an occupation," from dictionary.com, which pretty much sums up what Slashdot editors don't do)

It's simple, guys! If the summary is the first paragraph of the submitted article, change "codermarc writes ..." to "codermarc quotes from the article (link here) ...". Simple, effective, and correct. The editors do read the linked articles before posting them, right? Right? ... sigh

Umm, according to whom?

Next time try a little research before spell laming, otherwise you tend to look a bit foolish... ;-)

Man, your nick would be so much funnier like this - An onymous Coward

Fair enough.

Looking at it from a poetic viewpoint, I'm not sure anything else has the proper euphony, though. You really ought to lead with a four-syllable word if you want to displace Artificial; a two-syllable might work. "Generated Intelligence"? "Machine Intelligence" might work, but it's still not quite as flowing.

For those who wish to go hunting, you can start in the thesaurus, but it should be pointed out that the definition of artificial in question doesn't even show up there; there don't seem to be many word options here.

(Just rambling; I understand that finding a better alternative isn't a pre-requisite to your complaint. But as an engineer, trying to find a real solution is almost reflex.)

Fair enough.

Looking at it from a poetic viewpoint, I'm not sure anything else has the proper euphony, though. You really ought to lead with a four-syllable word if you want to displace Artificial; a two-syllable might work. "Generated Intelligence"? "Machine Intelligence" might work, but it's still not quite as flowing.

For those who wish to go hunting, you can start in the thesaurus, but it should be pointed out that the definition of artificial in question doesn't even show up there; there don't seem to be many word options here.

(Just rambling; I understand that finding a better alternative isn't a pre-requisite to your complaint. But as an engineer, trying to find a real solution is almost reflex.)

artificial: 1. a. Made by humans; produced rather than natural....

3. Not genuine or natural: an artificial smile.

dumbass

Using the nautical definition you're simply stating the poster's ass is not self-propelling.

ahem *cough*

This is what dumb means.

A site that sends men? I know people who'd like to get a new man from the Internet! Or do you mean viruses, not viri?

If you want to do something, you can do it, simple as that. Granted, the road to the objective isn't always paved with golden bricks. I would refer you though to this dictionary entry.

Personally my side-thing beyond my IT/Crypto experience is working on a book. You could be a bouncer, flip burgers, pump gas, or something more lucrative.

You're the only thing holding yourself back from whatever it is you want to do. Any hurdles in the way you either work on jumping over them, or you turn back, your choice.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sarcasm

Rights (see Defn. 6 and note that we're speaking of inalienable rights are inherant. Privileges are granted.

Rights (see Defn. 6 and note that we're speaking of inalienable rights are inherant. Privileges are granted.

• In Soviet Russia...
• err United States...

...even moral support all count as "involvement".

The dictionary disagrees.

Why did he give his game the same name as a hairnet?

Lobbying is not even taintamount to bribery, it is bribery!

I like it:

taintamount - adj. - quality of a bad thing being remarkably similar to something worse

/made up the definition. still like the word, though.

/definition of tantamount

It can also be used as a synonym of "ask the question."

Do you?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=zeitgeist

Reductio ad absurdum

People sometimes ask why we work on Firefox for free. It gets hard to keep a straight face at work. Give me another project that touches the lives of millions of people worldwide and still has public codenames like The Ocho which get published in the media.

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I find it hard to keep my lunch down when I read such self-aggrandising bullshit.

Then they lock out other developers so they can't fucking choose a fucking codename just in case it dilutes their moment in the media spotlight.

So they seem arrogant both in word and deed.

That's like saying that Microsoft is no more evil than Satan, or maybe it's like saying something's no hotter than the sun. Or no colder than absolute zero

Or no more links than in your posts. Yes, thank you, I think I got the point already.

That's like saying that Microsoft is no more evil than Satan, or maybe it's like saying something's no hotter than the sun. Or no colder than absolute zero

Or no more links than in your posts. Yes, thank you, I think I got the point already.

That's like saying that Microsoft is no more evil than Satan, or maybe it's like saying something's no hotter than the sun. Or no colder than absolute zero

Or no more links than in your posts. Yes, thank you, I think I got the point already.

That's like saying that Microsoft is no more evil than Satan, or maybe it's like saying something's no hotter than the sun. Or no colder than absolute zero

Or no more links than in your posts. Yes, thank you, I think I got the point already.

Turgid.

adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid]

I believe the word you're looking for is abdicate.

cant is a word you probably didn't mean. I know you meant can't but non native speakers may not.

Simply taking initials of words is an abbreviation. RADAR and NATO are abbreviations too. Acronyms are a subset of abbreviations, the kind that can be pronounced like words.

There is a reason for two different words, abbreviation and acronym, because they mean different things. If you think they mean the same thing, then let's just ditch one of them to avoid any redundant redundancy.

I That's the most idiotic attempt at a troll post that I've seen in...well, the past five minutes really.

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