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The graphics would be cheaply done, the plot would be nonexistent,

I think that would not be a problem. About the cheap graphics, I think the industry is pushing to made nice graphics available cheap.

Once I made an animation of 2 naked persons "doing it" the first time I installed Poser. As you se you do not need too much. (Just license the program).

As for the "nonexistent plot" I recall a quote that John Carmack [creator of Doom series] said (according to wikiquote): "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."

So personally I think that if you "join" those two generes [games,porno], story won't be too much of a problem.

Still with the old hackneyed "Al Gore invented the internet" joke? Still? Even though it is demonstrably false? Add to that the fact that Al Gore has nothing to do with the EU. Come on.

Still with the old hackneyed "Al Gore invented the internet" joke? Still? Even though it is demonstrably false? Come on.

SANDURZ: Sir, I have an idea. Corporal, get me a videotape of Spaceballs: the Movie.
* Corporal goes off to Mr. Rental *
DARK HELMET: Colonel Sandurz, may I speak with you please? (throws facemask up) How can there be a videotape of the movie? We're still in the middle of making it!
SANDURZ: Yes, but there's been a new breakthrough in home video technology.
DARK HELMET: There has?
SANDURZ: Yes. Instant cassettes. They're out in stores before the movie is finished.
DARK HELMET: (in disbelief) Nah.
CORPORAL: Here it is sir! Spaceballs!

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Spaceballs

- AC

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

After a few days of R&R, I'll be ready for more action!

Yogi Berra

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra

What was all that about cats???

Albert Einstein when asked to describe radio, replied: "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

In recent years no cat has become slang for wireless communication networks.

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum. It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gasses: gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected... We cannot, in any circumstances acquiesce to the non-utilisation of any weapons which are available to procure a speedy termination of the disorder which prevails on the frontier.

--jeffk++

Hillary Clinton. Who is really a conservative disguised as a liberal.

"Here I am in the belly of the beast, and I don't even care. I don't even feel like taking a whiz on this. I used to dream of taking a whiz on this."

The Venture Brothers is truly a great show. Right up there with Robot Chicken. No, better than that...

Remember the quote from Stalin about elections? He said, and please forgive my inexactness, "The candidates on the ballot don't matter, what matters is who counts the votes." Even Stalin had elections.

It's actually: "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

Stalin has some other quotes too that fit. Scary.

I shudder to think about it (I also shudder at M$ in general -- Pinky and the Brain always pops into my head -- if only Pinky had an inside job there)

Brain: Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

Pinky: I think so, Brain, but "Snowball for Windows"?

(Thanks, WikiQuote!)

This was by Benjamin Franklin, not FDR.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

Later, GJC

I think it was Colonel Adolphus Busch who said "You can only have sex 30 or 40 times a day, no matter how hot she is"

Gates never said that. If you can provide a primary source, (not a list of unsourced "quotations") I'd be obliged, and amazed, to see it. See Wikiquote, update it when you find your source.

The funny thing is that even he said, when comfronted with the quote;
"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that."

(link [2] from Wikiquote)

Not only that, but the ads are very religious in nature. Perhaps Google took the "customer service" text to mean "religious service", and thus stuck religious ads all along the right side.

Joomla is a brother god to Jobu, apparently.

As much as I hate to feed trolls...

1) It is not a theory because it is not based solely on empirical evidence, has no predictive ability (and is therefore useless in terms of scientific progress) and is de-facto untestable. It is a nice little story, though, and it may help you sleep better at night if you can write off such uncertainties with "God makes it that way" - but that is not science. My post was 100% satire.

2) The Anthropic Principle falls apart because it assumes life as we know it is the ONLY way life could exist. In fact the reasoning used is somewhat circular, because if the fundamental properties of the universe were different, we would either not exist (and therefore wouldn't be around to contemplate our existence!) or we would exist, possibly in a different form, and be saying how amazing it is that if the fundamental properties of the universe were different, we would not exist. In other words, you should not assume that the universe is the way it is as a consequence of life existing (First quote).

3) IMHO, Science and dogmatic religion are indeed opposites. Science dares to ask questions and oppose current ways of viewing the world. Dogmatic religion discourages and sometimes punishes those who question the teachings. Plus, saying "God did it" is a logical dead-end and halts progress. Having a partial answer that leaves more questions allows you to continue searching and discover more things. For example, if everyone accepted as fact that Zeus sat in the clouds throwing lighting bolts, chances are we would never have explored electricity which eventually led to the development of batteries, electric motors and computers. If everyone throughout history just accepted "God did it" as valid "theory" we would all still be working the fields with sticks. Well, all of us except the priests and kings...

Science and religion may not be *mutually exclusive* (in the sense that a good scientist can still be religious) but they most certainly do not compliment each other.
=Smidge=

Blizzard threw that "poking" easter egg in wherever they could. My favourite that I found (that I never saw documented anywhere) was in the warcraft II set-up executable.
After you set up your soundcard settings, you could click the 'test' button and a voice said "Your sound card works perfectly". Click it a few more times and it changes to "Enjoying yourself?". Eventually it said "It doesn't get any better than this".

By the way, I just found this (and all other warcraft quotes) documented here: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warcraft

I suggest Mamushka

"Gomez: We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you."

Mamushka! Mamushka! Mamushka!

It's also attributed to him at Miyamoto Shrine and Wikiquote. If that quote is a mangled mistranslation of another man's comment, it's not just Slashdotters that are confused.

> > We NeoCons don't deny that the climate is changing; we deny that it's the fault of mankind.

> How can this be? Being a neo-con is a political alignment, but either of these questions are questions of science. Surely being a neo-con doesn't mean you close your mind to scientific fact on the basis of ideology. Next thing you're going to tell me that people deny evolution merely on the basis of religious preference.

Hopefully that was sarcasm.

At any rate and FYI, neocons are behind the Intelligent Design movement as well. Some of them apparently agree with Marx that religion is the opiate of the masses, but think of that as a situation to be exploited for greater control of those masses, rather than condmemned as a delusion.

(FWIW, the extended version of the Marx quote doesn't actually sound like he was knocking religion, as everyone assumes from the short form of the quote.)

Ah, the redneck version of Mao Zedong's "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" :)

(More quotations are here, you might like this one: "If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.")

this is a classic case of where "the prisoner falls in love with his chains".

Hmm... just found this on WikiQuote:
"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying." -- John Carmack
So obviously he already got burned by patents on at least one occasion.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Wrongly_At tributed

Linux is only free if your time has no value. --Jamie Zawinski

The W3C? How many divisions do they have?

> It sounds like you don't actually know Perl or Lisp,

You make a lot of wrong assumptions. I noticed that about you.

I know them both. I use Perl regularly, and I haven't used Lisp for a few years.

> So please share your source of wisdom that tells you
> that "the human brain takes more naturally to a straight-forward imperative languages"?

Gee, why don't you ask, you know, programmers! If Lisp was easier than Java, don't you think, it would be, like MORE POPULAR - maybe.

Instead you've got cases like where Yahoo ditches Lisp. For what? PHP! Oh, the humanity.

> If you've only seen programs represented by XML "a couple of times",

Sorry - that was my mistake - I meant a couple of 'programming environments' - one called 'JMeter' (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter) and one called 'webMethods' (proprietary - webmethods.com). Both represent programs as XML, but have visual IDEs on top. I've had to read and modify these XML programs on a few occasions (IDE bugs/ convenience etc) and it was painful.

> Your own ignorance and incomprehension are not valid arguments that a language is flawed.

They're missing, and so is your argument.

> You declare that Lisp is unnatural for the human brain, but maybe
> it's your brain that's impared?

Your Lisp fanboy-hood is showing.
This is a case of bad tools blaming the carpenter.

> Your mistaken belief that declarative languages [c2.com]
> are hard to understand might have been caused by learning
> BASIC as your first language.

What is this 'childhood trauma by exposure to Basic' nonsense you're spouting? Are you serious? Dijkstra wasn't (at least I hope so... unless he is mentally damaged himself).

Do you think there some conspiracy to damage people's brains by teaching them imperative languages first? Break out the tinfoil hats people!

You really _so_ underestimate the human brain.

> Edsger W. Dijkstra observed in Selected Writings on Computing:
> A Personal Perspective that "It is practically impossible to teach
> good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to
> BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond
> hope of regeneration."

He's wrong. :) And since you so uncritically accepted his hyperbole, you're wrong.

Here's wikiquote on Dijkstra:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_Dijkstra
"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."

"I asked this guy, I said, 'Come on man, Dinosaur fossils. What's the deal?'

'Dinosaur fossils? God put those there to test our faith.'

'I think God put you here to test my faith, dude.
You believe that?'

'Uh huh.'

Does that trouble anyone here? The idea that God might be fuckin' with our heads? Anyone have trouble sleeping restfully with that thought in their heads?
God's running around, burrying fossils: 'Hu hu ho. We will see who believes in me now, ha HA.
Im a prankster god. I am killing me. Ho ho ho ho.'
You know, you die, you go to St. Peter, 'Did you you believe in dinosaurs?"
"Well, you know, there was fossils everywhere.' [Bill makes sound effects with his mic] KOOM Aaaahhhh.
'What are you, an idiot? God was FUCKING with you! Giant flying lizards, you moron! That's one of God's easiest jokes!' 'It seemed so plausibleeeee! Ahhhhhhhh!' Bound for the lake of fire. . . .

While I appreciate your quiant traditions, supersitions, and, you know, I on the other hand am an evolved being who deals soley with the source of light which exists in all of us, in our own minds, no middle man required. [laughs]

But anyway, I appreciate your little games and shit, you putting on the tie and going to church, a de da de da. But you know there's a LIVING GOD WHO WILL TALK DIRECTLY TO YOU. Sorry, but not too many pages of the Bible that FORGOT TO MENTION DINOSAURS!"

For more.. See:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks

If we assume those patent officers are intelligent and familiar with the tasks they were assigned to perform, they must be able to see that so many of those patents either don't make sense, or fall into the 'common sense' category.

If you were an employee who had to deal with issues that seem unfair and unreasonable to you, especially if you were 'sensitive' enough as to even blame, in part, your very self for being part of this stupidity, you may have done the very same thing.

John Caramack puts it all in prespective:
"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying." (on software patents)

Doc Brown: "Unbelievable that this little piece of junk could be such a big problem. No wonder this circuit failed, it says made in Japan."
Marty: "What do you mean Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan."
Doc Brown: "Unbelievable"

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future

Which reminds me, I saw a real delorean going down the street this past week. Kind of a neat little car - definitely something that very few people have.

Russians take shit too far. Roulette is fun and all, but no, those russians had to take it one step further. How do you come up with a game like that anyways? Whatever they do, they do it with intensity. Who was in space first? I rest my case. -Mitch Hedberg

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg

Rest in peace Mitch.

I read several of Mitch's quotes and he's great!

He reminds me of Lewis Black. In fact, since I don't know who Mitch Hedberg is, when I'm reading his quotes I imagine Lewis Black saying them.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_Black

You don't have liberty without security, so what's the point of talking about preserving all your civil liberties when you're not free anyway? In reality compromises must be made to maximise freedom.

"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security" -- Benjamin Franklin

They won't let you have drinks back there. I like a Jack & Coke. One time, I saw a Jack & Coke and it had a lime floating in it, and I thought "That's good to know." Next time I'm on a boat and it capsizes, I will reach for a lime... I'll be water skiing without a life jacket and people will be like "What the hell?" and I'll pull out a lime. I'll pull out a lemon too, saved by the buoyancy of citrus! -Mitch Hedberg

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg

Rest in peace Mitch....

I went to a restaurant and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress heard me 'cause she asked how I'd like my eggs. So I tried answering her anyways. "INCUBATED! Then hatched, then raised, then beheaded, then plucked, then cut up, then put onto a grill, then put onto a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while. I don't have the time. Scrambled! -Mitch Hedberg

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg

Rest in peace Mitch....

Wrong attribution, the first quote is from Hermann Göring during his trial as a war criminal. Checked in wikiquote to ensure greater accuracy. There is more material that expands the meaning of the quote significantly on the site: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring

Jayne: Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you get who's in charge.

actually it's even better than that:

You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til you understand who's in ruttin' command here. ~ Jayne Cobb

Jayne always had some great lines (actually everyone did)
another good jayne quote:

Mal: Can't get paid if you're dead.
Jayne: Can't get paid if you crawl away like a bitty little bug neither. I got a share of this job. Ten percent of nothin' is, let me do the math here... nothin' into nothin', carry the nothin'...

It can be. Just not enough people care about that feature to do it. The "problem" (or advantage depending on how lazy you are) of Linux is that the ichiest iches get scratched first.

Linus:

"[...] the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.".

Thats just they way it is. Great part about life is if you don't like it, its easy to buy Windows.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_J._Hanlon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

Or alternatively: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte

"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
* From Mein Kampf, (1925); the Ralph Manheim translation published by Houghton-Mifflin, 1943. pg 403.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hitler

Why would anyone need more than 640K?

Talking of Blackadder...

""People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
Alternative: "We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us."
Notes: allegedly from Rough Men by George Orwell. There is no evidence in existence that Orwell ever wrote or uttered either of these versions of this idea. While these do bear some similarity to a comment made in an essay that Orwell wrote on Rudyard Kipling, the two statements above are considered to be illegitimate by Orwell scholars."

This quote is from a different website than this link, but the link also decries this GO quotation:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations

It is funny that you would support your POV using george orwell though...

Outsourcing is a good thing for everyone in the long run. However, in the long run, we are all dead.

"Why was it necessary to drop the nuclear bomb if LeMay was burning up Japan? And he went on from Tokyo to firebomb other cities. 58% of Yokohama. Yokohama is roughly the size of Cleveland. 58% of Cleveland destroyed. Tokyo is roughly the size of New York. 51% percent of New York destroyed. 99% of the equivalent of Chattanooga, which was Toyama. 40% of the equivalent of Los Angeles, which was Nagoya. This was all done before the dropping of the nuclear bomb, which by the way was dropped by LeMay's command. Proportionality should be a guideline in war. Killing 50% to 90% of the people of 67 Japanese cities and then bombing them with two nuclear bombs is not proportional, in the minds of some people, to the objectives we were trying to achieve."

"LeMay said, 'If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.' And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?"

These quotes come from Robert McNamara in Errol Morris' film The Fog of War. (More quotes can be found on the wikiquote page: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War)

I completely agree with you, but I would follow up your point with McNamara's comment about proportionality. McNamara became lost in his own ability to improve our firebombing campaigns, and, in doing so, perhaps fascilitated the deaths of tens of thousands of people that could otherwise have lived, all without changing the ultimate result of the campaign.