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Bid to Tax Satellites Rejected
Kierthos writes: "This article updates an earlier Slashdot story about the Los Angeles County Assessor's office trying to tax satellites in orbit around the Earth. Short version: no go, the satellites don't get taxed."
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I'd kind of hoped that my life spent in the simulator would have prepared me for battle when the time finally came.
Unfortunately, it seems to have mainly prepared me to play new videogames without having to first read the manual.
As it turns out, the sedentary life of a gamer has made me physically weak and also a coward.
I'm furious, but scared and impotent when it comes to meting out the Rutger-Hauer-style blind vengeance that I crave.
I've spent thousands of hours playing Heroes of Might and Magic, but here, in the end, I'm simply a Victim of Might and Magic.
Inactivity has left me with brittle matchstick arms.
With one hard slap, a Muslim child could make me explode into a cloud of dust like a mummy.
Touched by a relatively harmless Islamist sparkler, I'd evaporate in a burst of flame, also like a mummy.
Gaming has effectively turned me into a mummy - a motionless,dessicated South American mummy like you'd see on Nova,
though, not the Egyptian kind that can climb walls and punch a hole through your chest.
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Our precious slashdot trolls scream out for vengeance:
1. Kill all Camel Jockeys.
2. Kill all Mohammedans.
3. Kill all Dune Coons.
4. Kill all Rag Heads.
5. Kill all Towelheads.
6. Kill all Arabs.
7. Kill all Camel Rooters.
8. Kill all Osama Bin Laden supporters.
Nuke their countries to hell.
Nuke them again.
Death to Islam.
I piss on Mecca. I wipe my ass with the Koran. I spit upon Mohammed.
We shove Jimmy Dean® Homestyle Pork Sausage up Mohammed's ass. Then while the Giver strokes me off I shoot my wad in Mohammed's face, after which we force Mohammed to fellate an 800 pound Chester White, while two rabbis shit on Mohammed's back. The Giver pumps Mohammed from behind. After the hog shoots its wad in Mohammed's mouth, and The Giver shoots his up Mohammed's ass. Then, unexpectedly, the Chester White roots out Mohammeds penis and testicles, hungrily biting them off, gobbling them down with full porcine fury. We bury the newly castrated Mohammed up to his nose in pig manure. Two AIDS infected Bowery whores stuff their used condoms and clotted tampax down Mohammed's throat, and crack a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 over hs skull. We then leave him for the hogs to munch on. Mohammed is swine feed, and by tomorrow, he will be swine manure.
Maybe you Trekkies/Trekkers can explain something to me. Granted, I have only seen a handful of Star Trek episodes, but are Vulcans supposed to be annoying?
Just about everything out of their mouths are prefaced with a statement of planetary origin. "Vulcans do not have emotions". "Vulcans do not..." Why do they feel the need to 1) preface everything with "Vulcan" 2) Feel the need to speak for the whole planet. I'm sure that there is some variance on that planet.
Also, why the need to preface everything with "Logically..."? Granted there are a lot of stupid people on this planet, but I'll but a lot of decisions that get made are due to some form of logic. I don't preface everything I say with "logic dictates...".
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon
I have been using tasm+tlink for a DOS app that I am writing but it turned out i needed MMX support and that forced
me to change my assembler. I chose nasm because I have been using it before in my other programs. I am still linking
everything with tlink.
The problem is: Everything compiles and links without warnings and usually runs but I can't link the debug version
correctly - if I do: nasm16 -f obj -g myfile.asm tlink
about wrong segment offsets and don't get any executable (if I exclude -g and use tlink
Other thing I found out is that the code mov ax,seg variable mov ds,ax mov di,var loads ds:di with different (however
valid) segment and offset than equivalent tasm code. My question is: what should I do to make nasm produce object
files that exactly match ones produced with tasm, so that I can link debug executable and don't get these segment/offset
differences?