What does it take to get buried in Arlington? I can't imagine that jobless geeks who were buddies with a renegade FBI agent and helped him out under the table are an easy sell to the brass who make such decisions.
Your error is that you assume that the stories of Jesus and Gandhi don't rely on the experiencer to be surprised and have their hearts tugged (supposedly.)
The other error you make is that you assume that the story shown on FOX this evening is of equal quality to the other stories. > Without the surprise ending of the Gunmen dying, the rest of the story is pretty damned lame. (Except for the bit at the beginning with the Jupiter 2.)
"Thieves in Pittsburgh would race locked cars around the block in the early 1950's."
Just what does that mean? They'd unlock the car, then race it? They would never unlock it, and ride it like a horse? They'd only take locked cars around the block, whereas they'd take the unlocked ones off to the chop shop? I'm curious. What do you actually mean?
How does that mean it's less free? I can't have this information (not completely a deal-breaker; there's information I'm not allowed to have in the US.) But the information isn't copyrighted. Also, I can't go and convert people to Scientology (as I recall), and, unlike in the US, I don't have to defend my speech against regulations, the regulators have to defend their regulations against the inherent freedom of my speech.
I'm a big fan of the First Amendment, and when I read of other 'progressive' governments (read: Great Britain, Germany, Canada. Not Pakistan, Peru, etc.) doing away with the rights that I take for granted (and enjoy reading about and taking part in the free exercise thereof) I am quite startled. It makes me grateful that I live where I live, despite its many problems. (And I'm not a rabid USA-USA-USA sort, either.)
SCO Unix died because it was cancerous, old, and miserable. It didn't die one minute too soon.
Microsoft isn't on Apple's board. I heard a rumor that you code in VB and say that the GPL isn't even good as toilet paper. You must really be a worthless person.
I'll dismiss anime as long as there is an abundance of obnoxious little girls who dance around with ultra-high pitched voices and people who's facial expressions turn into contorted twitching to express emotion. Sorry, but I just can't get past that.
That sounds like how I write. I am miserable in a word processor. It's too easy to get sidetracked. When I write longhand, I have to organize my ideas. Also, I really like the aesthetic of pages and pages of my handwriting spread out in front of me. To each his own, eh?
I think there's a subtle difference between derivative works and modifications of the original. To extend an already-faltering analogy, it's like buying an original Mondrian painting (the guy with the primary colors and lines/squares) and deciding that the white background doesn't match the living room, and painting the white parts sea foam green. That's subtly different from taking the same Mondrian painting and gluing cow penises to it. Gross, but an artistic statement, not a forced conformation to a whim.
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Remember when floppy disks and hard drives had this statistic on them?
No, no. It's better than that. It's technically called the Flower Power iMac, but everyone calls it the Acid Trip iMac.
Were you in an Apple Store? Did they get out the LSD iMac and show you a thing or two?
Is that a bad thing?
What does it take to get buried in Arlington? I can't imagine that jobless geeks who were buddies with a renegade FBI agent and helped him out under the table are an easy sell to the brass who make such decisions.
Your error is that you assume that the stories of Jesus and Gandhi don't rely on the experiencer to be surprised and have their hearts tugged (supposedly.)
The other error you make is that you assume that the story shown on FOX this evening is of equal quality to the other stories. > Without the surprise ending of the Gunmen dying, the rest of the story is pretty damned lame. (Except for the bit at the beginning with the Jupiter 2.)
It begs the question...what was the old punishment? I'm curious. I know how I'd feel if someone spoiled an episode of B5 before seeing it.
The stealth moderation is, of course, overrated. My guess is that that's probably the least meta-moderated.
"Thieves in Pittsburgh would race locked cars around the block in the early 1950's."
Just what does that mean? They'd unlock the car, then race it? They would never unlock it, and ride it like a horse? They'd only take locked cars around the block, whereas they'd take the unlocked ones off to the chop shop? I'm curious. What do you actually mean?
No, I've really just seen the beasties from a distance (and dabbled on an office 3270 once in a while.) I'm sure it's suitable bizarre.
If you don't know what an AS/400 is, you really should opt out of moderating an IBM discussion, don't you think?
That wasn't offtopic, that was funny!
How does that mean it's less free? I can't have this information (not completely a deal-breaker; there's information I'm not allowed to have in the US.) But the information isn't copyrighted. Also, I can't go and convert people to Scientology (as I recall), and, unlike in the US, I don't have to defend my speech against regulations, the regulators have to defend their regulations against the inherent freedom of my speech.
I'm a big fan of the First Amendment, and when I read of other 'progressive' governments (read: Great Britain, Germany, Canada. Not Pakistan, Peru, etc.) doing away with the rights that I take for granted (and enjoy reading about and taking part in the free exercise thereof) I am quite startled. It makes me grateful that I live where I live, despite its many problems. (And I'm not a rabid USA-USA-USA sort, either.)
Does it run MS Office and Photoshop? Does it burn DVDs?
SCO Unix died because it was cancerous, old, and miserable. It didn't die one minute too soon.
Microsoft isn't on Apple's board. I heard a rumor that you code in VB and say that the GPL isn't even good as toilet paper. You must really be a worthless person.
You're clearly new here. It's best to lurk for a while before you post and risk accidentally putting your foot in your mouth.
And I don't have to say anything. I just open the desired document and continue to be productive.
Good lord. Look up irony. Grow a sense of humor. And the apostrophe is not used to denote plurality. It is for possession. Thus my signature. Sheesh.
I'll dismiss anime as long as there is an abundance of obnoxious little girls who dance around with ultra-high pitched voices and people who's facial expressions turn into contorted twitching to express emotion. Sorry, but I just can't get past that.
Mr. Babbage and Mrs. Lovelace might be surprised to read your post.
Of course, they'd be surprised by a CRT. Let alone TCP.
Biased in the direction you prefer is different from unbiased.
The easiest way to enjoy a James Joyce book is to leave it on the shelf. Or prop up a table with it.
Is that all it takes to borrow something?
I tried it with code, but I can't read my handwritten code worth beans. With English, it isn't hard to guess, but try fudging a regex!
That sounds like how I write. I am miserable in a word processor. It's too easy to get sidetracked. When I write longhand, I have to organize my ideas. Also, I really like the aesthetic of pages and pages of my handwriting spread out in front of me. To each his own, eh?
I think there's a subtle difference between derivative works and modifications of the original. To extend an already-faltering analogy, it's like buying an original Mondrian painting (the guy with the primary colors and lines/squares) and deciding that the white background doesn't match the living room, and painting the white parts sea foam green. That's subtly different from taking the same Mondrian painting and gluing cow penises to it. Gross, but an artistic statement, not a forced conformation to a whim.