Because if it does I'm converting to Catharism and suing the all living shit out of the Vatican and the French state for the Albigensian Crusade. I should be able to claim most of southern France!
If ignorance is not a defense and I do not have an encyclopedic knowledge of the law shouldn't I claim the 5th for any and all questions asked of me in a court of law?
"I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might incriminate myself".
"Nobility" is something of an anachronism when applied to ancient Rome. Patrician and plebian were the major classes of the era and since, at least, the formulation of the twelve tablets (ca. 450 BCE) plebians were allowed to become curule magistrates which entitled one to wear the toga praetexta with a broad purple stripe as an adult (all freeborn male children were entitled to wear it). The toga picta, which was all purple, was reserved for kings, some priests, generals celebrating a triumph, the preator urbanus during particular religious rites and, during the imperial periods, consuls and emperors. Of those, only the kingship and some of the priestly offices were reserved for patricians and the kingship was abolished in 509 BCE while for every priesthood denied a pleb there was another denied to patricians.
What they would punish you for wasn't, so much, wearing purple but, rather, impersonating an official or, depending on the legal climate of the time, conspicuous consumption (which applied to all clothing, not just the toga). The former might well get your ass tossed off the Tarpian Rock sure, but the latter would only get you heavily fined. And if you could afford Tyrian purple cloth you could afford the fine.
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Watchmen is emblematic of the problem with many comics held out as "real" literature; it's a self referential work of comics. That is, it is not a work of literature but a work of comicdom. It relies upon a working knowledge of the genre itself in order to function beyond being a simplistic superhero tale. Other works of "high" comics that suffer the same issue are, of course, deconstructivist superhero works like The Dark Night Returns or Astro City and works overly reliant upon satirizing the genre like Cerebus (before Sim went crazy as a shithouse rat). Not that these are bad pieces, I happen to like all of them to one degree or another (my sig is lifted from Dave Sim after all), but they are first and foremost comic books.
For a comic to be "real literature" I feel it must transcend its genre (kind of self-evident really, as literature is a different genre). Gilbert Hernandez's magical-realist Palomar stories do this about as well as anything I've ever run across. His brother Jaime's stuff does it almost as well (trading a bit of literary flair for perhaps some of the best black and white line-work comics have ever seen). Sandman suffers a bit at the beginning as it derives from DC's horror line of comics but as Gaiman finds his footing the story rapidly pulls itself out of that ghetto and establishes itself as a very fine piece of fantastic literature (of sorts).
Compounded by the fact that it is a US Highway and, thus, can not be closed to truck traffic even though trucks can not in any way, shape or form pass through the road safely.
I'm saying the 'Vette is a more ballsy car for an equivalent amount of money. Less refined than a Boxster but it has gobs more power.
It all depends on what you want. I find a Boxster to be more fun to drive than a Corvette but the simple fact of the matter is that the 'Vette is quite a bit faster... and the C6s will be even quicker.
It'll be a small sack. If the dude had big balls he would have gotten a Corvette for his $47k instead of an overpriced, underpowered secretary sportscar version of a real Porsche.
Any idea what screen it is using? I've been looking for a LCD or even a color CRT that would fit the SE/30's opening without major modification to the case or fitting a smaller LCD (like this) for a while now.
I did not include Eudora, even though the latest version does include unique features such as a Content Concentrator, Contextual Filing, MoodWatch and Email Usage Stats, as it is both closed source and not available for any UNIX platforms.
That said, Eudora seems to run just fine on my Mach kernal, BSD-based system.
It is misleading though: In this review I compare the next generation of the most popular e-mail clients, including Evolution, KMail, Opera and Mozilla...
As I understand it, the most popular email clients are Outlook, Lotus, and Eudora. He means "the most popular e-mail clients for Linux... oh, and an old version of Outlook for comparison".
File Synchronizer X does the job for me. I use it for a nightly incremental backup of two 250GB drives on my job server (OS X Server 10.2.6) to external firewire drives.
I use a 3rd party virtual desktop app with dual monitors on OS X and Photoshop - which does not run under a single window and never has on Macs - moves its pallates and dialogues into whichever virtual desktop the active image is open in although it doesn't care which monitor they are displayed on. Odd.
Modest Mussorgsky: ITMS - many: 5 full versions of Pictures At An Exhibition, 2 versions of Night On Bald Mountain and 4 other pieces WMMS - 1 movement from Pictures At An Exhibition
Pleasantly surprised that ITMS has Trailer Bride at all. Stunned that WMMS has only one piece - and a single movement not the whole thing - from Mussorgsky.
More like a cross between the historical Horatio Nelson and the fictional Horatio Hornblower (himself based on Nelson to a large degree). While, for instance, her capture and escape from 'Hell' resembles the plot of C.S. Forrester's Flying Colors it also borrows from the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife where Nelson was defeated and lost an arm.
There's nothing particularly deep about the Honorverse, but I find it to be excellent light escapist reading. Williams, OTOH, is hit and miss as far as I've experienced. Something as insipid, flat and lame as Hardwired can be followed by something as good as Aristoi.
Jesus Christ on crutches, let me clue you in : HOMER did it all first in the fucking Odyssey. What is this nerd hangup over so-called originality? If that is your metric then Star Trek (three words: Hornblower in space) and, yes, especially that horridly acted, insipidly plotted, wannabe Wagontrain piece of third rate bantha shit Battlestar Galactica were the worst about lifting homeric themes directly. Farscape was a sight better, but really: The Fugitive... in space... with more guns and boobies!
I liked Firefly not because it was original - I consider it Mark Miller's Traveller on TV - but because it was ballsy. For everyone who ever wanted Picard to just beam some annoying Ferengi twit into the nearest star, Firefly payed off in the first ep. But if you want something fairly original and different (for TV, scifi literature has treaded this ground repeatedly) how 'bout: no aliens?
And what is up with Dr. Pepper changing taste dramatically from bottler to bottler? I drove from Atlanta to Indianapolis for the F1 race a few weeks back and every stop along the way the Dr. Pepper tasted different.
I do love the ingrediants though: high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar? You can get away with and/or statements on an FDA approved ingrediants list?
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Way to go Mike "Destroyer of Worlds" Nelson.
Because if it does I'm converting to Catharism and suing the all living shit out of the Vatican and the French state for the Albigensian Crusade. I should be able to claim most of southern France!
If ignorance is not a defense and I do not have an encyclopedic knowledge of the law shouldn't I claim the 5th for any and all questions asked of me in a court of law?
"I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might incriminate myself".
HEAT rounds have worked this way since before WWII, they just use a shaped charge to create the jet rather than magnetism.
So, basically, it would be no worse than being hit with a bazooka. That is to say, it would suck.
"My man Tasty was shot with a BAZOOKA! Look at him! He used to be six foot four before he got capped!!!"
It's actually a very pale yellow on dark green. I tend to run my screens the reverse: dark green text on pale yellow background.
"Nobility" is something of an anachronism when applied to ancient Rome. Patrician and plebian were the major classes of the era and since, at least, the formulation of the twelve tablets (ca. 450 BCE) plebians were allowed to become curule magistrates which entitled one to wear the toga praetexta with a broad purple stripe as an adult (all freeborn male children were entitled to wear it). The toga picta, which was all purple, was reserved for kings, some priests, generals celebrating a triumph, the preator urbanus during particular religious rites and, during the imperial periods, consuls and emperors. Of those, only the kingship and some of the priestly offices were reserved for patricians and the kingship was abolished in 509 BCE while for every priesthood denied a pleb there was another denied to patricians.
What they would punish you for wasn't, so much, wearing purple but, rather, impersonating an official or, depending on the legal climate of the time, conspicuous consumption (which applied to all clothing, not just the toga). The former might well get your ass tossed off the Tarpian Rock sure, but the latter would only get you heavily fined. And if you could afford Tyrian purple cloth you could afford the fine.
Watchmen is emblematic of the problem with many comics held out as "real" literature; it's a self referential work of comics. That is, it is not a work of literature but a work of comicdom. It relies upon a working knowledge of the genre itself in order to function beyond being a simplistic superhero tale. Other works of "high" comics that suffer the same issue are, of course, deconstructivist superhero works like The Dark Night Returns or Astro City and works overly reliant upon satirizing the genre like Cerebus (before Sim went crazy as a shithouse rat). Not that these are bad pieces, I happen to like all of them to one degree or another (my sig is lifted from Dave Sim after all), but they are first and foremost comic books.
For a comic to be "real literature" I feel it must transcend its genre (kind of self-evident really, as literature is a different genre). Gilbert Hernandez's magical-realist Palomar stories do this about as well as anything I've ever run across. His brother Jaime's stuff does it almost as well (trading a bit of literary flair for perhaps some of the best black and white line-work comics have ever seen). Sandman suffers a bit at the beginning as it derives from DC's horror line of comics but as Gaiman finds his footing the story rapidly pulls itself out of that ghetto and establishes itself as a very fine piece of fantastic literature (of sorts).
This same issue is plaguing The Tail Of The Dragon.
Compounded by the fact that it is a US Highway and, thus, can not be closed to truck traffic even though trucks can not in any way, shape or form pass through the road safely.
That would be Rimmer.
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Oi. I once dated a girl named Crystal Shanda Leer.
I'm saying the 'Vette is a more ballsy car for an equivalent amount of money. Less refined than a Boxster but it has gobs more power.
It all depends on what you want. I find a Boxster to be more fun to drive than a Corvette but the simple fact of the matter is that the 'Vette is quite a bit faster... and the C6s will be even quicker.
Fansubbed eps - 17 so far - available via bittorrent here. I've seen the first dozen so far and it's very, very good.
It'll be a small sack. If the dude had big balls he would have gotten a Corvette for his $47k instead of an overpriced, underpowered secretary sportscar version of a real Porsche.
/flamebait
Any idea what screen it is using? I've been looking for a LCD or even a color CRT that would fit the SE/30's opening without major modification to the case or fitting a smaller LCD (like this) for a while now.
I did not include Eudora, even though the latest version does include unique features such as a Content Concentrator, Contextual Filing, MoodWatch and Email Usage Stats, as it is both closed source and not available for any UNIX platforms.
That said, Eudora seems to run just fine on my Mach kernal, BSD-based system.
It is misleading though: In this review I compare the next generation of the most popular e-mail clients, including Evolution, KMail, Opera and Mozilla...
As I understand it, the most popular email clients are Outlook, Lotus, and Eudora. He means "the most popular e-mail clients for Linux... oh, and an old version of Outlook for comparison".
Here's JMS on the NEW B5 project; B5:TMoS.
No details, just tasty, tasty hints.
File Synchronizer X does the job for me. I use it for a nightly incremental backup of two 250GB drives on my job server (OS X Server 10.2.6) to external firewire drives.
I use a 3rd party virtual desktop app with dual monitors on OS X and Photoshop - which does not run under a single window and never has on Macs - moves its pallates and dialogues into whichever virtual desktop the active image is open in although it doesn't care which monitor they are displayed on. Odd.
... computers you could talk to.
But what do we get?
Telephones you type on.
Somebody just forgot the damned adapter.
OK, here's a search on some representative samples of my current collection.
Desmond Dekker & The Israelites:
ITMS - 42 Songs: 1 full album (best of) and 3 compilations
WMMS - 3 songs: 2 compilations
Link Wray & The Wraymen:
ITMS - 1 song: 1 compilation
WMMS - nada
Sebedoh:
ITMS - nada
WMMS - nada
Trailer Bride:
ITMS - 26 songs: 2 albums
WMMS - nada
Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts:
ITMS - nada
WMMS - nada
Modest Mussorgsky:
ITMS - many: 5 full versions of Pictures At An Exhibition, 2 versions of Night On Bald Mountain and 4 other pieces
WMMS - 1 movement from Pictures At An Exhibition
Pleasantly surprised that ITMS has Trailer Bride at all. Stunned that WMMS has only one piece - and a single movement not the whole thing - from Mussorgsky.
More like a cross between the historical Horatio Nelson and the fictional Horatio Hornblower (himself based on Nelson to a large degree). While, for instance, her capture and escape from 'Hell' resembles the plot of C.S. Forrester's Flying Colors it also borrows from the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife where Nelson was defeated and lost an arm.
There's nothing particularly deep about the Honorverse, but I find it to be excellent light escapist reading. Williams, OTOH, is hit and miss as far as I've experienced. Something as insipid, flat and lame as Hardwired can be followed by something as good as Aristoi.
Jesus Christ on crutches, let me clue you in : HOMER did it all first in the fucking Odyssey. What is this nerd hangup over so-called originality? If that is your metric then Star Trek (three words: Hornblower in space) and, yes, especially that horridly acted, insipidly plotted, wannabe Wagontrain piece of third rate bantha shit Battlestar Galactica were the worst about lifting homeric themes directly. Farscape was a sight better, but really: The Fugitive... in space... with more guns and boobies!
I liked Firefly not because it was original - I consider it Mark Miller's Traveller on TV - but because it was ballsy. For everyone who ever wanted Picard to just beam some annoying Ferengi twit into the nearest star, Firefly payed off in the first ep. But if you want something fairly original and different (for TV, scifi literature has treaded this ground repeatedly) how 'bout: no aliens?
Aspertene gives me a raging mellon-ache as well.
And what is up with Dr. Pepper changing taste dramatically from bottler to bottler? I drove from Atlanta to Indianapolis for the F1 race a few weeks back and every stop along the way the Dr. Pepper tasted different.
I do love the ingrediants though: high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar? You can get away with and/or statements on an FDA approved ingrediants list?
I believe that's 186,000 MPH tape.