>Is this where we get to make the gag about >baseball having a world series that is only for >American teams?
Only if you're ignorant enough to read "world" as "global," "international," or some such.
The "World Series" is an event put to gether by the New York World's sports department, producing a series between the champions of the two major baseball leagues. The World, of course, has exclusive marketing and coverage rights, and sells more papers for a week or two . ,,
The World is long gon, but the series continues . ..
[As a side issue, even if we ignore reality and assume that other nations belong in this american series, the cuban and japanese teams just wouldn't be on the same level, any more than the rest of the world agains the US olympic basketbal team, or against Japanese sumo wrestlers]
hawk, who never came back from the last baseball strike, anyway
In law school, another student had a obnoxious watch that was constantly going off in class and elsewhere. I was a groomsman at his wedding. Shortly before the ceremony, the bride took the watch, handed it to me, and ordered me to grind it beneath the heel of my boot if it made a single peep.
I had my hopes up, but it didn't go off. So given a chance with a cell phone . ..
I've had exactly one (1) cell phone go off in three years after this.
Additionally, if one did go off, the student would not be allowed back into the classroom until after a formal meeting with the Director of Academic Affairs (a lesser dean-like being) and myself.
"No action shall lay in the civil law, nor any criminal charges be preferred, for the death, maiming, or torture, nor for injury of any other kind, by the patrons of any entertainment establishment when said injury or death is of a person whose electronic device, save for alarms on pacemakers, heart monitors, or other life saving device, interrupts the performance."
:)
hawk, esq.
Oh, and for those who find the law pointless due to the messages now before the movie: the ability of the theatre to remove someone in cuffs and detain until the police pick him up will make a *big* difference . . .
>Many of us know someone who uses some unix variant >and walks with an air of superiority and >condescension because of that.
NO, you still don't understand. We're not condescending because of what *we* do, but what because of the silly stuff you little people do and use. Face it, we *are* superior:)
But if you send a SASE, I'll send you a nickle to buy a real computer.
Your attitude puts you squarely in the overwhelming majority of visitors to Las Vegas.
Contrary to popular believe, Vegas is *not* in the gambling business--it's in the fantasy business, with gambling playing a central role in the fantasy. You step off the plane for your three days or a week, and you're practically in an alternate universe. Men who would never enter a strip club will take their wives to a "topless revue"--and *she* will enjoy it. Most people have planned how much they're going to lose, and there's a thrill in the possibility that maybe they will win win.
Indian and other local gaming is another story. THese almost always are the gambling business--there's a fundamental difference between local gambling and destination gambling; the first is quite harmful, while the second is mere fantasy.
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>The Casino's are the entities that are involved >with and/or organized crime, not card-counting >groups.
oh, sure. And there is a platform 9-3/4 with the train to Hogwarts, and Denver was wiped out in a nuclear blast, and . ..
Outside of movies, the mob has been gone since some time in the '80s. It was alive and well in 1980, and gone by 1990.
Plain and simply, the mob couldn't handle the publicly traded corporation, which had no kneecaps to break or daughters to kidnap. This weakened the mob enough that gaming control was able to finish it off. All that's left after Stupak lost vegas world (and he was never actually mob; just a wanna be) is 75 year old men who show up leaning on a crutch to shood another 75 year old in his driveway--nothing but comic relief.
Also, unless it's about race, religion, or national origin, there's nothing unconstitutional about a private entity choosing whith whom it will associate.
>Unfortunately, casinos don't like losing money. >Their sole business is the fact that people come >in and give them money for no real reason >whatsoever.
BUt, but . . . doesn't the.com plan of making up for it in volume, or cash flow, or venture capital, or some such make up for that???
>Of course, if You know the size of Your matrices >in advance, and are able to simulate decent >control structures with GOTOs, go ahead...
???
GOTO???? Yes, both C and older version's of Fortran have them, but the last version of Fortran that needed them was the 1966 standard. There is no need for them in 77 (save the strange places you would also need them in c, but those are more thana little rare).
hawk, trying to figure out how to criticize the 1966 c standard
Boy, I'm sure glad you didn't tell my committee this before they approved my degree . . . they never would have approved my recursive algorithm in fortran.
Fortran 77 and earlier don't have recursion. Claiming that Fortran doesn't is as silly as basing criticisms of c and c++ on K&R or the assumption that c++ is handled by a c pre-processor. (However, all thinking people bash Pascal--even if you're wrong when you bash, it deserved it for something else!:)
> It has everything that made the original series great: action, drama, plot twists,
so far, so good . . .
> and three dimensional characters
huh? Did we watch the same series?
One of the amazing things was being compelling with all those 2d and 1d characters (unless, of course, your recognize Kirk, Spock, and McCoy as a single character).
One of the things that has made the sequels to Star Trek annoying is thier pathetic insistence on "character development," rather than using the characters as just different aspects of general humanity.
These stupid things used to pop up every year or two in the Bay Area. Incredibly stupid idea, but they could count on the NOW pickets, and the resultant news coverage, and would make a killing selling crummy donuts for a few months . . .
You're forgetting that tourists start with a big pile of +2 darts . . . of course, if you (a)pply the camera to them once you have it, and run a zig-zaggy course, they'll have a hard time aiming at you . . .
hawk, who is disgusted to point out to uneducated moderators who fancy tehmselves gamers that this is a nethack joke
>Their only hope was to win quickly, and that just couldn't happen.
Exactly. There were three ways it could have worked:
1) No war; Lincoln lets them go. I dunno, but there might have been a long shot if they'd helf back from attacking federal property. I seriously doubt it, though.
2) British military intervention. But given that the northern threat to drop all trade would clearly come, this was never a real option.
3) North gets bored and goes home. *shrug* It worked in Viet Nam, which was a success by any military measure, right until we packed up and left. For crying out loud, we hadn't bombed them in years to avoid annoying them (yes, seriously!), and then they wouldn't let us leave unmenanced, so we bombed them into submission. However, you have to stay in the war long enough for this to happen, and the south didn't.
This was one of AMC's better models. This was one of microsoft's better operating systems. This is a more pleasant terminal disease. That was one of England's better meals.
People looking for mystery novels will only wander into a "Victoria's Secret" at most once. If they see a "Elizabeth's Secret" in the mall directory the next week, they're not likely to search there (at least not for books:)
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>baseball having a world series that is only for
>American teams?
Only if you're ignorant enough to read "world" as "global," "international," or some such.
The "World Series" is an event put to gether by the New York World's sports department, producing a series between the champions of the two major baseball leagues. The World, of course, has exclusive marketing and coverage rights, and sells more papers for a week or two . ,
The World is long gon, but the series continues . .
[As a side issue, even if we ignore reality and assume that other nations belong in this american series, the cuban and japanese teams just wouldn't be on the same level, any more than the rest of the world agains the US olympic basketbal team, or against Japanese sumo wrestlers]
hawk, who never came back from the last baseball strike, anyway
hawk
That one wa a student with a borrowed cellphone with a child in the hospital in serious condition. I would have OK'd that phone, anyway.
In law school, another student had a obnoxious watch that was constantly going off in class and elsewhere. I was a groomsman at his wedding. Shortly before the ceremony, the bride took the watch, handed it to me, and ordered me to grind it beneath the heel of my boot if it made a single peep.
I had my hopes up, but it didn't go off. So given a chance with a cell phone . .
I've had exactly one (1) cell phone go off in three years after this.
Additionally, if one did go off, the student would not be allowed back into the classroom until after a formal meeting with the Director of Academic Affairs (a lesser dean-like being) and myself.
hawk
"No action shall lay in the civil law, nor any criminal charges be preferred, for the death, maiming, or torture, nor for injury of any other kind, by the patrons of any entertainment establishment when said injury or death is of a person whose electronic device, save for alarms on pacemakers, heart monitors, or other life saving device, interrupts the performance."
hawk, esq.
Oh, and for those who find the law pointless due to the messages now before the movie: the ability of the theatre to remove someone in cuffs and detain until the police pick him up will make a *big* difference . . .
>Many of us know someone who uses some unix variant
>and walks with an air of superiority and
>condescension because of that.
NO, you still don't understand. We're not condescending because of what *we* do, but what because of the silly stuff you little people do and use. Face it, we *are* superior
But if you send a SASE, I'll send you a nickle to buy a real computer.
hawk
Contrary to popular believe, Vegas is *not* in the gambling business--it's in the fantasy business, with gambling playing a central role in the fantasy. You step off the plane for your three days or a week, and you're practically in an alternate universe. Men who would never enter a strip club will take their wives to a "topless revue"--and *she* will enjoy it. Most people have planned how much they're going to lose, and there's a thrill in the possibility that maybe they will win win.
Indian and other local gaming is another story. THese almost always are the gambling business--there's a fundamental difference between local gambling and destination gambling; the first is quite harmful, while the second is mere fantasy.
hawk
>with and/or organized crime, not card-counting
>groups.
oh, sure. And there is a platform 9-3/4 with the train to Hogwarts, and Denver was wiped out in a nuclear blast, and . .
Outside of movies, the mob has been gone since some time in the '80s. It was alive and well in 1980, and gone by 1990.
Plain and simply, the mob couldn't handle the publicly traded corporation, which had no kneecaps to break or daughters to kidnap. This weakened the mob enough that gaming control was able to finish it off. All that's left after Stupak lost vegas world (and he was never actually mob; just a wanna be) is 75 year old men who show up leaning on a crutch to shood another 75 year old in his driveway--nothing but comic relief.
Also, unless it's about race, religion, or national origin, there's nothing unconstitutional about a private entity choosing whith whom it will associate.
hawk
>Their sole business is the fact that people come
>in and give them money for no real reason >whatsoever.
BUt, but . . . doesn't the
hawk, Las Vegan in exile
>in advance, and are able to simulate decent
>control structures with GOTOs, go ahead...
???
GOTO???? Yes, both C and older version's of Fortran have them, but the last version of Fortran that needed them was the 1966 standard. There is no need for them in 77 (save the strange places you would also need them in c, but those are more thana little rare).
hawk, trying to figure out how to criticize the 1966 c standard
Boy, I'm sure glad you didn't tell my committee this before they approved my degree . . . they never would have approved my recursive algorithm in fortran.
Fortran 77 and earlier don't have recursion. Claiming that Fortran doesn't is as silly as basing criticisms of c and c++ on K&R or the assumption that c++ is handled by a c pre-processor. (However, all thinking people bash Pascal--even if you're wrong when you bash, it deserved it for something else! :)
hawk
Sure. And child sacrifice isn't evil; just some of the things that it's used to obtain . . .
hawk
>text files were targeted at new browser windows.
Don't feel bad; lots of people do obnoxious and anti-social things with freshly learned programming tricks . . .
hawk
The change in the makeup budget is trivial. THe bigger change is that the Klingons changed from Nazi's to Norsemen along the way . . .
hawk
so far, so good . . .
> and three dimensional characters
huh? Did we watch the same series?
One of the amazing things was being compelling with all those 2d and 1d characters (unless, of course, your recognize Kirk, Spock, and McCoy as a single character).
One of the things that has made the sequels to Star Trek annoying is thier pathetic insistence on "character development," rather than using the characters as just different aspects of general humanity.
hawk
For crying out loud, it's the vi movement keys with reasonbly obvious extensions for diagonal movement!
hawk, fully aware that netack is the *only* game that matters
hawk
hawk
hawk, who is disgusted to point out to uneducated moderators who fancy tehmselves gamers that this is a nethack joke
If it came with a faraday cage, I just *might* consider one. Of course, simply removing the batteries would be an easier way to meet my needs . . .
hawk
Exactly. There were three ways it could have worked:
1) No war; Lincoln lets them go. I dunno, but there might have been a long shot if they'd helf back from attacking federal property. I seriously doubt it, though.
2) British military intervention. But given that the northern threat to drop all trade would clearly come, this was never a real option.
3) North gets bored and goes home. *shrug* It worked in Viet Nam, which was a success by any military measure, right until we packed up and left. For crying out loud, we hadn't bombed them in years to avoid annoying them (yes, seriously!), and then they wouldn't let us leave unmenanced, so we bombed them into submission. However, you have to stay in the war long enough for this to happen, and the south didn't.
hawk
This was one of AMC's better models.
This was one of microsoft's better operating systems.
This is a more pleasant terminal disease.
That was one of England's better meals.
hey, this is fun . . .
That was some of Merly Streep's better acting.
Uh, oh. Went too far . . .
hawk
People looking for mystery novels will only wander into a "Victoria's Secret" at most once. If they see a "Elizabeth's Secret" in the mall directory the next week, they're not likely to search there (at least not for books :)
hawk
hawk
"I knew Alpha, and, sir, you are *no* Alpha."
hawk