Exactly. You don't bitch out a lion for chasing down an antelope; that's what lions do.
Well, this is what corporations do. They're making a ton of money, so they're throwing a dividend out to the share holders, i.e. the people who gave them money when they needed it, as a big 'thanks.' Then, they're buying back their stock, as they don't need it out in the hands of random people any more.
How come/. only bitches about monopolies when it's Microsoft, and not any of the other vicious companies that make Microsoft look like a babe in the woods?
It's interesting that you say that. In an old RPG called 'UnderGround,' they point out that 'you can tell if somebody's a Veteran, because in a stressful situation, they slip back into the '1000 millimeter stare' of somebody focusing on the HUD in their combat goggles.'
Gas/Nerve agent? Even if you accumulated enough to do some damage, it would be more effective to detonate on the ground, in an enclosed or crowded area. You'd have to get your hands on some power stuff to not have it just disperse in the air.
Hell, Aum Shinrikyo managed to release Sarin nerve gas into a crowded Tokyo subway, and only managed to kill 12 people. Sure, 5000 more injured, but that's still a pretty low death rate.
When I met the rude, obnoxious, self-absorbed Canadian, I was FLOORED.
Oh yeah, him. He emigrated from the States, eh, and we think he's a hoser. Nobody here wants to tell him that, though, we're afraid we might hurt his feelings or something.:-)
You get your gamut here, just like everywhere else, but I will daresay that we're a bit further towards the 'nice' end of the spectrum on the average.
Nah, this is where you get Outer Limits style sci-fi horror, when the robots decide that the best way to keep Humans from being harmed is to force them all into suspended animation, put them into a happy cheerful sort of 'anti-Matrix' simulation, and ensure that nothing bad every virtually happens to them.
Looks like you need to report to a Re-Nedification Camp!
Aye, but then come the 'prequels' made twenty years later: 'SfBF 1: The Phantom Fischer' which completely recreates his early years, includes incredibly stupid sidekicks, and so on, followed by 'SfBF 2: Attack of the Pawns' which some people consider to be better, but includes Gary Kasparov playing chess at 10 times normal speed, bouncing around like a rubber ball.
Also, the original movies will be 'improved' with neater special effects, but a cruical moment will be changed; 'Spassky moves first!'
Read the sentence right before the one you quote; he didn't have 'minor nasal surgery,' he had major nasal and throat surgery. I wouldn't want to eat anything either after having some of a whack of the palette at the back of my throat removed.
Mark Hamill does a shitload of voice work; many that you'd never guess. Like The Joker in Batman: The Animated Series.
And unlike people like, say, Cam Clarke, he's capable of doing different voices. Sorry, but ANY TIME I hear Cam Clarke, I can't help but think "Max?" Or, sometimes, "Lancer?"
DVD will be obsolete in two or three years, not ten. CD's been obsolete for at least ten; they're still in use. 3.5 inch 1.44 meg floppies have been obsolete for twenty, but they're still on there. Hell, damn near every technology in a computer is 'obsolete;' doesn't mean they're not still in use.
"True" I reply, "But while 60 people didn't want the Red candidate, 70 people didn't want the Blue, and 70 people didn't want the Yellow. So while a majority of the folks don't like Red, even greater majorities don't like Blue or Yellow, so we'll have to go with the least of the evils"
Incorrect. Sixty people wanted the Blue candidate; however, thirty people wanted the Yellow candidate more. Had there not been a yellow candidate, those thirty would have voted blue.
The simple fact is that America is a two party system; you have the democrats and the republicans. Therefore, if you split the 'republican' vote between various shades of republicans, you wind up getting a democrat. If you split the 'democrat' vote between various shades of democrat, you get the republican vote.
When you have a sports tournament with multiple teams, but one eventual winner, you don't have one big game with everybody vs everybody; you have some form of league, round robin tournament, something. So why not do something similar with a voting system?
Oh, and if you vote for candidates, not parties, why are senators, congress critters, and so on, always shown with their riding and PARTY attached to their names? "The Honorable John Doe (D-Mass)" for example.
A third party candidate (or fourth or fifth) cannot "throw" the election.
Imagine a riding with 100 voters, all of whom will vote.
Lets say that 60 percent will vote for the Blue Party, which is pro Ice Cream, while 40 percent will vote for the Red party, which is anti Ice Cream.
Along comes the brand new Yellow party, which is very VERY pro Ice Cream; so much so, that they promise to drop the cost of Ice Cream through taxpayer subsidies.
So, now, say half of the people who would have voted Blue, pro Ice Cream, will now vote Yellow, VERY pro Ice Cream. The other half, while pro Ice Cream, don't think it should be subsidized by taxes. So they vote Blue, as normal.
This results in 30 votes for Blue, 30 for Yellow, and 40 for Red, and oh, look; an obviouly pro Ice Cream riding is thrown to the anti Ice Cream crowd.
Replace 'blue' with 'democrats,' 'red' with 'republicans' and 'yellow' with 'Ralph Nader's Green Party,' and you get what did, in fact, happen in a few places in the 2000 election.
This presents people with a choice. Vote for the party they really want (yellow) even though they know it's going to lose? Vote for blue, knowing that it at least has a chance of winning? Don't vote at all, as a protest?
When there's more than two choices, let people make more than two choices. There are several methods; concordcet, instant runoff, and so on, that would let people say 'I'd like Nader, and if not him than Gore, and if not him than Bush.'
Once SP2 is released, you'll be able to download a big ole executable off of Microsoft's website, suitable for schlepping around to machines, turning into an SMS type rollout package, slipstreaming into an XP disc to make a SP2 XP Install CD for new installations, and so on.
I've always thought that while a picture certainly is worth a thousand words, you don't get to pick what those words are; the viewer comes up with them all by themselves.
This can be a problem, or it can be your intention.
Why would continuity be jeopardized? The episode said that all communications took place over subspace radio, vox only. Fine. Doesn't mean the audience can't see them.
Robotech, taken by itself, is a wonderful merging of three completely separate series. Yes, there were problems, but it was a good effort. Yes, they could have left Macross as was and it would have done much better, but they needed a larger episode count.
And the novels, which were free to diverge from the animations ever so slightly, are a fine set of fiction. Makes more sense than the series itself.
They're allowed to ask, and you're allowed to refuse. If they have reason to suspect actual shoplifting, they're within their rights to detain you and call the cops. If, however, it turns out that you didn't shoplift, they're on the hook.
Somewhere like Costco, however, where you signed a membership agreement, you ARE required to provide your receipts at the door on request; you agreed to that. At Best Buy, though, they can either charge you with shoplifting, or get the fuck out of your way.
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Exactly. You don't bitch out a lion for chasing down an antelope; that's what lions do.
Well, this is what corporations do. They're making a ton of money, so they're throwing a dividend out to the share holders, i.e. the people who gave them money when they needed it, as a big 'thanks.' Then, they're buying back their stock, as they don't need it out in the hands of random people any more.
How come /. only bitches about monopolies when it's Microsoft, and not any of the other vicious companies that make Microsoft look like a babe in the woods?
It's interesting that you say that. In an old RPG called 'UnderGround,' they point out that 'you can tell if somebody's a Veteran, because in a stressful situation, they slip back into the '1000 millimeter stare' of somebody focusing on the HUD in their combat goggles.'
Hell, Aum Shinrikyo managed to release Sarin nerve gas into a crowded Tokyo subway, and only managed to kill 12 people. Sure, 5000 more injured, but that's still a pretty low death rate.
Oh yeah, him. He emigrated from the States, eh, and we think he's a hoser. Nobody here wants to tell him that, though, we're afraid we might hurt his feelings or something. :-)
You get your gamut here, just like everywhere else, but I will daresay that we're a bit further towards the 'nice' end of the spectrum on the average.
Nah, this is where you get Outer Limits style sci-fi horror, when the robots decide that the best way to keep Humans from being harmed is to force them all into suspended animation, put them into a happy cheerful sort of 'anti-Matrix' simulation, and ensure that nothing bad every virtually happens to them.
Looks like you need to report to a Re-Nedification Camp!
Actually, I find that the average Mac user simply buys into the hype too much.
Tech Support: "Ok, lets check your email settings. Open the..."
Mac User: "Oh, no, I don't have to do that! Macs just work!
Aye, but then come the 'prequels' made twenty years later: 'SfBF 1: The Phantom Fischer' which completely recreates his early years, includes incredibly stupid sidekicks, and so on, followed by 'SfBF 2: Attack of the Pawns' which some people consider to be better, but includes Gary Kasparov playing chess at 10 times normal speed, bouncing around like a rubber ball.
Also, the original movies will be 'improved' with neater special effects, but a cruical moment will be changed; 'Spassky moves first!'
Which is kind of funny when you consider that the original Nintendo, in Japan, had a modem attachment and an online service.
Read the sentence right before the one you quote; he didn't have 'minor nasal surgery,' he had major nasal and throat surgery. I wouldn't want to eat anything either after having some of a whack of the palette at the back of my throat removed.
Mark Hamill does a shitload of voice work; many that you'd never guess. Like The Joker in Batman: The Animated Series.
And unlike people like, say, Cam Clarke, he's capable of doing different voices. Sorry, but ANY TIME I hear Cam Clarke, I can't help but think "Max?" Or, sometimes, "Lancer?"
DVD will be obsolete in two or three years, not ten. CD's been obsolete for at least ten; they're still in use. 3.5 inch 1.44 meg floppies have been obsolete for twenty, but they're still on there. Hell, damn near every technology in a computer is 'obsolete;' doesn't mean they're not still in use.
Incorrect. Sixty people wanted the Blue candidate; however, thirty people wanted the Yellow candidate more. Had there not been a yellow candidate, those thirty would have voted blue.
The simple fact is that America is a two party system; you have the democrats and the republicans. Therefore, if you split the 'republican' vote between various shades of republicans, you wind up getting a democrat. If you split the 'democrat' vote between various shades of democrat, you get the republican vote.
When you have a sports tournament with multiple teams, but one eventual winner, you don't have one big game with everybody vs everybody; you have some form of league, round robin tournament, something. So why not do something similar with a voting system?
Oh, and if you vote for candidates, not parties, why are senators, congress critters, and so on, always shown with their riding and PARTY attached to their names? "The Honorable John Doe (D-Mass)" for example.
Imagine a riding with 100 voters, all of whom will vote.
Lets say that 60 percent will vote for the Blue Party, which is pro Ice Cream, while 40 percent will vote for the Red party, which is anti Ice Cream.
Along comes the brand new Yellow party, which is very VERY pro Ice Cream; so much so, that they promise to drop the cost of Ice Cream through taxpayer subsidies.
So, now, say half of the people who would have voted Blue, pro Ice Cream, will now vote Yellow, VERY pro Ice Cream. The other half, while pro Ice Cream, don't think it should be subsidized by taxes. So they vote Blue, as normal.
This results in 30 votes for Blue, 30 for Yellow, and 40 for Red, and oh, look; an obviouly pro Ice Cream riding is thrown to the anti Ice Cream crowd.
Replace 'blue' with 'democrats,' 'red' with 'republicans' and 'yellow' with 'Ralph Nader's Green Party,' and you get what did, in fact, happen in a few places in the 2000 election.
This presents people with a choice. Vote for the party they really want (yellow) even though they know it's going to lose? Vote for blue, knowing that it at least has a chance of winning? Don't vote at all, as a protest?
When there's more than two choices, let people make more than two choices. There are several methods; concordcet, instant runoff, and so on, that would let people say 'I'd like Nader, and if not him than Gore, and if not him than Bush.'
Sounds like it's time to googlebomb 'FCC' as something like 'Fucking Censorship Committee' or 'Fucking Channel Censorers' or something.
Once SP2 is released, you'll be able to download a big ole executable off of Microsoft's website, suitable for schlepping around to machines, turning into an SMS type rollout package, slipstreaming into an XP disc to make a SP2 XP Install CD for new installations, and so on.
Good point. Fine; the Bush Modification: "Or, the money for your equipment is actually being spent on barrels and barrels of PORK."
I've always thought that while a picture certainly is worth a thousand words, you don't get to pick what those words are; the viewer comes up with them all by themselves.
This can be a problem, or it can be your intention.
Military Axiom number 12: always remember that your equipment was built by the lowest bidder.
Why would continuity be jeopardized? The episode said that all communications took place over subspace radio, vox only. Fine. Doesn't mean the audience can't see them.
Robotech, taken by itself, is a wonderful merging of three completely separate series. Yes, there were problems, but it was a good effort. Yes, they could have left Macross as was and it would have done much better, but they needed a larger episode count.
And the novels, which were free to diverge from the animations ever so slightly, are a fine set of fiction. Makes more sense than the series itself.
My point exactly; the Matrix didn't really have Sun until after the peace was reached.
Although I do seem to recall the training programs possibly having sunshine; the girl in the red dress scene, for example.
Shit. Now I'll have to watch the three movies looking for sunshine in the Matrix scenes.
Why not just do it the way UNIX types have been doing it for thirty years; /home mounted via NFS?
Much more coherent, if nothing else.
Recall the end scene with the Oracle and, I believe, the Architect discussing the future...watching a sunrise.
They're allowed to ask, and you're allowed to refuse. If they have reason to suspect actual shoplifting, they're within their rights to detain you and call the cops. If, however, it turns out that you didn't shoplift, they're on the hook.
Somewhere like Costco, however, where you signed a membership agreement, you ARE required to provide your receipts at the door on request; you agreed to that. At Best Buy, though, they can either charge you with shoplifting, or get the fuck out of your way.