Back in the day when I used to roll play... this is what might happen when a new DM would start playing with an existing group.
DM: - rolls dice- "suddenly you find yourself standing in a large croud of people.
Elf: "What happened? We were all just eating lunch in a forest"
DM - rolls dice a few more times - You see the clouds part and a large godlike face apear in the sky. "I have declared you an axis of evil and now you will face my wrath!" The god then launches lightning bolts at random into the croud easily killing and NPC's that are unwanted and causing some chaos.
Elf "I think I am going to call my lawyer"
DM -rolls dice- "Your lawyer suddenly apears in mid air about ten feet above you and drops out of the sky" THUD
Lawyer "Wha huh?"
God "MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Wheres your little judge now!"
Oh gheese did I get off topic...?
Re:Burning Man not what it was... what it wasnt
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burnt in 00, 01, and 02...
I saw no billboards nor did I see anything for sale... The idea that this is a commercial event is dreamed up by people too petty to fork out $up to $250 bucks for a ticket. At $250 (the higher end of the price range) and a 7 day trip to blackrock you could say this vacation costs about 35 bucks a day. So for nonstop entertainment thats less then $1.50 an hour. I havent been to a three hour concert for less then 40 bucks in the past 5 years. While I was at the burn I found it hard to goto sleep thinking I was missing something fun to do but had to rest for something fun that will happen tomarrow.
In all three visits to blackrock city I have not spent a dime beyond the gates. Like most people I forget something and my fellow burners always have my back and I theirs. There is no city or community that supports its people like burning man... free of charge... no forms to fill out... no prerequisite. Just buy a ticket and go.
Think the ticket is priced too high? Fill out a scholarship application on the burning man web site. For those of you who have something to offer then another bitch and actualy CANT afford to HELP THEMSELVES a little... there is help for you too.
My experience with burning man is somewhat like school or a job. The more you put into it... think and plan ahead... look beyond the press and the slashdot flames... The more you will get in return. Unlike the tired real world always looking for "something new"... you will find it around every corner waiting for you. You just gotta get off your ass and be there.
>Noise-cancelling systems have been around for a >while.
Actualy alot of you already use one... Some surround sound units use a system where noise or music from one channel is "cancelled" from the other channel... creating a third which can be delayed for a short moment to create a "room"
I remember when I was young we played a game called tug of war. The controler was some woven rope like device that strangely, the harder you pulled on it... the harder it pulled back. Sometimes just after the other team lost the match the rope would just go limp.
I have this idea for force feedback on a game controling device... How cool would it be if I could sue anyone that decided to pull on my rope.
I work for the registration company http://www.budgetregister.com/ and we set up most everything for.biz yesterday. Domains started appearing in our database some time in the late morning from NeuLevel. We got a list of people that had successfully preregistered the.biz and zero info on anyone else.
We did a carpet bomb email to all the administrative contacts for domains registered with us last night to announce this launch. I would say about %20 of the email contacts listed in the whois are undeliverable addresses. These are customers that are possibly too scared of someone using the data in the whois or possibly they are doing something sneaky with their domain?
What I learned from this is? %20 of our customers will never know their domain is going to expire, never received their billing receipt, and have no means of contact if something were to come into dispute.
.biz and.info is only going to make this harder to keep up with for budgetregister and any other domain registration company. The people that send most of the spam on the net seem to have this figured out a while ago. Not only are these people harder to find then ever but the whois is also now showing the ?Sponsoring Reseller; for Technical Support with respect to this domain contact? which is the company you register your domain with such as network solutions or us. Now if someone registers a domain with us with a fraudulent address, we have the only contact on the whois output that wont bounce.
I can see one of these in a kitchen under the sink somewhere. You could have dinner cooking and waiting for you with the poke of a web page, or maybe coffee ordered from your laptop in bed.
This is the ultimate PLC.
Looking at the Oct 1989 date on the patent I wonder just when mosaic came out... Im also not really sure how the related patent relates to todays web... Sounds to me more like a stand alone system that... reads files. wooooooo "The invention also includes the terminal apparatus itself. " maybe these guys need to sue webtv so people stop using that chit.
Im going to start selling smells here for footballs and rugby... Really... tennis isnt the smellyest sport around. Why limit your stench to cut grass... Im thinking peppermint golf balls and a chocolate hacky sac... what a great idea... just dip your balls in it and sports can smell so much better!
My questions is if all this hastle has cut back on sales of all those annoying metallica tshirts. Maybe if we could get all the burnt out rockers to start ordering from copyleft and made a napster logo in the metallica font we could make a killing.
Its possible that in the next update that this discussion group will be blocked because of our excessive cum lauding.
I think the net should protest censorship by having a metatag with the seven dirty words on every page. I dont know if it would work but I bet my site would get more traffic.:)
Slashdot Mirror
Back in the day when I used to roll play... this is what might happen when a new DM would start playing with an existing group.
DM: - rolls dice-
"suddenly you find yourself standing in a large croud of people.
Elf: "What happened? We were all just eating lunch in a forest"
DM - rolls dice a few more times -
You see the clouds part and a large godlike face apear in the sky.
"I have declared you an axis of evil and now you will face my wrath!"
The god then launches lightning bolts at random into the croud easily killing and NPC's that are unwanted and causing some chaos.
Elf "I think I am going to call my lawyer"
DM -rolls dice-
"Your lawyer suddenly apears in mid air about ten feet above you and drops out of the sky"
THUD
Lawyer "Wha huh?"
God "MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... Wheres your little judge now!"
Oh gheese did I get off topic...?
burnt in 00, 01, and 02...
I saw no billboards nor did I see anything for sale... The idea that this is a commercial event is dreamed up by people too petty to fork out $up to $250 bucks for a ticket. At $250 (the higher end of the price range) and a 7 day trip to blackrock you could say this vacation costs about 35 bucks a day. So for nonstop entertainment thats less then $1.50 an hour. I havent been to a three hour concert for less then 40 bucks in the past 5 years. While I was at the burn I found it hard to goto sleep thinking I was missing something fun to do but had to rest for something fun that will happen tomarrow.
In all three visits to blackrock city I have not spent a dime beyond the gates. Like most people I forget something and my fellow burners always have my back and I theirs. There is no city or community that supports its people like burning man... free of charge... no forms to fill out... no prerequisite. Just buy a ticket and go.
Think the ticket is priced too high? Fill out a scholarship application on the burning man web site. For those of you who have something to offer then another bitch and actualy CANT afford to HELP THEMSELVES a little... there is help for you too.
My experience with burning man is somewhat like school or a job. The more you put into it... think and plan ahead... look beyond the press and the slashdot flames... The more you will get in return. Unlike the tired real world always looking for "something new"... you will find it around every corner waiting for you. You just gotta get off your ass and be there.
why not put the pc and the stereo in another room or a closet...
I dont want to see that ugly thing anyway.
>Be a good Californian and go back to bed.
>Heh. Course I live in Oregon now
You bring your laws and energy crisis and your smog and you leave the earthquakes behind. Welcome to Califoregon.
Im going to get Mt Hood to pop your azz.
>Noise-cancelling systems have been around for a >while.
Actualy alot of you already use one...
Some surround sound units use a system where noise or music from one channel is "cancelled" from the other channel... creating a third which can be delayed for a short moment to create a "room"
maybe I am way off topic... hurmm
It would be nice to possibly invite a few of your friends over with their PS2... link them all together in a cluster and play games.
Would it be possible to program multiplayer game where the more people you linked into your game the faster it would play?
I suppose if your running redhat we could just sit and play nethack all day. What happened to the games?
bash# zgrep -c etracks maillog.*
maillog.3.gz:0a illog.6.gz:6
maillog.0.gz:6
maillog.1.gz:6
maillog.2.gz:6
maillog.4.gz:0
maillog.5.gz:6
m
maillog.7.gz:12
= $1900
Cha Ching
I remember when I was young we played a game called tug of war. The controler was some woven rope like device that strangely, the harder you pulled on it... the harder it pulled back. Sometimes just after the other team lost the match the rope would just go limp.
I have this idea for force feedback on a game controling device... How cool would it be if I could sue anyone that decided to pull on my rope.
Microsoft also seemed to close the doors to press and public on security.
Lets just not talk about MS anymore and maybe it will go away. Lets see if they can release Windoze 2010 with out the press and public.
The year we stopped contact.
I work for the registration company http://www.budgetregister.com/ and we set up most everything for .biz yesterday. Domains started appearing in our database some time in the late morning from NeuLevel. We got a list of people that had successfully preregistered the .biz and zero info on anyone else.
.info is only going to make this harder to keep up with for budgetregister and any other domain registration company. The people that send most of the spam on the net seem to have this figured out a while ago. Not only are these people harder to find then ever but the whois is also now showing the ?Sponsoring Reseller; for Technical Support with respect to this domain contact? which is the company you register your domain with such as network solutions or us. Now if someone registers a domain with us with a fraudulent address, we have the only contact on the whois output that wont bounce.
We did a carpet bomb email to all the administrative contacts for domains registered with us last night to announce this launch. I would say about %20 of the email contacts listed in the whois are undeliverable addresses. These are customers that are possibly too scared of someone using the data in the whois or possibly they are doing something sneaky with their domain?
What I learned from this is? %20 of our customers will never know their domain is going to expire, never received their billing receipt, and have no means of contact if something were to come into dispute.
.biz and
Warming up my delete key.
I can see one of these in a kitchen under the sink somewhere. You could have dinner cooking and waiting for you with the poke of a web page, or maybe coffee ordered from your laptop in bed. This is the ultimate PLC.
Its a good thing someone at microsoft didnt create mp3 encoding. Talk about a chicken and egg nightmare.
really what I need is a laptop thats easier to use... IN BED.
at least they dont need to run windoze.
The only way to beat the system is to ignore it entirely. Why bother with the lesser of two evils. Vote for yourself and boost your own ego.
but can it run linux?
I want a shirt with the DeCSS on one side and a copy of the subpoena on the other.
Looking at the Oct 1989 date on the patent I wonder just when mosaic came out... Im also not really sure how the related patent relates to todays web... Sounds to me more like a stand alone system that... reads files. wooooooo "The invention also includes the terminal apparatus itself. " maybe these guys need to sue webtv so people stop using that chit.
Im going to start selling smells here for footballs and rugby... Really... tennis isnt the smellyest sport around. Why limit your stench to cut grass... Im thinking peppermint golf balls and a chocolate hacky sac... what a great idea... just dip your balls in it and sports can smell so much better!
My questions is if all this hastle has cut back on sales of all those annoying metallica tshirts. Maybe if we could get all the burnt out rockers to start ordering from copyleft and made a napster logo in the metallica font we could make a killing.
Its possible that in the next update that this discussion group will be blocked because of our excessive cum lauding.
:)
I think the net should protest censorship by having a metatag with the seven dirty words on every page. I dont know if it would work but I bet my site would get more traffic.
Lets hope they take the extra time to fix the boot disk they messed up on with 3.4