I think we can guess where to find a website called "goatse.cx". Is it really necessary to actually link to goatse.cx? It's not like you were even trying to hide it, either. Amateur;-)
So students who live in residence, and who therefore pay for their internet access via a portion of their fees, are "stealing the university's research bandwidth" every time they do what YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW - accessing the internet for non-work-related purposes? I agree with charging/limiting bandwidth "hogs" (for the other users' sake), but I think your statement ignores the fact that the institution should _not_ have any more say than any ISP over how student use what is in effect their _own home connection_. It's not like they can get Rogers to come and run a cable connection to their room, after all. They have no choice of ISP's.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm pretty sure that in the future these people envisaged, the moon miners were red-blooded American boys: handy with a jackhammer, up for a good slice of dehydrated apple pie, and well-muscled but not at all homoerotic - certainly not a bunch of sneaky rice-eating Mao-worshipping commies.
IIRC this has been something of a holy grail for mathematicians for years. When John Nash tried to prove it in his prime, everyone laughed at him, not believing that even someone as brilliant as Nash could solve the infamous problem.
Well, see, it has to hold true for ALL primes, not just his, or it's not a proof.
If you think the ability to read a good reviewer's "dissection" of a game before buying it is not a godsend, you've obviously never plopped down $65 for a new game only to find that it's a) a steaming pile of super-unfun crap, b) terminally buggy or sold with misleading system requirements, or c) okay but completely not what you were expecting based on the adverts and not really interesting to you. _Love_ the serious, detail-minded reviewers, they are your Yoda of game-purchasing. After all, that initial outlay is now about the cost of 250 "games of Ms. Pac-Man at the local arcade"!
I understand they don't clean you out right away. They actually string you along for a while and get you to raise some more funds to cover "unforseen complications" or bribes or some such nonsense. Once they've bilked you out of a lot more than the value of your actual bank account, then they vanish. A woman in the US (CA I believe) actually embezzeled her law firm's ENTIRE CASH RESERVES to give to these d!ckwads. The firm found out when their settlement cheques to clients bounced!
Huh? You're surprised because a Christian fundie acted in an underhanded way? Please - these are the kind of people who have been misrepresenting their own holy book for centuries to justify everything from the enslavement of Africans to murdering abortion doctors. The fact that they also tend to misquote Stephen Jay Gould while attacking evolution, and circulate as fact The Onion's "story" about how Harry Potter is satanic, is icing on the cake my friend.
You're lucky that this knob didn't also "quote" you as saying you're fond of gay group sex while wearing a goat mask. (He's lucky his God has more important things to do than send that lighting bolt...)
I kid you not, when I was a T.A. in grad school, a student once handed in a paper where they said "foo foo foo, intern bar happens"! Yep, "intern", like Monica Lewinsky. This person had graduated from high school with decent enough grades to get into the biology program at one of Canada's top universities:-P
(Also an example of the perils of relying on spell check! Though I hope that would at least catch "insundry"...)
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I don't think Willow has been nearly the center of attention lately. A lot of secondary characters have had a lot of screen time lately (Andrew in "Storyteller" being a prefect example), but it's all about the Slayer this year. We see her changing, growing darker and angrier, descending into the abyss even more so than right after (2nd) her return from the dead.
The "Willow changing into Warren" thing was important - she needed to move on from her guilt and grief over Tara's death, probably because like everyone else on the show, she had to undergo some self-purification before finally facing the First Evil. Andrew had to face his murder of Jonathan, Xander had to tell Anya he still loves her. If for no other reason than that they could all die soon (and they could, Joss has no compunctions about the dying).
So it's not realtime. Cut us biotechnologists some slack here, you couldn't play Quake on ENIAC either (though I'm sure somebody tried to - "Lag! Lag! Switch the plugs faster!").
This all sounds very nice, though to be honest I doubt its veracity. To be fair, some of history's most famous and beautiful works of visual art were produced at the behest of a patron. Of course, when the rich were the patrons of the arts, they also called the shots. That bard couldn't sing the song he wrote about how the feudal system sucked (except maybe in private) for fear of losing his meal ticket. Also, for a lot of art, access was restricted. The most beautiful paintings and sculptures resided in the homes of the wealthy and powerful, not in public galleries. To suggest a relevant comparison, imagine if a rich person paid your favorite musician to record a new album - but then kept all copies of the recording for their own personal listening pleasure?
See, you're thinking like a real wargamer, not somebody who grew up thinking Games Workshop invented the concept. Thing is, a lot of people who HAVE paid out $100's for their army won't play against your cardboard one. To be fair, an army of hand-painted figures looks great on the table, but there is a certain petty jealousy associated with the fact that they paid $50 for their Bloodthirster of Khorne, whereas yours is a rubber dinosaur that came out of a bin at the toy store;-)
Yes, I imagine anyone who's ever spent $400 on a modest army for Warhammer Fantasy Battle, and spent the better part of $100 on rulebooks and "Codices" so they know how to use the army, would sympathize with you. That $10, even with inflation, was probably a bargain.
"You know those girls who are fat or have some zits or whatever? A lot of them are really sweet people. Try asking some of them out for a change, instead of staying at home fantasizing about some haughty cheerleader. You'll be a lot happier, trust me."
(then again, my 12 year old self would reply "WHAT? This puberty thing gets MORE complicated?!")
True. To be fair, in the book he was talking about a motorcycle (which had "smart wheels" that could ride over a curb without a bump!), so perhaps we can give him a little leeway for creative license;-)
Interestingly, he KNEW it was incorrect before publication - in the Acknowledgements at the back of my paperback copy, he says the mistake was caught in the galley editing stage. He decided to leave it that way because he thought it sounded better in the context of the writing.
"When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to popularity. You do stuff like this, and still wonder why you're unpopular?!?!?! Because non-nerds don't waste time doing stupid things like this."
Non-nerds make the map in their head. "Nerds" maybe aren't as good at that sort of social maneuvering (because they're thinking of other things), that's sort of the point of the essay.
Your reference to "wiring nads to a field telephone" helps the terrorists. Without your "contribution" here, they might not have known how to coerce information out of other people. Terrorists could be reading your post right now! Come on, buddy, why don't you just post details on how to culture Bacillus anthracis in bulk using common kitchen appliances?
You mean like certain "open-minded" churches who say "well it's ok to be gay, but gay sex is a sin so you have to be celibate". Some deal that is. A lot of people deal with their homophobia by becoming "tolerant" - they pretend that they don't mind gays as long as they're some sort of flouncing, asexual "auntie" (male, I don't know what the female version would be) or some such nonsense. I say, either come right out and say you're an ignorant homophobe, so the rest of us can spit on you, or STFU and let people fark who they wanna fark. That is all.
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I think we can guess where to find a website called "goatse.cx". Is it really necessary to actually link to goatse.cx? It's not like you were even trying to hide it, either. Amateur ;-)
So students who live in residence, and who therefore pay for their internet access via a portion of their fees, are "stealing the university's research bandwidth" every time they do what YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW - accessing the internet for non-work-related purposes? I agree with charging/limiting bandwidth "hogs" (for the other users' sake), but I think your statement ignores the fact that the institution should _not_ have any more say than any ISP over how student use what is in effect their _own home connection_. It's not like they can get Rogers to come and run a cable connection to their room, after all. They have no choice of ISP's.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm pretty sure that in the future these people envisaged, the moon miners were red-blooded American boys: handy with a jackhammer, up for a good slice of dehydrated apple pie, and well-muscled but not at all homoerotic - certainly not a bunch of sneaky rice-eating Mao-worshipping commies.
Any telecom currently in existence would have a policy of not talking about prices because...
They're ALL gouging us! I still pay $5 flat a month for TOUCH-TONE SERVICE!
IIRC this has been something of a holy grail for mathematicians for years. When John Nash tried to prove it in his prime, everyone laughed at him, not believing that even someone as brilliant as Nash could solve the infamous problem.
Well, see, it has to hold true for ALL primes, not just his, or it's not a proof.
If you think the ability to read a good reviewer's "dissection" of a game before buying it is not a godsend, you've obviously never plopped down $65 for a new game only to find that it's a) a steaming pile of super-unfun crap, b) terminally buggy or sold with misleading system requirements, or c) okay but completely not what you were expecting based on the adverts and not really interesting to you. _Love_ the serious, detail-minded reviewers, they are your Yoda of game-purchasing. After all, that initial outlay is now about the cost of 250 "games of Ms. Pac-Man at the local arcade"!
I understand they don't clean you out right away. They actually string you along for a while and get you to raise some more funds to cover "unforseen complications" or bribes or some such nonsense. Once they've bilked you out of a lot more than the value of your actual bank account, then they vanish. A woman in the US (CA I believe) actually embezzeled her law firm's ENTIRE CASH RESERVES to give to these d!ckwads. The firm found out when their settlement cheques to clients bounced!
Huh? You're surprised because a Christian fundie acted in an underhanded way? Please - these are the kind of people who have been misrepresenting their own holy book for centuries to justify everything from the enslavement of Africans to murdering abortion doctors. The fact that they also tend to misquote Stephen Jay Gould while attacking evolution, and circulate as fact The Onion's "story" about how Harry Potter is satanic, is icing on the cake my friend.
You're lucky that this knob didn't also "quote" you as saying you're fond of gay group sex while wearing a goat mask.
(He's lucky his God has more important things to do than send that lighting bolt...)
I kid you not, when I was a T.A. in grad school, a student once handed in a paper where they said "foo foo foo, intern bar happens"! Yep, "intern", like Monica Lewinsky. This person had graduated from high school with decent enough grades to get into the biology program at one of Canada's top universities :-P
(Also an example of the perils of relying on spell check! Though I hope that would at least catch "insundry"...)
You're the Comic Book Guy, aren't you? ;-)
I don't think Willow has been nearly the center of attention lately. A lot of secondary characters have had a lot of screen time lately (Andrew in "Storyteller" being a prefect example), but it's all about the Slayer this year. We see her changing, growing darker and angrier, descending into the abyss even more so than right after (2nd) her return from the dead.
The "Willow changing into Warren" thing was important - she needed to move on from her guilt and grief over Tara's death, probably because like everyone else on the show, she had to undergo some self-purification before finally facing the First Evil. Andrew had to face his murder of Jonathan, Xander had to tell Anya he still loves her. If for no other reason than that they could all die soon (and they could, Joss has no compunctions about the dying).
So it's not realtime. Cut us biotechnologists some slack here, you couldn't play Quake on ENIAC either (though I'm sure somebody tried to - "Lag! Lag! Switch the plugs faster!").
Just letting you know it's always worth posting, even late in the game (except maybe "me too!" or goatse.cx links ;-).
This all sounds very nice, though to be honest I doubt its veracity. To be fair, some of history's most famous and beautiful works of visual art were produced at the behest of a patron. Of course, when the rich were the patrons of the arts, they also called the shots. That bard couldn't sing the song he wrote about how the feudal system sucked (except maybe in private) for fear of losing his meal ticket. Also, for a lot of art, access was restricted. The most beautiful paintings and sculptures resided in the homes of the wealthy and powerful, not in public galleries. To suggest a relevant comparison, imagine if a rich person paid your favorite musician to record a new album - but then kept all copies of the recording for their own personal listening pleasure?
See, you're thinking like a real wargamer, not somebody who grew up thinking Games Workshop invented the concept. Thing is, a lot of people who HAVE paid out $100's for their army won't play against your cardboard one. To be fair, an army of hand-painted figures looks great on the table, but there is a certain petty jealousy associated with the fact that they paid $50 for their Bloodthirster of Khorne, whereas yours is a rubber dinosaur that came out of a bin at the toy store ;-)
As Penny Arcade pointed out about Magic: Online...
Yes, I imagine anyone who's ever spent $400 on a modest army for Warhammer Fantasy Battle, and spent the better part of $100 on rulebooks and "Codices" so they know how to use the army, would sympathize with you. That $10, even with inflation, was probably a bargain.
Only in US. Convicted hacker Raphael Gray, who stole 23,000 credit card no. and sent Bill Gates boxes of Viagra...
I think it was Bill Gates who received the "stiffer" sentence...
More like:
"You know those girls who are fat or have some zits or whatever? A lot of them are really sweet people. Try asking some of them out for a change, instead of staying at home fantasizing about some haughty cheerleader. You'll be a lot happier, trust me."
(then again, my 12 year old self would reply "WHAT? This puberty thing gets MORE complicated?!")
True. To be fair, in the book he was talking about a motorcycle (which had "smart wheels" that could ride over a curb without a bump!), so perhaps we can give him a little leeway for creative license ;-)
Interestingly, he KNEW it was incorrect before publication - in the Acknowledgements at the back of my paperback copy, he says the mistake was caught in the galley editing stage. He decided to leave it that way because he thought it sounded better in the context of the writing.
"When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to popularity.
You do stuff like this, and still wonder why you're unpopular?!?!?!
Because non-nerds don't waste time doing stupid things like this."
Non-nerds make the map in their head. "Nerds" maybe aren't as good at that sort of social maneuvering (because they're thinking of other things), that's sort of the point of the essay.
Your reference to "wiring nads to a field telephone" helps the terrorists. Without your "contribution" here, they might not have known how to coerce information out of other people. Terrorists could be reading your post right now! Come on, buddy, why don't you just post details on how to culture Bacillus anthracis in bulk using common kitchen appliances?
In conclusion, why do you hate America so much?
And besides the Victorian anachronisms, why is it never daytime there?
;-)
The sun hides his face from the huge suck of this movie
Wow, it's nice to se this kind of rhetorical passion directed towards something other than OS "holy wars" or whether emacs or vi is superior...
You mean like certain "open-minded" churches who say "well it's ok to be gay, but gay sex is a sin so you have to be celibate". Some deal that is. A lot of people deal with their homophobia by becoming "tolerant" - they pretend that they don't mind gays as long as they're some sort of flouncing, asexual "auntie" (male, I don't know what the female version would be) or some such nonsense. I say, either come right out and say you're an ignorant homophobe, so the rest of us can spit on you, or STFU and let people fark who they wanna fark. That is all.