My school got a letter (forwarded to me) that I was illegaly distributing some file named "Hostage_HFS.mov", which I couldn't even identify. Turns out it was one of those BMW shorts directed by various people, this one was John Woo I think, which were are probably still are freely available on the BMW website. I told both the school admin and the MPAA this and asked what they were doing sending me stupid letters, but never again heard so much as a peep.
Unfortunately I'm probably still on some watch-list.
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The only problem is the money taken in by lotteries is often used to justify cutting taxes, etc. I.E., the amount of money going through government doesn't really change. At least in NY, where the lottery revenue "earmarked" for education barely makes up for the simultaneous cut in non-lottery based state aid.
Anyhow, would you rather the government be taxing the poor (aka desperate, bad at math, people who for some reason spend $40/week on the lottery) to make their budget or use an actual progressive taxing scheme? Of course, seeing as how most of/.ers don't play the lottery, I'd suppose ethics aside most of us don't have a problem with such a system...
Obviously, because that would have been WRONG. Or against the prime directive or some other nonsense. Much better to disrupt the space-time continuum, steal some whales, bring a human back, neck-pinch some punk on a bus, etc.
Why would he need pointy ears or a cape either (impossible parachute uses aside)? A) It's a comic book/comic movie, and B) there's probably a bit of the "striking fear into the hearts of criminals" when you come crashing through the wall in a six-ton goliath.
Actually, depending on how long it takes to crank out a flick, it might be cheaper to pay the engineers. Remember, girls are getting paid anywhere from $200-$3000 PER SCENE, maybe 2-3 scenes per day. Add in pay for the guys, cameraman, location rental, etc. (all of which could be pennies based on the current "gonzo" porno trend), and you are talking upwards of 5-10 grand a day. 4 engineers @ $30/hour * 8 hours = $960 / day. Even if it took them a week you might still be saving money.
A subtitle would be decent if just plain PARANOIA isn't available. PARANOIA: ALPHA COMPLEX, PARANOIA: A Clone and his Laser, PARANOIA: A young citizen's guide to loyalty and happiness
Bah, this is why I'm not getting paid to redesign classic games.
I predict that two weeks after everyone initiates lawsuits because they read something on the internet that is outlandish, false, or offensive, we will either hang all the lawyers, undergo a communist revolution, or revert to the stone age.
This is ultimately a case of libel, yes? The words were written by (likely anonymous) visitors, not anyone employed by the site. Either the prof's issue is with those contributors, or he's trying to set the precedent that all webmasters and forum hosts must verify EVERY FUCKING PIECE OF INFORMATION posted on their sites.
(I'm actually looking to becoming a lawyer, but hold your tomatoes: I want to fight AGAINST bull flop like this.)
Additionally they don't count incarcerated felons. This may seem ridiculous but seeing as how there are over 1.3 MILLION people in the prison system, it is quite a sizable population (more than Rhode Island!) to exclude from employment statistics.
On the Mars Surface Time Allocation chart, they have the available man-hours of labor per day listed as 8 X 24 = 200. Are they allocating 8 hours that don't exist? Is the martian day even close to 24 hours long?
Perhaps years ago, I think he's a little past his prime to pull of a really hoopy frood like Zaphod. Taco's suggestion of Eddie Izzard is great, though it's likely another in a long line of false rumors/ruined hopes that he would play everything from Dr. Who to the next Bond (in heels!).
Aye, you got me on that brain fart. Maybe from now on I'll actually intentionally post completely back-assward information to see what happens.
I still think wire diameter has been decreasing geometrically, or by squares. Or has the "depth" of the wire been staying constant over technology avances (.18um,.13um, etc)?
True, however the total current required (or at least used) has skyrocketed. Linearly lower voltages combined with geometrically lower "wire width" leads to much greater current to push those electrons. Thus the heat, brownouts, etc.
times a thousand avid link-clickers equals no review.
I hope its favorable though, looks like a nice little player, little bigger than an iPod but it actually has more features (absent iPhoto dock, etc). If this gets popular enough to get the price on this and the iPod to drop a hundred then I could afford to get myself one for Xmas.
Useful? As in a source of national pride or a government-sponsored rocketry testing facility? While I get a kick out of the stuff NASA comes up with and pulls off every now and then (go Voyager!), I've rarely heard of them as being "useful".
Give yourself 10 minutes without google and see if you can come up with a list of 20 names.
While I agree with your premise that most people don't know (enough) about their elected representatives, I thought it was also fair to say that not only do a great number of states have less than 20 Congress members total, but any given person only gets to vote for 3 (1 Rep from your district, 2 senators).
I'll see your James Walsh and raise you a Hillary Clinton and a Chuck Schumer, your bet.
Next step: Breed spherical cow. Make sure it is of "Uniform Density" too...
Don't forget uniform conductance, resistivity, material strength... oh and it's completely frictionless in an atmosphere-less environment. Here's to a more uniform universe!
Doesn't the "1/2 ton" part of a truck's name refer to its carrying capacity? Seeing as how even a Honda Civic weighs about 2500 lbs I can't presume they managed to build a pickup that weighs less than half as much.
Just a minor gripe but I see people refering to that as the weight of the truck all the time. Or perhaps using it to suggest an erroneous comparison as above. God, I'm anal...
Just because the poorest Americans are living "better" than before doesn't mean they are living as they should. Some bright young lad offered your point at a Chomsky lecture, to which he replied "Well the quality of live for slaves leading up to the civil war improved, is that supposed to mean slavery is ok?" (paraphrased)
The point is the (very) rich are living, say, 300% richer than 10 years ago while the improvement in median income probably hasn't improved more than 40%. Wild guessing, feel free to quote some real numbers to back me up/discredit me before my peers.
Well once you're up there, are they really going to make you sit in the Soyuz until they need to send it back? Don't those things usually stay up for a while to act as emergency vehicles or somesuch?
The last I was at a Starbucks, say 4 years ago, I asked for a "large" mocha, withough actually looking at the menu:
Barista: "Venti?"
Me: "What?"
B: "You want a venti?"
Me: "I want a large."
B: "You want a venti."
Me: "Um, ok, if that's a large."
That's part of the reason I don't go to big chain coffee places any more. Their idiosyncrasies are usually stupid (every beverage size means "big") and their employees are brainwashed enough that they think that's how the rest of the world should work. Bitter, bitter, bitter...
I think the question that immediately popped into my cynical mind was: "When will the follow-up Slashdot article telling of the DMCA lawsuit against those students hit the front page?" Though I suppose maybe if they don't mention any specific software issue they might be O.K.
My files, as obtained via the bittorrent link all freeze about 5-10 seconds in. Anyone know if those files are corrupt, or some patch for Divx I need? Running W2k, and as far as I know Divx3.11 with 5.02 on top of that.
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the disorder that makes people see colours
No kidding, this is a condition which affects millions, including myself! More research into possible treatments is really needed.
My school got a letter (forwarded to me) that I was illegaly distributing some file named "Hostage_HFS.mov", which I couldn't even identify. Turns out it was one of those BMW shorts directed by various people, this one was John Woo I think, which were are probably still are freely available on the BMW website. I told both the school admin and the MPAA this and asked what they were doing sending me stupid letters, but never again heard so much as a peep.
Unfortunately I'm probably still on some watch-list.
The only problem is the money taken in by lotteries is often used to justify cutting taxes, etc. I.E., the amount of money going through government doesn't really change. At least in NY, where the lottery revenue "earmarked" for education barely makes up for the simultaneous cut in non-lottery based state aid.
/.ers don't play the lottery, I'd suppose ethics aside most of us don't have a problem with such a system...
Anyhow, would you rather the government be taxing the poor (aka desperate, bad at math, people who for some reason spend $40/week on the lottery) to make their budget or use an actual progressive taxing scheme? Of course, seeing as how most of
Obviously, because that would have been WRONG. Or against the prime directive or some other nonsense. Much better to disrupt the space-time continuum, steal some whales, bring a human back, neck-pinch some punk on a bus, etc.
I makes for better theater I suppose.
Why would he need pointy ears or a cape either (impossible parachute uses aside)? A) It's a comic book/comic movie, and B) there's probably a bit of the "striking fear into the hearts of criminals" when you come crashing through the wall in a six-ton goliath.
Actually, depending on how long it takes to crank out a flick, it might be cheaper to pay the engineers. Remember, girls are getting paid anywhere from $200-$3000 PER SCENE, maybe 2-3 scenes per day. Add in pay for the guys, cameraman, location rental, etc. (all of which could be pennies based on the current "gonzo" porno trend), and you are talking upwards of 5-10 grand a day. 4 engineers @ $30/hour * 8 hours = $960 / day. Even if it took them a week you might still be saving money.
A subtitle would be decent if just plain PARANOIA isn't available. PARANOIA: ALPHA COMPLEX, PARANOIA: A Clone and his Laser, PARANOIA: A young citizen's guide to loyalty and happiness
Bah, this is why I'm not getting paid to redesign classic games.
I predict that two weeks after everyone initiates lawsuits because they read something on the internet that is outlandish, false, or offensive, we will either hang all the lawyers, undergo a communist revolution, or revert to the stone age.
This is ultimately a case of libel, yes? The words were written by (likely anonymous) visitors, not anyone employed by the site. Either the prof's issue is with those contributors, or he's trying to set the precedent that all webmasters and forum hosts must verify EVERY FUCKING PIECE OF INFORMATION posted on their sites.
(I'm actually looking to becoming a lawyer, but hold your tomatoes: I want to fight AGAINST bull flop like this.)
Additionally they don't count incarcerated felons. This may seem ridiculous but seeing as how there are over 1.3 MILLION people in the prison system, it is quite a sizable population (more than Rhode Island!) to exclude from employment statistics.
On the Mars Surface Time Allocation chart, they have the available man-hours of labor per day listed as 8 X 24 = 200. Are they allocating 8 hours that don't exist? Is the martian day even close to 24 hours long?
Perhaps years ago, I think he's a little past his prime to pull of a really hoopy frood like Zaphod. Taco's suggestion of Eddie Izzard is great, though it's likely another in a long line of false rumors/ruined hopes that he would play everything from Dr. Who to the next Bond (in heels!).
Aye, you got me on that brain fart. Maybe from now on I'll actually intentionally post completely back-assward information to see what happens.
.13um, etc)?
I still think wire diameter has been decreasing geometrically, or by squares. Or has the "depth" of the wire been staying constant over technology avances (.18um,
True, however the total current required (or at least used) has skyrocketed. Linearly lower voltages combined with geometrically lower "wire width" leads to much greater current to push those electrons. Thus the heat, brownouts, etc.
times a thousand avid link-clickers equals no review.
I hope its favorable though, looks like a nice little player, little bigger than an iPod but it actually has more features (absent iPhoto dock, etc). If this gets popular enough to get the price on this and the iPod to drop a hundred then I could afford to get myself one for Xmas.
Useful? As in a source of national pride or a government-sponsored rocketry testing facility? While I get a kick out of the stuff NASA comes up with and pulls off every now and then (go Voyager!), I've rarely heard of them as being "useful".
Give yourself 10 minutes without google and see if you can come up with a list of 20 names.
While I agree with your premise that most people don't know (enough) about their elected representatives, I thought it was also fair to say that not only do a great number of states have less than 20 Congress members total, but any given person only gets to vote for 3 (1 Rep from your district, 2 senators).
I'll see your James Walsh and raise you a Hillary Clinton and a Chuck Schumer, your bet.
Next step: Breed spherical cow.
Make sure it is of "Uniform Density" too...
Don't forget uniform conductance, resistivity, material strength... oh and it's completely frictionless in an atmosphere-less environment. Here's to a more uniform universe!
May be completely OT but...
Doesn't the "1/2 ton" part of a truck's name refer to its carrying capacity? Seeing as how even a Honda Civic weighs about 2500 lbs I can't presume they managed to build a pickup that weighs less than half as much.
Just a minor gripe but I see people refering to that as the weight of the truck all the time. Or perhaps using it to suggest an erroneous comparison as above. God, I'm anal...
Just because the poorest Americans are living "better" than before doesn't mean they are living as they should. Some bright young lad offered your point at a Chomsky lecture, to which he replied "Well the quality of live for slaves leading up to the civil war improved, is that supposed to mean slavery is ok?" (paraphrased)
The point is the (very) rich are living, say, 300% richer than 10 years ago while the improvement in median income probably hasn't improved more than 40%. Wild guessing, feel free to quote some real numbers to back me up/discredit me before my peers.
Well once you're up there, are they really going to make you sit in the Soyuz until they need to send it back? Don't those things usually stay up for a while to act as emergency vehicles or somesuch?
The last I was at a Starbucks, say 4 years ago, I asked for a "large" mocha, withough actually looking at the menu:
Barista: "Venti?"
Me: "What?"
B: "You want a venti?"
Me: "I want a large."
B: "You want a venti."
Me: "Um, ok, if that's a large."
That's part of the reason I don't go to big chain coffee places any more. Their idiosyncrasies are usually stupid (every beverage size means "big") and their employees are brainwashed enough that they think that's how the rest of the world should work.
Bitter, bitter, bitter...
Actually, I think it was "another folk singer..."
I think the question that immediately popped into my cynical mind was: "When will the follow-up Slashdot article telling of the DMCA lawsuit against those students hit the front page?" Though I suppose maybe if they don't mention any specific software issue they might be O.K.
Er, I believe that last line should read:
Krusty: You're waaaay off. Think smaller. And more legs.
My files, as obtained via the bittorrent link all freeze about 5-10 seconds in. Anyone know if those files are corrupt, or some patch for Divx I need? Running W2k, and as far as I know Divx3.11 with 5.02 on top of that.