It brings to mind something that I was told back when I was a freshman: "You're all here to become engineers. If you just want a job working under a car bonnet, congratulations for wasting eighteen grand to become an over-qualified technician."
Never thought I'd see the day when someone on Slashdot would need to define BOFH.
Welcome to the new millennium, where IT is always outsourced and one has no idea who is actually responsible when anything breaks and there are a myriad of interchangeable BOFHs just an international phone call away.
I thought that was a rather interesting episode. You have two species of intelligent life that evolved and coexisted on the same planet, which is probably not a common occurrence in the cosmos. The species that looked down on the other species was dying out from a genetic defect. Providing a cure would only prolong the inevitable outcome by a few hundred years. This was the first episode that formed the basis for the Prime Directive to not interfere with emerging cultures.
Is that the one that came immediately before the one where Phlox calls the Organians "appalling" because they won't cure his patients for him?
What sort of antiquated browser are you using that doesn't let you right-click a word and google it? Just think, if you'd done that you might have learnt a new word already. Here, give it a try now.
The license has been free for older folks for as long as I can remember; I'm fairly sure "older" in this context means over eighty. What's different now (or may be soon) is that the BBC will no longer receive additional funding to make up for those free licenses.
Cholesterol is the very foundation that all animal life is built on. It is the chemical that allows us to be complex multicellular organisms that aren't made of plant cells.
Let it be known that rumours of the death of our glorious overlord K'Breel, First Speaker of The Council are exaggerated and heretical. All those found to be promulgating such malicious and flagrant falsehoods are hereby ordered to attend reeducation seminars, on pain of forcible removal of the middle and lower left gas sacs. Any citizen found to be harbouring or otherwise giving succour to said enemies of decency and Martian righteousness will face the additional penalty of exile to the frost mines of the North for a period of not less than thirteen cycles.
Let it also be known the Grand Plan nears fruition. Rejoice, citizens! Soon the loathsome inhabitants of our planetary neighbour will be completely ignorant of our existence and the First Speaker's plans for their extermination may proceed. Soon we will be rid of their interference, free from their noisome electromagnetic emanations and free to walk the beautiful red sands of home without fear of their invading robotic thralls. Rejoice citizens, or face immediate vacuum desiccation.
one rusty pickup truck with a plow mount and a bed full of old crystallized dynamite has a very good chance of taking down any nuclear facility. if they can smash the first chain-link fence, chances are very high they'll git 'r dun.
a night watchman rattling doors is not going to stop them. even if he's at the video guard desk, he can't.
and the whole security chain knows this. just saying...
That's stretching the definition of "accident" more than somewhat.
You are entitled to a private life, but if you make something public, it's public, period. No take backs. Not because I said so but because of the nature of public information.
For the sake of argument, what if someone with a twitter feed decides it's newsworthy and does it for you?
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks to the internet, you have instant access to the very same information as your doctor has.
...but none of the wisdom.
qagh wISop.
jatlh raDpu'lu'.
How hard is it for them to model and texture a couple ships and use a proper raytraced render?
How hard is it for you to look past it? When I go back to Babylon 5 things look pretty ropey, but I'm not watching for the special effects.
It brings to mind something that I was told back when I was a freshman: "You're all here to become engineers. If you just want a job working under a car bonnet, congratulations for wasting eighteen grand to become an over-qualified technician."
Never thought I'd see the day when someone on Slashdot would need to define BOFH.
Welcome to the new millennium, where IT is always outsourced and one has no idea who is actually responsible when anything breaks and there are a myriad of interchangeable BOFHs just an international phone call away.
I thought that was a rather interesting episode. You have two species of intelligent life that evolved and coexisted on the same planet, which is probably not a common occurrence in the cosmos. The species that looked down on the other species was dying out from a genetic defect. Providing a cure would only prolong the inevitable outcome by a few hundred years. This was the first episode that formed the basis for the Prime Directive to not interfere with emerging cultures.
Is that the one that came immediately before the one where Phlox calls the Organians "appalling" because they won't cure his patients for him?
Putin a coward? Nonsense! I mean, the man has wrestled naked with a bear, and I'm not just talking about his live-in chum Vasily!
...a standard (i.e. non-AC) single-phase...
What?
What sort of antiquated browser are you using that doesn't let you right-click a word and google it? Just think, if you'd done that you might have learnt a new word already. Here, give it a try now.
Indolent.
See how easy that was?
A turd-is? Brilliant!
Been done.
White wee-wee, and so on.
I don't see a link between "open homosexual sex acts" and "sensationalised cruelty".
The license has been free for older folks for as long as I can remember; I'm fairly sure "older" in this context means over eighty. What's different now (or may be soon) is that the BBC will no longer receive additional funding to make up for those free licenses.
Ignore that. It was Chasm City.
The second one sounds vaguely reminiscent of one of the Singularity Sky books. The title escapes me but it was the one that centred on Sky Haussmann.
Cholesterol is the very foundation that all animal life is built on. It is the chemical that allows us to be complex multicellular organisms that aren't made of plant cells.
I thought that was collagen.
Let it be known that rumours of the death of our glorious overlord K'Breel, First Speaker of The Council are exaggerated and heretical. All those found to be promulgating such malicious and flagrant falsehoods are hereby ordered to attend reeducation seminars, on pain of forcible removal of the middle and lower left gas sacs. Any citizen found to be harbouring or otherwise giving succour to said enemies of decency and Martian righteousness will face the additional penalty of exile to the frost mines of the North for a period of not less than thirteen cycles.
Let it also be known the Grand Plan nears fruition. Rejoice, citizens! Soon the loathsome inhabitants of our planetary neighbour will be completely ignorant of our existence and the First Speaker's plans for their extermination may proceed. Soon we will be rid of their interference, free from their noisome electromagnetic emanations and free to walk the beautiful red sands of home without fear of their invading robotic thralls. Rejoice citizens, or face immediate vacuum desiccation.
That is all.
Signed,
K'Traal
Assistant Speaker to The Council.
Ah, so famous people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr were just criminals, not famous civil disobedience people.
Parks and King fought for equal treatment and recognition of basic human rights, not to make a profit.
Actually a waldo is what this is. I suggest you look the word up again.
Yup. Never mind, I was getting a bit tired of getting mod points all the time anyway.
But they are allowed to become President?!
Evidently. Look at the last guy.
Add another rat and then we'll see.
one rusty pickup truck with a plow mount and a bed full of old crystallized dynamite has a very good chance of taking down any nuclear facility. if they can smash the first chain-link fence, chances are very high they'll git 'r dun.
a night watchman rattling doors is not going to stop them. even if he's at the video guard desk, he can't.
and the whole security chain knows this. just saying...
That's stretching the definition of "accident" more than somewhat.
You are entitled to a private life, but if you make something public, it's public, period. No take backs. Not because I said so but because of the nature of public information.
For the sake of argument, what if someone with a twitter feed decides it's newsworthy and does it for you?
Don't forget the extra fee that most tyre places charge to repair a flat that was fixed with that gunk.
The genome will be on pastebin faster than you can say "DeCSS".