I used to work at my local B&N. When the 4th Twilight book came out (New Moon I think?) we had a huge release party packed full of preteen/young teen girls. One of the girls got so excited to actually purchase the book that, when I waved her up to my cash register from the line, she ran as fast as she could to get to me. She slipped on the tile floor in front of the register, sprawled head first into the counter, and knocked herself clean out. Maybe the reason zombie sales are picking up is due to the brain damage inflicted on the young populations from the Twilight series. They're just studying the current masters' methods of replenishing their brain supplies....
As a Californian currently living on the coast, but having grown up in the Sierra Nevada, I am looking forward to inheriting my parents' house after it becomes beachside property. I just can't afford to buy my own property in the coastal regions.:D
In denying global weather change is man-made, you leave only women. That makes you misogynistic.
Please tell me you're joking. It seems like you are. Using misogyny as a demonization for folk that aren't convinced of anthropogenic global warming just seems silly. But sometimes it's hard to tell these things with people who are passionate about a particular subject.
It would be kind of funny if Anonymous DDOSed someone like Fox News, or maybe just the Republican Congressman's personal e-mail by spam e-mailing links to this study.
Don't be surprised if the next thing you see on FOX News is Glenn Beck extolling the virtues of the SHIELD Act...
You know I keep seeing Glenn Beck brought up in these discussions as being in on a smear campaign against Assange...last time I had the misfortune of stumbling upon one of Beck's little discussions, he was actually defending Assange and, to a lesser extent, wikileaks adamantly. Now I'll give it's been awhile since I saw that (last year sometime) but did he just flip a complete 180 on Assange's character or do people just associate him with prom-America type stuff?
Just curious, do you actually have some citation or evidence that shows Assange to be, "crazy" and, "twisted?" From everything I've read and seen, he certainly seems self-important to some extent, but to my knowledge there are no publicly circulated psych. evaluations that document him to be crazy and twisted. You used that adjective a lot in your argument as to why he could be guilty, but from everything I've seen, that's a false assumption. I don't think he's crazy, and I haven't seen any evidence yet to label him as such. It just seems to me like he thinks very highly of himself. So, what makes you say he's crazy?
I'm not trying to pick a fight, I really would like to know what information you have access to that I've missed.
But for now, you just keep believing it's a coincidence that a guy who hadn't had a single criminal offense in 39 years (aside from some minor hacking stuff) suddenly turned into a rapist a few weeks after embarrassing the most powerful government in the world.
Turned into a rapist? Nah. Felt very good about the things he had accomplished, thus getting a booster shot to his ego? Sure. A booster shot that coupled with a semi-infamous reputation which more and more people were starting to hear about in order to make it easier for him to get laid? Twice? Sure, sounds feasible.
You keep believing that it was just chance that two women willing to press charges against him for unrelated crimes both met him within 24 hours of each other.
Random chance? Nah. The fact that his name was starting to take on a bit of a celebrity appeal, the same type of celebrity appeal that convinces sexually insecure women to fuck total douchebags on a regular basis? Sure, that sounds reasonable to me. The women pressing charges bit? Well women who are sexually insecure enough to sleep around with someone just because they have a semi-famous name tend to also be the kind of women that are fucking crazy and will drum up fake charges just to cover up their own bad decisions. I've met enough crazy women that have such low self-esteem that when they make a bad decision they try to blame someone else. That doubles in sexual situations and, yes, I have seen women use false rape charges to do nothing more than salve their own wounded dignity. It's sad, but it is neither uncommon nor difficult in our current society.
You keep believing that Daniel Domscheit-Berg isn't a plant who's part of a larger effort to discredit Assange by any means necessary, or that these bullshit charges aren't a part of that effort either.
A plant? Sure, he could be. Or he could be an ego maniac. And Asssange could be an ego maniac. And when you put two ego maniacs in a room together you get exactly the type of fallout we are seeing here. A cause like wiki-leaks tends to attract like minded folk. It appeals to people who want to enact a radical change in their lifetime, by really sticking it to those who are in power. Furthermore, it attracts people who see themselves as the "good guy" who are squaring off alone (or with a very small group of underdogs) against the "bad guys." It wouldn't surprise me in the least if both Julian and Daniel fit this personality type to some extent and, when confronting each other over disagreements, had severe falling outs.
Look I'll be the first to admit that my government (and I say my not out of pride but because, as an American citizen, I feel very responsible for their actions) is completely fucking retarded from time to time. Hell, I've bitched about how evil they appear to be on more than one occasion. But I also know that the folks getting elected to office are drama queens, incompetent, complete morons, and generally overworked, under informed, idealistic, misguided people. I know that because I've met a few of them, and they remind me wholesale of the folks I went to high school with that also fit all those descriptions.
So when it comes right down to it, if you want to believe in some sort of massive conspiracy cover up, you go right the hell ahead. But frankly, I am not going to attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by the general shortfalls of human nature. That's what this whole damn debacle reminds me of, a bunch of people with slightly fucked personalities (hell, we all have a slightly fucked personality) that just happened to get together in the right set of circumstances to turn the whole thing into a circus. Think of it like the perfect reality T.V. storm.
So sure, call it a conspiracy. I'll call it stupidity. Fifty years from now, we'll see who was right. Based on the previous track record of conspiracy theorists, I think my odds are pretty good.
Here's a hint, use a one time "gift credit card" you can buy them for a preset amount and when they are depleted they are worthless. Still, burn the card when you are done with it.
If they ever release the incriminating documents on bank of America, and they prove actually incriminating or surprising...
Yeah, about that... Wasn't that stuff supposed to be released back in January or early February sometime? Is there a reason they are still dragging it out? I was kind of looking forward to what was supposed to be a release that involved "major scandals of some of the world's largest financial players." Have we heard anything about that stuff recently?
So, what's to stop someone from making a second and third copy of the e-book when they have it "checked out?" If it's some kind of encrypted, DRM scheme, how long will we have to wait until the DRM scheme is cracked and those encrypted (illegal?) copies are decoded back to the original text? Two weeks? Somehow I fail to see how this will become anything more than a cheaper way to 'buy' ebooks.
Meh, same meaning, sloppy vocabulary on my part. Your change in velocity comes from decreasing the mass of the spacecraft while simultaneously increasing the thrust. Yes, the delta-v from one orbit to another is what it is, but achieving that delta-v is more or less expensive based on how much mass you are trucking around with you. So a more massive spacecraft doesn't require a higher delta-v, but, rather, a higher impulse etc. etc. So while you are correct for pedantry, the general concept/meaning of my statement was still related, albeit through sloppy vocabulary. The intent is the important part of communication.
Huh, funny, I've never noticed to Linux community to be any more assholish than any other community out there. There are elitist dicks in every crowd (Apple, MS, hell, even Google/Android is starting to get a following) but that doesn't speak for the community as a whole. In my experience, folks in the Linux community tend to be pretty friendly, and the ones who are piss-ranters that rip on newbies etc. etc. tend to get shunned to their mother's basements pretty quickly.
The only real difference I've noticed between Linux assholes and other assholes is the Linux assholes are at least honest about being assholes, rather than playing it off as if their condescension is somehow better for you. I appreciate the honesty.
Instead you had to work around the default configuration with gnome's own command line configuration hacking.
Are you sure about that? I am pretty sure I found a window configuration dialogue somewhere down in the preferences menu that had a window box layout (multiple if I remember correctly) which put all the buttons back on the right. I'll have to take another look when I get home, but I don't remember touching the command line once for that particular workaround. Now, trying to get CUPS to print to a certain wireless print server on my network, that requires some command line magic.
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There goes one of the last mediums of semi-anonymous financial transactions.
No, Stargate is not great science fiction.
But it is the perfect combination of decent science fiction and an entertaining plot with likable and relatable characters.
I used to work at my local B&N. When the 4th Twilight book came out (New Moon I think?) we had a huge release party packed full of preteen/young teen girls. One of the girls got so excited to actually purchase the book that, when I waved her up to my cash register from the line, she ran as fast as she could to get to me. She slipped on the tile floor in front of the register, sprawled head first into the counter, and knocked herself clean out. Maybe the reason zombie sales are picking up is due to the brain damage inflicted on the young populations from the Twilight series. They're just studying the current masters' methods of replenishing their brain supplies....
To be fair, I think wrestling has more interesting physics in it than SGU did.
So do I. It's too bad they never decided to make any new series after Stargate: Atlantis.
No, SyFy does not live Sci Fi. I thought they made that apparent with the name change.
Also, SGU was not science fiction, it was Twilight in space with fewer vampires and more tears.
You are the only person I have seen that has a grasp on the free market
You don't visit this site much, do you?
As a Californian currently living on the coast, but having grown up in the Sierra Nevada, I am looking forward to inheriting my parents' house after it becomes beachside property. I just can't afford to buy my own property in the coastal regions. :D
False dichotomy. I prefer to think of them as the tools of fools.
:D
But then, I'm just a condescending asshole.
In denying global weather change is man-made, you leave only women. That makes you misogynistic.
Please tell me you're joking. It seems like you are. Using misogyny as a demonization for folk that aren't convinced of anthropogenic global warming just seems silly. But sometimes it's hard to tell these things with people who are passionate about a particular subject.
Please tell me you're joking...
It would be kind of funny if Anonymous DDOSed someone like Fox News, or maybe just the Republican Congressman's personal e-mail by spam e-mailing links to this study.
Ah, a man can dream.
Hear that tm2b? That's the sound of reality crushing your inspiration, idealism, and, yes, your very soul. It feels good getting old doesn't it?
Is there another way to pay for just about any ebay transaction in the States?
No worries bro! That just means bigger waves for us. Hang loose!
Don't be surprised if the next thing you see on FOX News is Glenn Beck extolling the virtues of the SHIELD Act...
You know I keep seeing Glenn Beck brought up in these discussions as being in on a smear campaign against Assange...last time I had the misfortune of stumbling upon one of Beck's little discussions, he was actually defending Assange and, to a lesser extent, wikileaks adamantly. Now I'll give it's been awhile since I saw that (last year sometime) but did he just flip a complete 180 on Assange's character or do people just associate him with prom-America type stuff?
Just curious, do you actually have some citation or evidence that shows Assange to be, "crazy" and, "twisted?" From everything I've read and seen, he certainly seems self-important to some extent, but to my knowledge there are no publicly circulated psych. evaluations that document him to be crazy and twisted. You used that adjective a lot in your argument as to why he could be guilty, but from everything I've seen, that's a false assumption. I don't think he's crazy, and I haven't seen any evidence yet to label him as such. It just seems to me like he thinks very highly of himself. So, what makes you say he's crazy?
I'm not trying to pick a fight, I really would like to know what information you have access to that I've missed.
But for now, you just keep believing it's a coincidence that a guy who hadn't had a single criminal offense in 39 years (aside from some minor hacking stuff) suddenly turned into a rapist a few weeks after embarrassing the most powerful government in the world.
Turned into a rapist? Nah. Felt very good about the things he had accomplished, thus getting a booster shot to his ego? Sure. A booster shot that coupled with a semi-infamous reputation which more and more people were starting to hear about in order to make it easier for him to get laid? Twice? Sure, sounds feasible.
You keep believing that it was just chance that two women willing to press charges against him for unrelated crimes both met him within 24 hours of each other.
Random chance? Nah. The fact that his name was starting to take on a bit of a celebrity appeal, the same type of celebrity appeal that convinces sexually insecure women to fuck total douchebags on a regular basis? Sure, that sounds reasonable to me. The women pressing charges bit? Well women who are sexually insecure enough to sleep around with someone just because they have a semi-famous name tend to also be the kind of women that are fucking crazy and will drum up fake charges just to cover up their own bad decisions. I've met enough crazy women that have such low self-esteem that when they make a bad decision they try to blame someone else. That doubles in sexual situations and, yes, I have seen women use false rape charges to do nothing more than salve their own wounded dignity. It's sad, but it is neither uncommon nor difficult in our current society.
You keep believing that Daniel Domscheit-Berg isn't a plant who's part of a larger effort to discredit Assange by any means necessary, or that these bullshit charges aren't a part of that effort either.
A plant? Sure, he could be. Or he could be an ego maniac. And Asssange could be an ego maniac. And when you put two ego maniacs in a room together you get exactly the type of fallout we are seeing here. A cause like wiki-leaks tends to attract like minded folk. It appeals to people who want to enact a radical change in their lifetime, by really sticking it to those who are in power. Furthermore, it attracts people who see themselves as the "good guy" who are squaring off alone (or with a very small group of underdogs) against the "bad guys." It wouldn't surprise me in the least if both Julian and Daniel fit this personality type to some extent and, when confronting each other over disagreements, had severe falling outs.
Look I'll be the first to admit that my government (and I say my not out of pride but because, as an American citizen, I feel very responsible for their actions) is completely fucking retarded from time to time. Hell, I've bitched about how evil they appear to be on more than one occasion. But I also know that the folks getting elected to office are drama queens, incompetent, complete morons, and generally overworked, under informed, idealistic, misguided people. I know that because I've met a few of them, and they remind me wholesale of the folks I went to high school with that also fit all those descriptions.
So when it comes right down to it, if you want to believe in some sort of massive conspiracy cover up, you go right the hell ahead. But frankly, I am not going to attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by the general shortfalls of human nature. That's what this whole damn debacle reminds me of, a bunch of people with slightly fucked personalities (hell, we all have a slightly fucked personality) that just happened to get together in the right set of circumstances to turn the whole thing into a circus. Think of it like the perfect reality T.V. storm.
So sure, call it a conspiracy. I'll call it stupidity. Fifty years from now, we'll see who was right. Based on the previous track record of conspiracy theorists, I think my odds are pretty good.
That tread pattern looks like it's going to make your ass glide like an ice skater when you take a step on wet cement.
Here's a hint, use a one time "gift credit card" you can buy them for a preset amount and when they are depleted they are worthless. Still, burn the card when you are done with it.
If they ever release the incriminating documents on bank of America, and they prove actually incriminating or surprising...
Yeah, about that... Wasn't that stuff supposed to be released back in January or early February sometime? Is there a reason they are still dragging it out? I was kind of looking forward to what was supposed to be a release that involved "major scandals of some of the world's largest financial players." Have we heard anything about that stuff recently?
But where are the Julian Assange contraceptives? ;)
So, what's to stop someone from making a second and third copy of the e-book when they have it "checked out?" If it's some kind of encrypted, DRM scheme, how long will we have to wait until the DRM scheme is cracked and those encrypted (illegal?) copies are decoded back to the original text? Two weeks? Somehow I fail to see how this will become anything more than a cheaper way to 'buy' ebooks.
Meh, same meaning, sloppy vocabulary on my part. Your change in velocity comes from decreasing the mass of the spacecraft while simultaneously increasing the thrust. Yes, the delta-v from one orbit to another is what it is, but achieving that delta-v is more or less expensive based on how much mass you are trucking around with you. So a more massive spacecraft doesn't require a higher delta-v, but, rather, a higher impulse etc. etc. So while you are correct for pedantry, the general concept/meaning of my statement was still related, albeit through sloppy vocabulary. The intent is the important part of communication.
Huh, funny, I've never noticed to Linux community to be any more assholish than any other community out there. There are elitist dicks in every crowd (Apple, MS, hell, even Google/Android is starting to get a following) but that doesn't speak for the community as a whole. In my experience, folks in the Linux community tend to be pretty friendly, and the ones who are piss-ranters that rip on newbies etc. etc. tend to get shunned to their mother's basements pretty quickly.
The only real difference I've noticed between Linux assholes and other assholes is the Linux assholes are at least honest about being assholes, rather than playing it off as if their condescension is somehow better for you. I appreciate the honesty.
Instead you had to work around the default configuration with gnome's own command line configuration hacking.
Are you sure about that? I am pretty sure I found a window configuration dialogue somewhere down in the preferences menu that had a window box layout (multiple if I remember correctly) which put all the buttons back on the right. I'll have to take another look when I get home, but I don't remember touching the command line once for that particular workaround. Now, trying to get CUPS to print to a certain wireless print server on my network, that requires some command line magic.