It'd have to be something that my wife would approve of, which means living out the naked girls and most likely the violence.
My wife has a very strict rule about sex and nekkidity in anime: I'm supposed to find the really interesting stuff, because she wants to watch it with me.
More specifically in the "VR" sense, does anyone else remember "Club Caribe?" This was a feature of Quantum Link, the C-64 based predecessor to AOL. C.C. was a surprisingly sophisticated virtual environment, something like a simplified version of "Animal Crossing" with elements of "The Sims Online." The user could navigate a character around a cartoony island resort, interacting with characters of other online users, spending virtual money to buy stuff (including replacement heads), and occasionally solving puzzles. The player-characters were called Avatars. This was around 1989-1990.
I think you are conflating two separate Supreme Court decisions. Your description more or less fits Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which established that the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel includes the right to have a attorney provided by the state if you can't afford one. (That would be a Public Defender, not D.A. -- D.A. stands for District Attorney, which is a prosecutor.)
Miranda v. Arizona (1963) built upon the Gideon decision and established that the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination requires, among other things, that a suspect be advised of his right to remain silent and his right to receive legal counsel.
Absolutely -- no argument there. Trek and Galactica were Westerns, but in the same way that The Magnificent Seven was a samurai film. Firefly is more like a Western with spaceships added, rather than Science Fiction inspired by Westerns.
A space oater is just a space opera that borrows western themes or has a western flair. Star Trek (the original) arguably falls into this category, as does Battlestar Galactica.
I don't think I ever heard Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica called "oaters." I think the reference here is much more specific: Firefly is a science fiction series that very directly uses Western-style settings, stories and style, right down to the horses, six-guns and cattle rustling.
For untold numbers of Iraqis and Afghans, the American space program translates into GPS guided bombs killing their children.
The guy loses me with this point. Is he suggesting that GPS guided bombs are somehow worse for civillians in opposing countries than old-fashioned low-tech bombs?
Leaving aside for the moment how I feel about the reasons and timing of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, I will say that if I were living under a dictator and some other country came to thow him out, I'd want the invading force to have the most high-tech, well-guided bombs possible. GPS gives them a better chance to hit the dictator's house instead of mine!
Unless this guy thinks the United States intended to kill as many Iraqi children as possible -- in which case, a new space program may let us visit whatever planet he lives on.
Absolute agreement on Adamson. Not weighty stuff, perhaps, but damn fine reads. And his third, Pachinco Dreaming, is the best so far -- and is indeed a bit weightier than the others.
That's right. "Parents in Colorado." We have meetings twice a month, everyone from Grand Junction to Limon and from Fort Collins to Pueblo who has kids, and we vote on how to act and think in lock-step in order to mess up our kids most effectively.
Please. Anyone who ascribes a single motive or type of behavior to a group as big and diverse as "parents in Colorado" isn't even trying to be taken seriously.
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That sounds awful, man. You have my sympathy.
You've got to admit, though, that choosing that moment wasn't the greatest call. She's drunk, she's fixating on the idea that all guys are scum, and you highlight the fact that you are a guy.
I know, 20/20 hindsight and all. Not criticising or anything. I'm just saying.
It's a shame that you never spoke again, but I've got to wonder -- what did you do after that incident? Wait for her to sober up, and try to talk to her? Send her some flowers and a note apologizing for the bad timing, but saying that you were serious and hoped she'd think about it? Or did you just go away and stew over the whole thing?
Can't put myself in your shoes, so I don't know what I would have done, but I hope I'd find the strength not just to drop it, friendship and all.
"Could it be that a nerd is defined not so much by his specialist genre than by the nature and intensity of his interest?"
Sounds like the author is trying to turn the term "nerd" into an equivalent to the Japanese term "otaku" (which in Japan has rather more of a "weird & scary" connotation than its more cuddly usage in American anime and manga fandom). Japanese otaku come in many types -- anime, manga, computer, pop idol, military hardware, video game, samurai movie, etcetera. The "title" is more about intensity and lifestyle than subject matter.
At last, a practical use to all those "I got linux to run on my game console/toaster/Timex/PDA/coffee pot/sundial/etc." stories. For everything that COULD be running Linux but doesn't, SCO can send us some cash!
When a case is dismissed "with prejudice," it means the matter is considered decided, and the suit can't be filed again (although an appeal to a higher court might be possible).
Dismissal "without prejudice" means that the matter is not decided, but some un-met condition (procedural or otherwise) prevents the suit from going forward. A suit dismissed without prejudice may be re-filed at a later date when conditions allow.
IAAL, but I've never heard the term "extreme prejudice" outside of jokes and movies about assassination.
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As opposed to private-sector corporations, which are of course free of corruption.
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My wife has a very strict rule about sex and nekkidity in anime: I'm supposed to find the really interesting stuff, because she wants to watch it with me.
Clearly, each planet needs its own Santa Clause. On Mars, the job was taken up in 1964 by Dropo, formerly the Laziest Man on Mars.
More specifically in the "VR" sense, does anyone else remember "Club Caribe?" This was a feature of Quantum Link, the C-64 based predecessor to AOL. C.C. was a surprisingly sophisticated virtual environment, something like a simplified version of "Animal Crossing" with elements of "The Sims Online." The user could navigate a character around a cartoony island resort, interacting with characters of other online users, spending virtual money to buy stuff (including replacement heads), and occasionally solving puzzles. The player-characters were called Avatars. This was around 1989-1990.
Miranda v. Arizona (1963) built upon the Gideon decision and established that the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination requires, among other things, that a suspect be advised of his right to remain silent and his right to receive legal counsel.
Absolutely -- no argument there. Trek and Galactica were Westerns, but in the same way that The Magnificent Seven was a samurai film. Firefly is more like a Western with spaceships added, rather than Science Fiction inspired by Westerns.
I did, and got the videoflicks.ca entry for the 1994 film Maverick.
Clearly, this subject is more byzantine than I had realized...
I don't think I ever heard Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica called "oaters." I think the reference here is much more specific: Firefly is a science fiction series that very directly uses Western-style settings, stories and style, right down to the horses, six-guns and cattle rustling.
Are you still a whore if you woulda done it anyway?
Weird, man. Why were you doing your laundry on top of a bridge?
Yes, because we anime fans are all about intense physical training!
I think I'm an Aibochondriac -- I keep thinking my robot dog is sick.
For starters, perhaps, by reassessing copyright laws and other governmental interference in the free market, which give Microsoft much of its power.
Giant Robot Genre: It goes back to "Gigantor" (I forget the name of the original)
Tetsujin 28-go!
(Lit. Trans. "IronMan 28")
The guy loses me with this point. Is he suggesting that GPS guided bombs are somehow worse for civillians in opposing countries than old-fashioned low-tech bombs?
Leaving aside for the moment how I feel about the reasons and timing of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, I will say that if I were living under a dictator and some other country came to thow him out, I'd want the invading force to have the most high-tech, well-guided bombs possible. GPS gives them a better chance to hit the dictator's house instead of mine!
Unless this guy thinks the United States intended to kill as many Iraqi children as possible -- in which case, a new space program may let us visit whatever planet he lives on.
Absolute agreement on Adamson. Not weighty stuff, perhaps, but damn fine reads. And his third, Pachinco Dreaming, is the best so far -- and is indeed a bit weightier than the others.
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POD PARENT UP!
That's right. "Parents in Colorado." We have meetings twice a month, everyone from Grand Junction to Limon and from Fort Collins to Pueblo who has kids, and we vote on how to act and think in lock-step in order to mess up our kids most effectively.
Please. Anyone who ascribes a single motive or type of behavior to a group as big and diverse as "parents in Colorado" isn't even trying to be taken seriously.
That sounds awful, man. You have my sympathy.
You've got to admit, though, that choosing that moment wasn't the greatest call. She's drunk, she's fixating on the idea that all guys are scum, and you highlight the fact that you are a guy.
I know, 20/20 hindsight and all. Not criticising or anything. I'm just saying.
It's a shame that you never spoke again, but I've got to wonder -- what did you do after that incident? Wait for her to sober up, and try to talk to her? Send her some flowers and a note apologizing for the bad timing, but saying that you were serious and hoped she'd think about it? Or did you just go away and stew over the whole thing?
Can't put myself in your shoes, so I don't know what I would have done, but I hope I'd find the strength not just to drop it, friendship and all.
Sounds like the author is trying to turn the term "nerd" into an equivalent to the Japanese term "otaku" (which in Japan has rather more of a "weird & scary" connotation than its more cuddly usage in American anime and manga fandom). Japanese otaku come in many types -- anime, manga, computer, pop idol, military hardware, video game, samurai movie, etcetera. The "title" is more about intensity and lifestyle than subject matter.
At last, a practical use to all those "I got linux to run on my game console/toaster/Timex/PDA/coffee pot/sundial/etc." stories. For everything that COULD be running Linux but doesn't, SCO can send us some cash!
When a case is dismissed "with prejudice," it means the matter is considered decided, and the suit can't be filed again (although an appeal to a higher court might be possible).
Dismissal "without prejudice" means that the matter is not decided, but some un-met condition (procedural or otherwise) prevents the suit from going forward. A suit dismissed without prejudice may be re-filed at a later date when conditions allow.
IAAL, but I've never heard the term "extreme prejudice" outside of jokes and movies about assassination.