Also attributed to Napoleon - but my guess is that he probably picked it up from Goethe.
I imagine that similarly in 300 years "All your base are belong to us" will be equally attributed to both George Jr. and Sr. Bush, Osama bin Laden, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steven Colbert and Dart Vader.
But if it was most companies, it would have been padded out to 2-3x that length. We'd have had at least one sequel by now that "innovated" in some pointless way (like the one-way green portal and the come-out-upside-down purple portal, and the...).
Exactly!
Plus there would be portal ports to other, more PG-friendly franchises so by now we would have a Mickey' Portal of Mistery, Hannah Montana: The Portal To The Other Side (where you would change between Hannah and Miley depending on the portal color) and perhaps even Port-A-Portal - a tetris-clone for your mobile phone where you drop different colored balls through various portals and then the balls, get ready... THEY CHANGE COLOR! Wouldn't that be AWESOME!!!111eleven!
The Megatons to Megawatts Program is the name given to the program that implemented the 1993 United States-Russia nonproliferation agreement to convert high-enriched uranium (HEU) taken from dismantled Russian nuclear weapons into low-enriched-uranium (LEU) for nuclear fuel. From 1995 through mid-2005, 250 metric tons of high-enriched uranium (enough for 10,000 warheads) were recycled into low-enriched-uranium. The goal is to recycle 500 metric tons by 2013. Much of this fuel has already been used in many nuclear power plants in the U.S., as it is indistinguishable from normal fuel.
Radiation is a problem, but over 2000 nuclear test have been carried out, and we haven't all dropped dead. A few more explosions that have specifically designed to minimize fallout won't kill us either.
You, your family, friends and their family - you try it out first.
Let us know how it went in a dozen generations or so.
A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch but in which the people (or at least a part of its people) have an impact on its government.
Democracy is a form of government in which power is held indirectly by citizens in a free electoral system. Even though there is no universally accepted definition of 'democracy', there are two principles that any definition of democracy includes. The first principle is that all members of the society (citizens) have equal access to power and the second that all members (citizens) enjoy universally recognized freedoms and liberties.
Funny... Despite their "degrees" and knowledge of those "details" - that didn't stop past and present "biblical scholars" to promote war, genocide and racism. Or to meddle in the works of the state as they regularly do - while demanding that they are a separate entity that pays no taxes, has its own laws and lives off of the society like a parasite promoting ignorance at best and inter-cultural/inter-racial hate at worst.
All things which are supposed to be bad according to "the book".
Also... Gays are evil, just as contraceptives, abortion, people of other religion (ask Palestinians and Israelis what are those "others") and depending on the flavor of the crazy - certain foods and common customs.
And while we are on the topic of imaginary degrees - you can get one in Esperanto. Probably in Klingon and Elvish too. They at least get to answer that they actually do something when asked what is their profession - instead of like "biblical scholars" who have a degree in "reading 1 book - a lot".
But, I fear that we are digressing far from the original topic - which was that one CAN have a solar-based faith system without the proof of intelligence or will. Because the act of faith itself does not require ANY proof. Period.
Appearance of intelligence or will in the object of worship are not prerequisites of worship itself. Haven't you ever been in love?
If the intelligence was the prerequisite - it would be a lot simpler to prove the non-existence of god of Abrahamic religions AS AN ALMIGHTY SUPREME BEING - as he is obviously not very intelligent. Right there, in the "holy" scripture. Errors and goof-ups a 9-year-old would not do.
Again... faith is not based on logic. Faith is based on absence of logic. The same as with the gambler that keeps losing hand after hand KNOWING that his "luck" is about to turn around. Now THAT is a man with faith in a higher power.
A) He asks slashdot what he could have found out just by googling or asking on any "sub-500 user" forum - asking million+ slashdotters "hey, what should I use to rip DVDs" is a bit of a overkill. B) He wants "a single file" output - sounds like an "idiot" button solution to me. Automagically he gives up on leveling the audio, ending up either with default (probably badly mastered) AC3 or with MP3 where explosions and sound effects wake up your neighbors but you still can't hear what everyone is talking. C) He rips anime, but complains that not all of it is in ENGLISH!? What fuckin' planet is that from?
- Matroska container
IMHE - Idiots mostly jump on Matroska as well. And being that there is no single standard or mode of operation when using Matroska - no two MKV files are encoded the same way. Sometimes not even files from the same group.
- includes chapters and other metadata.
HA! A sure indicator that you either have problems vacating your bowels OR that your higher logical functions are not up to spec.
Cover and infos included in the metadata.
More of the same. If you can't tell what movie you are watching from the movie itself or its title - cover and info won't help you much. But they might fuck up the entire file cause some overzealous idiot put them in the wrong way.
No reason to own a home cinema, when you watch YouTube videos on it.
Prey tell - which out of the box home cinema is that, that plays MKVs with all the options you stated above?
FUCK MKV! I've seen MPEG2 dumped into MKV. Even god damn cams - just so some cretin could have his subtitles and shitty video in one single file. XviD in an MKV? Why the hell not? Those are probably the same morons that used to "raise the quality" of DVD rips by stretching the image to 800 x whatever AND THEN ENCODING IT TO FIT A SINGLE CD!! Or how about the lazy bastards that would just dump the original subs from the DVD (without decoding them to text first), fucking up the sync in the process - and packing it all up into MKV? You can't do jack-shit with those subs any more after that. Only thing left is to break the file apart and reassemble everything yourself.
With.avi at least I know that they can only fuck up video index or desync the audio - both of which I can fix easily or just switch players until I find the one that ignores it. As I am sure the original idiot encoder did.
And besides - ANYTHING can play an.avi. Things you can hang on your key chain play the.avi today - and so does the super-duper-giga-mega-jumbo home theater system. And the MAIN thing I want from my movie file is to be able to play and watch it in the first place. NOT fiddle half a day with the options or converters just so I could play it.
Either belief must be held on faith, therefore, and faith in the sun makes no more sense than faith in Jehovah.
No it does not.
Sun has two GREAT BIG advantages compared to Jehova. It's right up there in the sky (you can point your hand at it most of the day) and it is REAL. Unlike Jehova. Or Superman. Or elves. Or unicorns.
And you don't need faith when you have cold, hard, truth. Or in this case, warm, immaterial, can't_really_grab_it_with_my_hand_but_it_can_sure_as_hell_burn_me truth.
You only need faith for the stuff that you CAN NOT PROVE.
... like selling imaginary property. Except maybe war, but apparently lately even 2 wars at the same time are not helping.
But another dot-com bubble certainly will.
1. Invest into.bean(s),.can(s) and.shotgun(s) 2. Provide a robust and durable access to your domains in the case of a total economic and civilizational meltdown 3. Wait for bubble to burst 4. Profit!
But protecting the electrical grid and other infrastructure is a key part of the Obama administration's cybersecurity review, which is to be completed next week. Under the Bush administration, Congress approved $17 billion in secret funds to protect government networks, according to people familiar with the budget. The Obama administration is weighing whether to expand the program to address vulnerabilities in private computer networks, which would cost billions of dollars more. A senior Pentagon official said Tuesday the Pentagon has spent $100 million in the past six months repairing cyber damage.
Sounds a lot like someone is making up excuses and drumming up support to ask for more government money.
And I have done it loads of times. Now I just take it as a stim when I actually need it - like before an exam or such.
I used to drink 2-3 cups a day at work, as it was one of the ways to actually take a break from work. Being a non-smoker - if I took a break, I probably took coffee too.
But, as I had no habit of drinking coffee at home I didn't notice I had any problems until summer vacation. As the withdrawal headaches kicked in I was like a zombie for 3 days. First I thought I was simply very tired - I did just wrap up a ton of work that (coincidence, coincidence...) popped up couple of days before my vacation. And then it hit me - I was no longer drinking coffee.
After that I switched to tea. Lighter buzz but also lighter withdrawal symptoms.
Now, when I DO need that extra non-sleep time or concentration I've noticed that it is best if I switch to coffee a day or two before the actual engagement. If I start drinking days ahead it has no positive effect. I just keep drinking not to start falling down as soon as caffeine saturation of my body falls bellow a certain level. After the job or the exam is over - I quit coffee and start having 2-3 cups of green tea per day. Kinda like switching from heroin to methadone.
It helps to reduce the headaches somewhat and it keeps me out of the "zombie state" as it boost my metabolism. After a couple of days - I can quit tea as well. With almost no headaches or "metabolism lows".
Awesome, I actually like the Halo universe. Especially the book that ties together the first and second game... that was just great. I just hope it really doesn't try to work with Nivens material. Steal from the man, please, but never take it to him. Ring World was an awful awful book and it's great thing that Halo took what Niven had and made it better (in my opinion). Did anyone else feel the lucky girl was a bit of Deus Ex Machina?
Considering your nick, sig, spelling and taste in games - the post above is about exactly what I would have expected.
When was the last time you saw a game in comedy genre? Or a romance? How about a thriller that doesn't involve shooting? Or an actual SF game with a well written story - that is not an FPS? Besides Portal (which is threading the fine line of being an FPS). Are adventures games even being made anymore? Or turn-based RTSs?
Game genres are dieing out or being replaced and mutated into a kind of a reality TV version of games - less actual story, more player interaction and social content.
Dirty IT job No. 5: Fearless malware hunter Wanted: Go-getter with inquisitive nature and a high tolerance for gore, sleaze, and the baser instincts of humanity.
Hunting malware means crawling the deepest, darkest, nastiest corners of the Web, because that's where the bad stuff usually congregates -- such as drive-by installs on porn and warez sites, says Patrick Morganelli, senior vice president of technology for anti-malware vendor Enigma Software.
"Due to the nature of the sites we need to monitor, one of our first questions in any job interview here is, 'Would you mind viewing the most offensive pornography you've ever seen in your life?' Because that's what a lot of malware research entails."
Even employees not actively involved in malware research can encounter deep nastiness, he says. One time an employee merely passed by a support technician's display while the tech was remotely logged in to a customer's PC. What the employee saw on the tech's screen was so disturbing that he quit shortly thereafter.
For weeks, American military intelligence, using its own satellite images, had followed launch preparations at the Musudan-ri missile site near North Korea's eastern seaboard. Given that a brand-new missile complex is nearly finished on the western seaboard from which the next Taepodong-2 launch had been expected, the timing and place of these preparations caused some experts to scratch their heads. Yet South Korea is due to launch its first satellite into space this summer, so from the North's viewpoint, a space race is on. Other international factors probably played a part, of which the most important was to test President Barack Obama's new administration. Marginalisation ranks high among the regime's fears.
Makes one wonder if they perchance don't have another one ready to be launched from the new launch site?
Sounds like you do a lot of work related to warehousing
No, not really... My workplace was always desktop-based, but the companies I worked for had their storage spaces and such. Which were usually cramped and overstuffed.
and have seen PC desktops/minitowers kept in dusty conditions.
I always felt that it was a trouble just waiting for the right moment. Like, power loss or the system crash so you would then have to use a paperclip to eject it manually.
I would have felt a lot calmer if zip and floppy drives had mechanical and manual ejection system back in the days before USB drives.
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Also attributed to Napoleon - but my guess is that he probably picked it up from Goethe.
I imagine that similarly in 300 years "All your base are belong to us" will be equally attributed to both George Jr. and Sr. Bush, Osama bin Laden, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steven Colbert and Dart Vader.
That UK government isn't sponsoring a friendlier image of Cthulhu.
But if it was most companies, it would have been padded out to 2-3x that length. We'd have had at least one sequel by now that "innovated" in some pointless way (like the one-way green portal and the come-out-upside-down purple portal, and the...).
Exactly!
Plus there would be portal ports to other, more PG-friendly franchises so by now we would have a Mickey' Portal of Mistery, Hannah Montana: The Portal To The Other Side (where you would change between Hannah and Miley depending on the portal color) and perhaps even Port-A-Portal - a tetris-clone for your mobile phone where you drop different colored balls through various portals and then the balls, get ready... THEY CHANGE COLOR! Wouldn't that be AWESOME!!!111eleven!
And it wouldn't be Portal but PortalTM.
...answer to SOME radiation is for everyone to get MORE radiated?
Does that work with other potentially dangerous materials and processes or is radiation unique and magical?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program
The Megatons to Megawatts Program is the name given to the program that implemented the 1993 United States-Russia nonproliferation agreement to convert high-enriched uranium (HEU) taken from dismantled Russian nuclear weapons into low-enriched-uranium (LEU) for nuclear fuel.
From 1995 through mid-2005, 250 metric tons of high-enriched uranium (enough for 10,000 warheads) were recycled into low-enriched-uranium. The goal is to recycle 500 metric tons by 2013. Much of this fuel has already been used in many nuclear power plants in the U.S., as it is indistinguishable from normal fuel.
Radiation is a problem, but over 2000 nuclear test have been carried out, and we haven't all dropped dead. A few more explosions that have specifically designed to minimize fallout won't kill us either.
You, your family, friends and their family - you try it out first.
Let us know how it went in a dozen generations or so.
Is there any data to suggest that humanity can't deal with them for the next 1,000 or 10,000 years?
Not yet.
None of the time machines we sent to the future have yet returned.
Pity its logic is flawed...
As long as some people just want to watch the world burn.
It is a "Federal Constitutional Republic".
BIIIIG difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic
A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch but in which the people (or at least a part of its people) have an impact on its government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
Democracy is a form of government in which power is held indirectly by citizens in a free electoral system.
Even though there is no universally accepted definition of 'democracy', there are two principles that any definition of democracy includes.
The first principle is that all members of the society (citizens) have equal access to power and the second that all members (citizens) enjoy universally recognized freedoms and liberties.
Will those $10.000 in song certificates come from China?
... if you WANT or need to base the religion on something - sun is in the advantage BECAUSE IT IS REAL.
We digressed too far... XD
Funny... Despite their "degrees" and knowledge of those "details" - that didn't stop past and present "biblical scholars" to promote war, genocide and racism.
Or to meddle in the works of the state as they regularly do - while demanding that they are a separate entity that pays no taxes, has its own laws and lives off of the society like a parasite promoting ignorance at best and inter-cultural/inter-racial hate at worst.
All things which are supposed to be bad according to "the book".
Also... Gays are evil, just as contraceptives, abortion, people of other religion (ask Palestinians and Israelis what are those "others") and depending on the flavor of the crazy - certain foods and common customs.
And while we are on the topic of imaginary degrees - you can get one in Esperanto. Probably in Klingon and Elvish too.
They at least get to answer that they actually do something when asked what is their profession - instead of like "biblical scholars" who have a degree in "reading 1 book - a lot".
But, I fear that we are digressing far from the original topic - which was that one CAN have a solar-based faith system without the proof of intelligence or will.
Because the act of faith itself does not require ANY proof. Period.
Appearance of intelligence or will in the object of worship are not prerequisites of worship itself. Haven't you ever been in love?
If the intelligence was the prerequisite - it would be a lot simpler to prove the non-existence of god of Abrahamic religions AS AN ALMIGHTY SUPREME BEING - as he is obviously not very intelligent.
Right there, in the "holy" scripture. Errors and goof-ups a 9-year-old would not do.
Again... faith is not based on logic. Faith is based on absence of logic.
The same as with the gambler that keeps losing hand after hand KNOWING that his "luck" is about to turn around.
Now THAT is a man with faith in a higher power.
...an idiot, that is.
A) He asks slashdot what he could have found out just by googling or asking on any "sub-500 user" forum - asking million+ slashdotters "hey, what should I use to rip DVDs" is a bit of a overkill.
B) He wants "a single file" output - sounds like an "idiot" button solution to me. Automagically he gives up on leveling the audio, ending up either with default (probably badly mastered) AC3 or with MP3 where explosions and sound effects wake up your neighbors but you still can't hear what everyone is talking.
C) He rips anime, but complains that not all of it is in ENGLISH!? What fuckin' planet is that from?
IMHE - Idiots mostly jump on Matroska as well.
And being that there is no single standard or mode of operation when using Matroska - no two MKV files are encoded the same way.
Sometimes not even files from the same group.
HA! A sure indicator that you either have problems vacating your bowels OR that your higher logical functions are not up to spec.
More of the same.
If you can't tell what movie you are watching from the movie itself or its title - cover and info won't help you much.
But they might fuck up the entire file cause some overzealous idiot put them in the wrong way.
Prey tell - which out of the box home cinema is that, that plays MKVs with all the options you stated above?
FUCK MKV!
I've seen MPEG2 dumped into MKV. Even god damn cams - just so some cretin could have his subtitles and shitty video in one single file.
XviD in an MKV? Why the hell not?
Those are probably the same morons that used to "raise the quality" of DVD rips by stretching the image to 800 x whatever AND THEN ENCODING IT TO FIT A SINGLE CD!!
Or how about the lazy bastards that would just dump the original subs from the DVD (without decoding them to text first), fucking up the sync in the process - and packing it all up into MKV?
You can't do jack-shit with those subs any more after that. Only thing left is to break the file apart and reassemble everything yourself.
With .avi at least I know that they can only fuck up video index or desync the audio - both of which I can fix easily or just switch players until I find the one that ignores it. As I am sure the original idiot encoder did.
And besides - ANYTHING can play an .avi. Things you can hang on your key chain play the .avi today - and so does the super-duper-giga-mega-jumbo home theater system.
And the MAIN thing I want from my movie file is to be able to play and watch it in the first place.
NOT fiddle half a day with the options or converters just so I could play it.
Either belief must be held on faith, therefore, and faith in the sun makes no more sense than faith in Jehovah.
No it does not.
Sun has two GREAT BIG advantages compared to Jehova.
It's right up there in the sky (you can point your hand at it most of the day) and it is REAL. Unlike Jehova. Or Superman. Or elves. Or unicorns.
And you don't need faith when you have cold, hard, truth.
Or in this case, warm, immaterial, can't_really_grab_it_with_my_hand_but_it_can_sure_as_hell_burn_me truth.
You only need faith for the stuff that you CAN NOT PROVE.
Oh God! We've become a bad movie. There can be only one.
Weren't there actually SEVERAL versions of that movie?
... like selling imaginary property.
Except maybe war, but apparently lately even 2 wars at the same time are not helping.
But another dot-com bubble certainly will.
1. Invest into .bean(s), .can(s) and .shotgun(s)
2. Provide a robust and durable access to your domains in the case of a total economic and civilizational meltdown
3. Wait for bubble to burst
4. Profit!
From TFA:
But protecting the electrical grid and other infrastructure is a key part of the Obama administration's cybersecurity review, which is to be completed next week.
Under the Bush administration, Congress approved $17 billion in secret funds to protect government networks, according to people familiar with the budget.
The Obama administration is weighing whether to expand the program to address vulnerabilities in private computer networks, which would cost billions of dollars more.
A senior Pentagon official said Tuesday the Pentagon has spent $100 million in the past six months repairing cyber damage.
Sounds a lot like someone is making up excuses and drumming up support to ask for more government money.
And I have done it loads of times. Now I just take it as a stim when I actually need it - like before an exam or such.
I used to drink 2-3 cups a day at work, as it was one of the ways to actually take a break from work.
Being a non-smoker - if I took a break, I probably took coffee too.
But, as I had no habit of drinking coffee at home I didn't notice I had any problems until summer vacation.
As the withdrawal headaches kicked in I was like a zombie for 3 days.
First I thought I was simply very tired - I did just wrap up a ton of work that (coincidence, coincidence...) popped up couple of days before my vacation.
And then it hit me - I was no longer drinking coffee.
After that I switched to tea. Lighter buzz but also lighter withdrawal symptoms.
Now, when I DO need that extra non-sleep time or concentration I've noticed that it is best if I switch to coffee a day or two before the actual engagement.
If I start drinking days ahead it has no positive effect. I just keep drinking not to start falling down as soon as caffeine saturation of my body falls bellow a certain level.
After the job or the exam is over - I quit coffee and start having 2-3 cups of green tea per day. Kinda like switching from heroin to methadone.
It helps to reduce the headaches somewhat and it keeps me out of the "zombie state" as it boost my metabolism.
After a couple of days - I can quit tea as well. With almost no headaches or "metabolism lows".
Awesome, I actually like the Halo universe. Especially the book that ties together the first and second game... that was just great. I just hope it really doesn't try to work with Nivens material. Steal from the man, please, but never take it to him. Ring World was an awful awful book and it's great thing that Halo took what Niven had and made it better (in my opinion). Did anyone else feel the lucky girl was a bit of Deus Ex Machina?
Considering your nick, sig, spelling and taste in games - the post above is about exactly what I would have expected.
When was the last time you saw a game in comedy genre?
Or a romance?
How about a thriller that doesn't involve shooting?
Or an actual SF game with a well written story - that is not an FPS? Besides Portal (which is threading the fine line of being an FPS).
Are adventures games even being made anymore? Or turn-based RTSs?
Game genres are dieing out or being replaced and mutated into a kind of a reality TV version of games - less actual story, more player interaction and social content.
Sounds a lot like something like this.
Particularly cause they DO plan to launch a few more.
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13432014&source=features_box_main
Makes one wonder if they perchance don't have another one ready to be launched from the new launch site?
Sounds like you do a lot of work related to warehousing
No, not really... My workplace was always desktop-based, but the companies I worked for had their storage spaces and such.
Which were usually cramped and overstuffed.
and have seen PC desktops/minitowers kept in dusty conditions.
That I have seen. :P
I always felt that it was a trouble just waiting for the right moment.
Like, power loss or the system crash so you would then have to use a paperclip to eject it manually.
I would have felt a lot calmer if zip and floppy drives had mechanical and manual ejection system back in the days before USB drives.