My idea is, that one of the qualifications required to be a UN delegate, is to have a demonstrated ability at logic, proven by a demonstratable chess ability, maybe an ELO of above 1600.
It isn't often that I physically roll my eyes when reading, but you managed to get me to do it.
Clearly a better metric is who can win at "Guess Who?" without asking if they're wearing glasses.
Every library I've ever known is a member of an inter-library loan program, giving you access to the collections of many other libraries. All you need to do is ask for it. This has been very widespread and common for a few decades now. Even if they didn't have that, you can always ask them to purchase the book for their collection, so you can read it. They have a portion of their yearly budget dedicated to buying new books, and librarians are happy to help you get what you want if you ask. It even makes part of their job a little easier since they have to figure out new books to buy anyway. You could see a good book in a bookstore, then ask your library to get it for their collection.
The secrets revealed this far are already incredibly damning and terrible. They show out own government has contempt for our ideals and laws and treats it's own citizens as enemies. Let's assume those secrets were allowed to be released as a smokescreen for other, more damning secrets. I shudder to think of what they might be, as they would have to be truly nightmarish indeed. In that case, we need to stop our own government with greater urgency than otherwise. If the untold secrets aren't as bad, who cares? We still need to solve the problem of our government treating everybody as enemies.
Sure, because instead of just quietly going to Russia and getting the big payday by handing over all of the secrets, he instead decides to make all of the information much less valuable to his "employer" by telling everyone at once, and at the same time letting everyone in the US government know what he took and how he did it, making further infiltration more difficult in the future. Sounds like the most idiotic spy plan ever, and since you say he did this with Russian backing, that must mean the Russians are idiots. What is more likely is that you are having problems accepting that one man can so deeply affect an all-powerful entity such as the U.S. government, so you invent crazy theories that involve another powerful entity since that is comforting to you.
Soon, we’ll be adding you to our design process, so that you can help us shape the future of Steam.
Oh great, because I have some features I've been wanting for a long time, like being able to sell or trade my games to other accounts, or selectively appearing offline to different contacts on steam, or at least not broadcasting what I'm playing to certain people...
Oh, you don't want that kind of input. You don't really give a shit about what I want.
It's a little mean to make fun of somebody just because he's Japanese and has a non-traditional name. Or are you suggesting that guys named Al are usually dumb, but that somehow if there was a Japanese Al, he'd get some kind of racial bonus that makes up for it? If so, that's pretty racist, as well as oddly biased against people named Al.
I personally know a great guy named Al, who is probably smarter than most of you are. I have no idea where this anti-Al sentiment is coming from. It isn't like Als are routinely represented in TV and movies as being mentally deficient. For example, the character Al Borland in the show "Home Improvement" was very intelligent and had a myriad of impressive skills. Then there's Al Bundy from "Married with Children", and while he isn't highly educated, he has a significant amount of worldy wisdom and knows how to deal with all the bullshit that goes on in his life without going insane. Not to mention he scored four touchdowns in one game!
Overall I just don't understand... wait, what was that? Oh, that's an "i" not an "L". My bad. I bet Al would have caught that immediately.
None of us in the rest of the world want to have anything against USA, but the Americans keep doing everything they possible can to make the world hate their guts.
It would help if "the rest of the world", including you, stopped saying phrases about how they hate our guts, instead of just criticizing the government. It is unnecessarily antagonistic language. A good portion of us over here don't like what is going on. How about being supportive instead of antagonistic?
Where did I say that storage technology never went anywhere? Of course there have been advancements. Duh. However there have been tons of hyped up technologies that never went anywhere.
However that's a nice strawman there, and you did a good job of knocking it over.
Researchers are used to overselling their discoveries all the time, to continue or get more funding. While they might be doing boring materials science, they have to come up with lots of pie-in-the-sky ideas about what their research could potentially be used for, if somebody can ever get enough engineers together to figure out the pesky implementation details. Geeks around here have heard promise after promise about revolutionary storage technology that goes nowhere precisely because of this drastic overselling to grab research money. It would be nice if the research system didn't force people to do this, but you can't be surprised by the skeptics of this given the nature of the beast.
So no, I don't expect that the people who did this research care about the feasibility of the reading technology lasting as long as the data. Well, they probably care a little, but they did something and are going to brag about it as much as possible without focusing on the downsides or unfinished parts too much. It isn't their problem, they just do the research and sell it with hype, to get more money to do more research. The implementation and feasibility studies aren't their problem, that is, unless somebody gives them more money to do those things.
Why has the title been changed? I always remember it as "Star Wars."
When the film was originally released in 1977, it was simply referred to as Star Wars, though supposedly, George Lucas had intended to put Episode IV: A New Hope in the opening crawl, but 20th Century Fox didn't want Lucas to do so because they thought it would confuse audiences, since there were never any other episodes released before it. After the commercial success of the original Star Wars, Lucas was able to continue with the multi-film epic he originally envisioned. The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980 and bore the full title of Star Wars, Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back in the title crawl, although it was referred to only as The Empire Strikes Back as the title of its commercial release. It was the "Episode V" appearing in the opening crawl which originally confused those members of the audience who had not been made aware of what Lucas was explaining, that the original "Star Wars" was now intended to be the 4th part of a nine-part series (since cut to 6). The original "Star Wars" was re-released in 1981 with a new title: "Star Wars, Episode IV, A New Hope" in the title crawl. This title appeared on all subsequent re-releases and versions from then on (though the original version was released on DVD in 2006, which shows the title crawl in its original form). All subsequent Star Wars films have followed this new naming structure, although "Star Wars" often refers specifically to the 1977 film.
While I'm in the difficult position of being a woman speaking up on this subject and, of course, feeling in no small way like I have to represent all of womankind when making these comments (guys -- you ever have that problem? Didn't think so)....
Actually I find myself implicitly speaking "on behalf of all men" whenever a girl talks about such things.
Don't get me wrong, I like the added features, but I hope nobody expects laptops that can be used for multiple days in a row without recharging (with sleep mode enabled between sessions of course) or next-gen smart phones that can go a week without recharging. They will figure out how to use that extra power somewhere, leaving us at around the same runtime as before.
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Cars? I thought they were talking about sex.
I see what you're getting at. We should all write our congressmen to force Amazon to build parking lots.
My idea is, that one of the qualifications required to be a UN delegate, is to have a demonstrated ability at logic, proven by a demonstratable chess ability, maybe an ELO of above 1600.
It isn't often that I physically roll my eyes when reading, but you managed to get me to do it.
Clearly a better metric is who can win at "Guess Who?" without asking if they're wearing glasses.
Cybermorph
Where did YOU learn to fly?
Where did YOU learn to fly?
Where did YOU learn to fly?
Where did YOU learn to fly?
Where did YOU learn to fly?
Every library I've ever known is a member of an inter-library loan program, giving you access to the collections of many other libraries. All you need to do is ask for it. This has been very widespread and common for a few decades now. Even if they didn't have that, you can always ask them to purchase the book for their collection, so you can read it. They have a portion of their yearly budget dedicated to buying new books, and librarians are happy to help you get what you want if you ask. It even makes part of their job a little easier since they have to figure out new books to buy anyway. You could see a good book in a bookstore, then ask your library to get it for their collection.
The secrets revealed this far are already incredibly damning and terrible. They show out own government has contempt for our ideals and laws and treats it's own citizens as enemies. Let's assume those secrets were allowed to be released as a smokescreen for other, more damning secrets. I shudder to think of what they might be, as they would have to be truly nightmarish indeed. In that case, we need to stop our own government with greater urgency than otherwise. If the untold secrets aren't as bad, who cares? We still need to solve the problem of our government treating everybody as enemies.
Sure, because instead of just quietly going to Russia and getting the big payday by handing over all of the secrets, he instead decides to make all of the information much less valuable to his "employer" by telling everyone at once, and at the same time letting everyone in the US government know what he took and how he did it, making further infiltration more difficult in the future. Sounds like the most idiotic spy plan ever, and since you say he did this with Russian backing, that must mean the Russians are idiots. What is more likely is that you are having problems accepting that one man can so deeply affect an all-powerful entity such as the U.S. government, so you invent crazy theories that involve another powerful entity since that is comforting to you.
I agree with you, but I'm curious, in what countries is this possible, right now?
Last time I tried, all blocking did was make messages not get delivered, but they could still see what I was playing. Maybe it's changed now.
Soon, we’ll be adding you to our design process, so that you can help us shape the future of Steam.
Oh great, because I have some features I've been wanting for a long time, like being able to sell or trade my games to other accounts, or selectively appearing offline to different contacts on steam, or at least not broadcasting what I'm playing to certain people...
Oh, you don't want that kind of input. You don't really give a shit about what I want.
Well screw you then.
Man you must be tired!
It's pretty cool that Linux is now able to close windows.
It's a little mean to make fun of somebody just because he's Japanese and has a non-traditional name. Or are you suggesting that guys named Al are usually dumb, but that somehow if there was a Japanese Al, he'd get some kind of racial bonus that makes up for it? If so, that's pretty racist, as well as oddly biased against people named Al.
I personally know a great guy named Al, who is probably smarter than most of you are. I have no idea where this anti-Al sentiment is coming from. It isn't like Als are routinely represented in TV and movies as being mentally deficient. For example, the character Al Borland in the show "Home Improvement" was very intelligent and had a myriad of impressive skills. Then there's Al Bundy from "Married with Children", and while he isn't highly educated, he has a significant amount of worldy wisdom and knows how to deal with all the bullshit that goes on in his life without going insane. Not to mention he scored four touchdowns in one game!
Overall I just don't understand... wait, what was that? Oh, that's an "i" not an "L". My bad. I bet Al would have caught that immediately.
There's also folic acid, which has helped drastically reduce certain birth defects.
I haven't looked it up but there has got do be robot needle porn out there. Those guys would respond with a very enthusiastic "Yes!".
None of us in the rest of the world want to have anything against USA, but the Americans keep doing everything they possible can to make the world hate their guts.
It would help if "the rest of the world", including you, stopped saying phrases about how they hate our guts, instead of just criticizing the government. It is unnecessarily antagonistic language. A good portion of us over here don't like what is going on. How about being supportive instead of antagonistic?
It also, hilariously, gives the US incentive to secretly protect him while he is in asylum in a foreign country.
And it's defense, not defence.
Either spelling is acceptable. The people who invented the language spell it with a 'c'.
The people who fixed the language spell it with a 's'.
Where did I say that storage technology never went anywhere? Of course there have been advancements. Duh. However there have been tons of hyped up technologies that never went anywhere.
However that's a nice strawman there, and you did a good job of knocking it over.
Researchers are used to overselling their discoveries all the time, to continue or get more funding. While they might be doing boring materials science, they have to come up with lots of pie-in-the-sky ideas about what their research could potentially be used for, if somebody can ever get enough engineers together to figure out the pesky implementation details. Geeks around here have heard promise after promise about revolutionary storage technology that goes nowhere precisely because of this drastic overselling to grab research money. It would be nice if the research system didn't force people to do this, but you can't be surprised by the skeptics of this given the nature of the beast.
So no, I don't expect that the people who did this research care about the feasibility of the reading technology lasting as long as the data. Well, they probably care a little, but they did something and are going to brag about it as much as possible without focusing on the downsides or unfinished parts too much. It isn't their problem, they just do the research and sell it with hype, to get more money to do more research. The implementation and feasibility studies aren't their problem, that is, unless somebody gives them more money to do those things.
From http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/faq#.2.1.7
Why has the title been changed? I always remember it as "Star Wars."
When the film was originally released in 1977, it was simply referred to as Star Wars, though supposedly, George Lucas had intended to put Episode IV: A New Hope in the opening crawl, but 20th Century Fox didn't want Lucas to do so because they thought it would confuse audiences, since there were never any other episodes released before it. After the commercial success of the original Star Wars, Lucas was able to continue with the multi-film epic he originally envisioned. The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980 and bore the full title of Star Wars, Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back in the title crawl, although it was referred to only as The Empire Strikes Back as the title of its commercial release. It was the "Episode V" appearing in the opening crawl which originally confused those members of the audience who had not been made aware of what Lucas was explaining, that the original "Star Wars" was now intended to be the 4th part of a nine-part series (since cut to 6). The original "Star Wars" was re-released in 1981 with a new title: "Star Wars, Episode IV, A New Hope" in the title crawl. This title appeared on all subsequent re-releases and versions from then on (though the original version was released on DVD in 2006, which shows the title crawl in its original form). All subsequent Star Wars films have followed this new naming structure, although "Star Wars" often refers specifically to the 1977 film.
"-1, Nobody Cares" Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Ummm, they certainly have. "The pearl is in the river" is just another form of encryption, and just as illegal on the ham bands as AES.
That's an interesting choice of phrase to let your friend know your wife is having her period.
While I'm in the difficult position of being a woman speaking up on this subject and, of course, feeling in no small way like I have to represent all of womankind when making these comments (guys -- you ever have that problem? Didn't think so)....
Actually I find myself implicitly speaking "on behalf of all men" whenever a girl talks about such things.
Don't get me wrong, I like the added features, but I hope nobody expects laptops that can be used for multiple days in a row without recharging (with sleep mode enabled between sessions of course) or next-gen smart phones that can go a week without recharging. They will figure out how to use that extra power somewhere, leaving us at around the same runtime as before.
This is history in the making, humanity's first hive city. Glory to the Emperor!