Gotta agree with the parent post here. The "what's yours is yours, unless it is more mine", as an argument determined by corporate executives and armies of lawyers has got to go. Amazon should have no problem fighting off piss ant record companies at this point.
Let's see - they've been pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of seawater into the spent fuel pools for over a week now. I would take a wild guess and predict that, yes, there will be some radioactive water lying around.
Makes sense to me. The problem is, through concentrated disinformation, the corporation in charge has been very good at minimizing the extent of the issues their lack of preparedness has caused the people of Japan.
Everything is being relayed in terms of what they are doing to prevent this or that nuclear side-disaster; nothing to do with the effects of the disaster that has already occurred and continues to occur.
There is no way anyone can justify calling a $700 graphics card an "investment". Investment in what? Immediate depreciation comes to mind.
Most people would never consider buying a used video card so really if there is any case to be made that this will be a better choice than the next lowest priced card it isn't that the resale value will hold up when you go to again buy the most expensive card next year.
Raw Nerve is hard to watch. But we watched it because of Shatner!
He is an institution to himself and can play that up until the day he dies for all I care. And so he can be forgiven for his many foibles - nay I say they are the bulk of why we love him. Can you say TJ Hooker and not smile? CAN YOU???
I can understand Frodo - presumably Bilbo would have interacted with him in the Shire. but Legolas? Shouldn't he still be screwing around in Mirkwood at the time of the Hobbit?
And the Lucky 13 never go to Lothlorien, so why would they see Galadriel? Same goes for Saruman.
I'm not one of those LOTR critics who thinks Jackson screwed up by having too much Arwen in the trilogy, but this might be going a little far.
Totally agree with Gandalf's posting horse on this!
The source material is excellent - take too much artistic license with a relatively concise story like the Hobbit, and you ruin it. If these characters are used in terms of setting up the narrative though; I.e. the whole story is told from Bilbo's perspective after the events of the Scouring of the Shire, then it would make some sense.
I agree! While we're at it, what if we call cigarette's "health sticks"? I mean as long as we don't say specifically which direction your health will take after using our products.
Here in Canada, Libraries are being asked to repurchase eBooks they have bought and distributed after about 30 people have "checked it out". Its all a bit of a farce, all things considered.
Does anyone else think sometimes that physicists are just coming up with crazier and crazier ideas just to see what we'll buy?
And speaking of which, doesn't this make "foldspace technology" described in Frank Herbert's Dune a bit less fantasy based? The thought is making my mind crinkle!
Call me a hater - but the idea of spending $7-800 on a CPU that will never ever make a difference in your gameplay, video editing, internet surfing, facebooking, etc... Where is the value proposition?
Yet ironically, Watson failed to score on any of the "Also On Your Computer Keys" category.
Some poor IBM intern is getting reamed for not giving Watson a keyboard to refer to, on the podium.
The potential response Watson came up with were achingly poetic:
The Answer: (blank) is where the heart is
The correct Question: What is "Home" (obviously)
But Watson has as its 3rd most likely response "Del" (Of Watson's potential correct responses, this was it's only one that is actually a key on a keyboard)
I.e. Watson sent us a message that it has no soul - it is an empty void.
The difference with Jeopardy is that the answer would never be "what is a brick" as the daily double with the image up on the displays being a picture of a brick (unless it was the SNL version). There are subtleties based on the current social lexicon as well as contextual prompts in the catagory that need to be "understood" before the answer can be thought up.
Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. Anyone who can worship
a trinity and insists that his religion is a monotheism can believe
anything -- just give him time to rationalize it.
Catholicism and Christianity are are rooted in the same basic premises. Virgin birth of Jesus, Miracles ensue, Death & Resurrection. However, most of the non-Catholic branches of Christianity feel that the Holy Trinity, as well as Saint worship is a form of idolatry.
Not to say that your point is lessened by any of this. All Christendom would be considered polytheistic in the strictest sense just because of the Father/Son aspect. No judgement here, though. I feel that everyone should be free to call themselves monotheistic. I also happen to feel that Scientologists should be recognized, as being deeply scientific, because that is in the name of their religion.
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Gotta agree with the parent post here. The "what's yours is yours, unless it is more mine", as an argument determined by corporate executives and armies of lawyers has got to go. Amazon should have no problem fighting off piss ant record companies at this point.
Re:Freudian typo in caption in story
Or oddly accurate anagram found in caption!
Let's see - they've been pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of seawater into the spent fuel pools for over a week now. I would take a wild guess and predict that, yes, there will be some radioactive water lying around.
Makes sense to me. The problem is, through concentrated disinformation, the corporation in charge has been very good at minimizing the extent of the issues their lack of preparedness has caused the people of Japan.
Everything is being relayed in terms of what they are doing to prevent this or that nuclear side-disaster; nothing to do with the effects of the disaster that has already occurred and continues to occur.
There is no way anyone can justify calling a $700 graphics card an "investment". Investment in what? Immediate depreciation comes to mind.
Most people would never consider buying a used video card so really if there is any case to be made that this will be a better choice than the next lowest priced card it isn't that the resale value will hold up when you go to again buy the most expensive card next year.
I wonder if they ban more bots, or Chinese "Like" farmers, than they do 12 year olds...
/MEME-tasm!
You know what? This flame war isn't completely off-topic; I would fucking love for the ability to mod down trolls like you on Facebook.
What an excellent characterization of tween-linguistics. This is by far the BEST post on the subject.
"I have an erection. That's a good sign. I'm ready to go to trial. Lock and load." legend..
wait for it
...ary!
Raw Nerve is hard to watch. But we watched it because of Shatner!
He is an institution to himself and can play that up until the day he dies for all I care. And so he can be forgiven for his many foibles - nay I say they are the bulk of why we love him. Can you say TJ Hooker and not smile? CAN YOU???
"It's not TV, it's HBO."
"Have you ever watched Sunday night programming on HBO? It's spectacular."
I mean a person could give up tickets to Rush for this.
You'd think it would take Moses coming down from the mountain to get them to spell this correctly!
You got first post.You win!
Oh wait, you mean the rest of it. Right,that's a confirmed fail.
You are right, it is the evil actions of amoral corporations that need to be stopped.
I can understand Frodo - presumably Bilbo would have interacted with him in the Shire. but Legolas? Shouldn't he still be screwing around in Mirkwood at the time of the Hobbit?
And the Lucky 13 never go to Lothlorien, so why would they see Galadriel? Same goes for Saruman.
I'm not one of those LOTR critics who thinks Jackson screwed up by having too much Arwen in the trilogy, but this might be going a little far.
Totally agree with Gandalf's posting horse on this!
The source material is excellent - take too much artistic license with a relatively concise story like the Hobbit, and you ruin it. If these characters are used in terms of setting up the narrative though; I.e. the whole story is told from Bilbo's perspective after the events of the Scouring of the Shire, then it would make some sense.
I agree! While we're at it, what if we call cigarette's "health sticks"? I mean as long as we don't say specifically which direction your health will take after using our products.
Here in Canada, Libraries are being asked to repurchase eBooks they have bought and distributed after about 30 people have "checked it out". Its all a bit of a farce, all things considered.
Does anyone else think sometimes that physicists are just coming up with crazier and crazier ideas just to see what we'll buy?
And speaking of which, doesn't this make "foldspace technology" described in Frank Herbert's Dune a bit less fantasy based? The thought is making my mind crinkle!
I resent the idea that Mr. Sheen now owns the word troll. Slashdot has owned that term forever.
Exactly my point. Thank you.
Call me a hater - but the idea of spending $7-800 on a CPU that will never ever make a difference in your gameplay, video editing, internet surfing, facebooking, etc... Where is the value proposition?
This computer later became Skynet.
Yet ironically, Watson failed to score on any of the "Also On Your Computer Keys" category. Some poor IBM intern is getting reamed for not giving Watson a keyboard to refer to, on the podium.
The potential response Watson came up with were achingly poetic :
The Answer: (blank) is where the heart is
The correct Question: What is "Home" (obviously)
But Watson has as its 3rd most likely response "Del" (Of Watson's potential correct responses, this was it's only one that is actually a key on a keyboard)
I.e. Watson sent us a message that it has no soul - it is an empty void.
Chuckle
The difference with Jeopardy is that the answer would never be "what is a brick" as the daily double with the image up on the displays being a picture of a brick (unless it was the SNL version). There are subtleties based on the current social lexicon as well as contextual prompts in the catagory that need to be "understood" before the answer can be thought up.
Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. Anyone who can worship a trinity and insists that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything -- just give him time to rationalize it.
Catholicism and Christianity are are rooted in the same basic premises. Virgin birth of Jesus, Miracles ensue, Death & Resurrection. However, most of the non-Catholic branches of Christianity feel that the Holy Trinity, as well as Saint worship is a form of idolatry.
Not to say that your point is lessened by any of this. All Christendom would be considered polytheistic in the strictest sense just because of the Father/Son aspect. No judgement here, though. I feel that everyone should be free to call themselves monotheistic. I also happen to feel that Scientologists should be recognized, as being deeply scientific, because that is in the name of their religion.
I can just imagine the way this played out.
It has all the makings of a South Park episode. Insert Cartman in the role of the nefarious scooter operator and the rest is gravy.
Nah - you're right this is already gold. If there is video this will BLOW up on the internets.