*laugh* only on/. could someone consider a retorical response to retoric the same as a retorical response to a violent threat.
"Book learning" as you describe an actual attempt to think about buzzphrases, may never save me from a mugger, but it has saved me multiple times from the shoddy thinking I see here.
Granted, maybe I was mixing apples and oranges to some extent (and mainly just amusing myself).:) However, as another poster noted, the phrase does contain a recognizable spirit and intent in spite of its rhetorical construction. And, IMHO, that spirit is meant to be a guide toward preventing future violent threats.
KB: I'm so sick of that tired quote. First, the actual line is "Your money or your life." Second, it's not even a complete sentence; what about my money or my life? It's an ultimately meaningless statement, and besides, sounding cool doesn't make it relevant.
Mugger: *bang!*
KB: O, book learning! *choke* How thou hast failed me!
I went on a tour of an FAA air traffic control center many years ago. They had a line printer that could play the "Can-Can." Millions of dollars of machinery and thousands of lives hanging in the balance, and that's the most vivid memory I came away with...
Something similar to this was what caused the horror in the old classic Westworld. The robots had been designed by other machines, which had been designed by other machines... so when things started to go to hell, no one knew what to do!
...my guess is that it's because of Akron's history with rubber. Akron is, or at least was, to rubber what Detroit is to automobiles. From what I understand, the local rubber research has expanded (as rubber will do) to include polymers in general.
I don't know the whole story, though, which is a darn shame because I live less than a mile away, on the same street as the Hall...
In the tank battles, you could move into a corner and wiggle your tank around to jump across the board. (Technically it was probably a bug rather than an Easter egg, but it was still fun, and surprising how long it took opponents to figure it out...)
The last time the solar flares came, the blue gun on my PC monitor started flickering (I think it was the blue gun... all the white changed to yellow). Last night, it started again. I know next to nothing about electronics, but... is there even a remote chance there could be some causal relationship? And no, I don't mean to suggest that my monitor is causing solar flares...
How ironic that young gamers have sensed for years (the original Shadowrunner rules were published in l989) what journalists and politicians still keep missing -- that life for individuals gets rougher by the year here in the Corporate Republic. That a handful of megacorporations are becoming powerful beyond anyone's control. That individualism is not only growing more difficult, but one day soon may actually be dangerous. That this creeping reality has been a role-playing exercise for brainy kids for more than a decade is an amazing thing.
...but it's not exactly a radical idea, is it? The notion that the future will be dominated by monolithic corporations? I mean, those William Gibson books predate Shadowrun, don't they? And heck, you could devote a whole website to the great evil companies of science fiction's past. Weyland-Yutani, Tyrell, Soylent...
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"Book learning" as you describe an actual attempt to think about buzzphrases, may never save me from a mugger, but it has saved me multiple times from the shoddy thinking I see here.
Granted, maybe I was mixing apples and oranges to some extent (and mainly just amusing myself). :) However, as another poster noted, the phrase does contain a recognizable spirit and intent in spite of its rhetorical construction. And, IMHO, that spirit is meant to be a guide toward preventing future violent threats.
KB: I'm so sick of that tired quote. First, the actual line is "Your money or your life." Second, it's not even a complete sentence; what about my money or my life? It's an ultimately meaningless statement, and besides, sounding cool doesn't make it relevant.
Mugger: *bang!*
KB: O, book learning! *choke* How thou hast failed me!
I went on a tour of an FAA air traffic control center many years ago. They had a line printer that could play the "Can-Can." Millions of dollars of machinery and thousands of lives hanging in the balance, and that's the most vivid memory I came away with...
Something similar to this was what caused the horror in the old classic Westworld. The robots had been designed by other machines, which had been designed by other machines... so when things started to go to hell, no one knew what to do!
...maybe in a couple years the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics proposal will bear fruit.
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/
...my guess is that it's because of Akron's history with rubber. Akron is, or at least was, to rubber what Detroit is to automobiles. From what I understand, the local rubber research has expanded (as rubber will do) to include polymers in general.
I don't know the whole story, though, which is a darn shame because I live less than a mile away, on the same street as the Hall...
In the tank battles, you could move into a corner and wiggle your tank around to jump across the board. (Technically it was probably a bug rather than an Easter egg, but it was still fun, and surprising how long it took opponents to figure it out...)
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Hmm. For $100/month, I'd let Microsoft build a new campus within sight of my house.
It's been a while, but if I recall right, EQ had an incredibly restrictive (and long) EULA.
The last time the solar flares came, the blue gun on my PC monitor started flickering (I think it was the blue gun... all the white changed to yellow). Last night, it started again. I know next to nothing about electronics, but... is there even a remote chance there could be some causal relationship? And no, I don't mean to suggest that my monitor is causing solar flares...
Of course, the company may be endangering its reputation this way... who knows where I'll go after work? :)