Uh... the word "assimilate" is part of the English language. It appears in _The Life of John of Barneveld_, published in 1618 and is likely older than that (I just Googled Gutenberg for it and checked the first couple returns).
If I use the phrase "you are obsfucating the issue", I'm not making a Vampire the Masquerade reference.
Spam is "horrific" and all (BTW I don't get more than 5 a year)
And I get 1800 a day. That's because I am the public contact for several companies with some of my email addresses dating back over 10 years. In conjunction with theater groups and businesses, my email appears in press releases, on fliers, ancient usenet posts, and otherwise all over the place.
Individuals using their email account to talk to friends don't have as much a problem as people who use their email address publically for business and publicity.
My phone number and address are also published. I don't, however, get 1,800 unsolicited calls every day and my junk physical mail is quite reasonable.
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Why wouldn't it? Other fun facts: konsole means "console" in German. Many of the "k" words are either German spelling or stand for KDE - kate is "KDE Advanced Text Editor".
Silence of the Lambs: the Musical, Batboy: the Musical (yes, the Weekly World News Character), A Shuggoth on the Roof (Lovecraftian mythos set to Fiddler on the Roof).
There have been plenty of oddball musicals; the genre itself inspires flights of fancy and a strong suspension of disbelief. Science Fiction in musicals is a good match.
Now excuse me, my cast has a handful of performances of Rocky Horror this month...
Seconded. Dr. Pournelle gathers information and does commentary and periodic essays on what is going on in the United States. His Republic versus Empire essays are very insightful and I've pointed many people to them. He is also an excellent example of the classic conservative as opposed to the neo-con religious right that now holds office.
They weren't mixed up - the book and movie were written at the same time and they discovered relatively late that Saturn was too difficult to "film" (it would have been impressive with the rings and all the shadow interplay).
2010 (movie and book), as well as 2061 and 3001 all reconned Lucifer as Jupiter, meaning it was always Jupiter that the original mission travelled to. It made the core plots of 2010 and 2061 much more plausable anyway (pun *very* intended).
The dying cinema experience is killing movies like 2001 anyway. It was shot in a tremendously wide format that only a handful of remaining screens in the country (USA) can display. Most of the copies of the full version are located at the last theaters that can show it. Luckily these are the same theaters with real projectionists who tweak the film far better than Regal's automatic projectors can.
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No, I won't repeat after you, because I don't believe it. There is certainly a limit to free speech, and I believe it starts when child porn and death threats start. Which I have seen happen since long before the web was around. And yes, I have sent complaints to ISPs, law enforcement and, when I could find it, I even called their house and complained to the people they lived with.
In addition, I am comfortable (although I have not yet done so) to complain to an ISP when a user has been banned and attempts to log in again under a new account. That is, quite clearly, computer trespassing. It is a case of being told "get off *my* system", and somebody repeatedly getting back on.
Why? There are dozens of different "Cinderellas", and there were a whole bunch of movies titled "Titanic" that came out at about the same time (I saw the one with Tim Curry, and didn't see the one with Leonardo DiCaprio). There are a couple movies titled "Shock Treatment"... plenty of movies have the same title.
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Nope - I should make that, however "Of all the people whose browser habits I know, all of them use something other than IE". OSX is popular here on the west coast, with Safari accounting for quite a few.
Out of curiosity, I'm now going to ask my cast what they use when we meet for rehearsals. That's a good range of skilled to non-skilled users, ages and backgrounds.
I was replying to the comment about switching people you know. I replied that I don't know anybody who uses IE.
Sure, lots of people use IE. Lots of people speak Chinese. Lots of people don't have a phone. I don't know any. Thus, if someone said "Let everybody know about this great thing called a phone", it wouldn't apply to me; everybody I know has one.
It's not some sort of great announcement, it's simply a shrug of a comment. You're right... Most people just Don't Care(TM), and I'm one of them. I'm happy with KDE on SUSE, and I've been happy with various *nix since the 80s. Never had much reason to switch.
I honestly don't think I known any IE users anymore other than a person who runs a website and uses it intentionally to view the site in the "most common configuration". It'll be a bit longer before they can switch over.
Parents, check. Friends, check. Heck, even my neighbors use Firefox.
Hunh. It'll be interesting to watch the browser numbers. Most of the people I know are pretty internet savvy or know someone who is savvy. The rest (like my SO and roommate) run various *nix or OSX.
I wouldn't do the pink balloon deal. You are bound to antagonize the midget cop
S'okay - I've slowly been endearing myself to the powers that be in this town. Note also that I'm not a student but a "reputable looking" adult. That helps quite a bit when performing surreal acts of art.
You mean the building everybody refers to as the "Deathstar". We were talking about holding a Paranoia LARP there.
And the "The Prisoner" references are really creepy when you consider how pervasive they are around town. We had a late night diner discussion where we seriously tried to figure out how to put a device in a big pink balloon to control the direction it bounced so we could run it through campus (which is car-free) and the surrounding fields.
How are you going to get rid of "them"? The level of people who make statements like this are career federal employees, the kind who have worked under many different administrations.
And they aren't involved in great conspiracies. They can't even hide simple slip ups and sexual escapades that destroy their careers.
I saw part of it. The names and "factual" information about the characters are there, but that's it. It was modernized and I think was supposed to be a farce. It wound up simply bad.
I'm a tremendous fan of pulp era Science Fiction, back when a stout young Virginian could wish himself to Mars. Probably my favorite stories that would translate well to modern visual media are the Doc Savage stories.
The real thing were written before physics was a respected scientific profession, and chemists and electricians were the cutting edge of technology. The World's Fair and the technological marvel of the Golden Gate Bridge are the settings for the Man of Bronze, a paragon of physical perfection raised by five scientists and flanked by his four comrades in arms, plus their pet monkey, pig and occasionally aided by Doc's sister.
They are slices of a different age, a different outlook. The world was as full of sinister forces as the headlines of today, but the steadfast belief that honorable and well trained (and euro-caucasian) men could triumph over evil was held as a truism. Airplanes were new, the world had just become global, but war had yet to span the whole planet.
Great books.
I have a strong feeling that this movie is based more on the modern steampunk and Sons of Ether (a la White Wolf's Mage) genre. A modern retake on an era, just like RenFaires have little to do with the actual Middle Ages.
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To the grandparent: Note that he's spelled 'people' with the same error: 'peopel'.
I do teh occasionally as well. My one amusing typo is the fact that I can't spell rock anymore. I direct a Rocky Horror cast and have a Rocky Horror website so my fingers automatically postpend a 'y' to rock. (Did just then, even though I was thinking about it). I also tend to merely touch the 'y' in they, resulting in the.
Thank goodness for 'spell check as you type' in Konqueror.
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"Descend" if you mean "attend the board meeting in a different city in Colorado". A board meeting that had been scheduled for months before Columbine. Just how far away would have been appropriate? Yahoo Maps shows Denver and Columbine as about 200 miles apart from each other, five hours by car.
Nope, because it is a set of chord changes that Zappa used often but are seldom seen otherwise, and the court has already ruled that chord progressions are not subject to copyright. I mentioned it to bring up that point, but the post was starting to ramble, so I cut it.
It's also more of a musical reference, rather than part of the song. Similar to a song in which I have the lyric "Until you answered yes and no / about the damn shampoo", which is a clear reference to Mamet's _Sexual Perversity in Chicago_, which is under copyright but not used in an infringing way.
Which is what all of this boils down to - when is it called infringing and when is it subject to use without permission? The courts have ruled that a recording of a performed work is always protected, no matter how small or modified the portion taken is. That's fine. It is added to the set of lines drawn with "melodies are protected, chord progressions are not, lyrics are protected, satire and parody versions are allowed".
Slashdot Mirror
Clearly an "Are you Hot or Not" reference.
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If I use the phrase "you are obsfucating the issue", I'm not making a Vampire the Masquerade reference.
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And I get 1800 a day. That's because I am the public contact for several companies with some of my email addresses dating back over 10 years. In conjunction with theater groups and businesses, my email appears in press releases, on fliers, ancient usenet posts, and otherwise all over the place.
Individuals using their email account to talk to friends don't have as much a problem as people who use their email address publically for business and publicity.
My phone number and address are also published. I don't, however, get 1,800 unsolicited calls every day and my junk physical mail is quite reasonable.
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Palm software uses double size animated gifs. I've always thought that was handy.
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echo ::0 ads.osdn.com>>/etc/hosts
Yours: 40 strokes
Mine: 34 strokes (counting final enter)
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printf "%s %s %s\n" $( echo '0.0.0.0 ads.osdn.com' | cat | rev | nl | head -5 | sed 's/Eris/Bob/g' | awk '{ print $2 " " $3 }' | rev | nl ) |cut -c3- >> /etc/hosts
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There have been plenty of oddball musicals; the genre itself inspires flights of fancy and a strong suspension of disbelief. Science Fiction in musicals is a good match.
Now excuse me, my cast has a handful of performances of Rocky Horror this month...
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2010 (movie and book), as well as 2061 and 3001 all reconned Lucifer as Jupiter, meaning it was always Jupiter that the original mission travelled to. It made the core plots of 2010 and 2061 much more plausable anyway (pun *very* intended).
The dying cinema experience is killing movies like 2001 anyway. It was shot in a tremendously wide format that only a handful of remaining screens in the country (USA) can display. Most of the copies of the full version are located at the last theaters that can show it. Luckily these are the same theaters with real projectionists who tweak the film far better than Regal's automatic projectors can.
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Evan "My SO has the dying art of flipping from one projector to another between reels while staying in sync"
In addition, I am comfortable (although I have not yet done so) to complain to an ISP when a user has been banned and attempts to log in again under a new account. That is, quite clearly, computer trespassing. It is a case of being told "get off *my* system", and somebody repeatedly getting back on.
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Out of curiosity, I'm now going to ask my cast what they use when we meet for rehearsals. That's a good range of skilled to non-skilled users, ages and backgrounds.
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Evan
I was replying to the comment about switching people you know. I replied that I don't know anybody who uses IE.
Sure, lots of people use IE. Lots of people speak Chinese. Lots of people don't have a phone. I don't know any. Thus, if someone said "Let everybody know about this great thing called a phone", it wouldn't apply to me; everybody I know has one.
It's not some sort of great announcement, it's simply a shrug of a comment. You're right... Most people just Don't Care(TM), and I'm one of them. I'm happy with KDE on SUSE, and I've been happy with various *nix since the 80s. Never had much reason to switch.
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Parents, check. Friends, check. Heck, even my neighbors use Firefox.
Hunh. It'll be interesting to watch the browser numbers. Most of the people I know are pretty internet savvy or know someone who is savvy. The rest (like my SO and roommate) run various *nix or OSX.
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Evan "Konqueror for me, personally"
S'okay - I've slowly been endearing myself to the powers that be in this town. Note also that I'm not a student but a "reputable looking" adult. That helps quite a bit when performing surreal acts of art.
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And the "The Prisoner" references are really creepy when you consider how pervasive they are around town. We had a late night diner discussion where we seriously tried to figure out how to put a device in a big pink balloon to control the direction it bounced so we could run it through campus (which is car-free) and the surrounding fields.
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Evan "I am not a number!!! Well, maybe 19442."
And they aren't involved in great conspiracies. They can't even hide simple slip ups and sexual escapades that destroy their careers.
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The real thing were written before physics was a respected scientific profession, and chemists and electricians were the cutting edge of technology. The World's Fair and the technological marvel of the Golden Gate Bridge are the settings for the Man of Bronze, a paragon of physical perfection raised by five scientists and flanked by his four comrades in arms, plus their pet monkey, pig and occasionally aided by Doc's sister.
They are slices of a different age, a different outlook. The world was as full of sinister forces as the headlines of today, but the steadfast belief that honorable and well trained (and euro-caucasian) men could triumph over evil was held as a truism. Airplanes were new, the world had just become global, but war had yet to span the whole planet.
Great books.
I have a strong feeling that this movie is based more on the modern steampunk and Sons of Ether (a la White Wolf's Mage) genre. A modern retake on an era, just like RenFaires have little to do with the actual Middle Ages.
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Evan "Not for the Politically Correct sensitive"
I do teh occasionally as well. My one amusing typo is the fact that I can't spell rock anymore. I direct a Rocky Horror cast and have a Rocky Horror website so my fingers automatically postpend a 'y' to rock. (Did just then, even though I was thinking about it). I also tend to merely touch the 'y' in they, resulting in the.
Thank goodness for 'spell check as you type' in Konqueror.
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Evan "No more preview for me! I am now asured of the corect spalling"
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It's also more of a musical reference, rather than part of the song. Similar to a song in which I have the lyric "Until you answered yes and no / about the damn shampoo", which is a clear reference to Mamet's _Sexual Perversity in Chicago_, which is under copyright but not used in an infringing way.
Which is what all of this boils down to - when is it called infringing and when is it subject to use without permission? The courts have ruled that a recording of a performed work is always protected, no matter how small or modified the portion taken is. That's fine. It is added to the set of lines drawn with "melodies are protected, chord progressions are not, lyrics are protected, satire and parody versions are allowed".
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