Changing times, changing terms. The term 'newbie' is passing out of usage, even though it has a distinct definition from 'noob' in theory. I've noticed that the latter is not quite such a loaded term as it once was. I'm not surprised that someone can use it with a friendly intent. Can't expect net slang to remain static, when the population using it has changed so much in the last ten/fifteen years.
I used to be good friends with an RIT student. I've heard that they had an incredible DC++ hub. I was given to understand that it pretty much has everything.
Not being a student myself I never had access, but sometimes I'd tell her about some show or piece of music or whatever, and she'd say "Let me just check the hub", and within practically no time she'd be enjoying the exact item I was referring to.
I expect a lot of university dorms have a similar setup. Once it has been established it will be effectively self-sustaining as new students replace the old every so often.
I still use a pair of four-way floorstanding speakers in my 5.1 sound system. I wanted to have only one sound system in the house that served for all purposes, and these provide for high quality stereo music reproduction as well as acting as the front pair for movie and game surround sound.
The difference between these and my previous pair of bookshelf front speakers is immense. Most especially in the upper range.
It's been a fairly constant factor of Magneto's backstory that he grew up in Auschwitz, at least as far as I'm aware. The writers did not neglect to have him agonize at times over how much he had become like the Nazis who killed his family.
He built a machine that could advance evolution too. Made himself some insta-henchmen in the Savage Land, way back in the super-early X-Men comics. I don't remember it from when it was published, mind you... because that was the 1960s I think.
I read about it in a trade paperback collection years later. Also they brought the machine back a couple of times in the 1980s.
Whoever would have thought that modern science would re-create any of Magneto's schemes?
Please note that this gentleman is probably not entirely sincere. He's been running a hoax about "Bob's Game" for years now. It's pretty entertaining stuff, intended as entertainment rather than deception, but it would be foolish to assume that he's got any plans to actually follow through on creating this handheld.
It's the same payment option. When I pay using PayPal, the money is coming from my bank account. The same bank account with which is associated my debit card. The way I see it, that is not two options.
Why would I need this? I can pay for things using my debit card with great ease. I don't see how any other system could beat that, unless it requires no physical token.
Which is one reason I don't really care for those stories. They just make a mess of everything. You notice that none of the doctors in question remembers what happened to his earlier incarnations in those stories?
It is far from a perfect series, but as a general principle they try to suggest that the Doctor can't just do whatever he likes. If he saw someone die, it shouldn't be possible for him to go back and change that. It would make the series boring.
To put it another way, that's how good stories do it. Bad stories break the rules. With a series as long as Doctor Who, there are a lot of both. It is kinda pointless trying to make sense of it all, really.
Generally speaking he really can't do that.
The laws of time prevent a person from being in the same moment twice, or otherwise interfering in events from their own personal timeline. It seems as though these are 'laws' in the sense of 'the laws of physics', rather than in the sense of 'criminal law'. The Doctor has tried to break some of them in the past, but it didn't work. Time corrected itself to erase his interference.
I'm not saying they always stick to the rules they created for themselves, but in theory... the Doctor can only change events within certain limitations.
I'm not surprised, although I am dismayed to see that the operative word here seems to be 'accused'. Not 'proven', or 'demonstrated', or anything like that, no sir.
Even if I accept that copyright infringement is a terrible thing and must be stopped at all costs, this seems to potentially reach far beyond that goal while ignoring the fact that a lot of filesharing already takes place 'off the grid' as far as search engines are concerned.
The Powers That Be will now now be able to shut down websites just by accusing them. I weep for our lost liberty. The internet is in danger of turning into an Orwellian nightmare if TPTB get their way.
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Changing times, changing terms. The term 'newbie' is passing out of usage, even though it has a distinct definition from 'noob' in theory. I've noticed that the latter is not quite such a loaded term as it once was. I'm not surprised that someone can use it with a friendly intent. Can't expect net slang to remain static, when the population using it has changed so much in the last ten/fifteen years.
I used to be good friends with an RIT student. I've heard that they had an incredible DC++ hub. I was given to understand that it pretty much has everything.
Not being a student myself I never had access, but sometimes I'd tell her about some show or piece of music or whatever, and she'd say "Let me just check the hub", and within practically no time she'd be enjoying the exact item I was referring to.
I expect a lot of university dorms have a similar setup. Once it has been established it will be effectively self-sustaining as new students replace the old every so often.
I still use a pair of four-way floorstanding speakers in my 5.1 sound system. I wanted to have only one sound system in the house that served for all purposes, and these provide for high quality stereo music reproduction as well as acting as the front pair for movie and game surround sound. The difference between these and my previous pair of bookshelf front speakers is immense. Most especially in the upper range.
It's been a fairly constant factor of Magneto's backstory that he grew up in Auschwitz, at least as far as I'm aware. The writers did not neglect to have him agonize at times over how much he had become like the Nazis who killed his family.
Hmm. For some reason I have a better memory for the comics I read three decades ago than the film I saw one decade ago.
He built a machine that could advance evolution too. Made himself some insta-henchmen in the Savage Land, way back in the super-early X-Men comics. I don't remember it from when it was published, mind you... because that was the 1960s I think.
I read about it in a trade paperback collection years later. Also they brought the machine back a couple of times in the 1980s.
Whoever would have thought that modern science would re-create any of Magneto's schemes?
Please note that this gentleman is probably not entirely sincere. He's been running a hoax about "Bob's Game" for years now. It's pretty entertaining stuff, intended as entertainment rather than deception, but it would be foolish to assume that he's got any plans to actually follow through on creating this handheld.
It's the same payment option. When I pay using PayPal, the money is coming from my bank account. The same bank account with which is associated my debit card. The way I see it, that is not two options.
Why would I need this? I can pay for things using my debit card with great ease. I don't see how any other system could beat that, unless it requires no physical token.
Which is one reason I don't really care for those stories. They just make a mess of everything. You notice that none of the doctors in question remembers what happened to his earlier incarnations in those stories? It is far from a perfect series, but as a general principle they try to suggest that the Doctor can't just do whatever he likes. If he saw someone die, it shouldn't be possible for him to go back and change that. It would make the series boring. To put it another way, that's how good stories do it. Bad stories break the rules. With a series as long as Doctor Who, there are a lot of both. It is kinda pointless trying to make sense of it all, really.
Generally speaking he really can't do that. The laws of time prevent a person from being in the same moment twice, or otherwise interfering in events from their own personal timeline. It seems as though these are 'laws' in the sense of 'the laws of physics', rather than in the sense of 'criminal law'. The Doctor has tried to break some of them in the past, but it didn't work. Time corrected itself to erase his interference. I'm not saying they always stick to the rules they created for themselves, but in theory... the Doctor can only change events within certain limitations.
"In fire."
I'm not surprised, although I am dismayed to see that the operative word here seems to be 'accused'. Not 'proven', or 'demonstrated', or anything like that, no sir. Even if I accept that copyright infringement is a terrible thing and must be stopped at all costs, this seems to potentially reach far beyond that goal while ignoring the fact that a lot of filesharing already takes place 'off the grid' as far as search engines are concerned. The Powers That Be will now now be able to shut down websites just by accusing them. I weep for our lost liberty. The internet is in danger of turning into an Orwellian nightmare if TPTB get their way.