> Elastigirl, who appears in this movie, was also the name of a superheroine (but with a hyphen: Elasti-Girl) in the DC Comics published Doom Patrol, an old comic from the 1960s.
Oh, great. Now Disney is going to have to sue DC for stealing the character.
Ancient news, and contrary to the unending hype no one has ever rigorously established that none of the kids had any prior exposure to sign language. The argument actually boils down to "we don't know of any prior exposure for any of the kids involved".
> I think that's the point. Nader takes votes away from the Democratic candidate, so Democrats want him to be removed because it gives more votes to Kerry.
Unless of course they just stay home in disgust. It's hard to imagine a Naderite voting Democratic after the Democrats forced their man off the ballot.
> Some of us are pushing for this, particularly those who've studied game theory.
I'm not an expert on this, but it's my understanding that if you list the six or seven properties that everyone agrees a voting system should have, then there's a theorem that proves no voting system can satisfy all those properties together.
> But just like the obvious motives of the democrats, I also point out the motives of Jeb Bush and his appointed staff who are all suddenly eagar advocates for getting the Reform Party on the ballot in Florida.
I think it's despicable for the Democrats to try to keep Nader off the ballot in various states. And though I wouldn't call the Republicans' attempts to get him on the ballot 'despicable', it's clearly a case of gaming the system, and a symptom that something is wrong with that system.
> Bugtraq is almost always ahead of microsoft where it comes to vulnerabilities in their software. Why in the world would I pay Microsoft to tell me what might be wrong tomorrow when bugtraq will tell me what's wrong today? Does anyone have an experience where MS came out with vulnerabilities first?
Maybe their Premium customers get to hear the excuses first.
> Which part of Firefly is sci-fi? It seems all that lousy Stargate etc stuff is making sci-fi fans desperate enough to accept anything...
It must be tough making it through life unable to enjoy anything but "real" SF.
While we're on that topic... ISTM that many (but not all) SF fans have a really anal[-]retentive approach to their hobby, i.e. a fixation on definitions, categorization, and list making. Look at the subject headers in an SF newsgroup sometime... "Is this SF?", "10 stories about one-eyed lesbian space pirates", etc. It's funny, in a sad sort of way.
> I know someone working inside a fairly well-known news site, and I commented to him about the large number of utterly unbelievable "In Romania..." stories, such as man marries cow, or man believes he is the reincarnation of Dracula
Dracula Jr. asks you to kindly speak more respectfully of his new wife.
Slashdot Mirror
> I'm curious now - given the materials necessary, how many slashdotters could construct a working nuclear weapon?
Easy - break the uranium up into small chunks, and search the Web for instructions on how to build a slingshot.
> Elastigirl, who appears in this movie, was also the name of a superheroine (but with a hyphen: Elasti-Girl) in the DC Comics published Doom Patrol, an old comic from the 1960s.
Oh, great. Now Disney is going to have to sue DC for stealing the character.
> I must go to Nicaragua and study this so I can become a neurolingquistic hacker and control all of you with just a few gestures... Muahahahah!
I for one welcome our new Nicaragua-going language-studying neurolinguistic-hacking all-controlling few-gesturing Muahahahahing overlord!
(What was that you did with your hand just before I said that?)
Ancient news, and contrary to the unending hype no one has ever rigorously established that none of the kids had any prior exposure to sign language. The argument actually boils down to "we don't know of any prior exposure for any of the kids involved".
> I think that's the point. Nader takes votes away from the Democratic candidate, so Democrats want him to be removed because it gives more votes to Kerry.
Unless of course they just stay home in disgust. It's hard to imagine a Naderite voting Democratic after the Democrats forced their man off the ballot.
> Vote for the man you want for the job. PERIOD.
No, vote for whatever is best for the country. Sometimes that involves a difficult trade-off between short term best and long term best.
> Some of us are pushing for this, particularly those who've studied game theory.
I'm not an expert on this, but it's my understanding that if you list the six or seven properties that everyone agrees a voting system should have, then there's a theorem that proves no voting system can satisfy all those properties together.
> But just like the obvious motives of the democrats, I also point out the motives of Jeb Bush and his appointed staff who are all suddenly eagar advocates for getting the Reform Party on the ballot in Florida.
I think it's despicable for the Democrats to try to keep Nader off the ballot in various states. And though I wouldn't call the Republicans' attempts to get him on the ballot 'despicable', it's clearly a case of gaming the system, and a symptom that something is wrong with that system.
...will it find all your stolen SCO code?
> Bugtraq is almost always ahead of microsoft where it comes to vulnerabilities in their software. Why in the world would I pay Microsoft to tell me what might be wrong tomorrow when bugtraq will tell me what's wrong today? Does anyone have an experience where MS came out with vulnerabilities first?
Maybe their Premium customers get to hear the excuses first.
> Doesn't this get posted here about every 2 months?
Yes, but that's only once per 120 Simpson's broadcasts.
[start] --> [attackjudges]
[attackjudges] --> [checkrankings]
[checkrankings] --> [idle] , if rank is "1st"
[checkrankings] --> [attackjudges] , otherwise
[idle] --> [checkrankings]
> Say, what was that URL for the lesbian space pirates again?
I suppose this will have to do.
> I wonder what his influences were originally for Firefly?
Supposedly the Jesse James legend, plus presumably every western and space opera written or filmed since then.
Supposedly also it harks back to an original pitch of Star Trek to the studio as "a wagon-train in space".
> Which part of Firefly is sci-fi? It seems all that lousy Stargate etc stuff is making sci-fi fans desperate enough to accept anything...
It must be tough making it through life unable to enjoy anything but "real" SF.
While we're on that topic... ISTM that many (but not all) SF fans have a really anal[-]retentive approach to their hobby, i.e. a fixation on definitions, categorization, and list making. Look at the subject headers in an SF newsgroup sometime... "Is this SF?", "10 stories about one-eyed lesbian space pirates", etc. It's funny, in a sad sort of way.
> Uh...durrr... what's secret about your soon to be slashdotted photos?
OK, make that "soon to be secret" photos.
> I know someone working inside a fairly well-known news site, and I commented to him about the large number of utterly unbelievable "In Romania..." stories, such as man marries cow, or man believes he is the reincarnation of Dracula
Dracula Jr. asks you to kindly speak more respectfully of his new wife.
My dictionary say that's Rumanian for "first post".
> That's about two Canadian Armed Forces' worth of troops
Don't underestimate them -- some of those guys are tough enough to wear skirts.
> Damn, we must look stupid to gov't officials.
After all, we elect them.
> all of our troups are in Iraq.
Yeah, but can anyone account for where James Bond was on Thursday?
> Are we gonna have to wait until he strikes oil?
I hear that South Korea has been sneaking barrels of oil across the border, hoping to provoke Bush into attacking the North.
However, the reported 2+ mile diameter of the cloud is troubling. Surely radiation detectors will sort it out within a day or two.
> On the 15 disc Ultimate Super Directors Cut Special Collectors Edition Trilogy Box Set with 3 weeks of previously unseen footage?
You won't get that until after the prequels and sequels are done.
...but my parents bought me an elephant.