The sole purpose of Harry's action then was to sacrifice himself for the good of everyone else. He wasn't engaging in combat at that point, knowing he would fail -- he was offering himself up. The others were defending themselves, or attacking Voldemort (or other Death Eaters).
Plus their blood wasn't in Voldemort's veins at the time, which seems to be a significant factor. Even though Harry "died" from the second Killing Curse to hit him, his mother's protective magic (still circulating in Voldemort's body) gave him the ability to come back -- this time no longer a horcrux and presumably no longer under any more of the original protection.
It seems to me that the climax of the entire series hinged upon three choices that Harry made in this book. They epitomize everything Rowling was trying to convey: that the choices individuals make are ultimately what determines "good"ness or "evil"ness, and they are not concrete extremes that guide actions but rather a result of choices that are made in every aspect of life.
1. He had to decide to face Voldemort willingly, accept that he is going to die, and understand that he is doing this to save his friends. Courage and selflessness are the keys to defeating the emotions that power Riddle: greed, selfishness, and fear.
2. He had to decide, after being struck with the Killing Curse, to return. Death is easy. It is the easiest thing every living organism *will* do -- life (and staying alive) is a constant struggle not to die. When in King's Cross talking to Dumbledore, he had the opportunity not to go back; he had the chance to take the easy route. Again, he had to decide to return to save his friends.
3. When finally facing Riddle, now that both were free of any sort of magic to protect themselves, he had one final choice: To take life to protect his (Avada Kedavra) or to show mercy, compassion, love, even to his gravest enemy. By choosing Expelliramus, even after being explicitly told numerous times NOT to use this particular spell, he truly sets himself apart.
Disliking something simply because it's popular is perhaps worse than liking something simply because it's popular. It is probably popular, at the core, for some sort of valid reason.
I love the "more fun" claim being brought up in any conversation regarding consoles. As near as I can tell, "more fun" really means "more nostalgic" or more concretely "more franchises that I remember liking as a kid" or even more concretely "more franchises that I remember being popular as a kid".
I mean, seriously, who at MIT is paying Slashdot for all these ads? It's like suddenly MIT is the new Google or Apple or Nintendo.
That said, imagine the computational power of a beowulf of MITs! If they cured fear and invented a new spacesuit in one day, imagine all the other crazy stuff they could come up with! Even better, if MIT can run Linux, then... wait, I guess most of MIT does already.
...that I'm getting ripped off in my purchases, mostly by the various middle-men. Even accounting for the cost of a computer, the WOW account, the electricity to power the computer, and the space in which the computer and the farmer sit... it seems like a lot of people are making money for just connecting two people.
This article makes me want to, more than any other solution, reach an open-ended agreement with a single farmer to provide me with full-time farming services in exchange for a much-closer-to-retail rate. Figure a target of eight-hour workdays, flextime (since I don't care when they farm up cloth, leather, ores, gold, signets, etc. for me), for 2-3 times what they're making. I'll even pay for the account. Just a steady stream of all the treadmill shit that is in the way of the actual fun part of the game. They get a closer-to-living-wage, IGE goes out of business, I get pretty purples. Everyone wins.
So... anyone speak cantonese or mandarin? Or failing that, any off-duty farmers (of any nationality) speak english and read slashdot comments?
Oh, I passed the "might" stage years ago. I was a network engineer for an ISP. One of our high-traffic websites was that of a particular NASCAR driver. The weekend that Dale Earnhardt Sr. died, our uplink and that particular webserver got pegged; once we figured out it wasn't a DDOS, we moved their vhost to a separate machine in another (not officially deployed) datacenter with copious bandwidth. Since the PR group in charge of the website was pretty happy it didn't go down (a number of other ones did), they sent us some pit passes for a race. No one in the group was all that interested, so I took them.
Once you've seen a race in person -- especially from seats not in the nosebleed section (which unlike every other sport are actually the most expensive) -- it's hard not to be a fan.
Plus, there's lots of stuff to geek out about in NASCAR. One of the most notable things are the tech-laden carts that the crew chiefs sit atop and use for telemetry. Since they aren't allowed to actually have live data feeds from the cars, they use every other scrap of information available (weather feeds, their own cameras, TV coverage, etc.) to try to gain some advantage.
For those who missed further intricacies of the above joke, (former) NASCAR driver Rusty Wallace (who, along with most other NASCAR teams, is/was headquartered just outside of Charlotte, NC) was fined $5000 for an infraction during a race in 1997. He paid the fine in pennies delivered to the NASCAR officials in an armored truck -- during the next weekend's race, no less, in an attempt to turn it into a PR stunt. (It worked.)
Don't fill out the application form like I did if you're not on a Microsoft machine. You'll just be feeding them lots of personal info, and won't be able to proceed to step 2... plus, there doesn't appear to be any "delete my account info" option. I'll let the legion of other zealots whine about lack of OS X support, my only gripe is that they didn't make it clear up front.
Hahahahaha! See, it's funny because of that once incident years ago where Steve Ballmer got angry and threw a chair! (Not many people remember this, particularly on Slashdot.) Plus, Steve Ballmer works at Microsoft! (Also an easy to forget factoid.) Therefore, you're implying he'd use this technique for dealing with opponents of the company! Aahhahaa, man, the sublety and creativeness in your humor is great! I wish more people on slashdot could come up with witty (and fresh) jokes like this.
She *ALLEGES* that the shop in England is ripping off her work. Who are Internet users to be the judge, jury, and executioner*... particularly ones who are outside of the jurisdictions of the accused and the accuser? If her claims are fabricated, Flickr stands a chance of being liable for libel (spell that five times fast). I'd say it's perfectly in their power to knee-jerk delete this content to cover their own asses.
* Oops, wait, I forgot. This is the Internet, where as soon as there is any hint of oppression (real or imagined), the user base jumps to action without getting the full story.
That was exactly what I thought of when I saw the word "streetlight". And after that I thought, "Man, what more cities need is a shitty proprietary wireless serial link to a low-speed wifi mesh! Then they can charge too much for it and get about four customers!" Those Ricochet guys had a PLAN!
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If there weren't a LUG, I'd have to make real friends to go out drinking with.
The sole purpose of Harry's action then was to sacrifice himself for the good of everyone else. He wasn't engaging in combat at that point, knowing he would fail -- he was offering himself up. The others were defending themselves, or attacking Voldemort (or other Death Eaters).
Plus their blood wasn't in Voldemort's veins at the time, which seems to be a significant factor. Even though Harry "died" from the second Killing Curse to hit him, his mother's protective magic (still circulating in Voldemort's body) gave him the ability to come back -- this time no longer a horcrux and presumably no longer under any more of the original protection.
Prejudice takes many forms. Knowledge is its greatest weakness.
It seems to me that the climax of the entire series hinged upon three choices that Harry made in this book. They epitomize everything Rowling was trying to convey: that the choices individuals make are ultimately what determines "good"ness or "evil"ness, and they are not concrete extremes that guide actions but rather a result of choices that are made in every aspect of life.
1. He had to decide to face Voldemort willingly, accept that he is going to die, and understand that he is doing this to save his friends. Courage and selflessness are the keys to defeating the emotions that power Riddle: greed, selfishness, and fear.
2. He had to decide, after being struck with the Killing Curse, to return. Death is easy. It is the easiest thing every living organism *will* do -- life (and staying alive) is a constant struggle not to die. When in King's Cross talking to Dumbledore, he had the opportunity not to go back; he had the chance to take the easy route. Again, he had to decide to return to save his friends.
3. When finally facing Riddle, now that both were free of any sort of magic to protect themselves, he had one final choice: To take life to protect his (Avada Kedavra) or to show mercy, compassion, love, even to his gravest enemy. By choosing Expelliramus, even after being explicitly told numerous times NOT to use this particular spell, he truly sets himself apart.
Disliking something simply because it's popular is perhaps worse than liking something simply because it's popular. It is probably popular, at the core, for some sort of valid reason.
plz use cvr sheet 4 tps, also need u @ ofc sat
I love the "more fun" claim being brought up in any conversation regarding consoles. As near as I can tell, "more fun" really means "more nostalgic" or more concretely "more franchises that I remember liking as a kid" or even more concretely "more franchises that I remember being popular as a kid".
We are at war with Sony. We have always been at war with Sony. 2+2=5.
Pokemon friend code in a sig is brilliant. I'm totally jumping on that bandwagon.
I mean, seriously, who at MIT is paying Slashdot for all these ads? It's like suddenly MIT is the new Google or Apple or Nintendo.
That said, imagine the computational power of a beowulf of MITs! If they cured fear and invented a new spacesuit in one day, imagine all the other crazy stuff they could come up with! Even better, if MIT can run Linux, then... wait, I guess most of MIT does already.
I must be new here.
Haven't you heard that song by Loverboy, "Mammoth and Elephant DNA Just Won't Splice"?
Even the $3 ones sounded like a deal to me.
Just because you're unhappy with your life, don't take it out on a whole nation.
It's a lot easier to dismiss opinions you don't like by alleging they are being propagated by people who don't analyze them, isn't it?
*boom*
...that I'm getting ripped off in my purchases, mostly by the various middle-men. Even accounting for the cost of a computer, the WOW account, the electricity to power the computer, and the space in which the computer and the farmer sit... it seems like a lot of people are making money for just connecting two people.
This article makes me want to, more than any other solution, reach an open-ended agreement with a single farmer to provide me with full-time farming services in exchange for a much-closer-to-retail rate. Figure a target of eight-hour workdays, flextime (since I don't care when they farm up cloth, leather, ores, gold, signets, etc. for me), for 2-3 times what they're making. I'll even pay for the account. Just a steady stream of all the treadmill shit that is in the way of the actual fun part of the game. They get a closer-to-living-wage, IGE goes out of business, I get pretty purples. Everyone wins.
So... anyone speak cantonese or mandarin? Or failing that, any off-duty farmers (of any nationality) speak english and read slashdot comments?
Agh! Yer mother been tellin' stories about me, then?
Oh, I passed the "might" stage years ago. I was a network engineer for an ISP. One of our high-traffic websites was that of a particular NASCAR driver. The weekend that Dale Earnhardt Sr. died, our uplink and that particular webserver got pegged; once we figured out it wasn't a DDOS, we moved their vhost to a separate machine in another (not officially deployed) datacenter with copious bandwidth. Since the PR group in charge of the website was pretty happy it didn't go down (a number of other ones did), they sent us some pit passes for a race. No one in the group was all that interested, so I took them.
Once you've seen a race in person -- especially from seats not in the nosebleed section (which unlike every other sport are actually the most expensive) -- it's hard not to be a fan.
Plus, there's lots of stuff to geek out about in NASCAR. One of the most notable things are the tech-laden carts that the crew chiefs sit atop and use for telemetry. Since they aren't allowed to actually have live data feeds from the cars, they use every other scrap of information available (weather feeds, their own cameras, TV coverage, etc.) to try to gain some advantage.
For those who missed further intricacies of the above joke, (former) NASCAR driver Rusty Wallace (who, along with most other NASCAR teams, is/was headquartered just outside of Charlotte, NC) was fined $5000 for an infraction during a race in 1997. He paid the fine in pennies delivered to the NASCAR officials in an armored truck -- during the next weekend's race, no less, in an attempt to turn it into a PR stunt. (It worked.)
I guess I got spoiled by WOW.
Don't fill out the application form like I did if you're not on a Microsoft machine. You'll just be feeding them lots of personal info, and won't be able to proceed to step 2... plus, there doesn't appear to be any "delete my account info" option. I'll let the legion of other zealots whine about lack of OS X support, my only gripe is that they didn't make it clear up front.
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Sides.
Hahahahaha! See, it's funny because of that once incident years ago where Steve Ballmer got angry and threw a chair! (Not many people remember this, particularly on Slashdot.) Plus, Steve Ballmer works at Microsoft! (Also an easy to forget factoid.) Therefore, you're implying he'd use this technique for dealing with opponents of the company! Aahhahaa, man, the sublety and creativeness in your humor is great! I wish more people on slashdot could come up with witty (and fresh) jokes like this.
She *ALLEGES* that the shop in England is ripping off her work. Who are Internet users to be the judge, jury, and executioner*... particularly ones who are outside of the jurisdictions of the accused and the accuser? If her claims are fabricated, Flickr stands a chance of being liable for libel (spell that five times fast). I'd say it's perfectly in their power to knee-jerk delete this content to cover their own asses.
* Oops, wait, I forgot. This is the Internet, where as soon as there is any hint of oppression (real or imagined), the user base jumps to action without getting the full story.
That was exactly what I thought of when I saw the word "streetlight". And after that I thought, "Man, what more cities need is a shitty proprietary wireless serial link to a low-speed wifi mesh! Then they can charge too much for it and get about four customers!" Those Ricochet guys had a PLAN!