No, but we can brew butanol. That'll keep the Harleys and hot rods on the road for those of us who will NOT ride carbon fiber electric torque Filipino cars which do max 35mph and require the rider to lie down in what amounts to a luge sled.
Shut it, that really did happen. It was AMAZING to see these people. It was like life revolved around coffee in the morning, lunch and the mid morning and mid afternoon lunches. No wonder we never got products finished when we asked for em.
And the French are models of industry when they're on the job?
I got news for ya. I was sent to France to deal w their engineers.
A typical day - 9:15 they swan in and kiss each other. Turn on the email and send porn back and forth. Off to the coffee machine for cigarettes coffee and talking about ze match ze yesterday. Back to work maybe by 10:15. Work til 11:30 - go to lunch til 1:30 followed by more coffee machine socialising. Back to work at 2. Break at 3:15, back at work at 3:45, leaving time 4:55.
I had to PLEAD with them to start working as I was only gonna be there two weeks.
RE: "Eliminate waste does not mean throw away all documentation,"
Cobblers!
I remember distinctly reading on some Agile XP whatever site that CRC cards (the documentation is the code and unit tests!) are used long enough to get the devs on board with what to do AND THEN THEY ARE DISCARDED.
Stuff's real good if you're doing your comp sci 101 homework but in the real world you need a process.
Of course the 70s produced crap movies. But the 90s and 00s movies that are crap are not crap because they were low budget or otherwise offbeat movies (e.g. made by the Ed Woods of the day) but because they were highly financed, slick studio movies that missed their mark.
And even the vast majority of the crap movies of the 70s and 80s had some degree of redeeming value - look at a Blacula, which is fun - or Revenge of the Nerds, which is cult.
Nowadays a crap movie is likely to be a Battlefield Earth or a War of the Worlds - overblown egos taking no risks but fundamentally making shit.
In the 1970s movies took risks. Girls were possessed (I mean the Exorcist, get your minds out of the gutter), taxi drivers shot pimps through the head, the Godfather made an offer you couldn't refuse.
Nowadays the best the studios can offer is either to try and show how much money they spent on computer effects, or to retread EXACTLY the same tread as before (I want a GUARANTEED hit - so do Basic Instinct, but call it something else and change up the faces and names) or to mine the culture for something that they feel will guarantee a hit (e.g. Dukes of Hazzard).
There are people out there with novel ideas and creative voices, but the theatres would rather NOT take some risks and have a mega hit and two modest flops - they want three movies that make OK money that they can try and HYPE into hits.
Same as music - "what category can we put this in?" - can we have another Kanye West please. For Christ's sake, nothing that doesn't sound like everything else we've ever done.
The first thing the studios need to do is diversify rather than amalgamate. They then need to go back to finding interesting new stories, and hiring new and inventive people to tell them. However, the chances of that happening are about the same as the chances of Rush Limbaugh admitting he's wrong.
Know something about pointers and addresses and we'll talk - posting to comp.java.help saying "how do I get package X to talk to package Y" is NOT programming.
This might be the quantum leap in human nutrition that causes people to break all world records. Imagine eating... yourself. Take a muscle culture sample and grow enough "meat" that you can literally eat YOURSELF three meals a day.
I saw Trekkies, and his genuine humanity (the bit about saving the depressed fan) was awesome. Saying, after being idolised by millions and making some serious bank, that that was one of the highlights of his life reminded me why Canadian people just rock.
And, you gotta give him credit for being machine gunned on the beaches in WWII and though hit six times living to be 85 - finally hanging it up even though he had (at the time of his death) old age, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes AND lung fibrosis to deal with.
Just turn up dat hoopty G-trigga joint and shake da windowze of all da cars around y'all aaa-ight?
You don't need no fancy equipment and nobody around you needs it neither. Just some bling 22 inch rims yo, a big ole bass can in the back, a power amp rated in gigawattz and da latest remix of "doan make me smack you, ho" an' you can be "roadcastin'" down the road at 3am.
A 38 year old Pakistani impregnates a 14 year old girl?
He lives with his parents. He should be in the custody of the police. That is, of course, if Danila doesn't want to come in here and defend this sort of thing...
What was that thing that went around some time ago - the unemployed guy who wakes up and puts his (Made in China) kettle on, puts on his shirt (made in Phillippines) gets into his car (Made in Japan) and wonders why he can't get a job....
RE: The difference is that Miyazaki's films are considered great films for children and the whole family.
By the "wanna sniff little girl panties" Japanese.
RE: They are usually highly acclaimed
By geek loser white guys who are into animated kiddie porn
RE: and rated G in the US, meaning that the majority of people do no consider panty shots of little girls (at least in animation) a horrible abomination. You are in the minority.
Or, which is more likely - that the rating system is screwed up. Used to be G-rated films didn't contain scatological humor, fart jokes, etc. In fact, here's a shocker - the Tom Green film "Freddy Got Fingered" was rated R even though in the film he masturbates a horse, which is supposed to make that film unviewable.
RE: First, I'd say that the good of his films overweights one mistake.
So the deliberate drugging rape and sodomy of a little girl is a "mistake"?
RE: We are talking about 12-15 kids, who already have sex with each other, having sex with an adult.
And for starters, I'm saying the 12-15yr olds shouldn't be having sex - not that that makes it right for you to go in and exploit that and them for your own selfish pleasure. You wiggled out of that one. Just because someone wants to do something or is doing something doesn't make it right. According to your argument it wasn't wrong to give little 9 year old Drew Barrymore drugs cause she wanted them and she was already doing them.
RE: Who are you to decide? Children have sex, it's legal
Exemptions and exceptions in the law are made for age-appropriate behaviour. That does not mean that it is OK nor should those laws be expanded to let YOU in.
RE: and it's accepted by the society (except by the same wackos who oppose gay marriage too). So
I think you'll find most people think 12 is too young to be fooling around. The wackos want their kids locked up til marraige. The normal people expect some kind of peer experimentation. Sickos like you want anyone to have a fair crack at em.
RE: it's not a big deal (you don't get to decide what is and what isn't a big deal - society does).
Well, mate - that's what the law says now - and I didn't write the laws. Society did. You're the one trying to change em for your own selfish purposes.
RE: Logical fallacy again. I was talking about how there is no significant difference for the kid to sleep with another 15 year old or with a 25 year old.
Yes there absolutely is. No question. Heck, there are serious emotional and psychological differences between the 15 year old and the 18 year old, never mind the 15 year old and the 25 year old.
RE: tries to ban controversial research such as Rind's study.
This would be the "objective" group of researchers that included a kiddy diddler in their midst? Rind's study has been debunked. One of its major "findings" was asserted with no corroborating data, the notion of "consent" was mishandled - that study has been debunked on its own failings not hysteria.
RE: So any researcher demonstrating that sex with children is not as horrible as anyone believes is going to have almost as much respect as Polansky.
That's cause noone can do it. They can try and lie to suit their own purposes, as Rind did.
RE: If the child is not forced, but is allowed to do what he/she is comfortable with, there is usually no trauma. This is reality, this is a fact, no matter how much you may dislike it.
There are certain things you don't get. There are well known repercussions of childhood sex with adults whether "trauma" is involved a lot. Kids learn, and learn deep, that sex is important, very very very important - that it will attract people to you and keep them with you. They've found a very significant correlation between childhood interludes of this sort and very dysfunctional behaviours like drug use and problems with adult relationships. Look at Michael Jackson, whose entire adult life is FUCKED because he h
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RE: The city of Sapporo of Sapporo
So good, they named it twice?
No, but we can brew butanol. That'll keep the Harleys and hot rods on the road for those of us who will NOT ride carbon fiber electric torque Filipino cars which do max 35mph and require the rider to lie down in what amounts to a luge sled.
SCREW THE EPA
Screw the flying car. I want a Knucklehead.... in a barn in good condition for $500..
Consider that MST3K couldn't make that movie watchable.
Ed Wood's oeuvres are at least watchable in some respects. Manos is just plain unwatchable.
Shut it, that really did happen. It was AMAZING to see these people. It was like life revolved around coffee in the morning, lunch and the mid morning and mid afternoon lunches. No wonder we never got products finished when we asked for em.
I did forget to mention this was NOT at HP
And the French are models of industry when they're on the job?
I got news for ya. I was sent to France to deal w their engineers.
A typical day - 9:15 they swan in and kiss each other. Turn on the email and send porn back and forth. Off to the coffee machine for cigarettes coffee and talking about ze match ze yesterday. Back to work maybe by 10:15. Work til 11:30 - go to lunch til 1:30 followed by more coffee machine socialising. Back to work at 2. Break at 3:15, back at work at 3:45, leaving time 4:55.
I had to PLEAD with them to start working as I was only gonna be there two weeks.
RE: "Eliminate waste does not mean throw away all documentation,"
Cobblers!
I remember distinctly reading on some Agile XP whatever site that CRC cards (the documentation is the code and unit tests!) are used long enough to get the devs on board with what to do AND THEN THEY ARE DISCARDED.
Stuff's real good if you're doing your comp sci 101 homework but in the real world you need a process.
Why not just go for the whole geostationary satellite and be done with it?
Yeah, when the winds hit 145mph they could fly away REAL quick.
Of course, retrieving them back from Ottawa's airspace might be tricky, what with international border disputes over softwood lumber and all.
Of course the 70s produced crap movies. But the 90s and 00s movies that are crap are not crap because they were low budget or otherwise offbeat movies (e.g. made by the Ed Woods of the day) but because they were highly financed, slick studio movies that missed their mark.
And even the vast majority of the crap movies of the 70s and 80s had some degree of redeeming value - look at a Blacula, which is fun - or Revenge of the Nerds, which is cult.
Nowadays a crap movie is likely to be a Battlefield Earth or a War of the Worlds - overblown egos taking no risks but fundamentally making shit.
RE: I've sat in theaters with black women who just would not shut up... holy crap, its a stereotype but its unfortunately true.
The drunken, 40-toting gangstas are worse. At least the women won't shoot out your rear window as you're leaving the theatre.
In the 1970s movies took risks. Girls were possessed (I mean the Exorcist, get your minds out of the gutter), taxi drivers shot pimps through the head, the Godfather made an offer you couldn't refuse.
Nowadays the best the studios can offer is either to try and show how much money they spent on computer effects, or to retread EXACTLY the same tread as before (I want a GUARANTEED hit - so do Basic Instinct, but call it something else and change up the faces and names) or to mine the culture for something that they feel will guarantee a hit (e.g. Dukes of Hazzard).
There are people out there with novel ideas and creative voices, but the theatres would rather NOT take some risks and have a mega hit and two modest flops - they want three movies that make OK money that they can try and HYPE into hits.
Same as music - "what category can we put this in?" - can we have another Kanye West please. For Christ's sake, nothing that doesn't sound like everything else we've ever done.
The first thing the studios need to do is diversify rather than amalgamate. They then need to go back to finding interesting new stories, and hiring new and inventive people to tell them. However, the chances of that happening are about the same as the chances of Rush Limbaugh admitting he's wrong.
The dude said a PROGRAMMER, not a J2EE scripter.
Know something about pointers and addresses and we'll talk - posting to comp.java.help saying "how do I get package X to talk to package Y" is NOT programming.
This might be the quantum leap in human nutrition that causes people to break all world records. Imagine eating... yourself. Take a muscle culture sample and grow enough "meat" that you can literally eat YOURSELF three meals a day.
Are you sure it isn't "Mandarin" he's learning?
And, uh, what makes you think they'll hire him?
They're not as "enlightened" and "politically correct" as us. They'd sooner hire their brother/sister/friend/countryman than him.
No dude, it's pest control.
I saw Trekkies, and his genuine humanity (the bit about saving the depressed fan) was awesome. Saying, after being idolised by millions and making some serious bank, that that was one of the highlights of his life reminded me why Canadian people just rock.
And, you gotta give him credit for being machine gunned on the beaches in WWII and though hit six times living to be 85 - finally hanging it up even though he had (at the time of his death) old age, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes AND lung fibrosis to deal with.
They don't make people like that anymore.
I forsee an office pool.....
So - it's obvious.
Go back to 70s pipes that are about twenty feet long.
I wouldn't mind a set of upswept fishtails that reach almost to the troposphere.
Two tips:
1) I'm so so so scared of your anonymous coward Internet Warrior self.
2) Don't miss. You will regret it if you do.
I drive a 70s Harley with one and a quarter inch unbaffled drags. I can set off car alarms by accelerating.
Just turn up dat hoopty G-trigga joint and shake da windowze of all da cars around y'all aaa-ight?
You don't need no fancy equipment and nobody around you needs it neither. Just some bling 22 inch rims yo, a big ole bass can in the back, a power amp rated in gigawattz and da latest remix of "doan make me smack you, ho" an' you can be "roadcastin'" down the road at 3am.
A 38 year old Pakistani impregnates a 14 year old girl?
He lives with his parents. He should be in the custody of the police. That is, of course, if Danila doesn't want to come in here and defend this sort of thing...
What was that thing that went around some time ago - the unemployed guy who wakes up and puts his (Made in China) kettle on, puts on his shirt (made in Phillippines) gets into his car (Made in Japan) and wonders why he can't get a job....
RE: The difference is that Miyazaki's films are considered great films for children and the whole family.
By the "wanna sniff little girl panties" Japanese.
RE: They are usually highly acclaimed
By geek loser white guys who are into animated kiddie porn
RE: and rated G in the US, meaning that the majority of people do no consider panty shots of little girls (at least in animation) a horrible abomination. You are in the minority.
Or, which is more likely - that the rating system is screwed up. Used to be G-rated films didn't contain scatological humor, fart jokes, etc. In fact, here's a shocker - the Tom Green film "Freddy Got Fingered" was rated R even though in the film he masturbates a horse, which is supposed to make that film unviewable.
RE: First, I'd say that the good of his films overweights one mistake.
So the deliberate drugging rape and sodomy of a little girl is a "mistake"?
RE: We are talking about 12-15 kids, who already have sex with each other, having sex with an adult.
And for starters, I'm saying the 12-15yr olds shouldn't be having sex - not that that makes it right for you to go in and exploit that and them for your own selfish pleasure. You wiggled out of that one. Just because someone wants to do something or is doing something doesn't make it right. According to your argument it wasn't wrong to give little 9 year old Drew Barrymore drugs cause she wanted them and she was already doing them.
RE: Who are you to decide? Children have sex, it's legal
Exemptions and exceptions in the law are made for age-appropriate behaviour. That does not mean that it is OK nor should those laws be expanded to let YOU in.
RE: and it's accepted by the society (except by the same wackos who oppose gay marriage too). So
I think you'll find most people think 12 is too young to be fooling around. The wackos want their kids locked up til marraige. The normal people expect some kind of peer experimentation. Sickos like you want anyone to have a fair crack at em.
RE: it's not a big deal (you don't get to decide what is and what isn't a big deal - society does).
Well, mate - that's what the law says now - and I didn't write the laws. Society did. You're the one trying to change em for your own selfish purposes.
RE: Logical fallacy again. I was talking about how there is no significant difference for the kid to sleep with another 15 year old or with a 25 year old.
Yes there absolutely is. No question. Heck, there are serious emotional and psychological differences between the 15 year old and the 18 year old, never mind the 15 year old and the 25 year old.
RE: tries to ban controversial research such as Rind's study.
This would be the "objective" group of researchers that included a kiddy diddler in their midst? Rind's study has been debunked. One of its major "findings" was asserted with no corroborating data, the notion of "consent" was mishandled - that study has been debunked on its own failings not hysteria.
RE: So any researcher demonstrating that sex with children is not as horrible as anyone believes is
going to have almost as much respect as Polansky.
That's cause noone can do it. They can try and lie to suit their own purposes, as Rind did.
RE: If the child is not forced, but is allowed to do what he/she is comfortable with, there is usually no trauma. This is reality, this is a fact, no matter how much you may dislike it.
There are certain things you don't get. There are well known repercussions of childhood sex with adults whether "trauma" is involved a lot. Kids learn, and learn deep, that sex is important, very very very important - that it will attract people to you and keep them with you. They've found a very significant correlation between childhood interludes of this sort and very dysfunctional behaviours like drug use and problems with adult relationships. Look at Michael Jackson, whose entire adult life is FUCKED because he h