As for "deathplane"...I'm not even sure I should touch that one. I'll just say that deathplanes like it are the very reason east coasters aren't speaking German and west coasters Japanese. As a libertarian, I believe it's your right to avoid compulsory service in the military, but you should at least have the decency to respect those who fought and died for your freedom.
Are you trolling, or have you had your head in the sand for the past year? The Osprey is referred to as a "deathplane" because it kills our own troops, not the other guys'. If that line had been meant as an antiwar screed, they'd have picked a bomber to castigate, or something.
Just go look up radio-carbon dating failures then you might understand, but don't pester me for details.
I have, and they don't say what you think you say. First off, your emphasis on radio-carbon dating in the context of age-of-the-earth discussions demonstrates your ignorance on the subject. Carbon-14 has a relatively short half-life and is only used for very recent events. Rocks are dated with much longer-lived radioisotopes.
And even within radiocarbon dating... well, show me a wildly misdated organism that is not a shellfish or something that eats shellfish, and then I'll take an interest.
Why are there no women, minorities or aliens of rank in the Empire? Do these people not have merits? (Yes, I know about GA Thrawn and Mara Jade but we have limited our discussion to the film-based realm)
In fact, IIRC, the point was made several times in the books that Thrawn would never have gotten nearly as far as he did without his extreme brilliance, which was too great even for the speciesists of the Empire to ignore. Basically, he's a token alien.
You may have captured the URL, but you didn't bother to find out whether it was doing anything wrong, did you? My guess is the "across domains" it was referring to was between msn.com and msn.co.uk.
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This incident was finally enough motivation for me to finally work out how to install mod_throttle. So now the server's back up - it's just going to kick you out if there's too much bandwidth being used at the moment.
http://tharkun.dyndns.org/ temporarily down
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Well, I was wrong. The slashdotting is still going on. So, since I wanted to use my own DSL connection tonight:-), I've temporarily stopped the web server. It'll be back up sometime tomorrow morning, by which time this story will probably have cycled off the front page.
I grabbed the Apache status page just before I shut it down, but I can't paste it into this post, because the lameness filter doesn't like it. It'll be at http://tharkun.dyndns.org/slashdotted-status.txt tomorrow.
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I'd rather not, because my access_log has IP addresses and I don't want to publish them, but I would be willing to try to post statistics from it if you can suggest anything that'd be interesting.:)
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Yes, it's hosted on a DSL connection.
Yes, it's quite thoroughly slashdotted.
No, I don't mind. It'll be cleared up enough by the time I get home.
Yes, I was warned in advance.
Yes, you may mirror the file if any of you successfully managed to get it.
Thank you for visiting my beleaguered box.:)
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The ambulances part is that there are Palestinian terrorists who are in the habit of driving around in vans made up to look like ambulances. Dunno about the rest of it (though I suspect the children are just getting caught in the crossfire).
Side effect? I'd argue that it's a primary effect. Most of the burdens that gasoline-powered motor vehicles put on the commons (air pollution, weight-induced road damage, etc.) are at least roughly proportional to the gallons per mile.
The thing that bothered me perhaps more than the others is the allegiance between Saruman and Sauron. Saruman even uses the Palantir to "talk" to Sauron and do his bidding. Didn't Saruman want the ring for himself in the books?
The two aren't mutually exclusive. Saruman was a traitor both to the White Council and to his new master - even as Saruman did Sauron's bidding, he still sought the Ring for himself. There's not much indication in the movie that Saruman would try to keep the Ring if he ever got it, but maybe that'll be spelled out more in the second movie.
And it is revealed in The Two Towers that Saruman indeed did use the palantir to speak with Sauron. The real flaw in the scene, if we're going to pick nits, is that in the books Gandalf didn't actually fully realize that Saruman even had a palantir until after Pippin peered into it.
For people who don't have encyclopedic memories (which is to say, normal people), multiple passwords are actually less secure than a single password, because ordinary users will either use the same password for everything anyway, use simple easy-to-guess (and easy-to-dictionary-attack) passwords, or write them down.
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Huh? Show me where it says in the Constitution where you have a right to make someone buy your ads.
Are you trolling, or have you had your head in the sand for the past year? The Osprey is referred to as a "deathplane" because it kills our own troops, not the other guys'. If that line had been meant as an antiwar screed, they'd have picked a bomber to castigate, or something.
I have, and they don't say what you think you say. First off, your emphasis on radio-carbon dating in the context of age-of-the-earth discussions demonstrates your ignorance on the subject. Carbon-14 has a relatively short half-life and is only used for very recent events. Rocks are dated with much longer-lived radioisotopes.
And even within radiocarbon dating... well, show me a wildly misdated organism that is not a shellfish or something that eats shellfish, and then I'll take an interest.
In fact, IIRC, the point was made several times in the books that Thrawn would never have gotten nearly as far as he did without his extreme brilliance, which was too great even for the speciesists of the Empire to ignore. Basically, he's a token alien.
You may have captured the URL, but you didn't bother to find out whether it was doing anything wrong, did you? My guess is the "across domains" it was referring to was between msn.com and msn.co.uk.
It's hard to tell for sure, but I think the key phrase is:
"I can change him."
A phrase that has ruined far wiser women (and men) than Padme.
This incident was finally enough motivation for me to finally work out how to install mod_throttle. So now the server's back up - it's just going to kick you out if there's too much bandwidth being used at the moment.
I grabbed the Apache status page just before I shut it down, but I can't paste it into this post, because the lameness filter doesn't like it. It'll be at http://tharkun.dyndns.org/slashdotted-status.txt tomorrow.
I'd rather not, because my access_log has IP addresses and I don't want to publish them, but I would be willing to try to post statistics from it if you can suggest anything that'd be interesting. :)
Thank you for visiting my beleaguered box.
DSL, actually. Thanks for caring, anyway. :)
The ambulances part is that there are Palestinian terrorists who are in the habit of driving around in vans made up to look like ambulances. Dunno about the rest of it (though I suspect the children are just getting caught in the crossfire).
Side effect? I'd argue that it's a primary effect. Most of the burdens that gasoline-powered motor vehicles put on the commons (air pollution, weight-induced road damage, etc.) are at least roughly proportional to the gallons per mile.
Why not? Credit card companies do. Or maybe they figure your parents will bail you out or something.
People like you (and me) write less than 1% of the documents that are written.
Correct. "unsafe" code in C# is more analogous to "native" code in Java.
Okay, that makes more sense, then.
Have you? I've seen the now-famous mail about Trustworthy Computing, but no one's told me to stop writing new code. Well, not yet...
It's both, of course.
About the gift to Sam... I suspect they're going to cut the Scouring of the Shire, in which case none of the gifts to Sam would make sense.
That's actually in the books, you know. It just wasn't played out in an action scene - merely alluded to.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. Saruman was a traitor both to the White Council and to his new master - even as Saruman did Sauron's bidding, he still sought the Ring for himself. There's not much indication in the movie that Saruman would try to keep the Ring if he ever got it, but maybe that'll be spelled out more in the second movie.
And it is revealed in The Two Towers that Saruman indeed did use the palantir to speak with Sauron. The real flaw in the scene, if we're going to pick nits, is that in the books Gandalf didn't actually fully realize that Saruman even had a palantir until after Pippin peered into it.
Well, technically, it's not the minute you create the program, it's the minute you let anyone else use it.
For people who don't have encyclopedic memories (which is to say, normal people), multiple passwords are actually less secure than a single password, because ordinary users will either use the same password for everything anyway, use simple easy-to-guess (and easy-to-dictionary-attack) passwords, or write them down.