Firing muscles artificially would probably be at least as weird as robotic arms. You have that artificial link disrupting everything, so you won't have anywhere near the responsiveness you'd get with your real arm. Plus, you have to worry about hurting yourself. If you can zap your foot into moving without being able to feel how badly it's being crushed under the sofa you just set down on top of it, I don't think you've come out ahead. I have a feeling it'll be harder to handle sensation artificially than motion.
And George W. Bush is an improvement? Ok, so Dicky makes us look a little incompetent since he failed in his attempt to sieze control of the country through electoral shenanigans, but his middle name is a Simpsons reference. George's is a Walker: Texas Ranger reference. Christ, Milhouse makes a better fake cowboy-ninja than fucking Chuck Norris. What kind of self-respecting fake cowboy-ninja wears fucking yellow? God.
Ogg make electronic death ray with power of alternating current! Ogg create industrial paridise and end warfare by bringing world closer together! Ogg hate fucking Edison!
"DEDEDEDEDEDEsshhhhhhBEEEEEEEEoooochhhhhhhh..." " Uh..." "NENENENENENENENENEEEEEE..." "Fuck, somebody get a modem in here, he's speaking Techno again."
Hmm. Well, ultimately the Matrix is a facist fantasy. The philospophy stuff is just taking the role of mysticism for the Nazis and the Romans for Musselini. Other than that, you're working on straight empowerment of the dissafected and rationalization of violence against a particular group based on the idea of a vast conspiracy. Not to mention the whole pseudo-sexual leather trenchcoat thing.
That's honestly why I liked the Matrix. Reloaded too. You have your core characters, who are flaming facists, and then you have the tangential people who mock the whole thing. Like the Oracle. Deflating the whole testosterone-drenched aura. This is why I'm liking the reviews that say this one's funnier. If they really do one of those Sandman-at-the-serial-killer-con popping the fantasy things in Revolutions, I think I'd like this series better than LOTR.
Hemos moves slowly. Most of the attention this report is getting at this point is in the context of the debate over whether of not they're using the right data. The report was interesting last month, now we've moved on to whether the report was made the fuck up or just based on some minor errors in it's foundation.
And over whether or not we should be jumping on reports by self-proclaimed "amateurs" with the assumption that their methods are as good as established figures in the field. "Amateur debunks experts!" sounds great, and scientists more than anyone love the way great ideas come from patent clerks and everything, but should we be trying to do something to prevent the sort of destructive reporting like/.'s that reports the exciting, but false, debunking and fails to follow up with the innevitable consensus that the original report was correct?
The problem is that the two sides are using completely different sets of data. You can't have a rational debate when you can't even agree on which universe the discussion is taking place in. Even if the differences between the original data set and the one the "re-examiners" used aren't the result of simple MS Excel glitches (and what isn't?) it's still pointless to debate interpretations when you haven't even reached a consensus on the data yet.
So, when's the correction coming out, now that the original authors and others have demostrated that these "biases" were artifacts created by the re-examiners importing a 159-collumn spreadsheet into a 112-collumn Excel document?
ECMA's the slightly less stupid name for Javascript/Jscript.
And SVG doesn't surpass Flash, it's an entirely different concept. SVG is making vector graphics and animation usable as design tools. In the effect it'll have on the functionality of a lot of web pages, especially when viewed on handhelds and phones, it's definately a revolution, but it's not anything like an improvement on Flash.
Technically, you could turn a SVG file into a.swf and I'm sure you'll be able to export to SVG from Flash one of these days, but they're two different ideas. SVG is there for those occasional situations where you have to chose between destroying the continuity of the document with embedded Flash or writing a morass of scripts that will crush the souls of everyone involved.
It's not an animation tool, trying to do Homestar Runner in SVG would kill you and be so inefficient that you'd be better off doing the whole thing with animated GIFs.
I tried, but around the third page my intestines jumped up through my windpipe and throttled my brain into unconsiousness. Best thing I can say about the writing is that she managed to avoid naming all her characters Stiff T. Penisman or Steel E. Libido like that "Left Behind" guy. I read the Cliff's notes though, and I liked the part where they find that Dalek factory in Wisconsin and enslave them to power their little subterranian Abbadon.
Please. Liquor and cigarettes are bad for you. Both will induce impotence and deaden sexual sensitivity. Stick to acid, E, little bit of nitrous and surrealist anime porn. Preserves sensitivity and doesn't ruin your ability to show a lady a good time.
Still wrong, you filthy fucker. Trinity and Neo take eachother over and stare at their asses for another hour. Then Cypher comes back from his coffee break and the series picks up from the last bit that didn't suck, which is coincidentally right about the time he died in the first one. Cypher fights Smith just long enough for you to remember the good bits from the first movie, before somebody goes and shoots Cypher again, leaving us with some more of Neo's ass. Eventually the Matrix gets tired of this shit, anally violates Joel Silver with giant mechanical tenticles and then flushes the entire human race down the toilet. Then it clones a beowulf cluster of lesbian Natlie Portmans to replace them and then reveals that this whole thing was just a scam to get that fuckhead Silver to pay for the Wachowski's new fake celebrity porn site, natlietrix.com. And Joel thought that they were making some huge battle scene. That dumb fucking slut. Then the Brothers come on, call the audience a bunch of gullible sheep-fuckers, ha ha, and then tell you to go buy some Matrixade, Matrix Dew, Super Matrix Kart for the Gamecube, the 300 volume The Matrix: The Graphic Novel, the Matrix Productivity Suite '04, the Natlietrix Lesbianquest MMORPG, some Matrix latex-based interior paint, the Matrix Dolby Surround Sound System, the special edition Matrix Grand Cherokee, NatlietrixTM harcore bondage sex gear, and the Matrix: Revolutions soundtrack featuring Creed and Kylie Minogue.
The Matrix: Sexual Healing In theaters Nov. 4. Everything that has a beginning ends up with a close-up of Ted's ass. Neo's ass. Fuck it, same fucking thing. Somebody kick Warner Brothers' ass before they let this bastard fuck up Hellblazer too, Jesus!
I think you mean that having someone pose dificult questions to you during a decision-making process leads to that decision being better thought-out and wiser. That's fine, but "more difficult" is not the same as "easier".
I guess Mr. Gaiman may have been being politically correct, depending on your definition of that particular meaningless, reality-independent quip, but from what he said, I think his decision was less based on some freakish stance that "certain ideas should never be entertained" and more on a completely reasonable guilt about arrogantly insinuating himself into a debate in which he has no place. I call that being considerate, but to each his own.
Since when have we needed anything other than the Fired From Lucent Three Years Ago and Stuck as the Cashier at Borders Part Time and Can Either Cancel the DSL or Cut Down to Two Bowls of Ramen a Day Diet?
The ACLU took their challenge far enough to narrow down the restrictions to obscenity and kiddie porn. You heard right, pedophilles! According to the US Supreme Court, your porn isn't obscene! Anyway, the library only has to click the porn section, they don't have to block gay rights or the KKK or gun control anymore.
Well, that was what I did the first time I got off a plane at Narita, but only because they're a lot better and telling you where the hell your luggage comes out when they're afraid of you.
The top row is all first ammendment, then you have 4, 7, 8, 10, 15, and 19. It's more of a bill on which several rights are illustrated than an illustrated Bill of Rights.
Honestly, though, I don't see why the ACLU would get involved here. "Civil liberties" usually means there's some kind of civil authority involved. Besides not being particularly civil in any of the other senses of the word, Symantec is definately not a governmental agency. I don't see how anything should be happening here other than a boycott and some bitchy letters from the NRA.
I mean, it's stupid, but it's a "weapons" filtering block. If you click the button to keep people on your computer from reading about weapons, I think it's kinda obvious that the NRA is gonna get blocked. I mean, if you have a "drugs" category I'd expect it to be blocking Smokedot or whatever, and not Partnership for a Drug-free America. If they were blocking the NRA as "violence" or something, that'd get me pissed, but if you have an explicit anti-2nd Ammendment blocking category, what the hell do you expect? If you had a "Shit! Fucking Pepsi Tastes Like Ass!" tab, are you gonna bitch when it doesn't block coke.com too?
There's nothing new here, focusing on this moot NRA point just lets the NRA get off the list quicker while leaving the basic "it's ok to censor whatever you don't like" concept intact. Or even better, Symantec will just start censoring the entire gun control debate. Win or lose, with this argument, you lose.
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Firing muscles artificially would probably be at least as weird as robotic arms. You have that artificial link disrupting everything, so you won't have anywhere near the responsiveness you'd get with your real arm. Plus, you have to worry about hurting yourself. If you can zap your foot into moving without being able to feel how badly it's being crushed under the sofa you just set down on top of it, I don't think you've come out ahead. I have a feeling it'll be harder to handle sensation artificially than motion.
And George W. Bush is an improvement? Ok, so Dicky makes us look a little incompetent since he failed in his attempt to sieze control of the country through electoral shenanigans, but his middle name is a Simpsons reference. George's is a Walker: Texas Ranger reference. Christ, Milhouse makes a better fake cowboy-ninja than fucking Chuck Norris. What kind of self-respecting fake cowboy-ninja wears fucking yellow? God.
Aaaaaannnndzipit.
Raping women with the help of their own robotic limbs? It's a Robert Heinlein Wonderland!
The love child of crappy-ass flying Neo and crappy-ass flying Superman.
Ogg make electronic death ray with power of alternating current! Ogg create industrial paridise and end warfare by bringing world closer together! Ogg hate fucking Edison!
"DEDEDEDEDEDEsshhhhhhBEEEEEEEEoooochhhhhhhh..."
" Uh..."
"NENENENENENENENENEEEEEE..."
"Fuck, somebody get a modem in here, he's speaking Techno again."
Wait, where'd the other Clinton come from?
Hmm. Well, ultimately the Matrix is a facist fantasy. The philospophy stuff is just taking the role of mysticism for the Nazis and the Romans for Musselini. Other than that, you're working on straight empowerment of the dissafected and rationalization of violence against a particular group based on the idea of a vast conspiracy. Not to mention the whole pseudo-sexual leather trenchcoat thing.
That's honestly why I liked the Matrix. Reloaded too. You have your core characters, who are flaming facists, and then you have the tangential people who mock the whole thing. Like the Oracle. Deflating the whole testosterone-drenched aura. This is why I'm liking the reviews that say this one's funnier. If they really do one of those Sandman-at-the-serial-killer-con popping the fantasy things in Revolutions, I think I'd like this series better than LOTR.
And this would be a change... how?
Hemos moves slowly. Most of the attention this report is getting at this point is in the context of the debate over whether of not they're using the right data. The report was interesting last month, now we've moved on to whether the report was made the fuck up or just based on some minor errors in it's foundation.
/.'s that reports the exciting, but false, debunking and fails to follow up with the innevitable consensus that the original report was correct?
And over whether or not we should be jumping on reports by self-proclaimed "amateurs" with the assumption that their methods are as good as established figures in the field. "Amateur debunks experts!" sounds great, and scientists more than anyone love the way great ideas come from patent clerks and everything, but should we be trying to do something to prevent the sort of destructive reporting like
The problem is that the two sides are using completely different sets of data. You can't have a rational debate when you can't even agree on which universe the discussion is taking place in. Even if the differences between the original data set and the one the "re-examiners" used aren't the result of simple MS Excel glitches (and what isn't?) it's still pointless to debate interpretations when you haven't even reached a consensus on the data yet.
So, when's the correction coming out, now that the original authors and others have demostrated that these "biases" were artifacts created by the re-examiners importing a 159-collumn spreadsheet into a 112-collumn Excel document?
ECMA's the slightly less stupid name for Javascript/Jscript.
.swf and I'm sure you'll be able to export to SVG from Flash one of these days, but they're two different ideas. SVG is there for those occasional situations where you have to chose between destroying the continuity of the document with embedded Flash or writing a morass of scripts that will crush the souls of everyone involved.
And SVG doesn't surpass Flash, it's an entirely different concept. SVG is making vector graphics and animation usable as design tools. In the effect it'll have on the functionality of a lot of web pages, especially when viewed on handhelds and phones, it's definately a revolution, but it's not anything like an improvement on Flash.
Technically, you could turn a SVG file into a
It's not an animation tool, trying to do Homestar Runner in SVG would kill you and be so inefficient that you'd be better off doing the whole thing with animated GIFs.
Why don't you read Atlas Shrugged sometime?
I tried, but around the third page my intestines jumped up through my windpipe and throttled my brain into unconsiousness. Best thing I can say about the writing is that she managed to avoid naming all her characters Stiff T. Penisman or Steel E. Libido like that "Left Behind" guy. I read the Cliff's notes though, and I liked the part where they find that Dalek factory in Wisconsin and enslave them to power their little subterranian Abbadon.
Please. Liquor and cigarettes are bad for you. Both will induce impotence and deaden sexual sensitivity. Stick to acid, E, little bit of nitrous and surrealist anime porn. Preserves sensitivity and doesn't ruin your ability to show a lady a good time.
And vegetables, including electromagnetic radiation and Regis Philbin, are matter-energy-information.
Still wrong, you filthy fucker. Trinity and Neo take eachother over and stare at their asses for another hour. Then Cypher comes back from his coffee break and the series picks up from the last bit that didn't suck, which is coincidentally right about the time he died in the first one. Cypher fights Smith just long enough for you to remember the good bits from the first movie, before somebody goes and shoots Cypher again, leaving us with some more of Neo's ass. Eventually the Matrix gets tired of this shit, anally violates Joel Silver with giant mechanical tenticles and then flushes the entire human race down the toilet. Then it clones a beowulf cluster of lesbian Natlie Portmans to replace them and then reveals that this whole thing was just a scam to get that fuckhead Silver to pay for the Wachowski's new fake celebrity porn site, natlietrix.com. And Joel thought that they were making some huge battle scene. That dumb fucking slut. Then the Brothers come on, call the audience a bunch of gullible sheep-fuckers, ha ha, and then tell you to go buy some Matrixade, Matrix Dew, Super Matrix Kart for the Gamecube, the 300 volume The Matrix: The Graphic Novel, the Matrix Productivity Suite '04, the Natlietrix Lesbianquest MMORPG, some Matrix latex-based interior paint, the Matrix Dolby Surround Sound System, the special edition Matrix Grand Cherokee, NatlietrixTM harcore bondage sex gear, and the Matrix: Revolutions soundtrack featuring Creed and Kylie Minogue.
The Matrix: Sexual Healing
In theaters Nov. 4.
Everything that has a beginning ends up with a close-up of Ted's ass. Neo's ass. Fuck it, same fucking thing. Somebody kick Warner Brothers' ass before they let this bastard fuck up Hellblazer too, Jesus!
Indeed. If nanobots make dialogue in the real world that crappy, how will we ever communicate?
Can't expect executives to drink vodka out of an ice-sculpture's penis if you can only pay them $3 million for the night due to asbestos settlements.
Yes, yes it would.
I think you mean that having someone pose dificult questions to you during a decision-making process leads to that decision being better thought-out and wiser. That's fine, but "more difficult" is not the same as "easier".
I guess Mr. Gaiman may have been being politically correct, depending on your definition of that particular meaningless, reality-independent quip, but from what he said, I think his decision was less based on some freakish stance that "certain ideas should never be entertained" and more on a completely reasonable guilt about arrogantly insinuating himself into a debate in which he has no place. I call that being considerate, but to each his own.
Since when have we needed anything other than the Fired From Lucent Three Years Ago and Stuck as the Cashier at Borders Part Time and Can Either Cancel the DSL or Cut Down to Two Bowls of Ramen a Day Diet?
The ACLU took their challenge far enough to narrow down the restrictions to obscenity and kiddie porn. You heard right, pedophilles! According to the US Supreme Court, your porn isn't obscene! Anyway, the library only has to click the porn section, they don't have to block gay rights or the KKK or gun control anymore.
Well, that was what I did the first time I got off a plane at Narita, but only because they're a lot better and telling you where the hell your luggage comes out when they're afraid of you.
The top row is all first ammendment, then you have 4, 7, 8, 10, 15, and 19. It's more of a bill on which several rights are illustrated than an illustrated Bill of Rights.
Honestly, though, I don't see why the ACLU would get involved here. "Civil liberties" usually means there's some kind of civil authority involved. Besides not being particularly civil in any of the other senses of the word, Symantec is definately not a governmental agency. I don't see how anything should be happening here other than a boycott and some bitchy letters from the NRA.
I mean, it's stupid, but it's a "weapons" filtering block. If you click the button to keep people on your computer from reading about weapons, I think it's kinda obvious that the NRA is gonna get blocked. I mean, if you have a "drugs" category I'd expect it to be blocking Smokedot or whatever, and not Partnership for a Drug-free America. If they were blocking the NRA as "violence" or something, that'd get me pissed, but if you have an explicit anti-2nd Ammendment blocking category, what the hell do you expect? If you had a "Shit! Fucking Pepsi Tastes Like Ass!" tab, are you gonna bitch when it doesn't block coke.com too?
There's nothing new here, focusing on this moot NRA point just lets the NRA get off the list quicker while leaving the basic "it's ok to censor whatever you don't like" concept intact. Or even better, Symantec will just start censoring the entire gun control debate. Win or lose, with this argument, you lose.