The only good CSI: Miami I've seen so far. The one where the papparazi tries to take a picture of Brad Pitt giving his boyfriend an ass massage on the lawn, and accidentally gets the muzzle flash of Tom Cruise shooting someone through a window in the background. They take the developed picture, not even the negative, to the photo guy, and he zooms in and it's blurry, so they convert it to "digital" which has "better quality" than "analog" so they can zoom in and see that it really is Tom Cruise doing the shooting and not his stunt double.
I'll bet that's not really bad technical skills though, I'm pretty sure it's just conscious disinformation so people will buy new "digital" HD-DVD versions of all their movies once Viacom starts selling them. That's actually what I usually assume these days. If they make it look like an iPAQ can wirelessly hack into a closed circuit TV system, it's probably just because HP paid for product placement that would make it look cool. Keeps you from having to deal with the last slivers of truth in advertizing.
Well, I guess the Matrix uses your head for some things that are related to you, Neo's brain picks which creepy Victorian evening gown thing he wears, just say as soon as he grabs Trinity, he can concentrate a little and get her categorized as a piece of clothing, and then he can turn off inertia for awhile or whatever.
9/11 wasn't really terrorism, either. At least not how it's conventionally thought of. Al Quaeda has about as much in common with Hezbolla or something as the US Army does.
None of these people really felt harmed by us, even in their own heads. The motivation is more along the lines of a script kiddie. The US is the target because it's the greatest challenge. The logic of the attacks isn't to cause damage, death, or even really fear. It's more the elegence of the plan itself that's the deciding factor. Hence the embassies exploding simultaneously and trying to film your exploding tugboats. There's no reason to do that, other than that it's cool.
That's pretty much Ramzi Yousef's fault. He's tough to understand, but he's the guy behind pretty much everything big Al Quaeda's ever done and/or tried. The first WTC bombing, the dozen simultaneous exploding airliners crashing into the CIA building at midnight on New Years, and then sticking those two together, 9/11. This is why Osama looked so much like just a fundraiser up until recently. You have trained engineers coming up with crazy shit like that, and then you also have tens of thousands of 6th-grade-educated gun-nuts from the Arab equivailent of Michigan running around doing obstacle courses and then training random bunches of people in what are essentially US military tactics. They end up meshing pretty damn well, but it's not intuitive.
This is why Al Quaeda gets so much attention. They're just very, very good at blowing shit up and killing people, and they have no ideology. It's "the base", the vision is that they teach anybody who wants to know how to cause as much damage as is humanly possible. The Anarchist's Cookbook transformed into a university with grant money and facilities and everything.
Because that's there (and it just moved in with the Pashtuns now, invading Afghanistan did about shit) it's doubly important not to piss anybody off. It's ok to kill Luke's dad as long as you're the Empire, but once fucking Obi-Wan is hanging around in the caves in western Pakistan handing out free lightsabres and midichlorians to every dumbass that wanders in, you better make damn sure not to give anybody a reason to head down there.
"What the fuck you do with my coke?" "Congratulations, you've won..." "No, no, fuck that, I paid for 12 cokes and I got 11 cokes and this talking plastic thing." "Ummm...car..." "Bitch, I'll cut you!"
Indeed! Women in science, especially with the drive to seek out... oh, wait, this is Slashdot. You're talking about the "a lifelong fan of Star Trek" part, aren't you?
If you make a filter that blocks everything with the word "gay" in it, it's can't really be an accident when a gay rights site gets blocked. Maybe it was an accident that they added gay to the list? Maybe they were all "hey, is this blacklist, like, a list of words the Chinese will be allowed to look at?" and then the other guy was like "whoa, I don't know" and then the third guy was like "probably, I guess" and then when they found out 365gay.com got blocked they were all "damn, it was an accident, man."
And vice-versa. For you over there on your quaint, backwards little islands, you can already get PBS's Frontline free off their site in 5-minute Real or Windows Media chunks. "Dot Con" and "The Merchants of Cool" are good, somewhat nationality-neutral choices. And fine, if you must know, there's also "American Porn".
Why, yes, legally, Comcast is entirely allowed to punish you without proving you've done something wrong. Legally, I can also urinate in your corn flakes every time you invite me over, but that doesn't make it nice.
Actually, it's my property. I gave it to them decades ago because getting TV to rural areas got everybody good political points. Unfortunately, state monopolies tend to have this brillant ability to delude themselves into thinking they arose on their own merits, and that it's morally fine to abuse the people who gave them, for free, literally trillions of dollars in property.
I had a problem with my AOL account once. It'd been canceled for a few months when I noticed they were still billing my credit card. I called them up and they basically told me to go fsss myself. I tried to email Steve Case, but he walks like a wraith in the mist among the living, and cannot be contacted by those without the second sight. So I moved to Russia and changed my name to Vladimir. That didn't fix the problem immediately, but the money I get threatening liquor store owners in St. Petersberg for Time-Warner pays for the $20 on my Visa every month.
Fucker! "Al Gore invented the internet" wasn't even funny when it was current, and now it's supposed to be funny when you do it with some kind of dumbass nostalgia for 2000? Jesus Christ. Duh duh duh Chester A. Arthur invented the fucking Cotton Gin, motherfuckers. Woodrow Wilson invented IRC, Barry Goldwater wrote fucking Slash, FDR built the first integrated circuit, and Al Smith invented the goddamn motherfucking Pope, ass-rammers. Try one of those sometime, they're cool and FUCKING "RAD" NOW DAMNIT, 'CAUSE I SAID SO, BITCH.
Something that most of the articles about this place have pointed out, but/. predictably failed to, is that this is largely designed for political purposes. The goal is to get lobbyists and senators to show up at this place, since they haven't the slightest idea what the hell these dnas are that everybody keeps talking about.
It's not really aimed at the average joe, it's aimed at the guy that gets presentations on whether or not to fund some kind of genetic disease research project, or whatever. All the exibits are geared towards the sort of things beaurocrats have to deal with these days, but don't really understand. The exhibits rotate, but they all have a goal in mind. The first three are, respectively, to keep congress from going all knee-jerk on genetic engineering/promote the FBI DNA database, to get politicians to quit pretending global warming is imaginary, and to show off cool shit like dark matter so the NSF can get better funding next year.
What part of "UN with teeth" did you miss there? The UN would come after you, because in Einstien's world, the UN would have troops.
The Einstienian UN would take your dues, buy an army with them, so that you could reduce your army proportionally, so long as you had no plans to attack anybody else.
Maybe you should read the UN charter, too. Everybody went out after WWII and decided to create a forum to talk about things. That's it. If you think that's a joke, then Einstien came up with a great non-joke plan for you.
Doesn't this just provide paedos with a free kiddie tracking system?
No, but it provides a good incentive for parents to set the kids loose and hang out at the food stand until it's time to go, at which point they just use their phone to track the little bastards down.
Better plan: Instead of a wristband, make it a suppository, that way along with location, you get a "Being fucked up the ass: Y/N" too.
That's pretty good, really. A few early powered airplanes did without yaw control to cut down on the complexity. It indicates a pretty good understanding of what you want to do with an airplane, for the 1400s anyway. You'd sort of expect somebody trying to get through this from more-or-less scratch to go with just pitch and yaw.
I mean, your first idea would be that if you want to go up, have something that steers up and down, and if you want to go right, have something that steers right and left, and just leave it at that, because where else do you want to go besides up, down, left and right? Coming up with roll at all seems pretty good to me.
Although he certaintly encoded his work on things other than weapons, mostly after he got old, his defense contractor work is most of what's encoded. Leonardo didn't give a shit about intellectual property, he had patrons. He didn't have to worry about the artist down the block stealing his animatronic kight design and taking over his contract with Wal-Mart. He got paid even when he didn't produce anything, which is actually what happened most of the time, and why he changed patrons more often than he changed his underwear.
He encoded the tanks and the ballistas and everything in case the wrong guy wanted to build them. He encoded other things for his own reasons, but he never encoded anything because he was afraid that Italian noblemen would start paying for the bragging rights of having the guy who ripped off Da Vinci stay in the guest house.
Your little island is not very tall. You don't need all that much more water to raise your groundwater level, which keeps the ground from absorbing rainwater, which causes flooding. You're a wet place already, I'm surprised you're not underwater more often.
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The only good CSI: Miami I've seen so far. The one where the papparazi tries to take a picture of Brad Pitt giving his boyfriend an ass massage on the lawn, and accidentally gets the muzzle flash of Tom Cruise shooting someone through a window in the background. They take the developed picture, not even the negative, to the photo guy, and he zooms in and it's blurry, so they convert it to "digital" which has "better quality" than "analog" so they can zoom in and see that it really is Tom Cruise doing the shooting and not his stunt double.
I'll bet that's not really bad technical skills though, I'm pretty sure it's just conscious disinformation so people will buy new "digital" HD-DVD versions of all their movies once Viacom starts selling them. That's actually what I usually assume these days. If they make it look like an iPAQ can wirelessly hack into a closed circuit TV system, it's probably just because HP paid for product placement that would make it look cool. Keeps you from having to deal with the last slivers of truth in advertizing.
Well, I guess the Matrix uses your head for some things that are related to you, Neo's brain picks which creepy Victorian evening gown thing he wears, just say as soon as he grabs Trinity, he can concentrate a little and get her categorized as a piece of clothing, and then he can turn off inertia for awhile or whatever.
Well, 6 or 7 artists wouldn't. The rest would probably be making more.
It did until Ralph Nader proved the whole line of Transformers blew up if you kicked them in the ass too hard. That meddling kid.
9/11 wasn't really terrorism, either. At least not how it's conventionally thought of. Al Quaeda has about as much in common with Hezbolla or something as the US Army does.
None of these people really felt harmed by us, even in their own heads. The motivation is more along the lines of a script kiddie. The US is the target because it's the greatest challenge. The logic of the attacks isn't to cause damage, death, or even really fear. It's more the elegence of the plan itself that's the deciding factor. Hence the embassies exploding simultaneously and trying to film your exploding tugboats. There's no reason to do that, other than that it's cool.
That's pretty much Ramzi Yousef's fault. He's tough to understand, but he's the guy behind pretty much everything big Al Quaeda's ever done and/or tried. The first WTC bombing, the dozen simultaneous exploding airliners crashing into the CIA building at midnight on New Years, and then sticking those two together, 9/11. This is why Osama looked so much like just a fundraiser up until recently. You have trained engineers coming up with crazy shit like that, and then you also have tens of thousands of 6th-grade-educated gun-nuts from the Arab equivailent of Michigan running around doing obstacle courses and then training random bunches of people in what are essentially US military tactics. They end up meshing pretty damn well, but it's not intuitive.
This is why Al Quaeda gets so much attention. They're just very, very good at blowing shit up and killing people, and they have no ideology. It's "the base", the vision is that they teach anybody who wants to know how to cause as much damage as is humanly possible. The Anarchist's Cookbook transformed into a university with grant money and facilities and everything.
Because that's there (and it just moved in with the Pashtuns now, invading Afghanistan did about shit) it's doubly important not to piss anybody off. It's ok to kill Luke's dad as long as you're the Empire, but once fucking Obi-Wan is hanging around in the caves in western Pakistan handing out free lightsabres and midichlorians to every dumbass that wanders in, you better make damn sure not to give anybody a reason to head down there.
What would you say if McVeigh made a similar request that was ignored by officials prior to blowing up the federal building?
I suppose asking about the UT basement is a good way to misdirect law enforcement if you're planning to blow up a federal building in Oklahoma.
innocent until proven guilty
And a suspect until proven innocent.
"What the fuck you do with my coke?"
"Congratulations, you've won..."
"No, no, fuck that, I paid for 12 cokes and I got 11 cokes and this talking plastic thing."
"Ummm...car..."
"Bitch, I'll cut you!"
Indeed! Women in science, especially with the drive to seek out... oh, wait, this is Slashdot. You're talking about the "a lifelong fan of Star Trek" part, aren't you?
Get made fun of by people on /. for the fact that you can't feel your clit anymore?
If you make a filter that blocks everything with the word "gay" in it, it's can't really be an accident when a gay rights site gets blocked. Maybe it was an accident that they added gay to the list? Maybe they were all "hey, is this blacklist, like, a list of words the Chinese will be allowed to look at?" and then the other guy was like "whoa, I don't know" and then the third guy was like "probably, I guess" and then when they found out 365gay.com got blocked they were all "damn, it was an accident, man."
And vice-versa. For you over there on your quaint, backwards little islands, you can already get PBS's Frontline free off their site in 5-minute Real or Windows Media chunks. "Dot Con" and "The Merchants of Cool" are good, somewhat nationality-neutral choices. And fine, if you must know, there's also "American Porn".
Why, yes, legally, Comcast is entirely allowed to punish you without proving you've done something wrong. Legally, I can also urinate in your corn flakes every time you invite me over, but that doesn't make it nice.
Actually, it's my property. I gave it to them decades ago because getting TV to rural areas got everybody good political points. Unfortunately, state monopolies tend to have this brillant ability to delude themselves into thinking they arose on their own merits, and that it's morally fine to abuse the people who gave them, for free, literally trillions of dollars in property.
I had a problem with my AOL account once. It'd been canceled for a few months when I noticed they were still billing my credit card. I called them up and they basically told me to go fsss myself. I tried to email Steve Case, but he walks like a wraith in the mist among the living, and cannot be contacted by those without the second sight. So I moved to Russia and changed my name to Vladimir. That didn't fix the problem immediately, but the money I get threatening liquor store owners in St. Petersberg for Time-Warner pays for the $20 on my Visa every month.
Fucker! "Al Gore invented the internet" wasn't even funny when it was current, and now it's supposed to be funny when you do it with some kind of dumbass nostalgia for 2000? Jesus Christ. Duh duh duh Chester A. Arthur invented the fucking Cotton Gin, motherfuckers. Woodrow Wilson invented IRC, Barry Goldwater wrote fucking Slash, FDR built the first integrated circuit, and Al Smith invented the goddamn motherfucking Pope, ass-rammers. Try one of those sometime, they're cool and FUCKING "RAD" NOW DAMNIT, 'CAUSE I SAID SO, BITCH.
Something that most of the articles about this place have pointed out, but /. predictably failed to, is that this is largely designed for political purposes. The goal is to get lobbyists and senators to show up at this place, since they haven't the slightest idea what the hell these dnas are that everybody keeps talking about.
"This is not an artifact-based museum," Peter Schultz, the museum's exhibits and public programs director, told The Scientist. "It's focused on how science can better inform decision making."
It's not really aimed at the average joe, it's aimed at the guy that gets presentations on whether or not to fund some kind of genetic disease research project, or whatever. All the exibits are geared towards the sort of things beaurocrats have to deal with these days, but don't really understand. The exhibits rotate, but they all have a goal in mind. The first three are, respectively, to keep congress from going all knee-jerk on genetic engineering/promote the FBI DNA database, to get politicians to quit pretending global warming is imaginary, and to show off cool shit like dark matter so the NSF can get better funding next year.
400lbs is a ton
Damn you metric sytem!
What part of "UN with teeth" did you miss there? The UN would come after you, because in Einstien's world, the UN would have troops.
The Einstienian UN would take your dues, buy an army with them, so that you could reduce your army proportionally, so long as you had no plans to attack anybody else.
Maybe you should read the UN charter, too. Everybody went out after WWII and decided to create a forum to talk about things. That's it. If you think that's a joke, then Einstien came up with a great non-joke plan for you.
Doesn't this just provide paedos with a free kiddie tracking system?
No, but it provides a good incentive for parents to set the kids loose and hang out at the food stand until it's time to go, at which point they just use their phone to track the little bastards down.
Better plan: Instead of a wristband, make it a suppository, that way along with location, you get a "Being fucked up the ass: Y/N" too.
I think there probably is, and I think you spell it "giant-ass springs held in place by nothing but Rennaisance-era carpentry."
"Ok, guys, just keep pulling it back, yeah, keep going, keep going, keep..."
*FWOING*
"Oh, Jesus, he's got an arm off!"
That can't be good for the university's insurace rates.
That's pretty good, really. A few early powered airplanes did without yaw control to cut down on the complexity. It indicates a pretty good understanding of what you want to do with an airplane, for the 1400s anyway. You'd sort of expect somebody trying to get through this from more-or-less scratch to go with just pitch and yaw.
I mean, your first idea would be that if you want to go up, have something that steers up and down, and if you want to go right, have something that steers right and left, and just leave it at that, because where else do you want to go besides up, down, left and right? Coming up with roll at all seems pretty good to me.
Although he certaintly encoded his work on things other than weapons, mostly after he got old, his defense contractor work is most of what's encoded. Leonardo didn't give a shit about intellectual property, he had patrons. He didn't have to worry about the artist down the block stealing his animatronic kight design and taking over his contract with Wal-Mart. He got paid even when he didn't produce anything, which is actually what happened most of the time, and why he changed patrons more often than he changed his underwear.
He encoded the tanks and the ballistas and everything in case the wrong guy wanted to build them. He encoded other things for his own reasons, but he never encoded anything because he was afraid that Italian noblemen would start paying for the bragging rights of having the guy who ripped off Da Vinci stay in the guest house.
Your little island is not very tall. You don't need all that much more water to raise your groundwater level, which keeps the ground from absorbing rainwater, which causes flooding. You're a wet place already, I'm surprised you're not underwater more often.
If we ended up in your neighborhood, you would.
Repent now, for when the waters come, the south Jersey hillbillies shall inherit the Earth!