Answering those questions won't make it any more fun for me.
One of the things I didn't like about I & II, aside from Jar Jar and the overall poor writing, is that I felt as if most of the movie was written for the sole purpose of explaining things in IV, V and VI. It was like every few minutes you find yourself saying "Oh, that's how the force works...", "Oh, that's how Yoda fights..." etc.. (not to bust on Yoda)
We didn't have every answer in the trilogy and they were great movies. (well, IV and V anyway)
Dammit, I'm tired of all the same Star-Wars-related slashdotting jokes that get posted all the time. Mod this jackass down to serve as an example to all those who are planning on posting similiar lame jokes.
Good, I can feel your anger. I am unarmed. Take your weapon. Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
"Beginning tomorrow, more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, will run full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers, in a six-week test that some analysts and online executives say could herald the start of a new era of Internet advertising."
Beginning tomorrow, I will not be visiting more than a dozen sites, including MSN, ESPN,..."
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I'm trying to imagine a scenario where China tries to invade the US, somehow transporting troops over the Pacific Ocean without getting picked off by US forces en masse....
Well, let's see. It took 20 people to wreak havoc in 2001. They (Chinese) currently have about 3 million people here now. I suppose anything is possible.
Envious? It's the middle of January and I'm walking around with a sweater on, and chuckling at CNN reports of you fat-assed AmeriKKKans freezing your balls off at -40 weather.
Ahh... the good life... CNN!
Plus, I'm surrounded by beautiful, slim-waisted asian women on a daily, constant basis.
On a daily, constant basis? Dude, tell your sisters to go out and meet somebody!
Oh, and I've been watching your almighty dollar decline for months. Envious? Bwahahahah!
Yeah, it's really affected life here in the states. The 'ole declining dollar! Now whenever I go to Asia on vacation it costs me an extra $1.38 for a 2 bedroom mud hut.
Not trying to compare him in any sort of way to a murderer... but did you ever notice the neighbors often say the same thing you are saying about a neighbor convicted of murder?
"He was such a good guy. Seemed perfectly normal to me. Always waved 'hi' in the morning."
Not trying to bust on your acquaintance, but since you brought it up... if somebody does something wrong, just because they did 10 "nice" things before that doesn't excuse their action, and doesn't mean you should ignore the "bad" thing when defining their character. I'm sure there are worse hackers out there, but then again... with the exception of one... there always are.
This is a mischaracterization of the facts.
The facts are that the schools take the money from "our" pockets first.
If you take (without my permission) $20 from my pocket, and then I take (without your permission) $10 back, then you would call me the selfish thief?
Before you call somebody a selfish bastard or an idiot, why don't you at least make a half-assed attempt to get the logic straight.
I know it's kind of "new-agey", but there is a lot of discussion about cellular memory where heart transplant recipients have memories of their donors'.
If it's true, then I doubt zapping a few of the right neurons in the brain would really work.
I believe this was covered in a related Slashdot before regarding to this site: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/
Here is a quote from their site:
Columbia Newsblaster is a system to automatically track the day's news. There are no human editors involved -- everything you see on the main page is generated automatically, drawing on the sources listed on the left side of the screen.
Every night, the system crawls a series of Web sites, downloads articles, groups them together into "clusters" about the same topic, and summarizes each cluster. The end result is a Web page that gives you a sense of what the major stories of the day are, so you don't have to visit the pages of dozens of publications.
Newsblaster is an academic project from the Natural Language Processing group at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. It is designed to demonstrate the Group's technologies for multidocument summarization, clustering, and text categorization, among others. It is funded under DARPA TIDES and KDD and has been operational online since September 2001.
Current and future enhancements include international perspectives, multilingual capability, and tracking events across days.
Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by Saddam
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2F news%2F2003%2F12%2F14%2Fwterr14.xml&secureRefresh= true&_requestid=53162
Give me a BREAK people.
Who said it's black and white? Who said mistakes weren't made along the way? Who said it wasn't PERFECT??
I could say the exact same thing to you. So what? It's not black and white.
Being redundent...
There is still a lot that needs to be done.
But, that shouldn't take away from the tremendous victory of the Iraqis and the Americans here.
Some people are perpetually negative. This is a great moment for these people. Relish in it. Stop looking for something to whine about... please!
Congratulations Iraq! Congratulations US coalition!
http://www.nci.nih.gov/
I could list 100s more, but this will get you started on your homework assignment.
Oh, maybe you meant little green soldiers should be shrunk down and injected into our bodies to kill the cancer?
Not sure why I'm replying to this mindless post.
I wouldn't remove blah blah blah if I couldn't gain something from it? I must be pretty selfish! (Either that, or you don't know me at all)... do you know me? Now I'm scared.
Point is... you are so off track you don't have a clue what you're talking about. Bye AC.
And here's where it gets interesting.
The difference is that the Iraqi people did not have the means to do it by themselves. They are (were) terrified of Saddam.
Iraqi people did try to rise up against Saddam. Those people are being dug up as we speak.
Bush has basically taken more than a year of vacation from fighting the people who killed nearly 3000 Americans in order to overthrow Saddam
Oh really, so we haven't been fighting Taliban and Afghani terrorists? My bad.
cost/benefit analysis? Were you doing a cost/benefit analysis when Clinton reduced our intelligence to peanuts? Did you do one when he bombed the aspirin factory?
I'm not saying Bush is perfect. I'm not saying the war is perfect either. But come on - we had a victory over an evil murderer. Put down the slide-rule and celebrate.
The Patriot Act didn't take away any of my freedoms. It took away the freedom of terrorists.
We had similar laws against drug dealers for many years, and we applied those towards terrorists.
You're believing the hype about our freedom being taken away. Believe me, I love freedom. It makes me want to revolt since the Supreme Court eroded our 1st Amendment right on Wednesday. But you've got to keep things in perspective.
Give specifics and we'll talk, but you are just ranting against the administration.
By the way, did you write your congressman about the McCain-Feingold bill eroding your freedom on Wednesday? Did you do anything? Did you support it? I'm guessing you supported it. (could be wrong) Do you get it?
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Answering those questions won't make it any more fun for me.
...", "Oh, that's how Yoda fights ..." etc.. (not to bust on Yoda)
One of the things I didn't like about I & II, aside from Jar Jar and the overall poor writing, is that I felt as if most of the movie was written for the sole purpose of explaining things in IV, V and VI. It was like every few minutes you find yourself saying "Oh, that's how the force works
We didn't have every answer in the trilogy and they were great movies. (well, IV and V anyway)
Dammit, I'm tired of all the same Star-Wars-related slashdotting jokes that get posted all the time. Mod this jackass down to serve as an example to all those who are planning on posting similiar lame jokes.
Good, I can feel your anger. I am unarmed. Take your weapon. Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
"Beginning tomorrow, more than a dozen Web sites, including MSN, ESPN, Lycos and iVillage, will run full-motion video commercials from Pepsi, AT&T, Honda, Vonage and Warner Brothers, in a six-week test that some analysts and online executives say could herald the start of a new era of Internet advertising."
..."
Beginning tomorrow, I will not be visiting more than a dozen sites, including MSN, ESPN,
I'm trying to imagine a scenario where China tries to invade the US, somehow transporting troops over the Pacific Ocean without getting picked off by US forces en masse. ...
Well, let's see. It took 20 people to wreak havoc in 2001. They (Chinese) currently have about 3 million people here now. I suppose anything is possible.
Envious? It's the middle of January and I'm walking around with a sweater on, and chuckling at CNN reports of you fat-assed AmeriKKKans freezing your balls off at -40 weather.
... the good life ... CNN!
Ahh
Plus, I'm surrounded by beautiful, slim-waisted asian women on a daily, constant basis.
On a daily, constant basis? Dude, tell your sisters to go out and meet somebody!
Oh, and I've been watching your almighty dollar decline for months. Envious? Bwahahahah!
Yeah, it's really affected life here in the states. The 'ole declining dollar! Now whenever I go to Asia on vacation it costs me an extra $1.38 for a 2 bedroom mud hut.
mod parent as -1 Envious
Not trying to compare him in any sort of way to a murderer ... but did you ever notice the neighbors often say the same thing you are saying about a neighbor convicted of murder?
... if somebody does something wrong, just because they did 10 "nice" things before that doesn't excuse their action, and doesn't mean you should ignore the "bad" thing when defining their character. I'm sure there are worse hackers out there, but then again ... with the exception of one ... there always are.
"He was such a good guy. Seemed perfectly normal to me. Always waved 'hi' in the morning."
Not trying to bust on your acquaintance, but since you brought it up
Ah, ... forgive me. You're doing a great job at not using facts and logic in your arguments. Keep up the good work!
This is a mischaracterization of the facts.
The facts are that the schools take the money from "our" pockets first.
If you take (without my permission) $20 from my pocket, and then I take (without your permission) $10 back, then you would call me the selfish thief?
Before you call somebody a selfish bastard or an idiot, why don't you at least make a half-assed attempt to get the logic straight.
You're going to have to give more than that.
Try $49.
I'm very glad I don't live in a country where any maniac can own a gun.
... only the law abiding citizens can't. Maniacs can own all the guns they want.
Sure you do
I do equate "new-agey" with "utter bunk".
But twice a day, even a broke clock is right. So, you never know, you know?
I know it's kind of "new-agey", but there is a lot of discussion about cellular memory where heart transplant recipients have memories of their donors'.
If it's true, then I doubt zapping a few of the right neurons in the brain would really work.
Yes, here is the link:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/15/15552
I believe this was covered in a related Slashdot before regarding to this site: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/nlp/newsblaster/
Here is a quote from their site:
Columbia Newsblaster is a system to automatically track the day's news. There are no human editors involved -- everything you see on the main page is generated automatically, drawing on the sources listed on the left side of the screen.
Every night, the system crawls a series of Web sites, downloads articles, groups them together into "clusters" about the same topic, and summarizes each cluster. The end result is a Web page that gives you a sense of what the major stories of the day are, so you don't have to visit the pages of dozens of publications.
Newsblaster is an academic project from the Natural Language Processing group at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. It is designed to demonstrate the Group's technologies for multidocument summarization, clustering, and text categorization, among others. It is funded under DARPA TIDES and KDD and has been operational online since September 2001.
Current and future enhancements include international perspectives, multilingual capability, and tracking events across days.
Were you being sarcastic? .. [BBC prides itself in unbiased reporting]
Should be pretty easy since "popping and locking" breakdance is based on robotic movements.
That would be cool.
Terrorist behind September 11 strike was trained by SaddamF news%2F2003%2F12%2F14%2Fwterr14.xml&secureRefresh= true&_requestid=53162
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2
I'm glad that we can agree on that.
I was reacting to many posts by the way - not just yours.
Give me a BREAK people. ... ... please!
Who said it's black and white? Who said mistakes weren't made along the way? Who said it wasn't PERFECT??
I could say the exact same thing to you. So what? It's not black and white.
Being redundent
There is still a lot that needs to be done. But, that shouldn't take away from the tremendous victory of the Iraqis and the Americans here.
Some people are perpetually negative. This is a great moment for these people. Relish in it. Stop looking for something to whine about
Congratulations Iraq! Congratulations US coalition!
http://www.nci.nih.gov/
I could list 100s more, but this will get you started on your homework assignment.
Oh, maybe you meant little green soldiers should be shrunk down and injected into our bodies to kill the cancer?
Not sure why I'm replying to this mindless post. ... do you know me? Now I'm scared. ... you are so off track you don't have a clue what you're talking about. Bye AC.
I wouldn't remove blah blah blah if I couldn't gain something from it? I must be pretty selfish! (Either that, or you don't know me at all)
Point is
And here's where it gets interesting.
The difference is that the Iraqi people did not have the means to do it by themselves. They are (were) terrified of Saddam.
Iraqi people did try to rise up against Saddam. Those people are being dug up as we speak.
Bush has basically taken more than a year of vacation from fighting the people who killed nearly 3000 Americans in order to overthrow Saddam
Oh really, so we haven't been fighting Taliban and Afghani terrorists? My bad.
cost/benefit analysis? Were you doing a cost/benefit analysis when Clinton reduced our intelligence to peanuts? Did you do one when he bombed the aspirin factory?
I'm not saying Bush is perfect. I'm not saying the war is perfect either. But come on - we had a victory over an evil murderer. Put down the slide-rule and celebrate.
The Patriot Act didn't take away any of my freedoms. It took away the freedom of terrorists. We had similar laws against drug dealers for many years, and we applied those towards terrorists.
You're believing the hype about our freedom being taken away. Believe me, I love freedom. It makes me want to revolt since the Supreme Court eroded our 1st Amendment right on Wednesday. But you've got to keep things in perspective.
Give specifics and we'll talk, but you are just ranting against the administration.
By the way, did you write your congressman about the McCain-Feingold bill eroding your freedom on Wednesday? Did you do anything? Did you support it? I'm guessing you supported it. (could be wrong) Do you get it?