Hmm, has an inflated sense of the importance of "artists", uses prolific profanity, and thinks The Tommyknockers is on par with The Godfather and Dark Side of the Moon...
Holy Shit, you're Steven King! Hey guys, Steven King reads Slashdot! Wil Wheaton isn't the most famous slashbot anymore!
how long until there are comercials in the middle of movies?
It's already happening in some places. In Turkey, they normally have an intermission during movies, after which they show more commercials before getting back to the feature. I thought it was a neat feature when some friends and I saw LotR:TTT*, but it really sucked during Catch Me If You Can.
*Interesting sidenote: the movies were shown in English with Turkish subtitles. Which worked fine, except for all the scenes in Quenya. I had no idea what anyone was saying until I saw the movie on DVD!
If you make it through all three without disgorging your lunch, you should be thoroughly cured of your movie addiction and can go back to the more common addiction of slashdotters, pr0n.
But, um, aren't most porno movies, well,... movies?
What? Which state uses "ST" as its postal code? And the ZIP, 33067, goes to Pompano Beach, FL. Also, the phone number is a cell phone based in Daytona Beach. So he must be somewhere in FL.
Why do you imply ruling out repeat matches in a season? There are thirty teams in the National Basketball Association, and a season takes over 80 games. There are thirty teams in Major League Baseball, and a season takes over 160 games.
<Flame on!>
Yeah, but basketball and baseball are real sports which require two teams to play each other for more than just one game per week. Those pansies in football only play once per week, what's up with that?
OK, so you've written a synopsis of the book. Can you tell us if it's any good? Does the book cover the areas it does in enough depth? How does it compare to other books in the field?
Just expanding on the table of contents wouldn't've been good enough for your 9th grade English class, why do you think it's good enough for Slashdot? Oh, wait, the editors published it, so I guess it is. Nevermind.
China's government can probably be more accurately called "fascist", not "communist". They have some limited capitalism, they preach a very aggressive nationalism (though for now it's more words than deeds), and they have many socialist trappings. Considering the police state they have in place and all the humans rights violations, it even fits the stereotypical fascism, too.
Note that they're more like the original form of fascism which Musolini started rather than the form more usually associated with National Socialism.
What makes you think this would run at the OS level? It would make a lot more sense to install this on the BIOS, or as someone else pointed out on the video or network card, and snoop traffic going across the internal bus of your computer. No CPU fingerprint that way, and it would be OS agnostic.
On the plus side there are now a lot of extra interesting and challenging jobs available for any unemployed slashdotters and organised crime is one thing that's totally safe from outsourcing!
In Australia, first you get root, then you get the power, then you get the women!
OK, is it just me, or does the word "upcoming" seem to imply enough time to actually plan to watch this? I mean, if it peaks tomorrow that's not much advance notice, now is it?
Though maybe the submitter sent in the article last week, and Taco just didn't get around to publishing it until today. Let's check the original article....
The best meteor shower of 2004 peaks on Dec. 13th
December 10, 2004
Yeah, three days is enough notice to clear a schedule. Thirteen hours ain't. Thanks for nuthin, Commander.
Dude, this totally happened! This guy at work, he has a cousin who goes to school with one of the kids in the story. And he swears it really happened this way!
Ah, the Independent, always good for a laugh. Quoting from that article: "The [Endangered Species Act] has been the main obstacle to the felling of much of the US's remaining endangered rain forest."
Because if there's one thing the US is known for, it's all our jungles.
And people wonder, "Why are environmentalists written off as a bunch of kooks by mainstream America?"
The energy being utilized when you burn coal is really chemical energy being released that was stored up by living plant or animal many years ago.
That assumes coal, and other hydrocarbon forms of fuel, were ever living things. See Abiogenic petroleum origin, and this article about Titan's atmosphere, which has been shown to contain hydrocarbons.
Where does it show the amount of horsepower those vehicles had? Keep in mind that no one WANTS a car with a weak engine.
It's in there. In fact, I tried to post a table that showed the MPG and Hp over the years, but it got too complicated so I gave up (just copying and pasting didn't work). The average Hp has gone from 137 in the 70s, to 118 in the 80s, and back up to 208 by 2004. At the same time, average weight went from 4060 lbs to 3220 lbs to 4066 lbs.
But here's the fun part: 0-60 times have consistently gone down. In the 70s they were 14 seconds, in the 80s 13.1. Today, they average 10 flat. Yes, boys and girls, what used to be considered "racing performance" is what that soccer mom who just cut you off can do when the light turns green. You really do get more bang for your buck, and that more than anything explains why SUVs are popular: they're big, so appear to be safe (crash ratings aside), and really can get up and go when they need to.
For decent, yet cheap, table wines, I only have three words for: Two. Buck. Chuck.
If you live in California, anyway. Since I moved to Texas, that's one of the things for which I pine. Getting to add Shiner to my diet helped some, though.
Also, for the record, I have never tried wine from Poland, but it seems to me they would be able to make some rather interesting whites, if the German Reislings are anything to guess by.
Maybe, but they're not known for it. Europe has some great wines that come from France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Spain. But if you judged the whole country by the wine from one province that wasn't very good, you'd be doing a disservice to those others I just mentioned. Same thing with judging all American beers harshly by the swill that gets passed off as "American beer" overseas.
It may just be that since these areas tend to be very liberal, there is less of a divide between parents and children and hence they can coexist better together.
Actually, it's probably because the other places are more conservative, and expect adults to take care of themselves rather than relying on mommy and daddy for everything. Though I like how you managed to imply that adult liberals are just a bunch of children. Very clever, sir!
The trick to finding good American beer is just ignore the Big Three (Bud, Miller, Coors), and their bastard step-children. Any section of the country is going to have good local brews, you just have to search them out.
California has Steel Head, Anchor Steam, Sierra Nevada, and plenty others. Texas has Shiner and Ziegenbock. Lousiana has Abita. There are dozens more, but those the ones that immediately pop to mind. The point is that people have to remember that the US is a nation as large as all of Europe combined, at least in terms of geography. Saying America has no good beer because only the crap gets exported is like saying Europe has no good wine, when you've only tried ones from Poland.
A short quote: "Since 1975, the fuel economy of the combined car and light truck fleet has moved through several phases: (1) a rapid increase from 1975 to the mid-1980s, (2) a slow increase extending into the late 1980s, (3) a decline from the peak in the late 1980s, and (4) since then a period of relatively constant overall fleet fuel economy. Viewing new cars and trucks separately, the three-year moving average fuel economy for cars has increased 1.0 MPG since 1991, but that for trucks has been relatively constant."
Now, I'm more of a B5 fan than most people and I love the idea of the upcoming telepath war and all, but I don't think two hours of people opening their eyes real wide while giving a stern look to someone and having the other person fall over dead makes good movie watching.
That's because you've never seen the movie Scanners.
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[Using scantilly clad females at an awards show for video games is] in poor, fucking taste because it has nothing to do with video games.
Lara Croft.
Leisure Suit Larry.
GTA:VC (actually, any of the versions, but that one had babes in bikinis on the ads)
Do I need to go on?
I wonder if the voice-over was included in his original contract? Hmmm..... Paid by the word?
I have a hard time imagining that Stalone's agent would let him sign a contract where he's paid by the word. Unless it's $5mil a word.
"Yo, Adrienne!!"
Hmm, has an inflated sense of the importance of "artists", uses prolific profanity, and thinks The Tommyknockers is on par with The Godfather and Dark Side of the Moon...
Holy Shit, you're Steven King! Hey guys, Steven King reads Slashdot! Wil Wheaton isn't the most famous slashbot anymore!
how long until there are comercials in the middle of movies?
It's already happening in some places. In Turkey, they normally have an intermission during movies, after which they show more commercials before getting back to the feature. I thought it was a neat feature when some friends and I saw LotR:TTT*, but it really sucked during Catch Me If You Can.
*Interesting sidenote: the movies were shown in English with Turkish subtitles. Which worked fine, except for all the scenes in Quenya. I had no idea what anyone was saying until I saw the movie on DVD!
If you make it through all three without disgorging your lunch, you should be thoroughly cured of your movie addiction and can go back to the more common addiction of slashdotters, pr0n.
... movies?
But, um, aren't most porno movies, well,
I'm confused.
Coral Springs, ST
What? Which state uses "ST" as its postal code? And the ZIP, 33067, goes to Pompano Beach, FL. Also, the phone number is a cell phone based in Daytona Beach. So he must be somewhere in FL.
Why do you imply ruling out repeat matches in a season? There are thirty teams in the National Basketball Association, and a season takes over 80 games. There are thirty teams in Major League Baseball, and a season takes over 160 games.
<Flame on!>
Yeah, but basketball and baseball are real sports which require two teams to play each other for more than just one game per week. Those pansies in football only play once per week, what's up with that?
OK, so you've written a synopsis of the book. Can you tell us if it's any good? Does the book cover the areas it does in enough depth? How does it compare to other books in the field?
Just expanding on the table of contents wouldn't've been good enough for your 9th grade English class, why do you think it's good enough for Slashdot? Oh, wait, the editors published it, so I guess it is. Nevermind.
China's government can probably be more accurately called "fascist", not "communist". They have some limited capitalism, they preach a very aggressive nationalism (though for now it's more words than deeds), and they have many socialist trappings. Considering the police state they have in place and all the humans rights violations, it even fits the stereotypical fascism, too.
Note that they're more like the original form of fascism which Musolini started rather than the form more usually associated with National Socialism.
I guess the easiest way to make sure you aren't being tapped is to 1) put all your data on a removable disk,
That's a good idea. You should encrypt all your files, too.
2) use IMAP for mail,
That's a horrible idea. Now all of your mail is outside of your control, and the Feds can access it without you ever knowing.
3) Fresh install your OS with all the programs you want
Don't bother, whatever they use probably won't be installed at the OS level. Which also renders moot the rest of your ideas.
Or just reformat your drive and install Linux
What makes you think this would run at the OS level? It would make a lot more sense to install this on the BIOS, or as someone else pointed out on the video or network card, and snoop traffic going across the internal bus of your computer. No CPU fingerprint that way, and it would be OS agnostic.
On the plus side there are now a lot of extra interesting and challenging jobs available for any unemployed slashdotters and organised crime is one thing that's totally safe from outsourcing!
In Australia, first you get root, then you get the power, then you get the women!
OK, is it just me, or does the word "upcoming" seem to imply enough time to actually plan to watch this? I mean, if it peaks tomorrow that's not much advance notice, now is it?
Though maybe the submitter sent in the article last week, and Taco just didn't get around to publishing it until today. Let's check the original article....
The best meteor shower of 2004 peaks on Dec. 13th
December 10, 2004
Yeah, three days is enough notice to clear a schedule. Thirteen hours ain't. Thanks for nuthin, Commander.
Dude, this totally happened! This guy at work, he has a cousin who goes to school with one of the kids in the story. And he swears it really happened this way!
Ah, the Independent, always good for a laugh. Quoting from that article: "The [Endangered Species Act] has been the main obstacle to the felling of much of the US's remaining endangered rain forest."
Because if there's one thing the US is known for, it's all our jungles.
And people wonder, "Why are environmentalists written off as a bunch of kooks by mainstream America?"
The energy being utilized when you burn coal is really chemical energy being released that was stored up by living plant or animal many years ago.
That assumes coal, and other hydrocarbon forms of fuel, were ever living things. See Abiogenic petroleum origin, and this article about Titan's atmosphere, which has been shown to contain hydrocarbons.
"Fossil fuels" probably aren't.
Where does it show the amount of horsepower those vehicles had? Keep in mind that no one WANTS a car with a weak engine.
It's in there. In fact, I tried to post a table that showed the MPG and Hp over the years, but it got too complicated so I gave up (just copying and pasting didn't work). The average Hp has gone from 137 in the 70s, to 118 in the 80s, and back up to 208 by 2004. At the same time, average weight went from 4060 lbs to 3220 lbs to 4066 lbs.
But here's the fun part: 0-60 times have consistently gone down. In the 70s they were 14 seconds, in the 80s 13.1. Today, they average 10 flat. Yes, boys and girls, what used to be considered "racing performance" is what that soccer mom who just cut you off can do when the light turns green. You really do get more bang for your buck, and that more than anything explains why SUVs are popular: they're big, so appear to be safe (crash ratings aside), and really can get up and go when they need to.
For decent, yet cheap, table wines, I only have three words for: Two. Buck. Chuck.
If you live in California, anyway. Since I moved to Texas, that's one of the things for which I pine. Getting to add Shiner to my diet helped some, though.
Also, for the record, I have never tried wine from Poland, but it seems to me they would be able to make some rather interesting whites, if the German Reislings are anything to guess by.
Maybe, but they're not known for it. Europe has some great wines that come from France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and Spain. But if you judged the whole country by the wine from one province that wasn't very good, you'd be doing a disservice to those others I just mentioned. Same thing with judging all American beers harshly by the swill that gets passed off as "American beer" overseas.
It may just be that since these areas tend to be very liberal, there is less of a divide between parents and children and hence they can coexist better together.
Actually, it's probably because the other places are more conservative, and expect adults to take care of themselves rather than relying on mommy and daddy for everything. Though I like how you managed to imply that adult liberals are just a bunch of children. Very clever, sir!
The trick to finding good American beer is just ignore the Big Three (Bud, Miller, Coors), and their bastard step-children. Any section of the country is going to have good local brews, you just have to search them out.
California has Steel Head, Anchor Steam, Sierra Nevada, and plenty others. Texas has Shiner and Ziegenbock. Lousiana has Abita. There are dozens more, but those the ones that immediately pop to mind. The point is that people have to remember that the US is a nation as large as all of Europe combined, at least in terms of geography. Saying America has no good beer because only the crap gets exported is like saying Europe has no good wine, when you've only tried ones from Poland.
Dodge Hemmy Ram
It's Hemi, H-E-M-I, as in Hemispherical Engine Block. Only one "M" and no "Y".
Though you left out the best use for the Hemi.
And don't forget, it's deer season in most of the US right now. Who in Japan would ever get the chance to bag an 8 pointer in their home country?
Professional Wrestling is more popular in Japan than it is in the United States.
Gee, I wonder why that is....
(look it up: vehicle fuel economy peaked in the 80's, and has been going down ever since)
This sounds like bullshit, but I'll follow your advice and look it up.
(minutes later)
Wow, you're right! This is OT, but for those interested, read through this report from the EPA.
A short quote: "Since 1975, the fuel economy of the combined car and light truck fleet has moved through several phases: (1) a rapid increase from 1975 to the mid-1980s, (2) a slow increase extending into the late 1980s, (3) a decline from the peak in the late 1980s, and (4) since then a period of relatively constant overall fleet fuel economy. Viewing new cars and trucks separately, the three-year moving average fuel economy for cars has increased 1.0 MPG since 1991, but that for trucks has been relatively constant."
Maybe the anti-SUV crowd has a point, after all.
Now, I'm more of a B5 fan than most people and I love the idea of the upcoming telepath war and all, but I don't think two hours of people opening their eyes real wide while giving a stern look to someone and having the other person fall over dead makes good movie watching.
That's because you've never seen the movie Scanners.