$9.75m will make you nice life in any 3rd world country.
Dude, $9.75m will make you a good life in any 1st world country. Even if you just put it in a savings account, you're still making about $200k per year in interest.
They were shown in order here in the UK, and *still* the majority of people I ask think it sucked
Yeah, but that's the UK. Westerns have always been more popular in the US. Ask most Americans*, and they'll tell you they think Red Dwarf sucked, for much the same reason (eg, it's just too different than anything they normally like).
* I shouldn't have to point this out, but Slashdotters are not "most Americans". So you don't have to reply with "But I loved Red Dwarf. Kryton's the man!"
At least, as of right now, i can go into my half-life 2 directory and delete it all. It just re-downloads what it needs.
I think you missed the point of the question. In six years, if you have to reinstall the game due to upgrade and/or crash, will you be able to? I've got a copy of Epic 40k: Final Liberation that's worked fine for seven years on five different computers. Can Steam promise that kind of lifespan?
Oh come on, it's easy to work 40k into biotech conversations. Tyranids, genetically engineered Space Marines, Ogryns, even the fact that Orks are intelligent fungi (and might have been engineered by someone else).
Burn the mutant with the light of the Emperor!:)
I could've used a Chimera earlier tonight
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Luckily, I took "Light Infantry" as one of my Regimental Doctrines, and the scenario called for Infiltrators. So I managed to setup about 150 guardsman after the Ork player had deployed his entire army. But still, having a Chimera or two as mobile weapons platforms would've come in handy. Multi-lasers seem tailor made for killing Orcs (wounds on a two, with no save). Though things would've gone a lot better if the damn Stormtroopers had ever deployed their grav-chutes and hit the table. That looted Basilisk was just asking for melta-love.
When you die, all your memories of "hardship" stored in your neural net melt into the same pile of amino-acid goop. How irrelevant would it be if we all tortured you?
Modded funny but people who can work smarter can get more done.
I wasn't actually trying to be funny, more commenting on what a kick-ass sysadmin the guy must be.
I manage 1,200 web sites, including around 100 portals, each with their own search engines and customised quirks....On the down side, after two and a half years I'm leaving as I'm now VERY tired physically.
Good luck wherever you go. And how about posting a link to your company's HR department for those Slashdotters who live close enough to try to step into your shoes?
With the Federal deficit having grown to historically unprecedented proportions
I agree with you that this is a problem.
the US dollar having sunk to record lows
This part I don't think is so bad. When the dollar is weaker, it encourages other countries to buy our products, because they can get them more cheaply.
many Americans dying on the street because they cannot get health insurance
Yeah, I tripped over three dead bodies today just walking to the coffee shop! If they won't give us free health care, the least they could do is clean up all the damn corpses!
I'm glad to see our elected officials devoting their time, energy and our money to wiping out nudie pictures on the net.
Personally, I think it was just an excuse for a bunch of dirty old men to "research" Internet porn. I wonder how many recesses the chairman of the committee called in any given hour?
her Ph.D. is in Communications, and she has no education in medicine
Ya know, it would be one thing for a Senate committee to hold a hearing on whether or not porn is healthy. That would just be more of the usual "bored government types trying to find a reason to get up in the morning" (there's a bad pun in there somewhere). But when their main (only? I didn't bother reading the article) "expert" has no training in mental health matters, it just shows the whole thing is a sham.
Hahahaha. Learn how to spell "pollute" (see text in bold above).
Um, that wasn't bad speling, that was a broken keyboard. Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket. See, it just happened again with 'speling', so I must be teling the truth.
I will point out however, that we have not come anywhere close to an all-out conflict as occurred in the United States during the civil war, which did literally rip the country to pieces. And both sides in that war shared the same heritage no less!
Some friendly advice: don't ever, ever, say that in the South. Them's fightin' words.
In fact the US military expenditure exceeds the next 3 biggest spenders combined.
Actually, we outspend the next 15 biggest spenders combined. One-five. 10 plus 5. More than 14, but less than 16.
The United States is not "defending" Canada out of altruism.
Yeah, it's more like "paternalism." Canada is the big, dumb, drunk, half-brother that we're stuck with. Kinda like Roger Clinton or Billy Carter.
Were you expecting to be attacked by Mexico?
The US-Mexican border has erupted in war at least four times in the last two hundred years (that counts the California-Mexican war and the Texas-Mexican war, since they're both part of the US now). It very likely will again in the near future. Considering how many independent militia members and US Border Patrol agents exchange gunfire across the border with Mexican military and police, especially in Arizona and Texas, it's only a matter of time.
Even leaving that aside, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and, now, terrorists sneaking across is a huge problem in the US Southwest. Unfortunately, the politicians don't want to do anything about it since they're afraid of losing the Hispanic vote.
Actually, let's turn that around, and insist on UN seats for every US state, and every Indian nation. That should get us about 200 seats in the General Assembly.;)
It's FALSE that some of the largest up-and-coming poluters are exempt?
Countries are categorized by how much they pollute
Oh, so countries that don't polute much now, but will in 10 years, are given a free pass, afterall. So what was FALSE?
You really need to go back to English class and learn what parantheses mean. The grandparent was listing China and India as two examples of countries in the class he had previously mentioned, not that those two specifically are exempt.
Maybe not on the battlefield itself, but there are plenty who are forward deployed. There were a bunch of civilian contractors working the northern command center in Turkey, and when I got back from my deployment one of the first job offers I got was to turn around and head back to work in the new NOC in Baghdad. The only reason I didn't go was because my older brother was in Afghanistan at the same time, and I didn't want our mother to have a heart attack.
How on Earth can you single handedly admin 1,000 servers properly?
That's why he still has a job: he's doing the work of 20 sysadmins. (Someone posted a stat that the ratio is one sysadmin for 20 computers, but IME it's more like 1:50, especially with Solaris.)
Dude, evolutionists don't believe "man evolved from apes". That is an easy boo-boo for them to shoot down. They believe that man and ape share a common ancestor
I'm not an expert in evolution, so I'm curious: why the distinction? As I understand it, humans and chimpanzees last shared a common ancestor ~4.5 million years ago. And the artist renderings of that creature definitely looked "ape-like" (furry, big canines, walked stooped). So if we, and modern great apes, are descended from that beast, and it was an ape, why is it wrong to say we evolved from apes? Is it just to avoid the counter-argument that we couldn't've evolved from gorillas?
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Yeah, let me tell you... those terrorists were influenced by Gran Theft Auto and Mortal Kombat.
That's an excellent point.
Stop blaming video games for the White house's fault.
To quote Pig from Pearls Before Swine: "What's George W. Bush got to do with this?"
don't turn the Latin word sic into an acronym
What are some other good "s.i.c." backronyms? Stupidly Ironic Comment, maybe?
Slashdot: a mishmash of stories you read elsewhere ;)
Yeah, right, like you read Slashdot for the articles.
$9.75m will make you nice life in any 3rd world country.
Dude, $9.75m will make you a good life in any 1st world country. Even if you just put it in a savings account, you're still making about $200k per year in interest.
Real programmers have sixteen fingers.
I disagree. A real programmer has 1,010 fingers.
They were shown in order here in the UK, and *still* the majority of people I ask think it sucked
Yeah, but that's the UK. Westerns have always been more popular in the US. Ask most Americans*, and they'll tell you they think Red Dwarf sucked, for much the same reason (eg, it's just too different than anything they normally like).
* I shouldn't have to point this out, but Slashdotters are not "most Americans". So you don't have to reply with "But I loved Red Dwarf. Kryton's the man!"
At least, as of right now, i can go into my half-life 2 directory and delete it all. It just re-downloads what it needs.
I think you missed the point of the question. In six years, if you have to reinstall the game due to upgrade and/or crash, will you be able to? I've got a copy of Epic 40k: Final Liberation that's worked fine for seven years on five different computers. Can Steam promise that kind of lifespan?
And somehow seem strangely baggy on overweight men, yet still fit skin tight on a thin, shapely female form.
Apparently, it's not just "smart" yarn, it's also "heterosexual male" yarn.
Oh come on, it's easy to work 40k into biotech conversations. Tyranids, genetically engineered Space Marines, Ogryns, even the fact that Orks are intelligent fungi (and might have been engineered by someone else).
:)
Burn the mutant with the light of the Emperor!
Luckily, I took "Light Infantry" as one of my Regimental Doctrines, and the scenario called for Infiltrators. So I managed to setup about 150 guardsman after the Ork player had deployed his entire army. But still, having a Chimera or two as mobile weapons platforms would've come in handy. Multi-lasers seem tailor made for killing Orcs (wounds on a two, with no save). Though things would've gone a lot better if the damn Stormtroopers had ever deployed their grav-chutes and hit the table. That looted Basilisk was just asking for melta-love.
Oh, you meant something else. Nevermind.
When you die, all your memories of "hardship" stored in your neural net melt into the same pile of amino-acid goop. How irrelevant would it be if we all tortured you?
He's reading Slashdot. He's used to torture.
Modded funny but people who can work smarter can get more done.
I wasn't actually trying to be funny, more commenting on what a kick-ass sysadmin the guy must be.
I manage 1,200 web sites, including around 100 portals, each with their own search engines and customised quirks....On the down side, after two and a half years I'm leaving as I'm now VERY tired physically.
Good luck wherever you go. And how about posting a link to your company's HR department for those Slashdotters who live close enough to try to step into your shoes?
With the Federal deficit having grown to historically unprecedented proportions
I agree with you that this is a problem.
the US dollar having sunk to record lows
This part I don't think is so bad. When the dollar is weaker, it encourages other countries to buy our products, because they can get them more cheaply.
many Americans dying on the street because they cannot get health insurance
Yeah, I tripped over three dead bodies today just walking to the coffee shop! If they won't give us free health care, the least they could do is clean up all the damn corpses!
I'm glad to see our elected officials devoting their time, energy and our money to wiping out nudie pictures on the net.
Personally, I think it was just an excuse for a bunch of dirty old men to "research" Internet porn. I wonder how many recesses the chairman of the committee called in any given hour?
her Ph.D. is in Communications, and she has no education in medicine
Ya know, it would be one thing for a Senate committee to hold a hearing on whether or not porn is healthy. That would just be more of the usual "bored government types trying to find a reason to get up in the morning" (there's a bad pun in there somewhere). But when their main (only? I didn't bother reading the article) "expert" has no training in mental health matters, it just shows the whole thing is a sham.
Hahahaha. Learn how to spell "pollute" (see text in bold above).
Um, that wasn't bad speling, that was a broken keyboard. Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket. See, it just happened again with 'speling', so I must be teling the truth.
I will point out however, that we have not come anywhere close to an all-out conflict as occurred in the United States during the civil war, which did literally rip the country to pieces. And both sides in that war shared the same heritage no less!
Some friendly advice: don't ever, ever, say that in the South. Them's fightin' words.
In fact the US military expenditure exceeds the next 3 biggest spenders combined.
Actually, we outspend the next 15 biggest spenders combined. One-five. 10 plus 5. More than 14, but less than 16.
The United States is not "defending" Canada out of altruism.
Yeah, it's more like "paternalism." Canada is the big, dumb, drunk, half-brother that we're stuck with. Kinda like Roger Clinton or Billy Carter.
Were you expecting to be attacked by Mexico?
The US-Mexican border has erupted in war at least four times in the last two hundred years (that counts the California-Mexican war and the Texas-Mexican war, since they're both part of the US now). It very likely will again in the near future. Considering how many independent militia members and US Border Patrol agents exchange gunfire across the border with Mexican military and police, especially in Arizona and Texas, it's only a matter of time.
Even leaving that aside, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and, now, terrorists sneaking across is a huge problem in the US Southwest. Unfortunately, the politicians don't want to do anything about it since they're afraid of losing the Hispanic vote.
Actually, let's turn that around, and insist on UN seats for every US state, and every Indian nation. That should get us about 200 seats in the General Assembly. ;)
So we get to blame the US when we all die horridly under a sunless sky.
Why not? You would've anyway.
That is FALSE.
It's FALSE that some of the largest up-and-coming poluters are exempt?
Countries are categorized by how much they pollute
Oh, so countries that don't polute much now, but will in 10 years, are given a free pass, afterall. So what was FALSE?
You really need to go back to English class and learn what parantheses mean. The grandparent was listing China and India as two examples of countries in the class he had previously mentioned, not that those two specifically are exempt.
Death has a tendency to sap an otherwise hilarious gunfight of much of its humor/humour.
That depends entirely upon who is doing the dying.
Maybe not on the battlefield itself, but there are plenty who are forward deployed. There were a bunch of civilian contractors working the northern command center in Turkey, and when I got back from my deployment one of the first job offers I got was to turn around and head back to work in the new NOC in Baghdad. The only reason I didn't go was because my older brother was in Afghanistan at the same time, and I didn't want our mother to have a heart attack.
How on Earth can you single handedly admin 1,000 servers properly?
That's why he still has a job: he's doing the work of 20 sysadmins. (Someone posted a stat that the ratio is one sysadmin for 20 computers, but IME it's more like 1:50, especially with Solaris.)
Have you ever actually tried reading while riding in a car? I hope the insides of those pods are made of stain-proof plastic. *blech*
Dude, evolutionists don't believe "man evolved from apes". That is an easy boo-boo for them to shoot down. They believe that man and ape share a common ancestor
I'm not an expert in evolution, so I'm curious: why the distinction? As I understand it, humans and chimpanzees last shared a common ancestor ~4.5 million years ago. And the artist renderings of that creature definitely looked "ape-like" (furry, big canines, walked stooped). So if we, and modern great apes, are descended from that beast, and it was an ape, why is it wrong to say we evolved from apes? Is it just to avoid the counter-argument that we couldn't've evolved from gorillas?