I also think that the argument that we can negotiate our own contracts is equally naive. Sure, there are some that can, but I wouldn't say that social skills and negotiation are well-known geek skills outside of MMRPGs.
You mean to say that geeks are, or can be, social in an MMRPG? All I've ever gotten is someone to say "Heal me!" or "Pwned!".
Oh, and if you're one of these cats who goes online to find JUST the radio song and never even really listens to the rest of the album...maybe you should step back and ask yourself what you're really looking for out of music.
Idle wrote the song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life". The only song Monty Python related to hit number one on the pop charts! What do you mean he never did anything?
Parent article a troll or flamebait?
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The Empire Stumbles
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Or is it just good for clogging bandwidth and getting more hits for the/. site?
I know if I could, I would moderate the parent article, and with the list of complaints I think Katz would have just lost an exponential amount of karma points.
It seems to me the only advantage of bringing back an already extinct species is the generation of a new job title, the "evolutional engineer."
I can see how someone might want to create a few animals simply for research, or possibly a traveling zoo exhibit, although I do have a hard time seeing the advantage of cloning an entire genome, whether it is creating a dozen or even a thousand different animals, being all that beneficial to the Earthly ecology in any way.
Almost certainly we have accelerated a lot of species extinctions, yet so have many natural events, including but not limited to; super volcanoes, asteroid collisions, widespread illness, and climate change. The world ecology does benefit from this by opening niches that other species can evolve to fill. It has been thought that when there are large, widespread extinctions, that the worldly ecology can (and so far unfailingly) diversify and relatively quickly fill the gaps left by those species that died off.
I have a hard time believing that obesity could a factor to increase the chance of CTS, I am over weight and I have been typing since literally before I can remember (three or four years old). Of course I don't use the usual taught method of typing, its more of a hybrid of typing and the old pick and poke method. I have never felt any major pains in my hands or wrists at all.
Then again there is 92 % chance of 8+ quake to occur in the many faults just south of SF within the next 10 years. (also long past due for a big quake)
... you must be notified when you are being recorded as soon as you are on the premisis.
It is similar to wire tapping, which is illegal unless you get permission from a judge or you notify the person on the phone that you are recording the conversation.
It's not fun cruising down the road and suddenly it's a total white out because there is a plow in front of you.
That's why you are supposed to stay back 200 feet or so from the plow. It may be slow but its safe.
If you vote Bush, you vote for destruction of environment and racial inequality. Vote for Gore, and you government censorship and a wierd sense that you will never know the truth about what is happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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What goes around comes around, right?
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Microsoft Cracked
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At least its not just one or two companies that are getting cracked and feeling the great burning feeling of the less moral... Right/.'ers?
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What the heck are those? Are they like bad karma points for articles that have overlapping information with other articles?
By the way, which one of the articles is it that says Akamai did anything right to fight attacks?
Nah, you can always improve upon a patented product. Now just profitable it is, thats another thing. I really think its more about money.
You mean to say that geeks are, or can be, social in an MMRPG? All I've ever gotten is someone to say "Heal me!" or "Pwned!".
I'd bet it was a meat packing plant in Austin, MN that funded it. Its much more likely.
... its a SPAM(tm) reference.
For those who need a map to get back to reality from that reference...
Why not kill the movies or copy a senator? Just as good
Or maybe just go buy a greatest hits CD instead.
The cartoon lied to me!
Transformers aren't from another planet, they're from Germany.
I wonder how much the delivery charge would be?
Basically seeing as I am blind in one eye, this sort of idea would make every movie unwatchable to me.
or maybe hit the degauss button...
mmm... demagnetizing *slobber
Yum!?!
Why not both?
Idle wrote the song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life". The only song Monty Python related to hit number one on the pop charts! What do you mean he never did anything?
The last laugh is on you. - Eric Idle
All of the GTA games have also been released to PC and most to MacOS. Sony should not be a part of the lawsuit if that is the reason.
I predict 2012 will be a great year for whine!
Or is it just good for clogging bandwidth and getting more hits for the /. site?
I know if I could, I would moderate the parent article, and with the list of complaints I think Katz would have just lost an exponential amount of karma points.
Now what we do need to work on cloning is Serpentor. ARISE SERPENTOR, ARISE!
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I have the movie on DVD
It seems to me the only advantage of bringing back an already extinct species is the generation of a new job title, the "evolutional engineer."
I can see how someone might want to create a few animals simply for research, or possibly a traveling zoo exhibit, although I do have a hard time seeing the advantage of cloning an entire genome, whether it is creating a dozen or even a thousand different animals, being all that beneficial to the Earthly ecology in any way.
Almost certainly we have accelerated a lot of species extinctions, yet so have many natural events, including but not limited to; super volcanoes, asteroid collisions, widespread illness, and climate change. The world ecology does benefit from this by opening niches that other species can evolve to fill. It has been thought that when there are large, widespread extinctions, that the worldly ecology can (and so far unfailingly) diversify and relatively quickly fill the gaps left by those species that died off.
I have a hard time believing that obesity could a factor to increase the chance of CTS, I am over weight and I have been typing since literally before I can remember (three or four years old).
Of course I don't use the usual taught method of typing, its more of a hybrid of typing and the old pick and poke method. I have never felt any major pains in my hands or wrists at all.
Oh yeah and there long past due...
Then again there is 92 % chance of 8+ quake to occur in the many faults just south of SF within the next 10 years. (also long past due for a big quake)
Someone's not a nerd.
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That's why you are supposed to stay back 200 feet or so from the plow. It may be slow but its safe.
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