I don't know what he is but it isn't good. I was having lunch the other day with Christopher Walken, Neutron Jack and Kennith Lay, and all agreed, "Jack Valenti? Now that's one scary evil sonuvabitch."
Neutron boasted he almost took Valenti out once. But he only had the souls of 12 fair maidens trapped in lead vials worn around his neck, while Valenti had the full 13.
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Ah. Counter Troll. Now you're getting double points. Nice.
The Matrix won't need full fledged VR. It just needs a place to post text bitching.
You're thinking of the first attempt at the matrix that was too perfect.
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The greatest joy a man could have is victory; to conquer one's enemies armies, to pursue them, to deprive them of their possessions, to reduce their famillies to tears, to ride their horses, and to make love their wives and daughters.
How do you kill people and steal all their stuff in the Sims online again?
I've got to know. Do you consider hubble a manned or unmanned program?
Without men in spacesuits it would harldy have been the brilliant success it is.
What happens if we let that expertise languish and die? Unlike Bush the senior, I do see a difference in the value of being able to make microchips as opposed to potato chips.
First of all, if the guards demand papers and you don't have the right one, you can always bribe them for a few marks, or kill them. If they're sitting at a desk it's trickier.
Secondly, I thought the reason the Brits wanted the ID cards was to keep the French problem in check. And when you wash them, they're mostly white.
Thrid, someone stealing your identity, but attaching it to their biometric data, which is always trusted, is a valid point.
Lastly, if eyes can be forged, I'm pretty sure that means you *can* get new eyes.
Whatever and the terrorist have already won, and what about the children. Oh yeah you're hitler, and i'm baby seal killer.
Christ. They were firing from an inconspicious hole in the trunk of a car. It wasn't quite like jude law at the end of Enemy at the Gates.
There are PLENTY of cameras in the us. How many gas stations, stores monitoring parking lots and atms you think the silly-little-soon-to-be- lethally-injected-bitches passed?
As humorous as the remark is, it does have a certain insight.
One of the things that struct me as setting engineering apart was it's unique concern for controlling failure.
A program that can perform some intended fuction might just be the result of programing.
But a program that can do this while failing gracefully in a controlled manner under certain understood conditions would be the result of software engineering.
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What about Bards Tale Three. That took some time.
Gotta love a game where you start out nakkid in the woods (practically) and end up a God.
Of course it took me three months be beat Kid Icarus (I suck, OK) so YMMV.
Anyway. I think the idea behind the cat was to show the absurdity of an indeterminate state like something being both spin up and spin down. Under the copenhagen interpritation it doesn't really matter what the inscrutible secret reality is, but many extremely clever experiments have shown repeatedly, and perhaps most dramatically in investigations of 'spooky action at a distance', that the universe really is that wierd. The thought experiment is wrong, because, for the most part, that quantum nature were discussing disintigrates as things get bigger. The cat wouldn't be alive and dead, the cyanide wouldn't be contained and released, the vial smasher wouldn't have spared and smashed the vial, and radioactive particle will either have decayed or not. It might 'think' about it in a maelstrom of virtual particles, but once it decays, it quickly joins the larger system. And before you know it PETA is suing your ass. I think this particular thought experiment remains popular because it spotlights a flaw in our intuition, and how we interpret uncertainty.
If you're religious you can believe god watching the universe is what makes it go, if you're a Kari Wurher fan maybe there's an alternate universe where she'll rub up against you, or, if you're like me, you favor decoherenece (not that I wouldn't favor Kari). It's just important to remember these comfortable ways of framing or describing what's happening aren't nessecarily what's acctually happening where we aren't allowed to look.
It's spooky action at a distance, or entanglement. But it's not so much that you change one of the 'items', as it is that cause it to choose a state.
You look in Schrodingers box to check on the cat. Now if you'd entangled the cats. Then let them seperate moving the boxes to hither and yawn, they're still both living and dead. They haven't been made to choose. But once you look in on one of the entangled cats, you can infer the state of the other. So even though it's far away, and doesn't seem like it should have been made to choose, it was.
That's all well and good, possibly even practical. But it's not sexy. I want to see stuff blow up.
Let me know when they've got railguns firing hypersonic rounds using peizoelectric crystals to alter their geometry and steer themselves into a reinforced concret structure which then explodes spectacularly from a variety camera angles, and distances with a well chosen selection of film speeds. If there is one thing from freshman chemistry that I will carry with me all of my days, it is that explosions are the bomb.
(b) and if they did (hey, I still look at ant hills), why wouldn't their technology enable them to remain completely undetected? Or gather their information via remote sensing?
They didn't get highly evolved and develop superluminal travel by watching our tv. They did it to find a quiet neighborhood where they could confuse natives with their interstellar graffity, and turn herbivours inside out.
They Might Be Giants: First Heard: Bootleg of Apollo 18 on cassette. Own: Just looking one last very hard to find release. Last Purchase: One week ago. Dial-a-song anthology.
Bare Naked Ladies: First Heard: Bootleg of Gordon on cassette. Own: All their albums but the greatest hits, and no singles. Last Purchase: Their last album.
Alpha Team: First Heard: Go Speed Go through my dorm room wall. Own: A bootleg cassette I had my neighbor make. A collection of morning cartoon songs I got because it listed Speed Racer. An assoted Techo collection called Sm:)e. And a three song single of Go Speed Go remixes. Oh an the mp3 I got to make a cd with, before I found the previously listed cds.
And there are more examples.
All also note that the RIAA doesn't serve their market at all. All they are interested in doing is pushing shit sandwiches to the exclusion of everything else. They are, in the classic Teddy Rossevelt sence, a Trust. They control, to the great disadvantage of the market, everything about a piece of music, including whether the girl scouts can sing it, cradle to grave. What horrifies them isn't that people are stealing, but that they've lost control of their process and their monopoly will die, leaving them having to actually participate in the market as opposed to dictating to it.
How many people use the sharing networks primarily for the hard to find stuff? The RIAA made them go there. They decide what music is rare, hard to find, or just unproduced. I know in my "hate to go shopping for anything especially music" case, it takes a while before I stop activly searching local record stores, and enter either a passive searching mode, or actively search for it on-line.
When it comes to the lesser of two evils. I always pick the smaller, more diffuse evil, as opposed to the giant hulking brimstone smoking version. Call me quirky.
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Would wearing a Luminex garment make you appear brilliant?
No. But it may allow you to throw down on Sho-nuff and score with Vanity.
So what you're saying is, "Resistance is futile," right?
They'll probably just paint bikinis on them.
Only thing I didn't like was lots of crashing. Somewhat buggy.
I assume this is your first UbiSoft game then? Frequent random crashes and save file corruption are their trademarks.
That would be Mephisto and his silent sidekick Kevin.
It's funny you mention him, he was one of the reviewers for this paper which first appeared in the New England Journal of Evil.
I don't know what he is but it isn't good. I was having lunch the other day with Christopher Walken, Neutron Jack and Kennith Lay, and all agreed, "Jack Valenti? Now that's one scary evil sonuvabitch."
Neutron boasted he almost took Valenti out once. But he only had the souls of 12 fair maidens trapped in lead vials worn around his neck, while Valenti had the full 13.
Ah. Counter Troll. Now you're getting double points. Nice.
The Matrix won't need full fledged VR. It just needs a place to post text bitching.
You're thinking of the first attempt at the matrix that was too perfect.
How do you kill people and steal all their stuff in the Sims online again?
I've got to know. Do you consider hubble a manned or unmanned program?
Without men in spacesuits it would harldy have been the brilliant success it is.
What happens if we let that expertise languish and die? Unlike Bush the senior, I do see a difference in the value of being able to make microchips as opposed to potato chips.
It did however have a working heat shield, an important advantage.
You wouldn't happen to be watching hot anime porn or tight young teen action on that TV would you?
If so, I think I may be getting your email, it certainly doesn't belong to me.
But I have a hard time envisioning the scenario in which my porn collection would require 16 billion gigabytes, and I'd want to view it all at once.
An economic analyst? No. Write for Fortune? Appearently.
First of all, if the guards demand papers and you don't have the right one, you can always bribe them for a few marks, or kill them. If they're sitting at a desk it's trickier.
Secondly, I thought the reason the Brits wanted the ID cards was to keep the French problem in check. And when you wash them, they're mostly white.
Thrid, someone stealing your identity, but attaching it to their biometric data, which is always trusted, is a valid point.
Lastly, if eyes can be forged, I'm pretty sure that means you *can* get new eyes.
IHBT. IHL. IWHAND.
Whatever and the terrorist have already won, and what about the children. Oh yeah you're hitler, and i'm baby seal killer.
Christ. They were firing from an inconspicious hole in the trunk of a car. It wasn't quite like jude law at the end of Enemy at the Gates.
There are PLENTY of cameras in the us. How many gas stations, stores monitoring parking lots and atms you think the silly-little-soon-to-be- lethally-injected-bitches passed?
Certainly one should be skeptical with results being offer by people who have a reason to be biased. The world is full of liars.
But one should also be skeptical of results being offered from other sources who are unbeholden to certain intrests. The world is full of idiots too.
As humorous as the remark is, it does have a certain insight.
One of the things that struct me as setting engineering apart was it's unique concern for controlling failure.
A program that can perform some intended fuction might just be the result of programing.
But a program that can do this while failing gracefully in a controlled manner under certain understood conditions would be the result of software engineering.
What about Bards Tale Three. That took some time.
Gotta love a game where you start out nakkid in the woods (practically) and end up a God.
Of course it took me three months be beat Kid Icarus (I suck, OK) so YMMV.
Man did that bad analogy get out of control.
Anyway. I think the idea behind the cat was to show the absurdity of an indeterminate state like something being both spin up and spin down. Under the copenhagen interpritation it doesn't really matter what the inscrutible secret reality is, but many extremely clever experiments have shown repeatedly, and perhaps most dramatically in investigations of 'spooky action at a distance', that the universe really is that wierd. The thought experiment is wrong, because, for the most part, that quantum nature were discussing disintigrates as things get bigger. The cat wouldn't be alive and dead, the cyanide wouldn't be contained and released, the vial smasher wouldn't have spared and smashed the vial, and radioactive particle will either have decayed or not. It might 'think' about it in a maelstrom of virtual particles, but once it decays, it quickly joins the larger system. And before you know it PETA is suing your ass. I think this particular thought experiment remains popular because it spotlights a flaw in our intuition, and how we interpret uncertainty.
If you're religious you can believe god watching the universe is what makes it go, if you're a Kari Wurher fan maybe there's an alternate universe where she'll rub up against you, or, if you're like me, you favor decoherenece (not that I wouldn't favor Kari). It's just important to remember these comfortable ways of framing or describing what's happening aren't nessecarily what's acctually happening where we aren't allowed to look.
Yes. And no
It's spooky action at a distance, or entanglement. But it's not so much that you change one of the 'items', as it is that cause it to choose a state.
You look in Schrodingers box to check on the cat. Now if you'd entangled the cats. Then let them seperate moving the boxes to hither and yawn, they're still both living and dead. They haven't been made to choose. But once you look in on one of the entangled cats, you can infer the state of the other. So even though it's far away, and doesn't seem like it should have been made to choose, it was.
That's all well and good, possibly even practical. But it's not sexy. I want to see stuff blow up.
Let me know when they've got railguns firing hypersonic rounds using peizoelectric crystals to alter their geometry and steer themselves into a reinforced concret structure which then explodes spectacularly from a variety camera angles, and distances with a well chosen selection of film speeds. If there is one thing from freshman chemistry that I will carry with me all of my days, it is that explosions are the bomb.
(b) and if they did (hey, I still look at ant hills), why wouldn't their technology enable them to remain completely undetected? Or gather their information via remote sensing?
They didn't get highly evolved and develop superluminal travel by watching our tv. They did it to find a quiet neighborhood where they could confuse natives with their interstellar graffity, and turn herbivours inside out.
But did you see the bud light commercials? Damn those were funny.
Here's some info for you.
They Might Be Giants:
First Heard: Bootleg of Apollo 18 on cassette.
Own: Just looking one last very hard to find release.
Last Purchase: One week ago. Dial-a-song anthology.
Bare Naked Ladies:
First Heard: Bootleg of Gordon on cassette.
Own: All their albums but the greatest hits, and no singles.
Last Purchase: Their last album.
Alpha Team:
First Heard: Go Speed Go through my dorm room wall.
Own: A bootleg cassette I had my neighbor make. A collection of morning cartoon songs I got because it listed Speed Racer. An assoted Techo collection called Sm:)e. And a three song single of Go Speed Go remixes. Oh an the mp3 I got to make a cd with, before I found the previously listed cds.
And there are more examples.
All also note that the RIAA doesn't serve their market at all. All they are interested in doing is pushing shit sandwiches to the exclusion of everything else. They are, in the classic Teddy Rossevelt sence, a Trust. They control, to the great disadvantage of the market, everything about a piece of music, including whether the girl scouts can sing it, cradle to grave. What horrifies them isn't that people are stealing, but that they've lost control of their process and their monopoly will die, leaving them having to actually participate in the market as opposed to dictating to it.
How many people use the sharing networks primarily for the hard to find stuff? The RIAA made them go there. They decide what music is rare, hard to find, or just unproduced. I know in my "hate to go shopping for anything especially music" case, it takes a while before I stop activly searching local record stores, and enter either a passive searching mode, or actively search for it on-line.
When it comes to the lesser of two evils. I always pick the smaller, more diffuse evil, as opposed to the giant hulking brimstone smoking version. Call me quirky.