that would be the department that 1 seems to have the most wasteful buget 2 but can by quick action save the company big bucks 3 is also the most likely to be regularly "bribed" by the other departments since not doing so is a good way to get a visit by the BOFH hisself (and at that point you might survive if you are lucky you will still have a job but....)
good practice for a company is to Pay the "producers" Pay your IT, security and accounting pay the rest of the "staff" pay the CxO types
1 9 houses of magic (say 20 levels of each) 2 each casting/feat requires Scryon of X amount (+ each level of each house requires a base amount of Scryon per day with mild to major damage if you don't have it) 3 each person has a preset amount of Scryon toxicity (causes a max level of Scryon that you can have) 4 each group has a Common Scryon Pool (so you could end up with a single house level 2 character that has a massive Scryon level banking for a group of 20-30) 5 balance the spells/feats so defensive spells are cheaper (earth water space life houses have 2/3 the cost of fire air time death houses with the mind house having 25% extra on top [plus needing to be max on six houses to even see mind house spells]) 6 have certain characters that are blind to magic but come in handy to the Uber Player (like a farmer that raises crops that just happen to have 8X the normal Scryon or a priest that has a chapel that is in a NO MAGIC ZONE) sort of like the HP concept of "muggle"
in short put stuff in the game for the new characters and the old ones
easy fix have in the standard contract for such things
"building (name)/Room(s) (names must have wifi/cell shielding mantained ALL MODIFICATIONS MUST INCLUDE RF SHIELDING WORK WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FINISHED (and paid) UNTIL SHIELDING HAS BEEN VERIFIED"
and then you test after the work and pay the bill if the shielding has been mantained
trust me a good contractor will do what he is paid for
"easy way" to fix this kind of thing a visitor (lets just he happens to be a real Highlander) sees a guy shoot a couple of cops and run away, he then pulls his sword out and swings for the bleachers.
1 the perp gets his charges dropped (its best to drop charges when the suspect can no longer stand trial [cough **riaa take note**) 2 the cops get to the ER/Mourge 3 Our Highlander gets to hear "the charges while fully justified will be dropped due to the context" (hand wave any concealed carry/weapons regs)
A cluster of skin cells or brain cells is living human tissue as well, but that doesn't qualify it as a human being.
Fair enough. So where do we draw the line, because a human is also a cluster of cells. ---- easy answer to the whole where do we draw the line P L A C E N T A since the placenta is more or less a DMZ between the mother and baby (the baby's cells are used btw) that is where we draw the line
oh btw i would say if you get a woman pregnent without consent: 1 you are an adult and so is she---- you get to work in a prison farm 2 you are an adult and she isn't ---- you get hung and your body gets sold 3 you are not an adult she is --- shortish trip to a low end work farm 4 you are not an adult and she isn't ---- income gets garnished and if you don't mantain a job see case 3
the big problem is that old chestnut about headlines [humungo font]IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS [/humungo font]
Blade gets more hits than Mother Terresa ie Blade goes and ashes 200 Pure Bloods Mother Teresa goes and feeds 200,000 children (hand wave neither will actually do anything since both are currently noncorpreal)
Balde will be on the front page (with bonus points if he ashes the building) MT might be in the paper somewhere maybe
The religious definition is more complicated. If you clone somebody then it either:
1) creates a new soul, thereby usurping the god's power -----easy fix if this would happen IT WON'T HAPPEN (clone will not be viable)
2) sucks a soul out of heaven/hell (and the god gets angry) -------- im sure that God or Lucifer wouldn't let an "escape happen"
3) creates a soul-less being (that, by divine right, must be exploited / eaten) ----- demon/angel/nephilim would be the "soul"
4) each clone shares a single soul -- not likely
5) each clone is "issued" a normal soul with a possible sub link (sort of like cypto with a time vector same settings will have different results due to time skew)
Did somebody happen to warn these folks what Slashdot can do to a server?? any odds on how many comments it will take to bring the server to its knees??
Keystroke Recorder You could have a 42 layer vpn/xyz/hypercryption tunnel but if the keystrokes are being logged then you are Foxtrot Uniform Charley Kilo Echo Delta #Bang #Bang
even when actual barred lawyers speak on such matters the whole IAALBIANY thing gets trotted out (i am a lawyer but i am not yours) besides if you really want to join the fun pop into Groklaw.net and have fun (unless you are a TSCOG employee then you can delete the two "fun" refs.
I Would bet that the first Woman President will be known as the best president in a couple centuries.
Seriously folks 1 Not a member of the Good old boys club 2 will have something to prove 3 would have a more predictable emotional curve (God(s) help the countries that try something at the wrong moon phase [eg]) 4 and besides when "dad" messes things up who cleans up???
Me im a meat eater in fact if i don't get a base level of meat i get very sick (not to mention most veggies tend to ferment in me and that cuases its own problems)
so any big party should have a salad bar (with carno sidebar) a NonKosher meat table a Kosher meat table drinks table (soft and hard) and a dessert/fruit table.
Bonus tip if you have grills try to have the meat grills DOWNWIND of the party (some vegans can start puking at the smell of meat cooking)
btw my take is any virus on MY FOOD should be deader than the Pharos
and ive heard that if the captain had either done nothing or gone backwards the titanic would have survived (would have sucked for some of the passengers but the ship would have made port) as it is he sideswipped the berg and ripped a gash in the boat (basically it was designed so that N compartments could be breached and Captian Moron caused N+O compartments to get breached)
personally i like my food to be as close to made meal sized (and cooked) as possible.
because quite a few folks "back in the day" were mostly known by their logins and those had a bad habit of being initials ie Eric Stallman? Raymond was esr@something or other.edu (when those formats got invented by...)
1 size and capacity of the drives 2 useable volume of said beetle (rip seats out? boxes/bags the drives are in) 3 current sanity/skill level of driver (adjust for injested chemicals/aural enhancements)
Rip the beetle down to the shell and bag the drives , load the driver, put some good rock and roll in the tape deck and you could get some massive bandwidth
Still, if a doctor was at home and someone broke into their house to try and rape their daughter, I'd hope the doctor would have no moral compunctions against shooting the intruder first (in their capacity as father) and then offering CPR as appropriate second (in their capacity as doctor). ----------- of course a very good doctor would have not compunctions against shooting the "punk" in a very painful but nonfatal region (say both shoulders and a knee) and giving the punk first aid to make sure that he stands trial.
actually it would be better if in the case of a platform specific bug (which this isn't btw) then it should be mentioned that Project Name on Platform
its like cars if a Ford Pinto has a "crash and burn" (>8-)) bug it doesn't effect other Fords but something like tires used (say a certain type of FireStone tires) would effect all Fords (that used those tires
okay hows about this in the year 2214 an implant is developed that can directly interface humans with computers to the point that you can buy a file that can teach you.....
Jacob Torvalds 4 studies this and makes sure that the patch needed in the kernel has some check sums to prevent hostile code from being downloaded
Melinda Gates 5 also has Microsoft make a driver and does not do this (but does require DRM to make sure that you paid for the file)
The Virus of the month comes down and jumps the barrier
Kids start dropping dead due to a bad download (stack faults causing Grand Mal seizures
If every UNIX engineer wrote software the way they write it for Windows, you'd have an equal amount of UNIX issues.
That, and you'd see more UNIX engineers getting pilloried by the community and beaten up at conferences by angry old UNIX geeks who think it's an outrage to do something so stupid.;-) ----- ie they would run dd if=/dev/baseballbat count=1000GB of=ttyS1 from the root console of the users system
imagine a beowolf cluster of hacked off Unix admins
oh ive got a horror story for you Job at MCDs Ronald MCDonald visit cans [bold]started[/bold] half full line was 6 wide and most likely a very literal half mile long COMPACTOR WAS DISABLED (and full) I did my mad scramble and within 30 minutes of RM leaving i had 1 all the cans pulled the compactor pulled X2 (and of course fixed) 2 all tables cleaned and reset 3 all the straws and stuff reset/refilled 4 the floor swept and mopped now tell me what computer (non beowolf) would not go into a complete/. meltdown under those conditions?
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that would be the department that
1 seems to have the most wasteful buget
2 but can by quick action save the company big bucks
3 is also the most likely to be regularly "bribed" by the other departments since not doing so is a good way to get a visit by the BOFH hisself
(and at that point you might survive if you are lucky you will still have a job but....)
good practice for a company is to
Pay the "producers"
Pay your IT, security and accounting
pay the rest of the "staff"
pay the CxO types
in that order
a few bits to use in a game
1 9 houses of magic (say 20 levels of each)
2 each casting/feat requires Scryon of X amount (+ each level of each house requires a base amount of Scryon per day with mild to major damage if you don't have it)
3 each person has a preset amount of Scryon toxicity (causes a max level of Scryon that you can have)
4 each group has a Common Scryon Pool (so you could end up with a single house level 2 character that has a massive Scryon level banking for a group of 20-30)
5 balance the spells/feats so defensive spells are cheaper (earth water space life houses have 2/3 the cost of fire air time death houses with the mind house having 25% extra on top [plus needing to be max on six houses to even see mind house spells])
6 have certain characters that are blind to magic but come in handy to the Uber Player (like a farmer that raises crops that just happen to have 8X the normal Scryon or
a priest that has a chapel that is in a NO MAGIC ZONE) sort of like the HP concept of "muggle"
in short put stuff in the game for the new characters and the old ones
its a very bad thing when Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin is the guy that invented your drink recipe
easy fix have in the standard contract for such things
/Room(s) (names must have wifi/cell shielding mantained ALL MODIFICATIONS MUST INCLUDE RF SHIELDING WORK WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED FINISHED (and paid) UNTIL SHIELDING HAS BEEN VERIFIED"
"building (name)
and then you test after the work and pay the bill if the shielding has been mantained
trust me a good contractor will do what he is paid for
the absolute funniest GE Product (this is the company with the slogan "we bring good things to life") is the M61 "vulcan"
a six barrel gatlin that can send 6000 rounds per minute "downrange"
"easy way" to fix this kind of thing
a visitor (lets just he happens to be a real Highlander) sees a guy shoot a couple of cops and run away, he then pulls his sword out and swings for the bleachers.
1 the perp gets his charges dropped (its best to drop charges when the suspect can no longer stand trial [cough **riaa take note**)
2 the cops get to the ER/Mourge
3 Our Highlander gets to hear "the charges while fully justified will be dropped due to the context" (hand wave any concealed carry/weapons regs)
A cluster of skin cells or brain cells is living human tissue as well, but that doesn't qualify it as a human being.
Fair enough. So where do we draw the line, because a human is also a cluster of cells.
----
easy answer to the whole where do we draw the line
P L A C E N T A
since the placenta is more or less a DMZ between the mother and baby (the baby's cells are used btw) that is where we draw the line
oh btw i would say if you get a woman pregnent without consent:
1 you are an adult and so is she---- you get to work in a prison farm
2 you are an adult and she isn't ---- you get hung and your body gets sold
3 you are not an adult she is --- shortish trip to a low end work farm
4 you are not an adult and she isn't ---- income gets garnished and if you don't mantain a job see case 3
the big problem is that old chestnut about headlines
[humungo font]IF IT BLEEDS IT LEADS [/humungo font]
Blade gets more hits than Mother Terresa ie
Blade goes and ashes 200 Pure Bloods Mother Teresa goes and feeds 200,000 children (hand wave neither will actually do anything since both are currently noncorpreal)
Balde will be on the front page (with bonus points if he ashes the building)
MT might be in the paper somewhere maybe
The religious definition is more complicated. If you clone somebody then it either:
1) creates a new soul, thereby usurping the god's power -----easy fix if this would happen IT WON'T HAPPEN (clone will not be viable)
2) sucks a soul out of heaven/hell (and the god gets angry) -------- im sure that God or Lucifer wouldn't let an "escape happen"
3) creates a soul-less being (that, by divine right, must be exploited / eaten) ----- demon/angel/nephilim would be the "soul"
4) each clone shares a single soul -- not likely
5) each clone is "issued" a normal soul with a possible sub link (sort of like cypto with a time vector same settings will have different results due to time skew)
Did somebody happen to warn these folks what Slashdot can do to a server??
any odds on how many comments it will take to bring the server to its knees??
four words for you
Trial as an adult
bascally if you turn out to be to much of a punk (standing bed at Juvie) you can be tried as if you were an adult on your "next hearing".
the big problem can be said in 2 words
Keystroke Recorder
You could have a 42 layer vpn/xyz/hypercryption tunnel but if the keystrokes are being logged then you are Foxtrot Uniform Charley Kilo Echo Delta #Bang #Bang
even when actual barred lawyers speak on such matters the whole IAALBIANY thing gets trotted out (i am a lawyer but i am not yours) besides if you really want to join the fun pop into Groklaw.net and have fun (unless you are a TSCOG employee then you can delete the two "fun" refs.
I Would bet that the first Woman President will be known as the best president in a couple centuries.
Seriously folks
1 Not a member of the Good old boys club
2 will have something to prove
3 would have a more predictable emotional curve (God(s) help the countries that try something at the wrong moon phase [eg])
4 and besides when "dad" messes things up who cleans up???
Me im a meat eater in fact if i don't get a base level of meat i get very sick (not to mention most veggies tend to ferment in me and that cuases its own problems)
so any big party should have a salad bar (with carno sidebar) a NonKosher meat table a Kosher meat table drinks table (soft and hard) and a dessert/fruit table.
Bonus tip if you have grills try to have the meat grills DOWNWIND of the party (some vegans can start puking at the smell of meat cooking)
btw my take is any virus on MY FOOD should be deader than the Pharos
and ive heard that if the captain had either done nothing or gone backwards the titanic would have survived (would have sucked for some of the passengers but the ship would have made port) as it is he sideswipped the berg and ripped a gash in the boat (basically it was designed so that N compartments could be breached and Captian Moron caused N+O compartments to get breached)
personally i like my food to be as close to made meal sized (and cooked) as possible.
because quite a few folks "back in the day" were mostly known by their logins and those had a bad habit of being initials ie Eric Stallman? Raymond was esr@something or other .edu (when those formats got invented by ...)
depends on the following
1 size and capacity of the drives
2 useable volume of said beetle (rip seats out? boxes/bags the drives are in)
3 current sanity/skill level of driver (adjust for injested chemicals/aural enhancements)
Rip the beetle down to the shell and bag the drives , load the driver, put some good rock and roll in the tape deck and you could get some massive bandwidth
maybe this is the /. version of throwing pasta against the wall and seeing what sticks??
/. on this guy maybe he (and a couple of his buds) will be in the mix of postings??
IE if we don't do a pitch fork and torch
sort of like getting a "Real Chef" to do a school lunch to see if anybody notices??
did you know that gentoo has a delorean patch to the kernel??
1 it takes -7 days to compile
2 you need to get your system to 880,000 bogomips to get it to work
Still, if a doctor was at home and someone broke into their house to try and rape their daughter, I'd hope the doctor would have no moral compunctions against shooting the intruder first (in their capacity as father) and then offering CPR as appropriate second (in their capacity as doctor).
-----------
of course a very good doctor would have not compunctions against shooting the "punk" in a very painful but nonfatal region (say both shoulders and a knee) and giving the punk first aid to make sure that he stands trial.
actually it would be better if in the case of a platform specific bug (which this isn't btw) then it should be mentioned that Project Name on Platform
its like cars if a Ford Pinto has a "crash and burn" (>8-)) bug it doesn't effect other Fords but something like tires used (say a certain type of FireStone tires) would effect all Fords (that used those tires
okay hows about this in the year 2214 an implant is developed that can directly interface humans with computers to the point that you can buy a file that can teach you .....
Jacob Torvalds 4 studies this and makes sure that the patch needed in the kernel has some check sums to prevent hostile code from being downloaded
Melinda Gates 5 also has Microsoft make a driver and does not do this (but does require DRM to make sure that you paid for the file)
The Virus of the month comes down and jumps the barrier
Kids start dropping dead due to a bad download (stack faults causing Grand Mal seizures
If every UNIX engineer wrote software the way they write it for Windows, you'd have an equal amount of UNIX issues.
;-)
That, and you'd see more UNIX engineers getting pilloried by the community and beaten up at conferences by angry old UNIX geeks who think it's an outrage to do something so stupid.
-----
ie they would run dd if=/dev/baseballbat count=1000GB of=ttyS1 from the root console of the users system
imagine a beowolf cluster of hacked off Unix admins
oh ive got a horror story for you /. meltdown under those conditions?
Job at MCDs
Ronald MCDonald visit
cans [bold]started[/bold] half full
line was 6 wide and most likely a very literal half mile long
COMPACTOR WAS DISABLED (and full)
I did my mad scramble and within 30 minutes of RM leaving i had
1 all the cans pulled the compactor pulled X2 (and of course fixed)
2 all tables cleaned and reset
3 all the straws and stuff reset/refilled
4 the floor swept and mopped
now tell me what computer (non beowolf) would not go into a complete