I do apologize if my paraphrase caused you to miss this classic Holmes quote. I provide the full quote from -The Sign Of The Four-:
'How often have I said to you that "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"' Chap. 6, p. 111 The Sign Of The Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1890 I see now that I mangled it terribly... *grin* -m
'when you take away the impossible what you are left with, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.'
Einstein may have been mistaken, it could be that the speed of light, like the speed of sound so many decades previously, can in fact be broken, and all the effects that Einstein theorised are in fact just causalities to do with what in fact would be 'seen' by an observer, as opposed to what would actually be happening in 'real time' as it were... as the object would be moving faster than the light it would be producing, it would be unable to be observed in any 'normal time' frame and would appear to observers to slow down and stop, and even move backward in time as it broke its own 'light barrier'. This is only a hypothesis of course, based on my rather small understanding of the effects...
Just another attempt by to regulate and/or control the internet, I can just bet that he has a shiny Powerpoint presentation all prepped about how suited MS would be to manage the corporate planning and data management.
About as subtle as Vlad and the Count soliciting for charitable donations :
"to de Blood bank... I mean Red Cross, yes. No, you don't hawe to come in, ve vill be ower.. , Ve Vill send an agent by right avay! Oh yes it is wery conwenient for you, Ve know exactly vhere you are, I mean, ve hawe your address yes. Thank you for agreeing to be ovr wicte.. heh donor!"
Right down to the 'mvahaha!' and the obligatory Thunder and Lightning.
the article doesn't mention what concentrations the bacteria are found in because they are not in concentrations enough to do any harm to anyone but folks with limited to non-existent immune systems (of the boy in the plastic bubble type that is) who aren't going to be just running down to the Sev for a Big Gulp anyway. We live in a world of germs, our immune systems don't work if we aren't exposed to them regularly. If your immune system has nothing to attack, it will, just hanging out with all the rest of your inner workings, get bored and start looking for things to do It likes to fix things! "that *is* what it is there for after all! Why should it lay around doing nothing!" and it will go around fixing things regardless of their current working order. (kinda like those guys who, you will leave in the morning with them at the breakfast table with a coffee, and you will come home and they will have decided that the wall needed to be taken out, and part of the roof, because it was too dark in the kitchen, so the plumbing had to be re-routed through the neighbour's upper bedroom, and it turns out that the wall was a retaining wall, and you are renting. even if there was a perfectly good window blind they could have opened, directly to the left of the table,
*That* kind of fixing.
It is not surprising that the amount of auto-immune disorders have risen since we have become so 'germ-fearful', with anti-biotic this and antiseptic that, we only end up giving our immune systems an excuse for 'fixing' our own bodies, and end up killing of the least harmful germs, clearing the way for novel, more insidious, or double and triple resistant bacteria.
depends where you are. Check out the used computer warehouses in your area, they are sure to find one in the back that is gathering dust. All you need is an adapter, which they should also have. If you have trouble finding one give me a shout, I have about 3 in my dead tech closet with the commodore 64;).
I'm not sure about you, but at that low a refresh my eyes would walk right out of their sockets and donate themselves to science in protest.
Which, in foresight (heh) would be proceeding the rest of the body by only a few hours if I was lucky enough. By dying horribly in one of the following ways: flattened by a Hydrogen powered bus for wandering into traffic, skating right off the skytrain platform and falling the 60 meters or so to my doom or rolling onto the train right-of-way and becoming instant mincemeat. All because I was checking my daytimer and was too airbrained to realize where I was roller-blading.(obtuse old telus ad reference, I *hated* that ad.)
It never fails to amaze me just how much hubris the human race can muster up on its own behalf.
The thing is, if you want to take an actual look at the history of the earth's geological age, and say, use a year as an analogy for how long its been around compared to us, we don't show up till around 5 seconds to midnight December 31. --thank you David Attenborough for that image--
Life on earth will continue blithely on without us. The earth will sweep us off its back as surely as a water-buffalo swats a gnat, with about as much notice, and future palaeontologists will look back at the 'human' era as one of the many branches that was doomed to fail and become extinct.... something just a wee bit more successful than the Neanderthal.
And we thought the dinosaurs were a failure. Take a look at how long they lasted in geological time compared to us so far. I think they win.
The article in Wired seems to be a 'dumbed down for public consumption' version of an article that appeared in Scientific American in August 2007. The original was authored by Dr Susana Martinez-Conde and Dr Stephen L Macknik, and referred to a study they had completed in 2006. There is a preview available here:
unfortunately one would have to pay for the whole article as they are a subscription magazine. But the proof is in the preview, and if anyone should want more, I would encourage them to go to their local library and find the magazine there. The article in Scientific American is much more educational.
Perhaps the Republican Candidate's response is linked to all the hell they got in for attempting to fraudulently use all those songs in their campaign ads that were later pulled because the artists who owned the songs had not given their consent? Perhaps the party had been downloading them..
But, what do I know. I just watched the rest of my country re elect the same bozo into the same minority government Proving that people everywhere get their IQ's lopped off at the knees when elections star. . At least the Head Bozo didn't get the Majority he wanted, Things remain pretty much the same as they were yesterday. Except Prime minister Bozon gets to be happy he keeps the key to the club pool house.
Down South on the other-hand, Oh jeez I am so happy I am not having to live through the election poop you guys are having to go through with the Wicked witch of the way up norther than here. If she gets to be your new VP you can bet Shiny new apples will be on his desk every morning. **insert high pitched cackle, poof of badly animated smoke with the word *POOF* written on it in big bold 24p letters, hairpins clattering to the ground here**, and she'll be *GONE!* off to speed back to the the community centre to see how her 'babies without birthrights' Christis (silent T of course) meeting, to see about housing for these misguided young 'mothers to be' Freedom Centres to borrow from Margaret Atwood, a Freedom 'From' Centre more likely: "We would provide for all her needs and expenses, she would have access to doctors, counsellors and peers on call for her 24 hours a day, in a safe, secure environment, free from stresses that might unduly effect the health of the mother or the baby she is carrying!" in Palinese it sounds nice, but translated into English our 'scenario gets a tad more complicated: Forced Confinement, Constant 24 hour monitoring, 24 hour full propaganda assault, total control of her environment, I know, I am not an American, but I may in fact have far more experience that she in foreign policy. While she can say she can see Russia from her house. Not only can I see the USA from my house, but I have been to it several times and also, I can speak the language, and oddly 'some of my best friends are American. ; -m
You *obviously* have not spent any time watching the belugas at Vancouver aquarium.
Put yourself in their fins: It gets really boring in those tanks after a while, even the windows look like a !doubleplus-good! time if you have been there long enough.
This was originally suspected, then researched in the seventies to early eighties. Prions (or whatever undiscovered mini virus that causes them.) were first discovered and named at that time. They were first seen to be infective in a disease called Kuru in a tribe in New Guinea and was later linked to how they prepared their dead, as part of the ritual involved the women relatives of the deceased eating a piece of the deceased brain. Then they showed up in the UK (plaque forming encephalic disease called 'scrapie' in sheep, to animal protein in feed, feed to cow, MAD COW, cow to meatpacker, cow to beef, beef to hamburger, hamburger to humans) then later in the US: (researching a disproportionate ratio of Creutzfeldt-Jakob among families whom had a member who hunted to provide extra food on the table, researchers started testing the animals that these families were known to eat. It was found that in the southern states where it was a custom to fry and eat the brains of squirrels, 'mad squirrel' was in abundance in the wild squirrel population. and a plaque forming encephalic disease similar to scrapie and mad cow was common among the elk and deer populations throughout.
All Nature or the lab in question seems to be attempting to build up hype and fear mongering, and they are misrepresenting the actual research they have done as new and unique.
I can't actually tell atm which of the parties is responsible as the article is behind a "You need to pay for a subscription to read this article in full" barrier, I usually get my Nature mags at the library book sale for a quarter a piece.
I think 4 figures is a very optimistic estimate. No one is going to want to purchase a second hand wedding band for anything more than the base metal weight price, and even then, you would be hard to find a buyer in a recession. I agree with your advice wholeheartedly but don't be getting anyone's hopes up with resale value of something no-one else would put value on.
whomever told you that was attempting to sell you something.
Black diamonds are just diamonds that have nitrogen in them as well as carbon, and are as common as dross. Previous to the last decade or so they were called 'bort' and ground up into industrial dust. Debeers just wants you to think they are rare so they can make more money off their monopoly by conning the less informed.
Consider yourself more informed and less likely to be buying industrial diamonds for jewelry prices.;)
Let me get this straight, you are, agreeably as a *second* choice, one of the more toxic substances known to man, Cadmium? God help them if they want kids. I take it you don't have them. Priorities change quite a bit when you are looking out for your future genes.
Okay I am a self confessed Geek chick and I did receive a uniquely geeky wedding band. It was a 1000 year old bronze roman ring from an archaeological site in the middle east. Let me stress that it was Legally exported and purchased aboveboard online @ http://medievalwares.com/zt/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=65. I am certain if you google you could find other similar sites as well.
Or, if you and your fiancee are truly computer geeks, you could use the electromagnet out of a mini hard-drive. It should be just the right size.;)
well, Without them There wouldn't be an internet, for one.
After reading their news release, this goes from "whoo 31337 h4x0r5 shr R Sm4r7" to disgruntaled soon to be ex employee getting he and and all his friends 12 year domains for free for as long as the DNS record is changed. It was an inside job by someone who had access to the Registrar's internal network.
Whoever made the change knew the system and how ICANN and IANA work, and also knew that ICANN can not really say 'well if you got your domain during this 'attack' we want you to pay us some more money' although they may try that. Legally, I am pretty sure it wouldn't stand up to a challenge in court.
Its nice to have a topic where my 2 cents actually mean something finally.
-MnM
Domain Despute Goddess before the fall.plain old tech goddess afterwards;)
This new law could force ISPs to cooperate with law enforcement without warrants, is this just another attempt to 'slip around the counter' to get at the publics private information?
Looking the other way at this, does this also make PI's pc repairmen? If so does it also mean that police have the same rights as PI's to go into a business where a person's computer is being repaired and retrieve data for a 'client' (say the government?}
Interesting law, hopefully with your new government election, the US will get some sensible people in office.
Aside from the obvious Larry Niven geek jokes:(I get to name *my* star Hearth heh.. No wait. 61 Ursa Majoris!) Would this charity have an indemnity clause should the star system be already occupied and named by another intelligent species? If it was already occupied by said species they then would send their interstellar solicitors and possibly militia to earth to charge those involved!
Who would be held accountable?
What would alien punishment or sentencing encompass??
Would we be liable???
what if it is the death penalty, via planatary vapourisation????
aieeee!!!!!
This 'adoption' business is not something to be taken as lightly as they
have been taking it. They
must think of the consequences. {WARNING
: the following question contains another geek reference, those with weak science fiction tolerance should skip to the next paragraph now. If you are unsure of your tolerance level; you can get an approximate estimate by calculating how many RL dates
you have been on in the last month, if dates > 0
you may want to at least wear protective glasses.} What if they are
Thrintun
, or
Kzinti?
{we now return you to your regular programming.}
One has to be careful, and in order to do that one must practice safe star adoption.
Personally this one
has yet to see a company that makes a French safe that could stand the 2400 to 25000 Kelvin temperatures.
would have convinced these scientists to give up splicing pig butts to people and go to the controversy free stem cells by now. Perhaps they don't wan't to get their fingers wet.
Mr. Garrison's: "Well, I'm sorry, Wendy. But I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die." Was supposed to be irony, you know irony, its a metal, like goldy and silvery.
An anonymous reader writes "Now that the Swedish government (in its infinite wisdom) has passed a law allowing them to monitor email traffic, a question that I think a lot of people are asking (or at least should be asking) is: 'What can I do to improve my privacy?' The answer is not obvious. So, what are the best solutions for seamless email encryption, search privacy, etc? What are your experiences with PGP vs GPG vs...? In this day and age, why is the use of this type of privacy technologies still so limited? Why isn't there a larger movement promoting the use of privacy tools? Also, what is in your opinion the largest privacy concern? Search tracking? Email transfer? I believe this is an interesting question not only for Swedes, but for everyone. Lots of traffic is passing through Sweden, but more importantly, the Swedish government is not alone in using this type of surveillance."
In the *insanely surreal* topic I have been reading about, where even I have been having trouble believing those whacky, *fun-loving* Swedes admiting to _this_ level of 'open society'. It still takes me until the first ad break to realise that I have been reading Privacy with a dislexic "RI" and without the "V".
ug, it turns into a dogs breakfast in the end. I speak from personal experience, dating the dm/gm might seem like a nice idea for bonus character perks etc, in the beginning-- but in a long campaign, any little rl disagreement, squabble or =(heaven forbid)= downright pull out all the stops, china-flinging, insult-exchanging, mutual-scratching-up-of-their-LPs, tearing-the-other-one-out-of-the-*amusing*-photograph-you-took-while-on-vacation-last-summer, break ups, can put a tiny strain on the continued harmony / luck of the party.
Let me give you a real life example, which I am NOT making up:
DM: Let me see, last time we met you guys had just successfully raided and killed the ogre hoarde that had been threatening the kingdom....hmmm... King Canute had sent you guys on that one didn't he?
ME: Yes, He had said he was going to..
DM: (feigning deafness, Louder, meanacingly to another player:) KING CANUTE SENT YOU ON THAT ONE DIDN'T HE?
Tolken Elf: (glancing awkwardly sideways at me before answering, not wanting to incur a save vs death)um, yeah Kev, he told us that after we had done that we could come back and he would not only forgive us but would pay us 10,000 gp and give us the 'Bastard Bow of..'.. um, lemme check..
ME: 'Blackburn' (DM glares at me and disappears behind the screen, the sound of many dice being dropped is the only sound we hear.)
DM: Well, you get back to his castle all right and tell him the news, but it seems the news doesn't sit well on his magnificance. He informs your party that he has had time to concider his offer in your absence and has decided to alter it, instead (*roll*roll*roll*) instead, he decides to throw you all to his dungeons to rot for eternity, you at once are all overtaken by his guards, as you wouldn't think of showing up to your honarary banquet armed, and thrown into the pit. by the way, save vs. death.
As all the proceeding dialog had been happening, the DM had been glaring menacingly in my direction until he got to 'by the way' at which point, his face broke into the widest evil grin I had ever seen. Let me point out that this campaign had been going on for months and had expected to continue for at least another year before this little coup. No one else in the party knew much about our relationship. No one up to this point had suspected that we had had an arguement, at least up to this point of course.
So to sum up, dating DM *BAD* no matter how good the bonuses, you WILL have at least one disagreement.
coming back like a bad B film of the 50s it seems.
Review the system, leave your opinion of the other reviewer at the door.
It reflects better on your review if you impart your knowledge/opinion of the new system without being judgemental or opinionated about the writer of the other review just because his review/opinion happens to differ from yours.
Attacking the reviewer not only weakens your well reasoned arguement in the eyes of the reader, your judgemental attitude reflects poorly on your ability to offer a non-biased opinion in the future.
If I had been modding your review I would have been willing to give you an informative until you started attacking the abilities/intelligence/person instead of sticking to what you were essentially attempting to do in the first place, which was, provide your opinion of the new system.
after all, "better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than speak up and remove all doubts""better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than speak up and remove all doubts" -Galileo, Samuel Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth the Second and a host of others throughout history.
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I do apologize if my paraphrase caused you to miss this classic Holmes quote. I provide the full quote from -The Sign Of The Four-:
'How often have I said to you that "when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"'
Chap. 6, p. 111 The Sign Of The Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1890
I see now that I mangled it terribly... *grin*
-m
'when you take away the impossible what you are left with, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.'
Einstein may have been mistaken, it could be that the speed of light, like the speed of sound so many decades previously, can in fact be broken, and all the effects that Einstein theorised are in fact just causalities to do with what in fact would be 'seen' by an observer, as opposed to what would actually be happening in 'real time' as it were... as the object would be moving faster than the light it would be producing, it would be unable to be observed in any 'normal time' frame and would appear to observers to slow down and stop, and even move backward in time as it broke its own 'light barrier'. This is only a hypothesis of course, based on my rather small understanding of the effects...
M
Just another attempt by to regulate and/or control the internet, I can just bet that he has a shiny Powerpoint presentation all prepped about how suited MS would be to manage the corporate planning and data management.
About as subtle as Vlad and the Count soliciting for charitable donations :
"to de Blood bank... I mean Red Cross, yes. No, you don't hawe to come in, ve vill be ower.. , Ve Vill send an agent by right avay! Oh yes it is wery conwenient for you, Ve know exactly vhere you are, I mean, ve hawe your address yes. Thank you for agreeing to be ovr wicte.. heh donor!"
Right down to the 'mvahaha!' and the obligatory Thunder and Lightning.
the article doesn't mention what concentrations the bacteria are found in because they are not in concentrations enough to do any harm to anyone but folks with limited to non-existent immune systems (of the boy in the plastic bubble type that is) who aren't going to be just running down to the Sev for a Big Gulp anyway. We live in a world of germs, our immune systems don't work if we aren't exposed to them regularly. If your immune system has nothing to attack, it will, just hanging out with all the rest of your inner workings, get bored and start looking for things to do It likes to fix things! "that *is* what it is there for after all! Why should it lay around doing nothing!" and it will go around fixing things regardless of their current working order. (kinda like those guys who, you will leave in the morning with them at the breakfast table with a coffee, and you will come home and they will have decided that the wall needed to be taken out, and part of the roof, because it was too dark in the kitchen, so the plumbing had to be re-routed through the neighbour's upper bedroom, and it turns out that the wall was a retaining wall, and you are renting. even if there was a perfectly good window blind they could have opened, directly to the left of the table,
*That* kind of fixing.
It is not surprising that the amount of auto-immune disorders have risen since we have become so 'germ-fearful', with anti-biotic this and antiseptic that, we only end up giving our immune systems an excuse for 'fixing' our own bodies, and end up killing of the least harmful germs, clearing the way for novel, more insidious, or double and triple resistant bacteria.
a few harmless bugs are good for the system.
depends where you are. Check out the used computer warehouses in your area, they are sure to find one in the back that is gathering dust. All you need is an adapter, which they should also have. If you have trouble finding one give me a shout, I have about 3 in my dead tech closet with the commodore 64 ;).
-m
I'm not sure about you, but at that low a refresh my eyes would walk right out of their sockets and donate themselves to science in protest.
Which, in foresight (heh) would be proceeding the rest of the body by only a few hours if I was lucky enough. By dying horribly in one of the following ways: flattened by a Hydrogen powered bus for wandering into traffic, skating right off the skytrain platform and falling the 60 meters or so to my doom or rolling onto the train right-of-way and becoming instant mincemeat. All because I was checking my daytimer and was too airbrained to realize where I was roller-blading.(obtuse old telus ad reference, I *hated* that ad.)
-m
It never fails to amaze me just how much hubris the human race can muster up on its own behalf.
The thing is, if you want to take an actual look at the history of the earth's geological age, and say, use a year as an analogy for how long its been around compared to us, we don't show up till around 5 seconds to midnight December 31. --thank you David Attenborough for that image--
Life on earth will continue blithely on without us. The earth will sweep us off its back as surely as a water-buffalo swats a gnat, with about as much notice, and future palaeontologists will look back at the 'human' era as one of the many branches that was doomed to fail and become extinct .... something just a wee bit more successful than the Neanderthal.
And we thought the dinosaurs were a failure. Take a look at how long they lasted in geological time compared to us so far. I think they win.
Claws down.
The article in Wired seems to be a 'dumbed down for public consumption' version of an article that appeared in Scientific American in August 2007. The original was authored by Dr Susana Martinez-Conde and Dr Stephen L Macknik, and referred to a study they had completed in 2006. There is a preview available here:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=windows-on-the-mind
unfortunately one would have to pay for the whole article as they are a subscription magazine. But the proof is in the preview, and if anyone should want more, I would encourage them to go to their local library and find the magazine there. The article in Scientific American is much more educational.
Perhaps the Republican Candidate's response is linked to all the hell they got in for attempting to fraudulently use all those songs in their campaign ads that were later pulled because the artists who owned the songs had not given their consent? Perhaps the party had been downloading them..
But, what do I know. I just watched the rest of my country re elect the same bozo into the same minority government Proving that people everywhere get their IQ's lopped off at the knees when elections star. . At least the Head Bozo didn't get the Majority he wanted, Things remain pretty much the same as they were yesterday. Except Prime minister Bozon gets to be happy he keeps the key to the club pool house.
Down South on the other-hand, Oh jeez I am so happy I am not having to live through the election poop you guys are having to go through with the Wicked witch of the way up norther than here. If she gets to be your new VP you can bet Shiny new apples will be on his desk every morning. **insert high pitched cackle, poof of badly animated smoke with the word *POOF* written on it in big bold 24p letters, hairpins clattering to the ground here**, and she'll be *GONE!* off to speed back to the the community centre to see how her 'babies without birthrights' Christis (silent T of course) meeting, to see about housing for these misguided young 'mothers to be' Freedom Centres to borrow from Margaret Atwood, a Freedom 'From' Centre more likely: "We would provide for all her needs and expenses, she would have access to doctors, counsellors and peers on call for her 24 hours a day, in a safe, secure environment, free from stresses that might unduly effect the health of the mother or the baby she is carrying!" in Palinese it sounds nice, but translated into English our 'scenario gets a tad more complicated: Forced Confinement, Constant 24 hour monitoring, 24 hour full propaganda assault, total control of her environment,
I know, I am not an American, but I may in fact have far more experience that she in foreign policy. While she can say she can see Russia from her house. Not only can I see the USA from my house, but I have been to it several times and also, I can speak the language, and oddly 'some of my best friends are American. ;
-m
You *obviously* have not spent any time watching the belugas at Vancouver aquarium.
Put yourself in their fins: It gets really boring in those tanks after a while, even the windows look like a !doubleplus-good! time if you have been there long enough.
This was originally suspected, then researched in the seventies to early eighties. Prions (or whatever undiscovered mini virus that causes them.) were first discovered and named at that time. They were first seen to be infective in a disease called Kuru in a tribe in New Guinea and was later linked to how they prepared their dead, as part of the ritual involved the women relatives of the deceased eating a piece of the deceased brain. Then they showed up in the UK (plaque forming encephalic disease called 'scrapie' in sheep, to animal protein in feed, feed to cow, MAD COW, cow to meatpacker, cow to beef, beef to hamburger, hamburger to humans) then later in the US: (researching a disproportionate ratio of Creutzfeldt-Jakob among families whom had a member who hunted to provide extra food on the table, researchers started testing the animals that these families were known to eat. It was found that in the southern states where it was a custom to fry and eat the brains of squirrels, 'mad squirrel' was in abundance in the wild squirrel population. and a plaque forming encephalic disease similar to scrapie and mad cow was common among the elk and deer populations throughout.
All Nature or the lab in question seems to be attempting to build up hype and fear mongering, and they are misrepresenting the actual research they have done as new and unique.
I can't actually tell atm which of the parties is responsible as the article is behind a "You need to pay for a subscription to read this article in full" barrier, I usually get my Nature mags at the library book sale for a quarter a piece.
I think 4 figures is a very optimistic estimate. No one is going to want to purchase a second hand wedding band for anything more than the base metal weight price, and even then, you would be hard to find a buyer in a recession. I agree with your advice wholeheartedly but don't be getting anyone's hopes up with resale value of something no-one else would put value on.
whomever told you that was attempting to sell you something.
Black diamonds are just diamonds that have nitrogen in them as well as carbon, and are as common as dross. Previous to the last decade or so they were called 'bort' and ground up into industrial dust. Debeers just wants you to think they are rare so they can make more money off their monopoly by conning the less informed.
Consider yourself more informed and less likely to be buying industrial diamonds for jewelry prices. ;)
Let me get this straight, you are, agreeably as a *second* choice, one of the more toxic substances known to man, Cadmium? God help them if they want kids. I take it you don't have them. Priorities change quite a bit when you are looking out for your future genes.
um, if you had actually checked the link, so do they. I just happened to like the ring.
Okay I am a self confessed Geek chick and I did receive a uniquely geeky wedding band. It was a 1000 year old bronze roman ring from an archaeological site in the middle east. Let me stress that it was Legally exported and purchased aboveboard online @ http://medievalwares.com/zt/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=65. I am certain if you google you could find other similar sites as well.
Or, if you and your fiancee are truly computer geeks, you could use the electromagnet out of a mini hard-drive. It should be just the right size. ;)
well, Without them There wouldn't be an internet, for one.
After reading their news release, this goes from "whoo 31337 h4x0r5 shr R Sm4r7" to disgruntaled soon to be ex employee getting he and and all his friends 12 year domains for free for as long as the DNS record is changed. It was an inside job by someone who had access to the Registrar's internal network.
Whoever made the change knew the system and how ICANN and IANA work, and also knew that ICANN can not really say 'well if you got your domain during this 'attack' we want you to pay us some more money' although they may try that. Legally, I am pretty sure it wouldn't stand up to a challenge in court.
Its nice to have a topic where my 2 cents actually mean something finally.
-MnM
Domain Despute Goddess before the fall.plain old tech goddess afterwards ;)
This new law could force ISPs to cooperate with law enforcement without warrants, is this just another attempt to 'slip around the counter' to get at the publics private information?
Looking the other way at this, does this also make PI's pc repairmen? If so does it also mean that police have the same rights as PI's to go into a business where a person's computer is being repaired and retrieve data for a 'client' (say the government?}
Interesting law, hopefully with your new government election, the US will get some sensible people in office.
-M
What would alien punishment or sentencing encompass??
Would we be liable???
what if it is the death penalty, via planatary vapourisation????
aieeee!!!!!
This 'adoption' business is not something to be taken as lightly as they have been taking it. They must think of the consequences. {WARNING : the following question contains another geek reference, those with weak science fiction tolerance should skip to the next paragraph now. If you are unsure of your tolerance level; you can get an approximate estimate by calculating how many RL dates you have been on in the last month, if dates > 0 you may want to at least wear protective glasses. } What if they are Thrintun , or Kzinti?
{we now return you to your regular programming.}
One has to be careful, and in order to do that one must practice safe star adoption.
Personally this one has yet to see a company that makes a French safe that could stand the 2400 to 25000 Kelvin temperatures.
-M
I am moderately surprised that this type of research is still going on/causing such controversy.
One would think that with all the evidence pointing at things like:
Multipotential Stem Cells from Menstrual Blood,
Menstrual Blood Can Provide Adult Stem Cells,
Menstrual Blood: A Valuable Source Of Multipotential Stem Cells?,
Stem Cells Have Utility in Fighting Disease> and
New type of stem cell from menstrual blood
would have convinced these scientists to give up splicing pig butts to people and go to the controversy free stem cells by now. Perhaps they don't wan't to get their fingers wet.
Mr. Garrison's: "Well, I'm sorry, Wendy. But I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die." Was supposed to be irony, you know irony, its a metal, like goldy and silvery.
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In the *insanely surreal* topic I have been reading about, where even I have been having trouble believing those whacky, *fun-loving* Swedes admiting to _this_ level of 'open society'. It still takes me until the first ad break to realise that I have been reading Privacy with a dislexic "RI" and without the "V".
ug, it turns into a dogs breakfast in the end. I speak from personal experience, dating the dm/gm might seem like a nice idea for bonus character perks etc, in the beginning-- but in a long campaign, any little rl disagreement, squabble or =(heaven forbid)= downright pull out all the stops, china-flinging, insult-exchanging, mutual-scratching-up-of-their-LPs, tearing-the-other-one-out-of-the-*amusing*-photograph-you-took-while-on-vacation-last-summer, break ups, can put a tiny strain on the continued harmony / luck of the party.
.. um, lemme check..
Let me give you a real life example, which I am NOT making up:
DM: Let me see, last time we met you guys had just successfully raided and killed the ogre hoarde that had been threatening the kingdom....hmmm... King Canute had sent you guys on that one didn't he?
ME: Yes, He had said he was going to..
DM: (feigning deafness, Louder, meanacingly to another player:) KING CANUTE SENT YOU ON THAT ONE DIDN'T HE?
Tolken Elf: (glancing awkwardly sideways at me before answering, not wanting to incur a save vs death)um, yeah Kev, he told us that after we had done that we could come back and he would not only forgive us but would pay us 10,000 gp and give us the 'Bastard Bow of..'
ME: 'Blackburn' (DM glares at me and disappears behind the screen, the sound of many dice being dropped is the only sound we hear.)
DM: Well, you get back to his castle all right and tell him the news, but it seems the news doesn't sit well on his magnificance. He informs your party that he has had time to concider his offer in your absence and has decided to alter it, instead (*roll*roll*roll*) instead, he decides to throw you all to his dungeons to rot for eternity, you at once are all overtaken by his guards, as you wouldn't think of showing up to your honarary banquet armed, and thrown into the pit. by the way, save vs. death.
As all the proceeding dialog had been happening, the DM had been glaring menacingly in my direction until he got to 'by the way' at which point, his face broke into the widest evil grin I had ever seen. Let me point out that this campaign had been going on for months and had expected to continue for at least another year before this little coup. No one else in the party knew much about our relationship. No one up to this point had suspected that we had had an arguement, at least up to this point of course.
So to sum up, dating DM *BAD* no matter how good the bonuses, you WILL have at least one disagreement.
and if you are wondering why the quote is in there twice, its just in case you missed it> :P
coming back like a bad B film of the 50s it seems.
Review the system, leave your opinion of the other reviewer at the door.
It reflects better on your review if you impart your knowledge/opinion of the new system without being judgemental or opinionated about the writer of the other review just because his review/opinion happens to differ from yours.
Attacking the reviewer not only weakens your well reasoned arguement in the eyes of the reader, your judgemental attitude reflects poorly on your ability to offer a non-biased opinion in the future.
If I had been modding your review I would have been willing to give you an informative until you started attacking the abilities/intelligence/person instead of sticking to what you were essentially attempting to do in the first place, which was, provide your opinion of the new system.
after all, "better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than speak up and remove all doubts""better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than speak up and remove all doubts" -Galileo, Samuel Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth the Second and a host of others throughout history.
You know its time to hang up the little purple Crown Royal sack-o-dice when people start arguing what the canonical term for Master/Ref is.
I have said this before, but the amount of time one devotes to RPGs is inversely perportional to the time one spends on real 'dates'.
*grin*