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It is certainly amazing that the rover is still running well after original mission end date and altogether amusing that, much like most other brilliant advances in science, the hydrothermal vent evidence was discovered completely by accident.
Chance; 'the powers that be'; chaos; coincidence; divine intervention; flying spaghetti monster or just the universes' subversive perverse version of humour; you get the feeling that if it weren't for an infinite amount of insanely improbable accidents, not only science but life as we know it just wouldn't have happened.
Come to think of it, The *Big Bang* probably happened because Chaos and God were up in God's room with Chaos' new chemistry set and they were arguing over who got to light the Bunsen burner when they accidentally knocked the "NEW INSTANT UNIVERSE!" out of the box and onto the floor.
(read instructions carefully. some assembly required. very fragile. may explode if dropped. do not unpack near open flame, spark or antimatter. Batteries not included. your results may vary. not responsible for damages incurred by improper implementation of instructions. universe may be damaged by improper handling. )
I am constantly amazed at how much greed can wipe histories lessons away, and how much hubris mankind has when profit margins are concerned. Has no one thought to point out to Ms. Blackwell that despite double 'a' batteries seeming safety that occasionally they do leak, but when they do however, the site of the leak does not require hundreds of years to recover, cause thyroid cancer, nor radiation poisoning.
History (and film) have shown us examples of men foolish enough to tempt the fates with statements that begin with "God himself could not sink this ship" and "KLATU. VERATA. NNNnnnecktie. Nectarine. Nickel, definitely an n word. KLATU. VERATA. nNNNChoughmumble cough cough cough."
The fates, such as history and Ash have shown us, are usually more than happy to give us a resounding "oh yeah?" and beat the tar out of our hubris. We never learn tho, there is always another Ash or Hyperion lurking around the corner ready to pronounce the phonetic incantations in the necronomicon 'for the record' and unleash evil on us all.
You ever go to a Con and play a tournament roleplaying game? I challenge anyone of either sex to stand up at the end of one of those rooms and pick a single person in the room and say "hey, now *there's* a hot catch I'd like to spend the evening and a warm can of cocoa butter with!" without any alcohol....;)
He is like some horrible cancer. He has gotten so huge and meglomaniacal everyone is afraid to censure him. From editing his bad film choices to just saying NO to his really horrible ideas. He is like some huge and warty scab encrusted cyst with teeth and hair.
He is becoming an embarrassment to his own company. From his lack of chin to his vaguely disguised racist leanings in his films.
when will it stop? When will someone stand up to him and just say No George, its just a stupid idea.
I used to be into gaming, I was right there at stage 1, complete with the puny little dice you had to colour in with the crayons that came in the first box. I graduated to AD&D and bought all the books printed by TSR and the *exalted* Gary Gygax. Complete with the the first edition 'No we didn't ask for permission, why are you suing us?' version of Deities and Demigods. I even have a box of painted lead guys I have to keep on a top shelf so my son won't get at them and eat them. (funny how they ban toys for having a bit of lead paint now but they used to *sell* us whole little lead guys to play with)...I remember being bored and twirling dice... Painstakingly setting up almost a hundred little separately bought lead guys for a battle and having the cat jump on the table and wreak havok.. *SAVE VS GIANT CAT!! MINUS 12 DAMAGES AIEEEE!!* oh yes, our DM was merciless.. if the cat reached up and knocked your little lead guy off the table you were done for. You sometimes had to hire an npc to run around the dungeon with 50 ft of rope just to keep it off your party's tail.
I was considered a weirdo, being a GIRL, they even made me roll vs pregnancy in the first few games I played, like my character could catch it from walking around in dungeons, but what did they know, they were adolescent boys.
We grew tired of the system mechanics TSR employed and adopted our own percentile system loosely based on twilight 2000 early on in the 'old school' days, and based our own worlds on it.
We had brief spells of Shadowrun, more book buying, more dissatisfaction with the limitations of the system, more making up our own rules loosely based on the best of the different hand picked ones we had grabbed from different books,. Then TSR fumbled and the guys at Wizards of the Coast picked up the ball, and the D20 system lured us back. More book buying, more dissatisfaction on learning the limitations of the system.... are we seeing the trend here? I am assuming a lot more people had the same experiences, and put a lot of money into the coffers of TSR/wizards/etc. trying to find their 'ideal' gaming system.
But enough about me, on to the theory:
My Gaming friends and I came up with this inverse theory of relativity:
The percentage of gaming books you own is inversely relative to the amount of dates you go out on. regardless of gender.
I still game occasionally, but I make do with the rules we have tuned over the years knowing now that they are going to be better than any the guys on the corporate side are shelling for 50 bux a pop.
As I said in my original comment, I personally don't agree with the taking of whales as I believe that they are sentient creatures and do not think they should be harvested. If you scroll up you can read my original comments on that and the problems of removing cultural practises and food sources. In another point, bowhead whales are not on the endangered list, and the IWC has limited the aboriginal peoples of Alaska to approximately 2.5 whales per villiage per month over the next 5 years. Hardly a dent in the population of bowheads.
As it turns out, in other whale populations worldwide, some whales (Eastern Grey whales in this case) may be evolving / happening on a happy solution to the whole 'whales as food/resource' problem. If it turns out not to effect them health wise in the long run, Stinky Whales may just convince hunters to stop hunting them, and may turn into an effective defense strategy.
What, is this 1990 all over again? I can understand being a bit weirded the first time you realize that most of the online gaming community:
1.) Is Better than you. 2.) Has already beaten you to all the unique items and has proceeded to sell them for real money on Ebay. 3.) Is not in your Age group, Tax bracket, Generation Gap, Location or Species.
But I think the thing that the original poster has not realized is that he is the *odd man out* An "*ageing hipster* who participates in Online RPG" translates into "weird OG" to most of the kids online which, for the uninitiated masses of my generation does not stand for "original gangster" but "*Old Guy*". We aren't in charge anymore. These kids grew using computers, and didn't learn how to role play with those weird dice you had to colour in with the crayons that came in the box with the first books.
The mean age of online gamers is 13. some may even be cats. you can never trust cats. They sneak online when their owners aren't home and download huge videos of tuna fishing. Thats where all the bandwidth they can't understand they have used is coming from.. their cats. Some cats even post to/.
Then they sit smugly on top of their monitors and laugh at them.
Has *anyone* on this post stopped to think about how much less suffering is caused by a 'bomb lance' than with traditional harpoons? RTA: "The bomb lance was meant to kill the whale immediately" not one of the ppl who purport 'traditional methods' are thinking of the actual whale in question. It is much more humane to kill it cleanly and quickly than to let it suffer for hours while poking it it with traditional harpoons, with the chance that an injured, suffering whale might escape.
Has any one of those wanting these 'traditional methods' to be upheld ever had to go further than the supermarket to get meat, to actually kill their own perhaps? One thinks one would have a differing view if that were the case.
Not all fossils out of China are hoaxes, and I have yet to see one scientific site discredit this find. So for now the fossil stands: Gigantoraptor: flightless birdlike dinosaur feathers (some paleontologists theorize feathers first provided an evolutionary bonus for their insulation value) young adult 3,080lbs 26ft long 10 - 12ft tall 11 years old evolutionary side branch from birds.
Science has no truths, ideally, science can only disprove hypothesis and theorem, so until someone disproves this find, it stands as the current science of palaeontology.
I've done this several times with old keyboards. Its perfectly fine as long as you unscrew them and remove the electronic middle bits, and let it dry completely before you put it back together. Works on all of them.
We don't really know how long bowheads live, so who is to say whether or not this example is an senior whale or not.
It is however a sexually mature whale, which is at least better than culling pre-pubescent individuals, and although I do not agree with whaling because I believe they are sentient creatures, the Inuit populations in the area do rely on whaling as a food source and it is an important part of their culture historically.
We cannot look at an aspect of their culture and say 'oh that is barbaric' and attempt to take it away or condemn it. Anthropologically, this has never been successful unless the so called 'barbaric practice' is replaced with another culturally significant practice. In this case one would also have to replace the food source as well.
I hate to be the evil alien to spray concentrated acid for blood all over your class action suits parade. But has anyone here even *read* their acceptable use policy with thier ISP? unlimited internet access does not in any way mean unlimited internet *bandwidth* access. It simply means that your ISP has not blocked your user account from any internet website in the world. like some earlier ISP's did mentioning no *chough*Aol*chough* names of course.
Some ISPs will give you strict guidelines about how much they are willing to let you leach of their pipe before you have to start paying for it. Say 5gigs down to 1 gig up residential. while others don't go to the trouble as long as you dont bring your MP3WAREZJUGOTNOTINGWEDONTHAVE.COM up above their radar, then, of *course* they have to smack you down. SILLIES. You are being flagrant about how much you are abusing the system. They will let you off once with a warning. that sounds something like "Hi you are on our radar, try not to be on it again" The smart user will go "yipes!" and cut his usage down for 2 or 4 months to about half of what he was doing then after about 6 months at that *slowly* ramp it up to where it was *just* before he got warned. and hopefully the ISP has enough grannies who only use email once a month to camoflague your bandwidth use.
If you can't do that, most ISPs have extra bandwidth packages. They have to buy the bandwidth. so they will sell it to you if you ask nicely.
or go ahead and get your account pulled.... more bandwidth for me..
This is just the RIAA attempting to rein in yet more control of the artists under their power. The movie studios in the 20's and 30's did the same thing to thier artists before the the actors finally stood up to the studios and formed the precursor to SAG and brought the studio system to its knees. Perhaps this is what is needed in the music industry now. If the musicians and artists took a stand and united against the RIAA perhaps they would actually get fair monies for their talent, own their own music, and not have to be contracted for pennies while the Labels make millions on their names.
keeno. This is what I have been waiting for in a non military earth monitoring system..
Like when they first came out with those lam-o- CDrom atlasas I had 'google earth' in my braim as how it should be and was so dissapointed when I saw them. Watch this sattelite (sp?) is late I am going to bed, and I gave my spell check the night off.
With the data this thing can generate in the time it can generate it. it can be way faster than our earth based vulcanoligist in predicting a magor eruption. saving millions of lives in the process.
or their office is blocking the urls, or your email or instant msgr is cutting off the http at 80 char or something.......or perhaps there is an FBI agent sitting on top of your roof personally censoring all your msgs for content correctness.... thats the most likely story... im going with that.
they do *seem* to be a public company and well, if they want their stock to get a push this is one way to do it. I mean, if they really had a 'free energy' machine wouldn't they just go to their best friends', and ask:
"Oi! how much are you paying for your electrics bill a week?"
to which their friends' would reply:
"Is a pisser mate since me ma moved in is been fukkin'ell ya ken now?... Fifty-Fekken-Quid-a-fekken-week-mate! it's shite!"
"I ken enow. How would you like to pay shite? and to Hell with the electrics bill!"
"Yay!"
"Yay!"
And then they wouldn't *need* scientists or big ads in the economist, because they would have proof.
....sadly just another public company trying to rally their stock up without a product to sell.
they have brains as large as ours and can be taught a variety of intelligent things in lab tests.. one doesnt need limbs to use tools. If people can remember the Crow that could use tools?
I think we underestimate the intelligence of creatures around us constantly and don't give them enough credit as is.
And Gee who is more intelligent, they get to play with each other, eat, sleep hang out and have sex all day.. while we work and toil for a buck, just to get money so we can have a day off once in a while so we can have a bit of time to do the same... hmmm. my vote is with the dolphins.
but that is just my 2 cents. dont get me started on cephlopods.
well, in 2200 they will have devided it into the modded and the non modded fifa, and the modded happens every year before the modded so my original 2223 still stands.;) Don't count england out of the game just yet, when the mod's come it will be them and the Korean's, Brazil is only in becase they recieved a lot of tech help from Japan in 2222 Mod try outs. (Maggie Starts a Fifa war on slashdot)*grin* and besides, i never watch american brodcasts of fifa, only the european multicasts will do.;)
techgoddess mondays through fridays, enchantress of the enscorselled saturdays by apointment-
im still waiting for the 'modified' version of the olympics, and any other sports in the future i was talking about ages ago, with this, and 'face implants' and artificial hips and everything, its going to be one hell of a show... I mean imagine FIFA 2223 .. and its brazil and england tied in the last seconds of the match with one of england's modded forwards down for repairs from that blown calf in the first half they are having a hard time keeping brazils top mod Peleisgod away from their nets and Omigod. with only seconds to go he has blown both of his ankles and is head has completely come away from his body.. . "thats the new mod they just let in for the 2222 practice runs that i was telling you about jorja.. if i may butt in". oh really Raymond? ohmygod seconds to go and his head actually reaches the ball at 30 feet and is it?.... it is!.... GOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!! !! BRAZIL HAS WON WITH JUST SECONDS TO GO AND THERE IS THE HORN the fans are going wild with exitement and that is the end of the world cup match for 2223 this year held in new brazil on coming to you live brodcast from the moon we thank all our listeners and sponsers and goodnite... oh and such a disapointment for england..."
a girlfriend of mine told me not to get involved with that little Gnome leprechaun, apparantly one drink, one rohypnol and she ended naked chained to a python with a hell of a VI headache in the morning, and the only thing he left in the room were a bunch of old 'getting the best out of visual basic 1.0' manuals... little rat b4stard.
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It is certainly amazing that the rover is still running well after original mission end date and altogether amusing that, much like most other brilliant advances in science, the hydrothermal vent evidence was discovered completely by accident.
Chance; 'the powers that be'; chaos; coincidence; divine intervention; flying spaghetti monster or just the universes' subversive perverse version of humour; you get the feeling that if it weren't for an infinite amount of insanely improbable accidents, not only science but life as we know it just wouldn't have happened.
Come to think of it, The *Big Bang* probably happened because Chaos and God were up in God's room with Chaos' new chemistry set and they were arguing over who got to light the Bunsen burner when they accidentally knocked the "NEW INSTANT UNIVERSE!" out of the box and onto the floor.
(read instructions carefully. some assembly required. very fragile. may explode if dropped. do not unpack near open flame, spark or antimatter. Batteries not included. your results may vary. not responsible for damages incurred by improper implementation of instructions. universe may be damaged by improper handling. )
They were probably grounded for 240,000 years.
I am constantly amazed at how much greed can wipe histories lessons away, and how much hubris mankind has when profit margins are concerned. Has no one thought to point out to Ms. Blackwell that despite double 'a' batteries seeming safety that occasionally they do leak, but when they do however, the site of the leak does not require hundreds of years to recover, cause thyroid cancer, nor radiation poisoning.
History (and film) have shown us examples of men foolish enough to tempt the fates with statements that begin with "God himself could not sink this ship" and "KLATU. VERATA. NNNnnnecktie. Nectarine. Nickel, definitely an n word. KLATU. VERATA. nNNNChoughmumble cough cough cough."
The fates, such as history and Ash have shown us, are usually more than happy to give us a resounding "oh yeah?" and beat the tar out of our hubris. We never learn tho, there is always another Ash or Hyperion lurking around the corner ready to pronounce the phonetic incantations in the necronomicon 'for the record' and unleash evil on us all.
-m
You ever go to a Con and play a tournament roleplaying game? I challenge anyone of either sex to stand up at the end of one of those rooms and pick a single person in the room and say "hey, now *there's* a hot catch I'd like to spend the evening and a warm can of cocoa butter with!" without any alcohol.... ;)
I rest my case. *grin*
m&m
My god
He is like some horrible cancer. He has gotten so huge and meglomaniacal everyone is afraid to censure him. From editing his bad film choices to just saying NO to his really horrible ideas. He is like some huge and warty scab encrusted cyst with teeth and hair.
He is becoming an embarrassment to his own company. From his lack of chin to his vaguely disguised racist leanings in his films.
when will it stop? When will someone stand up to him and just say No George, its just a stupid idea.
I used to be into gaming, I was right there at stage 1, complete with the puny little dice you had to colour in with the crayons that came in the first box. I graduated to AD&D and bought all the books printed by TSR and the *exalted* Gary Gygax. Complete with the the first edition 'No we didn't ask for permission, why are you suing us?' version of Deities and Demigods. I even have a box of painted lead guys I have to keep on a top shelf so my son won't get at them and eat them. (funny how they ban toys for having a bit of lead paint now but they used to *sell* us whole little lead guys to play with)...I remember being bored and twirling dice... Painstakingly setting up almost a hundred little separately bought lead guys for a battle and having the cat jump on the table and wreak havok.. *SAVE VS GIANT CAT!! MINUS 12 DAMAGES AIEEEE!!* oh yes, our DM was merciless.. if the cat reached up and knocked your little lead guy off the table you were done for. You sometimes had to hire an npc to run around the dungeon with 50 ft of rope just to keep it off your party's tail.
I was considered a weirdo, being a GIRL, they even made me roll vs pregnancy in the first few games I played, like my character could catch it from walking around in dungeons, but what did they know, they were adolescent boys.
We grew tired of the system mechanics TSR employed and adopted our own percentile system loosely based on twilight 2000 early on in the 'old school' days, and based our own worlds on it.
We had brief spells of Shadowrun, more book buying, more dissatisfaction with the limitations of the system, more making up our own rules loosely based on the best of the different hand picked ones we had grabbed from different books,. Then TSR fumbled and the guys at Wizards of the Coast picked up the ball, and the D20 system lured us back. More book buying, more dissatisfaction on learning the limitations of the system.... are we seeing the trend here? I am assuming a lot more people had the same experiences, and put a lot of money into the coffers of TSR/wizards/etc. trying to find their 'ideal' gaming system.
But enough about me, on to the theory:
My Gaming friends and I came up with this inverse theory of relativity:
The percentage of gaming books you own is inversely relative to the amount of dates you go out on. regardless of gender.
I still game occasionally, but I make do with the rules we have tuned over the years knowing now that they are going to be better than any the guys on the corporate side are shelling for 50 bux a pop.
"I'm in my daytimer, booking Ur *completely unnecessary* veterinary surgery "
*GRIN*
As I said in my original comment, I personally don't agree with the taking of whales as I believe that they are sentient creatures and do not think they should be harvested. If you scroll up you can read my original comments on that and the problems of removing cultural practises and food sources. In another point, bowhead whales are not on the endangered list, and the IWC has limited the aboriginal peoples of Alaska to approximately 2.5 whales per villiage per month over the next 5 years. Hardly a dent in the population of bowheads.
As it turns out, in other whale populations worldwide, some whales (Eastern Grey whales in this case) may be evolving / happening on a happy solution to the whole 'whales as food/resource' problem. If it turns out not to effect them health wise in the long run, Stinky Whales may just convince hunters to stop hunting them, and may turn into an effective defense strategy.
What, is this 1990 all over again? I can understand being a bit weirded the first time you realize that most of the online gaming community:
/.
1.) Is Better than you.
2.) Has already beaten you to all the unique items and has proceeded to sell them for real money on Ebay.
3.) Is not in your Age group, Tax bracket, Generation Gap, Location or Species.
But I think the thing that the original poster has not realized is that he is the *odd man out*
An "*ageing hipster* who participates in Online RPG" translates into "weird OG" to most of the kids online which, for the uninitiated masses of my generation does not stand for "original gangster" but "*Old Guy*". We aren't in charge anymore. These kids grew using computers, and didn't learn how to role play with those weird dice you had to colour in with the crayons that came in the box with the first books.
The mean age of online gamers is 13. some may even be cats. you can never trust cats. They sneak online when their owners aren't home and download huge videos of tuna fishing. Thats where all the bandwidth they can't understand they have used is coming from.. their cats. Some cats even post to
Then they sit smugly on top of their monitors and laugh at them.
anyway, I digress.
-m
Has *anyone* on this post stopped to think about how much less suffering is caused by a 'bomb lance' than with traditional harpoons? RTA: "The bomb lance was meant to kill the whale immediately" not one of the ppl who purport 'traditional methods' are thinking of the actual whale in question. It is much more humane to kill it cleanly and quickly than to let it suffer for hours while poking it it with traditional harpoons, with the chance that an injured, suffering whale might escape.
Has any one of those wanting these 'traditional methods' to be upheld ever had to go further than the supermarket to get meat, to actually kill their own perhaps? One thinks one would have a differing view if that were the case.
Not all fossils out of China are hoaxes, and I have yet to see one scientific site discredit this find. So for now the fossil stands:
Gigantoraptor:
flightless birdlike dinosaur
feathers (some paleontologists theorize feathers first provided an evolutionary bonus for their insulation value)
young adult
3,080lbs
26ft long
10 - 12ft tall
11 years old
evolutionary side branch from birds.
Science has no truths, ideally, science can only disprove hypothesis and theorem, so until someone disproves this find, it stands as the current science of palaeontology.
I've done this several times with old keyboards. Its perfectly fine as long as you unscrew them and remove the electronic middle bits, and let it dry completely before you put it back together. Works on all of them.
We don't really know how long bowheads live, so who is to say whether or not this example is an senior whale or not.
It is however a sexually mature whale, which is at least better than culling pre-pubescent individuals, and although I do not agree with whaling because I believe they are sentient creatures, the Inuit populations in the area do rely on whaling as a food source and it is an important part of their culture historically.
We cannot look at an aspect of their culture and say 'oh that is barbaric' and attempt to take it away or condemn it. Anthropologically, this has never been successful unless the so called 'barbaric practice' is replaced with another culturally significant practice. In this case one would also have to replace the food source as well.
I hate to be the evil alien to spray concentrated acid for blood all over your class action suits parade. But has anyone here even *read* their acceptable use policy with thier ISP? unlimited internet access does not in any way mean unlimited internet *bandwidth* access. It simply means that your ISP has not blocked your user account from any internet website in the world. like some earlier ISP's did mentioning no *chough*Aol*chough* names of course.
... more bandwidth for me..
Some ISPs will give you strict guidelines about how much they are willing to let you leach of their pipe before you have to start paying for it. Say 5gigs down to 1 gig up residential. while others don't go to the trouble as long as you dont bring your MP3WAREZJUGOTNOTINGWEDONTHAVE.COM up above their radar, then, of *course* they have to smack you down. SILLIES. You are being flagrant about how much you are abusing the system. They will let you off once with a warning. that sounds something like "Hi you are on our radar, try not to be on it again" The smart user will go "yipes!" and cut his usage down for 2 or 4 months to about half of what he was doing then after about 6 months at that *slowly* ramp it up to where it was *just* before he got warned. and hopefully the ISP has enough grannies who only use email once a month to camoflague your bandwidth use.
If you can't do that, most ISPs have extra bandwidth packages. They have to buy the bandwidth. so they will sell it to you if you ask nicely.
or go ahead and get your account pulled.
-m
This is just the RIAA attempting to rein in yet more control of the artists under their power. The movie studios in the 20's and 30's did the same thing to thier artists before the the actors finally stood up to the studios and formed the precursor to SAG and brought the studio system to its knees. Perhaps this is what is needed in the music industry now. If the musicians and artists took a stand and united against the RIAA perhaps they would actually get fair monies for their talent, own their own music, and not have to be contracted for pennies while the Labels make millions on their names.
-my drachma
and aI cannot beleive one of you didnt grab the classic line
"Well it should be okay as long as we don't LICK it!' from creep show"
or am I just showing my age...
-m
keeno. This is what I have been waiting for in a non military earth monitoring system..
Like when they first came out with those lam-o- CDrom atlasas I had 'google earth' in my braim as how it should be and was so dissapointed when I saw them. Watch this sattelite (sp?) is late I am going to bed, and I gave my spell check the night off.
With the data this thing can generate in the time it can generate it. it can be way faster than our earth based vulcanoligist in predicting a magor eruption. saving millions of lives in the process.
Good article.
or their office is blocking the urls, or your email or instant msgr is cutting off the http at 80 char or something. .. ....or perhaps there is an FBI agent sitting on top of your roof personally censoring all your msgs for content correctness. ... thats the most likely story... im going with that.
they do *seem* to be a public company and well, if they want their stock to get a push this is one way to do it. I mean, if they really had a 'free energy' machine wouldn't they just go to their best friends', and ask:
"Oi! how much are you paying for your electrics bill a week?"
to which their friends' would reply:"Is a pisser mate since me ma moved in is been fukkin'ell ya ken now?... Fifty-Fekken-Quid-a-fekken-week-mate! it's shite!"
"I ken enow. How would you like to pay shite? and to Hell with the electrics bill!"
"Yay!"
"Yay!"
And then they wouldn't *need* scientists or big ads in the economist, because they would have proof.
-mag
they have brains as large as ours and can be taught a variety of intelligent things in lab tests.. one doesnt need limbs to use tools. If people can remember the Crow that could use tools?
Recently there seemed to be an article on dolphin communication http://www.dolphincommunicationproject.org/>here.
I think we underestimate the intelligence of creatures around us constantly and don't give them enough credit as is.
And Gee who is more intelligent, they get to play with each other, eat, sleep hang out and have sex all day.. while we work and toil for a buck, just to get money so we can have a day off once in a while so we can have a bit of time to do the same... hmmm. my vote is with the dolphins.
but that is just my 2 cents. dont get me started on cephlopods.
Chtulu for president.
well, in 2200 they will have devided it into the modded and the non modded fifa, and the modded happens every year before the modded so my original 2223 still stands. ;) ;)
Don't count england out of the game just yet, when the mod's come it will be them and the Korean's, Brazil is only in becase they recieved a lot of tech help from Japan in 2222 Mod try outs.
(Maggie Starts a Fifa war on slashdot)*grin* and besides, i never watch american brodcasts of fifa, only the european multicasts will do.
techgoddess mondays through fridays, enchantress of the enscorselled saturdays by apointment-
im still waiting for the 'modified' version of the olympics, and any other sports in the future i was talking about ages ago, with this, and 'face implants' and artificial hips and everything, its going to be one hell of a show. .. I mean imagine FIFA 2223
.. and its brazil and england tied in the last seconds of the match with one of england's modded forwards down for repairs from that blown calf in the first half they are having a hard time keeping brazils top mod Peleisgod away from their nets and Omigod. with only seconds to go he has blown both of his ankles and is head has completely come away from his body .. . "thats the new mod they just let in for the 2222 practice runs that i was telling you about jorja.. if i may butt in". oh really Raymond? ohmygod seconds to go and his head actually reaches the ball at 30 feet and is it?.... it is!.... GOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!! !! BRAZIL HAS WON WITH JUST SECONDS TO GO AND THERE IS THE HORN the fans are going wild with exitement and that is the end of the world cup match for 2223 this year held in new brazil on coming to you live brodcast from the moon we thank all our listeners and sponsers and goodnite ... oh and such a disapointment for england..."
anyway... i digress. you get the idea.
you see, even google knows, now *THAT* would have been a better name.
a girlfriend of mine told me not to get involved with that little Gnome leprechaun, apparantly one drink, one rohypnol and she ended naked chained to a python with a hell of a VI headache in the morning, and the only thing he left in the room were a bunch of old 'getting the best out of visual basic 1.0' manuals... little rat b4stard.
perhaps the wireshark ate all the ethereels and is now too full to go anywhere.