But but... I still haven't won Civ 3 C on deity level yet. The C5 graphics/movies look stunning, but multiplayer Civ, which I've never tried in years of playing, seems like an extremely tedious business. I turn off "see friendly moves" on large maps because i think the AI's turn takes to long. Imagine having to wait for two (or five) human players. And I tend to play "one more turn" for about ten hours occasionally. Any experienced online Civ players care to explain how that works? Do you play one turn per day a la PBM/ some online go/chess matches?
Ah, Slippery Jim DiGriz, she is attempting to have an illegal space battleship built on a backwoods planet. I should have known, it's to large for a transport in this day and age ; ).
(Harry Harrison, Astounding, The Misplaced Battleship (1960)).
Where to start. Shoddy craftsmanship. Highly illogical. Dumb all over (and maybe a little ugly on the side). After using PINE http://www.washington.edu/pine/ for a couple of years I was confronted with OE on someone's computer somewhere. It was like a kick to the balls. Now get of my lawn : ).
(Interview with Notorious Lawyer Jacques Vergès). 'There Is No Such Thing as Absolute Evil' He has met Mao Zedong, Pol Pot and Che Guevara. He defended 'Carlos the Jackal' and Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie. Jacques Vergès, 83, is probably the world's most notorious attorney. His latest client is Khieu Samphan, the former head of state of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, who is on trial for war crimes.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Vergès, are you attracted to evil?
Jacques Vergès: Nature is wild, unpredictable and senselessly gruesome. What distinguishes human beings from animals is the ability to speak on behalf of evil. Crime is a symbol of our freedom.
SPIEGEL: That's a cynical worldview.
Vergès: A realistic one.
SPIEGEL: You have defended some of the worst mass murderers in recent history, and you have been called the "devil's advocate." Why do you feel so drawn to clients like Carlos and Klaus Barbie?
Vergès: I believe that everyone, no matter what he may have done, has the right to a fair trial. The public is always quick to assign the label of "monster." But monsters do not exist, just as there is no such thing as absolute evil. My clients are human beings, people with two eyes, two hands, a gender and emotions. That's what makes them so sinister.
SPIEGEL: What do you mean?
Vergès: What was so shocking about Hitler the "monster" was that he loved his dog so much and kissed the hands of his secretaries -- as we know from the literature of the Third Reich and the film "Der Untergang" ("Downfall"). The interesting thing about my clients is discovering what brings them to do these horrific things. My ambition is to illuminate the path that led them to commit these acts. A good trial is like a Shakespeare play, a work of art.
SPIEGEL: Are there any people whose defense you would not take on out of principle?
Vergès: One of my principles is to have no principles. That's why I would not turn down anyone.
SPIEGEL: Let's say, Adolf Hitler...
Vergès: I would have defended Hitler. I would also accept Osama bin Laden as a client, even (US President) George W. Bush -- as long as he pleads guilty.
SPIEGEL: You can't seriously be mentioning Hitler, Bin Laden and Bush, and their failings, in the same breath.
Vergès: Every crime is unique, and so is every criminal. That alone makes such comparisons impossible.
'In the Netherlands, the effort at establishing a comprehensive population registration system for administrative and statistical purposes was completed even before the Nazi-occupation (Methorst, 1936; Thomas, 1937). In 1938 H. W. Methorst, who was then the director-general of the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics and formerly also head of the Dutch office of population registration, reported on the rapid progress being made in the Netherlands in implementing a new comprehensive system of population registration that would follow each person "from cradle to grave" and open "wide perspectives for simplification of municipal administration and at the same time social research" (1938: 713-714)...... These registration systems and the related identity cards played an important role in the apprehension of Dutch Jews and Gypsies prior to their eventual deportation to the death camps. Dutch Jews had the highest death rate (73 percent) of Jews residing in any occupied western European country--far higher than the death rate among the Jewish population of Belgium (40 percent) and France (25 percent), for example." source: "The Dark Side of Numbers: The Role of Population Data Systems in Human Rights Abuses." Social Research, Summer, 2001, by William Seltzer, Margo Anderson, hosted by findarticles.com: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2267/2_68/77187772/p4/article.jhtml?term=
Photo caption "Exhausted workers taking a break by The National Labor Committee. These teenagers work for the KYE factory in China, which manufactures computer mice and webcams for Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Samsung, Best Buy, Foxconn, Acer, Logitech, and other US companies. The factory violates every labor law in China, with grueling, long hours at an exhausting work pace. KYE recruits hundreds of "work study students" 16 and 17 years of age, who work 15-hour shifts, six and seven days a week".
to believe that after 13.75 ±0.17 billion years of the Universes existence, we are the only culmination of advanced civilization is questionable at best. A million years is enough time to create an civilization more advanced than ours. Another million years to completely erase that very same civilization with absolutely no evidence left. The (current) Universe might not have been hospitable for life for the first 6 billion years. That leaves 7 billion years unaccounted for. The universe is rather large There will almost certainly be alien life forms. But WHEN? I think that in our own limited time-frame we'll find remnants and/or embryo's, if any proof at all.
Humanity has no experience establishing communities that don't have endemic corruption and government mismanagement. If anything that is what is going to sink this project.
If you're going to limit the naming of your party to "things Americans don't shoot at", you're seriously limiting yourself, slippery. "Democrats" and "Republicans" is right out the window for instance ; ).
This review is from: Alien Life-Sized Facehugger Plush (Toy)
"On those cold rainy lonely nights every good colonist or marine needs some thing to snuggle up to, and this fits the bill perfectly! What is more comforting than your own personal facehugger? Fully articulated legs and tail ensure a proper grip, so there will be no escape"!
"A male masseuse"? Isn't that what Julius Caesar said to Pompey before crossing the Rubicon? I think that's crossing the line already. As soon as the masseuse starts saying he has magical healing abilities and can cure illness then he will begin to attract disciples and followers. Of course, "masseuse" will have to be changed to "carpenter" later, to appeal to a broader customer base. Carry on.
Behind Winston's back the voice from the Guardian Angel was still babbling away about pig-iron and the over fulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The Guardian Angel received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual Guardian Angel was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your Guardian Angel whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
Chaos theory is a field of study in mathematics, physics, and philosophy studying the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. This sensitivity is popularly referred to as the butterfly effect. Small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation) yield widely diverging outcomes for chaotic systems, rendering long-term prediction impossible in general.[1] This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future behaviour is fully determined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved.[2] In other words, the deterministic nature of these systems does not make them predictable.[3] This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos.
Chaotic behavior can be observed in many natural systems, such as the weather.[4] Explanation of such behavior may be sought through analysis of a chaotic mathematical model, or through analytical techniques such as recurrence plots and Poincaré maps.
Slashdot Mirror
"we should be able to make sure that our financial markets are effectively monitored and investors are protected".
New York, concrete jungle where dreams are Madoff.
No, Voyager's obviously Snowcrashed.
How is this flameblade? I think it's a very valid point.
Although whale-porn isn't my cup of tea either.
"It's wales, jimmy, but not a we know them".
But but ...
I still haven't won Civ 3 C on deity level yet.
The C5 graphics/movies look stunning, but multiplayer Civ, which I've never tried in years of playing, seems like an extremely tedious business.
I turn off "see friendly moves" on large maps because i think the AI's turn takes to long.
Imagine having to wait for two (or five) human players. And I tend to play "one more turn" for about ten hours occasionally.
Any experienced online Civ players care to explain how that works? Do you play one turn per day a la PBM/ some online go/chess matches?
Ah, Slippery Jim DiGriz, she is attempting to have an illegal space battleship built on a backwoods planet.
I should have known, it's to large for a transport in this day and age ; ).
(Harry Harrison, Astounding, The Misplaced Battleship (1960)).
It was destroyed by Philip J. Fry in the First Omicronian Invasion of Earth because it looked like an Omicronian Ship.
Ah, thanks, that wasn't just me and my blasted hearing...
Where to start.
Shoddy craftsmanship. Highly illogical. Dumb all over (and maybe a little ugly on the side).
After using PINE http://www.washington.edu/pine/ for a couple of years I was confronted with OE on someone's computer somewhere. It was like a kick to the balls. Now get of my lawn : ).
http://www.nthelp.com/50/Outlook_error_codes.htm
"So, what evil interfaces have you encountered on (or off) the Web"?
Outlook Express.
(Interview with Notorious Lawyer Jacques Vergès).
'There Is No Such Thing as Absolute Evil'
He has met Mao Zedong, Pol Pot and Che Guevara. He defended 'Carlos the Jackal' and Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie. Jacques Vergès, 83, is probably the world's most notorious attorney. His latest client is Khieu Samphan, the former head of state of Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, who is on trial for war crimes.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Vergès, are you attracted to evil?
Jacques Vergès: Nature is wild, unpredictable and senselessly gruesome. What distinguishes human beings from animals is the ability to speak on behalf of evil. Crime is a symbol of our freedom.
SPIEGEL: That's a cynical worldview.
Vergès: A realistic one.
SPIEGEL: You have defended some of the worst mass murderers in recent history, and you have been called the "devil's advocate." Why do you feel so drawn to clients like Carlos and Klaus Barbie?
Vergès: I believe that everyone, no matter what he may have done, has the right to a fair trial. The public is always quick to assign the label of "monster." But monsters do not exist, just as there is no such thing as absolute evil. My clients are human beings, people with two eyes, two hands, a gender and emotions. That's what makes them so sinister.
SPIEGEL: What do you mean?
Vergès: What was so shocking about Hitler the "monster" was that he loved his dog so much and kissed the hands of his secretaries -- as we know from the literature of the Third Reich and the film "Der Untergang" ("Downfall"). The interesting thing about my clients is discovering what brings them to do these horrific things. My ambition is to illuminate the path that led them to commit these acts. A good trial is like a Shakespeare play, a work of art.
SPIEGEL: Are there any people whose defense you would not take on out of principle?
Vergès: One of my principles is to have no principles. That's why I would not turn down anyone.
SPIEGEL: Let's say, Adolf Hitler...
Vergès: I would have defended Hitler. I would also accept Osama bin Laden as a client, even (US President) George W. Bush -- as long as he pleads guilty.
SPIEGEL: You can't seriously be mentioning Hitler, Bin Laden and Bush, and their failings, in the same breath.
Vergès: Every crime is unique, and so is every criminal. That alone makes such comparisons impossible.
'In the Netherlands, the effort at establishing a comprehensive ... These registration systems and the related identity cards played
population registration system for administrative and statistical
purposes was completed even before the Nazi-occupation (Methorst,
1936; Thomas, 1937). In 1938 H. W. Methorst, who was then the
director-general of the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics and
formerly also head of the Dutch office of population registration,
reported on the rapid progress being made in the Netherlands in
implementing a new comprehensive system of population registration
that would follow each person "from cradle to grave" and open "wide
perspectives for simplification of municipal administration and at the
same time social research" (1938: 713-714)...
an important role in the apprehension of Dutch Jews and Gypsies prior
to their eventual deportation to the death camps. Dutch Jews had the
highest death rate (73 percent) of Jews residing in any occupied
western European country--far higher than the death rate among the
Jewish population of Belgium (40 percent) and France (25 percent), for
example."
source:
"The Dark Side of Numbers: The Role of Population Data Systems in
Human Rights Abuses." Social Research, Summer, 2001, by William
Seltzer, Margo Anderson, hosted by findarticles.com:
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2267/2_68/77187772/p4/article.jhtml?term=
"There is a foreign submarine bearing a nuclear bomb armed missile or three, off your coast right now..."
F#cking terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.
I say invade!
Is the hamster named Faraday?
http://tluthman.home.mindspring.com/dragoncon2004/images/DSCN6529-dc2004.JPG
Priceless.
"That's no fireball!"
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2782/4454969320_a34f2800c8.jpg
Photo caption
"Exhausted workers taking a break by The National Labor Committee.
These teenagers work for the KYE factory in China, which manufactures computer mice and webcams for Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Samsung, Best Buy, Foxconn, Acer, Logitech, and other US companies. The factory violates every labor law in China, with grueling, long hours at an exhausting work pace. KYE recruits hundreds of "work study students" 16 and 17 years of age, who work 15-hour shifts, six and seven days a week".
Having been high in and over both, I can positively state that there is more grass in Holland than in Somalia, and it is indeed greener.
to believe that after 13.75 ±0.17 billion years of the Universes existence, we are the only culmination of advanced civilization is questionable at best. A million years is enough time to create an civilization more advanced than ours. Another million years to completely erase that very same civilization with absolutely no evidence left. The (current) Universe might not have been hospitable for life for the first 6 billion years. That leaves 7 billion years unaccounted for.
The universe is rather large There will almost certainly be alien life forms. But WHEN?
I think that in our own limited time-frame we'll find remnants and/or embryo's, if any proof at all.
Humanity has no experience establishing communities that don't have endemic corruption and government mismanagement. If anything that is what is going to sink this project.
If you're going to limit the naming of your party to "things Americans don't shoot at", you're seriously limiting yourself, slippery. "Democrats" and "Republicans" is right out the window for instance ; ).
The REAL hug secret
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X11XJ3FRL._SS500_.jpg
This review is from: Alien Life-Sized Facehugger Plush (Toy)
"On those cold rainy lonely nights every good colonist or marine needs some thing to snuggle up to, and this fits the bill perfectly! What is more comforting than your own personal facehugger? Fully articulated legs and tail ensure a proper grip, so there will be no escape"!
"A male masseuse"?
Isn't that what Julius Caesar said to Pompey before crossing the Rubicon?
I think that's crossing the line already.
As soon as the masseuse starts saying he has magical healing abilities and can cure illness then he will begin to attract disciples and followers. Of course, "masseuse" will have to be changed to "carpenter" later, to appeal to a broader customer base.
Carry on.
Behind Winston's back the voice from the Guardian Angel was still babbling away about pig-iron and the over fulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The Guardian Angel received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual Guardian Angel was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your Guardian Angel whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
Chaos theory is a field of study in mathematics, physics, and philosophy studying the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. This sensitivity is popularly referred to as the butterfly effect. Small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation) yield widely diverging outcomes for chaotic systems, rendering long-term prediction impossible in general.[1] This happens even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future behaviour is fully determined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved.[2] In other words, the deterministic nature of these systems does not make them predictable.[3] This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos.
Chaotic behavior can be observed in many natural systems, such as the weather.[4] Explanation of such behavior may be sought through analysis of a chaotic mathematical model, or through analytical techniques such as recurrence plots and Poincaré maps.