Re:The killer gazebo, FYI, no, not you, them.
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ED: You see a well groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you see a gazebo. ERIC: A gazebo? What color is it? ED: [pause] It's white, Eric. ERIC: How far away is it? ED: About 50 yards. ERIC: How big is it? ED: [pause] It's about 30 ft across, 15 ft high, with a pointed top. ERIC: I use my sword to detect good on it. ED: It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo. ERIC: [pause] I call out to it. ED: It won't answer. It's a gazebo. ERIC: [pause] I sheathe my sword and draw my bow and arrows. Does it respond in any way? ED: No, Eric, it's a gazebo! ERIC: I shoot it with my bow. [roll to hit] What happened? ED: There is now a gazebo with an arrow sticking out of it. ERIC: [pause] Wasn't it wounded? ED: OF COURSE NOT, ERIC! IT'S A GAZEBO! ERIC: [whimper] But that was a +3 arrow! ED: It's a gazebo, Eric, a GAZEBO! If you really want to try to destroy it, you could try to chop it with an axe, I suppose, or you could try to burn it, but I don't know why anybody would even try. It's a @#$%!! gazebo! ERIC: [long pause. He has no axe or fire spells.] I run away. ED: [thoroughly frustrated] It's too late. You've awakened the gazebo. It catches you and eats you. ERIC: [reaching for his dice] Maybe I'll roll up a fire-using mage so I can avenge my Paladin.
"The Australian Classification Board has written to Government expressing concerns that mobile phone applications are being made available in Australia without being subject to a ratings process."
Government: magically transforming self-righteous assholes into civil servants.
Tweak the gamma -- If the game is too dark for you and cranking up the brightness slider doesn't suffice, you might try playing with the gamma setting from the console. Pull down a console with ctrl-alt-~. Then type "r_gamma 1.2" and see what you think. The game's default is "r_gamma 1", and I've found something between 1.2 and 1.4 works for me.
"The PRESIDENT has the RED NUCLEAR MAILBOMB and an RPG, so he's going to meet with the SMALL POX CRYPTO INFILTRATION team and the SUBVERSIVES from WHITE YANKEE, then ASSASINATE the SECRET SERVICE CLAYMORE MUNITIONS after lunch."
It occurs to me that man and his religion are one and the same thing. The unknown exists. Each man projects on the blankness the shape of his own particular world-view. He endows his creation with his own personal volitions and attitudes. The religious man stating his case is in essence explaining himself. When a fanatic is contradicted he feels a threat to his own existence; he reacts violently. And the atheist projects no image upon the blank whatever. The cosmic mysteries he accepts as things in themselves; he feels no need to hang a more or less human mask upon them. Otherwise,the correlation between a man and the shape into which he moulds the unknown for greater ease of manipulaion is exact.
"Surely there is a stable point somewhere above the sun?"
No.
Gravity is always pulling you down, but there are places in the solar system where gravity balances out. These are called Lagrange points and space agencies use them as stable places to put spacecraft. If you're not in one of those places, you're happily going to fall on/in-to the object or end up in some sort of orbit going around the object, but you're not going to be motionless or synced up with anything.
All stable points within our solar system (L1/L5) are on the ecliptic plane iirc.
In 1895, Thomas Edison investigated materials' ability to fluoresce when exposed to X-rays, and found that calcium tungstate was the most effective substance. Around March 1896, the fluoroscope he developed became the standard for medical X-ray examinations. Nevertheless, Edison dropped X-ray research around 1903 after the death of Clarence Madison Dally, one of his glassblowers. Dally had a habit of testing X-ray tubes on his hands, and acquired a cancer in them so tenacious that both arms were amputated in a futile attempt to save his life.
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ED: You see a well groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you see a gazebo.
ERIC: A gazebo? What color is it?
ED: [pause] It's white, Eric.
ERIC: How far away is it?
ED: About 50 yards.
ERIC: How big is it?
ED: [pause] It's about 30 ft across, 15 ft high, with a pointed top.
ERIC: I use my sword to detect good on it.
ED: It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo.
ERIC: [pause] I call out to it.
ED: It won't answer. It's a gazebo.
ERIC: [pause] I sheathe my sword and draw my bow and arrows. Does it respond in any way?
ED: No, Eric, it's a gazebo!
ERIC: I shoot it with my bow. [roll to hit] What happened?
ED: There is now a gazebo with an arrow sticking out of it.
ERIC: [pause] Wasn't it wounded?
ED: OF COURSE NOT, ERIC! IT'S A GAZEBO!
ERIC: [whimper] But that was a +3 arrow!
ED: It's a gazebo, Eric, a GAZEBO! If you really want to try to destroy it, you could try to chop it with an axe, I suppose, or you could try to burn it, but I don't know why anybody would even try. It's a @#$%!! gazebo!
ERIC: [long pause. He has no axe or fire spells.] I run away.
ED: [thoroughly frustrated] It's too late. You've awakened the gazebo. It catches you and eats you.
ERIC: [reaching for his dice] Maybe I'll roll up a fire-using mage so I can avenge my Paladin.
http://odeo.com/episodes/22014686-John-Hodgman-on-Dungeons-and-Dragons
This man's use of language reminds me of Terry Pratchett somehow. The American version.
Reminds me of the "Get ready to Rumble"-pack, but with a chip on my shoulder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_Pak
Well, actually
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
Perminov said that the draft design of the spacecraft would be finalized by 2012.
This can only end in disaster!
This just in: Home cooking is killing McDonalds.
http://extrados.mforos.com/620462/4505345-israel-unit-8200/
"Just out of curiosity, what jurisdiction do the dutch have?"
No more hookers and blow for you my friend...
I wanted to start a farm on Feedji, you insensitive clod!
And (a screenshot of) the original post by "Vendetta":
http://tweakers.net/ext/i/1256117383.png
"The Australian Classification Board has written to Government expressing concerns that mobile phone applications are being made available in Australia without being subject to a ratings process."
Government: magically transforming self-righteous assholes into civil servants.
Tweak the gamma -- If the game is too dark for you and cranking up the brightness slider doesn't suffice, you might try playing with the gamma setting from the console.
Pull down a console with ctrl-alt-~. Then type "r_gamma 1.2" and see what you think. The game's default is "r_gamma 1", and I've found something between 1.2 and 1.4 works for me.
"The PRESIDENT has the RED NUCLEAR MAILBOMB and an RPG, so he's going to meet with the SMALL POX CRYPTO INFILTRATION team and the SUBVERSIVES from WHITE YANKEE, then ASSASINATE the SECRET SERVICE CLAYMORE MUNITIONS after lunch."
http://echelonspoofer.com/
(from the presspiece)
"If you had such a 3603d display, what would you use it for?"
Talk about a loaded question.
Pr0n of course (but with more sanity damage perhaps).
It occurs to me that man and his religion are one and the same thing. The unknown exists. Each man projects on the blankness the shape of his own particular world-view. He endows his creation with his own personal volitions and attitudes. The religious man stating his case is in essence explaining himself. When a fanatic is contradicted he feels a threat to his own existence; he reacts violently. And the atheist projects no image upon the blank whatever. The cosmic mysteries he accepts as things in themselves; he feels no need to hang a more or less human mask upon them.
Otherwise,the correlation between a man and the shape into which he moulds the unknown for greater ease of manipulaion is exact.
All bow and prostrate before divine Jack Vance!
(Planet of Adventure/Servants of the Wankh)
No it's yellow as in
"Tie a yellow ribbon round the Yggdrasil"
Throw the thing into a canoe...
GoogleMoses?
"Surely there is a stable point somewhere above the sun?"
No.
Gravity is always pulling you down, but there are places in the solar system where gravity balances out. These are called Lagrange points and space agencies use them as stable places to put spacecraft. If you're not in one of those places, you're happily going to fall on/in-to the object or end up in some sort of orbit going around the object, but you're not going to be motionless or synced up with anything.
All stable points within our solar system (L1/L5) are on the ecliptic plane iirc.
Take me up to LaGrange city
Where the girls are green
And the grass is pretty
Take me home (Oh, won't you please take me home)
-Guns'n Roses singing about Martian girls and space weed.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Spy_vs_spy.gif
The maffia won't kick you off the mountain when you seem to be able to reach the top?
re: Japanese fighted with military against military
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
"Your puny", "Don't be shy" and "He just wants"?
Yeah, they're taken.
In 1895, Thomas Edison investigated materials' ability to fluoresce when exposed to X-rays, and found that calcium tungstate was the most effective substance. Around March 1896, the fluoroscope he developed became the standard for medical X-ray examinations. Nevertheless, Edison dropped X-ray research around 1903 after the death of Clarence Madison Dally, one of his glassblowers. Dally had a habit of testing X-ray tubes on his hands, and acquired a cancer in them so tenacious that both arms were amputated in a futile attempt to save his life.
Ah, the Radiohead Shack at 8 Infinity Drive ; ).
To be honest i think Tom York of Radiohead was also thinking of Marvin.
re:"He looks like a cell phone"...
I want that cell phone you're referring to