Why couldn't they have followed Rockstar's lead and just released the damn game without any strings? It sure as hell would have simplified localization!
It's my interpretation that the GP was spoofing the rhetoric used during the Bush-Kerry election:
"Just ask yourself this: Are you safer now that you were four years ago?" in regards to the terrrists [sic], delivered with an implicit "Duh, of course!"
In a similar vein, Isaac Asimov wrote a song about clones:
The Clone Song By: Isaac Asimov Tune: Home On The Range
Oh, give me a clone \ Of my own flesh and bone With its Y chromosome changed to X. And after it's grown, \ Then my own little clone Will be of the opposite sex.
Clone, clone of my own, With its Y chromosome changed to X. And when I'm alone \ With my own little clone We will both think of nothing but sex.
Oh, give me a clone, \ Is my sorrowful moan, A clone that is wholly my own. And if she's X-X, \ And the feminine sex, Oh, what fun we will have when we're prone.
Clone, clone of my own, With its Y chromosome changed to X. And when I'm alone \ With my own little clone We will both think of nothing but sex.
My heart's not of stone, \ As I've frequently shone When alone with my own little X. And after we've dined, \ I am sure we will find Better incest then Oedipus Rex.
Clone, clone of my own, With its Y chromosome changed to X. And when I'm alone \ With my own little clone We will both think of nothing but sex.
Why should such sex vex, \ Or disturb or perplex, Or induce a disparaging tone? After all, don't you see, \ Since we're both of us me, When we're having sex, I'm alone.
Clone, clone of my own, With its Y chromosome changed to X. And when I'm alone \ With my own little clone We will both think of nothing but sex.
And after I'm done \ She will still have her fun, For I'll clone myself twice ere I die. And this time without fail, \ They'll be both of them male, And they'll each ravage her by and by.
Clone, clone of my own, With its Y chromosome changed to X. And when I'm alone \ With my own little clone We will both think of nothing but sex.
Set up your own journals and charge nothing or a token amount for access. If scientists are so bigoted they only deign to acknowledge work published in overpriced, unnecessary, exploitative publishers' journals, the problem is on the scientists' end.
I'm not sure why you got modded down. You're pretty obviously correct.
Actually, this very activity - shilling stories to blogs as a part of a calculated advertising / PR campaign - would make an excellent Slashdot story itself!
You're right! I'm going to write something up in my blog and then submit it!
Martial artists tend to due poorly in boxing, unless they've specifically trained in that discipline. You can't disallow a majority of a person's techniques and expect them to do well against someone who has specialized in what's left.
As an FYI, I have read that Tamiflu is excreted essentially unchanged in your urine. If it comes down to life and death keep that in mind. -- She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I can't help but to have a single mental image drawn from both your message and your sig.
That's probably just how it would go down; reading over the creation bit, it's god creates the water, and then heaven, and then the dry land in the water. I'm predicting two camps. The first will say that the waters refer to space and the dry land is all the planets, and this is just the one people got stuck on. The second lot will fervently deny the scientific findings no matter what.
It's irritating that we must try to predict the ignorant reactions of the masses whenever we come across something potentially enlightening...
I think the original idea was to help prevent voting fraud. I'm from Lucas County, the island of blue that borders Michigan. When you walk into whatever building your district has set up in, you show your ID, find your name in a huge list, then sign and date it. There's a sticker with a barcode which they stick on another sheet so they have a quick and machine readable list of everybody who voted at that location. The other paper trail is new, and of course is a function of the voting machines. They are both good ideas, but probably not the best combined solution.
I don't think that the data you could glean would be sufficiently reliable, though. Another poster mentioned that there may be as many as four voting machines at each district's location, but I'm assuming they live in a rural area. Here, and in most urban areas, we have at least ten, and in my district, around sixteen machines. Some people get in and out quickly, some people take 20 minutes. There's really too many variables to figure out who voted what. They could probably find a fairly reasonable probability for groups of people, but our margins are often very slim; their data would most likely look like "John Smith has a 51.2% chance of having voted for DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE". Not terribly useful at the moment, but certainly something to consider for the future.
We have concluded that the acronym U.S.E. (Unplanned Sexual Event), when used regularly to replace the word "rape", will remove the stigma associated with this sometimes unpleasant situation.
I understood; my comment was more of a tangent that a proper response. It seems like a greater cultural phenomenon though. Twins get featured in a lot of places, and anecdotally, it seems the general opinion is "Twins are hot." It seems bizarre that incestuous relationships are deeply taboo, except for twin girls. I think a lot of it comes down to glossing over the fact that they're related, and it's more like "Dude, it would be like fucking two of the same girl!" Still gross.
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I'm all for sanctioning that kind of language!
Reminds me of a story from The Daily WTF about The Complicator
The only "GPLer" in question was the author of said code, who is free to license it however he damn well pleases.
I would like to point out that the they in question was in fact the author of the same code.
OIC
Either way, I hope they don't have to type in an 80GB SKU every time.
It would wear the finger down pretty quick.
That's a realisic explanation and I believe you :)
It's my interpretation that the GP was spoofing the rhetoric used during the Bush-Kerry election:
"Just ask yourself this: Are you safer now that you were four years ago?" in regards to the terrrists [sic], delivered with an implicit "Duh, of course!"
By: Isaac Asimov
Tune: Home On The Range
Oh, give me a clone \ Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And after it's grown, \ Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone \ With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
Oh, give me a clone, \ Is my sorrowful moan,
A clone that is wholly my own.
And if she's X-X, \ And the feminine sex,
Oh, what fun we will have when we're prone.
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone \ With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
My heart's not of stone, \ As I've frequently shone
When alone with my own little X.
And after we've dined, \ I am sure we will find
Better incest then Oedipus Rex.
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone \ With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
Why should such sex vex, \ Or disturb or perplex,
Or induce a disparaging tone?
After all, don't you see, \ Since we're both of us me,
When we're having sex, I'm alone.
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone \ With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
And after I'm done \ She will still have her fun,
For I'll clone myself twice ere I die.
And this time without fail, \ They'll be both of them male,
And they'll each ravage her by and by.
Clone, clone of my own,
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And when I'm alone \ With my own little clone
We will both think of nothing but sex.
Some of our most brilliant scientists have been doing this for years already.
You're right! I'm going to write something up in my blog and then submit it!
Going by the progression of this thread, this seems like an appropriate point to suggest that I can do it in minutes with a tuning fork.
Pfft. Just give Chuck Norris M16 rounds.
Martial artists tend to due poorly in boxing, unless they've specifically trained in that discipline. You can't disallow a majority of a person's techniques and expect them to do well against someone who has specialized in what's left.
I can't help but to have a single mental image drawn from both your message and your sig.
Eww.
That's Rodney King, baby.
They'll just claim that it's angels bringing the rapture. :)
It's irritating that we must try to predict the ignorant reactions of the masses whenever we come across something potentially enlightening...
I think the original idea was to help prevent voting fraud. I'm from Lucas County, the island of blue that borders Michigan. When you walk into whatever building your district has set up in, you show your ID, find your name in a huge list, then sign and date it. There's a sticker with a barcode which they stick on another sheet so they have a quick and machine readable list of everybody who voted at that location. The other paper trail is new, and of course is a function of the voting machines. They are both good ideas, but probably not the best combined solution. I don't think that the data you could glean would be sufficiently reliable, though. Another poster mentioned that there may be as many as four voting machines at each district's location, but I'm assuming they live in a rural area. Here, and in most urban areas, we have at least ten, and in my district, around sixteen machines. Some people get in and out quickly, some people take 20 minutes. There's really too many variables to figure out who voted what. They could probably find a fairly reasonable probability for groups of people, but our margins are often very slim; their data would most likely look like "John Smith has a 51.2% chance of having voted for DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE". Not terribly useful at the moment, but certainly something to consider for the future.
Of course people play at tournaments!
Ssh, you'll spoil it ;)
We have concluded that the acronym U.S.E. (Unplanned Sexual Event), when used regularly to replace the word "rape", will remove the stigma associated with this sometimes unpleasant situation.
From: Bapists From Brownback. It's a pro-life thing, apparently.
Wow. Just wow.
I understood; my comment was more of a tangent that a proper response. It seems like a greater cultural phenomenon though. Twins get featured in a lot of places, and anecdotally, it seems the general opinion is "Twins are hot." It seems bizarre that incestuous relationships are deeply taboo, except for twin girls. I think a lot of it comes down to glossing over the fact that they're related, and it's more like "Dude, it would be like fucking two of the same girl!" Still gross.
I never did get the whole twins fantasy. Someone fucking their sister is gross, except when they look alike?