Could someone more business-savvy than I am (which includes most animals with at least a notochord) explain "hostile bidding" to me? Right now I have this image in my head of Larry Ellison saying "I'll give you a hundred million dollars, motherfucker", and that can't be right.
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> (I just realized that LISP books *all* tend to be rather slender. McCarthy, Siklossy, and Steele all managed to say quite a lot in very little space. Hmmm.)
> Why? I can control my anger and my actions. Try it some time. > Your "Old Days" spiel about getting punched for saying something offensive tells > us all how much you have managed to evolve. (hint: not much)
<nerd>Looks like someone failed his saving throw vs. reading comprehension.</nerd> I didn't say I go around beating people up.
> The issue at hand is that many humans still have yet to figure out how to coexist with one another, and this always makes my stomach hurt.
> So is this the reason why people seem to be so much more rude on the Internet?
I think it's mostly that people don't have to deal with real-world consequences. You can say things in text to people that would get your face beaten in if you said them in person.
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> We are too combative as a species to co-exist with the rest of the universe.
No we aren't, and I'll kick anyone's ass who says otherwise!
> [...] without some sort of extreme propulsion system.
What...you mean like fueled by Mountain Dew and mounted on a snowboard?
Could someone more business-savvy than I am (which includes most animals with at least a notochord) explain "hostile bidding" to me? Right now I have this image in my head of Larry Ellison saying "I'll give you a hundred million dollars, motherfucker", and that can't be right.
> I, for one, welcome our new security grandmother overlord. All bow to thee.
I look forward to laboring in her cookie mines.
> Don't get me started on Guido shooting first [...]
Oh, great...Lucas has gone and turned the cantina scene into something from The Godfather.
"That's a nice Wookiee you've got there, Mr. Solo...it'd be a real shame if something happened to him..."
That'd sure make chess more...interesting.
White: (castles)
Black: OMG WTF CAMPING L5M3R N00B
> (I just realized that LISP books *all* tend to be rather slender. McCarthy, Siklossy, and Steele all managed to say quite a lot in very little space. Hmmm.)
It's because the chapters are recursive.
> Huston, we have a problem.
Not the least of which is that he's dead.
> I wouldn't exactly want a titanium bulge [...]
Oh, I don't know. The ladies love mine.
> Why? I can control my anger and my actions. Try it some time.
> Your "Old Days" spiel about getting punched for saying something offensive tells
> us all how much you have managed to evolve. (hint: not much)
<nerd>Looks like someone failed his saving throw vs. reading comprehension.</nerd>
I didn't say I go around beating people up.
> The issue at hand is that many humans still have yet to figure out how to coexist with one another, and this always makes my stomach hurt.
Must be all that repressed anger.
> It's like a Beowulf cluster of several million geeks' imaginations!
That explains why every document on my hard drive has been replaced with Natalie Portman hentai fan fiction.
> So is this the reason why people seem to be so much more rude on the Internet?
I think it's mostly that people don't have to deal with real-world consequences. You can say things in text to people that would get your face beaten in if you said them in person.
> I recommend correctional facilities for those using the word 'virii'.
I think you mean "facilitii".
> Joogle?
Doesn't quite sound kosher.
> Finally, a /. story where trolls are on-topic! [Head explodes]
And they're already petrified! Now we just need to work in Natalie Portman and hot grits, and we'll have the Unified Slashdot Post.
> It's Romanian NOT Romainian.
Lettuce not quibble about spelling.
> Anybody ever been there? Boulder, Colorado I mean, not the moon...
I used to live in Boulder. It's a great town if you're a rich white Buddhist. Unfortunately, I only qualified on one out of the three...
I wondered why my phone's display kept changing to "OMG PWN3D U FAG". I thought it was Verizon getting uppity.
"My new protein storage module doesn't work with my machine."
"Driver conflict?"
"No, lactose intolerance."
Also, regarding the terabit-on-a-chip:
"Nobody move. Help me look on the floor here..."
"Contact lens?"
"No, the Library of Congress."
> My head a-splode.
No probalo.
I can get a lot more than that, assuming a standard ten-gallon gas tank.
Step 1: Launch the car into low earth orbit.
Step 2: Drop it.
I'll leave the practical applications of this to the engineers.
> try turning your hard drive around...what happens?
It makes this kind of "screeee" sound. Is that bad?
> each hatchling was placed into a nylon-Lycra harness as shown below.
Sounds like Dr. Ken Lohmann really, really needs to spend more time out of the lab.
"If you want it to be possessive it's just I-T-S,
But if you want it to be a contraction it's I-T-apostrophe-S.
Scalawag."
--Strong Bad
> ...that I should stop running Internet Explorer using wine
Under no circumstances should you stop drinking when attempting to use IE.