> A quick browse through TFA completely fails to inform me what the "Dragon" and "Hydra" > in question actually are, other than that "Dragon" is something or other traditional > and "Hydra" is some kind of ZOMG amazing new silver bullet. > > Anyone who understands the buzzwords care to cut the crap and explain what this is actually all about?
All I know is that if someone doesn't travel to someone else's dojo and humiliate him in front of his master, I'm going to be sorely disappointed.
> I have news for you. 70 hour work weeks should not be a part of anyone's > "real working world" unless they are the owner or higher level exec in > charge of the business (and then that is done by their choice). > > What you're advocating is throwing away almost all of your waking hours > for a job - something that doesn't love you, doesn't even care about you, > can be done by someone else if you leave, and on the whole, you don't get > any more out of at 70 hours than you do at 40.
This should be engraved in fucking fifty-foot-high granite tablets, and every young person entering the working population should be made to sit in front of them and meditate on the meaning until it sinks in. (Zen masters with beatin' sticks to discipline them are optional, but even they will only work forty hours per week.)
Yes, but they're British nuclear weapons. Before you could launch them, therefore, someone would have to come out and knock on the silo door to say that the power cables were never actually connected during installation, so they need to dig up the street to connect them--but first they have to get permission from the city council, which takes three weeks, and then six weeks later after the work's finally done, your actual launch technician is a toothless yob named Nigel with an Exeter City FC tattoo, who promptly says "Well, it's a nuclear warhead, innit? More than my job's worth, pushing that button." He then re-disconnects your power cables and fucks off for another six weeks while you call the same number over and over again trying to get someone else to come out, but only reaching "Kenneth" in Mumbai.......sorry, this kind of turned into a rant about my Virgin Media cable TV service. Carry on.
> I'm sure it wasn't done with the intent to signal change, > but it's almost Freudian in the way even our name has become > more draconian and imperialist.
It goes back further than that--I knew something was up back when the current administration started up with that "Homeland" bullshit.
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> And Flash has an insanely high penetration rate.
So do I, but I don't go around bragging about it...
> So did someone finally figure out whether it was dead or alive?
Well...yes and no.
> The red cross is the swiss flag inverted.
It came from a world where all the Swiss have little beards and make really bad chocolate.
> A quick browse through TFA completely fails to inform me what the "Dragon" and "Hydra"
> in question actually are, other than that "Dragon" is something or other traditional
> and "Hydra" is some kind of ZOMG amazing new silver bullet.
>
> Anyone who understands the buzzwords care to cut the crap and explain what this is actually all about?
All I know is that if someone doesn't travel to someone else's dojo and humiliate him in front of his master, I'm going to be sorely disappointed.
> "No results found for naked pictures of Natalie Portman. How does that make you feel?"
Petrified.
> [...] a jar of marmalade that causes adultery.
So, uh...do they sell that at Tesco?
> So they've done Miami Vice, mobsters, LA street gangs, and now Russian mobsters. What's next?
Chicago gangs of the 1930s? (I know it's been done by other games, but I'd love to see a GTA version.)
> I keep everything encoded in ROT26. Stick it to the man!
That's nowhere near secure enough. I'm using ROT52.
> Having never seen a Uwe Boll movie, can someone tell me what's so bad about him?
Perhaps this review of his version of Alone in the Dark will be instructive (as well as entertaining).
> I post on a teletype you insensitive clod!
A teletype? Luxury.
I'm posting on a telegraph key.
> Let us see some other of the well-known authors filmed. Asimov's "Nightfall" [...]
Let's not.
Egad, man! What's the point?
The booths in question were from firms based in Poland, Hungary, and the former Czechoslovakia. It was just force of habit.
> No one seems to have mentioned this but the creator of D&D died today:
Someone failed his saving throw vs. dupe.
D&D led indirectly to my losing my virginity. Godspeed, Gary, you magnificent dice-rolling bastard.
Oh, man...I put on my robe and wizard hat.
> By this logic, guys with small penii should have trouble using a hammer.
Conversely, those of us who are well-endowed don't need hammers at all.
> The Amish Method
Worst Robert Ludlum novel ever.
> Naked Twister has potential to be awesome...
Fixed that for you.
> I have news for you. 70 hour work weeks should not be a part of anyone's
> "real working world" unless they are the owner or higher level exec in
> charge of the business (and then that is done by their choice).
>
> What you're advocating is throwing away almost all of your waking hours
> for a job - something that doesn't love you, doesn't even care about you,
> can be done by someone else if you leave, and on the whole, you don't get
> any more out of at 70 hours than you do at 40.
This should be engraved in fucking fifty-foot-high granite tablets, and every young person entering the working population should be made to sit in front of them and meditate on the meaning until it sinks in. (Zen masters with beatin' sticks to discipline them are optional, but even they will only work forty hours per week.)
> Erm, we *do* have nuclear weapons.
...sorry, this kind of turned into a rant about my Virgin Media cable TV service. Carry on.
Yes, but they're British nuclear weapons. Before you could launch them, therefore, someone would have to come out and knock on the silo door to say that the power cables were never actually connected during installation, so they need to dig up the street to connect them--but first they have to get permission from the city council, which takes three weeks, and then six weeks later after the work's finally done, your actual launch technician is a toothless yob named Nigel with an Exeter City FC tattoo, who promptly says "Well, it's a nuclear warhead, innit? More than my job's worth, pushing that button." He then re-disconnects your power cables and fucks off for another six weeks while you call the same number over and over again trying to get someone else to come out, but only reaching "Kenneth" in Mumbai....
Do they give out Nobel prizes in the "Dude, I Am So Fucking High Right Now" category?
> [...] so they'll just nuke us from orbit. After all, it's the only way to be sure.
Fixed that for you.
> I'm sure it wasn't done with the intent to signal change,
> but it's almost Freudian in the way even our name has become
> more draconian and imperialist.
It goes back further than that--I knew something was up back when the current administration started up with that "Homeland" bullshit.
My first thought on reading "nuclear power renaissance" was along the lines of "Wouldst thou care for some weapons-grade plutonium, m'lord? Huzzah!"