brothers, fathers, children and cousins; while someone else guns down theirs.
All it takes is a Dear Leader, sufficient surveillance control (I bet we have more Total Information Awareness than North Korea does), and making the military a privileged class (oh wait!)... That's 2/3rds of the way there if you're paying attention. While we're very much like Rome in many ways soldier loyalty to their generals is likely not one; loyalty to their paychecks is.
Gandalf: Don't... tempt me Frodo! I dare not take it. Not even to keep it safe. Understand, Frodo. I would use this ring from a desire to do good... But through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine.
Some how I think Sal Khan is less high minded than Gandalf...
If you're paying attention, Abrams actually steals from all 3 original trilogy movies extremely heavily (particularly New Hope and Empire). There are a couple of very small segments for doing backstory but overall very little in the way of building characters. It's more like he watched the original trilogy and just wanted all the action scenes.
The screen writing needs serious work. The new characters are.. mostly forgettable although decent actors so I don't think that was their fault. Kylo Ren is laughable, near complete dark side trained (no mention of Sith) but gets his ass kicked by the most competent STORM TROOPER we've ever seen on screen and a completely untrained girl with some innate and until-she-meets-with-him latent power that she suddenly figures out how to use better than he does?? WTF?
The pacing was fast and I suspect aimed at Millennials and Sub-Millennials with 0 attention span and their goddamn phones out at all times (as evidenced by the 2 chattering girls and one of their boyfriends who wouldn't shut the fuck up the whole time - guy "Sick!" every 30 seconds).
Having said that, it's 10x better than the prequels - ALL of which are/were fucking terrible. I'm glad there was no mention at all of midoclorians or whatever. All of the 3D effects were good and real people in costumes where needed - despite there being a shit load of it comes off far better than farting brontosaur pack animals in the prequels. My girlfriend, who is not a Star Wars fan in particular, thinks it was great. As a Star Wars fan, I'm just glad they told Lucas to fuck off.
Yea, I saw that, but steamdb.info isn't steam (I donated money to them yesterday because they're awesome, though).
I read something that supposedly they got DDoS'd this morning for 2 hours but who knows if that's true I was busy opening presents and eating ham and whatnot.
The official post which just came out is pretty vague.
They're going around locking topics like whackamole now.
Here's the text if you're leery:
Account information incorrect We've gotten reports that people sometimes see other people's account information on the account page. Valve has been made aware of this and are working on a fix.
Some frequently asked questions: - No, Steam is not hacked
- Creditcard info and phone numbers are, as required by law, censored and not visible to users
Who knows. Whatever it is it's too late to matter. Most people who were going to buy shit bought it before today. You can still play your games with this being broken. Although it is scary to see account details change (mine haven't but it did switch to Portugeuse).
I just wanted to say thanks. I read through some of your website and I've watched about half of your TSA video and I sent you a donation.
I hope you win. This shit is ridiculous and extremely anti-American. I hope other people donate to you as well and don't just post some empty platitudes. I haven't flown since 1995 and after seeing this kind of shit I wouldn't blame anyone for avoiding the U.S.; Land of the free, indeed.
I have a highly intelligent senior engineer friend with one. I asked him what it does he just stared at me. I said, "So, it's just supposed to look expensive?". No comment. I think that sums up most of what Apple does.
in "the system" (yes that is how employees refer to it, the same as inmates) for 7+ years. I am not a teacher but I work closely with them.
In my midwestern red state, teachers unions (and all unions, really) have been completely castrated by "right to work" (aka go fuck yourself you're in an At Will state; profit uber alles) laws and have no power to do fuck all except get collectively and willfully fucked over by the fake-elected board members (gerrymandering/huge back door corporate funding for the candidates that support money for the corporations, it's a thing) and corporate-minded management many of whom have very questionable ties to the entities that really get all the money - the corporations (Schoolastic/Pearsonvue/Questar/Various self-appointed education experts/the list is endless; tests pretests benchmarks prep work programs, I could go on). They literally have their sales people telling teachers what they should be doing and how.
This is even worse and the abuses just as bad as for-profit prisons in the Charter schools. Many states that have them have abandoned them because they're literally a middleman siphoning off money that would otherwise have had at least a fleeting chance of ending up somewhere that might help.
You sound like a Faux News talking point. Come to the trenches sometime, see how it really is, if you have a degree you can be a substitute teacher in a lot of places without a teaching license. Good luck. You'll need it.
to say that they don't want anyone to have the freedom to say what they want.
If a private service wants to ban them or whatever, that's fine, but having major presidential candidates railing about how we should be colluding to censor them everywhere is fucking scary. That's a very slippery slope and more indicative of a terrorist victory than any beheading video.
The movie officially launches tomorrow; do you plan to see it? Do you care about spoilers?
No. No. Who wants to pack in like that anyway? If I go at all it'll be at an off hour hopefully long after the crowds have dwindled. If it's another Lens Flare the Final Frontier movie I won't have any interest anyway.
J.J. Abrams isn't terrible but he is all about fan service and playing it safe so I don't expect much in the way of interesting. I'm sure Disney wants their money's worth.
I live below sea level too. Far in the midwest with dry feet. However I remember watching the levy break in New Orleans on live tv so my cynicism of engineering all our lives in to a utopian wet dream remains.
Well... Yea, Jake whatever was annoying, he was a kid, all kids are annoying. However he was somewhat idealistic and "brave" in the we-know-no-harm-can-come-to-him-anyway sort of way. Tried to free his mom from being a slave etc.
I mean more like idealistic visionary/dreamer vs soulless corporate scumwhore. If you watch the RedLetterMedia dissection of the prequels there is a video clip they found and used where Lucas is talking about special effects being pointless on their own and only useful in advancing a story (which they quickly point out the irony of).
Fuck Lucas, if you're not watching the original theatrical version (yes you can find a torrent of the before-George-Lucas-raped-your-childhood version which is quite good) you aren't seeing the real thing.
It doesn't sound like he was fan to begin with since he talks about seeing it last at 9 years old? But, then he says he saw Jedi as a senior in high school? Okay, so New Hope comes out in 1977 and he's 9 years old.
By the time "Return of the Jedi" came out, I was a senior in high school.
Jedi came out in 1983. That's 5 years. So he was a senior in high school at 14? Not impossible but pretty unlikely.
Yea, I'm a fan of the original trilogy and it was sad to see George Lucas turn in to his own characters (young Lucas = Anakin, old Lucas = Vader). I still have PTSD from the first prequel which came out when *I* was a senior in high school, so I won't be in line at the theater for the new movie any time soon, but, it's also okay to make fun something when done well (there are 3 Rifftrax of the original movies) but this is supposed to be "commentary", filed under "tech culture"? Really? This is a poorly written editorial and some how ended up on/.
There's no need to visit a site when your client has built in search across whatever you want to configure it with as well as sensible defaults and no malware included (I'm looking at YOU SourceForge).
I highly recommend qBittorrent for that, as one reason among many. I've used it for years and is the best client I've encountered.
Also, who visiting a torrent site doesn't use ad blocking? Why would you do that to yourself?
as many times as necessary to get increased funding as another pseudo military branch of the US gov't. Do we even know how many TLAs there are at this point?
Apparently they get $55.1 billion How about a cost/benefit analysis, cause they've apparently got the money to write a fucking march.
I mean, shit, we could have 10 new Navy destroyers instead!!
Or, I don't know, maybe no homeless people. I bet no homeless would do a lot for "homeland security". I think well fed/housed/employed people are less likely to shoot up theaters and bomb things, just saying.
and obvious for a very long time. I remember it being clear that Redhat wanted to be the Microsoft of the Linux world even before they had an IPO. Canonical are horrible shit lords.
I don't understand, at all, why anyone would believe anything but vendor lock in monoculture would come out of Microsoft. It's been their schtick for 20+ fucking years.
This is their attempt to get free developers. They would very much like their walled garden to be as popular as that of Apple and Google but they've already lost the phone wars.
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Both, and China is far older.
brothers, fathers, children and cousins; while someone else guns down theirs.
All it takes is a Dear Leader, sufficient surveillance control (I bet we have more Total Information Awareness than North Korea does), and making the military a privileged class (oh wait!)... That's 2/3rds of the way there if you're paying attention. While we're very much like Rome in many ways soldier loyalty to their generals is likely not one; loyalty to their paychecks is.
norealtextherewaitingoutthetimerandhopingit'senough...
Gandalf: Don't... tempt me Frodo! I dare not take it. Not even to keep it safe. Understand, Frodo. I would use this ring from a desire to do good... But through me, it would wield a power too great and terrible to imagine.
Some how I think Sal Khan is less high minded than Gandalf...
Spend more money on something you don't really need. Well done.
I work in a high school. Stereotypes exist for a reason.
If you're paying attention, Abrams actually steals from all 3 original trilogy movies extremely heavily (particularly New Hope and Empire). There are a couple of very small segments for doing backstory but overall very little in the way of building characters. It's more like he watched the original trilogy and just wanted all the action scenes.
The screen writing needs serious work. The new characters are.. mostly forgettable although decent actors so I don't think that was their fault. Kylo Ren is laughable, near complete dark side trained (no mention of Sith) but gets his ass kicked by the most competent STORM TROOPER we've ever seen on screen and a completely untrained girl with some innate and until-she-meets-with-him latent power that she suddenly figures out how to use better than he does?? WTF?
The pacing was fast and I suspect aimed at Millennials and Sub-Millennials with 0 attention span and their goddamn phones out at all times (as evidenced by the 2 chattering girls and one of their boyfriends who wouldn't shut the fuck up the whole time - guy "Sick!" every 30 seconds).
Having said that, it's 10x better than the prequels - ALL of which are/were fucking terrible. I'm glad there was no mention at all of midoclorians or whatever. All of the 3D effects were good and real people in costumes where needed - despite there being a shit load of it comes off far better than farting brontosaur pack animals in the prequels. My girlfriend, who is not a Star Wars fan in particular, thinks it was great. As a Star Wars fan, I'm just glad they told Lucas to fuck off.
Yea, I saw that, but steamdb.info isn't steam (I donated money to them yesterday because they're awesome, though).
I read something that supposedly they got DDoS'd this morning for 2 hours but who knows if that's true I was busy opening presents and eating ham and whatnot.
The official post which just came out is pretty vague.
from a community mod
They're going around locking topics like whackamole now.
Here's the text if you're leery:
promising DDoS
Who knows. Whatever it is it's too late to matter. Most people who were going to buy shit bought it before today. You can still play your games with this being broken. Although it is scary to see account details change (mine haven't but it did switch to Portugeuse).
They haven't. Which is the problem. Just look at the Discussions tab under Steam Discussions. It's total chaos.
I just wanted to say thanks. I read through some of your website and I've watched about half of your TSA video and I sent you a donation.
I hope you win. This shit is ridiculous and extremely anti-American. I hope other people donate to you as well and don't just post some empty platitudes. I haven't flown since 1995 and after seeing this kind of shit I wouldn't blame anyone for avoiding the U.S.; Land of the free, indeed.
I have a highly intelligent senior engineer friend with one. I asked him what it does he just stared at me. I said, "So, it's just supposed to look expensive?". No comment. I think that sums up most of what Apple does.
in "the system" (yes that is how employees refer to it, the same as inmates) for 7+ years. I am not a teacher but I work closely with them.
In my midwestern red state, teachers unions (and all unions, really) have been completely castrated by "right to work" (aka go fuck yourself you're in an At Will state; profit uber alles) laws and have no power to do fuck all except get collectively and willfully fucked over by the fake-elected board members (gerrymandering/huge back door corporate funding for the candidates that support money for the corporations, it's a thing) and corporate-minded management many of whom have very questionable ties to the entities that really get all the money - the corporations (Schoolastic/Pearsonvue/Questar/Various self-appointed education experts/the list is endless; tests pretests benchmarks prep work programs, I could go on). They literally have their sales people telling teachers what they should be doing and how.
This is even worse and the abuses just as bad as for-profit prisons in the Charter schools. Many states that have them have abandoned them because they're literally a middleman siphoning off money that would otherwise have had at least a fleeting chance of ending up somewhere that might help.
You sound like a Faux News talking point. Come to the trenches sometime, see how it really is, if you have a degree you can be a substitute teacher in a lot of places without a teaching license. Good luck. You'll need it.
to say that they don't want anyone to have the freedom to say what they want.
If a private service wants to ban them or whatever, that's fine, but having major presidential candidates railing about how we should be colluding to censor them everywhere is fucking scary. That's a very slippery slope and more indicative of a terrorist victory than any beheading video.
but you have no access to the NSA archive...
No. No. Who wants to pack in like that anyway? If I go at all it'll be at an off hour hopefully long after the crowds have dwindled. If it's another Lens Flare the Final Frontier movie I won't have any interest anyway.
J.J. Abrams isn't terrible but he is all about fan service and playing it safe so I don't expect much in the way of interesting. I'm sure Disney wants their money's worth.
I live below sea level too. Far in the midwest with dry feet. However I remember watching the levy break in New Orleans on live tv so my cynicism of engineering all our lives in to a utopian wet dream remains.
It seems history repeats itself.
this has even more detail, from the Library of Congress (US) no less...
Well... Yea, Jake whatever was annoying, he was a kid, all kids are annoying. However he was somewhat idealistic and "brave" in the we-know-no-harm-can-come-to-him-anyway sort of way. Tried to free his mom from being a slave etc.
I mean more like idealistic visionary/dreamer vs soulless corporate scumwhore. If you watch the RedLetterMedia dissection of the prequels there is a video clip they found and used where Lucas is talking about special effects being pointless on their own and only useful in advancing a story (which they quickly point out the irony of).
This sounds like Swatting might get easier and harder to trace.
Fuck Lucas, if you're not watching the original theatrical version (yes you can find a torrent of the before-George-Lucas-raped-your-childhood version which is quite good) you aren't seeing the real thing.
It doesn't sound like he was fan to begin with since he talks about seeing it last at 9 years old? But, then he says he saw Jedi as a senior in high school? Okay, so New Hope comes out in 1977 and he's 9 years old.
Jedi came out in 1983. That's 5 years. So he was a senior in high school at 14? Not impossible but pretty unlikely.
Yea, I'm a fan of the original trilogy and it was sad to see George Lucas turn in to his own characters (young Lucas = Anakin, old Lucas = Vader). I still have PTSD from the first prequel which came out when *I* was a senior in high school, so I won't be in line at the theater for the new movie any time soon, but, it's also okay to make fun something when done well (there are 3 Rifftrax of the original movies) but this is supposed to be "commentary", filed under "tech culture"? Really? This is a poorly written editorial and some how ended up on /.
There's no need to visit a site when your client has built in search across whatever you want to configure it with as well as sensible defaults and no malware included (I'm looking at YOU SourceForge).
I highly recommend qBittorrent for that, as one reason among many. I've used it for years and is the best client I've encountered.
Also, who visiting a torrent site doesn't use ad blocking? Why would you do that to yourself?
as many times as necessary to get increased funding as another pseudo military branch of the US gov't. Do we even know how many TLAs there are at this point?
Apparently they get $55.1 billion How about a cost/benefit analysis, cause they've apparently got the money to write a fucking march.
I mean, shit, we could have 10 new Navy destroyers instead!!
Or, I don't know, maybe no homeless people. I bet no homeless would do a lot for "homeland security". I think well fed/housed/employed people are less likely to shoot up theaters and bomb things, just saying.
and obvious for a very long time. I remember it being clear that Redhat wanted to be the Microsoft of the Linux world even before they had an IPO. Canonical are horrible shit lords.
I don't understand, at all, why anyone would believe anything but vendor lock in monoculture would come out of Microsoft. It's been their schtick for 20+ fucking years.
This is their attempt to get free developers. They would very much like their walled garden to be as popular as that of Apple and Google but they've already lost the phone wars.