The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confusing Universe, for though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it is inaccurate it is at least definitely inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it's always reality that's got it wrong.
This was the gist of the notice. It said "The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
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Though the game suffers somewhat from overly-familiar gameplay in the single-player component, you'll probably be too busy gawking at the scenery to care.
I think that sums it up. Zero innovation, prettier eyecandy.
Remove motivation, flatten salaries to be based on years of experience, remove ability to excel... what do you have? COMMUNISM.
Funny, somehow many heavily unionized countries still haven't fallen into the eeeeeeeevil unholy paws of COMMUNISM.
Your knowledge of world affairs seem to be lacking in this regards.
It's not that difficult of an argument to make...people who die in wars, especially the current one, made a decision to join a group (the Armed Forces) where they knew that there was a very good chance of dying.
Oh. I didn't know that civilian Iraquis/Afhgans/Vietnamese/etc killed by the US Armed Forces had made that decision. I think that was the GPP's point
I mean it is just about conceivable that god created the earth 6000 years ago and hid dinosaur bones that look as if they are 200 million years old,(...)
Ummm... these were the Magratheans, everybody knows that...
...the Board of Education also went so far as to redefine science itself, saying that it is 'no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.'"
PI == 3 anyone?
"A large dairy animal approached Zaphod Beeblebrox's table, a large fat meaty quadruped of the bovine type with large watery eyes, small horns and what might almost have been an ingratiating smile on its lips. "
On an offtopic note, when is Slashdot going to allow hebrew in comments?
Yeah, and Russian, too.
Oh, don't forget Arab. And Japanese. And Aramaic,
while you're at it.
I'm not worried about my privacy in this case because I'm not a criminal and I don't do anything that would attract the FBI's attention.
So, following your reasoning line, FBI should be able to break into your house without a search order, too. After all, you're not a criminal, and you don't do anything that would attract the FBI's attention.
Fact is, if your govt. can poke its nose in your private life whenever it feels like doing it, be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
First of all. The M$ bad reputation is wll deserved, and they seems to continue
making efforts to enhance this reputation
Second. Linux _expects_ you to rebuild the kernel? This is the first time I see somethin like this.
You can't tell Linux is 'secure thru obscurity'.
Man you have the whole kernel source to hack in!!! Is this 'obscurity'?
Nah, I disagree with you...
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gaaah, just replying to undo some bad moderation, sorry
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in an infinitely complex and confusing Universe, for though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it is inaccurate it is at least definitely inaccurate. In cases of major discrepancy it's always reality that's got it wrong.
This was the gist of the notice. It said "The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
Your post reminds me of The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges.
Amazing read.
...it's because it works.
if it ain't broken...
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For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over
public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Though the game suffers somewhat from overly-familiar gameplay in the single-player component, you'll probably be too busy gawking at the scenery to care.
I think that sums it up. Zero innovation, prettier eyecandy.
Remove motivation, flatten salaries to be based on years of experience, remove ability to excel... what do you have? COMMUNISM.
Funny, somehow many heavily unionized countries still haven't fallen into the eeeeeeeevil unholy paws of COMMUNISM.
Your knowledge of world affairs seem to be lacking in this regards.
It's not that difficult of an argument to make...people who die in wars, especially the current one, made a decision to join a group (the Armed Forces) where they knew that there was a very good chance of dying.
Oh. I didn't know that civilian Iraquis/Afhgans/Vietnamese/etc killed by the US Armed Forces had made that decision. I think that was the GPP's point
I mean it is just about conceivable that god created the earth 6000 years ago and hid dinosaur bones that look as if they are 200 million years old,(...)
Ummm... these were the Magratheans, everybody knows that...
Unfortunately, I don't have mod points to give you.
Many thanks for a truly insightful comment.
...the Board of Education also went so far as to redefine science itself, saying that it is 'no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.'"
PI == 3 anyone?
Salvador Allende - Chile 1973
María Estela Martínez de Perón - Argentina - 1976
should I keep listing?
Oh my God, this is so homoerotic.
Originally, tango was meant to be danced by men only.
s/arguing with/flaming/;
"A large dairy animal approached Zaphod Beeblebrox's table, a
large fat meaty quadruped of the bovine type with large watery
eyes, small horns and what might almost have been an ingratiating
smile on its lips. "
It was a cow
On an offtopic note, when is Slashdot going to allow hebrew in comments?
Yeah, and Russian, too.
Oh, don't forget Arab. And Japanese. And Aramaic, while you're at it.
I'm not worried about my privacy in this case because I'm not a criminal and I don't do anything that would attract the FBI's attention.
So, following your reasoning line, FBI should be able to break into your house without a search order, too. After all, you're not a criminal, and you don't do anything that would attract the FBI's attention. Fact is, if your govt. can poke its nose in your private life whenever it feels like doing it, be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
First of all. The M$ bad reputation is wll deserved, and they seems to continue making efforts to enhance this reputation Second. Linux _expects_ you to rebuild the kernel? This is the first time I see somethin like this. You can't tell Linux is 'secure thru obscurity'. Man you have the whole kernel source to hack in!!! Is this 'obscurity'? Nah, I disagree with you...
Large systems? What bout NASA? They switched from Oracle to MySQL and it seems to be working just fine...