I don't like the idea of referring to men as "she", any more that I like the idea of referring to apples as oranges or to morons as geniuses (or vice versa). If you have the Y chromosome, you are a HE... no amount of makeup, lipstick, or surgery will change that, imo. Parent was modded as a troll due to PC.
I saw the movie openight night in Edmonton, and I can tell you that the theatre was packed, and the audience was very eager to see the show; there was a palpable feeling of excitement, the kind of feeling you get (too rarely) when the ENTIRE audience is anticipating a Really Good Movie. The last time I felt that kind of energy was at LOTR.
Anyways, the audience really got into the spirit of the movie, laughing, clapping, hissing at all the appropriate moments... a lot of pent up anti-Bush energy was being released, and it was fun! As for myself, I was quite entertained, though Moore's CHIEF critisisms against Bush do not align 100% with my own (I think he missed a lot of material). Nevertheless, it's was nice to see the tables turned against Bush, since the little twerp so richly deserves it.
Finally, I find it ironic that anyone would get upset at Moore being a "propagandist"... I mean, can anything that helps discredit the institutionalized Bush propaganda count as propaganda? At the worst, it's an inevitable reaction of equal magnitude in the opposite direction.
it's bad enough that the government robs me of my money (taxes); it's adding insult to injury to use that money to create free software, that will potentially compete with the way I make money in the first place! (writing/selling non-free software)
Was it Ronald Reagan that said the nine scariest words in the english language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"?
This contest remind me of the loebner prize, the annual contest to see whether a chat robot can pass an implementation of the turing test - with prizes of 3,000, 25,000, and 100,000 for 3rd, 2nd, and 1st prize respectively.
Seems that the loebner contest has fallen into troubles lately, however, with fewer and fewer organizations willing the host the competition, ostensibly due to the eccentricities of loebner himself, at least according to this very interesting article.
So it's good to see more contests being run for chatbots, aside from the loebner prize itself... despite the negative sentiments of the stong AI crowd, I think programming these bots can in fact lead to insights into the psychology of conversation, and AI in general.
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I want the Bill Gates borg doll.
the syntax should be:
In Korea, only old people (verb).
for example:
in Korea, only old people say the phrasing needs work.
"Windows Found To Be Infinintely More Expensive Than Linux"
rename G-mail to G-spot. Fits in nicely with their new playboy image as well. ;)
all your thoughts are belong to us!
But what I lack in technical skills, I more than make up in apprehension about the darker aspects of the internet
Oh, well... in that case you're hired. Who needs technical skills if you're a certified fraidy cat?
Last time I checked, Theoden was king of Rohan, not Aragorn.
(sorry, that kind of thing tends to happen after the 100th viewing.)
by that definition eating your hotdog and beer is also a sport.
if my car could get 17000 mpegs my porn
collection would almost be complete.
the eleven o'clock news will last only 5 minutes, the witty banter between news anchors edited out.
oh oh, this technology could wipe out the slashdot comments section entirely!
I don't like the idea of referring to men as "she", any more that I like the idea of referring to apples as oranges or to morons as geniuses (or vice versa). If you have the Y chromosome, you are a HE... no amount of makeup, lipstick, or surgery will change that, imo. Parent was modded as a troll due to PC.
GSpot: surf and organize all your porn in convenient directories. Sort by threads, or lack thereof!
why can't I shake the image of Wyle. E. Coyote reading his Acme book of Hacking just before trying something he's about to reget...
immediately discontinue the "one dollar for each reported bug" program.
His website offers insight into why he does this ('to be different') and has pictures of the 4000+ craters he's visited.
I HOPE SO!!
I would gladly shell out the money to see the extended edition in the theater.
Also, people bitten by spiders don't generally become ultra-powerful
of course not! the spider has to be radioactive, silly.
If I was as stupid as you, I'm not sure I'd plaster my irrelevant, insulting comments all over the internet.
I saw the movie openight night in Edmonton, and I can tell you that the theatre was packed, and the audience was very eager to see the show; there was a palpable feeling of excitement, the kind of feeling you get (too rarely) when the ENTIRE audience is anticipating a Really Good Movie. The last time I felt that kind of energy was at LOTR.
Anyways, the audience really got into the spirit of the movie, laughing, clapping, hissing at all the appropriate moments... a lot of pent up anti-Bush energy was being released, and it was fun! As for myself, I was quite entertained, though Moore's CHIEF critisisms against Bush do not align 100% with my own (I think he missed a lot of material). Nevertheless, it's was nice to see the tables turned against Bush, since the little twerp so richly deserves it.
Finally, I find it ironic that anyone would get upset at Moore being a "propagandist"... I mean, can anything that helps discredit the institutionalized Bush propaganda count as propaganda? At the worst, it's an inevitable reaction of equal magnitude in the opposite direction.
I'd rather not see another fiasco in the middle east again.
it's bad enough that the government robs me of my money (taxes); it's adding insult to injury to use that money to create free software, that will potentially compete with the way I make money in the first place! (writing/selling non-free software)
Was it Ronald Reagan that said the nine scariest words in the english language are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"?
I don't want to see any pics of Aunt Mildred cut off at the knees!
how else are you supposed to shout?
This contest remind me of the loebner prize, the annual contest to see whether a chat robot can pass an implementation of the turing test - with prizes of 3,000, 25,000, and 100,000 for 3rd, 2nd, and 1st prize respectively.
Seems that the loebner contest has fallen into troubles lately, however, with fewer and fewer organizations willing the host the competition, ostensibly due to the eccentricities of loebner himself, at least according to this very interesting article.
So it's good to see more contests being run for chatbots, aside from the loebner prize itself... despite the negative sentiments of the stong AI crowd, I think programming these bots can in fact lead to insights into the psychology of conversation, and AI in general.
Imagine if Christopher Columbus refused to sail for the new world until all the problems in europe were "fixed".