So, tell me, who raped who? If a girl and I (hey, I can dream) hook up and shag without explicit consent, does that mean I raped her by default 'cause I'm the boy? Does that seem a tad sexist? What if it's hot two-girl action? Do they arrest the one with shorter hair?
Do you have any idea what a pantslessly stupid idea it is? Do you have any idea how demeaning it is to women who are actually assaulted to define rape so fucking broadly?
Shit, you're an AC. I'm just pissing into the wind.
Y'know, wouldn't geek guys benefit from something like The Pick Up Artist Guide? I keep hearing good things about this stuff, but I just can't bring myself to act like such... such a marketing weenie, I guess.
Has anyone heard anything about PUA technique, good or bad? I'm kinda curious as to if all those newsgroup fellows are shitting me.
And hey, if you're chock-full of deception and evil, I'm sure you can test it out yourself. Gives me the crawling horrors, however.
Use Bulletproof FTP, if you're running under Windows. I'm sure other download managers allow it too, but BPFTP seems to not include crapware. That, and it's a decent FTP client.
Go watch "All Good Things", the series finale. For that matter, watch "Tapestry" and "Q Who" while you're at it. Then be thankful that Rick Berman hasn't decided to butcher Q like he did the Borg in "First Contact".
If you make it R-rated for tits and ass, you're cheapening the show. If you make it R-rated for naughty words, you're breaking continuity with the show.
If, on the other hand, you make it R-rated for complex and adult motivations, disturbing content and scads of gore, then I'd go for it.
I remember pointing out "Insomnia" as a perfect example of what really should be an R-rated movie. Compare it to, say, "Not Another Teen Movie"---the violence was obscured or offscreen, there was no sex or nudity at all. Why was it rated R? Adult themes, and I don't mean that as a porn euphemism.
(2) is an insult to the best of the series. Who could forget "The Best of Both Worlds" (Season 3 finale / Season 4 premiere), "Yesterday's Enterprise" (middle of Season 3) or "Cause and Effect" (middle of Season 5)?
Remember when the Borg were actually scary? When the crew didn't have to blow up the ship/have Data swear/have every character do something memorable? When they actually had decent SF plots ("Cause and Effect", "The Inner Light") instead of trying to pretend it was a non-geeky action movie? See what happens when you forsake me, Berman! I said you'd come crawling back, and now you have!
Oh, the show had its stinkers, too, but I think it had a much, much higher hit rate than the movies have. I'm just going to pretend that they never mentioned the Borg after "Descent", and let them go gracefully.
No. The shuttle is a monstrously complex beast that NASA kept using because it had already sunk so much time and effort in. If technologies like the Rotary Rocket had made space flight simple, reliable and cheap, this wouldn't have happened, and it wouldn't have set the space program back twenty years.
I now know how everyone felt in 1986, after the Challenger disaster.
I think the biggest problem for what he proposes would simply be that unpopular people would frequently get shot. Heck, so would popular people. Anyone who's well known enough will have a critical mass of enemies who'd toss in a buck for their assassination. This wouldn't destroy power; it'd destroy celebrity as well.
Ain't fraud, dude. Fraud is when you get ripped off---for instance, if you bought a Britney Spears Cd and discovered that it was eighteen tracks of static---not when you score something for free. Since there was no initial cost, you can't have been defrauded.
And no, they're not liable to pay for your wasted bandwidth.
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Actually, Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns", published in 1986, started the whole anti-hero thing.
--grendel drago
The funny part is when he claims that "very few" of the scenes in Ghost in the Shell contain nudity. Yeah, and I'm a Chinese jet pilot...
--grendel drago
Should be? Should be? You fucking retard!
So, tell me, who raped who? If a girl and I (hey, I can dream) hook up and shag without explicit consent, does that mean I raped her by default 'cause I'm the boy? Does that seem a tad sexist? What if it's hot two-girl action? Do they arrest the one with shorter hair?
Do you have any idea what a pantslessly stupid idea it is? Do you have any idea how demeaning it is to women who are actually assaulted to define rape so fucking broadly?
Shit, you're an AC. I'm just pissing into the wind.
--grendel drago
Maybe PMM is, but thinks like Adult Friend-Finder seem to be populated mostly by middle-aged gay bears and scary, scary women.
Scaaary.
*sniffle* I... I think I have something in my eye.
Definitely the most pure and honest example of spite, narcissism and brutal cynicism.
I may have an erection.
--grendel drago
Y'know, wouldn't geek guys benefit from something like The Pick Up Artist Guide? I keep hearing good things about this stuff, but I just can't bring myself to act like such... such a marketing weenie, I guess.
Has anyone heard anything about PUA technique, good or bad? I'm kinda curious as to if all those newsgroup fellows are shitting me.
And hey, if you're chock-full of deception and evil, I'm sure you can test it out yourself. Gives me the crawling horrors, however.
--grendel drago
Wasn't Antioch the college that defined any sexual contact not explicitly consented to as 'nonconsensual' and thus 'rape'? Yeah, I think so.
--grendel drago
Dude, jerking off to the goastse guy while breathlessly sputtering a chick's name through your acne-scarred lips doesn't count as "nailing" her.
Just a little heads-up, there.
--grendel drago
Use Bulletproof FTP, if you're running under Windows. I'm sure other download managers allow it too, but BPFTP seems to not include crapware. That, and it's a decent FTP client.
--grendel drago
I like to think of it as a great pyramid of communications. With the lowest forms of communication first:
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AIM
ICQ
IRC
Web-based BBS
Usenet
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There, my creation, perfect and holy in all ways.
--grendel drago
I've listened to all of Revelations and Dark Poet, and didn't catch that on any of 'em. What am I missing?
--grendel drago
Go watch "All Good Things", the series finale. For that matter, watch "Tapestry" and "Q Who" while you're at it. Then be thankful that Rick Berman hasn't decided to butcher Q like he did the Borg in "First Contact".
--grendel drago
If you make it R-rated for tits and ass, you're cheapening the show. If you make it R-rated for naughty words, you're breaking continuity with the show.
If, on the other hand, you make it R-rated for complex and adult motivations, disturbing content and scads of gore, then I'd go for it.
I remember pointing out "Insomnia" as a perfect example of what really should be an R-rated movie. Compare it to, say, "Not Another Teen Movie"---the violence was obscured or offscreen, there was no sex or nudity at all. Why was it rated R? Adult themes, and I don't mean that as a porn euphemism.
Damned good stuff.
--grendel drago
Twit. Everything you mention has been a problem since Spock was serving under Captain Pike. You've just suddenly stopped suspending your disbelief.
Eighty-two bucks apiece from North American DVD.
See? All seven seasons. Knock yourself out, dude.
--grendel drago
Go back and watch "All Good Things". Pretend the series ended there. Take a deep breath, and feel at peace with the Star Trek universe.
--grendel drago
(2) is an insult to the best of the series. Who could forget "The Best of Both Worlds" (Season 3 finale / Season 4 premiere), "Yesterday's Enterprise" (middle of Season 3) or "Cause and Effect" (middle of Season 5)?
Remember when the Borg were actually scary? When the crew didn't have to blow up the ship/have Data swear/have every character do something memorable? When they actually had decent SF plots ("Cause and Effect", "The Inner Light") instead of trying to pretend it was a non-geeky action movie? See what happens when you forsake me, Berman! I said you'd come crawling back, and now you have!
Oh, the show had its stinkers, too, but I think it had a much, much higher hit rate than the movies have. I'm just going to pretend that they never mentioned the Borg after "Descent", and let them go gracefully.
--grendel drago
Astonishing! Eighty percent, you say! Why, that's the most amazing thing I've heard today!
Which makes me think that you just pulled it out of your ass.
Prove otherwise, or be deemed a liar and a coward (again).
--grendel drago
No. The shuttle is a monstrously complex beast that NASA kept using because it had already sunk so much time and effort in. If technologies like the Rotary Rocket had made space flight simple, reliable and cheap, this wouldn't have happened, and it wouldn't have set the space program back twenty years.
I now know how everyone felt in 1986, after the Challenger disaster.
--grendel drago
Been reading a bit of John Bell, have we?
I think the biggest problem for what he proposes would simply be that unpopular people would frequently get shot. Heck, so would popular people. Anyone who's well known enough will have a critical mass of enemies who'd toss in a buck for their assassination. This wouldn't destroy power; it'd destroy celebrity as well.
--grendel drago
To further enhance your media viewing experience...
Actually, it makes perfect sense if you change "enhance" to "replace with infinite gobs of shite".
--grendel drago
Ain't fraud, dude. Fraud is when you get ripped off---for instance, if you bought a Britney Spears Cd and discovered that it was eighteen tracks of static---not when you score something for free. Since there was no initial cost, you can't have been defrauded.
And no, they're not liable to pay for your wasted bandwidth.
--grendel drago
Free exchange of information is nobel
You get a prize for it? And here I just thought you got the {MP,RI}AA knocking on your door...
--grendel drago
Uh, water at STP is at its freezing point, and is very liable to turn into ice if any heat-energy is removed from it.
(Remember, kids, "standard temperature" is not the same as "room temperature".)
But, then again, since water doesn't expand much in that range, it's nearly the same anyhoo.
--grendel drago
[a very clever man] could be the next big engineer...
Wait, who was the last big engineer?
--grendel drago