I heard about this on the radio today. The announcer referred to "Groakster". Who the crap pronounces it "Groakster"? Reminds me of the guy who pronounced "warez" as "war-ezz".
It wasn't based on "I, Robot", the short story collection. It was a unrelated script called "Hardwired" first, which had the Asimov title slapped onto it for, I don't know, marketability.
There was a Harlan Ellison screenplay, but it was never filmed. Because, clearly, some cokehead exec thought that a low-paid action-flick hack could do a better job.
Funny thing is, they still released a paperback version of the short story collection with Will Smith on the cover. Which, if anyone bought it, must have been confusing as all hell.
Oh, come on. No actual troll has actually made a "Natalie Portman" or "Hot Grits" post in at least a year. (I'd be impressed if someone proved me wrong on this.) No, the current trolls use "GREASED YODA DOLL UP THE ASS" as far as I can tell.
'Cept I can't see any on this thread. Man, what's the world coming to? Whence Klerck and his page wideners! Whence the ASCII goatse.cx man! Whence the guy who would endlessly repost the same three pages of badly written text porn!
I think I smell nostalgia in the air. That, or Yoda grease.
Wow. He's taller than I thought he'd be. When I saw his cameo at the end of "Sleeping in Light", he seemed kinda little. And I really thought I was going to cry at the end of that. I almost did. But not quite. Oh well.
Well, neither had I, but there they were, on the page the grandparent post referred to. The 386SX-16 used 0.75W typical, 1.1W peak. Technically, at no point was it the fastest chip Intel made (it was a budgetty chip made to be cheaper), and peak wattage was above 1.0W, but I still think it's damned impressive. Also, note the 486SX-25 (208 pin package), which used 0.82W typical, 1.04W max.
Was there a cash money prize for someone who could produce a pair of strings with the same MD5 sum? I remember reading or possibly hearing that No One had Ever discovered a hash collision with MD5. Is this the first ever hash collision found?
Not to mention the Jews and others that fled Germany and the surrounding regions. Einstein, Erdos, von Neumann, and Szilard, to pick a random selection. The difference was that the United States picked these people up prior to the war.
Kinda like the wireheads from 'Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect'. Though, I'm sure the idea was around long before localroger made it the linchpin of his story.
There was an article terribly criticle of the whole MMORPG genre, explaining that Everquest is for morons, and gameplay consists entirely of selecting your attack spell and clicking on bad guys.
While I'm sure Blizzard have advanced things somewhat, I still want to see that original article. And I haven't the faintest idea where to find it. Can anyone help me out?
Why would Fox prevent Universal from making a TV version of Firefly? Clearly, Fox didn't want it; they rushed it off the air before they'd even aired all of the episodes.
Remember how Family Guy was really funny? And how Fox, assclowns that they are, cancelled it (seems they like cancelling good shows that begin with 'F'---producers take note), but DVD sales were so unignorably good that Fox was convinced to start the series back up again?
They're not going to do that with Firefly. No matter how successful the movie is. If it makes a ton---a ton---of money, we'll get a sequel. Maybe. But the story was meant to be told episodically, minor threads weaving subtly until they burst to the forefront. You can't do that in a movie; there's just not enough time. (See: Babylon 5.)
This whole mess just depresses me so. Damn you, Fox.
Ah, you've hit the nail on the head, you have. For the rules and regulations of secular society to be affected, secular harm must be shown. Religious law is its own beast, subject to rules with different aims---to protect the spiritual well-being of adherents---and so has different criteria for law-writing.
I thank you for articulating your position. I do wish that the separation of church and state wasn't seen as such a threat by some religious folks.
I know that secular humanists (which kinda describes me, I think) can frequently come off as blowhards trying to impose our vision of society on everyone else. What you've explained here seems rather ideal to me. Religious laws for the religious, secular laws for everyone.
'Course, if they don't, and one or both of you is a media-production dork, you'll end up with a disk full of homemade goodies, which is a warm fuzzy all 'round, because it's fun and uplifting and you get to be all, "hey, I look kinda hot".
Well, that last depends. In my terribly limited experience, it's more likely to hear the girl say, "AAH! THIGHS HUGE!" than "yeah, I'd do me".
I get sort of conflicted about throwing kids and teenagers out of the porn section. I really don't want them down there, not because I think sex is dirty or bad, but because I don't want them to think that that's what sex is about. The stuff on our boxes is sex in the basest, sometimes most brutal terms - naked women spreading their relevant orifices and making that Porn Face. Unless you're talking about the Max Hardcore series, which involves women with "SLUT" and "WHORE" written across their foreheads in lipstick. And besides - do we really need to raise another generation of men who can't deal with pubic hair?
So I don't feel bad about getting them out of there, except that I'm very conscious of the fact that I'm a woman while I'm doing it. I worry that I'm either setting up or reinforcing the idea that there are fun, bad women who like sex and good, boring women who restrict access to sex.
I always want to debrief them. "Hey, guys, it's cool that you're curious, but this isn't the way to find out. Porn is fine, but it's not real sex. Real sex is great, and even good girls love it, but it has to be a two-way street..." But I always just end up with "Sorry, guys - come back when you're 21." Perhaps I should write a children's book. Porn Is Healthy and Fine, but Only as a Temporary Physical Release.
It's true. Most of it is just incompetent, but some of it is actively... repulsive. Well, to me at least. The "Bangbus" stuff that was so, so popular on the campus network just left me kinda icked out. Where's the fun in degrading someone like that?
Now, compare that with Buttman: The Fashionistas, in which everyone's having a grand old time beating the heck out of each other. Because the participants wear wackier clothing and hit each other, it's supposedly more perverse... but I find it a lot more wholesome than "Bangbus" or anything in a similar mold.
'Course, given that I get all my porn from the internet, or make it myself, I probably don't have a representative sample.
Perhaps I'm missing something. Is there something terribly alluring about bullying women? It's like being in high school again.
I'd like to hear uplifting and affirming stories about good porn, if anyone has 'em.
I note that it's dated nearly five years ago. Good luck getting an actual email to someone working at a company. It's one-way communication, folks, a push medium. Damn kids these days and their outdated unidirectional media paradigms.
Still, props to the company and to the guy working for it for giving an actual response. And a helpful one, at that. Nifty!
The military occupation of the former Confederacy was called "Reconstruction". After the Union's victory, the South was, in fact, divvied up into five military districts, and some of the Confederate states were not readmitted into the USA until 1870.
Me too, damn it. I'd just gotten a bunch of panorama tools stuff, and was learning exactly how the toolchain worked, etc. And I was so sure I was gonna get a two-gigapixel image of a snowy hillside, or something like that, and become famous on slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
"Grockster". Or, if you mean 'warez', it's pronounced 'where's'. As in "Where's the warez, d00d?!".
--grendel drago
I heard about this on the radio today. The announcer referred to "Groakster". Who the crap pronounces it "Groakster"? Reminds me of the guy who pronounced "warez" as "war-ezz".
--grendel drago
My eye flicked over your username and the sentence, and came up with "Revoke his/her movie watching pants immediately".
Too much cruft in my head, clearly.
--grendel drago
It wasn't based on "I, Robot", the short story collection. It was a unrelated script called "Hardwired" first, which had the Asimov title slapped onto it for, I don't know, marketability.
There was a Harlan Ellison screenplay, but it was never filmed. Because, clearly, some cokehead exec thought that a low-paid action-flick hack could do a better job.
Funny thing is, they still released a paperback version of the short story collection with Will Smith on the cover. Which, if anyone bought it, must have been confusing as all hell.
--grendel drago
Oh, come on. No actual troll has actually made a "Natalie Portman" or "Hot Grits" post in at least a year. (I'd be impressed if someone proved me wrong on this.) No, the current trolls use "GREASED YODA DOLL UP THE ASS" as far as I can tell.
'Cept I can't see any on this thread. Man, what's the world coming to? Whence Klerck and his page wideners! Whence the ASCII goatse.cx man! Whence the guy who would endlessly repost the same three pages of badly written text porn!
I think I smell nostalgia in the air. That, or Yoda grease.
--grendel drago
Wow. He's taller than I thought he'd be. When I saw his cameo at the end of "Sleeping in Light", he seemed kinda little. And I really thought I was going to cry at the end of that. I almost did. But not quite. Oh well.
--grendel drago
Well, it won a Hugo. Two, actually. ("The Coming of Shadows" and "Severed Dreams".) Other awards, too.
I'd agree that it's most likely the best SF series that never gained widespread appeal...
So, what would you call the most overrated SF series?
--grendel drago
Wait, are you saying that jms wrote "Amazing Spiderman" for a time, and put plugs in for "Babylon 5"? That seems kinda... crass.
--grendel drago
Well, neither had I, but there they were, on the page the grandparent post referred to. The 386SX-16 used 0.75W typical, 1.1W peak. Technically, at no point was it the fastest chip Intel made (it was a budgetty chip made to be cheaper), and peak wattage was above 1.0W, but I still think it's damned impressive. Also, note the 486SX-25 (208 pin package), which used 0.82W typical, 1.04W max.
Is that what you were asking about?
--grendel drago
Impressive! Thank you.
--grendel drago
Wow. That's an impressive list.
Weird, imagining the most powerful CPUs available taking less than a watt of power, compared to a shiny new Pentium IV eating more than a hundred.
--grendel drago
Was there a cash money prize for someone who could produce a pair of strings with the same MD5 sum? I remember reading or possibly hearing that No One had Ever discovered a hash collision with MD5. Is this the first ever hash collision found?
--grendel drago
Not to mention the Jews and others that fled Germany and the surrounding regions. Einstein, Erdos, von Neumann, and Szilard, to pick a random selection. The difference was that the United States picked these people up prior to the war.
--grendel drago
Kinda like the wireheads from 'Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect'. Though, I'm sure the idea was around long before localroger made it the linchpin of his story.
--grendel drago
There was an article terribly criticle of the whole MMORPG genre, explaining that Everquest is for morons, and gameplay consists entirely of selecting your attack spell and clicking on bad guys.
While I'm sure Blizzard have advanced things somewhat, I still want to see that original article. And I haven't the faintest idea where to find it. Can anyone help me out?
--grendel drago
Why would Fox prevent Universal from making a TV version of Firefly? Clearly, Fox didn't want it; they rushed it off the air before they'd even aired all of the episodes.
--grendel drago
Remember how Family Guy was really funny? And how Fox, assclowns that they are, cancelled it (seems they like cancelling good shows that begin with 'F'---producers take note), but DVD sales were so unignorably good that Fox was convinced to start the series back up again?
They're not going to do that with Firefly. No matter how successful the movie is. If it makes a ton---a ton---of money, we'll get a sequel. Maybe. But the story was meant to be told episodically, minor threads weaving subtly until they burst to the forefront. You can't do that in a movie; there's just not enough time. (See: Babylon 5.)
This whole mess just depresses me so. Damn you, Fox.
--grendel drago
Ah, you've hit the nail on the head, you have. For the rules and regulations of secular society to be affected, secular harm must be shown. Religious law is its own beast, subject to rules with different aims---to protect the spiritual well-being of adherents---and so has different criteria for law-writing.
I thank you for articulating your position. I do wish that the separation of church and state wasn't seen as such a threat by some religious folks.
I know that secular humanists (which kinda describes me, I think) can frequently come off as blowhards trying to impose our vision of society on everyone else. What you've explained here seems rather ideal to me. Religious laws for the religious, secular laws for everyone.
--grendel drago
Pornography psychopharmacologically imprints young brains --- thereby invalidating notions of informed consent.
I'm reading this as, "when you get a hard-on, you lose all sense of right and wrong, and become a rampaging rapist".
Hasn't that, you know, not been in style since the eighteen fucking hundreds? Am I missing something here?
--grendel drago
'Course, if they don't, and one or both of you is a media-production dork, you'll end up with a disk full of homemade goodies, which is a warm fuzzy all 'round, because it's fun and uplifting and you get to be all, "hey, I look kinda hot".
Well, that last depends. In my terribly limited experience, it's more likely to hear the girl say, "AAH! THIGHS HUGE!" than "yeah, I'd do me".
But still. Mmm. Homemade goodies.
--grendel drago
As True Porn Clerk Stories put it...
I get sort of conflicted about throwing kids and teenagers out of the porn section. I really don't want them down there, not because I think sex is dirty or bad, but because I don't want them to think that that's what sex is about. The stuff on our boxes is sex in the basest, sometimes most brutal terms - naked women spreading their relevant orifices and making that Porn Face. Unless you're talking about the Max Hardcore series, which involves women with "SLUT" and "WHORE" written across their foreheads in lipstick. And besides - do we really need to raise another generation of men who can't deal with pubic hair?
So I don't feel bad about getting them out of there, except that I'm very conscious of the fact that I'm a woman while I'm doing it. I worry that I'm either setting up or reinforcing the idea that there are fun, bad women who like sex and good, boring women who restrict access to sex.
I always want to debrief them. "Hey, guys, it's cool that you're curious, but this isn't the way to find out. Porn is fine, but it's not real sex. Real sex is great, and even good girls love it, but it has to be a two-way street..." But I always just end up with "Sorry, guys - come back when you're 21." Perhaps I should write a children's book. Porn Is Healthy and Fine, but Only as a Temporary Physical Release.
It's true. Most of it is just incompetent, but some of it is actively... repulsive. Well, to me at least. The "Bangbus" stuff that was so, so popular on the campus network just left me kinda icked out. Where's the fun in degrading someone like that?
Now, compare that with Buttman: The Fashionistas, in which everyone's having a grand old time beating the heck out of each other. Because the participants wear wackier clothing and hit each other, it's supposedly more perverse... but I find it a lot more wholesome than "Bangbus" or anything in a similar mold.
'Course, given that I get all my porn from the internet, or make it myself, I probably don't have a representative sample.
Perhaps I'm missing something. Is there something terribly alluring about bullying women? It's like being in high school again.
I'd like to hear uplifting and affirming stories about good porn, if anyone has 'em.
--grendel drago
I note that it's dated nearly five years ago. Good luck getting an actual email to someone working at a company. It's one-way communication, folks, a push medium. Damn kids these days and their outdated unidirectional media paradigms.
Still, props to the company and to the guy working for it for giving an actual response. And a helpful one, at that. Nifty!
--grendel drago
The military occupation of the former Confederacy was called "Reconstruction". After the Union's victory, the South was, in fact, divvied up into five military districts, and some of the Confederate states were not readmitted into the USA until 1870.
See Reconstruction on Wikipedia for more information.
I have no idea what the heck the original poster was talking about with the other half of his argument, however.
--grendel drago
Of course there are limits on NTFS. Googling reveals the filesize limit to be a theoretical maximum of 16 exabytes.
Fine, fine, I suppose that's effectively unlimited, and I'm just a pedant. (There's a nifty page with a table about the maximum filesizes in Linux filesystems too.)
--grendel
Me too, damn it. I'd just gotten a bunch of panorama tools stuff, and was learning exactly how the toolchain worked, etc. And I was so sure I was gonna get a two-gigapixel image of a snowy hillside, or something like that, and become famous on slashdot.
Oh well. The three-gigapixel barrier awaits!
--grendel drago