"Occult" means "hidden". That's all. When the gastroenterologist is checking for "occult blood" in your shit-sample, it doesn't mean that he or she's trying to perform an exorcism.
Where are webcam sluts these days? Not the whores, I'm talking about the ones who give it up for free.
Right next to easy venture capital and totally vacant business plans, just behind the internet pet-food store and the internet toenail-clipper store. Across the street from any prospect whatsoever of getting a job.
I tell ya, man, it's not just the corporations who've stopped giving it up for free.
You consider stunning gems of insight like "it has just 2 wheels, and so is a lot like feet", covering an admittedly trollish version of some really, really valid complaints.
The segway is more expensive than walking, but in most senses, it is not as good as walking.
The segway is more expensive than biking, but in most senses, it is not as good as biking.
(Repeat for skateboarding, unicycling, etc.)
Hell, even here on Slashdot, where we masturbate furiously in anticipation of the next Opteron model, the segway's reception was lukewarm. Sure, it has gadgetry, but it doesn't really fill a need, or do it well. (Okay, maybe those people who are too lazy to walk and want to zip around at jogging-speeds on a five thousand dollar, incredibly stealably scooter.)
Hygienic schmiegenic. I traditionally have a "bodily fluids" towel, stuck in the bottom drawer of my desk and washed weekly, used to mop up head-snot, cock-snot and whatever else comes out of my body.
And heck, when I was living in the dorm, the bathroom was the least private place in the building. And even now, laziness and a 19-inch flatpanel monitor discourage me from getting off my ass to jerk off.
No, the key problem is money. Tell this to any grunt in the field, and they'll point and laugh at you. The Armed Forces can't even provide body armor that'll stop an AK-47 round to the troops; try telling them they'll have autonomous robotic trashcans and they'll giggle.
(a) Hey, how do you get wireless transmission of video locally like that? I want one!
(b) Exactly what kind of place are you living in that you can't jerk off on the couch or, failing that, in your room? Do you live with your parents? In a dorm, so you don't have your own room? Seriously, jerking off in the bathroom is for fourteen year olds, playing "peek and poke" up in the treehouse.
Don't you mean AC3 audio? Lots of major DVD-rips releases are done with the original AC3 audio (possibly downsampled or compressed, but frequently just copied off the DVD), but I've never seen AAC audio on one.
I remember this lovely episode of Millenium, "Somehow Satan Got Behind Me", on of the too-few works of Darin Morgan. There's a segment in it about a Broadcast Standards and Practices censor driven mad by a little dancing devil. The guy's a hoot.
Censor: Unacceptable. If you are going to show a pile of dung, it must be dried dung, not moist.
Censor: No, it doesn't matter that aliens from out of space have no genitalia---they still have groins, and they shouldn't be kicked there. It is unacceptable, revise for cut!
Censor: You will not get away with this! The final scene is gratuitously violent! Aliens would not carry an Uzi! They are a superior race and they would not carry or utilize automatic weapons! I will not approve this! I am Broadcast Standards and Practices!
Heck, you can even get the episode off ed2k. (The show doesn't air much anymore; most of it was apparently crap.)
Y'ever notice that 9876543211 is prime? Isn't that weird?
I think it's prime, anyhow. I had a TI-BASIC program that did stupid brute-force factoring, and punching that number in came up prime. (I was bored.) Maybe it was a number that looked a lot like that.
Anyone want to bother whipping up a five-line Perl script and checking on that?
Well... I wouldn't be quite so quick to write off fusion power. See, there's a point at which a fusion reaction generates power and becomes self-sustaining. Since the first tokamaks were built in the 1970s, there has been pretty much logarithmic progress toward that point.
(I saw a more detailed picture with points drawn for major reactor projects like JET in my quantum book, but have been unable to find another since. Foo. Anyone out there seen it?)
The book was an ironic allegory, and the Eloi weren't idyllic cutie-pies, but rather passive grazing idiots; the underground (underclass) Morlocks whose ancestors were exploited by those who gave rise to the Eloi finally turned the tables and started eating them.
I don't think the moon was mentioned at all in the book.
Ebert is a sucker for pretty pictures. Notice that he gave Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within four stars---writing off the plot with a sentence or two, then rambling on about how pretty it was. From his "Dark City" review:
``Dark City'' by Alex Proyas is a great visionary achievement, a film so original and exciting, it stirred my imagination like ``Metropolis'' and ``2001: A Space Odyssey.'' If it is true, as the German director Werner Herzog believes, that we live in an age starved of new images, then ``Dark City'' is a film to nourish us. Not a story so much as an experience, it is a triumph of art direction, set design, cinematography, special effects--and imagination.
Hey, he's a sucker for pretty pictures just like the rest of us.
Exactly! The TLA namespace needs to be reserves for things and people who will actually count next year. Like GNU, or dmr, or ken, or rms, or esr, or jms.
In order on the wayback machine: Chicago, A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator, American Beauty, Shakespeare in Love, Titanic, The English Patient, Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, Unforgiven.
Since when is Gladiator an indie film? Since when are any of these indie films?
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Bitterness rocks. You get a brownie point.
--grendel drago
I thought Avocado's Number was 6.02*10**23 alligator pears.
Just like a millihelen is the amount of beauty required to launch a single ship.
Or sixteen and a half feet in the Twilight Zone is one Rod Serling.
--grendel drago
"Occult" means "hidden". That's all. When the gastroenterologist is checking for "occult blood" in your shit-sample, it doesn't mean that he or she's trying to perform an exorcism.
--grendel drago
Where are webcam sluts these days? Not the whores, I'm talking about the ones who give it up for free.
Right next to easy venture capital and totally vacant business plans, just behind the internet pet-food store and the internet toenail-clipper store. Across the street from any prospect whatsoever of getting a job.
I tell ya, man, it's not just the corporations who've stopped giving it up for free.
--grendel drago
The Matrix - leather catsuits, trenchcoats, sunglasses, technology appeal, etc.
*looks out the window, expecting to see all those girls who were inspired to wear leather catsuits by The Matrix*
Hey, what gives?!
--grendel drago
He's gone native.
You consider stunning gems of insight like "it has just 2 wheels, and so is a lot like feet", covering an admittedly trollish version of some really, really valid complaints.
The segway is more expensive than walking, but in most senses, it is not as good as walking.
The segway is more expensive than biking, but in most senses, it is not as good as biking.
(Repeat for skateboarding, unicycling, etc.)
Hell, even here on Slashdot, where we masturbate furiously in anticipation of the next Opteron model, the segway's reception was lukewarm. Sure, it has gadgetry, but it doesn't really fill a need, or do it well. (Okay, maybe those people who are too lazy to walk and want to zip around at jogging-speeds on a five thousand dollar, incredibly stealably scooter.)
--grendel drago
As the local Slashdot g0d of pr0n (now that Keslin has vanished), it's good to hear your opinion on it. More power to you.
--grendel drago
Hygienic schmiegenic. I traditionally have a "bodily fluids" towel, stuck in the bottom drawer of my desk and washed weekly, used to mop up head-snot, cock-snot and whatever else comes out of my body.
And heck, when I was living in the dorm, the bathroom was the least private place in the building. And even now, laziness and a 19-inch flatpanel monitor discourage me from getting off my ass to jerk off.
--grendel drago
No, the key problem is money. Tell this to any grunt in the field, and they'll point and laugh at you. The Armed Forces can't even provide body armor that'll stop an AK-47 round to the troops; try telling them they'll have autonomous robotic trashcans and they'll giggle.
--grendel drago
(a) Hey, how do you get wireless transmission of video locally like that? I want one!
(b) Exactly what kind of place are you living in that you can't jerk off on the couch or, failing that, in your room? Do you live with your parents? In a dorm, so you don't have your own room? Seriously, jerking off in the bathroom is for fourteen year olds, playing "peek and poke" up in the treehouse.
--grendel drago
Don't you mean AC3 audio? Lots of major DVD-rips releases are done with the original AC3 audio (possibly downsampled or compressed, but frequently just copied off the DVD), but I've never seen AAC audio on one.
--grendel drago
Wouldn't it be more illuminating to score those by bytecount? How do those categories break down by bytecount?
--grendel drago
I remember this lovely episode of Millenium, "Somehow Satan Got Behind Me", on of the too-few works of Darin Morgan. There's a segment in it about a Broadcast Standards and Practices censor driven mad by a little dancing devil. The guy's a hoot.
Censor: Unacceptable. If you are going to show a pile of dung, it must be dried dung, not moist.
Censor: No, it doesn't matter that aliens from out of space have no genitalia---they still have groins, and they shouldn't be kicked there. It is unacceptable, revise for cut!
Censor: You will not get away with this! The final scene is gratuitously violent! Aliens would not carry an Uzi! They are a superior race and they would not carry or utilize automatic weapons! I will not approve this! I am Broadcast Standards and Practices!
Heck, you can even get the episode off ed2k. (The show doesn't air much anymore; most of it was apparently crap.)
--grendel drago
Hey, nifty! I never noticed that. And it's been here all along in sh-utils. Thanks!
--grendel drago
The sad part is that they kill great shows to promote ones with far less lasting power.
Indeed. *cough* Firefly *cough*...
--grendel drago
Y'ever notice that 9876543211 is prime? Isn't that weird?
I think it's prime, anyhow. I had a TI-BASIC program that did stupid brute-force factoring, and punching that number in came up prime. (I was bored.) Maybe it was a number that looked a lot like that.
Anyone want to bother whipping up a five-line Perl script and checking on that?
--grendel drago
Well... I wouldn't be quite so quick to write off fusion power. See, there's a point at which a fusion reaction generates power and becomes self-sustaining. Since the first tokamaks were built in the 1970s, there has been pretty much logarithmic progress toward that point.
See?
(I saw a more detailed picture with points drawn for major reactor projects like JET in my quantum book, but have been unable to find another since. Foo. Anyone out there seen it?)
--grendel drago
That was only in the movie.
The book was an ironic allegory, and the Eloi weren't idyllic cutie-pies, but rather passive grazing idiots; the underground (underclass) Morlocks whose ancestors were exploited by those who gave rise to the Eloi finally turned the tables and started eating them.
I don't think the moon was mentioned at all in the book.
--grendel drago
Ebert is a sucker for pretty pictures. Notice that he gave Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within four stars---writing off the plot with a sentence or two, then rambling on about how pretty it was. From his "Dark City" review:
``Dark City'' by Alex Proyas is a great visionary achievement, a film so original and exciting, it stirred my imagination like ``Metropolis'' and ``2001: A Space Odyssey.'' If it is true, as the German director Werner Herzog believes, that we live in an age starved of new images, then ``Dark City'' is a film to nourish us. Not a story so much as an experience, it is a triumph of art direction, set design, cinematography, special effects--and imagination.
Hey, he's a sucker for pretty pictures just like the rest of us.
--grendel drago
Hey, B5 actually answered the questions that had been set up for them. Everything got foreshadowed; everything got explained.
(Err, I think so. I mean, I'm only halfway through Season 2, but it's supposed to be good about this sort of thing.)
--grendel drago
The author was named Glavinic?
"With the smoking and the snacking and the hey-hey-hey is it a fruit or is it a dangerously addicting DRUG glavin..."
--grendel drago
The only one I figured some people wouldn't catch was jms, J Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5 and Jeremiah, beloved of geeks everywhere.
--grendelkhan
Exactly! The TLA namespace needs to be reserves for things and people who will actually count next year. Like GNU, or dmr, or ken, or rms, or esr, or jms.
--grendel drago
Really?
In order on the wayback machine: Chicago, A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator, American Beauty, Shakespeare in Love, Titanic, The English Patient, Braveheart, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List, Unforgiven.
Since when is Gladiator an indie film? Since when are any of these indie films?
--grendel drago