> Sending highly private, personal information to someone you've never > met, know nothing about and whose identity you can't even be sure of > (as in this case!) means you're just an idiot....A regularly laid idiot. Now get back to cranking to pr0n and feeling a bit too much recognition when you see a Simpsons' episode with the Comic Book Guy....and even he at least got laid a few times, e'en tho it was Skinner's ma.
> Once they notice that they cannot gain any info from the servers
These are the same people who claim that marijuana residue on the walls is not just evidence of prior smoking, but is considered "posessio" in and of itself. That is, you are in posession of the residue, and that contains some of the marijuana chemical that is illegal, and therefore you are "in posession" of marijuana.
These are the same people who claim the new laws are all for "terrorists", then immediately use it to spy on "drug lords". But wait, drug lords aren't terrorists, right? "Oh yes, they fund terrorism! And their effect on cities is akin to terrorism!"
> Veteran arrested on Veteran's day for reading an editorial out loud
No, Veteran arrested on Veteran's day for arrogantly demanding and attempting to interrupt a meeting organized by other people for other purposes.
> Other protestors arrested
Yes. Arrested for sitting their asses down in front of the White House and refusing to move. You don't get to do that just because you really, really, gosh darn it, really believe in your cause.
When you distort things for the purpose of rhetoric, you just demean your cause.
> Brett Bursey
Now this is much more relevant. You can only hold up a sign or "boo" in a government-designated "free speech zone", though you can hold up supportive signs and cheer anywhere.
Quote real, troubling things like this and you will build much more momentum than quoting lots of misleading things. Oh, golly, the guy who throws pies in people's faces was arrested for interrupting someone's meeting and throwing a pie in someone's face. How horrible! Gestapo! Seig Heil, mein fuehrer!
I'll be happy if it doesn't take 8 months for me to get to a high enough level that Starfleet Academy lets me set my phaser on a setting higher than "5 shots to kill a rat^H^H^Htribble".
Exactly. I'm more identifying with Harry Mudd these days than James T.
Fembots, bring me some Romulan ale. Kirk, get the FU** OFF MY PLANET and leave me in peace. Beer! Now. And some of them little cheesy horse duvers with the bar-b-que coctail weenies on top, that'd be real nice.
He was suffering from the "George Reeve" syndrome. George played Superman in the '50's TV show, and Hunter played Jesus in Jesus Christ: Chewin' Bubble Gum, and was having a tough time getting something because he was typecast. Later, he offed himself because of it.
"Admiral" Kirk's fingers "smell like fish" is a euphamism for his prowess at sexual conquest. Then the poster made a further joke upon this by linking to Admiral Akbar from Star Wars, the fish guy in charge of the rebellion's attack in Return of the Jedi. He's an admiral and a fish, so his "fingers smell like fish", too? Get it?
It's embarassing you're from Michigan. I hope your ID has nothing to do with U-M.
On the other hand, he did hook up with the female president of a planet on that planet where females were the larger of the species, and much to the consternation of the little dandy, the "first man". And a farmer's daughter. And Troi, though she's always been kinda icky to me.
Let's see. Beats the crap out of whoever he fistfights. Beats the crap out of whoever he fights in space battles. All girls fall in love with him and throw themselves at him for tawdry sexual encounters.
Yeah, not much left. Prolly has a giant shlong, too.
> Enterprise episodes > > - Using sex to try to improve ratings? Check.
With all due respect, this was hardly the first Trek show to do this. DS9 had no fewer than 2 lesbian saliva-string kisses.
Quite frankly, Hoshi and T'pol rubbin' each other with oil in the decontamination chamber was a welcome sight. One more season was all it would have taken...I'm sure of it!
Pulaski's problem was that she wasn't crankable, unlike Hoshi, Seven, Jadzia, Kira, Ezri, and T'pol, and that only-lives-3-years cutsiepie, at least after she lost the pixie cut, all eminently and endlessly crankable. Hell, even Uhura's thighs got it goin' in the otherwise forgettable journey-to-the-center-of-the-galaxy movie up on that hill in the low light. Pulaski, even way back when when she guest-starred in the original Trek, didn't get the job done. Not that she had to, back then it was Rand or the Kirk BOTW (or, occasionally, the Spock BOTW.) Or Judy on Lost In Space, or Marilyn Munster, or, damn, isn't Lily's top semi-transparent?
After dispatching the griffen, an orc mage accosted us. I ran up to it and with all my might, swung my word down at him, as he was busy casting a spell. My sword cleaved straight through him, as he was not even dodging or defending himself, yet not only did I not damage his body, I didn't even interrupt his delicate magical hand movements. Why am I so weak? Why wouldst anyone useth a sword when it mysteriously cuts yet doesn't cut a simple robe-wearing fool like this?
> RPG (or some other form of character ability progression)
Which really has nothing to do with role playing, and is, in fact, the bane of roleplaying given you can role play all you want the noble paladin, then get smoked by some l33t d00dz the second you step outside a city, when, by all role-playing rights, you should be able to pop them in the nose, poke them in the ass with your sword, then make a snide comment as they run away never to appear again except at the very end of the actors list for that movie's IMDB page.
Yeah, Galahad gets into a 2-hit fight, the ruffian hitting Galahad through his shiny armor, and Galahad hitting the ground. "Look at his lame@$$ armor, n00b! 'Excalibur'? What a POS, haha! Destroy it so he has to use a rusty sword again."
> The 'plot' in Oblivion wouldn't make a good short story, let alone a novel.
By pure dumb luck, my cell contained an escape route I was too stupid to find on my own, and Captain Picard in drag with two measly guards decides to flee a castle assault through it. The guards do not instantly slaughter me on the way through, though, because Picard had a psychotic episode where he imagined I used to be his orc lover or something. So I follow along, get in the way but the guards still don't kill me, then Picard gets killed in spite of my best level 1 efforts, minutes before he was gonna die from Aids anyway.
> And lets not forget that Knights of the old Republic > had shooting, thinking, AND sports, with some jumping thrown into the mix.
Well, the guardian class could jump-attack with devastating effect on the first leap into battle (standard attack on distant foe if they haven't attacked you first) but that wasn't "jumping" in the puzzle-solving-game sense. In fact, I can't recall a single thing in either KotR game where you even could jump "over" something you couldn't also walk over. Not a single chasm, not a knee-high wall, nothing. It may be the least "jumping" game of all time (including Tetris, if you include hitting the space bar to drop the form "jumping".)
As for sports, the less said about the idiotic sub-games like swoop racing and Pazaak, the better. Thankfully I could blow by them entirely in II. And if that's how easy it is to beat the planet's best swoop racers, no wonder a little kid won on Tatooine with his cobbled-together piece of junk.
Ahhh, but building up your char until you can 1-shot the dead guy (on what's jokingly called "hard") in the 2nd battle with him (on a crit), ahh, life is good.
Quite frankly, I prefer games that are "rougelike", like City of Heroes, where you can put on strappy high heels, slide the waist slider to thin, the booty slider to JLo, and go have a good time sliding your big metal phallic symbol into bad guys.
And the vast majority of role playing games aren't really role playing. I realized a number of years ago that the reason I liked D&D was because of the statistical analysis of the battles. Pretending I was a street acrobat or a pirate and going "Arrrrrrrr arrrrr!" was not exactly a draw for me. The only "role playing" I ever did in this (or MMORPGs) was the Ogre in Everquest -- and the old-school, old-model ogre at that. The new one that looks like a giant, thickish human is an uncreative, talentlessly-derived abomination they should be ashamed of (and so, too, the new troll. Sigh. Fatties of old, how little we knew ye.)
Yeah, that's when EQ jumped the shark in my estimation. I could handle all the nerfs (they were the only game in town at the time, so handle 'em or have nothing to play) but this was just too outrageous.
> It looks for entries for words not in the WordNet database and > works out their meaning by looking for known words linked to them
I suspect some bugs need to be worked out. For example, it came up with this definition:
slashdot: v To surf for pictures of pretty girls (e.g. Natalie Portman) for the purpose of satisfying unrelieved sexual frustration owing to social retardation, using powerful network-enabled computers (e.g. Beowulf clusters).
> Now imagine how much fun it would be, being confined to what is basically > a big sack of gas with absolutely nothing to do and REALLY nowhere to go.
Just a bunch of wealthy, non-obese, non-elderly males and females, all alone, with no gravity. What to do? What to do?
Slashdot Mirror
Whew! Now everybody can get the exact same 10 year sentence for publishing a blog criticizing robotic sentencing.
> Sending highly private, personal information to someone you've never ...A regularly laid idiot. Now get back to cranking to pr0n and feeling a bit too much recognition when you see a Simpsons' episode with the Comic Book Guy. ...and even he at least got laid a few times, e'en tho it was Skinner's ma.
> met, know nothing about and whose identity you can't even be sure of
> (as in this case!) means you're just an idiot.
> Once they notice that they cannot gain any info from the servers
These are the same people who claim that marijuana residue on the walls is not just evidence of prior smoking, but is considered "posessio" in and of itself. That is, you are in posession of the residue, and that contains some of the marijuana chemical that is illegal, and therefore you are "in posession" of marijuana.
These are the same people who claim the new laws are all for "terrorists", then immediately use it to spy on "drug lords". But wait, drug lords aren't terrorists, right? "Oh yes, they fund terrorism! And their effect on cities is akin to terrorism!"
> Veteran arrested on Veteran's day for reading an editorial out loud
No, Veteran arrested on Veteran's day for arrogantly demanding and attempting to interrupt a meeting organized by other people for other purposes.
> Other protestors arrested
Yes. Arrested for sitting their asses down in front of the White House and refusing to move. You don't get to do that just because you really, really, gosh darn it, really believe in your cause.
When you distort things for the purpose of rhetoric, you just demean your cause.
> Brett Bursey
Now this is much more relevant. You can only hold up a sign or "boo" in a government-designated "free speech zone", though you can hold up supportive signs and cheer anywhere.
Quote real, troubling things like this and you will build much more momentum than quoting lots of misleading things. Oh, golly, the guy who throws pies in people's faces was arrested for interrupting someone's meeting and throwing a pie in someone's face. How horrible! Gestapo! Seig Heil, mein fuehrer!
I'll be happy if it doesn't take 8 months for me to get to a high enough level that Starfleet Academy lets me set my phaser on a setting higher than "5 shots to kill a rat^H^H^Htribble".
Exactly. I'm more identifying with Harry Mudd these days than James T.
Fembots, bring me some Romulan ale. Kirk, get the FU** OFF MY PLANET and leave me in peace. Beer! Now. And some of them little cheesy horse duvers with the bar-b-que coctail weenies on top, that'd be real nice.
He was suffering from the "George Reeve" syndrome. George played Superman in the '50's TV show, and Hunter played Jesus in Jesus Christ: Chewin' Bubble Gum, and was having a tough time getting something because he was typecast. Later, he offed himself because of it.
Do they have a page that explains jokes to people?
"Admiral" Kirk's fingers "smell like fish" is a euphamism for his prowess at sexual conquest. Then the poster made a further joke upon this by linking to Admiral Akbar from Star Wars, the fish guy in charge of the rebellion's attack in Return of the Jedi. He's an admiral and a fish, so his "fingers smell like fish", too? Get it?
It's embarassing you're from Michigan. I hope your ID has nothing to do with U-M.
On the other hand, he did hook up with the female president of a planet on that planet where females were the larger of the species, and much to the consternation of the little dandy, the "first man". And a farmer's daughter. And Troi, though she's always been kinda icky to me.
I think he was on crack or something.
Let's see. Beats the crap out of whoever he fistfights. Beats the crap out of whoever he fights in space battles. All girls fall in love with him and throw themselves at him for tawdry sexual encounters.
Yeah, not much left. Prolly has a giant shlong, too.
> Enterprise episodes
>
> - Using sex to try to improve ratings? Check.
With all due respect, this was hardly the first Trek show to do this. DS9 had no fewer than 2 lesbian saliva-string kisses.
Quite frankly, Hoshi and T'pol rubbin' each other with oil in the decontamination chamber was a welcome sight. One more season was all it would have taken...I'm sure of it!
Pulaski's problem was that she wasn't crankable, unlike Hoshi, Seven, Jadzia, Kira, Ezri, and T'pol, and that only-lives-3-years cutsiepie, at least after she lost the pixie cut, all eminently and endlessly crankable. Hell, even Uhura's thighs got it goin' in the otherwise forgettable journey-to-the-center-of-the-galaxy movie up on that hill in the low light. Pulaski, even way back when when she guest-starred in the original Trek, didn't get the job done. Not that she had to, back then it was Rand or the Kirk BOTW (or, occasionally, the Spock BOTW.) Or Judy on Lost In Space, or Marilyn Munster, or, damn, isn't Lily's top semi-transparent?
That website's eyes don't open, sails don't unfurl.
Or:
After dispatching the griffen, an orc mage accosted us. I ran up to it and with all my might, swung my word down at him, as he was busy casting a spell. My sword cleaved straight through him, as he was not even dodging or defending himself, yet not only did I not damage his body, I didn't even interrupt his delicate magical hand movements. Why am I so weak? Why wouldst anyone useth a sword when it mysteriously cuts yet doesn't cut a simple robe-wearing fool like this?
> RPG (or some other form of character ability progression)
Which really has nothing to do with role playing, and is, in fact, the bane of roleplaying given you can role play all you want the noble paladin, then get smoked by some l33t d00dz the second you step outside a city, when, by all role-playing rights, you should be able to pop them in the nose, poke them in the ass with your sword, then make a snide comment as they run away never to appear again except at the very end of the actors list for that movie's IMDB page.
Yeah, Galahad gets into a 2-hit fight, the ruffian hitting Galahad through his shiny armor, and Galahad hitting the ground. "Look at his lame@$$ armor, n00b! 'Excalibur'? What a POS, haha! Destroy it so he has to use a rusty sword again."
> The 'plot' in Oblivion wouldn't make a good short story, let alone a novel.
By pure dumb luck, my cell contained an escape route I was too stupid to find on my own, and Captain Picard in drag with two measly guards decides to flee a castle assault through it. The guards do not instantly slaughter me on the way through, though, because Picard had a psychotic episode where he imagined I used to be his orc lover or something. So I follow along, get in the way but the guards still don't kill me, then Picard gets killed in spite of my best level 1 efforts, minutes before he was gonna die from Aids anyway.
That awesome plot?
> There are no generic "legends" that span back to the beginning of time.
True. Even the legend about the Slashdot poster who scored only goes back to the mid '90's.
> And lets not forget that Knights of the old Republic
> had shooting, thinking, AND sports, with some jumping thrown into the mix.
Well, the guardian class could jump-attack with devastating effect on the first leap into battle (standard attack on distant foe if they haven't attacked you first) but that wasn't "jumping" in the puzzle-solving-game sense. In fact, I can't recall a single thing in either KotR game where you even could jump "over" something you couldn't also walk over. Not a single chasm, not a knee-high wall, nothing. It may be the least "jumping" game of all time (including Tetris, if you include hitting the space bar to drop the form "jumping".)
As for sports, the less said about the idiotic sub-games like swoop racing and Pazaak, the better. Thankfully I could blow by them entirely in II. And if that's how easy it is to beat the planet's best swoop racers, no wonder a little kid won on Tatooine with his cobbled-together piece of junk.
Ahhh, but building up your char until you can 1-shot the dead guy (on what's jokingly called "hard") in the 2nd battle with him (on a crit), ahh, life is good.
Quite frankly, I prefer games that are "rougelike", like City of Heroes, where you can put on strappy high heels, slide the waist slider to thin, the booty slider to JLo, and go have a good time sliding your big metal phallic symbol into bad guys.
And the vast majority of role playing games aren't really role playing. I realized a number of years ago that the reason I liked D&D was because of the statistical analysis of the battles. Pretending I was a street acrobat or a pirate and going "Arrrrrrrr arrrrr!" was not exactly a draw for me. The only "role playing" I ever did in this (or MMORPGs) was the Ogre in Everquest -- and the old-school, old-model ogre at that. The new one that looks like a giant, thickish human is an uncreative, talentlessly-derived abomination they should be ashamed of (and so, too, the new troll. Sigh. Fatties of old, how little we knew ye.)
Yeah, that's when EQ jumped the shark in my estimation. I could handle all the nerfs (they were the only game in town at the time, so handle 'em or have nothing to play) but this was just too outrageous.
> It looks for entries for words not in the WordNet database and
> works out their meaning by looking for known words linked to them
I suspect some bugs need to be worked out. For example, it came up with this definition:
slashdot: v To surf for pictures of pretty girls (e.g. Natalie Portman) for the purpose of satisfying unrelieved sexual frustration owing to social retardation, using powerful network-enabled computers (e.g. Beowulf clusters).
> all 800,000 years of the ice column have been analyzed
Congratulations. You've covered 0.017% of the Earth's age, and, more specifically, a period infested with almost constant, murderous ice ages.
But that doesn't sell governmental power grabs to control the economy that socialist arguments last century failed at, does it?
Note: The outrage you feel, the burning in your ears, does not mean this post is a "troll" or "flamebait".
I can see it now, as soon as he gets up there: "Ha ha! I did it! I drugged her and pushed her in the pool! What ya gonna do now?!?! What now? Uh-huh"
> Now imagine how much fun it would be, being confined to what is basically
> a big sack of gas with absolutely nothing to do and REALLY nowhere to go.
Just a bunch of wealthy, non-obese, non-elderly males and females, all alone, with no gravity. What to do? What to do?