I recall the evening the Necros in EQ could cast multiple pets. Wasn't on that evening, but read about it on the boards later. Unlike detrimental (to the player), very severe bugs, which they'd let languish for a week (the next scheduled update) they ripped the servers back down to fix it immediately.
> At times warez groups can be even more anal about their > "property" than the most paranoid copyright holders.
Witness the angry fights various web sites get into when someone else "steals" their scanned picture. "I violated copyright by scanning in this picture to put on my web site. How dare you steal my hard work by putting it on your web site!"
Yes, nobody wants to cure AIDS and earn a trillion dollars for it.
Same for cancer and heart disease.
Now, if s corporation knew it would have to invest a hundred billion dollars in research, and had a crystal ball wherein governments around the world would not pay them, and just l00t the product and manufacture it locally with no royalties, would that encourage or discourage the company from doing the research?
No, kiting is you doing damage to that which chases you, and you intend to kill it. Training is running by a speedbump in hopes the train derails on it.
"On a related note, the Microsoft chairman also announced a new joint MS-Paramount Star Trek project. The new TV series, tentatively about Captain Kirk's time at the academy, will be set about 20 years prior to the old series. Appearing next to Mr. Gates were the guy who played Wesley Crusher, and Jar Jar Binks. 'The series will involve Wesley, a time travel expert, secretly taking a job as astrophysics professor at the academy. Jar Jar will be present due to a cross-licensing deal with George Lucas, wherein a permanent dimensional portal will be opened, connecting the academy to the realm of the Gungins on Naboo.' "
One starts with a hatred of Bush, then one spirals outward, building one's worldview. In any conflicts between the worldview and reality, one defers to the hatred of Bush.
Nah, Robert Heinlein had powered battle suits of some kind in "Starship Trooopers". They allowed, among other things, incredible leaping (though I forget the terminology he used.)
And I'd be surprised if he were the first to do so.
BTW, a MechWarrior Battletech Battlemech, or WTH ever it is called, also goes by another name: sitting duck. In physics as is currently known, penetrating missle-bombs are way, way ahead of armor. In fact, the only viable defense against them are anti-missle missles.
> Everyone in the world will reap the benefits of a > civil-run positioning system that isn't controlled by the Pentagon.
How would it be different from the current system, except for some marginally useful increases in accuracy and the inability to shut it off during a war if it's being used by enemy missles?
An almost non-existent advantage and a huge disadvantage don't sound like good justification for the pithy comment of "that isn't controlled by the Pentagon."
Well, transparently it is a hoax. No one can actually heal people by laying on hands, or rubbing spittle, or just saying, "You are healed!"
Before buffoonery mods me flaimbait, consider how magnificent this commentry is in light of how a Jesus page might be considered "vandalized", when in fact it would not be.
I'll attempt to re-format and extract meaning from this hideously mangled monstrosity of a post. I understand English may not be the first language of Anonymo.
Here we go:
> Slashdot is a real pain
I didn't write that. It's just that Slashdot needs a makeover -- badly! You've written a dig at Slashdot, too. But the Internet is a perfect medium for collaborative ranking and recommendation systems. Still, no one writes full-sized articles, just small ones.
> I've been banned frequenlty from posting my > views simply because my view as a republican > supporter is not the flavor here on Slashdot.
Well, I've frequently observed the left wing has a strong presence on Slashdot. This makes me smile.
On the other hand, I'm from Europe, and, as I understand it, what you consider the most extreme leftists are actually merely the USA's mild (by European standards) Democrats. I jokingly challenge thee to a flamewar via an attempt at comedic pseudo HTML!
In a collaborative ranking and recommendation system, a presonal flavoring ala "friend" or "foaf" (friend of a friend) would be useful. Perhaps I have misunderstood you. My bad.
Happy holidays to you and any other Slashdotters reading this!
Mr. Eurothatcher: Charles, I've seen the books. You lost $2.4 million yesterday. How long do you expect to keep this up?
Kane: Yes, Mr. Eurothatcher. I lost $2.4 million yesterday. I expect to lose $2.4 million today. I expect to lose $2.4 million tomorrow. You know what, Mr. Eurothatcher? At $2.4 million a day, I'll have to close this place...(knowing smirk appears on his face) in 114 years.
"Scientists have decoded the mitochondrial DNA of the Woolly Mammoth. According to the article: 'the Mammoth was most closely related to the Asian elephant rather than the African Elephant. The three groups split from a common ancestor about six million years ago, with Asian elephants and mammoths diverging about half a million years later.'"
> I'm sorry but this is forcing religious belief on > the students - the belief that those that believe > in a creator are wrong is a religious belief.
No, actually it's that, in order to be taught in schools, you have to be a reasonable, scientific theory. Religious beliefs don't meet that standard. Hence they are purely religious, and not science whatsoever and thus cannot be taught in public schools because of the separation of church and state.
You are free to believe whatever you like; you'd just better have actual, real proof if you want it taught as science, especially if it's religious in nature.
> Nothing in ID can be subject to testing by the scientific method
Not true. ID proposes that the design is purposeful.
Yet consider the tailbone. Presumably it has a purpose. Yet if so, why construct it of a bunch of fused, degenerate vertebra instead of making it a single, solid bone process?
Evolution explains it without breaking a sweat. It's merely the remnants of a tail that's largely evolved away.
ID, not so.
And what about the even more embarassing fact of genes that are not expressed because of evolution, but still partially exist, and are expressed occasionally, such as actual tails on humans, or occasional legs on whales or snakes?
Evolution explains that quite well: When evolution favors getting rid of a useless body part, it's faster to disable or block genes that construct that part than it is to somehow grind out of existence a whole chunk of DNA.
ID cannot explain it as there is no need for these useless genes to be there if they are not supposed to be expressed as part of design.
And now, the sadly not-a-punchline.
Wait for it....
No, the devil did not create the mutations that make a whale or snake have a leg.
Isaac Asimov loved to point out that the god of the Bible, who created this small flat reality with a vault overhead with lights embedded in it, six to ten thousand years ago, and an ocean all around it, was far too small a god to have created a universe 15 billion light years in diameter, and age, with four hundred billion galaxies of a hundred billion stars each.
Assuming that's how it works, which it isn't. Everything from minute chemicals to gross structures can start out as other things, then evolve down into a new niche.
It is intellectual fraud to propose such things only happen by literal random shuffling of dozens to hundreds of pieces to suddenly achieve a goal. These ID "scientists" know this, yet persist anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
I recall the evening the Necros in EQ could cast multiple pets. Wasn't on that evening, but read about it on the boards later. Unlike detrimental (to the player), very severe bugs, which they'd let languish for a week (the next scheduled update) they ripped the servers back down to fix it immediately.
> At times warez groups can be even more anal about their
> "property" than the most paranoid copyright holders.
Witness the angry fights various web sites get into when someone else "steals" their scanned picture. "I violated copyright by scanning in this picture to put on my web site. How dare you steal my hard work by putting it on your web site!"
Truth is stranger than fiction.
Yes, nobody wants to cure AIDS and earn a trillion dollars for it.
Same for cancer and heart disease.
Now, if s corporation knew it would have to invest a hundred billion dollars in research, and had a crystal ball wherein governments around the world would not pay them, and just l00t the product and manufacture it locally with no royalties, would that encourage or discourage the company from doing the research?
No, kiting is you doing damage to that which chases you, and you intend to kill it. Training is running by a speedbump in hopes the train derails on it.
I don't get it. The warrior is a damage dealer, right?
> Using an appearance with Justin Timberlake
"On a related note, the Microsoft chairman also announced a new joint MS-Paramount Star Trek project. The new TV series, tentatively about Captain Kirk's time at the academy, will be set about 20 years prior to the old series. Appearing next to Mr. Gates were the guy who played Wesley Crusher, and Jar Jar Binks. 'The series will involve Wesley, a time travel expert, secretly taking a job as astrophysics professor at the academy. Jar Jar will be present due to a cross-licensing deal with George Lucas, wherein a permanent dimensional portal will be opened, connecting the academy to the realm of the Gungins on Naboo.' "
One starts with a hatred of Bush, then one spirals outward, building one's worldview. In any conflicts between the worldview and reality, one defers to the hatred of Bush.
Oh yeah?
Go there.
Not even accidents are is needed -- just a sustained assault from a bunch of guys with machine guns should take it down easily, or one lucky shot.
Or one grenade.
Or about a week of research and development in a backyard garage to put out a very high powered rifle, or just go buy one at the store.
Nah, Robert Heinlein had powered battle suits of some kind in "Starship Trooopers". They allowed, among other things, incredible leaping (though I forget the terminology he used.)
And I'd be surprised if he were the first to do so.
BTW, a MechWarrior Battletech Battlemech, or WTH ever it is called, also goes by another name: sitting duck. In physics as is currently known, penetrating missle-bombs are way, way ahead of armor. In fact, the only viable defense against them are anti-missle missles.
Of course, people forget quickly. Before the start of Gulf War II, people were whining that Iraq had 6 Rooski-made GPS-jamming devices. Oooooh!
A few hours and 6 radar-homing rockets later, they were gone.
> Everyone in the world will reap the benefits of a
> civil-run positioning system that isn't controlled by the Pentagon.
How would it be different from the current system, except for some marginally useful increases in accuracy and the inability to shut it off during a war if it's being used by enemy missles?
An almost non-existent advantage and a huge disadvantage don't sound like good justification for the pithy comment of "that isn't controlled by the Pentagon."
Plus we have "kill rockets", anyway...
> like if someone proved Jesus was a hoax
Well, transparently it is a hoax. No one can actually heal people by laying on hands, or rubbing spittle, or just saying, "You are healed!"
Before buffoonery mods me flaimbait, consider how magnificent this commentry is in light of how a Jesus page might be considered "vandalized", when in fact it would not be.
I'll attempt to re-format and extract meaning from this hideously mangled monstrosity of a post. I understand English may not be the first language of Anonymo.
Here we go:
> Slashdot is a real pain
I didn't write that. It's just that Slashdot needs a makeover -- badly! You've written a dig at Slashdot, too. But the Internet is a perfect medium for collaborative ranking and recommendation systems. Still, no one writes full-sized articles, just small ones.
> I've been banned frequenlty from posting my
> views simply because my view as a republican
> supporter is not the flavor here on Slashdot.
Well, I've frequently observed the left wing has a strong presence on Slashdot. This makes me smile.
On the other hand, I'm from Europe, and, as I understand it, what you consider the most extreme leftists are actually merely the USA's mild (by European standards) Democrats. I jokingly challenge thee to a flamewar via an attempt at comedic pseudo HTML!
In a collaborative ranking and recommendation system, a presonal flavoring ala "friend" or "foaf" (friend of a friend) would be useful. Perhaps I have misunderstood you. My bad.
Happy holidays to you and any other Slashdotters reading this!
Because anyone can mod... ...evidently including the same type of buffoons who vandalize Dubya, Jesus, and Hitler pages.
That sounds like something Hitler would say! >:(
> The initial bill's detractors who pushed for this
> amendment want a tax for author rights to be paid
> by everyone on the ISP fees.
Lovely. So we get the choice of a tax everyone pays whether stealing music or not, or legalizing stealing music.
Stupid 1 or stupid 2.
Sigh.
This is why nobody should have power, ever.
> $2.4m/a day fines begin
Mr. Eurothatcher: Charles, I've seen the books. You lost $2.4 million yesterday. How long do you expect to keep this up?
Kane: Yes, Mr. Eurothatcher. I lost $2.4 million yesterday. I expect to lose $2.4 million today. I expect to lose $2.4 million tomorrow. You know what, Mr. Eurothatcher? At $2.4 million a day, I'll have to close this place...(knowing smirk appears on his face) in 114 years.
Cue horns: Wah wah wah wah waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
Borrrrriiiiiiiiiing! When can I go pet one?
Exactly. How saying "Show me proof, and I'll believe", like in a god, or a unicorn, or so on, is religious, I don't know.
> I'm sorry but this is forcing religious belief on
> the students - the belief that those that believe
> in a creator are wrong is a religious belief.
No, actually it's that, in order to be taught in schools, you have to be a reasonable, scientific theory. Religious beliefs don't meet that standard. Hence they are purely religious, and not science whatsoever and thus cannot be taught in public schools because of the separation of church and state.
You are free to believe whatever you like; you'd just better have actual, real proof if you want it taught as science, especially if it's religious in nature.
> Nothing in ID can be subject to testing by the scientific method
Not true. ID proposes that the design is purposeful.
Yet consider the tailbone. Presumably it has a purpose. Yet if so, why construct it of a bunch of fused, degenerate vertebra instead of making it a single, solid bone process?
Evolution explains it without breaking a sweat. It's merely the remnants of a tail that's largely evolved away.
ID, not so.
And what about the even more embarassing fact of genes that are not expressed because of evolution, but still partially exist, and are expressed occasionally, such as actual tails on humans, or occasional legs on whales or snakes?
Evolution explains that quite well: When evolution favors getting rid of a useless body part, it's faster to disable or block genes that construct that part than it is to somehow grind out of existence a whole chunk of DNA.
ID cannot explain it as there is no need for these useless genes to be there if they are not supposed to be expressed as part of design.
And now, the sadly not-a-punchline.
Wait for it....
No, the devil did not create the mutations that make a whale or snake have a leg.
Isaac Asimov loved to point out that the god of the Bible, who created this small flat reality with a vault overhead with lights embedded in it, six to ten thousand years ago, and an ocean all around it, was far too small a god to have created a universe 15 billion light years in diameter, and age, with four hundred billion galaxies of a hundred billion stars each.
Far, far too small and insignificant.
Assuming that's how it works, which it isn't. Everything from minute chemicals to gross structures can start out as other things, then evolve down into a new niche.
It is intellectual fraud to propose such things only happen by literal random shuffling of dozens to hundreds of pieces to suddenly achieve a goal. These ID "scientists" know this, yet persist anyway.