Even better than that -- IIRC from high school American History, the Emancipation Proclimation didn't actually have any effect on the Union. It only freed slaves in the Confederacy, which really didn't mean anything until the Union armies freed the slaves as they took back the Southern states. So exactly as you said, it didn't do anything unless the Confederacy was brought back into the Union.
Not to mention Heifer Project International has been teaching folks in the Third World(tm) how to do this for years on a small scale, mostly for cooking and heating fuel. Some livestock manure, a metal barrel with a lid, some water, and a rubber hose to siphon off the gas. Cheap, and efficient!
From the article: Ideally, a spacecraft at L4 or L5 will remain there indefinitely because when it falls off the cusp, the Coriolis effect--which makes it hard for you to walk on a moving merry-go-round--will swirl it into a long-lived orbit around that point.
IIRC from physics classes, is the force making it hard to walk on a moving merry-go-round not the centripetal force?? I thought Coriolis was only a pseudo-force, not a real one.
Nah, book 4 is the best one in the group! And it's true, the books are much better than most of us would think: My friends had to convince me to read these "kids' books", and I'm quite happy they did!
Hmmm... Maybe my distaste for anime stems from the fact that there are no hot anime guys?
No hot anime guys?? What have you been watching? You've never seen Yami no Matsuei? Weiss Kreuz? Fushigi Yuugi? There are plenty of hot anime guys, you've just gotta find them!
I have sort of wondered about it being on Nickelodeon, but I honestly don't think it's any worse than Ren & Stimpy, which I absolutely loved when I was a kid! I personally hope that Cartoon Network picks it up. Maybe if enough people tell them they want to see it on there, they'll do it. But I for one hope Jhonen can keep working on it. Long live ZIM!
Well I got The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, and now I can't decide whether to finish the 6th book or read it first... I think I'll hold off on it until I've finished the series I guess.
And I got "Spooky: The Thing what Squeeks" (from I Feel Sick by Jhonen Vasquez), and a couple of doujins. All in all, quite a good Christmas!
I'm on the Cox Business Services version (Cox@Work) thanks to a setup between them and OU. Our e-mail addresses end in @coxconnect.net and they just added @coxmail.com -- do you think they might change it to that?
As far as AdSubtract, I couldn't get it to kill Pop-up/under/etc ads, but it removed banner ads wonderfully! I use a free program called Pop-up Killer. If it doesn't kill a window, simply add it to the list and you'll never see it again. Though it sometimes kills windows I WANT open, overall I've been very satisfied with it. Plus it makes a very satisfying gunshot sound when it kills a window (assuming I'm not playing music at the time)... ---
Which only goes to show that letting contemporary political issues seep into the framework of a science fiction series is a bad idea in the first place. Sci fi sucks when it doesn't bother to create interesting worlds out of conjecture, but merely transplants the present into technicological drag.
If you'll recall, that's exactly what Gene Roddenberry did with the original Star Trek!! He (and everyone involved) was very proud of the fact that they were able to talk about current political issues, but disguise them so that the network wouldn't censor them by putting them in "technological drag". I wholeheartedly believe that part of living up to Gene's ideals for the series is continuing to put in contemporary issues, so that people can think about them in a new light, without even realizing that they're thinking about them.
Of course, most trekkies are too smart to fall for that, but I think that it's an integral part of Star Trek to do this.
I've got a friend who composes music, mostly for distribution among his friends. He of course encodes his music in MP3 format and then sends them to us over ICQ. When I go on Napster (which I still do -- much of what I look for is not licensed in the United States, though it's still getting blocked by the "filters"), I share his music (with his permission). It's rarely (if ever) downloaded, but still shutting down P2P file sharing software is taking away his rights to share his own music! Why hasn't a group gotten together to sue the MPAA and RIAA under these grounds? Surely the ACLU would help with this!!
Any college student had better be able to structure an argument based on facts, and be able to recognize when an argument doesn't have the facts to back it up.
You'd be surprised... Try reading the opinions section in the University of Oklahoma student newspaper. Very few of those have any facts to back up the arguments -- mostly just name-calling and attempts to force beliefs on others, not trying to make others understand the author's point of view.
Is that possible? I know that region-free DVD players exist (my friend the fansub-czar has one to play his import DVDs on), but I've never heard of a region-free DVD. Perhaps I've just bought into the rhetoric the MPAA and DVD security people have put out??
Hoping for a world without region encoding or macrovision,
vortmax(OU) [AKA Josh]
He called on Carmack to prohibit the sale and distribution of all video games rated for mature audiences to children under 17 - and to do it by April 30.
WAIT -- how does Carmack (or any other video game creator/company) have any control over whether or not a video game rated M (for mature) is sold to children under 17? Isn't that the store's responsibility? And the responsibility of the parents of the child? Excuse me, but once a store buys the video game, it's the store's responsibility to keep children from buying the game.
The same thing applies to buying cigarettes and alcohol -- stores are required to ask for identification before they can sell these products, and if they don't the clerks can face criminal charges and the store can get a major fine. We don't see Budweiser being called on to prohibit the sale of beer to people under 21.
And of course those outdated voting machines just forced the design of the butterfly ballot which gave us Pat Buchanan's startling performance in a county where you'd normally expect him to get about 7 votes.
Yes, but remember that the Democratic official in Palm Beach County approved the design of the "butterfly ballot" that supposedly caused so much confusion. It was only after Gore was down in the vote count that we started hearing complaints about the design. I've seen a copy of the ballot, and truthfully I don't think it was confusing! Come on, all you had to do was follow where the arrows were pointing! Any 5 year old can do that...
Yep, we're gonna call the Vile Pretender "Resident" until we get the chance to kick him out in 2004.
And should he do a good job, and actually get re-elected in 2004? (I know, it's unlikely, but then there won't be any more of this complaining about a "stolen election" I hope...)
And before you claim bias, let me tell you I didn't like either major candidate for president, and would have voted for Harry Browne were he on the ballot in Oklahoma... As it was, I voted Gore, but you won't hear me complaining about a "stolen election".
So, just out of curiosity, was this a personal marathon, or with a group? My animation society is showing the first 4 episodes this week, and I'm looking forward to it (I've never seen it before). Anyway...
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I had an Excite address since about 1997, and this year I finally gave up on it because I couldn't find what my friends were sending to me through all the spam! I'm even starting to get it at my OU address, and I don't know how it got onto lists, since I only sign up to places that supposedly don't hand it out.
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Oooh, now THAT might get me to watch an episode!!
"Satan asks courts to reverse ruling; complains 'Hell no fun covered in ice'."
Even better than that -- IIRC from high school American History, the Emancipation Proclimation didn't actually have any effect on the Union. It only freed slaves in the Confederacy, which really didn't mean anything until the Union armies freed the slaves as they took back the Southern states. So exactly as you said, it didn't do anything unless the Confederacy was brought back into the Union.
Not to mention Heifer Project International has been teaching folks in the Third World(tm) how to do this for years on a small scale, mostly for cooking and heating fuel. Some livestock manure, a metal barrel with a lid, some water, and a rubber hose to siphon off the gas. Cheap, and efficient!
Bogus science? How about this?
From the article:
Ideally, a spacecraft at L4 or L5 will remain there indefinitely because when it falls off the cusp, the Coriolis effect--which makes it hard for you to walk on a moving merry-go-round--will swirl it into a long-lived orbit around that point.
IIRC from physics classes, is the force making it hard to walk on a moving merry-go-round not the centripetal force?? I thought Coriolis was only a pseudo-force, not a real one.
Nah, book 4 is the best one in the group! And it's true, the books are much better than most of us would think: My friends had to convince me to read these "kids' books", and I'm quite happy they did!
By the way, book 5, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is supposed to be coming out June 21! We'll see whether that actually happens or not...
My question is this. I use the old mplayer2.exe, because it's not as bloated as WMP7 or 8. Does the mplayer2.exe do this as well??
Of course the planes would crash! All the ATCs are /. readers!
Congrats you two! Many happy years to you!
Hmmm... Maybe my distaste for anime stems from the fact that there are no hot anime guys?
No hot anime guys?? What have you been watching? You've never seen Yami no Matsuei? Weiss Kreuz? Fushigi Yuugi? There are plenty of hot anime guys, you've just gotta find them!
I have sort of wondered about it being on Nickelodeon, but I honestly don't think it's any worse than Ren & Stimpy, which I absolutely loved when I was a kid! I personally hope that Cartoon Network picks it up. Maybe if enough people tell them they want to see it on there, they'll do it. But I for one hope Jhonen can keep working on it. Long live ZIM!
Well I got The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, and now I can't decide whether to finish the 6th book or read it first... I think I'll hold off on it until I've finished the series I guess.
And I got "Spooky: The Thing what Squeeks" (from I Feel Sick by Jhonen Vasquez), and a couple of doujins. All in all, quite a good Christmas!
I'm on the Cox Business Services version (Cox@Work) thanks to a setup between them and OU. Our e-mail addresses end in @coxconnect.net and they just added @coxmail.com -- do you think they might change it to that?
As far as AdSubtract, I couldn't get it to kill Pop-up/under/etc ads, but it removed banner ads wonderfully! I use a free program called Pop-up Killer. If it doesn't kill a window, simply add it to the list and you'll never see it again. Though it sometimes kills windows I WANT open, overall I've been very satisfied with it. Plus it makes a very satisfying gunshot sound when it kills a window (assuming I'm not playing music at the time)...
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Which only goes to show that letting contemporary political issues seep into the framework of a science fiction series is a bad idea in the first place. Sci fi sucks when it doesn't bother to create interesting worlds out of conjecture, but merely transplants the present into technicological drag.
If you'll recall, that's exactly what Gene Roddenberry did with the original Star Trek!! He (and everyone involved) was very proud of the fact that they were able to talk about current political issues, but disguise them so that the network wouldn't censor them by putting them in "technological drag". I wholeheartedly believe that part of living up to Gene's ideals for the series is continuing to put in contemporary issues, so that people can think about them in a new light, without even realizing that they're thinking about them.
Of course, most trekkies are too smart to fall for that, but I think that it's an integral part of Star Trek to do this.
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I've got a friend who composes music, mostly for distribution among his friends. He of course encodes his music in MP3 format and then sends them to us over ICQ. When I go on Napster (which I still do -- much of what I look for is not licensed in the United States, though it's still getting blocked by the "filters"), I share his music (with his permission). It's rarely (if ever) downloaded, but still shutting down P2P file sharing software is taking away his rights to share his own music! Why hasn't a group gotten together to sue the MPAA and RIAA under these grounds? Surely the ACLU would help with this!!
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Any college student had better be able to structure an argument based on facts, and be able to recognize when an argument doesn't have the facts to back it up.
You'd be surprised... Try reading the opinions section in the University of Oklahoma student newspaper. Very few of those have any facts to back up the arguments -- mostly just name-calling and attempts to force beliefs on others, not trying to make others understand the author's point of view.
And this is coming from journalism students?
Sorry for being offtopic...
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Is that possible? I know that region-free DVD players exist (my friend the fansub-czar has one to play his import DVDs on), but I've never heard of a region-free DVD. Perhaps I've just bought into the rhetoric the MPAA and DVD security people have put out??
Hoping for a world without region encoding or macrovision,
vortmax(OU) [AKA Josh]
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He called on Carmack to prohibit the sale and distribution of all video games rated for mature audiences to children under 17 - and to do it by April 30.
WAIT -- how does Carmack (or any other video game creator/company) have any control over whether or not a video game rated M (for mature) is sold to children under 17? Isn't that the store's responsibility? And the responsibility of the parents of the child? Excuse me, but once a store buys the video game, it's the store's responsibility to keep children from buying the game.
The same thing applies to buying cigarettes and alcohol -- stores are required to ask for identification before they can sell these products, and if they don't the clerks can face criminal charges and the store can get a major fine. We don't see Budweiser being called on to prohibit the sale of beer to people under 21.
At least, not yet....
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Bored? I promise nothing...
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Bored? I promise nothing...
And of course those outdated voting machines just forced the design of the butterfly ballot which gave us Pat Buchanan's startling performance in a county where you'd normally expect him to get about 7 votes.
Yes, but remember that the Democratic official in Palm Beach County approved the design of the "butterfly ballot" that supposedly caused so much confusion. It was only after Gore was down in the vote count that we started hearing complaints about the design. I've seen a copy of the ballot, and truthfully I don't think it was confusing! Come on, all you had to do was follow where the arrows were pointing! Any 5 year old can do that...
Yep, we're gonna call the Vile Pretender "Resident" until we get the chance to kick him out in 2004.
And should he do a good job, and actually get re-elected in 2004? (I know, it's unlikely, but then there won't be any more of this complaining about a "stolen election" I hope...)
And before you claim bias, let me tell you I didn't like either major candidate for president, and would have voted for Harry Browne were he on the ballot in Oklahoma... As it was, I voted Gore, but you won't hear me complaining about a "stolen election".
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Bored? I promise nothing...
Well, this keeps any more foreign countries from holding our crews I suppose....
(can't resist -- first post)
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Bored? I promise nothing...
So, just out of curiosity, was this a personal marathon, or with a group? My animation society is showing the first 4 episodes this week, and I'm looking forward to it (I've never seen it before). Anyway...
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Bored? I promise nothing...
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Bored? I promise nothing...