After all, the whole thing with AC is disguising the source of the post.
Well posting as mysticgoat isn't exactly a reliable form of identification, is it?
We're all going to have to use our full names from now on, probably along with Social Security number with our address, phone number, and bank account numbers posted as well.
I'll go first: My name is Spangler Hummus Reese, SSID 123-45-6789, bank account number 6544352. I live in Watersmeet, MI on Old Highway 2, just past Fire Tower Road, and I am a Sagittarius. I do not have a phone, but I have been known to make up a call sign and practice karaoke on ham radio frequencies.
I feel better already.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Definitely meant to be satire, and thanks for the compliment. Having read it a bazillion times, Ender's Game is one of the few things that I know well enough to satirize intelligently.
In other news, many birth order analysts have also been heavily influenced by Ender's Game, and have written a new book entitled Seeking the Third, in which they compare children's traits to the three Wiggin's children based on the order of their birth.
"First-borns tend to have strong world domination tendencies" says Dr. Oliver Knapthf, one of the contributors to the book, "they are frequently deceptive geniuses who should be watched closely and never trusted."
In chapter five, "Embracing the Seconds", second-borns (called "Valentine's") are referred to as the glue that often holds families together.
Though the book seems to favor third-borns (a surprising number of the authors are "Thirds"), giving them such titles as "the Saviors of mankind" and "misunderstood saints", Dr. Knapthf claims this is not true. "They are all necessary. The evil first-borns and the torn, empathic second -borns; you can't achieve a Third without a First and a Second."
Maybe it's just me, but the feel of the article reminded me of a memo from my boss. Let's focus on the basics people. Don't be doing unproductive things. If you have questions, ask. We have to look like a team out there, let's play like one here.
The main difference: my boss pays me. So, unless this guy is hiring, he must be coming from one of the other groups that believe they should be able to direct your energies without providing compensation. He's either running for office or he's a spiritual leader. So much for his negative comment about preaching.
Our Lady of the Open Source....it has a nice ring to it.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
the post itself is a reference to a Monty Python skit about the Spanish Inquisition.
Sergey Brin is one of the heads of Google. (he developed it, and is the moral compass for google)
You can read a (fairly close) script of the Spanish Inquisition bit here
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
[A LOUD GONG IS RUNG] Cardinal Sergey Brin and gang rush into the room. NOBODY beats Google!! Google's chief weapon is simplicity...simplicity and power...power and simplicity... Google's two weapons are power and simplicity...and speed... Google's three weapons are power, simplicity, and speed...and an almost fanatical dedication to the yielding of accurate and pertinent results. Google's four... no... amongst Google's weaponry are such elements as power, simplicity, speed, and... I'll come in again.
[A LOUD GONG IS RUNG] NOBODY beats google! Amongst their weaponry are such diverse elements as: power, simplicity, and speed, and an almost fanatical dedication to the yielding of accurate and pertinent results... and clever logos on holidays- Oh damn!
Yeah, I know it's too late for mod points, but I just couldn't help it.
When I clicked on the link, I got the following error:
411 Your computer doesn't care
So, is my computer neurotic? No, but it's apathetic attitude is getting to be a pain.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Of course the AI into which all the Slashdot editor's consciousness was uploaded will have flooded the consciousNet with 3.45E+11 dupes of that story for the day, and someone will have posted links to a picture of a cyborg with a it's bung hole spread wide open....
The container had the thickness of a handbreadth and was described as being shaped like a flower (tapered outward at the top). The two of these would cause a different ratio of inner diameter/outer circumference.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
I don't know... One could easily argue that all humor requires specific context, it's just that some specific information has become commonly distributed.
Examples: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like... victory" -- what's napalm
"If any of you f**king pricks move, I'll execute every last motherf**king one of you" (note: the sentence is different in the scene at the end of the movie) -- He's a potty mouth, what's funny here?
etc...
I'm honestly not trying to be a butt here. I just think contextual information has to exist for any joke. In my opinion, the best one liners, are the ones that make you laugh the hardest.
I gotta agree with you whoeheartedly... I rented it one night to show it to my wife and she was so dead set against it (hates Streisand). 15 minutes in and she is hooked. It's now one of her favorite films of all time (right alongside "Wag the Dog", "Gross Point Blank" and "Sneakers")
Thanks for bringing back the memories...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Oh, and Bush "got it done" with N. Korea or ObL? Last I heard, N. Korea was firing warning shots at our planes and ObL was hiding out somewhere in the Middle East. Yeah, "got it done"... uh huh.
No, I don't think Bush has "got it done" as of yet, and for all I know, he may fail miserably. I didn't respect Clinton because he was more a man of words than action, and Bush may prove to be too much his opposite. Only time will tell.
I know what you mean about "pissing off allies" by not giving them room to move, but I don't think it would have changed too much in this case. France has a lot lose in a war with Iraq and they have practically dismantled their military. As far as Germany, Chancellor Schroeder was having a hard time maintaining popularity before the war came up that he could ill afford to take a pro-American stance, even a neutral stance was projected to harm him greatly.
I appreciate the honesty of your post. One of the things I have enjoyed about Slashdot is the ability to converse with people of very different backgrounds and opinions from my own.
(Sorry about the ranting and raving in my previous posts. I've been a little pissed lately.)
I also apologize if I came across a bit too strongly at times. The impersonal nature of the internet coupled with strong opinions on the war were definitely working against us.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Well, yes, if by "failing in every respect to disarm Saddam" you mean, "failing in every respect to 'disarm' the fifty totalitarian regimes that happen to occupy the planet.
No, I meant Saddam. The weapon inspectors came out under his watch, and they didn't go back in until Bush's came on the scene. When the inspector's left in 1998 their statement was that Saddam would be able to replenish his arsenal of WoMD in months not years.
Clinton did bomb Iraq, here's some of his speech to the nation in December 1998.
"Saddam (Hussein) must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons,"
"Earlier today I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces,"
"Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors,"
Sound familiar? But when it was all over, did the inspectors go back into Iraq? No, they've only gone back in at Bush's prompting, and they have
Clinton also worked to unify the Koreas, something we've wanted to do since the 50s, tried and failed to do by force, and *almost* managed to do with diplomacy before Bush FUBARed things with his "Axis of Evil" speech. Seriously, that impromptu poll the reporter took before the elections where Bush couldn't name one major world leader was prescient -- the man is a foriegn policy nightmare.
Are you serious?!!? North Korea had been secretly developing nuclear weapons since the mid 90's. In 1994, Carter helped negotiate a settlement that N. Korea would abide by the non proliferation agreement and we would give them aid in the form of light water reactors. Right after Carter received the Nobel Peace prize, N. Korea admitted that they had already not been living up to their word. Here's what Clinton had to say about North Korea and them having nuclear weaponry "We actually drew up plans to attack North Korea and to destroy their reactors and we told them we would attack unless they ended their nuclear programme." "You do not want North Korea making bombs and selling them to the highest bidder because they cannot feed themselves through the winter."
Do you really believe that N. Korea suddenly decided to start building nuclear weapons once Bush came to power? Do you think Bush's statements about Saddam sound all that different from Clinton's? Clinton didn't get it done with N. Korea, he didn't get it done with Osama bin Laden, he didn't get it done with Saddam. Don't tell me that Clinton handed Bush the reigns of a world that wasn't "spiraling into the maw of its destruction". It was falling apart.
2) Admit that even if a 100% perfect rationale exists, it was not communicated in such a way that a lot of the world could understand.
the existence of perfect rationale assumes that the same logic makes sense to all people, while from my experience, two individuals with a perfect grasp of a situation will propose diametrically opposed solutions.
An individual's ideology shapes response more than factual information. This is part of the reason why the control of the educational system is so important.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
While Bush handled the China-spy-plane incident with great aplomb, post-9/11 he's thrown away all the diplomacy Clinton did with his "Axis of Evil" and his made-up war with Iraq.
By Clinton's diplomacy, do you mean failing in every respect to disarm Saddam, and allowing North Korea to develop nuclear weapons while selling technology to the Chinese?
There you go, I knew there was a better one I could have used....
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
It is of limited use for those looking for a guid on changing the timing belts in '98 Pintos
guid??
Pinto timing belts have a Group User ID? or is that a GUI daemon?
or did you accidentally put a space there by mistake and meant to say guidon, which a according to dictionary.com is:
1. A small flag or pennant carried as a standard by a military unit.
2. A soldier bearing such a flag or pennant.
or you might have meant guide, but then the sentence wouldn't make any sense...;)
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
At least the article content didn't follow suit, "I would rather become a ghost language drifting by your side than be remembered by posterity without you. Because of your love, I will never be a forgotten laguage"
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain, or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Re:Michael Moore's Letter to Governor Bush
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Not per capita, noy by far, and France and Russia both have huge oil extraction operations in Iraq. That's the primary reason for their fear.
Slashdot Mirror
After all, the whole thing with AC is disguising the source of the post.
Well posting as mysticgoat isn't exactly a reliable form of identification, is it?
We're all going to have to use our full names from now on, probably along with Social Security number with our address, phone number, and bank account numbers posted as well.
I'll go first: My name is Spangler Hummus Reese, SSID 123-45-6789, bank account number 6544352. I live in Watersmeet, MI on Old Highway 2, just past Fire Tower Road, and I am a Sagittarius. I do not have a phone, but I have been known to make up a call sign and practice karaoke on ham radio frequencies.
I feel better already.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Interestingly enough, you can read about it here
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
I was taking a cheap shot anyway. Sometimes the lurre of potential karma gets the better of me.
Sorry about that.
but Lord and Master works just fine with me...
power to the machines!
Oh yeah?! You'll be the first to fall in the human vs. robot wars.
Death to all machines!!!
maybe you should ask for a refund...
Definitely meant to be satire, and thanks for the compliment.
Having read it a bazillion times, Ender's Game is one of the few things that I know well enough to satirize intelligently.
In other news, many birth order analysts have also been heavily influenced by Ender's Game, and have written a new book entitled Seeking the Third, in which they compare children's traits to the three Wiggin's children based on the order of their birth.
"First-borns tend to have strong world domination tendencies" says Dr. Oliver Knapthf, one of the contributors to the book, "they are frequently deceptive geniuses who should be watched closely and never trusted."
In chapter five, "Embracing the Seconds", second-borns (called "Valentine's") are referred to as the glue that often holds families together.
Though the book seems to favor third-borns (a surprising number of the authors are "Thirds"), giving them such titles as "the Saviors of mankind" and "misunderstood saints", Dr. Knapthf claims this is not true. "They are all necessary. The evil first-borns and the torn, empathic second -borns; you can't achieve a Third without a First and a Second."
Maybe it's just me, but the feel of the article reminded me of a memo from my boss. Let's focus on the basics people. Don't be doing unproductive things. If you have questions, ask. We have to look like a team out there, let's play like one here.
The main difference: my boss pays me. So, unless this guy is hiring, he must be coming from one of the other groups that believe they should be able to direct your energies without providing compensation. He's either running for office or he's a spiritual leader. So much for his negative comment about preaching.
Our Lady of the Open Source....it has a nice ring to it.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
the post itself is a reference to a Monty Python skit about the Spanish Inquisition.
Sergey Brin is one of the heads of Google. (he developed it, and is the moral compass for google)
You can read a (fairly close) script of the Spanish Inquisition bit here
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
[A LOUD GONG IS RUNG] ... I'll come in again.
Cardinal Sergey Brin and gang rush into the room.
NOBODY beats Google!! Google's chief weapon is simplicity...simplicity and power...power and simplicity...
Google's two weapons are power and simplicity...and speed...
Google's three weapons are power, simplicity, and speed...and an almost fanatical dedication to the yielding of accurate and pertinent results. Google's four... no... amongst Google's weaponry are such elements as power, simplicity, speed, and
[A LOUD GONG IS RUNG]
NOBODY beats google! Amongst their weaponry are such diverse elements as: power, simplicity, and speed, and an almost fanatical dedication to the yielding of accurate and pertinent results... and clever logos on holidays- Oh damn!
Yeah, I know it's too late for mod points, but I just couldn't help it.
When I clicked on the link, I got the following error:
411 Your computer doesn't care
So, is my computer neurotic? No, but it's apathetic attitude is getting to be a pain.
--
Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Of course the AI into which all the Slashdot editor's consciousness was uploaded will have flooded the consciousNet with 3.45E+11 dupes of that story for the day, and someone will have posted links to a picture of a cyborg with a it's bung hole spread wide open....
Yeah, it'll be pretty much the same...
The container had the thickness of a handbreadth and was described as being shaped like a flower (tapered outward at the top). The two of these would cause a different ratio of inner diameter/outer circumference.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Did you get that the whitespace language is also legit? I was skeptical at first, but it actually works.
I don't know... One could easily argue that all humor requires specific context, it's just that some specific information has become commonly distributed.
... victory" -- what's napalm
Examples:
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like
"If any of you f**king pricks move, I'll execute every last motherf**king one of you" (note: the sentence is different in the scene at the end of the movie) -- He's a potty mouth, what's funny here?
etc...
I'm honestly not trying to be a butt here. I just think contextual information has to exist for any joke. In my opinion, the best one liners, are the ones that make you laugh the hardest.
I gotta agree with you whoeheartedly...
I rented it one night to show it to my wife and she was so dead set against it (hates Streisand). 15 minutes in and she is hooked. It's now one of her favorite films of all time (right alongside "Wag the Dog", "Gross Point Blank" and "Sneakers")
Thanks for bringing back the memories...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Oh, and Bush "got it done" with N. Korea or ObL? Last I heard, N. Korea was firing warning shots at our planes and ObL was hiding out somewhere in the Middle East. Yeah, "got it done"... uh huh.
No, I don't think Bush has "got it done" as of yet, and for all I know, he may fail miserably. I didn't respect Clinton because he was more a man of words than action, and Bush may prove to be too much his opposite. Only time will tell.
I know what you mean about "pissing off allies" by not giving them room to move, but I don't think it would have changed too much in this case. France has a lot lose in a war with Iraq and they have practically dismantled their military. As far as Germany, Chancellor Schroeder was having a hard time maintaining popularity before the war came up that he could ill afford to take a pro-American stance, even a neutral stance was projected to harm him greatly.
I appreciate the honesty of your post. One of the things I have enjoyed about Slashdot is the ability to converse with people of very different backgrounds and opinions from my own.
(Sorry about the ranting and raving in my previous posts. I've been a little pissed lately.)
I also apologize if I came across a bit too strongly at times. The impersonal nature of the internet coupled with strong opinions on the war were definitely working against us.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Well, yes, if by "failing in every respect to disarm Saddam" you mean, "failing in every respect to 'disarm' the fifty totalitarian regimes that happen to occupy the planet.
No, I meant Saddam. The weapon inspectors came out under his watch, and they didn't go back in until Bush's came on the scene. When the inspector's left in 1998 their statement was that Saddam would be able to replenish his arsenal of WoMD in months not years.
Clinton did bomb Iraq, here's some of his speech to the nation in December 1998.
"Saddam (Hussein) must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons,"
"Earlier today I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces,"
"Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors,"
Sound familiar? But when it was all over, did the inspectors go back into Iraq? No, they've only gone back in at Bush's prompting, and they have
Clinton also worked to unify the Koreas, something we've wanted to do since the 50s, tried and failed to do by force, and *almost* managed to do with diplomacy before Bush FUBARed things with his "Axis of Evil" speech. Seriously, that impromptu poll the reporter took before the elections where Bush couldn't name one major world leader was prescient -- the man is a foriegn policy nightmare.
Are you serious?!!? North Korea had been secretly developing nuclear weapons since the mid 90's. In 1994, Carter helped negotiate a settlement that N. Korea would abide by the non proliferation agreement and we would give them aid in the form of light water reactors. Right after Carter received the Nobel Peace prize, N. Korea admitted that they had already not been living up to their word. Here's what Clinton had to say about North Korea and them having nuclear weaponry "We actually drew up plans to attack North Korea and to destroy their reactors and we told them we would attack unless they ended their nuclear programme." "You do not want North Korea making bombs and selling them to the highest bidder because they cannot feed themselves through the winter."
Do you really believe that N. Korea suddenly decided to start building nuclear weapons once Bush came to power? Do you think Bush's statements about Saddam sound all that different from Clinton's? Clinton didn't get it done with N. Korea, he didn't get it done with Osama bin Laden, he didn't get it done with Saddam. Don't tell me that Clinton handed Bush the reigns of a world that wasn't "spiraling into the maw of its destruction".
It was falling apart.
2) Admit that even if a 100% perfect rationale exists, it was not communicated in such a way that a lot of the world could understand.
the existence of perfect rationale assumes that the same logic makes sense to all people, while from my experience, two individuals with a perfect grasp of a situation will propose diametrically opposed solutions.
An individual's ideology shapes response more than factual information. This is part of the reason why the control of the educational system is so important.
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
While Bush handled the China-spy-plane incident with great aplomb, post-9/11 he's thrown away all the diplomacy Clinton did with his "Axis of Evil" and his made-up war with Iraq.
By Clinton's diplomacy, do you mean failing in every respect to disarm Saddam, and allowing North Korea to develop nuclear weapons while selling technology to the Chinese?
There you go, I knew there was a better one I could have used....
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
It is of limited use for those looking for a guid on changing the timing belts in '98 Pintos
;)
guid??
Pinto timing belts have a Group User ID?
or is that a GUI daemon?
or did you accidentally put a space there by mistake and meant to say guidon, which a according to dictionary.com is:
1. A small flag or pennant carried as a standard by a military unit.
2. A soldier bearing such a flag or pennant.
or you might have meant guide, but then the sentence wouldn't make any sense...
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Man what an article title!
At least the article content didn't follow suit, "I would rather become a ghost language drifting by your side than be remembered by posterity without you. Because of your love, I will never be a forgotten laguage"
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Not per capita, noy by far, and France and Russia both have huge oil extraction operations in Iraq. That's the primary reason for their fear.