My old girlfriend used to play that. She'd have a scrabble dictionary applet thing, and she'd input the tiles she had and it would make the highest scoring word. She'd get stuff like CATHORD which would actually be some weird word. Confused her opponents. I asked her why she was cheating against strangers on the internet, and she just looked at me and grinned.
You call yourself an American? Jesus Christ, get the hell out of America. You give up way too easily. Have a look at history, and how the government bent or broke laws in order to win wars. Give me a break.
Oh yeah, hold on, let me go spend a couple hundred dollars on microphones for my camcorder. Great idea. As a matter of fact, why don't I go ahead and upgrade that all-in-1 camcorder for a pro kit, take some filmmaking classes, just so I can put videos of my sister's wedding on Youtube. Great idea there, hoss.
What did you expect? He's a journalist. Deception is a common tactic used by journalists. This whole "off the record" thing is something that people learned from TV. It's like "carpet bombing", it's a non-technical term that only has a meaning to people who don't know any better.
Merit-based admissions are highly discriminatory. They result in the admission of far too few women and minorities, and far too many whites and Asians. You mean that a progressive institution like Berkeley has not instituted affirmative action to right wrongs? Disgraceful in this day and age.
They're just using it to mean "university that I could never afford". It's not really relevant, anyway - to put it into context, an Ivy league student probably doesn't know the difference between the Universities of Iowa and Illinois. It's all flyover territory, anyway, an irrelevance of life. What difference does it make if you get it wrong?
Funny, back when I was redboxing fortress fones, we did it for one reason: because we had to. We would have mercilessly ridiculed any dilettante who said he was building a redbox just for the knowledge. What knowledge is there to be had by following instructions off some text phile you d/l'd off some pirate BBS, anyway?
Who's passing a bill? They introduce it, it gets shot down. Repeat. The other two didn't pass, did they? Everybody's happy. The corporations think that they're getting value for their money, the politicans pocket the campaign contributions, and slashdot readers get to froth at the mouth and try to construct new metaphors to explain IPR violations. Everyone wins!
You mean that a profit-making business should spend time (time=money) on something frivolous, while hobbyists are free to do whatever scratches their itch? What an odd idea.
You know, it's funny, I've been reading a lot about 1930s Germany lately, and what you said describes the German view of Jews to a T. Including the 'seperate them from us' and 'they are no longer human' part. And here it is, modded to +5 Insightful on Slashdot.
Funny enough, the Chinese government agrees with your position. None of the pollution is China's fault, and it is all those foreigners who force us to build polluting factories. All of those officials taking bribes to look the other way? Nothing to see there. Now, let's ramp up a media campaign where we inspect foreign-owned factories for environmental violations, trump up every charge in the book, raise their cost sky-high, and force them out of the country, selling out to a Chinese company for a song. Needless to say, Chinese companies will face no such environmental restrictions. Been there, done that, paid the bribes and went to KTV.
Americans love to criticize themselves, and let others off the hook scot-free. It's an odd habit.
So what? The Ph.D's at my mom's job send her email hoaxes and viruses all the time. Just because he's a professor doesn't mean he doesn't know how to create non-stupid names. Naming planets after Santa's reindeer? Ugh.
P.S. he didn't "find" the planets, they were already there.
Great, a flake is in charge of naming, just as I suspected. "Makemake"? Come on...what a dumb name. Oh, but you're supposed to pronounce it differently than "make" twice. Yeah right, like anyone is going to do that.
I really wish that scientists would be professional. "Easterbunny"? Let me guess, his kid loves the Easter bunny. This is the equivalent of making your own magazine so that you can be the cover model every month.
Actually, that's what journalists do. I'm in a position now where I occasionally am contacted by journalists writing a story. If what I have to say doesn't match with the story they're writing, it gets ignored. I'm talking Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, that sort of crowd. "Respectable" newspapers. I've started to ignore these requests, it just makes me angry and wastes my time.
Actually, the entire world is like that. I live in China now, and Mr. Zhang on the street doesn't even know what's in the next province, much less overseas. Luckily, they're not allowed to vote, which should cheer you up.
Please stop using mydomain.com and other such nonsense. Example.com is reserved by RFC 2606 for use as a...wait for it...example domain name. Please make a habit of using it instead of whatever name strikes your fancy, as it is probably in use by real people.
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the following second level domain names reserved which can be used as examples.
I assume it's a transliteration of Sa Ma Su, which are syllables in Japanese. Most of the wacky non-Christan names in video games are Anglicized transliterations.
HOU is indeed the airport code for Houston. IAH is the big airport outside of town, and HOU is the original airport, still in service. If you fly Southwest, you'll arrive there. Nice place, for an airport. Great location, too. Use it if at all possible...
How does that differ from Metroid names? I mean, it's just a lack of culture. Some people play video games, and some people appreciate art. If you don't play video games, then you certainly won't know what "Samus" is. What, you don't know anyone who doesn't play video games? This is what's known as a "tiny world".
"The opposition tells us we ought not to rule a people without their consent. I answer, the rule of liberty, that all just governments derive their authority from the consent of the governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government."
Agree or disagree? It was made by Sen. Beveridge, intellectual and keynote speaker at the first Progressive convention.
The Progressive era in the 20s and 30s was a hotbed of intellectualism. Oliver Wendell Holmes argued that his "starting point for an ideal for the law" would be the "co-ordinated human effort. . . to build a race." W.E.B. Du Bois was sympathetic to racial theory (his "talented tenth" was a racial term). Marcus Garvey was the man who claimed to have led "the first fascists".
"The opposition tells us we ought not to rule a people without their consent. I answer, the rule of liberty, that all just governments derive their authority from the consent of the governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government." Would this qualify as an intellectual statement? It was made by Sen. Beveridge, intellectual and keynote speaker at the first Progressive convention.
Well, scientists don't know everything. And people like you are total elitist shitbags. Look at the damn 20th century, was it the common folk that had the idea to murder people because of their race? No, it was intellectuals, who claimed that their methods were scientific and therefore infallible. Anyone who opposed them was not just disagreeing, but wrong. It's not surprising that bigotry has made a big comeback in the last few years.
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My old girlfriend used to play that. She'd have a scrabble dictionary applet thing, and she'd input the tiles she had and it would make the highest scoring word. She'd get stuff like CATHORD which would actually be some weird word. Confused her opponents. I asked her why she was cheating against strangers on the internet, and she just looked at me and grinned.
You call yourself an American? Jesus Christ, get the hell out of America. You give up way too easily. Have a look at history, and how the government bent or broke laws in order to win wars. Give me a break.
This is different from the Daily Kos how exactly?
Oh yeah, hold on, let me go spend a couple hundred dollars on microphones for my camcorder. Great idea. As a matter of fact, why don't I go ahead and upgrade that all-in-1 camcorder for a pro kit, take some filmmaking classes, just so I can put videos of my sister's wedding on Youtube. Great idea there, hoss.
What did you expect? He's a journalist. Deception is a common tactic used by journalists. This whole "off the record" thing is something that people learned from TV. It's like "carpet bombing", it's a non-technical term that only has a meaning to people who don't know any better.
Merit-based admissions are highly discriminatory. They result in the admission of far too few women and minorities, and far too many whites and Asians. You mean that a progressive institution like Berkeley has not instituted affirmative action to right wrongs? Disgraceful in this day and age.
They're just using it to mean "university that I could never afford". It's not really relevant, anyway - to put it into context, an Ivy league student probably doesn't know the difference between the Universities of Iowa and Illinois. It's all flyover territory, anyway, an irrelevance of life. What difference does it make if you get it wrong?
Funny, back when I was redboxing fortress fones, we did it for one reason: because we had to. We would have mercilessly ridiculed any dilettante who said he was building a redbox just for the knowledge. What knowledge is there to be had by following instructions off some text phile you d/l'd off some pirate BBS, anyway?
Who's passing a bill? They introduce it, it gets shot down. Repeat. The other two didn't pass, did they? Everybody's happy. The corporations think that they're getting value for their money, the politicans pocket the campaign contributions, and slashdot readers get to froth at the mouth and try to construct new metaphors to explain IPR violations. Everyone wins!
Wow, it sounds pretty authentic to me! Just like real soccer!
The final game was scoreless
Yup, it rings true. It's amazing how lifelike robots are getting these days.
You mean that a profit-making business should spend time (time=money) on something frivolous, while hobbyists are free to do whatever scratches their itch? What an odd idea.
You know, it's funny, I've been reading a lot about 1930s Germany lately, and what you said describes the German view of Jews to a T. Including the 'seperate them from us' and 'they are no longer human' part. And here it is, modded to +5 Insightful on Slashdot.
Americans love to criticize themselves, and let others off the hook scot-free. It's an odd habit.
Q: Why is starting a post in the Subject: line annoying?
P.S. he didn't "find" the planets, they were already there.
I really wish that scientists would be professional. "Easterbunny"? Let me guess, his kid loves the Easter bunny. This is the equivalent of making your own magazine so that you can be the cover model every month.
Actually, that's what journalists do. I'm in a position now where I occasionally am contacted by journalists writing a story. If what I have to say doesn't match with the story they're writing, it gets ignored. I'm talking Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, that sort of crowd. "Respectable" newspapers. I've started to ignore these requests, it just makes me angry and wastes my time.
Actually, the entire world is like that. I live in China now, and Mr. Zhang on the street doesn't even know what's in the next province, much less overseas. Luckily, they're not allowed to vote, which should cheer you up.
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the following second level domain names reserved which can be used as examples.
I assume it's a transliteration of Sa Ma Su, which are syllables in Japanese. Most of the wacky non-Christan names in video games are Anglicized transliterations.
HOU is indeed the airport code for Houston. IAH is the big airport outside of town, and HOU is the original airport, still in service. If you fly Southwest, you'll arrive there. Nice place, for an airport. Great location, too. Use it if at all possible...
How does that differ from Metroid names? I mean, it's just a lack of culture. Some people play video games, and some people appreciate art. If you don't play video games, then you certainly won't know what "Samus" is. What, you don't know anyone who doesn't play video games? This is what's known as a "tiny world".
Agree or disagree? It was made by Sen. Beveridge, intellectual and keynote speaker at the first Progressive convention.
The Progressive era in the 20s and 30s was a hotbed of intellectualism. Oliver Wendell Holmes argued that his "starting point for an ideal for the law" would be the "co-ordinated human effort. . . to build a race." W.E.B. Du Bois was sympathetic to racial theory (his "talented tenth" was a racial term). Marcus Garvey was the man who claimed to have led "the first fascists".
"The opposition tells us we ought not to rule a people without their consent. I answer, the rule of liberty, that all just governments derive their authority from the consent of the governed, applies only to those who are capable of self-government."
Would this qualify as an intellectual statement? It was made by Sen. Beveridge, intellectual and keynote speaker at the first Progressive convention.
Well, scientists don't know everything. And people like you are total elitist shitbags. Look at the damn 20th century, was it the common folk that had the idea to murder people because of their race? No, it was intellectuals, who claimed that their methods were scientific and therefore infallible. Anyone who opposed them was not just disagreeing, but wrong. It's not surprising that bigotry has made a big comeback in the last few years.