See, this is like when people in the states say "World series", they mean "United states of America series", or when they elect the "leader of the free world", they really mean "the leader of the United states of America".
Yeah, and why is it the "Miss Universe" pageant when only girls from Earth participate. And why are they called "World Wars" when Switzerland doesn't play and why.... ZZzzzzz....
Sure, until this happens everywhere else. Make no mistake about it. This is what all governments and corporations want. They want to keep their grubby little hands on your data and money. They don't want you to provide your own services. They also don't want your data stored, processed and transmitted by anyone but them.
The more they tighten their grip, the more (email) systems will slip through their fingers.
"Sorry to be pedantic, but radiation also keeps you alive! Afterall, what do you think heat is?"
Uh, thermal energy: random motions of molecules/atoms/whatever on a microscopic scale?
from wikipedia: "Heat is a process quantity--as opposed to being a state quantity--and is to thermal energy as work is to mechanical energy."
and
"Infrared radiation is often linked to heat, since objects at room temperature or above will emit radiation mostly concentrated in the mid-infrared band"
Incidentally, I'm a fundamentalist, and I lean toward a literal understanding of Genesis and a 6000-year earth
Well then you must know that Genesis literally is a just a hacked up and edited version of much older Sumerian myths and also that it was written by 6 different authors. And where did Cain find that wife of his anyway? Oh well, it's the perfect word of god so it must be true.
The part of genesis I like best is "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth". In fact I'm off to partake in some herb bearing seed right now, though it is a bitch when there are too many seeds.
A lot of OS/2 geeks got their first woody, viewing interleaved GIF 87 files,...
Actually what gave me my first OS/2 woody was when I showed it off by simultaneously formatting 2 floppies and 1 HD while downloading via 2 ftp sessions and having 4 telnet sessions up. This was on a 486-33 and in the days of Windows 3.1 when alt-tabbing to a dos window and back without crashing was a considered a miracle.
I doubt that piracy will stop at all, it's just moving onto different areas. I seriously think that these anti-piracy measures actually reduce sales by putting all sorts of crap in your way just to play a game that you bought! When it's not only easier to download a game off bit-torrent or whatever but you actually get a better product when doing so, something's seriously fucked up.
I totally agree. When I tried to run Doom 3 for the first time it had the nerve to tell me it wouldn't run due to my cd emulation software. Well I use that emulator to run old games so I don't have to go digging out old cd's everytime I want to play, not to pirate. I promptly uninstalled Doom and ID lost a customer who's been buying their stuff since the days of Wolfenstein.
Gaming is very much about the gamer and his/her experience. Making it be about the audience seems like it'd turn gaming into nothing more than a puppet show.
Much like competitive sports itself. It used to be about people getting together after work and blowing off some steam with some healthy competition. Now it's about billions of dollars and fat people watching while drinking beer and eating potato chips. I used to love to play sports as a child but I would prefer a root canal over watching them on TV.
That reminded me of an english teacher that I had back in high school. If your grammar was ever off she would proclaim that the "grammar mobile" would be coming to your house and that the grammar police would be notified. I hated her back then, but have since realized how much I hate people that don't use correct grammar or correctly spell their or there properly.
How ridiculous to waste your hate on bad grammar when there are so many other things in this world worthy of hating.
That asside, it's incidents like this that just help show how little we still understand about our own world, yet we're still merrily destroying enormous parts of it. How many wonders will now never be known because of our actions this past century? How many will cease to exist in the coming one?
I think the words of George Carlin can answer that best.
"This planet has put up with much worse than us. It's been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, solar flares, sunspots, magnetic storms, pole reversals, planetary floods, worldwide fires, tidal waves, wind and water erosion, ice ages and hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets, asteroids, and meteors. You think a few plastic bags and aluminum cans are going to make a difference?
The planet isn't going anywhere, folks, we are! We're going away. Pack your shit - we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe just a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.
The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas. And it will heal itself, because that what it does; it's a self-correcting system. The air and water and earth will recover and be renewed. And if plastic isn't really degradable, most likely the planet will incorporate it into a new paradigm: The Earth Plus Plastic.
The Earth doesn't have a particular prejudice against plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. Perhaps she sees it as one of her many children. It could be the reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned here in the first place. She wanted plastic, but didn't know how to get it!
Philosophers say, "Why are we here?" The planet says, "Plastic, asshole!""
It's like if the Romans built a huge wall and said "That will keep out anyone. It's not possible to breach it." Using our technology, which is 2000 years more advanced, (less, actually) we could fly an B2 bomber over the city and drop a couple 2000 pound bombs. The pinnalce of their most advanced security would last less than 10 seconds against the most basic of our assaults.
Then again I have seen a Roman spearman take out an advanced armored tank.
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See, this is like when people in the states say "World series", they mean "United states of America series", or when they elect the "leader of the free world", they really mean "the leader of the United states of America".
Yeah, and why is it the "Miss Universe" pageant when only girls from Earth participate. And why are they called "World Wars" when Switzerland doesn't play and why.... ZZzzzzz....
Sure, until this happens everywhere else. Make no mistake about it. This is what all governments and corporations want. They want to keep their grubby little hands on your data and money. They don't want you to provide your own services. They also don't want your data stored, processed and transmitted by anyone but them.
The more they tighten their grip, the more (email) systems will slip through their fingers.
Buddy Holly dies = the day the music died
Blog becomes a nauseating, overused word = the day the internet died
"Sorry to be pedantic, but radiation also keeps you alive! Afterall, what do you think heat is?"
Uh, thermal energy: random motions of molecules/atoms/whatever on a microscopic scale?
from wikipedia:
"Heat is a process quantity--as opposed to being a state quantity--and is to thermal energy as work is to mechanical energy."
and
"Infrared radiation is often linked to heat, since objects at room temperature or above will emit radiation mostly concentrated in the mid-infrared band"
Memory is in your head not the universe.
Unless of course memory is in the universe and your brain is simply a storage and retrieval interface.
Cain screwed his sister. And I imagine he had a good time doing it.
Which of course brings us back to the whole issue of 'the big bang'.
Incidentally, I'm a fundamentalist, and I lean toward a literal understanding of Genesis and a 6000-year earth
Well then you must know that Genesis literally is a just a hacked up and edited version of much older Sumerian myths and also that it was written by 6 different authors. And where did Cain find that wife of his anyway? Oh well, it's the perfect word of god so it must be true.
The part of genesis I like best is "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth". In fact I'm off to partake in some herb bearing seed right now, though it is a bitch when there are too many seeds.
Today, things are different. Being smart is a disadvantage....
Agreed. Lions used to take care of the stupid ones for us. Now that we've killed them off the idiots are breeding like rabbits, buying SUVs, etc.
I propose we allow lions to roam the schoolyards. Problem solved in 1 generation.
The planet Jupiter is growing a new red spot.
Is it full of stars?
A lot of OS/2 geeks got their first woody, viewing interleaved GIF 87 files,...
Actually what gave me my first OS/2 woody was when I showed it off by simultaneously formatting 2 floppies and 1 HD while downloading via 2 ftp sessions and having 4 telnet sessions up. This was on a 486-33 and in the days of Windows 3.1 when alt-tabbing to a dos window and back without crashing was a considered a miracle.
Ahh sweet, sweet nostalgia.
I doubt that piracy will stop at all, it's just moving onto different areas. I seriously think that these anti-piracy measures actually reduce sales by putting all sorts of crap in your way just to play a game that you bought! When it's not only easier to download a game off bit-torrent or whatever but you actually get a better product when doing so, something's seriously fucked up.
I totally agree. When I tried to run Doom 3 for the first time it had the nerve to tell me it wouldn't run due to my cd emulation software. Well I use that emulator to run old games so I don't have to go digging out old cd's everytime I want to play, not to pirate. I promptly uninstalled Doom and ID lost a customer who's been buying their stuff since the days of Wolfenstein.
...the robust Christianity I find in the Bible.
Yeah, I especially liked the part where Jesus went around hiding dinosaur bones to test our faith. He's such a scamp that Jesus.
ST:O will never see the light of day - so it doesn't really matter.
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Do my referral for a free game - I paypal you $10.
Is this just a cheap comment to post your spam on a high traffic site or do you have some information to back up this claim?
Gaming is very much about the gamer and his/her experience. Making it be about the audience seems like it'd turn gaming into nothing more than a puppet show.
Much like competitive sports itself. It used to be about people getting together after work and blowing off some steam with some healthy competition. Now it's about billions of dollars and fat people watching while drinking beer and eating potato chips. I used to love to play sports as a child but I would prefer a root canal over watching them on TV.
I thought this guy was supposed to be a practicing attorney. Does he ever do any real work?
Of course not, he's an attorney.
the unpopular and useless Scorpion is getting it's weapon replaced with a rocket launcher and a kamekaze attack
I love the Scorpion. Being able to circle your foe and wrapping him with glowing thread all the while playing dixie is priceless.
...and all over the rest of the blogosphere.
Oww! Sorry, everytime I see or hear that word I get a sharp pain in my stomach.
That reminded me of an english teacher that I had back in high school. If your grammar was ever off she would proclaim that the "grammar mobile" would be coming to your house and that the grammar police would be notified. I hated her back then, but have since realized how much I hate people that don't use correct grammar or correctly spell their or there properly.
How ridiculous to waste your hate on bad grammar when there are so many other things in this world worthy of hating.
Hit the deck! It's a grammar nazi invasion!
That asside, it's incidents like this that just help show how little we still understand about our own world, yet we're still merrily destroying enormous parts of it. How many wonders will now never be known because of our actions this past century? How many will cease to exist in the coming one?
I think the words of George Carlin can answer that best.
"This planet has put up with much worse than us. It's been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, solar flares, sunspots, magnetic storms, pole reversals, planetary floods, worldwide fires, tidal waves, wind and water erosion, ice ages and hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets, asteroids, and meteors. You think a few plastic bags and aluminum cans are going to make a difference?
The planet isn't going anywhere, folks, we are! We're going away. Pack your shit - we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe just a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.
The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas. And it will heal itself, because that what it does; it's a self-correcting system. The air and water and earth will recover and be renewed. And if plastic isn't really degradable, most likely the planet will incorporate it into a new paradigm: The Earth Plus Plastic.
The Earth doesn't have a particular prejudice against plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. Perhaps she sees it as one of her many children. It could be the reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned here in the first place. She wanted plastic, but didn't know how to get it!
Philosophers say, "Why are we here?" The planet says, "Plastic, asshole!""
"...the relationship between a decrease in the number of pirates and an increase in average global temperatures (see graph)."
There have been 205 pirate attacks this year alone. The graph you refer to, while cute, is wrong.
It's like if the Romans built a huge wall and said "That will keep out anyone. It's not possible to breach it." Using our technology, which is 2000 years more advanced, (less, actually) we could fly an B2 bomber over the city and drop a couple 2000 pound bombs. The pinnalce of their most advanced security would last less than 10 seconds against the most basic of our assaults.
Then again I have seen a Roman spearman take out an advanced armored tank.
The tower was actually constructed but was torn down before it became operational.
Seriously- why is slashdot so anti-religion/God?
Simple, because there are many intelligent people here who are able to see beyond the lie that is religion.
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