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  1. None of them have the money or class... on Third Stargate TV Series Named · · Score: 1

    ...to spend any noticeable time, banging or mashing or whatever, with Inara Serra. Maybe Samantha, maybe O'Neill.

    Beside, in this series she's less than a year old; that would be Pædo Extreme...she's gone from looking a lot younger than she is to looking a _lot_ older (at least proportionately).

  2. Filler episodes u.s.w. on Third Stargate TV Series Named · · Score: 1

    R. Moore, in an interview published in "Salon" on-line, mentioned an entire sub-plot that was excised at the last moment from this season; this might be one reason it wasn't that good....

  3. That's why... on Third Stargate TV Series Named · · Score: 1

    ...I was never bothered by the way they stole plots wholesale. It's not deception because it's so obvious (see: "I did not have sex with that woman,"), they don't take themselves seriously, and comedy often steals from the serious.

  4. Re:There must be more SG than ST by now..... on Third Stargate TV Series Named · · Score: 1

    ...and strangely enough, all the men have these weirdly red lips and cheeks. I don't think it's a Canadian men thing, I think it's a BC makeup guild thing.

  5. Venkman debugger on 20 Must-have Firefox Extensions · · Score: 1
    Persnicketty, inadequate, but essential to my (undesired) javascript work---unless by now Firebug has accumulated
    • programmable breakpoints ("break iff f(x0,x1,...)==true")
    • watchable expressions ("display this.fnord()")
    • line for executing expressions after debugging's stopped
    Of course, being able to start it up more than once/firefox_session (the fix for 1.5 is buggy, and I can't use 2.x for testing reasons) would be a good idea, and being able to edit the source-file from within Venkman would be double-plus-favourite....
  6. Times change on Who Cares If Privacy Is Slipping Away? · · Score: 1

    I'm a very private person, but I know that "privacy" is a flexible and changeable concept---two hundred years ago, men urinated in public in taverns and coffee-shops (into vases-de-nuit, and usually not in front of everyone else)---it was _cold_ out there, and easy to lose heat from the room as it was. People not intending on having sex with each other frequently shared beds (cold!), and whole families did so even if the mum and dad intended to have it off (albeit quietly, which was easier in the days when a popular male saying was, "The clitor-WHUT?,").

    On the other hand, no-one told these guys and dolls what chemicals they could eat, and most of them never had to spend more than a couple of (terrifying) minutes with their boss, who didn't pretend to be their friend. Alarm clocks were limited to roosters, and if they crowed too early you could eat them.

    "What people care about" changes; those of us who feel in a way at odds with the majority will have to secede (space? Sealand? The Free Communist State Project?) or adapt.

  7. Once this is in use... on Power Suit Promises Super-Human Strength · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...will there be a grandfather clause allowing me to keep voting?

    (What if the younger, semi-socialist R.A.H. had written "Starship Troopers"? He was still had that hazed-in loyalty to the military....)

  8. Where's the fun in that? on The Open Source Business? · · Score: 1

    Humane, voluntaristic, business?

    Lots of people seem to need to give arbitrary orders backed up more by power relationship than by reason, and many to take them (to avoid being snide: I may be like this a little, and you too).

    This seems to satisfy a deep need in humans, stemming probably both from having been raised in at-least-mildly authoritarian institutions (families, schools, churches) and from our Glorious Primate Heritage (unless all our ancestors were bonoboid).

    I'm bringing this up because I believe modern business practice, and ancient as well, probably has more to do with S&M than anything else. "We" don't "want" anything better; a shame, but at least it will probably keep us from invading space effectively until we give that nonsense up---better that the virus be contained ina gravity well whilst it's still raging.

  9. Market forces... on Open Source About the People · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...impressive as they are, can work slowly and/or sporadically. If most companies that hire most developers are stupid in exactly the same way, there's a good chance they won't feel the ill effects for awhile---they can lumber through as hundreds or thousands of bright, innovative, start-ups do the smart thing, live for awhile, and die, like so many virtual particles. Eventually, perhaps, one of them will either succeed or the information that acting in a particular way will propagate up the food chain by absorption, but until then.....

  10. Winter: preparing us for the final frontier on High-Tech Electro-Defroster · · Score: 1

    Every winter, as I survey the masses of snow that have just thwumped down on our grounds and exterior stairs, I remember my implicit assumption that the phaser was initially developed as an ice and snow clearance tool---hit the right resonances all at once, and the stuff sublimes away, or maybe goes directly to a plasma.....

  11. A guide on The Simpson's Movie Confirmed · · Score: 0, Redundant
  12. Sounds familiar on Robot Piloted by a Slime Mold · · Score: 1

    Taciturn?...check!
    Hates light?...check!
    Bad skin?...check!
    No sex ever?...check!

    Write your own punchline.

  13. Call me cynical... on Chinese, U.S. Condemn Censorship · · Score: 1

    ...but I can't shake that there are a number of implicit "of courses" in play, e.g. "Of course, no-one should even want to print the opinions of the reactionary remnant in Tibet Province and their revanchist terrorist partisans abroad, so severe psychiatric treatment would be indicated for those who do."

    There's also this history of letting one hundred flowers bloom...so you know which ones need cutting-down.

    I'd rather be wrong about this but.

  14. As a Galambosian... on Swedish Filesharers Start 'The Piracy Party' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...I object to the horrible piracy these people are promoting by spreading their ideas without charging for them.

  15. Thank-you on Evolution Named Scientific Achievement of 2005 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Similarly, the Bible has not been banned from classrooms, but can't be used as an authoritative history text...nor "The Three Little Pigs" used in animal husbandry courses, especially if you catch them at it.

  16. Re:Filled with Radiation? on Robot Saves the Day at Radiation Lab · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the walls were completely reflective, creating a 3-d potential well...the robot could tell, as the cylinder smelled of standing waves.

  17. And this one madman of a guy on the team... on Finding a Ready-Made Dev Team? · · Score: 1

    ...claims he's eventually going to go into interstellar space to extend the frontiers of social l00s3r-dom.

  18. ...or Brooklyn's on Vatican Rejects Intelligent Design? · · Score: 1

    The Lubavitcher Rebbe was a stalwart critic of evolution.

    Of course, the sentence "Rabbis disagree with each other," is redundant given the undelying thesis, "Rabbis exist."

  19. Macromedia on New Bill Threatens to Plug "Analog Hole" · · Score: 1

    I was listening over the web to KPCC, an NPR that serves the Los Angeles area, and heard an "underwriting message" (commercial) from Macromedia indicating that they were your {one-stop}-shopping location for DRM.

    As previous posts indicated, they can take my access to the VBM when they pry it out of my cold, numbed-by-entertainment, hands.

  20. Next: emotional intelligence on Cell Phones Learn to Recognize Their Owners' Faces · · Score: 1

    When you're down, it suggests a call to a friend or (at worst) the Samaritans. If you look too happy, it downloads the latest news.

    If it looks like you're in great distress or unreponsive, it calls 911 (or 999, or local equivalent) and sends a picture of your face, or other medical data if you've got a personally-networked monitor of some sort.

  21. Some may be on Fast, Accurate Detection of Explosives · · Score: 1

    ..., or if not dumb, sometimes careless or hasty (remember, these are human beings, not demons from Hell).

    Most people continue to lock their doors even though their locks can be defeated using tiny pieces of steel or great big pieces of steel; they're still at an advantage compared to people with open doors, and they've established habits that will serve them well once they wise up and get better locks and frames.

  22. Ken Macleod.... on Green Plants for Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    ...in his "Cosmonaut Keep", has a plot-point involving space-grown pot-plants and a "steam pipe", which sounds like a vapouriser, probably powered by a little generator pumped by the hand (which sounds like a very good dosage-limiter, since if you want to stop or just forget, you'll stop getting anything).

  23. Interesting to look with correlations with... on Playing God in The Sims 2 · · Score: 1

    ...the results of the Milgram Authority experiments.


    Ernest Borgnine knew him well, sent Will Shatner straight to Hell

  24. War stories can make you look like a vet on Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume? · · Score: 1

    ...or maybe just boring. Basically, if the interviewer likes you and thinks you're suitable, they'll accept just about any way you might have of honestly dealing with your history will do, and if not, you're out of luck in this economy.

  25. Great! on U.N. Delays Debate on Cloning · · Score: 1

    In that case, we'll use the scientific method, and conduct an experiment to test the hypothesis that this procedure is against GOd's Will. We'll try it, and if it helps a noticeable number of people, and it doesn't alter society to the extent that babies are being snatched from their cradles (or embryos or foeti from unwilling womens' wombs), I think we'll be able to safely conclude that these procedures have not in fact turned out to be futile, and therefore consonant with the Voluntas Dei.