Yes, the stanza does end that way. However, to believe that Mr. Yankovic was not parodying the excessive credulity of astrologers and their gullible dupes would mean that something was seriously wrong with my sarcasm detector. Can't put HTML tags in a song, can you?
I'm a firm believer in astrology, and I think that this type of object might play some role. [...] Thought?
Apparently not on your end of the connection, there's not. Now, I know we're supposed to be respectful of everyone's beliefs, no matter how crackpot or unfounded they may be, but come on! The URL is "science.slashdot.org," not "stuff-not-subject-to-empirical-proof,reason,or-ex perimentation.slashdot.org". This is a discussion about an asteroid in companion orbit (apparently of the L4 and L5 LaGrange points; see above), and you're wondering what effect it would have if 2002 AA29 were in the fifth house while Jupiter and Venus are in ascendance.
In the immortal words of "Weird" Al Yankovic, "Now, you may find it inconceivable or at the least a bit unlikely that the relative positions of the planets and the stars could have some special deep significance that applies exclusively to only you." I do. 2002 AA29 has been conclusively proven to exist. Has the "like, influence of the planets, man" been subjected to the same rigorous standards?
"Sensitive but unclassified" information is not all that new. When I received my initial security briefing in technical school for the U.S. Air Force in 1998, one of the first things we discussed was the nature of sensitive unclassified information. Basically, the category covers things that are not in and of themselves "Secret" or above, but could cause damage to U.S. and allied mission objectives if widely disseminated.
For example, the fact that a particular unit is being deployed to a particular overseas base is not classified. However, if combined with other information, it may enable a hostile nation or group to discover operational intentions, which is why we were "strongly encouraged" not to use open phone lines to discuss troop movement orders.
In some instances, treating certain pieces of unclassified data as sensitive actually helps to protect an individual's personal data. Information gathered by the U.S. Department of Defense on its personnel is covered by the Privacy Act of 1974, which does not inherently make it classified. However, because the data is sensitive, handling and transmitting it with increased care is beneficial for military personnel.
Although I am as upset as the next person (well, the next clueful person) about the gradual erosion of my rights as a citizen -- as a a matter of fact, I had to explain to my father just yesterday about the dangers of the DMCA, Senator Hollings, and the CBPTDA or CDBTPA or CATBAD or whatever the hell it's called -- I really do feel that this article was a bit of unfounded hysteria. The U.S. government, by dint of its mandate to defend the citizenry through its Executive Branch, is always going to have information that could potentially compromise its intelligence-gathering or war-fighting capabilities. Sometimes, the only thing you can do is acknowledge that fact and search for a story elsewhere.
True, but the stuff we have been exporting from Omaha the past few years is pretty good stuff. There's The Faint, Anchondo, Mandown, Grasshopper Takeover, Bright Eyes (if you're into emo), Five Story Fall, and the much-missed Blue Moon Ghetto. In fact, I'd go out on a limb and say a vast majority of the music Saddle Creek Records is producing is good quality. Bringing things back on topic, most of the local bands are very big supporters of their fans' rights to listen how they want.
Besides, even if the town didn't have a good local indie scene, I'd still rather listen to it than the latest overproduced, subliterate megapop arena sell-out teen sensation.
Actually, Marinus van der Lubbe started the Reichstag fire. He was a Dutch citizen who was actually anti-National Socialism. Sure, the Nazis capitalized well on the event, but it's been proven fairly conclusively that the Nazis just happened to exploit the opportunity effectively.
I'm at work right now so I can't credit my source authoritatively, but it was mentioned in passing in the book Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of World History. It'd probably have a source in the bibliography.
The netmask (or subnet mask) is what tells routing systems what bits of the IP address are network address and what bits are host address.
Picture, if you will, an IP address. Not as aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, but as a computer sees it: a string of binary digits. For instance, my computer's hypothetical address is 10.18.42.171. To the computer, that's:
00001010 00010010 00101010 10101011
I've inserted spaces between octets for clarity, but the computer only sees one long number there. It has to have some way to know what network it's sending to, and what host it's sending to on that network, which is where your netmask comes in. A netmask uses binary ones to represent network bits, and binary zeroes to represent host bits.
For the example above, my subnet mask is 255.255.248.0, which works out as follows:
00001010 00010010 00101010 10101011 <== My IP address
11111111 11111111 11111000 00000000 <== My netmask
Everything represented by ones in the netmask is network, so I'm in the 10.18.40.0 network. The zeroes are host bits, so my host address is 683.
As for why Sonic.net is listed as the netblock owner, it stands to reason that the folks who set this little monstrosity up would never host their website from the same netblock that they use to scan your personal information, so they've contracted hosting services out.
Actually, "who" versus "whom" is a holdout from German, where the words "wer," "wen," and "wem" are the respective nominative, accusative, and dative case constructions of our "who" and "whom." "Who" is used when you're referring to the subject of a sentence; "whom" is used to refer to a direct or indirect object.
I'd recommend learning German to any native English speaker; it improved my understanding of English grammar dramatically. I'd also recommend learning the poem "Der Werwolf" in your second semester of studies (it's a cute little poem on declension and you can find it here if you already speak German).
Swinging back to your post, Mr. Z, differentiating between and correctly using "who" and "whom" should be unconscious, just as the average high school graduate should be able to multiply three-digit two numbers together quickly on a sheet of scratch paper. The inability of many students these days to do either is nothing short of a tragedy of epic proportions.
I was always under the impression that Luke was learning to use Dark Side techniques at the beginning of Return of the Jedi. Look at the change in clothing choice -- much more what you'd see on a swingin' badass Sith practitioner than one of those ascetic, dead-from-the-neck-down Jedi. Plus, when he enters Jabba's palace, he does use the Force-chokey-thing on the Gamorrean guards.
By the way, does anyone have a definitive answer for what the Force-chokey-thing is called? I've heard some people call it the Grip, some call it an injure-kill. Just wondering.
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Dude, do you have a coffee can muffler + 2? My coffee can muffler +1 almost got my party killed last gaming session (my elf just had to bring his Arabica along with him and the rattling attracted a pack of kobolds).
I, too, feel Roach should cast a Brit as Arthur, but I think my first choice for Arthur would be Toby Stephens, the son of Dame Maggie Smith and (last I heard, which was '95) with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. He's a hell of an actor, subtle and expressive, and has the right look for it.
As for Ford Prefect, I like Jeff Goldblum (mentioned above) -- he's got that creepy reptilian eye thing going for him. Or perhaps Ron Livingston from Band of Brothers and Office Space, since he always seems to be about two seconds out of synch with the world around him.
Trillian's tough, but I was leaning towards the woman who played Aeryn Soongh (or however the yutz you spell it) on Farscape. She's sarcastic and condescending, which I think would work out well. Plus, she's frelling hot, and soon to be needing work.
Zaphod could be played well by Jason Lee (of almost every View Askewniverse film), since I always pictured Beeblebrox being really quick on the verbal assault.
As for Marvin, I kind of like the voice of Steven Wright or Ben Stein. Droning, monotonous, utterly fed up with everything and everyone -- it's a good match, I think.
So let me get this straight -- because somebody wants to make an end-run around my First Amendment right to say, think, or worship whatever I want (provided it does not harm others), I'm supposed to feel complimented?
I call, "Bullshit." The Klan wants to protect me from all those dangerous minorities, whom they perceive as "threats." Reverend Ashcroft and his Holy Zombie Army are trying to protect me from those heathen Muslim terrorists (and while we're at it, anybody doing anything remotely "unamerican"), because they perceive a threat there. And now these "concerned mothers" are upset because I want to beat the piss out of simulated hookers and old women in the privacy and sanctity of my own home?
Fuck them. Fuck every last one of the smugly self-righteous twits who are pimping their virtues out to the whole world to guilt the rest of us into showing that we "really care" by joining their inane causes. Just because someone has a group name that makes some clever acronym doesn't make him any better than those of us who love America for the freedom to live whatever miserable, jack-off excuses for existence we want.
To paraphrase the immortal words of Paul (not the apostle, the webmaster of ConsumptionJunction), "I'd love to see all of these censorship-happy people locked into a cramped room where they'll all be forced to blow each other just for the protein needed to survive."
About two years ago, I read an article from the Washington Post by a Dr. Cindy Williams of MIT, formerly of the Congressional Budget Office, who stated that she felt that military personnel were adequately compensated -- and in many cases overpaid -- for the jobs they do. The Post included her e-mail address, so I decided to write a response to that. At the time, I was in the Air Force myself, and the son of a 26-year Air Force veteran, so what she said understandably got my dander up a bit.
Since my father forwarded me a copy of the article, I figured I'd send him a copy of my response as well. This was a mistake; he actually liked what I wrote and forwarded it to some of his friends, who sent it to their friends, and so on ad nauseum.
Now it's been archived on a number of different websites, and I have no control over my own words. There are two glaring changes that have been made to what I wrote, and someone added to the message that Dr. Cindy Williams is the same Cindy Williams from "Laverne and Shirley." That's landed me on all the urban legend websites, like Snopes, About.com, and Truthminers. I don't own those websites, so anyone can go to them and discover that I was dumb enough not to keep my fool mouth shut in spring of 2000.
If you're really interested in finding the letter (which means you're either mentally ill or have a lot of free time on your hands), do a Google search for "A1C Michael Bragg". Ugh.
And a short story I read had all wars being fought with insults, and teritory was lost or gained based on the superiority of the insults, as determined by aa computer.
Of course, no insult can ever beat "How appropriate. You fight like a cow." (Apologies to the fine folks at LucasArts Games for blatantly ripping off Monkey Island.
Not to be excessively pedantic Clue Too late </Clue>, but I believe that a more appropriate construction of your term would be cybermorphic, as "anthropo-" means "man" or "human".
Out of curiosity, what would "cybermorphic" or "anthropocyboric" score in Scrabble?
When I was in college, I worked for First Data corporation as a translator for international credit card transactions. One afternoon my coworker, Ahshif, waves across the cubicle at me to jack in on his line and listen to the transaction.
This Saudi kid is putting a two million dollar transaction on his Visa card! Ahshif is translating between the merchant and the credit card's bank when the bank asks, "What's this purchase for?"
"Well," the merchant replies, "I'm selling him seven Rolls-Royces. Five are for a charity auction, one is for his father, and one is for himself."
I had similar problems with RH 7.0 about 3 months ago when I installed it to a Compaq Deskpro EN PIII 1.0GHz with a plain vanilla 3Com 3C905C network card. It took me some time to get eth0 up and running.
So, when 7.3 came out, I decided to give that a shot and see if it would work any better with my NIC. Sure enough, Anaconda found it and auto-configured for DHCP. So the moral of the story? Get 7.3, I guess. I mean, it's not like you have to pay for it.
Of course, I still haven't figured out how to get the Deskpro's on-board audio working, 7.3 or no. Compaq's website wasn't much help, and I couldn't find anything about it on Red Hat Network. Anybody else out there with nudges in the right direction?
Just like all those "lone crazy officer"s in the ICBM silos who shot their colleagues and turned their launch keys. Ever hear of a magical thing called Two Person Integrity (TPI)? In ICBM silos, there are two key slots 14 feet apart that have to be turned within a fraction of a second (the exact value escapes me at the moment), thus assuring that two people must independently agree to launch a nuke. A similar system would work for the UCAV -- just ensure that no single person can fire up the X-45's OS or begin preflight.
NB: TPI in ICBM silos can be defeated, one of my Security Forces friends (who actually guarded silos) assures me. According to him, he had a conversation once with a missileer LT who had worked out how to do it using his bootlaces and dog tags, the bootlaces and dog tags of his dead counterpart, and the spork from his "box nasty" (USAF dining facility box lunch). So no system's perfect. But I'd kinda get a kick out of watching some rogue butterbar put 3000 lbs. of munitions into a civilian city. Just as long as it's not mine.:)
A few months back on here, there was an article about these Germans who invented the Painstation, which offered a little negative reenforcement when you screwed up. I think a truly challenging game would be one where you had to relax, or you risked getting shocked. See how relaxed you can be under threat of torture!
Come to think of it, that might not be a bad way to train yourself for polygraph examinations, either...
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Yes, the stanza does end that way. However, to believe that Mr. Yankovic was not parodying the excessive credulity of astrologers and their gullible dupes would mean that something was seriously wrong with my sarcasm detector. Can't put HTML tags in a song, can you?
I'm a firm believer in astrology, and I think that this type of object might play some role. [...] Thought?
Apparently not on your end of the connection, there's not. Now, I know we're supposed to be respectful of everyone's beliefs, no matter how crackpot or unfounded they may be, but come on! The URL is "science.slashdot.org," not "stuff-not-subject-to-empirical-proof,reason,or-ex perimentation.slashdot.org". This is a discussion about an asteroid in companion orbit (apparently of the L4 and L5 LaGrange points; see above), and you're wondering what effect it would have if 2002 AA29 were in the fifth house while Jupiter and Venus are in ascendance.
In the immortal words of "Weird" Al Yankovic, "Now, you may find it inconceivable or at the least a bit unlikely that the relative positions of the planets and the stars could have some special deep significance that applies exclusively to only you." I do. 2002 AA29 has been conclusively proven to exist. Has the "like, influence of the planets, man" been subjected to the same rigorous standards?
Didn't think so. Thank you, please drive through.
Is there one where the startup sound is a really fucking long and annoying song? Or just "mmmmm-mmmm-mmmm-mmm" over and over?
Sorry, wrong Crash Test Dummies.
"Sensitive but unclassified" information is not all that new. When I received my initial security briefing in technical school for the U.S. Air Force in 1998, one of the first things we discussed was the nature of sensitive unclassified information. Basically, the category covers things that are not in and of themselves "Secret" or above, but could cause damage to U.S. and allied mission objectives if widely disseminated.
For example, the fact that a particular unit is being deployed to a particular overseas base is not classified. However, if combined with other information, it may enable a hostile nation or group to discover operational intentions, which is why we were "strongly encouraged" not to use open phone lines to discuss troop movement orders.
In some instances, treating certain pieces of unclassified data as sensitive actually helps to protect an individual's personal data. Information gathered by the U.S. Department of Defense on its personnel is covered by the Privacy Act of 1974, which does not inherently make it classified. However, because the data is sensitive, handling and transmitting it with increased care is beneficial for military personnel.
Although I am as upset as the next person (well, the next clueful person) about the gradual erosion of my rights as a citizen -- as a a matter of fact, I had to explain to my father just yesterday about the dangers of the DMCA, Senator Hollings, and the CBPTDA or CDBTPA or CATBAD or whatever the hell it's called -- I really do feel that this article was a bit of unfounded hysteria. The U.S. government, by dint of its mandate to defend the citizenry through its Executive Branch, is always going to have information that could potentially compromise its intelligence-gathering or war-fighting capabilities. Sometimes, the only thing you can do is acknowledge that fact and search for a story elsewhere.
'Cause, you know, it's so damned difficult to navigate cities since they've never made a map with street-level resolution.
[W]e import more entertainment than we export.
True, but the stuff we have been exporting from Omaha the past few years is pretty good stuff. There's The Faint, Anchondo, Mandown, Grasshopper Takeover, Bright Eyes (if you're into emo), Five Story Fall, and the much-missed Blue Moon Ghetto. In fact, I'd go out on a limb and say a vast majority of the music Saddle Creek Records is producing is good quality. Bringing things back on topic, most of the local bands are very big supporters of their fans' rights to listen how they want.
Besides, even if the town didn't have a good local indie scene, I'd still rather listen to it than the latest overproduced, subliterate megapop arena sell-out teen sensation.
The fact that you have a four-letter acronym describing your {habit|hobby|addiction|compulsion} pretty much belies that "aren't freaks" bit. :-)
Of course, I'm someone who has every Rebel Alliance Lego kit gracing my bookshelf, so don't go by me.
Actually, Marinus van der Lubbe started the Reichstag fire. He was a Dutch citizen who was actually anti-National Socialism. Sure, the Nazis capitalized well on the event, but it's been proven fairly conclusively that the Nazis just happened to exploit the opportunity effectively.
I'm at work right now so I can't credit my source authoritatively, but it was mentioned in passing in the book Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of World History. It'd probably have a source in the bibliography.
The netmask (or subnet mask) is what tells routing systems what bits of the IP address are network address and what bits are host address.
Picture, if you will, an IP address. Not as aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd, but as a computer sees it: a string of binary digits. For instance, my computer's hypothetical address is 10.18.42.171. To the computer, that's:
I've inserted spaces between octets for clarity, but the computer only sees one long number there. It has to have some way to know what network it's sending to, and what host it's sending to on that network, which is where your netmask comes in. A netmask uses binary ones to represent network bits, and binary zeroes to represent host bits.
For the example above, my subnet mask is 255.255.248.0, which works out as follows:
00001010 00010010 00101010 10101011 <== My IP address
11111111 11111111 11111000 00000000 <== My netmask
Everything represented by ones in the netmask is network, so I'm in the 10.18.40.0 network. The zeroes are host bits, so my host address is 683.
As for why Sonic.net is listed as the netblock owner, it stands to reason that the folks who set this little monstrosity up would never host their website from the same netblock that they use to scan your personal information, so they've contracted hosting services out.
Actually, "who" versus "whom" is a holdout from German, where the words "wer," "wen," and "wem" are the respective nominative, accusative, and dative case constructions of our "who" and "whom." "Who" is used when you're referring to the subject of a sentence; "whom" is used to refer to a direct or indirect object.
I'd recommend learning German to any native English speaker; it improved my understanding of English grammar dramatically. I'd also recommend learning the poem "Der Werwolf" in your second semester of studies (it's a cute little poem on declension and you can find it here if you already speak German).
Swinging back to your post, Mr. Z, differentiating between and correctly using "who" and "whom" should be unconscious, just as the average high school graduate should be able to multiply three-digit two numbers together quickly on a sheet of scratch paper. The inability of many students these days to do either is nothing short of a tragedy of epic proportions.
I was always under the impression that Luke was learning to use Dark Side techniques at the beginning of Return of the Jedi. Look at the change in clothing choice -- much more what you'd see on a swingin' badass Sith practitioner than one of those ascetic, dead-from-the-neck-down Jedi. Plus, when he enters Jabba's palace, he does use the Force-chokey-thing on the Gamorrean guards.
By the way, does anyone have a definitive answer for what the Force-chokey-thing is called? I've heard some people call it the Grip, some call it an injure-kill. Just wondering.
Dude, do you have a coffee can muffler + 2? My coffee can muffler +1 almost got my party killed last gaming session (my elf just had to bring his Arabica along with him and the rattling attracted a pack of kobolds).
I, too, feel Roach should cast a Brit as Arthur, but I think my first choice for Arthur would be Toby Stephens, the son of Dame Maggie Smith and (last I heard, which was '95) with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. He's a hell of an actor, subtle and expressive, and has the right look for it.
As for Ford Prefect, I like Jeff Goldblum (mentioned above) -- he's got that creepy reptilian eye thing going for him. Or perhaps Ron Livingston from Band of Brothers and Office Space, since he always seems to be about two seconds out of synch with the world around him.
Trillian's tough, but I was leaning towards the woman who played Aeryn Soongh (or however the yutz you spell it) on Farscape. She's sarcastic and condescending, which I think would work out well. Plus, she's frelling hot, and soon to be needing work.
Zaphod could be played well by Jason Lee (of almost every View Askewniverse film), since I always pictured Beeblebrox being really quick on the verbal assault.
As for Marvin, I kind of like the voice of Steven Wright or Ben Stein. Droning, monotonous, utterly fed up with everything and everyone -- it's a good match, I think.
[...]ready to goto bed[...]
You really ought to consider a while "in bed" do "sleep" routine. goto statements make for sloppy life.
So let me get this straight -- because somebody wants to make an end-run around my First Amendment right to say, think, or worship whatever I want (provided it does not harm others), I'm supposed to feel complimented?
I call, "Bullshit." The Klan wants to protect me from all those dangerous minorities, whom they perceive as "threats." Reverend Ashcroft and his Holy Zombie Army are trying to protect me from those heathen Muslim terrorists (and while we're at it, anybody doing anything remotely "unamerican"), because they perceive a threat there. And now these "concerned mothers" are upset because I want to beat the piss out of simulated hookers and old women in the privacy and sanctity of my own home?
Fuck them. Fuck every last one of the smugly self-righteous twits who are pimping their virtues out to the whole world to guilt the rest of us into showing that we "really care" by joining their inane causes. Just because someone has a group name that makes some clever acronym doesn't make him any better than those of us who love America for the freedom to live whatever miserable, jack-off excuses for existence we want.
To paraphrase the immortal words of Paul (not the apostle, the webmaster of ConsumptionJunction), "I'd love to see all of these censorship-happy people locked into a cramped room where they'll all be forced to blow each other just for the protein needed to survive."
About two years ago, I read an article from the Washington Post by a Dr. Cindy Williams of MIT, formerly of the Congressional Budget Office, who stated that she felt that military personnel were adequately compensated -- and in many cases overpaid -- for the jobs they do. The Post included her e-mail address, so I decided to write a response to that. At the time, I was in the Air Force myself, and the son of a 26-year Air Force veteran, so what she said understandably got my dander up a bit.
Since my father forwarded me a copy of the article, I figured I'd send him a copy of my response as well. This was a mistake; he actually liked what I wrote and forwarded it to some of his friends, who sent it to their friends, and so on ad nauseum.
Now it's been archived on a number of different websites, and I have no control over my own words. There are two glaring changes that have been made to what I wrote, and someone added to the message that Dr. Cindy Williams is the same Cindy Williams from "Laverne and Shirley." That's landed me on all the urban legend websites, like Snopes, About.com, and Truthminers. I don't own those websites, so anyone can go to them and discover that I was dumb enough not to keep my fool mouth shut in spring of 2000.
If you're really interested in finding the letter (which means you're either mentally ill or have a lot of free time on your hands), do a Google search for "A1C Michael Bragg". Ugh.
And a short story I read had all wars being fought with insults, and teritory was lost or gained based on the superiority of the insults, as determined by aa computer.
Of course, no insult can ever beat "How appropriate. You fight like a cow." (Apologies to the fine folks at LucasArts Games for blatantly ripping off Monkey Island.
Not to be excessively pedantic Clue Too late </Clue>, but I believe that a more appropriate construction of your term would be cybermorphic, as "anthropo-" means "man" or "human".
Out of curiosity, what would "cybermorphic" or "anthropocyboric" score in Scrabble?
When I was in college, I worked for First Data corporation as a translator for international credit card transactions. One afternoon my coworker, Ahshif, waves across the cubicle at me to jack in on his line and listen to the transaction.
This Saudi kid is putting a two million dollar transaction on his Visa card! Ahshif is translating between the merchant and the credit card's bank when the bank asks, "What's this purchase for?"
"Well," the merchant replies, "I'm selling him seven Rolls-Royces. Five are for a charity auction, one is for his father, and one is for himself."
I'll never understand the rich, I guess.
I had similar problems with RH 7.0 about 3 months ago when I installed it to a Compaq Deskpro EN PIII 1.0GHz with a plain vanilla 3Com 3C905C network card. It took me some time to get eth0 up and running.
So, when 7.3 came out, I decided to give that a shot and see if it would work any better with my NIC. Sure enough, Anaconda found it and auto-configured for DHCP. So the moral of the story? Get 7.3, I guess. I mean, it's not like you have to pay for it.
Of course, I still haven't figured out how to get the Deskpro's on-board audio working, 7.3 or no. Compaq's website wasn't much help, and I couldn't find anything about it on Red Hat Network. Anybody else out there with nudges in the right direction?
Just like all those "lone crazy officer"s in the ICBM silos who shot their colleagues and turned their launch keys. Ever hear of a magical thing called Two Person Integrity (TPI)? In ICBM silos, there are two key slots 14 feet apart that have to be turned within a fraction of a second (the exact value escapes me at the moment), thus assuring that two people must independently agree to launch a nuke. A similar system would work for the UCAV -- just ensure that no single person can fire up the X-45's OS or begin preflight.
NB: TPI in ICBM silos can be defeated, one of my Security Forces friends (who actually guarded silos) assures me. According to him, he had a conversation once with a missileer LT who had worked out how to do it using his bootlaces and dog tags, the bootlaces and dog tags of his dead counterpart, and the spork from his "box nasty" (USAF dining facility box lunch). So no system's perfect. But I'd kinda get a kick out of watching some rogue butterbar put 3000 lbs. of munitions into a civilian city. Just as long as it's not mine. :)
P.P.P No, because it ain't art. My mom could have done that.
<absurdity>Personally, I think that the Point-to-Point Protocol is art, but I have weird definitions of art.
And if your mom really can write a better PPP implemenation, by all means encourage her to do so! It's all about the innovation.</absurdity>
A few months back on here, there was an article about these Germans who invented the Painstation, which offered a little negative reenforcement when you screwed up. I think a truly challenging game would be one where you had to relax, or you risked getting shocked. See how relaxed you can be under threat of torture!
Come to think of it, that might not be a bad way to train yourself for polygraph examinations, either...
(Aside from the fact that if you had 90 cents and I had $1.14 I would hardly think my bank account squashed yours like a bug...)
Now multiply that by 10^8. Still seem like a trifling difference? Yeah. That's what I thought.
Imagine a -- no, no, I really shouldn't.