I figured out a way to turn an Airport Extreme station into a dirt hauling and delivery system! You'll also need a dump truck, some super glue, and a back hoe!
My next project involves making a blow torch into a toaster. Also required are an X-Y plotter, some hardware cloth, and a surveyor's transit.
I'd like to tell more, but I have to go to the can. Normally, I'd use toilet paper, but I figured out this thing with a power drill and a corn cob...
The NEA claims $4.5 billion, and we all know their bias. Federal funding is up over 30% since Bush took office. (and yes, strangely, with that funding comes (get this!) responsibility! It's not just free money anymore!)
So the NEA is guilty of bias, but the government has none? The union's obviously spurious complaints about funding are the result of the inherent evil of unions, but the administration's claims on its own site are, apparently, pure as the driven snow.
(and yes, strangely, with that funding comes (get this!) responsibility! It's not just free money anymore!)
The concept of accountability in education is inarguably a good idea in the abstract. The actual implementation of such leaves much to be desired. The bureaucrats' ideas of educational metrics don't really correspond to reality.
But we have to be sure never to listen to actual educators when making policy, because, as we all know, teachers are selfish, lazy, and greedy. They got into the job just to make a buck, and the terrorist NEA hates education. The only people who actually care about education are the ones who never spent a day actually educating and prefer to sit on their asses bitching and moaning about it.
I am very glad that you've posted about Go. It's a beautiful game and more people in the western world should know about it.
Yeah, we never heard of it until it was described here, for the very first time, on slashdot.
Go IS a great game. Still, we chess lovers get fed up with the Go zealots who, whenever chess is mentioned here, start with the "Chess sucks, Go rules!" stuff. I completely agree with you about the "either/or" mentality, but it's pervasive. You much choose your side, and fight all others to the death, you see.
Good gawd, this guy compares some idiot bootlegging a movie to the victims of witch trials, Galileo, civil rights activists and the American revolution -- then gets modded INSIGHTFUL?
Please, people: Don't drink and moderate. Think about it, won't you?
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Dammit, Ham is NOT AN ACRONYM!!!
PLEASE stop writing HAM as if it were. There is more than one etymology for the word, but none of them are acronyms.
If you've ever been to a launch you'd know the ability to aim these things at a target is nonexistant. They basically go up, but you couldn't deliberately hit something if you tried without a miracle.
Just to play devil's advocate here - I don't think this matters. A terrorist's goal could just be indiscriminate mayhem, so it wouldn't matter where it ended up. Also, I don't think you're quite right. If you put some effort into it, you could hit a large target, like a building. It's also possible for someone to design some sort of guidance system. Of course, I don't see terrorists doing this - it's a big production and there are much easier ways of being destructive.
I'm a rocket enthusiast myself, and I don't like seeing unwarranted restrictions on the hobby, but I don't have a problem with a certain amount of regulation, especially for the big ones. Rockets are ballistic projectiles, and can be damned dangerous, even if they aren't explosive. Even a small rocket, which can be simply demonstrated: Set up a rocket with a C or D motor, stand with your chin resting atop the launch rod, and push the button.:) However, making it into a Homeland Security (I hate that term) issue is over the top.
Dumbass, and asshat. I hope they fine the shit out of him just for being a stupid fucktard hack and then triple it for being a complete and total shit. Those are legal terms, BTW. IANALBIPOIMFW.
I must say the continuity and depth of the B5 storyline, as well as the most excellent script writing (entire dialog of "In the Beginning", a mini movie, are written and published as a novel).
I agree about the continuity and depth of the storyline, but excellent script writing? B5's biggest weakness was the abysmal, horrid dialog. Full of cliches (e.g. Garibaldi talking about "crawling into the bottle," like he was a Mickey Spillane character), and just plain tripe, like when Sheridan (or was it Sinclair? I can never keep those names straight) was with his estranged wife, who scolds him, "Don't kiss me unless you mean it!" Ack. How can anyone not cringe at a line like that? Admittedly, that woman couldn't act, but with such crappy dialog, I don't think great acting would help. You can't polish a turd.
I watched B5 because of the interesting story, but the bad dialog and limp attempts at humor were a source of constant, low level irritation. Let JMS come up with the big ideas, but please, in the name of all that is good, don't let him write any scripts.
Damn stright. I have never understood the DS9-bashing I read around here. I think it was the best series of them all, the first couple of seasons notwithstanding. It had a long story arc that was carried through to a nice conclusion in addition to the other virtues you mention.
This is what I've always wondered. It's been alluded to here, but I haven't seen anyone really answer the question: Who the hell says, "Well, I'm not going to go the the theater or rent/buy a DVD because I can get a shitty copy made with a goddamned hand camera at a theater for free?" It's like deciding not to go out to eat because you can find something edible in a dumpster. How does this lose the industry money?
People just freak out over RPN for no reason. I taught several college friends, none of whom were math wizards, about the joys of RPN and every one of them became hooked. RPN just seems backwards because everything is fed to us in a linear, "algebraic" way. But the fact is, RPN is actually much more intuitive once you get past the initial "wall." With RPN, you do calculations the way you would with a pencil and paper - or in your head: Break the problem into chunks so you get intermediate values, then operate on those intermediate values, and so on until you're done.
Just starting at the left and working your way to the right, all the while keeping track of parentheses is NOT intuitive. It's just familiar.
I know I'm being trolled here, but I don't feel like putting up with this crap today. Forgive me, moderators.
If the relationship is healthy neither of you should have to sacrifice anything.
From this I can only conclude that you have never had a healthy relationship.
If you have to be gaming all the time, as you say, it's time to grow up.
In short, fuck you and your mother. We are grown ups, the fact that we prefer Counter-Strike to football and budweiser or NASCAR doesnt change that.
Geez, you read a lot into what I said. If you have to be watching football or NASCAR or drinking Bud all the time, it's also time to grow up.
And if you can't just do a little, then maybe you should give it up all together.
So in your opinion he should give up something that makes him happy just to keep getting laid regularly?
I see the problem: lack of comprehension. Let me help: Did you see where I said "if you can't just do a little, then maybe you should give it up all together?" See, the IF and MAYBE indicate that this is a possibility he might consider.
That you seem to think the sole point of a relationship is getting laid further strengthens my suspicion that you've never had a healthy relationship.
This double standard makes my blood boil.
That's pretty potent for something you merely imagined. Maybe you could show me where I said that advice only applies to males? There isn't any? Goodness, it seems you pulled this double standard out of your hinder.
If this was a mundane woman talking about how her boyfriend gets angry because she spends too much time gardening or knitting people would be telling her to dump him for trying to control her. But since this is a man who wants to play video games, you and people like you are telling him that he has to change, grow up, compromise, sacrifice; things that no one would suggest if he had a different gender & hobby.
Bull Fucking SHIT! BOTH PARTIES have to compromise equally, and nothing I wrote even implies otherwise. You just made that up. What a fun game! Invent somebody else's opinion, then flame them for it!
It doesn't matter what the gender, or what the hobby. If you have to be playing with your hobby - ANY hobby - all the time, then you don't have time for a relationship. Fine. But you have to make a choice to either make compromises or forget the relationship. It may not have occurred to you, but when you spend all your time playing a game and ignoring this person you claim to have a relationship with, the relationship isn't really there, is it?
He didn't ask if you thought he should stop playing. If he does give up gaming entirely, he'll probably resent her for it.
I said he should cut back, and only suggested he consider giving up entirely if he can't manage anything but all or nothing. Did you give any consideration to reading what I wrote, then using your brain to parse the sentences and extract their actual meaning before jumping on the detonator? Guess not.
Why don't we try an experiment? You set yourself up with a girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever, then resolve NEVER to compromise. Make the ground rules clear: You do whatever you want, whenever you want, and if he/she doesn't like it, tough, you'll do what you want anyway. Report back later and tell us how it goes.
Why do i continuously see the argument, which equates gaming to being "non-adult" This is just plane bullshit and denotes the proponent of such as being small minded.
Thanks for the insult, but you aren't paying attention. I didn't say gaming was immature, I said compulsive "all the time" gaming is. I play video games. Where maturity comes in is realizing that you can't just play around all the time, whether it be video games or any other pastime.
Depends on what "cut back" means. If cut back means going from playing many hours a night, every night, to playing a few hours a week, I agree. However if cutting back means going from playing a few hours a week to nothing, then I think it's time to have a talk with the SO and maybe break up.
This is true. However, I surmised that the problem was of the first kind, given the questioner said:
"The problem some of us are running into is that our significant others aren't too happy with us gaming all the time."
I play some games, but nothing like a single young geek (I do not mean that unkindly) can. I have a PS2, and mainly play games that don't require hours and hours to have any fun, so RPGs are pretty much out for me. That's OK. I've found as I get older that I prefer drawing and painting for relaxation.
However, your point about moderation is a good one. You have the right to make some demands on your SO, but not to force said SO to give up something he/she loves (may not apply when that thing is heroin, affairs, serial killing, listening to Neil Diamond, and so on).
15 years of sacrifice seem like an awful long time...
Maybe you're just deliberately missing the point, but just in case...
It doesn't mean 15 years of sacrifice. It means that for 15 years, we both have made some sacrifices. For example, I don't go out with my friends every night like I used to. And sometimes I stay home so SHE can go out with friends. I don't even know what it would mean to be married without any sacrifices. That sounds like, "I'm doin' what I want, baby - if you don't like it, too bad."
Sorry if it sounds harsh, but the solution IS obvious: Cut back on the gaming. Perhaps way back. In a healthy relationship, you and your SO will give each other time to pursue your own interests, and you'll both sacrifice some personal time for the other. You can't be a compulsive gamer and have a healthy relationship.
If you have to be gaming all the time, as you say, it's time to grow up. And if you can't just do a little, then maybe you should give it up all together.
I've been married 15 years, and it's largely because my wife and I both make sacrifices. There's no getting around it. I hope you work things out for the best.
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I figured out a way to turn an Airport Extreme station into a dirt hauling and delivery system! You'll also need a dump truck, some super glue, and a back hoe!
My next project involves making a blow torch into a toaster. Also required are an X-Y plotter, some hardware cloth, and a surveyor's transit.
I'd like to tell more, but I have to go to the can. Normally, I'd use toilet paper, but I figured out this thing with a power drill and a corn cob...
The NEA claims $4.5 billion, and we all know their bias. Federal funding is up over 30% since Bush took office. (and yes, strangely, with that funding comes (get this!) responsibility! It's not just free money anymore!)
So the NEA is guilty of bias, but the government has none? The union's obviously spurious complaints about funding are the result of the inherent evil of unions, but the administration's claims on its own site are, apparently, pure as the driven snow.
(and yes, strangely, with that funding comes (get this!) responsibility! It's not just free money anymore!)
The concept of accountability in education is inarguably a good idea in the abstract. The actual implementation of such leaves much to be desired. The bureaucrats' ideas of educational metrics don't really correspond to reality.
But we have to be sure never to listen to actual educators when making policy, because, as we all know, teachers are selfish, lazy, and greedy. They got into the job just to make a buck, and the terrorist NEA hates education. The only people who actually care about education are the ones who never spent a day actually educating and prefer to sit on their asses bitching and moaning about it.
really the only indicator of life on mars that is going to convince me is....life on mars.
Nor should you be. Scientists aren't convinced there's life. This is just a possible clue.
I am very glad that you've posted about Go. It's a beautiful game and more people in the western world should know about it.
Yeah, we never heard of it until it was described here, for the very first time, on slashdot.
Go IS a great game. Still, we chess lovers get fed up with the Go zealots who, whenever chess is mentioned here, start with the "Chess sucks, Go rules!" stuff. I completely agree with you about the "either/or" mentality, but it's pervasive. You much choose your side, and fight all others to the death, you see.
A computer never makes a mistake, it just only looks so far.
This is equivalent to when Bill Gates said Microsoft's software has no bugs.
Good gawd, this guy compares some idiot bootlegging a movie to the victims of witch trials, Galileo, civil rights activists and the American revolution -- then gets modded INSIGHTFUL?
Please, people: Don't drink and moderate. Think about it, won't you?
Dammit, Ham is NOT AN ACRONYM!!!
PLEASE stop writing HAM as if it were. There is more than one etymology for the word, but none of them are acronyms.
If you've ever been to a launch you'd know the ability to aim these things at a target is nonexistant. They basically go up, but you couldn't deliberately hit something if you tried without a miracle.
:) However, making it into a Homeland Security (I hate that term) issue is over the top.
Just to play devil's advocate here - I don't think this matters. A terrorist's goal could just be indiscriminate mayhem, so it wouldn't matter where it ended up. Also, I don't think you're quite right. If you put some effort into it, you could hit a large target, like a building. It's also possible for someone to design some sort of guidance system. Of course, I don't see terrorists doing this - it's a big production and there are much easier ways of being destructive.
I'm a rocket enthusiast myself, and I don't like seeing unwarranted restrictions on the hobby, but I don't have a problem with a certain amount of regulation, especially for the big ones. Rockets are ballistic projectiles, and can be damned dangerous, even if they aren't explosive. Even a small rocket, which can be simply demonstrated: Set up a rocket with a C or D motor, stand with your chin resting atop the launch rod, and push the button.
Dumbass, and asshat. I hope they fine the shit out of him just for being a stupid fucktard hack and then triple it for being a complete and total shit. Those are legal terms, BTW. IANALBIPOIMFW.
[BIPOIMFW = But I play one in my fantasy world]
I must say the continuity and depth of the B5 storyline, as well as the most excellent script writing (entire dialog of "In the Beginning", a mini movie, are written and published as a novel).
I agree about the continuity and depth of the storyline, but excellent script writing? B5's biggest weakness was the abysmal, horrid dialog. Full of cliches (e.g. Garibaldi talking about "crawling into the bottle," like he was a Mickey Spillane character), and just plain tripe, like when Sheridan (or was it Sinclair? I can never keep those names straight) was with his estranged wife, who scolds him, "Don't kiss me unless you mean it!" Ack. How can anyone not cringe at a line like that? Admittedly, that woman couldn't act, but with such crappy dialog, I don't think great acting would help. You can't polish a turd.
I watched B5 because of the interesting story, but the bad dialog and limp attempts at humor were a source of constant, low level irritation. Let JMS come up with the big ideas, but please, in the name of all that is good, don't let him write any scripts.
Damn stright. I have never understood the DS9-bashing I read around here. I think it was the best series of them all, the first couple of seasons notwithstanding. It had a long story arc that was carried through to a nice conclusion in addition to the other virtues you mention.
Bring back that writing team, PLEASE.
is doesn't even parse:
Sigh. OK, I typoed. But my comments still stand.
Yeesh, what a horribly written intro:
[...]to assign a password to a user in a way that prevents the user from conciously remember or describe it[...]
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Come on. The next sentence is really wretched. Not only is there a verb-subject agreement problem, is doesn't even parse:
Recognizing the right ones from a series is interpreted as knowing the password, and the chances of guessing it is 1/100,000.
This is what I've always wondered. It's been alluded to here, but I haven't seen anyone really answer the question: Who the hell says, "Well, I'm not going to go the the theater or rent/buy a DVD because I can get a shitty copy made with a goddamned hand camera at a theater for free?" It's like deciding not to go out to eat because you can find something edible in a dumpster. How does this lose the industry money?
I know the theme's been beaten to death, but I must make verse.
Enticed by music
Inhaled the greasy Big Mac
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People just freak out over RPN for no reason. I taught several college friends, none of whom were math wizards, about the joys of RPN and every one of them became hooked. RPN just seems backwards because everything is fed to us in a linear, "algebraic" way. But the fact is, RPN is actually much more intuitive once you get past the initial "wall." With RPN, you do calculations the way you would with a pencil and paper - or in your head: Break the problem into chunks so you get intermediate values, then operate on those intermediate values, and so on until you're done.
Just starting at the left and working your way to the right, all the while keeping track of parentheses is NOT intuitive. It's just familiar.
If you use OS X so much, why do you write MAC as if it were an acronym? It's just Mac. It's short for "Macintosh," see?
Why do so many people write MAC, but not WINDOWS, or LINUX? Maybe because it has 3 letters, like IBM?
Sorry to be snarky, man, but this drives me nuts.
OK. I just assumed that since you wrote this in a reply to my post, it was addressed to me.
I know I'm being trolled here, but I don't feel like putting up with this crap today. Forgive me, moderators.
If the relationship is healthy neither of you should have to sacrifice anything.
From this I can only conclude that you have never had a healthy relationship.
If you have to be gaming all the time, as you say, it's time to grow up.
In short, fuck you and your mother. We are grown ups, the fact that we prefer Counter-Strike to football and budweiser or NASCAR doesnt change that.
Geez, you read a lot into what I said. If you have to be watching football or NASCAR or drinking Bud all the time, it's also time to grow up.
And if you can't just do a little, then maybe you should give it up all together.
So in your opinion he should give up something that makes him happy just to keep getting laid regularly?
I see the problem: lack of comprehension. Let me help: Did you see where I said "if you can't just do a little, then maybe you should give it up all together?" See, the IF and MAYBE indicate that this is a possibility he might consider.
That you seem to think the sole point of a relationship is getting laid further strengthens my suspicion that you've never had a healthy relationship.
This double standard makes my blood boil.
That's pretty potent for something you merely imagined. Maybe you could show me where I said that advice only applies to males? There isn't any? Goodness, it seems you pulled this double standard out of your hinder.
If this was a mundane woman talking about how her boyfriend gets angry because she spends too much time gardening or knitting people would be telling her to dump him for trying to control her. But since this is a man who wants to play video games, you and people like you are telling him that he has to change, grow up, compromise, sacrifice; things that no one would suggest if he had a different gender & hobby.
Bull Fucking SHIT! BOTH PARTIES have to compromise equally, and nothing I wrote even implies otherwise. You just made that up. What a fun game! Invent somebody else's opinion, then flame them for it!
It doesn't matter what the gender, or what the hobby. If you have to be playing with your hobby - ANY hobby - all the time, then you don't have time for a relationship. Fine. But you have to make a choice to either make compromises or forget the relationship. It may not have occurred to you, but when you spend all your time playing a game and ignoring this person you claim to have a relationship with, the relationship isn't really there, is it?
He didn't ask if you thought he should stop playing. If he does give up gaming entirely, he'll probably resent her for it.
I said he should cut back, and only suggested he consider giving up entirely if he can't manage anything but all or nothing. Did you give any consideration to reading what I wrote, then using your brain to parse the sentences and extract their actual meaning before jumping on the detonator? Guess not.
Why don't we try an experiment? You set yourself up with a girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever, then resolve NEVER to compromise. Make the ground rules clear: You do whatever you want, whenever you want, and if he/she doesn't like it, tough, you'll do what you want anyway. Report back later and tell us how it goes.
Why do i continuously see the argument, which equates gaming to being "non-adult" This is just plane bullshit and denotes the proponent of such as being small minded.
Thanks for the insult, but you aren't paying attention. I didn't say gaming was immature, I said compulsive "all the time" gaming is. I play video games. Where maturity comes in is realizing that you can't just play around all the time, whether it be video games or any other pastime.
Depends on what "cut back" means. If cut back means going from playing many hours a night, every night, to playing a few hours a week, I agree. However if cutting back means going from playing a few hours a week to nothing, then I think it's time to have a talk with the SO and maybe break up.
This is true. However, I surmised that the problem was of the first kind, given the questioner said:
"The problem some of us are running into is that our significant others aren't too happy with us gaming all the time."
I play some games, but nothing like a single young geek (I do not mean that unkindly) can. I have a PS2, and mainly play games that don't require hours and hours to have any fun, so RPGs are pretty much out for me. That's OK. I've found as I get older that I prefer drawing and painting for relaxation.
However, your point about moderation is a good one. You have the right to make some demands on your SO, but not to force said SO to give up something he/she loves (may not apply when that thing is heroin, affairs, serial killing, listening to Neil Diamond, and so on).
15 years of sacrifice seem like an awful long time...
Maybe you're just deliberately missing the point, but just in case...
It doesn't mean 15 years of sacrifice. It means that for 15 years, we both have made some sacrifices. For example, I don't go out with my friends every night like I used to. And sometimes I stay home so SHE can go out with friends. I don't even know what it would mean to be married without any sacrifices. That sounds like, "I'm doin' what I want, baby - if you don't like it, too bad."
Sorry if it sounds harsh, but the solution IS obvious: Cut back on the gaming. Perhaps way back. In a healthy relationship, you and your SO will give each other time to pursue your own interests, and you'll both sacrifice some personal time for the other. You can't be a compulsive gamer and have a healthy relationship.
If you have to be gaming all the time, as you say, it's time to grow up. And if you can't just do a little, then maybe you should give it up all together.
I've been married 15 years, and it's largely because my wife and I both make sacrifices. There's no getting around it. I hope you work things out for the best.
God DAMN, for ONCE in my life, I post drunk, and everyone gets their panties in a knot.
Thanks for the mulligan. I knew it would piss people off, but when you're an old fart like I am, you begin not to care.