You're right. Nerds shouldn't be informed of what goes on at a national level... it might involve them leaving their basements.
Come on, guys... this is important. This is important on the global scale. This is a little more important than Paris Hilton's CD being hijacked, or Yahoo doing stuff with it's e-mail.
If you let Bin Laden attack America, you can do ANYTHING YOU WANT after that! It's like a blank check! All you have to do is write "three thousand New Yorkers" on the second line, and "Pay To The Order Of Bin Laden / George Bush" up top. It's BULLETPROOF!
... personally I'd go with the ones that were actually good, not just 'good for their time'.
Let's face it, Go (the game with the board and the black and white discs) is way better than just about any of those games, but it doesn't seem to be on the list, despite coming out several hundred years earler and forever changing the Strategy Game genre. Everyone seems to be obsessed with "Alone in the Dark predates Resident Evil" or "Game Y predates Game X", and yet they only look as far back as their own childhoods.
Still, some games on the list are actually great games, so I give kudos to the people who can think about more than shiny swords and eight mighty bits.
Let's face it, the world is changing. Having our kids grow up like they used to fifty years ago might be a heartwarming prospect, but it might also be hamstringing them, considering people who grew up fifty years ago are, largely, having troubles adapting.
Can I ask why other countries are allowed nukes? Other non-brown countries? Other non-brown countries with questionable military policies and a history of bloody warfare, particularly civilian atrocities?
Once again, Wikipedia has proven that quantum information isn't worth the paper it's not even printed on. Wikipedia is 100% accurate, when taken from the standpoint of hindsight... all the information is accurate, depending on at what point in time the information is accessed. The information on your screen could be wrong at the moment you read it, but it could be right moments later. This is quantum knowledge, and it is only as flawless as the beings who designed it.
Oh my Gord, mod this guy up. The idea that someone on Slashdot has seen 'Good Morning, Vietnam' just makes me giggle like Garlic.
Also, as a structural engineer, I have to say something about the Taipei 101, and the forces that it is forcing into the crust of the Earth: This isn't even like a piece of straw breaking the camels back, because that's assuming that there's already straw there. The Taipei 101 may be a huge freaking building, but it weighs only about twice the weight of the fill that was REMOVED from the site. All calculations, therefore, must take into account that only HALF the weight of the building has been "added" to the region. Now, HALF the weight of the Taipei 101 weighs less than a fraction of a fraction of a percent of what the subtrata duirectly BENEATH the building weighs, let alone the weight distributaion angle of roughy 45 degrees radially outwards in all directions. The force is truly negligible when you consider the elastic modulus of a TECTONIC PLATE.
But that's just me. Maybe my degree doesn't mean anything in Taiwan. I'm sure they use different physics down there.
... but as always, scientists require PROOF before saying anything loud enough to be heard. How would you recommend getting more warm water? Maybe if you dump a bunch of X-Box 360's into the current, it'll heat right up again.
And all the sex-bot Yahoo ID's. I know for a fact there's 999,999 numerically-different variants of one particular name, because a friend of mine is responsible for all 999,999 of them, and he made quite a bit of cash at it. Had I the time, inclination, and lack of soul, I'd do that, too. I don't think adding 12 billion sites is TOO hard, considering the cappillary branching of some sites. My own website (not linked here for courtesy reasons) just from the way it's made, has over 700 end-result HTML pages, and I made it in a few days.
Let's see if Yahoo is more USEFUL than Google. That's kind of a better test than how many sites it has.
At my company (14 employees-ish) the budgest for IT is just "Find out what we need, buy it, and give us the reciepts". Seriously. Our IT guy just does what he has to, and justifies it when asked about it. If he can't justify it, he either gets limits on what he can spend next month, or it gets returned for something cheaper. With small companies with extremely variable budgets (months our company actually get PAID result in much higher IT purchases), it's best to take it one month at a time, and document reasons for EVERYTHING!
I don't know how successful they are at reproducing. Every ten minutes, Morgan Freeman finishes up a scene with "Not all will survive". Criminy, I don't know about the penguins, but I'd have shaved my feathers and moved to New Zealand by this point.
Yes, and this is nothing more than black-and-white segregist propaganda. Year after year, the younger penguins yearn to jump in the water and move to areas where it isn't cold enough to cause your eggs to explode if the wind hits them, and the older penguins just trot out this "We are so amazing, and brave, and we can't let the terrorizing weather win!" propaganda movies. I say, let my penguins go!
Stop confusing the gay-bashers with your heathen logic. They'll just start quoting the Bible, and when they do, WE start using circular reasoning to quote all those fun passages from Leviticus that are pro-murder and pro-rape.
That way, we all stagnate, and the human race dies out because no-one can shut the hell up.:) YayyyyyY! The penguins win! The penguins win!
Although, naturally, the aliens are pure speculative fiction, the things that the aliens and humans discuss are actually true, and the first half of this book, before the terrorists, is very well-designed, and converted me, an apathetic Deist, to someone who does not dismiss Intelligent Design, and actually argues it with his more "chemical chance" oriented friends.
Good book, highly recommended for ANYONE, even people who won't be swayed.
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Come on, guys... this is important. This is important on the global scale. This is a little more important than Paris Hilton's CD being hijacked, or Yahoo doing stuff with it's e-mail.
This is important.
If you let Bin Laden attack America, you can do ANYTHING YOU WANT after that! It's like a blank check! All you have to do is write "three thousand New Yorkers" on the second line, and "Pay To The Order Of Bin Laden / George Bush" up top. It's BULLETPROOF!
... personally I'd go with the ones that were actually good, not just 'good for their time'. Let's face it, Go (the game with the board and the black and white discs) is way better than just about any of those games, but it doesn't seem to be on the list, despite coming out several hundred years earler and forever changing the Strategy Game genre. Everyone seems to be obsessed with "Alone in the Dark predates Resident Evil" or "Game Y predates Game X", and yet they only look as far back as their own childhoods. Still, some games on the list are actually great games, so I give kudos to the people who can think about more than shiny swords and eight mighty bits.
.... "Is it a bad thing?"
Let's face it, the world is changing. Having our kids grow up like they used to fifty years ago might be a heartwarming prospect, but it might also be hamstringing them, considering people who grew up fifty years ago are, largely, having troubles adapting.
So.... is it bad that they're changing?
Uhm... do you watch the Presidential Speeches? He's on the news every day praising the destruction of other countries.
He used to suck dick for coke! I seen him! (Do not mod me down unless you've even SEEN the movie I'm quoting.)
Can I ask why other countries are allowed nukes? Other non-brown countries? Other non-brown countries with questionable military policies and a history of bloody warfare, particularly civilian atrocities?
Marry me.
That made me proud to be able to read your language. *sniff*
*excerpted from his notes* eegreejee-uss (this word means 'bad')
You keep using that word... I do not think it means what you think it means.
The President said "egregious"? I don't buy it...
Once again, Wikipedia has proven that quantum information isn't worth the paper it's not even printed on. Wikipedia is 100% accurate, when taken from the standpoint of hindsight... all the information is accurate, depending on at what point in time the information is accessed. The information on your screen could be wrong at the moment you read it, but it could be right moments later. This is quantum knowledge, and it is only as flawless as the beings who designed it.
Ewwwwww.....
Oh my Gord, mod this guy up. The idea that someone on Slashdot has seen 'Good Morning, Vietnam' just makes me giggle like Garlic. Also, as a structural engineer, I have to say something about the Taipei 101, and the forces that it is forcing into the crust of the Earth: This isn't even like a piece of straw breaking the camels back, because that's assuming that there's already straw there. The Taipei 101 may be a huge freaking building, but it weighs only about twice the weight of the fill that was REMOVED from the site. All calculations, therefore, must take into account that only HALF the weight of the building has been "added" to the region. Now, HALF the weight of the Taipei 101 weighs less than a fraction of a fraction of a percent of what the subtrata duirectly BENEATH the building weighs, let alone the weight distributaion angle of roughy 45 degrees radially outwards in all directions. The force is truly negligible when you consider the elastic modulus of a TECTONIC PLATE. But that's just me. Maybe my degree doesn't mean anything in Taiwan. I'm sure they use different physics down there.
... but as always, scientists require PROOF before saying anything loud enough to be heard. How would you recommend getting more warm water? Maybe if you dump a bunch of X-Box 360's into the current, it'll heat right up again.
I hate when the government rezones things without enough of a warning!
And all the sex-bot Yahoo ID's. I know for a fact there's 999,999 numerically-different variants of one particular name, because a friend of mine is responsible for all 999,999 of them, and he made quite a bit of cash at it. Had I the time, inclination, and lack of soul, I'd do that, too. I don't think adding 12 billion sites is TOO hard, considering the cappillary branching of some sites. My own website (not linked here for courtesy reasons) just from the way it's made, has over 700 end-result HTML pages, and I made it in a few days. Let's see if Yahoo is more USEFUL than Google. That's kind of a better test than how many sites it has.
At my company (14 employees-ish) the budgest for IT is just "Find out what we need, buy it, and give us the reciepts". Seriously. Our IT guy just does what he has to, and justifies it when asked about it. If he can't justify it, he either gets limits on what he can spend next month, or it gets returned for something cheaper. With small companies with extremely variable budgets (months our company actually get PAID result in much higher IT purchases), it's best to take it one month at a time, and document reasons for EVERYTHING!
I don't know how successful they are at reproducing. Every ten minutes, Morgan Freeman finishes up a scene with "Not all will survive". Criminy, I don't know about the penguins, but I'd have shaved my feathers and moved to New Zealand by this point.
Yes, and this is nothing more than black-and-white segregist propaganda. Year after year, the younger penguins yearn to jump in the water and move to areas where it isn't cold enough to cause your eggs to explode if the wind hits them, and the older penguins just trot out this "We are so amazing, and brave, and we can't let the terrorizing weather win!" propaganda movies. I say, let my penguins go!
Check IMDB... females 19 to 29 gave it the highest ratings. To get some penguin lovin' from your lady friend, take her to see this!
Stop confusing the gay-bashers with your heathen logic. They'll just start quoting the Bible, and when they do, WE start using circular reasoning to quote all those fun passages from Leviticus that are pro-murder and pro-rape. That way, we all stagnate, and the human race dies out because no-one can shut the hell up. :) YayyyyyY! The penguins win! The penguins win!
I am half-ashamed, half-impressed to say that this book, actually, although not entirely, converted me to the camp of "Intelligent Design".
Calculating God
Although, naturally, the aliens are pure speculative fiction, the things that the aliens and humans discuss are actually true, and the first half of this book, before the terrorists, is very well-designed, and converted me, an apathetic Deist, to someone who does not dismiss Intelligent Design, and actually argues it with his more "chemical chance" oriented friends.
Good book, highly recommended for ANYONE, even people who won't be swayed.
I don't find her attractive as a woman. I guess she's a passable looking man in drag, but I'm more into people who were born with two X chromosomes.