Yeah, but there's even been efforts made to show why Sabretooth is the way he is. He was at Xavier's for a while after Wolverine put a claw through his brain. While his mind healed, they got a good look at just how fscked up his view of the world is. Xavier was trying to help him, and Sabretooth was doing the "I want you to help me, but I won't admit it" bit. New writer didn't feel like continuing with the plotline, had him trick Boomer (Meltdown, whatever) into letting him loose, at which point he gutted Psylocke and got away... (And then they had a cool, well-written death where he forced Jean to kill him. Marvel made the writer leave an out, so he didn't really die, but it was still cool)
Hnnn. Let's just use the english. Or better yet, just go with DWAF... Maybe DFAW (fire and water sounds better than water and fire, I think its a syllable count thing). Acronyms and english I can remember, latin... not so much.
See, now this is one of the biggest things about the American political system that I don't understand. What are the rules regarding these 'riders'? Why don't they seem to require to bear some relation to main bill? What was the reason for creating such a nasty tool? The only use I can see is to make a bill so unpalatable that it either won't get out of Congress, or that the President won't pass it (and can then be made to look like a bad guy), or to get bad laws through the system by adding them to unrelated, possibly good, laws.
Well, maybe I didn't get far enough through to find a shortcut... Like I said, I couldn't tell how far in I was. (They don't have the rooms in a nice linear order so you can try to guesstimate either.)
Wasn't this the reason that all the species in star trek are humanoid? Bunch of artificial chromosomes that influenced evolution, and stored a star map?
Home Depot's got nothing on Ikea. HD's got aisles, all neat and orderly, so if you want to leave, you can easily trek towards the quarter-mile distant doorway. Last time I went to an Ikea though, it was like this long series of connected rooms, each with its own category of products. There didn't seem to be any way to get through other than going room-by-room, and after I found the stuff I was looking for, I wasn't even sure which end of the path would be closer...
Hmm, one of the main reasons I thought of Macs as toys back in High School (now I just don't think about them at all;) was because of the lack of access...
Well, I don't know much about ants, but I suppose that like many insects, they do thrive nearly everywhere... I think they do modify their environment (which is at a whole different scale than ours, even if one only considers the difference in size, we have much bigger areas of effect.) They make their colonies (which are pretty impressive engineering projects), cart food and materials all over the place, and act in an organized manner to defend (and conquer, I expect) territory from other species. On the other hand, they haven't figured out how to make tools quite yet. Which still leaves individual populations pretty much screwed if their local environment changes too drastically... River floods; ant colony drowns; human city evacuates, then the people return later. Ants have managed to spread over the globe simply by force of numbers. When a population gets wiped out (which would be quite often), a more successful one eventually sends out a new group to replace it. Human populations are often reduced, but rarely completely destroyed, due to a greater ability to adapt to changing situations. It would take a far more dramatic change, and it would have to happen far faster, to kill a human population than to kill an ant population...
I really don't see how more propietary software is the best solution to the horrible mess you have described here. Proper standards and well written software that uses them would be preferable. MS fixed the mess by removing the market entirely, rather than by making the products with the best price\quality ratio in these markets. Integration makes for an easier computer enviroment, but I don't see how it has made for a better one. I would rather have companies that offer packages with components that they know will work well together, and the ability to change component x if I so desire, confident that a component that doesn't properly meet the standards will not survive long. (Embrace & Extend wouldn't work in a properly competitive environment with open standards.)
If you listen very closely to what the Agent told Morpheous in "The Matrix", you will find the truth about our species...
Bah. That idea (and it isn't exactly original to A. Smith, is, well, fucked. "Other" species don't naturally achieve equilibrium, they do the same thing we do: they consume resources (food sources) and reproduce as much as possible. There's no such thing as equilibrium in nature. Different populations are always on the rise or on the decline. If a population's environment changes (for the worse) too rapidly, it may well die out. (and the same can happen to an entire species if all the populations die off together.) Improved environment will allow the population to thrive. Humans are far more adaptable and creative than any other species, and have spread across the globe, altering environments to suit our immediate needs. (and altering them for the worse over the not-so-immediate term) Maybe we'll wind up killing off too much of the other life on the planet, and wind up extinct ourselves, but its the same thing that any other species does, just on a global scale.
I always wondered about students in the 'hard' (read: not watered down to the point where the children of siblings can pass) math classes who couldn't figure out their damned calculators on their own. I mean, if you can't rtfm for yourself, how do you expect to get through a class that requires actual thought?
Oh god... I remember using that in 4th grade... Up until then, I though that the other classes were the height of boredom... Elementary school has enough 'art class' (read: busy work) as it is without wasting what computer exposure they get by making them 'draw' in a very roundabout way...
That reminds me of a Dilbert strip from years ago.
"That's $4.82" "For simplicity's sake, I'll just give you $5.07" (or something to that effect)
I do this fairly often, because I hate change smaller than quarters. Sometimes I almost feel sorry for the dropout standing there with an amazed look on their face when the display tells them they owe me a quarter...
Automated change dispensers? Haven't seen one of those yet... Probably save the company money though... I just wound up with about a buck of extra change from a $20 because I got the teller to give me 4 loonies and a couple of quarters in my change (laundry sucks)...
Damn it, I never have mod points when I want them. This is something I got into a bit of a "discussion" with a friend over. Context matters. One has to consider the source of the statement when one thinks about a statement. Likewise a speaker should consider the subject and adjust word choice accordingly to ensure that their intended meaning is the one that comes across. (e.g. British goons and American goons will react differently if you ask them where you can get a fag...)
Well, I didn't consider it a perfect analagy (hence the paranthetical statement), but I meant that the tools that MS hands out cheap was the "first hit" because they figure that these people would be interested in buying other things, like the OS ("the second hit") once they get "hooked" (used to) said tools.
Maybe in your school system, but they still keep calculators in junior high around here, and the idea is for the kids to use them for the mundane, but time consuming tasks that they should already be capable of (like dividing 37.6 into 42965.4, for example), so that they can concentrate on the important part, which is learning the algebra. (Or trig, or calculus, whatever level they're at)
I still could write a paper without a word processor, but it'd take me longer, and I'd edit a lot less. (and it'd be hard to read. my penmanship has gone to hell in the last six years, since I hardly ever write anything of any length by hand anymore...)
What, are you saying people don't generally know that CSIS is respected enough that they frequently train foriegn agents in their facilities here in Canada?
And this surprises you? How many 'soverign' nations does the US have military stationed in, on a temporary or permanant basis? I question the equality of any relationship that involves "you let us keep a lot of men with large guns, and military vehicles in your nation, or we won't play nice economicly with you."
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Yeah, but there's even been efforts made to show why Sabretooth is the way he is. He was at Xavier's for a while after Wolverine put a claw through his brain. While his mind healed, they got a good look at just how fscked up his view of the world is. Xavier was trying to help him, and Sabretooth was doing the "I want you to help me, but I won't admit it" bit. New writer didn't feel like continuing with the plotline, had him trick Boomer (Meltdown, whatever) into letting him loose, at which point he gutted Psylocke and got away... (And then they had a cool, well-written death where he forced Jean to kill him. Marvel made the writer leave an out, so he didn't really die, but it was still cool)
For all the sense that makes. Seemed very strange to me the first time I heard the name spoken aloud (after having read it the name for years prior)
Hnnn. Let's just use the english. Or better yet, just go with DWAF... Maybe DFAW (fire and water sounds better than water and fire, I think its a syllable count thing). Acronyms and english I can remember, latin... not so much.
We don't put people in jail for having AIDS, do we?
No, but I'm sure there's lots of people who would seriously consider "quarantine camps" for HIV victims.
See, now this is one of the biggest things about the American political system that I don't understand. What are the rules regarding these 'riders'? Why don't they seem to require to bear some relation to main bill? What was the reason for creating such a nasty tool? The only use I can see is to make a bill so unpalatable that it either won't get out of Congress, or that the President won't pass it (and can then be made to look like a bad guy), or to get bad laws through the system by adding them to unrelated, possibly good, laws.
I kind of thought it was something of an implied threat. As in, "you're not going to live either"
Nice to see that some AC's can grasp irony...
Well, maybe I didn't get far enough through to find a shortcut... Like I said, I couldn't tell how far in I was. (They don't have the rooms in a nice linear order so you can try to guesstimate either.)
Wasn't this the reason that all the species in star trek are humanoid? Bunch of artificial chromosomes that influenced evolution, and stored a star map?
I don't know. Unexpectedly open windows in their high-rise offices seems like a good thing to expose them too as well...
Home Depot's got nothing on Ikea. HD's got aisles, all neat and orderly, so if you want to leave, you can easily trek towards the quarter-mile distant doorway. Last time I went to an Ikea though, it was like this long series of connected rooms, each with its own category of products. There didn't seem to be any way to get through other than going room-by-room, and after I found the stuff I was looking for, I wasn't even sure which end of the path would be closer...
Hmm, one of the main reasons I thought of Macs as toys back in High School (now I just don't think about them at all ;) was because of the lack of access...
Well, I don't know much about ants, but I suppose that like many insects, they do thrive nearly everywhere... I think they do modify their environment (which is at a whole different scale than ours, even if one only considers the difference in size, we have much bigger areas of effect.) They make their colonies (which are pretty impressive engineering projects), cart food and materials all over the place, and act in an organized manner to defend (and conquer, I expect) territory from other species. On the other hand, they haven't figured out how to make tools quite yet. Which still leaves individual populations pretty much screwed if their local environment changes too drastically... River floods; ant colony drowns; human city evacuates, then the people return later. Ants have managed to spread over the globe simply by force of numbers. When a population gets wiped out (which would be quite often), a more successful one eventually sends out a new group to replace it. Human populations are often reduced, but rarely completely destroyed, due to a greater ability to adapt to changing situations. It would take a far more dramatic change, and it would have to happen far faster, to kill a human population than to kill an ant population...
I really don't see how more propietary software is the best solution to the horrible mess you have described here. Proper standards and well written software that uses them would be preferable. MS fixed the mess by removing the market entirely, rather than by making the products with the best price\quality ratio in these markets.
Integration makes for an easier computer enviroment, but I don't see how it has made for a better one. I would rather have companies that offer packages with components that they know will work well together, and the ability to change component x if I so desire, confident that a component that doesn't properly meet the standards will not survive long. (Embrace & Extend wouldn't work in a properly competitive environment with open standards.)
If you listen very closely to what the Agent told Morpheous in "The Matrix", you will find the truth about our species...
Bah. That idea (and it isn't exactly original to A. Smith, is, well, fucked. "Other" species don't naturally achieve equilibrium, they do the same thing we do: they consume resources (food sources) and reproduce as much as possible. There's no such thing as equilibrium in nature. Different populations are always on the rise or on the decline. If a population's environment changes (for the worse) too rapidly, it may well die out. (and the same can happen to an entire species if all the populations die off together.) Improved environment will allow the population to thrive. Humans are far more adaptable and creative than any other species, and have spread across the globe, altering environments to suit our immediate needs. (and altering them for the worse over the not-so-immediate term) Maybe we'll wind up killing off too much of the other life on the planet, and wind up extinct ourselves, but its the same thing that any other species does, just on a global scale.
I always wondered about students in the 'hard' (read: not watered down to the point where the children of siblings can pass) math classes who couldn't figure out their damned calculators on their own. I mean, if you can't rtfm for yourself, how do you expect to get through a class that requires actual thought?
Oh god... I remember using that in 4th grade... Up until then, I though that the other classes were the height of boredom... Elementary school has enough 'art class' (read: busy work) as it is without wasting what computer exposure they get by making them 'draw' in a very roundabout way...
That reminds me of a Dilbert strip from years ago.
"That's $4.82"
"For simplicity's sake, I'll just give you $5.07" (or something to that effect)
I do this fairly often, because I hate change smaller than quarters. Sometimes I almost feel sorry for the dropout standing there with an amazed look on their face when the display tells them they owe me a quarter...
Automated change dispensers? Haven't seen one of those yet... Probably save the company money though... I just wound up with about a buck of extra change from a $20 because I got the teller to give me 4 loonies and a couple of quarters in my change (laundry sucks)...
Damn it, I never have mod points when I want them. This is something I got into a bit of a "discussion" with a friend over. Context matters. One has to consider the source of the statement when one thinks about a statement. Likewise a speaker should consider the subject and adjust word choice accordingly to ensure that their intended meaning is the one that comes across. (e.g. British goons and American goons will react differently if you ask them where you can get a fag...)
Well, I didn't consider it a perfect analagy (hence the paranthetical statement), but I meant that the tools that MS hands out cheap was the "first hit" because they figure that these people would be interested in buying other things, like the OS ("the second hit") once they get "hooked" (used to) said tools.
Maybe in your school system, but they still keep calculators in junior high around here, and the idea is for the kids to use them for the mundane, but time consuming tasks that they should already be capable of (like dividing 37.6 into 42965.4, for example), so that they can concentrate on the important part, which is learning the algebra. (Or trig, or calculus, whatever level they're at)
I still could write a paper without a word processor, but it'd take me longer, and I'd edit a lot less. (and it'd be hard to read. my penmanship has gone to hell in the last six years, since I hardly ever write anything of any length by hand anymore...)
Which is why they were willing to license DOS instead of buying it, is it not?
What, are you saying people don't generally know that CSIS is respected enough that they frequently train foriegn agents in their facilities here in Canada?
And this surprises you? How many 'soverign' nations does the US have military stationed in, on a temporary or permanant basis? I question the equality of any relationship that involves "you let us keep a lot of men with large guns, and military vehicles in your nation, or we won't play nice economicly with you."