"It doesn’t matter who you are, or what you’ve done, or think you can do. There’s a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chilli you cannot eat."
I'm a paying customer and I have the right to bitch, complain and moan all I want. I spent money, not to mention time and mental energy, on Martin's books and I certainly wouldn't have done so if I didn't feel that there was at least an implicit promise that he would make a reasonable effort to finish the series and not leave me hanging out to dry with a thousand cliffhangers.
I understand about missing deadlines and writers block and all that. But if you can't write, then at least shut up about it, for Ghu's sake. Don't tease me with updates about writing and the possible finish of the book and then go, "Oh well, didn't finish. Off to Spain for a month".
It's not like I've been hanging around, doing nothing, waiting for the next book to come out. In the time since Feast Of Crows came out I've managed to get married, have a daughter, buy a house and do a lot of other cool and interesting things. Still, I check in on the GRRM site every couple months and I am happy to bitch about the subject when it comes up in conversation or online.
Developing for IOS has been a crap shoot from jump street. Apple has always retained the right to deny an app access to or remove it from the App Store for any reason...or for no reason at all. You could easily put a ton of time, money and energy into developing an iDevice app just to have Apple slam the door in your face without apology or explanation.
There's a lot of money to be made by working in Apple's walled garden, but the risk that you piss off the beast and get eaten has always been there.
Really, because I'd never consider drugging my child to make her more compliant. Well...maybe I'd consider it, but I'd never do it.
I could certainly see my daughter having a freak out from that kind of treatment, which means that we're not planning to fly for some time unless they get this nonsense sorted out. Maybe if the airlines see passenger levels drop and drop they'll put pressure on the TSA to fix their shit.
I was working the overnight shift, not much to do, and they had just gotten a new PC for the computer room. It had a big, 17 inch monitor, a zippy 486 under the hood and even a decent sound card. I downloaded the game, put it on a floppy and told my guys to watch the control room while I went upstairs for a bit.
I popped the disk in and started up the game. I remember how immersive it felt, the sound, the three D graphics. I really felt like I was part of the game. Three in the morning, all alone in the computer room, the growls of demons in my ears...it was pretty damn freaky.
This table presents some of the many hundreds of scholars working in scientific research on climate change and related fields. The list incorporates all 619 names of the contributing authors to the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), working group 1: the scientific basis ('wg1'). A few names have also been tagged for other contributions to the IPCC, either to other workging groups or to prior reports (AR1-3), but I've only added a very few such cases that I've come across in passing.
Of course the world is getting warmer. It has been for the last ten thousand years. You know, since the end of the last ice age.
You know, there are thousands of climate scientists all over the world who have spent a good portion of their lives studying the effects of human activity on the Earth's climate. They have like, gone to school, studied this stuff and got their Phd's and shit.
Do you think that they didn't think of the fact that we're in a long-term warming trend and take that into account?
Very few books these days are printed on acid-free paper. In fact, the quality of books being printed today is pretty abyssmal. The odds that they'll last fifty years in a readable condition are not good.
...about the 27, 8x10, color, glossy photos with the circles and the arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining they were to be used against them.
Having grown up in upstate NY, there's also a knee jerk reaction to having to contribute anything which would help New York City more than it would the locals. Over the past 50 years, NTC has usually recieved much more in benefits than it has paid back in taxes to the rest of the state. Upstate NY has been shafted many times and lots of people feel resentment.
Right. Because we all know that it's the firehose of tax money from rural upstaters that's keeping Manhattan solvent.
It's nonsense. New York City pays more much more in taxes to the state than it gets back in services and the surplus goes to thee poorer, rural areas of upstate New York. You're all nothing more than welfare queens in bib overalls.
JMS dumped O'Hare because the studio wanted a bigger name as the lead actor. Straz lied about this, long and repeatedly, saying that this was something that came organically out of his writing.
Most likely the "great ending" that JMS bragged about was the B4 two-parter where Sinclair becomes a Minbari and goes back in time. It certainly would have made a far superior denoumount than the nonsense we actually got.
It's down in my basement. It came with the house, actually. Since every other phone in the house requires A/C to function, it's useful to have around for power outages and such.
Diesel vehicles engines more than gasoline engines. At this time, there is no diesel passenger car available for sale in NY or CA due to this, although this might change with biodiesel or with lower sulfur diesel fuel (which may be more expensive)
Diesel engines are also more expensive to manufacture than gasoline engines.
Diesel may be a good option to consider, but like the man said TANSTAAFL.
I'm sorry, you seem to be missing the point. If there is no physical property involved you can't own it. Are you new here or something? Its taken me a while but I'm fully with the program now. Just to make everything clear:
Yes, very amusing. Well, you're either too stupid to understand the arguments with respect to IP infringment versus theft, or you're a troll. I'd give you the benefit of the doubt and assume the latter, but unfortunately it's likely the former and you really think what you've just said is witty and insightful instead of moronic.
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"It doesn’t matter who you are, or what you’ve done, or think you can do. There’s a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chilli you cannot eat."
-- Daniel Pinkwater, A Hot Time in Nairobi
I want to go to the moon, salvage all the junk that's up there, bring it back, sell it.
I'm a paying customer and I have the right to bitch, complain and moan all I want. I spent money, not to mention time and mental energy, on Martin's books and I certainly wouldn't have done so if I didn't feel that there was at least an implicit promise that he would make a reasonable effort to finish the series and not leave me hanging out to dry with a thousand cliffhangers.
I understand about missing deadlines and writers block and all that. But if you can't write, then at least shut up about it, for Ghu's sake. Don't tease me with updates about writing and the possible finish of the book and then go, "Oh well, didn't finish. Off to Spain for a month".
It's not like I've been hanging around, doing nothing, waiting for the next book to come out. In the time since Feast Of Crows came out I've managed to get married, have a daughter, buy a house and do a lot of other cool and interesting things. Still, I check in on the GRRM site every couple months and I am happy to bitch about the subject when it comes up in conversation or online.
They're just figuring this out now?
Developing for IOS has been a crap shoot from jump street. Apple has always retained the right to deny an app access to or remove it from the App Store for any reason...or for no reason at all. You could easily put a ton of time, money and energy into developing an iDevice app just to have Apple slam the door in your face without apology or explanation.
There's a lot of money to be made by working in Apple's walled garden, but the risk that you piss off the beast and get eaten has always been there.
Really, because I'd never consider drugging my child to make her more compliant. Well...maybe I'd consider it, but I'd never do it.
I could certainly see my daughter having a freak out from that kind of treatment, which means that we're not planning to fly for some time unless they get this nonsense sorted out. Maybe if the airlines see passenger levels drop and drop they'll put pressure on the TSA to fix their shit.
I was working the overnight shift, not much to do, and they had just gotten a new PC for the computer room. It had a big, 17 inch monitor, a zippy 486 under the hood and even a decent sound card. I downloaded the game, put it on a floppy and told my guys to watch the control room while I went upstairs for a bit.
I popped the disk in and started up the game. I remember how immersive it felt, the sound, the three D graphics. I really felt like I was part of the game. Three in the morning, all alone in the computer room, the growls of demons in my ears...it was pretty damn freaky.
...have been clamoring for a Zune Phone. AmIRight?
Most-Cited Authors on Climate Science
You know, there are thousands of climate scientists all over the world who have spent a good portion of their lives studying the effects of human activity on the Earth's climate. They have like, gone to school, studied this stuff and got their Phd's and shit. Do you think that they didn't think of the fact that we're in a long-term warming trend and take that into account?
Seriously, enough of this shit already.
He must be related to Mr Smokestoomuch
A a broad-featured, portable computing device...that you can't buy software for. Yes, good luck with that.
That's silly. Everyone knows that Conclusions isn't a mat. It's an island.
Very few books these days are printed on acid-free paper. In fact, the quality of books being printed today is pretty abyssmal. The odds that they'll last fifty years in a readable condition are not good.
Of course, there's no major weapons work going on at BNL. At least, none that I know of.
...about the 27, 8x10, color, glossy photos with the circles and the arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining they were to be used against them.
Right. Because we all know that it's the firehose of tax money from rural upstaters that's keeping Manhattan solvent.
It's nonsense. New York City pays more much more in taxes to the state than it gets back in services and the surplus goes to thee poorer, rural areas of upstate New York. You're all nothing more than welfare queens in bib overalls.
You could make a movie about Beren and Luthien, putting in just enough back story to make it comprehensible.
JMS dumped O'Hare because the studio wanted a bigger name as the lead actor. Straz lied about this, long and repeatedly, saying that this was something that came organically out of his writing. Most likely the "great ending" that JMS bragged about was the B4 two-parter where Sinclair becomes a Minbari and goes back in time. It certainly would have made a far superior denoumount than the nonsense we actually got.
It's down in my basement. It came with the house, actually. Since every other phone in the house requires A/C to function, it's useful to have around for power outages and such.
I certainly see the value of the tool, but is it really such a unique invention?
...based on weight considerations.
Diesel engines are also more expensive to manufacture than gasoline engines.
Diesel may be a good option to consider, but like the man said TANSTAAFL.
Not surprisingly, you've misused this fallacy. But let's go with that, shall we?
From your linked site:
So what is your additional option? By the way, I think the page you really need to read is this one
Yes, very amusing. Well, you're either too stupid to understand the arguments with respect to IP infringment versus theft, or you're a troll. I'd give you the benefit of the doubt and assume the latter, but unfortunately it's likely the former and you really think what you've just said is witty and insightful instead of moronic.
It's sad, really.