Another thing the search engines could do is figure out how to ignore "trolling" pages. i.e. those which are nothing but index spam, a catchy title, and a refresh tag to ship your browser off to fetch their actual main page Right on! Nothing burns me more than to see the 'enter here' page when I go to a site. Some flash or other animation or some huge graphic that loads up, and then either sits there, forcing you to 'click to enter' or redirects you to the rest of the site, which is where I wanted to be in the first place...what purpose does that serve? Oh, sorry, it impressed the client you built the page for. (I will admit I have done this once or twice, but not until after trying to talk them out of it.)
As far as searches, I agree that we need a new standard, one that is not only intelligent and dynamic, but that can outwit those who try to trick it. I believe that's quite a way off... until then I'll keep reading/. and Search Engine Watch.
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They now make cell phones that have a headset that plugs into the base unit. There's no need to keep the antenna next to your brain.
Yeah, okay I dig, but the whole purpose of having a cell phone is so that you can be MOBILE, right? (Maybe I'm missing something, I don't own one, and really don't want to.) Carrying around a base unit doesn't sound like an alternative many people would jump on...
Also, my two cents about teens with cell phones - it has been my experience that they are used 99% of the time for calling their friends, who may be no further away than the next room. It's a toy. Sigh...and I thought my remote control Barbie Corvette was cool...
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I believe in the power of the system, too, just don't have much faith in the people running it. It will be interesting to see how this plays out...poor Internet, he gets blamed for so much, seems he's always causing trouble!;-) The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
..you're assuming that everyone believes in Heaven and Hell.
A great number of us don't. So, by that token, YOU think we'll all end up in Hell. No one can say who's right or wrong, so why waste precious time arguing over where we're going to end up? We'll find out soon enough, eh?
So, back to the game...I am still laughing my ass off at it. And at most of these postings.:-P
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Sorry if I got your dander up.... is it really that difficult to adopt? Wow, I was under the (false, I gather) impression that there were orphanages overflowing with crack babies and such. You read all this stuff about teen pregnancy, etc., I guess I wandered into unfamiliar territory without thinking.
And for the other questions, no, no circumcision and yes, appendix out IF they had appendicitis, which is obviously serious. But I still have mine.:-) The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Not to pick on you specifically - this is a general rant.
Basically we've already decided that it's okay to modify ourselves and our children. How far it goes will be the question...
Who's we?
I don't have kids, but if I did, there's no way in hell I would let my daughter get breast implants or my son get a nose job. It all comes down to vanity. Now when you start playing with genes, saying, 'I want my kid to be good at math' that bothers me, too, because I believe that we are who we are for a reason. Whatever hardships we have change us, make us stronger...and if they kill us, well, that's Nature's Way of thinning the herd. People who spend thousands of dollars trying to have kids piss me off. You don't have such special 'genes' that you can't adopt some kid who needs a home and give them your precious family name.
Sheesh, I got a little hot under the collar there. I guess I just feel that humans are so presumptuous, we think we know best in all situations...we don't.
I'll end with a quote from the Animaniacs: "It's a great big Universe, and we're all really puny - just a tiny little speck about the size of Mickey Rooney..." The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
For the children: I agree with Hard_Code, it is up to the parents to monitor what their kids do, not the game industry, not the schools, not the government, ad infinitum... I often point out the medical 'fact' (can't remember where I heard this, maybe it's an urban myth) that the chemical/hormonal soup in kids prior to age 9-13 is equivalent to an adult on acid. If you watch kids play, thinking, 'hey, they're tripping!', it makes perfect sense.:-) But I digress...
My question for the Guru: I consider myself a pretty savvy chick - I played Q3 test on a Linux machine, I know, no big deal for most of the guys on/.:-) Has it been your experience that the types of women/girls who play games like Quake are generally more knowledgable about computers? I would certainly (but humbly) place myself higher on the tech ladder than a doughy secretary who thinks the ultimate computer game is Solitaire... The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I agree in a sense with this, but only as relates to mindless dogma. The big sham sects will fade out, but not without a fight. I remember a trial in Mississippi where a woman complained about the public school having morning prayer over the intercom, and the religious freaks in the town used a rally cry of 'religious freedom' to defend themselves. !?!
I am all for the scrutinistic dissection of religions, but to say that ALL religion will fade away, no, I don't think so. Look at the rise in Goddess worship and earth-centered religions. I would say let Pagans inherit the earth, they'll certainly take better care of it.:-) The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Well, it may be true that girls are pushed towards the flowery tea party type games when young, but that doesn't mean they have the market cornered on socialization. There're a LOT of guys here, right? By posting comments and asking questions, you GUYS are socializing in much the same way as girls do, only using computer stuff as your interface for conversation. Local user's groups and LAN parties, hello!!!:-) I think there are still al lot of gender role issues being worked out in teh engineering/compsci fields, but they are fading fast. There's MONEY to be made online, and greed knows no gender boundaries.:-) The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Given, they have a tough job. So what, they get paid to work like dogs, they aren't a chain gang for crying out loud.
Around here, they put commercials on tv all the time saying, "before you dig, call Miss Utility" and flash an 800 number. So you mean all us yokels have to check in with the utility folks but the utility folks don't have to check themselves?
Sure accidents happen, but I can't see a public utility diggin around and not knowing where their own lines are. Sheesh.:-)
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Those who use will use to excess Right, just like drunk drivers.:-) Wake up, man. Alcohol is more harmful to your body, more addictive and the cause of more deaths per year than pot could ever be. The War on Drugs would HAVE to include alcohol or it becomes a joke. Oh wait, it IS a joke. Sheesh. The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
There are too many 'nuclear families' who VOTE and BITCH enough with their damn churches behind them for us to convince the big companies not to play along with this. And of course, why would NBC or Nike or whoever want to oppose something that was meant to 'protect the children'? It would be suicide. I can only pray the underground hackers and crackers can f**k it up somehow.:-) I cuss and talk about sex on my site and I'm proud of it!!!! The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
My question is how do they (or do they even NEED to?) convert their ADP machines? My company has been dealing with a large dealership out here and we've been trying to convince them to have their own inventory server in the dealership, but we run into a brick wall when trying to convert the ADP stuff...although I think that has more to do with the actual code conversion than the hardware/software/OS... The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
It's soooo nice to see fellow earth children pop their heads up like prairie dogs whenever we are misrepresented. You all beat me to it.:-) Yes, it's a new moon, so where will I be? At band practice with our new guitarist and new percussion guy! New beginnings, wee! Y2K riots will be fun to watch while astrally projecting myself over New York City. LOL
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Oh, damn. Excuse me. How silly of me to think in REAL chronological time instead of the Star Wars Universe FICTIONAL time. However, I never turn down a good flogging.;-)
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
What about having installed cameras, identifiying most everybody who walks by (OK, it's a bit difficult...)?
Ever been in a Wal-Mart?:-) Seriously, on the corner by the post office downtown where I live there are two cameras 'hidden' in black globes meant to look like a street lamp. Now are they there for the security of the postal workers or...? The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Indeed, having been in numerous fiction workshops, I can attest that conversational writing is one of the hardest things for newbies. Lucas is not a newbie. The banter in the first 3 Star Wars films was made digestable by the chemistry between Luke, Leia and Han. I will wholeheartedly agree that dialog in Star Wars TPM was a sugary Disney-feeling made-my-skin-crawl experience. Having a 9-year old and a cartoon as main characters didn't help much. Yes, yes, mindless entertainment. It should have been marketed as mindless then. Like Spacballs...:-) The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
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Another thing the search engines could do is figure out how to ignore "trolling" pages. i.e. those which are nothing but index spam, a catchy title, and a refresh tag to ship your browser off to fetch their actual main page
/. and Search Engine Watch.
Right on! Nothing burns me more than to see the 'enter here' page when I go to a site. Some flash or other animation or some huge graphic that loads up, and then either sits there, forcing you to 'click to enter' or redirects you to the rest of the site, which is where I wanted to be in the first place...what purpose does that serve? Oh, sorry, it impressed the client you built the page for. (I will admit I have done this once or twice, but not until after trying to talk them out of it.)
As far as searches, I agree that we need a new standard, one that is not only intelligent and dynamic, but that can outwit those who try to trick it. I believe that's quite a way off... until then I'll keep reading
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Damn, I was wondering who that was...thought maybe it was somebody's mom...
:-)
I commend Comedy Central for the way they handled it
I agree.
I am REALLY not looking forward to the right-wing "I-told-you-so"s. Hmmm...I will sing the 'Uncle F*ckers' song in her honor.
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The ultimate security - I just REMEMBER them.
:-) Sort-of like license plates.
I try to make sentences with characters, like OU812.
Some of them can get pretty dirty, hehehe.
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They now make cell phones that have a headset that plugs into the base unit. There's no need to keep the antenna next to your brain.
Yeah, okay I dig, but the whole purpose of having a cell phone is so that you can be MOBILE, right? (Maybe I'm missing something, I don't own one, and really don't want to.) Carrying around a base unit doesn't sound like an alternative many people would jump on...
Also, my two cents about teens with cell phones - it has been my experience that they are used 99% of the time for calling their friends, who may be no further away than the next room. It's a toy. Sigh...and I thought my remote control Barbie Corvette was cool...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I believe in the power of the system, too, just don't have much faith in the people running it. ;-)
It will be interesting to see how this plays out...poor Internet, he gets blamed for so much, seems he's always causing trouble!
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."
- Susan Ertz
I must say this is a fascinating bit of news. Hooray for science!
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..you're assuming that everyone believes in Heaven and Hell.
:-P
A great number of us don't. So, by that token, YOU think we'll all end up in Hell. No one can say who's right or wrong, so why waste precious time arguing over where we're going to end up? We'll find out soon enough, eh?
So, back to the game...I am still laughing my ass off at it. And at most of these postings.
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Lumps?!!!
Crap, I just brewed a pot of Swiss Chocolate Almond, and now I'm feeling myself for lumps.
Wanna know the mystical secrets of caffiene? Come check out JavaScopes.
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Sorry if I got your dander up.... is it really that difficult to adopt? Wow, I was under the (false, I gather) impression that there were orphanages overflowing with crack babies and such. You read all this stuff about teen pregnancy, etc., I guess I wandered into unfamiliar territory without thinking.
:-)
And for the other questions, no, no circumcision and yes, appendix out IF they had appendicitis, which is obviously serious. But I still have mine.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Not to pick on you specifically - this is a general rant.
Basically we've already decided that it's okay to modify ourselves and our children. How far it goes will be the question...
Who's we?
I don't have kids, but if I did, there's no way in hell I would let my daughter get breast implants or my son get a nose job. It all comes down to vanity. Now when you start playing with genes, saying, 'I want my kid to be good at math' that bothers me, too, because I believe that we are who we are for a reason. Whatever hardships we have change us, make us stronger...and if they kill us, well, that's Nature's Way of thinning the herd. People who spend thousands of dollars trying to have kids piss me off. You don't have such special 'genes' that you can't adopt some kid who needs a home and give them your precious family name.
Sheesh, I got a little hot under the collar there. I guess I just feel that humans are so presumptuous, we think we know best in all situations...we don't.
I'll end with a quote from the Animaniacs:
"It's a great big Universe, and we're all really puny -
just a tiny little speck about the size of Mickey Rooney..."
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
For the children: I agree with Hard_Code, it is up to the parents to monitor what their kids do, not the game industry, not the schools, not the government, ad infinitum... :-) But I digress...
/. :-)
I often point out the medical 'fact' (can't remember where I heard this, maybe it's an urban myth) that the chemical/hormonal soup in kids prior to age 9-13 is equivalent to an adult on acid. If you watch kids play, thinking, 'hey, they're tripping!', it makes perfect sense.
My question for the Guru: I consider myself a pretty savvy chick - I played Q3 test on a Linux machine, I know, no big deal for most of the guys on
Has it been your experience that the types of women/girls who play games like Quake are generally more knowledgable about computers? I would certainly (but humbly) place myself higher on the tech ladder than a doughy secretary who thinks the ultimate computer game is Solitaire...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
The Great Shedding of Religion.
:-)
I agree in a sense with this, but only as relates to mindless dogma. The big sham sects will fade out, but not without a fight. I remember a trial in Mississippi where a woman complained about the public school having morning prayer over the intercom, and the religious freaks in the town used a rally cry of 'religious freedom' to defend themselves. !?!
I am all for the scrutinistic dissection of religions, but to say that ALL religion will fade away, no, I don't think so. Look at the rise in Goddess worship and earth-centered religions. I would say let Pagans inherit the earth, they'll certainly take better care of it.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Well, it may be true that girls are pushed towards the flowery tea party type games when young, but that doesn't mean they have the market cornered on socialization. :-) :-)
There're a LOT of guys here, right? By posting comments and asking questions, you GUYS are socializing in much the same way as girls do, only using computer stuff as your interface for conversation.
Local user's groups and LAN parties, hello!!!
I think there are still al lot of gender role issues being worked out in teh engineering/compsci fields, but they are fading fast. There's MONEY to be made online, and greed knows no gender boundaries.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Given, they have a tough job. So what, they get paid to work like dogs, they aren't a chain gang for crying out loud.
:-)
Around here, they put commercials on tv all the time saying, "before you dig, call Miss Utility" and flash an 800 number. So you mean all us yokels have to check in with the utility folks but the utility folks don't have to check themselves?
Sure accidents happen, but I can't see a public utility diggin around and not knowing where their own lines are. Sheesh.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Those who use will use to excess :-)
Right, just like drunk drivers.
Wake up, man. Alcohol is more harmful to your body, more addictive and the cause of more deaths per year than pot could ever be. The War on Drugs would HAVE to include alcohol or it becomes a joke. Oh wait, it IS a joke.
Sheesh.
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The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
There are too many 'nuclear families' who VOTE and BITCH enough with their damn churches behind them for us to convince the big companies not to play along with this. :-)
And of course, why would NBC or Nike or whoever want to oppose something that was meant to 'protect the children'? It would be suicide.
I can only pray the underground hackers and crackers can f**k it up somehow.
I cuss and talk about sex on my site and I'm proud of it!!!!
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
My question is how do they (or do they even NEED to?) convert their ADP machines? My company has been dealing with a large dealership out here and we've been trying to convince them to have their own inventory server in the dealership, but we run into a brick wall when trying to convert the ADP stuff...although I think that has more to do with the actual code conversion than the hardware/software/OS...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Ha!
That is cool. Can you make me one, too? I'd pay!!! LOL
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
I'd forgotten all about Happy Fun Ball!
(wipes tear from face)
Woo!
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It's soooo nice to see fellow earth children pop their heads up like prairie dogs whenever we are misrepresented. :-)
You all beat me to it.
Yes, it's a new moon, so where will I be? At band practice with our new guitarist and new percussion guy! New beginnings, wee!
Y2K riots will be fun to watch while astrally projecting myself over New York City. LOL
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Oh, damn. Excuse me. ;-)
How silly of me to think in REAL chronological time instead of the Star Wars Universe FICTIONAL time.
However, I never turn down a good flogging.
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
What about having installed cameras, identifiying most everybody who walks by (OK, it's a bit difficult...)?
:-)
Ever been in a Wal-Mart?
Seriously, on the corner by the post office downtown where I live there are two cameras 'hidden' in black globes meant to look like a street lamp. Now are they there for the security of the postal workers or...?
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
Indeed, having been in numerous fiction workshops, I can attest that conversational writing is one of the hardest things for newbies. Lucas is not a newbie. The banter in the first 3 Star Wars films was made digestable by the chemistry between Luke, Leia and Han. I will wholeheartedly agree that dialog in Star Wars TPM was a sugary Disney-feeling made-my-skin-crawl experience. Having a 9-year old and a cartoon as main characters didn't help much. :-)
Yes, yes, mindless entertainment. It should have been marketed as mindless then. Like Spacballs...
The Divine Creatrix in a Mortal Shell that stays Crunchy in Milk
This beats the days of watching Mr. Wizard all to hell!
So are these guys gonna get together with the doctors who are studying the brain pathways?
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