Concession revenue pays the ushers' salaries, so creating work for the ushers without buying any concession items is out-and-out theft. Not just rude, but actually stealing.
No. It. Is. Not.
Creating an extra expense for somebody is NOT stealing. Reducing somebody's income is also NOT stealing. Physically taking something that belongs to somebody without their consent - THAT is stealing.
If a crime is being committed here, it is called littering. They're not taking something that's yours, they're leaving something that's theirs. Quite the opposite of stealing.
Thankfully the EU, so far, has told the U.S. (in some many words), to go F@$# itself.
No surprises there. There's nothing that annoys the average Eurocrat more than being told what to do by Americans, except possibly corruption inquiries. If the US government is seen to lean heavily on Brussels, then there'll be another trade war. Trade wars with the EU are extremely damaging - nobody gets killed, but some very rich people don't get even richer quite as quickly as they otherwise might, which is far more important.
What they've done, apparently, is asked the court to 'be fair'. Well, thanks for that; it's a court, that's sort of the whole point, but nice of you to point it out... To my mind, this is the US government being seen to be doing something, but in actual fact doing absolutely nothing.
Hotmail's spam filtering has improved a lot in the last couple of years. It's had to; Hotmail has so very many users that every spammer in the world just tries a dictionary attack. [any word]@hotmail.com is likely to get delivered, and so it gets added to the list of fully double opt-in leads. Most spam gets correctly filtered from my Hotmail account, which has been promiscuously posted all over the net (including USENET) without bothering to mung it for the last eight years. There are a few false positives, though.
I've been using gmail for the last year or so, and I'm liking it so far. I carelessly posted with that address on USENET once or twice, thus getting onto some spam lists, but I've yet to see a spam reach my inbox, or a non-spam reach the junk folder. Google are, for some reason, very very good at correlating and indexing information... so it's not surprising they've become good at spam filtering as well:-)
Radioactivity is about as random as you'll get in this universe, and it sure beats setting up a huge dish on the roof of the NSA building and pointing it at some quasar...
And of course you can't get past 99.997% and win without suiciding...
Fill me in here. You're playing Baldur's Gate. You mean to kill every living thing on the map. And then yourself.
Well, given the backstory, and your own... unusual background, the murder of so many followed by ritual self-immolation might well produce a win condition. Bhaal would certainly have approved!
Off the top of my head, two Icewind Dale games, and Planescape: Torment. Planescape was the best RPG I ever played - GET IT! GET IT NOW! - but I've never got hold of Icewind Dale to try it.
Anybody got tips on how to beat Mind Flayers? I can't seem to do anything to stop the Psionic Blasts. The gnome is fine usually, but everyone else is near vulnerable, especially Jaheira (she's lvl 14).
Summon stuff. You've got Jaheira with you? IIRC, Fire Elementals made short work of most of those illithid nests..
$2,895 = something like £1,600. The product's bullshit, but my inner 'Elite' veteran just jumped for joy...
* buys a thousand of them at £489 each, ships them back over the sea, and flogs them off at $1400 each, making a tidy profit even after shipping, taxes, duties and currency fluctuations, without having had to do any work at all! *
Dwarf tossing, shield surfing, and various other things that annoy the picky fanboy in me.
Be fair here. We're looking at something like ten hours of film. You've got to throw in some bits like that, if only for the eight-year-olds. It can't all be played straight, it would drive the audiences insane... And be honest, you must have loved the way Legolas took down the Mumak. 'THAT STILL ONLY COUNTS AS ONE!'
The only bit that really pissed me off was the Slander of Faramir. I hadn't been that angry at a film since Han trod on Jabba's tail.
We are the borg, you will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is useless.
The word you're looking for is 'futile'. Hand in your geek card:-)
The Borg were great, until that Species 8472 business. We've seen how these guys can adapt their equipment to anything they come up against, and how they can extrapolate countless potential applications from a single example of a new technology - look what they made of the Doctor's holographic emitter! But they can't manage to modify their nanites to handle 8472... while the Doctor can.
Let's recheck that.
The Doctor, an emergency backup AI running in the spare CPU time of one smallish starship's computer, can do it.
The Borg Collective, the largest neural net in the known universe, can't.
Oh, and Eric Blair. Not a science fiction author, but wrote a certain book which is still a brilliant work of science fiction in my eyes.
Like a lot of near-future SF, Blair got the politics and the technology pretty well, but was hopelessly wrong with the date. 22 years on and we're only now beginning to get there...
I know I'll be sorry for asking this, but up until the last word, I agreed with the poster completely, but then he lost me. I unfortunately must know what the hell "Tubgirl" is before agreeing 100%
Google it. With Safesearch off. Then scream 'OH DEAR GOD NO WHY WHY WHY?' and claw your eyes out with a spoon.
I've actually got quite fascinated with it, though. It's a skilful shot. I mean, it's a difficult position to get into, she's quite flexible to begin with... and then to be able to aim the stream so accurately! Sick though it is, you've got to admire that kind of dedication.
Basically you can't use nukes and expect to really win, most simulations of the matter come down to both sides shooting all the ones they have in the end due to ever increasing retaliation strikes, except if one side gets completly wiped out first or runs out of nukes.
No?
You're the president of Roguestateistan. You have access to half a dozen nukes - inefficient, low-yield, but nukes nonetheless. The US is on its way to do unto you as it did unto Iraq. Geography is such that the invasion has to be done by sea, and the carriers are on their way to commence bombardment.
For you, victory consists not in the annihilation of the USA but in mere survival in power. Therefore as soon as the carrier appears offshore you nuke it.
The US now has a choice. Nuke back? But that carrier was indubitably a fair military target, while all there is to be nuked in Roguestateistan is cities, which aren't. Send more carriers - and risk getting them nuked like the first one was? Or give it up and declare sanctions?
Use of nuclear weapons in this way might well be the best option Roguestateistan has.
http://www.applehomes.net/ There's a shop round the corner from me...
Are they in the music business? No? Then the Beatles have no quarrel with them.
Are they in the computer business? No? Then Steve Jobs has no quarrel with them.
As long as Steve Jobs' Apple was a computer company then there was no problem. Now, however, they've moved into the music business, which is the cause of the dispute with the Beatles' Apple.
However, Apple seem to have been building a separate brand lately, based not so much around the Apple name or icon but around the 'i' prefix. iPod, iTunes. If they spin off, say, the iMusic Company, then they needn't use the Apple name in their music business at all, and the fact that iMusic happens to be wholly owned by Apple Computer Company is a mere technicality...
If it was about saving lives then where is the war on cars, or the war on junk food?
Cars and junk food make huge amounts of money for large corporations. Drugs and terrorism do not - unless we have a War on them, and can then funnel enormous amounts of government money to companies that top politicians have close links with.
Remember, it's not about the People, it's about the Corporations. The principle of 'voting with your dollars' has been taken far further than anybody realises...
Or, get someone with a trackercord of delivering a modern OS. Like Maybe Linus.
What the hell does Linus know about delivering a modern OS? He's a Unix kernel guru. I doubt the kernel is what's giving Microsoft problems.
Now, maybe they could get in touch with RMS instead? After all, the OS based around Linus's kernel is mostly of his creation... Or maybe not. Though it would be amusing to read the reports in the news of Windows users' heads exploding the day after they find that their new Windows shell was in fact xemacs.
This gives them the ability to project power. Which is something England and France cannot currently do.
Others have already mentioned the whole Falkland thing, but that was 25 years ago, back when we were armed up in case of World War 3. Things are different now.
I'd suggest looking up the British intervention in Sierra Leone, in 2000. Quite a small war that's been all but forgotten about - because it was done properly. Park a carrier offshore, fill the capital with marines, lend the local government some helicopters and patrol vehicles, make it clear to the rebels that shooting at any of these will be taken very personally, and when they do so anyway then locate the bandit HQ and send in SAS death squads.
I gather it's this sort of operation that guides a lot of British defence thinking. What we need nowadays is not the ability to take on the Russians in massive air, sea and land warfare - what we want is the ability to materialise off the coast of some trouble spot and deliver some highly mobile badasses. The 21st century equivalent of the Victorian imperial fleet, basically, back when a British gunboat was more than enough to scare the average local warlord into line. And for that, we'll want some bigger carriers.
I've *never* heard anybody say "wow, I should have just run for help rather than arguing back."
I think there might be a fair few people around who would say that, if it weren't for the unfortunate and possibly not coincidental fact that they're too dead to do so.
The really interesting thing was the gravity (or a force of some kind) would pull you towards the crator. It would pull you so strongly towards the crator that you could lean opposite to the force (crator) at an almost 45 degree angle and you would not fall.
My guess is that it was a perspective trick - like you sometimes get in funhouses, you know? The slope was steeper than it looked, and your brain interpreted the conflicting information from your eyes and your inner ear as a horizontal force.
"IF" this is a real first step to artificial gravity (big if), then this is the natural progression to warp drive. Artificial Gravity - Gravity Shielding - Anti Gravity - Continuum Distortion - Warp Drive.
Quite right. But don't go down to the local Boeing factory with your copy of the Star Trek Technical Manual just yet. Run the numbers first. How large a (simulated) mass or antimass must you assemble to construct the Alcubierre warp field? How much energy does that equate to?
Can't remember the exact amount, but I think it was on the order of a couple of solar masses.
However, there's also the Tipler time machine to be considered. That's just sane enough that you can imagine some extremely advanced civilisation trying to build one. Gravity manipulation would really help a lot with that job...
"When you combine people and technology, you have a very powerful combination."
As SciFi has clearly pointed out, this is not a good idea...
Goodness. There's a frightening thought. Armies of hostile chav cyborgs in their Tommy Hilfiger jackets, slaughtering their way through the human race...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't your colleagues' colleagues by definition also your colleagues?
Not necessarily. Suppose that in company Zephyr, Alice works with Bob on project Yeti, and Bob works with Charlie on project Wingnut, but Alice does not work with Charlie on any project. Then Charlie is Alice's colleague's colleague, but not himself Alice's colleague.
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... is also not hot. She's naked and petrified. But the grits with which she is covered are hot.
No. It. Is. Not.
Creating an extra expense for somebody is NOT stealing. Reducing somebody's income is also NOT stealing. Physically taking something that belongs to somebody without their consent - THAT is stealing.
If a crime is being committed here, it is called littering. They're not taking something that's yours, they're leaving something that's theirs. Quite the opposite of stealing.
I think this is getting towards the great mystery of the set of sets which are not members of themselves...
No surprises there. There's nothing that annoys the average Eurocrat more than being told what to do by Americans, except possibly corruption inquiries. If the US government is seen to lean heavily on Brussels, then there'll be another trade war. Trade wars with the EU are extremely damaging - nobody gets killed, but some very rich people don't get even richer quite as quickly as they otherwise might, which is far more important.
What they've done, apparently, is asked the court to 'be fair'. Well, thanks for that; it's a court, that's sort of the whole point, but nice of you to point it out... To my mind, this is the US government being seen to be doing something, but in actual fact doing absolutely nothing.
I've been using gmail for the last year or so, and I'm liking it so far. I carelessly posted with that address on USENET once or twice, thus getting onto some spam lists, but I've yet to see a spam reach my inbox, or a non-spam reach the junk folder. Google are, for some reason, very very good at correlating and indexing information... so it's not surprising they've become good at spam filtering as well :-)
Radioactivity is about as random as you'll get in this universe, and it sure beats setting up a huge dish on the roof of the NSA building and pointing it at some quasar...
Fill me in here. You're playing Baldur's Gate. You mean to kill every living thing on the map. And then yourself.
Well, given the backstory, and your own... unusual background, the murder of so many followed by ritual self-immolation might well produce a win condition. Bhaal would certainly have approved!
Off the top of my head, two Icewind Dale games, and Planescape: Torment. Planescape was the best RPG I ever played - GET IT! GET IT NOW! - but I've never got hold of Icewind Dale to try it.
Summon stuff. You've got Jaheira with you? IIRC, Fire Elementals made short work of most of those illithid nests..
$2,895 = something like £1,600. The product's bullshit, but my inner 'Elite' veteran just jumped for joy...
* buys a thousand of them at £489 each, ships them back over the sea, and flogs them off at $1400 each, making a tidy profit even after shipping, taxes, duties and currency fluctuations, without having had to do any work at all! *
Be fair here. We're looking at something like ten hours of film. You've got to throw in some bits like that, if only for the eight-year-olds. It can't all be played straight, it would drive the audiences insane... And be honest, you must have loved the way Legolas took down the Mumak. 'THAT STILL ONLY COUNTS AS ONE!'
The only bit that really pissed me off was the Slander of Faramir. I hadn't been that angry at a film since Han trod on Jabba's tail.
The word you're looking for is 'futile'. Hand in your geek card :-)
The Borg were great, until that Species 8472 business. We've seen how these guys can adapt their equipment to anything they come up against, and how they can extrapolate countless potential applications from a single example of a new technology - look what they made of the Doctor's holographic emitter! But they can't manage to modify their nanites to handle 8472... while the Doctor can.
Let's recheck that.
The Doctor, an emergency backup AI running in the spare CPU time of one smallish starship's computer, can do it.
The Borg Collective, the largest neural net in the known universe, can't.
Star Trek: here. Shark: here. Off switch: here.
Like a lot of near-future SF, Blair got the politics and the technology pretty well, but was hopelessly wrong with the date. 22 years on and we're only now beginning to get there...
Google it. With Safesearch off. Then scream 'OH DEAR GOD NO WHY WHY WHY?' and claw your eyes out with a spoon.
I've actually got quite fascinated with it, though. It's a skilful shot. I mean, it's a difficult position to get into, she's quite flexible to begin with... and then to be able to aim the stream so accurately! Sick though it is, you've got to admire that kind of dedication.
No?
You're the president of Roguestateistan. You have access to half a dozen nukes - inefficient, low-yield, but nukes nonetheless. The US is on its way to do unto you as it did unto Iraq. Geography is such that the invasion has to be done by sea, and the carriers are on their way to commence bombardment.
For you, victory consists not in the annihilation of the USA but in mere survival in power. Therefore as soon as the carrier appears offshore you nuke it.
The US now has a choice. Nuke back? But that carrier was indubitably a fair military target, while all there is to be nuked in Roguestateistan is cities, which aren't. Send more carriers - and risk getting them nuked like the first one was? Or give it up and declare sanctions?
Use of nuclear weapons in this way might well be the best option Roguestateistan has.
Are they in the music business? No? Then the Beatles have no quarrel with them.
Are they in the computer business? No? Then Steve Jobs has no quarrel with them.
As long as Steve Jobs' Apple was a computer company then there was no problem. Now, however, they've moved into the music business, which is the cause of the dispute with the Beatles' Apple.
However, Apple seem to have been building a separate brand lately, based not so much around the Apple name or icon but around the 'i' prefix. iPod, iTunes. If they spin off, say, the iMusic Company, then they needn't use the Apple name in their music business at all, and the fact that iMusic happens to be wholly owned by Apple Computer Company is a mere technicality...
Cars and junk food make huge amounts of money for large corporations. Drugs and terrorism do not - unless we have a War on them, and can then funnel enormous amounts of government money to companies that top politicians have close links with.
Remember, it's not about the People, it's about the Corporations. The principle of 'voting with your dollars' has been taken far further than anybody realises...
What the hell does Linus know about delivering a modern OS? He's a Unix kernel guru. I doubt the kernel is what's giving Microsoft problems.
Now, maybe they could get in touch with RMS instead? After all, the OS based around Linus's kernel is mostly of his creation... Or maybe not. Though it would be amusing to read the reports in the news of Windows users' heads exploding the day after they find that their new Windows shell was in fact xemacs.
Others have already mentioned the whole Falkland thing, but that was 25 years ago, back when we were armed up in case of World War 3. Things are different now.
I'd suggest looking up the British intervention in Sierra Leone, in 2000. Quite a small war that's been all but forgotten about - because it was done properly. Park a carrier offshore, fill the capital with marines, lend the local government some helicopters and patrol vehicles, make it clear to the rebels that shooting at any of these will be taken very personally, and when they do so anyway then locate the bandit HQ and send in SAS death squads.
I gather it's this sort of operation that guides a lot of British defence thinking. What we need nowadays is not the ability to take on the Russians in massive air, sea and land warfare - what we want is the ability to materialise off the coast of some trouble spot and deliver some highly mobile badasses. The 21st century equivalent of the Victorian imperial fleet, basically, back when a British gunboat was more than enough to scare the average local warlord into line. And for that, we'll want some bigger carriers.
I think there might be a fair few people around who would say that, if it weren't for the unfortunate and possibly not coincidental fact that they're too dead to do so.
My guess is that it was a perspective trick - like you sometimes get in funhouses, you know? The slope was steeper than it looked, and your brain interpreted the conflicting information from your eyes and your inner ear as a horizontal force.
Quite right. But don't go down to the local Boeing factory with your copy of the Star Trek Technical Manual just yet. Run the numbers first. How large a (simulated) mass or antimass must you assemble to construct the Alcubierre warp field? How much energy does that equate to?
Can't remember the exact amount, but I think it was on the order of a couple of solar masses.
However, there's also the Tipler time machine to be considered. That's just sane enough that you can imagine some extremely advanced civilisation trying to build one. Gravity manipulation would really help a lot with that job...
As SciFi has clearly pointed out, this is not a good idea...
Goodness. There's a frightening thought. Armies of hostile chav cyborgs in their Tommy Hilfiger jackets, slaughtering their way through the human race...
Not necessarily. Suppose that in company Zephyr, Alice works with Bob on project Yeti, and Bob works with Charlie on project Wingnut, but Alice does not work with Charlie on any project. Then Charlie is Alice's colleague's colleague, but not himself Alice's colleague.
But one would have to be very, very careful how one went about raising the issue.
GOVERNMENT MP: "I propose that we repeal the law against discussing the abolition of the monarchy."
OPPOSITION MP: "Discussing the what?"
GOVERNMENT MP: "The abolition of the monarchy!"
BEEFEATERS: "You're fucking nicked, matey!"