I always liked that quote. I usually played as Zakharov, and my policy was generally to deny everyone access to information - usually information about how to build nerve-gas needlejets - and thereby become their master;-)
Prehaps the Bible endorses file sharing. Someone should look.
Feeding of the five thousand.
Your man Jesus has attracted a massive crowd of fans, admirers, hangers-on, bystanders, people with nothing better to do, and general riff-raff, none of whom have apparently bothered to bring lunch. He finds a kid who has brought some food, a small quantity of fish and bread. He proceeds to copy the fish and bread and redistribute it to all these thousands of people.
I'm sure the local bakers, fishermen, hot dog salesmen and related tradesmen were fucking livid. He was infringing on their intellectual property - had he paid for a license for that bread recipe? No! - and undermining their business model. Thousands of people were employed in the food industry, after all. Wheat farmers, millers, bakers... all depend on the business, and all their livelihoods are threatened once Jesus starts duplicating loaves and fishes on a massive scale and freely distributing his pirate food.
So remember: when you follow Jesus, you're supporting COMMUNISM!
"Beware of him who denies you access to information."
For in his heart, he imagines himself your master. A lesson the Americans learned very painfully in Earth's final century, but incorrectly attributed; it was UN Commissioner Lal who said that.
...or having users that use cell colors and font formats to organize their Excel data (ummm...how do you sort blue, orange and yellow?)
Oh God, yes. 'I've highlighted the changes in yellow.' Aaaargh!
The thing to do here is write yourself a function that takes a cell reference as its argument and returns that cell's.Interior.ColorIndex value. Then you can sort by colour. Not ideal, but a handy workaround for when you have to tidy up after some clown.
40MB per hour? I think you mean 400MB per hour...... unless the bitrate is really really low.
On a razor-sharp monitor running in 1600x1200, 40MB per hour is Bad. On a mobile phone screen running in something like 256x512, 40MB per hour is Plenty.
Judging by the fact that a large amount of spam we get is from AOL, I can see why they are getting blocked.
Though bad in many ways, AOL are not a spam-friendly operation by any means. You do not get a large amount of spam from AOL. What you get is a large amount of spam with forged headers that looks like it is from AOL. There's tons of that.
AOL are wielders of the special-issue BFG-9000 ultra-merciless LART, I'll say that for 'em. Draconian filters on anything coming in, and a distinctly Genghisian attitude to anyone trying to spam out.
And how many would it take to fill the Albert Hall?
Four thousand.
I was never quite clear on how the holes from Blackburn, Lancs. could possibly fill the Albert Hall. I mean, they're holes - defined as being something not there. How can they fill anything?
Then there's nuclear (fission) power. Yes, it's clean and safe, relative to, say, coal. But there's the waste disposal issue. It hasn't been solved.
Has the waste disposal issue been solved for coal power plants? As far as I'm concerned, pumping that stuff into the atmosphere does not constitute safe disposal...
Animal life came out of the oceans some 500 million years ago. For over half that time the land was dominated by dinosaurs. For perhaps 100,000 years the land has been dominated by humanity.
You are not an environmentalist, or you would know that the few decades time is if the entire world switched over the Nuclear all at once for 100% of it's energy needs
And also it assumes that we do no reprocessing, and we make no use of thorium. There's enough thorium on Earth to keep the breeder reactors running for... well, as near forever as you need it to be.
Anyone notice the not-entirely-subtle plugging of the BBC's other services, such as "BBC News 24", and even when Billie.. er, Rose mentioned something she'd seen on "Newsround Extra". I mean, Newsround is intended for *children* dammit!
I liked that. Rose, at the beginning, is The Chav From Hell. She's so clueless that her knowledge of current affairs comes from Newsround Extra, which is as you say a childrens' show and spectacularly dumbed down. I remember there was always a running joke at school about how there were always at least two articles about dolphins in any Newsround...
Travelling with the Doctor for a while will hopefully broaden her hitherto unused mind. She's already showing some political awareness - 'Why not? It worked last time', she says, about the distinctly dubious pretext given by the faux-PM for the nuclear strike. By the end of the series, she'll be a long way from the loathsome little Newsround Extra viewer she once was.
As for plugging News 24... well, why the hell shouldn't they? It's not even unrealistic; when a UFO crashes into Big Ben, BBC1 will definitely cancel all programming and switch to News 24, and that's where most people will see it. And anyway, we see enough movies and shows from the US where the President watches events on Sky News...
Ah... here's the cause of the confusion. What we have here is 0.25 electronvolts per hydrogen atom produced. The electronvolt is a well-known quantity of energy commonly used in nuclear and particle physics, and 0.25 eV is about 4 x 10^-20 J. Multiplying by Avogadro's Constant, that comes to about 24,000 joules per gram of hydrogen, as you said, and I'll take your word for it on the rest.
Vegetative State! What's the white house have to say about this?
There are security implications. Frieza already destroyed Planet Vegetative, so he won't have any trouble at all wrecking Vegetative State. Better start training and charging up now, guys; we only have 56 episodes before the battle starts!
The whole point of The Office is that it's completely agonising to watch. It's the comedy of bitterness and despair, about as dark as it gets. I haven't seen the American version, but I have seen some of an American remake of Fawlty Towers; in that, they didn't seem able to cope with the lead character being such a foul person leading such a tormented life, and made him more likable.
This, of course, was not the point. The comedy derives from Fawlty's failure, and bystanders' horror at the way this man runs a hotel, just as The Office runs on David Brent's horrifically misguided approach to management. Both take on characters we've all met - surly hoteliers or awful coworkers - and then eliminate the redeeming features and turn everything wrong about them up to eleven.
I think it's this dark side that drives a lot of British comedy and makes it so distinct from the American variety. American remakes tend to kill off British comedy, because they try to force in some Beautiful People when the story really calls for twisted monstrosities...
You'd need a separate licence for each iteration... Of course, if you set it up just right you could send a Microsoft lawyer into an infinite loop, which would be a pretty cool science fair project.
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I always liked that quote. I usually played as Zakharov, and my policy was generally to deny everyone access to information - usually information about how to build nerve-gas needlejets - and thereby become their master ;-)
Feeding of the five thousand.
Your man Jesus has attracted a massive crowd of fans, admirers, hangers-on, bystanders, people with nothing better to do, and general riff-raff, none of whom have apparently bothered to bring lunch. He finds a kid who has brought some food, a small quantity of fish and bread. He proceeds to copy the fish and bread and redistribute it to all these thousands of people.
I'm sure the local bakers, fishermen, hot dog salesmen and related tradesmen were fucking livid. He was infringing on their intellectual property - had he paid for a license for that bread recipe? No! - and undermining their business model. Thousands of people were employed in the food industry, after all. Wheat farmers, millers, bakers... all depend on the business, and all their livelihoods are threatened once Jesus starts duplicating loaves and fishes on a massive scale and freely distributing his pirate food.
So remember: when you follow Jesus, you're supporting COMMUNISM!
For in his heart, he imagines himself your master. A lesson the Americans learned very painfully in Earth's final century, but incorrectly attributed; it was UN Commissioner Lal who said that.
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... ;-)
Oh God, yes. 'I've highlighted the changes in yellow.' Aaaargh!
The thing to do here is write yourself a function that takes a cell reference as its argument and returns that cell's .Interior.ColorIndex value. Then you can sort by colour. Not ideal, but a handy workaround for when you have to tidy up after some clown.
On a razor-sharp monitor running in 1600x1200, 40MB per hour is Bad. On a mobile phone screen running in something like 256x512, 40MB per hour is Plenty.
Though bad in many ways, AOL are not a spam-friendly operation by any means. You do not get a large amount of spam from AOL. What you get is a large amount of spam with forged headers that looks like it is from AOL. There's tons of that.
AOL are wielders of the special-issue BFG-9000 ultra-merciless LART, I'll say that for 'em. Draconian filters on anything coming in, and a distinctly Genghisian attitude to anyone trying to spam out.
So you've never let someone borrow a CD? 'Sorry, I'm not licensed to redistribute the intellectual property. You'll have to buy your own copy.'
Note that he said 'share around' and not 'copy'.
Four thousand.
I was never quite clear on how the holes from Blackburn, Lancs. could possibly fill the Albert Hall. I mean, they're holes - defined as being something not there. How can they fill anything?
Then I discovered marijuana, and understood :-)
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Hai. Arigatou gozaimasu, Aisanhawaa-sama.
Either you meant to say 'at', or you're Dr Manhattan.
Has the waste disposal issue been solved for coal power plants? As far as I'm concerned, pumping that stuff into the atmosphere does not constitute safe disposal...
Animal life came out of the oceans some 500 million years ago. For over half that time the land was dominated by dinosaurs. For perhaps 100,000 years the land has been dominated by humanity.
Yeah, we've done well.
And also it assumes that we do no reprocessing, and we make no use of thorium. There's enough thorium on Earth to keep the breeder reactors running for... well, as near forever as you need it to be.
Don't worry. Robots never have any interest in abusing the orifices of innocent humans. Not even in Japan.
That's the tentacle demons' job, and their union is very touchy about demarcation issues and has high-level contacts with the yakuza.
I get that anyway... although I probably drink waaay too much Guinness.
I liked that. Rose, at the beginning, is The Chav From Hell. She's so clueless that her knowledge of current affairs comes from Newsround Extra, which is as you say a childrens' show and spectacularly dumbed down. I remember there was always a running joke at school about how there were always at least two articles about dolphins in any Newsround...
Travelling with the Doctor for a while will hopefully broaden her hitherto unused mind. She's already showing some political awareness - 'Why not? It worked last time', she says, about the distinctly dubious pretext given by the faux-PM for the nuclear strike. By the end of the series, she'll be a long way from the loathsome little Newsround Extra viewer she once was.
As for plugging News 24... well, why the hell shouldn't they? It's not even unrealistic; when a UFO crashes into Big Ben, BBC1 will definitely cancel all programming and switch to News 24, and that's where most people will see it. And anyway, we see enough movies and shows from the US where the President watches events on Sky News...
Incorrect: you want a number of joules per unit of hydrogen. If it was watts, you'd get a unit of hydrogen per unit time.
As it is, it's 0.25 electronvolts per hydrogen atom. Unit of energy per unit of output gas. Happy?
See Germany, 1929.
Ah... here's the cause of the confusion. What we have here is 0.25 electronvolts per hydrogen atom produced. The electronvolt is a well-known quantity of energy commonly used in nuclear and particle physics, and 0.25 eV is about 4 x 10^-20 J. Multiplying by Avogadro's Constant, that comes to about 24,000 joules per gram of hydrogen, as you said, and I'll take your word for it on the rest.
That is so siggable. Ta!
There are security implications. Frieza already destroyed Planet Vegetative, so he won't have any trouble at all wrecking Vegetative State. Better start training and charging up now, guys; we only have 56 episodes before the battle starts!
This, of course, was not the point. The comedy derives from Fawlty's failure, and bystanders' horror at the way this man runs a hotel, just as The Office runs on David Brent's horrifically misguided approach to management. Both take on characters we've all met - surly hoteliers or awful coworkers - and then eliminate the redeeming features and turn everything wrong about them up to eleven.
I think it's this dark side that drives a lot of British comedy and makes it so distinct from the American variety. American remakes tend to kill off British comedy, because they try to force in some Beautiful People when the story really calls for twisted monstrosities...
You'd need a separate licence for each iteration... Of course, if you set it up just right you could send a Microsoft lawyer into an infinite loop, which would be a pretty cool science fair project.