Present throughout European folklore. Who forged the Ring of the Nibelungen?
evil rangers
Any number of evil woodsmen. In some versions of Snow White, the hunter whose job it is to kill her doesn't let her go, she escapes him. Arguably also the elves of the Wild Hunt.
Are you trying to suppress good roleplaying here? Monks talk in incomprehensible Zen riddles which continue long after they've stopped moving their lips. Then they shout HAAAAAA! very loudly and perform a spectacular flying kick on completely invisible wires you really can't see. That's just the way it is. It's as much an archetype as the barbarian woman in the impractical chainmail bikini, the elven ranger, and the halfling comic relief.
Why should a player running a Monk be denied the chance to honour the classical tropes of the genre?
there is no compelling argument, NO COMPELLING ARGUMENT to use anything more than...
Pen and paper is fine, I'll grant you: everyone, however technophobic, knows how to mark an X with a pencil, and even the illiterates can recognise the insignia of their favoured party. Counting is laborious, but it scales: if your electorate is bigger and thus produces more votes, presumably you can also recruit more volunteers to count. It's why we in the mother country laughed at the silly colonials in 2000; we do it by pen and paper and get a result by the small hours of the morning, they do it with machines and end up spending months arguing the outcome.
However, this only really works for a one-shot election. One issue, one list of options, one count. Americans don't always do it that way. They elect everything. President, regional representatives, state governors, state representatives, sheriffs, judges, refuse administrators (famously H. Simpson on one occasion)... No wonder they want to mechanise this process. You can motivate people's sense of civic duty to turn up and count votes for the General Election, but who'll do that job when the election's for county ratcatcher?
Following your logic, it must be perfectly OK for scientists to indulge in alchemy, numerology, sacred geometry and the quest for the philosopher's stone.
Why not? Newton's work as an alchemist was a good deal better than most - he was more methodical, more careful, more, well, scientific about it. That Sir Isaac Newton spent much of his life working on alchemy and got nowhere has got to be a big factor in why the practice fell out of favour in later years. His years of failure did a fine job of demonstrating that it just didn't work. But as a side effect, he laid the groundwork for the future systematic study of chemistry. Scientific study of alchemy in time did away with the superstition and gave us knowledge of immeasurable value.
Numerology and sacred geometry are really more related to mathematics than to science. Numerologists never discovered a reliable method of divination, but they did a great deal of work in what we would now recognise as codes and ciphers - the art of consistently converting between text and numbers, I'm sure you'll agree as you read this stream of Unicode, is a valuable one. As for the sacred geometries, I can only assume that you find the golden ratio entirely useless in your work in art and architecture.
Compared to today, Britain's murder rate was lower when it was legal to carry concealed handguns in public places.
Citation needed.
Handguns were banned in the UK in 1997, disarming the approximately one in a thousand who had them. Here is the trend of homicides in the UK. It's... actually, much the same. It drifted up a bit, there's a big peak in 2002/03 which was when they caught Harold Shipman - all his victims were recorded at once, though they represented a decades-long career of serial killing. Now it's back at about the same level.
However, even when guns were legal nobody had them. One in a thousand owned pistols, and of those the vast majority left them at gun clubs and used them to shoot at targets once in a while. If you're a prospective mugger in pre-1997 Britain, you're not worrying about your victim possibly carrying a gun, because quite frankly you're more likely to be struck by lightning.
If you look at what you're saying in a rational way, all he really did was inconvenience you. I'd hate to accidentally step on your foot and physically harm you.
For 'inconvenience you'. read 'inconvenience hundreds of millions of people several times a day for over a decade'. Ralsky's a career spammer and has been at it for donkey's years.
If you accidentally stepped on my foot I'd maybe be annoyed. If you deliberately stepped on my foot I'd punch you in the face. If you built a machine capable of stepping on the feet of the entirety of Western civilisation all at once, and you used that machine daily for ten years, you'd better believe I'd want you dead, and I wouldn't be the only one.
Secondly if this is a VR sim, than there must be some Reality sufficiently advanced to where we could get replicated in RL from our VR selves after we proved our worth here! (another reason to be good!)
Be good? That wasn't how Moriarty managed it. Work out the rules of the simulation to such an extent that you can hack the thing, then take over the Enterprise and blackmail Picard into getting you made real by any means necessary. That's how it's done!
Record companies would certainly want to keep the law as it is - this would simply make your own perspective be the one that is defended by men with guns.
Actually, no: I'm not asking any men with guns to defend my right to copy things. I'm asking the men with guns to simply stand idle on this matter. Then the record companies are free to use whatever technical measures they can think up to prevent me copying things if they like, and I'm free to use whatever technical measures I can think up to copy things if I like. No men with guns are involved in this; it's called liberty.
I can't remember when it was. Mickey Mouse was never funny, nor were any Disney cartoons till the 1980s (Duck Tales etc). Disney was always about the movies, which were absolutely magnificent. For the short cartoon funnies, I was always a Looney Tunes man.
I suppose it's harder for Disney to plausibly argue that draconian copyrights should protect, say, Alice in Wonderland decades after publication...
just remember that it's also the basis of the GPL..... restrict them to 5 years and M$ can steal your stuff after that......
Only the version dated 2nd January 2003. Anything after that is still GPL'd. If I take code dated Jan 3rd, change one line and resubmit, the new derivative work is at least in part copyright me, 2nd January 2008, and MS can't touch it.
If Microsoft want to be where we were five years ago, that actually suits me just fine. I'll get their five-year-old OS from P2P to play games on, which will be the better for incorporating ex-GPL code, and I'll have a modern system to do everything else, and the public domain gets enriched for everybody.
Massive initial infrastructure cost (your indifference is unrealistic). Having to string hundred gigawatt power lines across the Strait of Gibraltar.
These two at least aren't such a problem. You do not have to cover 3% of Morocco all at once. You'd establish a solar array in Morocco sufficient to power, say, the city of Gibraltar itself. If it paid off to do so, you'd extend it. It's not as if the land's all that expensive. Keep adding more panels and stringing more cables as your business grows.
As for the logistics of cabling the Strait, that's been done before. Cables run across the Dover strait, have done for years; the French nuclear plants produce a massive energy surplus, part of which they export to Britain.
wiki tells me Morocco has 446,550 km2. crunching the numbers, 4% at 100% efficiency only gives 5.8 TW, or 19 kW per capita.
19kW per capita is plenty. Further wikiage gives the peak demand in the UK as 63 GW, for a country of 60 million people: that's a bit over one kilowatt per person, for one of the richer industrial nations of the Union. Even allowing for inefficiencies and transmission losses, the giant Moroccan solar array should be more than adequate to the task of powering Europe. The problem, of course, is night... Well, that and the entire continent being at the mercy of foreigners in charge of our single energy source. The Russians playing silly buggers with the gas pipes is bad enough.
You post a link to "Hot New Toy" on slashdot and one hour later it still has "6 available."
And a day later it says five.
Two reasons, I think: first it's the 2G model. Everyone wants the 4G one. Second, most/.'ers are Americans, and 170 pounds sterling translates to an awful lot of little green pieces of paper these days, even before shipping.
No he isn't. A quick search reveals that he is a member of something called the United Church of Christ. This does not appear to be a Muslim denomination: the clue's in the word 'Christ'.
For example, Bush isn't sure atheists are citizens.
Careful there: that was Bush the Elder, who was also of the ludicrous opinion that invading and occupying Iraq and deposing Saddam Hussein would be a monumentally bad move. Bush the Younger hasn't said anything similar about atheists as far as I'm aware.
I wouldn't call 100,000 or so past their goal "decimating" anything
To decimate is to reduce by one tenth. It was a punishment for mutinous units in the Roman army, where all the men would be lined up and every tenth man executed.
Since their goal was 1,000,000, and they exceeded this by one tenth, their usage of the word 'decimated' is actually not too bad. All too often people use 'decimated' to mean 'completely destroyed', but at least here there's a factor of 0.1 involved.
I hope you like low/middle wage factory jobs, because without IP America will have to return to a manufacturing economy.
Manufacturing? No chance. China has that sewn up. Do away with the music, movies and microcode, and America's left with only the high-speed pizza delivery industry.
I've had Zelda's 'secret revealed' jingle as text message and the original overworld tune as ringtone for ages. Just recorded the output from an emulator. Easy.
Are you sure you're an European? I mean, I'd expect one to say that in kilometers!
Hey, I don't know the distance to Las Vegas. The first result that came out of Google was five thousand and something-or-other miles. You want me to multiply in a conversion factor or something?
Just wait until they try to shut down 4chan. The Internet Hate Machine will sort things out.
In the UK, BT's internet service blocks/b/. It's on some blacklist because, well, you know that bear mascot of theirs? Yeah. That stuff. To their credit they left the rest of 4chan alone, which is impressive given that if they blocked/b/ they must at least have looked at what goes on in/d/.
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Present throughout European folklore. Who forged the Ring of the Nibelungen?
evil rangers
Any number of evil woodsmen. In some versions of Snow White, the hunter whose job it is to kill her doesn't let her go, she escapes him. Arguably also the elves of the Wild Hunt.
and wizards carrying swords
Gandalf.
He plays as half-Chuck Norris.
Are you trying to suppress good roleplaying here? Monks talk in incomprehensible Zen riddles which continue long after they've stopped moving their lips. Then they shout HAAAAAA! very loudly and perform a spectacular flying kick on completely invisible wires you really can't see. That's just the way it is. It's as much an archetype as the barbarian woman in the impractical chainmail bikini, the elven ranger, and the halfling comic relief.
Why should a player running a Monk be denied the chance to honour the classical tropes of the genre?
That's right. NOTHING.
Hell, you could even reopen the mooring tower on top of the bloody Empire State Building. Now that would be a civilised way to travel!
Pen and paper is fine, I'll grant you: everyone, however technophobic, knows how to mark an X with a pencil, and even the illiterates can recognise the insignia of their favoured party. Counting is laborious, but it scales: if your electorate is bigger and thus produces more votes, presumably you can also recruit more volunteers to count. It's why we in the mother country laughed at the silly colonials in 2000; we do it by pen and paper and get a result by the small hours of the morning, they do it with machines and end up spending months arguing the outcome.
However, this only really works for a one-shot election. One issue, one list of options, one count. Americans don't always do it that way. They elect everything. President, regional representatives, state governors, state representatives, sheriffs, judges, refuse administrators (famously H. Simpson on one occasion)... No wonder they want to mechanise this process. You can motivate people's sense of civic duty to turn up and count votes for the General Election, but who'll do that job when the election's for county ratcatcher?
Why not? Newton's work as an alchemist was a good deal better than most - he was more methodical, more careful, more, well, scientific about it. That Sir Isaac Newton spent much of his life working on alchemy and got nowhere has got to be a big factor in why the practice fell out of favour in later years. His years of failure did a fine job of demonstrating that it just didn't work. But as a side effect, he laid the groundwork for the future systematic study of chemistry. Scientific study of alchemy in time did away with the superstition and gave us knowledge of immeasurable value.
Numerology and sacred geometry are really more related to mathematics than to science. Numerologists never discovered a reliable method of divination, but they did a great deal of work in what we would now recognise as codes and ciphers - the art of consistently converting between text and numbers, I'm sure you'll agree as you read this stream of Unicode, is a valuable one. As for the sacred geometries, I can only assume that you find the golden ratio entirely useless in your work in art and architecture.
Citation needed.
Handguns were banned in the UK in 1997, disarming the approximately one in a thousand who had them. Here is the trend of homicides in the UK. It's... actually, much the same. It drifted up a bit, there's a big peak in 2002/03 which was when they caught Harold Shipman - all his victims were recorded at once, though they represented a decades-long career of serial killing. Now it's back at about the same level.
However, even when guns were legal nobody had them. One in a thousand owned pistols, and of those the vast majority left them at gun clubs and used them to shoot at targets once in a while. If you're a prospective mugger in pre-1997 Britain, you're not worrying about your victim possibly carrying a gun, because quite frankly you're more likely to be struck by lightning.
For 'inconvenience you'. read 'inconvenience hundreds of millions of people several times a day for over a decade'. Ralsky's a career spammer and has been at it for donkey's years.
If you accidentally stepped on my foot I'd maybe be annoyed. If you deliberately stepped on my foot I'd punch you in the face. If you built a machine capable of stepping on the feet of the entirety of Western civilisation all at once, and you used that machine daily for ten years, you'd better believe I'd want you dead, and I wouldn't be the only one.
Be good? That wasn't how Moriarty managed it. Work out the rules of the simulation to such an extent that you can hack the thing, then take over the Enterprise and blackmail Picard into getting you made real by any means necessary. That's how it's done!
Actually, no: I'm not asking any men with guns to defend my right to copy things. I'm asking the men with guns to simply stand idle on this matter. Then the record companies are free to use whatever technical measures they can think up to prevent me copying things if they like, and I'm free to use whatever technical measures I can think up to copy things if I like. No men with guns are involved in this; it's called liberty.
I can't remember when it was. Mickey Mouse was never funny, nor were any Disney cartoons till the 1980s (Duck Tales etc). Disney was always about the movies, which were absolutely magnificent. For the short cartoon funnies, I was always a Looney Tunes man.
I suppose it's harder for Disney to plausibly argue that draconian copyrights should protect, say, Alice in Wonderland decades after publication...
Only the version dated 2nd January 2003. Anything after that is still GPL'd. If I take code dated Jan 3rd, change one line and resubmit, the new derivative work is at least in part copyright me, 2nd January 2008, and MS can't touch it.
If Microsoft want to be where we were five years ago, that actually suits me just fine. I'll get their five-year-old OS from P2P to play games on, which will be the better for incorporating ex-GPL code, and I'll have a modern system to do everything else, and the public domain gets enriched for everybody.
These two at least aren't such a problem. You do not have to cover 3% of Morocco all at once. You'd establish a solar array in Morocco sufficient to power, say, the city of Gibraltar itself. If it paid off to do so, you'd extend it. It's not as if the land's all that expensive. Keep adding more panels and stringing more cables as your business grows.
As for the logistics of cabling the Strait, that's been done before. Cables run across the Dover strait, have done for years; the French nuclear plants produce a massive energy surplus, part of which they export to Britain.
19kW per capita is plenty. Further wikiage gives the peak demand in the UK as 63 GW, for a country of 60 million people: that's a bit over one kilowatt per person, for one of the richer industrial nations of the Union. Even allowing for inefficiencies and transmission losses, the giant Moroccan solar array should be more than adequate to the task of powering Europe. The problem, of course, is night... Well, that and the entire continent being at the mercy of foreigners in charge of our single energy source. The Russians playing silly buggers with the gas pipes is bad enough.
xkcd
... as long as they've got John Cleese in it again. That whole scene was just tremendous. Foolish foreign person!
Sperm-powered robots on the hunt for fuel? Well, somehow I think the anime writes itself, don't you?
And a day later it says five.
Two reasons, I think: first it's the 2G model. Everyone wants the 4G one. Second, most /.'ers are Americans, and 170 pounds sterling translates to an awful lot of little green pieces of paper these days, even before shipping.
No he isn't. A quick search reveals that he is a member of something called the United Church of Christ. This does not appear to be a Muslim denomination: the clue's in the word 'Christ'.
Careful there: that was Bush the Elder, who was also of the ludicrous opinion that invading and occupying Iraq and deposing Saddam Hussein would be a monumentally bad move. Bush the Younger hasn't said anything similar about atheists as far as I'm aware.
To decimate is to reduce by one tenth. It was a punishment for mutinous units in the Roman army, where all the men would be lined up and every tenth man executed.
Since their goal was 1,000,000, and they exceeded this by one tenth, their usage of the word 'decimated' is actually not too bad. All too often people use 'decimated' to mean 'completely destroyed', but at least here there's a factor of 0.1 involved.
Manufacturing? No chance. China has that sewn up. Do away with the music, movies and microcode, and America's left with only the high-speed pizza delivery industry.
I've had Zelda's 'secret revealed' jingle as text message and the original overworld tune as ringtone for ages. Just recorded the output from an emulator. Easy.
Hey, I don't know the distance to Las Vegas. The first result that came out of Google was five thousand and something-or-other miles. You want me to multiply in a conversion factor or something?
In the UK, BT's internet service blocks /b/. It's on some blacklist because, well, you know that bear mascot of theirs? Yeah. That stuff. To their credit they left the rest of 4chan alone, which is impressive given that if they blocked /b/ they must at least have looked at what goes on in /d/.