This reminds me of a sub-plot in the _book_ Red Dwarf (as opposed to the TV series) where there was a ship that was sent out into inter-stellar space to make stars go nova, and create a giant, pixelated "Drink Coke" message in the sky.
This was the ship that Lister and Cat found on an asteroid/moon with Kryten waiting in it (and also the one that Kryten caused to crash by "washing" the computer).
You are lucky they did (and I guess we're unlucky they did). I know of an instructor/tech diver who was at an equipment show (DEMA), and bought a canister light cheep at the show. While going through, it showed up on their scanner. Lots of
wires, big lead-acid batteries (showing up as big black regions), all packed in a cylinder. I should hope that they would be asking questions.
He was pulled out of the line (and I presume to another room) and told that he had "one chance" to explain the contents of his carry-on. AFAIK, he gave the appropriate explanations, and I think he also had to open it up and demonstrate it etc.
Lessons for the future. If you are carrying something innocent that could be misconstrued as something that is not
1) Go early so you have plenty of time to get through the hastles.
2) Be prepared to give a thourough and accurate explanation of what it is (and demonstrate it... being the lightbulb next time).
3) Contact the air-line. They probably have specific proceedures for transporting "odd" devices.
And then...
every power line, oil pipe line, and natural gas
pipe line crossing the boarder will be dinamited
or sabotaged in some other difficult to repair
way - within 48 hours.
And then all the citisens of the USA will be able
to sweat it out toegether.
Uh, because the guy us a Francophone? It's still French whether it's in Canada or France. Mind you, there are definite differences between Quebec and France French, but they are still the same language.
The differences are not insignificant.
Quebec French, Parisian (France) French,
Manitoba-LaBroquerie French, Cajun French, etc. all differ in accent and slang. Sometimes even the grammatical structures are different. You can not simply take a native speaker of one, and expect them to effectivly communicate with a native speaker of another, with no training or practice time.
As a non-bilingual Canadian, I can understand a lot of Parisian French (if only by guessing the 'latinesque' roots and the translating that
into english). I can not understand Quebec french.
It's like the difference between the Queen's English and 'Ebonics' (that language where you get to axe questions).
I do think it odd though that the French Govnement has a Ministry that will make-up/find words just to replace words that have begun to creep into French from other languages. Languages grow over time. If 'E-mail' continues to maintain its hold in the French language, I'm sure it will end up as something like E-maille and then emaille.
Interestingly enough maille translates into English as a link/mesh/net (and I suppose you could take it as far as a web). I think that would much better path for it to take.
I see that thsi has been marked as Flamebait; however, I will take the time to spell it out for you.
Go read "Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein". You will see how something that can be so wrong and unexpected can be so funny.
Swearing is part of the language. It can be used for effect and to highlight parts of the story/joke/etc. Watch some comedy by Billy Connely - he uses it as part of the rhythm and rhyme of his stories. There are other commedians out there who use it purely for the shock value. In that case it is not really funny, just offensive (and since we've already seen lots of it already, it is not very good at generating publicity any more).
Gollum's speach was very much self depricating. He picked on the actor who gave him his voice and body movements, PJ, and the WETA digital team. Self depricating humour is not a very American concept (it is practived a lot more by the British, Canadains, New Zelanders [where much of the movie was made], and Australians). The converse of this is the kind of humour that you tend to see on Saturday Night Live where they will make fun of a social reject - Super Star, Stewart Smally, Androjonous Pat, etc.
Hopefully you will be able to stand back far enough to see the entire picture, instead of just seeing the fact that 'Gollum was swearing' (something that would only be funny to Beavus and Butthead).
That was beautiful. I hope they add it to the DVD. Hopefully, it will be uncensored. The Much Music (Canada) broadcast had many of Gollum's comments bleeped out.
I designed my honeymoon around a trip to the east coast of Canada so that I could see the Confederation Bridge up close, take pictures for the engineers in my family, and drive over it.
Of course I didn't tell my wife that. She saw it as an opportunity to visit the Anne of Green Gables tourist traps and see several historical sites in the area.
I'd call that a win-win situation.
However, I would like to visit the sites of some engineering failures. I would love to go and scuba dive on the old Tacoma Narrows Bridge (high currents and all).
As part of my literature survey I found an academic perspective that seemed to indicate that open source projects do not reach the mainstream because the developers tend to listen only to their smartest customers.
I wonder how this statement applies to Linus Torvalds development philosophy:-)
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when the most interesting thing to you about the entire story is the fact that there is now an IT job open in Ottawa.
This was the ship that Lister and Cat found on an asteroid/moon with Kryten waiting in it (and also the one that Kryten caused to crash by "washing" the computer).
You are lucky they did (and I guess we're unlucky they did). I know of an instructor/tech diver who was at an equipment show (DEMA), and bought a canister light cheep at the show. While going through, it showed up on their scanner. Lots of wires, big lead-acid batteries (showing up as big black regions), all packed in a cylinder. I should hope that they would be asking questions.
He was pulled out of the line (and I presume to another room) and told that he had "one chance" to explain the contents of his carry-on. AFAIK, he gave the appropriate explanations, and I think he also had to open it up and demonstrate it etc.
Lessons for the future. If you are carrying something innocent that could be misconstrued as something that is not
1) Go early so you have plenty of time to get through the hastles.
2) Be prepared to give a thourough and accurate explanation of what it is (and demonstrate it... being the lightbulb next time).
3) Contact the air-line. They probably have specific proceedures for transporting "odd" devices.
If this works out, maybe AECL will have more of a future.
And then... every power line, oil pipe line, and natural gas pipe line crossing the boarder will be dinamited or sabotaged in some other difficult to repair way - within 48 hours. And then all the citisens of the USA will be able to sweat it out toegether.
The differences are not insignificant. Quebec French, Parisian (France) French, Manitoba-LaBroquerie French, Cajun French, etc. all differ in accent and slang. Sometimes even the grammatical structures are different. You can not simply take a native speaker of one, and expect them to effectivly communicate with a native speaker of another, with no training or practice time.
As a non-bilingual Canadian, I can understand a lot of Parisian French (if only by guessing the 'latinesque' roots and the translating that into english). I can not understand Quebec french.
It's like the difference between the Queen's English and 'Ebonics' (that language where you get to axe questions).
I do think it odd though that the French Govnement has a Ministry that will make-up/find words just to replace words that have begun to creep into French from other languages. Languages grow over time. If 'E-mail' continues to maintain its hold in the French language, I'm sure it will end up as something like E-maille and then emaille.
Interestingly enough maille translates into English as a link/mesh/net (and I suppose you could take it as far as a web). I think that would much better path for it to take.
Guy 2: Hey you got Linux in your SCO
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Go read "Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein". You will see how something that can be so wrong and unexpected can be so funny.
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Swearing is part of the language. It can be used for effect and to highlight parts of the story/joke/etc. Watch some comedy by Billy Connely - he uses it as part of the rhythm and rhyme of his stories. There are other commedians out there who use it purely for the shock value. In that case it is not really funny, just offensive (and since we've already seen lots of it already, it is not very good at generating publicity any more).
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Gollum's speach was very much self depricating. He picked on the actor who gave him his voice and body movements, PJ, and the WETA digital team. Self depricating humour is not a very American concept (it is practived a lot more by the British, Canadains, New Zelanders [where much of the movie was made], and Australians). The converse of this is the kind of humour that you tend to see on Saturday Night Live where they will make fun of a social reject - Super Star, Stewart Smally, Androjonous Pat, etc.
Hopefully you will be able to stand back far enough to see the entire picture, instead of just seeing the fact that 'Gollum was swearing' (something that would only be funny to Beavus and Butthead).Yoda's speech was predictable. I would see the 'jokes' lining up from about 10km away. Not very clever OR funny.
The Gollum speech was much better. They showed the duallity in Gollum really well.
- They introduced us to the general rudeness of Gollum's bad side at the beginning of the acceptance.
- They demonstrated the innocence of Gollum's good side. "Dobby's my friend"
- The venomous tirade at the end was the shock and awe. It was so wrong, but yet so right for the character of Gollum.
My wife, who is neither a StarWars nor a LotR TrueFan, gave Yoda a 'heh' - but was howling at Gollum.That was beautiful. I hope they add it to the DVD. Hopefully, it will be uncensored. The Much Music (Canada) broadcast had many of Gollum's comments bleeped out.
It seems as if The Continuum has let another one of its members run amok.
I read that as:
- Surviving Tomatoes
I think its time to find some lunch, and torment someone with a rendition of "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"
PST -8 hours
EST -5 hours
Therefore 12am EST = 9pm PST
Irrational Rose?
I designed my honeymoon around a trip to the east coast of Canada so that I could see the Confederation Bridge up close, take pictures for the engineers in my family, and drive over it.
Of course I didn't tell my wife that. She saw it as an opportunity to visit the Anne of Green Gables tourist traps and see several historical sites in the area.
I'd call that a win-win situation.
However, I would like to visit the sites of some engineering failures. I would love to go and scuba dive on the old Tacoma Narrows Bridge (high currents and all).
They're also discussing this over here.
I wonder how this statement applies to Linus Torvalds development philosophy :-)