price control is a good idea if you're dealing with a monopolistic market, especially one with very high entrance costs but producing something that many people use. as, for instance, is in the case of electricity and water (or telephone) in some places.
In this context, it seems kinda ironic that a few years ago, the same author has written an article where he claims that videogames trivialize the value of life...
I think Hussein is more like Michael Jackson's Invincible (2001) -- overproduced and overhyped, and even though a hit in some places, still turns out to be a fiasco.
It's not root he's talking about, he's alluding to the secret "administrator", the one that has powers any root can only dream of at best. The greatest of these superpowers is perhaps the power to create a rock so big that even God can't move it. But even though every hacker knows about this, noone has yet managed to crack the password (There's one group called the Kabbalists who have been trying to break it for more than a thousand years but still haven't had any luck). The Windows operating systems, however, seem to have holes that make cracking it much easier (think ten years of hard work instead of a million). This is also the reason why some tend to associate Windows with Satan.
I personally could even agree with the interpretation of the game as an allegory of love and friendship, but this thing about Charles' and Dianas marriage is a bit too much.
Oh well, I guess we should be glad that they didn't interpret Head Over Heels as an allegory of, I dunno, the Queen being on the throne of England, or the government (head) happily ruling over the people (heels) in some sort of totalitarian utopia:7 Just call it "Deconstruction" and everything you say is correct, as everything is subjective...
Must be one of those books that everyone talks about but noone has actually read, because the book is really just a bunch of obfuscated nonsense. Those who actually have managed to read the whole book keep the secret well and are idolized as gods.
This aint no space probe, 'tis a space probe bait! Just point it at the planet Earth and they will send you many many more! Filled with chocolates and toffees!
Nay, the moment they heard the tune, they love Blur so much that right now, they are in their underground home, dancing (or shoegazing?) to the tune of "Beagle 2".
And it's also because they want to change the color to red by Christmas -- red being a Christmas color and also the official color of Coca Cola, but Coca Cola is the official Christmas beverage -- but they can only raise it gradually, not two levels at once.
You must be new here:7 (god, I can't believe what I just said)
In the case of Slashdot, news is what the editors consider to be Slashdot material. That is, things that will produce lots of hits. SCO and outsourcing stories, for example, are guaranteed to have several hundred comments; of the top10 most active stories in the hall of fame, five are about "war on terror". Also, all the editors have their pet peeves -- Michael seems to have a problem with iPod's batteries and Taco will whine about spam whenever he can. I've heard that it used to be different in the old days, but i don't put much faith in these rumors...
Well, it's not news in the original sense of the word, but it seems to be yet another example of the other kind of news, the institutional news. This means that something becomes news if an institution that's known to be a news source -- Slashdot, for example, or Google News (they also list(ed?) press releases as news) -- reports it as such. Being reported by such a source somehow makes a fact more true, more reliable (If it isn't on the news, it didn't happen, right?) See, for example, how people still feel the need to read about a car crash they witnessed. Or how several hundred people felt the need to read about Saddam Hussein's capture on Slashdot -- they probably wouldn't have believed it otherwise...
Why would you want to read it from Slashdot when you know about it already? If something is not reported here, it does not mean that it hasn't happened at all. It has still happened, except maybe for some lunatic for whom Slashdot is the only contact with the outside world.
Besides, if it's news then it doesn't belong here anyway;7
Re:The word 'Fuck' has been fucked! News at 11!
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Your wish is my command.
(Tegelt m6tlesin ma lihtsalt seda, et ropu s6na kasutamise m6te on ju ikkagi see, et see s6na ropp on ja seel2bi shokeeriv kellegi jaoks. Aga kui ta enam ei shokeeri, siis oleks lihtsalt aeg edasi liikuda ja midagi uut kasutusele v6tta)
The word 'Fuck' has been fucked! News at 11!
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If the word 'fuck' isn't, according to you, considered such a bad word after all, then what's the point in using it anymore?
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The Capital would have never been written, as Marx would have spent all the time playing Everquest.
price control is a good idea if you're dealing with a monopolistic market, especially one with very high entrance costs but producing something that many people use. as, for instance, is in the case of electricity and water (or telephone) in some places.
Yes, as far as I know. For instance, my father has to fix his uncle's and another relative's cars from time to time.
In this context, it seems kinda ironic that a few years ago, the same author has written an article where he claims that videogames trivialize the value of life...
He should just as well have put these predictions in quatrain.
I. At the end of the year,
Two choose new and one
Will try to abuse, but
Cause in them no fear.
II.No man will be killed
By means of net, but
Many with their money
Will be parted.
III. The mail of lightning
Will useless be, so Big
Red something new proposes.
But beware of traps!
IV. Old things abandoned will be,
And this many in danger
Will certainly leave.
A rusty knife can still kill.
Need I go on?
I think Hussein is more like Michael Jackson's Invincible (2001) -- overproduced and overhyped, and even though a hit in some places, still turns out to be a fiasco.
It's not root he's talking about, he's alluding to the secret "administrator", the one that has powers any root can only dream of at best. The greatest of these superpowers is perhaps the power to create a rock so big that even God can't move it. But even though every hacker knows about this, noone has yet managed to crack the password (There's one group called the Kabbalists who have been trying to break it for more than a thousand years but still haven't had any luck). The Windows operating systems, however, seem to have holes that make cracking it much easier (think ten years of hard work instead of a million). This is also the reason why some tend to associate Windows with Satan.
Oh well, I guess we should be glad that they didn't interpret Head Over Heels as an allegory of, I dunno, the Queen being on the throne of England, or the government (head) happily ruling over the people (heels) in some sort of totalitarian utopia :7 Just call it "Deconstruction" and everything you say is correct, as everything is subjective...
I don't think their museum is large enough to fit a C-130 Hercules or even a Cessna...
Must be one of those books that everyone talks about but noone has actually read, because the book is really just a bunch of obfuscated nonsense. Those who actually have managed to read the whole book keep the secret well and are idolized as gods.
The Seraphim United aka SUN
I don't think sticking it the right end up is that hard.
Isn't it obvious? What if there's a white robot with a cricket bat on the plane?
This aint no space probe, 'tis a space probe bait! Just point it at the planet Earth and they will send you many many more! Filled with chocolates and toffees!
Here, you can have that as a Christmas present :7
Nay, the moment they heard the tune, they love Blur so much that right now, they are in their underground home, dancing (or shoegazing?) to the tune of "Beagle 2".
So did the Columbia...
Remember, it's not the ads that are lying but the reality.
"sentence structure"
And it's also because they want to change the color to red by Christmas -- red being a Christmas color and also the official color of Coca Cola, but Coca Cola is the official Christmas beverage -- but they can only raise it gradually, not two levels at once.
You must be new here :7 (god, I can't believe what I just said)
In the case of Slashdot, news is what the editors consider to be Slashdot material. That is, things that will produce lots of hits. SCO and outsourcing stories, for example, are guaranteed to have several hundred comments; of the top10 most active stories in the hall of fame, five are about "war on terror". Also, all the editors have their pet peeves -- Michael seems to have a problem with iPod's batteries and Taco will whine about spam whenever he can. I've heard that it used to be different in the old days, but i don't put much faith in these rumors...
Well, it's not news in the original sense of the word, but it seems to be yet another example of the other kind of news, the institutional news. This means that something becomes news if an institution that's known to be a news source -- Slashdot, for example, or Google News (they also list(ed?) press releases as news) -- reports it as such. Being reported by such a source somehow makes a fact more true, more reliable (If it isn't on the news, it didn't happen, right?) See, for example, how people still feel the need to read about a car crash they witnessed. Or how several hundred people felt the need to read about Saddam Hussein's capture on Slashdot -- they probably wouldn't have believed it otherwise...
Besides, if it's news then it doesn't belong here anyway ;7
(Tegelt m6tlesin ma lihtsalt seda, et ropu s6na kasutamise m6te on ju ikkagi see, et see s6na ropp on ja seel2bi shokeeriv kellegi jaoks. Aga kui ta enam ei shokeeri, siis oleks lihtsalt aeg edasi liikuda ja midagi uut kasutusele v6tta)
If the word 'fuck' isn't, according to you, considered such a bad word after all, then what's the point in using it anymore?