From the Budweiser site: You must be over 21 years of age to enter this site.
My god, something is wrong here. You need to be 18 or older to get porn in the US but 21 or older to look at a site about (disgusting) beer? Makes me glad I am dutch:) *opens another can of Amstel*
I, however, have extreme difficulty with Trillian. It simply doesn't work when placed on the other side of a simple SNAT gateway. I can receive messages but not send them and Trillian fails to contact the ICQ database as well, so all I got to look at are MSN names and ICQ numbers. Hence why I switched back to MSN and ICQ (Lite)
The US contribution to the 2nd world war was greatly appreciated, but FAR from essential in winning the war, considering the nazi-german forces were already pretty much on the brink of total collapse thanks to the Russia campaign. The best thing from the americans we got wasn't military aid, it was food aid and rebuilding of industrial areas AFTER the war. That was of far more use then military aid, but still not essential. I'm sorry "big daddy uncle sam", but you weren't all that needed in WW2.
Ah yes, nukes. Nice little prattle you typed down there, care to explain the relevance? Don't think of the ammount of nukes you have, think of the ammount of nukes you got aimed at your US asses instead because you people tend to piss everyone off...
Kosovo wasn't a cry of help from Europe, the US just invaded after they felt the need to boss around some more countries with military force, hence also creating another enemy waiting to get his hands on a nuke and drop it on the US.
Ooooh, namecalling... Uhm... You smell quite nasty.
It hasn't affected me in a significant way at all. I'm European though. But I still don't get the whole big idea around the Sept. 11 attacks. Worse stuff has happened in the past.
And the success rate for the manufacturing process was only about 20 percent. The biggest challenge was sticking -- something anyone who has fried an egg can understand.
"When we peeled the mold off, we had a material, or parts of the circuit, just literally pull away," he said. "That's a problem we have to address and improve in our processing."
The answer to sticky memory circuits is clearly to use butter, lots of butter. Hey, it works for the eggs and the guy said it was compareable...
Mmm, trolling by replying to a troll who replied to my initial troll... Aces! Anyways:
Also, the US has more nuclear warheads aimed on it per square METER then all of Europe combined. The US has more enemies then all of Europe thanks to it's habbit of sticking it's nose into places where it doesn't belong. And lastly, Europe doesn't have Canadians up north, hah! (Okay, we got the Germans, but at least they got fascinating ideas that involve vast quantities of beer and "wurst")
But hey, you people got nice white teeth! You can do so many useful things with shiny white teeth, like getting your ass kicked at Pearl Harbor, losing a war against communist rice-farmers with 25 year old guns in Vietnam or ignore cold hard facts untill some beard with a guy attached to it flies several Boeings into two rather tall buildings! Cool!
Oh, and the black teeth are because of all the drugs we can use legally and the beer we drink at 16 years old... Don't mind us, we enjoy being not-the-richest and not-the-most-hated continent! Have fun over there, be sure to be nice to all the criminals we dumped over there a few hundred years ago!
I once encountered a US girl who was surprized that we, the dutch, actually speak... dutch. According to her everyone here in Europe speaks english. Hence why I wouldn't be surprized if some american would reply with "Europe? What's that?"...
It's a bad thing people think of american people at stupid... It's even worse when most of them you know online actually confirm it.
I remember seeing a documentary on TV about methande hydrates that would react and form methane gas with water. (chem. people around to verify this?) The resulting rising bubbles would cause ships in the water to loose buoyancy and thus cause them to sink, while aircraft would loose lift because of the mehtane/air mixture. There was also some nice footage about the same thing happening next to an oil rig... Somehow the methane or something else ignited as it reached the surface, so it seemed as if the ocean was boiling and on fire...
Then again, I got this of the Discovery Channel so it might not be true altogether. If it is, can the flames and explain how things truely are...
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This is probably the most retarded question ever, but:
WHY?
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I remember my (short) dealings with AD&D, 2nd edition. I could do anything I wanted, ANYTHING! If I wanted to sneak off in the night without waking my party to find some stones as sling ammunition, I could tell the DM and he'd make it good, one way or another. If the party's thief wanted to sneak inside a castle and disable the ballistas over there, he would have been able to. You could use magic on anything. You could cast fireballs on the raised drawbridge or you could cast silence on an annoying party member. Our human mage was kinda nervous, so we silenced him. And the entire party as well...
Tell me then, how do you want to implement all these possibilities into a computer RPG? I mean, some CRPGs are good, but they simply aren't as flexible to be a TRUE RPG. There always is this linear storyline you have to follow. Some games allow you to reach the end in more ways then one, but you will always finish the game. An AD&D RPG never ends. Now if I can only find a good AD&D group around here...
Recently, a revolutionary new technology has been discovered that has the ability to grant access to certain areas or items to a few people, but to keep the rest of the world at a safe distance of the often high-valued areas or items. This item will provide a great security tool for network administrators, considering it enables them to secure the server rooms from 1337 h4x0rzzz with a screwdriver. This amazing device, made usually from wood but in special cases where extra security is required, made out of steel or steel/metal alloys is called a "Door" and has been hailed by security experts around the world as the "entlösung" to most, if not all security problems, especially if this device is coupled with small pieces of metal/steel called "Keys", which can be used to lock the door using a complicated mechanical procedure.
Scientist are now thoroughly investigating in alternate ways of protecting ones servers or other private belongings. Several options include Glyphs of Warding, cummon the undead to protect a server and storage of servers inside highly radioactive or otherwise toxic enviroments.
I play a MUD. I play a paladin on it called Ingham. I do not refer to Ingham as myself, but simply as a character. That's reality. Refering to your character by refering to yourself on an online site that is not an RPG that features your character or any IC action, is called being really REALLY far away from reality.
Phoning my mother is an entirely different case, because I clearly do know her in person. I've talked to her, spent pretty much a large part of my childhood with her and I currently still live at home. A better example would be my cousin. I don't see him very often in person because of various reasons, but I quite often see him on MSN and we talk a bit often, yet I still miss talking to the guy in person because the Internet as a communication's media simply doesn't cut it for me. If other people communicate through the internet differently, that's up to them.
I currently play a MUD, which is note quite unlike a MMORPG except it's text-only for those of you who don't know what a MUD is. Some time ago, a player of that MUD died in a car accident and much to my surprise, it was dealt with like it should. People expressed their sympathy through an in-game messageboard. Plain and simple without acting like retards. They realized the difference between expressing one's sympathies and acting like an idiot by grouping together a bunch of TCP/IP connections.
When the line between reality and fantasy becomes THIS blurred, people need to take a step away from things. There is a difference between expressing your sympathy and turning the whole issue in some sick display on online emotions. Jezus christ, those people you're talking to aren't people, they are simple electronic connections to a server using the TCP/IP protocol.
... do movies even have to include sex or swearing, apart from covering up particulary horrible storylines? A good movie doesn't need to have various B-class actors to say "Fuck" every 3 words and a million dumb blondes gangbanged halfway into next week. A good movie goes along with a good storyline, good acting and a good atmosphere. The gore bit is something else though, since it's a trait of most thrillers. What would "Silence of the lambs" be without the bathtub filled with blood? (if I recall correctly)
Mind you, this is not a request for everything to be less [dr_evil] "Disney-esque" [/dr_evil], just a little less swearing, less B-class blonde sex and more good storyline please.
I clearly remember the worst apache bug in some time being mentioned on Slashdot, but not even on the front page. I'd think that a bug in Apache would be quite important and that the general knowledge of the existance of this bug and it's patches are FAR more important then the PR factor of Slashdot/Open Source. Or is Slashdot (becoming) some sort of cheap marketing site for Open Source software, partially by hiding the truth about OSS and by starting it's own FUD campaign against Microsoft?
Kudos to the guy who called me a "Jedi faggot" btw. Someone enlighten him that "Seth" is an Egyptian god, not some misspelling of "Sith".
I fail to see how slagging of Microsoft is supposed to be "journalism". I want news, stuff I don't know yet and I care about. If I wanted to hear a guy rant about how bad Microsoft is, I'd record myself after my computer suffered yet another crash and plays that back.
Besides, it's funny how this doesn't mention anything like, the OpenSSL trojan/crack, or the fact Konquerer was affected by the same SSL bug as IE some times ago and why not mention the recent Apache bugs as well? Then again, who am I to expect anything but biased journalism from you people...
Sandia Labs forget about their flashy crap while we real megalomaniacs play World Dictator with some other nifty game that involves WarGames like scenes. Rawr!
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From the Budweiser site:
You must be over 21 years of age to enter this site.
My god, something is wrong here. You need to be 18 or older to get porn in the US but 21 or older to look at a site about (disgusting) beer? Makes me glad I am dutch :) *opens another can of Amstel*
With Icewind Dale 2 coming out recently, who has time for a FPS?
Students, of course.
I, however, have extreme difficulty with Trillian. It simply doesn't work when placed on the other side of a simple SNAT gateway. I can receive messages but not send them and Trillian fails to contact the ICQ database as well, so all I got to look at are MSN names and ICQ numbers. Hence why I switched back to MSN and ICQ (Lite)
And this is relevant to this story in what way?
The US contribution to the 2nd world war was greatly appreciated, but FAR from essential in winning the war, considering the nazi-german forces were already pretty much on the brink of total collapse thanks to the Russia campaign. The best thing from the americans we got wasn't military aid, it was food aid and rebuilding of industrial areas AFTER the war. That was of far more use then military aid, but still not essential. I'm sorry "big daddy uncle sam", but you weren't all that needed in WW2.
Ah yes, nukes. Nice little prattle you typed down there, care to explain the relevance? Don't think of the ammount of nukes you have, think of the ammount of nukes you got aimed at your US asses instead because you people tend to piss everyone off...
Kosovo wasn't a cry of help from Europe, the US just invaded after they felt the need to boss around some more countries with military force, hence also creating another enemy waiting to get his hands on a nuke and drop it on the US.
Ooooh, namecalling... Uhm... You smell quite nasty.
It hasn't affected me in a significant way at all. I'm European though. But I still don't get the whole big idea around the Sept. 11 attacks. Worse stuff has happened in the past.
And the success rate for the manufacturing process was only about 20 percent. The biggest challenge was sticking -- something anyone who has fried an egg can understand.
"When we peeled the mold off, we had a material, or parts of the circuit, just literally pull away," he said. "That's a problem we have to address and improve in our processing."
The answer to sticky memory circuits is clearly to use butter, lots of butter. Hey, it works for the eggs and the guy said it was compareable...
Mmm, trolling by replying to a troll who replied to my initial troll... Aces! Anyways:
Also, the US has more nuclear warheads aimed on it per square METER then all of Europe combined. The US has more enemies then all of Europe thanks to it's habbit of sticking it's nose into places where it doesn't belong. And lastly, Europe doesn't have Canadians up north, hah! (Okay, we got the Germans, but at least they got fascinating ideas that involve vast quantities of beer and "wurst")
But hey, you people got nice white teeth! You can do so many useful things with shiny white teeth, like getting your ass kicked at Pearl Harbor, losing a war against communist rice-farmers with 25 year old guns in Vietnam or ignore cold hard facts untill some beard with a guy attached to it flies several Boeings into two rather tall buildings! Cool!
Oh, and the black teeth are because of all the drugs we can use legally and the beer we drink at 16 years old... Don't mind us, we enjoy being not-the-richest and not-the-most-hated continent! Have fun over there, be sure to be nice to all the criminals we dumped over there a few hundred years ago!
I once encountered a US girl who was surprized that we, the dutch, actually speak... dutch. According to her everyone here in Europe speaks english. Hence why I wouldn't be surprized if some american would reply with "Europe? What's that?"...
It's a bad thing people think of american people at stupid... It's even worse when most of them you know online actually confirm it.
I remember seeing a documentary on TV about methande hydrates that would react and form methane gas with water. (chem. people around to verify this?) The resulting rising bubbles would cause ships in the water to loose buoyancy and thus cause them to sink, while aircraft would loose lift because of the mehtane/air mixture. There was also some nice footage about the same thing happening next to an oil rig... Somehow the methane or something else ignited as it reached the surface, so it seemed as if the ocean was boiling and on fire...
Then again, I got this of the Discovery Channel so it might not be true altogether. If it is, can the flames and explain how things truely are...
Make that:
Ede Gelderland, The Netherlands
This is probably the most retarded question ever, but:
WHY?
I remember my (short) dealings with AD&D, 2nd edition. I could do anything I wanted, ANYTHING! If I wanted to sneak off in the night without waking my party to find some stones as sling ammunition, I could tell the DM and he'd make it good, one way or another. If the party's thief wanted to sneak inside a castle and disable the ballistas over there, he would have been able to. You could use magic on anything. You could cast fireballs on the raised drawbridge or you could cast silence on an annoying party member. Our human mage was kinda nervous, so we silenced him. And the entire party as well...
Tell me then, how do you want to implement all these possibilities into a computer RPG? I mean, some CRPGs are good, but they simply aren't as flexible to be a TRUE RPG. There always is this linear storyline you have to follow. Some games allow you to reach the end in more ways then one, but you will always finish the game. An AD&D RPG never ends. Now if I can only find a good AD&D group around here...
We could stick a blender on the Delorean, put banana peels in it and insist everyone calls the blende "MR FUSION"...
Recently, a revolutionary new technology has been discovered that has the ability to grant access to certain areas or items to a few people, but to keep the rest of the world at a safe distance of the often high-valued areas or items. This item will provide a great security tool for network administrators, considering it enables them to secure the server rooms from 1337 h4x0rzzz with a screwdriver. This amazing device, made usually from wood but in special cases where extra security is required, made out of steel or steel/metal alloys is called a "Door" and has been hailed by security experts around the world as the "entlösung" to most, if not all security problems, especially if this device is coupled with small pieces of metal/steel called "Keys", which can be used to lock the door using a complicated mechanical procedure.
Scientist are now thoroughly investigating in alternate ways of protecting ones servers or other private belongings. Several options include Glyphs of Warding, cummon the undead to protect a server and storage of servers inside highly radioactive or otherwise toxic enviroments.
Amen to that.
I play a MUD. I play a paladin on it called Ingham. I do not refer to Ingham as myself, but simply as a character. That's reality. Refering to your character by refering to yourself on an online site that is not an RPG that features your character or any IC action, is called being really REALLY far away from reality.
Some people truely disgust me.
Phoning my mother is an entirely different case, because I clearly do know her in person. I've talked to her, spent pretty much a large part of my childhood with her and I currently still live at home. A better example would be my cousin. I don't see him very often in person because of various reasons, but I quite often see him on MSN and we talk a bit often, yet I still miss talking to the guy in person because the Internet as a communication's media simply doesn't cut it for me. If other people communicate through the internet differently, that's up to them.
I currently play a MUD, which is note quite unlike a MMORPG except it's text-only for those of you who don't know what a MUD is. Some time ago, a player of that MUD died in a car accident and much to my surprise, it was dealt with like it should. People expressed their sympathy through an in-game messageboard. Plain and simple without acting like retards. They realized the difference between expressing one's sympathies and acting like an idiot by grouping together a bunch of TCP/IP connections.
When the line between reality and fantasy becomes THIS blurred, people need to take a step away from things. There is a difference between expressing your sympathy and turning the whole issue in some sick display on online emotions. Jezus christ, those people you're talking to aren't people, they are simple electronic connections to a server using the TCP/IP protocol.
+2, +5 vs Trolls
... do movies even have to include sex or swearing, apart from covering up particulary horrible storylines? A good movie doesn't need to have various B-class actors to say "Fuck" every 3 words and a million dumb blondes gangbanged halfway into next week. A good movie goes along with a good storyline, good acting and a good atmosphere. The gore bit is something else though, since it's a trait of most thrillers. What would "Silence of the lambs" be without the bathtub filled with blood? (if I recall correctly)
Mind you, this is not a request for everything to be less [dr_evil] "Disney-esque" [/dr_evil], just a little less swearing, less B-class blonde sex and more good storyline please.
I'm to teach them patriotism
This is where the US society fails horribbly and brainwashes it's people into retarded gung-ho morons like Mr. George Dubya Bush.
I clearly remember the worst apache bug in some time being mentioned on Slashdot, but not even on the front page. I'd think that a bug in Apache would be quite important and that the general knowledge of the existance of this bug and it's patches are FAR more important then the PR factor of Slashdot/Open Source. Or is Slashdot (becoming) some sort of cheap marketing site for Open Source software, partially by hiding the truth about OSS and by starting it's own FUD campaign against Microsoft?
Kudos to the guy who called me a "Jedi faggot" btw. Someone enlighten him that "Seth" is an Egyptian god, not some misspelling of "Sith".
I fail to see how slagging of Microsoft is supposed to be "journalism". I want news, stuff I don't know yet and I care about. If I wanted to hear a guy rant about how bad Microsoft is, I'd record myself after my computer suffered yet another crash and plays that back.
Besides, it's funny how this doesn't mention anything like, the OpenSSL trojan/crack, or the fact Konquerer was affected by the same SSL bug as IE some times ago and why not mention the recent Apache bugs as well? Then again, who am I to expect anything but biased journalism from you people...
The trick is not getting a dead gecko to stick on a wall, the trick is prying it off before it gets stinky.
On a different note, where are the obligatory Mozilla comments?
Sandia Labs forget about their flashy crap while we real megalomaniacs play World Dictator with some other nifty game that involves WarGames like scenes. Rawr!