And shortly after passing the pudenda, the Moon was then in the Earth's taint. The KAGUYA's cameras were turned off in order to avoid seeing what happened after that...
There were a number of mini-games that used that mechanic.
And I, too, suffered from a blister in the middle of my palm pretty rapidly after trying.
In fact, under threat of a class-action lawsuit, Nintendo allowed anyone with a UPC symbol for the game to receive a free glove for use while playing. Yes, a glove. I never ordered one, but I can only assume it was covered in rhinestones.
Also, they removed that type of game from the sequels. I guess they figured regular RSI took long enough and was hard enough to tie back to them that they were safe.:)
Or it means they aren't an ignorant dipshit who thinks scientific achievements only occur in places their society approves of, so despite not having any direct proof they can make a reasonable guess because it'd be much more unlikely and require a lot more proof to show them to be wrong.
Iran is a big country, they obviously aren't all religious zealots, they do in fact have research universities, so "I have no doubt" in this context means "I have a fucking clue and two brain cells to rub together".
Fact: When someone says "I don't want to hear about [a gay person's] sexual orientation" what they are really saying is "I don't want to hear about [a gay person's] sexual orientation".
Yeah and when that's all you care about, then that's exactly my point. Thanks for making it for me.
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Although there certainly is a lot of "fashion" and "tradition" in choosing names, it's hardly the nightmare of uniformity that is predicted by those who oppose genetic choice.
Uh, are you sure that's a good example? Baby names really don't have that much variety, and there's fashion trends in baby names that dramatically effect the percentage of babies with certain names. Sure there's more than just Steve or Mark or John or *cough* Chris even though you know dozens of people with those names. Yet you probably don't know any Hortences or Xaviers. Compared to the number of possible genes, there's a tiny, tiny number of names that dominate the percentage charts. Do you really want genetic characteristics decided by trendiness? If the creativity parents show in naming is any indication of how they'll choose their babies, then you're talking about putting decade-long choke-points on genetic variety, with only a small percentage deciding to "buck the trend".
What if the genetic equivalent of "Hortence", formerly a random occurrence that appeared whether the parents liked it or not, turns out to be a highly advantageous trait? But because otherwise fit individuals made a mistake they possibly couldn't have anticipated by choosing "Steve" as their genetic template, they end up at a disadvantage.
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Shit, that kinda sounds like names are really important.
This has to be Slashdot at it's finest.
Pretending not to understand the difference between family name and given name to avoid acknowledging the point?
On the other hand, if Ep 2 was a fluke, and Dollhouse is as awful as the pilot suggested, then...
Even though it was much better, I still wasn't especially impressed. It just feels like I've seen it before. Secret spook-like agency, using brainwashed agents to do their dirty work, other personality slowly peeks through... It's like "Bourne Identity" or "My Own Worst Enemy" (damning with faint praise there) with hot chicks and a couple other thin layers of Whedonism spackled over it.
Though I'll give them the interesting twist on the "Surviving the Game" plot line, where the hunter reveals the game to the prey right after seducing her.
Because, while it's possible that such a mention in a gamertag/profile is a perfectly true, totally non-offensive statement about an individual's self-identified sexual orientation, the odds more strongly favor it being a nasty, hateful comment (or at best, a tasteless one).
Yeah, okay, you've been on XBox Live (or the internet in general) and you're telling me that it's much more likely that a self-reference to homosexuality to be a hateful comment than sincere?
Come on, you know the score. All the hate your talking about is in calling other people gay as though that's the worst thing you could be. You and I both know that in that environment these people are not going to be referring to themselves as lesbians.
I see no indication that anyone thought the woman's self-identification was a slur. The whole problem is that her self-identification attracted slurs from other people, directed at her.
Er, no. I seriously don't give the slightest damn about anyone's sexual orientation unless they are female and I'm in the process of offering them a drink.
And does "not giving a damn" mean you really don't care if they say anything about it or not, in which case congrats and what I said has nothing to do with you?
If not, does "not giving a damn" mean you don't want to hear about it, as in you do care about not knowing?
If so, are you equally offended by the OPs admission of heterosexuality? Or for that matter what I assume is your own such admission right here? Would you tell someone who said exactly what you yourself just said "Dude stop talking about being straight"?
If not, thanks for proving my point!
Face the facts: "I don't want to hear about your sexual orientation" is something you only hear when the sexual orientation in question is not-straight. Straight people casually mention their sexual orientation all the time and nobody says anything like this (and no, complaining about vulgar/explicit descriptions doesn't count). It's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" for normal society, where it's only an issue if you say that you're gay. Don't tell me that these people don't care about sexuality, they obviously do, and they want to go on being able to believe that someone is straight.
Fact: When someone says "I don't want to hear about [a gay person's] sexual orientation" what they are really saying is "Stop breaking my comfortable assumption that everyone is straight".
Yeah, and images of HAWT GRRL-ON-GRRL SEXORS surely won't encourage the nimrods who would have hit on her. Because when a straight girl is clearly uninterested in being hit on simply because she doesn't want to be bothered that means nothing to these jerks, but if she is uninterested in being hit on because she's a lesbian they'd totally respect that and back off.
Shyeah, right.
I think the reason she self-IDed as gay is because she was operating under the mistaken notion that she could reveal a basic aspect of herself and that it wouldn't get blown up into a big deal and somehow made into her fault that nobody else can handle it.
Well, okay, or she was thinking what you said and was equally naive.
When the chimps get smart and start breeding us for scientific research for the good of chimpanzees everywhere, I'll be the last to complain.
Will you really?
I can believe it if you're just saying that in the huge rush to complain about the chimp take-over and human-breeding program, the few seconds you spend contemplating the irony of the situation would make it likely that once you got around to complaining you were in fact the last to do so.
Otherwise I have a hard time imagining you being led into the Acid on Crotch testing chambers by your chimp master and shrugging and saying "que sera sera".
Frankly I plan to start complaining about chimpanzees breeding us for experiments even before the coup is finished. Especially since, in contrast to your story about humans, chimpanzees are notorious for being lax on ethical oversight committees.
It's just that specific model. Netbooks are the new hot thing, but they aren't exactly the biggest chunk of the market as of today. So it's not like it's 33% of their Inspiron line or something. So I don't find the math to be implausible on its face, especially when we're talking about comparing a sales number with a completely different metric.
In any event, just having that Tier 1 support, and having it apparently work out well in that line, is something to get excited about.
Oh, and btw, that 0.2% absolute delta between April 08 and January 09 is actually a 33% increase in Linux market share.
You should talk to the guys over at The Pirate Bay. Not only would it be deliciously ironic, turning them into real sea-faring pirates, but the *IAA would go crazy trying to issue them region-relevant subpoenas wherever they go.
Yeah, and maybe they could (stupidly) decide to operate off the shores of Somalia and get boarded so we could see a direct side-by-side comparison between "pirates" and honest-to-God-real pirates!
I was thinking of an entirely different type of tranny, you old time talker you.
I think we are thinking of the same kind of tranny, and "the tranny in the Ford Taurus is completely useless" matches my experiences pretty well. Goddamn Wanda.
We're seeing Linux have 33% market share on a general-purpose computer.
A general-purpose consumer model, Tier 1 OEM computer, no less. FFS, what does it take to make someone happy these days? If you could have sent word of this back in time to me in 2000, I would have shit a joyous brick just to know such a future was possible.
I'd love to live in a world where Linux had 33% market share on general-purpose computers. I think that trading one monopoly (MS) for another (Linux) is not a good thing, even if I like Linux.
A Linux "monopoly" really wouldn't be the same thing as the Windows monopoly -- aside from being mostly POSIX, it's also open source, so interoperability isn't a big issue, and there can be competition just amongst linux distros. But yeah, I tend to agree. I'm not that worried, since I don't see a situation where Linux eats all of Window's marketshare, but MacOS doesn't take any for itself.
Yeah I don't need to read peer reviewed studies to know that the saturation point changes with temperature and that rain isn't the only way that water vapor pressure is regulated. I was being flippant to someone acting like CO2 is a non-concern because water vapor is a more important "emission".
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and Jewel Staite (what a porn star name) won't be boned in the engine room.
Well personally I think this issue can be fixed.
I volunteer to help!
And shortly after passing the pudenda, the Moon was then in the Earth's taint. The KAGUYA's cameras were turned off in order to avoid seeing what happened after that...
Oh. I thought it was some kind of heroes-related Oreo. You know, like one side is Tracy, Daphne on the other, and I'm the stuffing!
Okay I didn't think that's what he meant, I was thinking about the hero-sammich anyway.
There were a number of mini-games that used that mechanic.
And I, too, suffered from a blister in the middle of my palm pretty rapidly after trying.
In fact, under threat of a class-action lawsuit, Nintendo allowed anyone with a UPC symbol for the game to receive a free glove for use while playing. Yes, a glove. I never ordered one, but I can only assume it was covered in rhinestones.
Also, they removed that type of game from the sequels. I guess they figured regular RSI took long enough and was hard enough to tie back to them that they were safe. :)
Yeah, well, someone needs to explain to this girl that all those times her mom insisted that she wash her hands that there was a damn good reason.
Though he'd love you a bit more if you bought a Macbook and spent some more at the iTunes store.
Or it means they aren't an ignorant dipshit who thinks scientific achievements only occur in places their society approves of, so despite not having any direct proof they can make a reasonable guess because it'd be much more unlikely and require a lot more proof to show them to be wrong.
Iran is a big country, they obviously aren't all religious zealots, they do in fact have research universities, so "I have no doubt" in this context means "I have a fucking clue and two brain cells to rub together".
Fact: When someone says "I don't want to hear about [a gay person's] sexual orientation" what they are really saying is "I don't want to hear about [a gay person's] sexual orientation".
Yeah and when that's all you care about, then that's exactly my point. Thanks for making it for me.
Although there certainly is a lot of "fashion" and "tradition" in choosing names, it's hardly the nightmare of uniformity that is predicted by those who oppose genetic choice.
Uh, are you sure that's a good example? Baby names really don't have that much variety, and there's fashion trends in baby names that dramatically effect the percentage of babies with certain names. Sure there's more than just Steve or Mark or John or *cough* Chris even though you know dozens of people with those names. Yet you probably don't know any Hortences or Xaviers. Compared to the number of possible genes, there's a tiny, tiny number of names that dominate the percentage charts. Do you really want genetic characteristics decided by trendiness? If the creativity parents show in naming is any indication of how they'll choose their babies, then you're talking about putting decade-long choke-points on genetic variety, with only a small percentage deciding to "buck the trend".
What if the genetic equivalent of "Hortence", formerly a random occurrence that appeared whether the parents liked it or not, turns out to be a highly advantageous trait? But because otherwise fit individuals made a mistake they possibly couldn't have anticipated by choosing "Steve" as their genetic template, they end up at a disadvantage.
Shit, that kinda sounds like names are really important.
This has to be Slashdot at it's finest.
Pretending not to understand the difference between family name and given name to avoid acknowledging the point?
Yes, that is /. at it's finest.
and that Holographic Storage thing that keeps popping up on Slashdot.
Yeah but it looks so real... like I can just reach out and touch the drive.
I also like the psychedelic colors.
Seems promising to me!
We're talking about two cartoon characters making woopie. It's kinda the opposite of reality. ;)
On the other hand, if Ep 2 was a fluke, and Dollhouse is as awful as the pilot suggested, then...
Even though it was much better, I still wasn't especially impressed. It just feels like I've seen it before. Secret spook-like agency, using brainwashed agents to do their dirty work, other personality slowly peeks through... It's like "Bourne Identity" or "My Own Worst Enemy" (damning with faint praise there) with hot chicks and a couple other thin layers of Whedonism spackled over it.
Though I'll give them the interesting twist on the "Surviving the Game" plot line, where the hunter reveals the game to the prey right after seducing her.
Well, actually, it does care. My soul has a very strong sense of reality.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Because, while it's possible that such a mention in a gamertag/profile is a perfectly true, totally non-offensive statement about an individual's self-identified sexual orientation, the odds more strongly favor it being a nasty, hateful comment (or at best, a tasteless one).
Yeah, okay, you've been on XBox Live (or the internet in general) and you're telling me that it's much more likely that a self-reference to homosexuality to be a hateful comment than sincere?
Come on, you know the score. All the hate your talking about is in calling other people gay as though that's the worst thing you could be. You and I both know that in that environment these people are not going to be referring to themselves as lesbians.
I see no indication that anyone thought the woman's self-identification was a slur. The whole problem is that her self-identification attracted slurs from other people, directed at her.
So yeah, you're crazy.
Er, no. I seriously don't give the slightest damn about anyone's sexual orientation unless they are female and I'm in the process of offering them a drink.
And does "not giving a damn" mean you really don't care if they say anything about it or not, in which case congrats and what I said has nothing to do with you?
If not, does "not giving a damn" mean you don't want to hear about it, as in you do care about not knowing?
If so, are you equally offended by the OPs admission of heterosexuality? Or for that matter what I assume is your own such admission right here? Would you tell someone who said exactly what you yourself just said "Dude stop talking about being straight"?
If not, thanks for proving my point!
Face the facts: "I don't want to hear about your sexual orientation" is something you only hear when the sexual orientation in question is not-straight. Straight people casually mention their sexual orientation all the time and nobody says anything like this (and no, complaining about vulgar/explicit descriptions doesn't count). It's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" for normal society, where it's only an issue if you say that you're gay. Don't tell me that these people don't care about sexuality, they obviously do, and they want to go on being able to believe that someone is straight.
Fact: When someone says "I don't want to hear about [a gay person's] sexual orientation" what they are really saying is "Stop breaking my comfortable assumption that everyone is straight".
Yeah, and images of HAWT GRRL-ON-GRRL SEXORS surely won't encourage the nimrods who would have hit on her. Because when a straight girl is clearly uninterested in being hit on simply because she doesn't want to be bothered that means nothing to these jerks, but if she is uninterested in being hit on because she's a lesbian they'd totally respect that and back off.
Shyeah, right.
I think the reason she self-IDed as gay is because she was operating under the mistaken notion that she could reveal a basic aspect of herself and that it wouldn't get blown up into a big deal and somehow made into her fault that nobody else can handle it.
Well, okay, or she was thinking what you said and was equally naive.
When the chimps get smart and start breeding us for scientific research for the good of chimpanzees everywhere, I'll be the last to complain.
Will you really?
I can believe it if you're just saying that in the huge rush to complain about the chimp take-over and human-breeding program, the few seconds you spend contemplating the irony of the situation would make it likely that once you got around to complaining you were in fact the last to do so.
Otherwise I have a hard time imagining you being led into the Acid on Crotch testing chambers by your chimp master and shrugging and saying "que sera sera".
Frankly I plan to start complaining about chimpanzees breeding us for experiments even before the coup is finished. Especially since, in contrast to your story about humans, chimpanzees are notorious for being lax on ethical oversight committees.
It's just that specific model. Netbooks are the new hot thing, but they aren't exactly the biggest chunk of the market as of today. So it's not like it's 33% of their Inspiron line or something. So I don't find the math to be implausible on its face, especially when we're talking about comparing a sales number with a completely different metric.
In any event, just having that Tier 1 support, and having it apparently work out well in that line, is something to get excited about.
Oh, and btw, that 0.2% absolute delta between April 08 and January 09 is actually a 33% increase in Linux market share.
You should talk to the guys over at The Pirate Bay. Not only would it be deliciously ironic, turning them into real sea-faring pirates, but the *IAA would go crazy trying to issue them region-relevant subpoenas wherever they go.
Yeah, and maybe they could (stupidly) decide to operate off the shores of Somalia and get boarded so we could see a direct side-by-side comparison between "pirates" and honest-to-God-real pirates!
The hard part is finding someone with their family jewels attached to their kneecaps.
I was thinking of an entirely different type of tranny, you old time talker you.
I think we are thinking of the same kind of tranny, and "the tranny in the Ford Taurus is completely useless" matches my experiences pretty well. Goddamn Wanda.
We're seeing Linux have 33% market share on a general-purpose computer.
A general-purpose consumer model, Tier 1 OEM computer, no less. FFS, what does it take to make someone happy these days? If you could have sent word of this back in time to me in 2000, I would have shit a joyous brick just to know such a future was possible.
I'd love to live in a world where Linux had 33% market share on general-purpose computers. I think that trading one monopoly (MS) for another (Linux) is not a good thing, even if I like Linux.
A Linux "monopoly" really wouldn't be the same thing as the Windows monopoly -- aside from being mostly POSIX, it's also open source, so interoperability isn't a big issue, and there can be competition just amongst linux distros. But yeah, I tend to agree. I'm not that worried, since I don't see a situation where Linux eats all of Window's marketshare, but MacOS doesn't take any for itself.
Yeah I don't need to read peer reviewed studies to know that the saturation point changes with temperature and that rain isn't the only way that water vapor pressure is regulated. I was being flippant to someone acting like CO2 is a non-concern because water vapor is a more important "emission".