Well, although I doubt that the Storm Troopers were always meant to be clones, you can easily attribute this to the Empire deciding at some point in the 25 year period between Ep2 and Ep4 to have clones of more than one person. That is, some were clones of Jango, some were clones of different people.
That's why TiVo and Video on Demand are so awesome.
(Video on Demand is a service provided by some Digital Cable companies, where you can watch shows "on demand" whenever you want to over your cable. It works by having a server at your cable company store a bunch of TV shows on it, which are streamed to you whenever you want to watch them. It's still doesn't have a huge variety of shows, but my family got it a bit ago, so I've been watching Excel Saga on the Anime Network's "channel.")
It's usually a mass noun, but Lego can also be used to mean an individual lego brick, in which case more than one such brick are called "Legos". Although it's not approved of by the trademark holder, because if trademarked words enter the swirling maelstrom that is the evolution of language, they are doomed to pass out of trademark. As mentioned in my brother post, the trademark holder also prefers LEGO, just as Hormel preffers that you refer to the infamous canned meat as SPAM, saving Spam for unsolicited bulk email.
FOOL! You're supposed to keep your hat tightly on your head! If you have your hands around it to the point where they have to pry it off... it's too late. They have already gotten your... information.
I really don't think people are outsourcing to Japan so much. The costs-of-living in Japan are comparable with America, if not higher in some places, so it's not really practical to outsource there.
And they make Anime. So Japan should clearly rank very high on the "Slashdot Hive Mind" scale.
Argh. this link. I really oughtta hit preview more; the gods of HTML clearly didn't like my little snipe, and decided that I needed to have my post incorrectly presented because of a typo to punish me.
Yes, but you screwed up the validation. All your current link says is "OH NOES! THEY DIDN'T PUT IN A DOCTYPE!" You should give the validator a doctype, and I don't think that's too huge an issue. They're clearly not going for anything resembling XHTML. This is how they do once you tell the validator to treat it as Transitional HTML 4.01, which seems a fair standard to hold Microsoft to.
I know that, and I was arguing that it was a word. American Heritage is pretty good at catching up with the evolution of language. And anyway, not all words are in the dictionary, but if something is defined in a relatively recent dictionary, it's a word. Words don't go away very quickly. The worst that could've happened was to become non-standard, which they already claim it is.
Bah. It should be given in something like Unix time. (Seconds after 1970 Jan 01 12:00p GMT.) The second is the SI unit of time, and if you're going to invent a Chronology system, make it universal and metric.
Terminal Velocity is the speed at which air resistance is equal to the gravitational force, so the velocity is constant. In space, there's basically no air resistance, so Terminal Velocity would be obscenely fast. What they've got is an orbit, which is different. Gravity is changing their velocity at such a rate so that its location over time is more-or-less periodic.
But yes, you've got an important point there. Gravity is there, but everything's accelerating at the same rate, so you don't feel it.
If we're going to be mindlessly quoting that episode dare I say that I have a quote from it that is the best and most mindless of them all?
Kent: We're just about to get our first pictures from inside the spacecraft with "average-naut" Homer Simpson, and we'd like to-- Aah!
[Camera shows a close-up of an ant floating in front of the three astronauts]
Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here.
Kent: (Turns to camera, puts on a happier face) And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
American Heritage Dictionary (a dictionary I feel strangely loyal feelings towards) begs to differ, although they also consider "anyways" to be a "non-standard" phrase, so it's probably best avoided, especially because "anyway" works just as well.
Typing is inherently better than speaking. ^_^ Plus, if you live in a decently sized house, (two floors with a basement, lets say) there's not always a hallway for you to yell down. Also, people on computers have a tendency to wear headphones. I'm wearing headphones right now.
No single organization owns the entire root nameserver. There are thirteen root nameservers, and Verisign owns two of them. Verisign did that little sitefinder trick because they also own the.com and.net nameservers.
No, the combination of his attitudes with attitudes like yours is what can lead to some rather nasty crap. You don't have wars in a world of Neville Chamberlains.
It's your basic Prisoner's Dillema problem. A world of nice people would be best, but unstable, because jerks could come in at any time and ruin everything.
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Well, although I doubt that the Storm Troopers were always meant to be clones, you can easily attribute this to the Empire deciding at some point in the 25 year period between Ep2 and Ep4 to have clones of more than one person. That is, some were clones of Jango, some were clones of different people.
It could go either way, but I think they're fake. Besides the fact that I think someone told me they are:
1) They discuss "Landover Baptists" directly and call them filthy sinners. It seems like the kind of thing parodiers might want to do.
2) "Christian Game Theory" has too odd a combination of knowledge and incompetence to not be written by someone who's doing a spoof.
3) "4 Kidz" is too damned perfect.
That's not a Regex. I think you call that a "glob." If you wanted it to be a Regex, you'd want something like [A-Za-z]*(i|u)x.
That's why TiVo and Video on Demand are so awesome.
(Video on Demand is a service provided by some Digital Cable companies, where you can watch shows "on demand" whenever you want to over your cable. It works by having a server at your cable company store a bunch of TV shows on it, which are streamed to you whenever you want to watch them. It's still doesn't have a huge variety of shows, but my family got it a bit ago, so I've been watching Excel Saga on the Anime Network's "channel.")
It's usually a mass noun, but Lego can also be used to mean an individual lego brick, in which case more than one such brick are called "Legos". Although it's not approved of by the trademark holder, because if trademarked words enter the swirling maelstrom that is the evolution of language, they are doomed to pass out of trademark. As mentioned in my brother post, the trademark holder also prefers LEGO, just as Hormel preffers that you refer to the infamous canned meat as SPAM, saving Spam for unsolicited bulk email.
Question. Why would decreasing Slashdot's signal-to-noise ratio cause the editors to admit anything?
You don't get Karma for -1 Offtopic, I'm afraid.
FOOL! You're supposed to keep your hat tightly on your head! If you have your hands around it to the point where they have to pry it off... it's too late. They have already gotten your... information.
I really don't think people are outsourcing to Japan so much. The costs-of-living in Japan are comparable with America, if not higher in some places, so it's not really practical to outsource there.
And they make Anime. So Japan should clearly rank very high on the "Slashdot Hive Mind" scale.
Argh. this link. I really oughtta hit preview more; the gods of HTML clearly didn't like my little snipe, and decided that I needed to have my post incorrectly presented because of a typo to punish me.
Yes, but you screwed up the validation. All your current link says is "OH NOES! THEY DIDN'T PUT IN A DOCTYPE!" You should give the validator a doctype, and I don't think that's too huge an issue. They're clearly not going for anything resembling XHTML. This is how they do once you tell the validator to treat it as Transitional HTML 4.01, which seems a fair standard to hold Microsoft to.
And he made me his foe! Clearly, this man is criminally insane. ;)
I know that, and I was arguing that it was a word. American Heritage is pretty good at catching up with the evolution of language. And anyway, not all words are in the dictionary, but if something is defined in a relatively recent dictionary, it's a word. Words don't go away very quickly. The worst that could've happened was to become non-standard, which they already claim it is.
Bah. It should be given in something like Unix time. (Seconds after 1970 Jan 01 12:00p GMT.) The second is the SI unit of time, and if you're going to invent a Chronology system, make it universal and metric.
So close, but so stupid. ^_^
Terminal Velocity is the speed at which air resistance is equal to the gravitational force, so the velocity is constant. In space, there's basically no air resistance, so Terminal Velocity would be obscenely fast. What they've got is an orbit, which is different. Gravity is changing their velocity at such a rate so that its location over time is more-or-less periodic.
But yes, you've got an important point there. Gravity is there, but everything's accelerating at the same rate, so you don't feel it.
If we're going to be mindlessly quoting that episode dare I say that I have a quote from it that is the best and most mindless of them all?
Kent: We're just about to get our first pictures from inside the spacecraft with "average-naut" Homer Simpson, and we'd like to-- Aah!
[Camera shows a close-up of an ant floating in front of the three astronauts]
Kent: Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here.
Kent: (Turns to camera, puts on a happier face) And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
American Heritage Dictionary (a dictionary I feel strangely loyal feelings towards) begs to differ, although they also consider "anyways" to be a "non-standard" phrase, so it's probably best avoided, especially because "anyway" works just as well.
>Or Viking?</a>
Typing is inherently better than speaking. ^_^ Plus, if you live in a decently sized house, (two floors with a basement, lets say) there's not always a hallway for you to yell down. Also, people on computers have a tendency to wear headphones. I'm wearing headphones right now.
The post was a little awkwardly written, but there were no typoes. Here's a "translation."
<blockquote>There's no real benefit to WMA. Yes, it's better than MP3, but all of the
"next generation" codecs are.</blockquote>
No single organization owns the entire root nameserver. There are thirteen root nameservers, and Verisign owns two of them. Verisign did that little sitefinder trick because they also own the .com and .net nameservers.
Oh please. Don't you think that someone decided to use president@whitehouse.gov as a fake email address? Politicians DO recieve a lot of spam.
But there is no standard human. You should be able to carry your user preferences with you.
Myself, I blame all those shifty trees.
No, the combination of his attitudes with attitudes like yours is what can lead to some rather nasty crap. You don't have wars in a world of Neville Chamberlains.
It's your basic Prisoner's Dillema problem. A world of nice people would be best, but unstable, because jerks could come in at any time and ruin everything.