The Overman Culture, by Edmund Cooper The House in November, by Keith Laumer Re-birth (AKA The Chrysalids), by John Wyndham Hawksbill Station, by Robert Silverberg Children of the Star trilogy, by Sylvia Engdahl The Changeling, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
These are all wonderful books, though I seldom see them mentioned anymore.
You don't know any of them? Literally? You've honestly never heard of Connie Willis,Ted Chiang, Steven Moffat, or Lev Grossman?
Willis has won eleven Hugos, and seven Hugos. Approximately half of Chiang's total output has won either a Hugo or a Nebula.
Please, do yourself a favor and acquaint yourself with Willis and Chiang, at least. Moffat is responsible for some of the best Dr Who episodes of recent years, and, arguably, of all time. Grossman writes Potterish novels for adults, and I don't mean that in a deprecating way.
Mickey Zucker Reichert is hardly an unknown, and Asimov's works are not comparable to Rembrandt's or Picasso's, as much as I love him. Asimov allowed people to play in his world during his own lifetime, and attached his name to anything that would earn him a nickel.
McCain was born in Panama, not even the Panama Canal Zone, and he showed his COLB when asked to resolve his citizenship issues, which is exactly what Obama has shown.
Obama's Kenyan grandmother did NOT say that he was born in Kenya. Listen to the entire tape. It is available on YouYube. The Kenyan government has NOT said that Obama was born in Kenya.
All of the rest of your claims are also false, which is easily discoverable with a little research. "Research" does not mean browsing a few wingnut webpages.
I understand your sentiment, but I still disagree with you. First, for the people who are unable to regulate themselves, we unfortunately sometimes have to enforce courtesy. There is precedent, even. Talk too loudly for too long in a cinema, and they will remove you. This is solely because you are irritating other customers, not for health or safety. Second, my level of agitation would be nearly homicidal if I had to suffer some inconsiderate idiot's conversation for an entire flight.I would consider it an aural assault, truthfully. I can imagine a physical alteration if the flight lasted long enough. Label it trespassing in my aural space. We use similar sonic attacks to torture alleged terrorists, and, without any exaggeration, being subjected to someone's cellphone conversation for a prolonged period would be torture to me.
No, it isn't. If you don't know anything about the candidates, then you are uninformed (lacking in knowledge or information) about the candidates. "Informed-ness" might be relative, as there is no rulebook which specifies (on a scale, perhaps) absolute "informed-ness" versus absolute ignorance, but someone who doesn't know shit about candidate X is still uninformed about that candidate, even if there is someone hypothetically who knows less.
Further, Kinderstart isn't a search engine, nor has it ever been, not even by the most charitable definition of the term. Go to their page. They are a loosley categorized collection of links, with the addition of a search box that uses OTHER search engines to spider the web. By their reasoning, every webpage that puts a Google box on their page miraculously becomes a search engine themselves, amd hence would be eligible to sue Google.
Fucking sour grapes losers. I wish you could bitch slap companies that abuse the legal system in this way.
Go just below the radar one too many times, and you can be charged, eevn if there is no illegal activity behind the generation of money.
Could you possibly substantiate and clarify this?
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So what's the problem here? The problem is that I don't like it.
You don't like it? You don't like it because you are a tinfoil-hat-wearing moron, or do you have a legitimate reason?
You see, I do like it. First, because I don't care what people know about me. If I masturbated to pictures of aborted goat fetuses, I wouldn't give a shit who knew. It is useful to me to be served up advertisments that have a percentage chance of actually appealing. How could I possibly object? In an enterprise that is partially advertsing funded -- which iTunes defintely is -- I'd much rather be served recommendations for superior goat porn than the latest tuneless abomination by Britney Spears.
I've never read Frisk, I'll have to check him out. You say that he is appropriate for "that age bracket," when this depends on what "that age bracket" means. "Teens" is a a very broad range, and in the pre-teen group you can have precocious readers.
I dislike Foster, so I wouldn't recommend him to anyone. Likewise Piers Anthony, unless you want them to be scraping the bottom of the barrel, fiction-wise. Children don't have to read tripe just because their tastes haven't (theoretically) matured. Think of Garth Nix or Philip Pullman. Their books are more adult than many books written for ostensibly older readers.
Lucy Boston is wonderful, if a bit hard to find. John Christopher. John Bellairs. Susan Cooper. Strictly speaking, you would have to stretch "Science Fiction" to "Speculative Fiction" to include some of those authors, but it is well worth the stretch.
Yep, I work 40 hours a week, and attend uni full-time. And I'm still starving, but I'm managing.
Yes, you got carried away, but yes, I'm nit-picking here. I'm an English/Philosophy major; it's my job (and certainly my nature) to nit-pick.
For what it's worth, I like LotR, both the filmic and the book versions. I'm not a big fan of the epic fantasy genre, truthfully, but Jackson and Tolkien made me forget that during the many hours I spent viewing/reading their work. I didn't read LotR until I was nearly 40, and I read them as a result of enjoying the films. They still aren't my favorite fiction, not by a long shot, but I'm glad I have at least one connection with popular culture that I actually enjoy. I hate Indiana Jones movies, and Battlestar Galactica, and The A Team, and the Dukes of Hazard, and Velveeta and Spam. It sucks always being on the outside because you have minority tastes.
Anyway, I did read your post thourougly, I just define "pelt" differently than you do. I'm not any nicer than you are; in fact, I'm almost guaranteed to be a bigger dick (and, no, I'm not implying that you are a dick). However, when I'm engaged in discourse, I try to keep it as civil as I possibly can. I guess that goes with the Philosopher in my nature.
Hey, you're entitled to your opinion. I'm not going to pelt you with anything.
Contradicts this:
But hey, I guess you're just way more perceptive than all the millions of people, some of whom have devoted their lives to words, novels, and literature, who love Tolkien's works.
And this:
You're welcome to your opinion, whatever it may be, but some opinions cast you in a worse light then you could ever cast the object of the opinion in.
I don't know how you would describe "pelt[ing]," but both examples seem judgemental, in a negative context, to me, especially when combined with this:
Maybe you should consider becoming conversant with the external context of a work before you display your unabashedly uninformed categorical opinions on it.
I know that this wasn't addressed to me specifically, but what makes you think that the poster isn't conversant? I definitely am conversant with the Star Wars films, and I _still_ think they suck. It is my considered opinion. I suppose I should write an essay called "Why Star Wars Sucks" and put it on-line so that I can post a link when the subject arises, but as a full-time student working also 40 hours a week I don't have the time. I barely had the time to compose this message, but I have to allow myself some leisure activity, or I'd go insane.
I think ALL of the Star Wars movies suck, and not just episodes I, II and III. I have a lot against the films, mostly that they are responsible for turning what was (on the verge of turning into) a mature genre into infantile shit. SF, as a genre, has never recovered.
No, I'm not trolling. I've despised the films since I saw the first one in 1977. I've watched them all (on opening night!) desperately hoping that at least one of them would turn out not to be complete drek, but my hope was in vain.
Most of us find a keyboard and a mouse useful on our gaming rigs, and a pair of speakers, and oh, I don't know, an OS, a case, and possibly even a monitor.
I'm using the VMware Player to browse Slashdot, RIGHT now, with something called the "Browser Appliance," which I also downloaded from their site. "Browser Appliance" consists of a version of Ubuntu and Firefox 1.0.7. It works slicker than shit, with almost zero system degradation.
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The Overman Culture, by Edmund Cooper
The House in November, by Keith Laumer
Re-birth (AKA The Chrysalids), by John Wyndham
Hawksbill Station, by Robert Silverberg
Children of the Star trilogy, by Sylvia Engdahl
The Changeling, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
These are all wonderful books, though I seldom see them mentioned anymore.
To correct myself:
Willis has won seven Nebulas..
I did preview, honest.
You don't know any of them? Literally? You've honestly never heard of Connie Willis,Ted Chiang, Steven Moffat, or Lev Grossman?
Willis has won eleven Hugos, and seven Hugos. Approximately half of Chiang's total output has won either a Hugo or a Nebula.
Please, do yourself a favor and acquaint yourself with Willis and Chiang, at least. Moffat is responsible for some of the best Dr Who episodes of recent years, and, arguably, of all time. Grossman writes Potterish novels for adults, and I don't mean that in a deprecating way.
Mickey Zucker Reichert is hardly an unknown, and Asimov's works are not comparable to Rembrandt's or Picasso's, as much as I love him. Asimov allowed people to play in his world during his own lifetime, and attached his name to anything that would earn him a nickel.
McCain was born in Panama, not even the Panama Canal Zone, and he showed his COLB when asked to resolve his citizenship issues, which is exactly what Obama has shown.
Obama's Kenyan grandmother did NOT say that he was born in Kenya. Listen to the entire tape. It is available on YouYube. The Kenyan government has NOT said that Obama was born in Kenya.
All of the rest of your claims are also false, which is easily discoverable with a little research. "Research" does not mean browsing a few wingnut webpages.
I understand your sentiment, but I still disagree with you. First, for the people who are unable to regulate themselves, we unfortunately sometimes have to enforce courtesy. There is precedent, even. Talk too loudly for too long in a cinema, and they will remove you. This is solely because you are irritating other customers, not for health or safety. Second, my level of agitation would be nearly homicidal if I had to suffer some inconsiderate idiot's conversation for an entire flight.I would consider it an aural assault, truthfully. I can imagine a physical alteration if the flight lasted long enough. Label it trespassing in my aural space. We use similar sonic attacks to torture alleged terrorists, and, without any exaggeration, being subjected to someone's cellphone conversation for a prolonged period would be torture to me.
Wracked up heavy losses? Illiteracy has even struck PC World?
> Informed-ness is in the eye of the beholder.
No, it isn't. If you don't know anything about the candidates, then you are uninformed (lacking in knowledge or information) about the candidates. "Informed-ness" might be relative, as there is no rulebook which specifies (on a scale, perhaps) absolute "informed-ness" versus absolute ignorance, but someone who doesn't know shit about candidate X is still uninformed about that candidate, even if there is someone hypothetically who knows less.
Using the power of Digg to locate a missing person
t o+locate+a+missing+person
http://digg.com/search?s=Using+the+power+of+Digg+
Further, Kinderstart isn't a search engine, nor has it ever been, not even by the most charitable definition of the term. Go to their page. They are a loosley categorized collection of links, with the addition of a search box that uses OTHER search engines to spider the web. By their reasoning, every webpage that puts a Google box on their page miraculously becomes a search engine themselves, amd hence would be eligible to sue Google.
Fucking sour grapes losers. I wish you could bitch slap companies that abuse the legal system in this way.
Exactly. And "using" doesn't equate to "available on PC."
Plonkers.
I get this page when I click the link:
r -review/
/. been hacked, or am I infected? I'm on a University of Idaho computer...
http://www.fbi.gov/?2006/03/29/google-page-creato
Is this supposed to be funny, has
Thank you for your response. :-)
Very interesting.
Go just below the radar one too many times, and you can be charged, eevn if there is no illegal activity behind the generation of money.
Could you possibly substantiate and clarify this?
So what's the problem here? The problem is that I don't like it.
You don't like it? You don't like it because you are a tinfoil-hat-wearing moron, or do you have a legitimate reason?
You see, I do like it. First, because I don't care what people know about me. If I masturbated to pictures of aborted goat fetuses, I wouldn't give a shit who knew. It is useful to me to be served up advertisments that have a percentage chance of actually appealing. How could I possibly object? In an enterprise that is partially advertsing funded -- which iTunes defintely is -- I'd much rather be served recommendations for superior goat porn than the latest tuneless abomination by Britney Spears.
for Learining a Foreign Language
I suggest learning your own language before attempting others.
I've never read Frisk, I'll have to check him out. You say that he is appropriate for "that age bracket," when this depends on what "that age bracket" means. "Teens" is a a very broad range, and in the pre-teen group you can have precocious readers.
I dislike Foster, so I wouldn't recommend him to anyone. Likewise Piers Anthony, unless you want them to be scraping the bottom of the barrel, fiction-wise. Children don't have to read tripe just because their tastes haven't (theoretically) matured. Think of Garth Nix or Philip Pullman. Their books are more adult than many books written for ostensibly older readers.
Lucy Boston is wonderful, if a bit hard to find. John Christopher. John Bellairs. Susan Cooper. Strictly speaking, you would have to stretch "Science Fiction" to "Speculative Fiction" to include some of those authors, but it is well worth the stretch.
I adore bittorrent. Hi, Julian.
Yep, I work 40 hours a week, and attend uni full-time. And I'm still starving, but I'm managing.
Yes, you got carried away, but yes, I'm nit-picking here. I'm an English/Philosophy major; it's my job (and certainly my nature) to nit-pick.
For what it's worth, I like LotR, both the filmic and the book versions. I'm not a big fan of the epic fantasy genre, truthfully, but Jackson and Tolkien made me forget that during the many hours I spent viewing/reading their work. I didn't read LotR until I was nearly 40, and I read them as a result of enjoying the films. They still aren't my favorite fiction, not by a long shot, but I'm glad I have at least one connection with popular culture that I actually enjoy. I hate Indiana Jones movies, and Battlestar Galactica, and The A Team, and the Dukes of Hazard, and Velveeta and Spam. It sucks always being on the outside because you have minority tastes.
Anyway, I did read your post thourougly, I just define "pelt" differently than you do. I'm not any nicer than you are; in fact, I'm almost guaranteed to be a bigger dick (and, no, I'm not implying that you are a dick). However, when I'm engaged in discourse, I try to keep it as civil as I possibly can. I guess that goes with the Philosopher in my nature.
Thanks for the response,
Chas
This:
Hey, you're entitled to your opinion. I'm not going to pelt you with anything.
Contradicts this:
But hey, I guess you're just way more perceptive than all the millions of people, some of whom have devoted their lives to words, novels, and literature, who love Tolkien's works.
And this:
You're welcome to your opinion, whatever it may be, but some opinions cast you in a worse light then you could ever cast the object of the opinion in.
I don't know how you would describe "pelt[ing]," but both examples seem judgemental, in a negative context, to me, especially when combined with this:
Maybe you should consider becoming conversant with the external context of a work before you display your unabashedly uninformed categorical opinions on it.
I know that this wasn't addressed to me specifically, but what makes you think that the poster isn't conversant? I definitely am conversant with the Star Wars films, and I _still_ think they suck. It is my considered opinion. I suppose I should write an essay called "Why Star Wars Sucks" and put it on-line so that I can post a link when the subject arises, but as a full-time student working also 40 hours a week I don't have the time. I barely had the time to compose this message, but I have to allow myself some leisure activity, or I'd go insane.
I think ALL of the Star Wars movies suck, and not just episodes I, II and III. I have a lot against the films, mostly that they are responsible for turning what was (on the verge of turning into) a mature genre into infantile shit. SF, as a genre, has never recovered.
No, I'm not trolling. I've despised the films since I saw the first one in 1977. I've watched them all (on opening night!) desperately hoping that at least one of them would turn out not to be complete drek, but my hope was in vain.
Most of us find a keyboard and a mouse useful on our gaming rigs, and a pair of speakers, and oh, I don't know, an OS, a case, and possibly even a monitor.
A $500 gaming rig? Not quite!
I'm using the VMware Player to browse Slashdot, RIGHT now, with something called the "Browser Appliance," which I also downloaded from their site. "Browser Appliance" consists of a version of Ubuntu and Firefox 1.0.7. It works slicker than shit, with almost zero system degradation.
I'm impressed!
As it happens, I also like their design. No, I am not a shill. Tastes vary. Get over it.
Or:
Most Slashdot readers have read about "clickers," remote control style devices that [allow] students to wirelessly answer a teacher's questions.