Nihon deha, kuruma ga anata wo untensuru! (i know, its bad:p)
I guess you were trying to make a Soviet Russia joke? "In Japan, car drives you", maybe? I guess it loses its funny when it's not relevant to the article, is translated into another language and written in romaji.
Well if you want to get that technical, yes we use kilometers here. But even in English speaking countries, mileage is commonly used because "kilometrage" would just sound silly. Mileage or simply "fuel efficiency" is acceptable.
But just for the pedantic, the japanese characters for "nenpi" (I'd type them here but Slashdot doesn't seem to accept Japanese characters) are literally translated as the character for "burn" (On reading of 'nen') and the character for "cost" or "consumption" (On reading of 'hi' or in this case, 'pi'). Mileage is just the (American) English equivalent. Fuel consumption would probably be more widely accepted.
How about using RFID tags on fucking FedEx, UPS and DHL deliveries? The current system is so illogical and antiquated, it's ludicrous. God knows how many times I've checked in on an item only to find the page hasn't been updated for four days. Sure, sometimes it works (I had updates about three times a day when tracking an item from Manhattan to Osaka using FedEx, that was nice) but most of the time it fails horribly and you come to know the tracking number as merely a "Reference Number For When The Package Goes Missing Or Gets Delayed"...
Wow, wrong on nearly everything. "Hajimemashite" does not mean "How do you do?", it means "Nice to meet you." If you wanted to say "How do you do?", the polite form would be "O genki desu ka?"
"Yoroshiku onegaishimasu" does not mean "Nice to meet you" as pointed out in my previous paragraph. "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu" is a fairly standard phrase which roughly translated into English means, "Please treat me kindly." It's a phrase used between two people who are just about to engage in some sort of co-operative situation (maybe starting a new job or a new project at work) or more commonly between customer and a vendor. For example, I just asked my local jeweller to make some size adjustments on my new watch and once we finished discussing what I wanted and when it'd be ready for pickup, we both bowed and said to each other, "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu."
You gotta know what you're talking about before offering a translation, dude. Then again, this is Slashdot so I'm surprised someone didn't say they were actually speaking Swahili or something.
20: Extreme Sports With the Berenstein Bears
19: Bible Adventures
18: Kriss Kross: Make My Video
17: Bubsy 3D
16: Bad Street Brawler
15: Total Recall
14: Rapjam Volume One
13: AIRCARS
12: Night Trap
11: Heroes of the Lance
10: Revolution X
9: Custer's Revenge
8: White Men Can't Jump
7: Superman 64
6: Legend of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon
5: Virtuoso
4: Captain Novolin
3: Fight For Life
2: Club Drive
1: E.T. The Extraterrestrial
Seriously people, if you want REAL, then go OUTSIDE. That is true reality, you smell, taste, and see it all, with a unlimited resolution.
No, see you're missing the point. I don't want REAL LIFE. I want LIFELIKE. Because let's face it, no matter what happens in real life, I doubt I'm ever gonna have the opportunity to bend Elisha Cuthbert over the closest piece of furniture and give her the worst 30 seconds of her life.
But if we can make screens mimic reality, then we're one step closer to every twisted geek's fantasy - the Holodeck. And I guarantee you, Holodeck-Elisha is more open to experimentation. One just has to hope that Real-Holographic-Simulated-Evil-Lincoln doesn't spring to life and goes on a rampage, wrecking the ambience.
Quick, someone who actually knows what they're doing, please give me a rough answer/calculation to the following queries:
Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's.
1) - Is it possible for Pluto and Neptune to one day (like within the next couple billion years) collide? Or are their respective orbits degrading to the point where by the time they'd be near each other orbit-wise, their orbits would no longer overlap significantly? Or by 'overlap' do they mean "diagrammatically speaking, on a two-dimensional representation they overlap but even at their closest possible point they're still a squillion miles away from each other"?
2) - If so, how cool would that be? Would it be funny enough to make it onto an America's Funniest Home Videos video montage? Would it need special clown-horn-honking sound effects?
3) - Considering their distance from Earth and their relatively small size, would a collision of the two have any noticeable effect here on Earth?
4) - Seriously, how cool would worlds colliding be?! Costanza jokes aside, I think it'd be awesome to the max.
What type of smartass reply would you like to your rhetorical question?
* Semi-appropriate mainstream movie quote - "More than you can afford, pal!"
* Ignorant American - "ur so dum! we invented munny!"
* Witty American - "How much is a dime?! More like "How much is a liter? Am I rite?! rofl"
* Straight cut geek response - "10 Cents."
* Family Guy quote - "Swing and a miss, Peter."
Just fucking with you. With the answer being "The value of your average Slashdot post", the correct response we were looking for was "How much is a rat's ass?" We'll be back with more Jeopardy after the break.
Your so unimformed...The Perth Convention centre is heavily booked...I suggest you check your facts instead of only using media as your only source of information. it is booked most weekends GO3 is happening...it is for Developers, export ers, (to Asia) 7 then 2 days ope to the public...so open your fkn mind....Oh...Ive read your site...how can I ask you t open your mind, after seeing who you are
I don't have a website. I honestly have no idea what site you're talking about. Unless you're talking about my slashdot user page, which has no journal or anything other than a list of my previous Slashdot posts? What fucking site are you talking about? Who knows. You could just be banging keys together and coming up with these semi-coherent sentences. I'm probably just fueling your flamebait by replying to someone who can't tell the difference between "your" and "you're", can't string together a proper sentence without overusing the ellipsis and can't place a full stop in when necessary.
And I never claimed the PCEC didn't have bookings. But comparatively speaking, the attempt to stimulate tourism has been a failure. Successful convention centres around the world require the halls to be full most days of the year, not just 'most weekends' and occasional one-day, one-hall 'exhibitions'. Check out Makuhari Messe to get an idea of what I'm talking about. Sure, MM operates to accommodate conventions for a vastly larger city, but they're also competing with a dozen other centres, not to mention that they're 45 minutes by train away from the city centre, unlike the PCEC which has no real rival (okay, MAYBE Burswood) and is about 5 minutes walk. Regardless, there's no point in arguing something as subjective as this. Rather, I'll just point out that the PCEC has been operating at a loss. It has not posted a profitable fiscal quarter since it opened. Now I'm not criticizing them for operating in the red - they've only been going for a couple years. I'm saying that even with them being, as you said "booked most weekends", they're losing money. In fact, go to their 'Coming Events' page and you'll see a vast majority of their bookings only take up a small minority of the halls available (read "one") and are specific business meetings (which means they're just private meetings for companies that want a bigger space than their own boardroom, eg Bankwest IT Meeting - 23rd August 2006)) or a private function which again is not open to the public (eg Lyppard Veterinary Industry Ball 2006 - 19th August 2006, Civil Contractors Luncheon - 1st September 2006). I don't know about you, but when a heap of politicians were fighting tooth and nail to get the damn thing built and the centre can't even attract enough business to turn a profit for a single quarter, I wouldn't expect anything less than bookings, 'provisional bookings' and rumor/innuendo of every crappy 'international' convention they could get their hands on in a vain attempt at justification. Anyone who thinks this is going to be some sort of E3 replacement in any way, be it in scale, popularity or innovation is delusional.
This has nothing to do with the west australian government...
How do you figure? You don't think the WA govenment would benefit from the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre not looking like a fucking graveyard for a weekend? You don't think they'd love to have an international expo to rake in an arbitrary amount of tourism dollars? Hell, you don't think they benefit even from the rumor of such an event happening there? They had to resort to hosting the Sexpo there, for God's sakes! For anyone who might not know, the Sexpo is a cheap and nasty 'adult entertainment industry' expo, which may sound great in countries like Hungary and the Czech Republic, but simply amounts to rows and rows of dildos and condoms for sale in Australia.
What a lot of people might not be immediately aware of is the political motivation for any convention/exhibition being held in Perth.
The Perth Convention Exhibition Centre is a tomb. It was a taxpayer's nightmare. It was expensive, took god damn ages to build and ultimately became an eyesore because of the banal 'generic block of buildings' design that was chosen. It was an attempt to attract more conventions and exhibitions in Perth but these days remains mostly dormant and unused. Not to mention that when it IS used, entrance fees are ludicrously expensive (in a vain attempt to offset the cost) and still feels obtrusive and unwelcoming.
If it actually ends up happening, don't expect the "GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo" to be anything more than horrible. You'll end up paying extortionary prices for parking only to find maybe a hundred booths with no groundbreaking visions into the future of their product line, but instead a couple of racks full of computer hardware you could get already buy off the shelf for a cheaper price at your local computer store and games that've been released months ago.
This is just another disappointing 'expo' that serves no purpose to the consumer. It's a futile attempt to justify the construction of the centre which has spent more days empty and sucking taxpayer's money than anything else.
Clearly this is all just a cover. The Templars are using Consumer Reports as a cover to train a stable of elite Black Hat hackers, with which to take over the world. They're in a race against Communist China, the Russian Mob, and the NSA.
They're also in a race against Dom DeLuise, Jamie Farr dressed as The Sheik, Jackie Chan in a Mitsubishi supercar that can go underwater and some babes in a Countach. Wait, I might have that mixed up.
Anyway, in a post-9/11 world, at least we know they're definitely in a race against terror. Or is that a war against terror? No, that's a war against drugs. Oh I can never remember these things. I should turn on Fox News and let them tell me what we're fighting for again.
Would certainly be a real kicker to find out that these tiny miscalculations caused everyone to pay more tax than they needed to. Where's my refund check?!
I'm sorry but you already spent it. The money that wasn't there from the budget surplus we didn't have was spent on providing tax relief that wasn't actually much of a relief in an attempt to stimulate the economy, which it didn't do.
How bad can a game about a kid countering a bully possibly be?
I can't tell whether that was meant to be a rhetorical question or not. There might have been sarcasm or you might be being fatuous, I'm not sure. But just in case you were being serious, let me highlight something:
It could be said that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (responsible for the Columbine massacre) were 'countering' the bullies that harrassed them at school. An extreme example for sure, but never underestimate human flaws when it comes to such powerful emotional forces as retribution.
With that said, I've bought several of Rockstar's games which have been considered 'violent' and probably plan on buying this game too if it seems any good. I'd like to think of myself as a successful late-20-something who has played countless violent and disturbing video games, watched graphic depiction of violence in numerous movies and tv shows and also was the victim of bullying in school (weren't we all?). Yet I'm still a well-adjusted member of society, an upstanding citizen, have never committed a crime, vote, am involved in charitable works, have a good sense of morality and have no qualms with allowing my children to play violent games with morally dubious goals and watch violent movies - as long as I've deemed they're mature enough for such things. I find it is my duty to keep a constant vigil on my childrens' moral/ethical maturity and to screen/judge their input accordingly. I appreciate there being an ratings board for games and the like, but I think this should be considered simply a guide and that parents should take some god damn responsibility and take charge.
I played some brutal games and watched some horribly graphic movies while I was a kid but I had good enough parents that they knew that although those games and movies weren't the most palatable inputs, they weren't having some sort of detrimental inpact on my growth, my education or my general health/wellbeing. They understood that *I* understood the difference between movies/video games and reality. They understood that although I might be ripping someone's spine out in Mortal Kombat, I was still writing A+ history reports and still knew my sines from my cosines. I might have been going on a Redneck Rampage with my shotgun but I still volunteered at the local Salvation Army thrift store on the occasional weekend and took out the trash and brushed my teeth before bedtime.
Ratings boards should never be considered a substitute for good parenting.
God knows how long I put off learning the ins and outs of Linux distros because of the Linux catch-22: Linux sackriders go on about the superiority of Linux and insist that you're still living in the Dark Ages if you're using Windows, yet if you even feign interest in wanting to learn and perhaps getting some guidance from them, they shun you for being a newbie.
Thank God I'm stubborn and like reading enough that I gorged myself on dozens upon dozens of books so as I had a large enough Linux vocabulary to 'fake it' and subsequently was 'accepted' into certain online Linux cliques. I was then 'allowed' to ask questions and thus was no longer 'out of the loop.'
Seriously, if people are so adamant about making other people aware of the advantages of Linux then for crying out loud, help them learn or at the very least, point them in the right direction. Don't smack them upside the head for not knowing. It's one thing to be a Linux pusher, trying to convince Windows users to try out the alternatives, it's another thing to be a Linux snob and to shun people for not-knowing-yet-wanting-to-know.
I personally don't have enough patience to teach too many people about Linux, especially from scratch. So what do I do when someone asks me about it or wants to learn about it? I give them a whole bunch of useful e-books and related reading materal on CD and tell them to start by taking a bite out of that. I also give them a copy of whatever easy distro I have laying around and tell them to install it on a second computer and just 'play' with it. Then if they're still interested, they've got a decent enough foundation for me (ore more likely someone with more patience) to have a crack at enlightening them further.
Three cars per quarter? I don't get it. How much is that in Eiffel Towers per square millicubit?
You don't get it, do you? This is America. The land of the stupid measurements. Where there's 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 1760 yards to the mile, 16 ounces to a pound, 2000 pounds to the short ton and getting 543816 votes more than your opponent means you lose an election.
Sorry... couldn't help myself. God bless America for boobies and donuts!:)
Get rid of it?! No way! I say improve it. Imagine duct tape combined with this supersuperglue. My God, it'd be like Astroboy and Atlas working together to defeat a common foe!
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Nihon deha, kuruma ga anata wo untensuru! (i know, its bad :p)
I guess you were trying to make a Soviet Russia joke? "In Japan, car drives you", maybe? I guess it loses its funny when it's not relevant to the article, is translated into another language and written in romaji.
Don't they use kilometers there?
Well if you want to get that technical, yes we use kilometers here. But even in English speaking countries, mileage is commonly used because "kilometrage" would just sound silly. Mileage or simply "fuel efficiency" is acceptable.
But just for the pedantic, the japanese characters for "nenpi" (I'd type them here but Slashdot doesn't seem to accept Japanese characters) are literally translated as the character for "burn" (On reading of 'nen') and the character for "cost" or "consumption" (On reading of 'hi' or in this case, 'pi'). Mileage is just the (American) English equivalent. Fuel consumption would probably be more widely accepted.
I saw a Powerpoint presentation on this! So naturally its true!
Are you sure? I wasn't paying attention...
This story is from November 2000.
So the dupe will be posted 6 years ago? Awesome! I'm looking forward to it.
1. Open uTorrent
2. Click on Options
3. Click on Preferences
4. Untick "Check for updates automatically"
5. ???
6. Profit.
How about using RFID tags on fucking FedEx, UPS and DHL deliveries? The current system is so illogical and antiquated, it's ludicrous. God knows how many times I've checked in on an item only to find the page hasn't been updated for four days. Sure, sometimes it works (I had updates about three times a day when tracking an item from Manhattan to Osaka using FedEx, that was nice) but most of the time it fails horribly and you come to know the tracking number as merely a "Reference Number For When The Package Goes Missing Or Gets Delayed"...
hajimemashite -him
hajimemashite -her
yoroshiku onegai shimasu. -him
hajimemashite - How do you do?
yoroshiku onegai shimasu - Nice to meet you.
Later:
arigato - thanks
Can't really hear anything else.
Wow, wrong on nearly everything. "Hajimemashite" does not mean "How do you do?", it means "Nice to meet you." If you wanted to say "How do you do?", the polite form would be "O genki desu ka?"
"Yoroshiku onegaishimasu" does not mean "Nice to meet you" as pointed out in my previous paragraph. "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu" is a fairly standard phrase which roughly translated into English means, "Please treat me kindly." It's a phrase used between two people who are just about to engage in some sort of co-operative situation (maybe starting a new job or a new project at work) or more commonly between customer and a vendor. For example, I just asked my local jeweller to make some size adjustments on my new watch and once we finished discussing what I wanted and when it'd be ready for pickup, we both bowed and said to each other, "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu."
You gotta know what you're talking about before offering a translation, dude. Then again, this is Slashdot so I'm surprised someone didn't say they were actually speaking Swahili or something.
Bypass the link:
20: Extreme Sports With the Berenstein Bears
19: Bible Adventures
18: Kriss Kross: Make My Video
17: Bubsy 3D
16: Bad Street Brawler
15: Total Recall
14: Rapjam Volume One
13: AIRCARS
12: Night Trap
11: Heroes of the Lance
10: Revolution X
9: Custer's Revenge
8: White Men Can't Jump
7: Superman 64
6: Legend of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon
5: Virtuoso
4: Captain Novolin
3: Fight For Life
2: Club Drive
1: E.T. The Extraterrestrial
Seriously people, if you want REAL, then go OUTSIDE. That is true reality, you smell, taste, and see it all, with a unlimited resolution.
No, see you're missing the point. I don't want REAL LIFE. I want LIFELIKE. Because let's face it, no matter what happens in real life, I doubt I'm ever gonna have the opportunity to bend Elisha Cuthbert over the closest piece of furniture and give her the worst 30 seconds of her life.
But if we can make screens mimic reality, then we're one step closer to every twisted geek's fantasy - the Holodeck. And I guarantee you, Holodeck-Elisha is more open to experimentation. One just has to hope that Real-Holographic-Simulated-Evil-Lincoln doesn't spring to life and goes on a rampage, wrecking the ambience.
Quick, someone who actually knows what they're doing, please give me a rough answer/calculation to the following queries:
Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with Neptune's.
1) - Is it possible for Pluto and Neptune to one day (like within the next couple billion years) collide? Or are their respective orbits degrading to the point where by the time they'd be near each other orbit-wise, their orbits would no longer overlap significantly? Or by 'overlap' do they mean "diagrammatically speaking, on a two-dimensional representation they overlap but even at their closest possible point they're still a squillion miles away from each other"?
2) - If so, how cool would that be? Would it be funny enough to make it onto an America's Funniest Home Videos video montage? Would it need special clown-horn-honking sound effects?
3) - Considering their distance from Earth and their relatively small size, would a collision of the two have any noticeable effect here on Earth?
4) - Seriously, how cool would worlds colliding be?! Costanza jokes aside, I think it'd be awesome to the max.
How much is a dime?
So I see you're asking a rhetorical question.
What type of smartass reply would you like to your rhetorical question?
* Semi-appropriate mainstream movie quote - "More than you can afford, pal!"
* Ignorant American - "ur so dum! we invented munny!"
* Witty American - "How much is a dime?! More like "How much is a liter? Am I rite?! rofl"
* Straight cut geek response - "10 Cents."
* Family Guy quote - "Swing and a miss, Peter."
Just fucking with you. With the answer being "The value of your average Slashdot post", the correct response we were looking for was "How much is a rat's ass?" We'll be back with more Jeopardy after the break.
In space, no one can hear the rattlesnake.
"Enough is enough! I want these motherfuckin' pieces of foam insulation off this motherfuckin' shuttle!"
Your so unimformed...The Perth Convention centre is heavily booked...I suggest you check your facts instead of only using media as your only source of information. it is booked most weekends GO3 is happening...it is for Developers, export ers, (to Asia) 7 then 2 days ope to the public...so open your fkn mind....Oh...Ive read your site...how can I ask you t open your mind, after seeing who you are
I don't have a website. I honestly have no idea what site you're talking about. Unless you're talking about my slashdot user page, which has no journal or anything other than a list of my previous Slashdot posts? What fucking site are you talking about? Who knows. You could just be banging keys together and coming up with these semi-coherent sentences. I'm probably just fueling your flamebait by replying to someone who can't tell the difference between "your" and "you're", can't string together a proper sentence without overusing the ellipsis and can't place a full stop in when necessary.
And I never claimed the PCEC didn't have bookings. But comparatively speaking, the attempt to stimulate tourism has been a failure. Successful convention centres around the world require the halls to be full most days of the year, not just 'most weekends' and occasional one-day, one-hall 'exhibitions'. Check out Makuhari Messe to get an idea of what I'm talking about. Sure, MM operates to accommodate conventions for a vastly larger city, but they're also competing with a dozen other centres, not to mention that they're 45 minutes by train away from the city centre, unlike the PCEC which has no real rival (okay, MAYBE Burswood) and is about 5 minutes walk. Regardless, there's no point in arguing something as subjective as this. Rather, I'll just point out that the PCEC has been operating at a loss. It has not posted a profitable fiscal quarter since it opened. Now I'm not criticizing them for operating in the red - they've only been going for a couple years. I'm saying that even with them being, as you said "booked most weekends", they're losing money. In fact, go to their 'Coming Events' page and you'll see a vast majority of their bookings only take up a small minority of the halls available (read "one") and are specific business meetings (which means they're just private meetings for companies that want a bigger space than their own boardroom, eg Bankwest IT Meeting - 23rd August 2006)) or a private function which again is not open to the public (eg Lyppard Veterinary Industry Ball 2006 - 19th August 2006, Civil Contractors Luncheon - 1st September 2006). I don't know about you, but when a heap of politicians were fighting tooth and nail to get the damn thing built and the centre can't even attract enough business to turn a profit for a single quarter, I wouldn't expect anything less than bookings, 'provisional bookings' and rumor/innuendo of every crappy 'international' convention they could get their hands on in a vain attempt at justification. Anyone who thinks this is going to be some sort of E3 replacement in any way, be it in scale, popularity or innovation is delusional.
This has nothing to do with the west australian government...
How do you figure? You don't think the WA govenment would benefit from the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre not looking like a fucking graveyard for a weekend? You don't think they'd love to have an international expo to rake in an arbitrary amount of tourism dollars? Hell, you don't think they benefit even from the rumor of such an event happening there? They had to resort to hosting the Sexpo there, for God's sakes! For anyone who might not know, the Sexpo is a cheap and nasty 'adult entertainment industry' expo, which may sound great in countries like Hungary and the Czech Republic, but simply amounts to rows and rows of dildos and condoms for sale in Australia.
What a lot of people might not be immediately aware of is the political motivation for any convention/exhibition being held in Perth.
The Perth Convention Exhibition Centre is a tomb. It was a taxpayer's nightmare. It was expensive, took god damn ages to build and ultimately became an eyesore because of the banal 'generic block of buildings' design that was chosen. It was an attempt to attract more conventions and exhibitions in Perth but these days remains mostly dormant and unused. Not to mention that when it IS used, entrance fees are ludicrously expensive (in a vain attempt to offset the cost) and still feels obtrusive and unwelcoming.
If it actually ends up happening, don't expect the "GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo" to be anything more than horrible. You'll end up paying extortionary prices for parking only to find maybe a hundred booths with no groundbreaking visions into the future of their product line, but instead a couple of racks full of computer hardware you could get already buy off the shelf for a cheaper price at your local computer store and games that've been released months ago.
This is just another disappointing 'expo' that serves no purpose to the consumer. It's a futile attempt to justify the construction of the centre which has spent more days empty and sucking taxpayer's money than anything else.
Clearly this is all just a cover. The Templars are using Consumer Reports as a cover to train a stable of elite Black Hat hackers, with which to take over the world. They're in a race against Communist China, the Russian Mob, and the NSA.
They're also in a race against Dom DeLuise, Jamie Farr dressed as The Sheik, Jackie Chan in a Mitsubishi supercar that can go underwater and some babes in a Countach. Wait, I might have that mixed up.
Anyway, in a post-9/11 world, at least we know they're definitely in a race against terror. Or is that a war against terror? No, that's a war against drugs. Oh I can never remember these things. I should turn on Fox News and let them tell me what we're fighting for again.
Would certainly be a real kicker to find out that these tiny miscalculations caused everyone to pay more tax than they needed to. Where's my refund check?!
I'm sorry but you already spent it. The money that wasn't there from the budget surplus we didn't have was spent on providing tax relief that wasn't actually much of a relief in an attempt to stimulate the economy, which it didn't do.
How bad can a game about a kid countering a bully possibly be?
I can't tell whether that was meant to be a rhetorical question or not. There might have been sarcasm or you might be being fatuous, I'm not sure. But just in case you were being serious, let me highlight something:
It could be said that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (responsible for the Columbine massacre) were 'countering' the bullies that harrassed them at school. An extreme example for sure, but never underestimate human flaws when it comes to such powerful emotional forces as retribution.
With that said, I've bought several of Rockstar's games which have been considered 'violent' and probably plan on buying this game too if it seems any good. I'd like to think of myself as a successful late-20-something who has played countless violent and disturbing video games, watched graphic depiction of violence in numerous movies and tv shows and also was the victim of bullying in school (weren't we all?). Yet I'm still a well-adjusted member of society, an upstanding citizen, have never committed a crime, vote, am involved in charitable works, have a good sense of morality and have no qualms with allowing my children to play violent games with morally dubious goals and watch violent movies - as long as I've deemed they're mature enough for such things. I find it is my duty to keep a constant vigil on my childrens' moral/ethical maturity and to screen/judge their input accordingly. I appreciate there being an ratings board for games and the like, but I think this should be considered simply a guide and that parents should take some god damn responsibility and take charge.
I played some brutal games and watched some horribly graphic movies while I was a kid but I had good enough parents that they knew that although those games and movies weren't the most palatable inputs, they weren't having some sort of detrimental inpact on my growth, my education or my general health/wellbeing. They understood that *I* understood the difference between movies/video games and reality. They understood that although I might be ripping someone's spine out in Mortal Kombat, I was still writing A+ history reports and still knew my sines from my cosines. I might have been going on a Redneck Rampage with my shotgun but I still volunteered at the local Salvation Army thrift store on the occasional weekend and took out the trash and brushed my teeth before bedtime.
Ratings boards should never be considered a substitute for good parenting.
YouTube's response to this: All you(r) tube are belong to us!
Actually, all your tubes belong to Ted Stevens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
First thing we do, we find out which cell is responsible for making guys choose to wear pink shirts.
Every guy who has an active pink-shirt cell then gets neutered (or would they technically requiring spaying?).
Good call.
God knows how long I put off learning the ins and outs of Linux distros because of the Linux catch-22: Linux sackriders go on about the superiority of Linux and insist that you're still living in the Dark Ages if you're using Windows, yet if you even feign interest in wanting to learn and perhaps getting some guidance from them, they shun you for being a newbie.
Thank God I'm stubborn and like reading enough that I gorged myself on dozens upon dozens of books so as I had a large enough Linux vocabulary to 'fake it' and subsequently was 'accepted' into certain online Linux cliques. I was then 'allowed' to ask questions and thus was no longer 'out of the loop.'
Seriously, if people are so adamant about making other people aware of the advantages of Linux then for crying out loud, help them learn or at the very least, point them in the right direction. Don't smack them upside the head for not knowing. It's one thing to be a Linux pusher, trying to convince Windows users to try out the alternatives, it's another thing to be a Linux snob and to shun people for not-knowing-yet-wanting-to-know.
I personally don't have enough patience to teach too many people about Linux, especially from scratch. So what do I do when someone asks me about it or wants to learn about it? I give them a whole bunch of useful e-books and related reading materal on CD and tell them to start by taking a bite out of that. I also give them a copy of whatever easy distro I have laying around and tell them to install it on a second computer and just 'play' with it. Then if they're still interested, they've got a decent enough foundation for me (ore more likely someone with more patience) to have a crack at enlightening them further.
Would the force change if 3 cars were piled onto a surface that was 1 square meter - no....
Well, if there's more surface area, then there's a wider distribution of weight and the pressure per square inch would diminish.
Three cars per quarter? I don't get it. How much is that in Eiffel Towers per square millicubit?
:)
You don't get it, do you? This is America. The land of the stupid measurements. Where there's 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard, 1760 yards to the mile, 16 ounces to a pound, 2000 pounds to the short ton and getting 543816 votes more than your opponent means you lose an election.
Sorry... couldn't help myself. God bless America for boobies and donuts!
"Time to get rid of the duct tape?"
Get rid of it?! No way! I say improve it. Imagine duct tape combined with this supersuperglue. My God, it'd be like Astroboy and Atlas working together to defeat a common foe!
Or something.
Separate. S-e-p-a-r-a-t-e. Separate.