Exactly! The title is some sort of weird grandfather paradox. This movie gives birth to the characters that inhabit the earlier movies later in time that give Lucas the money to create his empire so that he can make the former movies to create his empire because his empire is dependent on the characters that are in Birth of the Empire.
...right? Hmmmm, I predict that the reply to this post that asks, "Huh?" will get +5 Funny.
yeah, mcbride would rate pretty high in SCO units, but there are others too. if you are still interested, feel free to comment on the journal entry i wrote to help develop the SCO unit. thanks for replying.
That's a good idea, but it'd be cool if you got a little more specific. The metric is designed for a particular event which will form the basis of the metric. the question is what event should form the baseline for this metric? feel free to post your ideas here.
The goal of this metric is to create a handy way to rate the FUD of a given article, press release, statement, action, etc. I realize you are probably making a joke, but your comment does warrant consideration. This metric will be performing an important service once the details get hammered out.
>Actually, I would propose McBride Units. Why malign an acronym when you can get to the heart of the beast?
I think McBride has maligned S.C.O. plenty (although I think it's really ceased to be an acronym and more of an epithet nowadays) and anything anyone else might do probably wouldn't make it any worse. And naming this hypothetical FUD metric after McBride would really just be giving him too much credit. He is but a cog in the great FUD machine known as SCO and I think the name of the metric should reflect that.
Anyone else ever notice how the heat-grading units for peppers are called Scoville Units?
In honor of this, I propose a scale for rating the FUD of companies & other groups/individuals based on SCO Units.
I can't think of where the scale would top out or even start, but that earlier story that got Linus to say he was a frontman for the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus has to be worth something.
And besides, SCO probably won't be around for much longer once IBM steps on them. They might as well contribute to some great cause before they are just a footnote in that future book, The History of the Greatest Operating System That Ever Lived.
According to the original article in the Baltimore Sun, the family hasn't decided to sue yet. They probably know that they don't really have a case. 'sides, all they want is to be insiders for the IPO, atm, not get zillions in punitive damages or trademark-violation damages. Of course, this could all change if they don't get the chance to be insiders for the IPO.
So no, this doesn't really seem like a case of folks suing google 'cause they are violating the common-law trademark rights of the 4-year old who came up with "googol"...yet.
Thanks, that was pretty funny. Yeah, it's like mine, but they went further and included the launch every zig part, obviously. Probably spent more than 2 minutes on it too, as they managed to replace every "Captain" with "Saddam" unlike myself.
While I won't say whether I agree with the war or not, a spontaneous parody is definitely in order.
In A.D. 2003
War was beginning.
Saddam: What happen?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal
Saddam: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you! We met in the '80s!
RUMSFELD: How are you gentlemen!!
RUMSFELD: All your Iraq are belong to U.S.
RUMSFELD: We are on the way to your weapons of mass destruction.
Saddam: What you say!!
RUMSFELD: You have no chance to survive make your time.
RUMSFELD: Ha Ha Ha Ha...
That's a great story. Yeah, I knew this other guy that did pretty much the same thing, although I'm not sure he was quite as industrious as you, but he made some serious dough. Man oh man, that was a totally heady time.
I can't think of another paradigm shift that would cause something like that again, but I suppose if I could I'd be rich...
I remember AllAdvantage and all of its ilk! The greatest motto of the late 90s was this:
GET PAID TO SLEEP!
My friends and I would install numerous get-paid-to-surf programs on our computers and leave them on while we slept, along with these programs (one of them called "MyAdvantage") that would move the mouse around every so often and click links so as to give the appearance of activity. And yes, we *did* receive checks, in excess of $20 some months. Not enough to live off of, of course, but it paid for our cable modem at the time (which was uncapped!).
But I'm not being a karma-whore. Look at the subject:
I dont care about the car
The grandparent didn't care about the car and so i was responding to him. To be entirely ethical I probably shouldn't have replied to the grandparent, but I was in a hurry.
Also, is there a place where I can consult these canonical rules of karma-whoredom you speak of? Feel free to reply with a link.
This dude totally put the wrong body on his car. Although I can't find out why he chose a Camaro because his site is down, he missed out on even more high-fives and conversation snippets like these:
"OH MY GOD! A FLOATING DELOREAN!"
"I haven't seen a floating delorean since 2004."
"The way I see it, if you're gonna build flotation into a car,
why not do it with some style?"
Actually, I think the grandparent poster was talking about the Microsoft Office '97 easter egg. Scroll down to the part about a fight simulator being in Excel.
Yeah, I realized that the democracy/republic thing doesn't really fly anymore after I posted. Yeah... We could play word games all day, trying to label our system. Some that come to mind are:
etc, etc. You made a very good point about Switzerland's history of heterogenous cultural groups -- pretty much shot that theory down.
And yeah, it must really be a question of class here in the U.S. of A. Incredible disparities in the distribution of wealth do not make for a happy citizenry, whether they know it or not.
I don't know about limiting folks to only voting for graduate-degree-holding polyglots... graduate degrees can be pretty easy to come by as history has shown us, provided you have the right connections. maybe we could start a system where politicians have to publish dissertations about what they will do with their time in office? no, i'm not serious about that one:)
This is why we don't have a democracy, we have a republic. The founding fathers knew very well what would happen if the U.S. was a democracy.
But your point is still valid, though, in that a republic cannot cannot be sustained in a manner befitting of our founding ideals, if its citizens are uneducated.
If you get bored some time, read up on the gov't of switzerland. Their federal system is probably what ours might have looked like had the u.s. been substantially smaller and lacking the varied, disparate cultural groups that have shaped the nation since its inception. whether or not that's a good thing, you'll have to decide.
And yeah, that evolution statistic is pretty scary. I would bet that belief in astrology is even higher, though, and there isn't even a bible to thump on that one.
Yeah, I really like some of those hacks. One time, well, actually a couple of times my friends and I have played Dragon Warrior with the frameskip up as high as it goes. Turn down the music and you've got 2 1/2 hours of unbridled dragon slaying and adrenline as everybody races to slay the Dragon Lord first. Save states really make for a fun game too, because you can get Erdrick's armor at a very low level by continually resetting the game until you score a critical hit. Be careful though, don't accidentally save your game over itself, instead of hitting reload. Always keep many save files from the recent past on hand in case something like this should happen. Anyhow, this is a fun way to blow a couple of hours and for some reason I also feel the need to state:
Slashdot Mirror
My Great Grandfather's Most Famous Quote
By H. Jones III
"We named the cat Indiana!"
Exactly! The title is some sort of weird grandfather paradox. This movie gives birth to the characters that inhabit the earlier movies later in time that give Lucas the money to create his empire so that he can make the former movies to create his empire because his empire is dependent on the characters that are in Birth of the Empire.
...right? Hmmmm, I predict that the reply to this post that asks, "Huh?" will get +5 Funny.
GO AWAY, OR I SHALL PATENT YOU ANOTHER TIME!
crap. good thing i live in the united states, no software patents here!!!!:)
yeah, mcbride would rate pretty high in SCO units, but there are others too. if you are still interested, feel free to comment on the journal entry i wrote to help develop the SCO unit. thanks for replying.
That's a good idea, but it'd be cool if you got a little more specific. The metric is designed for a particular event which will form the basis of the metric. the question is what event should form the baseline for this metric? feel free to post your ideas here.
The goal of this metric is to create a handy way to rate the FUD of a given article, press release, statement, action, etc. I realize you are probably making a joke, but your comment does warrant consideration. This metric will be performing an important service once the details get hammered out.
>Actually, I would propose McBride Units. Why malign an acronym when you can get to the heart of the beast?
I think McBride has maligned S.C.O. plenty (although I think it's really ceased to be an acronym and more of an epithet nowadays) and anything anyone else might do probably wouldn't make it any worse. And naming this hypothetical FUD metric after McBride would really just be giving him too much credit. He is but a cog in the great FUD machine known as SCO and I think the name of the metric should reflect that.
Anyone else ever notice how the heat-grading units for peppers are called Scoville Units?
In honor of this, I propose a scale for rating the FUD of companies & other groups/individuals based on SCO Units.
I can't think of where the scale would top out or even start, but that earlier story that got Linus to say he was a frontman for the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus has to be worth something.
And besides, SCO probably won't be around for much longer once IBM steps on them. They might as well contribute to some great cause before they are just a footnote in that future book, The History of the Greatest Operating System That Ever Lived.
According to the original article in the Baltimore Sun, the family hasn't decided to sue yet. They probably know that they don't really have a case. 'sides, all they want is to be insiders for the IPO, atm, not get zillions in punitive damages or trademark-violation damages. Of course, this could all change if they don't get the chance to be insiders for the IPO.
So no, this doesn't really seem like a case of folks suing google 'cause they are violating the common-law trademark rights of the 4-year old who came up with "googol"...yet.
>Someone forgot the first rule of Spam Club...
If it's your first night, you have to spam?
CRAPTASTIC!
Thanks, that was pretty funny. Yeah, it's like mine, but they went further and included the launch every zig part, obviously. Probably spent more than 2 minutes on it too, as they managed to replace every "Captain" with "Saddam" unlike myself.
The title might be redundant but the post is original and has never been written before because I just wrote it.
While I won't say whether I agree with the war or not, a spontaneous parody is definitely in order.
In A.D. 2003
War was beginning.
Saddam: What happen?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal
Saddam: What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's you! We met in the '80s!
RUMSFELD: How are you gentlemen!!
RUMSFELD: All your Iraq are belong to U.S.
RUMSFELD: We are on the way to your weapons of mass destruction.
Saddam: What you say!!
RUMSFELD: You have no chance to survive make your time.
RUMSFELD: Ha Ha Ha Ha...
Would have a few grand and a lawyer handy to make a joke.
That's a great story. Yeah, I knew this other guy that did pretty much the same thing, although I'm not sure he was quite as industrious as you, but he made some serious dough. Man oh man, that was a totally heady time.
I can't think of another paradigm shift that would cause something like that again, but I suppose if I could I'd be rich...
I remember AllAdvantage and all of its ilk! The greatest motto of the late 90s was this:
GET PAID TO SLEEP!
My friends and I would install numerous get-paid-to-surf programs on our computers and leave them on while we slept, along with these programs (one of them called "MyAdvantage") that would move the mouse around every so often and click links so as to give the appearance of activity. And yes, we *did* receive checks, in excess of $20 some months. Not enough to live off of, of course, but it paid for our cable modem at the time (which was uncapped!).
Heh, that's pretty funny.
But I'm not being a karma-whore. Look at the subject:
I dont care about the car
The grandparent didn't care about the car and so i was responding to him. To be entirely ethical I probably shouldn't have replied to the grandparent, but I was in a hurry.
Also, is there a place where I can consult these canonical rules of karma-whoredom you speak of? Feel free to reply with a link.
Thanks.
This dude totally put the wrong body on his car. Although I can't find out why he chose a Camaro because his site is down, he missed out on even more high-fives and conversation snippets like these:
"OH MY GOD! A FLOATING DELOREAN!"
"I haven't seen a floating delorean since 2004."
"The way I see it, if you're gonna build flotation into a car, why not do it with some style?"
Actually, I think the grandparent poster was talking about the Microsoft Office '97 easter egg. Scroll down to the part about a fight simulator being in Excel.
Yeah, I realized that the democracy/republic thing doesn't really fly anymore after I posted. Yeah... We could play word games all day, trying to label our system. Some that come to mind are:
representative democracy
constitutional republic
constitutional democratic republic
etc, etc. You made a very good point about Switzerland's history of heterogenous cultural groups -- pretty much shot that theory down.
And yeah, it must really be a question of class here in the U.S. of A. Incredible disparities in the distribution of wealth do not make for a happy citizenry, whether they know it or not.
I don't know about limiting folks to only voting for graduate-degree-holding polyglots... graduate degrees can be pretty easy to come by as history has shown us, provided you have the right connections. maybe we could start a system where politicians have to publish dissertations about what they will do with their time in office? no, i'm not serious about that one:)
i dunno...
This is why we don't have a democracy, we have a republic. The founding fathers knew very well what would happen if the U.S. was a democracy.
But your point is still valid, though, in that a republic cannot cannot be sustained in a manner befitting of our founding ideals, if its citizens are uneducated.
If you get bored some time, read up on the gov't of switzerland. Their federal system is probably what ours might have looked like had the u.s. been substantially smaller and lacking the varied, disparate cultural groups that have shaped the nation since its inception. whether or not that's a good thing, you'll have to decide.
And yeah, that evolution statistic is pretty scary. I would bet that belief in astrology is even higher, though, and there isn't even a bible to thump on that one.
Fascinating stuff you've written. I suppose you do have the right to critique my 10-minute hack job:)
Good luck with everything!
Thanks!!!!:)
Yeah, I really like some of those hacks. One time, well, actually a couple of times my friends and I have played Dragon Warrior with the frameskip up as high as it goes. Turn down the music and you've got 2 1/2 hours of unbridled dragon slaying and adrenline as everybody races to slay the Dragon Lord first. Save states really make for a fun game too, because you can get Erdrick's armor at a very low level by continually resetting the game until you score a critical hit. Be careful though, don't accidentally save your game over itself, instead of hitting reload. Always keep many save files from the recent past on hand in case something like this should happen. Anyhow, this is a fun way to blow a couple of hours and for some reason I also feel the need to state:
R1V3R C1TY R4N50M RUL3Z!!!