Medic: "I'm a pacifist." Soldier 1: "You're something that babies suck on?" Soldier 2: "Isn't that a pedofile?" Medic: "I'm a PACIFIST." Soldier 2: "Ohh, my mind was on something completely different..."
I'm doing this from memory, sorry if it's slightly off, but I found it to be hilariously funny.
Here is a much better (off-topic) poem, which also happens to relate to my signature:
The Reavers (a poem by Sheperd Book from Joss Whedon's Firefly)
Once upon an expedition, while I pondered extradition,
Watching many a quaint and curious patron of our local whore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at the outer door.
"Just Kaylee," I muttered, "tapping through some special chore -
"Only this, and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly I still fear it, in the black, I still can hear it
And each time I try to clear it, there's its ghost upon the floor
Eagerly I wished to burrow, hide away, complete and thorough
But I could not seem to stir-oh, no! Instead I must explore -
For the poor and broken settlers who had chosen to explore -
Just for them, and nothing more.
Then the silken sight, uncertain, Inara through her purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic tremors often felt before;
And yet now to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
"Step away, and stop entreating entrance at her cabin door -
"It's not for you to be entreating entrance at her cabin door.
"Leave it be; do nothing more."
Presently my will grew stronger, hesitating then no longer,
"Mal," said I, "and Simon, truly we can't leave them, I implore;
`Cos the fact is they are human, and we simply cannot leave them,
Like that, hangin' from the ceilin'; reel them out upon the floor!"
Still I dreaded what we'd see there when we opened wide the door -
Darkness there, and something more.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, thinking things no mortal ever dared to think to see before.
And the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token
Then the only words there spoken were the shouted words "take more!"
Jayne was scavenging already, echoing those words, "take more!"
Merely that, and nothing more.
Then into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping, somewhat louder than before.
"Surely," said I, "surely that is just the way this ship here rattles;
And the way our Jayne there prattles `bout some riches to explore -
Let my heart be still a moment while our Jayne does so explore.
It's just the ship here, nothing more."
Now then I try not to shudder, when with many a stench and flutter,
From there dropped the wasted bodies of the settlers to the floor.
Not the least obeisance made he, not an instant stopped or stayed he -
If Jayne had stopped and prayed he might my hope in him restore -
But just like some mindless phallus pokes he there into the stores.
Pokes and grabs, and nothing more.
Then that River girl beguiling, my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance she wore.
"Though these folk be broke and twisted, you," I said, "are safe; we missed it.
Ghastly grim, but sure we fixed it, ain't no reavers here no more -
Tell me what you fear so thorough? Ain't no reavers here no more."
Said our River, "Nevermore."
Cold, I watched our River standing, eyes so wide, somehow expanding,
And my own heart, there demanding, that we stay this ship no more;
Yet we cannot help agreeing there to leave no human being
With no blessing before fleeing. Now they lay upon the floor;
Blood and bone are littered there upon the chamber floor.
Bless them now, and evermore.
But our River, sitting lonely on the bloody floor spoke only
That one word, as if her soul in that one word she did outpour.
Nothing further then she uttered - just stared at those folks been gutted;
And I scarcely more than muttered "Reaver kills I've known before.
In a moment we will leave here, or our hopes are blown before."
Then River said, "Nevermore."
yeah, how about if they decide not to let in say gay people or chinese people?
The last I checked, the Boy Scouts of America was allowed to prohibit gay people from joining. I'm sure there are anti-Chinese private organizations out there too.
The Sims Online, as a subscription service, has the rights to prevent anyone from using their service. It's kind of like private property in real life: not everyone has to be let in.
This may sound a bit callous, but I think preserving the rocket is more important than feeding 7,000 starving people for a year. The rocket is part of our history; it is a fully functional launch vehicle that may be needed in the future. "Plans and working diagrams" aren't the only things that go into building a rocket: a lot of experience goes into it too, and this can't be shown in plans. All of the original builders of the Apollo are retired, and in another 30 years, all will be dead. You can't simply build a working model off of the plans if all the designers are dead. Having a working model to dissect and recover the technology provides many more clues as to the technology if the designers are dead.
And don't pretend like the Apollos are ancient history. It may not seem like it now, but there will be a time when we need that technology again. Shuttles are one thing, but if we want another manned mission to the Moon, we're going to need the old, powerful rocket technology found in the Apollos. We haven't built them in 30 years, so letting our final working model turn into rust would be foolish.
As for the 7,000 starving people, they don't amount to much. If we feed 'em for a year, they'll die after that anyway. They won't contribute to mankind's future in space. This is the callous part, and many (religious) people probably wouldn't agree with me here, but a rocket is worth more than the lives of 7,000 starving 3rd-world-country-dwellers who will never amount to anything. Think of it in another way: a lot more than 7,000-lives-worth of effort went into the Apollo program, so letting all of that go to waste over only 7,000 current lives wouldn't be worth it.
I do not think anyone will volunteer to go stay on Mars with only annual supply missions to help them out.
Wrong. I'll volunteer to go, even without the annual supply missions. Just send me up enough supplies (shovels, food, equipment) to give me a fighting chance. I wouldn't go if I knew it was a suicide mission (i.e. you have two weeks worth of oxygen and then you suffocate), but give me enough equipment to allow me to have a fighting chance, and you'll see me working my butt off 23.6/7 on Mars trying to make a habitat to survive in.
I believe there are countless millions of people who feel as I do - hell, there are probably at least a billion people on Earth for whom a life on Mars would be better than their current life on Earth.
It's crazy to think that the BBC did something so stupid as to burn television show reels that took countless hours to film and wouldn't cost very much to store, but that's life... I'm just wondering why there isn't any fan who can step forward with an old TV recording or something. If a lot of people were watching these shows on TV (as I gather they were, I'm way too young to have lived through any of it), you'd think maybe someone recorded at least ONE of the missing 115 episodes?! Geez...
Online people may spend more overall time in "social activities" - but a lot of these social activities probably don't really count. Is someone who spends 6 hours a week in a chat room socially better off than someone who spends 5 hours a week hanging out with friends at a mall?
Another point to mention: I watch TV at least as many hours as I am on my computer. Why? All of the rooms that I have computers in also have TVs in them, and I always have a TV on in the background when I'm on the computer.
Headshot, castration by kitcken knife, spork lobotomy, manure immersal suffocation, tiger mauling, or the good old CowboyNeal intestinal yank... all of these should prove sufficient for dealing with people who've committed GPL violations.
I heard about something like this a few years back, as I understood it then the thing is that at low enough temperatures atoms break down into a "soup" of protons, neutrons and electrons all behaving like a liquid.
I think what you're describing is a Bose-Einstein condensate, which is something entirely different.
My dad did his PhD thesis on liquid helium 3. Apparently it's pretty difficult to contain the stuff, since even the tiniest opening in a container is enough for everything to escape at once (no viscosity)...
Then I have a good idea for an infinite motion machine. Put the liquid helium, as well a turbine, inside of a Klein bottle. As the helium tries to escape out of the hole it will only lead back into the bottle - meanwhile producing electricity through the turbine! Brilliant! I think I've just solved the Earth's energy crisis!
Liquid hydrogen and liquid peroxide certainly aren't flammable. In fact, water at room temperature is more flammable than liquid hydrogen. It's all a matter of temperature: something at hundreds of degrees below zero certainly isn't going to burn. You're right, if the hydrogen heated up and turned gaseous, then it would be flammable... but then it also wouldn't still be liquid hydrogen.
Not that this really matters, because who would use liquid hydrogen as a coolant, when liquid nitrogen is so much better?!
But seriously, this stuff is really cool. What with the properties they described, I wonder if it could be useful in conducting electricity or forming a shock-absorbing barrier?
From what I've read of Ed Fries in his interview, he was way too intelligent, independent, and ethical to work at Microsoft. His latest decision to leave Microsoft comes as no surprise to me - in fact, I've been expecting it.
Blame Sony and the PlayStation2. It was Sony, after all, who chose to go with some crazy newfangled hardware-graphics "solution" that everyone knew was going to be hard to program for. I had doubts at the system's announcement and they proved to be founded. What Microsoft did with the XBOX seems to make a lot more sense - make a system out of standard hardware that everyone already knows how to program for. That the PS2 has been around for so long and its full power still remains untapped is testament to its poor hardware design.
GPS was largely the result of the work of NASA. Where do you think the military got the technology to build satellites? Where do you think the military got the technology to build rockets to launch satellies into orbit? NASA, of course. Without NASA we wouldn't have GPS.
I think you've got a really good point there. If TLDs were used more, this whole issue would already be solved. Cisco, the network corporation, would be able to lay claim to www.cisco.biz, because they are the largest corporation in the world with "Cisco" in its name, while www.cisco.per (.per for.personal) would be reserved for the first person named Cisco to reserve it. This way you wouldn't have problems with conflicts between people and businesses over.com domains.
I swear to God that a few nights ago I had a dream where a company released 1TB of storage in a small formfactor. Of course, in my dream, the cost was under $1/gigabyte, and its technology was introduced by a friendly Vulcan-like alien species... but hey, you can't have everything.
It seems to me though that the J.R.R. Tolkien who wrote the Lord of the Rings would have come before the current (hypothetical) J.R.R. Tolkien who laid claim to the domain name, so wouldn't precedence be established in this case? If I name my kid Microsoft and he goes on to register Microsoft.com on Internet3 (or whatever), will his claim to the domain be legitimate, or will it matter that the trademark was around before the child was named?
Can no one born these days have the same name as someone "famous", at least in regards to protecting their right to register their names as trademarks? Better start naming your kids now, before all of the good company-sounding-names are taken.
It seems to me like.biz would be even more restricted than.com... why would you suggest different rules? And it doesn't seem to me like.biz has ever really gotten launched, or ever really will be..com for.company is good enough... why would we need a.biz for.biziness?
The ruling makes sense to me. "J.R.R. Tolkien" isn't a trademark per se, but it is a (very particular) pronoun, so its use as a domain name should be reserved for the Tolkien Estate, not some random cyber-squatter. Infringing trademarks in registering domain names is an obvious no-no... but I wonder, suppose there actually was someone named J.R.R. Tolkien, and he registered this domain? Would he still have a legitimate right to the domain, or would the domain be taken away from him, even though it was his name?!
I don't care if they deem it acceptable to reveal their "secrets" about designs of coins, but wouldn't it be common courtesy to keep our military secrets... well, secret, until we divulged them ourselves?!? Our secrets aren't their's to give up... and we don't need any added tension with the Middle Eastern countries right now. Shame on the UK for this.
My father is a lawyer for the Department of Justice, and part of the reason for the insecurity is the federal bureaucracy. I'm a Linux advocate and my dad is a pretty techie guy. He was running a webserver on the WAN for his colleagues and wanted me to help him set up Apache. That was shut down directly by his superiors: Microsoft IIS is the only webserver "supported and recognized" by the IT department, and anything else is not allowed. In addition, the only browser you are allowed to use is IE and the only mail reader you are allowed to use is Outlook. I really wanted to help my dad secure his workplace by switching him away from a mailviewer that executes all attachments and a webserver known for its insecurities. But the Microsoft culture is so entrenched there that it wouldn't fly.
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Medic: "I'm a pacifist."
Soldier 1: "You're something that babies suck on?"
Soldier 2: "Isn't that a pedofile?"
Medic: "I'm a PACIFIST."
Soldier 2: "Ohh, my mind was on something completely different..."
I'm doing this from memory, sorry if it's slightly off, but I found it to be hilariously funny.
The Reavers (a poem by Sheperd Book from Joss Whedon's Firefly)
Once upon an expedition, while I pondered extradition,
Watching many a quaint and curious patron of our local whore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at the outer door.
"Just Kaylee," I muttered, "tapping through some special chore -
"Only this, and nothing more."
Ah, distinctly I still fear it, in the black, I still can hear it
And each time I try to clear it, there's its ghost upon the floor
Eagerly I wished to burrow, hide away, complete and thorough
But I could not seem to stir-oh, no! Instead I must explore -
For the poor and broken settlers who had chosen to explore -
Just for them, and nothing more.
Then the silken sight, uncertain, Inara through her purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic tremors often felt before;
And yet now to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
"Step away, and stop entreating entrance at her cabin door -
"It's not for you to be entreating entrance at her cabin door.
"Leave it be; do nothing more."
Presently my will grew stronger, hesitating then no longer,
"Mal," said I, "and Simon, truly we can't leave them, I implore;
`Cos the fact is they are human, and we simply cannot leave them,
Like that, hangin' from the ceilin'; reel them out upon the floor!"
Still I dreaded what we'd see there when we opened wide the door -
Darkness there, and something more.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, thinking things no mortal ever dared to think to see before.
And the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token
Then the only words there spoken were the shouted words "take more!"
Jayne was scavenging already, echoing those words, "take more!"
Merely that, and nothing more.
Then into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping, somewhat louder than before.
"Surely," said I, "surely that is just the way this ship here rattles;
And the way our Jayne there prattles `bout some riches to explore -
Let my heart be still a moment while our Jayne does so explore.
It's just the ship here, nothing more."
Now then I try not to shudder, when with many a stench and flutter,
From there dropped the wasted bodies of the settlers to the floor.
Not the least obeisance made he, not an instant stopped or stayed he -
If Jayne had stopped and prayed he might my hope in him restore -
But just like some mindless phallus pokes he there into the stores.
Pokes and grabs, and nothing more.
Then that River girl beguiling, my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance she wore.
"Though these folk be broke and twisted, you," I said, "are safe; we missed it.
Ghastly grim, but sure we fixed it, ain't no reavers here no more -
Tell me what you fear so thorough? Ain't no reavers here no more."
Said our River, "Nevermore."
Cold, I watched our River standing, eyes so wide, somehow expanding,
And my own heart, there demanding, that we stay this ship no more;
Yet we cannot help agreeing there to leave no human being
With no blessing before fleeing. Now they lay upon the floor;
Blood and bone are littered there upon the chamber floor.
Bless them now, and evermore.
But our River, sitting lonely on the bloody floor spoke only
That one word, as if her soul in that one word she did outpour.
Nothing further then she uttered - just stared at those folks been gutted;
And I scarcely more than muttered "Reaver kills I've known before.
In a moment we will leave here, or our hopes are blown before."
Then River said, "Nevermore."
yeah, how about if they decide not to let in say gay people or chinese people?
The last I checked, the Boy Scouts of America was allowed to prohibit gay people from joining. I'm sure there are anti-Chinese private organizations out there too.
The Sims Online, as a subscription service, has the rights to prevent anyone from using their service. It's kind of like private property in real life: not everyone has to be let in.
This may sound a bit callous, but I think preserving the rocket is more important than feeding 7,000 starving people for a year. The rocket is part of our history; it is a fully functional launch vehicle that may be needed in the future. "Plans and working diagrams" aren't the only things that go into building a rocket: a lot of experience goes into it too, and this can't be shown in plans. All of the original builders of the Apollo are retired, and in another 30 years, all will be dead. You can't simply build a working model off of the plans if all the designers are dead. Having a working model to dissect and recover the technology provides many more clues as to the technology if the designers are dead.
And don't pretend like the Apollos are ancient history. It may not seem like it now, but there will be a time when we need that technology again. Shuttles are one thing, but if we want another manned mission to the Moon, we're going to need the old, powerful rocket technology found in the Apollos. We haven't built them in 30 years, so letting our final working model turn into rust would be foolish.
As for the 7,000 starving people, they don't amount to much. If we feed 'em for a year, they'll die after that anyway. They won't contribute to mankind's future in space. This is the callous part, and many (religious) people probably wouldn't agree with me here, but a rocket is worth more than the lives of 7,000 starving 3rd-world-country-dwellers who will never amount to anything. Think of it in another way: a lot more than 7,000-lives-worth of effort went into the Apollo program, so letting all of that go to waste over only 7,000 current lives wouldn't be worth it.
I do not think anyone will volunteer to go stay on Mars with only annual supply missions to help them out.
Wrong. I'll volunteer to go, even without the annual supply missions. Just send me up enough supplies (shovels, food, equipment) to give me a fighting chance. I wouldn't go if I knew it was a suicide mission (i.e. you have two weeks worth of oxygen and then you suffocate), but give me enough equipment to allow me to have a fighting chance, and you'll see me working my butt off 23.6/7 on Mars trying to make a habitat to survive in.
I believe there are countless millions of people who feel as I do - hell, there are probably at least a billion people on Earth for whom a life on Mars would be better than their current life on Earth.
It's crazy to think that the BBC did something so stupid as to burn television show reels that took countless hours to film and wouldn't cost very much to store, but that's life ... I'm just wondering why there isn't any fan who can step forward with an old TV recording or something. If a lot of people were watching these shows on TV (as I gather they were, I'm way too young to have lived through any of it), you'd think maybe someone recorded at least ONE of the missing 115 episodes?! Geez ...
Online people may spend more overall time in "social activities" - but a lot of these social activities probably don't really count. Is someone who spends 6 hours a week in a chat room socially better off than someone who spends 5 hours a week hanging out with friends at a mall?
Another point to mention: I watch TV at least as many hours as I am on my computer. Why? All of the rooms that I have computers in also have TVs in them, and I always have a TV on in the background when I'm on the computer.
Headshot, castration by kitcken knife, spork lobotomy, manure immersal suffocation, tiger mauling, or the good old CowboyNeal intestinal yank ... all of these should prove sufficient for dealing with people who've committed GPL violations.
I heard about something like this a few years back, as I understood it then the thing is that at low enough temperatures atoms break down into a "soup" of protons, neutrons and electrons all behaving like a liquid.
I think what you're describing is a Bose-Einstein condensate, which is something entirely different.
My dad did his PhD thesis on liquid helium 3. Apparently it's pretty difficult to contain the stuff, since even the tiniest opening in a container is enough for everything to escape at once (no viscosity)...
Then I have a good idea for an infinite motion machine. Put the liquid helium, as well a turbine, inside of a Klein bottle. As the helium tries to escape out of the hole it will only lead back into the bottle - meanwhile producing electricity through the turbine! Brilliant! I think I've just solved the Earth's energy crisis!
Liquid hydrogen and liquid peroxide certainly aren't flammable. In fact, water at room temperature is more flammable than liquid hydrogen. It's all a matter of temperature: something at hundreds of degrees below zero certainly isn't going to burn. You're right, if the hydrogen heated up and turned gaseous, then it would be flammable ... but then it also wouldn't still be liquid hydrogen.
Not that this really matters, because who would use liquid hydrogen as a coolant, when liquid nitrogen is so much better?!
Joyous helium
Becomes a supersolid
At low Celcius
But seriously, this stuff is really cool. What with the properties they described, I wonder if it could be useful in conducting electricity or forming a shock-absorbing barrier?
From what I've read of Ed Fries in his interview, he was way too intelligent, independent, and ethical to work at Microsoft. His latest decision to leave Microsoft comes as no surprise to me - in fact, I've been expecting it.
Blame Sony and the PlayStation2. It was Sony, after all, who chose to go with some crazy newfangled hardware-graphics "solution" that everyone knew was going to be hard to program for. I had doubts at the system's announcement and they proved to be founded. What Microsoft did with the XBOX seems to make a lot more sense - make a system out of standard hardware that everyone already knows how to program for. That the PS2 has been around for so long and its full power still remains untapped is testament to its poor hardware design.
GPS was largely the result of the work of NASA. Where do you think the military got the technology to build satellites? Where do you think the military got the technology to build rockets to launch satellies into orbit? NASA, of course. Without NASA we wouldn't have GPS.
I think you've got a really good point there. If TLDs were used more, this whole issue would already be solved. Cisco, the network corporation, would be able to lay claim to www.cisco.biz, because they are the largest corporation in the world with "Cisco" in its name, while www.cisco.per (.per for .personal) would be reserved for the first person named Cisco to reserve it. This way you wouldn't have problems with conflicts between people and businesses over .com domains.
I swear to God that a few nights ago I had a dream where a company released 1TB of storage in a small formfactor. Of course, in my dream, the cost was under $1/gigabyte, and its technology was introduced by a friendly Vulcan-like alien species ... but hey, you can't have everything.
It seems to me though that the J.R.R. Tolkien who wrote the Lord of the Rings would have come before the current (hypothetical) J.R.R. Tolkien who laid claim to the domain name, so wouldn't precedence be established in this case? If I name my kid Microsoft and he goes on to register Microsoft.com on Internet3 (or whatever), will his claim to the domain be legitimate, or will it matter that the trademark was around before the child was named?
Can no one born these days have the same name as someone "famous", at least in regards to protecting their right to register their names as trademarks? Better start naming your kids now, before all of the good company-sounding-names are taken.
It seems to me like .biz would be even more restricted than .com ... why would you suggest different rules? And it doesn't seem to me like .biz has ever really gotten launched, or ever really will be. .com for .company is good enough ... why would we need a .biz for .biziness?
The ruling makes sense to me. "J.R.R. Tolkien" isn't a trademark per se, but it is a (very particular) pronoun, so its use as a domain name should be reserved for the Tolkien Estate, not some random cyber-squatter. Infringing trademarks in registering domain names is an obvious no-no ... but I wonder, suppose there actually was someone named J.R.R. Tolkien, and he registered this domain? Would he still have a legitimate right to the domain, or would the domain be taken away from him, even though it was his name?!
"DVD-Jon Sued By Lawyer-Craig"
I don't care if they deem it acceptable to reveal their "secrets" about designs of coins, but wouldn't it be common courtesy to keep our military secrets ... well, secret, until we divulged them ourselves?!? Our secrets aren't their's to give up ... and we don't need any added tension with the Middle Eastern countries right now. Shame on the UK for this.
How do I enlist my computer as a zombie in the horde to attack SCO?
My father is a lawyer for the Department of Justice, and part of the reason for the insecurity is the federal bureaucracy. I'm a Linux advocate and my dad is a pretty techie guy. He was running a webserver on the WAN for his colleagues and wanted me to help him set up Apache. That was shut down directly by his superiors: Microsoft IIS is the only webserver "supported and recognized" by the IT department, and anything else is not allowed. In addition, the only browser you are allowed to use is IE and the only mail reader you are allowed to use is Outlook. I really wanted to help my dad secure his workplace by switching him away from a mailviewer that executes all attachments and a webserver known for its insecurities. But the Microsoft culture is so entrenched there that it wouldn't fly.