Maybe Owen did remember R2 and that's why he was reticent to purchase him at first from the Jawas. After the bad motivator flared up, he was left with no choice and he decided to take the risk that Luke wouldn't find out about his past. When R2 decided to find Obi Wan, he immediately said to get both droids memory erased.
I think you may be right about the unique numbers. In Phantom Menace, the queen asks the droid's number so that implies that they can be uniquely identified through this number.
Yoda taught Obi Wan how to commune with dead Jedi (aka Qui Gon) so he was his tutor, from a certain point of view.
Threepio was made from the spare parts of other machines so it's likely that Owen and Beru just used Occam's Razor to determine that Threepio couldn't be the same one from years before as he must have been destroyed. This one must be a different one with the same number.
What did get me was that Leia remembered her real mother ("She was beautiful, but very sad...") on Endor. Unless she was a *very* precocious at birth...
You've hit the nail on the head! For example, I have access to price comparison websites. I could use them to find out the highest price for goods. But I tend to use them to find the lowest price. The information is not to blame here, it's how it's used.
What good comes from using guns? I'm probably just not being imaginative enough (hey, it's friday afternoon!) but I can't think of any good uses for guns...
Hmmmm.. Remarkably similar to this for some reason -
Oh freddled gruntbuggly Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, See if I don't!
I must say that I disagree with this being a troll. It is attempting to prove something being true through belief in the same way that people believing in the bible makes it true.
It is similar to the Homer / Lisa conversation -
Homer: The Bear Patrol really seems to be working.
Lisa: Why do you say that, Dad?
Homer: We haven't had a bear attack since they started patrolling.
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, dad.
Homer: Why thank you, Lisa.
Lisa: By that rationale, I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Explain.
Lisa: Well, you don't see any tigers, do you?
(Long pause)
Homer: Lisa, I would like to buy your rock.
Just because Homer believes the rock keeps away tigers it is now true to him and yet it is patently not true. Just because someone believes Jesus walked the earth does not make the bible true. The simple weight of people who have read a book does not magically make that book any more or less true.
Actually, my link between Homer / Lisa and the PP/GPP may be slightly tenuous, but I hope people understand what I'm trying to say.
sarcasm abounds. But the application is slightly more than that, it also lexiacally parses the document to identify written numbers not just those in digit form.
No, because that doesn't highlight after a request received from the user.
The application stipulates a request received from the user first and then all numerical data is then highlighted. Prior art was hinted at by a previous post by using vim.
I can take a gun and shoot someone now just because someone made a gund available to me, but that doesn't make it right. I can release an exploit to software to disrupt many peoples lives because someone told me how to do it, but that doesn't make it right.
Just because it's on t'interweb doesn't change the rules of morality and ethics, right and wrong.
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Maybe Owen did remember R2 and that's why he was reticent to purchase him at first from the Jawas. After the bad motivator flared up, he was left with no choice and he decided to take the risk that Luke wouldn't find out about his past. When R2 decided to find Obi Wan, he immediately said to get both droids memory erased.
I think you may be right about the unique numbers. In Phantom Menace, the queen asks the droid's number so that implies that they can be uniquely identified through this number.
Yoda taught Obi Wan how to commune with dead Jedi (aka Qui Gon) so he was his tutor, from a certain point of view.
Threepio was made from the spare parts of other machines so it's likely that Owen and Beru just used Occam's Razor to determine that Threepio couldn't be the same one from years before as he must have been destroyed. This one must be a different one with the same number.
What did get me was that Leia remembered her real mother ("She was beautiful, but very sad...") on Endor. Unless she was a *very* precocious at birth...
There's a damn sight more proof for evolution than there is for intelligent design!
Good point, well made. Off for a beer now!
You've hit the nail on the head! For example, I have access to price comparison websites. I could use them to find out the highest price for goods. But I tend to use them to find the lowest price. The information is not to blame here, it's how it's used.
What good comes from using guns? I'm probably just not being imaginative enough (hey, it's friday afternoon!) but I can't think of any good uses for guns...
God is trying to keep everyone down.
"KNOW THY PLACE, MORTAL!"
It's the key to riches untold to anyone who can understand it.
Or maybe it's just me....
As does Uncyclopedia
It reminded me of the intro to Four wedding and a funeral, personally.
Because the new shuttle will go further than near earth orbit?
Larry Paige Vs Sergey Brin = Larry Paige
Gates Vs Ballmer = Gates
Gates Vs Larry Paige = Gates
Hmmmm...
No, but they do seem to all be friendly bombs.
It is similar to the Homer / Lisa conversation -
Just because Homer believes the rock keeps away tigers it is now true to him and yet it is patently not true. Just because someone believes Jesus walked the earth does not make the bible true. The simple weight of people who have read a book does not magically make that book any more or less true.
Actually, my link between Homer / Lisa and the PP/GPP may be slightly tenuous, but I hope people understand what I'm trying to say.
...regrow my virginity and sell that on eBay. Now that's more worthwhile.
Isn't that called cancer when tissue generates beyond control?
but that was later found to be a staged moon landing.
*ducks*
patents?
sarcasm abounds. But the application is slightly more than that, it also lexiacally parses the document to identify written numbers not just those in digit form.
an example of this?
at the risk of replaying to my own message, even the vim method doesn't highlight numbers when they're typed as words.
No, because that doesn't highlight after a request received from the user.
The application stipulates a request received from the user first and then all numerical data is then highlighted. Prior art was hinted at by a previous post by using vim.
not entirely sure why this is a troll.
I can take a gun and shoot someone now just because someone made a gund available to me, but that doesn't make it right. I can release an exploit to software to disrupt many peoples lives because someone told me how to do it, but that doesn't make it right.
Just because it's on t'interweb doesn't change the rules of morality and ethics, right and wrong.
...that seems to verify this thought. Here
No need to apologise for the english, just apologise for the joke. ;)