The Katana's are pretty sturdy though, and look nice. so if you are looking for a cheap Katana to use in a short film or a cheap display Katana, they are great. I occasionally buy a half dozen or so Katana's for use in short martial arts flicks I film. We beat the hell out of the swords and then get new ones. These guys do sell some rather nice knives though, and I have seen people at the local fleamarket selling them for as much as 65$ apiece and getting buyers. Usually you get 1 REALLY nice knife per set of 50 or whatever you buy. That one you can sell, the rest are just crap. So people seem to sell those for like 2$ apiece, I imagine they do ok, 'cause they are ALWAYS out there...
Fuck that! I want nanobots in my bloodstream that automatically repair wounds, keep my arteries clean, and generally upkeep my body. Prefereably extending my lifespan to 200 or so years. Which should be long enough to implant my brain in an immortal robotic body that is indistinguishable from human in all the important ways. If the government wants to make Nano-bombs, fine... As Long as I get mine.>:)
There HAS to be a big project to catch the imagination and attention of the next generation of Space exploration workers. Right now Space is Boring. Computers are hot, no one is growing up wanting to be an astronaut anymore. There needs to be something done to fire the imagination of the world again, we're so embroiled in our petty border squabbles between people of differently shaded skin or slightly modified philosphy that people can't realize that we are all human, we are all at heart the same, and we should all be working together to spread ourselves to the stars. It's possible, it can be done, and it will be done. I'd love to live to see it, and I'm willing to pay to make it happen.
There can't possibly be a Scientific Theory of Creation. It's specifically stated biblically that the whole rigamarole is faith based. So no matter what we find, we will never find ABSOLUTE proof that God doesn't exist, nor will we find proof that he does. If we did, it wouldn't be faith anymore, would it?
Re:On Katz and Dogs (was Re:Yes, you are)
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In my mind, WE = Everyone with a UID under 100K. In other peopls minds WE = Everyone with a UID under 50K. In Yet another set of peoples minds it's UID 10K. And I imagine for you, WE = everyone under 553567. Katz has been universally disliked since the drivel he put out after the Hellmouth series. I didn't mind that, it was good to get some exposure for the prison-like social system within schools, but then he kept prattling on and on and on and using other peopls misfortune to pimp whatever new piece of crap he was trying to make money off of. If it were put to a vote, Katz would no longer be working for Slashdot.
Would you like the full and complete Theory of Creation? Well, if you ask me what mine is it's thus: In the beginning, there was nothingness. Then God spoke, and the universe as we know it began. Then God started life. Now God sits back and laughs at us.
The issue here is that even if every aspect of Evolution, from Macro to Micro to The Big Bang to the Big Crunch is proven, it doesn't disprove the existance of God. I think it is absolutely STUPID to argue that the existance of God precludes Evolution, the Big Bang, or anything else, doing that is like saying that it's impossible for God to make something happen. If God decides that his mechanism for creating life is going to be a huge fucking explosion and then a bunch of bacteria developing into people then who the FUCK are you to tell him he can't do it that way? I think that science and the purpose of science is to understand everything around us as well as we can in order to better understand God. The concept that we have of God right now may be COMPLETELY wrong, but the more we know about the Universe, the more we know about God, because the Universe, the Earth, and each one of us exists as part of God.
Americans != Every individual American. When someone says Americans are This or Americans are That, they are talking about the percieved public image of the average American. And (I am an American) Americans as a general rule are louder and more obnoxious than other cultures. That does not mean that each individual American is more obnoxious than each individual non American though.
Wow, another person that doesn't recognize the intrinsic link between fame and fortune. The more well known you are the easier it is to leverage your identity into money. Serial killers do this all the time by writing books (or people write books about them) simply putting a well known name on something can make it automatically profitable. If an Author gives away the first few books he may be poor then, but if those first two books are good, then when he charges for his second book people are willing to pay for it because he's GOOD. Robert Jordan gave away the first part of the first book of the wheel of time (That's how I got my copy) it was still around 300 pages, but it was only the first half, and it was GREAT! I loved it, I've purchased every book in the series since then.
Kintanon
Re:On Katz and Dogs (was Re:Yes, you are)
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Maybe, just perhaps, we don't WANT our boundaries pushed?? Maybe we like the fact that the site has (well, I guess that's HAD) a narrow focus? Maybe if we wanted news about some idiots book about dogs and his doublewide we would go to a site for books about dogs? I come to this site for news on interesting technological widgets and the occasional political rant. I don't give a flying fuck about most of the rest of the stuff on here, and unfortunately the ratio of crap I don't care about to stuff interesting to me is getting higher. Ugh.
Not that I'm against gambling; personally I don't like to gamble because the house is statistically against me. That's why I take pride in losing my money on the stock market.:)
This depends on what you play, and where you play it. If you play a skill game like Poker at a place with a low rake you aren't fighting the house and the odds are in favor of the most skilled player winning. If you are playing back alley poker in some guys garage, and there is no rake, then as long as the game isn't crooked if you are a skilled player you will clean up good. And if you invest in a 12pack of beer to distribute to the other players you can frequently double your money or better in just a couple of hours... Fraternity poker games are a good place to do this. Get a few of them drunk and clean out their preppy mama's boy wallets...
That right there is why I no longer pirate shit! Back in the BBS days and the early days of the commercial net (early to mid 90s) it was easy to find reliable, working, cracked warez. Now you can't find shit on the web, most of the peer to peer networks aren't much better, FTPs are all huge Ratio sites... It's just a pain in the ass to try to Warez anything, I can work an hour of overtime and buy whatever the fuck I wanted to Warez...
The key seperating characteristic of Adults and Children is simple, Fear of Breaking Shit. Children do not have this crippling learning disability, they do not Fear to Break Shit. Adults do. So Adults will not try anything that they aren't sure will not Break Shit. Since an Adult who has never used a computer does not know what will Break Shit and what won't, they prefer to do nothing with the computer. A child doesn't care whether what he does to the computer Breaks Shit or not, he just wants to know what it will do. So every time a child does something and it doesn't Break Shit, he or she adds that act to the list of actions that Don't Break Shit and moves on. The same if the action Does Break Shit. Hopefully the child will try to fix it after he Breaks Shit, and thereby learn how to UnBreak Shit. I have formulated this theory after MANY MANY hours watching customer service reps who use the computer on a daily basis panic when they click on a different icon accidentally and a new window comes up. They call support (me) to 'Fix' their computer because it's 'Broke' by which they mean they aren't sure what actions Won't Break Shit in this situation. Amazing isn't it?
Look fuckhead (As long as we're going to throw out the personal attacks right off) I'm all for smaller federal government, but it's important that no matter WHAT the size of the government the PEOPLE have the last work in what goes on. So if the people want to throw more money at the pub. ed. system then fine, let them. We are the ones footing the bill for this crap, we should be the ones who choose where the money goes. And there is NO FUCKING REASON to dump more money into the fucking military. There is no substantial MILITARY threat to the US and won't be for the forseeable future. Our biggest threat is from Terrorism and all of the Stealth Bombers and ICBMS in the world won't stop some guy with a hundred lbs of dynamite from blowing himself to pieces in Times Square. I would PREFER that the Federal government do NOTHING beyond regulating Trade between the states and providing for national DEFENSE (Not Offense, Defense, none of this mucking around in Somalia fucking with starving people) while the States regulate everything else. But as of right now it isn't going to happen in one giant leap, you have to take it one step at a time. And increased control over where the government spends its money is a big part of regulating the government as a whole, both federal and state.
>:) My Wife is also a frequent Ranter, I posted a couple, but usually don't care. We never plan on having kids, just plain don't want them. I spent too much of my life raising my younger cousins to want any more. I'm not as militant as some of the people on the Rant board who are definately wound way too tight, I just want everyone to THINK about their decisions before they make them. So many people just get married and get pregnat (not necessarily in that order) because the don't know of any other choices, and then they raise their kids poorly and the cycle repeats. Uggh... That kind of breeding just doesn't help anyone.
Hmmm... But does this also means that if I have personal security cameras (Like a webcam in every room or something) that dump their images to my machine just for kicks, and someone breaks into my house and robs me, and I get them on video and find them, they can press charges against me for illegaly videotaping them in a private residence?? I'm pretty sure there was a clause in the bill that specificed it had to be for a Lewd or Lacsivious (sp) purpose.
You post on the RANT board don't you!!!? >:) I know you must at least READ the Rant board to pick up the term Crotch-fruit. Glad to see there are other CFers on Slashdot that are tired of the way breeding assholes leech our hard earned money away.
This is where you have to draw the line between Federal and State services, and have itemized public budgets that citizens can always look at. If the Federal government has less money to work with, and decides to cut funding to schools and not mention it, then they may get away with it. But if they have to publicize an itemized budget detailing where all of the money goes then the citizens can DEMAND that they take a billion or so dollars and move them from Defense Spending to Education spending. The states should do the same. In fact, I think there should always be a 30 day period of citizen feedback on the state and federal budgets.
Kintanon
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The WTC wasn't a big enough hulking piece of concrete for most co-los to house themselves in. Every big co-lo I know of is in the equivelant of an underground parking deck with 50+ feet of concrete above them. I doubt an airplane would do a whole lot to that.
Slashdot Mirror
Aaahhh... Things like this remind me why I had a vasectomy at 21.
Kintanon
The Katana's are pretty sturdy though, and look nice. so if you are looking for a cheap Katana to use in a short film or a cheap display Katana, they are great. I occasionally buy a half dozen or so Katana's for use in short martial arts flicks I film. We beat the hell out of the swords and then get new ones.
These guys do sell some rather nice knives though, and I have seen people at the local fleamarket selling them for as much as 65$ apiece and getting buyers. Usually you get 1 REALLY nice knife per set of 50 or whatever you buy. That one you can sell, the rest are just crap. So people seem to sell those for like 2$ apiece, I imagine they do ok, 'cause they are ALWAYS out there...
Kintanon
Only better!!
Kintanon
Fuck that! I want nanobots in my bloodstream that automatically repair wounds, keep my arteries clean, and generally upkeep my body. Prefereably extending my lifespan to 200 or so years. Which should be long enough to implant my brain in an immortal robotic body that is indistinguishable from human in all the important ways. If the government wants to make Nano-bombs, fine... As Long as I get mine.>:)
Kintanon
That would be a perfect large project that is at the same time incredibly practical. So what's stopping us?
Kintanon
There HAS to be a big project to catch the imagination and attention of the next generation of Space exploration workers. Right now Space is Boring. Computers are hot, no one is growing up wanting to be an astronaut anymore. There needs to be something done to fire the imagination of the world again, we're so embroiled in our petty border squabbles between people of differently shaded skin or slightly modified philosphy that people can't realize that we are all human, we are all at heart the same, and we should all be working together to spread ourselves to the stars. It's possible, it can be done, and it will be done. I'd love to live to see it, and I'm willing to pay to make it happen.
Kintanon
There can't possibly be a Scientific Theory of Creation. It's specifically stated biblically that the whole rigamarole is faith based. So no matter what we find, we will never find ABSOLUTE proof that God doesn't exist, nor will we find proof that he does. If we did, it wouldn't be faith anymore, would it?
Kintanon
Oh, well in that case, he's a flaming moron...
Kintanon
In my mind, WE = Everyone with a UID under 100K. In other peopls minds WE = Everyone with a UID under 50K. In Yet another set of peoples minds it's UID 10K.
And I imagine for you, WE = everyone under 553567.
Katz has been universally disliked since the drivel he put out after the Hellmouth series. I didn't mind that, it was good to get some exposure for the prison-like social system within schools, but then he kept prattling on and on and on and using other peopls misfortune to pimp whatever new piece of crap he was trying to make money off of. If it were put to a vote, Katz would no longer be working for Slashdot.
Kintanon
Then the author says, 'Fuckit' and doesn't write any more books. But I'm willing to bet that more than enough people will pay for that next book.
Kintanon
Would you like the full and complete Theory of Creation? Well, if you ask me what mine is it's thus: In the beginning, there was nothingness. Then God spoke, and the universe as we know it began. Then God started life. Now God sits back and laughs at us.
The issue here is that even if every aspect of Evolution, from Macro to Micro to The Big Bang to the Big Crunch is proven, it doesn't disprove the existance of God. I think it is absolutely STUPID to argue that the existance of God precludes Evolution, the Big Bang, or anything else, doing that is like saying that it's impossible for God to make something happen. If God decides that his mechanism for creating life is going to be a huge fucking explosion and then a bunch of bacteria developing into people then who the FUCK are you to tell him he can't do it that way? I think that science and the purpose of science is to understand everything around us as well as we can in order to better understand God. The concept that we have of God right now may be COMPLETELY wrong, but the more we know about the Universe, the more we know about God, because the Universe, the Earth, and each one of us exists as part of God.
Kintanon
Americans != Every individual American.
When someone says Americans are This or Americans are That, they are talking about the percieved public image of the average American. And (I am an American) Americans as a general rule are louder and more obnoxious than other cultures. That does not mean that each individual American is more obnoxious than each individual non American though.
Kintanon
Wow, another person that doesn't recognize the intrinsic link between fame and fortune. The more well known you are the easier it is to leverage your identity into money. Serial killers do this all the time by writing books (or people write books about them) simply putting a well known name on something can make it automatically profitable. If an Author gives away the first few books he may be poor then, but if those first two books are good, then when he charges for his second book people are willing to pay for it because he's GOOD. Robert Jordan gave away the first part of the first book of the wheel of time (That's how I got my copy) it was still around 300 pages, but it was only the first half, and it was GREAT! I loved it, I've purchased every book in the series since then.
Kintanon
Maybe, just perhaps, we don't WANT our boundaries pushed?? Maybe we like the fact that the site has (well, I guess that's HAD) a narrow focus? Maybe if we wanted news about some idiots book about dogs and his doublewide we would go to a site for books about dogs? I come to this site for news on interesting technological widgets and the occasional political rant. I don't give a flying fuck about most of the rest of the stuff on here, and unfortunately the ratio of crap I don't care about to stuff interesting to me is getting higher. Ugh.
Kintanon
Not that I'm against gambling; personally I don't like to gamble because the house is statistically against me. That's why I take pride in losing my money on the stock market. :)
This depends on what you play, and where you play it. If you play a skill game like Poker at a place with a low rake you aren't fighting the house and the odds are in favor of the most skilled player winning. If you are playing back alley poker in some guys garage, and there is no rake, then as long as the game isn't crooked if you are a skilled player you will clean up good. And if you invest in a 12pack of beer to distribute to the other players you can frequently double your money or better in just a couple of hours... Fraternity poker games are a good place to do this. Get a few of them drunk and clean out their preppy mama's boy wallets...
Kintanon
That right there is why I no longer pirate shit! Back in the BBS days and the early days of the commercial net (early to mid 90s) it was easy to find reliable, working, cracked warez. Now you can't find shit on the web, most of the peer to peer networks aren't much better, FTPs are all huge Ratio sites... It's just a pain in the ass to try to Warez anything, I can work an hour of overtime and buy whatever the fuck I wanted to Warez...
Kintanon
Sleep is incredibly inconvenient. It requires that I spend an unnecessarily long time unconcious when I could be doing other things.
Kintanon
You don't like it, but you aren't afraid of it, right? It know it certainly does suck with I Break Shit at work, but I'm not afraid of breaking it.
Kintanon
The key seperating characteristic of Adults and Children is simple, Fear of Breaking Shit. Children do not have this crippling learning disability, they do not Fear to Break Shit. Adults do. So Adults will not try anything that they aren't sure will not Break Shit. Since an Adult who has never used a computer does not know what will Break Shit and what won't, they prefer to do nothing with the computer. A child doesn't care whether what he does to the computer Breaks Shit or not, he just wants to know what it will do. So every time a child does something and it doesn't Break Shit, he or she adds that act to the list of actions that Don't Break Shit and moves on. The same if the action Does Break Shit. Hopefully the child will try to fix it after he Breaks Shit, and thereby learn how to UnBreak Shit. I have formulated this theory after MANY MANY hours watching customer service reps who use the computer on a daily basis panic when they click on a different icon accidentally and a new window comes up. They call support (me) to 'Fix' their computer because it's 'Broke' by which they mean they aren't sure what actions Won't Break Shit in this situation. Amazing isn't it?
Kintanon
Look fuckhead (As long as we're going to throw out the personal attacks right off) I'm all for smaller federal government, but it's important that no matter WHAT the size of the government the PEOPLE have the last work in what goes on. So if the people want to throw more money at the pub. ed. system then fine, let them. We are the ones footing the bill for this crap, we should be the ones who choose where the money goes. And there is NO FUCKING REASON to dump more money into the fucking military. There is no substantial MILITARY threat to the US and won't be for the forseeable future. Our biggest threat is from Terrorism and all of the Stealth Bombers and ICBMS in the world won't stop some guy with a hundred lbs of dynamite from blowing himself to pieces in Times Square. I would PREFER that the Federal government do NOTHING beyond regulating Trade between the states and providing for national DEFENSE (Not Offense, Defense, none of this mucking around in Somalia fucking with starving people) while the States regulate everything else. But as of right now it isn't going to happen in one giant leap, you have to take it one step at a time. And increased control over where the government spends its money is a big part of regulating the government as a whole, both federal and state.
Kintanon
>:) My Wife is also a frequent Ranter, I posted a couple, but usually don't care. We never plan on having kids, just plain don't want them. I spent too much of my life raising my younger cousins to want any more. I'm not as militant as some of the people on the Rant board who are definately wound way too tight, I just want everyone to THINK about their decisions before they make them. So many people just get married and get pregnat (not necessarily in that order) because the don't know of any other choices, and then they raise their kids poorly and the cycle repeats. Uggh... That kind of breeding just doesn't help anyone.
Kintanon
Hmmm... But does this also means that if I have personal security cameras (Like a webcam in every room or something) that dump their images to my machine just for kicks, and someone breaks into my house and robs me, and I get them on video and find them, they can press charges against me for illegaly videotaping them in a private residence??
I'm pretty sure there was a clause in the bill that specificed it had to be for a Lewd or Lacsivious (sp) purpose.
Kintanon
You post on the RANT board don't you!!!?
>:)
I know you must at least READ the Rant board to pick up the term Crotch-fruit.
Glad to see there are other CFers on Slashdot that are tired of the way breeding assholes leech our hard earned money away.
Kintanon
This is where you have to draw the line between Federal and State services, and have itemized public budgets that citizens can always look at. If the Federal government has less money to work with, and decides to cut funding to schools and not mention it, then they may get away with it. But if they have to publicize an itemized budget detailing where all of the money goes then the citizens can DEMAND that they take a billion or so dollars and move them from Defense Spending to Education spending. The states should do the same. In fact, I think there should always be a 30 day period of citizen feedback on the state and federal budgets.
Kintanon
The WTC wasn't a big enough hulking piece of concrete for most co-los to house themselves in. Every big co-lo I know of is in the equivelant of an underground parking deck with 50+ feet of concrete above them. I doubt an airplane would do a whole lot to that.
Kintanon