You don't need to mirror the pictures, I'll just post them here. They all look similar to this:
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Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/1.3.26 Server at caramel.virtual-domain.com Port 80
No wonder they've decided to cover these pictures up for so many years. These pictures must have been strange and confusing in the pre-Internet days.
I sure did. What even got my attention further was that "tactile" has to do with touching. We all know what Michael Jackson is known for.
In fact, wondering if anyone else saw the same thing was the only reason I bothered to read these comments. Even as I write this comment I still don't know anything about it other that it's some kind of PDA.
Knights were hardly the chivalrous gentlemen that modern literature portrays them to be. Reading non-simplified non-romanticized histories of the Middle Ages will make that clear pretty quickly.
Chivalry was more of a thing for stories and songs. No doubt there were some chivalrous knights, but most knights were noblemen out to enrich themselves and gain power. Some others were no more than thugs. The knights and lords along the Rhine extorted money from ships passing by. If a ship declined to pay, it would get sunk. These were known as the robber-knights.
The average knight tended to act mostly in his self-interest, but might do a few acts that could be constituted as chivalrous. The Middle Ages was a rather lawless era where brutality often got people ahead.
The supposedly noble and chivalrous knights of the Crusades sacked and looted everything in their path as they headed for Jerusalem. The Hungarians and Byzantines were particularly pissed off at the Crusaders. They gave permission for the Crusaders to pass through their lands, and all they got in return was a swath of destruction where the armies had passed. Upon entering Jerusalem, the Crusaders immediately proceeded to massacre the entire population regardless of religion and went out of control for a few days as they looted the city.
Chivalrous indeed. Back then as now people were selfish bastards intent on gaining wealth and power.
The amount of brutality and backstabbing by the knights and noblemen of the Middle Ages was incredible. Kingdom were very decentralized, and the only enforcement of law for knights was provided for by the ruler of the area, usually at their whim. Kings, dukes, and so forth usually had little control over their vassals, so enforcement was only provided if it was in the best interests of the enforcer.
It's generally considered uncool to force someone to be a citizen of a country if they also possess a citizenship for another country. If you have one citizenship, you're probably stuck with it unless you acquire another one. If you have another one, however, most countries will allow you to renounce their citizenship. I hear, however, there are a few countries that will force citizenship upon people whose ancestors were from that country. I don't know of the top of my head which countries those are.
It is possible to become citizenshipless, when a country decides to revoke a citizenship (see above article for reasons why the U.S. could do this), but it usually isn't possible for someone to become citizenshipless voluntarily.
It's a civilian project run by NASA, not a military project. The Department of Defense might want to keep it a secret, but NASA tends not to be interested in that kind of thing.
So it's OK to kill most people in video games, but not law enforcement officers.
This type of thing seems to be saying that somehow the lives of law enforcement officers are worth more than everyone else's. I certainly don't think so. Their lives are worth the same as everyone else's: no more, no less.
So playing a video game where law enforcement officers are killed is going to inspire people to go out and kill real ones? I think not.
If that's true, then people are going to go out and kill civilians instead after they play these games. What the hell kind of difference does it make whether a video game involves violence against law enforcement or not? Violent people are going to do violent things, video games or not. They don't suddenly get murderous blood-lust because they played a video game.
I only use a filter or buy bottled water if the municipal water tastes like chlorine. I absolutely despise the taste of chlorinated water.
As long as the water tastes decent and isn't hazardous to my health, I'll happily drink it. The cheaper the better.
Where I used to live there was a machine at the nearby supermarket that filtered the municipal water and gave you a gallon for 25 cents. I considered that well worth it. It tasted much better than the chlorinated crap that the municipality produces, yet no worse than the cheapest 85 cents per gallon water just inside the supermarket (not to mention those horrible expensive ones like Evian).
While I was filling up at the machine, someone told me they had seen some show that claimed those machines produced unhealthy disease water. Pah! Fear-mongering. No doubt some machine somewhere hadn't been maintained in a while or wasn't working right, causing people to get sick. That happens every day in restaurants and municipal waters supplies across the country. The water was just fine and I enjoyed the chlorine-free taste.
In Germany where I lived the tap water was by far the best tap water I've ever had, being piped fresh out of the Bodensee. It was unchlorinated and tasted great. I never had the desire to buy bottled water. A lot of people there, however, swear that their tap water is somehow unhealthy and instead buy carbonated water in bottles. How bubbles in water suddenly make it more healthy I have no idea, but a lot of people seemed to believe it. They had no idea how good their tap water was.
Thank you. It helps those of us who don't have much to do with these MMORPGs understand what these people are talking about.
When I listen to people talking about Everquest or somesuch, it sounds almost like some kind of foreign language. I have no idea what they're talking about. It's amazing how much lingo has arisen around MMORPGs.
Interestingly enough, Hamas does actually act as a charity. They provide things like free food and medicine for Palestinians, which is one of the reasons they have so much support.
Of course, they also use a large portion of their funds to sponsor suicide-bombings, buy arms, and other sorts of nefarious things.
It reminds me of a bit of the political machines in American cities in the late 19th century. Their primary purpose was to get their leaders elected to city governments, where they could wield power. They did this by providing support (housing, food, jobs connections, etc.) to arriving poor immigrants and by helping out immigrant and ethnic communities. The immigrants were in turn grateful and reciprocated by voting for the political machine's candidates.
As long as these poor immigrant voters were getting charity, they looked aside when the political candidates used their offices for more nefarious purposes (embezzling, nepotism, etc.). Both gained from this arrangement
How about we go way back, to one of the most influencial of all: The Bible. Now don't get me wrong here, I'm not Christian, I think the Bible is a bunch of fiction and nothing more, but it is probably the sole most influencial book in western society. Yet, I've never seen it read in public schools (believe it or not, you can look at the Bible from a secular standpoint).
Interestingly enough sections of the Bible were required reading for my AP English class in public school. My English teacher was actually Jewish, but she felt it was important to read the Bible because so much English literature has references to Bible stories. The Bible has had a huge influence on Anglo-American culture and litereature.
So rather than studying the Bible for theological purposes, we needed to to understand the stories and ideas in the Bible to gain a better understanding and appreciation for other literature. It is definitely possible to look at the Bible from a secular standpoint. It makes you understand literary allusions to biblical events and stories much better.
Er... Wasn't that HAPPINESS? Since when has property been the same as property?
Auctually John Locke originally phrased it as I did. Thomas Jefferson, when penning the Declaration of Independance changed it to happiness.
The reason the founding fathers changed it from "property" to "pursuit of happiness" was that they were afraid of that the lower classes would see this as a right to have land, and would start demanding they be given land. Since the founding fathers were mostly land-owning upper-class gentlemen, that was something rather undesirable.
So some kid is playing around, falls and hurts himself rather badly. The fact that he was pretending to be Spider Man was beside the point. Kids get hurt all the time when they're playing pretending to be all sorts of things. I see nothing special here.
Kids are going to have imaginations, they're going to play, and they're going to get hurt doing so. It's a fact of life.
I've been very happy with Viewsonic. I owned two 17" Viewsonic monitors and never had a problem with them. A year and a half ago I got a 19" Viewsonic LCD, and I've been enormously pleased with it.
It's interesting to hear someone regard Viewsonic products as crap. I usually hear hear good things about Viewsonic.
I guess that no matter which company you pick, there's always someone who's had bad experiences with it.
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It seems I must once again post these rules:
1. No matter what you predict in the future, you will be horribly wrong.
2. The people in the future will mercilessly mock you for it.
1. No matter what you predict in the future, you will be horribly wrong.
2. The people in the future will mercilessly mock you for it.
You don't need to mirror the pictures, I'll just post them here. They all look similar to this:
No wonder they've decided to cover these pictures up for so many years. These pictures must have been strange and confusing in the pre-Internet days.
I sure did. What even got my attention further was that "tactile" has to do with touching. We all know what Michael Jackson is known for.
In fact, wondering if anyone else saw the same thing was the only reason I bothered to read these comments. Even as I write this comment I still don't know anything about it other that it's some kind of PDA.
Knights were hardly the chivalrous gentlemen that modern literature portrays them to be. Reading non-simplified non-romanticized histories of the Middle Ages will make that clear pretty quickly.
Chivalry was more of a thing for stories and songs. No doubt there were some chivalrous knights, but most knights were noblemen out to enrich themselves and gain power. Some others were no more than thugs. The knights and lords along the Rhine extorted money from ships passing by. If a ship declined to pay, it would get sunk. These were known as the robber-knights.
The average knight tended to act mostly in his self-interest, but might do a few acts that could be constituted as chivalrous. The Middle Ages was a rather lawless era where brutality often got people ahead.
The supposedly noble and chivalrous knights of the Crusades sacked and looted everything in their path as they headed for Jerusalem. The Hungarians and Byzantines were particularly pissed off at the Crusaders. They gave permission for the Crusaders to pass through their lands, and all they got in return was a swath of destruction where the armies had passed. Upon entering Jerusalem, the Crusaders immediately proceeded to massacre the entire population regardless of religion and went out of control for a few days as they looted the city.
Chivalrous indeed. Back then as now people were selfish bastards intent on gaining wealth and power.
The amount of brutality and backstabbing by the knights and noblemen of the Middle Ages was incredible. Kingdom were very decentralized, and the only enforcement of law for knights was provided for by the ruler of the area, usually at their whim. Kings, dukes, and so forth usually had little control over their vassals, so enforcement was only provided if it was in the best interests of the enforcer.
It is possible to renounce U.S. citizenship. You have to renounce your citizenship in the presence of a U.S. consul.
See this article.
It's generally considered uncool to force someone to be a citizen of a country if they also possess a citizenship for another country. If you have one citizenship, you're probably stuck with it unless you acquire another one. If you have another one, however, most countries will allow you to renounce their citizenship. I hear, however, there are a few countries that will force citizenship upon people whose ancestors were from that country. I don't know of the top of my head which countries those are.
It is possible to become citizenshipless, when a country decides to revoke a citizenship (see above article for reasons why the U.S. could do this), but it usually isn't possible for someone to become citizenshipless voluntarily.
What's even more amazing is that I'm 26 years old and nobody has ever walked on the moon in my lifetime. That's pretty pathetic if you ask me.
It's a civilian project run by NASA, not a military project. The Department of Defense might want to keep it a secret, but NASA tends not to be interested in that kind of thing.
So it's OK to kill most people in video games, but not law enforcement officers.
This type of thing seems to be saying that somehow the lives of law enforcement officers are worth more than everyone else's. I certainly don't think so. Their lives are worth the same as everyone else's: no more, no less.
So playing a video game where law enforcement officers are killed is going to inspire people to go out and kill real ones? I think not.
If that's true, then people are going to go out and kill civilians instead after they play these games. What the hell kind of difference does it make whether a video game involves violence against law enforcement or not? Violent people are going to do violent things, video games or not. They don't suddenly get murderous blood-lust because they played a video game.
Actually, it's the Duke Nukem Forever software development process that will last 200 years, and not the software itself. :)
I only use a filter or buy bottled water if the municipal water tastes like chlorine. I absolutely despise the taste of chlorinated water.
As long as the water tastes decent and isn't hazardous to my health, I'll happily drink it. The cheaper the better.
Where I used to live there was a machine at the nearby supermarket that filtered the municipal water and gave you a gallon for 25 cents. I considered that well worth it. It tasted much better than the chlorinated crap that the municipality produces, yet no worse than the cheapest 85 cents per gallon water just inside the supermarket (not to mention those horrible expensive ones like Evian).
While I was filling up at the machine, someone told me they had seen some show that claimed those machines produced unhealthy disease water. Pah! Fear-mongering. No doubt some machine somewhere hadn't been maintained in a while or wasn't working right, causing people to get sick. That happens every day in restaurants and municipal waters supplies across the country. The water was just fine and I enjoyed the chlorine-free taste.
In Germany where I lived the tap water was by far the best tap water I've ever had, being piped fresh out of the Bodensee. It was unchlorinated and tasted great. I never had the desire to buy bottled water. A lot of people there, however, swear that their tap water is somehow unhealthy and instead buy carbonated water in bottles. How bubbles in water suddenly make it more healthy I have no idea, but a lot of people seemed to believe it. They had no idea how good their tap water was.
I didn't know what Sodium Pentothal was, so I had to look it up. For those of you in the same boat as me, here's a good web page about it
Thanks for that tidbit of information. I wasn't aware there was a predecessor to Deep Blue.
Well, that's my German lesson for today! :)
Thank you. It helps those of us who don't have much to do with these MMORPGs understand what these people are talking about.
When I listen to people talking about Everquest or somesuch, it sounds almost like some kind of foreign language. I have no idea what they're talking about. It's amazing how much lingo has arisen around MMORPGs.
I wonder if the origin of the "Deep" naming convention was Deep Thought, the computer from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
So that's where that horrible roundabout is! I've seen pictures of that ugly beast before.
I can't imagine how confusing that must be to drive on if you're not used to it.
Interestingly enough, Hamas does actually act as a charity. They provide things like free food and medicine for Palestinians, which is one of the reasons they have so much support.
Of course, they also use a large portion of their funds to sponsor suicide-bombings, buy arms, and other sorts of nefarious things.
It reminds me of a bit of the political machines in American cities in the late 19th century. Their primary purpose was to get their leaders elected to city governments, where they could wield power. They did this by providing support (housing, food, jobs connections, etc.) to arriving poor immigrants and by helping out immigrant and ethnic communities. The immigrants were in turn grateful and reciprocated by voting for the political machine's candidates.
As long as these poor immigrant voters were getting charity, they looked aside when the political candidates used their offices for more nefarious purposes (embezzling, nepotism, etc.). Both gained from this arrangement
Fresno? Charm?
I've been to Fresno several times, and each time I think only what an icky, hot, traffic-filled, polluted city it is.
Wow, this Swindon place must be pretty bad.
How about we go way back, to one of the most influencial of all: The Bible. Now don't get me wrong here, I'm not Christian, I think the Bible is a bunch of fiction and nothing more, but it is probably the sole most influencial book in western society. Yet, I've never seen it read in public schools (believe it or not, you can look at the Bible from a secular standpoint).
Interestingly enough sections of the Bible were required reading for my AP English class in public school. My English teacher was actually Jewish, but she felt it was important to read the Bible because so much English literature has references to Bible stories. The Bible has had a huge influence on Anglo-American culture and litereature.
So rather than studying the Bible for theological purposes, we needed to to understand the stories and ideas in the Bible to gain a better understanding and appreciation for other literature. It is definitely possible to look at the Bible from a secular standpoint. It makes you understand literary allusions to biblical events and stories much better.
Er... Wasn't that HAPPINESS? Since when has property been the same as property?
Auctually John Locke originally phrased it as I did. Thomas Jefferson, when penning the Declaration of Independance changed it to happiness.
The reason the founding fathers changed it from "property" to "pursuit of happiness" was that they were afraid of that the lower classes would see this as a right to have land, and would start demanding they be given land. Since the founding fathers were mostly land-owning upper-class gentlemen, that was something rather undesirable.
So some kid is playing around, falls and hurts himself rather badly. The fact that he was pretending to be Spider Man was beside the point. Kids get hurt all the time when they're playing pretending to be all sorts of things. I see nothing special here.
Kids are going to have imaginations, they're going to play, and they're going to get hurt doing so. It's a fact of life.
I've been very happy with Viewsonic. I owned two 17" Viewsonic monitors and never had a problem with them. A year and a half ago I got a 19" Viewsonic LCD, and I've been enormously pleased with it.
It's interesting to hear someone regard Viewsonic products as crap. I usually hear hear good things about Viewsonic.
I guess that no matter which company you pick, there's always someone who's had bad experiences with it.
I wonder which one?
The middle one. That way they have something to show other robot researchers
To them their statements may seem like a show of bravado, but it's really just trolling.
I wonder if Kim Jong Il is a regular troll here on Slashdot.