Unnoticed in the USA Patriot Act is the fact it has effectively made the harmless hobby of trainspotting - the recording of different types of train engines, cabs, and cars - illegal in the USA.
So we can now drive around and spot open connections if this house bill passes, but people will still be treated as outlaws for watching trains.
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According to this news story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (the local Seattle paper, the Seattle Times is for the suburbanites), Microsoft is in severe danger of losing their shorts to Linux with their release of Windows 2003.
Maybe Paul Allen was right in diversifying out of Microsoft stock...
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The timing of the movie releases makes me wonder - will The Matrix be the Opening Night Movie for the Seattle International Film Fest which is this May? Especially since it doesn't open to general release until the fall, and prior SIFF opening or closing night films have involved the use of the Space Needle or Seattle Monorail - the IMAX theatre is just a few feet away at the Pacific Science Center, so maybe you can get to see it in ultra-high definition if you buy the Opening or Closing Night film add-ons for the Film Fest?
It wouldn't surprise me - after all, Paul Allen donates the use of his Cinerama theatre to the Film Fest for an entire week each year...
take the Monorail to the Pacific Science Center next to the Space Needle that a certain hot Jessica Albo and strange Dr. Evil used to hang out at, and watch The Matrix sequels in ultra-high definition!
Given your comments about genetic noise, why would you say women make better fighter pilots?
Canadian Air Force and other NATO Air Force studies were available in the 1980s to show that, in fact, women made better fighter pilots. These were not published (buried, in other words) and ignored in the USAF until the late 1990s, due to actions by the top brass in the USAF.
Again, it's partially self-selection, in that those women who can pass the spatial relations, higher math, and physical tests to become a pilot, are usually superior in such skills, whereas there is a larger pool of qualified men who can become pilots. But, when comparing one man with one woman, both qualified to become pilots, we find that women have better abilities on average in target acquisition, ability to handle high-G forces, lack of ego (you need a lot of ego, but you also need to be able to override it), and the ability to accept an easy kill over a more difficult kill.
Women, basically, don't shoot to wound. They shoot to kill. Men get their egos into the equation, take higher risks, and then fail more often.
All this was published in the mid-80s, when I was in the Canadian Armed Forces.
The information was available during Canadian Air Force studies in the mid-80s, but the USAF avoided the data until the late 90s. Part of the problem was that USAF brass didn't want to admit that women made better fighter pilots, on average, than men did.
However, my original comments as to the fact that each person is more different from another random person than a woman is from a man still stands.
One of the sad things is that people take studies like this and then leap to conclusions.
From a biological viewpoint, race, for example, is just genetic noise. The "difference" between men and women, when screened for education and general health (food and water supply) is much less than the difference between any single person and another person.
In other words, while the study group may have a 20 percent spatial visualization difference, the reality is that women make better fighter pilots than men do, as those people who self-select to become fighter pilots already have higher spatial relations abilities.
So, to make a long story short, this has no real difference in practice in terms of screen size requirement between men and women, as people who lack the ability to use such devices will self-select out of the final user population and will also become screened out during standard testing while attempting to use such skills.
A friend of mine, Roberta Gregory, has travelled around the world promoting her comix ("Bitchy Bitch" is one of them) and been able to get by doing that. She also has found that some weeklies have been good for a partial income stream, as well as doing small shows at various restaurants and coffee shops and bookstores.
I guess the main thing is realizing, as with any art, that half of your job is promotion and sales, and adjusting your life accordingly.
The other thing is doing stuff people want to buy, not necessarily the fun things you want to do - if people want you to do comix with young women with large breasts and unicorns, then you spend part of your time doing that - it pays the bills.
But, overall, it's a hard business to make much money at - usually you have to have a second job.
"Second, the genderspace article is NOT screaming in a neo-feminist way for 'equality'. It's simply making what I see as a very good statement about the assumptions and generalizations withing the industries character design. She is not shying away from T&A games, she is simply saying 'hey, girls play games now to, why not some good girl characters that alienate us less?'. She even likes the idea of DOA, it just doesn't appeal to her."
Exactly. Notice how Nintendo is focussing on the market reality that half of all GameBoy and GameBoyAdvance users are female by cranking out games that women and girls like to play - but not "girl" games, just ones that are fun to play for anyone.
A smart game designer thinks about the market when designing the game.
"Thats about as close as a gamer will ever get to a good-looking woman."
One of the fun things in my early gaming career was to play female characters in play-by-mail games or internet-games - it was amazing how many lovelorn guys sent me letters telling me how they loved me...
But... in my experience, the reason that many gamers don't get close to "good-looking women" is that they're too obsessed with gaming and need to have decent hygiene. Once you get past those hoops, it's not that difficult.
"So girls want to play SimCity and The Sims."
"Yeah, I can get behind that."
I remember when I was a game designer, I had a crew of male and female playtesters test out the characters and game - but this was for a Role-Playing Game (RPG). That's when I first learned that most men and women (or girls and boys) expect different things from games.
This was back when all the games were strongly sex-stereotyped, except for a couple that some friends of mine had done.
That's the link source.
The main question is how broad is such a suit, if it exists - is it in terms of use for games, for use in comics, for use in music, or as a graphical image?
Our new Privacy Czar, recently appointed, has been getting a lot done.
First, all flashing banner ads will flash the terror alert color of the day.
Second, all pop-up ads will individually be opt-out - just click on the 2-point text that says Opt Me Out I'm A Traitor and you'll be opted out and your Intel chip UID will be forwarded to John Ashcroft to be put on the official Enemies List.
Third, all pop-under ads will not contain any pr0n, since kids never look under there anyway and it would be a waste.
Fourth, every time you take a book out of the library, you can now opt out of the Totally Insane Prussian Security (TIPS) Act by filling out a 500-page opt-out form. Your name and address will then be forwarded to John Ashcroft to be put on the Suspected Terrorist List and order you a special commemorative American Terrorist pin with a microtransmitter.
Thank you for your cooperation, citizen!
interesting concept, but again, given the limits of nanotech, how do we know it won't have a reporting mechanism?
and with biodegradability and short lifespan, we have to worry about those which don't follow instructions.
so long as nano-tech can't replicate, it's fine - once it has replication, it gains the abilities of any cancer - mutation of basic instructions, due to machine error or radiation or failure.
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Unnoticed in the USA Patriot Act is the fact it has effectively made the harmless hobby of trainspotting - the recording of different types of train engines, cabs, and cars - illegal in the USA.
So we can now drive around and spot open connections if this house bill passes, but people will still be treated as outlaws for watching trains.
here in Fremont, Center of the Universe, we have parties with trolls, goblins, and other creatures, a Giant Troll which lives under our bridge, and space aliens on our Space Needle.
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And that's on a good day
According to this news story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (the local Seattle paper, the Seattle Times is for the suburbanites), Microsoft is in severe danger of losing their shorts to Linux with their release of Windows 2003.
...
Maybe Paul Allen was right in diversifying out of Microsoft stock
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Can anyone hear the server drives screaming?
until the first spam posting on an invisible weblog is posted ...
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At least the triple-X ads won't be so bad
IMAX could actually make her boobs an ok size
You've been playing way too many video games and reading way too many "adult entertainment" magazines.
Those are normal size. You've just lost your scale of reference.
Hit the Reset button and you'll be fine.
It's the Paul Allen-owned theatre in Seattle that has real Cinerama projectors, as well as DLP and 70mm projectors.
If you're anywhere near Seattle, I highly recommend seeing the Matrix sequels there - I saw the original movie there and it literally blew me away.
Considering the subject matter of The Matrix Reloaded, it's highly doubtful if you could handle seeing it in 3D.
Talk about your out-of-body experiences!
The timing of the movie releases makes me wonder - will The Matrix be the Opening Night Movie for the Seattle International Film Fest which is this May? Especially since it doesn't open to general release until the fall, and prior SIFF opening or closing night films have involved the use of the Space Needle or Seattle Monorail - the IMAX theatre is just a few feet away at the Pacific Science Center, so maybe you can get to see it in ultra-high definition if you buy the Opening or Closing Night film add-ons for the Film Fest?
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It wouldn't surprise me - after all, Paul Allen donates the use of his Cinerama theatre to the Film Fest for an entire week each year
Sweet!
take the Monorail to the Pacific Science Center next to the Space Needle that a certain hot Jessica Albo and strange Dr. Evil used to hang out at, and watch The Matrix sequels in ultra-high definition!
Life is sweet!
I mean, most of these have animal adulterants in them, so what's a low-impact vegan geek supposed to do?
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I suppose you could use olive oil, but she's kind of thin
Given your comments about genetic noise, why would you say women make better fighter pilots?
Canadian Air Force and other NATO Air Force studies were available in the 1980s to show that, in fact, women made better fighter pilots. These were not published (buried, in other words) and ignored in the USAF until the late 1990s, due to actions by the top brass in the USAF.
Again, it's partially self-selection, in that those women who can pass the spatial relations, higher math, and physical tests to become a pilot, are usually superior in such skills, whereas there is a larger pool of qualified men who can become pilots. But, when comparing one man with one woman, both qualified to become pilots, we find that women have better abilities on average in target acquisition, ability to handle high-G forces, lack of ego (you need a lot of ego, but you also need to be able to override it), and the ability to accept an easy kill over a more difficult kill.
Women, basically, don't shoot to wound. They shoot to kill. Men get their egos into the equation, take higher risks, and then fail more often.
All this was published in the mid-80s, when I was in the Canadian Armed Forces.
The information was available during Canadian Air Force studies in the mid-80s, but the USAF avoided the data until the late 90s. Part of the problem was that USAF brass didn't want to admit that women made better fighter pilots, on average, than men did.
However, my original comments as to the fact that each person is more different from another random person than a woman is from a man still stands.
One of the sad things is that people take studies like this and then leap to conclusions.
From a biological viewpoint, race, for example, is just genetic noise. The "difference" between men and women, when screened for education and general health (food and water supply) is much less than the difference between any single person and another person.
In other words, while the study group may have a 20 percent spatial visualization difference, the reality is that women make better fighter pilots than men do, as those people who self-select to become fighter pilots already have higher spatial relations abilities.
So, to make a long story short, this has no real difference in practice in terms of screen size requirement between men and women, as people who lack the ability to use such devices will self-select out of the final user population and will also become screened out during standard testing while attempting to use such skills.
A friend of mine, Roberta Gregory, has travelled around the world promoting her comix ("Bitchy Bitch" is one of them) and been able to get by doing that. She also has found that some weeklies have been good for a partial income stream, as well as doing small shows at various restaurants and coffee shops and bookstores.
I guess the main thing is realizing, as with any art, that half of your job is promotion and sales, and adjusting your life accordingly.
The other thing is doing stuff people want to buy, not necessarily the fun things you want to do - if people want you to do comix with young women with large breasts and unicorns, then you spend part of your time doing that - it pays the bills.
But, overall, it's a hard business to make much money at - usually you have to have a second job.
The teacher starts yelling at me.
Something about "public property".
"Second, the genderspace article is NOT screaming in a neo-feminist way for 'equality'. It's simply making what I see as a very good statement about the assumptions and generalizations withing the industries character design. She is not shying away from T&A games, she is simply saying 'hey, girls play games now to, why not some good girl characters that alienate us less?'. She even likes the idea of DOA, it just doesn't appeal to her."
Exactly. Notice how Nintendo is focussing on the market reality that half of all GameBoy and GameBoyAdvance users are female by cranking out games that women and girls like to play - but not "girl" games, just ones that are fun to play for anyone.
A smart game designer thinks about the market when designing the game.
"Thats about as close as a gamer will ever get to a good-looking woman."
...
... in my experience, the reason that many gamers don't get close to "good-looking women" is that they're too obsessed with gaming and need to have decent hygiene. Once you get past those hoops, it's not that difficult.
One of the fun things in my early gaming career was to play female characters in play-by-mail games or internet-games - it was amazing how many lovelorn guys sent me letters telling me how they loved me
But
"So girls want to play SimCity and The Sims." "Yeah, I can get behind that." I remember when I was a game designer, I had a crew of male and female playtesters test out the characters and game - but this was for a Role-Playing Game (RPG). That's when I first learned that most men and women (or girls and boys) expect different things from games. This was back when all the games were strongly sex-stereotyped, except for a couple that some friends of mine had done.
I'll bet he could bring back some photos that would show Spiderman being kidnapped by Sony ... ... where is he, by the way?
That's the link source. The main question is how broad is such a suit, if it exists - is it in terms of use for games, for use in comics, for use in music, or as a graphical image?
Our new Privacy Czar, recently appointed, has been getting a lot done. First, all flashing banner ads will flash the terror alert color of the day. Second, all pop-up ads will individually be opt-out - just click on the 2-point text that says Opt Me Out I'm A Traitor and you'll be opted out and your Intel chip UID will be forwarded to John Ashcroft to be put on the official Enemies List. Third, all pop-under ads will not contain any pr0n, since kids never look under there anyway and it would be a waste. Fourth, every time you take a book out of the library, you can now opt out of the Totally Insane Prussian Security (TIPS) Act by filling out a 500-page opt-out form. Your name and address will then be forwarded to John Ashcroft to be put on the Suspected Terrorist List and order you a special commemorative American Terrorist pin with a microtransmitter. Thank you for your cooperation, citizen!
I'd like to choose the European or Canadian version instead ...
What do you mean it's got a region code?
interesting concept, but again, given the limits of nanotech, how do we know it won't have a reporting mechanism? and with biodegradability and short lifespan, we have to worry about those which don't follow instructions. so long as nano-tech can't replicate, it's fine - once it has replication, it gains the abilities of any cancer - mutation of basic instructions, due to machine error or radiation or failure.