Ostensibly they are quoting the anonymous user. Which is most proper: to correct such mistakes in quotations, to call them out with "[sic]", or let them stand?
For my part, I tagged with typoinsummary, runningthegamut, and !gambit.
While the systems were being installed, a number of people who were going to work in the buildings found themselves having conversations with Breathe-o-Smart systems fitters which went something like this:
'But what if we want to have the windows open?'
'You won't want to have the windows open with new Breathe-o-Smart.'
'Yes but supposing we just wanted to have them open for a little bit?'
'You won't want to have them open even for a little bit. The new Breathe-o-Smart system will see to that.'
'Hmmm.'
'Enjoy Breathe-o-Smart!'
'OK, so what if the Breathe-o-Smart breaks down or goes wrong or something?'
'Ah! One of the smartest features of the Breathe-o-Smart is that it cannot possibly go wrong. So. No worries on that score. Enjoy your breathing now, and have a nice day.'
[...]
Major heat waves started to coincide, with almost magical precision, with major failures of the Breathe-o-Smart systems. To begin with this merely caused simmering resentment and only a few deaths from asphyxiation.
The real horror erupted on the day that three events happened simultaneously. The first event was that Breathe-o-Smart Inc. issued a statement to the effect that best results were achieved by using their systems in temperate climates.
The second event was the breakdown of a Breathe-o-Smart system on a particularly hot and humid day with the resulting evacuation of many hundreds of office staff into the street where they met the third event, which was a rampaging mob of long-distance telephone operators who had got so twisted with having to say, all day and every day, 'Thank you for using BS&S' to every single idiot who picked up a phone that they had finally taken to the streets with trash cans, megaphones and rifles.
In the ensuing days of carnage every single window in the city, rocket-proof or not, was smashed, usually to accompanying cries of 'Get off the line, asshole! I don't care what number you want, what extension you're calling from. Go and stick a firework up your bottom! Yeeehaah! Hoo Hoo Hoo! Velooooom! Squawk!' and a variety of other animal noises that they didn't get a chance to practice in the normal line of their work.
As a result of this, all telephone operators were granted a constitutional right to say 'Use BS&S and die!' at least once an hour when answering the phone and all office buildings were required to have windows that opened, even if only a little bit.
Another, unexpected result was a dramatic lowering of the suicide rate. All sorts of stressed and rising executives who had been forced, during the dark days of the Breathe-o-Smart tyranny, to jump in front of trains or stab themselves, could now just clamber out on to their own window ledges and leap off at their leisure. What frequently happened, though, was that in the moment or two they had to look around and gather their thoughts they would suddenly discover that all they had really needed was a breath of air and a fresh perspective on things, and maybe also a farm on which they could keep a few sheep.
The outages, which affected both Gmail and Apps, 'could serve as a deterrent to some IT and business managers who might not be ready to ditch conventional software packages that are installed on their servers,' according to the article.
Split the difference: run it locally, but over your LAN instead of the WAN, and call it "fog computing". The fog system occasionally syncs with the cloud system as available.
Information and deception have always been integral to warfare, and always will be. More modern examples include the Allies managing to trick Hitler into believing that they will invade at Calais, rather than Normandy
And tricking the Shadows and the Vorlons into a confrontation at Coriana 6.
I also noticed that the remastered versions of classic Trek change a lot of the visuals (booo, hissss)
The only thing that really bothers me about the remastered visuals is that in the opening credits the Enterprise isn't shown flying in a big figure-8 at warp speed anymore. They change the background star pattern now each time the next credit appears. Originally the background starfield was stable, implying the ship was circling back out of shot and flying by the camera again several times.
Also, it smears some of the stars behind the ship.
Home alone on a Friday night slamming back several, eh?
You don't need the brewskies to get brain damage. That movie alone is enough. I don't even dare to think what happens if you watch two or (shrudder) three.
Sure, it increases the work of the writers and the QA guys
Yeah, exponentially! Every decision with two story-affecting choices doubles the number of endings. For a story with only 8 decisions, you'll have 256 story paths to write and test. It gets more complex when a decision changes the meaning of other decisions (earlier and later) or adds or removes decision points.
The first fare card system, San Francisco's BART, isn't that secure, but has an big advantage - BART has exit gates. So, while it doesn't have real-time validation against a central database, gate info is being transmitted in background to a central system, and if centralized analysis indicates something funny going on, central control can flag the card, trap the user at the exit gate, and alert station security to check the card.
As a teenager visiting San Francisco, one day I accidentally left my BART card on the BART, and found myself in a station where not only did I need to use my card to leave the station, but all card vending machines were beyond the gates I couldn't pass without a card! I was at a loss for what to do. The cards had left the station and were irretrievable. I could get on another and try station after station looking for one that had vending machines inside the station or a free exit, being unsure whether such a station even existed. I didn't want to risk jumping a turnstile.
Eventually I approached an official and explained my situation and was let out of the station. And I made sure from then on that if I wasn't immediately about to use the card that I kept it in my pocket, not tucked under my leg in my seat.
You have the obligation to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used to find you in contempt of court. Findings of contempt are final and are subject to appeal only at the judge's discretion. Your term of incarceration also will be at the judge's discretion.
Back in my day, games booted themselves and didn't need no stinkin' operating system to run underneath them. They took full control of the hardware and provided their own OS designed just to handle access to the disk, i.e. a Disk Operating System, often customized to the game to reduce piracy.
My primary domain used to be a catchall and I'd create a new username with each new contact I dealt with. (I still get spam resulting from registering with 321studios, and participating in a caucus now is getting me regular Hallmark Trojans.)
Until one day when suddenly my spam filters became complete ineffective and I was deluged with over 3000 messages in one day. Turned out my ISP disabled my procmail filters because they were using too many system resources. I decided to switch that domain to a non-catchall and only let through the usernames I'd already defined. (The aforementioned two are going to be cut off.)
Until today, root still owned my ~/.procmailrc file and denied me write permissions on it. Good thing I own my user directory so I could remove it. If they had set it as immutable, I could still run procmail with an alternate rc file. 'Cause even without a catch-all, I still need to filter the spam sent to my ISP username@domain.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, "Future Boy", who's President in the United States in 1985? Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan. Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?! [chuckles in disbelief] Dr. Emmett Brown: Then who's Vice-President? Jerry Lewis?
[rushing out and down a hill toward his laboratory] Dr. Emmett Brown: I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady! Marty McFly: [following] Whoa! Wait! Doc! Dr. Emmett Brown: And Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury! Marty McFly: [outside the lab door] Doc, you gotta listen to me! Dr. Emmett Brown: I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, Future Boy!
Sonny Bono gave us unconstitutionally long copyright terms.
Inigo Montoya would like a word with you.
With all due respect to the Supreme Court, if copyright outlives both the author and his peers, that effectively is an eternal period for anyone who was alive at its creation and would care enough to want to copy it, let alone ephemeral works which may cease to exist in any material form in under a year.
The interesting thing is that KARR indeed jumps off a cliff. He is recovered in a later episode when a random man digs him out of the sand on the beach.
Yet, while buried in the beach sand, he somehow got a voice visualizer redesign.
There's a point in which after a person accumulates enough money, the promise of more money to throw on top of the heap really stops becoming a motivating factor
When the carrot stops working, you switch to the stick. As in, if you don't perform the work you're contracted for (or leak information about your hobbies that we're developing as games), we sue to reclaim a big chunk of your money heap.
It's when you give so many carrots that the stick doesn't work anymore that you really have problems.
Brooklyn. And the quote is on IMDb (at series level, though it should be filed by episode under "Enter MacBeth"):
Brooklyn: [pokes cage] Ouch. Brooklyn: [pokes cage] Ouch. Lexington: [annoyed] How many times are you going to try that? Brooklyn: Until you find a way to get us out of this. Brooklyn: [pokes cage] Ouch. Brooklyn: [pokes cage] Ouch. Hey, you know, I'm getting tired of this. Lexington: Did you just see how the lights dimmed when you did that? Brooklyn: Oh, sorry no, I was too busy writhing in agony to notice.
So it was partly boredom, partly motivational.
Of course it was shortly followed by the reused line (and by "reused" I mean exact same performance), "Go for help, Bronx!"
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Please, for god's sake editors, do some editing.
Ostensibly they are quoting the anonymous user. Which is most proper: to correct such mistakes in quotations, to call them out with "[sic]", or let them stand?
For my part, I tagged with typoinsummary, runningthegamut, and !gambit.
While the systems were being installed, a number of people who were going to work in the buildings found themselves having conversations with Breathe-o-Smart systems fitters which went something like this:
'But what if we want to have the windows open?'
'You won't want to have the windows open with new Breathe-o-Smart.'
'Yes but supposing we just wanted to have them open for a little bit?'
'You won't want to have them open even for a little bit. The new Breathe-o-Smart system will see to that.'
'Hmmm.'
'Enjoy Breathe-o-Smart!'
'OK, so what if the Breathe-o-Smart breaks down or goes wrong or something?'
'Ah! One of the smartest features of the Breathe-o-Smart is that it cannot possibly go wrong. So. No worries on that score. Enjoy your breathing now, and have a nice day.'
[...]
Major heat waves started to coincide, with almost magical precision, with major failures of the Breathe-o-Smart systems. To begin with this merely caused simmering resentment and only a few deaths from asphyxiation.
The real horror erupted on the day that three events happened simultaneously. The first event was that Breathe-o-Smart Inc. issued a statement to the effect that best results were achieved by using their systems in temperate climates.
The second event was the breakdown of a Breathe-o-Smart system on a particularly hot and humid day with the resulting evacuation of many hundreds of office staff into the street where they met the third event, which was a rampaging mob of long-distance telephone operators who had got so twisted with having to say, all day and every day, 'Thank you for using BS&S' to every single idiot who picked up a phone that they had finally taken to the streets with trash cans, megaphones and rifles.
In the ensuing days of carnage every single window in the city, rocket-proof or not, was smashed, usually to accompanying cries of 'Get off the line, asshole! I don't care what number you want, what extension you're calling from. Go and stick a firework up your bottom! Yeeehaah! Hoo Hoo Hoo! Velooooom! Squawk!' and a variety of other animal noises that they didn't get a chance to practice in the normal line of their work.
As a result of this, all telephone operators were granted a constitutional right to say 'Use BS&S and die!' at least once an hour when answering the phone and all office buildings were required to have windows that opened, even if only a little bit.
Another, unexpected result was a dramatic lowering of the suicide rate. All sorts of stressed and rising executives who had been forced, during the dark days of the Breathe-o-Smart tyranny, to jump in front of trains or stab themselves, could now just clamber out on to their own window ledges and leap off at their leisure. What frequently happened, though, was that in the moment or two they had to look around and gather their thoughts they would suddenly discover that all they had really needed was a breath of air and a fresh perspective on things, and maybe also a farm on which they could keep a few sheep.
The outages, which affected both Gmail and Apps, 'could serve as a deterrent to some IT and business managers who might not be ready to ditch conventional software packages that are installed on their servers,' according to the article.
Split the difference: run it locally, but over your LAN instead of the WAN, and call it "fog computing". The fog system occasionally syncs with the cloud system as available.
Information and deception have always been integral to warfare, and always will be. More modern examples include the Allies managing to trick Hitler into believing that they will invade at Calais, rather than Normandy
And tricking the Shadows and the Vorlons into a confrontation at Coriana 6.
Does it also work to detect when people lie about failing to recall or remember something? Congress would love-fear that.
Yes, I meant a hyphen, not a slash.
I also noticed that the remastered versions of classic Trek change a lot of the visuals (booo, hissss)
The only thing that really bothers me about the remastered visuals is that in the opening credits the Enterprise isn't shown flying in a big figure-8 at warp speed anymore. They change the background star pattern now each time the next credit appears. Originally the background starfield was stable, implying the ship was circling back out of shot and flying by the camera again several times.
Also, it smears some of the stars behind the ship.
Home alone on a Friday night slamming back several, eh?
You don't need the brewskies to get brain damage. That movie alone is enough. I don't even dare to think what happens if you watch two or (shrudder) three.
Watch The Good Son instead of Home Alone 3.
(No, I haven't yet watched The Bad Seed, but I plan to.)
Sure, it increases the work of the writers and the QA guys
Yeah, exponentially! Every decision with two story-affecting choices doubles the number of endings. For a story with only 8 decisions, you'll have 256 story paths to write and test. It gets more complex when a decision changes the meaning of other decisions (earlier and later) or adds or removes decision points.
The first fare card system, San Francisco's BART, isn't that secure, but has an big advantage - BART has exit gates. So, while it doesn't have real-time validation against a central database, gate info is being transmitted in background to a central system, and if centralized analysis indicates something funny going on, central control can flag the card, trap the user at the exit gate, and alert station security to check the card.
As a teenager visiting San Francisco, one day I accidentally left my BART card on the BART, and found myself in a station where not only did I need to use my card to leave the station, but all card vending machines were beyond the gates I couldn't pass without a card! I was at a loss for what to do. The cards had left the station and were irretrievable. I could get on another and try station after station looking for one that had vending machines inside the station or a free exit, being unsure whether such a station even existed. I didn't want to risk jumping a turnstile.
Eventually I approached an official and explained my situation and was let out of the station. And I made sure from then on that if I wasn't immediately about to use the card that I kept it in my pocket, not tucked under my leg in my seat.
You have the obligation to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used to find you in contempt of court. Findings of contempt are final and are subject to appeal only at the judge's discretion. Your term of incarceration also will be at the judge's discretion.
Back in my day, games booted themselves and didn't need no stinkin' operating system to run underneath them. They took full control of the hardware and provided their own OS designed just to handle access to the disk, i.e. a Disk Operating System, often customized to the game to reduce piracy.
My primary domain used to be a catchall and I'd create a new username with each new contact I dealt with. (I still get spam resulting from registering with 321studios, and participating in a caucus now is getting me regular Hallmark Trojans.)
Until one day when suddenly my spam filters became complete ineffective and I was deluged with over 3000 messages in one day. Turned out my ISP disabled my procmail filters because they were using too many system resources. I decided to switch that domain to a non-catchall and only let through the usernames I'd already defined. (The aforementioned two are going to be cut off.)
Until today, root still owned my ~/.procmailrc file and denied me write permissions on it. Good thing I own my user directory so I could remove it. If they had set it as immutable, I could still run procmail with an alternate rc file. 'Cause even without a catch-all, I still need to filter the spam sent to my ISP username@domain.
by using metrics of course
But imperialistics have been working so well.
"`What's the Wiki worth?' It exists and it's useful. That's enough! Off with his head!"
Heck, I can buy Viva Pinata for my 360 period, and then call it a family friendly console. Hypocrisy is the name for this "debate".
Viva Piñata? Where you beat crying animals to death and get rewarded with candy, confetti, and cheers? That's family friendly?
Oh, you must mean the part where you can breed piñatas with their siblings and parents with their children.
"We've upped our standards, so up yours!" -- Pat Paulsen
T'wood bae neether homonim nur homofone eff wazent eh werd.
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Consider also: The Omega Glory
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, "Future Boy", who's President in the United States in 1985?
Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?!
[chuckles in disbelief]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then who's Vice-President? Jerry Lewis?
[rushing out and down a hill toward his laboratory]
Dr. Emmett Brown: I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
Marty McFly: [following] Whoa! Wait! Doc!
Dr. Emmett Brown: And Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury!
Marty McFly: [outside the lab door] Doc, you gotta listen to me!
Dr. Emmett Brown: I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, Future Boy!
Sonny Bono gave us unconstitutionally long copyright terms.
Inigo Montoya would like a word with you.
With all due respect to the Supreme Court, if copyright outlives both the author and his peers, that effectively is an eternal period for anyone who was alive at its creation and would care enough to want to copy it, let alone ephemeral works which may cease to exist in any material form in under a year.
Gotta teach kids that war is family friendly fun somehow.
The interesting thing is that KARR indeed jumps off a cliff. He is recovered in a later episode when a random man digs him out of the sand on the beach.
Yet, while buried in the beach sand, he somehow got a voice visualizer redesign.
But what if [VP] wants to fire HR ... ?
Then he gets out the other special rubber stamp that says, "Treat As Authorized."
There's a point in which after a person accumulates enough money, the promise of more money to throw on top of the heap really stops becoming a motivating factor
When the carrot stops working, you switch to the stick. As in, if you don't perform the work you're contracted for (or leak information about your hobbies that we're developing as games), we sue to reclaim a big chunk of your money heap.
It's when you give so many carrots that the stick doesn't work anymore that you really have problems.
If you really want to support the artist, buy the CD and then go see a concert. Buy a t-shirt, even.
Is it OK for me to go to a concert first? (I just heard and saw Flogging Molly for the first time two days ago.)
Brooklyn. And the quote is on IMDb (at series level, though it should be filed by episode under "Enter MacBeth"):
Brooklyn: [pokes cage] Ouch.
Brooklyn: [pokes cage] Ouch.
Lexington: [annoyed] How many times are you going to try that?
Brooklyn: Until you find a way to get us out of this.
Brooklyn: [pokes cage] Ouch.
Brooklyn: [pokes cage] Ouch. Hey, you know, I'm getting tired of this.
Lexington: Did you just see how the lights dimmed when you did that?
Brooklyn: Oh, sorry no, I was too busy writhing in agony to notice.
So it was partly boredom, partly motivational.
Of course it was shortly followed by the reused line (and by "reused" I mean exact same performance), "Go for help, Bronx!"
First season, so it's on DVD.
Well, you know what they say about men with big hands ...
"You must acquit"?