We'd of course need to clear a sufficient radius around the arena so we can squash the frothing bastards' inevitable thirst for global domination by nuking the hell out of them at the "closing ceremonies".
Why do you think we make the 3 most powerful ones stand next to each other on a nice raised platform.
I think this is all a confusion of symptoms with causes. Sure, the current standoff between doping and dopers has created a somewhat unpleasant situation, but I think it goes deeper than just the doping. The real problem, as far as I'm concerned at least, is that high level competitive sports on nearly every front exist in a culture concerned only with winning--at any cost. Doping, the lack of sportsmanlike conduct, and all the other problems in high level competition--the way I see it these things all stem from such a strong emphasis on winning over simply playing the game for its own sake. I don't think legalizing doping, or finally preventing it completely, either way, will solve the problems we see. We'll just see a new symptom of the deeper ill manifest. What really needs to change is the whole culture of sports.
My two cents anyway.
Playing the game for it's own sake goes out the window the second you start paying a athlete.
As long as your paycheck depends on winning your not going to play for the love of the game.
www.homestarrunner.com a website of varied flash cartoons featuring the aforementioned Strong Bad. All the humor is clean, and yet the site is quite popular with adults. Check it out.
.... Or maybe it's a four dimensional question. One building, but three different denominations use it at different times.
Regardless of how they're arranged... I'm confused.
The secret is to put the word indepedent in the name of your church. That way you can safetly ignore all the churchs around you. Otherwise people might start to question why so few of them work together.
You can't email classified blueprints of an AEGIS radar system to Vladimir Putin
Actually you can as long as you didn't sign a non disclosure agreement.I'm sure everyone who has access to those blueprints has but the point is there isn't a law on the books to handle this.
Apparently my car has an invisibility cloak, because runners continually jog out in the street in front of it, jaywalkers stroll right into its path, and people constantly pull out right in front of me, even running stop signs and red lights to do it.
The on/off switch itself is apparently cloaked, because I can't find it. I bought the car used, so I have no user manual (I had it a year before I found out how to make it stop honking when the "panic" button gets pressed accidentally; a cop showed me).
As well as needing to know how to shut the dratted thing off, I'm wondering if it's a Klingon style cloak, a Romulan style cloak, or a Bistromatic SEP field?
It's a indifference field.
People see your car they just don't care.
I'd explain it to you but that might create a neural feedback loop which would overload your primary cortex......you know like putting too much air in a balloon.
In pot's defense, I may add, the thought of Chinese spying on my communications worries me far more.
Then you're not paying attention.
China has never kidnapped someone from another country, IN another country, and then sent them off to be tortured in a THIRD country in a secret CIA prison.
All because they heard some chatter that they decided was "terrorist" talk.
The US, on the other hand, has an official policy that if someone can not legally be extradited so the US can torture them, the US will send in the "extraordinary rendition" teams and take them off to secret torture prison on their own.
At least China sticks within their own borders.
Yeah out sourceing those jobs is just going to hurt the economy in the long run.
Subcultures aren't counter-cultures: you should probably learn about the difference.
I guess I'm really getting tired of geek self-congratulation.
We're learning slowly. To be fair we were counter culture for a very long time. Calling someone a Geek used to be a insult. We elder Geeks are having a hard time excepting our new found exceptance. It's like one day you wake up and Miamai Vice has been replaced by CSI and suddenly girls want to talk to you. It's a lot to take in.
I'm not a CTO. But I am involved in hiring some of my small company's IT staff.
There is a shortage. Especially of Software Developers.
We're about 40-50 mins from Boston, MA. And we can't find a Perl developer worth our time. We can't even get them to the phase where we discuss salary, they're just not in the area, or they're just not applying. We can barely find someone worth an interview, and we have tried taking many chances on not-so-stellar resumes.
We like the Open source technologies we use, and believe using Perl gives us an advantage to rapidly develop our software. We've invested heavily into Perl + Linux, and it would take a major restructuring to change our technology and development process to accommodate the glut of cheap developers that do.net + java.
I realize that not using the 'popular' development languages hinders our applicant pool.
We've even resorted to taking anyone developer intelligent enough to pick up a new programming language. We just can't find them.
It's a tough market. The jobs are there, but the applicants unfortunately aren't.
Perl is a dead language. There's a shortage of devleopers because no one uses it.
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Don't you worry about Wikipedia we'll change it when we get home. We'll change a lot of things.
Like many other readers here, I really really hate car analogies applied where they don't belong, or applied incorrectly.
Umm ok then...it's like putting to much air in ballon and something bad happens.
Personally, I think the major reason that pirates steal games is that gold-laden Spanish galleons are now awful hard to come by.
Yeah and cruise ships are surprising well armed.
I'm a game developer; this is partially correct.
While some developers may want to use DRM, it's more commonly a publisher that forces a team to utilize the DRM solution they bought into.
Wait you mean the decision to use DRM is made by idiots in suits and not developers......*shock*.
We'd of course need to clear a sufficient radius around the arena so we can squash the frothing bastards' inevitable thirst for global domination by nuking the hell out of them at the "closing ceremonies".
Why do you think we make the 3 most powerful ones stand next to each other on a nice raised platform.
I think this is all a confusion of symptoms with causes. Sure, the current standoff between doping and dopers has created a somewhat unpleasant situation, but I think it goes deeper than just the doping. The real problem, as far as I'm concerned at least, is that high level competitive sports on nearly every front exist in a culture concerned only with winning--at any cost. Doping, the lack of sportsmanlike conduct, and all the other problems in high level competition--the way I see it these things all stem from such a strong emphasis on winning over simply playing the game for its own sake. I don't think legalizing doping, or finally preventing it completely, either way, will solve the problems we see. We'll just see a new symptom of the deeper ill manifest. What really needs to change is the whole culture of sports.
My two cents anyway.
Playing the game for it's own sake goes out the window the second you start paying a athlete. As long as your paycheck depends on winning your not going to play for the love of the game.
They run the Post Office pretty damned spiffy.
Yeah it's not like UPS or Fedex is out doing them in every way.....oh wait.
What makes you think that 3 churches can't work together, if they are all independent?
I didn't say can't I said don't.
Repeated experince has lead me to this belief.
Whats timeline was this game set in?
Will we get to see the original paper?
Preeow!
www.homestarrunner.com a website of varied flash cartoons featuring the aforementioned Strong Bad. All the humor is clean, and yet the site is quite popular with adults. Check it out.
Clean? Are you saying Strong Bad has lost edge?
.... Or maybe it's a four dimensional question. One building, but three different denominations use it at different times. Regardless of how they're arranged... I'm confused.
The secret is to put the word indepedent in the name of your church. That way you can safetly ignore all the churchs around you. Otherwise people might start to question why so few of them work together.
You can't email classified blueprints of an AEGIS radar system to Vladimir Putin
Actually you can as long as you didn't sign a non disclosure agreement.I'm sure everyone who has access to those blueprints has but the point is there isn't a law on the books to handle this.
Some things are better than nerd points.
He's a witch! Get the torches.
Like a balloon...and something bad happens!
Of course it's so simple!
Apparently my car has an invisibility cloak, because runners continually jog out in the street in front of it, jaywalkers stroll right into its path, and people constantly pull out right in front of me, even running stop signs and red lights to do it.
The on/off switch itself is apparently cloaked, because I can't find it. I bought the car used, so I have no user manual (I had it a year before I found out how to make it stop honking when the "panic" button gets pressed accidentally; a cop showed me).
As well as needing to know how to shut the dratted thing off, I'm wondering if it's a Klingon style cloak, a Romulan style cloak, or a Bistromatic SEP field?
It's a indifference field. People see your car they just don't care.
Is it a car analogy? Because if it is, I am sold!
I'd explain it to you but that might create a neural feedback loop which would overload your primary cortex......you know like putting too much air in a balloon.
I'm really female in real life ...I'm not gonna play an Orion
This is exactly why most of the wookies on SWG turn out to be women.
I'd call it Roddenberianism, which is defined as a system that makes everybody happy, but which nobody can tell you exactly how it works.
It's usally a complicated answer thats explained with a simple analogy.
Yes, but it's only a TV show. :)
He's a witch. Burn the witch!
In pot's defense, I may add, the thought of Chinese spying on my communications worries me far more.
Then you're not paying attention.
China has never kidnapped someone from another country, IN another country, and then sent them off to be tortured in a THIRD country in a secret CIA prison.
All because they heard some chatter that they decided was "terrorist" talk.
The US, on the other hand, has an official policy that if someone can not legally be extradited so the US can torture them, the US will send in the "extraordinary rendition" teams and take them off to secret torture prison on their own.
At least China sticks within their own borders.
Yeah out sourceing those jobs is just going to hurt the economy in the long run.
Subcultures aren't counter-cultures: you should probably learn about the difference.
I guess I'm really getting tired of geek self-congratulation.
We're learning slowly. To be fair we were counter culture for a very long time. Calling someone a Geek used to be a insult. We elder Geeks are having a hard time excepting our new found exceptance. It's like one day you wake up and Miamai Vice has been replaced by CSI and suddenly girls want to talk to you. It's a lot to take in.
I'm not a CTO. But I am involved in hiring some of my small company's IT staff.
There is a shortage. Especially of Software Developers.
We're about 40-50 mins from Boston, MA. And we can't find a Perl developer worth our time. We can't even get them to the phase where we discuss salary, they're just not in the area, or they're just not applying. We can barely find someone worth an interview, and we have tried taking many chances on not-so-stellar resumes.
We like the Open source technologies we use, and believe using Perl gives us an advantage to rapidly develop our software. We've invested heavily into Perl + Linux, and it would take a major restructuring to change our technology and development process to accommodate the glut of cheap developers that do .net + java.
I realize that not using the 'popular' development languages hinders our applicant pool.
We've even resorted to taking anyone developer intelligent enough to pick up a new programming language. We just can't find them.
It's a tough market. The jobs are there, but the applicants unfortunately aren't.
Perl is a dead language. There's a shortage of devleopers because no one uses it.
I don't think those of use doing skilled IT labour have to worry about.
Wrong, it's a lot easier to outsource jobs that involve writing code than it is to outsource the sys-admin,
Unless 40 year old overweight men that infrequently shave and are rarely sober are the guy's thing,
The law of the internet says there is already porn for this. The corollary is that somewhere some one wants to see it.
Couldn't they charge him with tresspassing? What about breaking and entering? If he was doing neither of these, how did he get the cameras installed?
Most laptops come with them preinstalled. He just hacked the software to use it without their knowledge..