Oh, as if it will help I rate this thread a 10 out of 10.
Mega Ditto's.
Makes me wonder why I still bother to check into slashdot. Force of habit now perhaps.
I know this is an old saw but it is true, Slashdot has degraded from the site I recall back in the 90's. Vastly so.
I hope they are not paying the 'editors' to review and link story submissions to the main page. If so, they surely are not getting their moneys worth. Random Brownian motion site , DIgg, can do as well, if not better. Okay, that last as a bit over the top but I meant well.
Yeah. It's a big yawn really to any of us old enough to have owned a Vic 20 or later and really insulting to boot. Commodore went tits up years ago and the name was purchased , if I recall correctly, some bunch of 'furners'.
Buying a PC like this based on some loyalty to a name brand would be like buying a 'Magnavox' or 'Zenith' TV today. All those old American based company's went by the wayside and the rights to the names bought up by 'furner' outsourcers. Only a ignorant nit would buy based on those company names.
Course the world is full of nits.
Unless this zombie can prove they offer kick ass product and kick ass quality rating for a kick ass low price they will just be some small nothing flopping around like brainless undead.
Yeah, it's sad but it is the way a huge percentage of the population works from day to day.
They never read the manual of the new 'appliance' they brought into their lives.
I saw this sort of thing back when I used to be an auto mechanic. People would bring in their car because they wanted the clock set on the radio. Then they would be outraged because we would charge a fee for a 'simple thing like that'. Some would be anyway. Of course I had to dig out their manual usually and read the manual myself as we were an independent shop and methods vary from model to model.
With computers being more complex from a user perspective and with the attitude fostered by the computer industry that computers and the like are all 'appliances' it is no wonder this open router config 'problem' is around.
I suppose I should have summed up the post and deleted all the above and just said'
'The world is full of idiots.'
Nylathotep inacurately blurted:"Even if you use a gamecard you are required to sign up with a credit card. I......:"
Bzzzt. WRONG.
WoW does not require a CC to sign up and play. Period. I had no CC and all I had was the prepay card. You DO need a prepay card OR a CC to sign up when you pull the game out of the box and sign up. After you sign up with either method you get your 'free' 30 days out of the game box. Woo.
Anyone can go to the local store that sells prepay cards and toss down cash for them. 29 bucks a pop for 60 days of sucker play.
Now, with some other online pay for games it is true they require a CC to play. It is for that reason those games suffer too, IMO. I'd have tried some but they make it so hard to pay for them I did not bother. I tore up all my credit cards.
P.S. I'm a ex WoW player that lasted six months with the game.
Ninwa said in a post above : "Alternatively, "ekek ^^; brb my sis wants on the pc", you know it's female. "
Ninwa, you would be so easy, as they say , to "WTF, PWNed". I would put it as, successfully convinced of the fictional.
I frequently RP female avatars in games. I also write fiction on occasion. I try to be as realistic in the DIALOG in the game as I am for the FICTIONAL female characters I write for in my storys.
IT is not too difficult for anyone of creative nature and intellect to write convincing dialog in real time as it is on 'paper' for some story.
I write or "chat" like that all the time in my RolePlay (RP) situations in most games I participate in. Often when I'm in supposed *OOC* (Out of character dialog) I will still continue to use appropriate language for my character. I myself frown on the using too much OOC as I am online TO ROLEPLAY a character not engage in some real life dialog with people. I can do real life dialog on IRC or some forum or hey! Real Life! (TM GOD)
I do it for my own amusement and to invest 'feeling' into the fictional character I am playing in whatever game it is I am involved with. Be it a human male, female or some bizzare critter like a Orc or some disgusting undead thing or maybe a humanoid lizard of some sort. Whatever.
If you are using the criteria of dialog used by any given character to reveal their true gender you sir, or madam, are making a huge error./lol WTF PWND . (Yes, on occasion I may use idiot speak to create another illusion. For a lesson on this look up Monty Python 'Life of Brian').
Your 'toolset' your using to reveal true gender is broken. Redo your assumptions.
Oh, as an aside. I view my self as a puppeteer for my characters. I tend to view them as seperate creations and try to invest into them their own 'lives ' and viewpoints. I don't always succeed or sometimes am too lazy to write a full backstory.
Oh, and if you think I'm a rare bird I would suggest you redo that assumption.
** Stuffs loaded pipe in Ninwa's mouth**
"Here, smoke that, and contemplate for a while, eh?"
Ex Diablo2 addict/ NWN dabbler and Baldurs Gate(s). Ex DAOC (Dark Ages of Camelot) addict.(3 years plus off and on.) Recently gave up on WoW (that only lasted six months) May try again but I doubt it. Current singular gaming addiction : Titan Quest. A KISS game (keep it simple, stupid)
I know on my birth certificate it states in plain black and white that photo copies are ILLEGAL. Simply put, in most cases, documents of this sort must be original and stamped to be legit. ANy copies are useless junk.
I know for a fact that if you try to get a passport using a photo copied birth certificate they just toss it out. Hell, for all I know you probably end up on a suspect list for trying to pass illigitamate documentation.
To sum up, ignore most anything you read from the New York Times. NYT is not a legit news source nor reliable. They have proven that time and again.
Some Lost A/C spouted:
"Had the democrats been in the White house now you would have said "Blame the democrats". Blame those who are in power and abuse it instead no matter who they are."
Dude, dudette, unsure, hey ever hear of sarcasm? Look it up some day.
Agreed, blaming it on Bush, Republicrats,whatever, is a joke but they will get away with it.
Just now, as I am watching CNN, yet again the mayor of New ORleans is blaming a lot of their problem on
'coastal erosian (loss of marshlands) and the failure of the federal guvment to fix the problem. Not only has the mayor spouted this line but most every LA congresscreature I"ve seen on TV the past few days has spouted the same line. That the federal govment has been shortsighted and it is THEIR fault for not spending 10's of BILLIONS of dollars somehow fixing the marshland problem and for also not fixing the levys (dikes) surrounding New Orleans or updating the pumping system.
Before I get jumped on for makign shit up I HEARD
a number of (mostly Democrats but some Republicrats have made similar noises) LA congresscreature types ramble on about all this on
live TV. IT's one thing to hear it from the
congresscreature but it really burrs my ass when the reporters just stand there and suck this shit up and never challange the assholes making the assertion it is all the federal guvments fault.
What I'd like to know is just how anyone could rebuild the hundreds, hell thousands of square miles of marshland below New Orleans. Mother nature did a fine job using the mighty river before we diked and routed it to death. Until we rip up New Orleans and south and let the river ebb and flow as she had before it was forced to follow
a standard route the marshlands will continue to
deteriorate.
In the meantime a great many willl get high political points by continuing to blame all their problems on the federal govment for not spending money on their problems which, it must be said, is
based on being fucking stupid in the first damn place. It is time to move on, let the old New Orleans die in peace and build a newer, better New
ORleans on higher ground. THere is no need to repeat being stupid by building afresh in a goddamed swamp that is sinking into the sea every year that goes by. Duh.
HEy, maybe build NEW New Orleans on top of Baton Rouge. Yeah, why not.
In a post above MillionthMonkey blamed the French and if I had mod points to spend I'd mod it slightly funny as I'm not a fan of the French anyway and I found the post somewhat amusing.
However, ya can't blame the French.
The EVIL efette Frenchis built New ORleans on land that was above sea level. As I read the history, and please correct me if I'm wrong (visit Wikpedia like I did), it was us stupid Americanos that came up with the brilliants idea of building on land below sea level in that area. SOme wise guy engineer came up with a brilliant! plan to use fancy pumps to pump out water so they could use all that nifty BELOW SEA level land nearby the then above sea level New Orleans.
TIme went by, what was above sea level submerged as water below ground was pumped out. Sad story really. Submergence doomed the old areas of New Orleans that HAD BEEN just above sea level in the olden days.
TO make things worse the way we diked and managed the mighty Missisippi river has retarded the development of the marsh delta that PROTECTS the land behind it, ergo places like New Orleans.
Now for my drunken rant.
Now in the current day, we have LA congresspeersons on TV whining about how it is the evil Republicans fault for not being behind the effort to spend 16 billion dollars rebuilding the fucking marshes. THe best way to rebuild the marshes is let the river do it's thing as it had before we fucked things up with dikes, river managment and such without thinking about the downstream effect.
I'm no expert, just talking out of my ass, but I'm willing to be a balance could be reached between keeping river silt flowing to the marshes and keeping the river available for river traffic to move on.
Part of my plan would do away with New Orleans though, no need to rebuild it in the swamp, just relocate to high ground. However sane people with sane plans will not be listend to and New Orleans will be rebuilt in the GD below sea level swamp.
No, don't blame the French, they are innocent. Blame the Republicans, just like the fucking asshole LA congresspeople we see on TV. That makes more sense and it is fun and oh so politcally correct for proper slashdotters these days.
P.S. I vote Republican when I don't find a decent Libertarian choice. Blame me too.
It seems to me Zonk is deserving of some sort of medal or award or something for his continuing and unswerving spurious ability to dupe.
His, is quite a talent indeed and I salute him. Even I, a somewhat brain damaged individual with a dubious memory subsystem, has noticed the amazing number of duplicate stories presented to us from the desktop of Zonk.
I hearby nominate Zonk as King of Dupage. Who will second my motion?
Someone did this already. JOhn Carpenter made Ghosts of Mars. It flew about as well as pigs can. I see no need to see another stinker just go out and waste your money on a copy of 'Ghosts of Mars'.
I have to agree with the negative comments about Firefly on this 'pass' thread.
I remember watching 1, maybe 2, episodes of this series years ago when first aired. Due to many rabid posts here and elsewhere over the years about how great Firefly was I decided to try and watch it again to see what I missed, surely I was wrong, being a ancient sci-fi'ish / fantasy fan myself.
Thannks to USenet postings I recently tried watching again and made it thru 6 episodes so far including the opener 'Serenity' that apparntly was never aired.
Other than getting the space flight physics right (which was great), and some very nice special effects and a nice ship set this show was a total flop in my book and a major let down for a sci-fi / fantasy fan of too many decades.
I dunno, maybe at 48 years of age I expect more than one can hope for out of a television show but I found Firefly obnoxiously stupid and foolish.
Maybe I had been exposed to one too many cowboy shows as a youth to enjoy this Firefly much.
For those of you to young to remember in days of yore American TV was infested with nonstop cowboy-Western type programing from wall to wall. For about a decade or so that was all they knew to produce. Look it up.
I believe what Whedon must have been after was a gritty feel and look to the story. Pity he had to let it evolve into some idiotic COwboys in Space thing. Getting the physics of space flight right, the lack of sound was fantastic by the way, did not make up for the 1800's look and feel to the rest of the show.
Oh, final shot. It never ceases to amaze me how people can be so easily parted with their hard earned money. (I may be assuming too much here, about the earned bit). BUYING the DVD set just to watch the crap produced by broadcast TV years ago for FREE? Good lord. No wonder Hollywood types smirk at you people as they drive by in their darkened limos. Muhaha. Suckers.
Well, I'm thinking maybe he meant 'loosing' as in my Uber Sorceress ChillaDeathBitch 'loosed' a series of ultra freezing killer ice orbs and killed EVERYTHING on the screen! My bitch be the baddest! Whoa, all you bitches be dead now. Muahahaha.
Good point. I'd invite you to read the TOA on this page:
http://www.space-track.org/perl/new_account.pl
It is an interesting read.
I could quote many a passage but the bit at the very end is very interesting.
WARNING! This web site contains data and information provided by the U.S. Government. If you are not authorized to access this system, disconnect now. You should have no expectation of privacy. By continuing, you consent to your keystrokes and data content being monitored.
I came to the conclusion, after reading most of the TOA, that this is either a giant April Fools joke, released very early, or a Homeland Security Honey Pot (TM).
If it is the latter: A honey pot designed to catch and create a whole new host of potential terrorists. I'm sure the data base possiblities have Rockecenter operatives drooling with glee.
If ya don't get the Rockecenter reference look up Invasion Earth. Just be warned, you will be monitored while doing so and red flagged.
Well , for Windows platforms there is a app I use now all the time. UltimateZip from url:http://www.ultimatezip.com/
It handles virtually every known archive format known to exist (that I've stumbled across).
It is very minor nagware and in commen use is transparant to the user. It only 'nags' if you start the program directly rather than using it to do archive work via Windows Explorer or your file system browser of choice.
It has one problem that forced me to reinstall WInzip to handle zips only. Ultimatezip has a bad practice of leaving temp files in the temp dir, files that have been stored in a password protected zip and theen edited and resaved. Nasty handling of that.
Other than that it has been fine and is well behaved.
Some AC said: "I guess its just perspective but we're still very natural creations and therefore our actions are."
Wow, no matter how hard they try, some folk just don't get modern leftist enviro-terrorist dogma.
Don't ya see? Your not part of the natural order, your a human and therefor an obscenity. An unworthy being, not part of 'nature'. Anything you do is therefor 'unatural'.
Your only hope of salvation would be to , for example, bury nails in forestry trees in the hope some forester is maimed during his exploiting and unatural harvesting of mother natures wonderful bounty.
SenatorOrrinHatch espewethed:
No no no, a sixth sense to warn of impending danger, like how all the Zionists knew to leave the world trade center before 9/11.
Oh wait, that was their cell phones!
I'm telling Bill O'Rielly on you.
I think it is a good question as it highlighta
a current reality.
A ton of people, who you would otherwise think would know more, have no CLUE what Usenet is.
Example, and I was stunned by this:
I signed up a few months ago for cable internet
access via Time Warner Road Runner service.
During the discussion phase I had with the company reps that I bumped into I inquired about
access to Usenet and what is their IP/address for
RR usenet service. Of three people I talked to over the phone, NONE knew about it and the conclusion was Time Warner RR did not offer it.
During the installation of the cable modem I talked to the youngling, mid to late 20's guy, that did the work (A real live Time Warner employee too as he was in a TIme Warner cable truck..) about Usenet access. The fellow went blank and had never heard of Usenet.
Anyway, long story short. Eventually I managed to find the information FROM a Road Runner web site about the address's for the RR usenet/etc servers.
Of the FOUR contacts I had with RR none of them
knew of Usenet. Totally amazing.
Perhaps this is a good thing as that means less
ignorant clueless fucks are using Usenet.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, as if it will help I rate this thread a 10 out of 10.
Mega Ditto's.
Makes me wonder why I still bother to check into slashdot. Force of habit now perhaps.
I know this is an old saw but it is true, Slashdot has degraded from the site
I recall back in the 90's.
Vastly so.
I hope they are not paying the 'editors' to review and link story submissions to the main page.
If so, they surely are not getting their moneys worth. Random Brownian motion site , DIgg, can do as well, if not better.
Okay, that last as a bit over the top but I meant well.
Oh no, won't be long now and the first Matrix reference will arise. Oh shit...... I did it.
It has been disclosed that smoking a load of crack a day keeps the doctor away.
Yeah. It's a big yawn really to any of us old enough to have owned a Vic 20 or later and really
insulting to boot. Commodore went tits up years ago and the name was purchased , if I recall correctly,
some bunch of 'furners'.
Buying a PC like this based on some loyalty to a name brand would be like buying a 'Magnavox' or
'Zenith' TV today. All those old American based company's went by the wayside and the rights to the
names bought up by 'furner' outsourcers. Only a ignorant nit would buy based on those company names.
Course the world is full of nits.
Unless this zombie can prove they offer kick ass product and kick ass quality rating for a kick
ass low price they will just be some small nothing flopping around like brainless undead.
Yeah, it's sad but it is the way a huge percentage of the population works from day to day.
They never read the manual of the new 'appliance' they brought into their lives.
I saw this sort of thing back when I used to be an auto mechanic. People would bring in their car because they wanted the clock set on the radio. Then they would be outraged because we would charge a fee for a 'simple thing like that'. Some would be anyway. Of course I had to dig out their manual usually and read the manual myself as we were an independent shop and methods vary from model to model.
With computers being more complex from a user perspective and with the attitude fostered by the computer industry that computers and the like are all 'appliances' it is no wonder this
open router config 'problem' is around.
I suppose I should have summed up the post and deleted all the above and just said'
'The world is full of idiots.'
Sorry, it drove me insane.
It's not cowtow, it is kowtow.
Yes, you can even read up on it on Wiki you know what.
Towing a cow has nothing to do with kowtow.
Nylathotep inacurately blurted :"Even if you use a gamecard you are required to sign up with a credit card. I......:"
Bzzzt. WRONG.
WoW does not require a CC to sign up and play. Period. I had no CC and all I had was the prepay card. You DO need a prepay card OR a CC to sign up when you pull the game out of the box and sign up. After you sign up with either method you get your 'free' 30 days out of the game box. Woo.
Anyone can go to the local store that sells prepay cards and toss down cash for them. 29 bucks a pop for 60 days of sucker play.
Now, with some other online pay for games it is true they require a CC to play. It is for that reason those games suffer too, IMO. I'd have tried some but they make it so hard to pay for them I did not bother. I tore up all my credit cards.
P.S. I'm a ex WoW player that lasted six months with the game.
Ninwa said in a post above : "Alternatively, "ekek ^^; brb my sis wants on the pc", you know it's female. "
Ninwa, you would be so easy, as they say , to "WTF, PWNed". I would put it as, successfully convinced of the fictional.
I frequently RP female avatars in games. I also write fiction on occasion. I try to be as realistic in the DIALOG in the game as I am for the FICTIONAL female characters I write for in my
storys.
IT is not too difficult for anyone of creative nature and intellect to write convincing dialog in real time as it is on 'paper' for some story.
I write or "chat" like that all the time in my RolePlay (RP) situations in most games I participate in. Often when I'm in supposed *OOC* (Out of character dialog) I will still continue
to use appropriate language for my character. I myself frown on the using too much OOC as I am online TO ROLEPLAY a character not engage in some real life dialog with people. I can do real life dialog on IRC or some forum or hey! Real Life! (TM GOD)
I do it for my own amusement and to invest 'feeling' into the fictional character I am playing in whatever game it is I am involved with. Be it a human male, female or some bizzare critter like a Orc or some disgusting undead thing or maybe a humanoid lizard of some sort. Whatever.
If you are using the criteria of dialog used by any given character to reveal their true gender you sir, or madam, are making a huge error.
Your 'toolset' your using to reveal true gender is broken. Redo your assumptions.
Oh, as an aside. I view my self as a puppeteer for my characters. I tend to view them as seperate
creations and try to invest into them their own 'lives ' and viewpoints. I don't always succeed or sometimes am too lazy to write a full backstory.
Oh, and if you think I'm a rare bird I would suggest you redo that assumption.
** Stuffs loaded pipe in Ninwa's mouth**
"Here, smoke that, and contemplate for a while, eh?"
Ex Diablo2 addict/ NWN dabbler and Baldurs Gate(s).
Ex DAOC (Dark Ages of Camelot) addict.(3 years plus off and on.)
Recently gave up on WoW (that only lasted six months) May try again but I doubt it.
Current singular gaming addiction : Titan Quest. A KISS game (keep it simple, stupid)
I know on my birth certificate it states in plain black and white that photo copies are ILLEGAL. Simply put, in most cases, documents of this sort must be original and stamped to be legit. ANy copies are useless junk.
I know for a fact that if you try to get a passport using a photo copied birth certificate they just toss it out. Hell, for all I know you probably end up on a suspect list for trying to pass illigitamate documentation.
To sum up, ignore most anything you read from the New York Times. NYT is not a legit news source nor reliable. They have proven that time and again.
Some Lost A/C spouted:
"Had the democrats been in the White house now you would have said "Blame the democrats". Blame those who are in power and abuse it instead no matter who they are."
Dude, dudette, unsure, hey ever hear of sarcasm? Look it up some day.
Cheerio.
Inexactly quoted or not, obligatory Aliens quote or nay, the quotes truth stands out.
They shoulda listened to Ripley.
Do it for the children if you need to but just do it. The children of the future will thank you. Do it for the children.
Agreed, blaming it on Bush, Republicrats,whatever, is a joke but they will get away with it. Just now, as I am watching CNN, yet again the mayor of New ORleans is blaming a lot of their problem on 'coastal erosian (loss of marshlands) and the failure of the federal guvment to fix the problem. Not only has the mayor spouted this line but most every LA congresscreature I"ve seen on TV the past few days has spouted the same line. That the federal govment has been shortsighted and it is THEIR fault for not spending 10's of BILLIONS of dollars somehow fixing the marshland problem and for also not fixing the levys (dikes) surrounding New Orleans or updating the pumping system. Before I get jumped on for makign shit up I HEARD a number of (mostly Democrats but some Republicrats have made similar noises) LA congresscreature types ramble on about all this on live TV. IT's one thing to hear it from the congresscreature but it really burrs my ass when the reporters just stand there and suck this shit up and never challange the assholes making the assertion it is all the federal guvments fault. What I'd like to know is just how anyone could rebuild the hundreds, hell thousands of square miles of marshland below New Orleans. Mother nature did a fine job using the mighty river before we diked and routed it to death. Until we rip up New Orleans and south and let the river ebb and flow as she had before it was forced to follow a standard route the marshlands will continue to deteriorate. In the meantime a great many willl get high political points by continuing to blame all their problems on the federal govment for not spending money on their problems which, it must be said, is based on being fucking stupid in the first damn place. It is time to move on, let the old New Orleans die in peace and build a newer, better New ORleans on higher ground. THere is no need to repeat being stupid by building afresh in a goddamed swamp that is sinking into the sea every year that goes by. Duh. HEy, maybe build NEW New Orleans on top of Baton Rouge. Yeah, why not.
In a post above MillionthMonkey blamed the French and if I had mod points to spend I'd mod it slightly funny as I'm not a fan of the French anyway and I found the post somewhat amusing.
However, ya can't blame the French.
The EVIL efette Frenchis built New ORleans on land that was above sea level. As I read the history, and please correct me if I'm wrong (visit Wikpedia like I did), it was us stupid Americanos that came up with the brilliants idea of building on land below sea level in that area. SOme wise guy engineer came up with a brilliant! plan to use
fancy pumps to pump out water so they could use all that nifty BELOW SEA level land nearby the then above sea level New Orleans.
TIme went by, what was above sea level submerged as water below ground was pumped out. Sad story really. Submergence doomed the old areas of New Orleans that HAD BEEN just above sea level in the olden days.
TO make things worse the way we diked and managed the mighty Missisippi river has retarded
the development of the marsh delta that PROTECTS the land behind it, ergo places like New Orleans.
Now for my drunken rant.
Now in the current day, we have LA congresspeersons on TV whining about how it is the
evil Republicans fault for not being behind the effort to spend 16 billion dollars rebuilding the fucking marshes. THe best way to rebuild the marshes is let the river do it's thing as it had before we fucked things up with dikes, river managment and such without thinking about the downstream effect.
I'm no expert, just talking out of my ass, but I'm willing to be a balance could be reached between keeping river silt flowing to the marshes and keeping the river available for river traffic to move on.
Part of my plan would do away with New Orleans though, no need to rebuild it in the swamp, just relocate to high ground. However sane people with sane plans will not be listend to and New Orleans will be rebuilt in the GD below sea level swamp.
No, don't blame the French, they are innocent. Blame the Republicans, just like the fucking asshole LA congresspeople we see on TV. That makes more sense and it is fun and oh so politcally correct for proper slashdotters these days.
P.S. I vote Republican when I don't find a decent
Libertarian choice. Blame me too.
My Karma is negative I wonder why.
It seems to me Zonk is deserving of some sort
of medal or award or something for his continuing
and unswerving spurious ability to dupe.
His, is quite a talent indeed and I salute him. Even I, a somewhat brain damaged individual with a dubious memory subsystem, has noticed the amazing number of duplicate stories presented to us from the desktop of Zonk.
I hearby nominate Zonk as King of Dupage. Who will second my motion?
Pigs could fly.
Someone did this already. JOhn Carpenter made Ghosts of Mars. It flew about as well as pigs can. I see no need to see another stinker just go out and waste your money on a copy of 'Ghosts of Mars'.
I have to agree with the negative comments about Firefly on this 'pass' thread.
I remember watching 1, maybe 2, episodes of this series years ago when first aired. Due to many rabid posts here and elsewhere over the years about how great Firefly was I decided to try and watch it again to see what I missed, surely I was wrong, being a ancient sci-fi'ish / fantasy fan myself.
Thannks to USenet postings I recently
tried watching again and made it thru 6 episodes so far including the opener 'Serenity' that apparntly was never aired.
Other than getting the space flight physics right (which was great), and some very nice special effects and a nice ship set this show was a total flop in my book and a major let down for a sci-fi / fantasy fan of too many decades.
I dunno, maybe at 48 years of age I expect more than one can hope for out of a television show but I found Firefly obnoxiously stupid and foolish.
Maybe I had been exposed to one too many cowboy shows as a youth to enjoy this Firefly much.
For those of you to young to remember in days of yore American TV was infested with nonstop cowboy-Western type programing from wall to wall. For about a decade or so that was all they knew to produce. Look it up.
I believe what Whedon must have been after was a gritty feel and look to the story. Pity he had to let it evolve into some idiotic COwboys in Space thing. Getting the physics of space flight right, the lack of sound was fantastic by the way, did not make up for the 1800's look and feel to the rest of the show.
Oh, final shot. It never ceases to amaze me how
people can be so easily parted with their hard earned money. (I may be assuming too much here, about the earned bit). BUYING the DVD set just to watch the crap produced by broadcast TV years ago for FREE? Good lord. No wonder Hollywood types smirk at you people as they drive by in their darkened limos. Muhaha. Suckers.
Well, I'm thinking maybe he meant 'loosing' as in
my Uber Sorceress ChillaDeathBitch 'loosed' a series
of ultra freezing killer ice orbs and killed EVERYTHING on the screen! My bitch be the baddest! Whoa, all you bitches be dead now. Muahahaha.
Loose this, biaotch.
So, maybe, perhaps, he used the term correctly?
Just an idea.
That's iTool you anonymous toady.
A hopelessly lost AC enquired about toothing.
h /
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/19/blue_toot
Bow down to the all seeing, all knowing demi-god GOOGLE.
Good point. I'd invite you to read the TOA
on this page:
http://www.space-track.org/perl/new_account.pl
It is an interesting read.
I could quote many a passage but the bit at the
very end is very interesting.
WARNING! This web site contains data and information provided by the
U.S. Government. If you are not authorized to access this system,
disconnect now. You should have no expectation of privacy. By
continuing, you consent to your keystrokes and data content being
monitored.
I came to the conclusion, after reading most of the TOA, that this is either a giant April Fools joke, released very early, or a Homeland Security Honey Pot (TM).
If it is the latter: A honey pot designed to catch and create a whole new host of potential terrorists. I'm sure the data base possiblities have Rockecenter operatives drooling with glee.
If ya don't get the Rockecenter reference look up Invasion Earth. Just be warned, you will be monitored while doing so and red flagged.
Well , for Windows platforms there is a app
I use now all the time. UltimateZip from
url:http://www.ultimatezip.com/
It handles virtually every known archive format known to exist (that I've stumbled across).
It is very minor nagware and in commen use is transparant to the user. It only 'nags' if you
start the program directly rather than using it to
do archive work via Windows Explorer or your file
system browser of choice.
It has one problem that forced me to reinstall WInzip to handle zips only. Ultimatezip has a bad practice of leaving temp files in the temp dir, files that have been stored in a password protected zip and theen edited and resaved. Nasty handling of that.
Other than that it has been fine and is well behaved.
Some AC said: "I guess its just perspective but we're still very natural creations and therefore our actions are."
Wow, no matter how hard they try, some folk just don't get modern leftist enviro-terrorist dogma.
Don't ya see? Your not part of the natural order, your a human and therefor an obscenity. An unworthy being, not part of 'nature'. Anything you do is therefor 'unatural'.
Your only hope of salvation would be to , for example, bury nails in
forestry trees in the hope some forester is maimed
during his exploiting and unatural harvesting of mother natures wonderful bounty.
I was high on chocolate when I wrote this.
SenatorOrrinHatch espewethed: No no no, a sixth sense to warn of impending danger, like how all the Zionists knew to leave the world trade center before 9/11. Oh wait, that was their cell phones! I'm telling Bill O'Rielly on you.
I'm going to preorder the Bizarro! Bizzaro!
expantion for Sealab NOW.
God, I can just imagine the neighbors beating on
the door while I have the volume cranked all the way up. Clicking like , bizzaro mad man.
I think it is a good question as it highlighta a current reality. A ton of people, who you would otherwise think would know more, have no CLUE what Usenet is. Example, and I was stunned by this: I signed up a few months ago for cable internet access via Time Warner Road Runner service. During the discussion phase I had with the company reps that I bumped into I inquired about access to Usenet and what is their IP/address for RR usenet service. Of three people I talked to over the phone, NONE knew about it and the conclusion was Time Warner RR did not offer it. During the installation of the cable modem I talked to the youngling, mid to late 20's guy, that did the work (A real live Time Warner employee too as he was in a TIme Warner cable truck..) about Usenet access. The fellow went blank and had never heard of Usenet. Anyway, long story short. Eventually I managed to find the information FROM a Road Runner web site about the address's for the RR usenet/etc servers. Of the FOUR contacts I had with RR none of them knew of Usenet. Totally amazing. Perhaps this is a good thing as that means less ignorant clueless fucks are using Usenet.