...is how this dude and his little green laser temporarily blinded the pilots? What does that mean? They saw it and took their eyes off their instruments, or that it caused actual temporary eye damage? How can you sustain a laser on a moving target with the windows located on TOP of the vehicle when you're beneath? Lots of questions here, and 25 years is simply outrageous.
C'mon people, we've taken the terrorism thing far enough. A guy in his backyard playing with a laser pointer is not a terrorist. New York street kids in gangs are not terrorists either, no matter how much you want them to be.
In fact, "terrorist" is a term that has no meaning anymore since it's become so overused, sorta like "pirate" which is used in every context from high seas robbery to filesharing to South Park's "ass pirate".
..I worked at this little computer store in rural Louisiana. After a couple of years, we ended up with about 14 dead MGA/CGA/EGA monitors and decided to have some fun.
The monitors were all loaded up into a truck and taken out into the swamps, and set up on 55-gallon drums. Myself and three other people then proceeded to blow the fuck out of them with a number of weapons, everything from 9mm Glock pistol to 12-gauge assault shotguns. That is probably when I learned to respect the power of a.365 derringer, as well (although I can't say I respect the accuracy; anything further away than about 4 feet was definitely not going to hit the 1-foot-square side of a monitor).
I have to admit sometimes it can be fun to pick on newbies, particularly the more annoying "give me equipment/gold/etc" newbies who seem to think that they have some sort of god-given right to everything you've worked hard to collect.
Being a MUD player, though, my form of revenge is limited to amusing things like charming mobs that the newbie is about to attack, so it would be something like:
Newbie: Oh, there's a giant spider...let me try to kill it... @ Kill giant spider Sorry, you must MURDER a charmie. @ Murder giant spider Sorry, you can't murder another player's charmie. @ CHAT Y KANT I KILL THE GIANT SPIDER [Silence is secretly ordering the spider to speak.] The giant spider says, "Why do you want to kill me, Newbie?" Newbie: WTF? @ CHAT THE GIANT SPDIR IZ TALKING TO ME! Silence chats, "Maybe he just doesn't want to die." [secretly typing 'order giant spider fkiss Newbie'] @ CHAT BUT I WNT 2 KILL IT! The giant spider kisses you passionately. @ POKE GIANT SPIDER Nothing happens. @ KILL GIANT SPIDER The giant spider dances around you merrily. [Silence secretly uncharms the giant spider.] @ DANCE GIANT SPIDER The giant spider TOTALLY DEMOLISHES you with its fangs!!
Muahahahahha.
Note that this type of newbie is usually some lamer who has played other variations of MMORPGs before and has never had to work for anything. I agree, the ones who are seriously wanting to get better always get my help.:-)
A real life example from a conversation with my friend last night (we were discussing that Smallville TV show):
JFD says: I feel like they just need someone to die JFD says: and then come back JFD says: and then superman JFD says: fucks everybody in the ass JFD says: and then pretends that he didn't JFD says: and then does it again Shawn says: LOL JFD says: and then it will be the classic soap opera
Now THAT'S a real conversation (but rather than encrypting it, I'm posting it on the 'net for all to see...hehe)
For crosswords, I usually stop at this site or buy a crossword book. TVlistings? Browseable, searchable for my area at canada.com - that even works better than a newspaper because you can search days in advance. (And it's free!) Editorials? Hah. Editorials = blogs, in my opinion. And the advertisements/classifieds have their (superior) web equivalents as well.
No, I honestly think that the newspaper is outdated. When I can afford a wireless handheld PC and WiMax or some other wide-area standard gets going, that means I will have all of this in expanded edition at my fingertips, without the hassle of papers, papercuts, and recycling.:-)
I know I fall into the demographic that reads news nearly exclusively online, but I think this is just going to increase as paper-readers age and kids watch their parents (my generation) reading it online.
Frankly, papers are unwieldy; I'm always getting them out of order or tearing them, not to mention that they store germs quite well (so I hear) - no picking those up on the subway for me!
I think the biggest paper-killer, though, is that by the time the news is printed and in your hands, it's out of date. For local news where not much happens (or if it does, everyone immediately knows), a paper might still work - but for national/international news, it just lacks the immediacy of online news sources.
Definitely annoying.
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Because it makes for more sensational news:-)
I smell an agenda in that story, though. Next thing you know, somebody will come out with a "study" claiming that "data obesity" causes "stress-related illness" or some such bullshit.
In general, the guys applying for H-1B are the top notch of THEIR school systems. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but most people in most countries still don't get college degrees, and you aren't going to be getting jobs in the US without educational qualifications high enough to back you up.
Hm...the volume of the sun is something like 1,000,000 earths and the sun is composed of about 27% helium by mass, so it seems to me that there's about 270,000 Earth-fulls of helium waiting to be picked up.
Now:
1. Drive Earth over to the sun
2. Collect helium
3. PROFIT!!!!
Oh...wait...there's the little matter of the temperature being millions of degrees...:-(
Just a minor thing - if half use each, then bittorrent becomes LESS useful and exeem becomes much MORE useful than with only 5000 beta testers.
I say let's give it a chance - never know, it might make up for what you miss:-) Worst case, no one will use it and everyone will stick with regular bittorrent.
The most obvious solution is some sort of manually-controlled thumbtack in the pilot's seat that jabs him when an appropriate button is pressed at mission-control...
Pardon my engineering ignorance, but is this any more efficient than the current style of pulling a fixed-wing craft through the air with a separate engine? My gut instinct says no, but I've been suprised before. Thoughts?
...when I was a little 13-year-old kid playing games. That's why I'm now a 23-year-old master's-degree-wielding, extreme-left-leaning monster who will corrupt your children even more.
Ban evil, violent video games before they create more like me!
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if they can't crank original work out of their overworked programmers because it's easy to get their overworked guys to rehash stuff they've already done, since they're too dazed to do anything new.:-P
Frankly, I don't understand how people can do this for any amount of money or passion. You don't do good work when you're running constantly on 6 hours of sleep, and I'm surprised that any of these guys have any sort of a family whatsoever.
I think that if these sorts of conditions are typical in the gaming industry, it might explain why games in general have slid into the sequel-after-sequel hole and there's very little new or original stuff coming out. You can't think clearly when your brain is sleep-addled and you are living on beer and Cheetos.
I'd rather them spend three times as long producing games, so long as the games were actually original and entertaining, and not yet another boring sequel with an ending that sets up for YAYABS [yet another yet another boring sequel]. (Or, in the case of that guy Levy, some sort of social campaign inspired by the modern equivalent of strange women in ponds handing out swords.)
when they pry it from the ashes of my cold, dead hard drive.
Seriously, I can understand the movie issue but I think it's a bit idiotic of them to go after filesharing in general. Oh, wait - there are no legitimate uses for filesharing, right? I see where I was wrong. I apologize humbly. I will go immediately and chop up my debian cds.
I recently installed Debian on my NC8000 laptop and spent the better part of a couple of hours last night doing the relevant research to get my built-in IPW2100 adapter going.
It honestly wasn't THAT difficult, but I say this with the reservation that I'm a fairly advanced user despite the fact that I primarily use Windows. I can see how someone with limited *nix experience and who lacks familiarity with a CLI might find it nigh-impossible.
The sad thing is that I have to do it all over again, since I only allocated 1.5GB to / on Debian and now it's choking every ten minutes on me (since I have gnome running and it insists on having 10,000 useless packages or else it will go away and sulk).:-( You know what they say about hindsight...
Didn't smell the leaves in the reporter's bags at the airport.
Dunno if dogs can smell the leaves though.
The great irony in the article, to me, is that legitimate crops get wiped out by the spraying and that causes farmers in sprayed areas to grow the one thing that will grow even tho it's sprayed - coca.
..but to be fair, Aluria says that they're concerned with "malicious spyware." If you RTFA, they indicate that they felt that the disclosure practices and what-not are all above-ground.
Not that this helps people installing without scanning the EULA and getting nasty little "gifts," but it's hardly malicious if you agree to it.
*Disclaimer* I have no idea what exactly WhenU does, never had it on my system. If it IS malicious, then immediately discount this post. Regardless, I'll be busy vomiting from my over-exposure to advertising in general.
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...is how this dude and his little green laser temporarily blinded the pilots? What does that mean? They saw it and took their eyes off their instruments, or that it caused actual temporary eye damage? How can you sustain a laser on a moving target with the windows located on TOP of the vehicle when you're beneath? Lots of questions here, and 25 years is simply outrageous.
C'mon people, we've taken the terrorism thing far enough. A guy in his backyard playing with a laser pointer is not a terrorist. New York street kids in gangs are not terrorists either, no matter how much you want them to be.
In fact, "terrorist" is a term that has no meaning anymore since it's become so overused, sorta like "pirate" which is used in every context from high seas robbery to filesharing to South Park's "ass pirate".
Let it go!!!
"donut-encrusted seat" just brings up very bad mental images of Homer Simpson and X-Lax. I think I need to wash my brain now.
Does this NX thing rely on the evil bit? If so, no wonder it doesn't work! *duck*
..I worked at this little computer store in rural Louisiana. After a couple of years, we ended up with about 14 dead MGA/CGA/EGA monitors and decided to have some fun.
.365 derringer, as well (although I can't say I respect the accuracy; anything further away than about 4 feet was definitely not going to hit the 1-foot-square side of a monitor).
The monitors were all loaded up into a truck and taken out into the swamps, and set up on 55-gallon drums. Myself and three other people then proceeded to blow the fuck out of them with a number of weapons, everything from 9mm Glock pistol to 12-gauge assault shotguns. That is probably when I learned to respect the power of a
Quite fun.:-)
I have to admit sometimes it can be fun to pick on newbies, particularly the more annoying "give me equipment/gold/etc" newbies who seem to think that they have some sort of god-given right to everything you've worked hard to collect.
Being a MUD player, though, my form of revenge is limited to amusing things like charming mobs that the newbie is about to attack, so it would be something like:
Newbie: Oh, there's a giant spider...let me try to kill it...
@ Kill giant spider
Sorry, you must MURDER a charmie.
@ Murder giant spider
Sorry, you can't murder another player's charmie.
@ CHAT Y KANT I KILL THE GIANT SPIDER
[Silence is secretly ordering the spider to speak.] The giant spider says, "Why do you want to kill me, Newbie?"
Newbie: WTF?
@ CHAT THE GIANT SPDIR IZ TALKING TO ME!
Silence chats, "Maybe he just doesn't want to die." [secretly typing 'order giant spider fkiss Newbie']
@ CHAT BUT I WNT 2 KILL IT!
The giant spider kisses you passionately.
@ POKE GIANT SPIDER
Nothing happens.
@ KILL GIANT SPIDER
The giant spider dances around you merrily.
[Silence secretly uncharms the giant spider.]
@ DANCE GIANT SPIDER
The giant spider TOTALLY DEMOLISHES you with its fangs!!
Muahahahahha.
Note that this type of newbie is usually some lamer who has played other variations of MMORPGs before and has never had to work for anything. I agree, the ones who are seriously wanting to get better always get my help.:-)
A real life example from a conversation with my friend last night (we were discussing that Smallville TV show):
JFD says: I feel like they just need someone to die
JFD says: and then come back
JFD says: and then superman
JFD says: fucks everybody in the ass
JFD says: and then pretends that he didn't
JFD says: and then does it again
Shawn says: LOL
JFD says: and then it will be the classic soap opera
Now THAT'S a real conversation (but rather than encrypting it, I'm posting it on the 'net for all to see...hehe)
For crosswords, I usually stop at this site or buy a crossword book. TVlistings? Browseable, searchable for my area at canada.com - that even works better than a newspaper because you can search days in advance. (And it's free!) Editorials? Hah. Editorials = blogs, in my opinion. And the advertisements/classifieds have their (superior) web equivalents as well.
No, I honestly think that the newspaper is outdated. When I can afford a wireless handheld PC and WiMax or some other wide-area standard gets going, that means I will have all of this in expanded edition at my fingertips, without the hassle of papers, papercuts, and recycling.:-)
I know I fall into the demographic that reads news nearly exclusively online, but I think this is just going to increase as paper-readers age and kids watch their parents (my generation) reading it online.
Frankly, papers are unwieldy; I'm always getting them out of order or tearing them, not to mention that they store germs quite well (so I hear) - no picking those up on the subway for me!
I think the biggest paper-killer, though, is that by the time the news is printed and in your hands, it's out of date. For local news where not much happens (or if it does, everyone immediately knows), a paper might still work - but for national/international news, it just lacks the immediacy of online news sources.
Because it makes for more sensational news:-)
I smell an agenda in that story, though. Next thing you know, somebody will come out with a "study" claiming that "data obesity" causes "stress-related illness" or some such bullshit.
..when someone glosses over the fact that shit is, well, shit.
From your link: "This doesn't hurt the spores, which are deposited in a nice, nutrient rich, wet and warm package to start reproducing again."
Sounds appetizing.:-P
In general, the guys applying for H-1B are the top notch of THEIR school systems. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but most people in most countries still don't get college degrees, and you aren't going to be getting jobs in the US without educational qualifications high enough to back you up.
Just something to think about.
...on exactly how old we're talking about.;-)
If senility sets in, "lucid" wouldn't exactly be the word I'd use to describe the sentences.
Hm...the volume of the sun is something like 1,000,000 earths and the sun is composed of about 27% helium by mass, so it seems to me that there's about 270,000 Earth-fulls of helium waiting to be picked up.
:-(
Now:
1. Drive Earth over to the sun
2. Collect helium
3. PROFIT!!!!
Oh...wait...there's the little matter of the temperature being millions of degrees...
Just a minor thing - if half use each, then bittorrent becomes LESS useful and exeem becomes much MORE useful than with only 5000 beta testers.
I say let's give it a chance - never know, it might make up for what you miss:-) Worst case, no one will use it and everyone will stick with regular bittorrent.
...to have those nanoparticles seeping through your skin delivering drugs; no more needles! *shudder*
The most obvious solution is some sort of manually-controlled thumbtack in the pilot's seat that jabs him when an appropriate button is pressed at mission-control...
But seriously, hope he's not a deep sleeper:-)
Pardon my engineering ignorance, but is this any more efficient than the current style of pulling a fixed-wing craft through the air with a separate engine? My gut instinct says no, but I've been suprised before. Thoughts?
...when I was a little 13-year-old kid playing games. That's why I'm now a 23-year-old master's-degree-wielding, extreme-left-leaning monster who will corrupt your children even more. Ban evil, violent video games before they create more like me!
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if they can't crank original work out of their overworked programmers because it's easy to get their overworked guys to rehash stuff they've already done, since they're too dazed to do anything new.:-P
Frankly, I don't understand how people can do this for any amount of money or passion. You don't do good work when you're running constantly on 6 hours of sleep, and I'm surprised that any of these guys have any sort of a family whatsoever.
I think that if these sorts of conditions are typical in the gaming industry, it might explain why games in general have slid into the sequel-after-sequel hole and there's very little new or original stuff coming out. You can't think clearly when your brain is sleep-addled and you are living on beer and Cheetos.
I'd rather them spend three times as long producing games, so long as the games were actually original and entertaining, and not yet another boring sequel with an ending that sets up for YAYABS [yet another yet another boring sequel]. (Or, in the case of that guy Levy, some sort of social campaign inspired by the modern equivalent of strange women in ponds handing out swords.)
when they pry it from the ashes of my cold, dead hard drive.
Seriously, I can understand the movie issue but I think it's a bit idiotic of them to go after filesharing in general. Oh, wait - there are no legitimate uses for filesharing, right? I see where I was wrong. I apologize humbly. I will go immediately and chop up my debian cds.
I recently installed Debian on my NC8000 laptop and spent the better part of a couple of hours last night doing the relevant research to get my built-in IPW2100 adapter going.
It honestly wasn't THAT difficult, but I say this with the reservation that I'm a fairly advanced user despite the fact that I primarily use Windows. I can see how someone with limited *nix experience and who lacks familiarity with a CLI might find it nigh-impossible.
The sad thing is that I have to do it all over again, since I only allocated 1.5GB to / on Debian and now it's choking every ten minutes on me (since I have gnome running and it insists on having 10,000 useless packages or else it will go away and sulk). :-( You know what they say about hindsight...
Didn't smell the leaves in the reporter's bags at the airport.
Dunno if dogs can smell the leaves though.
The great irony in the article, to me, is that legitimate crops get wiped out by the spraying and that causes farmers in sprayed areas to grow the one thing that will grow even tho it's sprayed - coca.
..but to be fair, Aluria says that they're concerned with "malicious spyware." If you RTFA, they indicate that they felt that the disclosure practices and what-not are all above-ground.
Not that this helps people installing without scanning the EULA and getting nasty little "gifts," but it's hardly malicious if you agree to it.
*Disclaimer* I have no idea what exactly WhenU does, never had it on my system. If it IS malicious, then immediately discount this post. Regardless, I'll be busy vomiting from my over-exposure to advertising in general.
lol
If I had mod points, I'd mod you funny myself.:-)