Oh, I agree completely. For instance, listen to what he's actually saying here...
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Then Falwell said, "What we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact, God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve." Robertson replied, "Well, Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror, we haven't begun to see what they can do to the major population." Falwell said, "The ACLU has got to take a lot of blame for this. And I know I'll hear from them for this, but throwing God...successfully with the help of the federal court system...throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad...I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen." Robertson said, "I totally concur, and the problem is we've adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government, and so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do, and the top people, of course, is the court system." Falwell added, "Pat, did you notice yesterday that the ACLU and all the Christ-haters, the People for the American Way, NOW, etc., were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress, as they went out on the steps and and called out to God in prayer and sang 'God bless America' and said, let the ACLU be hanged. In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time, calling on God."
"...until I discovered the Slashdot workout plan! Sure, I still spend 8 hours a day in a dim server room and all my cardio comes from playing Counter Strike, but with this new Slashdot brand portable non-optimal surface video projection system I now have a full-body projection of vintage Arnold Schwarzenegger on me at all times! Okay, so he's a lot taller than me and that puts his weiner in the middle of my chest, but that *still* gets me more chicks than before! Thanks, Slashdot!"
Aah when you blog in Japan-tonight... Blog in Japan-be-tight... Blog in Japan...ooh the eastern sea's so blue Blog in Japan-alright Pay! - Then I'll sleep by your side Things are newsy when you blog in Japan Oh when you blog in Japan...
I thought my point was pretty obvious, but I'll spell it out for the mod who has his head up his ass. It's a new world and the old model of warfare doesn't really apply any more. All of our hi-tech gizmos and scanners and x-rays did nothing to slow down some very determined men on 9/11.
Do I get a geek rush when I see all these new battlefield toys? Sure I do. The only thing better than new toys with blinking lights is new toys with blinking lights that involve heavy explosives.
But do I think these new battlefield toys make us safer as a nation given the state of the world and warfare today? Absolutely not. These gizmos would have been *great* in WWII, but they wouldn't have done a damned thing to help us on 9/10.
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My next big question is about why we keep announcing "czars" of any kind. Considering the overwhelming success of the drug czar and his friends, it seems we'd have moved on to queens or overlords or all-seeing grand poobahs by now.
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I think the big thing that the government did just learn is that the president can stand on TV and announce the creation of an "intelligence czar" and not one damned person in the room will jump up and say "So what in the name of the sweet baby Jebuz is Tom frigging Ridge, then? Huh?"
That scares me more than the Al Quaedas, kids.
> There will come a day when there is a generation of folks who use ebooks and consider printed books cumbersome and an anachronism.
Dear God, I hope not. I think the loss of the book would be a giant leap backwards for civilization. Call me nostalgic, call me romantic, call me old-fashioned, but I think there's something soul-satisfyingly and fundamentally *right* about books. E-books and text files are fine and wonderful for random mail, documentation, technical info, you know - just data. But there's something about writing (and I mean "writing" as opposed to "just typing," to paraphrase Truman Capote) that I think demands the container of a book. It's a statement, I think. It's the physical manifestation of the words inside that somehow says "this is important stuff! Worth killing a tree for, even!" I think that making a book is what sets literature apart from just being data, the same way that a handwritten letter will always mean more than an email.
E-books mean the loss of the inside cover, which means never opening an old book and seeing a note from that girl you dated in college. And that, my friends, is a vast loss for mankind.
Immediately upgrade all pc's at DeGrassi to Linux. Result? J.T. reaches new heights of nerd-dom, Emma now gets to argue with Snake over which distro to use, and Marco will become more alternative than ever. However, Paige remains bitchy and sticks to Windows out of spite.
...that the man (scum-sucking dirtbag duck-raper, actually) indicted, Scott Levine, is the owner of Snipermail - a spamhouse located in (get ready for a shock!) Florida. Is anyone surprised that a spammer (connected to Eddie Marin, btw) has moved on to massive identity theft? Don't you just wonder what he was planning on using all that data for?
How about a quick game of Hangman, kids. "Here's hoping he gets time in a federal _____-__-__-___-___ prison!" (Commence flames from more enlightened readers in 3... 2... 1...)
If only they can somehow expand this technology to work with proteins from animals from the ursus or lupine families, then imagine the RAIDs you could create.
> 1. What kind of music should go with which kind of plant?
The possibilities are endless!
Imagine playing Ryuichi Sakamoto through your Bonsai tree. Or better yet, play Operation Ivy through your ivy! Oh, and play Kiss through your tulips! Randy Rhodes through your rhododendron! SheDaisy through your dasies! Petula Clark through the petunias! Biggie through the begonias! Yellow Magic Orchestra through your yellow orchids! Blue Man Group through your bluebells!
According to the current issue of PC Gamer the game will ship with at least one remake of a popular DM map. I only glanced at the article to avoid spoilers, but I'm pretty sure it was the Edge map remade as Edge2. And if the game ships with a functioning editor you can bet that every other popular map from the last 10 years will be converted *really* quickly.
Slashdot Mirror
And I suggest that everyone here do a "Katie.Com" on this program and give it the comments that it deserves.
Release the hounds!!
Oh, I agree completely. For instance, listen to what he's actually saying here...
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Then Falwell said, "What we saw on Tuesday, as terrible as it is, could be miniscule if, in fact, God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve."
Robertson replied, "Well, Jerry, that's my feeling. I think we've just seen the antechamber to terror, we haven't begun to see what they can do to the major population."
Falwell said, "The ACLU has got to take a lot of blame for this. And I know I'll hear from them for this, but throwing God...successfully with the help of the federal court system...throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad...I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen."
Robertson said, "I totally concur, and the problem is we've adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government, and so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do, and the top people, of course, is the court system."
Falwell added, "Pat, did you notice yesterday that the ACLU and all the Christ-haters, the People for the American Way, NOW, etc., were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress, as they went out on the steps and and called out to God in prayer and sang 'God bless America' and said, let the ACLU be hanged. In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time, calling on God."
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"...until I discovered the Slashdot workout plan! Sure, I still spend 8 hours a day in a dim server room and all my cardio comes from playing Counter Strike, but with this new Slashdot brand portable non-optimal surface video projection system I now have a full-body projection of vintage Arnold Schwarzenegger on me at all times! Okay, so he's a lot taller than me and that puts his weiner in the middle of my chest, but that *still* gets me more chicks than before! Thanks, Slashdot!"
Just as long as it doesn't take *The* Village.
My kid really likes Elmo, y'know?
> When the book was written, the domain "katie.com" was not registered.
> not cybersquatting since the domain was there (long) before the book.
Um... what? I'm confused.
Aah when you blog in Japan-tonight...
Blog in Japan-be-tight...
Blog in Japan...ooh the eastern sea's so blue
Blog in Japan-alright
Pay! - Then I'll sleep by your side
Things are newsy when you blog in Japan
Oh when you blog in Japan...
Troll?
Bite me.
I thought my point was pretty obvious, but I'll spell it out for the mod who has his head up his ass. It's a new world and the old model of warfare doesn't really apply any more. All of our hi-tech gizmos and scanners and x-rays did nothing to slow down some very determined men on 9/11.
Do I get a geek rush when I see all these new battlefield toys? Sure I do. The only thing better than new toys with blinking lights is new toys with blinking lights that involve heavy explosives.
But do I think these new battlefield toys make us safer as a nation given the state of the world and warfare today? Absolutely not. These gizmos would have been *great* in WWII, but they wouldn't have done a damned thing to help us on 9/10.
Troll?
Again, bite me...
My next big question is about why we keep announcing "czars" of any kind. Considering the overwhelming success of the drug czar and his friends, it seems we'd have moved on to queens or overlords or all-seeing grand poobahs by now.
I think the big thing that the government did just learn is that the president can stand on TV and announce the creation of an "intelligence czar" and not one damned person in the room will jump up and say "So what in the name of the sweet baby Jebuz is Tom frigging Ridge, then? Huh?" That scares me more than the Al Quaedas, kids.
Well, mostly it's breasts.
- NY Times
Friday, 7/30/04
'Cause you know, wretched hive and all that...
In spite of the fact that each of these cascading posts has been at my expense, they've been *damned* funny. Too bad I can't mod the whole thing up...
> There will come a day when there is a generation of folks who use ebooks and consider printed books cumbersome and an anachronism.
Dear God, I hope not. I think the loss of the book would be a giant leap backwards for civilization. Call me nostalgic, call me romantic, call me old-fashioned, but I think there's something soul-satisfyingly and fundamentally *right* about books. E-books and text files are fine and wonderful for random mail, documentation, technical info, you know - just data. But there's something about writing (and I mean "writing" as opposed to "just typing," to paraphrase Truman Capote) that I think demands the container of a book. It's a statement, I think. It's the physical manifestation of the words inside that somehow says "this is important stuff! Worth killing a tree for, even!" I think that making a book is what sets literature apart from just being data, the same way that a handwritten letter will always mean more than an email.
E-books mean the loss of the inside cover, which means never opening an old book and seeing a note from that girl you dated in college. And that, my friends, is a vast loss for mankind.
Easy...
>_<
Immediately upgrade all pc's at DeGrassi to Linux. Result? J.T. reaches new heights of nerd-dom, Emma now gets to argue with Snake over which distro to use, and Marco will become more alternative than ever. However, Paige remains bitchy and sticks to Windows out of spite.
So now the monkeys are getting V1AG.RA spam, too?
Once again, we never get to hear the other side.
Damned liberal media...
How about a quick game of Hangman, kids. "Here's hoping he gets time in a federal _____-__-__-___-___ prison!" (Commence flames from more enlightened readers in 3... 2... 1...)
If only they can somehow expand this technology to work with proteins from animals from the ursus or lupine families, then imagine the RAIDs you could create.
A bear-wolf cluster, if you will...
> There is a joke here about cow chips
I'll give it a shot.
"Dude, what's that smell?"
"My system just had a core dump!"
If it's anything like the data in my secret directory, I forsee an irony overload of epic proportions.
> 1. What kind of music should go with which kind of plant?
The possibilities are endless!
Imagine playing Ryuichi Sakamoto through your Bonsai tree. Or better yet, play Operation Ivy through your ivy! Oh, and play Kiss through your tulips! Randy Rhodes through your rhododendron! SheDaisy through your dasies! Petula Clark through the petunias! Biggie through the begonias! Yellow Magic Orchestra through your yellow orchids! Blue Man Group through your bluebells!
Oh, and through your amorphophallus titanum?
Cannibal Corpse.
okay, I'll stop now.
> just so they will fall under the *loser* "homebuilt" rules.
I was about to complain about the editorializing in the article summary until I realized that I should probably be wearing my glasses.
heh...
According to the current issue of PC Gamer the game will ship with at least one remake of a popular DM map. I only glanced at the article to avoid spoilers, but I'm pretty sure it was the Edge map remade as Edge2. And if the game ships with a functioning editor you can bet that every other popular map from the last 10 years will be converted *really* quickly.