The thing that always bothered me was that there were multiple terminators who looked like Arnold, when the whole reason they had human form was to disguise themselves to infiltrate and kill. If they all looked the same, you could see them coming.
"Not so well explained is how JRRT intended this to tie in with christianity, although I believe he explicitly identified Gandalf's resurrection with Jesus's at some point."
I believe it was in the intro to one of the "Lost Books of Middle Earth" (I haven't read much of them), or other such non-published by JRRT, he was said to have not like introducing modern religion when writing "older" mythology, and that was, in his opinion, one of the downsides to the tales of C.S. Lewis.
"astigmatism can now be corrected where it couldn't 3-5 years ago"
As far as LASIK goes, I had astigmatism corrected via LASIK a little over 6 years ago. Like the parent, I went to a more expensive place that was one of the top ones because I'm not going cheap on my eyes.
To other points mention (not just in parent) LASIK is also a permanent correction to the cornea, however the need to reading glasses later in life is more a matter of the lens hardening and losing its ability to easily contract, so is completely unrelated to what is fixed via surgery. Those who get LASIK and later need reading glasses would have needed them anyway.
To the parent, I'm glad you like it too.
It's nice being able to see while swimming, see my alarm, not having to have glasses at least somewhat available should I need to take my contacts out, etc.
I've run into problems with my last name ("Marcum") due to the last three characters.
It's still not as bad as Blizzard's, filtering out words like "basement".
Ignoring the whole political issue of it, if they are going to filter a string, they should at least allow common legit strings that it is a substring of.
The servers were pretty stable until Blackwing Lair came out. That instance was so buggy, and still is a little. The servers have crashed more often in the last month than the previous two or three combined it seems.
IIRC, King Zarkon was head of the Drule empire in the Lionbot one. Also, the Drule empire hadn't made it to Earth yet, and sending the explorers was more of an effort to turn the tide before a last stand was necessary.
What worries me about this is that I legitimately got a Krol Blade to drop and sold it to an individual for a few hundred gold. Hopefully they'll look at more detail - as my level 60 character is in the top raiding guild on the server doesn't even have much of a use for gold in game (repairs mainly, epic mount once - which i'm hoping to get soon from that sale, and the occasional enchant which my guild doesn't have all the mats for stored up).
It's sad how much the lack of a constitutional amendment supporting abortion rights is going to harm this nation. I wish we could get such an amendment into the constitution in the next few years so people will have no reason to fear constructionists and we don't drift towards an autocratic SCOTUS
Recent thoughts I've had: I'm curious as to why people on both sides of the abortion debate place it so highly. I think it's important, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's more important than almost every other issue combined - which is how some people sound. Personally, I'm on the other side as you on this issue; but I think I'd rather have someone who I agree with and think is qualified and only disagree with them on this one issue rather than someone with whom I only agree on their abortion stance.
Just trying to get where people are coming from when the make abortion/life their major issue: The argument I can see from my side of the fence (I'm stating it, not defending) is that someone supporting abortion must have some sort of character flaw to be supported murder, regardless of their other voting record. Is the argument from the other side that someone who is pro-life must be inherently against individual rights, regardless of their other voting record?
Now back a little more on topic... That all said, I agree very much with the parent's statement that the rights should be enumerated so that we could more easily have Constructionalist judges - something I think is VERY important.
even though a majority of the people support abortion rights
I'm gonna have to ask for a good citation for this before I buy it. The most recent numbers I've seen, IIRC, was ~60/40 against abortion (though I admittedly don't have a citation, I'm at least giving the notification that I don't have the numbers and not giving it as gospel).
Otherwise, I agree that the decision was on shaky constitutional foundation.
Call me crazy, but I don't think that quote's a big deal. I bet any of the judges toward the left side expressed dismay to friends on the night of the election when GWB won. I'm also sure there are critics who believe those judges do not want GWB to appoint their successors.
I agree with a great deal of what you said - and I fall into the realm of Republican with Libertarian leanings.
This last election was either party's to lose -- the Democrats just did a better job of it. I think if either a moderate Democrat won the primary or if Bush switched to a more moderate VP while saying some of his actions were based on bad information given to him (while doing a little housecleaning), then the election could have been one-sided.
Are you aware that the US pays farmers not to grow certain crops because there is a surplus?
Aren't the payments an incentive to use a crop rotation technique of letting land sit idle a year to replenish nutrients? The payments are to prevent overfarming by reducing temporary benefits of farming the land non-stop.
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"Nor do they actually pursue minor computer crimes."
Didn't the FBI arrest a dozen or so in Toledo for tampering with their cable modem to unrestrict their throughput?
I've also thought this would be well served as a mini-series.
The thing that always bothered me was that there were multiple terminators who looked like Arnold, when the whole reason they had human form was to disguise themselves to infiltrate and kill. If they all looked the same, you could see them coming.
"Not so well explained is how JRRT intended this to tie in with christianity, although I believe he explicitly identified Gandalf's resurrection with Jesus's at some point."
I believe it was in the intro to one of the "Lost Books of Middle Earth" (I haven't read much of them), or other such non-published by JRRT, he was said to have not like introducing modern religion when writing "older" mythology, and that was, in his opinion, one of the downsides to the tales of C.S. Lewis.
This senator's a lady named Michael?!
I believe the three songs of Noah provided the branches for divergence. We also don't know much about each one's wife and what race(s) they were.
"astigmatism can now be corrected where it couldn't 3-5 years ago"
As far as LASIK goes, I had astigmatism corrected via LASIK a little over 6 years ago. Like the parent, I went to a more expensive place that was one of the top ones because I'm not going cheap on my eyes.
To other points mention (not just in parent) LASIK is also a permanent correction to the cornea, however the need to reading glasses later in life is more a matter of the lens hardening and losing its ability to easily contract, so is completely unrelated to what is fixed via surgery. Those who get LASIK and later need reading glasses would have needed them anyway.
To the parent, I'm glad you like it too.
It's nice being able to see while swimming, see my alarm, not having to have glasses at least somewhat available should I need to take my contacts out, etc.
IANAL, but I think one argument could be along the lines of the "implied fitness for use", which products must meet.
It's no 18" stonehenge. ("It's in danger of being trod upon by dwarves!")
I've run into problems with my last name ("Marcum") due to the last three characters.
It's still not as bad as Blizzard's, filtering out words like "basement".
Ignoring the whole political issue of it, if they are going to filter a string, they should at least allow common legit strings that it is a substring of.
Back in the late 80s/early 90s, I was a big fan of Knights of Legend, by Origin. I placed on the C64, but there was a PC version as well.
Now it's WoW.
A full-time developer costs around $150000 yearly
Are you hiring?
Seriously though, I'm betting they aren't paying that much for all of their developers.
It's a real shame the Camaro/Firebird is no longer made. Z28 was by far the best performance value on the road (20-25K for 300+ HP V8).
I happened to read something on the dating scam a while back. Most of the modelling pics came from http://www.focusagencyhawaii.com/view_female_model s.htm.
/.)
(My apologies to the site for incoming
The servers were pretty stable until Blackwing Lair came out. That instance was so buggy, and still is a little. The servers have crashed more often in the last month than the previous two or three combined it seems.
I never could get into the 15-vehicle one because 5 lions is so cool.
IIRC, King Zarkon was head of the Drule empire in the Lionbot one. Also, the Drule empire hadn't made it to Earth yet, and sending the explorers was more of an effort to turn the tide before a last stand was necessary.
What worries me about this is that I legitimately got a Krol Blade to drop and sold it to an individual for a few hundred gold. Hopefully they'll look at more detail - as my level 60 character is in the top raiding guild on the server doesn't even have much of a use for gold in game (repairs mainly, epic mount once - which i'm hoping to get soon from that sale, and the occasional enchant which my guild doesn't have all the mats for stored up).
I believe someone was able to navigate to an MP3 site starting at the RIAA's home site within a few (7 iirc) clicks.
It's sad how much the lack of a constitutional amendment supporting abortion rights is going to harm this nation. I wish we could get such an amendment into the constitution in the next few years so people will have no reason to fear constructionists and we don't drift towards an autocratic SCOTUS
Recent thoughts I've had: I'm curious as to why people on both sides of the abortion debate place it so highly. I think it's important, don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's more important than almost every other issue combined - which is how some people sound. Personally, I'm on the other side as you on this issue; but I think I'd rather have someone who I agree with and think is qualified and only disagree with them on this one issue rather than someone with whom I only agree on their abortion stance.
Just trying to get where people are coming from when the make abortion/life their major issue:
The argument I can see from my side of the fence (I'm stating it, not defending) is that someone supporting abortion must have some sort of character flaw to be supported murder, regardless of their other voting record. Is the argument from the other side that someone who is pro-life must be inherently against individual rights, regardless of their other voting record?
Now back a little more on topic...
That all said, I agree very much with the parent's statement that the rights should be enumerated so that we could more easily have Constructionalist judges - something I think is VERY important.
even though a majority of the people support abortion rights
I'm gonna have to ask for a good citation for this before I buy it. The most recent numbers I've seen, IIRC, was ~60/40 against abortion (though I admittedly don't have a citation, I'm at least giving the notification that I don't have the numbers and not giving it as gospel).
Otherwise, I agree that the decision was on shaky constitutional foundation.
Call me crazy, but I don't think that quote's a big deal. I bet any of the judges toward the left side expressed dismay to friends on the night of the election when GWB won. I'm also sure there are critics who believe those judges do not want GWB to appoint their successors.
I agree with a great deal of what you said - and I fall into the realm of Republican with Libertarian leanings.
This last election was either party's to lose -- the Democrats just did a better job of it. I think if either a moderate Democrat won the primary or if Bush switched to a more moderate VP while saying some of his actions were based on bad information given to him (while doing a little housecleaning), then the election could have been one-sided.
There may be only two major parties in Washington, but there are three ideologies.
I'm pretty sure there are more than that. There is also a range of Democrats from the more liberal to more centrist views.
Are you aware that the US pays farmers not to grow certain crops because there is a surplus?
Aren't the payments an incentive to use a crop rotation technique of letting land sit idle a year to replenish nutrients? The payments are to prevent overfarming by reducing temporary benefits of farming the land non-stop.