... it is useful for identifying bodies that have been badly mangled due to things like bombs, mines, and other explosives.
Or it could also be used specifically to TRIGGER bombs, mines and other explosives upon detecting a particular group of persons, or even an individual that matches an exact code.
Uhm. Whatever. First of all... porn. Whoop-de-doo. Yeah, we all like porn. So what. And gay porn? Well, it ain't -technically- a crime to be gay, now, is it? That's two strikes against you.
I think I'd rather hire a gay man who enjoys the occasional porn, rather than a heroin addict who thinks he's been receiving communications from aliens. You dig?
Reminds me of the common argument that should stop its because there exists .
I'm not saying you're wrong -- far from it. I just think you're not 100% correct. Perhaps there's room in the world for taking action on more than one front?
I must admit up front that I've never read the HP books, only seen the movies. So on those grounds, I admittedly have a weak case to criticize. Nevertheless, I will. (I'm a huge Stephen King fan, yet 98% of his screenplays have been utter crap)
I find Rowling's character names to be absolutely Dickensian (Dumbledore, Slitherin, Malfoy, Voldemort), which alone makes me bristle. Mal- bad, mort- death, etc etc. Names that fairly clearly tell you if you should or should NOT like a character the first time you learn their name, if it hasn't already been decided for you. Often times the "bad" characters are positively dripping with malevolent charm, making no attempt to appear as though they've got any righteous principles of any kind. "Ooh, he's wearing black, is constantly scowling, and has pointy eyebrows. Quite clearly, he's a bad, bad man." Often there's very little deceit of any kind -- we know from the word "go" who is good and bad, and we have only to watch the magical deus ex machina work, saving HP from doom.
Furthermore, the use of magic is so far removed from what I'm accustomed: typically magic is difficult to control, and generally weak (cantrips, etc) for all but the most experienced and mature. But in HP's world, magic stuff seems to be coming off a mass assembly-line, and is cheap and plentiful.
I one of the movies I watched, I found it amazing that in a "wizard contest" of some sort, the contestants' friends were put in mortal danger without the consent or knowledge of them OR the contestants. Endangering lives of friends for the purpose of a voluntary contest? Seems like madness in which nobody would ever want to participate again. "Harry, please don't put your name on a piece of paper. I don't want to be drowned/dismembered/burned alive" and such.
Mostly the "magic is cheap" concept pervading the movies really bothered me. Do you feel this experience is better represented in the books? Would I be equally disappointed?
THANK YOU for pointing out these errors. Big difference between APM, MPR, NPR. I listen to Wisconsin Public Radio and they get as much as 30% of their funding directly from pledge drives.
I remember the labs on campus, and I did my best to get seated in front of one of the very few 486 DX/4 100's. Those machines were rockets compared to the others. Little did anyone else know. Even when the lab got some P60, I think I preferred the 486 DX/4 100.
Interestingly, this vulnerability contradicts claims that IE7 is a rewrite. Clearly, it is not.
Au contraire! It could be that they're so darned consistent, the bug was re-created in the rewrite. Sort of re-inventing the same, very bad wheel. Didja ever think of that? I wouldn't put it past them.
Without making a statement regarding your opinion (which is yours to have), it's important that terminology is carefully used as to not make emotional appeals or confuse people. That being said, let's not suggest that "egg" has an equal definition with "embryo". Your use of the word egg makes it sound like you mean ovum. However, an embryo is the early-stages result from a fertilized ovum.
Most "right-to-lifers" give the impression that they view the moment of fertilization (and henceforth it's an embryo) as having potential for full development into a human being. So don't give someone the opportunity to dismiss your argument because of (ab)use of terminology.
I'll pay for commercial-free programming. I'll tolerate commercials on free programming. But I am damned if I'll voluntarily pay for programming with commercials in it.
If you also refuse to pay for cable/dish television, then I applaud you, sir, for sticking by your principles. Most NPR stations use the advertising euphemism of "underwriting". At least in WI, the underwriting spots consist of brief 5-second bits like, "Support for this program has been provided by Foo Corporation, [slogan]Foo for you, Foo for Me[/slogan] at www dot foo dot com." I really don't mind that so much.
Luckily for me, WI listeners of NPR/WPR are really great, enthusiastic and supportive to the point where the corporate sponsorship/underwriting has never really gone much beyond that. Occasionally there might be an "expert" in some particular field who serves as a guest, and they also get to plug their business, but so long as they are providing genuine value to us, the listeners, I think that's a perfectly equitable arrangement.
On the contrary, I've found many of the EE pages to be useful. The catch is that EE sends cookies which tally your number of views on a particular day (my best guess), and if you've viewed too many, it tells you to subscribe.
If I find a question that I want the answer to, I'll make note of the submittor name, keywords, and then do a google search on those to bring up the most helpful page on EE. I clear all my EE cookies (now I've not been to their site yet today) and voila, I can view the proposed solutions.
I'd love a Firefox extension that lets you quickly bring up a list of cookies applicable only to the domain of the currently-viewed page, so I can edit/delete them. Sure, I can use the built-in cookie manager, but an extension as I've described would be kind of sweet.
Well, yes. This is true. I guess for years, I thought of "Quicktime" merely as the plug-in and/or stand-alone "bloated Quicktime Player" that I kept around only when websites provided movie trailers in.mov format because Apple got their hands on a portion of the movie websites business.
True, iTunes uses the Quicktime library, but is far better executed than the Quicktime player itself. Blech.
Considering that I use iTunes because I WANT to, but use RealPlayer and Quicktime only when I HAVE TO. I find both of the latter bloated, irritating. I'm not sure the actual root of my dislike for Quicktime, but maybe it's because I used to have lots of problems playing.MOV files on my previous dual P3-550 (1GB RAM), with no apparent fix.
Too bad that "the source" is a very poorly structured website IMO where I can never find what I want. I guess I just didn't try hard enough, but I couldn't find a comparable page at W3 as the DOM index I linked at Mozilla.org. I don't want to know the fucking history, recommendations, all that bullshit. I want real information that I can take and use, right now. Where's the "pocket reference" pages?
Am I the only one who thinks it's difficult to use the W3 site as a general programmer's reference for anything at all? Whenever I think to myself, "Gee, I'd like to do this the right way, and conform to W3 'standards'", I get lost at W3 and go elsewhere for the Cliff's Notes version.
I also recommend that you check out the Gecko DOM Reference. It's a great, handy online resource which I've consulted frequently as of late for many DHTML apps and functionality.
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Or it could also be used specifically to TRIGGER bombs, mines and other explosives upon detecting a particular group of persons, or even an individual that matches an exact code.
Quickest way to get moderated up on Slashdot? Say "I know I'll get modded down for saying this, but..."
A bit further down on the list of ways to get modded up is to point out this fact. Good on ya!
And a preemptive strike: you might also get modded "plus-one Funny" if you posted this comment...
Uhm. Whatever. First of all... porn. Whoop-de-doo. Yeah, we all like porn. So what. And gay porn? Well, it ain't -technically- a crime to be gay, now, is it? That's two strikes against you.
I think I'd rather hire a gay man who enjoys the occasional porn, rather than a heroin addict who thinks he's been receiving communications from aliens. You dig?
Reminds me of the common argument that should stop its because there exists .
I'm not saying you're wrong -- far from it. I just think you're not 100% correct. Perhaps there's room in the world for taking action on more than one front?
In the future I'd suggest not talking about things you know nothing about.
... you must be new here.
I must admit up front that I've never read the HP books, only seen the movies. So on those grounds, I admittedly have a weak case to criticize. Nevertheless, I will. (I'm a huge Stephen King fan, yet 98% of his screenplays have been utter crap)
I find Rowling's character names to be absolutely Dickensian (Dumbledore, Slitherin, Malfoy, Voldemort), which alone makes me bristle. Mal- bad, mort- death, etc etc. Names that fairly clearly tell you if you should or should NOT like a character the first time you learn their name, if it hasn't already been decided for you. Often times the "bad" characters are positively dripping with malevolent charm, making no attempt to appear as though they've got any righteous principles of any kind. "Ooh, he's wearing black, is constantly scowling, and has pointy eyebrows. Quite clearly, he's a bad, bad man." Often there's very little deceit of any kind -- we know from the word "go" who is good and bad, and we have only to watch the magical deus ex machina work, saving HP from doom.
Furthermore, the use of magic is so far removed from what I'm accustomed: typically magic is difficult to control, and generally weak (cantrips, etc) for all but the most experienced and mature. But in HP's world, magic stuff seems to be coming off a mass assembly-line, and is cheap and plentiful.
I one of the movies I watched, I found it amazing that in a "wizard contest" of some sort, the contestants' friends were put in mortal danger without the consent or knowledge of them OR the contestants. Endangering lives of friends for the purpose of a voluntary contest? Seems like madness in which nobody would ever want to participate again. "Harry, please don't put your name on a piece of paper. I don't want to be drowned/dismembered/burned alive" and such.
Mostly the "magic is cheap" concept pervading the movies really bothered me. Do you feel this experience is better represented in the books? Would I be equally disappointed?
THANK YOU for pointing out these errors. Big difference between APM, MPR, NPR. I listen to Wisconsin Public Radio and they get as much as 30% of their funding directly from pledge drives.
I remember the labs on campus, and I did my best to get seated in front of one of the very few 486 DX/4 100's. Those machines were rockets compared to the others. Little did anyone else know. Even when the lab got some P60, I think I preferred the 486 DX/4 100.
I'm confused--when Microsoft does something good, do we just ignore it?
You must be new here.
So what makes up the Internet? Webpages or the data that flows over networks.
Answer: Yes.
I was worried for a minute. I misread it as Zombo Thank God my favorite intarweb site won't be going anywhere.
What's this dot-slash of which you speak?
Interestingly, this vulnerability contradicts claims that IE7 is a rewrite. Clearly, it is not.
Au contraire! It could be that they're so darned consistent, the bug was re-created in the rewrite. Sort of re-inventing the same, very bad wheel. Didja ever think of that? I wouldn't put it past them.
It's probably the same punctuation deficiency which causes businesses to craft advertisements/signs which read
On "Sale"
Well, the option has existed in the 1.5x versions for some time now. 1.5.0.6 and 1.5.0.7 for Windows have this option. Maybe it's time to upgrade? :)
Tools > Clear Private Data (Ctrl + Shift + Del)
A testament indeed to the power of the web. And the power of exploding batteries as satire fodder.
Most "right-to-lifers" give the impression that they view the moment of fertilization (and henceforth it's an embryo) as having potential for full development into a human being. So don't give someone the opportunity to dismiss your argument because of (ab)use of terminology.
If you also refuse to pay for cable/dish television, then I applaud you, sir, for sticking by your principles. Most NPR stations use the advertising euphemism of "underwriting". At least in WI, the underwriting spots consist of brief 5-second bits like, "Support for this program has been provided by Foo Corporation, [slogan]Foo for you, Foo for Me[/slogan] at www dot foo dot com." I really don't mind that so much.
Luckily for me, WI listeners of NPR/WPR are really great, enthusiastic and supportive to the point where the corporate sponsorship/underwriting has never really gone much beyond that. Occasionally there might be an "expert" in some particular field who serves as a guest, and they also get to plug their business, but so long as they are providing genuine value to us, the listeners, I think that's a perfectly equitable arrangement.
On the contrary, I've found many of the EE pages to be useful. The catch is that EE sends cookies which tally your number of views on a particular day (my best guess), and if you've viewed too many, it tells you to subscribe.
If I find a question that I want the answer to, I'll make note of the submittor name, keywords, and then do a google search on those to bring up the most helpful page on EE. I clear all my EE cookies (now I've not been to their site yet today) and voila, I can view the proposed solutions.
I'd love a Firefox extension that lets you quickly bring up a list of cookies applicable only to the domain of the currently-viewed page, so I can edit/delete them. Sure, I can use the built-in cookie manager, but an extension as I've described would be kind of sweet.
Well, yes. This is true. I guess for years, I thought of "Quicktime" merely as the plug-in and/or stand-alone "bloated Quicktime Player" that I kept around only when websites provided movie trailers in .mov format because Apple got their hands on a portion of the movie websites business.
True, iTunes uses the Quicktime library, but is far better executed than the Quicktime player itself. Blech.
Considering that I use iTunes because I WANT to, but use RealPlayer and Quicktime only when I HAVE TO. I find both of the latter bloated, irritating. I'm not sure the actual root of my dislike for Quicktime, but maybe it's because I used to have lots of problems playing .MOV files on my previous dual P3-550 (1GB RAM), with no apparent fix.
Too bad that "the source" is a very poorly structured website IMO where I can never find what I want. I guess I just didn't try hard enough, but I couldn't find a comparable page at W3 as the DOM index I linked at Mozilla.org. I don't want to know the fucking history, recommendations, all that bullshit. I want real information that I can take and use, right now. Where's the "pocket reference" pages?
Am I the only one who thinks it's difficult to use the W3 site as a general programmer's reference for anything at all? Whenever I think to myself, "Gee, I'd like to do this the right way, and conform to W3 'standards'", I get lost at W3 and go elsewhere for the Cliff's Notes version.
I also recommend that you check out the Gecko DOM Reference. It's a great, handy online resource which I've consulted frequently as of late for many DHTML apps and functionality.