Somehow, I want to imagine Harry as a closet RPG and fantasy geek who keeps his 'hobbies' hidden because of the ridicule hed' get from his friends for being a real wizard who's into fantasy...
"Harry", said Hermione, "Are you ready to... take this to the next level?"
"You bet", said Harry. "I'll put on my robe and wizard hat."
"What? That's not what I'm..."
"I cast Level 3 eroticism. You turn into a beautiful woman, instead of a flat dork."
"What did you call me?!?!"
"I wave my wand of undressing and you turn naked."
"You have no idea what to do, do you?"
"I look through the Pokedex for the best creature. Hermione, I choose you!"
"My god, you're somehow more pathetic than a muggle dork, you play pretend magic even though you're a real wizard?!"
"Okay, if that's the way you want to play, then I'll use this tome of unspeakable horrors I found in the library. The Necronomicon."
Nah, they could go completely retro and turn their balcony into a "poop deck" and do it over the side. Bonus points if the wind knocks it into your neighbors!
I realize you're probobly one of the rare "female geeks", but please refrain from saying things like "Those bastards that snapped my bra in high school", most people here are guys and it gives us a wierd mental image to hear that. Like a pudgy, cross-eyed boy geek with gender issues being picked on by jocks in the locker room for wearing his sister's bra. That poor bastard.
"Hey cut it out guys! I'm just *different*, okay?" *snap*
Memories of high school are traumatic enough without imagining these horrors, okay?
Only if you ignore the DS, which is outselling all other systems combined. I suppose Microsoft can claim all Windows PC's as "their" platform as well.
Personally, I'll be getting a DS or GBA by Christmas time. All the old classic JRPGS (FF, Zelda, DQ, PS), plus the best collection of platformers...
And give the Wii some time. If Nintendo can leverage their handheld market dominance with good integration/crossover titles, and they have a good collection of old titles to download, they could grab most of the "casual gamer" market. I just have some doubts about the controller, but I don't hear many complaints so far...
Heh, you're too late, any large money transfer is reported by the bank to the feds because of the 'war on drugs'.
On a more relevant note, having 100 and 500 yen coins ($1/$5) in Japan has not really inconvenienced organized crime all that much - you'd have to get rid of the higher denominations first, like $100 and $50. Not that it's likely to work, anyways.
But I really wish they'd go for dollar and $5 coins in the U.S., and stop printing the bills. Coins are way more convienient for a lot of purposes...
Not if you want to do it carry on, at least at San Francisco. They didn't allow any liquids on the plane even if you had purchased it after the security check. They didn't search you as you were boarding the plane or anything, but I don't think I'd want to bring out a bottle of vodka if the rules clearly state "no liquids allowed" - planes have been turned back for less.
I was told by the duty-free shop past the checkpoint that any liquor I bought would have to be packaged and put on checked baggage - which you can't if your flight is leaving soon, or if you already checked all your checked baggage in, as most people do before going past the checkpoint. To buy that liquor, you'd have to bring your to-be-checked-in baggage past the checkpoint, buy the liquor, put it in your suitcase, go back out to the luggage check area, check in your suitcase, then go back through the security check again.
Not suprisingly, the duty-free shop was almost completely without customers.
True, but I think this is just an example of a gun/hunting lobby going so far as to be bizzare.
I mean, no one was stopping a blind person from going along with a hunting party, and enjoying the company and camping. The only thing they were not allowed to do was actually handle the weapon and pull the trigger, and that makes perfect sense, IMHO.
Look, from the description given in the article and your posts I really have to ask, why is the blind person even pulling the trigger??
I can only imagine this being useful in a bizzare situation in which a parapalegic who is unable to pull the trigger goes hunting with a blind person who is unable to see the target, and the two use their complementary skills to do what each cannot on his own.
Otherwise, the sighted person is doing 95% of the work that he is capable of doing 100% of, and is having the blind person do 5% of the work for no apparent reason.
If they require someone to sight and point the weapon for them and tell them when to pull the trigger, why even bother having the blind person pull the trigger, instead of the sighted person who is doing the directing? Presumably the blind person is also unable to stalk the prey, set up a blind or decoys, or tell apart a deer from a fellow hunter. That's not hunting, they're just pulling the trigger. The blind person as described by you and the Texan legislator sounds like a fifth wheel who is just along for the ride, which makes it seem more like recreational hunting rather than subsistence needs.
The blind person is going to have to pay for a hunting license for the priveledge of doing the 5% of the work, so I find it doubtful they are doing so for cheap meat. If the blind hunter has to get a sighted hunter to do 95% of the work, why can't they arrainge to get the meat that the sighted hunter shot? Or is the sighted hunter going to charge money for meat he shot, but is not going to charge for doing most of the work for a blind hunter to shoot?
Face it, this is entirely about recreational shooting, and not for the survival or feeding of the blind.
Yes, accidents happen with sighted hunters, too. It's an activity that requires physical coordination, situational awareness, and good judgement. Taking away any of them is going to make things worse.
Ah, Slashdot, where everything we need to know comes from comic books and anime...
Just wait 'til Professor Xavier (who was paralyzed in prison after the other inmates found out about his 'hobby') forms the X-AMBLA, a superhero team dedicated to the protection of mutants who want to have sex with underage boys. It will be the most feared and hated superhero league ever, using their mutant abilities to spread their love of boys worldwide...
Wolfurrine - the resident furrie, who uses his animal looks to lure young boys. Cyclops - the "one-eyed monster", who can blind people with his white liquid beam. Nightcrawler - he teleports into children's bedrooms and... better left unsaid.
What's funny is, you're taking exactly the same attitude that people accuse the U.S. of having - of expecting 'loyalty' from foreign nations, a concept that is undemocratic and absurd.
You're attacking the U.S. for "looking out for its own interests" and putting them ahead of the U.K.'s - excuse me, are you saying that the U.S. should put British interests *ahead* of its own? That's not a reasonable request to make of any nation. That the U.K.'s politicos try to win favor with the U.S. by bending over backwards for them is your problem, and not one that the U.S. should reciprocate. If you don't like the groveling of your politicians, fine, but one should not take that anger out on the U.S., but on your politicians.
You had me until you started talking about France being a great ally. So, you mind the U.S. for not activly supporting the U.K. in the Falklands (while not hindering it, either), but you don't mind the French, who also did not help and gave them Exocets?
Well, I hate to add to the self-righteous tone of this thread, but here goes...
You are assuming that someone going 35 is physically incapable of going 45, instead of choosing to do so. There are any number of reasons why you would do this, from slowing down for a turn, unfamiliarity with the area, bicyclist or pedestrian along the road, blind curve, or just not being comfortable with the road - plenty of roads are badly maintained and kept.
Only a fool would drive the maximum of the limit all the time, and assume that those who don't are "bad drivers".
And how are you going to deal with tractors, construction equipment, or other slow vehicles allowed on the road?
Heresy! Google sees all, Google knows all! Google is a man, a spider, and the holy page in one!
Brin 3:14 "And Google so loved the internet, that he sent his only-born son Larry Page to it so that any who believe in him shall not perish but have ever-lasting life in the Googleplex."
So you see, there *is* a person, Larry Page, who is also the spider that indexes everything and is also the page that serves up results. Only through this holy trinity could results as good as Google's result, thus proving Google's divinity. If the almighty Google has delisted this sinner's page, then we should not be looking at it in the first place, yes? To go against the wishes of Google brings hellfire!
Uhhh... the best-selling system is still the GBA, whose library has a lot of NES/SNES/Genesis games. Okay, this month there's a spike because of the double platform launches, but I bet the 2007 sales of the GBA will still be bigger than the PS3 or Wii. And the GBA player for GC doesn't do too badly, either.
In my game library, I have Dr. Mario, Puyo Pop, Mario 3, and Advance Wars, all of which are based on old games. They get more use than my GTA or Wipeout, too. Note that a lot of those games have very fun multiplayer, which is kind of the direction that Nintendo is pushing for.
For $10, which is less than a GBA port, I'd definitely buy old games for the Wii, if I had one.
there is something creepy about some giant hedgehogs interacting with humans.
Boy, I bet Disneyland is going to give you a heart attack.
Actually, it'd be really funny if we could have a "Grand Theft Sonic" game, or Ico with Sonic, or "Metal Gear Sonic". Putting a giant blue hedgehog into a realistic, serious game = comedy gold. I'd love to see Sonic beating up hookers or sneaking up on a guy and snapping his neck.
Seriously, though, the clip looks like they combined Sonic with Final Fantasy and Dragonball Z. WTF? The realistic humans I don' care about, but it looks like they took some of the cheesiest parts from the "kid's anime epic playbook" and put it in Sonic.
And despite what the title of the video says, no Sonic does *not* get an erection in the clip. That's his hand, maybe his thumb, which is on the other side of his body. Too bad, it'd be *awesome* if it was:D
"We believe these remains are that of a great Imperial Leader of the Americans, Jimmy Hoffa, who was beloved of his people which is why they built such a monomental stadium over his final resting place."
"The burning of the Great Archive.org of The Internet was the single biggest tragedy of the Web 2.0 era, much like losing the Library of Alexandria was to the ancients. Because of its loss, we will never know what wisdom lay in goatse.cx or tubgirl.org, sites that are so frequently mentioned in txts of that era."
"The Beatles were such an influential cultural phenomenon that the Americans carved their likeness into the side of a large mountain in South Dakota. We belive the one on the far right is Ringo, and next to him is Lennon. The other two have not been conclusively identified."
"The Americans constructed a large penal colony in the middle of the desert, filled with garish parodies of the outside world that the condemned would never get to see. The hellish wards were filled with machines into which the prisoners would endlessly enter their money hoping for reward, only to see it taken by the unfeeling actions of the machine. They would repeat this futile Sysiphiian endevour endlessly, night after night, until their savings were entirely expended and they were left broken men. Occasionaly, one would be rewarded with an enormous amount of coins, to reward his faith in chance and keep the others hoping for the same. However, the chances of escaping were so little that the Americans coined a terrifying adage: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"."
"Of the rival religions, McDonaldism was the dominant one, as can be seen from the prevailance of their chapels in nearly every town and village of the nation. However, the Burger Monarchists were well positioned to take over the country in 2021..."
And the religious conviction of Monty Python, the healthy complection of Michael Jackson, the fashion sense of Mr. Rogers, the personal presence of a cardboard cutout of himself, the appeal to women voters of Gary Condit, the tact and timing of Mr. Clippy, the successful engineering history of Wile E. Coyote, the overseas respect of Genghis Kahn, and the eloquence of... George W. Bush.
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft's response was big and brown, but it wasn't a new Zune...
(^_^)
Professor Morris? Is that you?!?!
So, how's that homebrew Perl-on-ASCII music format working out? And do you still use your backyard whiskey still?
Somehow, I want to imagine Harry as a closet RPG and fantasy geek who keeps his 'hobbies' hidden because of the ridicule hed' get from his friends for being a real wizard who's into fantasy...
"Harry", said Hermione, "Are you ready to... take this to the next level?"
"You bet", said Harry. "I'll put on my robe and wizard hat."
"What? That's not what I'm..."
"I cast Level 3 eroticism. You turn into a beautiful woman, instead of a flat dork."
"What did you call me?!?!"
"I wave my wand of undressing and you turn naked."
"You have no idea what to do, do you?"
"I look through the Pokedex for the best creature. Hermione, I choose you!"
"My god, you're somehow more pathetic than a muggle dork, you play pretend magic even though you're a real wizard?!"
"Okay, if that's the way you want to play, then I'll use this tome of unspeakable horrors I found in the library. The Necronomicon."
"What?! Harry, you're not supposed to-"
"ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Ia! Ia!"
"My god, what is that thing!?!? It's all tentacle and-"
"I hope you enjoy this, Hermione, I saw this in a Japanese cartoon once..."
"*NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!* *mrrrrhhhh*"
Ah, well. One can dream, can't he? (References to bloodninja and Cthulu)
Damnit, I demand equality with the parent poster! Mod me up until we are on equal score!
Return Slashdot to its egalitarian roots!!!
Nah, they could go completely retro and turn their balcony into a "poop deck" and do it over the side. Bonus points if the wind knocks it into your neighbors!
Man, this building is gonna rock!
I realize you're probobly one of the rare "female geeks", but please refrain from saying things like "Those bastards that snapped my bra in high school", most people here are guys and it gives us a wierd mental image to hear that. Like a pudgy, cross-eyed boy geek with gender issues being picked on by jocks in the locker room for wearing his sister's bra. That poor bastard.
"Hey cut it out guys! I'm just *different*, okay?" *snap*
Memories of high school are traumatic enough without imagining these horrors, okay?
I've passed out right at the ending and woken up to a everyone else in the room crying. Happened three times now.
Yeah, that happens to me too everytime I fall asleep while having sex. I don't think I want to know how that climaxes, either
Only if you ignore the DS, which is outselling all other systems combined. I suppose Microsoft can claim all Windows PC's as "their" platform as well.
Personally, I'll be getting a DS or GBA by Christmas time. All the old classic JRPGS (FF, Zelda, DQ, PS), plus the best collection of platformers...
And give the Wii some time. If Nintendo can leverage their handheld market dominance with good integration/crossover titles, and they have a good collection of old titles to download, they could grab most of the "casual gamer" market. I just have some doubts about the controller, but I don't hear many complaints so far...
Heh, you're too late, any large money transfer is reported by the bank to the feds because of the 'war on drugs'.
On a more relevant note, having 100 and 500 yen coins ($1/$5) in Japan has not really inconvenienced organized crime all that much - you'd have to get rid of the higher denominations first, like $100 and $50. Not that it's likely to work, anyways.
But I really wish they'd go for dollar and $5 coins in the U.S., and stop printing the bills. Coins are way more convienient for a lot of purposes...
Not if you want to do it carry on, at least at San Francisco. They didn't allow any liquids on the plane even if you had purchased it after the security check. They didn't search you as you were boarding the plane or anything, but I don't think I'd want to bring out a bottle of vodka if the rules clearly state "no liquids allowed" - planes have been turned back for less.
I was told by the duty-free shop past the checkpoint that any liquor I bought would have to be packaged and put on checked baggage - which you can't if your flight is leaving soon, or if you already checked all your checked baggage in, as most people do before going past the checkpoint. To buy that liquor, you'd have to bring your to-be-checked-in baggage past the checkpoint, buy the liquor, put it in your suitcase, go back out to the luggage check area, check in your suitcase, then go back through the security check again.
Not suprisingly, the duty-free shop was almost completely without customers.
True, but I think this is just an example of a gun/hunting lobby going so far as to be bizzare.
I mean, no one was stopping a blind person from going along with a hunting party, and enjoying the company and camping. The only thing they were not allowed to do was actually handle the weapon and pull the trigger, and that makes perfect sense, IMHO.
Look, from the description given in the article and your posts I really have to ask, why is the blind person even pulling the trigger??
I can only imagine this being useful in a bizzare situation in which a parapalegic who is unable to pull the trigger goes hunting with a blind person who is unable to see the target, and the two use their complementary skills to do what each cannot on his own.
Otherwise, the sighted person is doing 95% of the work that he is capable of doing 100% of, and is having the blind person do 5% of the work for no apparent reason.
If they require someone to sight and point the weapon for them and tell them when to pull the trigger, why even bother having the blind person pull the trigger, instead of the sighted person who is doing the directing? Presumably the blind person is also unable to stalk the prey, set up a blind or decoys, or tell apart a deer from a fellow hunter. That's not hunting, they're just pulling the trigger. The blind person as described by you and the Texan legislator sounds like a fifth wheel who is just along for the ride, which makes it seem more like recreational hunting rather than subsistence needs.
The blind person is going to have to pay for a hunting license for the priveledge of doing the 5% of the work, so I find it doubtful they are doing so for cheap meat. If the blind hunter has to get a sighted hunter to do 95% of the work, why can't they arrainge to get the meat that the sighted hunter shot? Or is the sighted hunter going to charge money for meat he shot, but is not going to charge for doing most of the work for a blind hunter to shoot?
Face it, this is entirely about recreational shooting, and not for the survival or feeding of the blind.
Yes, accidents happen with sighted hunters, too. It's an activity that requires physical coordination, situational awareness, and good judgement. Taking away any of them is going to make things worse.
Ah, Slashdot, where everything we need to know comes from comic books and anime...
:)
Just wait 'til Professor Xavier (who was paralyzed in prison after the other inmates found out about his 'hobby') forms the X-AMBLA, a superhero team dedicated to the protection of mutants who want to have sex with underage boys. It will be the most feared and hated superhero league ever, using their mutant abilities to spread their love of boys worldwide...
Wolfurrine - the resident furrie, who uses his animal looks to lure young boys.
Cyclops - the "one-eyed monster", who can blind people with his white liquid beam.
Nightcrawler - he teleports into children's bedrooms and... better left unsaid.
I'll leave the rest to your imagination
Too... much... information...
The goggles, they do nothing!!
There should be a Slashdot Offender registry for people who give way too much information on their sex lives on Slashdot.
What's funny is, you're taking exactly the same attitude that people accuse the U.S. of having - of expecting 'loyalty' from foreign nations, a concept that is undemocratic and absurd.
You're attacking the U.S. for "looking out for its own interests" and putting them ahead of the U.K.'s - excuse me, are you saying that the U.S. should put British interests *ahead* of its own? That's not a reasonable request to make of any nation. That the U.K.'s politicos try to win favor with the U.S. by bending over backwards for them is your problem, and not one that the U.S. should reciprocate. If you don't like the groveling of your politicians, fine, but one should not take that anger out on the U.S., but on your politicians.
You had me until you started talking about France being a great ally. So, you mind the U.S. for not activly supporting the U.K. in the Falklands (while not hindering it, either), but you don't mind the French, who also did not help and gave them Exocets?
Dude, didn't anyone tell you Saran Wrap is no protection?!?!
Get a condom, man... Maybe one that's "Ribbed for better grip"?
Okay, but with actual books:
Zen And The Art of Motocylce Maintenance -x- Windows XP Annoyances
The Elegant Universe -x- C++ for Dummies
We Were Soldiers Once, and Young -x- Bush At War
The Bible (as interpreted by me) -x- The Bible (as interpreted by you)
The 9/11 Commision Report -x- My Pet Goat
The Constitution of The United States -x- Kafka's The Trial, or The USA PATRIOT Act
The Tao of Pooh -x- Walt Disney Corporation Annual Shareholder's Report
Well, I hate to add to the self-righteous tone of this thread, but here goes...
You are assuming that someone going 35 is physically incapable of going 45, instead of choosing to do so. There are any number of reasons why you would do this, from slowing down for a turn, unfamiliarity with the area, bicyclist or pedestrian along the road, blind curve, or just not being comfortable with the road - plenty of roads are badly maintained and kept.
Only a fool would drive the maximum of the limit all the time, and assume that those who don't are "bad drivers".
And how are you going to deal with tractors, construction equipment, or other slow vehicles allowed on the road?
Heresy! Google sees all, Google knows all! Google is a man, a spider, and the holy page in one!
Brin 3:14 "And Google so loved the internet, that he sent his only-born son Larry Page to it so that any who believe in him shall not perish but have ever-lasting life in the Googleplex."
So you see, there *is* a person, Larry Page, who is also the spider that indexes everything and is also the page that serves up results. Only through this holy trinity could results as good as Google's result, thus proving Google's divinity. If the almighty Google has delisted this sinner's page, then we should not be looking at it in the first place, yes? To go against the wishes of Google brings hellfire!
Uhhh... the best-selling system is still the GBA, whose library has a lot of NES/SNES/Genesis games. Okay, this month there's a spike because of the double platform launches, but I bet the 2007 sales of the GBA will still be bigger than the PS3 or Wii. And the GBA player for GC doesn't do too badly, either.
In my game library, I have Dr. Mario, Puyo Pop, Mario 3, and Advance Wars, all of which are based on old games. They get more use than my GTA or Wipeout, too. Note that a lot of those games have very fun multiplayer, which is kind of the direction that Nintendo is pushing for.
For $10, which is less than a GBA port, I'd definitely buy old games for the Wii, if I had one.
there is something creepy about some giant hedgehogs interacting with humans.
:D
Boy, I bet Disneyland is going to give you a heart attack.
Actually, it'd be really funny if we could have a "Grand Theft Sonic" game, or Ico with Sonic, or "Metal Gear Sonic". Putting a giant blue hedgehog into a realistic, serious game = comedy gold. I'd love to see Sonic beating up hookers or sneaking up on a guy and snapping his neck.
Seriously, though, the clip looks like they combined Sonic with Final Fantasy and Dragonball Z. WTF? The realistic humans I don' care about, but it looks like they took some of the cheesiest parts from the "kid's anime epic playbook" and put it in Sonic.
And despite what the title of the video says, no Sonic does *not* get an erection in the clip. That's his hand, maybe his thumb, which is on the other side of his body. Too bad, it'd be *awesome* if it was
For those that don't know, Chinese is written in a script that resembles 1337 5p34k, but is actually legible.
"We believe these remains are that of a great Imperial Leader of the Americans, Jimmy Hoffa, who was beloved of his people which is why they built such a monomental stadium over his final resting place."
"The burning of the Great Archive.org of The Internet was the single biggest tragedy of the Web 2.0 era, much like losing the Library of Alexandria was to the ancients. Because of its loss, we will never know what wisdom lay in goatse.cx or tubgirl.org, sites that are so frequently mentioned in txts of that era."
"The Beatles were such an influential cultural phenomenon that the Americans carved their likeness into the side of a large mountain in South Dakota. We belive the one on the far right is Ringo, and next to him is Lennon. The other two have not been conclusively identified."
"The Americans constructed a large penal colony in the middle of the desert, filled with garish parodies of the outside world that the condemned would never get to see. The hellish wards were filled with machines into which the prisoners would endlessly enter their money hoping for reward, only to see it taken by the unfeeling actions of the machine. They would repeat this futile Sysiphiian endevour endlessly, night after night, until their savings were entirely expended and they were left broken men. Occasionaly, one would be rewarded with an enormous amount of coins, to reward his faith in chance and keep the others hoping for the same. However, the chances of escaping were so little that the Americans coined a terrifying adage: "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas"."
"Of the rival religions, McDonaldism was the dominant one, as can be seen from the prevailance of their chapels in nearly every town and village of the nation. However, the Burger Monarchists were well positioned to take over the country in 2021..."
I think you forgot to add:
And the religious conviction of Monty Python, the healthy complection of Michael Jackson, the fashion sense of Mr. Rogers, the personal presence of a cardboard cutout of himself, the appeal to women voters of Gary Condit, the tact and timing of Mr. Clippy, the successful engineering history of Wile E. Coyote, the overseas respect of Genghis Kahn, and the eloquence of... George W. Bush.
Heck, why isn't he President already?