A more likely quote from the scene: "A light-saber. More elegant than a clumsy blaster, a weapon from a more civilized e- OH SHIT IT'S ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT, PUT IT OUT AAAAGGH I'M ON FIRE AAAAAHHHHH!!!!"
Wow, that link was the stupidest political analysis I've ever read. Then again, it's based on a film where a 14-year old was elected to "Queen" and represents her planet, even though she spends more time modeling fashion and handling blasters than actually negotiating or legislating.
But I found it amusing that the editor of a conservative magazine founded by William Kristol is rooting for the Empire. I wonder if they'll change that after episode 3?
Haha, when I went there, I was like, "Oh cool, we have 1337 days until Bush is gone! It must be a sign that we have only 'leet' days of putting up with him!" but then I thought for a second, and went "Oh shit, we have to deal with him for 1,337 more days?!"
I'm not sure it's required by DHS, but I did notice in the Google Maps (the regular one, not satelite), that the Pentagon is unlabeled. This despite other landmark buildings and even the "Fashion center at Pentagon City" being clearly labeled.
If you're curious, it's at that five-sided blank spot just north of Ronald Reagan airport, between where I-395 crosses the Potomac and Arlington cemetary.
Does anyone else think Lucas has a whole Freudian issue with hands and whatnot? I had to stop the urge to cross my legs every time I saw someone getting his hand hacked off in this movie.
Jeezes, George, just go see a counselor or something, don't take out your psychological issues on the audience at the big screen where everyone can watch...
Seriously, does anyone know if there's any symbolism to losing a hand?
**Warning, Spoilers** A count of who loses hands to who in the Star Wars movies:
New Hope: No one.
Empire: Luke, to Vader
Return of the Jedi: Vader, to luke
Phantom Menace: No one.
Clones: Anakin, to Dooku
Sith: Dooku, to Anakin. Windu, to Anakin. Grievious, to Obi-wan. Anakin, to Obi-wan.
In conclusion, if we ever see a third trilogy, in 7 no one will lose a hand, in 8 Leia will lose a hand, and in 9 half the friggin galaxy will lose a hand.
Yes, I thought of Frankenstein immediately when I saw that. Unfortunately, that made it seem more goofy or comedic than dramatic.
Lucas seems to have a problem with mixing comedic bits into his drama scenes these days. Think how Palpatine is thrown through his chair like he's Charlie Chaplain, or when little Annie 'accidentally' blew up the enemy by pushing random buttons on his ship in ep. I, or the land battle with Gunguns in ep. I, or the elevator scenes in III.
All this mixing of the comedy, especially physical comedy, with the dramatic bits is only diluting the drama and isn't really funny.
Shit, now you have me imagining a Matrix-esque meeting between the enraged Sith Lord Darth Vader and some donut-chomping McSecurity guard...
Guard: "Please put all metal objects in the tray, and step through the metal detector." *beep beep beep* *Bzzzrow*(sound of lightsaber being drawn) Guard: "Oh, shi-* *urk*" (Vader force-slams guard) Vader: "Every goddamn day I came here, you made me take off my metal hand, and checked my ID, despite me being the Jedi Knight hero of the republic... did that make you feel good, punk?" Guard: "ohshitohshitohshitohshit" Vader: "Hmm, let's see if I can do Obi-Wan's mind tricks. These are not the lightsabers you're looking for." (Vader force-chokes guard) Guard: "*Ack*- gasp-" Vader: "You don't need to see my identification." Guard: "*Gurgle*...." *thud* Vader: "Hmm, I'm not sure it worked. It was fun, though. Goddamn, I love being Sith."
You must realize that your suffering comes from selfish desire - to reach Nerdvana, you must stop the selfishness within you. The path to reaching Nerdvana is thus:
1) Stop complaining about dupes; realize that they are just the reincarnation of previous stories.
2) Do not seek to achive first post; realize that first post must achive you.
3) Moderate as you would have others moderate you.
4) Do not lust after useless toys seen on Slashdot; realize that they are merely illusions, cooked up by marketing departments.
5) Do not lust after Natalie Portman; she, too, is an illusion, created by Industrial Light & Magic.
6) Do not stray to the path of Gaotse, for there lies the way of (anal) destruction.
7) Caste is meaningless. Those with lower IDs, however, are more blessed than you.
8) All is vanity, all is illusion. Cowboyneal doesn't exsist, Taco doesn't exsist, Slashdot doesn't exsist, the network doesn't exsist(*&$%Y
*Pictures IBM guys sitting in a hot tub while wearing full suit and tie, surrounded by hot chicks in bikinis*
IBM Guy 1: Say, maybe we could loosen up a little, now that we're in a hot tub...
IBM Guy 2: Are you MAD?! Dress code requires a shirt, jacket and tie at all times! We're IBMers, not some grungy hippie hackers from Berkeley!
IBM Guy 1: Couldn't we at least take our jacket off? I'm getting kind of hot...
IBM Guy 2: Well, dress code reg. N21305-A says you may take off your jacket if the temprature is too high - but don't even think of loosening that tie, mister!
Bunch of hedonistic wildmen, aren't they? Wonder what they do at their christmas parties...
The difference is, none of those Sci-fi authors claimed to be writing anything but fiction.
Except for L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology, who are widely regarded as kooks.
The intelligent design guys are claiming that their theory is actually how life and humanity started, which is a whole different thing from writing a "what-if" story in Analog.
There were even free tampons in the ladies bathroom. When it all started to end all of a sudden there was no more free lunch day, no more free sodas, or feminine products. It's laughable, but I think any company that spends such an amount on a perk seems foolish and this again is my damaged self feeling this after so long you would think I could once again bite a free bagel and not feel the pinch of foreboding. But I do.
Don't worry, it's not wasteful until you find free tampons in the *guys* bathroom...
Does - Noun, John/Jane Does, i.e., annonymous persons.
launchd - adjective, modern net slang for 'cool' or 'outta sight'. Impressive.
Beat - Noun, Beat Takeshi, Japanese comedian. Or maybe Beat from the "Jet Grind Radio" series by Sega. In either case, it must be a name, since it's capitalized.
cron - Verb, some kind of sex act you kids these days do on the internet.
So, "Does launchd Beat cron" means, "Annonymous persons impressive Japanese comedian sex act"
Sorry, but I don't see that in the articles at all. They talk about how manuerable the Su-30s are, thrust vectoring, off-boresight IR missles, blah blah.
Well, Russian fighters have been more manuverable than ours since Vietnam, that's why they use A-4s and F-5s as aggressor planes in excersizes. Those old light fighters can often spank our F-15/14/4s in close combat, too. I'm guessing that these excercises, like some of the ones we run in the states, involved disallowing long-range kills and focused on pure dogfighting.
But when the gloves come off - that is, when you load up with AMRAAMs, Sparrows, or Phoenix, and tell them to shoot to kill, our F-15s and -14s are more than a match for any Mig or Sukhoi. No one has ever downed a F-15 in air-to-air, there have been countless MiGs and SUs shot down at long range, before even getting a shot off.
Note how neither article boasts about their BVR missles or radar systems, it's all "Look at our shiny short-range missles and thrust vectoring!" Good luck getting close enough to use eiher against an F-15.
And the F-22 and F-35 programs have been around since the 80s, I doubt Cope India had anything to do with it - except maybe to scare some congressmen into paying for a few more of them, perhaps.
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If they'd done a list of only current games, I think Nintendo would have come out on top in terms of consoles. Probobly the best system to get any new gamer, male or female, would be a GBA. In my opinion, it has a better game library than the Game Cube or any other console.
A lot of guys make fun of Nintendo for being "kiddy", but they aren't really childish. It's just that they lack the uber-macho posturing stuff you see in a lot of other consoles/games. Some guys are put off by that, but obviously girls are not. In fact, most of the people saying "Nint3nd0 iz k1dd3" are probobly pimply teenagers, not men.
IMHO, while girls can like blowing away people in GTA as much as any guy, they're not as swayed by the macho feel of those games so much as by the gameplay.
If you actually locked up every college kid who ever smoked pot or drank underage, you would destroy the educated classes of this country. Hell, we wouldn't have our two recent presidents if they'd been caught.
But that didn't stop your morality police from passing those laws, did it?
These laws, like the drug laws will be selectively enforced and there will be an out for anyone who can afford a good lawyer.
As a geek, it frightens me that the "war on pirates" seems set to be the next "war on drugs", along with the "war on terror".
No kidding, there are 4 articles on Google on the front page right now.
Hey editors - how about condensing all that into a single areticle, huh? Maybe a Daily Google Quickie will cover all the submissions you guys get on them?
As for the DDOS attacks being linked to national unrest, it seems like a rather odd way to vent frustration and anger about the China/Japan situation. I can't imagine anyone in power noticing something as trivial as gameservers in the current situation, and the effect on the average Japanese user is slight at best.
Yeah, it's not like people would do stupid things like hacking Al-Jazeera out of pure nationalistic spite.
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A more likely quote from the scene:
"A light-saber. More elegant than a clumsy blaster, a weapon from a more civilized e- OH SHIT IT'S ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT, PUT IT OUT AAAAGGH I'M ON FIRE AAAAAHHHHH!!!!"
Wow, that link was the stupidest political analysis I've ever read. Then again, it's based on a film where a 14-year old was elected to "Queen" and represents her planet, even though she spends more time modeling fashion and handling blasters than actually negotiating or legislating.
But I found it amusing that the editor of a conservative magazine founded by William Kristol is rooting for the Empire. I wonder if they'll change that after episode 3?
Haha, when I went there, I was like, "Oh cool, we have 1337 days until Bush is gone! It must be a sign that we have only 'leet' days of putting up with him!" but then I thought for a second, and went "Oh shit, we have to deal with him for 1,337 more days?!"
Funny how certain numbers get your hopes up...
I'm not sure it's required by DHS, but I did notice in the Google Maps (the regular one, not satelite), that the Pentagon is unlabeled. This despite other landmark buildings and even the "Fashion center at Pentagon City" being clearly labeled.
If you're curious, it's at that five-sided blank spot just north of Ronald Reagan airport, between where I-395 crosses the Potomac and Arlington cemetary.
Does anyone else think Lucas has a whole Freudian issue with hands and whatnot? I had to stop the urge to cross my legs every time I saw someone getting his hand hacked off in this movie.
Jeezes, George, just go see a counselor or something, don't take out your psychological issues on the audience at the big screen where everyone can watch...
Seriously, does anyone know if there's any symbolism to losing a hand?
**Warning, Spoilers**
A count of who loses hands to who in the Star Wars movies:
New Hope: No one.
Empire: Luke, to Vader
Return of the Jedi: Vader, to luke
Phantom Menace: No one.
Clones: Anakin, to Dooku
Sith: Dooku, to Anakin. Windu, to Anakin. Grievious, to Obi-wan. Anakin, to Obi-wan.
In conclusion, if we ever see a third trilogy, in 7 no one will lose a hand, in 8 Leia will lose a hand, and in 9 half the friggin galaxy will lose a hand.
Yes, I thought of Frankenstein immediately when I saw that. Unfortunately, that made it seem more goofy or comedic than dramatic.
Lucas seems to have a problem with mixing comedic bits into his drama scenes these days. Think how Palpatine is thrown through his chair like he's Charlie Chaplain, or when little Annie 'accidentally' blew up the enemy by pushing random buttons on his ship in ep. I, or the land battle with Gunguns in ep. I, or the elevator scenes in III.
All this mixing of the comedy, especially physical comedy, with the dramatic bits is only diluting the drama and isn't really funny.
Shit, now you have me imagining a Matrix-esque meeting between the enraged Sith Lord Darth Vader and some donut-chomping McSecurity guard...
Guard: "Please put all metal objects in the tray, and step through the metal detector."
*beep beep beep* *Bzzzrow*(sound of lightsaber being drawn)
Guard: "Oh, shi-* *urk*"
(Vader force-slams guard)
Vader: "Every goddamn day I came here, you made me take off my metal hand, and checked my ID, despite me being the Jedi Knight hero of the republic... did that make you feel good, punk?"
Guard: "ohshitohshitohshitohshit"
Vader: "Hmm, let's see if I can do Obi-Wan's mind tricks. These are not the lightsabers you're looking for."
(Vader force-chokes guard)
Guard: "*Ack*- gasp-"
Vader: "You don't need to see my identification."
Guard: "*Gurgle*...."
*thud*
Vader: "Hmm, I'm not sure it worked. It was fun, though. Goddamn, I love being Sith."
You mean Nerdvana, don't you?
You must realize that your suffering comes from selfish desire - to reach Nerdvana, you must stop the selfishness within you. The path to reaching Nerdvana is thus:
1) Stop complaining about dupes; realize that they are just the reincarnation of previous stories.
2) Do not seek to achive first post; realize that first post must achive you.
3) Moderate as you would have others moderate you.
4) Do not lust after useless toys seen on Slashdot; realize that they are merely illusions, cooked up by marketing departments.
5) Do not lust after Natalie Portman; she, too, is an illusion, created by Industrial Light & Magic.
6) Do not stray to the path of Gaotse, for there lies the way of (anal) destruction.
7) Caste is meaningless. Those with lower IDs, however, are more blessed than you.
8) All is vanity, all is illusion. Cowboyneal doesn't exsist, Taco doesn't exsist, Slashdot doesn't exsist, the network doesn't exsist(*&$%Y
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NO CARRIER
*Pictures IBM guys sitting in a hot tub while wearing full suit and tie, surrounded by hot chicks in bikinis*
IBM Guy 1: Say, maybe we could loosen up a little, now that we're in a hot tub...
IBM Guy 2: Are you MAD?! Dress code requires a shirt, jacket and tie at all times! We're IBMers, not some grungy hippie hackers from Berkeley!
IBM Guy 1: Couldn't we at least take our jacket off? I'm getting kind of hot...
IBM Guy 2: Well, dress code reg. N21305-A says you may take off your jacket if the temprature is too high - but don't even think of loosening that tie, mister!
Bunch of hedonistic wildmen, aren't they? Wonder what they do at their christmas parties...
Yeah, that's what we thought... and then Jar-Jar was thrown upon us.
I can't wait to see what horrors await us in this installment...
My magic glowy ball says, "All signs point to yes".
This is California, so maybe the Gübernatör is on a mission to train the next generation of resistance fighters to defeat the machines : )
Can't start them too young, I say - let's make sure they can field-strip an AK by the time they're in grade school.
The difference is, none of those Sci-fi authors claimed to be writing anything but fiction.
Except for L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology, who are widely regarded as kooks.
The intelligent design guys are claiming that their theory is actually how life and humanity started, which is a whole different thing from writing a "what-if" story in Analog.
Yeah, well, I get a bazillion Google results for "Hot teen girls nude", but I have yet to find one in real life anywhere :(
There were even free tampons in the ladies bathroom. When it all started to end all of a sudden there was no more free lunch day, no more free sodas, or feminine products. It's laughable, but I think any company that spends such an amount on a perk seems foolish and this again is my damaged self feeling this after so long you would think I could once again bite a free bagel and not feel the pinch of foreboding. But I do.
Don't worry, it's not wasteful until you find free tampons in the *guys* bathroom...
Does - Noun, John/Jane Does, i.e., annonymous persons.
launchd - adjective, modern net slang for 'cool' or 'outta sight'. Impressive.
Beat - Noun, Beat Takeshi, Japanese comedian. Or maybe Beat from the "Jet Grind Radio" series by Sega. In either case, it must be a name, since it's capitalized.
cron - Verb, some kind of sex act you kids these days do on the internet.
So, "Does launchd Beat cron" means, "Annonymous persons impressive Japanese comedian sex act"
Sorry, but I don't see that in the articles at all. They talk about how manuerable the Su-30s are, thrust vectoring, off-boresight IR missles, blah blah.
Well, Russian fighters have been more manuverable than ours since Vietnam, that's why they use A-4s and F-5s as aggressor planes in excersizes. Those old light fighters can often spank our F-15/14/4s in close combat, too. I'm guessing that these excercises, like some of the ones we run in the states, involved disallowing long-range kills and focused on pure dogfighting.
But when the gloves come off - that is, when you load up with AMRAAMs, Sparrows, or Phoenix, and tell them to shoot to kill, our F-15s and -14s are more than a match for any Mig or Sukhoi. No one has ever downed a F-15 in air-to-air, there have been countless MiGs and SUs shot down at long range, before even getting a shot off.
Note how neither article boasts about their BVR missles or radar systems, it's all "Look at our shiny short-range missles and thrust vectoring!" Good luck getting close enough to use eiher against an F-15.
And the F-22 and F-35 programs have been around since the 80s, I doubt Cope India had anything to do with it - except maybe to scare some congressmen into paying for a few more of them, perhaps.
If they'd done a list of only current games, I think Nintendo would have come out on top in terms of consoles. Probobly the best system to get any new gamer, male or female, would be a GBA. In my opinion, it has a better game library than the Game Cube or any other console.
A lot of guys make fun of Nintendo for being "kiddy", but they aren't really childish. It's just that they lack the uber-macho posturing stuff you see in a lot of other consoles/games. Some guys are put off by that, but obviously girls are not. In fact, most of the people saying "Nint3nd0 iz k1dd3" are probobly pimply teenagers, not men.
IMHO, while girls can like blowing away people in GTA as much as any guy, they're not as swayed by the macho feel of those games so much as by the gameplay.
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Crep! Ogg posterized! Ogg not moddarizable!
Ogg git you someday... You go to dell, guet!
Conan just hasn't been the same since Andy Richter left.
Oh well, at least it'll have La Bamba, right? And Max? And Joel, the manic-depressive announcer?
I can see it now: "Play Conan! The only MMORPG with a masturbating bear!"
You mean, if I ran a git server, I can be an actual Bastard Operator From Hell?
If you actually locked up every college kid who ever smoked pot or drank underage, you would destroy the educated classes of this country. Hell, we wouldn't have our two recent presidents if they'd been caught.
But that didn't stop your morality police from passing those laws, did it?
These laws, like the drug laws will be selectively enforced and there will be an out for anyone who can afford a good lawyer.
As a geek, it frightens me that the "war on pirates" seems set to be the next "war on drugs", along with the "war on terror".
Or another scene from Sneakers:
"Damnit, the machine isn't accepting my card. What do I do?"
(pause on phone)
"Are you sure? Okay."
*Kicks down card reader*
"It worked!"
No kidding, there are 4 articles on Google on the front page right now.
Hey editors - how about condensing all that into a single areticle, huh? Maybe a Daily Google Quickie will cover all the submissions you guys get on them?
As for the DDOS attacks being linked to national unrest, it seems like a rather odd way to vent frustration and anger about the China/Japan situation. I can't imagine anyone in power noticing something as trivial as gameservers in the current situation, and the effect on the average Japanese user is slight at best.
Yeah, it's not like people would do stupid things like hacking Al-Jazeera out of pure nationalistic spite.