There are two levels of explanation...the most outer explanation is that it was just one part of a way complex test for Jack to get into "heaven". The inner explanation is that there were two super duper twins born on the island a long while ago. They grew up being cared for by the caretaker of the island (a woman). She realized that jacob was the right one to continue as protector as the other wanted bad things and the bad guy immediately shoots her. I'm paraphrasing because the whole thing eats at my brain. jacob and bad guy fight, bad guy ends up being tossed down the pit of light and viola! he becomes the smoke monster.
How? Why? How basically NEVER gets explained for any of this stuff. Why? To create two opposing forces that mirror the choice between good and evil thereby giving those who died on Oceanic 815 a way to prove themselves. Or maybe it was JUST Jack that was proving himself.
I opened my sarcasm tag about 28 years ago and don't plan on closing it any time soon. That has forced me to come up with a new language nuance that I like to call "more sarcastic than usual". But really that just means I add an extra, overemphasized "really" ahead of the point of super sarcasm.
I really didn't care about them too much till they installed them in front of my house. Granted I lived downtown at the time, but it was a house, not an apartment. Thankfully there was a street within walking distance that had no meters at least till I moved away. There was this old guy in the neighborhood that would always walk the roads nearby with a bag of change after they installed them and refill people's meters. He used to just walk around and talk to the people who would be sitting on their front porch, but apparently he had enough disposable income to keep about 50 parking meters fresh all day.
And as nice and selfless as that was, that hurt the city income enough that they made a local ordinance against filling other people's meters. They even tried to ticket him more than once. Then they started chalk marking tires to see if they went past a certain time and ticketed them anyway. Just another reason I grew up to be the anti-tax, anti-government program person I am today.
Step 1: Disable McAfee entirely. If you can't because of how affected the computer is, copy the svchost.exe from C:\windows\system32\dllcache up to directly in system32 and then start the DCOM service and others that failed to start because of this. Then disable McAfee entirely.
and ensure that your kids don't have that pesky ability to reproduce. Regular laptops are not actually laptops but notebooks with fiery death awaiting the poor little laps of the kids who watch a two hour movie with them. Plus a laptop playing a DVD probably won't have enough power to last that long.
Yeah you just have to learn how to add your printers to the google cloud and then how to add printers to each computer FROM the google cloud. Easy right???
I should have posted a caveat that I just did a google search and picked the first thing that came up. I guess I could have posted a link to the google search rather than a specific article. In any case, I'm impressed with your rather in-depth analysis of a link not actually part of the Slashdot story.
If they switched the playstations to the other group and the first playstation group caught up to/passed the second one, that would be a step towards causation potentially. However, this could easily apply to ANY activity that takes away time from studying. Perhaps it would eventually show that kids with access to video games are more likely to play video games instead of doing homework. If it was causation, then what it would be saying is the act of playing video games dilutes the childrens' minds' ability to learn. Assuming that both video game players and non video game players both study and do the same amount of homework, then the statement would be that video games somehow directly make kids stupid. The reality is more likely that kids with video games are just more likely to spend less time studying because they're playing video games.
I did it from work, but said I was doing it from home. Further, I entered an address of a home (not mine) in a rural area in my state that is currently trying to get federal stimulus money because they have no broadband.
This is a pitiful play at a lawsuit if that's what they're doing. More likely it's their way to try to get out of felony manslaughter or murder charges. This goes way beyond criminal negligence. And that's if it really was the 3 year old who pulled the trigger and not something more sinister.
Not sure what article they even got the "insisted he or she is not a spokesperson for the group" part from, but the first linked article is about someone who does claim to be a spokesperson while the second linked article (not the slashdot story) is a different source. So the subject of the second article is the one who insisted.
I think you overestimate how elegant a castration via scalpel would be. Sure the initial incision would be a bit more subtle, but the time it would take once more gristly bits were reached and the added effort needed to make it through would surely be equally as gruesome. In fact the idea of it makes me shudder blech...
If the government whips out a sonic blaster I'd consider that a few steps above a firehose as far as violence in response. Or are you suggesting that Government needs the opportunity to kill a protester or two so that their is a little sympathy generated in the viewing public? Don't you think the site of a million people suddenly passing out and being carried off by to their homes by gov't agents wouldn't make a huge story that would garner gigantic levels of sympathy for the people involved and for their cause by proxy?
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There are two levels of explanation...the most outer explanation is that it was just one part of a way complex test for Jack to get into "heaven". The inner explanation is that there were two super duper twins born on the island a long while ago. They grew up being cared for by the caretaker of the island (a woman). She realized that jacob was the right one to continue as protector as the other wanted bad things and the bad guy immediately shoots her. I'm paraphrasing because the whole thing eats at my brain. jacob and bad guy fight, bad guy ends up being tossed down the pit of light and viola! he becomes the smoke monster.
How? Why? How basically NEVER gets explained for any of this stuff. Why? To create two opposing forces that mirror the choice between good and evil thereby giving those who died on Oceanic 815 a way to prove themselves. Or maybe it was JUST Jack that was proving himself.
Yes, sure, it's Really, REEEEALLLY Seth. I mean, why wouldn't I Really, REEEEALLLY be him?
I opened my sarcasm tag about 28 years ago and don't plan on closing it any time soon. That has forced me to come up with a new language nuance that I like to call "more sarcastic than usual". But really that just means I add an extra, overemphasized "really" ahead of the point of super sarcasm.
I really didn't care about them too much till they installed them in front of my house. Granted I lived downtown at the time, but it was a house, not an apartment. Thankfully there was a street within walking distance that had no meters at least till I moved away. There was this old guy in the neighborhood that would always walk the roads nearby with a bag of change after they installed them and refill people's meters. He used to just walk around and talk to the people who would be sitting on their front porch, but apparently he had enough disposable income to keep about 50 parking meters fresh all day.
And as nice and selfless as that was, that hurt the city income enough that they made a local ordinance against filling other people's meters. They even tried to ticket him more than once. Then they started chalk marking tires to see if they went past a certain time and ticketed them anyway. Just another reason I grew up to be the anti-tax, anti-government program person I am today.
Step 1: Disable McAfee entirely. If you can't because of how affected the computer is, copy the svchost.exe from C:\windows\system32\dllcache up to directly in system32 and then start the DCOM service and others that failed to start because of this. Then disable McAfee entirely.
Step 2: Reboot and uninstall McAfee.
and ensure that your kids don't have that pesky ability to reproduce. Regular laptops are not actually laptops but notebooks with fiery death awaiting the poor little laps of the kids who watch a two hour movie with them. Plus a laptop playing a DVD probably won't have enough power to last that long.
Yeah you just have to learn how to add your printers to the google cloud and then how to add printers to each computer FROM the google cloud. Easy right???
I should have posted a caveat that I just did a google search and picked the first thing that came up. I guess I could have posted a link to the google search rather than a specific article. In any case, I'm impressed with your rather in-depth analysis of a link not actually part of the Slashdot story.
I think maybe it's something like this: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/43400.aspx
But since he's so mysterious about it, perhaps it's not.
He really just uses scrabulizer.com
Explain the same using a 1 dimensional starting point instead of a 2 dimensional starting point.
If they switched the playstations to the other group and the first playstation group caught up to/passed the second one, that would be a step towards causation potentially. However, this could easily apply to ANY activity that takes away time from studying. Perhaps it would eventually show that kids with access to video games are more likely to play video games instead of doing homework. If it was causation, then what it would be saying is the act of playing video games dilutes the childrens' minds' ability to learn. Assuming that both video game players and non video game players both study and do the same amount of homework, then the statement would be that video games somehow directly make kids stupid. The reality is more likely that kids with video games are just more likely to spend less time studying because they're playing video games.
I haven't paid by anything other than electronic methods for years now...what bank is screwing you?
It was in the flash intro video
I did it from work, but said I was doing it from home. Further, I entered an address of a home (not mine) in a rural area in my state that is currently trying to get federal stimulus money because they have no broadband.
This is a pitiful play at a lawsuit if that's what they're doing. More likely it's their way to try to get out of felony manslaughter or murder charges. This goes way beyond criminal negligence. And that's if it really was the 3 year old who pulled the trigger and not something more sinister.
But what if their "catalyst" is actually nitrous oxide!
At least they ratted out the source that was going to have them lead with the story that Android phones were eating babies.
Moved back into your parents' basement, eh?
Not sure what article they even got the "insisted he or she is not a spokesperson for the group" part from, but the first linked article is about someone who does claim to be a spokesperson while the second linked article (not the slashdot story) is a different source. So the subject of the second article is the one who insisted.
It is also abnormal for virii to deliver their payload before the silky smooth target cells are ready.
I think you overestimate how elegant a castration via scalpel would be. Sure the initial incision would be a bit more subtle, but the time it would take once more gristly bits were reached and the added effort needed to make it through would surely be equally as gruesome. In fact the idea of it makes me shudder blech...
especially if they don't then explain that the gas tank in the metaphor is as big as the known universe...
Kindle's version will be a turn-based FPS.
If the government whips out a sonic blaster I'd consider that a few steps above a firehose as far as violence in response. Or are you suggesting that Government needs the opportunity to kill a protester or two so that their is a little sympathy generated in the viewing public? Don't you think the site of a million people suddenly passing out and being carried off by to their homes by gov't agents wouldn't make a huge story that would garner gigantic levels of sympathy for the people involved and for their cause by proxy?