Planetary is so well done that I never noticed any "lack of depth". And in fact, if you had kept reading, you would now notice that it is all coming together, and that all the bits you thought weren't related actually are. That random guy in the first few issues that became part of a ship? Not so random after all. It is a fantastic series. The art alone would justify it's purchase, but it is also one of Ellis' better ongoing ideas.
Cerebus was great at first but eventually got bogged down in complete and utter bullshit. To say Sims is batty is to malign bats. If you can pick up the first few "Swords of Cerebus", those were fun. Eventually the comic went into some high school psych-class universe that apparently Sims thought was "clever".
Yes, this was great fun. I got to meet Kristoph^h^hfer Straub who does the webcomic "Starslip Crisis" (http://www.starslipcrisis.com/), and he was sitting next to PvP creator Scott Kurtz. Lots of cool folks were there, depending on your tastes in comics there was something for everyone. And Zeus has all their back issues out for a quarter each. And I picked up a Serenity Movie poster! Definitely a great expo.
There's still a little time left if you are in the area.
I was going to complain about what a piece of f'd up crap this was, but now I see that I totally missed the squirrels angle. Maybe I'll have to go back and watch it again. Were there pictures of squirrels as well? I guess Bush is a nut, so he doesn't really count.
I'm not trying to excuse their ignorance (or maybe I am), but maybe they have email and don't call it that. At work, it is called something else (Outlook, or GroupWise or...). So yeah, they don't HAVE an email account, they have an Outlook account. "I don't use email, I have Hotmail (or AOL or Yahoo or...)".
Dunno, I can point out one recent case where exactly this happened. In Plano, TX, a crazy lady killed her infant (by cutting off the childs limbs, no less). Ten people of the jury said not guilty by reason of insanity, one refused to decide, and one voted guilty. Even after 40 hours of deliberation. Thus resulting in a hung jury. The few times I was on a jury I never felt pressured to vote in any way other than my conscience.
I have a Taurus fanless PS, and have had it for probably around a year. It's a 350W, and seems to be working fine - doesn't even heat the top of the case up. Unfortunantly I still have 4 other fans in the box to move air around. But the fanless PS really helps. So what's so great about this one?
Sorry, but this just isn't the case. I used the mouse and it was fine. For my own purposes, it wasn't exceedingly better than a regular mouse. I use a wireless mouse, if the Evoluent was wireless, I might have liked it better. But the resting of the hand was not an issue. It may look like it would be a problem, but it turns out not to be. Does the mouse take a little getting used to? Yeah, some. The learning curve was small. I can't say for sure if a shelf would have helped or not.
There are also mice that are joystick-like (my wife uses one at work), and a bulkier model that seemed interesting but would not have fit on my keyboard shelf.
I wonder if anyone here realizes (yourself included) that you've stolen this idea form Gallagher (the "comedian"). His idea was suction darts. Once someone got enough, he was pulled over by the cops "for being an asshole".
There is a problem here in that we don't know for sure if this is even true. We only have some blogger's suspicion that this is some "privacy violation". Sorry, but blogger conspiricy theories are not news or newsworthy.
The sale of this valuable, scarce real estate is expected to bring in about $10 billion, maybe more. That will help reduce the federal budget deficit.
The only problem here is that it won't reduce the deficit at all. Congress will see this as $10 billion in free money (assuming they even get that amount). "Extra money? Why, we should reduce our debt!" Never happen.
I've known this for a while but I wish I had realized it earlier. A long time ago (maybe 15-20 years) I was on a marijuana possession case. In the jury selection part I told them I didn't believe possession of marijuana should be a crime. There was some hullabaloo because I would have otherwise been on the jury and I guess the lawyers didn't want to waste a dismissal on me. I was even supposed to go to the judge's chambers, but at some point they worked things out and just let me leave. If I had thought about it, Id have kept my mouth shut and just gone on the jury so I could have helped to acquit the guy.
The charges were something like possession of between an ounce and 50 pounds (really!). Turned out it was closer to 50 pounds and the guy was a dealer. Who knew?
Soryy it's just your brain that finds the coincidences. There were few if any VCRs in the 1973 when Alan Parsons engineered the album. There certainly were no copies of Wizard of Oz on tape (near as I can find, the first VHS version was released in the late 1980's). The band would have had to care about the movie, find a film print, watch it, write and play and engineer all the songs to somehow "fit" the movie, and to what end? Wouldn't they have wanted to tell someone about it after going to all the trouble? Some mention about it on the album?
I imagine there are lots of albums that could be used to similar effect.
Actually, according to the research presented in the book "Freakonomics" by Levitt and Dubner, chapter 5, it really only matters who your parents were, not really how they raised you.
So yeah, umm, handing out genetic material is more important than being there later. Sorry.
The only reason I buy a paper at all is to read the comics. It's easier than looking up 20 or 30 sites on-line and waiting for each to download. I may need to go do that eventually, then maybe I won't both with a paper at all.
I've had to remove Firefox 1.0.7 from my machine. If I use it, eventually the system becomes unstable and will freeze for seconds at a time, then start up again, only to freeze again. I know for a fact that it was FF causing this. Opera and IE and even Mozilla don't do this. It sucks too, because I really liked FF.
It doesn't matter how hard it is to do, it doesn't matter if it benefits the authors or not, none of this matters at all.
IT ONLY MATTERS IF IT IS LEGAL.
If it is, fine. IANAL, so I don't know, and in fact, it might need to be taken to court to decide. Someone mentioned that you could go to a library and photocopy all 300 pages of a book, but that's too hard so no one would do it. Again, it doesn't matter how hard it is. IF you did that, then my understanding is that it WOULD be illegal.
Since Google is on the net, I'm sure someone will find a way to automate the searches so that you could eventually get the whole book. My understanding about Amazon is that they only have a few pages of the book and not the whole thing. If they had the whole thing up then I would question it.
And as for legal verses ethical, if the law is bad, you get it changed, you don't break it. Also, I have ethical problems with Google saying that authors need to let them know if they don't want their works STOLEN. Opt-in only. If it's a problem for Google, too goddamn bad.
Correct me if I'm wrong:
1) Google takes the entire book, and with or without the author's permission, copies it (to Google's own personal harddrives).
2)My understanding is that they are "raiding" libraries, and perhaps not necessarily even buying a copy of every book they do this with.
3) They make only bits of it available, but in fact, a person could, with proper searching, get the whole book eventually.
My understanding of Fair Use means only a small part of a book can be "quoted". Given that maybe it's okay for Google to copy the books if they want, they are, however, effectively making the entire book available.
It would be something like having a thousand reviewers quote one thousandth of the same book. Reading all the reviews would give you the whole book. Only, it's not a thousand reviewers, but in this case just one - Google.
I have a problem with their "Opt-out" presumption. In general I think it should be "Opt-in".
Finally, it doesn't matter whether the authors will ultimately profit from Google doing this or not. IT DOESN'T MATTER. It is either legal or it is not. Here is a bad analogy: A maid breaks into my house and cleans everything up and then leaves. It doesn't matter that the maid's actions ultimately benefitted me (I got a clean house), breaking into my house is illegal.
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Planetary is so well done that I never noticed any "lack of depth". And in fact, if you had kept reading, you would now notice that it is all coming together, and that all the bits you thought weren't related actually are. That random guy in the first few issues that became part of a ship? Not so random after all. It is a fantastic series. The art alone would justify it's purchase, but it is also one of Ellis' better ongoing ideas.
Cerebus was great at first but eventually got bogged down in complete and utter bullshit. To say Sims is batty is to malign bats. If you can pick up the first few "Swords of Cerebus", those were fun. Eventually the comic went into some high school psych-class universe that apparently Sims thought was "clever".
Yes, this was great fun. I got to meet Kristoph^h^hfer Straub who does the webcomic "Starslip Crisis" (http://www.starslipcrisis.com/), and he was sitting next to PvP creator Scott Kurtz. Lots of cool folks were there, depending on your tastes in comics there was something for everyone. And Zeus has all their back issues out for a quarter each. And I picked up a Serenity Movie poster! Definitely a great expo.
There's still a little time left if you are in the area.
I was going to complain about what a piece of f'd up crap this was, but now I see that I totally missed the squirrels angle. Maybe I'll have to go back and watch it again. Were there pictures of squirrels as well? I guess Bush is a nut, so he doesn't really count.
I'm not trying to excuse their ignorance (or maybe I am), but maybe they have email and don't call it that. At work, it is called something else (Outlook, or GroupWise or ...). So yeah, they don't HAVE an email account, they have an Outlook account. "I don't use email, I have Hotmail (or AOL or Yahoo or ...)".
Dunno, I can point out one recent case where exactly this happened. In Plano, TX, a crazy lady killed her infant (by cutting off the childs limbs, no less). Ten people of the jury said not guilty by reason of insanity, one refused to decide, and one voted guilty. Even after 40 hours of deliberation. Thus resulting in a hung jury. The few times I was on a jury I never felt pressured to vote in any way other than my conscience.
I have a Taurus fanless PS, and have had it for probably around a year. It's a 350W, and seems to be working fine - doesn't even heat the top of the case up. Unfortunantly I still have 4 other fans in the box to move air around. But the fanless PS really helps. So what's so great about this one?
Sorry, but this just isn't the case. I used the mouse and it was fine. For my own purposes, it wasn't exceedingly better than a regular mouse. I use a wireless mouse, if the Evoluent was wireless, I might have liked it better. But the resting of the hand was not an issue. It may look like it would be a problem, but it turns out not to be. Does the mouse take a little getting used to? Yeah, some. The learning curve was small. I can't say for sure if a shelf would have helped or not.
There are also mice that are joystick-like (my wife uses one at work), and a bulkier model that seemed interesting but would not have fit on my keyboard shelf.
No, no, he said it came from Gallagher, not a comedian. Gallagher is a boring, unfunny hack.
I wonder if anyone here realizes (yourself included) that you've stolen this idea form Gallagher (the "comedian"). His idea was suction darts. Once someone got enough, he was pulled over by the cops "for being an asshole".
There is a problem here in that we don't know for sure if this is even true. We only have some blogger's suspicion that this is some "privacy violation". Sorry, but blogger conspiricy theories are not news or newsworthy.
The sale of this valuable, scarce real estate is expected to bring in about $10 billion, maybe more. That will help reduce the federal budget deficit.
The only problem here is that it won't reduce the deficit at all. Congress will see this as $10 billion in free money (assuming they even get that amount). "Extra money? Why, we should reduce our debt!" Never happen.
Sorry, but FTL means "Faster Than Light" and has a lot long than WoW has been around. I just googled it and WoW didn't even come up on the first page.
It's okay, I'm dyslexic and read it correctly anyway.
I've known this for a while but I wish I had realized it earlier. A long time ago (maybe 15-20 years) I was on a marijuana possession case. In the jury selection part I told them I didn't believe possession of marijuana should be a crime. There was some hullabaloo because I would have otherwise been on the jury and I guess the lawyers didn't want to waste a dismissal on me. I was even supposed to go to the judge's chambers, but at some point they worked things out and just let me leave. If I had thought about it, Id have kept my mouth shut and just gone on the jury so I could have helped to acquit the guy.
The charges were something like possession of between an ounce and 50 pounds (really!). Turned out it was closer to 50 pounds and the guy was a dealer. Who knew?
Soryy it's just your brain that finds the coincidences. There were few if any VCRs in the 1973 when Alan Parsons engineered the album. There certainly were no copies of Wizard of Oz on tape (near as I can find, the first VHS version was released in the late 1980's). The band would have had to care about the movie, find a film print, watch it, write and play and engineer all the songs to somehow "fit" the movie, and to what end? Wouldn't they have wanted to tell someone about it after going to all the trouble? Some mention about it on the album?
I imagine there are lots of albums that could be used to similar effect.
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Actually, according to the research presented in the book "Freakonomics" by Levitt and Dubner, chapter 5, it really only matters who your parents were, not really how they raised you.
So yeah, umm, handing out genetic material is more important than being there later. Sorry.
Reminded me of an old (say 20 years ago) Steve Martin joke.
"I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was - a vast frozen wasteland covered in ice."
The only reason I buy a paper at all is to read the comics. It's easier than looking up 20 or 30 sites on-line and waiting for each to download. I may need to go do that eventually, then maybe I won't both with a paper at all.
I've had to remove Firefox 1.0.7 from my machine. If I use it, eventually the system becomes unstable and will freeze for seconds at a time, then start up again, only to freeze again. I know for a fact that it was FF causing this. Opera and IE and even Mozilla don't do this. It sucks too, because I really liked FF.
Again, everyone is entirely missing the point.
It doesn't matter how hard it is to do, it doesn't matter if it benefits the authors or not, none of this matters at all.
IT ONLY MATTERS IF IT IS LEGAL.
If it is, fine. IANAL, so I don't know, and in fact, it might need to be taken to court to decide. Someone mentioned that you could go to a library and photocopy all 300 pages of a book, but that's too hard so no one would do it. Again, it doesn't matter how hard it is. IF you did that, then my understanding is that it WOULD be illegal.
Since Google is on the net, I'm sure someone will find a way to automate the searches so that you could eventually get the whole book. My understanding about Amazon is that they only have a few pages of the book and not the whole thing. If they had the whole thing up then I would question it.
And as for legal verses ethical, if the law is bad, you get it changed, you don't break it. Also, I have ethical problems with Google saying that authors need to let them know if they don't want their works STOLEN. Opt-in only. If it's a problem for Google, too goddamn bad.
If they want an Internet so bad, why don't they make their own? They could call it Euronet, and put up a "Yankee keep out!" sign on it.
Correct me if I'm wrong:
1) Google takes the entire book, and with or without the author's permission, copies it (to Google's own personal harddrives).
2)My understanding is that they are "raiding" libraries, and perhaps not necessarily even buying a copy of every book they do this with.
3) They make only bits of it available, but in fact, a person could, with proper searching, get the whole book eventually.
My understanding of Fair Use means only a small part of a book can be "quoted". Given that maybe it's okay for Google to copy the books if they want, they are, however, effectively making the entire book available.
It would be something like having a thousand reviewers quote one thousandth of the same book. Reading all the reviews would give you the whole book. Only, it's not a thousand reviewers, but in this case just one - Google.
I have a problem with their "Opt-out" presumption. In general I think it should be "Opt-in".
Finally, it doesn't matter whether the authors will ultimately profit from Google doing this or not. IT DOESN'T MATTER. It is either legal or it is not. Here is a bad analogy: A maid breaks into my house and cleans everything up and then leaves. It doesn't matter that the maid's actions ultimately benefitted me (I got a clean house), breaking into my house is illegal.