He couldn't actually propel himself forward. He had to used some sort of spray cans for propulsion. Spray cans.
Good grief! Sounds almost as bad as some movie I saw a while back. The child hero was a luminous being in tune with a mystical force that flowed through all living things. He had to use midi-chlorians in his blood stream to do it though. Midi-chlorians.
The failure of the Net Yaroze was that it was only provided to a Japanese audience; American developers like me could never get our grubby little hands on it. XNA is available to everyone. I think that's going to be far more successful than Sony's Nippon-centric garbage.
Net Yarozes (is that even how you pluralise it?) were definitely available to a European audience. There were some fun retro-styled games on Official Playstation Magazine every month. The wikipedia article on the Net Yaroze even mentions them being provided to UK universities as well as being sold direct to enthusiasts. The article cites the existence of a US model too, but details are typically stubby.
Regardless of what you think of hate speech, once the infrastructure for persecuting people on their thoughts/attitudes/opinions is in place it becomes quite trivial to make it encompass your personal/ideological enemies. All you have to do is redefine "hate."
You make an excellent point. However it's worth noting that the catch-all terms "hate speech" and more generally "hate" tend not to be widely used here in the UK, being seen as something of an Americanism. E.g. we talk about "racist murders" rather than "hate killings"(?). Note that this is all in the jargon, I'm not claiming a better quality of journalism over here. Our papers/news programmes are quite happy to give us reports that are poorly-worded to the point of innaccuracy of people being "imprisoned for racism" for example.
Regardless of our nomenclature being thankfully less "stretchable" than it might be, I do seem to recall a bill being put through parliament recently to extend anti-racist protections to religious groups. I think it could be argued that by effectively redefining "Muslim", "Hindu", "C of E (notional)", etc as races it illustrates your point rather nicely.
Tom singing? Is he talking about Tom Bombadil? That's not in the hobbit, anyway, that was in the first book of LOTR, and was cut from the move, if I'm not mistaken.
This is +5 informative? The summary is clearly making a humorous point regarding the much-discussed constant tension between book and film versions.
Compare: Peter Jackson is apparently producing a remake of The Dambusters. "With or without Tom singing, is what I want to know."
It's analogous to asking if King Kong falls off the Empire State Building in PJ's version or gets dragged off it by a Warg.
Teens and other young adults frequently post wacky / private crap about themselves or their friends all the time. Do you REALLY want a future potential employer "Googling" you and finding all this stuff? How about a potential boyfriend / girlfriend / husband / wife?
Problem is: they're young. Trying to get that message across is analogous to telling them "smoking will give you lung cancer" or "drink more responsibly for the sake of your liver".
I think you could count the number of UK citizens who know the name of their MEP on one hand. Well, ok, it's in the 100s of 1000s but still a very small percentage of the UK population.
The voter turn out is extremely low for EU elections. Generally the political parties field candidates in training - or just some muppet they can't fob off somewhere else. Any "good" (and I use the term loosely of course) politician is being saved for domestic politics.
I'm firmly of the opinion that the party list system kills any sense of attachment between voter and candidate. Given a system where the more votes a party garners the more of its pre-selected favourites are elected, where is accountability? I might actually want to vote out one of these morons in this case, but if they're near the top of their party's list they are guaranteed to get back in. Whither democracy?
Supposedly, party lists are under consideration for the House of Lords as a mechanism to resolve the problem of wanting an elected body without a direct mandate (one that might conflict with that of the Commons and lead to legislative deadlock). That little nugget tends to confirm my prejudices.
Summarising how this relates to the topic so I don't get modded to death, even if we knew who these clueless MEPs (mis-)representing us were, it's probable that we can't directly vote them out. The only way they'll definitely be removed is if their party changes its opinion of them and alters their position on the list accordingly.
It might be an interesting exercise not to list existing genres, but to make a list of games that are hard to classify, and use it as a benchmark against any genre list.
David Crane's original Ghostbusters doesn't easily fit a template. Whether that invalidates a set of genres or is the exception that proves them however...
I sat on this one for a little bit after I first found out because it seemed sort of unconfirmed, but now that it's received significant press coverage, I've added it to the front page of Wikipedia. It's quite amazing how fast news travels these days.
Purely anecdotal, I know, but while at the PC I usually hear major breaking news stories on the radio first. Whilst searching for more details I find they seem to consistently hit Google (News) about 11 mins later. Obviously the radio has the advantage of being able to simply read stuff as it comes in from Reuters, etc, rather than wait for enough scraps of information to be gathered to make a page for Google to index.
Regarding the story though, considering Steve Irwin was killed whilst working I'm just glad the poor guy wasn't mauled to death by something.
Interestingly, a similar style is now preferred practice in Great Britain, though the older style (which became established for typographical reasons having to do with the aesthetics of comma and quotes in typeset text) is still accepted there.
Speaking as a Brit in Brit-land, I'm not sure about the "now preferred practice", as it always has been to my knowledge. Mind you, I'm closer to 30 than 80 which probably covers it. Can't say I've seen the correct US usage being used here either, but I probably read enough US-sourced material that I wouldn't stop and think about it.
Yeah, I haven't said anything particularly interesting, but I just wanted to provide an alternate view to the sibling AC.
I love the part about the @microsoft.com email filter. Is someone paranoid or what?
The whole thing is a PR exercise for MS. Seen in that light, finding a weak excuse to make the offer publicly makes perfect sense. Harder for the Mozilla devs to turn down too.
Slashdot Mirror
I forget the name of the film...
The lengths that Slashdot goes to to keep us entertained are much appreciated!
I say, here's fun! Official word from Mozilla on why Ubuntu shipped with Firefox branded Firefox, rather than Iceweasel.
Plaudits to the Ubuntu guys for getting this release out so quickly. Wonder if I should stick with 6.06 and its LTS or upgrade?
2006? 1984!
Derivative works are permitted, I hope
Halfway down the page, here. Now don't say I never give you anything!
You make an excellent point. However it's worth noting that the catch-all terms "hate speech" and more generally "hate" tend not to be widely used here in the UK, being seen as something of an Americanism. E.g. we talk about "racist murders" rather than "hate killings"(?). Note that this is all in the jargon, I'm not claiming a better quality of journalism over here. Our papers/news programmes are quite happy to give us reports that are poorly-worded to the point of innaccuracy of people being "imprisoned for racism" for example.
Regardless of our nomenclature being thankfully less "stretchable" than it might be, I do seem to recall a bill being put through parliament recently to extend anti-racist protections to religious groups. I think it could be argued that by effectively redefining "Muslim", "Hindu", "C of E (notional)", etc as races it illustrates your point rather nicely.
That's what they said about Judge Dredd
Since they should average out over the course of my lifetime anyway I prefer to just take all my rolls as 10.5
Too much excitement (and Cheetos) can be bad for you!
Compare: Peter Jackson is apparently producing a remake of The Dambusters. "With or without Tom singing, is what I want to know."
It's analogous to asking if King Kong falls off the Empire State Building in PJ's version or gets dragged off it by a Warg.
I mean, like, what-ever!
I'm firmly of the opinion that the party list system kills any sense of attachment between voter and candidate. Given a system where the more votes a party garners the more of its pre-selected favourites are elected, where is accountability? I might actually want to vote out one of these morons in this case, but if they're near the top of their party's list they are guaranteed to get back in. Whither democracy?
Supposedly, party lists are under consideration for the House of Lords as a mechanism to resolve the problem of wanting an elected body without a direct mandate (one that might conflict with that of the Commons and lead to legislative deadlock). That little nugget tends to confirm my prejudices.
Summarising how this relates to the topic so I don't get modded to death, even if we knew who these clueless MEPs (mis-)representing us were, it's probable that we can't directly vote them out. The only way they'll definitely be removed is if their party changes its opinion of them and alters their position on the list accordingly.
David Crane's original Ghostbusters doesn't easily fit a template. Whether that invalidates a set of genres or is the exception that proves them however...
Purely anecdotal, I know, but while at the PC I usually hear major breaking news stories on the radio first. Whilst searching for more details I find they seem to consistently hit Google (News) about 11 mins later. Obviously the radio has the advantage of being able to simply read stuff as it comes in from Reuters, etc, rather than wait for enough scraps of information to be gathered to make a page for Google to index.
Regarding the story though, considering Steve Irwin was killed whilst working I'm just glad the poor guy wasn't mauled to death by something.
Bitches couldn't vote.
It's a bat'leth, you filthy p'tahk!
Excessive? No! This is how I define "unwarranted"!
Speaking as a Brit in Brit-land, I'm not sure about the "now preferred practice", as it always has been to my knowledge. Mind you, I'm closer to 30 than 80 which probably covers it. Can't say I've seen the correct US usage being used here either, but I probably read enough US-sourced material that I wouldn't stop and think about it.
Yeah, I haven't said anything particularly interesting, but I just wanted to provide an alternate view to the sibling AC.
Colbert calls it securitiness.
The whole thing is a PR exercise for MS. Seen in that light, finding a weak excuse to make the offer publicly makes perfect sense. Harder for the Mozilla devs to turn down too.