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I think the Andromeda quotes go something like:
"Of course I had to come save you, and anyhow, they were playing Bhrams" Tyr, refering to the musical score played over the fire-fight scene.
"You know I bet it's alot easier to find us with you playing that music" -Cpt. Hunt refering to Tyr smaller-than an i-pod, but super-loud walkman blasting out yet another musical score durring another fire-fight.
My first stalker ex-g/f came from a bbs.
I was all of 19 or 20 when I dated a girl named Connie who went by the username Moonlight on Baudtown (located in LA County in Southern California.)
I'd have to say some parts of BBS life make SW and HHGttG seem a bit less painful in comparison.
Just got a blast, I did a google search...
I found this:
Hah ! Google has imortalized my first stalker ex-g/f.
Moonlight 1221 Moon CA F/S 22 2 2025 08-08-95
they have those at the store you stupid fuckwad, don't you ever leave your house
Wel, #1, this is/. I'd loose my/. cred if I left my house to get anything other than liquid sugar+cafeene and the latest software. #2, I'm spending so much time doing the sweep, vac, mop drill that it's time to start over again by the time I finish.
I'd love to, but the IP laws in this country require me to pay whatever the folks that make SCOOBA for liscening fees in whatever amount they see fit. Can't quite afford it. They can though, I'd buy a SCOOBA on a stick if it cost about the same as a mid-range upright vac ($150 or so.)
package it in a usable and not-too-expensive fashion
You mean, remove all the automation electronics and all the propulion electrons, dump the batteries and make it run off mains power. Then install a stick on the end. I'd go for that. An upright vac that mops while I vac the floors, and for a fraction of the price of this automated machine.
After much searching, I'm thinking of
James Patrick Kelly and his story "Think Like a Dinosaur", first published in August of 1997
A quoted summary here:
""Think Like a Dinosaur", uses two props of the genre, aliens and matter transmitters, to set up the narrator's moral dilemma. Michael Burr works for the hanen, an alien race resembling dinosaurs: he guides infrequent human star-travellers through the 'migration' process. In the course of the transfer, the humans are copied, one of the copies travelling on to their stellar destination, while the other is exterminated before regaining consciousness - the hanen way of thinking (hence the story's title) allows no sentimentality over the eradication of the copy left behind. When Burr releases a traveller from a malfunctioning device, only to discover that transfer has actually been effected, he must end the life of the copy he can only view as human... In this story, the technology is not cutting edge but a device of artistic licence, which aficionados of Hard SF might deplore - a clever method of achieving an artistic end: the unflinching examination of the human psyche, and Kelly does it brilliantly"
Despite my search with google and amazon I can't find the anthology or the short story, but this Outer Limits episode sounds like a rip-off of a short story I've read.
It's all the same, dino-like aliens, FTL teleportation, non-destructive, and the process automaticly terminates the copy at the departure station upon sucesful assembly of the copy at the destination.
The hitch came when some sort of lag prevented a prompt notification to the departure station that a copy as successfully made. The traveler was asked to hang about so they could re-try sending him at a later time when they worked out the problem in their system. Of course the only problem ended up being that the automatic travler terminator failed to get a message from the destination site. The Dinos had to find this guy and shove'm out the airlock.
I sure as hell wish there was a book search engine that let you put in key phrases and get back a list of possible matches with the name of author and publication date, maybe with links to Amazon for the likely matches too.
What happens if *gasp* an Engineer marries a Nurse?
So they both want to be on top right? What you get is the barrel-roll position. Occasionaly you end up with the RODEO position as well as the one on bottom tries to buck off the partner currently on top.
WWF meets the bedroom sorta.
The crew of top-gear demoed the new UK roadside cameras. In one car they placed a stereo-typical grand-ma. She went 5 over the limit and she was cited. The lead member of the cast did the same, and was cited via post. One other member of the production team drove the speed limit with an AK-47 on the dash and a RPG-7 in the bed of his truck (both TV props, but they look quite real.) The guy with the AK-47 on the dash was never noticed by or contacted by law enforcement regarding his posession of what are illegal weapons in the UK.
My wife and I have used her bosses desk to do a little photo shoot we submitted to a mens magazine (and a little something else that didn't get photographed.) Sadly, they(the photos) were rejected, like all of the informative articles I've submitted to slashdot.
When most AOL chatroom conversations boil down to A/S/L AOL should get some truth in their ads. Forget these moderated safe rooms for kids... forget you've got mail...go directly to YOU'VE GOT SEX!
The GP is referring to a.45ACP Caliber single shot pistol made out of stamped metal components. These were dropped in large numbers into nazi occupied europe. The idea being that the small pistol could be easily hidden, then used to kill a regular German soldier and facilitate the resistance fighter in taking a better weapon from the corpse of the German (or Italian) soldier.
The weapon wasn't meant to be a combat weapon as to reload one had to partily disassemble the weapon and use a stick to poke the spent shell casing out of the firing chamber before loading a new round. I don't recall if this weapon even had sights or not.
Our local PD contracts with a company that provides incident simulations. Basicly and officer has to run through a simulation of a likely law enforcement scenario (felony trafic stop on a stolen vehicle.)
Often times a poor performance on the officers part will lead to a "shootout."
The officers are outfitted with a miles-laser type system to their service weapon. Also supplied to the officer is light body armor and a shatter resistant face shield. The simulator makes use of human-aimed air guns that fire "soft" plastic pellets at the officers.
I don't understand how these pellets mark the officers, but officer performance is determined by scoring marksman ship with the laser and marks left on the officer by the airgun. These are not "paintballs" as they are re-used repeatedly. Something similar to airsoft pellets.
If they've got a shortage in the EU they could just move PSPs from the USA over. Afterall, the PSP hasn't been the blockbuster fly-off-the-shelf success that people thought it might be.
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Or, you could arm the cops with rail guns
almost as good as "DIE"
I think the Andromeda quotes go something like: "Of course I had to come save you, and anyhow, they were playing Bhrams" Tyr, refering to the musical score played over the fire-fight scene. "You know I bet it's alot easier to find us with you playing that music" -Cpt. Hunt refering to Tyr smaller-than an i-pod, but super-loud walkman blasting out yet another musical score durring another fire-fight.
Go ahead, try it, don't be suprized when you end up being responsible for the start of the next phase of the cylons master plan.
Dude, Kirk lived. Check out Amazon for Shatner written trek books. At least 2 of them take place AFTER the events of THE RETURN.
Dude, don't look the GP poster for the wacky plot device. It's really a Star Trek book, written (in part) by Willie S. Click the link in the GP post.
Here I am
Roseblood 1745 DeadBlackHeart CA M/S 18 2 724 08-01-95
So it was age 18. She was 22. Should have been a sign something was wrong from the start.
Damn that was 10 year ago. I'm getting old
My first stalker ex-g/f came from a bbs. I was all of 19 or 20 when I dated a girl named Connie who went by the username Moonlight on Baudtown (located in LA County in Southern California.) I'd have to say some parts of BBS life make SW and HHGttG seem a bit less painful in comparison. Just got a blast, I did a google search... I found this: Hah ! Google has imortalized my first stalker ex-g/f. Moonlight 1221 Moon CA F/S 22 2 2025 08-08-95
they have those at the store you stupid fuckwad, don't you ever leave your house Wel, #1, this is /. I'd loose my /. cred if I left my house to get anything other than liquid sugar+cafeene and the latest software. #2, I'm spending so much time doing the sweep, vac, mop drill that it's time to start over again by the time I finish.
I'd love to, but the IP laws in this country require me to pay whatever the folks that make SCOOBA for liscening fees in whatever amount they see fit. Can't quite afford it. They can though, I'd buy a SCOOBA on a stick if it cost about the same as a mid-range upright vac ($150 or so.)
Because their suffering that's being caused by stray radiation is so much less important than your property value.
Because sheets of aluminum foil will cause so much harm when applied incorectly to the side of a home.
You mean, remove all the automation electronics and all the propulion electrons, dump the batteries and make it run off mains power. Then install a stick on the end. I'd go for that. An upright vac that mops while I vac the floors, and for a fraction of the price of this automated machine.
After much searching, I'm thinking of James Patrick Kelly and his story "Think Like a Dinosaur", first published in August of 1997 A quoted summary here: ""Think Like a Dinosaur", uses two props of the genre, aliens and matter transmitters, to set up the narrator's moral dilemma. Michael Burr works for the hanen, an alien race resembling dinosaurs: he guides infrequent human star-travellers through the 'migration' process. In the course of the transfer, the humans are copied, one of the copies travelling on to their stellar destination, while the other is exterminated before regaining consciousness - the hanen way of thinking (hence the story's title) allows no sentimentality over the eradication of the copy left behind. When Burr releases a traveller from a malfunctioning device, only to discover that transfer has actually been effected, he must end the life of the copy he can only view as human... In this story, the technology is not cutting edge but a device of artistic licence, which aficionados of Hard SF might deplore - a clever method of achieving an artistic end: the unflinching examination of the human psyche, and Kelly does it brilliantly"
Despite my search with google and amazon I can't find the anthology or the short story, but this Outer Limits episode sounds like a rip-off of a short story I've read. It's all the same, dino-like aliens, FTL teleportation, non-destructive, and the process automaticly terminates the copy at the departure station upon sucesful assembly of the copy at the destination. The hitch came when some sort of lag prevented a prompt notification to the departure station that a copy as successfully made. The traveler was asked to hang about so they could re-try sending him at a later time when they worked out the problem in their system. Of course the only problem ended up being that the automatic travler terminator failed to get a message from the destination site. The Dinos had to find this guy and shove'm out the airlock. I sure as hell wish there was a book search engine that let you put in key phrases and get back a list of possible matches with the name of author and publication date, maybe with links to Amazon for the likely matches too.
And the loosers were the non-techie locals stuck with major backups on the 10, 110, 5, and 405 all farking day long while the E3 was in progress.
What happens if *gasp* an Engineer marries a Nurse? So they both want to be on top right? What you get is the barrel-roll position. Occasionaly you end up with the RODEO position as well as the one on bottom tries to buck off the partner currently on top. WWF meets the bedroom sorta.
The crew of top-gear demoed the new UK roadside cameras. In one car they placed a stereo-typical grand-ma. She went 5 over the limit and she was cited. The lead member of the cast did the same, and was cited via post. One other member of the production team drove the speed limit with an AK-47 on the dash and a RPG-7 in the bed of his truck (both TV props, but they look quite real.) The guy with the AK-47 on the dash was never noticed by or contacted by law enforcement regarding his posession of what are illegal weapons in the UK.
My wife and I have used her bosses desk to do a little photo shoot we submitted to a mens magazine (and a little something else that didn't get photographed.) Sadly, they(the photos) were rejected, like all of the informative articles I've submitted to slashdot.
When most AOL chatroom conversations boil down to A/S/L AOL should get some truth in their ads. Forget these moderated safe rooms for kids... forget you've got mail...go directly to YOU'VE GOT SEX!
The GP is referring to a .45ACP Caliber single shot pistol made out of stamped metal components. These were dropped in large numbers into nazi occupied europe. The idea being that the small pistol could be easily hidden, then used to kill a regular German soldier and facilitate the resistance fighter in taking a better weapon from the corpse of the German (or Italian) soldier.
The weapon wasn't meant to be a combat weapon as to reload one had to partily disassemble the weapon and use a stick to poke the spent shell casing out of the firing chamber before loading a new round. I don't recall if this weapon even had sights or not.
World of Warcraft forcasted for DOOM ? Okay, this is filler for the stupid filters
Often times a poor performance on the officers part will lead to a "shootout."
The officers are outfitted with a miles-laser type system to their service weapon. Also supplied to the officer is light body armor and a shatter resistant face shield. The simulator makes use of human-aimed air guns that fire "soft" plastic pellets at the officers.
I don't understand how these pellets mark the officers, but officer performance is determined by scoring marksman ship with the laser and marks left on the officer by the airgun. These are not "paintballs" as they are re-used repeatedly. Something similar to airsoft pellets.
If they've got a shortage in the EU they could just move PSPs from the USA over. Afterall, the PSP hasn't been the blockbuster fly-off-the-shelf success that people thought it might be.