amusing, but I used to make money as a writer, and appear on panels at WorldCon, OryCon, VCon, Norwescon, and various other places. Not to mention touring New Zealand and Australia.
Perhaps you should consider amending your opinion.
Turns out they were offering cash bounties, so a lot of people in Afghanistan turned over anyone they didn't like for a cash reward.
Same with MySpace pervs - chances are tons of them are just into S&M or B&D (consensual adults), but after ruining their reputations, they can never get them back.
Dude, you have got to play Rayman's Raving Rabbids.
Seriously, dude.
Seriously.
Like, just buy it.
Seriously.
[this plug for Grey's Anatomy is courtesy of the Fictional Seattle Hospital Tourist Board and was paid for from Starbucks coffee tips gathered at every fake medical facility in Seattle]
My 500 shares of Nintendo stock bought at E3 from proceeds from Sony stock say no.
But I will predict, in 2009, when HDTV becomes mainstream (e.g. market share of more than 50 percent in US), that if Nintendo doesn't have a new console utilizing HDTV, then they should start worrying.
As the Rebel Alliance of Linux vendors fought valiantly against the Evil Dark Forces of the Empire, little did they know that some of their supporters who claimed to be Open Source were pushing DRM behind their backs, and preparing their law suits.
But, even if they lost the wars and were betrayed like the Jedi were, they knew that the Force would ultimately prevail, for Information wanted to be Free!
We have computers and monkeys that can simulate adult humans already, so I doubt a teen will have any difficulty in "authenticating" they are a parent.
Example: What profession did everyone want to be when you were 10 (born in 1960) - Astronaut.
According to Fortune magazine (latest print edition, just got it yesterday), this is true of almost all Generation Y people as well.
Specifically:
10. 80 hours a week - to Gen Y this means you can't do your job right, it's supposed to be 40. 09. Promotions - to Gen Y if they don't get promoted and given responsibility from Day 1, they aren't working for you. 08. Benefits and maternity (sp?) leave - again, this concept of no benefits is something only a boomer or Gen X would want. 07. Family time - true of all Gen Y. 06. This is a canard. Sure, guys don't listen, but at least computers do. 05. Actually, this is where guys meet their wives. 04. Totally fabrication. Grow up. 03. True, and respect is something all Gen Y demand. Period. 02. True. But can you blame them? A real job would have a sauna, steam room, and hot tub, anyway. 01. No, this is old fogie Gen X thinking. Gen Y women have no problem telling you this.
Nah, they're on their way out. No, I mean become a Hedge Fund Manager. Or a high class banker. Move to NYC, the only place the housing market bubble still exists.
Considering your.sig, I would have thought you'd know that the housing bubble is alive and well in the Greater Seattle area.
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amusing, but I used to make money as a writer, and appear on panels at WorldCon, OryCon, VCon, Norwescon, and various other places. Not to mention touring New Zealand and Australia.
Perhaps you should consider amending your opinion.
Nah, parody is always acceptable.
...
Fair use, man
Contempt? Heck, my son writes fanfic for Naruto (and has tens of thousands of rankings for his writing).
I even watch it sometimes.
Richard M. Nixon!
Seriously, when you know they're tracking you, defeat the tracking mechanism through obvious means.
If the Internet doesn't exist to host Harry Potter slash fanfic, then what the hell is it for?
Why, Furries, of course. That plus Naruto.
By its very nature, fan fiction is exploitative. I'm not sure why anyone would feel they had a legitimate reason to bitch.
... well ... a bit too explicit ...
I think you've confused fan fiction with K/S fan fiction.
Although I do hear a lot of Naruto fan fiction is
I have Canadian and US filed copyrights for most of my fan fiction, so if they do this, we're looking at long jail terms and big fines.
Caveat emptor.
Turns out they were offering cash bounties, so a lot of people in Afghanistan turned over anyone they didn't like for a cash reward.
Same with MySpace pervs - chances are tons of them are just into S&M or B&D (consensual adults), but after ruining their reputations, they can never get them back.
Sure looks a lot like a young Bill Gates (with different hair color) and Melinda Gates, doesn't it?
Intentional? Or sheer coincidence, just like it's coincidence that MSFT is suing Linux vendors?
Dude, you have got to play Rayman's Raving Rabbids.
Seriously, dude.
Seriously.
Like, just buy it.
Seriously.
[this plug for Grey's Anatomy is courtesy of the Fictional Seattle Hospital Tourist Board and was paid for from Starbucks coffee tips gathered at every fake medical facility in Seattle]
My 500 shares of Nintendo stock bought at E3 from proceeds from Sony stock say no.
But I will predict, in 2009, when HDTV becomes mainstream (e.g. market share of more than 50 percent in US), that if Nintendo doesn't have a new console utilizing HDTV, then they should start worrying.
But for now, I'm just raking in the stock growth.
As the Rebel Alliance of Linux vendors fought valiantly against the Evil Dark Forces of the Empire, little did they know that some of their supporters who claimed to be Open Source were pushing DRM behind their backs, and preparing their law suits.
But, even if they lost the wars and were betrayed like the Jedi were, they knew that the Force would ultimately prevail, for Information wanted to be Free!
Can't spare the legal staff to hold a Professional Developer's Conference without them.
After all, if someone mentions a "business process" during a panel, have to patent that baby for MSFT quick!
Can they pay the fine with imported CDs, marked up to the cost of comperable local CD prices?
No, they have to use comparable priced DVDs. Or HD-DVDs.
And, for that matter, do you have to be a Dwarf to be a gold farmer in the game?
Seriously, if I get the One Ring and I'm a Wizard, can I just win?
...
And what if I managed to loot a dwarven corpse and find one of the Five Rings? Or trick the Elf Queen to pass hers on?
And what kind of tone does a ring have when I download it onto the cellphone-version of LOTRO
And will scry into this Mithrandir ... what? it's Bill Gates eye staring back at me!
We have computers and monkeys that can simulate adult humans already, so I doubt a teen will have any difficulty in "authenticating" they are a parent.
Example: What profession did everyone want to be when you were 10 (born in 1960) - Astronaut.
Anyone can look these up.
NT, the foundation for Windows XP. You know, the OS that has 90 something percent of the market.
Does it run on AMD 64 bit chips with true 64 bit instruction sets?
But if NT is a primitive of OS/2, then what is GNU? Is that Unix?
And what ever happened to VMS, is that NT on steroids?
Is that some primitive form of OS/X?
According to Fortune magazine (latest print edition, just got it yesterday), this is true of almost all Generation Y people as well.
Specifically:
10. 80 hours a week - to Gen Y this means you can't do your job right, it's supposed to be 40.
09. Promotions - to Gen Y if they don't get promoted and given responsibility from Day 1, they aren't working for you.
08. Benefits and maternity (sp?) leave - again, this concept of no benefits is something only a boomer or Gen X would want.
07. Family time - true of all Gen Y.
06. This is a canard. Sure, guys don't listen, but at least computers do.
05. Actually, this is where guys meet their wives.
04. Totally fabrication. Grow up.
03. True, and respect is something all Gen Y demand. Period.
02. True. But can you blame them? A real job would have a sauna, steam room, and hot tub, anyway.
01. No, this is old fogie Gen X thinking. Gen Y women have no problem telling you this.
Nah, they're on their way out. No, I mean become a Hedge Fund Manager. Or a high class banker. Move to NYC, the only place the housing market bubble still exists.
.sig, I would have thought you'd know that the housing bubble is alive and well in the Greater Seattle area.
Considering your
Plus, we have math and science jobs here.
And thus, don't expect to see any high-paying jobs in these fields.
Sad, but true.
from my cold dead robotic-enhanced RFID-enabled hands!