Hey, if we can find a way to keep those pussy-ass Giant Pandas around, we shouldn't have any trouble preserving these things. At least we'll probably be able to get THEM to mate and not kill their own young.
Yeah, 90% of everything is crap and always has been. That doesn't mean everything on TV sucks. There are a lot of great shows in that 10%. Unfortunately, they tend to get cancelled while shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians get renewed. But 90% of people's tastes apparently suck too. Every time I get depressed about it, some great new show comes along to renew my faith.
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When in 'reality' we know that your taste is so much more hip than anyones.
I listen to bands so niche that even they haven't heard their music.
Hey, I'll have you know I've hiked every mountain in Skyrim.
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AND I contribute to my local economy.
Buying from my local record store was only helping keep the local weed dealer in business. But to each his own.
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Anything my girlfriend likes.
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Well, there are bands whose albums you buy and then there are bands who make one or two decent songs and then sleepwalk through the rest of the recording sessions. At least now I have an option to treat them differently.
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I'm not sure where the arrogant stoner went after the local record store closed. But if I had to guess, I would imagine he's in his Mom's basement right now listening to a post-pre-punk ska glam fusion band on vinyl and longing for the days when he could spend all day telling customers how much better his tastes were than theirs.
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The music industry had to be dragged kicking, clawing, and screaming into the 21st century. If it weren't for Napster and iTunes we'd all still be driving down to the record store to buy $15 CD's, just to get the one or two songs you actually want and the 10 other songs that are complete filler. It's sad that Napster had to be a sacrifice on the road to the industry finally waking up and realizing that people actually want digital music and they want it at a reasonable per-song price--that we'd had enough of getting gouged under the old LP/CD system.
Of course, they're still grumbling about it--and many of them still want to slap DRM on their music. But at least Napster (and later Kazaa) were there to scare the industry and make them realize that people want to download digital music, and iTunes was there to show them that, yes, you can still make money off it (but we're not buying your overpriced albums anymore for one song).
Of course, I'm sure the arrogant stoner at my local record store hates this, as he no longer gets to snort at my record choices and tell me about how *HIS* taste is so much more hip than mine.
Bah, I don't even get what is supposed to be so revolutionary about this. I've had a pneumatically-controlled rubber robot that can get into small spaces for years.
Penn and Teller did an episode of Bullshit! on recycling a few years ago. Their conclusion was that aluminum recycling (and some other scrap metals) was the only economical form of recycling (which was why you saw so many people dumpster-diving for cans). Every other form is just a money-pit. With most of this stuff, it costs more to recycle it than to make it new. It's just a feel-good thing for the most part. It's why no one will pay you for your used glass, plastic, and paper--but will for aluminum and some other metals.
Everywhere I have been that makes you sort recyclables has been way too picky about what can and can't be recycled.
Amen. I wanted to be a good citizen and all that shit too. But it got to where the rules became more and more complicated as to what could and could not be recycled. And then it got to where if there was ONE thing in the recycle bin that wasn't supposed to be there, they would just leave the whole thing. I got so tired of walking out and finding that they hadn't picked it up, I finally just said "Fuck it" and began tossing it all in the trash.
If it's so goddamned economical and advantageous to recycle (as the hippies claim) why are they such dicks about making us do *all* the work? Why do *I* have to know which type of plastic is which? I'm sorry if my knowledge of polymers is limited to one semester of organic chemistry many years ago, but can anyone make sense of some of these new rules? I mean, they're supposedly making all this money off it, right? Why not use all those supposed riches to pay for their own sorting?
Frankly, mandatory composting sounds like another one of those over-hyped, feel-good ideas where they CLAIM all these great benefits. But when the rubber actually hits the road, just watch your taxes go up to pay for it. Watch them become more and more stringent on what can and cannot be composted. Watch the whole great thing turn into another feel-good-but-accomplish-nothing money-pit.
In response to questions about privacy concerns, various government intelligence organizations from around the world, along with industry representative from Google, Apple, et. al. assembled at the first annual "Nope, Nothing to See Here" Privacy and Security Conference in London. "We are very pleased to report that there is nothing to these silly rumors. We've examined the concerns and determined that there is no need to worry," announced conference chair Janet Napolitano. The conference closed several minutes later, with industry representatives congratulating each other on dealing with all the privacy concerns in their products. "See, I told you there was no need to worry," said Apple CEO Tim Cook, shaking hands with Google CEO Larry Page.
the footage seen in theaters and on MST3K was two copies away from the original, and they skimped on the transfers, resulting in horrible film quality.
Now if only they could fix the horrible acting, directing, writing, and editing...
Elite, developed for the BBC Micro and published by the same company that made the Micro, did get a lot of attention here in the U.S. (it was ported to all the major platforms). It was one of the first big universe sandbox games, and modern games like EvE Online are still influenced by it.
Yes, except we KNOW that the human brain works nothing like a binary computer. We know that almost nothing in nature that we have even begun to understand works like a binary computer. So why would anyone in their right mind assume that the UNIVERSE does? The binary computer is just a practical tool we invented in the 20th century, taking advantage of the on/off switching tech available at the time. It's not a model for the freaking universe.
NC is just mad that they didn't make all their tax breaks contingent on ACTUAL LOCAL JOBS being created. Shame on them for just assuming that a big complex would create local jobs without making them put it in writing. Hell, I'm not a commerce expert and even I know that Apple just doesn't do domestic U.S. manufacturing. Did NC really think that was going to change because of a few lousy tax breaks? That's like giving Walmart tax breaks with the logic of "Well, if we get a Walmart in here, they'll buy our local goods." Dumb, dumb, dumb.
Does this mean that all those douchebags out in the quad with their Macbooks won't be able to reproduce? You know, the pricks who seem to do nothing all day but tell everyone that they don't even *OWN* a TV and preach about how big corporations are destroying America while crying to videos of the Steve Jobs memorial service with absolutely no sense of the irony. So this is going to lessen the chances that they will ever produce another generation to take up every goddamn table in the coffee shop all day while actual paying customers can't get a fucking seat?
I say we leave this particular health threat alone.
According to the article, PopCap turned down their offer and went with Electronic Arts instead, because they thought that working conditions would be better at EA. Yes, read that last part again: they would rather deal with the working conditions at EA than work for Zynga. That's pretty bad.
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Hey, if we can find a way to keep those pussy-ass Giant Pandas around, we shouldn't have any trouble preserving these things. At least we'll probably be able to get THEM to mate and not kill their own young.
the better choice for mass
Well there is the *real* problem--mass. Food, water, radiation shielding, fuel--that all takes up a lot of mass too. If only Mars were in LEO.
Well, one problem down, about a million to go.
Yeah, 90% of everything is crap and always has been. That doesn't mean everything on TV sucks. There are a lot of great shows in that 10%. Unfortunately, they tend to get cancelled while shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians get renewed. But 90% of people's tastes apparently suck too. Every time I get depressed about it, some great new show comes along to renew my faith.
When in 'reality' we know that your taste is so much more hip than anyones.
I listen to bands so niche that even they haven't heard their music.
Hey, I'll have you know I've hiked every mountain in Skyrim.
AND I contribute to my local economy.
Buying from my local record store was only helping keep the local weed dealer in business. But to each his own.
Anything my girlfriend likes.
Well, there are bands whose albums you buy and then there are bands who make one or two decent songs and then sleepwalk through the rest of the recording sessions. At least now I have an option to treat them differently.
I'm not sure where the arrogant stoner went after the local record store closed. But if I had to guess, I would imagine he's in his Mom's basement right now listening to a post-pre-punk ska glam fusion band on vinyl and longing for the days when he could spend all day telling customers how much better his tastes were than theirs.
The music industry had to be dragged kicking, clawing, and screaming into the 21st century. If it weren't for Napster and iTunes we'd all still be driving down to the record store to buy $15 CD's, just to get the one or two songs you actually want and the 10 other songs that are complete filler. It's sad that Napster had to be a sacrifice on the road to the industry finally waking up and realizing that people actually want digital music and they want it at a reasonable per-song price--that we'd had enough of getting gouged under the old LP/CD system.
Of course, they're still grumbling about it--and many of them still want to slap DRM on their music. But at least Napster (and later Kazaa) were there to scare the industry and make them realize that people want to download digital music, and iTunes was there to show them that, yes, you can still make money off it (but we're not buying your overpriced albums anymore for one song).
Of course, I'm sure the arrogant stoner at my local record store hates this, as he no longer gets to snort at my record choices and tell me about how *HIS* taste is so much more hip than mine.
Bah, I don't even get what is supposed to be so revolutionary about this. I've had a pneumatically-controlled rubber robot that can get into small spaces for years.
Penn and Teller did an episode of Bullshit! on recycling a few years ago. Their conclusion was that aluminum recycling (and some other scrap metals) was the only economical form of recycling (which was why you saw so many people dumpster-diving for cans). Every other form is just a money-pit. With most of this stuff, it costs more to recycle it than to make it new. It's just a feel-good thing for the most part. It's why no one will pay you for your used glass, plastic, and paper--but will for aluminum and some other metals.
Everywhere I have been that makes you sort recyclables has been way too picky about what can and can't be recycled.
Amen. I wanted to be a good citizen and all that shit too. But it got to where the rules became more and more complicated as to what could and could not be recycled. And then it got to where if there was ONE thing in the recycle bin that wasn't supposed to be there, they would just leave the whole thing. I got so tired of walking out and finding that they hadn't picked it up, I finally just said "Fuck it" and began tossing it all in the trash.
If it's so goddamned economical and advantageous to recycle (as the hippies claim) why are they such dicks about making us do *all* the work? Why do *I* have to know which type of plastic is which? I'm sorry if my knowledge of polymers is limited to one semester of organic chemistry many years ago, but can anyone make sense of some of these new rules? I mean, they're supposedly making all this money off it, right? Why not use all those supposed riches to pay for their own sorting?
Frankly, mandatory composting sounds like another one of those over-hyped, feel-good ideas where they CLAIM all these great benefits. But when the rubber actually hits the road, just watch your taxes go up to pay for it. Watch them become more and more stringent on what can and cannot be composted. Watch the whole great thing turn into another feel-good-but-accomplish-nothing money-pit.
In response to questions about privacy concerns, various government intelligence organizations from around the world, along with industry representative from Google, Apple, et. al. assembled at the first annual "Nope, Nothing to See Here" Privacy and Security Conference in London. "We are very pleased to report that there is nothing to these silly rumors. We've examined the concerns and determined that there is no need to worry," announced conference chair Janet Napolitano. The conference closed several minutes later, with industry representatives congratulating each other on dealing with all the privacy concerns in their products. "See, I told you there was no need to worry," said Apple CEO Tim Cook, shaking hands with Google CEO Larry Page.
the footage seen in theaters and on MST3K was two copies away from the original, and they skimped on the transfers, resulting in horrible film quality.
Now if only they could fix the horrible acting, directing, writing, and editing...
Elite, developed for the BBC Micro and published by the same company that made the Micro, did get a lot of attention here in the U.S. (it was ported to all the major platforms). It was one of the first big universe sandbox games, and modern games like EvE Online are still influenced by it.
Yes, except we KNOW that the human brain works nothing like a binary computer. We know that almost nothing in nature that we have even begun to understand works like a binary computer. So why would anyone in their right mind assume that the UNIVERSE does? The binary computer is just a practical tool we invented in the 20th century, taking advantage of the on/off switching tech available at the time. It's not a model for the freaking universe.
I was referring to the modern binary computer, a 20th century invention.
NC is just mad that they didn't make all their tax breaks contingent on ACTUAL LOCAL JOBS being created. Shame on them for just assuming that a big complex would create local jobs without making them put it in writing. Hell, I'm not a commerce expert and even I know that Apple just doesn't do domestic U.S. manufacturing. Did NC really think that was going to change because of a few lousy tax breaks? That's like giving Walmart tax breaks with the logic of "Well, if we get a Walmart in here, they'll buy our local goods." Dumb, dumb, dumb.
When you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
And when you have a 20th-century binary computer, everything looks like a 20th century binary computer program.
I wonder if he would say those things if someone were spying on *HIS* wife or kid.
Here, drink this soda and see if you still feel that way.
Does this mean that all those douchebags out in the quad with their Macbooks won't be able to reproduce? You know, the pricks who seem to do nothing all day but tell everyone that they don't even *OWN* a TV and preach about how big corporations are destroying America while crying to videos of the Steve Jobs memorial service with absolutely no sense of the irony. So this is going to lessen the chances that they will ever produce another generation to take up every goddamn table in the coffee shop all day while actual paying customers can't get a fucking seat?
I say we leave this particular health threat alone.
According to the article, PopCap turned down their offer and went with Electronic Arts instead, because they thought that working conditions would be better at EA. Yes, read that last part again: they would rather deal with the working conditions at EA than work for Zynga. That's pretty bad.