If Zonk is a DM, I feel sorry for his players. Actually, I feel sorry for any player whose DM decides that particular undead aberration is worth a try.
>Someone commented asking a trucker for coverage, but usually highways are very well covered, even by the worst providers because it is easier to towers very near highways.
Which highways? As a former roving Dell hardware tech (working for a contractor, not Dell directly) for a number of counties between Stephenville and Colorado City, Texas, I can tell you that there were a number of predictable dead zones - 351 between Abilene and Albany comes to mind - along the state highways. Dead zones on state highways I can sort of understand. But the same kinds of dead zones existed along I-20. For example, I serviced TSTC Sweetwater. The campus is not five miles off I20. I could hardly get service there standing out in the middle of a parking lot. Cell calls from inside the building were impossible.
I'm sorry, but when they're blowing up fricking supply trucks, there is no "line of fire". It's a field of fire, and it accounts for large portions of where our soldiers would have to be anyway. Such is guerilla warfare. It's not the Battle of Waterloo, or even Gettysburg, or even Vietnam. It's a different war with its own rules - the b(l)ogosphere and instant mass punditry being among them.
With a physical toy, physically broken and buried, the truth is obvious and incontrovertible. The truck has no wheels. The action figure has no head. Ergo, the use value of the toy is destroyed. Not that I need to tell the father of two young boys that.
With intangibles like Free Speech, Press, or Assembly we may only realize they're broken or lost when we employ hindsight. In all the time preceding the dread realization, the various sides of the debate will have been making their cases for or against the existence of real freedom of speech.
I think it must have been when his St Augustine starting ringing. Either that, or his dog heard it and started barking at it when it wouldn't shut up. To quote Rizzo the Rat, "My mother always told me: never eat singing food."
You have a point. I've gotten so used to logging my IMs for future reference (i.e. when family members are coming into town, code syntax, etc) that I think of IM and email as variants of one another. If one thinks about their analogs - email:letter writing::IM:spoken conversation - the distinction made by the legislature crumbles. If it's illegal to solicit a minor with a written or electronic letter or to verbally (either by phone or in person) solicit a minor for sex, then using IM or chat to do the same should also be illegal.
Despite what other posters have said about this ruling involving a Stevensian understanding of the Internet, I think the ruling makes perfect sense. Instant messaging is differentiated from email only by the speed of normal interaction. IMs, like email, are a one-to-one interaction, as opposed to open-channel chat, which is potentially a one-to-many interaction - each participant has a specific expectation about the intended recipient.
But the OSI model only has seven layers! Where did the other eight floors come from? Don't tell me they're redirected layer two to layer eight. Grandfathered IRQS are bad enough.
I'll generalize a little father. 100% of the web is created by people. Some of those people support Bush, some bash him, and some regret voting for him. Further more, most people laught at potty humour, even if they immediately wish they hadn't. Ergo, even if we disagree about Bush, we can usually all laugh at fart jokes.
No guns at work? Ah, man! Why can't I play around at work while I'm playing a game where I pretend to be working?
I suppose this also means that when I find a way buy or craft the Sword of a Thousand Truths, I can't bring it in and show everyone how easy it is to cut the snack machine in half?
I'm not sure whether it should be revived or not. At the end, it seemed to be struggling to go forward. Excalibur was good, but I didn't much care for The Legend of the Rangers movie and probably wouldn't have watched the series. I'm glad it ended well (at least on balance) - a 5 year run, a good spin-off series, a handful of TV movies, and a cult following that has lasted for years. It was spared the fate of the Star Trek franchise - the horror of ST: Voyager, the almost literal ignominy (that is, not having its proper name) of Enterprise, and the timesink known as Nemesis.
The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari was very good, though. I agree on that. It was one of the episodes Harlan Ellison was heavily involved in, and it shows. Londo pulling up a floor panel to look at his own dying heart?
I know. I'm a Texan. I just didn't RTFA before I posted. I used to work as contractor for a big Austin-based PC OEM. (Can you guess?) I covered 10 counties. Best part of 10k square miles.
And yeah, the big counties out west aren't useful for much more than goat ranching, mineral prospecting, and spaceshots.
So he bought what? Half a county? Unless he's buying up land out east, where there are some darn small counties, e.g. Rockwall County, the average county has an area between nine hundred and a thousand square miles. If you factor in the counties in the Big Bend, 1000 is somewhat under the average.
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Retailers throughout Europe have reported an upswing in consumer spending following the announcement that the long-awaited Sony PlayStation 3 will not go now be available until sometime after March 2007. Asked why he was suddenly spending more money, Jan Dinkemtinkem of Amsterdam responded, "They've pushed the launch date back. I've seen saving for the Gold Package for a year. I can save a little more slowly now! I bought three dozen scarves. Everyone I know is getting one for Christmas."
In France, Marci Beaucoup explained her recent spending spree. "I've wanted the PS3 for a long time, but they're taking so long with it. I can't buy it yet, and I'm getting tired of waiting. I bought a case of really good Merlot instead. I'll save up for the PS3 later. Maybe I'll start a year or two after it launches."
And in Italy, bread sales went up dramatically, though some shoppers still seem confused about whether '1.6' means 1.6 euro or 1.6 million lirra.
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If Zonk is a DM, I feel sorry for his players. Actually, I feel sorry for any player whose DM decides that particular undead aberration is worth a try.
>Someone commented asking a trucker for coverage, but usually highways are very well covered, even by the worst providers because it is easier to towers very near highways.
Which highways? As a former roving Dell hardware tech (working for a contractor, not Dell directly) for a number of counties between Stephenville and Colorado City, Texas, I can tell you that there were a number of predictable dead zones - 351 between Abilene and Albany comes to mind - along the state highways. Dead zones on state highways I can sort of understand. But the same kinds of dead zones existed along I-20. For example, I serviced TSTC Sweetwater. The campus is not five miles off I20. I could hardly get service there standing out in the middle of a parking lot. Cell calls from inside the building were impossible.
If I had points, and a way to mod the same thread I've replied to, I'd give you a nod.
It's accurate enough. Like I said, I knew there was a Soviet Russia joke in there somewhere.
"Now shut the fuck up and get out of my courtroom before I have you all shot"
I know there's a Soviet Russia joke in here somewhere, but it's not coming to me.
He's right about one thing:
From the Wiki Talk page:
"We don't care about advertising"
Anyone who'd make such an ass of his company to its userbase obviously doesn't care about public perception at all.
His name is Robert Paulson.
His name is Robert Paulson.
From TFSummary: "out of the line of fire"
Which would be where, exactly? Bahrain? Qatar?
I'm sorry, but when they're blowing up fricking supply trucks, there is no "line of fire". It's a field of fire, and it accounts for large portions of where our soldiers would have to be anyway. Such is guerilla warfare. It's not the Battle of Waterloo, or even Gettysburg, or even Vietnam. It's a different war with its own rules - the b(l)ogosphere and instant mass punditry being among them.
Luckily therse things cost money, or noone would care about the Flying Spaghetti Monster anymore. The Flying Magnetatorus would rule supreme.
How sure are you that these supermagnets are not the work of His Noodly Appendage?
Kim Jong Il responds: "I'm So Ronery."
With a physical toy, physically broken and buried, the truth is obvious and incontrovertible. The truck has no wheels. The action figure has no head. Ergo, the use value of the toy is destroyed. Not that I need to tell the father of two young boys that.
With intangibles like Free Speech, Press, or Assembly we may only realize they're broken or lost when we employ hindsight. In all the time preceding the dread realization, the various sides of the debate will have been making their cases for or against the existence of real freedom of speech.
I think it must have been when his St Augustine starting ringing. Either that, or his dog heard it and started barking at it when it wouldn't shut up. To quote Rizzo the Rat, "My mother always told me: never eat singing food."
You neglected to mention the Phantom console's main launch title: Duke Nukem Forever.
You have a point. I've gotten so used to logging my IMs for future reference (i.e. when family members are coming into town, code syntax, etc) that I think of IM and email as variants of one another. If one thinks about their analogs - email:letter writing::IM:spoken conversation - the distinction made by the legislature crumbles. If it's illegal to solicit a minor with a written or electronic letter or to verbally (either by phone or in person) solicit a minor for sex, then using IM or chat to do the same should also be illegal.
Despite what other posters have said about this ruling involving a Stevensian understanding of the Internet, I think the ruling makes perfect sense. Instant messaging is differentiated from email only by the speed of normal interaction. IMs, like email, are a one-to-one interaction, as opposed to open-channel chat, which is potentially a one-to-many interaction - each participant has a specific expectation about the intended recipient.
But the OSI model only has seven layers! Where did the other eight floors come from? Don't tell me they're redirected layer two to layer eight. Grandfathered IRQS are bad enough.
Buzzwork? Is that labor that is trendy but useless? Congrats on a new coinage. Just be sure to patent it.
That would work, I suppose. But once you apply the thermite, what do you use to wipe the contents of the drive off the wall?
I'll generalize a little father. 100% of the web is created by people. Some of those people support Bush, some bash him, and some regret voting for him. Further more, most people laught at potty humour, even if they immediately wish they hadn't. Ergo, even if we disagree about Bush, we can usually all laugh at fart jokes.
No guns at work? Ah, man! Why can't I play around at work while I'm playing a game where I pretend to be working?
I suppose this also means that when I find a way buy or craft the Sword of a Thousand Truths, I can't bring it in and show everyone how easy it is to cut the snack machine in half?
I'm not sure whether it should be revived or not. At the end, it seemed to be struggling to go forward. Excalibur was good, but I didn't much care for The Legend of the Rangers movie and probably wouldn't have watched the series. I'm glad it ended well (at least on balance) - a 5 year run, a good spin-off series, a handful of TV movies, and a cult following that has lasted for years. It was spared the fate of the Star Trek franchise - the horror of ST: Voyager, the almost literal ignominy (that is, not having its proper name) of Enterprise, and the timesink known as Nemesis. The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari was very good, though. I agree on that. It was one of the episodes Harlan Ellison was heavily involved in, and it shows. Londo pulling up a floor panel to look at his own dying heart?
It's like the warning on I heard about on a Japanese chainsaw: "Keep out of small children".
I know. I'm a Texan. I just didn't RTFA before I posted. I used to work as contractor for a big Austin-based PC OEM. (Can you guess?) I covered 10 counties. Best part of 10k square miles. And yeah, the big counties out west aren't useful for much more than goat ranching, mineral prospecting, and spaceshots.
So he bought what? Half a county? Unless he's buying up land out east, where there are some darn small counties, e.g. Rockwall County, the average county has an area between nine hundred and a thousand square miles. If you factor in the counties in the Big Bend, 1000 is somewhat under the average.
Retailers throughout Europe have reported an upswing in consumer spending following the announcement that the long-awaited Sony PlayStation 3 will not go now be available until sometime after March 2007. Asked why he was suddenly spending more money, Jan Dinkemtinkem of Amsterdam responded, "They've pushed the launch date back. I've seen saving for the Gold Package for a year. I can save a little more slowly now! I bought three dozen scarves. Everyone I know is getting one for Christmas."
In France, Marci Beaucoup explained her recent spending spree. "I've wanted the PS3 for a long time, but they're taking so long with it. I can't buy it yet, and I'm getting tired of waiting. I bought a case of really good Merlot instead. I'll save up for the PS3 later. Maybe I'll start a year or two after it launches."
And in Italy, bread sales went up dramatically, though some shoppers still seem confused about whether '1.6' means 1.6 euro or 1.6 million lirra.