I agree. Both 'google' and 'slashdot', as verbs, have very specific meanings that are lost in generalization. For example, the other day, on some news site or other, I saw two links at the top of the story: "digg this" and "slashdot this". What they meant to say, of course, was "submit this story to (digg|slashdot)". However, to a long-time slashdotter (I have two UIDs, one orphaned, one active), "slashdot this" struck me as a Very Bad Idea, as it actually said "reduce this server to multi-kilobuck toxic sludge."
That makes sense. I suppose I was thinking in terms of US cities. Our capitals - New York (financial) and DC (political) - seem to operate at all hours, so I assumed that a city as internationally important as London would do likewise.
While I can't be sure, as I have never played the game (though it sounds hella fun), it would seem that stalking someone through the Underground might violate the rule against "spray and pray" assassination. While not as crowded as a Japanese subway system, I would imagine that the London Underground stays rather busy, even at odd times of night.
I haven't studied Joseph Campbell yet (My wife wouldn't let me read Hero With a Thousand Faces while she was still using it to write her thesis, and now that's she's done and graduated, I'm bogged down in ZMM), but I once took a class on Modern Fantasy, taught by my University's resident Lewis/MacDonald scholar. IIRC, the prof repeatedly remarked that Tolkien once said approximately the same thing. Tolkien apparently described his own belief system, Christianity, as a mythology that happened to come true. Where exactly he said this I can't say, however.
"They want it to look like this came from someone who really believes this, who is really critical of Al Gore and global warming," Farsetta said.
There's an interesting assumption here: that the people criticizing Al Gore believe what he has to say but don't want to admit it - that Big Oil, Big Business, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, etc. are lying when they say that they don't think "global warming" is happening. Or alternately, that only the "little people" can have valid opinions on the subject.,/p>
How does that make sense? If I, as an average citizen, espouse the opinion "Al Gore is a boring, irrelevant blowhard", I am being honest, but once I do something like rise to the presidency of my company or amass more than a million dollars in personal net worth, suddenly a statement like "I think Al Gore is a boring, irrelevant blowhard" is disingenuous?
But...but...If sales soar and profits soar, artists won't own the labels their souls anymore... With no 'debts' to cover, there will be no reason for them to get locked into abusive, multi-record deals anymore... The whole business model will collapse. Business models can't collapse! It's unpossible!
On July 18, AOL tried to lure Digg's top 50 contributors with $1,000 a month to switch to its site, which led Rose to rant on his weekly podcast that Calcanis and AOL were trying to "squash Digg." The corporate giant's failure to gain inroads so far shows that simply copying Digg won't work. It also spells out why Old Media types are so afraid of being eaten alive by the creative destruction these young new players are delivering. The barriers to entry are now so low that all it takes is a laptop and a $50-a-month Internet hookup to make a kid the next mogul. Emphasis mine.
To quote the late great Hubert Farnsworth: "Huh-wha?"
Are the BW writers totally logic-impaired? AOL==Old Media? Creative destruction? Barriers to entry are low because all it takes is X and Y? Are they deliberately ignoring all the things that X and Y depend upon?
I think they might have tried it once. Then they integrated Clippy.
Word->Insert->Scripture->John->Chapter 3->Verse 16
Clippy:
"I'm sorry, I can't find that file. Would you like to:"
Cite the Koran
Cite the Book of Mormon
Cite the Rig Veda
Cite the Watchtower Bible
Cite the Book of Common Prayer
No matter what the user does next: You have chosen The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
I think, then, that your sci-fi geekdom surpasses mine. I know just enough to worry that I've missed some capitalization or put an apostrophe in the wrong place.
If you read the other replies to the GP poster, you'll find they are trollish and flamebaiting as well as not even replying to what the GP said. Given the tone of their replies, I didn't want to be mistaken for more of the same. But, yes, you are right: A Klingon warrior would find my aside spineless.
That would be the Q'onos group, you spineless p'taq!
BTW, I included the "spineless p'taq" comment in order to keep with the theme, not because I'm trying to be insulting. I think of it as an "insensitive clod" joke, only with more glory and honor. Qapla!
I don't know about good, but evil appears to have an established definition: http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/E/evil.html It is, of course, not everyone's definition, but MS products tend to have a high Evil-to-'Good Thing' ratio.
Frankly, Lord of the Rings is a grade school fairy tale compared to the Dune series. There are very few books that address the scope of history that Dune presents. The first book is a basic adventure but the subsequent books explore the nature of heros, mesiahs, and rulers throughout a vast span of (future) history.
I would have to disagree. It seems to me that both The Lord of the Rings and The Dune Chronicles (by which I mean the six Dune books that Frank Herbert wrote) are sui generis. There are points of comparison, but they are limited by the differences in scope and focus. Dune is in some ways a classical tragedy, i.e., a story of the nobility exalted by their virtues and brought down by their humanity. The Lord of the Rings, while also a tragedy in some sense, takes its cast of characters from more layers of society: many are nobles or even godlike, but some are very, very humble or even profoundly debased.
Moving beyond the question of focal characters to the unities of time that you refer to, The Lord of the Rings is on its face much more compact than The Dune Chronicles. However, Herbert plays fast and loose (as is his right) with the flow of time. He polevaults over 3000 years of future history between the last word of Children of Dune and the first word of God Emperor of Dune. He appears (IIRC) to do it again between God Emperor and Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune. In other words, The Lord of The Rings shows unities of time that Herbert deliberately discards.
I suppose I can sum my thoughts up by saying that comparing the Dune Chronicles to LOTR seems to be a lot like comparing da Vinci's Last Supper with Michelangelo's work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Each one is a masterwork in its own right. Each artist chose a specific scope and worked within that scope as he saw fit. Neither should be faulted for not being the other.
From my experience with Star Trek roleplay (admittedly a chat-based roleplay in a Star Trek metaverse, rather than a strictly canon universe), they might. They might also ask: Who made the tricorder? Who made the medpak? What models are they exactly? What tech manual is the role-player referencing? A Federation triage kit and a Cardassian triage kit may be far from equivalent.
A certain fraction of the time anything involving combat quickly devolved into technical bickering. It made starship combat a real pain in the ass at times.
Slashdot Mirror
"I have a heart! I keep it in a jar on my desk!"
I agree. Both 'google' and 'slashdot', as verbs, have very specific meanings that are lost in generalization. For example, the other day, on some news site or other, I saw two links at the top of the story: "digg this" and "slashdot this". What they meant to say, of course, was "submit this story to (digg|slashdot)". However, to a long-time slashdotter (I have two UIDs, one orphaned, one active), "slashdot this" struck me as a Very Bad Idea, as it actually said "reduce this server to multi-kilobuck toxic sludge."
That makes sense. I suppose I was thinking in terms of US cities. Our capitals - New York (financial) and DC (political) - seem to operate at all hours, so I assumed that a city as internationally important as London would do likewise.
I need to have a BM so I can leave for my AA meeting ASAP....
TMI?
all cargo is shipped seperately via UPS
At least it would get to the right place in a timely fashion....
I assumed that the tube ran 24 hours a day. My mistake.
While I can't be sure, as I have never played the game (though it sounds hella fun), it would seem that stalking someone through the Underground might violate the rule against "spray and pray" assassination. While not as crowded as a Japanese subway system, I would imagine that the London Underground stays rather busy, even at odd times of night.
Thank you.
And yes, the basic thesis does seem to become less plausible when Campbell makes the jump from anthropology to Jungian psychology.I haven't studied Joseph Campbell yet (My wife wouldn't let me read Hero With a Thousand Faces while she was still using it to write her thesis, and now that's she's done and graduated, I'm bogged down in ZMM), but I once took a class on Modern Fantasy, taught by my University's resident Lewis/MacDonald scholar. IIRC, the prof repeatedly remarked that Tolkien once said approximately the same thing. Tolkien apparently described his own belief system, Christianity, as a mythology that happened to come true. Where exactly he said this I can't say, however.
"They want it to look like this came from someone who really believes this, who is really critical of Al Gore and global warming," Farsetta said.
There's an interesting assumption here: that the people criticizing Al Gore believe what he has to say but don't want to admit it - that Big Oil, Big Business, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, etc. are lying when they say that they don't think "global warming" is happening. Or alternately, that only the "little people" can have valid opinions on the subject.,/p>
How does that make sense? If I, as an average citizen, espouse the opinion "Al Gore is a boring, irrelevant blowhard", I am being honest, but once I do something like rise to the presidency of my company or amass more than a million dollars in personal net worth, suddenly a statement like "I think Al Gore is a boring, irrelevant blowhard" is disingenuous?
"You have selected 'Slow and Painful'"
Late in the sense that the series has been cancelled (and revived only as a series of short movies).
But...but...If sales soar and profits soar, artists won't own the labels their souls anymore... With no 'debts' to cover, there will be no reason for them to get locked into abusive, multi-record deals anymore... The whole business model will collapse. Business models can't collapse! It's unpossible!
On July 18, AOL tried to lure Digg's top 50 contributors with $1,000 a month to switch to its site, which led Rose to rant on his weekly podcast that Calcanis and AOL were trying to "squash Digg." The corporate giant's failure to gain inroads so far shows that simply copying Digg won't work. It also spells out why Old Media types are so afraid of being eaten alive by the creative destruction these young new players are delivering. The barriers to entry are now so low that all it takes is a laptop and a $50-a-month Internet hookup to make a kid the next mogul. Emphasis mine.
To quote the late great Hubert Farnsworth: "Huh-wha?"
Are the BW writers totally logic-impaired? AOL==Old Media? Creative destruction? Barriers to entry are low because all it takes is X and Y? Are they deliberately ignoring all the things that X and Y depend upon?
I think they might have tried it once. Then they integrated Clippy.
Word->Insert->Scripture->John->Chapter 3->Verse 16
Clippy:
"I'm sorry, I can't find that file. Would you like to:"
Cite the Koran
Cite the Book of Mormon
Cite the Rig Veda
Cite the Watchtower Bible
Cite the Book of Common Prayer
No matter what the user does next:
You have chosen The Road Ahead by Bill Gates
I think, then, that your sci-fi geekdom surpasses mine. I know just enough to worry that I've missed some capitalization or put an apostrophe in the wrong place.
A true warrior is never afraid to offend.
If you read the other replies to the GP poster, you'll find they are trollish and flamebaiting as well as not even replying to what the GP said. Given the tone of their replies, I didn't want to be mistaken for more of the same. But, yes, you are right: A Klingon warrior would find my aside spineless.
My apologies. I thought e==2.88. My college algebra class was a long time ago.
What about 2/8/8 (e Day)? Or 10/6/6 (Norman Conquest Day)? If pi gets a day, e should too.
That would be the Q'onos group, you spineless p'taq!
BTW, I included the "spineless p'taq" comment in order to keep with the theme, not because I'm trying to be insulting. I think of it as an "insensitive clod" joke, only with more glory and honor. Qapla!
I don't know about good, but evil appears to have an established definition: http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/E/evil.html It is, of course, not everyone's definition, but MS products tend to have a high Evil-to-'Good Thing' ratio.
Frankly, Lord of the Rings is a grade school fairy tale compared to the Dune series. There are very few books that address the scope of history that Dune presents. The first book is a basic adventure but the subsequent books explore the nature of heros, mesiahs, and rulers throughout a vast span of (future) history.
I would have to disagree. It seems to me that both The Lord of the Rings and The Dune Chronicles (by which I mean the six Dune books that Frank Herbert wrote) are sui generis. There are points of comparison, but they are limited by the differences in scope and focus. Dune is in some ways a classical tragedy, i.e., a story of the nobility exalted by their virtues and brought down by their humanity. The Lord of the Rings, while also a tragedy in some sense, takes its cast of characters from more layers of society: many are nobles or even godlike, but some are very, very humble or even profoundly debased.
Moving beyond the question of focal characters to the unities of time that you refer to, The Lord of the Rings is on its face much more compact than The Dune Chronicles. However, Herbert plays fast and loose (as is his right) with the flow of time. He polevaults over 3000 years of future history between the last word of Children of Dune and the first word of God Emperor of Dune. He appears (IIRC) to do it again between God Emperor and Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune. In other words, The Lord of The Rings shows unities of time that Herbert deliberately discards.
I suppose I can sum my thoughts up by saying that comparing the Dune Chronicles to LOTR seems to be a lot like comparing da Vinci's Last Supper with Michelangelo's work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Each one is a masterwork in its own right. Each artist chose a specific scope and worked within that scope as he saw fit. Neither should be faulted for not being the other.
You enter a maze of twisting passages, all the same?
I'm sorry, but I don't speak Simlish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simlish
From my experience with Star Trek roleplay (admittedly a chat-based roleplay in a Star Trek metaverse, rather than a strictly canon universe), they might. They might also ask: Who made the tricorder? Who made the medpak? What models are they exactly? What tech manual is the role-player referencing? A Federation triage kit and a Cardassian triage kit may be far from equivalent.
A certain fraction of the time anything involving combat quickly devolved into technical bickering. It made starship combat a real pain in the ass at times.