I read for information, inspiration, or entertainment. After the first 3½ GoT books, I decided that allowing myself to be bludgeoned any longer by an author who seems to delight in building up sympathy for characters then killing them horribly would amount to masochism, which (for me, at least) doesn't fit into any of those three categories.
it begins *literally* with the "White Room Syndrome" and i was like "OH NOOO! the white room syndrome!!" - that's where the main character wakes up in a white room, with only one (white) door, and no furniture, with no memory of past events, and it symbolises the author's own total lack of imagination at being able to begin the story even from page one...
That's actually not much different from the beginning of the first Amber novel IIRC.
Stop trying to pretend that Awwad was somehow wronged, because he wasn't. He was obligated to report the contact promptly, and his failure to do so constituted a crime.
Then he wasn't a wise man because that's a stupid statement. If you go verify something, then you weren't trusting the source. The whole point of trust is that you don't need to verify. However, the statement is a good way to identify stupid people to avoid.
Nevertheless, it may well have helped keep the US and the USSR from blowing each other to smithereens, back in the day. (And taking out a fair amount of the rest of the world in the process.)
Transmitting a secret to unauthorised parties is commonly referred to as "stealing" it.
Given that this deprives the original holder of the secrecy which his information previously possessed, I think that's a perfectly acceptable use of the verb.
You seem to assume that Awwad was smarter than the FBI. Given how things turned out, that assumption appears to be invalid, and certainly not worth all the foaming you've been doing on its behalf.
Wiley will publish anything that anyone's willing to write and not get paid for. I've had dealings with them before, and they've received my invitation to go fuck themselves.
Nothing is really new, and those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
At least you actually responded instead of dumping Overrated mods on me, which just makes it obvious that you really don't have a response because I've got you gutless-wonder racist motherfuckers dead to rights.
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Actually, Kim Il Sung was Little Kim's grandfather.
I don't think it's a cool story.
I read for information, inspiration, or entertainment. After the first 3½ GoT books, I decided that allowing myself to be bludgeoned any longer by an author who seems to delight in building up sympathy for characters then killing them horribly would amount to masochism, which (for me, at least) doesn't fit into any of those three categories.
it begins *literally* with the "White Room Syndrome" and i was like "OH NOOO! the white room syndrome!!" - that's where the main character wakes up in a white room, with only one (white) door, and no furniture, with no memory of past events, and it symbolises the author's own total lack of imagination at being able to begin the story even from page one...
That's actually not much different from the beginning of the first Amber novel IIRC.
Not only is this not an "artifact" of using the same tool, it's not even an artefact of using the same tool.
+1, Flamebait
People made similar noises about JFK's Catholicism, but he still managed to get elected.
And while I'd vote for an atheist, I've few illusions about one actually winning in the US, even in this enlightened 21st Century of ours.
With careful selection of the type of sting you could probably catch well over a quarter of the adult population that way.
Exactly! The quarter of the population that should never be granted a security clearance.
The fish still took the bait of his own accord.
Stop trying to pretend that Awwad was somehow wronged, because he wasn't. He was obligated to report the contact promptly, and his failure to do so constituted a crime.
Then he wasn't a wise man because that's a stupid statement. If you go verify something, then you weren't trusting the source. The whole point of trust is that you don't need to verify. However, the statement is a good way to identify stupid people to avoid.
Nevertheless, it may well have helped keep the US and the USSR from blowing each other to smithereens, back in the day. (And taking out a fair amount of the rest of the world in the process.)
I'm very sorry you were modded Troll. I'm also sorry that I've already posted in this discussion, or I'd do something about it.
Transmitting a secret to unauthorised parties is commonly referred to as "stealing" it.
Given that this deprives the original holder of the secrecy which his information previously possessed, I think that's a perfectly acceptable use of the verb.
You seem to assume that Awwad was smarter than the FBI. Given how things turned out, that assumption appears to be invalid, and certainly not worth all the foaming you've been doing on its behalf.
Conspiracy? Doesn't matter.
Self-appointed censors having multiple back doors to enforcement, including government enforcement? That matters.
Uh, what? Carter was a *nuclear* engineer, and he *did* know better.
Wiley will publish anything that anyone's willing to write and not get paid for. I've had dealings with them before, and they've received my invitation to go fuck themselves.
Ow. I think my IQ has been lowered about 5 points by reading this.
Well, if it isn't roman_mir, the guy who tries to trick people into reading his nonsense journal entries via URL-shorteners.
http://tinyurl.com/bylguza = http://slashdot.org/journal/30...
The shortened URL resolves to http://cen.acs.org/articles/92...
Nobody's getting rick-rolled. This time.
They still support POP3 as well.
+1. Verbing is not nearly as cool as Marketing would have us believe.
Works just fine with a standard email client, though. Been using T-Bird to access my account for years.
It is all that is terrible about current UX design.
There's something about "UX" that isn't terrible?
Whatever happened to user interfaces--y'know, those things that are supposed to go in between applications and us?
It would help if the headline would parse.
I'm still trying to figure out what's intended by using "one" as a verb.
Heads up, it's not the sixties anymore.
Is that really the best you can come up with?
Nothing is really new, and those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
At least you actually responded instead of dumping Overrated mods on me, which just makes it obvious that you really don't have a response because I've got you gutless-wonder racist motherfuckers dead to rights.
I'm not only a native speaker, I'm a writer and editor with about 20 years of experience.
It's never proper to refer to a human person as "it"... Unless your intent is to dehumanise, of course.