What's even funnier is that I stole the joke from somebody else who did exactly the same thing a few weeks ago.
Reusable comedy is comedy gold. Er, and speaking of which, a "funny" rating garners no extra karma. The theory about this is that many (most?) comments rated "funny" are meant to be serious but are so incredibly stupid as to be funny. You don't lose karma with them because then people would try NOT to be funny.
What I think is absufuckinglutely hilarious is when I'm trying for "funny" and get modded "insightful".
Anyway, the galaxies have many awesome processes -- nebulas, supernovae, supermassive blackholes and that strange darkmatter 'void' -- some that we can, perhaps, take advantage of.
Look, dude, we're really really stupid and primitive*. We don't even understand subatomic phenomena very well. We are incredibly, mind-numbingly ignorant. There's a far greater chance that rather than taking advantage of these processes, they will take advantage of US.
-mcgrew
*Offtopic here, but I think the idea of alians from space visiting earth is really silly. What are the odds? I think it far more likely that if UFOs are aliens, they're from the one and only planet that we know has life.
We have only been here as a species for a hundred thousand years. Ten million years ago we were small mouselike things. What will our descendants be like ten million years in the future? If time travel is possible they will have figured out how to accomplish it. I think if the Roswell aliens are real and non-human (actually I don't, I think they're "Skunk Works"), they are the species we evolve into going back for a little archaeology.
It's scary just how many different things out there seem waiting to kill you; from asteroids to stellar explosions to, now, death-star black-holes.
I think your chances of dying from cancer, heart disease, auto accident, industrial accident, old age or even 'teh terrists' (unlikely as dying from a terrorist attack is) ar far, far greater than dying from some extraterrestrial phenomenon.
But no matter how you're going to die, you're going to die. There's no point in fearing the inevitable. We are all under a sentence of death. Enjoy your time in this universe while you're still here to do so.
I think it's a dupe. According to my user page here, I submitted "Intergfalactic particle beam spotted" on Monday December 17, @04:53PM. It was rejected, but someone else submitted the same story and it was posted.
I should have made a journal out of it, because I remember being in a silly mood that day and made quips about an intergalactic war. Peobably said something about a Romulan hull breach or something. On retrospect if I'd seen my submission in the firehose I'd have clicked the minus sign too.
Now for a bit of on-topic wild science fiction conjecture: If a civilization that was far enough advanced that they had interstellar travel decided to try and reach a neighboring galaxy, it seems that just like we primitive apes use a planet's gravity to accellerate probes like Voyager to slingshot them out of the solar system, perhaps this is an intergalactic probe. An advanced civilization may be using a black hole to slingshot scientific instruments to its neighboring galaxy.
Of course, if you really want to get science fictiony, maybe it's an intergalactic war?
For you mundane, "just the fax maam" nerds, well, you're probably right. It's probably just a coincidental natural phenomenon.
DUPLICATION is a lot easier with digital forms of media. I mean, holy crap/., this is probably one of the fastest dupes in the same field of interest I've ever seen.
Yes I got the humor there but I got to bed late last night. So I shall pedantically point out, as if you weren't just joking, that Parker Brothers owns the copyright to Monopoly.
My 42 year old friend's 27 year old husband threatened my life a while back. I later pointed out to the stupid alien that I fight like an old man, and would be out of the hospital before ge got out of jail, and when he did get out of jail everything he owned would be mine, including his wife if I wanted her, and his dumb ass would be in Peru.
The courts are there to right injustice. However, like any tool, they can be misused. You can use a screwdriver to drive a screw or to stab someone in the heart. The same goes for the courts.
The trouble is there's no monopoly here. Google is one among hundreds of search engines. Microsoft has its own, it was there first. Why do they whine about "monopoly" when they had every chance to monopolize search on their own? All they would have had to do was to deliver relevant links in a fast page, as opposed to delivering irrelevent links in a bloated, takes forever to load page.
And doubleclick is one of thousands of ad agencies. No monopoly there either. And if you don't have a monopoly you can't use one unfairly. If Microsoft knew so much about monopolies they would have had no trouble not abusing theirs instead of dragging shit out first in US courts and then in EU courts.
-mcgrew
PS: I love the article you linked;)
Tu quoque (Latin for "Thou, too" or "Thou, also") is an argument that asserts or implies that a certain position is false or wrong and/or should be disregarded because its proponent fails to consistently act in accordance with that position; it attempts to show that a criticism or objection applies equally to the person making it. It can be considered an ad hominem argument, since it focuses on the opposite party itself, rather than its positions.
COTS software is usually considered easier to validate for a variety of reasons : if it is a largely used piece of software (say Excel), it is likely its usage in other medical instruments has been validated before.
By now you've probably seen a lot of the brouhaha over a bug in the newest version of Excel, 2007. Basically, multiplying 77.1*850, which should give you 65,535, was actually displaying 100,000.
As a matter of course, if you make the first post you will be autoimatically modded "troll", "flamebait", or more usually "offtopic". Some people have no sense of humor! You want troll? I'll give you troll, here in Springfield we do our trolling offline! And of course this would be flamebait. As to "offtopic" well, this comment is offtopic. Or not!
So it seems that the oft-rumored handset from Google has taken that final leap into the "confirmed" column, though it may not be quite the be-all, end-all device we were expecting. Isabel Aguilera, Google's chief executive in Spain and Portugal, has admitted that the searchmeisters have some mobile goodness in the works but appeared to play down the project, noting that the phone is just one of 18 R&D initiatives the company currently has underway. Furthermore, she mentioned that Google's mobile skunkworks were designed to make their way into developing countries, suggesting that this may not be the Samsung sourced, iPhone-killing monster we'd been getting an earful about as of late. But hey, if Apple intends to turn the iPhone into a multi-device franchise, Google's entitled to do the same, is it not?
Well, slashdot is a great place to go snark hunting. IMO shark is best breaded and frieed, although some like it grilled. Be sure not to shoot one out of season or the mods, er "game wardens" will be all over you.
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What's even funnier is that I stole the joke from somebody else who did exactly the same thing a few weeks ago.
Reusable comedy is comedy gold. Er, and speaking of which, a "funny" rating garners no extra karma. The theory about this is that many (most?) comments rated "funny" are meant to be serious but are so incredibly stupid as to be funny. You don't lose karma with them because then people would try NOT to be funny.
What I think is absufuckinglutely hilarious is when I'm trying for "funny" and get modded "insightful".
"Yo, c'mere."
"Yes maam?"
"You doin' a piss po' job. We ain't had no johns 'round hea fo' days."
"But it's the holidays, it's always slow this time of year."
"Don' matta, yo fired!"
Wasn't this black hole shooting at a galaxy last week? Or was it a different hole?
Yeah, here's the newspaper story.
Naw, they're far too busy editing to google. Especially Cowboy Neal.
Anyway, the galaxies have many awesome processes -- nebulas, supernovae, supermassive blackholes and that strange darkmatter 'void' -- some that we can, perhaps, take advantage of.
Look, dude, we're really really stupid and primitive*. We don't even understand subatomic phenomena very well. We are incredibly, mind-numbingly ignorant. There's a far greater chance that rather than taking advantage of these processes, they will take advantage of US.
-mcgrew
*Offtopic here, but I think the idea of alians from space visiting earth is really silly. What are the odds? I think it far more likely that if UFOs are aliens, they're from the one and only planet that we know has life.
We have only been here as a species for a hundred thousand years. Ten million years ago we were small mouselike things. What will our descendants be like ten million years in the future? If time travel is possible they will have figured out how to accomplish it. I think if the Roswell aliens are real and non-human (actually I don't, I think they're "Skunk Works"), they are the species we evolve into going back for a little archaeology.
That's no moon!
If course it isn't, silly. It's a black hole.
-mcgrew
Happy nude year!
It's scary just how many different things out there seem waiting to kill you; from asteroids to stellar explosions to, now, death-star black-holes.
I think your chances of dying from cancer, heart disease, auto accident, industrial accident, old age or even 'teh terrists' (unlikely as dying from a terrorist attack is) ar far, far greater than dying from some extraterrestrial phenomenon.
But no matter how you're going to die, you're going to die. There's no point in fearing the inevitable. We are all under a sentence of death. Enjoy your time in this universe while you're still here to do so.
-mcgrew
I think it's a dupe. According to my user page here, I submitted "Intergfalactic particle beam spotted" on Monday December 17, @04:53PM. It was rejected, but someone else submitted the same story and it was posted.
I should have made a journal out of it, because I remember being in a silly mood that day and made quips about an intergalactic war. Peobably said something about a Romulan hull breach or something. On retrospect if I'd seen my submission in the firehose I'd have clicked the minus sign too.
Now for a bit of on-topic wild science fiction conjecture: If a civilization that was far enough advanced that they had interstellar travel decided to try and reach a neighboring galaxy, it seems that just like we primitive apes use a planet's gravity to accellerate probes like Voyager to slingshot them out of the solar system, perhaps this is an intergalactic probe. An advanced civilization may be using a black hole to slingshot scientific instruments to its neighboring galaxy.
Of course, if you really want to get science fictiony, maybe it's an intergalactic war?
For you mundane, "just the fax maam" nerds, well, you're probably right. It's probably just a coincidental natural phenomenon.
-mcgrew
An obvious solution would be to release these old films into the public domain
Change the copyright laws back to what they were in 1900 and every movie, TV show, LP, CD, and tape made before 1987 will be in the public domain.
-mcgrew
DUPLICATION is a lot easier with digital forms of media. I mean, holy crap /., this is probably one of the fastest dupes in the same field of interest I've ever seen.
Yes I got the humor there but I got to bed late last night. So I shall pedantically point out, as if you weren't just joking, that Parker Brothers owns the copyright to Monopoly.
-mcgrew
I appppplaud themn. Spwll checkers are fro sissies!
My 42 year old friend's 27 year old husband threatened my life a while back. I later pointed out to the stupid alien that I fight like an old man, and would be out of the hospital before ge got out of jail, and when he did get out of jail everything he owned would be mine, including his wife if I wanted her, and his dumb ass would be in Peru.
The courts are there to right injustice. However, like any tool, they can be misused. You can use a screwdriver to drive a screw or to stab someone in the heart. The same goes for the courts.
-mcgrew
Of course you like turtles! We all like turtles! I mean, they go down. And they go all the way down!
I think I'll nickname Odie "Turtle Girl".
-mcgrew
Then the money will be traced back to MS
SCO Search?
Neither of you know Jack Shit about trolling.
Here in Springfield we keep our trolling offline. It adds a bit of excitement you just can't get on the internet where your life isn't in danger.
And although I'd have modded the stupid thing as troll, that's only because there's no "spam" mod.
-mcgrew
And doubleclick is one of thousands of ad agencies. No monopoly there either. And if you don't have a monopoly you can't use one unfairly. If Microsoft knew so much about monopolies they would have had no trouble not abusing theirs instead of dragging shit out first in US courts and then in EU courts.
-mcgrew
PS: I love the article you linked
I'll be dating myself
;)
Spoken like a true nerd!
You're confusing Linux with Windows. Turn your nerd license .
does my spoon run linux?
There is no spoon.
That's like asking "what was the biggest flop of the 1980s, the VCR or the CD?"
-mcgrew
making mods' heads assplode since 1998
How should I know, do I look like I have crystal balls? In Soviet Russia, slashdot asks YOU!
Well, slashdot is a great place to go snark hunting. IMO shark is best breaded and frieed, although some like it grilled. Be sure not to shoot one out of season or the mods, er "game wardens" will be all over you.