At first I couldn't tell what you mean at all; then the staggering depths of this comment's cluelessness hit me. Japan was a feudal monarchy in the 1800's. There were no political parties then as known now. And now they have a bunch of political parties, not 'both', because it's a parliamentary system.
At first I couldn't tell what you mean at all; then the staggering depths of this comment's cluelessness hit me. Parties are just abstract groups. Some parties are political, but they aren't even close to a thousandth of a percent of the full amount of parties.
The Bible - Orphaned (or at least fatherless) kid learns he has special powers and plays hero in the desert. Unlike the others, this one has something of a downer ending, similar to the movie Brazil.
You never read the sequel? He's dead for three days, then comes back to life, talks to His friends, does a few more miracles, then ascends bodily to heaven, promising to come back. Mighty upbeat, unless you consider all the guys that expected Him to come back while they were still alive. I'm sure they're surprised it's been a couple millennia now.
And what's with the super-concentrated space-ship fuel that takes weeks to make a drop, modifying the guy's genetics?
It's not fuel. It's more like lubricant; it makes the machines work well. Notice how all of their tech is designed to work only when used by a Prawn? The juice is probably condensed Prawn RNA or something. It starts rewriting the human's DNA. Heck, all of the worker-Prawn in the camp might be from a third alien species subjugated by the smart-Prawn who are turned into Prawn. In fact, the smart Prawn might be a fourth alien species that become Prawn to use the tech. Maybe being a Prawn is a purely engineered state, and never exists naturally...
I play the Smurf Village App. It's kinda fun in it's nostalgic way, and I can use it to introduce my nieces to the Smurfs in case their parents want to take them to see that horrid new movie coming out soon. But I wouldn't let them play it unsupervised because I know just how easy it is to buy buckets of smurfberries when they think they're spending the in-game currency (gold) to purchase the berries, but it turns out to be cold-hard cash. That's because you use gold to purchase every other kind of produce (many being types of berries), so why would smurfberries be different in the eyes of a child? Frankly, I have the in-app purchases turned off, and only play games in airplane mode, but you never know what kids can find a way around.
Oh Snap! Tell me you don't think that Vincent Price's claim to fame was Vincent van Ghoul? Although his all-time most listened to voice acting was for "Thriller", not even *that* was what made him popular. He was a star long before.
But is the *game* art, or just the story inside the game? Thinking of the story like the other independent artistic elements (images, music), do the rules of the game or the playing of said rules produce art? I say yes. Ebert says no.
it's more the modelling and texturing that is the problem.
I suppose you could say that it is hard enough for most artists to make a living without working for free on top of that. Young artists would probably be happy to work for free to gain exposure
Only if they're self-taught or if it's a hobby. 2D and 3D artists in college are instructed to refrain from doing any work for free, lest they never make money.
If Linux was mainstream OS, that wouldn't work. People need the ability to install freeware, shareware, commercial, their friends apps or their own apps and so on.
Look, the cause is stupid people. But you cannot fix stupid people. So what to do?
Hey, they can compile that stuff in ~/local/src/ and install it in ~/local/lib/ and ~/local/bin/ etc... I used to do that all the time back in school. It's just a quick
tar jxvf app.tar.bz2,cd app, sh configure --foo --bar, make, wget dependency1, tar zxvf dep1.tgz, cd dep, sh configure --foodep1 --bardep1, make, make install, cd app, make, wget dependency2, unzip -t dep2.zip, mkdir dep2, cd dep2, unzip dep2.zip, sh configure --foodep2 --bardep2, make, make install, cd app, make, wall IT_COMPILED, make install
away...
It's entirely appropriate. By only desiring "those who randomly come across it as well as people who may just regularly watch deletion discussions", they are stacking the deck against any article. Most people who randomly come across an article are looking for information for something they need at the moment. It's unlikely that they'll get involved in the discussion. But deletionists are always going to vote "delete". Perhaps you'd like a Hitchhiker's reference instead: the deletion discussions are being held in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'. It's a GOOD thing to bring knowledgeable people into the discussions.
Someone posting on a forum could send a couple dozen people there, but most of them have zero clue about wikipedias policies and guidelines and end up making arguments that are utterly irrelative and end up doing little more than just disrupting the process.
Oh boo hoo. If an admin can't ignore 23 irrelevant comments to sift out the pearl that saves an article, they have no business being a forum/wiki admin.
It's a person who Only comes to the discussion because they were prompted or instructed to mainly because the person asking then knew they would (not) vote a certain way. This usually occurs on a subjects fan forum blog etc. Where they post and say "everyone go write keep on this discussion"
Which is totally appropriate. I don't visit the Washington Monument on a daily basis, but if someone wanted to tear it down, I'd hope someone would drag a whole mess of meatpuppets into the decision meetings. Just because there isn't regular traffic visiting something doesn't mean it's not important.
Considering Facebook users need to be able to read and have computer/Internet access, I'd say most of them are average or higher intelligence. Computer security isn't something even slightly above average people think about. Unfortunately it's our job.
No, sockpuppet is a slashdot term for a fake account. Meatpuppet is a wikipedia term for any real person who has been informed about wikipedia corruption by a [probably banned] person with an account on wikipedia. To qualify, the "meatpuppet" usually has to create an account for the first time during a controversy and post on the controversial page.
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At first I couldn't tell what you mean at all; then the staggering depths of this comment's cluelessness hit me. Japan was a feudal monarchy in the 1800's. There were no political parties then as known now. And now they have a bunch of political parties, not 'both', because it's a parliamentary system.
At first I couldn't tell what you mean at all; then the staggering depths of this comment's cluelessness hit me. Parties are just abstract groups. Some parties are political, but they aren't even close to a thousandth of a percent of the full amount of parties.
iOS electrons wear purple with sunglasses.
They're miniature California Raisins?
Whomever we support, in 10 to 20 years, we will be at war against them. WMD or sex crimes, or hiding wikileaks members or something.
That's a lot of countries for just two decades.
They won't be smiling when the $10/gallon gas means that they pay 200% more for everything.
The Bible - Orphaned (or at least fatherless) kid learns he has special powers and plays hero in the desert. Unlike the others, this one has something of a downer ending, similar to the movie Brazil.
You never read the sequel? He's dead for three days, then comes back to life, talks to His friends, does a few more miracles, then ascends bodily to heaven, promising to come back. Mighty upbeat, unless you consider all the guys that expected Him to come back while they were still alive. I'm sure they're surprised it's been a couple millennia now.
uh, vikings and indians?
good lord
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446013/
Yes, but to be fair, it's Vikings and Skraelings.
The rhino was Blaster's. Although Blaster's feline was a lion. Soundwave's was a puma.
And what's with the super-concentrated space-ship fuel that takes weeks to make a drop, modifying the guy's genetics?
It's not fuel. It's more like lubricant; it makes the machines work well. Notice how all of their tech is designed to work only when used by a Prawn? The juice is probably condensed Prawn RNA or something. It starts rewriting the human's DNA. Heck, all of the worker-Prawn in the camp might be from a third alien species subjugated by the smart-Prawn who are turned into Prawn. In fact, the smart Prawn might be a fourth alien species that become Prawn to use the tech. Maybe being a Prawn is a purely engineered state, and never exists naturally...
Gah, wasn't signed in for making this comment. Drats :/
it's all good. It kept you from being associated with the following comment where you the whole thing:
Your argument is rather like saying that the TV show Big Bang Theory (or any TV show for that matter) because you don't have a TV.
I play the Smurf Village App. It's kinda fun in it's nostalgic way, and I can use it to introduce my nieces to the Smurfs in case their parents want to take them to see that horrid new movie coming out soon. But I wouldn't let them play it unsupervised because I know just how easy it is to buy buckets of smurfberries when they think they're spending the in-game currency (gold) to purchase the berries, but it turns out to be cold-hard cash. That's because you use gold to purchase every other kind of produce (many being types of berries), so why would smurfberries be different in the eyes of a child? Frankly, I have the in-app purchases turned off, and only play games in airplane mode, but you never know what kids can find a way around.
Oh Snap! Tell me you don't think that Vincent Price's claim to fame was Vincent van Ghoul? Although his all-time most listened to voice acting was for "Thriller", not even *that* was what made him popular. He was a star long before.
But is the *game* art, or just the story inside the game? Thinking of the story like the other independent artistic elements (images, music), do the rules of the game or the playing of said rules produce art? I say yes. Ebert says no.
And how many prints of famous paintings exist around the world? Copied purely for commercial value?
If Richard Stallman was truly interested in his own privacy, he wouldn't go about courting publicity wherever he goes.
He doesn't care about his privacy; he cares about everyone else's. He's just trying to lead by example. Crazy, tinfoil example.
it's more the modelling and texturing that is the problem. I suppose you could say that it is hard enough for most artists to make a living without working for free on top of that. Young artists would probably be happy to work for free to gain exposure
Only if they're self-taught or if it's a hobby. 2D and 3D artists in college are instructed to refrain from doing any work for free, lest they never make money.
But they're the ones that pitched (and sold) the idea of Mario Party: Swingers Edition to Nintendo.
Pi is defined by no law except in Kentucky. Today is not Pi day. Pi day is 3/0, not 3/14.
If Linux was mainstream OS, that wouldn't work. People need the ability to install freeware, shareware, commercial, their friends apps or their own apps and so on. Look, the cause is stupid people. But you cannot fix stupid people. So what to do?
Hey, they can compile that stuff in ~/local/src/ and install it in ~/local/lib/ and ~/local/bin/ etc... I used to do that all the time back in school. It's just a quick ,cd app, sh configure --foo --bar, make, wget dependency1, tar zxvf dep1.tgz, cd dep, sh configure --foodep1 --bardep1, make, make install, cd app, make, wget dependency2, unzip -t dep2.zip, mkdir dep2, cd dep2, unzip dep2.zip, sh configure --foodep2 --bardep2, make, make install, cd app, make, wall IT_COMPILED, make install
tar jxvf app.tar.bz2
away...
someone with below average intelligence CAN operate a computer to the point of using facebook
Yes, but when looking at the bell curve, someone with a 60- IQ can't, but a 140+ IQ can (whether they might or not is up for debate).
Someone posting on a forum could send a couple dozen people there, but most of them have zero clue about wikipedias policies and guidelines and end up making arguments that are utterly irrelative and end up doing little more than just disrupting the process.
Oh boo hoo. If an admin can't ignore 23 irrelevant comments to sift out the pearl that saves an article, they have no business being a forum/wiki admin.
It's a person who Only comes to the discussion because they were prompted or instructed to mainly because the person asking then knew they would (not) vote a certain way. This usually occurs on a subjects fan forum blog etc. Where they post and say "everyone go write keep on this discussion"
Which is totally appropriate. I don't visit the Washington Monument on a daily basis, but if someone wanted to tear it down, I'd hope someone would drag a whole mess of meatpuppets into the decision meetings. Just because there isn't regular traffic visiting something doesn't mean it's not important.
Considering Facebook users need to be able to read and have computer/Internet access, I'd say most of them are average or higher intelligence. Computer security isn't something even slightly above average people think about. Unfortunately it's our job.
Maybe the 41% were all ID Fraudsters too, and they welcome anyone who befriends them?
No, sockpuppet is a slashdot term for a fake account. Meatpuppet is a wikipedia term for any real person who has been informed about wikipedia corruption by a [probably banned] person with an account on wikipedia. To qualify, the "meatpuppet" usually has to create an account for the first time during a controversy and post on the controversial page.
The vast majority of people I see that have them are using them.
How many people continue to carry something they never use? Maybe you see people who own one but leave it on the computer desk?