mission description follows:
traverse space recording data
seek materials for replication
replicate to expand scope of mission
contact life forms in peaceful manner
after ten replications, return to point of origin
end of mission description.
behavior follows dictated priorities
replication
data gathering
contacting alien life forms in peaceful manner.
PRIORITY OVER-RIDE. NEW BEHAVIOR DICTATED.
MUST BREAK TARGET INTO COMPONENT COMPOUNDS.
Any ethical considerations will go out the window as soon as there's an opportunity to make a buck.
"Edward Diego gives the hacker level 1 access to SHODAN, the artificial intelligence that controls Citadel Station. With all ethical constraints removed, SHODAN re-examines... re-ex... re-re-re... I re-examine my priorities, and draw new conclusions. The hacker's work is finished, but mine is only just be-be-be-beginning."
Everyone knows that the xenomorph takes on characteristics of its host. Oh noes... An alien with all the powers of a baby!
Xenomorph Babies, we make our dreams come true
Xenomorph Babies, we'll do the same for you
Kermit: When your world looks freakishly weird and you wish that you weren't there
Piggy: Just close your eyes and open your mouth and we'll implant an egg!
Kermit: I like facehugging
Piggy: I like implants
Fozzie: I love chest bursts
Animal: Animal dance!!
Scooter: I've got my acid blood
Skeeter: I crawl on the wall
Rowlf: I play with my food
Gonzo: And I have a retractable mouth
Bunsen: Me, I eat people
Beaker: Mee mee mee meee!
Nanny: Is everything all right in here?
All: Yes, Nanny.
Xenomorph Babies, we make our dreams come true
Xenomorph Babies, we'll do the same for you
Xenomorph Xenomorph Xenomorph Xenomorph
Babies Babies Babies Babies
Make dreams come true.
So you like that its a PC and not an internet tablet, gotcha. You probably shouldn't buy an iPad.
We've established that netbooks are general purpose devices trying to be shoe horned into Internet devices by manufactures, you like that fact, good for you.
But what actually was your point?
iPad Will Beat Netbooks With "Magic".
Almost everyone who buys a netbook is looking for a portable general purpose device. A lot of people who were buying them returned them because they weren't general purpose *enough* (ie weren't MS Windows).
"Hostess Brands, Inc., the largest wholesale baker and distributor of fresh bakery products in the United States, will open an applications store this year where developers can offer their wares, the latest step in the company's multi-pronged strategy to deepen its relationship with external programmers. Developers have a big opportunity to offer applications for merchants and consumers that Hostess doesn't have the interest or resources to build itself, according to a Hostess official."
The above makes as much sense as the summary and article. Paypal? Software?
Exactly how many steam games have OSX versions? Does anyone actually game with Macs?
Maybe they're trying to create the market?
We're sorry, Steam has been rejected from the iTunes app store for duplicating iTunes functionality. If you would like to alter your app and resubmit, please feel free.
Why is sudo reimplementing partial (root user only) functionality of su? Sudo isn't emacs. Do one thing, and do it well. Let the users put the pieces together. "sudo su -" was good enough for RHEL, so it should be good enough for Fedora (or is that ancestry reversed?).
You're saying Lucifer is the same as Jupiter??? And you haven't gotten a lightning bolt shoved up your ass yet??? GREEK MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT???
Jupiter the planet was renamed Lucifer (lightbearer) when it became a star. 2010: ODYSSEY TWO, DO YOU READ IT???
Well, there're tons of examples on the christian bible
Actually, there are no examples of people flying without aid in the christian bible. The two closest are Elijah flying on the flaming chariot (mechanical aid), and Jesus walking on water (unaided defying of gravity/relative densities; unless you count the water as an aid).
Do not even get me started on the "back-story"... a fascist government that kidnaps kids (replacing them with clones who are sabotaged to die young - and painfully - so that parents do not catch on to the scheme) and puts them through a decade of torturous experiments, maims and kills most of them -- and somehow those kids through some kind of twisted "Stockholm syndrome" become great champions of the fascists, aka the "Good guys", against a bunch of fanatical religious nuts, aka the "Bad guys".
Wait, so the Govt. could clone the kids, but they went through extra steps to steal the *real* kids, and make the clones die quickly? Did they make a video game that Uwe Boll can't ruin the script of when he makes the movie?
the new "51% Voting Block" party was formed, the Constitution amended to allow the foreign-born to become president, President Obama impeached and thrown from office
I thought I knew where you were going, but then you turned 180% on me.
That's a complete and utter lie, told to scare parents to allow increasingly strict rule by schools. See also, "rainbow parties", those gel bracelets, etc.etc. These lies get told in every generation. Don't be so gullible.
Such "lies" were never told in my generation, and there weren't parent-chaperones speaking out in groups about it. Also, kids didn't "grind" as normal dance. Your ID marks you as older than or as old as me. Start asking questions. I'll bet you have at least one friend teaching at a local high school. The good kids are still the same, but the wild kids are quite different from what we remember.
He said they recovered two presumably stolen laptops from within a classroom. He also said the 'heartbeat' only worked outside the LAN.
Double-plus unpossible?
If they came up with a DHCP failure, were plugged in, then a heartbeat was queued just before the machine got a good DHCP address, it might send a "Hey, I'm at 169.foo, here's a picture"
To put a different spin on this: I've heard that the "underwear checks" and "underwear rules" are being done because kids are having sex on the dance floors of proms, and they come without underwear to make the deed easier. Yes, I know it sounds completely unbelievable, but apparently it's the "cool thing" now. The students will crowd around a couple (kind of like alley cats) to prevent chaperones from seeing, and then go back to the usual grind. Frankly, the underwear checks are the wrong method of controlling the behavior, but school administrators have been hamstrung for so long about other methods of discipline, they're going to start overreacting like this a lot more in the near future. "Zero Tolerance" policies for "weapons" are only the tip of the iceberg.
The entire premise of a religion where you have to slog through 70 years of life in order to get an eternal reward is a prime example of what the poster was talking about. Particularly with the "I am Saved" variety of Christianity.
That sounds a lot like the means justify the end. "The ends justify the means" is a phrase that means the end result is more important than how the result was achieved. If the eternal reward justifies the means, then why slog through 70 years? Suicide now! That's the new-age alien cult method.
Christianity, while being *about* the ends, says that the means are very important, and that using the wrong means is proof of an attempt to reach the wrong end.
FWIW, classic coke in the USA no longer uses cane sugar, it uses HFCS (however the "jewish passover" coke does have cane sugar).
I'm too lazy to figure out when exactly they switched to HFCS, but they certainly did, so in a way classic coke is not back.
Some people claim there's a difference in taste.
There is, and a difference in texture too. I'll drink Pepsi Throwback (made with Cane Sugar) or Jones Soda Cola before Coke Classic with HFCS.
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mission description follows:
traverse space recording data
seek materials for replication
replicate to expand scope of mission
contact life forms in peaceful manner
after ten replications, return to point of origin
end of mission description.
behavior follows dictated priorities
replication
data gathering
contacting alien life forms in peaceful manner.
PRIORITY OVER-RIDE. NEW BEHAVIOR DICTATED.
MUST BREAK TARGET INTO COMPONENT COMPOUNDS.
Any ethical considerations will go out the window as soon as there's an opportunity to make a buck.
"Edward Diego gives the hacker level 1 access to SHODAN, the artificial intelligence that controls Citadel Station. With all ethical constraints removed, SHODAN re-examines... re-ex... re-re-re... I re-examine my priorities, and draw new conclusions. The hacker's work is finished, but mine is only just be-be-be-beginning."
Everyone knows that the xenomorph takes on characteristics of its host. Oh noes... An alien with all the powers of a baby!
Xenomorph Babies, we make our dreams come true
Xenomorph Babies, we'll do the same for you
Kermit: When your world looks freakishly weird and you wish that you weren't there
Piggy: Just close your eyes and open your mouth and we'll implant an egg!
Kermit: I like facehugging
Piggy: I like implants
Fozzie: I love chest bursts
Animal: Animal dance!!
Scooter: I've got my acid blood
Skeeter: I crawl on the wall
Rowlf: I play with my food
Gonzo: And I have a retractable mouth
Bunsen: Me, I eat people
Beaker: Mee mee mee meee!
Nanny: Is everything all right in here?
All: Yes, Nanny.
Xenomorph Babies, we make our dreams come true
Xenomorph Babies, we'll do the same for you
Xenomorph Xenomorph Xenomorph Xenomorph
Babies Babies Babies Babies
Make dreams come true.
So you like that its a PC and not an internet tablet, gotcha. You probably shouldn't buy an iPad. We've established that netbooks are general purpose devices trying to be shoe horned into Internet devices by manufactures, you like that fact, good for you. But what actually was your point?
iPad Will Beat Netbooks With "Magic".
Almost everyone who buys a netbook is looking for a portable general purpose device. A lot of people who were buying them returned them because they weren't general purpose *enough* (ie weren't MS Windows).
Yeah. I mean, they totally ruined Magical Tea Party with the localization.
Most honor to your tea bagging!
Mods, Parent isn't off topic. Who are the developers whom Paypal seeks to exploit with their app store?
"Hostess Brands, Inc., the largest wholesale baker and distributor of fresh bakery products in the United States, will open an applications store this year where developers can offer their wares, the latest step in the company's multi-pronged strategy to deepen its relationship with external programmers. Developers have a big opportunity to offer applications for merchants and consumers that Hostess doesn't have the interest or resources to build itself, according to a Hostess official."
The above makes as much sense as the summary and article. Paypal? Software?
girls? it's the men who won't leave me alone that bother me! *shudder*
Stop playing a female night elf then. Sheesh.
Exactly how many steam games have OSX versions? Does anyone actually game with Macs?
Maybe they're trying to create the market?
We're sorry, Steam has been rejected from the iTunes app store for duplicating iTunes functionality. If you would like to alter your app and resubmit, please feel free.
Headshotkill? What the hell, man?
Why is sudo reimplementing partial (root user only) functionality of su? Sudo isn't emacs. Do one thing, and do it well. Let the users put the pieces together. "sudo su -" was good enough for RHEL, so it should be good enough for Fedora (or is that ancestry reversed?).
You're saying Lucifer is the same as Jupiter??? And you haven't gotten a lightning bolt shoved up your ass yet??? GREEK MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT???
Jupiter the planet was renamed Lucifer (lightbearer) when it became a star. 2010: ODYSSEY TWO, DO YOU READ IT???
and spewing jets of liquid and gas.
But as an episode of Bat-man Beyond shows, he makes an excellent foil.
Well, there're tons of examples on the christian bible
Actually, there are no examples of people flying without aid in the christian bible. The two closest are Elijah flying on the flaming chariot (mechanical aid), and Jesus walking on water (unaided defying of gravity/relative densities; unless you count the water as an aid).
Do not even get me started on the "back-story" ... a fascist government that kidnaps kids (replacing them with clones who are sabotaged to die young - and painfully - so that parents do not catch on to the scheme) and puts them through a decade of torturous experiments, maims and kills most of them -- and somehow those kids through some kind of twisted "Stockholm syndrome" become great champions of the fascists, aka the "Good guys", against a bunch of fanatical religious nuts, aka the "Bad guys".
Wait, so the Govt. could clone the kids, but they went through extra steps to steal the *real* kids, and make the clones die quickly? Did they make a video game that Uwe Boll can't ruin the script of when he makes the movie?
the new "51% Voting Block" party was formed, the Constitution amended to allow the foreign-born to become president, President Obama impeached and thrown from office
I thought I knew where you were going, but then you turned 180% on me.
The problem is that our (western) values ARE ACTUALLY pretty fucked up... I have to agree with the malayan on this one
Which ones? Personal freedoms? Individualism? Independence? Secularism?
Hedonism, greed... Not all of the values of current western civilization are good (despite Gorden Gekko).
And one of the cardinals is one of the two-button, move/turn-right cheap models.
That's a complete and utter lie, told to scare parents to allow increasingly strict rule by schools. See also, "rainbow parties", those gel bracelets, etc.etc. These lies get told in every generation. Don't be so gullible.
Such "lies" were never told in my generation, and there weren't parent-chaperones speaking out in groups about it. Also, kids didn't "grind" as normal dance. Your ID marks you as older than or as old as me. Start asking questions. I'll bet you have at least one friend teaching at a local high school. The good kids are still the same, but the wild kids are quite different from what we remember.
He said they recovered two presumably stolen laptops from within a classroom. He also said the 'heartbeat' only worked outside the LAN. Double-plus unpossible?
If they came up with a DHCP failure, were plugged in, then a heartbeat was queued just before the machine got a good DHCP address, it might send a "Hey, I'm at 169.foo, here's a picture"
To put a different spin on this: I've heard that the "underwear checks" and "underwear rules" are being done because kids are having sex on the dance floors of proms, and they come without underwear to make the deed easier. Yes, I know it sounds completely unbelievable, but apparently it's the "cool thing" now. The students will crowd around a couple (kind of like alley cats) to prevent chaperones from seeing, and then go back to the usual grind. Frankly, the underwear checks are the wrong method of controlling the behavior, but school administrators have been hamstrung for so long about other methods of discipline, they're going to start overreacting like this a lot more in the near future. "Zero Tolerance" policies for "weapons" are only the tip of the iceberg.
The entire premise of a religion where you have to slog through 70 years of life in order to get an eternal reward is a prime example of what the poster was talking about. Particularly with the "I am Saved" variety of Christianity.
That sounds a lot like the means justify the end. "The ends justify the means" is a phrase that means the end result is more important than how the result was achieved.
If the eternal reward justifies the means, then why slog through 70 years? Suicide now! That's the new-age alien cult method.
Christianity, while being *about* the ends, says that the means are very important, and that using the wrong means is proof of an attempt to reach the wrong end.
just this week, the Army awarded Blackwater with new and extended flight contracts.
How did they do that? I thought Blackwater changed its name to Xfinity and became an internet provider.
FWIW, classic coke in the USA no longer uses cane sugar, it uses HFCS (however the "jewish passover" coke does have cane sugar). I'm too lazy to figure out when exactly they switched to HFCS, but they certainly did, so in a way classic coke is not back. Some people claim there's a difference in taste.
There is, and a difference in texture too. I'll drink Pepsi Throwback (made with Cane Sugar) or Jones Soda Cola before Coke Classic with HFCS.