I (an American) just went on a vacation where I entered Russia, then France, then Russia, then the US on my way home. It went like this:
Russia: "What plane did you get off of?" "OK, [stamp]"
France: "Welcome! [stamp]"
Russia: "Welcome back, Tovarish! [stamp]"
US: "Spread 'em, Cocksucker. What's this in your bag? Get in this line - no, the other line! Papers, please! Is this your family? Who packed your suitcase? Look into the camera. Make your wife look into the camera. Submit to bacterial scanning. Put your bags in the X-Ray machine and leave them there until they start to smoke. OK, Meatwad, we'll let you in, but consider this a warning!"
This place has gotten so xenophobic it's silly.
It's not xenophobia. It's eleutherophobia. I'd almost say fear of fellow citizens, but that's just paranoia, and not entirely accurate.
This was modded funny, but it *is* a classroom computer lab, not a government installation. At some point, you have to let them learn by stepping on each others' toes. Protect the students' files from the other students. Protect the systems' secrets from the students. Beyond that, just institute a written policy of "don't be a jerk: nice your background processes". If a student uses up too many resources, use it as a teachable moment. Chances are, the students aren't trying to be jerks. They'll lp binary files by accident or forkbomb their machine. But if they really wanted to cause problems, nothing short of locking the door to the lab and only allowing remote access to one machine per student will do.
Being a role-player, "lying about a die roll" has no strict ethical value to me: if I'm a player, it's unethical, but if I'm the DM, it's just part of the job !;) I never lied about die roll as a player, and would never do it, so you can consider me to be "very ethical"... but on the other hand, in a setup like that experiment (when the harm of lying is not clear at all) or as a DM, I don't have any issue with lying.
The harm is, you will have people less willing to play with you once they find out that you will lie about die rolls.
If you're a player. As GP states, I want a GM who will fudge the dice rolls (or not even roll them) occasionally to make the story better. Sometimes the dice are wrong. Yes, it's a game. But it's not fun when your characters face too little or overwhelming danger.
Taking a historic Superhero character and making it a woman is a good thing.
Next up, Punisher. I bet a lot of guys might read a female Punisher.
Your excuse is the same one every misogynist through time have used. "Historically a man does that, you can't have a women do that!"
I'm betting the GP would have a problem with Sif growing a penis too (as would I). Or if you consider Sif too much of a background character, what about Jean Grey? Let's say the Phoenix Force returns and Jean Grey is reborn as an adult male. Ridiculous, yes?
The thing is, this new "Thor" isn't going to be the character Thor any more than Eric Masterson was. Sure, he pretended to be Thor for a while. Had all the powers and everything. Everyone called him Thor, even Odin. But he wasn't Thor, and we knew it and he knew it.
Marvel can't create compelling original female characters
I disagree. Aunt May has a mysterious side that is only hinted at in the comics. On a more serious note: Rogue, Moonstone, Songbird (screaming mimi), Emma Frost, Mystique, AoA Blink, She-Hulk, and plenty of other women have compelling stories (and no, She-Hulk isn't just tits on a Hulk). Granted, Ororo, Jean Grey, Sue (Storm) Richards, and Alyson Blaire are all pretty boring, but there are equally boring male super heroes (actually, their respective significant others: T'Challa, Scott Summers, Reed Richards, Longshot).
Actually, now that I think about it, the current time-displaced Jean and Scott from the past are interesting.
that doesn't mean they should slap tits and a vagina onto existing male characters and hope they stick.
I agree with this 100%. They can get away with it when it's not an established character (Spider-Woman [all three of them] isn't Spider-Man. She-Hulk isn't Hulk, Lady Bullseye isn't Bullseye, Namorina isn't the Sub-Mariner), but altering an established character arbitrarily (and badly; Thor just recently went through a long disgraced period and regained his honor. Leave the poor godling alone for a while). Maybe give Lady Octopus a chance to be Peter Parker for a while? That should sit well with the fans.
say the patch unexpectedly breaks another critical function of the server.
When this happens, it usually takes a lot longer to fix than it takes to drive in to work, because the way it breaks is unexpected. The proper method is to have an identical server get upgraded with this automatic maintenance window method the day before while you're at work or at least hours before the primary system so that you can halt the automatic method remotely before it screws up the primary system. If the service isn't important enough, let your monitoring software wake you up if there's a failure or ignore it until you get in at your normal time. Most of the time, having a regularly well-rested sysadmin is more important to a company than having "light-switch monitoring server three" running between 4AM and 8AM.
Well, I for one welcome our new meme overlords, and would like to remind them that as a/. poster with excellent karma, I can be helpful in modding up posts for their spreading into new sugar-powered minds.
The process commonly known as the scientific method is the product of philosophy, and science and the scientific method had nothing to do with the scientific method's birth.
people who want other people to think that are smart, but aren't actually smart enough to do science, you know: philosophers.
remember kids: philosophers are to science what homeopaths are to medicine.
And also remember that anyone with a Ph.D. in a science field isn't a scientist. They're a doctor of philosophy. Without philosophy, science doesn't exist.
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Maybe they should have projected some extra traffic on sysadmin day. I hope their sysadmin didn't take the day off.
I (an American) just went on a vacation where I entered Russia, then France, then Russia, then the US on my way home. It went like this:
Russia: "What plane did you get off of?" "OK, [stamp]" France: "Welcome! [stamp]" Russia: "Welcome back, Tovarish! [stamp]" US: "Spread 'em, Cocksucker. What's this in your bag? Get in this line - no, the other line! Papers, please! Is this your family? Who packed your suitcase? Look into the camera. Make your wife look into the camera. Submit to bacterial scanning. Put your bags in the X-Ray machine and leave them there until they start to smoke. OK, Meatwad, we'll let you in, but consider this a warning!"
This place has gotten so xenophobic it's silly.
It's not xenophobia. It's eleutherophobia. I'd almost say fear of fellow citizens, but that's just paranoia, and not entirely accurate.
The HIMEM.SYS is a lie!
so that users do not have to Google, tweak and retweak things to get a game to run
Minus Google, that was three quarters of the game back in the 90's!
Or maybe they discovered wine or crossover.
I thought the verb was "pantsing". As in VP Biden pantsed the governors while yelling "it's going to happen! Just give in a enjoy it!"
I'm amazed at how much effort is placed on limiting researchers' misuse of computers at the expense of other researchers
FTFY
This was modded funny, but it *is* a classroom computer lab, not a government installation. At some point, you have to let them learn by stepping on each others' toes. Protect the students' files from the other students. Protect the systems' secrets from the students. Beyond that, just institute a written policy of "don't be a jerk: nice your background processes". If a student uses up too many resources, use it as a teachable moment. Chances are, the students aren't trying to be jerks. They'll lp binary files by accident or forkbomb their machine. But if they really wanted to cause problems, nothing short of locking the door to the lab and only allowing remote access to one machine per student will do.
Being a role-player, "lying about a die roll" has no strict ethical value to me: if I'm a player, it's unethical, but if I'm the DM, it's just part of the job ! ;) I never lied about die roll as a player, and would never do it, so you can consider me to be "very ethical"... but on the other hand, in a setup like that experiment (when the harm of lying is not clear at all) or as a DM, I don't have any issue with lying.
The harm is, you will have people less willing to play with you once they find out that you will lie about die rolls.
If you're a player. As GP states, I want a GM who will fudge the dice rolls (or not even roll them) occasionally to make the story better. Sometimes the dice are wrong. Yes, it's a game. But it's not fun when your characters face too little or overwhelming danger.
BTW, I'm heading off to church soon. RPG later.
Notice how it premieres at GenCon Indy in August. I'm guessing it's camp. "R P G! R P G!"
Wonderman, prince of Paradise Island, an island populated exclusively by men, with the first rule being "No Girls Allowed. And, How!" Sexist pigs.
Clearly the best choice for when you have a bad restaurant experience is now to sue the restaurant.
How much energy does it take to create a super hydrophobic surface?
what's gimmicky about any random kid with spiderish powers taking up the name?
Maybe that a random kid got spiderish powers at just the right time to replace the first one?
You're still incorrect.
http://marvel.wikia.com/Hel
http://marvel.wikia.com/Valhal...
Taking a historic Superhero character and making it a woman is a good thing.
Next up, Punisher. I bet a lot of guys might read a female Punisher.
Your excuse is the same one every misogynist through time have used. "Historically a man does that, you can't have a women do that!"
I'm betting the GP would have a problem with Sif growing a penis too (as would I). Or if you consider Sif too much of a background character, what about Jean Grey? Let's say the Phoenix Force returns and Jean Grey is reborn as an adult male. Ridiculous, yes?
The thing is, this new "Thor" isn't going to be the character Thor any more than Eric Masterson was. Sure, he pretended to be Thor for a while. Had all the powers and everything. Everyone called him Thor, even Odin. But he wasn't Thor, and we knew it and he knew it.
Marvel can't create compelling original female characters
I disagree. Aunt May has a mysterious side that is only hinted at in the comics. On a more serious note: Rogue, Moonstone, Songbird (screaming mimi), Emma Frost, Mystique, AoA Blink, She-Hulk, and plenty of other women have compelling stories (and no, She-Hulk isn't just tits on a Hulk). Granted, Ororo, Jean Grey, Sue (Storm) Richards, and Alyson Blaire are all pretty boring, but there are equally boring male super heroes (actually, their respective significant others: T'Challa, Scott Summers, Reed Richards, Longshot).
Actually, now that I think about it, the current time-displaced Jean and Scott from the past are interesting.
that doesn't mean they should slap tits and a vagina onto existing male characters and hope they stick.
I agree with this 100%. They can get away with it when it's not an established character (Spider-Woman [all three of them] isn't Spider-Man. She-Hulk isn't Hulk, Lady Bullseye isn't Bullseye, Namorina isn't the Sub-Mariner), but altering an established character arbitrarily (and badly; Thor just recently went through a long disgraced period and regained his honor. Leave the poor godling alone for a while). Maybe give Lady Octopus a chance to be Peter Parker for a while? That should sit well with the fans.
What denomination ???
Not Southern Baptist. You'll need a sprinkling denomination.
crossing a human with a flower may not result in a talking flower
Probably a screaming flower writhing in anguish if sci-fi authors are sufficiently prescient.
say the patch unexpectedly breaks another critical function of the server.
When this happens, it usually takes a lot longer to fix than it takes to drive in to work, because the way it breaks is unexpected. The proper method is to have an identical server get upgraded with this automatic maintenance window method the day before while you're at work or at least hours before the primary system so that you can halt the automatic method remotely before it screws up the primary system. If the service isn't important enough, let your monitoring software wake you up if there's a failure or ignore it until you get in at your normal time. Most of the time, having a regularly well-rested sysadmin is more important to a company than having "light-switch monitoring server three" running between 4AM and 8AM.
Well, I for one welcome our new meme overlords, and would like to remind them that as a /. poster with excellent karma, I can be helpful in modding up posts for their spreading into new sugar-powered minds.
The process commonly known as the scientific method is the product of philosophy, and science and the scientific method had nothing to do with the scientific method's birth.
Without science, philosophy is useless.
Philosophy created science without science's help.
people who want other people to think that are smart, but aren't actually smart enough to do science, you know: philosophers.
remember kids: philosophers are to science what homeopaths are to medicine.
And also remember that anyone with a Ph.D. in a science field isn't a scientist. They're a doctor of philosophy. Without philosophy, science doesn't exist.