Re:Science fiction/Fantasy is not interesting anym
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Hugo Award Voting Open
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Many others have mentioned good SF authors in response to your troll, so let me throw in Stephen Baxter. Next to Niven, he's got to be my all-time favorite hard SF author.
"People (pl. n): 1. Lobotomized mental patients ('The people used to be interesting before the operation'). 2. Monkeys of sub-average intelligence ('The people like to fling poop'). 3. MSCEs ('Those people broke my computer again')."
We are all fooling ourselves if we think any meaningful reform will EVER happen unless we quit voting for our 2 party one party system...
I understand what you're saying, but "one party" isn't what you meant, is it?
Anyway (edging ever farther from the topic), a two-party (or even multiple party) system isn't the problem, the problem is that the two parties are pretty much identical.:)
JAR JAR BINKS staggers into the camera's field of view. Blood is spurting from him in huge gouts, making puddles wherever he walks. There is a knife in his belly, and he is gripping it with both hands, as if afraid to pull it out for fear of losing his intestines. Camera slowly pans in while revolving around him.
JAR JAR: "Meesa dunna feel so good!"
(jump shot, midrange): swarm of locusts comes into view over the palace
JAR JAR spots locusts, begins to trot in the opposite direction, panting heavily and lurching from side to side.
JAR JAR: "Meesa have to find shelter, oh dokey!"
(jump shot long range): a pack of rabid wolves comes loping up the street, following the trail of blood.
(jump shot close range): JAR JAR splashes into a duck pond to lose the wolves. The swarm of locusts gets closer.
(underwater shot): four or five sharks catch the scent of blood in the water and begin circling JAR JAR's legs. The wolves start splashing into the water's edge. The locusts start descending.
That's enough for now. I'll leave this script open-ended.:)
What, that thing in the trash compactor? "into the toilet" indeed!
There's a fine line between that suspenseful trash compactor creature and Oscar the Grouch. Lucas lost me when he turned Episode VI into a puppet theater with the Ewoks.
Compare that with, say, the look of horror on Han Solo's face when he was encased in carbonite in The Empire Strikes Back. The first two (chronological) movies weren't aimed at the kiddies nearly as much as the third and fourth were.
It would be nice if the DOJ and the courts would start looking at industry groups like the MPAA and RIAA as monopoly cartels, and a violation of the Sherman antitrust act.
That would be great, but after the DoJ's wishy-washy handling of Microsoft I don't expect it to happen within my lifetime.
They (of course) don't want to ever lose control of their works. Their ideal world would be one with no public domain at all, no fair use, and every time you sang "Happy Birthday" you made a mircopayment.
They're already getting that world. http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/golanvashcroft/ discusses a challenge to two copyright act amendments which effectively hose PD (namely, the Sonny Bono CTEA act and the URAA, which allows companies to retroactively reassign copyright to works already in the public domain). Predictably, the Crackdot editors were so busy hitting "reject" that they missed the submission. That or they didn't think it was important that PD works are being raped by media corporations.
You touched upon the apparent real reason the MPAA is pushing so hard for these types of laws: they don't care if the work is copied, they just want to have absolute control over its distribution. It would be nice if the courts started looking more closely at region encoding.
``We are pleased to reinstate CDDB services to our customers and look
forward to expanded use of Gracenote's services and technology,'' said
Chris Gorog, president and CEO of Roxio.
Mr. Gorog went on to note that the implant he received from Gracenote's Pod People didn't hurt at all. "It kind of tickled," he explained in response to queries from the media.
What's the legal difference between defamation (as mentioned in the article) and libel?
For instance, I know the best defense against a libel charge is that what was said is the truth. Lucent Technologies (to pick a name out of the hat) would have trouble making a libel charge stick if I were to mention that they were doing so badly for awhile that upper management wouldn't approve a ~$20 expenditure for some extension cords to relieve the fire hazard of 10 workstations chained into one 3-hole outlet.
Also, there was plenty of sofware burned onto CDs going around the company, apparently without valid licenses (although to be fair, just because the managers didn't show some of the employees valid licenses doesn't mean that none exist).
Anyway, the evidence and probable testimony from former and current employees would be enough to establish truth, and therefore nullify a libel charge. But what's defamation and how is it different?
-Legion
Re:Music was my first love, and it will be my last
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Future of Music Summit
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Re:errr what's today? Did people stop reading it?
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XBox Defects Draw Ire
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"The Holidays" != simply Christmas Day. It's a journalistic abbreviation for "The Holiday Shopping Season," in this context, which for most retailers begins immediately after Thanksgiving.
That was my immediate reaction as well, until I thought about it for a second: the units were probably purchased much earlier, but how many people would have had the chance to turn them on before Christmas eve/day? I'm assuming these were presents.
I don't know about you, but I usually open Christmas presents at Christmas.
Also, the number of people saying "I've had no problems with mine" far outweighs the number of people saying "Mine crashes too much," even on Slashdot. I'm no great fan of MS either, but they do make good hardware.
Disclaimer: I don't have an XBox, I don't plan on getting one, and people are ignorant for badmouthing it solely by virtue of it being an MS product.
That's because of the position of the sun, not the moon. The moon is tidally-locked to earth so that one side is always facing us and one is always facing away.
Self-employed 01/2002 - present
* Stood around on the sidewalk waiting for a movie, called it "art".
* Directed scientific analysis of homeless people urine through unique collection system of personal clothing.
He was probably just messing with you to get a chuckle out of his friends. The best way to resolve this would have been to pount the snot out of him on the spot, then get the fuck out. The second best way (or best, if you're anti-violence) would have been to grab mall security and let them arrest the moron for felony menacing.
Check your copy of the constitution again. Only Congress has the legal power to declare war.
-Legion
Re:Who would once rather see wasted by Jango Fett?
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Attack of the Clones
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Who would you rather see die by the hands of Jango Fett or the Sith....Jar Jar, or any member of N'Sync?
George Lucas.
-Legion
Re:has the targeted demographic really changed?
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Attack of the Clones
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I *made* a light saber when I was 9 (well, OK, it wasn't a light saber, it was a fluourescent light tube, and I didn't make it so much as "got it from the garage"). It was better than my brother's light saber, which was a broom handle.
It also did more damage in the form of shards of glass lacerating his nose. He got me back by spraying oven cleaner in my eyes. I'm still amazed we got through childhood without permanently maiming one another.
1. This vulnerable affects all AIM versions as far back as 4.3 (this is
the farthest one back I've checked). I don't know if it affects the inline
AIM used with Netscape. If it supports game requests, probably. Otherwise,
it won't.
Slashdot Mirror
-Legion
"People (pl. n): 1. Lobotomized mental patients ('The people used to be interesting before the operation'). 2. Monkeys of sub-average intelligence ('The people like to fling poop'). 3. MSCEs ('Those people broke my computer again')."
-Legion
I understand what you're saying, but "one party" isn't what you meant, is it?
Anyway (edging ever farther from the topic), a two-party (or even multiple party) system isn't the problem, the problem is that the two parties are pretty much identical. :)
-Legion
With some cameo directing by Dario Argento:
EXT., PALACE (long shot)
JAR JAR BINKS staggers into the camera's field of view. Blood is spurting from him in huge gouts, making puddles wherever he walks. There is a knife in his belly, and he is gripping it with both hands, as if afraid to pull it out for fear of losing his intestines. Camera slowly pans in while revolving around him.
JAR JAR: "Meesa dunna feel so good!"
(jump shot, midrange): swarm of locusts comes into view over the palace
JAR JAR spots locusts, begins to trot in the opposite direction, panting heavily and lurching from side to side.
JAR JAR: "Meesa have to find shelter, oh dokey!"
(jump shot long range): a pack of rabid wolves comes loping up the street, following the trail of blood.
(jump shot close range): JAR JAR splashes into a duck pond to lose the wolves. The swarm of locusts gets closer.
(underwater shot): four or five sharks catch the scent of blood in the water and begin circling JAR JAR's legs. The wolves start splashing into the water's edge. The locusts start descending.
That's enough for now. I'll leave this script open-ended. :)
-Legion
There's a fine line between that suspenseful trash compactor creature and Oscar the Grouch. Lucas lost me when he turned Episode VI into a puppet theater with the Ewoks.
Compare that with, say, the look of horror on Han Solo's face when he was encased in carbonite in The Empire Strikes Back. The first two (chronological) movies weren't aimed at the kiddies nearly as much as the third and fourth were.
-Legion
That would be great, but after the DoJ's wishy-washy handling of Microsoft I don't expect it to happen within my lifetime.
-Legion
They're already getting that world. http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/golanvashcroft/ discusses a challenge to two copyright act amendments which effectively hose PD (namely, the Sonny Bono CTEA act and the URAA, which allows companies to retroactively reassign copyright to works already in the public domain). Predictably, the Crackdot editors were so busy hitting "reject" that they missed the submission. That or they didn't think it was important that PD works are being raped by media corporations.
You touched upon the apparent real reason the MPAA is pushing so hard for these types of laws: they don't care if the work is copied, they just want to have absolute control over its distribution. It would be nice if the courts started looking more closely at region encoding.
-Legion
Mr. Gorog went on to note that the implant he received from Gracenote's Pod People didn't hurt at all. "It kind of tickled," he explained in response to queries from the media.
-Legion
For instance, I know the best defense against a libel charge is that what was said is the truth. Lucent Technologies (to pick a name out of the hat) would have trouble making a libel charge stick if I were to mention that they were doing so badly for awhile that upper management wouldn't approve a ~$20 expenditure for some extension cords to relieve the fire hazard of 10 workstations chained into one 3-hole outlet.
Also, there was plenty of sofware burned onto CDs going around the company, apparently without valid licenses (although to be fair, just because the managers didn't show some of the employees valid licenses doesn't mean that none exist).
Anyway, the evidence and probable testimony from former and current employees would be enough to establish truth, and therefore nullify a libel charge. But what's defamation and how is it different?
-Legion
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-Legion
Coincidentally enough, we had a $50 cap this year. We can't afford anything else.
-Legion
-Legion
That was my immediate reaction as well, until I thought about it for a second: the units were probably purchased much earlier, but how many people would have had the chance to turn them on before Christmas eve/day? I'm assuming these were presents.
I don't know about you, but I usually open Christmas presents at Christmas.
-Legion
Disclaimer: I don't have an XBox, I don't plan on getting one, and people are ignorant for badmouthing it solely by virtue of it being an MS product.
-Legion
I see. (*ba dum bum*)
Thank you, thank you, don't forget to tip the bartender.
-Legion
-Legion
I'm pretty sure they have Slashdot in Russia.
-Legion
* Stood around on the sidewalk waiting for a movie, called it "art".
* Directed scientific analysis of homeless people urine through unique collection system of personal clothing.
-Legion
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Go, Jesse Jackson! Er, wait...
-Legion
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George Lucas.
-Legion
It also did more damage in the form of shards of glass lacerating his nose. He got me back by spraying oven cleaner in my eyes. I'm still amazed we got through childhood without permanently maiming one another.
-Legion
-Legion