If this robot isn't much more than a bouyant steel tube with a prop, rudder and a bunch of instruments, it can be thrown to hell in waves and not sink, not unless it slams into something pretty solid.
Secondly, the pirate "ships" it's hunting are usually pretty small, and not in the open ocean at all but near the coast. Usually when you see a piracy article, they usually describe the pirate's craft as a stolen pleasurecraft (40-60 feet) or something similarly-sized. You could mount a weapon on a jet ski big enough to take that out.
(A couple of days ago there was a story about an American ship that engaged pirates off Somalia, I believe they fired on two 40-ish foot boats alongside a cargo ship. Google News has more, no doubt.)
Except a child can't own a gun, and an adult can buy pretty much any chemical they need at a specialized supply store, so that comparison kind of falls flat. Nice try, though.
As for your article, it doesn't cite a single source, and seems not to be anything other than a plot summary from the movie, so looks like it will probably be deleted. If you really want to save it, all you need to do is to put in some references to sources besides the movie itself, and call attention to that in the AfD discussion.
Did you re-read this before posting it?
What possible sources are there for a summary of a movie other than THE MOVIE ITSELF!? (Or in this case, the two movies since there was a sequel.) Seriously, that's some batshit insane right there. Do you mean he should get a screenplay of the movie, then cite the screenplay instead of the film itself? What the hell is the difference?
Oh, and *please* do donate. Wikipedia is the 9th most visited site on the Internet, and the Wikimedia Commons is growing at a rate of 5,000 images a day.
I'm going to donate to a site that deletes half my contributions? Screw you. Stop deleting my work, and start acting like you actually appreciate volunteer efforts, then maybe I'd start to consider donating.
> If truly notable comics like Evil Inc. and Checkerboard Nightmare are deleted from Wikipedia
I've never heard of these.
A ton of people have never heard of the film The Battleship Potemkin... does that mean it's not a notable film? I'll give you a tip: It's a hell of a lot more notable to cinema than most films almost everybody has heard of, like E.T. or Star Wars.
Also note that it is an encyclopedia, since when did you see an encyclopedia that was made up of lists of information?
Who gives a flying crap? If you want an encyclopedia, there are already a bunch on the web. There's only one Wikipedia, and it should work like a *gasp* Wiki! I don't get this obsession with being exactly like a paper encyclopedia... I mean how would you react if the Slashdot admins suddenly decided that Slashdot should be formatted and written exactly like the Washington Post?
Wikipedia is something new and different. If you're going to make it identical to something old and derivative, then why even bother with it?
Way to support your post. Seriously, if Slashdot had more posts like yours it'd be a much more interesting place to read. I'm with you entirely, also, there's nothing wrong with trivia sections and you'll never see me getting rid of one.
What's the difference between it playing (aired from a network) on your TV while you're out and about doing stuff and it playing (from your DVD player) on your TV while you're out and about doing stuff?
This strikes me as the dumbest complaint ever. Is your concern that it takes too long to put the disk in the drive?
I guess I'm not "nerdcore" enough, but all my favorite episodes are Mike episodes, and most of them are Sci-Fi episodes as well.
How can you deny the quality of episodes like "Werewolf?" (Warhlwealf!) "Timechasers?" "Future War?" ("I'll be generous and not point out that it's not the future, and there's no war.") "Space Mutiny?" The plotline where they're captured by the Brain Guys which has that skit where they explain that all their bodily needs can be met by a simple pill-- they just have to eat bowls and bowls of it.
I got bit by the scripting in Oblivion. Spoilers ahead for anybody who hasn't played it.
The first time you sleep in the game after killing a civilian, you get approached while you're asleep by a representative of the assassin's guild who comes and makes you an offer to join. The problem is that in my game, the first time I slept after killing a civilian happened to be in a dungeon with a half-dozen traps between myself and the door. The NPC appeared, gave me my offer, then was immediately killed by traps before he could get out of the dungeon, and the assassin's guild quests were forever closed for that character. I had to start over later on to do them with a different character.
Ok, so let's say I buy into your glorious semantic web future, complete with acronyms that seem like that belong in a glowing star at the end of Batman's fist (FOAF!)...
What prevents your system from becoming clogged with spammers/camwhores/all the other shit MySpace has in 5 days flat?
Note: Posts like the parent? The reason it'll never work.
Getting open source developers to even *care* about social networking would be a small miracle. Getting them to actually start developing code for one a step above that, and getting them to all agree on the same protocol/interface simply impossible.
I didn't see an interview, but in the review he mentions the rounded menus with kind of a shrug. He doesn't say they're harmful, or good, just different.
Nor would I. That's why I bought a Mac desktop, where I can replace all the same components I can with a PC desktop...
The only "Mac desktop" (actually a workstation) that allows that costs the same as THREE high-end Windows PCs. Until Apple figured out an affordable and upgradable tower configuration, I can't justify buying their hardware.
I've never figured out why Daylight Saving Time makes sense anywhere. No matter how you set the clocks, there's the same amount of daylight, right? I've heard the argument that it makes schoolkids safer because they can walk to school in the light but: 1) That's not true where I am; without DST, it's night when you leave the house in Washington State, and it's night when you return to the house in the afternoon. Jogging the clocks one hour isn't enough to fix this. 2) If that's truly the case, why not just change the school schedule and leave everybody else alone?
I honestly and truly believe that DST is some kind of Governmental power trip that they need every few decades. "We are Congress! We can change the TIME ITSELF! BOW BEFORE CONGRESS!" Or maybe I'm just upset because my super expensive self-setting alarm clock that I bought specifically because its time is never wrong-- it's wrong now.
In the UK consumers rights extend to a "fit for purpose" law whereby the goods you bought must be fit for the purpose for which they were sold.
"The US" doesn't-- laws like that are the domains of the states. And they also vary extremely widely from state to state. If you know what state you're interested in, you can look up the specific laws that apply.
The US isn't a monolithic government like most European nations. In the US there's the Federal Government, with its specific responsibilities (notably guaranteeing all the states can trade freely with each other and providing for national defense.) Then each of the 50 States, or rather 46 States and four Commonwealths (Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.) And one District, and whatever Puerto Rico is (Territory?)
In any case, some States collect income tax, some don't. Some States collect sales tax, some don't. Some States have very liberal laws, some have very conservative laws, some have plain crazy laws. (You can't pump your own gas in Oregon.) Arizona and Hawaii don't recognize Daylight Saving Time. Most states use the English legal tradition, but at least one (Louisiana) uses the French legal tradition.
The Federal Government laws are kind of a bypass... if the Feds say you must do X, that overrides any State law that says you don't have to do X. Therefore, the Federal set of laws is something like a "legal base" that all States recognize. That said, this issue isn't in the domain of the Federal Government, at least not until Hillary is elected and turns everything into a Federal issue.
That said, I'm sure you knew all this, you just wanted to brag about how better your country is. Kudos.
Why do you assume that Best Buy wasn't breaking any consumer protection laws? Based on the summary, it sounds like the Best Buy manager committed plain old fashioned theft (taking the second HD after it had been paid for), regardless of what other laws may have been broken.
But of course us stupid Americans could never, ever approach the pure enlightenment of you Europeans! How foolish of me to even wish it.
I know from experience Visa is equally helpful in cases like this. I had my identity stolen, and Visa was super helpful in refunding all the purchases that were made. What I never figured out is why the crook had the items sent to my address...
Everyone knows those personality tests are flawless...
Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down... Leon: What one? Holden: What? Leon: What desert? Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical. Leon: But, how come I'd be there? Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you... Leon: Tortoise? What's that? Holden: You know what a turtle is? Leon: Of course! Holden: Same thing. Leon: I've never seen a turtle. (pause) But I understand what you mean. Holden: You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon. Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you? Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Leon: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I'M NOT HELPING? Holden: I mean you're not helping! Why is that, Leon? [Leon has become visibly shaken] Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response. (pause) Shall we continue?
Not that I disagree with your point, but cable cars in San Francisco aren't electric. The "cables" in the name are looped steel cables run under the road. The trains travel by clamping onto these cables and "riding" them, the way you might grip to rope to get pulled up a ski hill. Next time you're crossing the street in San Fran, look down and you can see the cable whizzing by under the street.
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If you want to see a movie that makes this case quite clearly, rent Kubrick's Dr. Stangelove: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love The Bomb.
Two points here:
If this robot isn't much more than a bouyant steel tube with a prop, rudder and a bunch of instruments, it can be thrown to hell in waves and not sink, not unless it slams into something pretty solid.
Secondly, the pirate "ships" it's hunting are usually pretty small, and not in the open ocean at all but near the coast. Usually when you see a piracy article, they usually describe the pirate's craft as a stolen pleasurecraft (40-60 feet) or something similarly-sized. You could mount a weapon on a jet ski big enough to take that out.
(A couple of days ago there was a story about an American ship that engaged pirates off Somalia, I believe they fired on two 40-ish foot boats alongside a cargo ship. Google News has more, no doubt.)
Except a child can't own a gun, and an adult can buy pretty much any chemical they need at a specialized supply store, so that comparison kind of falls flat. Nice try, though.
I'm sure Bill Gates will be happy to hear this news. Someone call him up.
As for your article, it doesn't cite a single source, and seems not to be anything other than a plot summary from the movie, so looks like it will probably be deleted. If you really want to save it, all you need to do is to put in some references to sources besides the movie itself, and call attention to that in the AfD discussion.
Did you re-read this before posting it?
What possible sources are there for a summary of a movie other than THE MOVIE ITSELF!? (Or in this case, the two movies since there was a sequel.) Seriously, that's some batshit insane right there. Do you mean he should get a screenplay of the movie, then cite the screenplay instead of the film itself? What the hell is the difference?
Oh, and *please* do donate. Wikipedia is the 9th most visited site on the Internet, and the Wikimedia Commons is growing at a rate of 5,000 images a day.
I'm going to donate to a site that deletes half my contributions? Screw you. Stop deleting my work, and start acting like you actually appreciate volunteer efforts, then maybe I'd start to consider donating.
> If truly notable comics like Evil Inc. and Checkerboard Nightmare are deleted from Wikipedia
I've never heard of these.
A ton of people have never heard of the film The Battleship Potemkin... does that mean it's not a notable film? I'll give you a tip: It's a hell of a lot more notable to cinema than most films almost everybody has heard of, like E.T. or Star Wars.
And look, wow, it's on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battleship_Potemkin
What's with the double standard between cinema and webcomics?
Also note that it is an encyclopedia, since when did you see an encyclopedia that was made up of lists of information?
Who gives a flying crap? If you want an encyclopedia, there are already a bunch on the web. There's only one Wikipedia, and it should work like a *gasp* Wiki! I don't get this obsession with being exactly like a paper encyclopedia... I mean how would you react if the Slashdot admins suddenly decided that Slashdot should be formatted and written exactly like the Washington Post?
Wikipedia is something new and different. If you're going to make it identical to something old and derivative, then why even bother with it?
Way to support your post. Seriously, if Slashdot had more posts like yours it'd be a much more interesting place to read. I'm with you entirely, also, there's nothing wrong with trivia sections and you'll never see me getting rid of one.
Those guidelines help keep Wikipedia from filling up
Wikipedia can "fill up?"
which would negatively affect important articles.
In what way? The only consequence I can think of it that the "Random Article" button would be less useful.
What's the difference between it playing (aired from a network) on your TV while you're out and about doing stuff and it playing (from your DVD player) on your TV while you're out and about doing stuff?
This strikes me as the dumbest complaint ever. Is your concern that it takes too long to put the disk in the drive?
I guess I'm not "nerdcore" enough, but all my favorite episodes are Mike episodes, and most of them are Sci-Fi episodes as well.
How can you deny the quality of episodes like "Werewolf?" (Warhlwealf!) "Timechasers?" "Future War?" ("I'll be generous and not point out that it's not the future, and there's no war.") "Space Mutiny?" The plotline where they're captured by the Brain Guys which has that skit where they explain that all their bodily needs can be met by a simple pill-- they just have to eat bowls and bowls of it.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the raining parking lot. Who was the parking lot raining on? Sounds painful...
I got bit by the scripting in Oblivion. Spoilers ahead for anybody who hasn't played it.
The first time you sleep in the game after killing a civilian, you get approached while you're asleep by a representative of the assassin's guild who comes and makes you an offer to join. The problem is that in my game, the first time I slept after killing a civilian happened to be in a dungeon with a half-dozen traps between myself and the door. The NPC appeared, gave me my offer, then was immediately killed by traps before he could get out of the dungeon, and the assassin's guild quests were forever closed for that character. I had to start over later on to do them with a different character.
Ok, so let's say I buy into your glorious semantic web future, complete with acronyms that seem like that belong in a glowing star at the end of Batman's fist (FOAF!)...
What prevents your system from becoming clogged with spammers/camwhores/all the other shit MySpace has in 5 days flat?
Note: Posts like the parent? The reason it'll never work.
Getting open source developers to even *care* about social networking would be a small miracle. Getting them to actually start developing code for one a step above that, and getting them to all agree on the same protocol/interface simply impossible.
I didn't see an interview, but in the review he mentions the rounded menus with kind of a shrug. He doesn't say they're harmful, or good, just different.
That's just childish. Makes me lose a lot of respect for Apple.
Nor would I. That's why I bought a Mac desktop, where I can replace all the same components I can with a PC desktop...
The only "Mac desktop" (actually a workstation) that allows that costs the same as THREE high-end Windows PCs. Until Apple figured out an affordable and upgradable tower configuration, I can't justify buying their hardware.
I've never figured out why Daylight Saving Time makes sense anywhere. No matter how you set the clocks, there's the same amount of daylight, right? I've heard the argument that it makes schoolkids safer because they can walk to school in the light but:
1) That's not true where I am; without DST, it's night when you leave the house in Washington State, and it's night when you return to the house in the afternoon. Jogging the clocks one hour isn't enough to fix this.
2) If that's truly the case, why not just change the school schedule and leave everybody else alone?
I honestly and truly believe that DST is some kind of Governmental power trip that they need every few decades. "We are Congress! We can change the TIME ITSELF! BOW BEFORE CONGRESS!" Or maybe I'm just upset because my super expensive self-setting alarm clock that I bought specifically because its time is never wrong-- it's wrong now.
In the UK consumers rights extend to a "fit for purpose" law whereby the goods you bought must be fit for the purpose for which they were sold.
"The US" doesn't-- laws like that are the domains of the states. And they also vary extremely widely from state to state. If you know what state you're interested in, you can look up the specific laws that apply.
The US isn't a monolithic government like most European nations. In the US there's the Federal Government, with its specific responsibilities (notably guaranteeing all the states can trade freely with each other and providing for national defense.) Then each of the 50 States, or rather 46 States and four Commonwealths (Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.) And one District, and whatever Puerto Rico is (Territory?)
In any case, some States collect income tax, some don't. Some States collect sales tax, some don't. Some States have very liberal laws, some have very conservative laws, some have plain crazy laws. (You can't pump your own gas in Oregon.) Arizona and Hawaii don't recognize Daylight Saving Time. Most states use the English legal tradition, but at least one (Louisiana) uses the French legal tradition.
The Federal Government laws are kind of a bypass... if the Feds say you must do X, that overrides any State law that says you don't have to do X. Therefore, the Federal set of laws is something like a "legal base" that all States recognize. That said, this issue isn't in the domain of the Federal Government, at least not until Hillary is elected and turns everything into a Federal issue.
That said, I'm sure you knew all this, you just wanted to brag about how better your country is. Kudos.
Why do you assume that Best Buy wasn't breaking any consumer protection laws? Based on the summary, it sounds like the Best Buy manager committed plain old fashioned theft (taking the second HD after it had been paid for), regardless of what other laws may have been broken.
But of course us stupid Americans could never, ever approach the pure enlightenment of you Europeans! How foolish of me to even wish it.
I know from experience Visa is equally helpful in cases like this. I had my identity stolen, and Visa was super helpful in refunding all the purchases that were made. What I never figured out is why the crook had the items sent to my address...
Everyone knows those personality tests are flawless...
Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down...
Leon: What one?
Holden: What?
Leon: What desert?
Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.
Leon: But, how come I'd be there?
Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you...
Leon: Tortoise? What's that?
Holden: You know what a turtle is?
Leon: Of course!
Holden: Same thing.
Leon: I've never seen a turtle. (pause) But I understand what you mean.
Holden: You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon.
Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?
Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
Leon: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, I'M NOT HELPING?
Holden: I mean you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?
[Leon has become visibly shaken]
Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response. (pause) Shall we continue?
Not that I disagree with your point, but cable cars in San Francisco aren't electric. The "cables" in the name are looped steel cables run under the road. The trains travel by clamping onto these cables and "riding" them, the way you might grip to rope to get pulled up a ski hill. Next time you're crossing the street in San Fran, look down and you can see the cable whizzing by under the street.