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by Maarten Goldstein, Oct 02, 2001 4:40pm PDTBuffy season premiere. That's all that matters tonight. Hence..EER !
- Ten year old kid wrestled with an alligator just to prove that it was there. - Someone managed to pay in Euros in Holland, even though coins and bills aren't out until January 2002.Lastly, Wired.com has an article about mods for games that allow you to kill bin Laden. Thanks Captain Cobra.
- So the US shared its evidence against bin Laden with the NATO and the NATO has called it compelling and conclusive. NATO nows officially considers the attack on the United States as an attack on all the NATO nations. - You can go ahead and call policemen fat bastards, they'll get fired if they arrest you.
Is it better to have a fat girl freind or none at all? my freind seems to be infavor of the first and is dating a fat girl
discuss
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I was reading that article from a few days back about teleportation. They described it like a fax machine. It would scan the one object, and then send information about it to another place, where the exact same thing would be reconstructed. The original being destroyed during the process of scanning.
Now, a couple things... First, assuming this could be done, what's to stop people from making exact duplicates of gold? the mona lisa? your dog sparky? your friend eddy?
Which brings up the second point... Assuming it worked on gold, the mona lisa and your dog sparky, people would eventually think of trying it on a person. So, the machine would scan in the person's info (destroying the person as it did so!!) and then beam the info somewhere else, where an exact copy of the person would be reconstructed. Now... Assuming everything worked.. Assuming that the reconstructed person on the other end was perfectly normal after the transfer... You would think it had worked perfectly, right? But, is it really the same person? I mean, to everyone else, it would seem to be exactly the same person, with the same memories etc, but would it be the same PERSON? Assumedly not, since the original person was destroyed during the scan process. When you fax something, the fax on the other end isn't the piece of paper that was on the original end... it's an exact copy.
So, it doesn't seem like, when you get "transported", you step in, feel funny, and then bam, you're in tahiti... It's more like you step in, feel funny, DIE, and then a perfect copy of you appears in tahiti. One would assume that this would be a BAD thing, particularly for the person being transported... or actually, it would be a bad thing ONLY for the person being transported. Assuming the process worked, everyone else in the world would be utterly unaffected, since the copy is exact and is, basically, you. They would never notice any difference of course.
Soooo, here's the thing. If this was true.. if transporters worked, but they worked with original=dead/copy=alive rather than original=alive, then.... How would anyone ever know? How could we TEST to see if that were the case? We would send someone in, but how would we know whether the conciousness transferred over, or if the original conciousness was destroyed and this one is brand new? To us, there would be absolutely no difference... the person would be exactly the same. The only way to test to see which it was would be to go through yourself, and of course, by the time you knew, it would be too late.
Weird.
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1. We have proven to the UN that bin Ladens group of psychopaths is responisible for the attacks.
2. The Taliban are hiding him, and have admitted as much.
3. The Taliban are still alive and in power.
What gives here? I was all for waiting for the proof, and getting the UN behind us in whatever action needs to be taken, but now is the time. Lets get in there and get these fuckers. To hell with them and their proof. We don't need to prove shit to them. We proved it to a council of United Nations representatives, and that's all we need to do. No more demands to The Taliban. No more warning. Let's just get it over with already!
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7.62 millimeter. Full. Metal. Jacket.
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I'm considering buying a hercules 64 meg kyro II. I can hook it up for like.. 60$ US.
Now; I have a GF2MX (32 sdr), you guys think it'll last me to D3 or dognose for ever]s Duke 4 ever?
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i cant set a hard 100% width on the table since it would overlap the banner, this code works in all IE's, Mozilla, and Netscape6 but not in Opera or Netscape4. :~(
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You?
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1. There are ads in the middle of the comment page in dflat mode (probably like there were in static flat way back when, but I can't tell because the code is still b0rked in Opera). Won't that make the clickthroug rate even worse unless they're taken out after X amount of page refreshes? I think Maarten had some code that would do that, but it probably got removed when he shut off those flaky ads that weren't loading.
2. If IFRAMEs aren't enabled, you can't see the ads. This wasn't the way it was before; the ad code would just load up a banner through IMG tags and give it the appropriate link. Mind you, I don't have IFRAMEs disabled to block banners; I have them disabled to prevent stupid things from happening when I browse.
3. This last one hits home, and I know it'll hurt for Steve because he's been working hard on it lately: the ads aren't pertinent enough for us. Would any of us click on an Earthlink banner? I'm guessing not (and damnit, the UGO ad server is in the middle of the "spam them with Earthlink banners" part of the code, so I can't get any more examples from there). Would any of us click on ads from ThinkGeek, GameSkins, 3 Finger Salute, or a banner for a hardware ordering website (for lack of better terminology)? I know I would. I'm not using the 9/11-inspired banners as an example, because that's a definite yes.
I know that Steve's been working hard on things around here, so I don't mean to derail any of that; just to point out what could be improved.
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It's out. Go!
I'll give it one more night... maybe I'll try some herbal tea or something....
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* D O T - B O M B ' D *
IBM just laid off 900 people from that division.
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http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/03/bus.crash/index.html
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(webreaper somehow doesn't work :()
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They're running scared, but they're still playing dirty. And here's their game plan:
http://www.fuckedcompany.com/extras/riaa_memo.cfm
If they can't litigate, they might hack.
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http://www.apathy.ca/~redfive/Taliban1.jpg
http://www.apathy.ca/~redfive/Taliban2.jpg
http://www.apathy.ca/~redfive/Taliban3.jpg
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Oooooh, bashing the Shack! as well as others
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Discuss.
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roofle
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Take that then OverBurn!
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but you cant post.
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=1641121
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At Zurich airport, the airline's home base, a message over the loudspeakers told hundreds of stranded passengers they would not be compensated for their now apparently worthless Swissair tickets and advised them to buy new tickets elsewhere, Reuters reported.
Now that SUCKS.
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..this is life :D
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Discuss.
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-reviews/-/AA9IP6AYACFK5/1/ref=cm_mp_rv/104-8736731-8848718
He's a "top 500" reviewer at amazon too!
For "Will I See Fido in Heaven?: Scripturally Revealing God's Eternal Plan for His Lesser Creatures "
My 14 year old spaniel Barry's eternal soul has become a pressing concern for me recently, given his age, and Buddemeyer-Porter's sensitive guide has allayed some concerns that I have had. I'm reassured to read that the sin of Adam is not upon Barry even though he does not accept Christ as his saviour. Even so, a few wafer hosts can't hurt his chances, and he just loves them.
There are some more hilarious ones in there, like the one for Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time. Man what a troll.
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i nominate it as the official shack breakfest
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someone made a great post a while back, or maybe i read it in an editorial. i can't remember, but the gist was this:
why does a game have to have places where you can die or fail or be wrong? or at least be penalized for all these? shouldn't it suffice to relate a story and experience to the player without needing him to practice and improve his 'skills'?
this idea immediately made me think of two games:
Example: MGS is a really cool game, and i enjoyed it after i was done, but only because of the story (god knows why, it's a bad story). I can't count how many times i almost quit entirely because i was tired of dying the exact same way. sure, i learned how to dodge the sniper's bullets, or the big guy's rockets, and my button mashing skill went through the roof, but it did nothing to advance the storyline. the only reason i continued is because i knew it was a relatively short game outside of cutscenes and boss fights.
Counter-Example: Planescape:Torment allowed you to die, but you were immortal so there wasn't a really big penalty, and could be quite educational or fun sometimes. and there were only a few places where you could 'fatally' screw up the game, so to speak, by making a mistake or dying. the story line was awesome, and most things that would have traditionally been a 'failure' ended up rewarding you by advancing the story.
now, conflict of some sort pretty much has to be inherent in a game to be enjoyable, from the fighting in an RPG or FPS to the puzzles in Myst and such, but does it have to have a 'try-try-again' mentality?
i think it goes without saying that this is mostly single-player specific.
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http://hockey.fantasysports.yahoo.com/hockey/show?page=leaguehome&lid=39153
now what? :D
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is there a super-supreme court that im not aware of
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