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by CallMeV 16y ago
People will just jailbreak the self-destruct code attached to the books and make copies of them anyway, legal or not.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
I just heard an echo in my mind of Tasha Yar in Star Trek: The Next Generation saying "Any. Hat." What is it about colder environments that the colder they are, the less clothing the natives wear? :D And I agree wholeheartedly with many of
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by CallMeV 16y ago
He also writes on mathematics, and presented a TV series on mathematics which occasionally appears on BBC Four. Currently I have, and am enjoying, his book The Music of The Primes . Useful links in these discussions, by the way, including
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by CallMeV 16y ago
droz asks a good question. Who else has calculated their "fuck you money" threshold to the last penny, such that if they received that much cash from one or more jobs in a given period they can spend the rest of the year just going to expos
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Churnalism pops up again, its proverbial ugly head once again raised for the cliches, its existence in this article thoroughly destroying its validity right down to its core assumptions, so that nothing remains to rise from its ashes. How l
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by CallMeV 16y ago
I haven't seen this essay for a while. I thought I'd lost it, and I could not find the bookmark which linked to it. Very useful. Thank you, rms.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
You can still kill people with swords, knives and hammers. Don't knock the deadliness of old technology. As I say, it's not the gun in the hands of the lunatic in front of the leader he needs to worry about: it's the stilettos in the hands
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Unfortunately, the title also infers the converse: that, by the standards set by those conducting the experiment, ugly men and women have lower IQs. This raises the question of what people call "beautiful," "attractive," "ugly" and "unattra
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Thanks, Cryptoz ... Thoz. :)
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by CallMeV 16y ago
It's a satire on the BBC's 1970s school programming output. The writers know what they are doing; this parody of mathematics is exactly how real mathematics sounds like to a lay person. This is nonsense, sure: but so is the satirical po
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by CallMeV 16y ago
A good point to note is how hard the individual girls work for that money. Considering the turnover of those girls in that industry - anything over 29, and they're usually considered over the hill, and at 35 you can stick a fork in them, th
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by CallMeV 16y ago
It pays here to do some research. If you can find out who volunteers regularly at the non-profit, find out about the place from them. For instance, my local hospital runs a volunteer League of Friends who perform regular fundraising drives
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by CallMeV 16y ago
No. Just decipher the thing for yourself and go find those geeks. If you spoil it for everybody else, they'll just declare the effort null and void (they did not solve the puzzle themselves) and immediately release a new puzzle, which means
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Just saw the latest update:- "As of January 03, 2011 @ 01:51PM PST "Battle station fully operational" So it's back up again for now, it would appear.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Ingenious. This article served to clarify something I had wondered about for years.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
The TV series "Numbers" referenced this prank twice in separate episodes - once, used as one of Charlie's graphic analogies - the display reading "CHARGE" had been hacked to read "RETREAT" - and once at the climax to a show where Peter MacN
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by CallMeV 16y ago
That, and Straylight. The world will have to acknowledge that it has reached The Future when the world's space agencies start talking seriously about L5 again.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
On this 3x3 chess board, the black bishop can only ever move on a diagonal, which means it can only travel onto white squares: it can never land on a black square. Since the central square is white, the bishop has put the food in the middle
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Personal experience - The author, Stephen Baxter, at a signing at the old Andromeda SF bookshop in Birmingham, UK, looked pretty sad because, despite being surrounded by fans, nobody actually wanted to approach him. The legendary Kenny "R2D
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by CallMeV 16y ago
I believe I first encountered the description of this phenomenon in one of Leil Lowndes' books, "How To Talk To Anyone" IIRC. And I encountered the phenomenon IRL a good few years back at a convention, where I had a really nice conversation
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by CallMeV 16y ago
One of my mathematics teachers used to regard prime numbers with considerable irritation. She tried to explain to the class why there was no simple formula to determine which numbers were primes. In the end, she gave up and moved on to the
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by CallMeV 16y ago
I am biting my tongue here to keep myself from making references to recent episodes of Doctor Who.
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Thank you for this article. Just the thing to get my brain going after the indulgences of the weekend. It also knocks me flat to contemplate the ideas this intriguing article generates. It does good to be staggered by something new once in
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Agreed. I became hooked on these series. James Burke made the future seem so incredibly optimistic - "Just think of what we can do tomorrow!" And now we are here, and it is the tomorrow of which he spoke, and yes, just look at what we are
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by CallMeV 16y ago
I watched a TV documentary a few months back, which took a look inside the various tailors' establishments of Savile Row. Consider this: back then, these shops were the startups and entrepreneurs of their day, coming to the street with a fe
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Some things the Goddess keeps to herself. Others, she leaves for us mortals to find, like breadcrumbs leading to a shack full of fireworks - and you having to light a match to see where you are. And yet others, Mankind makes for himself, an
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by CallMeV 16y ago
They had no idea what they were letting themselves in for, had they? Still, without this day twenty years ago, we would not be doing this today. So Merry Christmas to you all, and Many Happy Returns to the WWW!
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by CallMeV 16y ago
May you all find the company you desire most, good food and liquid libation when you need it, indulgence without consequence, and the time to do everything you truly desire - whether snuggling with a loved one or trying to pin down that agg
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by CallMeV 16y ago
Just don't let your inertial mass get so great that the force of gravity from the Earth overwhelms the force exerted by your body's muscles.
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