Comment Re:Holy Mountain (Score 4, Insightful) 234
A good workmanlike book? It is to SF what The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, and one of the greatest pieces of world creation ever written.
A good workmanlike book? It is to SF what The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, and one of the greatest pieces of world creation ever written.
Assange's legal team says that Assange's letter has been mischaracterized, and that it is in fact not a request for asylum per se; instead, they assert, the letter merely expresses Assange's "willingness 'to be hosted in France if and only if an initiative was taken by the competent authorities.'"
"Hosted?"
How gracious of Assange to say he would willing to trade his Ecuadorian broom closet for a rent-free garden flat in Paris, if France would be kind enough to send him an engraved invitation.
There are two particularly flavorful Yiddish words that come to mind here, "chutzpah" being one of them.
This is the most terrifying and ridiculous thing I've seen in my entire life.
No, the most terrifying and ridiculous thing would be if it was rewritten in JavaScript which outputted Java source that piped C# source that then, when compiled and executed, outputted as an x86 ASM program that produced a PHP script.
The formula is simple
if ($hurtslittleguy==TRUE)
proceedwithassrape($dildolength);
I'm thinking those shysters running Prenda are in for a world of pain. Let us hope they hire lawyers just as depraved as they are.
So I just use a 3d printer and "print" a finger after capturing an image and guessing at the depth of the ridges
But will your makerbot plastic finger reflect sound in the same way as the real thing?
If Reddit is the peanut gallery of the Web, what does that make Slashdot?
Quick, where's that share button so I can share your great post with all my friends on Flopbook and Twatter...
So is removing them and pretending those places dont exist is a better solution?
It hurts my head when a geek asks a loaded --- smartass ---- question like this and gets modded up +5, Insightful.
Are you saying they should tax database, records, fields, or heck, maybe they could tax SQL clauses!
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.