Comment Re:the lips acquire stains (Score 2) 407
Anyway AFAIK the "juice of Saphoo" was only in the film, not in the original book.
The Mentat Mantra was the part that wasn't in the book.
Comment Re:Current level of Japanese debt? (Score 1) 189
if this were a completely private venture
Why do we think it is not privately funded? JR Railways is not government owned.
Comment Not clever (Score 1) 113
Taking fictional events and promoting them as real events hardly qualifies as a good joke.
Comment 2037 (Score 1) 214
Comment Re:Careful on releasing future content (Score 1) 698
+1
The nerd in me says how cool would it be to release letters, videos, presents, e-mails, etc after I'm gone. Living from the grave... to torment the living.
Comment Re:My opinion on the matter. (Score 1) 826
That's right, you can iterate through service "$X" status on everything, and do a restart on anything that has terminated, but that's just a hack, and something that can be done infinitely superior within the software handling the service startup... namely, upstart or systems.
The fix to a crashing process is not to simply start that process back up.
Comment Re:Probability abuse (Score 5, Funny) 122
That means it is a statistical certainty that there is at least one planet somewhere that has at least one farm animal because:
p = 1 -
Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no odds, therefore we can round the average population of the Universe to zero, and so the total population must be zero.
Thank you Douglas Adams:-)
Comment Re:Starship Troopers here we come. (Score 1) 139
movie-of-the-same-name-that-was-nothing-like-the-book
Reuse of character names - Check
At least one enemy included from book - Check
Thats all I got, but it is at least something from the book:-P
Comment Re:MPG testing (Score 2) 238
My commute to work is 65 miles each way
Comment Re:Needs a name (Score 3, Insightful) 321
... they are, after all, just a bunch of weirdly drawn cartoons... I know the white man-toddlers... like to call it "anime"... they are cartoons. For kids.
You do know that it is the Japanese who call it anime and that anime is short for animation so yes... by definition of the word "anime" they are cartoons. Good attempt to try and attribute the anime term to white fanboys.
Oh, I don't even watch anime, but people enjoy it so why be a douche about it.
Comment Re:This is why we need people in space (Score 1) 179
+5 Awesome
Comment Re:What did he expect? (Score 2) 826
But is it really necessary to mock TSA in the open...
Taunting them and expecting them to let you actually proceed with your plans is pretty dumb. There's a time and place to protest and make fun of idiotic behavior of our government. When you want get on a plane, that's not the time.
You fail to understand the point of protests. If you protest in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'... Nobody is really going to hear you. What the guy did is a form of Civil Disobedience. Nobody is suppose to protest the government security while going through the security. The herds are suppose to get in line and just take it. You should be applauding this guy for doing what you are too scared or too worried about missing a flight to do.
Comment Old thinkgeek rm -rf /bin/laden shirt (Score 3, Interesting) 826
Bought the shirt back in the post 9/11 days and accidentally wore it coming home on an international flight. I saw it as a patriotic shirt, but wife saw it and flipped out while we were at the airport. Got asked about the shirt by TSA, explained that it was technically a patriotic shirt and was good. An anti-TSA shirt is technically a patriotic shirt as well. Sad day:-(
Comment Rip-Off (Score 1) 114
This is a US localization prototype... with no differences which means that it most likely was a release candidate. The fact that they are advertising this as the only one is just marketing. Just because they haven't seen another one doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If it sells for 150k... I would expect to start seeing some real prototypes to start being found by Nintendo Employees from the 80s.
Comment Re:No, we understand the "Context" just fine. (Score 1) 306
++
I'm using it for the same reasons as you as well... sucks.
I'm using it for the same reasons as you as well... sucks.
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