Bulldrek v3.0

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They're theoretically doing a live-action WoW movie. IMO it ought to be a full-length cinematic instead. Re the next-gen MMO programmers, some of the job ads explicitly said they would be working on a new title. So they weren't just for WoW. There are still two more big announcements to go. My bet i...

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Yep, and from memory Gladiator was as well, I think.

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I don't recall ever having cheated, educationally, largely because anyone I could have copied from would have given me worse marks than my own.

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And some movies _are_ released simultaneously. In fact, some movies actually open in Australia before they do in the US - I know there have been at least a few in the last couple of years, although it escapes me what they were. If the mechanism is there to allow it for some movies, there's no real r...

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If their news sales go down, so what? They have the reserves of Qatar to fall back on. Who asks for nothing in return of course. And doesn't expect a profit to be made. Many nations regard having a free national broadcaster as an exercise with merit in its own right, not as a money-making scheme. A...

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Here's something they could do: release movies at the same time world-wide. I'm way more likely to download a movie from the internet than I am to wait six months to see it after all my overseas friends. By that time I've missed the buzz, the hype, the enthusiam and the talk about it, and I'm more l...

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If your own research is flawed enough that you don't want other people to cite it, you shouldn't be sharing it.

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It still doesn't make sense, though. If they up-front acknowledge "okay, we're making you write a new paper, because part of this course is learning how to formulate arguments on any position, not just argue your own point of view", then okay. Frustrating for the student, but it has some e...

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It's ridiculous to ban "self-plagiarism" anyway. If the paper meets the criteria for both assignments, it should be legitimately submittable for two assignments - it's foolish (and bad, educationally) to expect the student to make up brand-new opinions and arguments for the second essay ju...

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One theory that I heard was that Candice was pretending to be Ma Petrelli when she convinced Nathan to go through with the plan. She's definitely manipulative, but she seems to have a few redeeming qualities. Yeah, we had that thought too. Mostly because we'd hypothesised that Mama and Papa Petrell...

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Hrm. I didn't get that impression, although you could well be right. That said, have we seen anyone with duplicate powers yet? (Other than Peter, whose power *is* duplication, and Sylar, who just gets the powers of whoever he tastybrains.) Even closely related people have very different powers - Ni...

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Random thoughts: Yeah, ep 21 was the first time I've actually liked Sylar, at all. Thanks, Mommy Sylar, for dooming the whole world. If only you'd told him he didn't have to be special! Geez! And I agree, I'm starting to like Peter a whole lot more, now he's not just Whiny Emo Kid. Matt got boring ...

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Just about to start the new Guy Gavriel Kay novel, "Ysabel".

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Oh, certainly.

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What those of you who came over to post your contrary views were doing is the equivalent of walking up to a group of friends gathered in a public place (say, a bar, for example) and butting into the conversation. Yes, it's public. That doesn't however, give you the right. You don't know the people ...

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Do you really think you'd find a Bulldrekker who'd say gender-based roles _are_ relevant in relationships, when it comes to stuff like taking out the trash or doing the dishes?

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Yay! \o/

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This is also an article which requires you to subscribe to their magazine to read more than a paragraph. Pity.

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Depends where you work, but I can't see a problem with it. It's not like working with your S.O. is verboten.

In special circumstances - armed forces and the like - it's probably a bad idea, but in general I have nothing against it.

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Angel wrote:
Jestyr wrote:Is it just me, or does the US *really* get the shaft in terms of mobile phone service?
You foolish mortals really need to move to a more advanced country,you have my sympathies.

<-- Not American. I speak as an outside observer out of curiosity.

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Is it just me, or does the US *really* get the shaft in terms of mobile phone service?

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There are plenty of minorities with violent subcultures; if hate crimes legislation affects crimes based on, say, race, then it should protect a white guy beaten up for being white just as much as it protects a black guy, asian guy or anyone else. Right, but that's still just "violence for rea...

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I can't understand why only certain groups should be protected by hate crimes legislation. Well, are they? There are plenty of minorities with violent subcultures; if hate crimes legislation affects crimes based on, say, race, then it should protect a white guy beaten up for being white just as muc...

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It also seems he is taking a jab at all of us with his comment: (EDIT: Apparently, that's just a case of "dumb fucks flock together" -- the actual culprit (as per a comment in my "Queer or Female?" post) is apparently some forum filled with these asshats, who feel its their righ...

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I place more value on someone who says both the good and the bad. Wait - are you saying that the consistently negative or positive people have _less_ value, or *no* value? Your previous post suggested the latter, now you're suggesting the former. Just because they're always negative doesn't mean th...

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There are also some folks who never have anything to say unless it's contradictory. We've all seen them. They never comment on anything unless it's to square off on you. Even if it's not even a discussion but simply saying how their day was, or explaining a good experience...amnd someone just HAS t...

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The real life analog to LJ, to me, would be having a discussion in a bar or other public social setting. Would you consider it a major breach of ettiquette for someone to overhear your discussion on topic X, and jump in? Assume that there's an "excuse me, did you just say _____" or equiva...

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Oh yeah, there is one exception to it: BF. I'm of the opinion that you can tell your BF what your friends told you in secret. Unless requested otherwise in advance. Hmm. I think that should depend on the closeness of the relationship. Five-year live-in boyfriend? Maybe. Maybe not. Four-week relatio...

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Well, for starters, anything posted on the web is public, really. Security systems like LJ's friendslocking help, but they're no guarantee that your information will remain where you want it to stay. Secondly, the issue of "agree with me or go away"? Well, I think it's fairly ridiculous to...

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Also, travel out of the US is ridiculously expensive compared with travel into the US. I don't know what the rates are like right now, but it always used to be the case that a LA->Brisbane return ticket cost literally twice as much as a Brisbane->LA return ticket. Insane.

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Part of what makes Warren Ellis popular is the nature of the culture that follows him. Creators in sci-fi/spec-fi and other 'geeky' areas who are good at communicating with their fans tend to build up a large and loyal cult following. You can see the same sort of effect with Neil Gaiman and Wil Whea...

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I'm sure some windows are very tasty.

Anyway, thanks. I can't believe I was dozey enough to forget that they'd probably just been removed from the custom template on the forums I run. Duhhhh. Your input should be everything I need to reimplement it.

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My assertion of Fables' superiority was silly and glib, in that it's a very different animal from Civil War and comparing the two is like comparing apples and oranges.

That said, Fables is still the single 'best' comic I've read so far, and I continue to enjoy it more than any other.

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One would have to agree that travel is, by itself, no guarantor of enlightenment, broad horizons, intelligence, civilisation, etc etc.

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Australia is much like the US, in terms of the variety of environments to be found within its borders - everything from tropical rainforests to deserts to ski fields and everything in between. However, 60 percent of Australians hold passports whereas only approximately 20 percent of Americans do.

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This is not me being snarky, I honestly want to know, since I'm not American and therefore don't have a history of learning this stuff: 1) The Constitution provides for the US Government to make laws, right? 2) Assuming the answer to #1 is 'yes', unless something is explicitly forbidden by the Const...

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Because I'm all about sharing the misery, I introduced my WoW guild to this. Now they hate me the way I hate Daki.

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Fables > *.

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Absurd Notions is fun, too, though the dude only updates about four times a year now

http://www.absurdnotions.org/page1.html

Sample:

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Questionable Content is faaaabulous. <3

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It's definitely out, yes; it hit the pirated distribution networks a couple of weeks ago.

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I'm stuck on 15, the no-skip "Neigh! Whinny" one. ARGH.

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Seriously, I fucking hate you.

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Savage Chickens: http://www.savagechickens.com/blog/index.html Sample: http://www.savagechickens.com/images/chickenpussycat.jpg Partially Clips: http://www.partiallyclips.com (I recommend the Partially-Clips Lite, since the main format is way too slow to load.) Sample: http://www.partiallyclips.com/...

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I hate you already and I haven't even started it yet.

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I forgot to say: congratulations. Owning your own home is fantastic; the buzz really sinks in when you think "god, I hate that curtain/cupboard/light fitting" and you realise you can tear it down without asking anyone's permission.

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Now you're just being needlessly inflammatory.

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Can you shoot me the PHP code for the View Next Topic/View Previous Topic links at the top right of each topic page? I run a phpBB-based forum elsewhere (for my MMO guild, actually) and I'd love to implement those links.

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Are two-storey houses that big a deal in the US, or in those parts of the US?

Mine's two-storey, kinda, but that's not exactly out of the ordinary around here

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